1500 types of assault weapons in response to the countrys worst mass shooting. Also ahead with technology evolving to help us track and contain cope with 19 we look at concerns about surveillance and privacy. An experimental antiviral drug has been approved for emergency use in treating coronavirus patients in the United States 1500000 vials of red disappear will be distributed to hospitals from monday the regulator gave its approval after a government sponsored study showed the medications shortened patients Recovery Time by about 30 percent and slightly improved mortality rates from washington mike hanna told us about the strict rules attached to the announcement. It has been given an emergency use flagged by the f. D. A. Which means that it can be used under very tightly controlled conditions which will be part of the ongoing survey into the take a c. Of the drug now within the u. S. The f. D. A. Some urgency rissa lucian was given on the basis of a single trial in which patients were shown to recover 4 days quicker from the corona virus than those who were given a placebo within the trial but it was a very narrow trial involving just a little more than a 1000 people the emergency approval by the f. D. A. Means that wider studies will be able to be made on the drug that 1st of all theres got to be at some stage be a peer review which is an essential part of full f. D. A. Approval so its a long way away i must mention too as well that the answer to magazine reported on a similar study on. Being conducted in china which did not produce as favorable results and did show that patients recovered a little bit faster but not to the extent to which the us trial showed also one must say that as ever with this administration there are some conflicts of interest involved a very senior official in the Us Health Department is a former lobbyist for gilliard science the company that produces this particular drug and also one must ironically that the trumpet ministration was suing science only in the last year for price gouging on another off its drugs that it produced so certainly there are a lot of issues here both pertaining to the if you can see of the drug and also a possible conflict of interest involved with the mass production of the drug at this particular point mike hanna reporting lets talk to dr gregory poland hes editor in chief of the journal vaccine and director of the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research group he joins us from rochester minnesota dr poland welcome to this is an emergency treatment drug how good do we want it to be. You know there were you know i think we have to remember this is the very 1st one its a new drug being used for this and youve showed i would call it a bright spot in the search just what 90 days after being notified of this of a drug it looks like its got very promising results its an emergency treatment is there a risk here that those Frontline Health care workers will do and this will be perfectly understandable will do the wrong thing with it i. E. They will want to use it in more situations than are strictly speaking emergency situations well the requirements of the use of the drug are under way are emergency use authorization as you mentioned that has a set of requirements around it that Health Care Workers have to abide by so is that like a double check system where people have to sign off on someone else signing off on a request to use it exactly so day they have to look at a sheet of paper they have to sign that sheet of paper the family or the patient usually is going to be the family has to be notified that this is going to happen what the risks and what the proposed benefits would be the people who have had to cope at 19 and have survived and have come back from it all of them have charisma from wrong displayed the same process in as much as they have been on the receiving end of multiple weapons being used against the disease that comes about from having contracted the virus what is it that this drug does or does better than all the other processes that people have gone through. Yeah so so this is the 1st drug that has in randomized double blind placebo controlled trials shown a significant difference in time to recovery in the in age study that you were referring to earlier it just statistically missed showing a mortality benefit which is probably a function of the size of the study so this is this is good news we have not seen this with any of the other type birol drugs that have been tried nor i drops the chloroquine and so so this is an advance the lung set magazine highly respected internationally 7 days ago however was saying when this drug was trialed in east asia it did not come back it was not returned with phase positive results why is there a disconnect there yeah i think what were seeing is it depends on the situation under which you use it if you use it early in the course of disease were starting to see treatment benefits if you use it late in the course of disease and i think its much harder to show a benefit in addition and thats the reason for the Clinical Trials people in china may have been put on a whole variety of the rarity of different drugs and things so you really want to know whats the effect specifically on this entire viral and also when they start using it in a much bigger much more kind of far reaching way than theyve been testing at and filing it so far will they be able to change it accordingly depending upon individual patients individual experiences of it. You know thats a very good question peter and part of what needs to be done is to study whats called the pharmacokinetics of the drug in people that are at different stages of illness in getting different drugs the other thing thats being explored is will the 5 day course rather than a 10 day course of treatment not be sufficient to begin i suspect were going to find out that has a lot to do with how ill somebody is when we start the drug ok dr poland great to talk to you on aljazeera thank you so much for your insight. There you will get more on the virus way a little later for now another developing story north korean state media saying kim jong un has made his 1st public appearance in almost 3 weeks now these images reportedly show the leader opening a Fertilizer Factory rumors have been swirling about kims health and even his possible death its also been speculated that china sent a team of doctors to treat him after a heart procedure had gone wrong rob mcbride joins us live from the south korean capital seoul hi there rob so as ever with the north Korean Leader more questions than answers i guess. Indeed but it does seem to put to rest the speculation that has been going on now for several weeks about his suspicious disappearance from public view we have no reason to believe this event didnt happen but it should be pointed out that we only have at the moment the one report released through case cna this is north koreas state run news agency but accompanied by these photographs which do appear to show a fairly well that kim jong un smiling Ribbon Cutting opening this fertilizer plant one of the pictures shows him and also accompanied by his sister Kim Jung Jong in front of a placard which gives yesterdays date may the 1st this would be a fitting way of celebrating International Workers day we are told from this news report indeed that the the work force at this fertilizer plant gave him a rapturous reception but of course it was missing another very important date on the north korean calendar that sparked all of this speculation this was the day of the sun 2 weeks ago this was the commemoration celebrating the birth date of the founder of north korea kim il sung kim jong uns grandfather that he missed which then prompted speculation about what had happened to him the news report on one web site news website here in south korea reported that he had had some sort of cardiovascular procedure and then the reporting and various speculation got more louer it with various reports coming from the United States requoting intelligence sources theyre saying that this procedure a gone horribly wrong the fact he was gravely ill well there seems to put to rest those rumors at least and as far as the chinese may be sending a medical team there is concerning overly callous here rob i guess beijing doesnt want a vacuum in pyongyang they want a known commodity in pyongyang. That is one of the things that has come out of all this just reminding us just about the cult surrounding the leadership in north korea and the fact that if their leader suddenly disappeared without the there being an apparent succession strategy in place about the potential instability there so it is it is a cause for concern here on the Korean Peninsula and further afield i think those reports about the medical team being sent from china do give credence to the fact that there has been some sort of medical problem maybe as kind of a procedure has been carried out on kim jong un jungle and we also got reports from sources in the United States a u. S. Based think tank that studies north korea is showing satellite photographs which seem to indicate that his personal train was inside ings at one sound this is a resort area on the orth koreas east coast which seemed to indicate that kim jong un could have been it a family compound thats located there possibly undergoing some sort of convalescence convalescent from what it is possible that he underwent some sort of procedure we know that there is a Family History of cardiovascular problems he is grossly overweight he is a chain smoker so that possibly there could have been some procedure but he seems to be alive and well again and attending is normal ceremonies it seems as though possibly in the absence of any other information rumors seem to have got ahead of themselves rob thanks very much canada is burning assault style weapons after a man shot and killed 22 people a little under 2 weeks ago and comes into effect immediately but theyll be a 2 year amnesty allowing people to get rid of weapons they already own daniel lek has the story from toronto. After the worst mass shooting in canadian history the most sweeping gun controls the country has ever introduced shocking and horrific images of the aftermath of a rampage by a lone gunman in nova scotia prompted the federal government to ban about 1500. 00 types of semiautomatic military grade rifles the Prime Minister said it was time to get rid of guns that mostly harm human beings these weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time. There is no use and no place for such weapons in canada the list of prohibited weapons includes hundreds of versions of the a ar 15 Assault Rifle last used in a mass shooting in canada in 2017 when a gunman killed 6 men in a quebec city mosque such attacks are much rarer here than in the United States canadians are far more accustomed to hearing of mass killings across the border such as the los vegas mass shooting that left 58 people dead in 2017. Ban like this is widely supported in canada and polls indicate thats only increased since the events in nova scotia gun rights advocates say its a politically expedient move that ignores the fact that most gun killings in canada come from illegal handguns smuggled across the u. S. Border and not from assault weapons some measures in the new legislation are similar to those in new zealand which banned Assault Rifles and conducted a highly successful Buyback Program in response to the Christ Church mosque massacre last year canada to offer a 2 year amnesty to existing legal owners of banned weapons and will offer compensation there may also be new laws coming to allow cities to ban handguns which are already tightly regulated gun control advocates of welcome the new measures and say they look forward to further action to make canada a much safer country. And you lack of his era toronto. Still to come on this program resistance to lebanons economic rescue plan as the Government Asks for a financial lifeline. Hello we still got some very hot sunshine across northern parts of china for the time being that will change as we go through the next couple of days area cloud into central areas of china thats going to push out into the East China Sea eventually well see some wetter weather just not doing its way towards south korea towards southern parts of japan but headed that saturday looks was dry and sunny were getting up to around 28 celsius in tokyo that cloud on the right that will continue to ease further east with so it will cloud over it will turn increasingly wet some heavy downpours for the far south of japan and also into south korea as we go through sunday still some showers there into southern areas of china but for the far south too bad hong kong around 31. 00 celsius in the sunshine sunshine the showers meanwhile across a good part of Southeast Asia some of the showers on the live beside the seasonal rains of course and the great surprises here and wet weather anywhere from the philippines through malaysia indonesia out that wanted to shout study a possibility one of those ones are those showers just pushing up towards malaysia pushing up into good parts of thailand from time to time and i shall is just not in the way a little further north woods and west was we will see some showers there into the eastern side of the but have been go much of injuries dry and sunny but showers for the northeast. Or are. Recapping our top stories for you so far this half hour an experimental antiviral drug has been authorized by the u. S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency use in treating coronavirus patients and a half 1000000 vials of the drug gram disappear will be distributed to hospitals as of monday. North korean state media says kim jong un has made his 1st public appearance in almost 3 weeks these images reportedly showing the leader opening a Fertilizer Factory rumors have been going around about his health and even his possible death. Assault style rifles are being immediately banned in canada in response to the countrys worst mass shooting in little less than 2 weeks ago. Human rights watch says more than 700. 00 refugees Migrant Workers have been detained in malaysia the group says they were rounded up during raids in kuala lumpur they live in areas where covert 19 cases spiked last month triggering claims that foreigners are spreading the virus and being a burden on Government Resources lazy or doesnt formally recognize refugees regarding them as Illegal ImmigrantsFlorence Louis joins us live from kuala lumpur florence where these people being held. Well weve been told that they will go. Well the police chief who was at the raid said the people would be held at Detention Centers but not sure these would be the Detention Centers. Run by the Immigration Department but a couple of days ago the senior minister whos also the defense minister said the government intended to detain undocumented migrants whom they had identified in lockdown areas and would be holding them in Detention Centers or in temporary Holding Facilities that the government hat set up for corona virus now these places where the raids were carried out are places under complete lockdown including several apartments in kuala lumpur where Health Officials have been going from door to door testing everyone because there have been a high number of cases there to people that are not allowed to go out of the homes at all and it is believed that the authorities carried out these rates because these people were sitting ducks for the operation. Thanks very much. Fighting on the yemeni island of so caught has stopped after an agreement was reached between Government Forces and us banks separatists. Troops pushed back the separatists from the islands provincial capital on friday under the agreement saudi forces will secure the city and both sides will remove checkpoints and military vehicles the separatists declared self rule in areas of southern yemen under their control a week ago. We hear to say that were sorry for what happened sorry that we had to confront our brothers in this nation but they forced us we are peaceful here its a culture weve never fired a bullet in an act of aggression but today those separate us from the Southern Transitional council strongholds forced us to take up arms and fight back to defend our areas. The armed group i saw in the Sinai Peninsula has claimed responsibility for an attack on an Egyptian Military convoy it happened on thursday in the city of bitter lab in northern sinai the army says its since killed 2 suspects funerals have been held for the Army Personnel who died in the attacks the Egyptian Government said 10 were killed or injured but hasnt provided clarification. People protesting again and again in lebanon after the government officially asked the i. M. F. For a rescue loan lifeline at the center of a new plan to keep the economy from going under spoke to people in the crowds in beirut. Keeping the hope for change alive lebanese return to the central beirut square where calls for a new leadership rang out 6 months ago theyre back in the streets after a lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus was weeks of closures heard an already collapsing economy there is uncertainty about the future as unemployment rises. Im 33 years old i have been graduated from University Like 10 years ago. A person like me should be in a senior position the way so. Its because of the. Economy situation which was caused by the subsequent governments cabinet has already defaulted on its debt for the 1st time in history we. Called for the world bank and. Even larger public privatizing the whole. State and i dont think the. 6 6 prices of basic goods have increased by more than 50 percent while the local currency has depreciated by at least 60 percent peoples incomes and savings have lost value. But the situation. The burden on the business because when the inflation im buying their own restaurant now its a bit different. The price. Paid the same. 30 percent of registered companies have closed and the Labor Ministry says 20 percent have reduced employee salaries by half. The dismissal of workers and the closure of organizations have been the biggest concerns the ministry has. Put forward a plan to solve huge unemployment and to protect the rights of workers but that will need money and the government has been unable to provide for the most basic needs as the state nears bankruptcy the some people fear the country is sliding into chaos the middle class is becoming a work government figures show up to 75 percent of a nation of 5000000 people need help while 45 percent live below the poverty line. Human rights watch is warning more than half of lebanons people are at the risk of going hungry the government may be promising better days ahead but if admits the road will not be easy. Beirut. South korea and india have decided to stop using chinese made rapid covert 19 testing kids after they were found to be faulty scientists in south korea say when retested hundreds of recovered patients returned positive results a 2nd time they blame what they say are shortcomings in the test itself rather than any reinfection india bought half a 1000000 kids and from similar problems china has defended its products dr patrick tang is division chief of Pathology Sciences and sidra medicine he says scientists are still trying to develop better testing methods because the virus is so new. We have to distinguish all the different types of tests out there and how they differ form i think one of the problems right now is were mixing all of these different tests that in and grouping them all together and then you know casting blame on all tests when that isnt true there are tests that look for antibodies in the blood and there are tests that look for the virus of the genetic material of the fires so those are 2 very different types of tests and they give very different sat answers because this has been a new virus and we dont understand everything about it weve been very cautious about interpreting these results and you know one of the possibilities was that people were becoming infected or that they were lapsing. After not fully recovering from the infection and finally there is that possibility that this appalls positive oratory cast all of those things were looked at and i think now theyve concluded that the viruses that they detected in bees that a few 100 people in south korea were not viable so these viruses are not. Theyre dead birol particles they were picked up by the task and these people will not be able to transmit the infection to other people india is extending the worlds biggest lot done by 2 more weeks however restrictions in some areas will be used on monday elizabeth purana a new delhi explains the government strategy. In the last nearly 6 weeks of the lockdown in india the government has divided the country into green orange and red zones depending on the number of cases and the stage of transmission and its announced that while the National Lockdown will continue for another 2 weeks that they will be a considerable easing of restrictions mostly in green and r. And so on and so what are they well as of may the 4th all goods are allowed to be transported there will be. Green zones but with 50 percent seizing capacity taxis are allowed in green and orange zones but with only one passenger things like all construction and industrial activity is allowed even in red. Rural areas now over the last 10 days we have see easing of restrictions in a number of sectors most notably agriculture indias biggest employer and all the businesses which support and all stand alone shops even those selling non essential items have been open for about the last week so one of the restrictions that remain in place while there is still no rail travel hospitality Restaurants Hotels remain shot into state movements no movement between states and things like cinema halls you know Sports Complex is the main shot and there will be no political social or cultural gatherings. Several people have been detained during may day protests germany has a virus restriction social distancing is still being enforced in public 163000 people are known to have been infected more than 60000 have died. Digital technology has proven a popular tool for governments across asia to monitor and contain the spread of corona virus medical Authorities Say tracking software has helped slow transmission but critics say its highlights the power of governments to exploit peoples personal data sarah clarke has that story from hong kong. When tricia cowen and her family returned to hong kong in april they were put in mandatory quarantine for 14 days they were also required to wear this electronic respond the loaded authorities if they breached a quarantine regulations and left their apartment its didnt think about it i just think that this had to be done i mean its paper made to be tracked and now one wants it spread further we all want to be over as quickly as possible so that that just involved me. You know tracking Technology Developed in hong kong is a wife i never put to detect if the user changes location but the company says the only data shared with the government is movement not personal Information Technology we have a lot of options like phased work in the. Speech or what condition theyre using this way that alone will be alerted when they use the net their home but at the same time it polled had their way our. Mobile apps and digital surveillance are being used by many governments in asia to track the spread of the corona virus china uses a color based q. R. Code to monitor peoples movements and health in south korea overseas travelers who dont download a Government App are refused entry i think is so its a key part of the term Infection Control in asia especially using this technology to track down these people who are putting them into quarantine so it is probably one of the most of the reasons why we are doing better. All the possible world but critics say some government mandated apps can also access a users personal data and be used as a surveillance tool here not this data will end up in the hands of governments some of the apps look for peoples. Access. To call records even their contacts and in some cases they cannot and all that information together can. 2 of the worlds biggest tech giants a good girl and apple. Teaches in their devices using context tracing technology but the toll will be removed once the pandemic ends the critics say it could lead to ongoing survivalists with governments using the data the purpose of. Technology may be playing a Critical Role in containing the pandemic but human Rights Groups warn it might also normalize surveillance in the future once this outbreak is under control. Sarah clarke aljazeera hong kong. The u. S. Womens soccer team has lost their equal pay case a federal court ruled the world cup winners had insufficient evidence to prove their claim against the u. S. Soccer federation but the judge. Of discrimination and travel accommodation as well as medical and training support can go to trial that will happen next month. Updating the top stories for you so far today here on aljazeera an experimental antiviral drug has been authorized by the u. S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency use interesting coronavirus patients 1500000 vials of the drug ram disappear will be distributed to hospitals from monday north korean state media says kim jong un has made his 1st public appearance in almost 3 weeks these images reportedly show the leader opening a Fertilizer Factory rumors have been swirling about kims health and even possible death is in seoul. No reason to suspect that this didnt happen but we only have the one use Agency Report to go on and also these 2 photographs showing the redbook Ribbon Cutting and also kim jong un in attendance its a if its true then it does settle all of the speculation that has been swirling for several weeks now about his condition this all originated of course because he missed a very important celebration 2 weeks ago the day of sun this is the day when the whole of north korea celebrates the birth date of kim il sung the founding father of north korea assault style rifles are being immediately banned in canada and its in response to the countrys worst mass shooting a little less than 2 weeks ago in nova scotia Human Rights Watch says 700 refugees Migrant Workers have been detained in malaysia the group says they were rounded up during raids in kuala lumpur they live in areas where covert 19 cases spight last month triggering claims that foreigners are spreading the virus and being a burden on Government Resources malaysia doesnt formally recognize refugees regarding them as Illegal Immigrants the armed group i saw in the Sinai Peninsula has claimed responsibility for an attack on an Egyptian Military convoy it happened on thursday in the city of the northern sinai the army says its since killed 2 suspects funerals have been held for the Army Personnel who died in the attack the Egyptian Government said 10 were killed or injured but hasnt provided clarification those are your headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after risking it all i will see you very soon thanks for watching for the moment of. 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