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Thank you very much for joining us its being called a powerful and inspiring show of solidarity World Leaders and donors have pledged 8000000000. 00 for research into a vaccine and treatment for the coronavirus they promised a cash injection during a Video Conference on monday but the United States where almost 70000 people have died didnt take part join a whole reports. Coronavirus is a way so the world must find ways to live with it better ways of testing for it more effective ways of treating it most importantly eventually a vaccine against it. The practice on many the goal is one to defeat this virus and virtual pledging conference aims to channel billions of dollars into the Global Response its not just about pouring money into research but also about pooling resources and expertise for the common good. Measure of sense and. If were really. Now. Why. The u. S. Isnt involved and while china is offering to help there are concerns the worlds Top Economists already had political loggerheads may engage in a vaccine war donald trump has already claimed a vaccine is just months away scientists point out that even if a vaccine is discovered in months itll be a lot longer than that before its up and available to the billions wholl need it which is why its so important to find drug treatments that work in the meantime both are central to the funds being pledged and both are at advanced stages of trialing and research here at the university of oxford professor Martin Landry is leading the Worlds Largest Clinical Trial into coronavirus drug treatments a project called recovery hes hoping to find an existing drug or combination of drugs that works to save lives well before a vaccine becomes globally available. I think your is probably too strong i dont think theyll be a single drug that suddenly wipes out clone a virus but i think effective treatments are in sight and theyre critical theyre critical because patients are dying today and tomorrow and the day after and even with the best will in the world 18 months off having a scaled up vaccine at best we need treatments that deal with the problem of now. Only in europe and parts of asia are there real signs of an infection slowdown globally new cases of covert 19 are being reported at more or less the same rate as they were a month ago he has a greatest for the developing world where social distancing is an adequate and possible the greatest hope lies in a global effort against a global threat jonah how aljazeera oxford. Scientists in iran are ramping up efforts to find 19 with a focus on new locally produced testing kits iran was one of the hardest hit countries in the early stages of the pandemic and faced criticism void still responds by daily deaths have fallen to their lowest level in wakes and now growing signs of recovery. Report from tehran. In laboratories like this all over the world scientists are trying to answer the same questions how can covert 19 be stopped is there a cure when will this Global Crisis be over at the Pasteur Institute into one iranian experts are working with chinese colleagues to try and improve testing for the virus something that has been a challenge since the early days of the outbreak so im coming here for just habits and to. Condense on training and to how it used to test because you would see all the dots here but it has to if you please stop im sorry our interview with a visiting expert was cut short by security. I mean you know about the government here has been criticized for responding too slowly to the pandemic and it seems officials and remain sensitive about anything related to its coronavirus response. Set up in 1920 the campus into herat is named for french scientist Louis Pasteur a 19th century pioneer of modern medicine this institute runs dozens of labs and employs hundreds of staff across the country the government Hopes Research and development here will enable iran to export diagnostic kits and medical equipment this facility is nearly 100 years old and one of the largest of its kind in the middle east for years scientists in these kinds of labs have been fighting all manner of diseases Infectious Diseases and now their priority the inskeep a priority for these men and women is to try to find a way to fight covert 19 why is the virus more severe in some patients does it mutate and can survivors develop immunity. Answers to these questions and the discovery of a vaccine in a place named after a pioneer in the field would be an Outstanding Achievement and the head of the institute made it clear that is the ambition. Were working on producing the Technical Knowledge for a vaccine and focusing on medicine and treatment to see which medicine could be a good candidate for curing the disease but on the day of our visit irans president was more guarded in an address to his cabinet house and rouhani was clear there have been no breakthroughs social distancing is the best policy and everyones in this for the long haul. Know about face on the assumption that the us i mean unfortunately remain these people for some time and nobody can predict when this epidemic be days weeks or months you have to have the house protocols of continuing Work Production and activities. Comes to corona people have to be general there is no treatment no medication or vaccine for it so fundamental thing is to be careful about ourselves while finding a cure is the end goal testing is also important last month the revolutionary guards unveiled a handheld device they said was capable of detecting an infected person from 100 meters away but its effectiveness was criticized and Irans Health Ministry did not approve it for use with no easy fixes scientists to carry on with their research how to end the pandemic remains an open question and they intend to find the answer. To her on. Now an International Human Rights School has accused china of discrimination against africans sharing the coronavirus pandemic Human Rights Watch says students living in gonzalo were forcibly tested for the virus and quarantined some were evicted from their housing the provinces home to the launches African Community in china beijing has rejected the accusation saying the u. S. Is trying to harm its relations with african nations. Is a china researcher at Human Rights Watch she says africans in china have long experience Racial Discrimination a lot of africans i spoke in one show they told me that they have already they had already been tested in active however they were still taken to the hot hotels to be or indeed and during the crime they were texted a negative again after they were released after 14 days that they again got carter to get tested so there was no reason this is a completely discriminatory and the racist Research Shows that. There are many documented and the government i think is trying to use discovery in 1000 as a way to you know check who are undocumented as a way to try to get you know them to out of china basically 2 things one is to force to quarantine and force the testing i think of this is concentrated in one show and this is done by the government and theres another issue which is a lot of africans experience discrimination. And on a daily basis and i could be in turn away by restaurants to turn away by hotels shops mosques i think this is widespread it does is not just in business you know across the country and people have racist attitude and racist behavior towards africans in china. In the United States is still a strong push to get back to business despite alarming new predictions on coronavirus casualties already its a worse hit country with effort of the walls total cases but a report seen by the New York Times suggests the number of deaths each day will double by the end of the month political gain has a details the numbers are just hard to grasp a new assessment from the federal Emergency Management agency leaked to us media says the United States will have 200000. 00 new coronavirus cases every day by the end of this month and as many as 3000. 00 dead every day by june 1st but now the focus is on plans to reopen the economy california allowing some retail and manufacturing a new york making plans to move forward you open businesses 1st that are most essential and pose the lowest risk ok most essential and the lowest risk. Phase one were talking about construction manufacturing and select retail with curbside pick up they are the most essential with the lowest risk the u. S. Senate is back to work despite the fact that its doctor said it didnt have enough tests for the 100 senators they arent planning on taking up legislation just confirmations to executive posts and judges to the bench at the moment the republican leader has scheduled no significant covert related business for the floor of the senate tonight. We will vote on the nomination to the Nuclear Regulatory commission while the senate isnt taking up a new relief package the Treasury Department is trying to find a way to pay for the last ones announcing it would borrow almost 3 trillion dollars and the Supreme Court went to work in a way that it has never done in its history honorable the chief justice and the. Court of the united. It heard arguments on the phone its expected to hear 10 cases over the next 2 weeks the country finding ways to move forward while acknowledging there will likely be a high price to pay for it pedicle aljazeera south korea meanwhile is restarting its professional Sports Leagues as the corona virus infection rates slows down the government is allowing Outdoor Sports starting with the hugely popular baseball or league that fans cannot attend mcbride has more from the stadium in incheon. This is the last practice session before the long awaited start of day one of south koreas face ball season of the season that of course has been delayed by more than a month because of the coronavirus were here at this stadium in incheon thats the home of the s. K. Y. Vns thats in chungs local team who are taking on visitors hand eagles they are down on the diamond at the moment to have a nap at their practice session now it is a long awaited start this has been well over a month that weve waited for the baseball season to get underway and very strict precautions are in place to make sure that all the players are safe a certain amount of social distancing is practiced they are not allowed to do high fives and shake hands also notably for Baseball Players theyre not allowed to lick their fingers that search tricky for the pitchers and also nobody is allowed to spit most notably of all no spectators are being allowed in place of spectators what we have on some parts of the stands are simply painted cutouts of spectators all of them didnt lee and very correctly Wearing Masks but no spectators themselves are allowed in instead people are allowed to see this now thats the important part of this game and the start of the korean season they are supplying a worldwide demand at the moment for live sports south korea is one of the top 3 baseball playing nations in the world of course the United States and japan are ahead of them but in south korea they are the 1st to get their baseball season underway so all of the matches that are being played by the 10 major teams in the Korean Baseball Organization are being staged streamed through the likes of e. S. P. N. To a worldwide audience so that they can get their fix of life baseball when the spectators can come back if that is still. An open question here they are hoping possibly within the next one to 2 weeks to start introducing spectators back into the stands here but even when they do it will be a long time before we have packed stands here they will only be in reduced numbers with empty seats between them. Still ahead on aljazeera this is different this is this is going to be challenging for us to come back. With most air traffic grounded we look at the impacts the Coronavirus Crisis is having on airport workers in the u. S. Last of research by scientists in chile to sniff out the symptoms of the virus. Hello there mostly good clear sunny skies much of the mediterranean calls have the same though further to the north across much of your it is a very unsettled picture plenty of even some heaviest rain but it has been nice for once across into lisbon imports will people enjoying the sunshine the wall and also the same across into dam upgradable Cherry Blossom of course in a very nice sunshine this read more of that certainly in denmark on tuesday could see some rain showers there pushing trolls into the portugal goal that as the spain and then really a very unsettled picture maybe not seep out across much of germany but the rain working its way east was a very unsettled throughout much of Eastern Europe western russia in particular the temperatures not too bad 1000 degrees in moscow on wednesday 21 on tuesday theres another system just waiting in the wings but not making much progress trying to push across into southern and southern regions of the u. K. In time it is not too bad as well beginning to come up of course once the sunshine reappears plenty of sunshine and High Temperatures throughout much of north africa with the mediterranean clear it is clear here as well so people enjoying again the sunshine cooling off in the water and also calling off the horses in the water in ship alaina as a pretty warm here 33 in shipley on tuesday again more this case sunny skies and even hotter on wednesday with a temperature 8 above average. Early tests treats and troops frank assessments why is italy struggling to cope with a number of world powers failure to take really aggressive action it didnt behave you heard informed opinion its going to be much more challenging in a place like he did with his one ventilator 3000000 people indepth analysis of the days global headlines india done enough to nip the spread of the world of ours in the world inside story on aljazeera. The arab. Youre watching aljazeera live from doha with me for the back to brew a recap of our top stories World Leaders and donors have pledged 8000000000. 00 for research into a Coronavirus Vaccine and treatments the e. U. Says it will fund unprecedented Global Corporation in the fight against a virus but the u. N. Is warning the fund is just a down payment as. China has rejected accusations of discrimination against africans living in china during the chrono virus pandemic Human Rights Watch says African Students reported being harassed and evicted from their house and south korea is restarting is a professional Sports League says infection rates slow down a hugely popular Baseball League is a 1st to resume but fans are not allowed to attend the matches. In israel the leaders of local councils in arab towns have gone on strike there demanding compensation for revenue loss as a result of the corner of eyes on demick lets speak to Harry Fossett about this his entire in israel so one of the mayors saying. Well this is a problem which is affecting the whole country in terms of a lack of local tax revenue going to local governments in terms of Business Rates and property taxes and the like but the palestinian israeli mez and responsible leaders are saying that the Government Supports to local councils is not being fairly distributed there is an 800000000. 00 program by the interior ministry to try to help bail out some of these local governments but they argue that the palestinian israeli mez and leaders are arguing that the nissan less than 2 percent of that some 13000000. 00 is coming their way when they are losing 20000000. 00 in revenues every month now there is an argument that the majority of the money is going to be big conurbations where there are bigger industries and bigger revenues to start with but the palestinian israeli leaders are saying that actually even on a proportional basis they are losing out that they need at least some 25 percent of their losses to be made up by the government that only 16 percent is being done so under this current scheme and so theyre going on strike they are protesting they are calling for more saying that they would be able to carry on providing services under these circumstances but Prime Minister has now announced a detailed exit strategy on monday is there any sense harry that the situation is coming to an end. Well certainly that is the guarded message coming from the Israeli Government doesnt you know who said that should that various red lights go back on in terms of infection rates going back up in terms of number of cases doubling again over 10 days various strictures that the restrictions would start to be imposed again but nationwide were expecting balls and markets and gyms to reopen again from the end of this week and a general easing a look at restaurants opening in june parks and beaches also under consideration but the situation in majority palestinian israeli air is remains a little bit different there are concerns about the potentially higher infection rates here than elsewhere there was a lag in testing in these areas the reopening of schools from grades 1. 00 to 3. 00 which was announced and in acted on sunday thats been delayed by at least a week by municipalities such as these and also dont forget its ramadan and so there are extra restrictions to try to stop too much social mixing going on during ramadan so they say that the economic easing that might be happening across the country is also going to be delayed in this in these areas and thats again why they need more Government Support thank you for that harry fox headline for a same time now new zealand has reported no new covered 1000 cases for the 2nd day in a row Prime Minister dressing down our day and joined a meeting of australias cabinet to discuss quarantine free trial between the 2 countries but she says it will be a long time before there are open borders with the rest of the world using and began easing in straits down last week. The advantage we have getting back in troll control of the virus has been to try and get back to some form of humility International Travel wont feel like that for some time but if we can find a way to make it with quit a strike and then that would give a sense of normality if we can make it work neither of us want cases of carpet coming between our countries neither us would want to be in an orbit so i think regardless of our future costs will be looking for ways to do it safely now with most flights grounded low paid apple workers across the u. S. Have been hit hard by ne offs before the pandemic they were fighting for a pay increase now those who remain are facing a Financial Hardship came in elizondo reports from philadelphia. At Philadelphia International airport wheelchairs used to take elderly or immobile passengers to or from their planes in gates sit empty and for the wheelchair attendants many have been laid off or facing difficult choices like Reginald Smith a husband and father forced to choose between possibly contract in coronavirus at the airport and bringing it home to his family or quitting his job knowing it would lead to Financial Hardship he chose his familys health my wife was a high risk. I did have a precaution with her i didnt want. It so when people come out all across the were no matter who we meet a turnaround. A Labor Union Representative says over 600. 00 Philadelphia Airport workers he represents from the Service Employees union have been laid off they were all contract employees hired by 3rd party companies. And you know they seem to be leaving them out entirely you know of the equation and theyre the ones who their wife or son she dropped all that work at philadelphias Airport Passenger traffic has plummeted from 90000 travelers a day to just a few 100 a day. Of the 450 daily flights most have been cancelled and of the 165 permanent Airport Stores less than 10 remain open its unprecedented this is different this is this is going to be challenging for us to come back many airport workers wont be getting their jobs back until people start flying again and airports returned to how they were before the coronavirus pandemic but some experts say that could be as long as 2 years from now empty airports devoid of busy commotion to provide livelihoods to so many people that used to work there gabriels on to. Philadelphia a plane carrying coronavirus medical aid has crashed in somalia killing 6 people on board the countrys transport minister says the aircraft came down in the southern bay region an investigation is underway into the cause of the crotch now scientists in chile have developed a test that could help diagnose coronavirus patients and for a fraction of the price one of the symptoms of 1000 is a loss of the sense of smell on a university in santiago has developed an a roma test kit a latin america tennessee and human has a story. The sweet aroma of a flower a pleasure made possible by our sense of smell which is also one of our least used senses thats why scientists were late to catch on that in a stimulated 80 percent of people who present no obvious symptoms of coronavirus in fact have partial or total unknowns mia many of them have experience just a most. Which is all faction but also fact of fact it got us know of the symptom no car no fever just im not. A fever can be easily detected with a some momentary or thermal graphic camera but not the loss a smell which is highly subjective. Now the school of engineering and center of aroma and tasted chiles Catholic University have developed an objective test to measure it. The kid consists of 6 extremely familiar aromas a person is asked identifies 3 you can fail the test and not be infected but you cant pass if you are says professor and then you can isolate the person that shows some of the. Fact. Corroborate this person hasnt the. Night. We went to try it out so ive always prided myself over having a good sense of smell but now were going to see. Him another horse. So i passed the test and thank god and the amazing thing about this is that its not only very very quick its extremely inexpensive about 0. 30 per test which means that its a very viable alternative in countries that cant afford widespread testing with the with the classic covert 1000 examinations. A Pilot Program is starting this week but already there is widespread interest in using the kids in areas where theres a high probability of infections but if theyre going to get in industries that can start for example like Food Production and mines or hospitals they can tease them frequently and if they dont pass seen them to take the traditional tests to confirm indeed just like having a High Temperature does not mean that you have cold it 19 losing a sense of smell isnt true for the inspection but the smell test does provide a new Early Warning system to help detect those who are spreading the disease without even knowing it. You see in human aljazeera santiago. The formula one race track in mexicos capital will become a temporary covert 1000 clinic the decision came as hospitals in mexico city reported there almost over capacity mexico has confirmed more than 23000 cases in over 2000 deaths. In peru Opposition Leader would you morry has been released from prison after her lawyer argued she risks contracting the coronavirus fujimoris a daughter of former president out better self would you morry and she was jailed in january accused of accepting more than a 1000000. 00 from a Brazilian Construction Firm during her 2011 president ial Election Campaign she denies the allegation. In venezuela president Nicolas Maduro says 600 people have been captured following what he says was a coup attempt the government says the group which included 2 americans arrived by steve both soft the coast of venezuela the u. S. Colombia and Opposition Leader one why do are accused of plotting to kill maduro why deny xian a geisha is and says the raid was organized by the state. In full should not be with only a u. S. Official and a consultant the war in iraq and afghanistan last night reported and showed the contracts signed by the venezuelan opposition which have privatized and prepare an expedition of mercenaries and terrorists trained in colombia to storm venezuela and try to kill me from a Dave Greenfields keyboard player for the british band the stranglers has died after contracting coronavirus. Greenfields joined the band in 1975 which went on to become one of the most innovative in the punk period the 71 year old was known voice distinctive playing style on the hops accord and how orgon. Am. 730. 00 g. M. T. The headlines on aljazeera are World Leaders and donors have pledged 8000000000. 00 for research into a cure on a virus vaccine and treatments the European Union says it will fund unprecedented Global Corporation in the fight against the virus but the u. N. Is warning the fund is just a down payment weve made it today is a defining moment for the Global Community at a time when we are sitting further apart than usual the world has shown it is standing closer together than ever before and in the space of just a few hours we have collectively pledged 7400000000 euros for vaccines diagnostics and treatments and all this money will help kickstart unprecedented Global Cooperation and it will create a truly unique Global Public good. Beijing has rejected accusations of discrimination against africans living in china during the coronavirus pandemic Human Rights Watch says African Students reported being harassed and evicted from their housing the Trump Administration is projecting u. S. Deaths from call that 19 will reach 3000 day by the end of the month thats according to documents seen by the New York Times a number of states are starting to reopen south korea is restarting its professional Sports League says infection rates slow down the hugely popular Baseball League is a 1st to resume but fans are not allowed to attend the games new zealand has reported no new code 1000 cases for the 2nd day in a row Prime Minister just into our day as met its with australias cabinet to discuss quarantine free travel between the 2 countries a plane carrying coronavirus medical aid has crashed in somalia killing 6 people on board somalias transport minister says the pain came down near about dolly in a southern baby chin now the news venezuelas president Nicolas Maduro says city and people have been captured following what he says was a coup attempt the government says the group which includes 2 americans arrives by speedboat sauf the coast of venezuela. Those are the headlines on aljazeera ill be back with more news right after inside story i hope you do stay with us thanks for watching. The whole d. N. A. And there are still even use of people who are subject to the fictions made by the pound limply no way to put all these people their ruling to be choosey children. With back stories this place has become a complete you have to hear all of them and to treat them with something that in respects will live ever return to normal after locked up from asia to europe all countries a cautiously relaxing coronavirus restrictions but is it too soon what are the risks of a 2nd wave of infection this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program. Its now more than 4 months since the corona virus started spreading from china