and these week lemon pay was attacked with paint in taipei in what he called in the attempts by china to intimidate him alone is not backing down so guns and books about the hong kong protest a prominent in his books but when you have a horrible. mistake about hong kong because it's ruled by a country which preaches its promises to the people. yeah. china tightened hong kong's freedoms over the past 20 years but my bookstore says no to totalitarianism we call for liberties just as it's written on this flag. many people around the world acco his beliefs he raised around $200000.00 in power funding to realize to projects. that when. we leave it let's leave. it. there may be on the path of no return after leaving his home loving family behind in hong kong the boat saw in taipei has now become his home. i don't expect the situation to improve soon maybe in a decade or more nevertheless we shouldn't give up i boycott all chinese products revolts doesn't necessarily mean throwing a petrol bomb it's all the little things in our everyday lives. adele liberties have had their price 11 k. belie

you who are not locked down they're going to work you know they haven't missed my daughter in taipei hasn't missed any time so this blaming china reparations you know maybe we could start at the beginning you know there's 3000000 dead people in southeast asia because of us flying off aircraft carriers in the south china sea and by i mean vietnam we could start with reparations there one 3rd of laos has so many american bombs on it they can even use it i mean let's get real and let's work together as a world here. yeah well that would be great and that would be the most important takeaway from this pandemic is to work together but what we've seen is just the opposite we've seen it's every man for himself and that's very disquieting brad let me come to you. as part of my profession i have watched a lot of american cable news and look at the manger broadsheets and number one their knowledge of china is very very poor this gives me an opportunity to plug james his book here which is very very good of the china mirage but you know it seems to me that again you know there's a great deal of

this week, he was attacked with paint in taipei. in what he called an attempt by china to intimidate him. but he is not backing down. slogans and books about the hong kong protests are prominent in his store. >> i am pessimistic about hong kong because it is ruled by a country that b breaches its promises to ththe people. china tightened honong kong's freedoms over the pasast 20 yea, but my bookstore says no to totalitarianism. we call for liberties just as it is wriritten on the e flag. >> many people around the world echo his beliefs. he raised $200,0,0 to realilize the project. >> he is the only one free to speak his mind. one was just sentenced to 10 years in prison in china while the rest have been silenced. he may be on a pathh of no return. after leaving his homeland and family behind in hong kong, the bookstore in taipei has become his home. >> i don't expect the situation to improve soon. maybe in a decade or more. nevertheless, we should not give up. i boycotott all chinese product. revolt does not necessarily mean throron

i mean, he dressed in $3,000 suits, and he took the finest suite at the five-star hotels in taipei. he was sort of a guy who would try to convince folks that he had some substance and a track record. >> narrator: pang tells potential investors that he has that mba from university of california, irvine, and that he was once a vice president at morgan stanley. >> no one ever took the time to make a simple inquiry into his background as to whether he really had that kind of experience, but it never came up as an issue. >> narrator: he also tells investors that pem group is backed by the irvine family, which owned a large part of orange county in the 19th century. >> danny found a member of the irvine family, whose name was morton irvine smith, to essentially serve as a front man for pem group, and they claimed in documents that he was the chairman of the holding company, that the family had a big share holding in pem group. >> narrator: irvine, which has a large taiwanese population, has a certain cachet overseas, and major taiwanese banks like standard chartered plc, hua nan, and sino

we have this report from taipei. reporter: this handmade facemask cover can be washed and reused for a day or twtwo amid shortag. like so many others here, facemasks have become a necessity in everyday life. >> the virus is spread through droplets. it is for more than one hour i have to share the same e space with 30 people. it makes me unsafe without a facemask. reporter: while getting a mask can be no easy task in many parts of the world, it's another story here in taiwan. taiwan imposed an export ban on surgical masks as early as january. the government then begegin -- then began rationing master three per person per week, and soon after made them available online. now you can place a mask -- place in order for facemask then in our. it can be verified before sales. for those who don't want to order online, there is a real-time mask map to track facemask stocks and pharmacies. people can check their availability before heading out. this is among the dozens of online tools that have mushroroomed on the island due o

diplomat in taipei. >> he was just defending the chinese position and echoing what they had to say. it made the taiwanese more suspicious to what the chinese were doing. china doesn't allow taiwan into the w.h.o., and that's really stupid, because taiwan is one of the main countries in the world that has expertise on international health issues.ch >> srin: for anna lee, that expertise translates into trust in her government. >> i feel like, even if there is so, thing wrong with my bodyi will be taken care of, which is quite promising, and i'm quite happy with how the government is taking this very seriously. that's why we keep the casesve low. >> schifrin: which means, for anna l and many taiwanese quarantined today, there's no place like home. for the pbs newshour, i'm nick schifrin. >> woodruff: today, taiwan announced that it wod donate ten million masks to medical workers around the world-- two million to the u.s. >> woodruff: president trump has been in the white house briefing room again this evening, along with other administration officials, for what habecome a regular discu

. >> schifrin: so careful, lee found fellow taiwanese jason yang waiting for his flight to taipei inody suit bought off >> (.translated i believe that in england, it's already lost control. and if i go back to taiwan, i will be taken care of. >> schifrin: taiwan is only 80 miles off the coast of mainland china. taiwan has succeeded at containing covid-19, starting at arrival. >> ( translated ): we arett ing off the plane. >> schifrin: lee skyped with us during her hour-long journey through the taipei airport.th e first step taiwan took was identifying possible cases.>> they gave me this form to fill out my temperature in the next 14 days. authorities she'd had a cough in the last two weeks, so security escorteder to secondary reening. she had hetemperature taken, like this woman, and she filled out forms consenting to new regulations and providing recent medical history. >>juy temperature that they took, and it was asking what symptoms i had, anif i went to doctor >> schifri and she got a covid-19 test at the airport. taiwan uploads these results n intoational health care database, t

lucy burgers on a french journalist move to the capital taipei a few months ago with the help of her time in these roommates she's learning a lot about the country and its customs and claire on the social media there is a dog that give you advice ok you tell me more about it yes so this shiva dog is a very lovely character that's been put up by the ministry of health and welfare to let the public know what we should do so this is on social media and it tells us for example how we must wash our hands as often as possible. this shiba inu called son jai is the spokes dog for the taiwanese ministry of health the government is using a range of digital mascots to tell the public how to manage. good hygiene the campaign began in early december no other country reacted as swiftly at that point beijing was still trying hard to play down the situation. it was also in december that taiwan began imposing quarantine on people arriving from the epicenter of the epidemic a few weeks later it closed its borders completely to over sitters from china at the same time the country started mass producing

lucy burke bizarre a french journalist moved to the capital taipei a few months ago with the help of her time in these roommates she's learning a lot about the country and its customs and care on the social media fare is that if you advice ok you tell me more about it yes so this shiva dog is a very lovely character that's been put up by the ministry of health and welfare to let the public know what we should do so this is on social media and it tells us for example how we must wash our hands as often as possible. this shiba inu called son joey is the spokes dog for the taiwanese ministry of health the government is using a range of digital mascots to tell the public how to manage. good hygiene the campaign began in early december no other country reacted as swiftly at that point beijing was still trying hard to play down the situation. it was also in december that taiwan began imposing quarantine on people arriving from the epicenter of the epidemic a few weeks later it closed its borders completely to all visitors from china at the same time the country started mass producing prote

taipei is associated with shanghai based ship management a company censured last month by the u.s. state department for i quote knowingly engaging in a significant transaction for the purchase acquisition sale transport or marketing of petro chemical products from iran the u.s. navy's bufferin based 5th fleet which is responsible for the region so far has not commented on the incident there is also a chance that militants may be the mystery men who boarded the ship the area overran where the oil tanker was taken has seen attacks by militants in the past but this would be the 1st time they attacked a ship ultimately after being held for a few hours the ship was released it has been reported that it is now fully under the captain's control and it's on its way to a safe port for news with rick sanchez i'm alex my love it or let's do this now let's go to our former pentagon official and our guest michael maloof was good enough to join us where we're essentially developing a newscast every day that has non coronavirus stories in it this is where we're going to do that so here's the ques

how did they do it and could very pro-choice be emulated by others i d w zefi because reports from taipei. this handmade face mask of a can be washed and reused for a day or 2 amid shortages like the so many others here face masks have become a necessity in josie's everyday life the virus with bradford dropped but i have to take about 2 hours every day so it's more than one hour that i to share the same space with more than 30 people in it made me feel a bit without hearing and. while getting a mosque can be no easy task in many parts of the world it's another story here in taiwan to ensure the safety of its population of $23000000.00 taiwan imposed an export ban on such a con mosques as early as january the government then began rationing mosques to 3 pope person and soon after made them available online. nowadays you can place an order for face masks with an up purchase history is recorded by one national health insurance card so that it can be 3rd fight before sales for those who don't want to order online software developer kyung fin john has developed a real time last map to track fa

it's worth pointing out, other countries in taipei like south korea and other countries have criticiseditical influence that china has over the who and you can see that sometimes in the spokesman for the organisation, but the broader point here i thought was interesting. as far as president trump is concerned this crisis is almost over. he was talking about opening up america maybe in some states before may one. yes, more broadly talking about that. getting america working again the last two minutes, talking about sports teams playing again, he said he's tired of watching old baseball games on television. he's a very, very keen to get this country moving and there's been a dispute over the last 24 hours between the president and state governors as to who has the authority to stop the stay—at—home orders. a lot of local officials saying quite simply it's the job of state governments to control law and order in terms of the decisions made to keep people away from their workplace. the president implying that he could override any decisions made locally to continue to extend those orders wh

fourth, who has three and discussed their response with health authorities in taipei. we spoke with him by phone in february and again earlier today , and work is under way to do so again. fifth, who also interacts with their health authorities through the european centre for disease prevention and control, so those are some examples relating to the pandemic. there are five additional examples i would like to share with you on a range of other health-related issues. first, over the course of last year, 2019, taiwan's experts attended eight who expert meetings. more than one every other month. the issues they worked on included immunization, ,rug-resistant tb noncommunicable diseases and mental health, and work is under way for more of this kind of work in 2020 as well. second, on influenza, a taiwanese vaccine manufacturer contributes to the who influenza preparedness framework. it's a critical access and benefit sharing framework. third, and the fight against their exit -- experts have been published in who's .esearch on cancer publication support of the eye term mech

and temperatures are going to be 20 in taipei and 22 in hong kong. nice and warm in the north as well. ulaanbaatar, 16 with sunny weather. tokyo will be looking at very warm conditions as we go into saturday. and finally across north america, warm air from the south is colliding with colder air from the north. and that is expected to bring a line of rain and snowfall across the mid-portions of the u.s. that's it for me. stay safe. >>> and that brings us to the end of this edition of nhk "newsline." thanks for watching and do stay with us for more. >>> the u.s. congressional budget office says it expects a report gdp decline in the quarter as the coronavirus pandemic continues to batter the world's largest economy. the cbo projects the annual gdp growth rate to plummet to minus 28%. it would be the lowest since data keeping began. and officials warn the decline could be even larger the cbo also says the ratate would be 1. nearly 10 million americans have filed for unemplployment over t past two weeks. and experts believe the number of people doing so

and then towards the southern parts, we see warmer temperatures for shanghai, taipei, towards manila, philippines, and thailand, do expect warmer temperatures mid to upper 30s. tokyo will be just around 17 for thursday. dropping to 15 by friday and saturday. and, then, by sunday, increasing about six degrees more, to 21 degrees. the rest of japan is seeing temperatures slightly cooler than what we saw on wednesday. but it will get cool, again, towards the weekend. the united states has seen much colder weaeather for the north we are seeing snowfall in certain portions, such as the rockies and also closer towards the ohio valley, where we are seeing a high-pressure system. but do expect some snowfall in certain parts, especially toward chicago. and then, also, temperatures and rainfall i expect to fluctuate towards miami, florida. we will see possibilities of some thunder showers, so, please, do take care there. otherwise, just stay warm as much as you can. your temperatures. single digits in certain parts. especially, towards denver, chicago, and crossing over in towards canada. we ar

chongqing looking at some rain with a high of 19, 20 in hong kong and taipei.ow, as we see the high moving in, look at this temperature high of 30 in beijing for friday. that's way above where they're supposed to be for this time of year. 16 and 18 in tokyo. meanwhile, we're talking about much more serious instability in the southern united states, as we had a major low pressure system in place the past few hours. notice the clouds really building up, that clear line back to the west, but ahead of that is where we're seeing some of these strong to severe thunderstorms. at least 25 tornado reports over the past 24 hours, and that's just for wednesday. we're going through thursday. these cells are continuing to move their way into mississippi and into alabama. and in fact, the southeastern united states looking at a decent chance for some severe thunderstorms with tornadoes possible along with strong winds and large hail. enhanced risk from florida into southern portions of alabama into the carolinas, so be on the lookout for that. again, significant amounts of r

emergency lending programs in the united states that drove much of the trading indexes in tokyo so in taipei all responded positively after the u.s. central bank announced that it would lend more than 2 trillion dollars directly to businesses and local governments a major expansion of its powers that we're looking at there by the way gave on wall street following that news that the grounds for friday's sessions in asia. well let's take a look now at some other coronavirus related news from around the world new york city authorities have begun using a trench to bury virus victims the number of unclaimed bodies interred at the heart island public cemetery has increased 5 fold since the start of the alpine new york plans to draft in additional funeral directors to deal with the numbers of people who have died in recent days. the world's major oil producers have made progress on a deal to cut out but by 10000000 barrels a day of meeting between opec countries and allies including russia remain between all members except mexico a cut is seen as the best way to support tumbling oil prices as deman

programs in the united states that actually ended up driving the trading indexes in tokyo seoul and taipei all responded positively after the u.s. central bank announced that it would lend more than 2 trillion dollars directly to businesses and local governments a major expansion of its powers there and gains on wall street they were swift following that news except the ground for friday sessions in asia. german chancellor angela merkel says that she sees signs of hope in the fight against covert 19 social distancing is helping to slow the spread of the coronavirus in the country but merkel also warns now is not the time to use the lockdown. deserted streets in the german capital a common sight in countries facing curren a virus around the wont but according to experts in germany there are strict sions on movement seeing to be having a positive effect. the number of new cases there appears to be leveling out but with a long easter weekend looming the german chancellor has warned against getting complacent if you do if an old snitch we mustn't allow ourselves to be loaded into a false sense

rick sanchez pedalo again everybody i'm rick sanchez look whether you're picking us up right now in taipei or tacoma or any place in between as we are broadcasting live around the world we welcome you you may be watching us on portable t.v. the app by the way we're so glad that you're here so look our job is to look out for you right that's what we try to do every single day so one of the stories that we're going to try and bring it as to with a tech company that might be selling your personal information to facebook if they are this is something that you should know about but we're going to begin with the very latest numbers where there is some good news from some of the countries and some not so good news from other countries china for example south korea is another example of countries where they seem to be getting over that proverbial or infamous hump or curve. other countries not so much the united nations is now declaring they did so today that quote humanity faces its greatest challenge since world war 2 this is the united nations that's what they put out meanwhile here in the unite

and the new one friday japan's leading nikkei closed with gains as the indexes in short seoul and taipei lester's were specially encouraged by a new u.s. federal reserve program that will lend directly to businesses and local governments . world's major oil producers have made progress on a deal to cut our force by 10000000 barrels a day meeting between opec countries and allies including russia saw agreement between all members except mexico congress as the best way to support tumbling oil prices as demand supply us. even the international monetary fund says the virus is causing the worst economic fallout since the great depression of the 99 and thirty's citizens of more than 170 countries are expected to see a drop in personal income this emerging economies and low earning nations will be worst affected. for the world's biggest religions the coming days are usually filled with the celebrations christians mark easter and jews possible for muslims the fast and period of ramadan begins later this month but the need for social distancing means religious leaders have scaled back or canceled

news with rick sanchez and hello again everybody i'm rick sanchez whether you're picking us up in taipei or tacoma or any place in between as we broadcast live around the world we welcome you you may be watching us on portable t.v. the app by the way we're so glad that you were there you know our job here every day is to look out for you so one of the stories that we're going to be bringing you today has to do with a tech company that might be selling your personal information to facebook and if they are you should know about it so we're going to tell you but let's go ahead.

news with rick sanchez and hello again everybody i'm rick sanchez whether you're picking us up in taipei or tacoma or any place in between as we broadcast live around the world we welcome you you may be watching us on portable t.v. the app by the way we're so glad that you're there you know our job here every day is to look out for you so one of the stories that we're going to be bringing you today has to do with a tech company that might be selling your personal information to facebook and if they are you should know about it so we're going to tell you but let's go ahead and begin with the very latest number where there's good news and some countries and some not so good news from other countries china south korea seem to be getting over that the proverbial or infamous curve while other countries not so much the united nations is declaring tonight that quote humanity faces its greatest challenge since world war 2 meanwhile here in the united states as we report to you just a block from the white house the new prediction for how many americans will not will die is now at 240240000 but i

that is live from taipei. now let's take a look at how the virus is impacting the rest of europe.te. more than 10,000 people with the virus have died in france since the start of the pandemic. better news from italy, the country that is so far recorded the highest number of fatalities worldwide although another 600 people have died, the number of those currently with the virus has risen by less than 1%. the european commission says doctors and nurses from romania and norway are being deployed to badly hit areas of the country. spain has seen a rise in the daily figure of coronavirus related deaths after four consecutive fall. 743 deaths were registered but the authorities say some of these numbers can be attributed to deaths that took lace over the weekend but had not been reported. as the usa continues to battle against coronavirus, a number of unlikely heroes have stepped forward to join the fight. among them, a local distillery in branson, missouri which is now making more hand sanitizer than whisky in a bid to stop the spread of covid—19. matt graveling reports. we are able to

tim joins us from taipei. the impatience may have cost him as much as $17 billion.rong? >> aw, man. the mistakes that he made over the last -- not just last year. back a few years since he started the vision fund. moneyere sending too much and ramping up the companies they were investing in. that happens, you need to get a return on the back end of it. is the most famous example. o-yo, they're facing a cash crunch. they're going to have issues. clearly that's going to be down.n they did i.p.o. last year, like in uber. fallen.them have they're really not very profitable companies. to pump a lot of money into are nots that profitable, just not able to discipline to be profitable. that's really where it comes from. becoming clear that softbank made some key mistakes. mistakes?hese say, getting in a bidding war with other venture capitalists, to get access. i haven't example, heard that there's a downgrade holdingalue of grabs' with softbank. but these are the kinds of companies where they're just spending ridiculous amounts of money to prop them up. they're not finding

sanchez has been a long going to her body i'm rick sanchez you know whether you're picking us up in taipei or to como or any place in between as we broadcast around the world we welcome you you may be watching us for example on portable t.v. it's an app either way we're glad you're there among the developments happening this hour there is a plane filled with relief supplies i think we've got some pictures we can show you here it is this is the plane that has just arrived from russia interestingly enough the governor of new york has been talking throughout the day in fact almost with.

paracel islands are controlled by beijing but they're also claimed by taiwan and vietnam right by taipei and noise in terms of the u.s.s. bunker hill the u.s. says that this was just a freedom of navigation operation and what that means is because these are islands that are disputed very controlled by china but also by taiwan malaysia the philippines and vietnam that the navy actually came out with this statement here's what they had to say this freedom of navigation operation was consistent with international law and actually meant to challenge the restrictions on innocent passage imposed by china and taiwan so basically what the u.s. is saying is that because china is posing a threat to freedom of the seas the united states hostile response rate and that's what they did by moving around in these waters the fear is that these things are most going to be boy is going to boil over and now with the united states or entities in the media of the united states accusing china of the worldwide pandemic it seems like everything is escalating like to try to raise your kind of melding into one abs

so when i started to have these experiences and realize that even taipei anxious doctors like me could meditate successfully and enjoy it that made me think what would happen if i became a teacher and i always just assumed that i'd come back to medicine and teach part time and practice medicine part time so it was never like i'm leaving medicine because i can't handle it or because i hate it i just realized i had this tool that could help wonderful people get to the point where i had gotten you know are you one twitter i am what you put your twitter handle out there right now i think a lot of people might want to be picking up what you're laying down here at. the it's ok can i make a comment about about meditation because i have some thoughts to share yeah yeah sure jill will tweet out your you know what are all tweeted out. so 1st of all i practice meditation regularly i took and then b.s. our class 2 years ago and it changed my life and i think it's a it's a tremendously valuable tool i also have concerns about what exactly the role of helping with the burnout for example of this get

about governance around the world that, right now, many people probably feel safer living in seoul or taipei're learning about systems of governance, about attitudes to the state, about attitudes to central authority, that is actually quite damaging to notions of liberal western democracy, and suggests that the most effective form of government may be something else? certainly there's an issue about government intervening quickly to do testing, tracking, and that does raise issues about private — privacy. and certainly the case from korea, taiwan and some other countries is — but also from germany — is that by tracking and testing, they have done a lot better. but there is another set of issues about the social contract, about people who are vulnerable, and whether they‘ re protected. and i think we're going to see a wholesale reassessment of the social contract, as well. whether people are prepared to accept the risks with our security that happened notjust in some parts of asia, but also in america, where people have to take more risks and there is less welfare and social security provisio

through friday and by friday notice it is fine it's warming up further there into japan 25 celsius taipei similar values here and hong kong getting up to 28 degrees of plenty of sunshine still a fair bit of sunshine as well but expected to central and northern parts of india but southern areas see some very heavy showers over the next day or so the 100 that maybe into the good part of kara seeing some of that western weather still seeing some live showers up towards the northeast off in the so just around behind pushing down into west bengal and more big and foundry downpours for a good pot abundant this. is really just treats and trace frank assessments wise it's really struggling to cope with the number coronavirus. failure to take really aggressive action we put them behind her informed opinions it's going to be much more challenging in a place like haiti where there is one ventilator very relieved people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines as india doubling up to nip the spread of her own of ours in the ball inside story on al-jazeera. these are the top stories on al-jazee