Insects that threaten the populations are arrive in the u. S. For the 1st time. The trump administrations handling of the coronavirus pandemic is coming under scrutiny once again with accusations that it looked for quick fixes by rushing unproven drugs to patients but right the former head of the u. S. Agency responsible for developing drugs says that included untested doses of a malaria treatment which has been pushed by President Trump that comes as trump has announced hes winding down the governments Coronavirus Task force he says it plans to create a new team that will focus on safety as well as reopening the economy. And the top u. S. General says its still not clear where the virus emerged from and it definitely wasnt manmade now thats in stark contrast to secretary of state might pompei up whos repeatedly claimed that there is significant evidence covert 19 came from a Chinese Laboratory mike hanna is joining us now from washington d. C. Mike lets talk about this report 1st of all just talk us through what the allegations are. Well its a substantive report 89. 00 pages which is gone to the office of the special counsel who is the forum for any whistleblower complaint and its certainly the most senior official to make such a complaint or at least publicly make such a complaint the shock to pry it was in fact the head of the by a medical advance research and development or thorough t. Thats known as barter he was sidelined a few weeks ago after he repeatedly protested the unauthorized use as you sword or the unauthorized cutting of the drug. Sick or chloroquine for the treatment of the coronavirus now he was adamant that this was not acceptable because it had not been properly approved by the f. D. A. This is going up against President Trump who at that stage was touting. Quinn and the drug itself as an asset in terms of the treatment of coronavirus but dr pride goes further in his complaint he says as well that in january he sent a large number of emails reporting of the imminent threat of the pandemic reporting that the National Stockpile of masks of ventilators simply wasnt sufficient he says there was strong pushback from within the health and Human Services department against these warnings he making very clear that something needed to be done health and Human Services and the secretary of that department he says push back against any of these claims so certainly these are very significant complaints made to the office of the special counsel and within the last few hours weve learned that congress is now taking an interest in this report the attorney for dr bright as confirmed that he has been invited to give evidence to a house subcommittee in the coming week. Mike theres been a lot thats been coming out of washington today because as i mentioned before were also hearing from a general whos saying that there doesnt appear to be any substance of evidence that the the the covert 19 disease started in china which kind of undercuts what the u. S. Secretary of state might bump ayos been saying. Indeed yes and it also undercuts what the president has hinted that repeatedly that there was some form of nefarious action on the part of the chinese authorities President Trump only last week saying that he had evidence that this was the case but refusing to give any details of what particular evidence that was well this has been denied point blank by the countrys foremost very logical expert Dr Anthony Fauci who in an interview with the National Geographic magazine said there was no evidence whatsoever and indeed very little possibility that the virus could have been developed in a laboratory that is genetically synthetically made by human hands all that it escaped in some way from a laboratory he said every point of evidence Scientific Evidence indicates that this was a virus that jumped from a nature into the human that it was a species just as weve seen with other viruses such as a bowler or swine flu in the past dr party making very very clear his position as a scientist that this was not manmade it was not artificially conceived it did not somehow escape from a Chinese Laboratory it did as all the Scientific Evidence points out to job species essentially passing from some animal perhaps a bat to a human being so this is basically contradicting the secretary of state and contradicting the president of the United States who has not withdrawn his unconfirmed or unsubstantiated allegation about the origin of the virus mike hanna live for us in washington d. C. Mike thanks very much indeed i want to bring in a Lincoln Mitchell hes an associate Research ScholarColumbia University news joining us from new york we appreciate your time so thank you very much i want to talk to you about these allegations that are being made that the trumpet ministration had been looking for quick fixes in its fight against the coronavirus is it not understandable that any government that is essentially playing catch up as the disease spreads as so many governments have been doing would want to try to push any sort of solution as quickly as possible. Well it is natural for the government to want to act quickly to save lives but it also would be wise for the government to ground that in science and when the scientists are saying this isnt going to work to continue to push it doesnt really make any sense similarly when going back the scientists no other experts are warning the government this is an important problem we should begin to focus on it ignoring that is not why it is true that the American Government is playing catch up but the extent to which theyve had to play catch up is largely or significantly their own making problem of their own making how concerning is it do you think that the checks and balances that would normally exist in terms of testing new drugs as they are or repurposed drugs as they come on to the market seem to have being at least in theory so easily countermanded well to some extent this is a rather extraordinary crisis in the United States and even more so than in most countries so one would want to speed up the process but one would also want to do it in a way that is medically and scientifically sound one of the kind of underlying problems here is that for the Republican Party ignoring science ignoring scientific realities when they create economic or political problems is part of the d. N. A. Of the party so a party that has built its support on the obvious example of the door to Climate Change its not hard to pivot and ignore the scientific realities of the pandemic and thats what weve seen here and a lot of what dr bright a whistleblower complaint is about are demonstrates is the extent to which the government at the higher levels is committed not to solving the problem but to keeping donald trump happy today keeping him happy tomorrow and thats not a way to address a very major problem thats when the economy is moving along smoothly and theres no pandemic its not ideal but its not disastrous and at the moment that. Were seeing of course the u. S. Economy trying to reopen in many states across the country there is of course the risk that there is going to be as a result a 2nd wave what do you think the chances are we might be in a similar situation again if a 2nd wave doesnt arrive and the numbers are at least as bad as the ones that were seeing at the moment. Well what were seeing with the pandemic and this is globally but also if you look at different cities the United States is that while it is possible to get ahead of the problem and minimize the damage in terms of lives lost and illness once you fall behind its very very hard to catch up again theres no city in america where that more clear here than new york and new york city where i am now and this disk urge to reopen america not just before its ready because some parts of the country does make sense to reopen america but without having a plan in place without having done the testing without having done the tracing well that have been planned to do all of the things is almost guaranteeing a 2nd wave and unfortunately there are many parts as bad as its been in new york we have hospitals and frankly we have some very good hospitals here rule america is under served by hospitals and other Health Care Facilities so if this pandemic get to those parts of the country the death rate could be very high so we have already seen within the last few days that the official estimates from the trumpet ministration are twice what they were a couple of weeks ago and i see that that number could rise and those arent abstract those are lives every number there is a life lost a family disrupted a family you know devastated and thats a very real thing and right now. The republicans are saying 125000 which they still are seen in the past means probably more deaths than that so i think were moving too quickly we need to think about rebuilding not reopening america this isnt a game of freeze tag where you just blow the whistle and everything goes back to normal no matter what donald trump or any governor or any citizen want to get your thoughts on this Lincoln Mitchell thank you very much indeed thank you my pleasure. Russias report of the largest number of new delhi cases in europe a total infections not exceeding 850003 health stuff who complained about working conditions a falling out of windows and died nothing bug reports. Digging graves instant petersburg russia 2nd city for victims of covered 19 a scene thats becoming more common on tuesday the country reported the highest number of new coronavirus cases in europe and now there are disturbing questions over Health Workers whove raised the alarm about their working conditions there after. This video on twitter shows dr alexander should lead off on the left and a colleague is explaining how she had been forced to keep working despite having covered 19 the colleague had previously criticised the Hospital Management for protective gear shortages and was questioned by police for allegedly spreading fake news but another video made 3 days later apparently of the hospital seems to show shula pove by now being treated for the virus retracting their complaints. I feel right my temperature is not rising why did the this a thing to mattick have a runny nose otherwise all is well what we said was said when we were high on emotions. On saturday according to local state television quoting Health Officials shilpa fell from a 2nd floor window at the hospital hes now reportedly in a Critical Condition in intensive care after suffering skull fractures the same sources say hes the 3rd russian doctor to fall out of a window in the space of 10 days the 2 others died all 3 incidents which are being investigated by Law Enforcement or thirtys have prompted intense discussion in russia about whistleblowers in the Health System everywhere we have a lot of problems then are a lot. Of hospitals and. Enough. Doctors we dont have enough lets we dont have enough equipment. Across russia the number of recorded covered 1000 cases stands at more than 155000 officially the diseases killed almost 1500 people mostly remains the countrys worst hit region accounting for more than half of new cases and here 90 percent of patients are younger than 65 several cities remain on lockdown and while much of europe looks to ease restrictions the russian government says theyll stay in place until theres a vaccine. Aljazeera britain has overtaken italy to have the highest number of coronavirus deaths in europe more than 32000 people have now died but i dont know how experience from london figures dont tell the full story. The numbers by direct compassion dont tell us all that much what they do though is fuel questions which are being asked here almost every day of the government now or quite why this country appears to have been so ill prepared for this epidemic having had a good couple of weeks to look at with horror at the time of course what was happening in italy a country that had far less time to prepare and also a wider questions about quite why western countries in general in europe and in the United States were far less prepared or appear to be than Asian Countries take south korea for instance after all of this only recording just in excess of 250 deaths from coronavirus so they feel all the questions they dont necessarily provide very much of where votes British Public are looking and listening all the time to pronouncements from government in the Daily Briefing and elsewhere from scientists and so on about when and it might be appropriate to start lifting the lockdown thats been in place in this country and others there looking of course at the reproductive rate of the infections from cocoa covered 1000 looking for that to remain below one this famous are figure the number of people that carries with corona virus infect it is currently below one but not sufficiently below want to give them much wiggle room but theres an enormous amount of pressure from industry for business on the government to restart the economy the war is that if you go too far down the road in terms of saving lives you end up going too far down the road in terms of being able to save the economy and that ultimately that causes more problems than it helps down the lines still ahead and al jazeera this is different this is this is going to be challenging for us to come back. With most air traffic grounded to really look at the impact on airport workers in the u. S. Plus president tom denies the u. S. Is behind a failed coup in venezuela despite the capture of 2 americans. Had its been a stormy few days for particular states and im thinking of tennessee arkansas and the Southern States least in all half and the latest lot of thunderstorms have been producing pretty big hail i havent seen too as reporter but they are quite possible but its a dying system now on its way out doesnt mean youll be the last we see of it but for the time being the focus of wednesdays quite fine 29 degrees in dallas is still pretty hot down in phoenix of 42 degrees and still something of a heat wave going on Desert Southwest morays coming into the far north but were not talking about california here were talking beyond the still British Columbia mind you now take you ahead to thursday the next system is thinking about developing the temperature contrast is great so there will be such big storms but nonetheless were talking about more than storms as we have been seeing recently in places like honduras and el salvador the white top cloud here do they have to be repeated if anything heavy showers or more like to be in mexico during wednesday and is increasing chance in eastern cuba maybe jamaica haiti and the bigger republican thats true for not just wednesday but also quite possibly thursday where the mexico the showers could be even bigger as you can see. In countries like mine people have been killed because we in the United States have privatized the ultimate Public Function look this was a deal with saudi arabia things were done differently saudis other arabs when they came to britain for be all to help to pass bombs deals along you will rumsfeld this meeting saddam isnt that interesting. Shadow on aljazeera. Oh oh oh. What you all just a reminder of our top stories this hour the top administrations handling of the pandemic is coming under scrutiny once again with accusations from a former top official that it looked for quick fixes by rushing unproven drugs to patients. Russia has reported the largest number of new daily cases in europe with total infections now exceeding 150003 health stuff who complained about working conditions have died after falling out of windows. Britain has overtaken italy to have the highest number of coronavirus deaths in europe more than 32000 people have now died in the u k. India is launching one of the Worlds LargestInternational Repatriation missions flights to 13 countries will start on 1st aid of warships have already been deployed to bring back hundreds of thousands of workers stranded overseas. Reports. There are an estimated 70000000 indians who Work Overseas now some of those who desperately want to return home will be able to. Have gone to the Indian Government has given the go ahead to bring back indian citizen stock abroad the travel will be done either by airplanes or naval ships all flights into india was suspended in late march because of the coronavirus pandemic since then those affected by the restrictions have been vocal in calling for a change of policy if you look at the difficult uploading the missions and the peace because they have been flooded by these indians what in saying that the. Other countries have been thinking oh that is an act why arent you bringing us back no so this is basically a type of dignity in. The Indian Government says arriving passengers will be screened segregated and quarantined but critics are warning the virus may still spread. According to the information from the Central Government people be put on a plane without testing 1st with or they have coronavirus this is dangerous a plane has more than 200 people if one or 2 have the virus all the passengers will be in trouble the civics the whole country and raises the possibility of the disease spreading further. There are also concerns that poorly paid migrants may not be able to afford a ticket home which could cost the equivalent of more than 200. 00 from the gulf and more than a 1000. 00 from the u. S. To go good look at subsidizing our own beast to get specially for people who get 95 to be people who do not have the economic ability of buying but use of ticket home is estimated there are up to a 1000000 indians waiting to go home in what will be one of the Worlds LargestInternational Repatriation missions Victoria Gate and be al jazeera. Well paid airport workers across the u. S. Have been hit hard by layoffs with flights grounded juta the pandemic theyre facing years of Financial Hardship others on the 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 high risk. At this had. Cost her i didnt want to do it so when people come out all across the were no matter who we meet get it turn around were being. 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 that. Folks are buying. 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 were 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 canceled and of the 165 permanent airports 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 airports. 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. Philadelphia coronavirus lockdowns an african countries have been particularly devastating for those who rely on the informal economy more than 80 percent of zimbabweans and their living from it but markets have been shut and the use of public tax is suspended since the end of march and mozambique small scale farmers account for almost all of the countrys agriculture theyve been forced to drop prices as working restrictions cut off labor and in south africa undocumented migrants have been excluded from receiving Financial Aid or food parcels. Is a political a social commentator in johannesburg and he explained some of the challenges people are facing in the initial implementation of the lockdowns a lot of people who through the cracks and werent able to get access to any Financial Aid. Able to get access to food. So. A lot of people left in a situation where they couldnt work and they couldnt get any. And they were just facing a hopeless you know its a bit better now but but the problem is that some countries cant afford to actually provide the sort of a thats required at the moment and i think governments have had to sort of walk back on a few things and they have been trying to accommodate as many people as possible but its still a very very difficult situation because not not even is in an ideal situation to get enough food who are to get enough Financial Aid were indeed just to get that aid because they are people who are in a position where it cannot work. And it looks as if they contacts and aid and they just have to fend for themselves so that they are people who are actually in a situation where. They just court and this no mans land where they have to make do with whatever they had whatever they have at the moment. Don thomas denying any u. S. Involvement in what venezuelas president calls a coup attempt Nicolas Maduro says americans are among 13 people arrested as part of a plot to kill him Opposition Leader also denies involvement john holmes has more. 2 americans captured along with 11 others after a failed on the incursion into venezuela they tried to get him by sea but the plan floundered off the coast 8 were killed according to the venezuelan government minister lionels this man said he do. Jordan good drove a u. S. Sick special forces Soldier Turned security contractor he was aiming to topple Nicolas Maduro together with a few dozen ex members of venezuelas armed forces something 100 hours a daring and 5 u. S. Raid was launched from the border of colombia deep into the heart of caracas our men are continuing to fight right now by drew himself claimed that his long time enemies were behind it. Yesterday sunday made venezuela face down and attempted maritime incursion from terrorists mercenaries that were trained in colombian territory and financing and support from the United States and the current colombian government on tuesday President Trump dismissed that nothing to do with our government the venezuelan government also claimed that Opposition Leader white though recognized by more than 50 countries as venezuelas legitimate leader was in on the plot he also roundly denied that saying this was a ploy to distract from the countrys many problems. There will be chaos and they want to hide it they want to hide the lack of gasoline in the main cities and want to hide the struggle of hundreds of thousands of in of swale and here they are the fisherman protesting again asking for the rights to make a living to buy gasoline to feed their families when dura is chaos the opposition say they fear this will be used to persecute them. And the door administration. He is deploying 25000. 00 security personnel to search for anyone else involved but he said im probably going to hes under pressure himself not just internally but increasingly from u. S. Officials who slapped a 50000000. 00 bounty on his head or narco terrorism charges. Were real that the incursion was it does give his government Something Else to talk about john homan aljazeera. Cambodias political rivals have held a rare meeting but officials around them say the 2 avoided discussing politics opposition figure came so how went to pay his respects at the Prime Minister who sends home after his mother in laws death so his facing Treason Charges over a video showing him talking about receiving advice from u. S. Prodemocracy. Honey bees are in decline in the u. S. And now a deadly species of hornet is threatening to wipe them out completely and gallacher reports. Theyve been described as hornets from hell and with good reason the giant asian hornet is about the size of a much box its sting can penetrate a beekeeper suit and they kill around 50 people a year in japan in december the Washington State department of agriculture verified 2 sightings of the hornet reports of honeybee colonies being destroyed soon followed their one of the largest hornets that we have on planet earth and so thats what makes them so unusual and makes them so striking. To people and they do not occur here its thought the hornets were either deliberately released or arrived to stowaways on International Cargo they become active in the spring and Scientists Say just 15 of these giants can destroy an entire colony of 30000. 00 bees in ours their habit of devouring native honey bees is now a real concern our biggest fear is that it will actually impact small beekeepers and maybe drive another business and raise costs a larger just something we dont want to see plans are now in place to begin trapping and killing the whole is before they established themselves as a dangerous Invasive Species for years now bees of being dying at record rates impacted by Climate Change disease and pesticides the Agricultural Industries already been fighting a battle to keep healthy colonies alive now theres a new threat according to the department of agriculture one in every 3 mouthfuls of food is in some way a product of b. Pollination crops like apples blueberries and cherries all rely on these Scientists Say this new threat needs to be tackled before its too late pollination is a huge part. We have here in the United States and so if this were to become well established and then start spreading it could be pretty catastrophic members of the public a being warned not to approach the hornets if they see the. For now theyre confined to the remote northwest of the United States stopping them spreading further is now a priority to gallacher aljazeera. This is our visit with these are the top stories of the trump administrations handling of the pandemic is coming under scrutiny once again with accusations from a former top government scientist that it looked for quick fixes by rushing unproven drugs to patients that included doses of a malaria treatment which has been pushed by President Trump mike hanna has more from washington d. C. Talked to bright was in fact the head of the buy a medical advance research and development or authority thats known as barter he was sidelined a few weeks ago after he repeatedly protested about the un authorize uses the sword or the unauthorized touting of the drug. Chloroquine for the treatment of the coronavirus now he was adamant that this was a not acceptable because it had not been properly approved by the f. D. A. This is going up against President Trump who at that stage was touting the. Chloroquine and the drug itself as an asset in terms of the treatment of coronavirus russia has reported the largest number of new daily cases in europe with total infections now exceeding 150003 health stuff who complained about working conditions and died after falling out of windows but it has overtaken easily to have the highest number of coronavirus deaths in europe more than 32000 people in the u. K. Have now died from covered 19. Indias launching one of the Worlds LargestInternational Repatriation missions flights to 13 countries will start on thursday or warships have already been deployed to bring back hundreds of thousands of workers stranded overseas due to Coronavirus Travel restrictions donald trump is denying any u. S. Involvement in what venezuelas president calls a coup attempt Nicolas Maduro says americans are among 13 arrested as part of a plot to kill an Opposition Leader who also denies any involvement or best analogy its one on one east. We understand the difference is the similarities of cultures across the wound so no matter how you take. Out 0 for the news and current affairs. Down to 0. With its tropical climate Natural Beauty and traditional culture thailand has long been a popular tourist destination. But now there is another reason drawing people here a Quiet Revolution in caring for the elderly the care system for elderly people in europe its not working anymore and its going to be a problem. In the west Horror Stories of abuse and neglect in care homes not to mention rising costs are driving families to look for alternatives forcing many to make difficult decisions i got even