that happened on xi jinping's watch. is, as much as it seems, from the west, that china is stronger than they have been historically, let's keep in mind , this is also a really bad recession for china. the economy will be harder to manage, harder to keep everyone in full employment, harder to get supply and demand back to where it was. that is a problem for xi jinping that he never thought he would have coming into this year. there are a lot of people inside the country, leaders in the country, that feel like his style of leadership has actually made china internationally and domestically more vulnerable. david: let's go across the border to north korea. what is your take on what is going on there? it is strange that there are all of these rumors about kim jong-un, and they have not done anything to dispel the rumors. it is completely unusual. weeks beforeow two he has been seen. all sorts of speculation that he is dead. no useful on the ground intelligence. if he was fine, they would be saying something. at the least, t

xi jinping has publicly said nothing so far. xi jinping might think about it this way.ight say i have got my lab director saying one thing. i need $2 trillion of capital from wall street. i need a lot of technology and buy a lot of american companies to make my plan happen. which is more important. sacrificing that lab director and having an investigation that says yes we are sorry, we made some mistakes and getting the technology and capital from america or sticking with the lab director. my guess is xi jinping will sacrifice this lab director and move forward if president trump exercises he norm sauce leverage over -- enormous leverage over china. lou: that leverage will have to be considerable given the fact that we are totally depend de -- dependent on china for anti-virals. our dependency is on china, not the reverse. the president creating an historic trade deal to lead to a balanced relationship is now it seems to me, you know, in threat without any question. the dependency of this nation -- and this dependency we have still on china is going to be part of any ca

it's part of a technogy revolution sin president xi came to power. ( jinping): >> narrator: there areg in xinjiang. many are involved in the surveillance systems being used there.♪ ♪ it's rare for anyone from these abcompanies to speak openlt their work, but one insider agreed to talk to us about the surveillance technoly he helped develop. he has since left china and spoke on the condition we conceal his identity and notdi lose where he currently lives. ♪ >> (engineer >> narrator: he says his work iv xinjiangled to him the ways the government gathers data on the uyghupopulation. >> (engineer): ♪ >> narrator: it's not just the uyghurs who are subject to this intense surveillce. in kazakhstan, we interviewed chineskazakhs, also muslims, who say they experienced the same monitoring when they lived in xinjiang. sh >>pan): >> in 2017, the chinese state began a data collection process, which is really what suppos the technology in general. they asked all people in the province to go to their local police station and submit data, which ranged from dnaoo collection, bld, and fingerprints, to

happened here, i think, if you take a step back, it looks like president trump and also president xi jinping of china are putting w.h.o. in the middle of a geopolitical struggle, a big power competition, when we really should all be in this together. at a time when, if we ever needed global cooperation, if we ever needed to coordinate our response, now is the time. and think about what w.h.o., its role now. it's not just warning the united states, it's not just supporting sub-saharan africa and other low-income countries as this is going to rage in those parts of the world, but also, w.h.o. is helping to coordinate international scientific work on a vaccine. they've approved covid test kits, which the united states has never used. and there are other global health priorities that america cares about. the united states helps fund things like, at the w.h.o., mental health, aids, polio eradication, things that americans care about. it's really impossible for me to believe that the american public and our values would accept this kind of behavior. >> we will watch to see what happens next. lawre

that happened on xi jinping's watch.re has been a lot of that over the last few months and i think the point is that as much as it seems from the west that china is stronger now than they have been historically, let's keep in mind this is also a really bad reception for china. the economy will be harder to manage, harder to keep everyone in full employment, harder to get supply and demand back to where it was. that is a problem for xi jinping, that he never thought he was going to have coming into this year and there are a lot of people inside the country, leaders in the country that feel like his style of leadership has actually made china internationally and domestically more vulnerable. >> lets go across the border as it were to north korea. what is your take on what is going on there? we have not heard anything out of there for a a while. strange that there are always rumors about kim jong-un and they have not done anything like to show him to us to dispel the rumors. it is completely unusual. we have had two weeks b

probably the kind of thing i could ever say is that this is usinxi jinping's chernobyl. where they purposely failed tbecause countless deaths in the region and beyond and that's the same thing china did. try to ring alarm bells, as gordon knows, lots of propaganda and disinformation all designed to ensure that they would remain in power. we need to hold china accountable for their treachery, their corruption. and i think that's what the end game is for this investigation. >> sean: and the world health organization. gordon, dan, thank you both. if you don't think it could happen, think back to the last century alone. mao, chinese communism, the killing fields, cambodia, man's inhumanity, over 100 million humans killed in the last century but you don't think evil happens? it does but sadly, it's sick. it's ugly. it is repulsive. we need to get the truth. some positive developments if you can say anything as positive surrounding our country's fight around covid-19, researchers at stanford university were combing a local politicia population thd residents with antibodies. tw

of pressure on the economy so i think that it could it could cause problems down the road for xi jinping what does all this mean for the rest of the world do you think i mean how can the global economy recover when china is putting forward g.d.p. numbers like this well i think people are asking fundamental questions now but the economic growth and what it means and how it happens china has had a very controlled economy for a long time but i think that possibly because the come countries that are going to come out of this crisis best are the countries that don't have close capital borders that have free companies that do but what companies do best don't have a lot of debt so i think we're going to see possibly a refocus in economies go forward after all this is over a cliff it couldn't fronted every business thank you. and here's a quick round up of coronavirus developments around the world the german health minister yang spahn says that the outbreak in germany is under control and quote manageable again new data shows that the infection rate has fallen significantly denmark will allow sm

of pressure on the economy so i think that it could it could cause problems down the road for xi jinping what does all this mean for the rest of the world do you think i mean how can the global economy recover when china is putting forward g.d.p. numbers like this well i think people are asking fundamental questions now but the economic growth and what it means and how it happens china has had a very controlled economy for a long time but i think that possibly because the come countries that are going to come out of this crisis best are the countries that don't have close capital borders that have free companies that do but what companies do best don't have a lot of debt so i think we're going to see possibly a refocus in economies go forward after all this is over a cliff it couldn't fronted every business thank you. while we're going to turn now to another story here's a quick roundup of other coronavirus developments around the world french president emmanuel micron has a question china's handling of the corona virus outbreak said the things happened in china that quote we do not know

for peter to apply that xi jinping deliberately did all this, that's quite a split from the presidente united states. i advise peter modify this. he has changed things before. he wants to use very harsh language about the prime minister of canada, then he took it back a few days later and apologized. maybe, one chance in a thousand xi jinping did all these things, but the presidencies there is no evidence yet, so this seems to be premature for me for peter did everything on xi jinping himself. >> bill: i've had 15 seconds for this, did you see bill gates interview on sunday? he talked about don't assign blame to china now, put your focus on a vaccine, it is just a distraction when you start to ask these questions about a cover-up. what do you think about bill gates comment, they are, about that? >> now, bill gates is among many billionaires who made a lot of money in china, who were basically trying to help china avoid a lawsuit and liability, for possible negligence or mistake. you know, the $2.7 billion settlement that libyans had to pay had to do with their being false, it took mor

in my opinion, xi jinping had decided, if china is going to suffer, the rest of the world, especiallyted states, is going to suffer. there has to be consequences for those actions. >> harris: when you say "pay the price for every life lost, every job lost," what does that look like? >> first, i have introduced legislation that will amend the foreign sovereignties immunity act, which would allow those americans who have been infected by the virus, whether they've lost loved ones where they've been sick themselves, or they've lost a job or had a business close, to sue chinese officials. this is modeled on what is inflation that's been done in the past. for instance, most recently, the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks. we also need to force china to pay by losing their manufacturing base. we have outsourced our jobs in factories to china for the last 30 years. that has to stop and it has to stop now, especially in critical sectors like pharmaceuticals or medical devices were telecommunications. there has to be far-reaching consequences for chinese treachery. >> harris: you know, as you

unthinkable after 9/11. , andt is happening now president xi jinping sees a cheap opportunity.sght, certainly creates opportunities for those looking for it. ian bremmer, thank you for speaking with us the president of eurasia group. let's turn to first word headlines. >> a grim milestone in the pandemic. one million people around the world have been infected, more than 51,000 have died, 208,000 people have recovered. president trump has issued an order under the defense production act to speed production of ventilators. he signed an executive order directing the department of health and human services to provide supplies to companies making devices. the move comes after state officials raised alarmed that supplies are in adequate for coronavirus patients. there are signs the worst may be over at the epicenter in europe. the death rate is easing in italy and growth of new infections moderate. the virus appears to be spreading more slowly in germany, netherlands, switzerland, and other countries. pressure on intensive care units is letting up, including in milan. saysanadian pri

and he will go out and praise xi jinping as i mentioned january 24th, despite the intelligence warning that the intelligence community provides. >> jeremy, one of the things i was just referencing with willem marx is the white house put out this rosy statement about the g7 video conference that they had yesterday. and everyone agrees and criticizes the w.h.o. and that's not what happened according to angela merkel and justin trudeau and some of the other world leaders. they, in fact, pushed back against the president's criticism of the w.h.o. >> that's right. this is precisely the moment, andrea, we need to have global leadership from washington, from the white house, to bring together countries whether it's in the g7 formation or g20 or other multi lateral institutions. the way we have to think about this virus is it's a new kind of threat, a global threat that affects every country, every person, all of humanity, in fact, and only through a global approach will we be able to confront this crisis once and for all. >> jeremy bash, it's always great to see you. thank you so much for joi

patients to their official count 130 such cases have been recorded in the past 24 hours president xi jinping described efforts to contain the pandemic as a final exam that everyone must learn from its course over to our corresponding katrina year who joins me now from beijing of course a change in the way covert cases are being counted will be presented today i mean what more do we know about this. that's right well beijing is very much on the defensive about its krone virus data in recent days we've seen local transmission slowed to a trickle sort of 0 or single digit numbers over the past week or so and the government has all but declared victory over this outbreak but the god of the public here in china has very much not let their guard down and they have been concerned now for some time about asymptomatic carriers or just people who have covered 1000 but don't present with any symptoms now china has never added asymptomatic carriers to its official tally which is against world health organization guidelines and the government has said it's because there's very little evidence that these

so that was generally 14 but we do know that president xi jinping did not allow the chinese public to us to the severity of the outbreak until january 20th so that's 6 days between finding out the severity of this outbreak and actually alerting the public now that may not sound like a lot but experts say that 6 days is extremely significant during that time at least 3000 people were infected and also potentially the virus may according to some experts have already reached the u.s. indeed katrina you there for us in beijing thank you katrina well as straightly as prime minister has praised the world health organizations response in the asia pacific region scott morrison also says that lockdown measures in australia will be kept in place for at least 4 more weeks more than $6400.00 cases of the virus have been confirmed there. well the coronavirus pandemic will bring asia's economy to a complete halt for the 1st time in 60 years that's the latest a dire projection from the international monetary fund the outbreak has taken an unprecedented toll on the region the i.m.f. says they will be

and that was on january 14th but we know that president xi jinping did not alert the rest of the country and indeed the rest of the world about the severity of this outbreak until in january the 20th 6 days later and many critics and experts say that those 6 days really could have been used to really be a catalyst for more action to prevent the spread of this outbreak and by that time in those 6 days more than 3000 people were infected and potentially the virus could already reached by some experts account already reached the shores of the u.s. and europe by that time katrina you there for us in beijing thank you very much katrina. this pandemic will also cause asia's economic growth to stall at 0 percent for the 1st time in 60 is the latest diet projection from the international monetary fund the outbreak has taken an unprecedented toll on the region it's expected to rebound next year but the outlook remains some set. russia's outbreak is growing rapidly for the 5th straight day now it's reported a record daily rise in infections more than $3400.00 new cases have been confirmed bringing

staff in memory of the more than 3000 lives claimed by the virus in china in beijing president xi jinping joined other top officials wearing white flowers in silent tribute. let's go now to correspondent. in beijing china appears to be over the worst outbreak what's it like where you are in beijing is life essentially returning to normal i wouldn't call it normal but yet it's going back every day. again and as you mentioned the virus is suppressed right now but there's. a 2nd wave of infections the spread from the threat is constant because they are silent carry us off the virus there's also the. cases coming from foreign countries many for example overseas chinese students are returning back here so of course yes also a sense of alertness and today when i mean also. minutes 3 minutes of silence it was quite impressive people were mourning also performing morning ritual it's here on the street in beijing because usually it's. visit. the family and now they cannot do it because public gatherings are not allowed so course this is not normal and many things don't feel like normal with the cu

deal to provide was actually negotiated between chancellor angela merkel and chinese president xi jinping so a lot is riding on the fact that these mass needs to be affected. now let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. protesters in lebanon have clashed with security forces as the national economic crisis deepens activists blocked a highway north of the capital beirut despite a coronavirus lockdown there's widespread anger over rising prices and the collapsing lebanese pound. syrian authorities say 3 civilians were killed in an israeli missile attack on town south of damascus syria's military say their fence is intercepted and shot down several missiles fired by warplanes over lebanon israel has not commented. engineers are installing the final span in a new road bridge the italian city of genoa 43 people were killed when the original crossing collapsed nearly 2 years ago the new bridge costing 200000000 euros is designed by the time the an architect renzo piano. firefighters in russia are battling at least 16 wildfires in northern siberia the authoritie

slogans on the wall praising chinese president xi jinping and in the so-called classrooms railings and wire separating the teaches from the students. the government's glossy videos claim that the week is a happy with this so-called reeducation. culture. course you are far more used to. course and that the chinese government has reportedly described its new campaign as quote breaking the roots of extremists and so what they're doing when they say they want to break the roots break the lineage is they want to eliminate the basic institutions the basic elements of weaker culture we are society they're trying to transform the entire society. 37 year old melbourne plaster a high ruler my is one of 3 astray in citizens who've been jailed in singeing here he speaks out for the 1st time. it's been a bit hard to explain at that in my feeling at that time there never been happen like that before in my life. in august 2017 while travelling on his astray in passport high ruler was questioned and then detained at chengdu airport in sichuan province. when i go to that detention center. they are. put

nationwide moment of reflection to honor the victims of the corona virus outbreak chinese president xi jinping was among the mourners air raid sirens wailed and flags white house massed the virus has killed over 3000 people in china. well a new coronavirus a testing facility has opened on the border of germany and the czech republic to test checked workers who have to cross the border previously and workers needed to quarantine for 14 days at home when returning from germany. the head of russia's influential orthodox church has taken an icon of the virgin mary around the streets of moscow in an effort to ward off a coronavirus. convoy it traveled over 100 kilometers in the capital before bringing the iconic to a cathedral more than 4001000 cases have been confirmed and russia. south africa has been in lockdown for a week even though the country has relatively few confirmed cases of the krona virus but the government hopes to prevent a collapse of the already struggling health care system the enforcement of the lockdown has been particularly difficult in south africa's townships police and mili

that he met xi jinping and praised him for how he handled the crisis and on the thirtieth they calledn emergency. if that doesn't smell like a cover-up that i don't know what is. the truth of the matter is we should not give one red cent to the who as long as he and a lot of his cronies are still there. shannon: i read interesting pieces about links between him and the chinese government but what is the connection? the us is the largest donor. we make a huge portion of what the who does as we do with many organizations and yet it seems there may be some convection or bias leaning in a different direction, not that it is in the us direction but no direction. >> that is the problem, trying to look at this from a point of view of transparency and good governance, that's not the way the chinese communist party operates. a lot of these deals are behind the scenes. we don't know what is going on, you don't know why the un no longer works, you don't know why the human rights commission has a bunch of human rights violators and it comes down to payments behind-the-scenes. we don't know what e

high level deal apparently it was negotiated by chancellor merkel herself with chinese president xi jinping so there's a lot riding for the chinese on making sure this equipment is reliable and does its job that's the chief political correspondent melinda crane well in contrast to germany and other european countries sweden's coronavirus strategy has been members of the light touch allowing bars restaurants and other businesses to our rights so long as they respect physical distancing recommendations schools and daycare centers are also still open the country's chief epidemiologists see approach has been carefully thought through but there are critics. daily life in sweden as in most countries is dominated by the corona crisis but children here are still going to daycare centers this one in stockholm looks after 25 boys and girls some things have changed even if you know the advent of mc is live on after i normally spend a lot of time outside but now it's even more if it's more i get a pretty mess inside me do lessons in small groups everything else is outside we take it in turns. in the he

nationwide 3 minute reflection to honor the victims of the corona virus outbreak chinese president xi jinping was among the mourners air raid sirens wailed and flags were at half mast the virus has killed over 3000 people in china. more than a 1000000 people globally have now tested positive for the corona virus but the actual number of cases is thought to be much higher with many of those afflicted not even aware they're infected now researchers here in germany are joining the international effort to understand the full extent of the corona virus and demick they're carrying out a new test that aims to find those who may have already had the infection and could now be immune. this machine could bring relief from isolation for some here at the clinic in munich doctors who not only test for the corona virus they can also see if patients unknowingly contract to the virus in the past more than $100.00 samples can be processed in an hour this is how it works. the sample vials are coated with building blocks from the viruses surface if antibodies are detected in the patients of blood they will atta

at the same time, publicly not targeting xi jinping, saying xi jinping is someone he has a great dealspect for. the tone coming from the president on china is very different than what he is for the world health organization. beyond that, i can tell you that in conversation throughout the past couple of weeks with republicans and democrats, there is agreement as it relates to a sense of skepticism for how china handled their response to the coronavirus. fact that the scientists are reasonably appalled the president has made this decision, is the republican party behind him. is he being pushed to make the decision on the world health organization by the republican party? kevin: i do not think it is just the republican party. are soundingrats some alarm bells. even yesterday, talking with the democratic staffer, democrats will have to figure out how they're going to message the democratic party response to china. there is a sense of skepticism that china mishandled this. that appears to be bipartisan, even predating the pandemic. there were lawmakers on capitol hill, people like senator

nationwide 3 minute reflection to honor the victims of the corona virus outbreak chinese president xi jinping was among the mourners air raid sirens wailed in florida flags were at half mast the virus has killed over 3000 people in china. in the u.k. a spate of arson attacks against 5 key communication towers has apparently been spurred by rumors that they transmit the coronavirus telecoms workers have also reported receiving abuse and threats over the misinformation the british government has rejected any link between 5 g. technology and the coronavirus. israeli police a widening a crackdown on ultra-orthodox jewish communities for continuing to ignore social distancing rules or thirties have been carrying out raids in orthodox neighborhoods around the country after many emerged as coronavirus hotspots they've also locked down the city of neighbor a outside tel aviv. pope francis has one of the faithful not to seek personal gain from the coronavirus crisis in the service streamed online he prayed for followers to preserve their quote clear conscience in the wake of the pandemic. in new york

investors brushing off xi jinping's warning of difficulties in the economy. also, socially.ushing for businesses to reopen. let's flip the page. take a look at where markets are trading right now. see ignore -- singapore and indonesia trading up. --re is new concern to do there has been accumulating debt. sep, ties stocks, they are seeing the best weekly gain since 2013. take a look at oil. the standing has rally. there is optimism opec-plus could be inching toward a deal. >> look at indian markets and seeing how things are going to play out here today. we are seeing the nifty slightly positive. we have seen some weakness into the rupee. we will see if the oil price bump is going to help india here. probably not. we are still seeing that yield taking higher for the bond markets given the lack of liquidity we have seen in that market due to these shortened operating hours. for the first word news, we have karina mitchell in new york. global cases of the coronavirus infection have topped 1.5 million just one week after topping the million benchmark. says fatalities and new cas

hours more than 1000 people have been placed under observation and medical facilities president xi jinping described efforts to contain the pandemic as a final exam that everyone must learn from. the former president of the french football club olympic dimmer sayers died in senegal after contracting the virus but they do have also moved to france as a teenager he was 68 years old the club tweeted that he remained in their hearts forever while the french league described him as a charismatic endearing and passionate leader he is the 1st person to die from the virus in senegal. those are the news headlines. the next it's like a hit on al-jazeera. when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen to after the war saying you'll be in to go build you know the stage of you we will not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter. media. make way. for the. more listen might be. from the government and me. or. you know you never miss me. in the mood about something. i'm a little older. and it's a mother elemental good to get good evidence they will get an

if you look at the timeline, on the 7th of january xi jinping met with the committee and at that timey knew there was human to human transfer. about two weeks later 5 million people left wuhan to the four corners of the earth to spread disease. on the 23rd of january, he convened a meeting in geneva where they talked about human to human transfer. then he met with xi jinping on the 28th and praised him for how he handled the crisis and then on the 30th they called it an emergency. if that doesn't smell like a cover-up, i don't know what is. the truth of the matter is we should not give one red cent to the w.h.o. as long as he and a lot of his cronies are still there. >> shannon: i read some interesting pieces about the link between tedros and the chinese government. but the u.s. is by far the largest donor. we make a huge portion above what they get, and yet it seems that there may be some bias leading in a different direction. not that it should lean in the u.s. direction, it should lean and no direction. >> i think that's part of the problem, trying to look at this from a point of v

head of the world health organization, president trump was also praising china, in particular, xi jinping. and remember, w.h.o. is at the mercy of powerful countries like the united states and china. it had no means to independently verify what china said. in fact, china did not allow w.h.o. on its soil. it didn't invite w.h.o. in until well later, and even then, a very small contingent. so, to lay this at w.h.o.'s door, when we could see this coming i think is inexcusable. we didn't need w.h.o. to tell us. and in fact, w.h.o. did. they said very early on that we needed to prepare for something very substantial. but we could see it. i mean, the president and everybody in america could see it like a tsunami going through first china, then east asia, then europe. we had weeks and probably months to prepare, and we didn't. so, now, to deflect blame on the world health organization or china is simply -- it's false and it's hurtful, and i think it will come back to haunt the united states. >> yeah, and president trump blames the w.h.o. for supporting china and says it praised the country for i

the recovery may be a result of efforts by president xi jinping to get companies to restart business. but the ins says there's still huge uncertainty about it future path of the pandemic. it warns a resurgence in china and other countries can't be ruled out. >>> the coronavirus is taking a toll on a growing range of businesses in japan including language schools. they have been unable to welcome new students from overseas because the government has invalidated visas from more than 170 countries. one school based in tokyo had planned to accept about 700 new students from 28 countries and territories as the epidemic here got under way this month. but only about 90 of them have made it to japan. the fate of the rest is unknown. >> translator: i keenly feel a sense of crisis because if the situation does not improve our business will become financiciay unviable. we believe we need public support or aid. >> the coronavirus pandemic has also devastated global tourism with hotels, airlines and restaurants facing billions of dollars in losses. one of the hardest hit places is hawaii. as touri

bring it back to make it better said because we are all in it everybody is at stake president xi jinping made very clear that the priority of china's media was to reflect the thinking of the communist party we can all pitch the chinese communist party against the chinese people or vice versa it doesn't work like this in china i see my job is to work for the overall benefits of the chinese population. from the start the government's position has been clear to stop and smear those who challenge the official version of events. people like fung been a middle aged close retailer in will have dug a hole was. he decided to investigate and film what state t.v. wasn't showing. functoid the city visiting different hospitals showing the chaotic reality that overworked doctors and nurses. and the desperation of patients and their families trying to get treatment anyway anywhere. and the pain of losing loved ones when it doesn't matter in the woods or it will only when you. know you have a very good you know with her you know. why go to the other one when you put on a video that we're going to. go th