Has reported a records rise in new code with 19 infections for the 4th day there were all tally now heading towards 25000. And south koreas governing party makes huge gains in the 1st National Elections be held during the pandemic. And in sport californias governor believes the chances of a sporting events taking place in the next few months. Gavin newsome believes Mass Gatherings in his state wont be possible for months. Its 10 g. M. T. And we start in washington d. C. Where donald trump has halted u. S. Funding for the World Health Organization the u. S. President. Is accusing it of mishandling the outbreak and failing in its tootsies he also says the agency covered up how the virus was spreading out of china well the u. S. Is the biggest donor to the w. H. O. Contributing their 15 percent of its budget mike hanna reports from washington. And what has become a pattern president trying to use his podium to parade reporters if you keep talking ill leave and you can have it out with the rest of these people if you keep talking im going to leave and you can have it out with them yes just allowed me to introduce a number of prominent members of big business the Construction LaborWorkforce International union of operating engineers Jim Callaghan north America Building Trades Union sharon mcgarvie is a lot of friends of mine laborers International Union of north america terrio sullivan and to sharply criticized the World Health Organization announcing his administration would suspend funding had the w. H. O. Done its job to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out chinas lack of transparency ironically President Trump is on the record praising trying to perth transparency in dealing with a virus having what was described as a friendly phone conversation with president xi at the end of march and subsequently tweeting we are working closely together much respect once again President Trump appears to be ignoring the principle of the separation of powers legal experts argue that he does not have the right to suspend funding that has already been approved by Congress Another constitutional crisis is looming. And despite repeated cautions by the countrys Health ExpertsPresident Trump insisted mitigating measures could be eased or lifted in a number of u. S. States by the beginning of next month but he walked back an earlier contention that the decision was his to make by com perming that the question of lifting restrictions or not would be left to individual gov the white house would still provide guidance were going to pick a date were going to get a date thats good but its going to be very very soon sooner than the end of the month the sun a day that new york city announced its most dramatic rise in the fatality rate so Health Officials for the 1st time included the deaths of those presumed to have died of the virus even though they have not tested positive this increase the death toll by more than 3700. 00 in a single day driving up the number of People Killed in new york city to more than 10000 and increasing the overall u. S. Death count by 17 percent to more than 26000 thank you all very much stock figures that not even the president s action against the World Health Organization can distract from mike hanna aljazeera washington the United Nations says its the worst possible moment to cut funds to the World Health Organization and countries around the world have echoed that sentiment china is urging washington to fulfill its obligations to the w. H. O. Beijing says the decision to cut funding will affect all countries trump accuse the agency of favoring china as the world battled the virus new zealands Prime Minister is in there and says her government will continue to support the Health Germany says strengthening the World Health Organization one of the best investments. Our diplomatic editor james bays joins us now from the United Nations in new york and james how much of a hit with the w. H. O. Take from any u. S. Funding cut well certainly the w. H. O. And the wider u. N. System have been shocked by this theyve gone into Crisis Management mode straight away after President Trumps comments it took a couple of hours for the secretary general antonio good terrace to put out a statement where he didnt criticize President Trump but he did stress the importance of the w. H. O. And why it was needed at the time of a Global Pandemic i can tell you the backdrop to all this had been slightly more positive diplomacy in recent days were coming up to a meeting on thursday of the g 7 which you know he chaired by President Trump im told a lot of work behind the scenes on some more concrete measures from the g. 7 and a communique proposed for that meeting the u. N. Security council has been paralyzed by this crisis also coming together and looking closer now that theyll come up with a resolution and of course they are idea that there might finally be some Global Leadership up ended by President Trumps comments i dont think any ambassadors are all that surprised theyve seen the way that this president works over the last 4 years he likes to have an adversary clearly the invisible enemy as he called it for the virus wasnt a suitable adversary hes picked on the press now hes decided to pick on the w. H. O. But as you heard in marks report its interesting hes picking on the w. H. O. For not being tough enough with china when we have President Trumps own comments and hes not particularly tough at any point in recent months with china either now james im being told. This is just dropping now what do you know about any moves by russia to push through a proposal for a global ceasefire. Well thats what i was just alluding to a moment ago so i mean thats the long drawn out negotiations of the main going on at the u. N. Security council are not even taking place with the whole 15 members of the u. N. Security council they have for a very long time be taking place just among the 5 permanent members to try and get a resolution that supports the secretary generals call for a cease fire to try and suck end some of the worst conflicts around the world during the time of covert 19 theres been a lot of problems in that grouping of the 5 permanent members the u. S. And china had some initial problems the trumpet ministration trying to in the in the text of the resolution call it the will hand. Russia though had some problems as well the word coming from the french certainly came up with the latest draft text is that its looking much better now i spoke to the french ambassador in the last few hours and he was hopeful in the next few days they could finally get that resolution the last bit of the peace is getting russia to agree to the text but that is looking more likely now im told or i think so much james bays there the virus now appears to be spreading fast in Russia Health authorities there have recorded a 4th day of a rise in new infections more than 3300 cases have been reported that brings the total to nearly 25000. 00 the government says at least 198. 00 russians have died top e. U. Leaders they in law were there calling for Member States to Work Together before easing any lockdown measures the European Commission has issued a number of recommendations its warning that moving too quickly could have devastating effects. All of this comes as sweden which has resisted the National Lockdowns of other countries is now seeing a sharp rise in deaths another 114 are confirmed on tuesday up from 20 the previous day overall nearly 11000 people have tested positive and more than a 1000 have died there will speak to poor recent stockholm shortly on these developments in sweden but 1st lets go to lawrence lee hes live for us with the latest so is lawrence is the commissions president resonating so that message of cautiousness least the people in the must be reflecting some of that sentiment. Well what the European Commission is trying to do is to put the wheels back on a car for want of a better method or when the crisis started youll recall a few weeks ago there was a match across the continent and not unusual you know actually closing the borders. And on the lead at the time it should have very very with a ring response to the one in which she said European Countries well who are in protective equipment are not dealing properly with each other only you know for an organization and a body a country that prides itself on things to do with you. Its a terrible look and politicians in countries like italy started raising questions about that saying whats the point of the European Union if we cant agree on things so theyre now in this massive attempt to regain some ground and get back on the front foot and with us in mind on the way and gave a press conference this morning in which she said that theres going to be some its. Time when theyll have a massive Video Conference presumably and talk about financial mechanisms to get through it looking like a unified Party Countries started maybe the European Union wants to host a pledging summit for the whole world. To raise money for a vaccine so again trying to make a lot of European Union is on the front foot and as a bloc the countries can respond the problem that got obviously is what they call an individual countries do is move out of lot and at the same time because the pandemic is hitting Different Countries at different points so denmark the schools are going back today spain construction work started austria shops are open yet at the same time germany france the u. K. Are extending the lockdowns theres nothing that the European Commission can do about that except to say when you all all in a position to come out of lockdown can we try to do it in steps because at some point theyve got to reopen the borders and get the Single Market back going again and they cant do that if the response continues to be a haphazard as it has the or over thinking about going in the opposite direction now in russia where the number of cases again rising so are the restrictive measures right. Yes and its been the case for some time that since a rush of people arent allowed to go outside except for a very good reason they try to enforce a travel ban or restrictions on travel or permits it in moscow this morning which sounded fairly chaotic with long queues of people outside metro stations and the like but that this is the biggest problem frankly that russias got is the dilapidated face of itself which is years of underfunding as the rich in russia took over money and left Public Services to slowly ross and as well as that clearly theres an indemnity problem in russia with with people with massive Underlying Health conditions vast amounts of alcohol isnt huge number of smokers these are all issues that are very very dangerous for the restaurateur infection of is one thing its all about and so i think russia really is is probably in some trouble that there are very high number of cases and very low death rate that theyre issuing at the moment. Seems very old i have to say but even if you take it at face value i think the worst days yet on production. Good stuff there from noncivilian london. The number of new cases in germany has risen again after declining for 4 days another 2400 infections were afforded on wednesday bringing the total to more than 127003200 people have now died. Spains daily death toll from coronavirus has fallen again after a one day rise on tuesday the total toll is now more than 18500 the number of new infections rose by over 5000 after falling for almost a week this week the government loosened some restrictions on businesses. As a lot to wrap up in europe lets start with sweden now and lets head over to poor reese hes in malmo in sweden so is the government coming under some criticism now for its initial more relaxed approach to restrictions on lockdowns. Certainly is some me as you mentioned there was a total of 140. 00 new deaths reported on tuesday from 20 or so the day before as he said there is a bit of context to that that tends to be a lot fewer deaths reported over a weekend certainly a lot fewer were expected to be reported over the easter weekend so the normal at the moment rate of deaths per day is around 100. 00 mark will no more up the the next press conference of the the Health Agency that meets in a couple of hours time. Now is the Health Agency thats really been steering this in sweden unlike in a lot of places where the governments taken the lead and they came in for lots of criticism on shoes day 22 researchers publishing a letter in one of the the leading National Newspapers calling for the government to take the reins in this crisis from the Health Agency saying. Essentially didnt know what they were doing theyve theyve hit back at that saying of course we do know what were doing but there is a lot of concern as you mentioned sweden has had a more relaxed approach to this generally based on recommendations there is a lot of social distancing but people can go out in the evening to bars restaurants lower schools are open unlike in denmark just about 20 kilometers behind me over the city where theyre thinking of opening things up again soon. Now one of the concerns is that the the mortality rate is twice in sweden what it is in denmark the Health Agency says well theyre taking a different approach that they think is sustainable that they think will serve them better in the long term but thats based on 2 pillars really one of them is that 10 years ago here in mali they had a large scale pandemic. Simulation. Which is largely guiding their policies this time around and the 2nd is based on Actual Experience pandemics have hit sweden before and one of the 8 particular peculiarities of sweden is that although it has population concentrations house a lot of isolated places as well and in previous pandemics those places were extremely isolated because transport wasnt what it is today and they know to start when the 2nd wave of a pandemic hits those areas were really ravaged because they hadnt had any buildup of immunity in the 1st wave thats no consolation for the people whove whove had family members friends die as you much theres more than a 1000 and sweden has recognized its failed to protect people properly and elderly homes a huge number of deaths there and also the some molly community and the rink be area of stockholm i suppose what american viewers would say is a project have got say a very high number of deaths there so there are people who are being badly affected. In the coming months as other countries open up whether this more relaxed approach has been correct or not all right and that was pulled from sweden. The International Energy agency is warning all produces no cuts in output can fully offset recent falls in the market the agency has forecast a drop in demand of 9300000 barrels a day and it says oil demand favor will fall to a 25 year low the Worlds LargestOil Producers agreed to the biggest output cut in history on sunday amid falling demand. Plenty more ahead on the news hour including fears that covert 19 is spreading through palestinian neighborhoods undetected plus. An urgent plea undocumented immigrants in u. S. Custody call for help as virus cases spread in Detention Centers. And its called boxing bosses target some creative ways of Holding Title fights without fans will be here with that story. South korean president janes ruling party is projected to win a majority in the parliamentary election early exit polls suggest the party could secure up to 177. 00 seats out of 300. 00 final results is expected around midnight on wednesday moon support has been helped by his governments handling of the covert 19 outbreak south korea has more than 10000 infections and over 220 deaths from mcbride joins us now from a polling station in the capital seoul so rob whats the latest youre hearing on how the vote results are shaping up. Thats right well this was always seen i think as a referendum on how president moon j. N. Has handled the coronaVirus Outbreak regardless of any other issues that have been around at the moment he has been high in the given a high Approval Rating and that does seem to be reflect