well earlier i spoke with the former australian prime minister kevin rudd who's been a vocal critic of the escalating blame game he's calling for a united nations based independent international inquiry into the origin of the virus whether china informed the world health organization early enough and how the w.h.o. then responded. no institution in the world at present is going to be universally free from criticism but the bottom line is the un secretary general occupies the only position which in my own view has the appropriate balance as well as an independent standing to convene a high level panel of medical experts it will be then to the international community to judge whether their inquiry has been conducted in a fair and impartial manner or not i will go in that my fear is my deep fear is that this will continue just to descend into national politics as china closes down domestically in terms of international medical experts getting to the truth of what transpired and. 'd others in the international community simply engaging in a polemic so what went on i think the peoples of th

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a special division of pakistan's army looking to the future former prime minister of australia kevin rudd foresees a more active role for china's own military in protecting belts and road will be are rife short i think one of the things we have to be very careful monitoring is what now happens with b r i mean the states new extent which china moves to militarize those relationships for example both in south east asia. and across the so called string of pearls that is. maritime bases in the in the indian ocean straits politically in sri lanka in bangladesh but also 'd in pakistan and now prospective in iran and already in djibouti in the red sea where china is beginning to 4 deploy naval and air assets and peace and a source of assets where belton broke returning to a staging ground for a cold war style confrontation with united states. so under those circumstances if we begin to see the american push back in those that country says then it's not a large gap between what we now have which is an emerging as it were a diplomatic chasm for that to become a chasm of assuming more military char

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later this hour, former australian prime minister kevin rudd, a fascinating conversation with him and his battles with the murdoch mafia, that's what he calls it. we'll hear from him coming up in a few minutes. first, taking a look at the president's rhetoric. the american press is stronger than any demagogue, but president trump's attacks present real challenges. for as long as i've been alive no leader of the free world has publicly spoken about the press the way trump does. it is poison. calling news outlets the enemy of the people is a verbal form of poison. maybe it's just meant to distract us but it still must be taken seriously. so, if you've heard that before, it's because every word i said, everything i just said is three years old. i said it in front of this camera in front of a mil lion viewers in february of 2017. that's the first time trump called reporters the enemy. sometimes the biggest news of all is what hasn't changed. what's still happening. when it comes to the president's war on truth, we have to pay attention to it even though it's not fundamentally changed. let

for more i'm joined by the form australian prime minister kevin rudd has got a view of president of the asia society policy institute and joins us from sydney mr rudd welcome donald trump says the tories caught a puppet of china do you agree. well the bottom line is the world health organization seeks to discharge its mandate under the arrangements set in place back in one in 48 in the way and it does that is through the international health regulations how there is and that has applied to the current crisis concerning covert 19 frankly is still subject to open question inquiry and investigation i think for the president out of strays to simply issue a blanket smear that the w.h.o. is a puppet of one country or another frankly doesn't do justice to what we need to establish and i think the bottom line is president trump seems to be very quick to criticize any other institution in the world including that of robin apply that critique to the performance of his own administration in the united states itself which at a national government level i think most of us would agree is simply being

includes fox news of intentionally stoking the war of words the former australian prime minister kevin rudd wrote he is currently president of the asia society policy institute joins us now from sydney good day to you mr rudd thank you so much for coming in for us today is it only the us administration or is beijing also playing a role in this ask elating war of words will both sides are engaged in this and to the detriment of actually establishing the truth of what has transpired in terms of the origin of the virus early notification or lack thereof in china by the provincial authorities to the central authorities and furthermore in terms of notification from china to the w.h.o. and what the w.h.o. then did about it my own view is that in order to get to the bottom of this we need to have an independent international inquiry and mind recommendation is being done so by the un secretary-general convening a high level panel of scientists has drawn from china and the rest of the international community but this is a rolling up killer a virus of accusations in both directions doesn't hope to ge

kevin rudd of formosan prime minister leave it there for the time being thank you so much for being with us. thank you and we're wrapping up a news conference at the white house on monday president trump surprised reporters by announcing that he's taking the anti drug drug cyclo queen to protect himself against the. repeatedly talked of the drug as a treatment for covert 19 even though his own government experts say it's not suitable for fighting the virus and despite warnings from medical experts about potentially dangerous side effects here's what trump have to say but i get a lot of tremendously positive hydroxy and i say hey you know the expression i've used what do you have to lose ok what do you have to lose. take it for about a week for about a week going to have every day at some point every day i take a pill every day. at some point up what i'd like to do is i'd like to have the cure and or the vaccine and that will happen i think 1st. france and germany have announced a half a trillion your plan to help europe weather the worst crisis in decades the proposal calls for a rescue

peace institute, for example, published an important set of papers after commission chaired by, kevin ruddde influencing activities have not yet got the kind of leverage that in fact is needed for member states. president trump referred to the fact that he detailed some reforms. no one has seen with the concrete proposals were. when he first announced them 11 days ago, they weren't published. i think that the agenda of transparency, of independence, of secure funding is very clear. however, in the midst of a pandemic, what we need the world health organisation to do is focus on its dayjobs, and that means getting to grips with this pandemic as it spreads from the richest countries in the world, like north america and europe, to latin america now where it is growing exponentially, but also to the places where organisations like the international rescue committee work, the exposed fragile states in africa and asia, where the disease if we are not very careful indeed is very lucky will run riot. i want to move onto the situation in hong kong and ask you, in your view as a former foreign secre

later this hour, former australian prime minister kevin rudd, a fascinating conversation with him and