Contain the spread of carbon 19 we look at concerns about surveillance. Now an experimental antiviral drug has been approved for imagine c. Use in treating coronavirus patients in the United States 1500000 vials of the drug ring disappear will be distributed to hospitals from monday the regulator gave its approval after a government sponsored study showed medication shortened patients Recovery Time by about 31 percent and slightly improved tell us he rates while the boss of Gilead Sciences thats a company that makes for him to severe says theyre increasing production. And were also fully committed to continuing to expand the supply of this medicine and we started investing in this back in january as soon as we came in where the krona virus this is a long time to manufacture it used to be 12 months its now 6 months our scientists have brought that down and so as we get into the 2nd half of this year were able to have many more supplies available to patients and were fully committed to working and to present with you your ministration to make sure that patients and you can get this important new medicine well dr gregory poland is editor in chief of the general vaccine and also the director of the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research group and he says all of the initial tests of the new drugs seem to be positive theres still a lot of research to be done. We have to remember this is the very 1st one its a new drug being used for this and yet showed i would call it a bright spot in the search just what 90 days after being notified of this of a drug that looks like its got very promising results so so this is the 1st drug that has in randomized double blind placebo controlled trials shown a significant difference in time to recovery in the end i studied it just statistically missed showing the mortality benefit which is probably a function of the size of the study so this is this is good news we have not seen this with any of the other in type birol drugs that have been tried nor i drops the chlorophyll and so so this is an advance i think what were seeing is it depends on the situation under which you use it if you use it early in the course of disease were starting to see treatment benefits if you use it late in the course of disease i think its much harder to show a benefit in addition and thats the reason for the Clinical Trials people in china may have been put on a whole variety of rewrite of the of different drugs and things so you really want to know whats the effect specifically of this entire viral holding him all on the kind of isolation that for now and now that developing story north korean state media says kim jong un has made his 1st public appearance in almost 3 weeks they then it is reported they say the need to epping a festal as a factory that remains had been threatening about kings health and even possible that its also been speculated that china sent a team of doctors to treat him the heart procedure went from correspondent rob fried joins us live now from seoul south Koreas Capital from despite all the remains over the last few weeks kim jong un is looking pretty healthy. It would appear to be this does seem to lay to rest all of these wild rumors that have been circulating for several weeks now in the absence of any official news about his whereabouts it should be pointed out with that we only have at the moment this one report issued through k. Cna this is north koreas state run news agency but we have no reason to believe this didnt take place this and it was accompanied by these photographs appearing to show a smiling and well kim jong un this Ribbon Cutting ceremony accompanied by his sister Kim Jung Joan and one of the photographs is in front of a wall with the depiction describing the event and also giving the date of 1st of may this appeared to have happened yesterday this would be a fitting way of celebrating International Workers day we are told in this report that there were rapturous applause from the workforce assembled assembled there but of course it was kim jong un missing an even more important date in north koreas calendar this was 2 weeks ago the annual celebration of the birth date of kim il sung the founding father of north korea and kim jong uns grandfather that started all of this speculation about what had become of him we had reports from one news website here in south korea that he had undergone some sort of cardiovascular procedure followed by other reports there was a network from the u. S. That quoted a source there in intelligence saying that he was gravely ill and then we had all your it reporting from a japanese magazine saying that he was potentially brain dead even some defectors were well placed and prominent defectors here in south korea saying that they believed it actually died well all of these rumors do seem to have got a life of their own rob you mentioned they have younger 5th decade john now what the last few weeks of speculation has raised questions about who might succeed him. Absolutely i mean it has been a reminder of just about the peculiar nature of this kim dynasty and the fact that there is so much power in the hands of one person the cult that surrounds the leader what happens if that leader suddenly isnt there what fills the vacuum or who indeed fills the void can you know john his sister potentially has been groomed as the heir apparent but its by no means certain that she would have or could have taken over so it has raised concerns about this hermetic state north of the d. M. Z. Of course which has all these Nuclear Weapons i think this has also been a reminder about kim jong uns health he seems to be healthy now but it does appear that there was something the reports about a medical team being dispatched from china that seems to be credible also reports that potentially he was recuperating in convalescence a family compound in one san this resort on the east coast that does seem to have had some credibility so it does appear that there was some sort of medical procedure he seems to be healthy now certainly his condition is not as bad as the rumor mill would have had us believe. Theyre speaking to us from cell thank you very much. Now canada is banning assault style weapons after the countrys deadliest mass shooting 2 weeks ago that ban comes into effect immediately but there will be a 2 year amnesty for people to dispose of weapons that they already own that you lack has more from toronto. After the worst mass shooting in canadian history the most sweeping gun controls the country has ever introduced shocking and horrific images of the aftermath of a rampage by a lone gunman in nova scotia prompted the federal government to ban about 1500. 00 types of semiautomatic military grade rifles the Prime Minister said it was time to get rid of guns that mostly harm human beings these weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time. There is no use and no place for such weapons in canada the list of prohibited weapons includes hundreds of versions of the a ar 15 Assault Rifle last used in a mass shooting in canada in 2017 when a gunman killed 6 men in a quebec city mosque such attacks are much rarer here than in the United States canadians are far more accustomed to hearing of mass killings across the border such as the Las Vegas Mass Shooting that left 58 people dead in 2017. Ban like this is widely supported in canada and polls indicate thats only increased since the events in nova scotia gun rights advocates say its a politically expedient move that ignores the fact that most gun killings in canada come from illegal handguns smuggled across the u. S. Border and not from assault weapons some measures in the new legislation are similar to those in new zealand which banned Assault Rifles and conducted a highly successful Buyback Program in response to the Christ Church mosque massacre last year canada 2 will offer a 2 year amnesty to existing legal owners of banned weapons and will offer compensation there may also be new laws coming to allow cities to ban handguns which are already tightly regulated gun control advocates of welcome the new measures and say they look forward to further action to make canada a much safer country. And you like to enter. A fuel tank explosion in nigeria has killed at least one person and injured over a dozen others including a firefighter the fuel on the tank ignited after the vehicle rolled over and spilled its cargo and this happened right next to a petrol station in the city of lagos 5 fires were able to control the blaze before it reached the station this is the 2nd incident of its kind in the same city and less than a week. In germany there have been may day protests against restrictions on movement several people were detained in the capital Berlin Germany has eased some restrictions but social distancing is still being enforced in public 10163000 people are known to have been infected there and more than 6 and a half 1000 have died. Now joe biden who is all but certain to take on donald trump and this is us election has spoken publicly to deny an allegation of Sexual Assault the accusation has been made by a woman who went to biden when he was a seneca the former Vice President insists it never happened from washington alan fischer reports. It still many to talk about the biting president ial campaign for weeks and it wasnt going away former senate aide tara reid claimed she was sexually assaulted when she what with then senator joe biden and allegations she only made public in the last few weeks an allegation biden could no longer ignore no it is not true im saying on a quickly it never never happened didnt they never happened i dont remember any type of complaint she may have made it was 27 years ago and i dont remember nor does anyone else that im aware of democrats have been pushed to address the allegation in the last few days Speaker Nancy Pelosi who endorsed by this week insisted she has no doubts about the former Vice President i have a great Comfort Level with the situation as i see it with all the respect in the world for any woman who comes forward. Republicans accuse democrats of double standard saying they would ignoring the allegation against their president ial hopeful while they piled on one Supreme CourtJustice Brett kavanaugh was accused of Sexual Assault the for his eventual confirmation more than 20 women have accused President Donald Trump of Sexual Assault he was also caught on tape of bragging of assaulting women he denies all the allegations and offered to put support to joe biden at the white house on thursday you know. It could be false accusations i know all about false accusations have been falsely charged numerous times and there is such a thing one political analyst says republicans will use the one allegation against joe biden to continue to attack him one of the things that the trump people do in their strategic. Movers is they dont try to claim to be superior they trying to create moral equivalence so they say youre just as bad as i am which makes you a hypocrite which makes you worse you know and you know its very if that what did you joe biden knew he could no longer ignore the allegation against him hes ahead in the polls particularly with women hell be hoping by addressing it no it wont continue to be an issue in november election alan fischer aljazeera washington. Still ahead on aljazeera. Just coronavirus lockdown is extended for another 2 weeks but indias government is easing some restrictions. On coronavirus disparity the u. K. Days are showing some ethnic groups a much more vulnerable to crime in 1000. Places say weve got some quasi weather now pushing across the eastern seaboard of the u. S. Eastern parts of canada still a fair amount of cloud showing up on the satellite picture here but thats in the process of pushing out into the north atlantic so brought us guys come in behind and the temperatures responding quite nicely to that sunshine 21 celsius in new york and also in d. C. Theyll be some showers just around the lakes pushing up into central parts of canada some of them of a wintry nature whether theyre just spilling out of the mountain states easing across the ohio valley as we go on through the next day or so brightest guys come in behind over towards the northwest there will still be a few showers but they will become human for the between as we go on through the next couple of days l. A. Gets up to around 26. 00 celsius not too bad here not too far off thats in washington d. C. 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A reminder of our top stories this hour an experimental antiviral drug has been authorized by the u. S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency use in treating coronavirus patients 1500000 vials of the drug from disappeared will be distributed to hospitals from a. North korean state media says kim jong un has made his 1st public appearance in almost 3 weeks these images reportedly show the leader opening a 1st lies a factory room is have been swirling about kims health and even possible death. And assault style rifles are being immediately banned in canada its in response to the countrys worst mass shooting a little less than 2 weeks ago. Now Human Rights Watch says more than 700. 00 refugees and Migrant Workers have been detained in malaysia the group says they were rounded up during raids in kuala lumpur they live in areas where 1000. 00 cases last month triggering claims that foreigners a spreading the virus and being a burden on Government Resources malaysia doesnt fully recognize refugees regarding them as Illegal Migrants well florence really has more from. The police chief who was at the raid said the people would be held at Detention Centers were not sure these would be the Detention Centers. Run by the Immigration Department but a couple of days ago the senior minister whos also the defense minister said the government intended to detain undocumented migrants whom they had identified in lockdown areas and would be holding them in Detention Centers or in temporary Holding Facilities that the government had set up for corona virus now these places where the raids were carried out are places under complete lockdown including several apartments in kuala lumpur where Health Officials have been going from door to door testing everyone because there have been a high number of cases there to people that are not allowed to go out of their homes at all and it is believed that the authorities carried out these rates because these people were sitting ducks for the operation of the World Health Organization says its been assured the coronavirus is natural in origin the comments come after speculation from u. S. President donald trump that it may have originated in a chinese laboratory. We have listened again and again numerous scientists who looked at the sequences looked at this wireless and we are assured this virus is natural in origin and what is important is that we establish what that natural host for this virus is. And and the primary purpose of doing that is to ensure that we understand the virus more we understand the animal human. Interface and we understand and of the human species barrier was breached and the purpose of understanding that is that we can put in place the necessary prevention and Public Health measures to prevent that happening again anywhere. Islands Prime MinisterLarry Varadkar has announced an extension of the countrys strict coronavirus restrictions until may 18th he says if cases continue to reduce the government is measures in 5 stages with the goal of having island returned to normal by august on the 18th of may our then begins to reopen and begins that journey to a new normal. From that day outdoor work by construction and landscaping will resume some retail outlets like Garden CentersHardware Stores repair shops will reopen. And some outdoor sporting and fitness activities and small groups will be allowed. Now statistics are emerging in the u