President pointing the finger pointing it away from himself. This is the day. Today im instructing my administration to halt. The funding of the World Health Organization severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the corrupt letters american taxpayers provide between 400500000000000. 00 for years and it contributes roughly 40000000000. 00 a year and even less this is not in the logical step by the president its a lift of so to protect ourselves locally in germany or in america. When we divided the plainest exploits the cracks between us. Also coming up one year ago the dictator in sudan was talking to an end to the rule of Omar Al Bashir has anything else changed sudans economy is still dire and attempts to improve things or hindered by the countrys continued presence on the u. S. A. s list of state sponsors of terrorism. Many young people who protested and celebrated a year ago have moved abroad in search of a job or not arise about it but i wanted to stay in my country my family they were very little opportunity this is a time when sudan especially needs us. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with a scapegoat and the power of the purse u. S. President donald trump has accused the World Health Organization of doing too little too late to prepare countries for the coronavirus pandemic yesterday at the White House Trump told reporters so much death has been caused by the w. H. O. Those mistakes he. He announced a freeze on funding for the u. N. Agency and he accused of pushing chinese misinformation about the virus now it is important to note it was the us president not the w. H. O. Who predicted chinas handling of the outbreak at the same time trump downplayed the severity of the virus wasting precious time to prepare the u. S. For the pandemic trumps attempt to shift the blame comes as polls show Public Opinion tipping more americans now disapprove of the president s handling of the virus. The w. H. O. Failed in its basic duty to save lives those were the words of President Trump this United States freeze on funding for the u. N. Agency today im instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted as the organizations leading sponsor the United States has a duty to insist on full accountability as well trump has repeatedly criticized it up you each will throughout the pandemic this time claiming its biased towards china is responsible for the viruses rapid spread to other parts of the world. 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 the outbreak could have been contained at its source with very little death trump says the roughly 400000000. 00 in annual donations will now be paused and decision drew a sharp rebuke from the German Foreign minister. Heikal ma said in a tweet blaming does not help the virus knows no borders we should Work Together closely against kuwait 191 of the best investment is to strengthen the un especially the underfunded w. H. O. For example in the development and distribution of tests and vaccines bill gates to call the move dangerous the us is the washed affected country in the world with more recorded cases and deaths than anywhere else trumps handling of the pandemic has also been widely criticized and his opponents say this latest ones meant a much to nothing more than a deflection tactic when there has been an official response from the World Health Organization here is the w h os director general of the United States of america has been a longstanding and generous friend. And we hope it will continue to be so. We regret the decision of the president of the United States to order to hold in funding to the World Health Organization when we divided the virus exploits the cracks between us we are committed to serving the world its people and to accountability for the resources with which were interested. Well for an insiders take on this im joined tonight by dr jonathan de quick hes a former director at the World Health Organization and hes the author of the book the end of epidemics the looming threat to humanity and help to stop it hes also affiliated with the Rockefeller Foundation and with Duke University dr poor joins me tonight from durham North Carolina dr greg its good to have you on the day let me just get your opinion here 1st do you believe the president will withhold funding indefinitely or do you think hes just bluffing. Well i mean i think whats happened is like decimating the Fire Command Center for a mega city a blaze its going on all over the city at the height of it i mean i think its extremely unwise and on timely i will admit to presume to to take it to guess what what the whats behind that but i think that yeah there is the w. H. O. Response probably not been flawless and but this is not the time to debate that because they they really have led in this fight who will you know as someone who has worked with the way to do you do you see this as an attempt by the president to scapegoat the w. H. O. Well yeah i mean it its hard to see it. Its hard to see any logic of it because you know the World Health Organization has done a superb job of informing of tracking advising of mobilizing and so i just dont i just dont see the logic you know anything i drew with those who said its dangerous as you know dr quick what kind of budget the w. H. O. Works with what does it mean for the w. H. O. If u. S. Funding disappears. Well typically and i think the numbers we heard 40 magnetics about 20 percent of the budget in an organization that is committed to so many Different Things around the world i mean it is it is i think its both a. Its a material cut at the ability of the organization to keep responding to this Global Crisis i say and and also at a time when we need Public Confidence world confidence you fight a pandemic with a whole of society whole of globe recent states of america blunts and trying to and things that hold the Global Community apart are unhelpful and will only prolong the challenge what about these criticisms are correct that we have heard weve heard criticism that the w. H. O. Was slow to declare the the l. Brake a pandemic or that the way joe has been to china centric in its work what do you say to those criticisms well i mean its a classic and we describe it in the book the end of epidemics damned if you do damned if you dont need its like predicting the weather you can get the science but theres a point at which you have to make a judgement and so weve seen this weve seen this before in in the sars outbreak which was the 1st time that the coronavirus virus went global was in 2003 the director general then called a once they saw the evidence they called a global emergency and that that virus was put back in the box in 6 months but in 2009 when we had the h one n one. Is perceived to have pulled the alarm to suit and and then was was really slower with ebola so the challenge is when youre fighting a virus for which theres no. Though vaccine and omega sit your most important tool is public cooperation so if you pull the alarm too early too often they dont trust you they said its another to make if you tell it too late your trouble my observation is that the way w. H. O. Made the decisions was just right you had a scientific body that looked at the evidence at one point and said we dont see enough Scientific Evidence yet to say that this is a will a Public Health emergency. A week later we got word of friends and remember this is a virus that weve only known for 3 months so but a week later when the evidence was there they called the emergency and again very thoughtful about when to declare it a pandemic darn quick in your book the in the end as though there was there was you know let me just im asking you right in your book there will always be new outbreaks but it is within the power of modern Public Health leaders to keep such outbreaks from exploding into catastrophic epidemics that kill thousands or millions when you say modern Public Health leaders are you referring to the w. H. O. And the u. S. President. Yes all leaders and i think we now have a a global scorecard for that ranks 195. 00 countries on their preparedness only one out of 5 is prepared and even those that are that are most prepared weve seen in this outbreak actually hadnt didnt have the the leadership and the funding in order to respond quickly and tight let me just say part of that leadership is funding the Public Health budget so as an example of what its this its this cycle of panic in the glick so in the u. S. What happened was after 911. 00 there was panic about Health Threats a huge fund was set up for Public Health emergencies over the next few years that went down then there was bird flu in the mid 2000 so it went out then there was a financial crash it went down and over a 6 year period we lost 45000 public risk because we were underfunding the budget that was needed for Public Health and this isnt just the u. S. This is this is every country and let me say that after the financial crisis. The members of the World Health Organization we need to remember the World Health Organization is 192. Its their organization it is only as effective as those members will let it be and it was the members who passed the budgets that defunded some of those Public Health capacity going into a bola so the doctor gets leadership at all levels there who unfortunately were out of time but we certainly appreciate your time tonight and your valuable insights an insiders look at what is going on with the w. H. O. At the moment dr Jonathan Quick joining us tonight from durham North Carolina dr thank you thank you greg. Well the United States is now the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic earlier this month as Public Health officials began analyzing the numbers they discovered a disturbing trend africanamericans are being disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus in some states and cities where they are a minority black americans make up the majority of deaths from the virus. Correspondent stephanie moans reports on how a pandemic is revealing the inequalities of a society. This is. To follow doctors and nurses to one of 2 intensive care units at Howard University hospital. This Medical Center in washington d. C. Has been serving the Africanamerican Community in the city for 150 years. Most. Other. Here in washington and elsewhere across the country high quality primary and preemptive care can often be absent an affordable in poor neighborhoods and communities the lack of access to healthy food sources is another factor that accounts for the stark difference in numbers of covert 1000 related deaths in predominantly africanamerican and White Communities this is the when the us she spent years researching the root causes and impact of what she says are systemic inequities on predominantly africanamerican and minority. Shes not surprised that black americans are impacted by covert 19 and a disproportionately high rate. 3. You had a higher dose higher proportion of individuals with hypertension diabetes with obesity these things that are the leading causes of death in the country and the chronic disease the leading chronic diseases in this country its not surprising that individuals that are already have that higher proportion of those immunocompromised diseases would then be at the higher. Cost you know one of the most economically and socially deprived areas in the district of columbia. A Nonprofit Organization that serves underprivileged communities is based here fighting healthy food and offers education healthy food choices among other things. For many residents of. Despair for the hard by the coronavirus the work carried out day in day out by volunteers is critical this is if theres only 2 stories nest neighborhood and theres a lot of people that dont have resources to either get there or stop there so we came here because we knew that this is where the food resources were needed as well as the education and giving families healthy food choices they normally cant afford is perhaps just a bandaid right now but many hope that americas Coronavirus Crisis could finally trigger real policy change that aims at making underprivileged communities healthier more affluent and with that more resilient to a Public Health crisis in the future. Germany is about to take the 1st step to opening its comedy beginning next monday stores and shops will be back in Business Schools will be back in session on the 4th of may the decision was reached today during consultations between german chancellor Angela Merkel and leaders of germanys 16 States Merkel described the countrys success against the pandemic as being very fragile with little room for maneuver or mistake. Its been 3 weeks since chancellor Angela Merkel announced the initial restrictions on contact now have been largely extended social distancing rules will remain in place until may 3rd groups will remain limited to 2 people and at least 1. 5 metres must be kept from of us. From may 4th schools will gradually reopen 1st for School Leavers in primary and secondary education day care will remain shut religious gatherings will also remain banned while major events including germanys beloved football will be called off until august 31st meanwhile restaurants cafes there says cinemas and music venues will keep the shutters down only shops up to 800. 00 metres square can reopen from monday face masks are also being recommended in shops and on transport. Announced in the amended restrictions chancellor Angela Merkel warned against complacency but the. What weve achieved is an interim success no more no less and i emphasise it is a fragile interim success this is now determined our deliberations that should be no rushing forward even if its with the best intentions we have to understand that as long as theres no vaccine we have to live with the virus. Its kind of you become in the zone look im still 50 controls along germanys land borders with its neighbors in the schengen free travel zone will also remain in place for another 20 days. From now germany will continue keeping its distance the curb may be flattening but the government it seems is taking things slow. Artless poor Political Correspondent so i mean hes on the story for us tonight here in berlin going to be to you saw him and we reported in the last week that pressure has been melting on the German Government to ease restrictions todays announcement was no surprise was the answer to that pressure. Well indeed i think the government felt that they had to do something people are desperate off the weeks in lockdown to see some easing of these restrictions where possible and as the chancellor said today you know the numbers have begun to look good the trend of in new infections is down and that means that there is a little bit of room to maneuver as it were although the chancellor wanted to sound that note of caution but the government has said well you know now weve got an opportunity we can start to open some shops and businesses next week and some some schools can begin to reopen in may so you know the 1st green shoots of the road back to some kind of normality i think a lot of people wanted that the government wants to send that message that the measures that have that have been carried out so far have worked you know you have some we heard a lot about that about germanys success in fighting the virus how is that going to achieve what has worked so well. Yeah there are lots of different answers to this if you ask the experts but one thing has been pointed out the average age of those infected in jamey does seem to be quite a bit lower at least in the 1st wave that was the case so that the medical authorities were 1st confronted with lots of Young Healthy people as it were then coming down with this disease that helped them to get a grip on it i also think that theres been a huge amount of testing he has any comparison with some other countries theres also plenty of intensive care bed Space Available in geminis Hospital System which is pretty well funded youve also got a population thats willing to follow those government guidelines and the requests from the government so its a mixture of factors some people have also suggested that germany counts the date from coded 19 in the slightly different way from some other countries if it had a standard counting procedure maybe those statistics would look a little bit different geminis death toll might be a little bit higher but i still think theyve done well compared with some of the European Countries countries across europe so i mean theyre deciding their next moves based on how the virus has impacted them but is there any coordination among them at all i mean are they talking to each other is there an e. U. Strategy here. Well certainly there is theres a lot of talking to each other and of course the European Councils have been going on by by Video Conference even cheering this time of lockdown the European Commission has been asking the countries to kind of coordinate somehow back of Course National measures have been taken weve seen more than half i think the e. U. Member states now have announced some form of easing of restrictions so this is part of a trend across europe and each country is doing it a slightly different pace of course the situation in italy spain and also france is much more serious that it is in germany at the moment our Political Correspondents i mean young of the story for us tonight here in berlin so i mean thank you. The people of sudan in northeastern africa are marking the one Year Anniversary of the overthrow a dictator Omar Al Bashir hopes were high that the nation would be able to overcome 30 years of corruption and economic decline but those hopes remain just that as well as economic stagnation sudan is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and swarms of locusts eating the crops he. Covered those historic moments for us tonight she catches up with a friend that she made there during those heady days one year ago. It was a moment of relief and euphoria. 1129000. Protesters in sudans capital celebrate the removal of dictator im going to live this year. The months they dressed their lives on the streets had not been in vain it was there and then that i met mohamed who made a photographer in the middle of the revolution. To sort of put my picture as a for the coming generations experience of the people in my photos should not be forgotten. I was a time of violence authorities often attacked the protesters you know the government has to bring justice to the people that we are alive because of them everything that has happened is because they sacrificed their lives and those now considered murders by many are not forgotten but their families have not yet seen prosecutions. I asked Prime Minister hun duc about this issue back in february. Under the constitutional command which shes guiding this transition into the hands of very clear undertaking that was thrown bush members to get in committee so theres a small jump to conclusion. Come duck heads a new government that was sworn in in august. After a transitional deal was struck between civilians and the military. Called bushehr is in prison for corruption while his former ruling party has been dissolved. Sudanese officials have suggested they might even turn him over to the International Criminal court for trial over alleged war crimes committed in darfur yet sudans economy is still dire and attempts to improve things or hindered by the countrys continued presence on the u. S. A. s list of state sponsors of terrorism. Many young people who protested and celebrated a year ago have moved abroad in search of a job mohammad now lives and works in the united arab emirates. And the rise of art but i wanted to stay in my country with my family they were very little opportunity. This is a time when sudan especially in needs us. She might not be able to be at home to mark the anniversary but like millions of sudanese the heady days of hope in april 21000 will be etched in their memory for a lifetime. Over the years almost on the conversation continues online you find us on twitter you can follow me at brit gov t. V. 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