A 2nd night in intensive care Boris Johnsons condition is said to be stable. Rouhani opens its doors again weeks of lockdown now over in the chinese city which 1st reported the coronavirus. The us president has criticised the World Health Organization for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic donald trump has accused the agency of being china centric but is threatening to cut funding trumps attack on the World Health Organization comes as the u. S. Recorded nearly 2000 covert 19 league deaths in the last 24 hours according to the Johns Hopkins tracker more than 4000 people have now died in new york city alone. That is the largest single day increase. And we talk about numbers but that 731 people who we lost behind every one of those numbers is an individual is a family is a mothers and fathers a sisters a brother so a lot of pain. Again today for many new yorkers and there are no thoughts and prayers. France has become the 4th country to register more than 10000. 00 deaths the government there is expected to extend a lockdown thats been in place since mid march to try to stop the spread of the virus and britains Prime Minister remains in intensive care for a 2nd dies or is johnson has been given supplementary oxygen but is not a ventilator is said to be in good spirits well have more on that in just a few moments but 1st lets go to mike hanna who joins us live from washington d. C. Starting mike with the President Trumps threats to withdraw funding from the World Health Organization why. Not indeed yes said he made the threats initially in a series of tweets in the course of the day and then doubled down on the threats during the daily coronavirus a news briefing very unclear as to why hes actually doing it on this particular day it does appear that he was infuriated by the fact that the w. H. O. Criticized him for instituting a flight ban from china to the United States back in january that w. H. O. Recommending that International Travel should be allowed to continue but this is what President Trump at to say they actually criticized him disagreed with my travel ban at the time i did it and they were wrong theyve been wrong about a lot of things and then a lot of information early on they didnt want to do very they seem to be very china centric. And we have to look into that so were going to look into it we pay for people majority of the money that they get they called it wrong they call it. A really they missed a call they could have called it months earlier they would have known and they should have known and they probably didnt like the president has also claimed that he hadnt seen a memo sent by one of his advisors in late january warning of a potential coronavirus pandemic. Indeed that was economic adviser Peter Navarro who 1st sent a memorandum to the National Security council if the end of january in it he warned that as many as 600000 americans could lose their lives in the coming a pandemic and that the economic costs could be some 6. 00 trillion dollars he then sent a 2nd memorandum a month later and included President Trump on the distribution list this time he raised his estimation of the number of deaths to between 2 to 3000000 americans he also specified what medical resources the government should be stocking up on in preparation this included things like a 1000000000 face mass 12000 ventilators 25000 respirators so he provided very very specific figures to the white house sent to the National Security council but clearly President Trump says he just simply did not see those memoranda he did tell the News Conference that he would read them later i was there as mike hanna reporting live there from washington d. C. Mike benefits indeed we can indyk is an expert on global outbreak preparedness but a senior policy fellow at the center for Global Development he joins us now live via skype from washington a good to have you with us jeremy what do you make of the president s comments. Well i think the last thing that either the u. S. Or the World Health Organization needs right now is sort of a fight it doesnt serve anyone i think its a distraction from the need to focus on defeating this pandemic im not sure why the president has chosen to pick this fight right now he spent the last 2 months largely praising w. H. O. And you know in general i think show has been further ahead of the curve in understanding the risk of this than his own administration so i dont think theyre the one to be blamed for the sluggish u. S. Response but is is there any substance to his criticism did the World Health Organization call it wrong and was it china centric. You know no no disease has a nationality virus does not have a nationality and we have seen this virus do very different behave in very different ways in different settings and thats not down to the virus itself its down to how Different Countries have handled the threat. You know the the core information that was needed to understand this risk was available by the end of january and it was available through the World Health Organization it was the World Health Organization through the Emergency Committee that declared a Public Health emergency of International Concern at the end of january that decoration contained information that still you know to this day several months later looks very accurate in terms of the transmissibility and the lethality of this disease so that really should have been all that any country needed to know to take this very seriously and we didnt then in this country begin taking it sufficiently seriously and for another month yet youre a member you know of the World Health Organizations high level independent oversight and Advisory Committee has the World Health Organization in any way penned it to china. Well look the World Health Organization like any u. N. Body is a member state organization they always treat their Member States carefully and thats not just with respect to china they have not been very critical of the United States either so i think saying that china got special treatment is a little well its a little bit of people in glass houses shouldnt throw stones given the state of the outbreak here in the United States you played a role in creating a pandemic playbook of sorts for the white house under the Obama Administration did what was in the playbook and the relevance for today and what happened to the advice within it. Well the advice within it seems to have been mostly disregarded by this administration you know what it contained was a sort of checklist a set of triggers to identify when a disease was posing a risk and when the United States government should begin triggering preparedness and things like coronavirus Novel Coronavirus were specifically cited in there the risk of a respiratory virus with a fission human to human transmission and a significant significant fatality rate was specifically cited in there as a concern and then it listed a number of things that the country should begin to do work on diagnostic testing check the p. P. Supply and make sure p. P. Supplies sufficient begin planning for mass casualty events in our Hospital System you know all of that was in there all of that based on that playbook should have been triggered by the january on the january 30 date when the Public Health emergency of International Concern was declared but that was disregarded and thats why i think it really isnt it really isnt quite right to blame the w. H. O. For our own lack of preparedness had they followed the playbook they would have begun kicking things into gear on january 30th instead what they did was they instituted these travel bans but didnt really focus on domestic preparedness and you know for all the criticism of w h os. Dislike for those travel bans part of that comes from the fact that a travel ban sometimes an alibi allows you to escape doing other things so you know this administration talks up the travel ban but you know they were focused on that instead of focusing where they needed to be which was on domestic preparedness really good story to germany thanks to jeremy can decrypt c. A policy fellow at the center for Global Development. As we reported france has become the 4th country to register more than 10000. 00 coronavirus linked deaths but there has been a decline and intensive care admissions of zeros for bread and takes a look at how france and other european nations are coping. The arrow points down but the sign just caution after 5 consecutive days of fewer and fewer new deaths spain source sharp increase in coronavirus fatalities on tuesday. Nonetheless the rise was attributed to weekend deaths only now being recorded and that overall the trend remains downward spanish firefighters are playing a vital role in support of the medical professionals fire crew volunteers are decontaminating ambulances and other Public Authority vehicles which have been carrying coronavirus patients the most important of this thirst for their the most important thing we can do is give our best to the situation there are many different groups working and the most important are the Public Health workers who are movie month and we must give all we have because were going to win we are going to beat the s. And the french capital paris city authorities are now banned outdoor exercise between the hours of 10 am and 7 pm amid concern that too many people were just using it as an excuse to go outside police are stepping up in force meant. As total french fatalities from the virus past 10000 on tuesday president macro was listening to the concerns of Medical Center staff one detailed how a lack of protective gallons is the main problem here is growing your growth is the most well thought out plan didnt predict that china would be hits a little countries would have the peak at the same time and the protective materials we thought were of no value 6 months or one year ago the most idiotic thing to do and all of a sudden were in trouble the pandemic continues to challenge european democracy and polands right wing government is pressing on with president ial elections next month despite a chorus of public and political opposition the plan still needs senate approval. But there were bitter exchanges in the Lower Chamber yes we pulled it im ashamed that im sharing the palm floor with people like this people who are insensitive to those who are begging for help today mothers fathers entrepreneurs workers who are losing yet another day just for the sake of how donta power coronaviruses generated new respect and affection for the medical staff on the front line of the outbreak and on choose day World Health Day as designated by the w. H. O. Its director general urged more recruitment to address Staff Shortages one of the lessons i hope the world learned from 19 is that we must invest in nurses and midwives without them the world would indeed be in a very dark place right now paul brennan aljazeera. The u. K. s Prime Minister baraks johnson a spending a 2nd night in intensive care as he battles co that 19 foreign secretary dominic robb has stepped in to lead the government says that johnson is stable and if barker reports this is where the most powerful man in britain is on the close observation downing street say the Prime Minister who is 55 is stable and a good spirits he is conscious and does not have pneumonia hes been given oxygen but house and been put on a ventilator as one nearby if needed. The foreign secretary dominic will stand in for jobs when necessary leading the governments daily coronavirus Cabinet Meeting and briefing in downing street hes an experienced politician but hes had little time to prepare it comes as a shock to all of us hes not just the Prime Minister for all of us in cabinet hes not just our boss hes also a colleague and hes also a friend. So all of our thoughts and prayers are with the Prime Minister at this time with kerry and with his whole family and im confident hell pull through because if theres one thing i know about this Prime Minister hes a fighter and hell be back at the helm leading us through this crisis in short order. This was johnson a week after being diagnosed applauding Health Workers for their efforts hes shown persistent symptoms for 2 weeks. Soon after arriving at a hospital he tweeted i went into hospital for some routine tests as im still experiencing coronavirus symptoms i mean good spirits and keeping in touch with my team as we Work Together to fight this virus and keep everyone safe but his symptoms worsened on monday evening there was clearly much more cause for concern. Messages of support have been flooding in for the Prime Minister across britains political spectrum including the newly elected leader of the labor party we will support the government where we can do that but we will challenge the what is necessary but the purpose of the challenge is to make sure that all mistakes that could be put right or things need to happen more quickly that can happen more quickly World Leaders have sent messages of support on twitter with the italian and french president s hoping for a speedy recovery says speaking from the white house donald trump described johnson as a good friend i found. To be a fantastic person just like a fantastic warm strong smart guy he loves his country you see that i mean he fought like like hell for his country and intensive care is big stuff this is a challenging time for johnsons family is beyond say Kerry Simmons is recovering from the virus herself she is pregnant with their 1st child they havent been able to see each other for several weeks johnsons personal battle with the virus has shaken the government and the country just as Scientists Say britain is entering one of the most deadly weeks of the pandemic nieve barkha al jazeera. A weather update next here on aljazeera then voting during the pandemic the u. S. President ial primary in wisconsin goes ahead entre last minute attempt to postpone it failed. It appears on time. Her name is 42 shes 19 years old chippy coronavirus coming up she tells us how. We look like were into a dry spell of weather into southern parts of china at the moment areas of cloud pulling out into the open waters of the northwest pacific fun and right see for japan 20 celsius there in tokyo bay some places of rain just making their way into the far north of japan so we could see some unsettled weather there just pushing into card attempts just struggling to get toward double figures for sapporo west of weather too just around the yellow sea just spinning out of the north of china much colder than it has been recently in beijing at around 11 degrees celsius says that dry weather into southern parts hong kong picking up on the temperatures getting up to around 23 degrees then fine and dry for the philippines over the next couple of days chance of bottle to light showers but majority of the showers there around malaysia pushing down into indonesia some big heat of the day downpours always a possibility and you might well see wanted to shop showers there into india china for type sinking a little further southwards cambodia could see some wet weather maybe even seeing a little bit of weather just making its way across the gulf of thailand southern parts of india are also seeing some rather wet weather lots of plot showing up on the satellite here just around carol are pushing into thermal nardi eventually that wetter weather will just not just wake up and on top of that you might even catch the odd shower in addition. Greece the birthplace of democracy but ethnic turks from the northeast tell a different story the greeks they bounce to control our nation our believe their religious leaders jailed journalists silenced schools closed and a surge in the far right they say that if you dont like police you can vote why im turkish but im also bringing people in power investigates western thrice contested space on aljazeera. The arab. Well again this is al jazeera lets remind you of the top stories this hour the u. S. President has criticized the World Health Organization for its response to the coronavirus pandemic donald trump accused the agency of being too china centric and giving bad advice his comments come as the u. S. Recorded nearly 2000 virus linked deaths in a single day. France become the 4th country to register more than 10000. 00 covert 19 linked countries been locked down since mid march government is expected to extend those restrictions and britains Prime Minister is spending a 2nd night in intensive care or is john snow said to be in a stable condition at a good spirits he was admitted to intensive care on monday evening with persistent virus. Barely 3 months after it was sealed off from the world will harness opened its doors again the chinese city of the 1st reported the corona Virus Outbreak on the 31st of december last year and was put under a lockdown 3 weeks later people can now enter the city and highways and train lines have been opened to traffic the 11000000 residents are now able to leave without specific authorization but they still need an app that tracks the health and movements government figures show that around 80 percent of chinas coronavirus related deaths were in will one aljazeera is katrina us live for us now in beijing how many people have taken the opportunity to get out of town. Tens of thousands of people right now are heading to airports bus stations and train stations to finally leave the city i think more than 50000 people are expected to leave will hunt today by train alone and of course as you mentioned the 1st case of 1000. 00 was found in this city about full months ago and when the lockdown was implemented at the end of january the transit hubs and were. The 1st to be shutdown and of course many families and workers who had trouble to han for holiday or to see relatives for the Chinese New Year they suddenly found themselves stuck in the city and they have been for more than 2 months now and now people are finally able to leave as long as they can prove that they are Healthy People also getting back into their cars for the 1st time since the outbreak began highways and roads are packed and many of people of course also taking the opportunity to drive out of it but this epidemic is still far from over in china there are still more than 1000. 00 people currently being treated the cove of 19 and older many of the people who live in the city in a population of about 11000000 are allowed to move about are allowed to leave theyre all still quite a few who are still confined to their homes for example if you live in rouhani and there is an active covert 19 case to be found in your neighborhood then that residential compound will still be under lockdown but for the most part in most areas that are declared virus free people can move around the have been able to move around for a few days now the subway has been open for about a week many restaurants and malls are open but its still far from normal life. Whoever people go they have to have them mobile phone and they must scan a bar code which allows the authorities to see to track where theyre going to track their activity should a case come out and of course as it is with the rest of china in Public Places you are still expected all strongly encouraged to wear a mask and you will have your temperature checked pretty much everywhere you go. To your reporting live there from beijing to treat a body thanks dude. Main Treatment Center for covert 1000 cases in libya has been attacked by forces loyal to warlord khalifa after several projectiles hit the grounds of the al cultural hospital in tripoli during a day of heavy fighting between after us forces and allies of the un recognized government libya has 20 confirmed infections so far. The un Security Council has called for continued cooperation between the government and the u. N. In the fight against the virus the council was briefed by the head of the uns peacekeeping mission in mali our diplomatic editor james bays reports now from the un headquarters in new york where the Security Council meeting took on a very different look. You end up with this meeting if the question in march. Overt chill meeting of the un Security Council the 15 ambassadors taking part remotely to discuss the situation in mali where violence continues to intensify in the north of the country in the town of bamber at least 25 soldiers from the mali an army will killed in one attack this week on the outskirts of the capital bamako this is a camp for those displaced by the fighting the head of the u. N. Mission in mali is predicting that the impact of covert 19 will make things even harder in the country. Not subject to the. Theyre going to have their quote of the. Positive cases including to. The u. N. Currently has about 15000 peacekeepers serving in mali here and in all the other peacekeeping operations around the globe the u. N. Faces real difficulties soldiers whod normally be relieved and retained to back home are stuck in place for now how worried are you about keeping the peacekeepers that are so needed in place yeah this is a bigger top priority for the u. S. That has been a 3 month trees all rotation since the outbreak of this and i think really give everybody a chance to assess whats happening in to avoid inadvertent and spread is keep the rotation i mean the key is that be un are able to bottom out really quickly was medical services that they can ensure. Are in place for peacekeepers and frankly for country teams start another start the u. N. Has now stopped all troop rotations between now and the end of june because of the spread of covert 19 they have another big worry too there are a swirling rumors that some nations may be considering taking all their peacekeepers home that would be a nightmare scenario if one country did it others may well follow suit james bays ouches era at the United Nations the u. S. Acting Navy Secretary has resigned over his comments about the former commander of a coronavirus stricken vessel Thomas Bartley has been facing growing criticism after firing at that insulting captain breck cross here calling him quote naive or stupid the comments were in relation to a leaked letter crossing a road describing the worsening conditions aboard his Aircraft Carrier more than 200 of his crew members. Tested positive for the virus voting has now ended and the wisconsin president ial primary which went ahead despite the coronavirus pandemic the states is the 1st in the u. S. To hold a major vote stay at home and as we implement it of the voter early went ahead after a loss but it ruling in the Supreme Court results are expected until next week us go live now to chicago zeros john hendra john how many people managed to or even wanted to vote today. Well its unbelievable that so many people actually did hundreds of thousands it seems we wont know the total tally for another week and thats because theyre going to wait that long to count the absentee ballots those come out on april 13th but perhaps the best way to describe this election is chaotic its also been called undemocratic and irresponsible undemocratic because so many people probably did not vote today and irresponsible because the legislature demanded that they go out and vote despite the fact that theres a deadly Global Pandemic which is supposed to be keeping people apart a number of voters express their ire one held out a sign saying this is ridiculous but there is some politics involved so this is a primary election for president ial candidates like joe biden and Bernie Sanders but for all the local officials this is a general election and the Republican Party seemed to be betting that the virus would keep democrats in urban areas home but maybe not so much the republicans who tend to live in rural areas so they push this and they pushed it hard 1st of all the democratic governor tony eve or is issued a declaration just yesterday on monday saying this is not going to go forward its unsafe the state Supreme Court dominated by conservatives said yes it will you dont have the authority to do that and then the u. S. Supreme court just now. Hours later came out and said in fact all the votes have to be counted on tuesday and they have to be postmarked by tuesday a Previous Court had said that they could come in as late as the 13th because the virus has gotten worse and a lot of people didnt know that they needed those mail in ballot but the bottom line is a lot of peoples votes might not be counted 1300000 people asked for them as of this morning fewer than 900000 had actually turned them in or out so the results are not expected until next week to what extent though is the place the president ial primary a full grown conclusion. Well we arent supposed to know what the vote tally is for another week but i can tell you to be a bit of a spoiler that joe biden was leading by 20 points in most polls and a lot of people are wondering if this means that Bernie Sanders is going to end his participation in the race wisconsin wont be a decider its got a little over 80 pledged delegates by needs 1901 hes nowhere near that all the hundreds a head of Bernie Sanders. But this could just put him that much more ahead in there could be enough Party Pressure on Bernie Sanders to cause him to bail out but hes been stubborn in the past i wouldnt count him out i was there as john had reporting live from chicago john many thanks indeed. Thousands of afghans living in pakistan are streaming home across the border. And its been closed as part of the effort to stem the spread of the virus but the pakistani government has reopened it just a few days after a request by afghanistan and the Afghan Government to set up a team center close to the crossing thats causing concern among local residents about the possible spread of coronavirus among your old new york up who beat coronaviruses offering advice on surviving the disease. Its 2 years on im. Fortunato which means lucky and italian becomes feeling ill on march 13th and was rushed to hospital 3 days later she was discharged after 2 weeks. Hospital they said i was a miracle maybe i was but i work at it let me tell you something i am childish but you know what its positive thinking keep on fighting. At it chilled and pray and get out of bed dont stay in bed all the time even if c h a i get them over a little and i want to say to them if i do you can go and. Its good to have you with us hello adrian for going to hit doha the headlines on aljazeera the us president has criticised the World Health Organization for its response to the coronavirus pandemic donald trump accused the agency of being too china centric of giving bad advice his comments come as the us recorded nearly 2000 virus link deaths in the last 24 hours according to the Johns Hopkins truck they actually criticised in disagreed with my travel ban at the time he did it they were wrong theyve been wrong about a lot of things. Theres a lot of information early and they didnt want to do very they seem to be very china centric. We have to look into that so were going to look into it we pay for it give a majority of the money that they get they called it wrong they call it wrong they really they missed a call they could have called it months earlier they would have known and they should have been and they probably didnt francis become the 4th country to register more than 10000 covert 19 links deaths the countrys been in lockdown since mid march the government has expanded to be expected to extend those restrictions the u. K. s Prime Minister sent spending a 2nd night in intensive care Boris Johnson is said to be in a stable condition he was admitted to hospital on sunday with persistent covered by teams. Every 3 months sealed off from the world will heart has opened its doors again the chinese city 1st reported the corona Virus Outbreak or 31st december last year it was put on the lockdown 3 weeks later the 11000000 residents are now able to leave without specific authorization but they still need an app for the trucks that health and movement the main Treatment Center of a covert 1000 cases in libya has been attacked by forces loyal to the Border Collie for half the several projectiles hit the grounds of the hospital in tripoli libya has 20 can fund infections so far voting has ended in the wisconsin president ial primary which went ahead despite the coronavirus pandemic the vote early went ahead after a last minute ruling in the Supreme Courts results arent expected until next week as the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera off to rewind next. Join me Steve Clemons on the bottom line for your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society im changing but the institutions frequently dont the system itself is set up to benefit those who understand people who actually believe things that are not true that is a crisis for democracy is a crisis of concentration the bottom line on aljazeera. Hello and welcome to rewind this week where rewinding to 2011 and an episode of want to one east which had secured unique access to north koreas elite Screen Academy a school where young actors were trained in how best to