Into space washington says to haunt must be held accountable. On the 50th anniversary of earth day how Lessons Learned from the pandemic help focus our minds in the fight against Climate Change. Fellow more than 2600000 infections and over 182000 deaths the coronavirus pandemic has shut down countrys ruling livelihoods and raised fears of a global recession but as the outbreak shows slows rather in some of the worst hit countries the World Health Organization is now warning that the virus is only just beginning to take hold in other parts of the world of particular concern is africa where the European Union is aiming to set up a humanitarian air bridge to help move aid and equipment. Most of the epitome exceed in western europe appears to be stable or declining although numbers are low we see warning upward trend you know central and south america and Eastern Europe most countryside is still in the early stages of their peter max and that we are affected only in the fundamental got to know starting to see a resurgence in cases as u. S. States move ahead with plans to reopen their economies there are new warnings if a 2nd wave of corona virus infections in the winter the director of the countrys centers for Disease Control and prevention says the situation will be far more severe because its likely to coincide with the start of the flu season and having to some outbreaks would be a massive burden on the Health Care System individuals who develop antibodies it will have protective immunity the question is how long but this is going to be the critical question that we will answer between now and next year when its very likely that were going to have another. Wrestling match with this virus as it comes back and were going to have another battle with the you know front aggressively next next winter when the u. S. President s do to sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration saying he needs to protect american lives and jobs from coronavirus meanwhile tens of thousands of migrants among them Asylum Seekers are waiting along the countrys southern border with their paperwork hoping they will be able to cross into the United States they fear they will have to wait longer for their cases to be heard from spann is the latest in a string of moves made during his administration aiming to curb immigration one of his longstanding election promises lets get an update from mike hanna joining us from washington d. C. So where are we on that executive order mike. Well were not quite clear at this particular point it was tweeted out on monday night by the president he said at the briefing tuesday that he would be signing a tither later that night or in the course of the day as year to no progress on that particular issue its believed that officials in his that ministration are still rushing to try and draft a coherent version of what the president actually means and that is still unclear to we do know that President Trump has said that the order will be in force for 60 days and will then be reviewed and it will be decided whether it will be extended or the actual provisions will be extended as well at this stage it does appear that the order would apply to those wanting to move to the United States as permanent residence the president has said very specifically the order would not apply to those visiting the u. S. On a temporary basis so very unclear at this particular point remembering to travel has been very restricted to the United States the northern border has been shut for a number of weeks the shutting was extended earlier this week the southern border with mexico well that has been completely sealed off for a period of time of the extension of the shutdown order has been extended there as well so during this time the rate of travel rate of immigration to the United States has dropped dramatically so its not quite clear to see exactly who President Trump is going to be stopping or how it would change what is the Current Situation where the country is largely in a state of lockdown with regard to people coming in from the outside and of course mike the other big piece of news coming out of the u. S. Is that warning by the c. D. C. Chief saying that the corona virus combined with the seasonal flu could be much worse next year. Well indeed yes the c. D. C. Director Robert Redfield saying exactly that that next winter the u. S. Could be facing an even fierce pandemic than it is facing at the present now very warning is obviously dire but the reaction of the president is a particularly interesting some would say hes pushing back against what revealed said very strongly saying in a tweet that the director of the c. D. C. Was misquoted said the president on the c n n well that for a start is incorrect the initial interview was actually given to the Washington Post which c. N. N. Reported but this is another example of the president pushing back against the opinions of scientists because they do not coincide with his own vision of being as he has described himself the cheerleader for america always saying that we are on top of this that we are going to defeated we saw this earlier back in february the president was furious at a statement by a senior c. D. C. Official that it was necessary at that stage to start considering closing schools because of the looming pandemic the president according to several sources was absolutely infuriated he heard about it on his way back from india meeting that was due to be held on his return to brief him on that fishel statement was canceled and it was 3 weeks its reported before President Trump actually engaged with the information that the c. D. C. Official was imparting at that time we are seeing once again a repeat of that president denying a statement made by his most senior c. D. C. Official pushing back against it and saying it actually was a misquote all right and i can i thank you. Well new york the epicenter of the u. S. Corona Virus Outbreak is ramping up its testing capabilities to better understand how many people have been infected and who can safely go back to work Governor Andrew Cuomo said that restrictions could remain in place until they know more about the virus christmas salumi reports. With strict social distancing measures in place new york has seen its corona virus infection rates slow the state has recorded about a quarter 1000000 cases overall a 3rd of all of those in the United StatesGovernor Andrew Cuomo says more testing will be necessary to safely loosen restrictions you dont know how many people were infected you dont know what is happening on the infection rate spread all you know is the hospitalization rate so testing will give you 1st of all more data on how fast the infection is spreading and how fast its spreading were going to for a while diagnostic tests like this reveal an active infection blood tests can reveal whos developed antibodies thought to offer some immunity for the disease to recent studies in california suggest exposure to the corona virus and therefore immunity may be more widespread than thought but scientists caution its too soon to draw conclusions its really important and if were going to be making conclusions about the prevalence in a Larger Population that we have to sample that population without introducing extra bias so while that say is important we should not take that as a i am a word for true prevalence in our communities new york has begun ramping up its capacity to be able to process 40000. 00 coronavirus tests per day this week the department of alba also began approaching people outside of Grocery Stores like this to randomly collect 3000 blood samples and test them for antibodies in the rush to do more testing the accuracy of some brand. Has been called into question and experts from the World Health Organization as well as the Top Administration say the antibodies themselves need further testing nobody is sure but with antibodies it is fully protected against having the disease or being exposed to get some of the tax. Issues or sensitivity that may give a false negative result but as the Economic Cost of fighting the disease continues to mount state authorities are under enormous pressure to find a pathway out of the lockdown as safely and as quickly as possible kristyn salumi al jazeera new york. Virus cases are still on the rise across europe as countries grapple with measures to contain its spread spain is debating whether to extend its lockdown but other nations have taken small steps to ease restrictions here in the u. K. The governments facing criticism over its testing strategy as the official death toll crosses 18000 sunday ago has more on the situation across europe. The house of commons normally rowdy for wednesdays Prime Ministers questions resumed its business with social distancing firmly in place without Boris Johnson at the helm in his place the foreign secretary since the start of the outbreak we delivered 1000000000 items of personal protective equipment and tens of millions have been distributed vavi devolved administrations but the government has been under fire over its coronavirus condemning strategy by the end of the month the Health Secretary had promised the u. K. Would be conducting a 100000. 00 tests a day it is currently carrying out 18000. 00 per day with a capacity of 40000. 00 here stopped fact seized on by the new Opposition Labor Party leader of the pattern emerging here we were slow in to look slow in testing slow and protective equipment are now slow to take up these offers from british but i dont accept this premise that we can slide were being joined by the scientific advice the chief scientific advisor the chief medical officer i think every step along this way the number of deaths in the u. K. Continues to rise with more than 800000 recorded at hospitals around the country the Health Secretary has said that the country has reached the peak of the pandemic but no one is clinton plaiting lifting the lockdown soon in spain officials in madrid gathered to close a makeshift morgue set up a rice rink in the capital the country has seen the 2nd highest number of deaths from kovac 1000 in europe during the worst face to date the military had been transferring bodies here on a daily basis. Now the government is about to loosen the lockdown to allow children accompanied by parents to go out for the 1st time in weeks but this is not a rushed maneuver to restrictions will remain in place until the middle of may and if the epidemic worsens the government will impose them again but the worry of a financial meltdown here is still prevalent with the Prime Minister better sanchez calling on the European Council to get Financial Aid to countries like. The European Council must boken the financial package approved by the euro group and demand the completion of the proprietary work so that the instruments are implemented by june the 1st this is the key for europe and consequently for our country but i look at swedens decision to stay open had been criticised by its neighboring countries pushing the economy over Public Health maybe 2000 people have died there from covert 19 but even without going into lock down its export dependent upon me has been hit hard state relief measures are being put in place that even with that hate it will still see a financial slump like everywhere else affected by the pandemic said it i am. All researchers around the world are racing to develop a Coronavirus Vaccine around 80 groups are conducting studies and some are now entering Clinical Trials human trials have already begun the 1st one started in the us city in seattle off seattle in march but other countries are catching up the u. K. Will begin trials on thursday and germany has just granted approval to 2 companies to begin human tests and even with breakneck speed most scientists warn that a vaccine wont become available until the middle of next year trials need to show that the vaccine is safe creates an immune response and can be developed for distribution across the globe around 60 to 70 percent of the worlds population needs to be immune to stop the virus from spreading lets speak about this with immunologist and hes joining us live from geneva via skype thanks for your time with us on the news hour how promising are these trials. Well i believe theyre promising because not only do we move forward in the Vaccine Research at the next door there is speed as you just said that 5 human trials already began and around 80 candid vaccines in the pipeline but were not starting from scratch we do know how to prepare vaccines against influenza we knew we have been preparing a vaccine against sour sauce these are cousins of the viral agent to feed 19 so im fairly optimistic that that research will move fast one of the trials at least the one here in the u. K. Is due to last 6 months so in terms of time whats the time scale that were talking about here and how quickly can a vaccine actually be pushed through because thats what people really want to know of course well developing a vaccine. Goes through periods of time that you cannot compress 1st your good the what we call phase one that is seeing whether the vaccine is well tolerated and is safe in when injected into administered into Healthy People that will take about 3 to 4 months and then you have to go into efficacy trials that they see whether that vaccine is indeed protective and that will take about 6 to 8 months so thats why i wouldnt expect any sort of positive signal about one candidate vaccine being a big issue just before indeed the spring of 21. 00 but thats not the end you then need to produce that vaccine in large amounts if a candidate vaccines proved to be safe and thats an issue because it could bring more delay the alternative is to start producing the vaccine even be. Sure there is a positive signal about efficacies which would mean taking huge Financial Risks so thats where the discussions are at this time so youre saying that its a possibility that some of these. Companies or whatever is organizing these vaccines then could use some of the initial data how theyre finding out when that be jumping the gun a little bit its maybe jumping the gun it into a bit but thats old also conditioned to actually have a lot Stocks Available of vaccine as soon as possible remember you may remember the epidemic a few years ago we did have a vaccine against but when that vaccine became available the epidemic was over. You were mentioning the the sort of manufacturing and distribution to the wider public just a moment ago i wonder if you can talk to us a little bit more about that i mean how do you then. Take the virus out of the vaccine out to the wider public are there any challenges there there are huge challenges the 1st one is of course to produce the vaccine is sufficient amounts. It will probably be selecting who should be vaccinated 1st lets say for example Health Workers or the most vulnerable in society there are challenges around affordability of that vaccine we want that vaccine to be available for everyone everywhere in the world and so it has to be low prices and there will be issues around intellectual property and patterns and then of course. The Health Community will face the n. C. Vaccine movement and as you know in many countries there were around the world and here in europe we do have people who. Are very afraid the vaccination and. I think at least these 3 challenges. Have to be considered from now very early on ok and we thank you very much michael catch him for joining us from geneva thank you. Coming up on the news hour from london at least 14 people are killed in flash flooding in the yemeni city of aides in the government says it Needs International help. Police crackdown on dozens of activists after some of the capitals worst riots in decades. But 1st the u. S. Has condemned irans successful launch of its military satellite into orbit its 1st one that is on irans revolutionary guard says the country is now able to monitor the world from space but washington has accused iran of the pasta fusing its Space Program as a cover for Missile Development so the reports. On wednesday morning the will to news of a secret operation carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary guards from a launch site in iran central desert it successfully used a 2 stage rocket to put its 1st military satellite in space. The newer or light is now 425 kilometers above us orbiting earth and the head of the revolutionary guards says it gives irans military new strategic advantages or that. It is a necessity for such powerful Defense Forces like the revolutionary guard to have access to advanced capabilities today the powerful armies of the world have no comprehensive defense plan if they dont have a place in space for today we can monitor the world from space and it means boosting strategic data for the i. R. G. C. It putting the satellite into orbit gives us the technological advantages and is also a powerful asset in the intelligence