Your charges are alive my headquarters here and also coming up hundreds of. Quarantine orders demanding food and medical aid in one of the poorest neighborhoods of santiago. Also a 550000000000. 00 fund to revive business in the e. U. Germany and france join hands to fight the economic fallout of the pandemic. And the f. B. I. Says to get involved in a Fatal Shooting at a naval base in december. Welcome to the program he touted it as a game changer when the coronavirus pandemic began now President Trump has revealed that hes taking a regular dose of an unproven drug Us Government Health Experts warned last month of potentially fatal side effects from hydroxy chloroquine which has long been used against malaria but donald trump says that hes taking a pill every day after requesting it from the white house doctor. The frontline workers many many are taking it i happened to be taking it i happened to be take it. Actually corcovado couldnt hydroxy for quite right now you know a couple of weeks ago started to get it because i think its kind of had a lot of good stories and if its not good ill tell you right doctor to get hurt by it its been around for 40 years from malaria for a loop as for other things i take it frontline workers take it a lot of doctors take excuse me like how to how small from the white house. Well it was in a word utterly astounding President Trump indicating that he started taking the drug a week and a half ago this sort of appear following a letter from an unnamed doctor in westchester in upstate new york who touted the use of the drug in this letter to President Trump which he quoted in the course of this News Conference now its very important to note that the food and Drug Administration the f. D. A. Has cautioned against the use of hydroxy chloroquine this it did about 2 weeks ago so President Trump by his own admission started taking the drug few days after the f. D. A. His own if d. A. Advised extreme caution in terms of using it for the treatment of coronavirus and also saying it should only be used in a hospital situation or in the Clinical Trial now the f. D. A. Recommendation followed a report by the u. S. Veterans Health Administration which did take a look into a small study in the use of eye drops a quarter chloroquine it found that the mortality rate actually increased with people using the drugs in its reported said that 27. 8 percent of those who were being treated for corona virus with hydroxy chloroquine the death rate was 27 percent when a zinc additive was added to the hydroxy quite a clerical in that death rate dropped to 22. 00 a but those who were not given either of these drugs or the cocktail the death rate was heart of that 11 percent so it was there as a result of this report along with another number of other global studies that the f. D. A. Made this recommendation a recommendation which President Trump has just completely trampled over. Trump has consistently pushed hydroxy chloroquine theres a treatment the drug is usually used to treat or prevent malaria and rheumatic diseases such as arthritis but theres no concrete Scientific Evidence so far that it can help fight the coronavirus studies in france and china have found it wasnt effective in treating patients with 19 in fact experts have warned against it saying it could cause heart attacks last month both the european and u. S. Drug regulators said it should only be used in hospitals and under close supervision Lawrence Gostin is professor of medicine and founding chair in Global Health at Georgetown University joins me via skype from washington d. C. Professor good to have you with us on aljazeera an interesting admission by the president what do you make of it. Well you know really the whole thing is baffling to all. The you know the president is supposed to be a law model he supposed to have consistent messaging. The public is going to hear. That the president is tweeted that he was going to take this drug. Many people will try to take it on their own. Even though there is no evidence that its accepted and that there is a morning by his own Public Health agency the u. S. F. D. A. Not to take it and then it elevates the risk of severe. Adverse effects including death particularly if youve got a heart condition as President Trump did so is tirelessly. Irresponsible the president to. Have to do playing a scale ok so for a global audience who are watching and for and from your expertise as a doctor what is hydroxy chloroquine prescribe for and what is its primary job. Well as prescribe mostly as an extreme malaria medication but theres been some interest in the Scientific Community about its use as a potential antiviral agent that would affect. Could beneficially treat 19. Unfortunately done studies and thus far studies have suggested theres no evidence that its effective then there is some good evidence that it can enhance risks including the risk of death so this is something that the u. S. Drug regulator the f. D. A. Has warned against. The medical advisor to the White House Task force on grown a virus turns out she has urged the public not to do it. And so the president is creating a mixed message i should say were another trend this is supposed to be a Prescription Medication and theres no indication that the president s position as a shrewd of lee prescribed it although the president seems to imply that the that his physicians said that oh well thats ok well ok is not good enough it is evidence it needs to be prescribed it just getting back to science again professor if you dont mind what effect does hydroxy chloroquine have of. A virus whether it be a corona virus which obviously youre saying it has no effect on does it have an effect on any virus that we know all of. Is not is not in there is no proven effectiveness that its effective against a virus. Its basically its an end to malaria drugs so we do know that it has some impact with malaria. But apart from. Were magic type diseases and malaria theres no evidence that it works on say coronaviruses and it. Wasnt used for as other current viruses like sars or murders so this is not something that any medical authority or Public Health person would recommend that the public do in relation to the cold. Epidemic but its good to get your insight and your expertise on this Lawrence Kasdan professor at Georgetown University thanks for your time sir of course think you now the u. S. Has accused the World Health Organization of allowing the krona virus pandemic to spin out of control Health Secretary alex as are told the World Health Assembly the bodies failure to obtain information the world needed cost many lives chinas president meanwhile voiced support for a global inquiry into the covert 1000. 00 response but only after the pandemic is under control our diplomatic editor james baines has more. Its a time when countries have been concentrating on their National Responses to the virus and with tensions between china and the u. S. Growing the un secretary general sounded frustrated his video link from new york to geneva wasnt working well but delegates heard him condemn the lack of Global Cooperation result one of you does express your understanding varied he may have some talk of solidarity but very little unity in our response to cope with 19 countries have followed different sometimes contradictory strategies and we are all paying a high price for this many countries have ignored the recommendations of the World Health Organization as a result the virus has spread throughout the world and is now heading towards southern countries where it could have even more devastating effect and we risk new peaks and waves many nations want a full inquiry into the response to the virus including its origins in the city of. The issue has become increasingly politicized with President Trump suggesting it may have been manmade in his address chinas president xi supported the idea of an inquiry but with very clear limits. China supports the idea of a comprehensive review of the Global Response to covered 19 so that its brought under control to collect experiences and address deficiencies but he wants the World Health Organization in charge of any inquiry and its the w. H. O. Under its leader dr ted ross thats been condemned by the trumpet ministration for its poor response and in particular being too close to china in an apparent attempt to conceal this outbreak at least one member state made a mockery of their transparency obligations with tremendous cost for the entire world we saw that w. H. O. Failed at its core mission of information sharing and transparency when Member States do not act in good faith. This cannot ever happen again the status quo is intolerable w. H. O. Must change and it must become far more transparent and far more accountable what were seeing play out in geneva is likely to have reverberations around the world the growing antagonism between the u. S. And china is compounded by the fact that other major nations dont want to take sides because the 2 countries have so much economic clout and thats a recipe for global diplomatic deadlock james bowies aljazeera at the United Nations or research our attention to latin america which is emerging as a global kerner virus hot spot crumbling Health Systems struggling economies and political divisions are making matters worse in some countries mexico has begun to gradually easing of its lockdown despite its number of deaths and infections continuing to rise steadily the restrictions will be relaxed in phases the manner of brazils biggest cities are paolo says its hospitals are 90 percent full and could run out of space in 2 weeks brazil has recorded over 16000 deaths more than any other latin american nation combined but president continues to rally support to end the lock down and reopen the economy and in chile there have been violent protests in one of santiagos poorest neighborhoods hundreds of protesters broke quarantine orders to demand food and medical aid well in a moment well speak to maneuver a pillow in mexico city but 1st lets cross over to our latin america to lucien newman whos in the chilean capital protests in parts of the country or clamp down on publicizing it at the request of the president alysia what seems to be going on. Whats happening is that what authorities have been hoping would not occur has just begun the president last night addressed the nation calling on chileans to be patient to understand or rather to let them know that the government understood that they were facing a dire situation. Unemployment hunger in some cases and promising that the government would step in immediately to help in fact it promised to distribute 2500000 boxes of food as soon as possible but clearly in the neighborhood of any scale here inside of the hour which is one of the poorest neighborhoods in the metropolitan region. This was not enough certainly not soon enough they came out in mass to protest throwing rocks at riot police who responded with water cannon and tear gas scenes very very similar or very reminiscent of the demonstrations that weve been seeing in chile for social reforms that began in october and that only ended when the pandemic began around this they were put on pause if you like so this is the problem though the real fear here is that this could a snowball and be replicated in many many other poor neighborhoods now keep in mind that in this particular area they have been under quarantine for more than a month that means that the People Living there havent been able to work for a month theyve been left without any money and theyre enough far worse shape perhaps than in other parts of the city that were just put under lockdown on friday so that the president after having addressed the nation last night came back on television today to again ask for patience at the promise that he would be distributing food and other essential goods to chile and by the end of this week or the beginning of next week hopefully that will be sorted out but probably not for everyone to see it so they have to thank you soon even then some to organise kosova to make a city well correspondent well well repeller is standing by the death toll rises where you are talking about lifting parts of the look down its a difficult balancing act knowing the public sort of want a sense of normality in what is a state of really chaos. Thats absolutely right and so what were seeing is latin american governments not only in mexico but across south america where the these governments are facing a tremendous amount of pressure to strike that balance between Public Health and the health of the economies here in mexico monday was the 1st day of this new plan to ease restrictions and and to lift lock downs but i want to point to some statistics on sunday the governments own records pointed to 5177 deaths as of sunday its an increase of 102 deaths from the day before now this is significant because only a week ago the government here in mexico had had forecasted the height of contagion peak contagion for the pandemic and said that now would be the time that restrictions would be lifted of course knowing that that we have not reached the height of contagion that in fact the mexico was still on the upward curve is actually quite troubling the big question right now is how is this going to work you mentioned that this is going to be gradual on a 33. 00 phases per se companies and businesses and manufacturers that are going to be reopening will be doing so only if they meet a certain criteria being able to guarantee that their employees can be meet a certain social distancing requirement making sure that their employees that their employees have personal protective gear the big question right now is over the automotive sector the Manufacturing Sector specifically along mexicos northern border with the United States these are manufacturers that are under tremendous amount of pressure from the United States to reopen mexico has june 1st as this target date to reopen the National Economy but it is expected that many of these manufacturers will reopen even before that date and you mentioned most importantly within the region brazil brazil is certainly the hot spot in latin america its the over the weekend became the 4th worst hit country in the world when it comes to contagion specifically the area. Region of south now we heard from authorities and the state as well as the city who said earlier the governor of the state of sao paolo. Said that quote we have to beat this economic crisis but in order to beat this crisis we have to beat the coronavirus quote the enemy is not the corn it is the pandemic now again brazil certainly the worst affected country in latin america and we talk about economies that may not be ready to reopen brazil would probably be right at the top of that list yet the rhetoric that were hearing from brazils president will so narrow is in stark contrast hes called barber shops nail salons hair salons gymnasiums he refers to these as essential services so right now the focus is is on the region nearing 3000 deaths related to cove it but brazil in itself is a hot spot not only in latin america and for the world and unfortunately brazil just like mexico has not reached peak contagion so what were hearing what were expecting is that things there could still and are expected to get much worse so health and well funds for the most republican in mexico city force. Well still ahead here on aljazeera u. S. Cars them 3 lines reopened but with sales collapsing all day all the road to nowhere. Were seeing some very Stormy Weather pushing across parts of the us this long line of cloud just around the lakes right down into the deep south and off shore where we do now have trouble storm arthur in the process of pulling away gave a glancing blow to North Carolina and will continue to make its way further north as nice as out into the open waters as we go through choose day chad was there just around the appalachians and they will fade across towards the mid Atlantic States turning a little try a little brighter the showers not as intense as we go on into wednesday but still the nevertheless they do extend down into where mississippi louisiana if you want to showers there into eastern parts of texas we got some showers see just around the mountain states but for the west coast generally find a dry with plenty of sunshine sunshine showers maymont across the caribbean we have got some lively showers there still extending across Northern Areas of cuba into the western side of the region the showers run all the way down into panama rashly gave us a socialist has been noticing a few showers jamaica should be largely dry on shoes day in the east and is generally fine and dry for tuesday its all change as we go on into wednesday showers feed into the Eastern Islands little dry there for hispanic and also for a good pop cuba. As we embrace new technologies rarely do we stop to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was people started getting sick but there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to become a disclosure in the investigation reveals how even the smallest devices have deadly environmental and health costs we think ok well send our e waste to china but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe death by design on aljazeera. World. The world. Welcome back youre watching out deservedly so romney a reminder of our top stories President Donald Trump has revealed hes been taking a regular dose of the unproven new drug hydroxycut who are quick to prevent a coronavirus after requesting it from the white house doctor Government Health experts warned last month of its potentially fatal side effects also the u. S. Has accused the World Health Organization of allowing the coronavirus pandemic to spin out of control Health Secretary alexs are told the uns agency Global Health assembly that the w h os failure to obtain information the world need it cost many lives and in chile there have been violent protests in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the capital santiago hundreds of protesters broke coronavirus foreign teen orders to demand suit and medical aid. President trump has defended his decision to fire the state departments Inspector General saying secretary of state might pump air asked him to do same democratic Lawmakers Said on monday that President Trump might have fired the official because he was investigating u. S. Military sales to saudi arabia congressional aides have also said the internal watchdog was investigating whether mr on pay or misused a taxpayer funded employee to carry out mundane tasks like walk his dog the president dismissed those suggestions and defended his secretary of state. The u. S. Department of justice on the f. B. I. Say they found evidence that a saudi military cadet was in contact with the armed group al qaida before he shot and killed 3 people on the u. S. Naval base last particle hey heres the latest from washington d. C. Officials now say this was an attack on u. S. Soil coordinated with the help of al qaeda last december Saudi Arabian Cadet Lieutenant Mohammad Saeed al some ronnie opened fire on the pensacola military base where he was training leaving 3 u. S. Service members dead and 8 injured al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula initially claimed responsibility but in a News Conference monday u. S. Officials confirmed that blaming the many months of delays an apple refusing to help them unlock his phones in the months before the attack while he was here among us he talked with a. Q. A. P. About his plans and tactics taking advantage of the information he acquired here to assess how many people he could try to kill. He was meticulous in his planning he made pocket cam videos as he cased his classroom building the u. S. Attorney general also announced the information led to a military strike but gave few other details indeed the information from the phones has already proved invaluable in protecting the American People a counterterrorism operation targeting a q. A. P. Operative. One of the ranis overseas associates was recently conducted in yemen after the shooting officials quickly discovered had left many social media posts that should have raised red flags but were missed while they tried to put the focus on the dispute with the Technology Companies its likely that members of congress are going to be asking more questions about exactly how this individual was able to have so much communication with people in yemen and well being a part of the military Training Program with access to sensitive u. S. Military bases. Aljazeera washington. Dozens of protesters stormed the studio of the saudi arabia and m. D. C. Channel in baghdad after it at a show that was critical of slain Iraqi Militia leader. The program suggested that the de facto leader of the Popular Mobilization forces was involved in arranging an attack in lebanon nearly 40 years ago. Was killed in a u. S. Drone strike early this year alone with iranian general same sort of money. South sudans vice pres a rifle shot and his wife have tested positive for corona virus a statement from his office said a number of his staffers including security guards also contracted the virus michele and his wife are asymptomatic but feeling well and healthy theyve confirmed that theyll be self koren teething for at least 2 weeks. So to europe now if france and germany are proposing a relief fund of over 540000000000. 00 to help europe recover from the pandemic their leaders held a Video Conference to discuss going to have on monday the proposal suggested suggested the bloc members borrow the funds together as a group there have been differences in europe over how to push forward with an Economic Relief plan but has more from the french capital where the leaders of france and germany say that the aim of this 545000000000 Dollar Recovery Fund is to try and help revive certain economic sectors in the European Union certain Member States countries regions that have been particularly badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic now the idea is that this money would be bored of the International Markets now both Emmanuel Mark craw and Angela Merkel said that it was absolutely fundamental that the European Union come together at this time and show solidarity with some Member States that have really struggled over the past weeks and months and will continue to do so in the future because of course the coronavirus pandemic is far from over and in many ways even though we have seen the numbers of infections and cases drop over the past few days in some European Countries well this initiative has been welcomed by the heads in the of the e. U. In brussels by the commissioner and the head of the e. U. Council who say its very much in line with their own thinking as they are formulating their own strategy it is also been welcomed on the International Financial markets because weve seen global stocks. Well in the u. K. The government has expanded quote a Virus Testing to anyone over the age of 5 with symptoms follows weeks of criticism of the number of daily tests being conducted across the country the Prime Minister has set a target for a daily capacity of 200005 the end of march. Well off to be idle full most 2 months a major comic is in the us already starting Assembly Plants well it is a returning to the production line with masks and gloves to protect themselves but as john hendren reports questions remain over the Global Supply chain and how much demand theyll be so the cars they make americas auto workers returned in the darkness before dawn some enthusiastically my wifes and their smart sons are cops and ready to go lets get this done weve got to do it sooner or later some with reservations not really. But you know they want to get the economy all right. I guess thats the way they want to go in some with open fear i know personally 5 people passed away from us 4 of them work here one work next door. So were scared employees at detroits big 3 for General Motors and feel that chrysler returned monday to manufacturing plants where the new normal is one Part Assembly line one part hospital theres 977 and above this will turn red thatll turn red in coming workers temperatures are checked so you get to go through they work behind new barriers with new masks gloves plastic face shields in signs amount social distancing everywhere along with walking lanes in reminders to stay 6 feet apart now that automakers are building again the question is in the worst market since the Great Depression does anyone want to buy the cars theyre making. Across the u. S. Unsold cars by the thousands sit idle delaying the introduction of new models and in these belt tightening times competing with cheaper used cars dealers are offering once in a lifetime incentives like 7 years of no interest loans with little progress so far whether you are laid off from low to return. Cars very purchase from off people sometimes the start is that any socially comfortable on say cannot buy our meeting while until buyers return in force the production lines will reopen more slowly than they shut down and new cars will keep aging on american car lives john hendren al jazeera chicago. Do what you know is there with me said robin a reminder of all top stories u. S. President donald trump has revealed hes been taking a regular dose of the unproven drug hydroxy chloral quitting to prevent coronavirus of to requesting it from the white house doctor Government Health experts warned last month of its potentially fatal side effects the frontline workers many many are taking it i happened to be taking it i happened to be take it. Actually court objectively and hydroxy trial record went right have a. Couple of weeks ago started to get it because i think its kind of had a lot of good stories and if its not good ill tell you right doctor to get hurt by it its been around for 40 years from malaria for a loop as for other things i take it frontline workers take it a lot of doctors take it she has been. The u. S. Has accused the World Health Organization of allowing the coronavirus pandemic to spin out of control Health Secretary alex as are told the uns agency Global Health assembly that the w h os failure to obtain information the world needed has cost many lives in chile been violent protests in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the capital santiago hundreds of protesters broke coronavirus quarantine orders to demand food and medical aid mexico has begun a gradual easing of its lockdown despite its number of deaths and infections continue to rise steadily the 1st stages regions with no cases of the virus to reopen with no restrictions social distancing measures will be gradually lifted by june the 1st and france and germany are proposing a relief fund of over 540000000000. 00 to help the e. U. Recover from the pandemic the proposal suggests Member States for the funds together in an effort to ease divisions over financing initiatives south sudans Vice President rice was shown as why have tested positive to corona virus a statement from his office said a number of his staffers including security guards also contract did the virus those were the headlines and back with more news in half an hour here on aljazeera next its fault lines americas divided democrats do stay with us. What impact will 19 on the drop in the oil prices have on the race to the white house can survive these historic setbacks and does the job only have what it takes to beat. Special coverage out just. May. Not. How. I clear the coronavirus stop the world in its tracks the battle for the future of the Us Democratic party was in full swing back. To clear options would eventually emerge from a pack of candidates with very different visions