Let us start with the World Health Organization development. Stephanie, is that funding by president trump, is that funding by president trump, is that funding by president trump, is that a symbol of american withdrawal from leadership or Something Else . It is another example of american withdrawal from Global Leadership but i feel it is a more cynical and political move than that. I think he is trying to shift blame for his mishandling of the crisis onto an International Body and the irony here is that trump himself praised chinas handling of the core of irish crisis back in late january and praised beijings transparency, so it is somewhat ironic that he is now attacking world health for doing that. But the real issue here is that the World Health Organization actually needs to be strengthened during this time ofa to be strengthened during this time of a global pandemic. It is a tiny organisation, relative to the scale of the crisis we are facing, the annual budget is Something Like 2 billion. Italy are to be beefed up, as opposed to undercut. But i think the real issue is how does donald trump respond to this long term if he is able to deflect blame for it on to be World Health Organization . What is the future of the World Health Organization if he gets re elected in november . Health organization if he gets reelected in november . We will deal with the plain issue any moment, but isabel, looking at china, if this is a distancing of Global Leadership, by the us, will china turn round and offer a helping hand to the World Health Organization . It is certainly true that china has missed an opportunity to step into a vacuum vacated by the us president. It could do. I think, vacated by the us president. It could do. Ithink, inevitably vacated by the us president. It could do. I think, inevitably with trump, the us country contribution is the largest but that is because they are assessed and they are assessed on the size of the countrys economy, the us has the biggest economy, and china is next biggest, and then on down the road as we go. But that contribution has been exaggerated by a factor of four or five, and the other interesting thing about the World Health Organization, which i agree is underfunded, but 80 of its funding comes from other contributions, so volu nta ry comes from other contributions, so voluntary cut emissions by states or people like bill gates, who personally pledged hundred Million Pounds to combat the pandemic if you expect. It is a damaging thing that trump has done and one of many. China includes supplement the funding, i china includes supplement the funding, lam china includes supplement the funding, i am not sure that that would be very good for the credibility of the World Health Organization because before this pandemic there were Big Questions around the relationship with china, which are derived largely from the World Health Organization embracing in traditional chinese medicine in 2018, which caused a huge negative reaction in the Global Medical community, and traditional chinese medicine, in addition to being untested in a scientific sense, is also the driver of a huge amount of illicit wildlife trafficking, which comes to the root of this pandemic. That is not a good move and i think china would be well advised not to embrace the World Health Organization too closely at this point. May, white and is out in terms of the International System generally. May but the Un Security Council seems to be missing in action, why is this . The there is a lot of disquiet for months, and so much so that nine members of the ten nonpermanent members of the Security Council finally pushed on eight for the ninth to have the first closed door meeting of the Security Council. Its delay was partly due to the sniping between china and the united states, the two big beasts, the british Prime Minister was ill. But now we have had that one meeting and we discussed two motions, both of them focused on fighting together against the global pandemic, but very little came of it. Stephanie, i am coming back to this question of a retreat from Global Leadership. United states led the creation of these International Organisations 75 yea rs these International Organisations 75 years and it did so because it perceived that an effective multilateral system with it in the leading position was in its own interest. Why do why are things ind iffere ntly interest. Why do why are things indifferently know . It is the us under trump. We have seen him withdraw from international accords, the iran nuclear deal, the Trans Pacific partnership, he has defunded the un, he has paralysed the wto, so it is in keeping with his undermining international institutions. I think there is support in the us for these multilateral institutions and international cooperation, and will find out how big that support is in november won the election happens and whether or not trump gets re elected. But this crisis has exposed and exacerbated a tendency for National Self interest to prevail over multilateral cooperation. We have seen that in the scramble for maths masks, the us tried to get their hands on masks, in asia, germany briefly stopping the exploits of masks, this other scramble over supplies and rea g e nts other scramble over supplies and reagents and swabs. I think it is a broader point that, during times of crisis, there is a retreat to National Interest and undermining international institutions, we have seen that with the eu and i think it isa seen that with the eu and i think it is a route . Over the effect this crisis will have on the eu. The swaddling over the issue of shared debt to battle the coronavirus, the corona bonds, and it is exposing these divisions which were apparent during the eurozone crisis if years ago. I think this need for shared responsibility is even greater no but i think it is a realfight responsibility is even greater no but i think it is a real fight for survival and exposing the weaknesses of these institutions. Isabel, some of these institutions. Isabel, some of our calmest ig zero world, a failure of the g7 and the g20, we heard about the Security Council. It isa heard about the Security Council. It is a world where we simply cannot organise any mulch around multilateralfashion . Organise any mulch around multilateral fashion . organise any mulch around multilateralfashion . I think organise any mulch around multilateral fashion . I think it is almost worse. We had a 620 meeting after the coronavirus became a pandemic at almost nothing came out of it, it was startling. At the root of it, it was startling. At the root of it, it was startling. At the root of it is the Trump Administration pass might retreat that we discussed and this toxic comfort competition with china. Competition with china is inevitable across a numberof with china is inevitable across a number of fronts and existed during the obama administration, but there we re the obama administration, but there were large areas where cooperation was beneficial to both sides and it really flourished. I think in particular with climate change, where they reached a very productive agreement. But i cannot see this changing until after the us election and then again that will depend on the result of the us election. Until then, europe is providing some leadership on some things, but in europe we have Angela Merkel at the end of hertime, europe we have Angela Merkel at the end of her time, we europe we have Angela Merkel at the end of hertime, we have europe we have Angela Merkel at the end of her time, we have mark ron who hasnt made it as a substitute, we have britain in a state of political vacuum macron. It is very difficult to see where it is coming from. Into a vacuum all sorts of negative forces or rush, and we have a screening propaganda aimed at domestic constituencies coming from all sorts of places, particularly the us and china, and in the middle there is a toxic brew of this information and bad actors who simply paralyse the process, so it is not a great situation right now. Let us deal with the sniping of us and china, it is the pandemic almost tended to add proxy and struggle between these two. When the rest of the world live stream the co nsta nt rest of the world live stream the constant sniping between beijing and washington, do they system superiority or do they feel a plague on both your houses . As we have already mentioned, most nations and individuals are looking inwards now, looking at themselves and thinking about their society, trying to get enough masks and ventilators, and the reckoning will come. It is not the reckoning will come. It is not the moment no, but the reckoning will come. What we have seen in crisis in the past is often the tent to affirm peoples release that they held going into the crisis, rather than change them dramatically. If this had been a such a skill, permeated with all our relationships, it will give the job to think about it differently, but already there is a discussion about who could seize the moral high ground. Which was a country that lived beyond its borders. Isabel mounted about the vacuum, we have a surge of power coming out on the engine of world powers with resident macron saying on friday he spoke to president putin and borisjohnson and donald trump and theyre going to try and have another meeting of the five permanent members to discuss a ceasefire. People ask who stood up for others and you asked for michael t be renewed them . People are saying that is allotted scrutiny now, using these unprecedented powers, both in terms of technology and our telephones and tracking, or that end quickly in some democracies . With a day to be limited . Wrote some democracies . With a day to be limited . Wrote leaders some democracies . With a day to be limited . Wrote leaders then, well, when my endless . But already there is some discussion saying, look at president macron, he explores one of the strictest loggers, who is he to criticise others . Strictest lockdown. People are going to exploit this moment to start finger pointing. Let exploit this moment to start finger pointing. Let us exploit this moment to start finger pointing. Let us hope there is less of it than people joining hands to work together. Isabel, take us hands to work together. Isabel, take us back to the chinese situation, they are ahead of the curve in terms of their experience of the worst of the pandemic and coming out the other end. It is hard of getting the they have an authoritative system thatis they have an authoritative system that is a believe in freedom of information, but as far as you can judge, would you think the mentality is going to end up in otherfirms commitment to the system or a set of data becker system . As you rightly say, it is very hard to be definitive about their public opinion, because it is 1. 3 billion people, because also we dont have access to it in a way that we do with other countries. But there was ace window in late january to mid february, a little window, around the death of the man you called out coronavirus and raise the alarm originally and was rebuked by the police. He died, there was a huge outpouring of national feeling. Around that time, chinese censorship seemed to falter. It is normally quite a strict system, but it seemed a little off balance and not sure what to suppress and what not to suppress, did not know what was allowed, and we got a window of two or three weeks where the strength of feeling was pretty impressive and the range of accusations against the authorities was pretty broad. That has been shutdown but my sense is that these memories will linger and one of the reasons that we are seeing this very crude chinese propaganda, fake videos of battalions singing the Chinese National anthem, battalions, battalions singing the Chinese Nationalanthem, battalions, it is aimed at the domestic market and the masses believes you are trying to convey to its own public is china is being admired and loved by the re st of is being admired and loved by the rest of the world because the Chinese Government has dealt effectively with the pandemic and it is trying to suppress all memory of the first month where, lamentably, the first month where, lamentably, the Chinese Government did not act and allowed the epidemic to get out of control. Those two narratives are going to be in competition and will remain in competition long after this is over and one of the negative results of the us and china situation right now is that we are not like it is not going to help us get to the truth of the origin of this pandemic, which we all need to know in order for it to not happen again, or that we know in order for it to not happen again, orthat we reduce know in order for it to not happen again, or that we reduce the chances of it happening again. In the circumstances, that is going to be very difficult. Stephanie, obviously, unlike china, the american citizens do get a vote with their feet in november. Where are they currently . The federal government has shown its weaknesses in responding to this and what youve seen as individual states and their governors are stepping in to fill the void and the vacuum left by Donald Trumps mishandling of the crisis. I think that in many ways. Obviously it will have an effect on the november president ial election and that is what is paramount in donald trump is not mind, behind every decision he takes is all about getting the economy going again so that by november he is in a position to get re elected. But ultimately this strengthens the arguments of the democrats who have argued for things like medicare for all, and i think it has exposed the weaknesses of the rhetoric we have experienced over the past few decades about small government, low taxes, and reveals how important it is to have effective, well funded governments to be able to manage a crisis like this, which we do not have. I think Neither China nor the us have handled this crisis very well and the thing that worries me Going Forward is, if we find that vaccine, which i think we will, if there is a colla pse which i think we will, if there is a collapse in multilateral institutions in this competition between the us and china, who gets the vaccine first . There is going to bea the vaccine first . There is going to be a fight i describe over that and i think that will get very serious. Let us suspend discussion of coronavirus for a few minutes and look at the stories we are neglecting. Lets go to your story that will be talk about it we went coronavirus. I have been keeping an eye on a story which is what is happening in afghanistan, the Unfinished Business of the last time the mortality was, september 11, 2001. United states and the afghan has signed a Historic Deal to end americas ward. Talks have stalled, caliban tasks have escalating, there was an exchange of prisoners this week, far fewer than expected under the deal, but it was if you steps. There is a huge way enough get afghanistan, they are worried that taliban attacks will escalate, the threat looming others coronavirus. That sounds challenging. Isabel, what is your story of the week . Well, my story of the week happened yesterday in hong kong with the arrest of a number of veteran Civil Liberties people, including the lawyer martin lee, who actually helped to draft the basic law at the time of the handover, and apple daily media tycoon, and 17 senior civil protesters, or civil rights campaigners, who had been arrested, and this is a major escalation in hong kong which falls just a few days from the new leader, the new chinese representative in hong kong, advocating a return of the security legislation which kicked off the whole protest in hong kong over the la st whole protest in hong kong over the last 12 months. Under cover of. In attention, china has moved to dismantle the basic law and take out from the scene a number of people who are exemplified hong kongs responsible use of liberty, people like martin lee, id assume under arrest as a shock. And stephanie, what is a story of the week as might obviously i think the us president ial election has been pushed to the back pages because of the coronavirus crisis, it will be dominating news right i. Bernie sanders endorsed joe biden and other democrats are completely unified behind biden. It is going to be the most important election and will decide the uss role in Global Leadership and the use of multilateral institutions. We have only got a few minutes left, what i would like to do is talk around you all about the economics of all of this, because it is id imagine in all of the stores you imagine and it isa all of the stores you imagine and it is a dimension of the virus story. The imf is now talking about the biggest global contraction since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Huge implications for everyone, most of the pier. It is everyone, from Prime Ministers to the people who clean the streets, but it has shone the harshest of lights on the gross inequalities in our society, so it is the workers who basically live from hand to mouth, those who are thrown out of work no. There are societies with no buffer to give them money to hold them over. There has been a lot of attention to migrant workers, millions of them are either being quarantine into places they are likely to get the virus or the abbey told to stay at home and are not getting paid. There are emphasis now in the media on when are we going to get out of the world bank . When can we get back to life as normal . Well, normal wasnt working for most people in the world. The next eight is recovery. Whos going to get the eye watering suitis whos going to get the eye watering sums of the bailout is like what about those who had nothing to begin with and now having less than nothing . It is hard to contemplate but it is going to be savage. Many are saying, let us use this opportunity to reorder the world as we know it so that the inequalities can be caused in terms of the gaps. It isa can be caused in terms of the gaps. It is a huge ask, but we are living in an unprecedented time. Stephanie, an opportunity to cause inequality in the us with the president ial election coming up . Sure. I do think the scale of the economic devastation has not quite sunk in yet and there has been an assumption that we will get back to normal and will have a economic recovery was the virus is contained, but i think this will have last lasting effect on people was bad behaviour. There will be a fear of going out to a fear of spending in restaurants, if you are getting infected again, Savings Rates will rise because of people because i fear for the future, and what youll see is a broad depression in terms of a lack of demand to get the economy moving again. The number this week of china reporting. Ive got to give is about last thought on china on precisely that, because we are on oui precisely that, because we are on our last minute of the programme. Isabel, china its first contractual quarterly in modern history since the death of gemini, a big challenge . A very big challenge. What we would see is a repetition of the. It has left a legacy of debt that has let it drag on the chinese economy. What we would hope to see is china accelerating it progression to green and low carbon. This is a big job creation opportunity and for china to accelerate a transposition it was struggling to make. It could really exert leadership there if it holds to that course. We shall see. Do you all, i wish we had longer but thatisit do you all, i wish we had longer but that is it this week. Thank you for joining us. Thats it for dateline london for this week, were back next week at the same time. Goodbye. However, the best weather has been to the north of scotland, and you can see crb a cloud in the sky. Different story in surrey, there we re different story in surrey, there were some heavy overnight rain and that steadily swept its rate north and east. It is moving to wales as we speak and brought an inch of rain to one or two spots, welcome news to growers , to one or two spots, welcome news to growers, as part of england have not seen rain forfour weeks. It growers, as part of england have not seen rain for four weeks. It will continue to move its weight northwards, grinding a halt over northwards, grinding a halt over north wales and parts of yorkshire, but for much of scotland and Northern England and Northern Ireland it is blue sky and sunshine for the rest of the day. I easterly breeze will make it feel cooler unexposed posts, disappointing under the cloud and rain, but if we get some breaks with some sunshine we may see some higher temps of 50 degrees this afternoon. Overnight, the rain will ease today but we will keep cloud across england and wales, one or two clearer slots across scotland. It is a relatively mild start to sunday. Sunday is straightforward, if we have some cloud in the morning the easterly breeze coming off the north sea will pushit breeze coming off the north sea will push it back to the west and there will be more sunshine coming through into the afternoon and temperatures will be a degree or so up on todays wider, highest values of nine to 18 degrees. High pressure will stay with us for the week, so there is a bit of dry weather in the forecast. With wins coming round in a clockwise direction, the breeze will a lwa ys clockwise direction, the breeze will always come in off the north sea, so it isa always come in off the north sea, so it is a pretty cool source. There is quite a lot of sunshine around on monday and that wind will be quite strong at times and it will bring the edge off of things. Your thermometer, and a little shelter it may read at 20 degrees, but on exposed coasts it will feel noticeably cooler. Not much change as moving to tuesday and wednesday. Plenty of dry weather around, sheltered areas are seeing the best of the sunshine and the warmth. Goodbye. This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Unions representing doctors and nurses in england express concerns about new guidelines allowing the reuse of personal protective equipment. Amidst a global shortage some hospitals in the uk warn they may run out of the equipment this weekend. It isa it is a real disappointment for us that the government has been unable, even after a month, to address this progressively worsening shortage of ppe. President trump angers democrats after tweeting in support of protests against stringent lockdown measures in three democrat run us states. Doctors injapan are warning the countrys medical system