A mission to save lives cuban doctors traveling to corona virus infected countries reject criticism but theyre being used to spread propaganda. And from designer gowns to making face masks a Fashion Designer in lebanon on says the call to help with much needed protective medical clothing. We begin in the u. S. Where President Donald Trump has Just Announced an extension to social distancing guidelines to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus the u. S. Is now recorded more than 130000 infections the highest of any country trump says the outbreak in the u. S. Is likely to peak in 2 weeks. Did you live up to 2200000000 and some people said it could even be higher than that so youre talking about 2200000 deaths 2200000 people from this and so if we could hold that down as were saying 2100000 its a horrible number maybe even less but 2100000 so we have between 10200000. We altogether of done a very good. In other developments england stephanie chief medical officer has warned that it could be 6 months before strict social distancing measures are lifted the u. K. Government introduced tight restrictions on Movement Last week placing the country under an almost total lockdown italy has recorded a drop in the number of deaths for a 2nd day and while the infection rate in spain has also declined more than 800 people died there in the last 24 hours bringing the total number to more than 6500 for more on the developments in the u. S. Lets speak throughout 00 brunel c joins us now live via skype from los angeles so rob the president says hes going to extend the social distancing measures in the u. S. What else did he say. Well 1st of all adrian as far as the extension of social distancing measures this actually doesnt mean very much our International Audience may not be aware that the federal government doesnt have any authority to order social distancing or stay at home orders that is the province of the states and state governors in least 26 states by my last have issued sets. A guideline such borders in fact and the in some places they are being enforced by police for example here in Los Angeles Police are telling people who are trying to go for a walk on the beach that they should go home secondly he talked about the peak of the virus a coronavirus and epidemic in the United States coming in about 2 weeks i dont think that that is supported by any particular evidence is the medical advisors including Dr Anthony Fauci to use now become a very well known face and not us given that kind of specific date of when the apex will occur and the president made a rather i dont guess i would say. Shocking and unsubstantiated claim that some of the the shortages in protective equipment that doctors nurses and other Hospital Personnel are are complaining about may be due to them stealing it and perhaps selling it on the black market years what the trumpet say about that theyve been delivering for years 10 to 20000 masks ok its a New York Hospital very its packed all the time how do you go from 1222300000. 1220000 masks 2300000 even though this is different somethings going on and you ought to look into it as reporters where the masculine are they going out the back door what americans make of the way that the president is handling this rogue. So far is personal Approval Ratings are going up. Many americans believe that hes doing a good job and think that hes the best person to handle the economy some polling indicates that the likely democratic candidate joe biden get an iron works on health care but of course the november election is far off and in fact. There are no nobody really knows how the election is be conducted so in general the president is doing quite well in terms of the opinion polls out there as rob reynolds reporting live from los angeles what many thanks indeed james warren is executive as a news god which rates the trustworthiness of news websites hes also the former Washington Bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune and joins us now live via skype from chicago good to have you with us james the president says the u. S. Is testing more than any other country which is why the infection rate is so high and that the u. S. Is doing a great job of tackling the virus earlier in the day he was tweeting that his press conferences are Getting Better viewing figures than the bacha what do you make of the way in which hes handling this crisis compared to other well think this well you have to do is look at this press conference which is still going on to see some of the basics the insatiable personal need praise the propensity to blame others a certain lack of human empathy the tendency to totally rewrite history rob touched on some of that he occasionally ludicrous charges the insinuation here that doctors in new york might somehow who stealing some of these things there is throughout also jess plain unadulterated i certainly people about his performance and even though interestingly enough it will ratings are a bit up and then they have a lot to do with it is essential as hobby. Needing a spotlight on divisions that he saw and continues his tonight must spend 456 minutes going after the media per usual going after c. N. N. As a news and when it comes down to not only a question of whats leadership somewhere in the next what were you are going to be assessed for your leadership and there has to be an element of trying to generate unity rather than so division and trump continues to appeal to his base and one of the cards he continually plays even amid that and democrats who is this group too it is bashing of the press throughout all of this the president has placed emphasis on getting the economy back on track even when coronavirus think deaths continue to mount his Approval Ratings as you say a pretty high at the moment will his inability to show empathy when so many people are hurting across the country right now eventually begin to hurt him. Well well see i mean hes proven everybody wrong since the 2016 campaign when very early many people. Say did upon certain remarks it is such as bad mouthing the late senator john mccain questioning whether use it here or most of us who totally wrong and he has proved you know certainly irresistible to a certain percentage of american somewhere over 40 percent i think its way too early to see whats going to happen merican stone start really focusing on the president ial elections laughter our labor day in Early September will this largely be over then will you have turned around if it does well be a good shape because its hard to believe that this election this point will be anything other than a rock around on his performance during the corona virus outbreak. The country got off to a faltering start when the outbreak began to pick up is the president right is the country doing well right now whats the situation there in chicago james compared to new york. Welcome me nothing compares to new york at this point medical experts i know friends including someone who lives just the bottom block away from your home runs a Major CommunityHealth Center operations that jess that we actually are just a couple of weeks behind new york when it comes is an area all the assault on our leadership has been pretty good as far as the health care dimensions of this i think were one or 2 weeks away from knowing what the situation is in chicago which is the 3rd largest city already mounting and mounting numbers of people they tested positive there is a saying resource allocation problem were in mass and mental errors that one sees elsewhere but as far as a certain sort of unity of purpose among our leaders elected leaders in the same state of illinois its been fairly impressive so far well see what happens within the next at least when it comes to the missions the hospitals around the city and around the state really gets to you james many thanks indeed james warren executive editor of news got the skype from chicago. As the outbreak continues to grow in europe leaders and Health Officials are warning their citizens that antivirus measures could stay in place for months the u. K. s deputy chief medical officer says that social distancing rules will be reviewed after 3 weeks but that it may be 6 months before life can return to normal paul brennan reports. A steady procession of hearses bring the latest virus victims to the temporary morgue set up in madrids largest ice rink on sunday spain recorded another daily death toll of more than 830 people such a small increase on the previous day is seen as a glimmer of hope that the situation remains critical the choice that he gets. It is very likely that the outbreak is evolving properly thanks to everyones efforts having nearly 20 percent of our cases recovering and encouraging statistic but it is true that the number of people going into intensive care units is doing creasing and there are many regions operating at Maximum Capacity and many other regions quickly getting closer to this limit your body is one years old on a mass the u. K. Has recorded its 2nd successive day of more than 200 new deaths and the government has put the entire country on emergency footing unprecedented in peace time asked about the timescale for the current restrictions the answer came a could be many months so i think 3 weeks for review 2 or 3 months to see whether weve really squashed it that about 3 to 6 months ideally and lots of uncertainty in that but then to see which point we can actually get back to normal and it is plausible that it could go further than. Theres been criticism in controversy over the limited scale of the u. K. Testing regime but there is evidence the capacity is slowly increasing this drive through test center in the car park or an Animal Adventure park at chessington has opened specifically for National Health service workers. The Royal College of nursing britains largest Nursing Union estimates that up to 20 percent of the u. K. S Health Care workforce is currently at home self isolating these Testing Centers will bring certainty allowing potentially hundreds of nurses to return to the front line of nursing at a time when the Health Care System needs the most. In france overwhelming pressure on congested hospitals in some regions has made it necessary to transfer patients to other areas these patients are being taken by train from the ground este region to new aquitaine and some french patients are being transferred to germany for treatment by combination of German Military plane and French Military helicopter. We need to free up some space when you free up a space it gives you room for a new patient and that saves a life so there wont be a gridlock on hospital resources for those of us but. Across europe coronavirus restrictions have left the streets almost empty but the grim prediction is that it will get worse before it gets any better. Aljazeera. Were going to weather update next here on out 0 then warnings that refugee camps on the greek islands are at risk of a devastating corona virus outbreak. Of violence the branches of affected molly is long delayed election. Hello and welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the americas weve had this area of low pressure sweeping eastwards across the United States has given some really quite nasty thunderstorms and tornadoes all along this line of cloud extending all the way almost from the great lakes down towards texas now is that system continues to push away we should see brighter conditions coming in the more subtle conditions for many another area of rain developing across parts of texas into oklahoma some heavy rain is likely here at across more Western Areas weve got a frontal system giving rain across more northern parts of california further south looking dr fine los angeles there at 22 right into 27. 00 on choose the system further north begins to move into the rockies little bit of snow Higher Elevations mean more towards the eastern seaboard would like to see some outbreaks of rain but it should stay largely dry for new york and washington turned into the caribbean looking good for most of the islands here lots of sunshine fine conditions kingston jamaica look at maximal 30 heading on into choose stay not a great deal change of scottish hours through central parts of america i think for honduras and nicaragua and possibly costa rica looking wet at times as if things are shaping up in south america weve got for the showers across amazon basin few showers across more southern parts of argentina but it should be largely dry in buenos aires. The christian priest if you are a friend of the palestinians hes a true. A friend of everybody and champion of the palestinian cause. And activist who is willing to sacrifice his freedom. For his beliefs. Aljazeera wild tells the extraordinary story of the archbishop and the piano. Hello again this is al jazeera the 2nd over to remind you of the main news this hour the u. S. President told trump says he wants to extend social distancing guidelines for a month in order to slow the spread of the corona virus the u. S. Has recorded at least 130000 infections the governments top Infectious Disease expert has warned the deaths that could number up 2200000. Italy has recorded a drop in the number of deaths for the 2nd day infection rates in spain has to climbed more than 800 people died there over the last 24 hours bringing the total number to more than 6500. But the u. Case deputy chief medical officer says it may be 6 months before life returns to normal the u. K. Government introduced tight restrictions on Movement Last week theres been more than 1200 deaths that. Doctors without borders has warned that refugees on the greek island of last boss are at serious risk from the coronavirus need to be moved immediately aljazeera is John Psaropoulos reports now on how the camp there is ill equipped to tackle the pandemic. Mike thousands of other Asylum Seekers this resident of moriah camp is lighting a fire to warm himself and cook lunch and like thousands of others hes using a piece of plastic to start it fires are the only source of heat in winter aid groups say they cause serious respiratory problems and the burning of plastic makes them even more dangerous one of the asthmatic patients the father explained to me that one night he came back home they were heating the tent with the hold coals inside and when he arrived back none of his family members. Were it was unable to wake them. And yet to drive them outside they slowly recovered so most probably this was like a Carbon Monoxide poisoning its easy to burn rubbish because it isnt being collected a local contractor is paid to pick it up inside the official camp and to a radius of 10 meters outside the camp fence but within that space we found this ravine filled with it greases Reception Service is responsible for awarding sanitation contracts a former director says governments dont properly oversee contractors. A great public worker whos moved from the mainland works for 475 euros and sleeps in the same conditions as a refugee stands in stark contrast to an ingenious sanitation worker in athens who earns 1500 euros a month this inequality explains why the final result and sanitation isnt what would light. Raw sewage also seeps into this ravine where Children Play because at 20000 people this camp is filled to 7 times capacity and its sewage pipe overflows a pipe designed years before it was built thanks clearly the delay in building the sewage pipe was to extend the use of the sewage trucks which cost huge amounts in my view over 4000000 euros and moria and the other islands that money could have been spent on Sewage Treatment plants they didnt happen and why not because they were interests against it ive sent this to the list prosecutor. The government says it will take 10000 Asylum Seekers off the island and ship them to the mainland in the coming weeks another 5000 will be offered a generous financial incentive to go home and the European Union says it will take at least 1600 unaccompanied minors off greeces hands reducing the numbers might be a short Term Solution but it does not address the deeper problem of mismanagement or relieve greek taxpayers of the bills the European Union may refuse to pay as a result jobs are open loss aljazeera less force by jarius president mohamed who bihari has announced a lockdown in lagos on the capital a budget for 14 days in an attempt to cut the spread of the virus the virus there nigeria has 97 confirmed infections most of which appear in the countrys 2 main cities. This is. All movements. In the city initiated here it over 14 days effect from living on when the say is much to empty to empty this is just itching. To. Do to its resume legace in the high traffic between the 2 states. Is. In their homes. To. See should be postponed libya says it has 5 new Coronavirus Infections bringing its number of known cases not 8 medical equipment that was recently rushed into the water on countries being distributed by libyas military forces fighting began last year after the war how if i have to launch an offensive to retake tripoli which is held by the un recognized government. There live on Tourism Industries were among the 1st economic casualties of the pandemic and as countries continue to impose restrictions Many Airlines have drastically cut their passenger flights weve been speaking to Qatar Airways group c o r baca who says that its a major setback but the industry will bounce back. It has been difficult but persevering we have our passengers that are all over the place where we have to take them safely back home we have received a lot of requests from embassies and governments around the world to help citizens to be taken back to their homes and to their loved ones and cut that it was just serving the the World Community if airports around the world start closing down and airspace are being blocked it is of course natural that got there it was for this completely stuff flying but for the time being we have a Skeleton Service that is flying around and this for the foreseeable future will continue airlines and the evolution industry plays such an Important Role in our lives these days that this industry will rebound like it did previously of course this time it is very serious much more serious than 911 we havent have faced such a situation in the last 100 years so now we have to wait and see but at the end it will be survival of the fittest and we want the terrorists to be one of those survival Success Stories with more than 100000 Health Professionals cuba has one of the highest doctors a patient ratios in the world the island nation is sending medical teams around the globe to help with the Coronavirus Response no charge ever guessed it reports. Another Early Morning another ceremony to bed Health Workers farewell last week a troop of cuban doctors were dispatched to italy. This week medical professionals have been sent throughout the caribbean to surrender granada jamaica and today st kitts and nevis 29000 cuban doctors and nurses working in 59 countries around the world as confirmed cases of corona virus and. So does demand for cuban medics medical services at the islands main export raising more than 6000000000. 00 for the states in 2018 but the communist rule dial and doesnt charge for the thousands of doctors who work in more than a dozen low Income Countries in latin america and africa the same goes for Disaster Relief where cuban physicians have provided Emergency Assistance to millions almost a 1000 keven doctors arrived in haiti after the 2010 earthquake where they were the 1st to set up medical facilities amid the rubble. Get mad there will be more than 12000. 00 people willing to fight a bowler and right now there are thousands of cubans willing to complete these missions while western commentators assume cuba sends doctors mainly to expand influence experts on the islands Health System draw a different conclusion the root of it in addition to cubas own Health System which provides universal coverage in over thought access is really the belief that cuba is one of a number of developing countries that is trying to make life better for its population. From the moment were born in this country we receive an education based on humane principles of the principle of solidarity and internationalism is at the forefront of that this isnt about politics or ideology its about humanity youre making a big sacrifice why are you willing to go. Look a man is a sea cause there are other people that need me people that are sick and dying and not isnt right people shouldnt be dying when there are people who can help them. At augustan aljazeera of allah. After months of political and economic turmoil and lebanon the countryS Health Care system is under equipped to deal with the coronavirus emergency hospitals are already overwhelmed but some businesses are stepping in to help was a serious mahomets reports. Work has come to a halt for many in beirut but for Fashion Design a tony ward who specializes in kitchen or gowns business is slowly picking up in a different way. I mean. We 1st made these masks for our own employees and they can be worn in a very simple way and also washed his garment factory shifting from its usual production lines to helping local hospitals by making musts body suits and bed sheets. They put me in contact with the director of a fake haiti hospital and he told me that they have a big shortage of bed sheets because they are preparing a new department we decided to buy fabric involve our staff and Work Together to make. As lebanons doctors and nurses work on the front lines to contain covert 19 private and Public Hospitals are feeling the strain theres not enough money and medical supplies items that are normally imported its prompted other businesses like this plant that usually makes dental floss and diapers to step into design ventilators. Maybe after this. Big lesson or lebanese can have an impact on the future person and reality not always depend on whats coming from the outside and. Lebanon is already facing an economic and financial crisis according to Human Rights Watch the government has not given any money this year to the publicly funded refeed curry hospital in beirut where most cases are being treated and it only gave 40 percent of its jews last year while infections increase those running businesses like this hope the very put it can help prepare lebanon for whats may come Mohammed Al Jazeera and other news mali has held its long delayed parliamentary election but with the double threat of the coronavirus violence by armed groups the. Reports. Empty polling stations for an election meant to bring peace to mali many voters chose to stay home after attacks by armed groups and the risk of current virus but but the modern betty says she wont let those threats shut her voice out unless i have whole been decent actions the m. P. s must not forget they are here to represent us and not to fill their pockets with money but to serve our needs. And then to the violence is what money is want this is the village. Which was attacked once again in february in the past year nearly 200 ethnic full on these have been killed by their neighbors from the doggone tribe Human Rights Watch says both the Un Peacekeeping troops and mali and forces could have prevented the killings stopping this this you know cascade of violence is incredibly important because it is of course. Deepening the security. Crisis in mali by pushing more and more young men from all different ethnic groups into armed actors which is just you know leading to this exponential rise in violence that were seeing in the absence of the state an armed group called. Mostly mean is stepping in offering protection to the population the Al Qaeda Linked group says its willing to negotiate a Peace Agreement with the government but its 1st amending the departure of 15000. 00 french and u. N. Peacekeeping soldiers and the parliamentary elections be cancelled days before the vote the government says the armed group could not mollies opposition leaders of majlis he say while he was campaigning in timbuktu in north and central mali fighters often target elected officials Opposition Party candidate who is an ethnic falana he believes the threats and intimidation should not stop people from voting. Voters have a lot of expectations if i am elected we need to defend the interests of those we represent and of all mali and including those that he left out. Schools have been shut down for nearly a year due to lack of Funding Health facilities are overrun understaffed and ill equipped a new parliament would allow new budgets to be voted and hold president a brain boubacar cait accountable some have accused him of corruption but with more than 300000 people displaced from their homes continuing attacks by armed groups and a curfew imposed to prevent the spread of coronavirus few have come out to vote either out of fear or frustration with the political system that has failed to bring peace to mali Nicholas Hawke aljazeera. That his kids have you with us hello adrian from going to here in doha the headlines on aljazeera u. S. President donald trump says that he wants to extend social distancing guidelines from month to try to slow the spread of the corona virus the u. S. Has recorded at least 130000 infections trungpa said if the country can limit deaths to want to 200000 the u. S. Will have done a good job rob reynolds reports talked about the peak of the. Virus coronavirus an epidemic in the United States coming in about 2 weeks i dont think that that is supported by any particular evidence is medical visors including Dr Anthony Fauci whos now become a very well known face not given that kind of specific date when the apex will. Italy has recorded a drop in the number of deaths for the 2nd day the infection rate in spain has declined but more than 800 people died there the last 24 hours bringing the total number to more than 6500 the number of deaths in both countries accounts for around hof of the global toll. The u. K. s devotee chief medical officer says it might be 6 months before life returns to normal the u. K. Government introduced tight restrictions on Movement Last week as been more than 101200 deaths that libya has announced 5 new corona virus infections bringing its number of known cases now to 8 medical equipment that was recently rushed into the water on countries being distributed by libyas military forces fighting has intensified in tripoli over the last weeks the conflict began last year off toward how he thought after launched an offensive to retake tripoli which is held by the un recognized government polls are closed after a parliamentary election in mali government abducted observers in a bid to stop the vote turnout was low due to security concerns and fears over the coronavirus the election that been postponed twice already because of violence by armed groups but it went ahead this time despite the kidnapping of opposition leader. See say as the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after my cuba next. The u. S. Census it only happens once every 10 years but as the corona virus pandemic grips the world will americans be required to take part in the count during a National Emergency and will Donald Trumps anti immigration rhetoric deter some from participating follow the u. S. Census on aljazeera