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 authorities h

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 healt

deal to provide thehem was negotiated b betwe chancncellor angela merkel and c chinese president xi jinping. so lot is riding on the fact that these masks need to be effective. brent: melinda, we note making these facial masks mandatory has been a controversial issue here in germany. what has changed now? do you think people are willing to comomply? melinda: the fact that politicians were not speaking with o one voicece about this, d that was thehe case for some ti, had to do with the fact that at least some politicians were uncertain about what to say, as long as not enough masks were available, as was indicated in our report. but now we have these deliveries coming in from abroad of medical masks-and those masks from china will go to medical workers. they are not for citizens who are on the street or in shops. there are also a lot of initiatives now within g germany to produce cloth masks for use by citizens when they are taking public transportation, or masks are now required. when they are v visiting shops,r masks are r required in almost l federal states, and now will also be required in b

your newspaper the chinese embassy responded and then you wrote back to the chinese president xi jinping so in your letter to him you say you want to strengthen china with the plague that's originated in china that's a direct quote it's an english translation of the oh your letter which was in german this is a sentiment that seems to go the conspiracy theories doing the rounds on the internet to be clear are you accusing the chinese of starting but coronavirus pond . deliberately. didn't they didn't start deliberately from everything we know right now they just failed to stop and failed to inform the world and i find that to be honest it a little bit a bit disturbing that you call this a conspiracy theory when i say it started her china they failed to inform the well another to try to capitalize on it but i you know. trumping up that propaganda beat of china helping the world well today which is something i think you should be reporting on your program they just had to correct the numbers of deaths in. and they just made a mistake in their mathematics and calculate it i don't really find th

high level deal apparently 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 well melinda stay with us if you will because as german shops reopened for business a top court in the german state of both varia has ruled against parts of the country's relaxation of pandemic restrictions the new rules a lot of some small shops to open i have a large business is with 800 square meters of space must remain closed roped off large sections of the sales flow restriction court says it's unconstitutional so now the decision only affects the very. sort of melinda crane so we have this decision for bavaria what's it likely to mean for the other german states. it has only an advisory. influence at most on the other german federal states but i think they will certainly be looking at it because this cut off with the $800.00 square metres has been controversial also in other places including here in berlin but here's the bottom line what has been made very clear is that this relaxati

your newspaper the chinese embassy responded and then you wrote back to the chinese president xi jinping so in your letter to him you say you want to strengthen china with the plague that originated in china that's a direct quote it's an english translation of the o. your letter which was in german this is a sentiment that seems to echo the conspiracy theories doing the rounds on the internet to be clear are you accusing the chinese of starting but coronavirus pantone. deliberately. didn't they didn't start deliberately from everything we know right now they just failed to stop and failed to inform the world and i find that to be honest it a little bit a bit disturbing that you call this a conspiracy theory when i say it started her china they failed to inform the well another trying to capitalize on it but you know. trumping up their propaganda beat of china helping the world well today which is something i think you should be reporting on your program they just had to correct the numbers of deaths in. and they just made a mistake in their mathematics and calculate it i don't really find t

supposed to be taken to the upper edge of the communist party to leak a challenge to president xi jinping 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 mo

of january — donald trump specifically supported the world health organisation and president xi jinping and sont he is suspending funding to the who, pending some review. we will have to see how long the review takes and how the funding will resume. the international monetary fund has warned that the coronavirus pandemic has left the world facing the worst recession since the great depression, nearly a century ago. it said the pandemic represented a crisis like no other, much worse than the financial crash, a decade ago. here's the imf‘s chief economist. under the assumption that the pandemic and required containment peaks in the second quarter in most countries in the world, and then recedes in the second half of this year, we are projecting global growth in 2020 to fall to —3%. this makes the great lockdown the worst recession since the great depression, and far worse than the global financial crisis. assuming the pandemic fades in the second half of 2020, and that policy actions taken around the world are effective in preventing widespread firm bankruptcies, extended job losses, and system—

the world health organisation and president xijinping world health organisation and president xi jinping and soe is suspending funding to the who, pending some review. we will have to see how long the review ta kes will have to see how long the review takes and how the funding will resume. and before we go, here's a tale of incredible dedication from one who served his country in tough times. world war two veteran tom moore has been raising money for britain's health service by doing laps around his garden in the uk. the 99—year—old set out to raise £1,000 by committing to 100 laps. instead he has raised over £4000. instead he has raised over £11000. people say they are truly inspired and humbled by his efforts. the american singer songwriter mary chapin carpenter, a multiple grammy winner, has been trying to bring a little music and light into these uncertain times while everyone is stuck at home. she's launched a series of online gigs on facebook, called ‘songs from home' which have attracted around 60 thousand likes and at least 2 million views. ijust started doing them to sort of bring a li

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

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

maybe, one chance in a thousand xi jinping did all these things, but the presidencies there is no evidence yet, soseems 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 more than 20 years to prove the case. china could be liable for hundreds of billions of dollars, so bill gates is trying to be helpful saying don't worry about this. i don't think he said stop the investigation. because china itself claims it was having an investigation. but it's going pretty far to be helping china. >> bi

what does this mean politically for china especially for president xi jinping hold on power i mean he has been extending that power in fact so what happens now but i think domestically this is being portrayed as a success story that he's handled it well i mean we saw today that the figures would have been the death toll there has been increased shown to have been increased but i think that generally he's handling it he's perceived as handling it well domestically but if the economy continues to be weak if they kind. creation of jobs and if they have to incur more debt is going to put a lot 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 th

what does this mean politically for china especially for president xi jinping hold on power i mean he has been extending that power in fact so what happens now but i think domestically this is being portrayed as a success story that he's handled it well i mean we saw today that the figures would have been the death toll there has been increased shown to have been increased but i think generally he's handling it he's perceived as handling it well domestically but if the economy continues to be weak if they can't. creation jobs and if they have to incur more dish it's going to put a lot 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 cou

what is so suspicious is why xi jinping declined president trump's i think kind you have a to send anrican team to wuhan. this is where the suspicion is getting to be too thick. lou: it is too thick. as i talked with dr. anthony fauci during that period. i would ask directly about that. he did not want to accept the idea that china said no to the united states to send our scientists there. he was holding out hope they might relent. as you suggest, there is a view in this country that china is quite different. a sunnier place than it truly is and less authoritarian and communist place than it is. but i think reality is catching up with us now. >> i do. and dr. fauci has been frank on his lectures of his attempts by phone to contact his friends in china. and he's a good diplomat. but i think dr. fauci was disappointed by the se -- by the secrecy of his old friends in china. what they want is to be number one in the world. lou: what they are now is the number one story for certainly this decade in what they have unleashed on the world. i want to commend to you and the hudson institute, t

not to bring down the system but to bring it back to make it better so 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. by the hall was the founding. he decided to investigate and film what state t.v. wasn't showing. functoid the city visiting different hospitals showing the chaotic reality overwork 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 fluids or it will fully within. you i mean a very good you know with her you know. why go to the other one when you can on a video that we're going to. go through

there has not been any one leader rising to the fore neither xi jinping nor president trav certainly not the w.h.o. or the united nations system so so this is really a new era of anti-globalization if you will where each country's on its own it all comes down to that social distancing social isolation thank you all very much has been a thought provoking discussion thank you to i guess they were gloria tell me i need to thomson and talk to an experiment thank you to for your company you can see the show again via the web site al-jazeera dot com or for more discussion to check out our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can keep the conversation going on twitter at a.j. inside story or can tweet me at peter w one for me peter dhabi and the team here in doha thanks for watching we will do it all again at the usual times tomorrow. there is no channel that covers world news like we do as a roving correspondent i am told simply on the ground covering topics from politics to conflict stuff just our mental it's kind of counted like nothing you've ever access to health care. what we want to know is ho

so i don't know what was in the minds of the chinese leader xi jinping but if you wanted to cripple other societies who would have done exactly what he infected david and we and we can't forget that because of what happens not only to the united states but other countries. we need to make sure this never happens again and the only way to do that is to impose great costs on china. >> bill: gordon jane, thank you. susan li, thank you as well. meanwhile, here in the state of new york we now have more covid-19 cases. in one state than any country in the world and that includes spain and italy as of the seller. governor cuomo saying the state has again experienced its highest number of deaths and one day, 779. here are the numbers of cases ended deaths. the virus really taking a toll on the city of new york. two members of the fire department and 15 members of the police department have died and 41 transit workers have also died. david lee miller is on the front sidewalk of new york later tod today. >> governor cuomo says news about the death rate is about, it's terrible. the 779 recent totali

so it is really hard to know where this is leading, but at the moment i think the xi jinping leadershiplook weaker than it did at the beginning of the year, and that is not what a lot of people were expecting. shery: as i was talking with ambassador kirk, given how much of the medical supplies components, not to mention economic opportunities come from china, what is the risk of the u.s. continuing to alienate beijing? kerry: china is deeply embedded in all sorts of supply chains, and while the u.s. and china may want to decouple, they are also pretty mutually reliant at the moment. it will not be very easy for them to be able to create a world where they are completely separate from each other. it is difficult to impossible. it will not be quick, even with a crisis like this prompting it. so i think it is likely that there will be attempts by america to get less reliant on imports from china. it has already been happening and that will probably accelerate. i think china will also want to be less reliant on sources of growth from the outside world, but that will also take time. i think

so. >> schrin: local chinese governments have been accused of hiding fatality figures before,r but ncident xi jinpingk power, beijing'grip on local governments has tightened, ys huang. >> since 2012, we found that political powehas been rapidly centralized to a lev that further suppresses, or stifles, the initiatives taking place at the local level. >> schifrin: dr. li, one of thea first meworkers who knew about human-to-human transmission, blew the whistle, warning other doctors about covid-19. and on febary 7, after treating covid-19 patients, the outpouring of sympathy, and anger at authorities who'd silenced him, erupted. authorities acted quickly. citizen journalists who exposed on social media the slow initial response were arrested. by march 5, when a senior residents shouted out their windows, "everything is fake." and then came the disinformation. on march 12, china's deputy foreign ministry spokesman zhao lijian wrote on twitter," it might be u.s. army who brought the epidemic to wuhan." the suggestion was repeated on chinese tv's arabic. >> ( translated ): do you believe a story that the n

while president xi jinping described efforts to contain the pandemic as a final exam that everyone must learn from katrina you is in beijing she says there's a growing public concern over so-called silent carriers of the virus. beijing is very much on the defensive about its coronavirus 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 good 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 $1000.00 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 the silent carriers are infectious in wider society but we do know some very well publicized cases here in china of the past few days of some people indeed catching covert 1000 from people who were asymptomatic and because of this and because of public outcry the government

we're not in the same room right now so, i have to accept i have a hand in it then trump had a phone call with chinese leader xi jinpingl it the chinese virus then of course not, because he was talking directly to a chinese person, and all racists are cowards. then, a member of the white house coronavirus task force, dr. anthony fauci, explained that you can't stop trump from telling lies at press conferences because, quote, "i can't jump in front of the microphone and push him down." and i was like, "what? if you're going to push anyone down, it should be donald trump. it will be easy, look at how he stands he leans so far over, he's already half down. what kind of doctor are you? you see a man saying things in public that are harming people, and you do nothing look, if i get on national tv and tell everyone to lick their doorknobs, freaking tackle me. then, i found out that "contagion" and "outbreak" are among the most-streamed films during the pandemic and i was like, "what? why would you watch those right now? just go to your window and look outside. those two movies are live-streaming all around you. you're the st

xi jinping responsible for this? pres. trump: i don't want to say that, but it certainly could have been stopped. i wish they had stopped it, and so does the whole world. reporter: there are many businesses that are concerned want to bess owners able to get their employees back because they make more money staying home then they would if they came back to work. -- caused some governors to suggest they might strip those people of unemployment insurance if they refused to go back to work. is that something you would support? pres. trump: we have brought up a lot of things. point,s a democratic some people are being treated unfairly and didn't get into the formulas the way i thought. when you think about it, basically, we are being generous -- short-term -- with people who have tensile he lost their jobs. --have intentionally potentially lost their jobs and are getting more money than they would have. a lot of people are saying the job is more important. the employer will not forget that. reporter: follow-up regarding joe biden. your campaign and surrogates are going after him pretty hard. with regard to tara reade? pres. trump: i do

xi jinping to be friendly twarts the united states or might extract something from donald trump in return that donald trump isn't going to want to pay him, like, you know, an apology and some respect. so see. but the president's maneuvering this country into a very, very dire situation. and i don't see it ending well right now. i don't see a solution to these problems, of how do we make this vaccine. anybody popping up saying no problem, we've got it. i'm looking. >> do you feel more fear and despair, to use your word, around the set of sort of manufactured political crises, the political crises of our leadership in washington, or do you have more fear around the strength of the virus itself? >> oh, look. i'm a medical writer. i'm worried about the virus. we know it kills. we know it's transmissible. political mistakes, political struggles, b that's an inevitable situation in life. but, you know, i don't know when we've been in a worse situation since 1812 when the british burned the white house. we have no economy. we have no clear way out of hiding without losing a million people, maybe, which is, you know, we lost half that in world war ii. and our -- it's not leadership. it's just

xi-jinping concealed the severeity of the coronavirus from their superiors. they arrested and censored those who were trying to ring alarm bells, to the detriment of their own population and the world at large. soetary pompeo is absolutely right that china deserves the blame for not doing what they should have done to mitigate the severity of the crisis from a start and they should pay a price. eric: what type of price would that be? what could they -- the attorney generals of mississippi is suing them. >> i am very confident that the chinese communist party will pay a price for what they did here, certainly from the united states. people put their lives at risks over the last weeks, they know this is a result of this virus that originated in wuhan, china and they know the chinese government didn't do the things it needed to do. there will be a cost associated with that. there will be a time to make sure we get this right, to make sure we're not dependent on china for the pharmaceutical goods and all the things that we've seen that we didn't have right. eric: it's interesting he said that the chinese communist party will pay a price, not china. can you explain that. you may not be able to sue a