Latest target is the World Health Organization his criticism mounts over his response to the pandemic. Ethiopia declares a state of emergency warning of grave illegal measures against anybody who undermines the fight against. A bleak prognosis for African Americans and a plea to learn the lessons from current are. So then the uns a chemical weapons watchdog has released its 1st report explicitly blaming the Syrian Government for sarin and chlorine attacks against civilians the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and looked at 3 attacks in 2017 in the northern syrian town of the men in Hama Province it says there are reasonable grounds to believe Government Forces used bombs containing sarin that hit heavily can jet. Its civilian areas including a hospital the report goes on to say that Bashar Al Assads heavy use of chemical weapons has been a crucial part of his regimes military strategy lets cross straightaway to our diplomats at the james base who joins us from the United Nations and james it important to report this very important investigators coming out with more specifics about what happened. An important report but will it be a game changer clearly the long and horrific saga of the use of chemical weapons goes back to 2039 youre remember that certainly the Obama Administration thought the assad regime did it they said that it across the red line but then president obama decided not to take any sort of military action at that time well all the while weve not had any technical scientific proof that the assad regime was responsible well we now have it just over an hour ago for the 1st time the o. P. C. W thats the International Body that deals with chemical weapons has produced this 82. 00 page report looking initially at 3 incident incidents go back to 2017 they are in a town in it live as you say and there over a 6 day period now what they have decided and they say that this is based on on them looking at the evidence and looking at all the possibilities that on 2 occasions the Syrian Air Force dropped bombs with sarin in them and then on the another occasion in the same town at the hospital they believe that a syrian a helicopter dropped chlorine on the hospital in an improvised barrel bombs so pretty clear here this report pretty clear no doubt really that the assad regime was responsible for these crimes certainly the whole International System had been trying to come up with some sort of conclusions the chemical weapons use and this is the 1st time we have a definitive answer like this in the past there were mechanisms set up there was a joint o. P. C. W. U. N. Mechanism and that was put into place in 2015 renewed 2016 they were coming together with their findings and in 2017. When they were getting closer to coming up with the findings russia blocked the renewal of that mechanism and so weve had a new team in the o. P. C. W since 2017 and their work is now bearing fruit right said james where do we go from here the Syrian Government explicitly blamed but theres not much chance of any repercussions there at this moment anyway the Syrian Government is blamed the Syrian Government didnt help this inquiry and anyway worth telling you the earlier in the week the un came up with his board of inquiry on attacks in hospital on hospitals in it lib province more recent attacks again they felt they felt that it was probable that the Syrian Government and its allies were behind some of those attacks again the Syrian Government didnt cooperate so what is going to be the cost to the Syrian Government where is going to be the justice for all of this will that i think is a problem the accountability piece because the obvious venue to take this would be the International Criminal court but weve seen in the past whenever the syria file has been referred to the International Criminal court there is a blockage of the blockage is quite simple you need a vote in the Un Security Council russia is syrias closest ally its a permanent member of the Un Security Council and it showed its prepared to use its veto rights for a dam that the very latest there james bays there joining us from the United Nations thanks. Lets get straight into our continuing coverage of the coronavirus now and the death toll in the United Kingdom 1st up it continues to say with figures just released confirming 828 people have died thats an england alone in the past 24 hours nearly 56000 people have been affected right across the country among them the Prime Minister of course Boris Johnson he remains in intensive care the Prime Minister was given supplementary oxygen cabinet ministers say hes in a stable condition and in good spirits. Actually outside the hospital where Boris Johnson is being treated right now but lets start with the figures festival because theyre important and theyre ratcheting up. Just over an hour ago we started to get the the day you speak is coming in from the different nations of the United Kingdom so england has released its so i was whales Northern Islands at the mall up and gets. A pretty gloomy total its 936. 00 with 828. 00 coming from england that you said nick. Its worth saying though that when. National when that the National Statistics are put out towards the end of the day by the department of health they are likely to be slightly different from this because of the way that these are will talk to top the timescales of a using cetera et cetera it is also worth saying that this figure is the figure that is put out later in the day by the department of health. Likely to be significant and accounts of what the real figure reach it weans which is probably significantly higher. Than we might find that out in a couple of weeks or a week. The office of National Says there are a number of different ways of these being counted the best way of looking at think is not comparing one figure with another but looking at the trajectory over time and what that clearly shows us is that day by day the death toll for the United Kingdom hes getting. Higher and higher and i think that the figures that were seeing at the moment. Rivaling perhaps even exceeding the numbers that we were seeing coming out said hastily at its worst period and it doesnt look like the hole in the u. K. Has stopped and yet its still climbing and while the money should be i was seeing all this that the Prime Minister of course Boris Johnson hes in intensive care still. Yes. Were not being told a huge amount about his condition every few hours we get a. Minister or a spokesman from downing street and its pretty much been exactly the same script for a day and a half now which is that hes in good spirits hes stable he has been given oxygen he might even be still receiving oxygen he hasnt been in he doesnt have you know. The the most recent update that we got containing new information was in the last few hours which said that hes responding to treatment now what is the treatment we dont really know except that shes being given oxygen were also told that hes not doing any work now that means that essentially that that big Prime Minister although its not the formal role is now dominic robb spots he is not what the Prime Minister would be he doesnt have the power to hire and fire other ministers. There is still this principle of. Happen its a collective responsibility for important matters of state and we are starting to see i think the problem is that this store where were getting different messages coming out about. View of the governments to lock down period is actually going to happen early next week or not roy thanks very much indeed thats the update from outside sometimes this hospital in london where a chance well European Finance ministers have failed to agree on joint measures to counter the pandemics economic fallout thats after an overnight teleconference that went on for roughly 16 hours they are divided over how to share the financial burden is estimated to be as high as 1. 00 trillion dollars for the European Union comes as World Trade Organization predicts up to a 3rd of all global trade could be lost this year when the use scientific chief has resigned saying hes frustrated with the blocks response to the pandemic model ferrari has led the European Research council for just 4 months he told the Financial Times newspaper Member States had failed to coordinate on Health Care Policies lets cross now to dominate kane he joins us from berlin via skype and don this is most mia a 4 year term the ferrari had and what do we know. Boyett son which ended up being less than 4 months in office nick this is a man who came to this position in the leaves find this fall the e. U. Lets be clear about that accept simon one would think that the lead scientist for that me you would have a very clear and serious role to play but its he says that the initiatives that he wanted to see being implemented were not being implemented mr professor ferarri wanted to have a lot of power to take decisions at on a sort of talk down basis that is to be empowered with executive or therapy as it were so that the e. U. Could act together in a concerted manner with with his input into it but that was rebuffed by the institute itself the European ResearchCouncil Scientific committee unanimously said no we dont want that means all of us leave then very disappointed by that but he says that the president of the European Commission of a set up on the alliance who herself has only been in the job through not that much longer than that mr found out he had been where she said to him give me your ideas that see if we can find a way around this and he then went into more detail about ideas and again that was rebuffed at the european level he says that the plan disintegrates and so clearly this is someone saying im not happy with the way the European Union is acting the man says that he was europhile and he wanted to believe in the European Union and fails that could be acting in a great deal more concerted manner with a top down approach but that the e. U. Officials he was working with dont want that to happen and i suppose many would argue that there is no this is no time at all for any kind of resignation whatever the reason is but it does also highlight the dysfunction within the european enterprise as a whole. Well as you were hearing in that introduction you have the sense of disagreement between e. U. Countries about the financial wafl woods through this Coronavirus Crisis of this pandemic and indeed the the fact that you have the lead scientist saying its disjointed its not working its not something which is going to help so clearly it shows there is disagreement but lets be clear that we should distinguish between the disagreement that professor pati is referring to and the disagreement between states about the Financial Way forward because you have a break as it were between Northern European states and southern europeans things the germans the dutch and to a certain extent the austrians are very clear that while they are quite happy so allow the southern european states of a most affected its early in spain to draw down emergency loan funding under whats called the european stability mechanism the really a whole king at the idea all being the ultimate guarantee that taxpayers as it were providing a guarantee of spanish and italian debts thats what those 2 countries really want they want whats called euro bonds or corona vaughns as it was a guarantee of that debts to allow them to fight corona and also not worry about huge debt repayments and that sort of thing thats whats still being worked on the German Government has indicated it is prepared to move to in a certain way but the question remains will there be enough movement to find something more substantial which can really help these those 2 countries i mentioned its early in spain there is a suggestion from the german finance minister that maybe that maybe some movement with all the east that we can see which is the coast this weekend but we wait to see what will happen in brussels all right thats the view from but im going to kind thanks very much appreciated. Well spain has announced more than 750 people have died in the past 24 hours with new infections also on the rise the number of fatalities has been increasing again in recent days spain is one of the worst affected countries in the world with more than 146000 confirmed cases a French MilitaryAircraft Carrier has been instructed to return to port after sailors on board started showing symptoms of coronavirus nearly 40 people on the shoulder go have not been placed on that medical of savation Screening Team with Test Facilities has been sent to the ship to try and prevent a further spread of the virus now the World Health Organization is denying president Donald Trumps accusation that its quote china centric and responding to his threat to cut funding the u. N. Organization said the acute phase of a pandemic is not the right time for that has been blamed several people including his predecessors and the media as he faces increasing criticism over his handling of the crisis the u. S. Has recorded nearly 2000 deaths in the past 24 hours alone my kind of reports now from washington. After a series of critical tweets during the day President Trump launched a verbal attack on the w. H. O. In the daily Coronavirus Briefing the president seemed particularly angered by the w h os recommendation and early february that International Air travel should continue this just days after he had imposed a ban on flights from china he also appeared to echo allegations that the organization rely too heavily on information from china during the initial phase of the outbreak. They called it wrong they call it. A really they missed a call they could have called it months or earlier they would have known. And they should have known and they probably didnt so well be looking into that very carefully and were going to put a hold on money spent to the w h o were going to put a very powerful hold on it and were going to see its a great thing if it works but when they call every wrong its no good the ban on flights from china was one of the recommendations the president s Economic Advisor made in a memorandum sent to the national Security Council at the end of february peter numbers are also warned that as many as 600000 americans could lose their lives. Navarro sent a 2nd memorandum a month later and this time he included the president on the distribution list he said that between 2 and 3000000 americans could die he also specified the medical supplies the government would need to up paying to prepare this included a 1000000000 facemasks 11000. 00 ventilators and 25000. 00 respirators the memorandum was largely ignored. President trump denies he ever sold the documents yes sir mr truly is to the farmers the president just this president this today if you learned about the damage today which is maybe a day good tutors feeling. Among your staff or your very own self that it told you something that really were there was a recommendation was a feeling that he had i think he told certain people in this but it didnt matter i didnt see it the president told reporters the contents of the documents would not have changed the way he has acted and then left the briefing after saying he would greet them later my kind of aljazeera Washington Well lets bring in our White House Press one it can be how could he joins us live from washington campbell is this simply a president deflecting to cover up his well publicised errors of judgment in dealing with this crisis to his accusations have any substance. I think its fair to say theres a little of both in the president s accusations and finger pointing towards the World Health Organization i mean look at donald trump has the big platform he often will say what many are thinking but dont want to say are too polite to say and thats a little bit of whats happening here in the bottom line is that donald trump is growing areas and adding his voice to a growing number of voices