The Government Faces more criticism over the way its handling of the pandemic. Only. Muslims around the world are urged to stick to social distancing guidelines at the start of the fasting month of ramadan. Global leaders have joined the World Health Organization to launch an initiative to speed up work on drugs tests and a vaccine for covert 19 that will be available for everyone but that was unmarked absence in the United States announcing it would not be getting involved the w. H. O. Is yet to reveal further details of the initiative w. H. O. If chief says its important all tools used for fighting the virus are available to everyone. But experience has taught us that even when tools are available they had been not been equally available to all we cannot allow that to happen today doubly sure is proud to be uniting with many partners to launch the axis to call video 19 tools accelerator or the accelerator this is a landmark collaboration to accelerate the Development Production and. Distribution of vaccines sticks internet beauty export corbett 19 french president emmanuel knock wrong emphasize the importance for the world to unite behind this initiative. Were now going to continue to mobilize all countries of the g 7 and the g 20 for them to back this initiative i hope that we will be able to reconcile this initiative with china and the u. S. Because the fight against covert 19 as a common good for humanity this shouldnt be any divisions between countries we need to join forces to win this battle and the u. N. Secretary general called for equality when it comes to the delivery of a coronavirus vaccine. Needs of the most production and we do believe many are safe and effective can be named in their bill and they. Are not there is actually not to commence for one company or one. Of the world but the vaccine unteachable that affordable safe effectively is the only administers and universally available for everyone everywhere our diplomatic editor james bays is joining us live from the United Nations james the u. S. Very pointedly not part of this but it is going to be difficult to try to roll out Something Like this across the world if the u. S. Is not part of it. You have a Global Crisis and you know International Leaders from around the world coming together to try and coordinate in times past this is when you would have seen u. S. Leadership youd have seen a substantial role from the u. S. You may well as an event like this have seen an address by the u. S. President and he may well have been the 1st one to speak the world really has changed in terms of the u. S. Is central involvement in terms of Multilateral Affairs and that i think is really borne out by this pandemic of course there are specific reasons for it was regard to this event to this is an event being coordinated by the World Health Organization but then again the World Health Organization is the International Body that coordinates all Global Health and is in charge of coordinating International Efforts on the pandemic but of course its the same world who Health Organization the President Trump has condemned in the White House Briefing room and said hes going to cut funding from so very hard for the u. S. To take a prominent role in event like this if it is headed by the World Health Organization al jazeera has reached out to the u. S. To the u. S. Mission to the United Nations in geneva where that World Health Organization is based we got this email back a short time ago from a Spokes Person in geneva it says theyll be no u. S. Official participation in the event we were informed of the event last week and we look forward to learning more about this initiative as soon as possible so holding email from a Spokes Person but i dont thing that stops the fact that there is a glaring absence at this event. James obviously as weve covered in the past donald trump very critical of the way that the w. H. O. Has been handling certainly the alleys stages of this pandemic and yet were seeing now that the w. H. O. Is getting funding from bill and Melinda Gates foundation we know that china has said that it is going to ramp up its funding as well are we seeing let me put it this way is it too simplistic to suggest that this is in some way i sidelining of the u. S. With the w. H. O. And its supporters saying right fine were going to go on our own. I think certainly there are some forces and its quite complicated the diplomatic dynamics going on both at the World Health Organization in geneva and here at the u. N. Headquarters in new york but in terms of multilateral diplomacy the u. S. Is certainly not many countries friend because they dont think that theyre playing their part but there are some who i think really would like to sideline the u. S. And make it quite clear that the u. S. Is perhaps not even welcome at these sort of events i dont think thats true of the majority of the International Community they know that the u. S. Has tremendous diplomatic firepower and also as a country has vast resources it has great scientifical scientific and medical expertise and it has real financial firepower because of course the aim of this is not just to get the vaccine and the testing and the treatments to best treat coded 19 and coordinate all of that around the world its also trying to find money a war chest and theyre going have a pledging conference on may the 4th to try and get 8000000000. 00 and the reason they need that money is to make sure that this doesnt just go to the wealthy in society and the wealthier nations it goes to everyone everywhere as the u. N. Secretary general said and thats going to be difficult thats going to require money clearly the global far far as critical business is just that a business so funding is going to be needed james for now thanks very much indeed thats james bays our Diplomatic Correspondent at the u. N. In new york i want to bring in our White House Correspondent kimberly holic at this sudden moves in the u. S. In a difficult position kimberly any as much that if vaccine is developed by the w. H. O. And its supporters the u. S. Is going to have to in some way buy into that vaccine without actually supporting the organization that has helped to develop it. That doesnt seem to be a concern to the u. S. President will certainly have to pose this question to him he will be appearing later on for a signing ceremony for the Paycheck Protection Program which is a nother funding from congress that will allow to help Small Businesses keep employees on their payroll so the president will be appearing in a number of hours or less and this is certainly a question that is likely to be posed to him but this move in the statement coming from the white house the one that was mentioned by james that there will be no u. S. Official participation and they do look forward to more about this initiative in support of International Cooperation is certainly consistent with Donald Trumps position of america 1st he made it very plain on the campaign trail he said it again most recently when he suspended funding for the World Health Organization that the feeling is here in the United States but at least more specifically in the u. S. Are in rather in the white house of the trumpet ministration that the World Health Organization has failed the United States and that is why there is a review being conducted right now whether or not there is a desire to continue funding it the same time we should point out that this is not a unilateral decision by the u. S. President but one that is inside is supported an elderly controlled by the u. S. Congress the u. S. President already tried to cut the budget of the World Health Organization but this is something that congress ultimately approves but adult terms made very clear that he feels that the World Health Organization in his view is to china centric and hes also blamed it for not declaring a Global Health emergency sooner now of course Donald Trumps running for reelection hes looking for a scapegoat and certainly the World Health Organization has fit conveniently into this package but to get to your your larger point about what the United States might do it couldnt see itself sidelined this is a religious concern and one that needs to be factored into the u. S. Present. Calculations given the fact that some of the old his own therapies in vaccine trials that have been taking place here stateside have not been particularly successful up to this point so when youre talking about a Global Pandemic the america 1st possibility may not be the best possibility and so this is something that the u. S. President will have to consider carefully how could our White House Correspondent is giving us that update kimberly thanks very much indeed ok his company was saying the u. S. President has cause further control over say off to discussing more ways to find code on the virus including using ultraviolet light on the possibilities of injecting disinfectant but medical experts are once again warning about the dangers of trump using his position to tout unproven treatments and brian reports. It was the headline they dominated president Donald Trumps daily news briefing and most striking observation to date is the powerful effect that solar light appears to have been killing the virus both surfaces and in the air promoting a theory that sun heat and humidity appear to shorten the life of the corona virus that research is unconfirmed and it may prove not to be true but that didnt stop President Trump broadcasting it to millions and going one step further and then i see the disinfectant but not see that in a minute one minute and is there a way we can do Something Like that. By injection. Or almost a cleaning suggesting disinfectant could be used inside the body but it sounds it sounds interesting to me thats prompted a warning from Health Authorities and the make is of popular kleeneze lysol and day that no one should ingest bleach disinfectant or any other Hygiene Products the us st is for Disease Control says it saw a spike in calls to poison hotlines last month because of peoples exposure to such chemicals which can be harmful even to our skin theres no serious that the guy. Who is there you know i think im here to find that we have him study we dont do that within that lab in our labs its not the 1st time President Trumps used his podium to push what he calls potential cures for the virus there are promising therapies produced by gilliatt and thats. Where m. D. s are. Desart or hydroxy torak when. And. Theres the pack i think is a combination probably is looking very very good and bad according to early trials in china the drug day sivia has failed to treat pain and its too early to know about hydroxy clark aim is not a medical or Public Health expert and doesnt pass on the advice of true medical and Public Health experts and i think most people are smart enough to know that they should be taking medical or Public Health advice from President Trump they should be listening to Expert Opinions as for trumps hate and some theory the World Health Organization pointed to examples where the virus has spread around the equator and Southern Hemisphere they evidence is not providing supporting that theory so im sorry we cannot but the summary is going to have the effect that many people hope but will the president is convinced hes giving hope to millions im not a doctor im here to present ideas but many Health Professional say those ideas could prove dangerous and brian aljazeera. And the u. K. Millions of key workers have become eligible for coronavirus testing if they show symptoms of the illness the British Government has made testing a key part of a strategy to fight the pandemic but its faced criticism over the slow rollout of mass testing lets get more now from the u. K. Rory chalons is in london for us rory lets just talk about this expansion of the testing towards key workers that really is quite significant isnt it. Yeah this is the u. K. Governments really trying to meet its targets the end of the month for 100000. 00 tests being done every single day its no way near that at the moment it says at the moment it has the capacity to do 51000 give or take but the actual number of tests being done not just capacity but she being done seems to be about 25 thousands of the at the moment so its got some way to go. Its expanded the number of people who are eligible for tests as previously it was mostly n. H. S. Star Health Care Workers but also care workers to look after old people in Retirement Homes and that sort of that sort of thing now policemen careers supermarkets work teaches anyone whos considered an essential worker can come down to one of these drive in sites and get themselves swapped in their results sent off to a lab or they can apply for a home testing kits but this whole system has reached a very early fumble in the websites had basically stopped taking new applicants very early on around lunchtime today because so many people had applied and the government said it apologize for the inconvenience and they would try and get more Spaces Available tomorrow rory thanks very much indeed that story johns live for us in london. Still ahead on aljazeera the biggest shipment in years of saudi oil is on the way to the u. S. 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How it welcomes not a look at the International Full costs looking lassie find it dry across northern parts of china and the Korean Peninsula at the buy a little bit of clout here it will slide through through the next couple days we can see some showers just creeping into western parts of japan as we go on through saturday but for the high spots fine and dry warming up in tokyo to around 19 souses a 20 there for soccer 22 celsius for beijing further south you notice there are some showers around into southern parts of china but not as many not as widespread not as heavy as they have been recently and it will turn somewhat dry still as we go on through sunday much of the region actually fine and dry my cast your vote shower there into southern parts of well south received some showers still a chance of the odd shower as it warms up for the 24 celsius on saturday as usual scattering of showers across Southeast Asia indonesia is largely looking fine in try malaysia will see some lively showers shouts pushing up through the mill a potential toilet also seeing some rather wet weather from time to time nothing like the really wet weather that we still have in play across the bangladesh the northeast of india the showers becoming a little more extensive a little more widespread the eastern parts of india as we go on through saturday some showers to the southwest and also franca. 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