25000. 00 and will also take you to an election in the time of a pandemic South Koreans heading to the ballot box with their masks their gloves and the sanitizing. He has accused of failing its basic do you say yet in doing so u. S. President donald trump has halted American Financial contributions to the World Health Organization he says the w. H. O. Not only mishandled the outbreak but covered up how it was spreading out of china but the u. N. Has said this is the worst possible moment for money to be withheld and trumps critics just say hes trying to shift the blame from himself will stop with this report from mike hanna in washington. In what has become a pattern president trying to use his podium to parade reporters if you keep talking ill leave and you can have it out with the rest of these people if you keep talking im going to leave and you can have it out with them yes just allowed me to introduce a number of prominent members of big business the Construction LaborWorkforce International union of operating engineers Jim Callaghan north America Building Trades Union shown regard is a lot of friends of mine laborers International Union of north america terrio sullivan and to sharply criticized the World Health Organization announcing his administration would suspend funding had the w. H. O. Done its job to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out chinas lack of transparency ironically President Trump is on the record praising china for its transparency in dealing with a virus having what was described as a friendly phone conversation with president xi at the end of march and subsequently tweeting we are working closely together much respect once again President Trump appears to be ignoring the principle of the separation of powers legal experts argue that he does not have the right to suspend funding that has already been approved by Congress Another constitutional crisis is looming and despite repeated cautions by the countrys Health ExpertsPresident Trump insisted mitigating measures could be eased or lifted in a number of u. S. States by the beginning of next month. But he walked back an earlier contention that the decision was his to make by comp perming that the question of lifting restrictions or not would be left to individual gov the white house would still provide guidance were going to pick a date were going to get a date thats good but its going to be very very soon sooner than the end of the month the sun the day that new york city announced its most dramatic rise in the fatality rate so Health Officials for the 1st time included the deaths of those presumed to have died of the virus even though they had not tested positive this increase the death toll by more than 3700 in a single day driving up the number of People Killed in new york city to more than 10000 and increasing the overall u. S. Death count by 17 percent to more than 26000 thank you all very much stock figures that not even the president s action against the World Health Organization can distract from mike hanna aljazeera washington where president transfer little rivals were quick to react the Democratic National committee put out a statement heres part of it trump is willing to put Global Health further at risk to try to deflect blame from his own failures the American People know the truth carried on to say it was trump who ignored the warnings for months some thoughts now from Lawrence Gostin whos a professor at Georgetown University also the director of the w. H. O. Collaborating center on national and Global Health law he told us this will only hurt the u. S. His credibility. It was dismaying. And you know made me almost ashamed to be an american because at a time when were facing literally a once in a century Global Health crisis when tens of thousands of people are dying and when this is the time more than ever. For our Global Health leadership and Global Solidarity to have the United States undercut the World Health Organization was indeed painful to watch i never thought i would see an american president. Undercut a vital u. N. Agency the way the president travel did and i think it will do what will happen itll just the United States has now lost all voice all influence over. International relations and Global Health and affairs. I think that the world will be outraged by this act. Lets move on from the u. S. Now look at russia where they operate is expanding rapidly for the 4th straight day its reported a record 30 rise in new infections more than 3300 new cases have been recorded bringing the total absolutely 25000 the government says at least 198 russians have died but Health Authorities as im actually could run out of hospital beds and next few weeks barnsley with more on that one from london you pointed out last hour lawrence are both the number of deaths in russia is comparatively low very low but that increase in the number of infections is a point for concern. Yeah and theres lots of reasons for concern in the situation in russia even if you take the number of deaths that they stand which which may or may not be. A very high number of cases as i was saying before the Russian Health care system is pretty elaborate dated all these accusations that the law made about the states of russia are over the time that modern it has become president has become. Socratic as a country a very small number of very rich people taking all the resources and leaving and leaving facing situations like hospitals just struggle along this is a situation which finds a Country House and so even moscow where where all the money all the all the money in russia or is as you say in the introduction theres bound to be a crisis looming in the hospitals because out of a total population the country of a 140000000 theres a good 10 percent of the whole population the country live in and around moscow and so fast where all the cases are going to run a room very very quickly and when Vladimir Putin talks about calling the army its not a threat the u. K. Called the army if you know they go to the hospital the next edition center in a week and im sure that thats exactly the same sort of thing that the russians have in mind the other problem else of the same before is the general state of physical health among russians is really catastrophic for a thing like this huge amount of alcoholism very very large and the number of smokers these are exactly the sort of Underlying Health conditions that the virus feeds on and so i think the projections for russia based on all those sorts of things are very lawrence take me through developments in europe if you would play them i guess more to the point the differing approaches that Different Countries have taken and the fact that all adds up to a very disjointed sort of response from europe. Yeah i mean clearly you know the European Union is a body of countries that you know likes to behave in patterns them but that doesnt work with the way the pandemic is acting Different Countries at different times and so you have a number of Different Countries which are trying to desperately trying to find a way out of lockdown in different ways so for example finland this morning announced it was. Opening up. The closure around health into the capital to live profits and. Denmark also scandinavia primary schools spain disastrously hit the virus construction work started austria lots of shops are opening so in some countries things are happening but its not all the same thing at once other countries the lockdowns going to continue france sinew the u. K. Definitely on the scene you know theres no Prime Minister and theres no idea of what the exit strategy might end up looking like and so its different in Different Countries and this presents a problem particularly for the European Commission which you can call and control freaks if you want but they do wants a sort of a sieve response to these from their Member States of the European Union particularly to try to avoid all the chaos when all this started of the random border closures and people not knowing whether they could move from country to country to work across borders and so theyre issuing a roadmap like all of this morning to try to outline to all the Member States exactly how they think things should play out very very slow and gradual reopening making sure things are done in tandem dont go off message and ruin everybody else but you know and try to get some sense and some industry started again obviously this is a particular problem the European Union because anywhere else in the world because you have a whole group of countries where its supposed to travel freely from country to country that stop for the time being but they want to look at a position where at some point they can start to worry the open borders of europe which theyre so proud of thank you for all as ive said florence lane with a view across europe. Now this is a quite extraordinary voting largely now finished in south koreas parliamentary election one of the worlds 1st National Ballots to be held during a pandemic votive are required to wear masks and gloves and to maintain their social distancing more than 10000 people have been infected there at least 220 have died here as robin right now is that in seoul for us rob we saw you out in about earlier quite a. Fascinating way to manage to keep democracy going in the times of a pandemic. Absolutely it does seem as though south korea is the 1st major country to be holding an election like this at a time of a pandemic and we know of course a number of other Countries Territories had been scheduled to hold elections big and small even small local elections but all having to be postponed or canceled south korea decided it was safe enough to go ahead with this election and it does seem as though the people have responded we are in for a big turnout here in south korea until about an hour or so ago the turnout for this the main election day and also 2 days of early voting that took place last week started around 62 percent of the total electorate now that already puts it as one of the biggest elections here for about 20 years and of course we havent finished counting all of the vote so we could be in for setting some records as well also pointing out that down in the city of daegu this is in the epicenter of the biggest outbreak here in south korea they actually went one percent better than that a full 63 percent of people turned out to vote to their work concerns that maybe people would stay away theyre concerned about obviously social distancing and mingling with large crowds but it does seem if anything as though possibly this pandemic has galvanized people energized people in wanting to take part in the political process now we seem to be over this Public Health emergency i said the polls have closed in fact some of the polling stations are being kept open for to allow a special categories of voters last week we had people who were actually infected being able to vote to segregated polling stations these are patients still suffering from coronavirus well theyve also been made provision for people who are self quarantining doing self isolation and they number around 50000 here in south korea so what you have this wednesday evening is designated polling stations being held open for those people to go out and actually cast their vote and then return after this special outing to their 2 weeks of quarantine to allow that to be finished thank you for those updates from seoul bride. In the years ahead our Global Financial shock is threatening to undo half a century of Economic Growth and stability were focusing on latin america and why some also fear corona virus is spreading through palestinian neighborhoods but doing it undetected. The seasonal rain stirring i see now across the Southeast Asia more showers then coming into the philippines will showers them into vietnam into what cambodia some possible ousting some wet weather will see some wet weather gradually making its way back towards thailand over the next dial says usual scattering south from malaysia into indonesia some of them of course on the shop sides and heavy temples or as a possibility particularly in the heat of the day and not too much in the way of wet weather coming into australia at the moment it is largely dry here a little more clout there into southern parts of also slogging through the bite down towards victoria towards tasmania where the wet and windy here just around tasmania and that will gradually slide over towards new zealand behind that it is generally dry some showers there into eastern parts of queensland well see some wet weather up towards can study celsius here syma temperatures to go on through friday same with temperatures there for alice as well but some of colder in perth around 27. 00 degrees they will be lost a fine and dry tony drier in c. Victoria where they will still be a few blustery showers sliding over towards tasmania as we go on through friday ahead of that we got this wet weather grassy making its way towards the salient and to the very unsettled. I history im going to learn more from. My son the interesting. Name for an organization created from statements population. Before fighting for their land why did the p. L. O. Fight for independence from arab neighbors. Chronicling the turbulent story of the struggle for a palestinian who. History of the revolution which is the. Root or world or. The latest coronavirus developments now donald trump suspending u. S. Funding for the World Health Organization he says the agency mishandled the initial response to the pandemic critics those are trumps just deflecting blame for his own fate its. The 4th straight day rushes reported to record the rise in new infections more than 3300 cases confirmed bringing the total to nearly 25000 the government has at least a 198 people have died as well voting is largely finished in south koreas parliamentary election one of the worlds 1st National Votes to be held during the pandemic people are required to wear masks and gloves and maintain social distancing. International monetary funds predicting the worlds worst economic downturn for generations and latin america it says will be one of the worst hit regions the pandemic could set back more than 50 years of growth and stability there a latin america editor at the scene human reports now from something. This is trying to make enough to cover one days expenses selling secondhand electrical goods on the street its illegal but he has little choice made and i thought the police many a city police are let us work because its going to get worse if we cant sell now well have to go out and steal later. My particular are living hell if they say theres nothing worse than kicking someone when theyre down and thats exactly what code 1000 is doing to latin america if i was a white but all the restaurants closed so now im trying to survive doing this just to pay the rent. The pandemic clock the region on an already poor 40 with anemic Economic Growth rising crime and social unrest than by severe inequality the forecast now is even more bleak. In various standing. Extreme. And. Even these fears. The biggest problem is unemployment and many latin american countries are too insolvent to provide viable economic rescue plans for small and medium sized businesses. Venezuela ecuador argentina and most Central America a deep in debt already but all without exception will have a hard time keeping their heads above water even after the pandemic subsides between 19952015 tens of millions of Latin Americans rose from poverty and into the lower middle class many of them were able to buy apartments like the ones you see here now these are precisely the people who stand to watch everything i mean what the. I am f. Predicts the region will suffer its worst recession in half a century a lot may depend on if and when latin americas main trading partners china the u. S. And europe recover nothing is certain at this point except the regions main weakness a structural inequality that will take much longer to cure than the pandemic. You see in human aljazeera sunday at all. In occupied East Jerusalem corona virus may be spreading through palestinian neighborhoods undetected a number of reported cases rose to 41 this week but Health Workers fear the actual figure is much higher than that of support from harry forces. At this hospital in occupied East Jerusalem and improvise new board has been set up 16 beds readied to isolate patients who test positive for corona virus already 3 patients who have tested positive have been sent to hospitals in west jerusalem after an infected man from a nearby neighborhood visited is older the father here or spittle director says the Israeli Government has failed to help prepare you stew slims Health System to tackle the pandemic not enough protective equipment only 23 ventilators between 3 hospitals serving 350000 people this is too little i mean the. People our population in egypt please please please because you know if there. Goes out of course there is nothing we can do that is surely good weekend to the Israeli Health ministry has said 1000 patients from East Jerusalem could be treated in the west of the city and that a major outbreak isnt expected but in recent days cases here have started to spike despite attempts by local committees to enforce lockdown measures. The Israeli Occupation was not happy with this and they clashed with the groups i think israel must understand that we all humanity are in a war against corona and it is not the time for issues like who is sovereign here. Jerusalem has the highest crooner virus numbers of any city on the Israeli Health ministrys list its been reported that ultraorthodox jewish neighborhoods account for about 3 quarters of them israeli Officials Say palestinians have largely abided by the lockdown restrictions they may also have been protected by a younger average age and fewer contacts with people whove been overseas but theres also been a large of some weeks between Testing Facilities being set up in jewish areas and in palestinian ones more and more Testing Centers like this one are opening up for residents of occupied East Jerusalem but the concern is that the delay is still preventing Health Authorities from getting an accurate picture of just how widespread this disease is palestinian israeli politician ahmed tb has demanded greater Testing Capacity now hes calling on palestinians to use it putting aside any worries about social stigma we have it leadership. That that physicians Health Ministry in order to convince people that it is wrong not to be tested it is right the goal and. For the sake of yourself and your community this week the Israeli Government committed to provide testing 4150000 palestinians living in parts of East Jerusalem cut off by the separation wall after a Court Petition by a palestinian israeli rights group more densely packed communities where the scale of the spread has been so far unknown perry forsett aljazeera occupied East Jerusalem and to take you through some of the global news now libya where the u. N. Recognized the government says it now controls the countrys west coast its forces have taken a number of towns and cities from the warlord Khalifa Haftar and announced it in their sights on a nearby airfields and at the one hand with the support now from one of the seized towns. Life is gradually getting back to normal in the coastal city of sobrante in western libya forces loyal to the internationally recognized a government are taken control civilians who fled this city when half that his forces seized it 3 years ago are now returning home. We dont want military rule we rose up against a dictatorship in 2011 not to have another one now we want a Civil Democratic state thats what weve sacrificed for on monday have those forces were driven out and lost control of many areas in the west of the country before the pulled back to a debate is so the. This is the operation of house that its forces and the city of it thats been hit by a government war plain as infantry forces crossed into the city. So brought this location is important because its along the International Coastal highway that links the capital tripoli to the tunisian border the west coast cities are also important because they dominate the Gas Pipelines that supply your top in response to their defeat in the west of the country have to those forces have been targeting residential areas in tripoli the indiscriminate shelling of civilian facilities is raising International Concern we are very concerned about. About the situation. Yes collation of violence in libya i think its frankly alarming we see in any area close to to truly we have seen weve seen the destruction of Health Facilities and frankly for the last month for more than a year weve been calling out not only the destruction but sometimes the targeting of Health Professionals the Government Forces say theyre mobilizing to move towards a with a debate which has been used by half that as warplanes to target southern tripoli. So. Now they w. H. O. Says the Ebola Outbreak in democratic republic of congo is still a Global Health emergency they actually had been hoping to announce an end to the outbreak which started in late 2018 but theres been more deaths and infections in the eastern city of beni the epidemics killed more than 2000 people. Egypts Public Prosecutor says a National Security officer has been killed in a gun battle with an armed group in cairo. And several others were injured during that exchange which lasted for several hours near the city center 7 gunmen were killed its believed they were planning attacks during christian holidays for u. S. President Barack Obamas endorsed his Vice President joe biden in his bid for the white house. Said he believes biden is the candidate that America Needs to help it recover from the pandemic bidens former rival senator Bernie Sanders is also endorsed him after he dropped out of the democratic partys nomination race leaving biden to take on donald trump for the white house in november if theres one thing weve learned as a country for moments of great crisis its that the spirit of looking out for one another can be restricted to our homes our workplaces were neighborhoods or houses of worship it holds so has to be reflected in our National Government the kind of leadership thats guided by knowledge and experience honesty and humility empathy and grace that kind of leadership doesnt just belong in our state capitals and mayors offices it belongs in the white house but joe biden is facing allegations of Sexual Assault a california woman had previously accused biden of inappropriate touching her neck and shoulders when she worked for him in 9093 which he now says he also sexually assaulted her the same media bidens Campaign Team denies all the allegations. The studys high court has ruled a warrant used by police to search the home of a journalist was invalid but its rated to journalists times last year including that of News Corp Senior editor anika smith host they were investigating the publication of classified material but the court declined to order the cs been tiriel be destroyed. Ukraines government says a forest fire near the Chernobyl Nuclear plant has been put out it went just a kilometer within the site of the worlds Worst Nuclear Accident environmental activists said the government covered up how bad things really were including the risk of a spike in radiation or to corona virus which is of course for some big changes in our lives especially for those living in quarantine or in the lockdown many been adapting to finding creative ways to pass the time so you houston is one of them a mother in the u. S. Whos documented her familys experience this is their story so im. Pretty sure i didnt want to its probably take me about 3 weeks to get into this. You know just to kind appreciate things like this. Science project together. So on a day after. Learning trying to get through the end of 6 very unhealthy. We should all be too occupied in one still doing college work and one doing music. Be considered kids right because it is Virtual Birthday party lives in a way that supports even that. A. Take away their. Funny one New York Hospital battling the pandemic has received some much needed backup. 46 nurses from across the United States were given a surprise welcome by staff at the north well health the citys Largest Health care provider and they are training to help treat 1000 patients. I just feel like this is a calling that i felt several weeks ago i left family kids grandchildren behind to come out and help these people that need our help ive never been more proud to be a nurse and this is by far the most rewarding career ive ever had in my life and id like to thank them for welcoming us so much. They are on aljazeera these are the headlines donald trump is suspending u. S. Funding for the World Health Organization he says the agency mishandled the initial response to the pandemic critics though just say trump is deflecting blame for his own failures. One of the most dangerous and costly decisions from the w. H. O. Was its disastrous decision to oppose travel restrictions from china and other nations they were very much opposed to what we did fortunately i was not convinced and suspended travel from china saving untold numbers of lives thousands and thousands of people would have died. For the 4th straight day russia has reported a record daily rise in new infections more than 3300. 00 cases were confirmed bringing the total to nearly 25000. 00 government says at least 198 people have died in russia. Now the exit polls in south koreas parliamentary elections show the governing party is projected to win this is one of the worlds 1st National Votes to be held during the pandemic. Carried on regardless people were required to wear their masks and the gloves and to maintain social distancing swedens reported a sharp rise in corona virus deaths another 114 confirmed on tuesday up from 20 the previous day overall nearly 11000 people have tested positive in sweden and more than a 1000 have died in a country thats taken a more liberal approach to the pandemic resisting the National Lockdowns of other countries in denmark to care and primary schools are reopening as the government loosens its locked on measures so Authorities Say its the 1st phase of a gradual process to get society back to normal border controls excuse me and social distancing rules will remain in place for another 4 weeks in more than 6000 cases in nearly 300 deaths in the w. H. O. Says the Ebola Outbreak in democratic republic of congo is still a Global Health emergency been hoping to announce an end to the outbreak which started in august of 2018 but there are more deaths and infections in the eastern city of beni an epidemic thats killed more than 2000 people sammy is along with the news hour in about half an hours time p. L. O. History of a revolution is next. I was taken to prison just now that i was belittling one yes or just me oh my darling the father of my daughter i think not to kill. When parents are imprisoned the government doesnt have any plan for the trigger left behind so this shouldnt need for they need shelter they are searching for love. My passion is to see that this shooting of prisoners are also given another chance to live like no which shouldnt because theyre not a party to that crimes committed by their parents when i finally get to that place to build a home for these children and they see them become somebody used to fall into society fending for themselves. To give me satisfaction. In 1948 the state of israel was proclaimed. Palestine was lost. 16 years later in 1964 the Palestine Liberation Organization or the p. L. O. Was founded. Made up of different factions the p. L. O. Has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since. Setting up an independent Palestinian Organization was not easy. The 1st challenge the palestinians faced was to wrest control of their own destiny from the ad abrasions