With the world news from aljazeera russia has reported a record rise in new covert 19 infections for the 4th day. Heading 425000. And also south koreas governing party makes huge gains in what is the 1st National Election to be held during the panda. Is 1100 hours g. M. T. 7 am in washington where president didnt President Donald Trump has halted u. S. Funding to the World Health Organization he is accusing it of mishandling the outbreak and failing in its own duties he also says the agency covered up how the virus was spreading out of china the u. S. Is the biggest donor to the w. H. O. Contributing nearly 15 percent of its budget well start with this report from mike hanna. In what has become a pattern president trying to use his podium to parade reporters if you keep talking ill leave and you can have it out with the rest of these people if you keep talking im going to leave and you can have it out with them its just allowed me to introduce a number of prominent members of big business the Construction LaborWorkforce International union of operating engineers Jim Callaghan north America Building Trades Union sharon mcgarvie is a lot of friends of mine laborers International Union of north america terrier sullivan and to sharply criticized the World Health Organization announcing his administration would suspend funding 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 ironically President Trump is on the record praising trying to prove transparency in dealing with a virus having what was described as a friendly phone conversation with president xi at the end of march and subsequently tweeting we are working closely together much respect once again President Trump appears to be ignoring the principle of the separation of powers legal experts argue that he does not have the right to suspend funding that has already been approved by Congress Another constitutional crisis is looming and despite repeated cautions by the countrys Health ExpertsPresident Trump insisted mitigating measures could be eased to look at this in a number of u. S. States by the beginning of next month. But he walked back an earlier contention that the recession was his to make by calm perming that the question of lifting restrictions or not would be left to individual gov the white house would still provide guidance were going to pick a date were going to get a date thats good but its going to be very very soon sooner than the end of the month the summer day that new york city announced its most dramatic rise in the fatality rate so Health Officials for the 1st time included the deaths of those presumed to have died of the virus even though they have not tested positive this increase that theyre told by more than 3700 in a single day driving up the number of People Killed in new york city to more than 10000 and increasing the overall u. S. Death count by 17 percent to more than 26000 thank you all very much struck figures that not even the president s action against the World Health Organization can distract from mike hanna out of Washington Well the United Nations says this is the worst possible moment to cut funds to the World Health Organization and sentiments that have been echoed by many around the world china for example urging washington to fulfill its obligations beijing says the decision to cut funding will affect all countries remain as we heard trump accuse the agency of favoring china as the world battled the virus the European Union its saying theres no jurisdiction justification i should say for the decision at this moment when their efforts are needed more than ever and germany says strengthening the World Health Organization is one of the best investments our diplomatic editor james is now open about early on this story from the United Nations in new york james its classic trump if he doesnt like something he pulls the United States out of it how is the United Nations responded. Well i think there was shock and exasperate among those here at the u. N. And as you heard around the world at this time the time the 1st time in a century got a global plan pandemic and we only have one technical medical agency that is designed to coordinate the world at a time of a Global Pandemic and it is the World Health Organization i think people are a little bit mused as well about his reasons for attacking the World Health Organization he says because there were not tough enough on china but you just as you heard in mikes report need to look at President Trumps own comments on china and hes not been tough on china yes i think there are legitimate criticisms of the World Health Organization and of the u. N. System and its definitely clear to me that china is getting a growing role increasing role in not just the World Health Organization but all parts of the u. N. System but many observers will say thats for one clear reason and thats because the Current Us Administration ceded that role theyve been playing america 1st and as a result have not been involved as previous administrations have deeply in multilateral affairs. James usually when we talk to you about u. N. Issues it is quite often to do with conflicts around the world conflicts which carry on regardless of a pandemic. However can you take us through these moves by various countries to perhaps try to end those at least temporarily whilst the world fights coronavirus. Well we have actually seen behind the scenes separate from what President Trump has done in recent hours some positive developments a lot of criticism that theres been no Global Leadership really since this crisis started every nation fending for themselves what im told by the scene was at the g. 20 of the g. 7 which is currently chaired by President Trump will have a Virtual Meeting in the next 24 hours theres been quite a lot of work done told theres a communique ready to be released tomorrow by the g 7 with some concrete proposals in it so thats good news here at u. N. Headquarters of course as you say conflicts are dealt with by the main body that deals with peace and security internationally the u. N. Security council theyve taken a great deal of time to respond to the Current Situation in part because of just getting technical arrangements for them to meet theyve never had a situation where theyd have to meet virtually before this the secretary general and tony guitarist came out with the idea of a global cease fire that has caused some problems behind the scenes for the Security Council and there are all sorts of little spats going on with the idea of a resolution early on certainly there was a dispute between the u. S. And china because the u. S. At that point was wanting any resolution to call it the wu hand virus those i think have been solved and it looks like in the coming days the u. N. Security council might be able to come up with a joint statement a resolution we think that could be passed by all 15 members not calling i dont think for the phrase a global sees via but calling for a cease fire in all the conflicts that are on the Security Councils agenda and that would be quite something wouldnt it thank you james bays our diplomatic editor in new york. Well a virus now appears to be spreading fast in Russia Health authorities there have recorded a 4th day of rise in new infections more than 3300. 00 cases reported bringing the total there close up to 25000 the russian government said have been at least 198 deaths as well meanwhile top e. U. Leaders are calling for Member States to Work Together before easing any lockdown measures European Commission issued a number of recommendations and warns that moving too quickly could have devastating effects lets check on that story with lawrence lee following events from london on that point 1st of all you and i spoke earlier about perhaps the lack of cohesion there have been amongst European Countries and how they want to fight this does this represent some sort of change. Well yes i think i think very much it does come also to be honest with you if you call to mind back a few weeks when there was a very panicked response among any number of European Countries closing the borders unilaterally heavily criticised by the European Union for not sharing protective equipment particularly to the hospitals italy and spain it undermines the whole point of the European Union doesnt it because it relies on open movement of goods and people between countries the Single Markets its a very practical as well as philosophical idea of the European Union and the whole thing started to fall apart of the scenes and so you can see what theyre trying to do in the European Commission really is to get back on the front foot and make it look like theyre in charge events pushing forward the idea of european unity and so the plan effectively is in several parts 1st of all to have this summit in 8 days time which finally having been said about it for a month anyway they agree a budget which will last for several years and is likely to be enormous and will underwrite any sort of attempt by the European Union to recover even if it can get the Single Market going in the short term what theyre desperate to do that there wont be a v. Shaped recovery one goes straight back up but what are desperate to avoid is what they call an l. Shape where all the way down then just flatlines across the bottom for months and months a month so clearly that demands a whole load of money to underwrite the economies particular countries like italy and spain which are which are really. Really having a problem but unpoliced that theyre starting to ease very very slowly the law measures in a number of Different Countries in different ways denmark schools are going back austria shops are opening spain construction started and so theyre trying very gradually to see if they can engineer a situation where country after country can get back a little bit at the time and slowly very slowly try to get the idea back that the borders might become a little bit more porous and you could move goods very carefully between countries and start to get the Single Market going again i was going to take a very long time but this is the European Commission basically trying to get on top of events. Lawrence quick word on rush if you wouldnt mind i mentioned the numbers before it is a comparatively lower death rate but the infection rate is increasing can you put that into context versus someone who lived and worked in the country for many years and i needed yeah no snowshoe i mean the death rate is curiously low given the high number of cases a lot of doctors say that people in their in their homes and its and its massively undercounts its a massive problem for russia on various levels the states the people of Public Health loads of smokers massive alcoholism these are all underlying conditions which are very dangerous to the virus secondly a massive reliance on moscow as a capital as a driver of the economy for 10 percent the whole population the russian lives in moscow its all locked down the economy is a lot of trouble. That the way in which people are trying to go to work there is pushing them to get a seal which will make the virus even worse but the other bigger problem for russia in economics is its almost total reliance on oil as a driver of its economy and of course because oil is now at historically low prices people arent flying people talk about the speed being the worst year ever for the oil industry then thats going to be very very difficult of a russia as a country to sustain because all of the right of the common thank you are in play for those updates from london. Now one european country that took a different approach to responding to the pandemic is sweden it resisted the strategy of putting the nation on lockdown but now it is reporting a sharp rise in corona virus deaths another 114 confirmed on tuesday which was up from 20 the previous day overall about 11000 people have tested positive and more than a 1000 have died in sweden in malmo and says theres been some questions about whether this more relaxed approach is the right 1. 1 of the concerns is that the the mortality rate is twice in sweden what it is in denmark the Health Agency says well that taking a different approach than you think is sustainable that they think will serve them better in the long term thats based on 2 pill is really one of them is that 10 years ago here they had a large scale pandemic simulation. Which is largely a policy this time around and the 2nd is based on Actual Experience pandemics have hit sweden before and one of the 8 particular peculiarities of sweden is that although it has population concentrations house a lot of isolated places as well and in previous pandemics those places were extremely isolated because transport wasnt what it is today and they notice thought when the 2nd wave of a pandemic hits those areas who are really ravaged because they havent had any buildup of immunity in the 1st wife now thats no consolation for the the people who have family members friends. As more than a 1000 and sweden has recognized its failed to protect people properly in elderly homes a huge number of deaths there and also the Somali Community and the rink be area of stock i suppose what american viewers would say is a project have a very high number of deaths that there are people who have been badly affected well only know in the coming months as other countries open up whether this relaxed approach has been correct or not. Our coverage continues in just a moment well look at how this Global Financial shock is threatening to undergo half a century of Economic Growth in latin america and despite coronavirus beijing is continuing a military operations in the South China Sea. Fought in trying to central parts of china and over towards strip a and weve got an area of low pressure pulling away from japan quite a weather coming in behind bits and pieces of what we call a fair weather clad with ordinary of low pressure which will bring some wet weather though into the far north of china as you go on through the next hour so some heavy bursts of right possibly some snow across and northern flank of the system it will slide its way through the yellow sea towards the Korean Peninsula as we go into the latter part of the week that sets up something pretty unsettled for the weekend for that line of cloud there into central parts of china down towards the southwest funny trying to hong kong 27. 00 celsius fun and dry in tokyo at around 17 degrees for the time being may want to find a dry course a good parts of india settle here weve got a few showers moving across northern parts big area of play out here the clump of storms just pushing over towards bangladesh as we go on through thursday but the heat continuing to build behind that pool getting up to 43 degrees celsius want to show is that into us franca for a time want to see showers into tomorrow and also into kerala much of india does stay dry although you could see it getting a little cloudy and a little colder than 40 delhi on friday. 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