hanna al-jazeera washington. steve clemons is the washington editor at large for the hill he also hosts al-jazeera as weekly politics show the bottom line he believes the white house will try to disparage rick writes character. this is a person who was the best in class in what he was tasked to do he had great insights into what the threats to humans all over the world but also to americans were and he had the greatest grasp of how to quickly begin processing the partnerships to get to the kind of vaccines and therapies that americans would need and by the obsession that the administration apparently had with heidrick hydroxide or equipment which is the controversial drug at the core of this debate we saw associates of the president like rudy giuliani coming out in hawking hydrox acorah quit on things like facebook and fox news and you know it kind of broadly and we saw the veteran's administration begin to stockpile a hydroxy couric when very quickly so those who were able to be influenced by the president the w

hanna has more from washington d.c. . now twitter has put up a label on these tweets basically checking it referring viewers or readers to news reports concerning these claims which twitter says are completely fraudulent so this is the 1st time there has been some kind of response to twitter for what many critics have continually labeled as stream of false swords being done by the president on this particular forum. for police officers in the u.s. city of minneapolis have been sacked after the death of a black man a video posted on social media showed an officer kneeling on george floyd's neck before he eventually stopped breathing is the latest example of police brutality against african-americans. russia says it backs the media ceasefire and talks to former united governing body in libya after the u.s. accused russia of deploying more fighter jets to help libya war khalifa haftar and his attempt to topple the un recognized government in tripoli those are the headlines more news in half an hour inside stories next with b

hanna live for us in washington d.c. mike thanks very much indeed i want to bring in a lincoln mitchell he's an associate research scholar columbia university news joining us from new york we appreciate your time so thank you very much i want to talk to you about these allegations that are being made that the trumpet ministration had been looking for quick fixes in its fight against the coronavirus is it not understandable that any government that is essentially playing catch up as the disease spreads as so many governments have been doing would want to try to push any sort of solution as quickly as possible. well it is natural for the government to want to act quickly to save lives but it also would be wise for the government to ground that in science and when the scientists are saying this isn't going to work to continue to push it doesn't really make any sense similarly when going back the scientists no other experts are warning the government this is an important problem we should begin to focus on it ignoring that i

well we have mike hanna standing by for us with all the latest reaction from the white house but fast let's go to a sandbag he's in london and said we've been seeing this fairly consistent call for an inquiry into the response to this pandemic but at the same time countries are also insisting they don't want to make it a blame game yes that's right but even before we got to this phase where we are that with this assembly taking place there was already finger pointing and blame there was a diplomatic spat between china and australia and that's after a stroke proposed a resolution to look into the origin soon vest to get the origins of the virus now beijing took that personally and it culminated last month in china threatening economic ramifications for strayer but we do understand that a resolution is being put forward that it's supported by around $120.00 countries and that calls for a comprehensive independent investigation into the international response to the pandemic now china isn't opposing that resolution but they're not exactly supporting it either but we understand that that

hanna reports from washington. the president met with the governors of colorado and north dakota and urged them to look into reopening schools as soon as possible the country is getting it back and it's going to get back as soon as possible and i don't consider a country coming back and the schools are closed it's a message at odds with that given by dr anthony fauci who told a senate committee tuesday that there were real dangers in reopening states too soon making particular reference to schools we don't know everything about this virus and we've really got to be very careful particularly when it comes to children presidential candidate joe biden was quick to comment i would trust the guy who's one of our nation's top public health experts he tweeted not the one who pondered injecting disinfectant into the body and look directly at a solar eclipse there are federal guidelines for governors to consider among the recommendations that the rate of infection drops for 2 weeks before mitigating measures are eased that

or go live for us there with protesters in new york city thank you very much let's go to mike hanna who joins us live from washington d.c. where things also are pretty frantic there too mike protesters of again taken to the streets close to the white house are we likely to see clashes with security forces there in the hours ahead. well the demonstrations been fairly peaceful up until this point there were a number of windows broken at one stage but generally the protesters have been peaceful the police and the secret service behind them have not needed to press up against them as they had to do want to cations during the demonstrations friday but one notable fact is that in the course of the morning president trump issued a tweet saying that tonight is mad good night at the white house now that stands for make america great again that's the brand of the trump campaign now this was interpreted as president calling on his conservative supporters to stage a counter demonstration outside the white house but at this stage no sign whatsoever of the red caps magers supporters so certainly the

hanna is live for us in washington d.c. and obviously mike it's a tragic milestone and a very symbolic one as well about the way that the u.s. has attempted to deal with the crown of our south break. indeed yes and the chilling fact is that the death toll could be far far higher according to a number of experts including the country's leading epona dollars as dr anthony fire chief the reason for this is that not all the deaths were recorded as resulting from the corona virus so the people like dr believe that there are still a number of other deaths a large number of other deaths that have not been included in the government statistics but one must point out too that the 1st reported case a confirmed case of the virus came on the 20th of january in washington state now that's exactly the same day that north south korea reported its 1st case the sequence then was entirely different south korea immediately imposed mitigating measures immediately started setting out factors like contact tracing in the u.s. that took weeks befo

mike hanna al jazeera washington for us oil prices have rallied over the past 3 weeks after turning negative for the 1st time in history the recoveries use of a drop in global opera 10 an easing of some coronavirus locked on restrictions but prices a self off from this year speak and limited by the call the 1000 operate john hendren has on report from chicago. in less than a month oil has gone from worthless to barely profitable in these days of coronavirus fueled economics it is enough for u.s. president donald trump to tweet or oil energy is back the worst oil market in decades appears to be stabilizing somewhat for 2 reasons massive production cuts by saudi arabia other opec countries russia and the u.s. into a cautious increase in buying in china and the us is their economies begin to reopen it just above $30.00 a barrel prices are still half the $60.00 a barrel at the start of 2020 you know i listed. for ya arse and. then yes that's pretty slim margin you know east you have oil flowing again. but it's not like. us but for now it's enough to allow us shale oil producers to come near brea

hanna has. all is ready the falcon 9 rocket poised on the launch pad for historic mission that could pave the way for the future of space travel and restart a manned space program that was mothballed in sweeping budget cuts by the obama administration. the astronauts doug hurley and bob behnken are space veterans 210 and lift off doug hurley was the pilot of the space shuttle atlantis back in 2011 the last manned flight from u.s. soil you would have never thought you know after we landed atlantis back in 2011 then you know 9 years later we would be where we are in some ways and it's it's. better than i would have imagined in so many the mission is the fruit of the unique partnership between the private space x. company founded by millionaire elon musk and the one thing we have under development that is of the highest priority is launching american astronauts on american rockets from american soil there's always issues space is hard obviously the partnership has not been without its problems in 2

continues to rise thank you mike hanna in washington d.c. in the news ahead on al jazeera demands for justice over the killing of an unarmed black man in the u.s. state of georgia. back to school senior students in china's coronavirus epicenter are returning to class. well i was it's raining heavily in some positive boundaries and the particular thinking ok how are this frontal system on its way through it is going away so you should have most japan a couple of dr days coming up not very warm but warming 20 you may be rising to more beijing is cooling down and this rain forming over a good part of central china becoming quite heavy for a time through han and to the northeast that churning back through shanghai believes hong kong halt 33 degrees with occasional thunderstorms possibly and humid weather but i think the 33 is the thing to stick or not is quite high for this time the year it's more typical throughout the tropics of course where you see daily big showers those monies they were now the concentration on the heavier ones it's maybe r

hanna has more from washington. no face mask for the president while visiting an aerospace company repurposed to produce masks this in defiance of his administration's guidelines that masks should be worn in public at all times the president confirmed reports that he was considering shutting down the coronavirus task force that has been responsible for the federal response to the pandemic as far as the task force my pension the task force and done a great job but we're now looking at a little bit of a different form and their former safety and opening and we'll. have a different group probably set up for them are you saying mission accomplished no no no no the mission accomplished is when it's over while the president was on his travels this document was handed over to the office of the special counsel an $89.00 page whistle blower report alleging the trumpet ministration ignored early warnings about the coronavirus the authors dr rick bright the former director of the biomedical at vance research 'd and development

hanna has more from washington d.c. now twitter has put up a label on these tweets basically checking it referring viewers or readers to news reports concerning these claims which twitter says here are completely fraudulent so this is the 1st time there has been some kind of response to twitter for what many critics have continually labeled a stream of false swords being done by the president on this particular forum junior u.k. government minister has quit over the controversy surrounding top advisor dominic cummings as cross-country trip during the coronavirus locked on prime minister boris johnson has defended cummings who defied calls to quit or apologize but he traveled with his family from london to northeastern england in march while his wife had covert 900 symptoms. and russia says it backs the media ceasefire and talks to form a united governing body in libya and that's after the u.s. accused russia of deploying more fighter jets to help libyan ward cleaver after his attempt to topple the un recognized governme

to those health experts cautioning against undue haste mike hanna al-jazeera washington. the f.b.i. has mistakenly revealed the identity of a saudi official believed to be linked to the 911 attacks it is information so sensitive the u.s. government has been trying to keep it secret apparently for months he was named in a us federal lawsuit filed by families of victims of the attacks on september the 11th 2001 they accuse the saudi government of complicity with declaration was filed by an f.b.i. official a senior u.s. government official says it was done in error a spokesman for the victims' families says they believe they've uncovered a link between 911 hijackers and the saudi embassy in washington 15 of the 19911 hijackers were citizens of saudi arabia the saudi government to nine's in the connection. well michael isikoff is a chief investigative correspondent at yahoo news and he says the f.b.i. argues that the evidence is inconclusive. the saudis are critical ally of the us government despite all the strains and u.s. saudi relations over the years particularly the murd

hanna. what started out as peaceful protests in dozens of cities a ruptured in violence in los angeles police vehicles were set on fire sending plumes of black smoke over the area. similar scenes in cities ranging from seattle where a 5 pm curfew has been set to miami where thousands gathered through the day and where like in so many other areas a standoff with police ended in clouds of tear gas in chicago where demonstrators held signs carrying messages of protest that were repeated throughout the nation. in new york a city that is still to emerge from the ravages of the pandemic a series of protests took place throughout the 5 boroughs and in minneapolis the city where george floyd was killed and where the national wave of protests began. the president left the white house in the morning to attend the basics launch and afterwards expressed his sympathy for george floyd and his family but also had this to say about the protesters. the memory of george floyd is being dishonored by riders loo

now we go to mike hanna who is live for us at the white house in washington d.c. mike the escalating spat between the u.s. and china had really threatened to overshadow this world health assembly i believe the u.s. representative has spoken want to they have to say. yes indeed relations between the u.s. china and with the w.h.o. in the middle continuing to deteriorate president trump has frozen funds to the w.h.o. he says that he is reviewing this at present and the possibility is that all funding will be struck off but the health secretary alex azhar has entered the fray with a sharpie critical speech to the world health association the world health organization in which he accused the w.h.o. of failing in its mission to explain the origins of the virus to communicate what was happening to the rest of the world this is what alex is are at to say 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 2 failed at its core mission of informatio

hanna told us about the strict rules attached to the announcement. it has been given an emergency use flagged by the f.d.a. which means that it can be used under very tightly controlled conditions which will be part of the ongoing survey into the take a c. of the drug now within the u.s. the f.d.a. some urgency rissa lucian was given on the basis of a single trial in which patients were shown to recover 4 days quicker from the corona virus than those who were given a placebo within the trial but it was a very narrow trial involving just a little more than a 1000 people the emergency approval by the f.d.a. means that wider studies will be able to be made on the drug that 1st of all there's got to be at some stage be a peer review which is an essential part of full f.d.a. approval so it's a long way away i must mention too as well that the answer to magazine reported on a similar study on. being conducted in china which did not produce as favorable results and did show that patients recovered a little bit faster but not to the extent to which the us tr

hanna in washington d.c. shortly but 1st let's cross over to john holeman in mexico city taking a look at it from latin america of course what we know about the way these tankers obviously have moved from iran and they're heading towards venezuela and to a country that desperately needs fuel. exactly and iran actually desperately needs gold and that seems to be where the 2 countries have sort of met in the middle of this it's been reported since april the tons of venezuelan gold was leaving the country by plane and going towards iran so now the other way round that oil that venezuela desperately needs despite having the biggest oil reserves in the in the world quite a lot of mismanagement of the oil industry over the years and then sanctions after that from the u.s. has brought them to the point where they don't actually have any gasoline or they don't have as much gasoline as they need at the moment hence the need to bring it in from iran so that's where the 2 countries of sort of coincided in their mutual s

that speak to mike hanna in washington about this mike the president making it seem. that his top and infectious disease expert is being too anonymous. indeed yes or the president saying that that is not an acceptable answer but it's something that dr felt she has been saying for a period of time now that opening up states prematurely could result in a spike in infections and have another impact on the economy that it was supposed to open saying too that the cost in human life could prove disastrous there would be yet another round he said in terms of the infection dr or saying this to the health committee in the u.s. senate mr trump obviously taking exception to these comments describing it as an acceptable and particularly referring to dr fox these comments about schools now in new york a number of children had been infected with a mystery element connected to the corona virus dr far cheaper pointing out that this just proves how little is known about the virus and the dangers involved in it and he specifically referred to the fact that schools have got to think ver

significant evidence covert $900.00 came from a chinese laboratory mike hanna is in washington d.c. with more on the damning criticisms from rick bright doctorow bright was insistent that there was pressure on him to approve drugs like hydroxy cora quinn and the associated chloroquine from officials within the trumpet ministration despite his warnings that they were not if v.a. approved and that the source of some of these drugs were countries like india and pakistan where there had been no f.d.a. inspection of the bar agrees with the drugs when they he insists in his 89 page report that he lost his position or was demoted because of the officials around president trump seeking to placate the president he also has even more damning allegations in this report saying that a series of e-mails he wrote in january were ignored these e-mails specifically warned of the immensity of the threat from the pandemic and also warned very strongly that the national stockpile of masks and ventilators needed to be augmented so certainly very serious allegations and the most senior official to come o

mike hanna reports. president trump arrives on capitol hill for a meeting with senate republicans continuing to flout his administration's own guidelines by not wearing a mask in public and lashing out at the speaker of the house democrat nancy pelosi these people are sick pelosi is a sick woman you got a lot of problems a lot of mental problems we're dealing with people that have to get their act together for the good of the country pelosi has sharply criticized president trump's threat to withhold funding from the w.h.o. describing it in a radio interview as stupid and dangerous earlier in the day the president indicated he had no intention of backing down but representative. world war 2 he was a person through the letters a very detailed long letter but basically they have to clean up their act they have to do a better job they have to be much more fair other countries including the united states so we're not going to be involved in 2 separate ways but critics wall not walking away from the w.h.o. as

hanna in washington d.c. mark thanks very much indeed for russia's report of the largest number of new delhi cases in europe of total infections now exceeding 150000 now 3 health stuff for complained about working conditions of fallen out of windows and dined in barber reports. digging graves instant petersburg russia 2nd city for victims of covered 19 a scene that's becoming more common on tuesday the country reported the highest number of new coronavirus cases in europe and now there are disturbing questions over health workers who've raised the alarm about their working conditions but after you never really thought of it xander issue this video on twitter shows dr alexander should lead off on the left and a colleague is explaining how she had been forced to keep working despite having covered 19 the colleague had previously criticised the hospital management for protective gear shortages and was questioned by police for allegedly spreading fake news but another video made 3 days later apparently of the hos

well let's speak to our jazeera as mike hanna in washington d.c. for us mike just 24 hours ago president trump was declaring that the u.s. had prevailed over coronavirus but when you listen to the comments from dr fowler they seemed to contradict that triumphant tone. indeed your stock to fall to they're repeating something that you said over the past days and in fact weeks and that is that any premature opening up of the society could result in spikes of the infection now it wasn't just dr fox you saying that a number of other health experts dr fox news colleagues also gave evidence to the committee to the same effect there was some very hostile questioning from a republican senator in particular accusing dr polje of believing that he's the one who could make the decision well dr felt she responded by saying that he just simply follows the science and that this is a very real warning incidentally or doctor felt she also confirmed that the estimate of the numbers of deaths could be far higher than what is publicly reported at present saying that th

mike hanna joins us live now from bear pressing on there with the trump administration's criticism of china mike. well indeed yes and he's continuing to pose a highly controversial and possibly incorrect theory that the virus somehow originated in a chinese lab in will harm this has been discredited by many scientists including the foremost for ologist in the united states antony and yet by continues to press this point he continues to back to china now a bit of background has always been a hawk on trying or even before he entered government he was very much a controversial commentator on chinese events in particular very much and in many occasions a conspiracy theorist but many experts still questioning why my compo is pressing a particular theory that has no support from the u.s. traditional allies and certainly active opposition from countries like russia and some point out that might propose actually speaking to an audience of one and that is indeed the president in the white house donald trump who from his own comments on china in recent days indicate that he is very much making

health experts cautioning against undue haste mike hanna al-jazeera washington dr bob arnot is the forward chief medical correspondent today b c news he says the trumpet ministration is taking a dangerous gamble by encouraging states to lift lockdowns. i think it's an incredibly dangerous time for the us you know if you look at the curve it will hand china it went up like this it got flat which is where we are right now and then descended only when they did contact case tracy it took every single contact and put them into quarantine so we're playing with fire here at the top i'm in the state of vermont we've been incredibly successful yes that we had no deaths we had no new cases we've had a hard lockdown here very smart about industries starting up it's smart in other words outdoor landscape makes sense small manufacture when you're 6 feet apart but look at some of the mindless opening up georgia as an example you have hair salons nail parlors tattoos restaurants theaters gyms people in close contact makes news no sense and fundamental problem here is you have phenomenal scientists like d

health experts cautioning against undue haste mike hanna al-jazeera washington well the u.s. secretary of state is in israel for talks on plans to annex a 3rd of the old point west bank my pump area is meeting the prime minister benjamin netanyahu but he can't the former rivals will be partners in a unity government due to be sworn in on thursday on a student's have rejected the u.s. president's middle east peace plan which backs the annexation or force it has more now from west jerusalem. exactly how will donald trump come down on this the coalition deal signed between gansa netanyahu specifies that annexation can proceed with the coordination i.e. approval of the united states and on the proviso that it doesn't breach peace agreements with other neighboring countries and so there are 2 schools of thought one is that donald trump needs this to rally his evangelical christian base another achievement in their eyes in terms of u.s. israeli policy the other school of thought is that it would be damaging to another very important interest the alliance of countries that the unite

hanna has more now from washington d.c. . the secretary of state has given some 90 interviews or briefings in the past month alone and a central theme in all of them has been the accusation that china is intentionally covering up the origins of the coronavirus and the timeline of the spread of infection the most important piece here is that the american people remain at risk the american people remain at risk because we do not know to your point we don't have certainty about whether it began in the lab or whether begin someplace else the country's foremost carolla just is adamant the virus did not begin another barratry dr anthony fauci has stated repeatedly that all scientific evidence points to the microbe originating in a mammal like a bat and jumping between species. but president like a secretary of state continues to push back on the science and references the pandemic as an attack this is really the worst attack we've ever had this is worse than pearl harbor this is worse than the world trade center there's never been

hanna has more. it was a meeting of the senate health committee like none before 3 of the witnesses and the committee chairman were not present because they were self isolating yourself quarantining says to some degree one of them dr anthony felt she came and attacked from a republican senator or is at the casino of a cautious approach to the easing of restrictions on a me as much as i respect you dr i don't think you're the end all i don't think you're the one person who gets to make a decision dr foti responded by saying he was going to die by science and undeterred by the hostile questioning repeated his warning against states stopping mitigating measures to quickly it is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak you may not be able to control which in fact after dark simply will set you back not only leading to some suffering and death that could be avoided but could even set you back on the road to trying to get economic recovery a position backed up by some of dr colleagues who also gave ev

hanna with the latest there. but want to move to russia now because authorities there are investigating the safety of ventilators for corona virus patients after one of them reportedly burst into flames killing 4 people media said the blaze fried addison petersburg hospital after the machine short circuited another ventilator was blamed for a fire in the capital moscow on saturday russia has the 2nd highest number of current corona virus infections in the world and more than 232000 of that now includes the president's spokesman dmitri peskov his confirmed he is in hospital with the disease well at least 32000 people now confirmed to have died of covert 19 here in the u.k. in care homes account for a quarter of that the government has been criticized for early failings which left some of the most vulnerable at high risk and there are concerns care workers could bring the disease back into the wider community join whole explains now from london . the effect of covert 19 on care homes in britain has been devastating

hanna al-jazeera washington. contrary to expectations china's exports rose by 3.5 percent in april compared to the previous year many were forecasting a full loss of the pandemic reduce demand globally katrina you has more from beijing on how china's industry has moved dominance since being hit by the pandemic . there is some real recovery in chinese trade in this is really a surprise to many analysts they were predicting up to an 11 percent drop and some people are tribute ing this to the fact that perhaps during april there was an increase in exports of p.p.t. or protective medical gear such as masks and respiration is also one other analysts are speculating that's because there was a backlog that needed to be filled in terms of export orders or all customers were front loading orders ahead of what they expected to be a bad pandemic year and also the other thing is that paps this concern about demand dropping maybe that's yet to hit china's exports maybe with still maybe the worst is still yet to come that's al

hanna al-jazeera washington. confirmed cases of the chrono virus are slowly rising in africa health experts warn that efforts to contain the virus are being undermined by misinformation and quoting from some african later alfonso our report some kenya's capital nairobi. victor evers job as a journalist to the facts checking agency is to verify information on the internet and examine the truth to what government and political leaders are saying he especially needs to be more diligent during the coronavirus pandemic never has just analyzed the social media video of the governor of kenya's capital nairobi. who recently included potholes of a brand of cognac in food relief packs and gave these explanations that is chemistry which has some but it. didn't end up she does us troops and it kills the person because the virus is something that it kills as the disease continues to spread across the continent so does misinformation about it a lot of false information a lot of misinformation and disinformation play on your em

mike hanna says president trump has now fired off more tweets criticizing the platform's actions. twitter is now interfering in the 2020 election he says in a follow up tweety adds that twitter is eroni asli saying that his claims about mail in voting are incorrect and he says. that it is stifling free speech and he continues and as president i will not allow that so certainly a very strong attack on twitter which earlier in the day had put fact checking labels on 2 of his tweets dealing with mail in voting twitter described as incorrect and put a lead in a reference to news reports on mail in voting pointing out that it is not as the president claims fraudulent so certainly this spat between president trump and the forum of twitter is continuing to rage on all russia's banks the media the cease fire and talks to form a united governing body in libya and that's after the u.s. accused russia of deploying more fighter jets to help libya ward cleaver have to there's a term to topple the u.n. recognize government in tripoli but move the bill why it is in tripoli and says it appears ru

hanna reports from washington the president met with the governors of colorado and north dakota and urged them to look into reopening schools as soon as possible the country is getting it back and it's going to get back as soon as possible and i don't consider our country coming back and the schools are closed it's a message at odds with that given by dr anthony fauci who told a senate committee tuesday that there were real dangers in reopening states too soon making particular reference to schools we don't know everything about this virus and we've really been very careful particularly when it comes to children presidential candidate joe biden was quick to comment i would trust the guy who's one of our nation's top public health experts he tweeted not the one who pondered injecting disinfectant into the body and looked directly at a solar eclipse. there are federal guidelines for governors to consider among the recommendations that the rate of infection dropped for 2 weeks before mitigating measures are eased that a proper tracing procedure should be established and that testing pr

i'm joint live on mike hanna in washington dc. mike, this broken the past hour. what can you tell us about dr. bright's complaint. director bright was a of the biomedical advanced development authority,, certainly a senior official. he was essentially in charge of developing vaccines for any virus that would hit the united states. now he has filed an official complaint with the office of the special counsel, an 89-page complaint in which he outlines all the reasons he feels he was unfairly removed from his job as director of bada. it is a litany of complaints. among the most important is, he says in january he was sending warnings to health and human services, including the secretary, warning of the virus, warning of the severity of what was to come. he sent a series of emails insisting that the national ventilators masks, be augmented because they were going to be needed. it is certainly a devastating factaint, along with the he specifically mentions he was sidelined from his job because of his opposition to the use of hydroxychloroquine as an antidote or treatm

where mike hanna is live for us at the white house mike tell us more. well indeedy a tangle who's the chairman of the house foreign relations committee has now issued a statement saying that the inspector general who was fired on friday night steve linnik was about to deliver a report on his investigation into the trump administration's state of the merchant sea which he believes was to bypass a congressional oversight for an $8000000000.00 arms sale to saudi arabia now the background to all of this speck in may last year president trump declared a state of emergency in order to prevent any congressional oversight of this arms sale to saudi arabia that being strong bipartisan opposition in congress both republicans and democrats to this arms sales given saudi arabia's human rights record the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi so certainly there was resistance in congress to do this president trying to clear the emergency his secretary of state might pompei or then convey the decision to declare that emergency to congress knowledges revealed that eliot

continuing their investigations thanks that that is there as mike hanna. well as have been reporting on employment in the us has risen rapidly through the pandemic the she had to tons of reports thanks loads the people fighting the virus . it hasn't gone unnoticed that even as the u.s. salutes frontline workers in this case with military flyovers at a conservatively estimated $60000.00 an hour over at least 22 cities health care workers are being fired at alarming rates due to a lack of foam and that's despite 100000000000 dollars in funding post by congress specifically to help medical providers preliminary estimates for april showed a loss of 1400000 health care jobs with 135000 hospital stuff such as revenue rich elective surgeries and routine visits were canceled his data report on the situation as of the 12th so what we're seeing today is what was going on in and around the middle so i certainly think i would not be surprised to see more losses when we see next month 317 stoffel 5 at this hospital in san diego those who remain say some of those were f

hanna al-jazeera washington. human rights groups are criticizing the shutdown of a leading broadcast network in the philippines calling it a serious blow to press freedom a.b.s. c b n was ordered to shut down on tuesday after its operating license renewal process stalled activists late candles outside its office after the announcement despite a lockdown being in place president rodrigo deter has regularly criticized the network opponents of accused him of targeting independent media the company's shares been suspended and serious general allen duggan in manila says this isn't the 1st time that the channel has gone off air. there is strong opposition online and also in other interviews where government officials specially those in congress have actually in a way apologized to the network for failing to pass and help renew its license early enough we've been listening to different interviews with lawmakers here and they basically said that they're going to try to find and vote within the next 10 days as required by

hanna has more from the. d.c. . the secretary of state has given some 90 interviews or briefings in the past month alone and a central theme in all of them has been the accusation that china is intentionally covering up the origins of the coronavirus and the timeline of the spread of infection the most important piece here is that the american people remain at risk the american people remain at risk because we do not know to your point we don't have certainty about whether it began in the lab or whether begin someplace else in the country's foremost neurologist is adamant the virus did not begin another of our tree stump and to be false she has stated repeatedly that all scientific evidence points to the microbe originating in a mammal like a bat and jumping between species. but president like a secretary of state continues to push back on the science and references the pandemic as an attack this is really the worst attack we've ever had this is worse than pearl harbor this is worse than the world trade cente

hanna reports it's facing criticism for the lack of any pandemic response strategy. in past decades the us was the global leader in pandemic response the bush administration largely set the world agenda in combating the h 5 n one or bird flu virus if we wait for a pandemic to appear he warned it will be too late to prepare. president obama demanded daily briefings from the pandemic response team then ordered troops into the field to fight the 2014 a bowler epidemic the 1st of a deployment of the military in a medical crisis and his stablished a pandemic response unit within the national security council called the global security team said it would allow for and all of government response in the event of an outbreak or if a foreign epidemic got to u.s. soil so that we would have coordination across homeland security our national security the military health and human services c.d.c. and all the various state health agencies barry garrett advised the pandemic response team in both the obama and bush administrations the pandemic flu plan of 2005. and you know look at t

national outrage over racism sometimes at the hands of police officers mike hanna begins our coverage of. what started out as peaceful protests in dozens of cities or ruptured in violence in los angeles police vehicles were set on fire sending plumes of black smoke over the area similar scenes in cities ranging from seattle where a 5 pm curfew has been set to miami where thousands gathered through the day and where like in so many other areas a standoff with police ended in clouds of tear gas in chicago where demonstrators held signs carrying messages of protest that were repeated throughout the nation. in new york a city that is still to emerge from the ravages of the pandemic a series of protests took place throughout the 5 boroughs and in minneapolis the city where george floyd was killed and where the national wave of protests began. the president left the white house in the morning to attend the space x. launch and afterwards expressed his sympathy for george floyd and his family but also had this to say about the protesters the memory of george floyd is being dishonored by rider

and talk to mike hanna mike so not surprisingly president trump has taken to twitter and that's cause a serious rift with the man tell us what's been happening. indeed yes well even in this crisis the president is still making political points as you mentioned in that tweet some 8 hours ago blaming the democratic mayor of minneapolis for not coping with the situation so certainly president trump singling out democrats he got into a furious specter in the course of the day with the mayor of the d.c. meriel but she was absolutely incensed when he tweeted what she regarded as full swords that d.c. police did not aid the secret service in dealing with the demonstrations friday the secret service came out with a statement shortly afterwards confirming that they have a joint command with the metropolitan police that the police in fact had given them some protective equipment so the mayor absolutely incensed about that incense to about president trump's tweets that those demonstrators who got into the area of the white house would be greeted with ominous weapons that vicious dogs the mayor s

hanna al-jazeera washington. ok let's go now to john hendren our correspondent who's covering the story where it all began the city of minneapolis this is what a curfew is supposed to look like few people on the street few cars in relative quiet but it was a far cry from that just hours ago. police and demonstrators faced off in an area they have been trading control of a night ago the police controlled an intersection behind me and then. demonstrators took it over in the day well in the evening the police came back in force marching toward the protesters shooting helots and firing tear gas it all took about 15 minutes to disperse the crowd we spoke to some of the protesters and this is what they had to say they treated state drawing gas so let's not. have a bullet if you know me i've got picked up in the now. we need our justice we need our justice the city would not rest until we get out just no justice no peace does that mean we are one officer has been arrested and charged with murder but there were 4 officer