I wish i could give you better news but i think you know the truth and that is that we are now as im like well being of the working families of our country not just powerful special interests as a member of the democratic leadership in the United States senate and as a senator from the state of vermont this is something that i intend to intensely be involved in over the next number of months and that will require i require an enormous amount of work which takes me to the state of our president ial campaign i wish i could give you better news but i think you know the truth and that is that we are now some through our well being of the working families of our country not just powerful special interests. As a member of the democratic leadership in the United States senate and as a senator from the state of vermont this is something that i intend to intensely be involved. Next it is 16 g. M. T. Be listening to Bernie Sanders addressing his followers on social media from burlington vermont off to pulling out of the race for the democratic president ial nomination lets go straightaway to alan fischer who joins us from washington d. C. Via skype and alan not to unexpected this now the news comes that he isnt deeply out. And you know when Bernie Sanders says hes changed the terms of the debate in american politics hes not wrong certainly things that he was talking about 4 years ago income equality universal health care the fact that he would like to see anyone who goes to a State University to be given Free Education all of those have become part of the narrative particularly over the last 4 years but very much so during this Election Campaign and they will be planks that will go forward into the president ial campaign in november what is interesting we havent had the end of Bernie Sanders there is that he hasnt yet announced that hes going to endorse joe biden but given the fact that on the campaign trail he has said we must do absolutely everything we can to remove this president and he sees donald trump as the most dangerous president in American History it seems inconceivable that Bernie Sanders would throw his weight truly behind joe biden youll be disappointed its very hard for any candidate to give up when youre campaigning theres a real adrenaline rush to youve got crowds who are chanting your name who are flooding everything you say and so it will be difficult to give up but certainly Bernie Sanders has changed the debate in the United States and will play a significant part in this campaign all the way to november all right allan thanks very much indeed alan fischer the without update on Bernie Sanders whos now democratic president ial nomination very busy time lots of live events going on this is london without the chancellor of the british finance in the. Dressing briefing downing street lets listen in during this crisis we promise to do whatever it takes and i am striving every day to keep that promise but when i say we all depend on each other i dont just mean the relationship between individuals businesses and the state. One of our greatest strengths as a country is our Civil Society the local charities who provide so much Compassion Care and community to the most vulnerable in our country you have not been forgotten british people businesses and foundations are already doing their part to support our Charity Sector and today we in government will do our part as we build on our plan for the economy with a plan to support our social fabric there are nearly 170000 charities in this country and the truth is we would not be able to match every pound of funding that they would have received this year charities can already use many of our existing schemes to support people and to protect their stuff all charities are eligible for the job pretensions gate and in line with medical advice and just like any other employer the right answer for Many Charities will be to furlough their employees but some charities are on the front line of fighting the coronavirus and others provide Critical Services and support to Vulnerable People and communities for then shutting up shop at this moment would be to contravene their very purpose their entire reason to exist those charities have never been more needed than they are now and theyve never faced such a sudden fall in their funding so today im announcing 750000000 pounds of funding for the Charity Sector 370000000 pounds of that funding will support small local charities working with Vulnerable People we all know who they are those Small Charities in our villages our market towns in pockets of our cities the Unsung Heroes looking after the vulnerable and Holding Together our social fabric. In england the support will be provided through organizations like the National LotteryCommunities Fund and we will allocate 60000000. 00 pounds of this funding through the bonnet formula to scotland wales and Northern Ireland the u. K. Government will also provide 360000000 pounds directly to charities providing essential services and supporting Vulnerable People as we battle the coronavirus up to 200000000 pounds of those grants will support offices with the rest going to organizations like st johns ambulance and the Citizens Advice Bureau as well as Charity SupportingVulnerable Children victims of Domestic Abuse or disabled people and last night the b. B. C. And now its their big night in Charity Appeal on april the 23rd and today i can confirm that the government will match pound for pound what ever the public decides to donate starting with at least 20000000 pounds to the National Emergencies trust appeal to short weeks ago i spoke of the need for kindness decency and the sort of neighborliness that is at the heart of these charitable and Community Efforts the normally invisible connections between us have in recent weeks become more apparent for most of us we spend our lives oblivious to these connections these bonds and how our behaviors however small can have a dramatic effect on others but these bonds are not invisible for our local charities for the volunteer keeping victims of Domestic Violence safe for the outreach worker helping a rough sleeper find a bed or for the support worker manning the phones to help stave off the heart wrenching loneliness so many of our elderly relatives and friends will be experiencing right now. These connections might be hard to see but they are there and they are strengthened by our compassion for Others Charities embody this like no other organization and their lesson is that the simplest acts have the potential to change lives at this time when many are hurting and tired and can find we need the gentleness of charity in our lives it gives us hope it makes us stronger and it reminds us we depend on each other thank you. If we could now or take some questions of belief from angela were going to presenting the slides 1st if i may perth i wanted to start by showing this data which is a wreck order of how much weve acted together to reduce how much we contact each other so whats shown here is footfall at 17 stations across the state across the country. Counting how many people pass through their stations at different times through the month of march and what you see is that at the end of march put force down 94 percent compared to the 1st week of march and in the next slide what you can see. Is that that has worked in the sense that this current of new cases in the u. K. Day by day over the last few weeks is not accelerating out of control. Yesterday there were 5492 new cases and the spread of this virus is not accelerating and that is good news if were going to the next slide please. Put a quarter clear is people in hospital beds with copd it. And the highest of those lines is london and the one just below in gray is the mittens and what this is is a slower responding record of new infections because of course once people are in hospital some of them will have to stay there for many days some of them for some weeks but again what we see is that the rate at which this is rising is definitely getting slower and it looks like were beginning to get towards a flat curve there which is of course what we wanted. Our overall aim has always been to make sure that everybody can have access to Critical Care if they need it and thats whats shown on the next slide is coping patients in Critical Care that one please. Can i go back home please you. Know ok this one here yes thank you and there we can see encouraging news that perhaps at least in some parts of the country this really has started to flatten across the country in the last 24 hours this has increased by just 4 percent. And again that is good news because this is our most limiting resource at the moment. So finally i have data on the charts that istic about of people who have died from cocoa and this is an International Comparison across Different Countries showing how that number accumulates in Different Countries and u. K. Is the dark blue line somewhere in the middle that. This data has long reporting lacks and even after the number of people in Critical Care stabilizes or even maybe begins to fall this number will rise because sometimes deaths are reported many many days or even a week or so after sadly somebody has died so we expect this number to keep rising even after the curve has flattened. Thank you nancy thank you 70 want to add a bit word on charities so in the n. H. S. We work very closely with our partners in the charitable section and i know its really important that not only we all support them during this difficult time but its also really important to recognize the support that they are giving everybody to help them through the time where we are asking people to stay at home and to take the measures that we have indicated i have the real privilege n. H. S. England of leading the cardiovascular thats heart attacks and stroke strategy and to charities i work very closely with the British Heart Foundation the Stroke Association and i know they would want me to say today to remind everybody that the n. H. S. Has worked night and day to Search Capacity to manage coronavirus but it is also there for you if you have symptoms of a stroke symptoms of a heart attack indeed if you have any emergency condition whether its a sick child whether its a mother or a pregnant mother in in pregnancy whos worried about the movements of the baby you should be seeking Emergency Services just as you always have done they are there for you and although we are focusing on coronavirus its important that we also continue to focus on other emergency conditions thank you kate if we take some questions i think 1st up is laura current both from b. B. C. And oh thank you chancellor and keep saying whatever it takes to help people through this time and with support from the economy but do you accept chancellor that under the lockdown there is a tradeoff between protecting peoples house and protecting peoples jobs. Thanks laura what i think weve been clear our priority is to protect peoples lives their health and wellbeing that is our absolute overriding priority but alongside that in a coordinated i think here and consistent fashion we have also put in place unprecedented and significant measures to protect peoples jobs their incomes their livelihoods and indeed the businesses that employ them i think thats the right approach and what it does is means that we can mitigate as much of the Economic Impact as possible and ensure that as soon as we can get through this that we can bounce back as quickly as possible. With her and i think you want to follow up on for either of anyone else and it day except that some people are falling through the cracks in the Treasury Select Committee this afternoon is said that you need to take arjun action for some people who arent covered by your very extensive skill she said the public should be prepared for a serious downturn maybe even a recession i think ive always been very clear and very honest that this will have a Significant Impact on our economy thats not uncommon with every other major country thats grappling with this and we will all see it and it can impact on our economy and ive also been very honest that in spite of what are unprecedented measures in scale and scope you know i cant stand here and say that i can save every single job protect every single business or indeed every Single Charity the focus of todays announcement thats just simply not possible but what we can do is put in place what i think is an enormous amount of support in a targeted fashion of best as possible to help as many people as possible get through this so that as i said we can emerge on the other side of it stronger united and hopefully able to bounce back as quickly as possible. That is the u. K. s finance minister not because standing in full Boris Johnson who of course is still in intensive care with cove at 19 but apparently the briefing was told from downing street that Boris Johnson the Prime Ministers condition is improving the regime also announcing 750000000 pounds worth of funding for the Charity Sector mike so things lets go straight to rory chalons whos live from london outside the hospital where Boris Johnson is currently being treated and roy what did you make of what the johnson had to say. Dog not going to do well too much from the chancellor saying about the Charity Sector and the u. K. Government support for that because im not sure thats particularly interesting for our International Audience but what he was saying about the british Prime Minister is condition it was a brief. Summary of that says the seas doing better he is sitting up in hospital in his hospital bed and hes engaging positively with his Clinical Team so a bit more information that we have had on the Prime Ministers condition over the last day or so and from that if we are taking this at face value it looks like the promise to these getting slightly better than he was before and that they did care and attention hes getting inside the intensive care unit is paying some dividends from that we heard also from the. Deputy chief science officer of a plane he was talking about the restrictive measures that have been in place in the u. K. For some time. Giving example that. Stations train stations etc was down 94 percent and that the effect that such social distancing measures whats happening was that new cases of coronavirus and u. K. Are not. Control that the rates of hospital admissions is slowing she said its basically that we are starting to see the flattening. But then gave. A kind of warning i suppose that the deaths reported every day would carry on rising for some time to come because of. The reporting of deaths and also because that the deaths they receive at the moment are the results of hospital admissions from several days ago because the length of time that people tend to stay in hospital and i know not all so on that the number of deaths that have just been published by the department of health in the u. K. 938 reported in hospitals across the u. K. Up until 5 pm u. K. Time yesterday and that is the worst day this epidemic so far all right thats the picture from london every chance reporting that thank you. The uns chemical weapons watchdog has released its 1st report explicitly blaming the Syrian Government for sarin and chlorine attacks against civilians the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons looked at 3 attacks in 2017 in the northern syrian time of men in Hama Province it says there are reasonable grounds to believe Government Forces used bombs containing sarin that hit heavily congested civilian areas including a hospital report goes on to say that Bashar Al Assads heavy use of chemical weapons has been a crucial part of his regimes military strategy diplomatic editor james base has been following developments from the united nations. An important report but will it be a game changer clearly the long and horrific saga of the use of chemical weapons goes back to 2013 and you remember that certainly the Obama Administration thought the assad regime did it they said that it across the red line but then president obama decided not to take any sort of military action at that time well all the while weve not had any technical scientific proof that the assad regime was responsible well we now have it for the 1st time the o. P. C. W thats the International Body at deals with chemical weapons has produced this 82. 00 page report looking initially at 3 incident incidents that go back to 2017 and they are on a town in italy and there are over a 6 day period now what they have decided and they say that this is based on on them looking at the evidence and looking at all the possibilities that on 2 occasions the Syrian Air Force dropped bombs with sarin in them and then on the another occasion in the same town at the hospital they believe that a syrian a helicopter dropped chlorine on the hospital in an improvised barrel bombs so pretty clear here this report pretty clear no doubt really that the assad regime was responsible for these crimes certainly the whole International System had been trying to come up with some sort of conclusions the chemical weapons use and this is the 1st time we have a definitive answer like this. The head of the World Health Organization has defended the agencys handling of the krenov virus pandemic it comes as President Donald Trump accused of being china centric and threatened to cut funding the organizations chief says now is not the time for such threats the focus of all Political Parties should be to save their people please dont politicize this virus it exploits the differences you have at the National Level. If you want to be exploited and if you want to have many more body bags then you do it if you dont want many more body bags then you refrain from politicizing it my short message is please quadrant in politicizing it well for more on this lets bring in our White House Correspondent kimberly how could in washington d. C. And kimberly. Defending and the organizations position in the wake of the criticism from donald trump. Yeah well not mentioning donald trump by name he certainly was sending the message to donald trump accusing him of politicizing the in essence said the finger pointing that was done just a day earlier you have to remember that donald trump not only called the u. N. Body or agency a china centric body but also questioned the growing influence that it had. This is certainly an attempt to kind of tamp down some of the criticisms of course donald trump has a very loud and vocal platform right now and he is deflecting blame that he himself may have been slow to respond to the threat of krona virus inside the United States but Donald Trumps criticisms are really an echoing of not only what weve heard from a growing number of republican lawmakers but also a growing number of government officials Global Health experts analysts who are sort of questioning not only the World Health Organizations acceptance of some of the numbers coming out of china with regard to chronic virus but also specifically whether or not they were slow to declare a Public Health emergency and so well we saw there the head of the World Health Organization defending its response quite explicitly and in detail for it seems unlikely that one press conference is going to sort of tamp down those concerns as the world sort of tries to sort out how it got here in terms of the Global Pandemic were there missed signals were there miss size thats something thats going to continue to be examined but theres no question there is a public rift now going on between these 2 major leaders not only the head of the World Health Organization but also the president of the United States and kimberley were always in the u. S. In terms of numbers. Well in terms of numbers we are im going to have to grab my numbers because i dont want to give the wrong numbers in fact i dont have them in front of me but theyre high. Were getting to in terms of deaths i believe were prochoice 13000 and in terms of infections were approaching 400000 please double check these numbers because i havent checked in the last hour or so but the bottom line is is that new york is still the state with that is the epicenter if you will of this crisis but there are positive signs being seen all across the United States but were also hearing Public Health officials dont get too excited because there could be a 2nd wave and what their fear is that right now weve got 98 percent of americans who are under some sort of social distancing order in some form or fashion theyre eager to get outside but these regulations are going to stay in place at least until the end of the month and while we are still in the midst of this we are hearing from dr anthony found she one of the top Public Health officials who is on the corner virus task force saying look at were already planning for how were going to emerge from this what is going to look like but again do not ignore the warnings and the guidance for right now and that is stay at home you can relax when things really should be brought up to washington d. C. Can be home reporting. Well the e. U. Scientific chief has resigned saying hes frustrated with the blocks response to the pandemic ferrari has led the European Research council for just 4 months he told the Financial Times newspaper Member States had failed to coordinate on Health Care PoliciesEuropean Finance ministers have failed to agree on joint measures to counter the pandemics economic fallout thats after an overnight teleconference that went on for about 16 hours divided over how to share the financial burden its estimated to be as high a one as 1. 00 trillion dollars for the European Union comes as the World Trade Organization predicts up to a 3rd of all global trade could be lost this year. Well spain has announced more than 750 people have died in the past 24 hours with new infections also on the rise the number of fatalities has been increasing again in recent days spain is one of the worst affected countries in the world with more than 146000 confirmed cases well lets get a more positive perspective on the pandemic now the original epicenter where life is returning to normal the chinese city of rouhani is reopening its doors after being sealed off a nearly 3 months its under close watch tight Health Restrictions to avoid a 2nd wave of infections so a clog as that story. Packed and ready for departure tens of thousands of people from the city of woo han are on the move after 76 days holed up in their homes when i wasnt here when i planned to go home during the Chinese New Year but because of the epidemic i didnt get to do so my family asks me every day when i come home the lockdown has been gradually lifted over the last 10 days with inbound travel allowed but no departures on wednesday all major highways were reopened so too was the citys airport at least 55000 people trying to kits to travel to other parts of china. I havent been out since january 21st this is the 1st time ive left the house now im going back home to meet my parents checkpoints remain but for health scans those passengers carrying a green coat on a Government Health are considered low risk and can travel. We will have a follow up this infection of passengers at the entrance and exit on the Railway Station with the temperature screening and the health code checking we are very strict 11000000 people live in the city known as a key Industrial Hub of china in december hospitals in were had reported the 1st cases of the coronavirus with an increasing number of patients complaining of flu like symptoms in january the city was put in lockdown after it became clear that the flu like virus was highly contagious and potentially deadly residents were trapped so too will workers on the eve of the Chinese New Year holiday break including player who he works and lives in beijing but my out of france colleagues were actually Found One Day cancelled. Last minute but i didnt because i. Cannot. Afford and. I felt like. Really let down everyone will hand accounts for more than 3 quarters of coronavirus deaths in china or thora teaser warning of a 2nd wave of potential infections as lockdowns lifted across the country and people return to work to see. The residents of our city not to leave for nonessential travel and continue to leave home as little as possible the recovery of we hand has been watched worldwide while the city attempts to return to normal the trauma could last for decades sarah clarke aljazeera. So this is out there these are the top stories in the un zit chemical weapons watchdog has released its 1st report explicitly blaming the Syrian Government for sarin and chlorine attacks against civilians attacks targeted sites in Hama Province including a hospital u. S. Senator Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the democratic president ial race that leaves former Vice President joe biden as a present to the democratic nominee to challenge President Donald Trump in november so ana says it was a tough choice i am announcing the suspension of my campaign please know that i do not make this decision widely in fact it has been a very difficult and painful decision over the past few weeks jane and i in consultation with top staff and many of our prominent supporters ive made it on as assessment of the prospects for the group if i believe that we have a feasible path for the nomination i would certainly continue the campaign but its just not there the head of the World Health Organization has defended the agencys handling of the pandemic comes as President Donald Trump accused of being chinas century and threatened to cut funding the organizations chief says now is not the time for such threats. The focus of all Political Parties should be to save their people please dont politicize this virus it exploits the differences you have at the National Level if you want to be exploited and if you want to have many more body bags then you do it if you dont want many more body bags then you refrain from politicizing it my short message is please quadrant in. Politicizing. European finance ministers have failed to agree on joint measures to counter the pandemics economic fallout as after an overnight teleconference that went on roughly for 16 hours they are divided over how to share the financial burden it comes as the World Trade Organization predicts up to a 3rd of global trade could be lost this year. Here to date with headlines here and weve got more news coming up in a half hour right after witness wife. 33