instead, what did this world health organization do? it was complicit in the chinese government's cover-up, stating the opposite -- that it was not human-to-human transmission. in fact, the world health organization even retweeted chinese propaganda on january 14 that there was, quote, no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission, contrary to the information that the world health organization got from the taiwanese. it ought to be very clear that misleading the public like this is simply egregious. by sidelining taiwan's participation, which has one of the lowest known covid-19 infection rates per capita despite its proximity to mainland china, the world health organization stymied information about a more effective response to the pandemic, and it was these critical days back in january when the spread of the virus could have been greatly slowed and even contained and saved a lot of lives. the world health organization mandate is to coordinate responses and facilitate information-sharing on a health emergency to all of its members,

to the world health organization. reviously, chinese leaders came under incredible scrutiny by the world health organization back in 2003. for the sars outbreak. china was not transparent with sars likeik they were transparet until too late in regards to this virus pandemic that we are fighting today. back then, the chinese government make sure that information regarding the outbreak of sars was not made public. at that point, the world health organizationhe did the what they're responsible for doing. they publicly reprimanded china back in 2003 on the sars outbreak. chinese leaders then quickly fell in line with the rest of the world. was the world health organization every country. the world health organization had been doing his job on this pandemic, and maybe china would have been quicker and admitting that it was human to human and how that is even in their own vcountry. however, we are seeing a very different approach now to the organizations handling china's information suppression campaign for the world health

is is is is also registering their unhappiness world health organization as it appears that the world health organization is more governed by politics then and jennings right ok so what i want us to look at let's just take a listen look at that because of course in any multilateral organizations you'll get a struggle to find can consensus just going back to the question i asked what would be the benefit to the united states of leaving the w.h.o. . well certainly it would make a statement and certainly the u.s. taxpayer would save save money from it if the world health organization is really just something that the chinese government is so co-opted there's no point for the united states to state it at all furthermore that it that with the u.s. withdrawal from might encourage other countries to place pressure on other w.h.o. and the chinese government and make their behavior more up and demick oriented ok so we have accusations coming from china excuse me coming from the i think states and from others that china is behind this pandemic let's let's stay with this accusation that the w.h.

extremely costly for the wild he says officials backed china saying the only way forward for the world health organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence and then ends the lesson demanding major changes to the organization trump writes if the world health organization does not commit to may just stand to improvements within the next 30 days i will make my temporary freeze of u.s. funding to the world health organization permanent all the u.s. president also accuses china of being partly responsible for that other chinese actions and i think they've done a. very sad job in the last period of time and again the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year and they're a puppet of china. china centric to put it nicer but their puppet of china made the u.s. tries to use china as an issue to shirk responsibility and bargain over its international obligations to the w.h.o. this is a miscalculation in the u.s. has picked the wrong target me when there is some truth in the u.s. leaders open later is full of hints perhaps and maybe tries to use specious methods

wants and that's how he put it in his letter is major a substantial improvements within the world health organization and that within 30 days otherwise he would pull the u.s. out of the world health organization permanently now what's interesting here is the president did not go into any detail which kind of changes he's calling for so we're now looking at an ultimatum in the midst of a pandemic and it's going to be easy to say for trump look at the world health organization did not deliver because simply we don't know what trump is calling for well as you mentioned it is a you know it is an election year in the united states in the world is watching closely to see how president trump will handle best has the pandemic had any effect on what americans think of how their president is doing well the polls have always not been very much in trump's favor so latest poll see a disapproval rating of 52 percent what's remarkable though is that the election campaign came to a complete halt almost because of the pandemic and historically those credit presidents who were able to point to a good economy would win

for the world he accuses officials of backing china writing the only way forward for the world health organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence from china he ends the letter demanding major changes of the organization saying if the world health organization does not commit to major substantiative improvements within the next 80 days i'll make my temporary freeze of the united states funding to the world health organization permanent and the us president also accuses china of being caught be responsible for the w h o's actions. and i think they've done a. very see the list period of time. and again the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year and they're a puppet of jonah. china centric to put it nicer but they're a puppet of jonah and china's reacted to the trump letter saying the u.s. is trying to shift the blame of its own incompetent response to coronavirus attorney who has more from beijing. china's foreign ministry has responded to trump's letter by painting the us as a rogue state that is not abiding by the rules of the internation

policy for the world health organization. the widely discredited world health organization. good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." document suggests the trump administration will soon announce a major change in america's posture toward w.h.o. we will have details for you, sorting through them right now and just a moment. but first, the country appears to be splitting into two hemispheres even as we watch. places where public officials are allowing the science to guide their decisions, states like that are cautiously beginning to relax their lockdown and finding no spike in illness as they do it. then there is the other half of the country, places you are glad you don't live right now. in those places, power drunk politicians crow about science but resolutely ignore its findings and they don't care what the data says bared their decisions are driven by ambition, political calculation, and the pure animal joy of controlling other people's lives. places like that are tightening their lockdown's even now. may be no place in the country represents the authoritarian

and because of that, pulled back from the world health organization which basically allows china and chinese communist party, to dominate that organization even more. >> doctor, what is your reading of the world health organization's role in this situation, and what would it mean for the united states to withhold funding and of course, there's so such thing as permanent. president trump is only president until january 20th, and possibly beyond that, we don't know. but congress has a role here, too. so this is, at most, a temporary withholding of that funding. >> yeah. so lawrence, thanks for having me on. first of all, i think the idea of withholding funding from the most consequential global health agency in the middle of the most important pandemic in a century, strikes me as incredibly unwise. not just for the world, but also specifically for the united states. much of the world relies on the w.h.o.'s expertise and guidance to fight disease outbreaks like the coronavirus outbreak. the w.h.o. is running the solidarity trial. and the idea that we're going to walk away from

he ended the letter demanding major changes of the organization trump wrote if the world health organization does not commit to major substantive improvements within the next 30 days make my temporary freeze of united states funding to the world health organization permanent and the us president is accusing beijing of being partly responsible for the w h o's actions and i think they've done a. very see the list period of time. and again the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year. and they're a puppet of jonah. jonah centric to put it nicer but they're a puppet of jonah for more on china's reaction has katrina you in beijing china's foreign ministry has responded to trump's letter by painting the us as a rogue state that is not abiding by the rules of the international community it says that it's the obligation of every world health organization member state to pay their contribution in full and on time it also says that the trump administration is trying to mislead the public about china while politicizing its relationship with the world health or

health secretary has also attacked china and the world health organization over their response to cope with 19 chinese president paying defended his country's response as open and transparent during an annual health conference run by the w.h.o. but the aging has been facing growing criticism as our diplomatic editor james bass says in this report. it's a time when countries have been concentrating on their national responses to the virus and with tensions between china and the u.s. growing the un secretary general sounded frustrated his video link from new york to geneva wasn't working well but delegates heard him condemn the lack of global cooperation result one of you does express your understanding varied he may have some talk of solidarity but very little unity in our response to cope with 19 countries have followed different sometimes contradictory strategies and we are all paying a high price for this many countries have ignored the recommendations of the world health organization as a result the virus has spread throughout the world and is now heading towards southern countries

funding of the world health organization. it's not totally neutral if you're seeing something coming from that average joe it's something that its member states wanted to be really something that a member state consented to be early so i think that if you really want to hold it accountable you basically need to go to each individual member state and engage with journals and they are engaged with criticism there. to see the full picture you sort of have to go beyond what what states are killing it. and finally if your feeds look anything like mine for weeks now you've been seeing americans begging their news networks to just stop with their live coverage of donald trump's daily coronavirus briefings they say the misinformation is just too dangerous the idea for instance of injecting bleach into your veins as a cure but even if those networks agreed and tried to kill their live coverage their shareholders probably wouldn't let them because the ratings are just too good which will come as a relief to randy a rainbow he's an onli

example ofextreme this, but we have also seen -- the world health organization said last week they have seen more than 30 attacks in 11 countries around the world on health care facilities and there have been dozens of attacks in the united states on asian andicans and hasidic choose -- hasidic jews and minorities being blamed for a virus that had nothing to do with their ethnicity. misinformation can go from a minor annoyance to a life-threatening disaster in just a short time. has no agenda. it just is. meanwhile a lie does have an agenda and can have a political advantage over truth. that is a scary thought. we need to be paying attention to the actual experts who are talking about what we know about the virus. fauci orke anthony robert redfield in his top two lieutenants. -- and his top two lieutenants. thing that i find fascinating about this. we are learning about this coronavirus at an unprecedented clip, faster than we have ever learned about any pathogen or virus in world history. as an example, in 2009 the new england journal of medicine published 54 articles on h1n1 that migh

use but it was only after the second world war that a united nation conference drew up a plan for a spireparat international health body. >> the world health organization sprang out in action. they since celebrated on world health's day. in june 1948, the first world health assembly opened in geneva with 53 countries represented. >>> the suffering of human beings in countries will be alleviated and many thousands of lives will be saved. >> quarantine regulations to curve the spread of communical diseases. >> malaria, a widespread disease facing our organization. in the early 1950s, spectacular successes were achievered through a systematic spraying of dd. the world health organization launched a global campaign to eradicate malaria. the dream was not to be. by the late '60s, it was clear eradication was not applicabapp. controlling it was more of the approach. smallpox, millions were affected. in 1958, countries started vaccination campaigns to wipe out the disease worldwide. to vaccinate every man and women and child on earth proved an overwhelming task. in 1967, the world health organization launched a new campaign with a different approach containin

costly for the wilds he also says officials backed china saying the only way forward for the world health organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence he then ends the lesser demanding major changes to the organization trump writes if the world health organization does not commit to major substantial improvements within the next 30 days i will make my temporary freeze of u.s. funding to the world health organization permanent while the us president also accuses china of being partly responsible for the w.h.s. actions and i think they've done a. very sad job in the list period of time and again the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year and they're a puppet of china. china centric to put it nicer but they're a puppet of china. i mean war the u.s. tries to use china as an issue to shirk responsibility and bargain over its international obligations to the w.h.o. this is a miscalculation and the u.s. has picked the wrong target and they were in there. the u.s. leaders open later is full of hints perhaps and maybe tries to use specious methods to

program us president donald trump has threatened to withdraw the united states from the world health organization and permanently and u.s. funding in a letter to the un bodies tarik to general mr trump demands changes based on his criticisms within 30 days he accuses the organization of mishandling the global coronavirus response and being a puppet of china china describes the comments as a smear campaign and and their cues as mr trump of the united states has responsibilities. final this isn't fully defunct but w. even before trump had issued his in century letter to the world health organization it was clear he was about to attack. but i think they've done a. very sad job in the last period of time. and again the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year and they're a puppet of china. china centric to put it nicer but they're a puppet of china those comments at a white house event were quickly followed by a trump tweet he links to a letter accusing the w.h.o. of making a series of missteps over its response to the pandemic in it he warns that if the wor

news sources we have right now is compromised the listening posts nick near had now on the world health organization . this is the headquarters of the world health organization in geneva switzerland it has 194 member states operations in more than 150 locations and its remit is in its name. as of now there is no organization like you that has the ability to shape who. we have the freedom in our system and that could be 19 can be kind of. a pundit when you have organization has just declared that this is a pandemic the deadly job visually the clinical view 19 append the world health organization has declared kind of virus a global pandemic so when at the onset of cope with 19 chinese media observers noted the similarity between one m.p.h. i was saying. and fishel statements coming out of china was of course for long. lawrence kasdan has worked closely with. professor gaston on january 14th the chair repeated china's claim that there was no proof of human to human transmission of the corona virus a claim we now know to be false why do you think that. the done great job did. reiterate chinese. reportin

secretary alex azhar has entered the fray with a sharpie critical speech to the world health association the world health organization in which he accused the w.h.o. of failing in its mission to explain the origins of the virus to communicate what was happening to the rest of the world this is what alex is are at to say in an apparent attempt to conceal this outbreak at least one member state made a mockery of their transparency obligations with tremendous cost for the entire world we saw that w 2 failed at its core mission of information sharing and transparency when member states do not act in good faith this cannot ever happen again the status quo is intolerable w.h.o. must change and it must become far more transparent and far more accountable. well the us has also sharply criticized the w.h.o. for excluding taiwan from these ongoing discussions this in a statement from the secretary of state mike pompei or who insists that taiwan should be included in deliberations about the pandemic given the role that it has played in fighting the virus however china of course has been absolutely adamant that it would not allo

ignored theirs reporting obligations to the world health organization. and pressured the world health organization to mislead the world when the virus was first discovered by chinese authorities. they strongly recommended against me doing the buehrle from china. -- doing the early ban from china. china has total control over the world health organization despite paying only $40 million per year compared to what to the united states has been paying, which is approximately $450 million a year. reformsdetailed the that it must make and engage with them directly but they have refused to act. because they have failed to make the requested and greatly needed reforms, we will be today terminating our relationship with the world health organization and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving urgent, global, public health needs. the world needs answers from china on the virus. we must have transparency. why is it that china shut off infected people from wuhan to other parts of china. it did not go to beijing. to freelyed them travel throughout the

with the current code in 1000 pandemic but also to all the other sorts of programs that the world health organization organizes it also means that we have to try to scramble now to try to catch catch up with that funny i'd give the world health organization is still going to exist even if the united states is not a part of it but now it's going to have to reorder reassess its priorities and look at its budget and look to see if other member states and other organizations can help to fill some of those budgetary gaps ok the germans are also talking about zeroing in on reform of the world health organization if you had to reform one bits of it it's a massive structure arguably is bloated with too many stuff who is the one thing what's the one thing you would do to make it cheaper more profitable and better at his job. the most important thing that the world health organization needs is it needs more control over its budget has a relatively small budget but it doesn't actually get to control most of that and so as a result it's not really doing what it is best designed to do it's doing what donors are p

the world health organization. in its first assembly, dr. holm declared this organization was physically prepared to raise the health level of all people and forever restore the human afflictions of colorado, tuberculosis and syphilis. the prime objective of the world health organization is the fight against disease on a global scale. the representatives of nearly every nation have signed on, and this means an organization with the authority to act. epidemics, no matter what part of the world they may inspect are a potential danger to all over the -- other nations. the world organization will make full use of every existing means. a tremendous movement of world solidarity is born. inoculation already widely used will be extended. millions of people will be given prophylactic injections. a widespread system of medical control will be everywhere. in norma's quantities of serums, vaccines, and powerful -- enormous quantities of serums, vaccines and powerful drugs such as penicillin. a constant flow of up-to-date information in every nation now m

chinese officials ignored their reporting obligations to the world health organization and pressured the world health organization to mislead the world when the virus was first discovered by chinese authorities. countless lives have been taken and profound economic hardship has been inflicted around the globe. they strongly recommended against me doing the early ban from china. but i did it anyway. it was proven to be 100% correct. china has total control over the world health organization, despite only paying $40 million per year compared to what the united states has been paying, which is approximately $450 million a year. we have detailed the reforms that it must make and engage with them directly. but they have refused to act. because they have failed to make the requested and needed reforms, we will be today terminating our relationship with the world health organization and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving, urgent, global public health needs. the world needs answers from china on the virus. we must have transparency. why is it that china shut off infected

world health assembly hosted by the world health organization. he announced to china would provide $2 billion over two years to help countries around the world deal with the coronavirus and provide support for vaccines. president of the world health assembly, director general of the world health organization, dear delegates. sayegin with, i wish to significant importance for this world health assembly to be held at such a critical moment as the human race battles the novel coronavirus. while we are facing the most serious global public health emergency since the end of the thend world war, catching world by surprise, covid-19 has hit over 210 countries and regions. than 7 billion -- 7e around the world, million people around the world and claimed over 300,000 precious lives. i mourn for every life lost, and express condolence to the bereaved families. the history of human civilization is one of fighting diseases, and triumphing over disasters. the virus does not respect borders, nor is race or nationality relevant in the face of the disease. confr

second world war that a united nations conference drew up the plan for a separate international health body. >> in september 1947, when cholera broke out in egypt, the world health organization sprang into action. it couldn't afford to wait for its formal constitution, signed april 7th, 1948. the with 53 companies represented. >> suffering of millions of human beings and scores of countries will be alleviated and many, many thousands of lives will be saved. [ applause ] >> quarantine regulations were drawn up to curb the spread of communicable diseases. >> the only enemies worth fighting are ill health, poverty and ignorance. >> malaria, widespread disease facing a new organization. in the early 1950s, spectacular successes were achieved through systematic spraying of ddt. in 1955, fearful that mosquitos would develop, world health organization launched a global campaign to eradicate malaria. the dream was not to be. by the late '60s, it was clear eradication was not possible. controlling malaria was a more realistic approach. smallpox, one out of four people it touched died. the rest were marked for life. millions were affected. in 1958, countries started mass vaccination c

the world health organizations member states of agree to an inquiry into the international response to the corona virus pandemic artie's europe correspondent peter all of us has more. world health organization members of passed without objection a resolution put forward by the european union on behalf of 100 nations calling for a full independent investigation into the global response to the coronavirus pandemic what this resolution says is that there will be a full impartial independent and comprehensive investigation into the world health organization and in particular into the w.h.o. timelines the has been criticism of the world health organization that they didn't alert people or didn't alert nations soon enough to the dangers that we now know were presented by covert 19 chief among those criticizing the world health organization as being the united states during this summit which is taking place virtually for the 1st time jute a covert 19 the us secretary of health said the coronavirus was allowed to spiral out of control because of w.h.o. inaction there was a failure by this orga

jillian: as china and the world health organization push back on news reports of conspiracy, the trumpdministration isn't letting them off easy. >> china hid the virus from the world, behind the shield of the world health organization and they vacuumed up virtually all of the world's personal protective equipment. they're selling it at profits to some and other countries they're putting pleasure on the countries to -- pressure on the countries to deny the virus came from china. rob: german intelligence estimates the world lost four to six weeks in fighting the virus worldwide as china built up its ppe stockpile. jillian: author of the coming collapse of china gordon chang joins us with insight into how deeply we've been deceived. good to see you as always, thanks for being here. >> thank you, jillian and rob. jillian: what do you think about that, the four to six week time period we're talking about here from germany's federal intelligence service, four to six weeks could have made all the difference in the world, correct? do you think we'll get to the bottom of this? >> i think we wil

president has accused the world health organization -- that is really key, because the u.s. ent has accused the world health organization about their action as pertains to covid-19, and the president is running for reelection and is looking for someone to blame. now, the u.s. president, for his part, has been suggesting there could be punitive measures against china, although he has said in the last hour he does not believe he wants to discuss retaliation, but he is being criticized by some top democrats on capitol hill, who are concerned about the president's comments. chuck schumer, the top democrat in the senate, called the president's comments reckless and said the review of the world health organization and other bodies leaves the u.s. empty-handed if another country develops the vaccine first. in other words, really concerned the united states could be left at the back of the line because of president trump's criticism, not just of the world health organization as a body but also chinese officials. barbara: libya's u.n.-recognized soldiers, has killed and the government

his part was asked a little bit more about his threat to permanently cut funding to the world health organization the u.s. president saying at the white house that essentially the world health organization in his view needs to clean up its act he said he said that his letter outlining his issues with the body are is detailed and long but essentially his argument is much like we've heard him with respect to speaking about the trade relationship with china the u.s. president saying that the world health organization is not fair to the united states and if that behavior doesn't change then he says the united states won't be involved anymore it really is very similar to the talk that we heard from the u.s. president on the campaign trail for example when he said that the trade relationship with china was unfair he used strong arm tactics in order to try and achieve structural change putting in place ask relating trade war with tariffs on chinese goods into the united states that we should point out hurt many of the people that supported him in winning the election including farmers in 2016 so the u.s

response but instead has pivoted to pointing the finger not only at china but also at the world health organization the u.s. president has accused the world health organization of being too china centric and that is something that the secretary of state acco he said that particularly the head of that global body dr ted rose is unusually close in terms of ties to beijing in other words that it is clouding his judgement this is ministrations accuse the world health organization of being too slow in declaring a global health emergency as the secretary of state also refuse sort of said that china has refused to share information with the world that essentially tracking down patient 0 has been very difficult because it is accused china of destroying live virus samples now in terms of the fight it clearly is ask a lady and it's clear that this administration is choosing to point the finger not just of the world health organization but also china in fact the u.s. president using some very strong words in a tweet about 6 hours ago where he said that incompetence in china has led to mass worldwide killing w

response to the world health organization's assembly and the leadership of the world health organization, saying he sent this multipage letter to the leader of the world health organization, and he says it is self-explanatory. in this letter he lays out where he sees the world health organization showing bias towards china and he concludes in the letter writing this -- "myra -- administration has started his cushions on reform and the organization, but action is needed quickly. we do not have time to waste. that is why it is my duty host: now, the hhs secretary, alex azar, attended yesterday's testimony and here's what he had to say. [video clip] >> we must be frank about why this bread out of control. the notice states welcomes the assistance provided by our friends during the crisis and we have been proud to allocate over $9 billion that will benefit the covid 19 response, including half $1 billion in planned investment to support over 40 of the most at risk countries. the united states launched the first human vaccine trial and reported the first positive results from a therapeutic cl

virus despite his own experts warning against it and donald trump puts more pressure on the world health organization threatening to pull all $400000000.00 in u.s. funding. to the as. i'm fully ratable this is our jazeera live from our world headquarters in doha also ahead a growing dispute between australia and china over a covert 19 and trade relations and their fathers one of hundreds of people missing during the 5 year war in yemen we talked to a family seeking answers. to the arab. thank you for joining us donald trump has triggered a double dose of controversy as a number of coronavirus cases in the u.s. a pos is one and a half 1000000 the u.s. president is threatening to make funding cuts to the world health organization permanent and message chemist so improvements within 30 days he accuses a body of being a puppet of china trumps ultimatum to the w h ok moments after he revealed his taking a drug that health experts warn could have fatal side effects. as more. president donald trump is so confident in the drug he himself dubbed a game changer against covert 19 that he himself takes one pill

its handling of the coronavirus pandemic the president xi jinping has been speaking at the world health organization is on your list 70 speaking virtually of world other world leaders including fund says president president she says beijing has always been transparent about coronavirus and is promising $2000000000.00 in aid to tackle the pandemic that speak to katrina you who is live for us in beijing katrina china has always been criticized for the way it's handled this pandemic and president xi in his speech a short while ago was very defensive. that's right i think president xi is well aware of this brawling and china sentiment around the world because of the spread of the coronavirus 1000000 you know hundreds of. lots of people have lost their lives and you know there has been millions lost in terms of economic damage worldwide because of this current virus and he's taken a very peaceful stance during his speech he said that china will donate $2000000000.00 to the world health organization to help relieve this response against the pandemic that china will help to develop a vaccine for the global

president has suspended funding for the world health organization amid this pandemic. his critics say that he's using them essentially as a scapegoat for his own administration's failings in dealing with the covert 19 pandemic saying that if you look at the united states having the highest number of cases around the world the highest number of fatalities as well and also looking at the spiraling unemployment figures in the united states china for their part of the world health organization of the night vehemently these claims that are being made against them by the united states from beijing's point of view they've pledged money to countries that have been hardest hit by the coronavirus they also sent doctors and aid to africa and other developing nations china will provide 2000000000 u.s. dollars over 2 years to help with the covert 19 response and with economic and social development in affected countries especially. developing countries of the world health organization has said that there will be an independent inquiry into how whatley they responded to the coded cr

with them and do a separate trump posted the open letter on twitter stating that if the world health organization does not commit to major substantial improvements within the next 30 days i will make my temporary freeze if you notice states funding to the w.h.o. permanent and reconsider our membership in the organization. china's foreign ministry criticized the us president threats. the letter tried to mislead the public in this plausible way to slander china's prevention and control efforts and shark the u.s. has responsibility for incompetence in its own prevention and control this is futile. believe the movie. other. member states agreed to a comprehensive and independent review of the global pandemic response on ways that later jordi mainz fully committed to trying to spot and see accountability and continuous improvement we want accountability more than anyone. the review will take place quite at the earliest appropriate moment. where for more now i'm joined by andrew goldman he is a harvard educated infectious disease specialist he's also a member of the german parliament the bonus time for

the world health organization was under dierent leadershipan the world health organization had not yet been revitalized and reformed they just missed ebola in 2014 and weren't a position to respond effectively. they recognid that. they retooled. and then when the ebola crisiscu ed last year in the democratic republic of coo, they were much better prepared and much more effective in stamping it out. the world health organization has its flaws and chlenges, but it doesn't deserve the acmony and the blame and the elimination of u.s. funding that the ump administration has imposed on it. and let me explain why.fe it's imp, like most multilateral organizations, but it's essenti. it's the only body in the world that has the capacity to provide support and assistance to all countries, importantly, the least developed countries., and without thrgaret, without that funding that we're providing, without the ability of those countries to provide testing and treatment to get a vaccine, ultimately, that's widely distributed, we are in danger still here in the united states. there's no version of th

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 chaotic so what you're saying is that donald trump is a play politics with an eye on the upcoming election. look number one is the world health organization does have questions to answer that. china has questions to answer the origin of the virus

world health organization is member states of agree to an inquiry into the international response to the corona virus pandemic or as your correspondent peter all of us has more. world health organization members of passed without objection a resolution put forward by the european union on behalf of 100 nations calling for a full independent investigation into the global response to the coronavirus pandemic what this resolution says is that there will be a full impartial independent and comprehensive investigation into the world health organization and in particular into the w h o's timelines the has been criticism of the world health organization that they didn't alert people or didn't alert nations soon enough to the dangers that we now know were presented by covert 19 chief among those criticizing the world health organization as being the united states during this summit which is taking place virtually for the 1st time jute a covert 19 the us secretary of health said the coronavirus was allowed to spiral out of control because of w.h.o. inaction there was a failure by this organiza

and china over the world health organization isn't having much of an impact on the work of the w.h.o. . the resolution that's pending is well actually almost certainly passed unanimously by all a 194 member states of the world health organization and if you look at what the world health organization is doing on the ground it's not been terribly damaged by this political bickering between china and the united states in terms of its ability to conduct operations in places that are going to experience the highest burden of cases in the coming weeks and months in the global south the world health organization has been training health workers and standing up health systems mainly in sub-saharan africa which it worry is will be affected terribly by the coronavirus in that they don't have the adequate kind of health systems that europe or the united states has and even though europe the united states has been so terribly devastated what the world health organization has been doing is trying to stand the ability of countries in the global south to take on the cove in 1000 pandemic themselves