A funding cut countries show support for the Global Health agency. And russia reports a record rise in a new code with 19 infections for the 4th day of the u. N. Security council edges closer to backing a cease fire in global conflicts that will tackle the pandemic. And unsporting day after it was a new day its have been announced for the Tour De France the worlds biggest cycling race war now will start at the end of august. Thats 1300 g. M. T. And we begin this news hour with the world on the brink of reaching 2000000 confirmed cases of covert 19 well this is the tally by the u. S. Based Johns HopkinsUniversity According to its count about 500000 people have recovered more than 128000 have died as governments continue to grapple with the growing pandemic President Donald Trump has halted u. S. Funding for the body leading the fight the World Health Organization he accuses it of mishandling the outbreak his critics say hes deflecting blame for his own failings. Heres our live Coverage Team we have White House Correspondent kimberly healthy live in washington d. C. Diplomatic at the james bays at the United Nations in new york. Oxana brown is in moscow we also have lawrence lee in london who report on the e. U. s call for Member States to Work Together and pull race is in sweden where infections and deaths are rising well 1st this report though from mike hanna on President Trumps w. H. O. Decision. In 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 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 prove 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 tran prepares 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 confirming that the question of lifting restrictions or not it would be left to each individual governor though 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 this on a day that new york city announced its most dramatic rise in the fatality rate Health Officials for the 1st time included the deaths of those presumed to have died of the virus even though they had nothing to says 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 President Trump action against the World Health Organization can distract from mike hanna out to sea or washington lets go live now to Kimberly Halkett joins us from washington d. C. So what is the bottom line kimberly will u. S. Funding be cut or not the seems to be little bit of a constitutional argument going on. Yeah there absolutely is a constitutional argument because it is congress that controls the Purse Strings so its unclear what mechanism the u. S. President believes that he can use in order to try and not only suspend these payments but perhaps cut them off altogether following his review now this of course is a decision that has been met with puzzlement anger criticism the u. S. Is the largest donor to the World Health Organization accounting for about 15 percent of its budget but there has been criticism from bill gates of the Gates Foundation also a major donor calling this dangerous and a member of the crawler virus taskforce dr Robert Redfield has also commented saying that there has been a long history of the World Health Organization working well with the United States t. D. C. And jones had a long history of working together in multiple outbreaks throughout the world as we continue to do in this one and so weve had a very productive Public Health relationship we continue to have. Now it is important to note that the president have already proposed in his budget to Congress Every day action in payment of approximately half to the World Health Organization for the next fiscal year but again it was already speculated that that would not be agreed to by congress once again it is the u. S. Congress that controls the Purse Strings in the United States not the u. S. President so many are scratching their head in washington right now trying to figure out what magnetism the president intends to use to try to cut off these funds as hes threatened or i can believe how to get there in washington d. C. The United Nations meanwhile says its the worst possible moment to cut funds to the World Health Organization sentiments echoed by many countries around the world actually now china is urging the u. S. To fulfill its obligations to the w. H. O. Saying the decision to cut funding will affect all countries the European Union says theres no justification for washingtons decision at this moment when quote their efforts are needed more than ever germany says strengthening the World Health Organization is one of the best investments and the African Union chief says trumps decision is deeply regrettable not all leaders are so critical though straining Prime MinisterScott Morrison said in a radio interview that while he wouldnt follow in transferred steps he sympathizes with the president s criticisms of the World Health Organization including he said the delay in the clarin the pandemic we call this thing which before the w. H. O. Did if we were relying on their advice then i suspect we would have been suffering the same fight that many other countries currently are we were calling it a pandemic back in early january and we generally i should say. Lets bring in our diplomatic editor james bays he joins us from the United Nations and james just how disruptive would a cut in u. S. Funding be to the u. N. Agencies. There is shock exasperate shin here at the United Nations because the World Health Organization is a big part of the u. N. Its the part of the u. N. That is the Technical Agency dealing with Global Health care at the time of a Global Pandemic you need the World Health Organization there is only one World Health Organization theres also some book reviews from and from officials ive spoken to who say that President Trump is here blaming the w. H. O. For not being tough enough on china and when you look at President Trumps own comments and he is actually praised for its transparency its also worth telling you that he says the w. H. O. Wasnt telling the world enough about the spread of all of this while i was in switzerland in geneva in february at the time when President Trump in washington was playing down the virus even comparing it with the flu dr ted ras the head of the w. H. O. In february was having almost daily briefings telling the world how worried he was about the situation or while some countries are pulling out of joint u. N. Efforts others trying to push forward particularly with the idea of a global ceasefire where does that stand. Well we do have some positive developments as well youre right we have the g. 7 meeting in 24 hours time the time current chair of the g 7 is President Trump im told the behind the scenes some efforts have been made there and theyve got some some material for a communique some quite concrete developments to be announced in about 24 hours time thats positive the other thing as you say the u. N. Secretary general antonio good terrace called for a global ceasefire the u. N. Security councils been looking at that to not acting very fast in part because its been difficult for them to meet they didnt have procedures for Virtual Meetings theyve got that now underway but still difficulties among some of the members particularly the permanent members initially problems between the u. S. And china with the u. S. Saying any resolution had to have the words will hand virus in it will have got past that and it seems that a french draft may now have the approval of most of the permanent members possibly not yet russia but we believe president putin is going to be speaking to president mccraw about that as i said it was a french draft and i spoke to the french ambassador to the United Nations about it everybody know that there are different views on the pandemic i think we are doing really really good try to race now i really hope that reach out and be in a position to take action in it coming days in a secret to concede 15 men 1st to get there and make sure that we are greedy on this station of a student visa in it countries on the edge and other can see that and agree on other humanitarian truths to be able to fix it and in it you know all these countries. So a resolution potentially sami in a couple of days the french ambassador saying that another diplomat i spoke to said they thought that perhaps it wouldnt be until early next week but we could soon have a u. N. Security Council Resolution asking for a cease fire for all the conflicts that are on the Security Councils agenda and thats the situation with jane space at the u. N. Headquarters the virus appears to be spreading fast in russia more than 3300. 00 new cases have been reported bringing the total to nearly 25000. 00 the government says at least 198. 00 people have died moscows launch the system of travel permits as it desperately tries to slow the spread but it created massive delays in Public Transit on wednesday causing long queues critics say the crowds created a dangerous situation to help the virus spread. Oksana brown joins us now live from moscow and oksana i knew the president was supposed to speak have we heard from him and his message. No not yet the meeting with the government which is scheduled for today is delayed. Earlier and to me to describe this president s spokesperson said that we should expect putin to address citizens in the beginning of that meeting so were still waiting for that it was due to start about an hour ago but for now yes we have seen such a spike in numbers and its mean going on since lets say last week end of last week when the tone of. The message the government says changed a little bit. So. The government says that the figures are raising now about 18 percent per day and we have seen that the worst cases here in moscow we happen but 25000. 00 cases in the country and almost 15000. 00 of them i in the capital so moscow thora to saying that theyre lacking beds in the hospital already and the peak is far away so they have to start implementing new measures and starting from today they did they imposed implemented this new coup our system under stand has been you install restrictions put in place and in some cases thats causing a bit of confusion right. Well true this is a very new system so now from starting from today if you want to travel by any type of transferred if thats your personal car or metro or taxi you need to apply for this special q. R. Code and this morning it was so huge crowds of people who were trying to go to work trying to go into the metro and they couldnt because policemen were checking their q. R. Codes individually each of them personally that cost must have of rage on social media position a position figure is and lots of other people were blaming the government for actually making the situation worse the spread in the infection and government responded quite quickly the banyan said that yes this intuition is critical that shouldnt be happening at the time of the epidemics and he asked the head of the Police Department to sort it out as soon as possible later he said that the crowds were eliminated and they will think about automatic ways of dealing with their so hard to control this but. Other programs with this q. R. Code so it started being tested few days ago and yesterday about 100000 of them got canceled because people who apply for them didnt know how to figure it out they provide it with wrong data or misinformation also obviously there are concerns that. I thought it is who actually quite fond of digital technologists and very recently they implemented this last face recognition Surveillance System that this figure that they target citizens provide them in the future when this situation is over might be mistreated and it will give a chance for the government to get even further control of the suspect was a bit of global concern in some places about i want to thank so much son of brown. Top leaders are calling for Member States to Work Together before easing any lockdown measures the European Commission has issued a number of recommendations its warning of moving too quickly could have devastating effects lawrence lee joins us live from london with more on this so is this basically commissions diplomatic way of saying theyre not entirely convinced with the level of unity right now well theyre certainly trying to get back on the front foot after a very chaotic month in europe. But primarily what theyre trying to do at the moment is find a way d of connecting the European Union not not at the whole of a massive financial crisis. Because the Economic Forecast is so bad some crises you have this sort of the shape thing goes down and then goes straight back up again what theyre worried about with this year economists saying is a lot more like an l. Its crashed and it will just flat line across the bottom for months and months and months the best they can hope for is it looks a bit more like a u. Shaped recovery and so with that idea remind the the European Union summit next thursday is going to be absolutely crucial that we are talking about that budget which flosser for 7 years for months because north European Countries most notably germany in the netherlands want to spend less european money on the overall budget something countries want to spend more for here you have suddenly arcelor on the lead out of the European Commission saying at next weeks summit theyre talking not about a 1000000000 but a trillion euros to try to basically kick start some sort of european recovery once once the borders are open and its important really partly symbolically because europes famous open borders and Free Movement of people who caused a lot stuff thats thats not existence at the moment but clearly its als