Turn to charities to put food on the table their leader apologizes for the Economic Disaster brought about by the pandemic. Also this half hour filling up fast with more on the way a report on the crude storage crisis from a place known as the worlds oil crossroads. An experimental antiviral drug has been approved for emergency use in treating coronavirus patients in the u. S. 1500000 vials of the drug disappear will be distributed to hospitals from monday the regulator gave its approval after a government sponsored study showed the medications shortened patients Recovery Time by about 30 percent and slightly improved mortality rates the ball so good science is that the company that makes them disappear says they are increasing production. And were also fully committed to continue to expand the supply of this medicine and we started investing in this back in january as soon as we came in where the chrono virus this is a long time to manufacture it used to be 12 months its now 6 months our scientists have brought that down and so as we get into the 2nd half of this year were able to have many more supplies available to patients and were fully committed to working with the president with you here ministration to make sure that patients and you can get this important new medicine well the World Health Organization meanwhile has been speaking about the origins of the corona virus the w. H. O. Chief was asked about speculation from the likes of President Trump that it was created in a chinese lab we have listened again and again and numerous scientists who looked at the sequences looked at this wireless and we were assured this wireless is natural in origin and what is important is that we establish what that natural host for this why this is. And that and the primary purpose of doing that is to ensure that we understand the virus more we understand the animal human. Interface and we understand how the end of the human species barrier was breached and the purpose of understanding that is that we can put in place the necessary prevention and Public Health measures to prevent that happening again anywhere south korea and india have decided to stop using chinese made rapid covert 19 test kits after they were found to be faulty scientists in south korea say when retested hundreds of recovered patients returned positive results a 2nd time they blame what they say are quote shortcomings in the test itself rather than reinfection india or half a 1000000 kids and found similar problems there china has defended its products. Doc to patrick tang is to mission chief of pathology science at sidra medicine he says scientists are still trying to develop better testing methods because the virus is so new we have to distinguish all the different types of tests out there and how they differ form i think one of the problems right now is were mixing all of these different tests out and and grouping them all together and then you know casting blame on all tests when that isnt true there are tests that look for antibodies in the blood and there are tests that look for the virus of the genetic material of the virus so those are 2 very different types of tests and they give very different sat answers because this has been a new virus and we dont understand everything about it weve been very cautious about interpreting these results and you know one of the possibilities was that people were becoming infected or that they were really lapsing. After not fully recovering from the infection and finally there is that possibility that is the false positive oratory cast all of those things were looked at and i think now theyve concluded that the viruses that they detected in these that a few 100 people in south korea were not viable so these viruses are not. Theyre dead birol particles they were picked up by the task and these people will not be able to transmit the infection to other people. Well have lots more coronavirus Coverage Later some other top stories for you north korean state media says their leader kim jong un has made his 1st public appearance in almost 3 weeks he reportedly opened a Fertilizer Factory rumors have been swirling about kims health and even possible death these satellite images are said to show a train that apparently belongs to kim park at a resort town several days ago has also been speculated that china sent a team of doctors to treat him after a heart procedure had gone wrong canada is banning assault style weapons after the countrys deadliest mass shooting 2 weeks ago 22 people were killed in nova scotia when a man dressed as a policeman went on a shooting rampage the ban comes into effect immediately but there will be a 2 year amnesty for people to dispose of weapons they already own the government also plans to introduce a gun buyback program. These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time there is no use and no place for such weapons in canada. So in our correspondent daniel lak daniel gun ownership popular in rural areas in canada has this this news being received. Well peter i have to say because of that those killings in nova scotia that support for gun control has shot up here in the past couple of weeks but it was always quite strong as you say in rural areas hunting and gun ownership is popular responsible and legal hunting and gun ownership but urban areas of the places where gun crime has happened and this is not going to be an unpopular move by the Prime Minister and his government they were elected for the 1st time in a landslide 2015 and last october in a strong minority both times promising to bring in stricter gun control so this is probably going to be welcomed across the board basically theyre looking at 1500 different types of assault weapon popular a r 15 that you see so often affiliated with Mass Shootings in the United States that in all of its variants and there are hundreds of them are now completely illegal in canada as are all sorts of other automatic or semiautomatic weapons made by other manufacturers but whats not been made illegal here are handguns and thats where critics or gun advocates are coming in and saying most gun crime in canada is committed with handguns that involves gangs or narcotic drugs and those are not being made illegal they remain just restricted so there is still a gun control debate to be had here but for now its settled on the matter of assault weapons they are now completely illegal in canada and just to be clear daniel this is something that mr trudeau has been campaigning for anyway even before the appalling events in nova scotia and when we talk about this being across the board i guess the obvious thing is to talk about it across the border because in canada this is not something gun ownership is not enshrined constitutionally as he says in the u. S. No not at all i mean gun ownership rates in canada are pretty high compared to europe for example or japan but minuscule compared to the United States there are about a 1000000 and a half people here who hunt regularly and legally with guns so theyre not going to be affected by this they dont use this kind of weapon handguns tend to come across the border from the u. S. As you say smuggled in illegally its a rather lucrative item to smuggle and a lot of people are now calling for tougher controls d on the border to back up this notion of gun control and making ownership of certain weapons illegal and the government is promising to look into it and also to allow cities to restrict handguns quite tightly to just police and others in the Security Industry so gun control is definitely gaining in popularity here at the moment daniel thanks very much fighting on the yemeni island. Ended after an agreement was reached between Government Forces and u. S. Backed separatists. Troops pushed back the separatists from the islands provincial capital on friday the separatists are to itself rule in areas under their control a week ago 7 months after an attempted coup there the agreement says saudi forces will now secure the city and both sides will remove checkpoints and military vehicles. Were here to say that were sorry for what happened sorry that we had to confront our brothers in this nation but they forced us we are peaceful here its a culture weve never fired a bullet in an act of aggression but today those separate us from the Southern Transitional council strongholds forced us to take up arms and fight back to defend our areas. A rocket attack by forces loyal to the libyan warlord. Has killed at least 2 civilians in tripoli earlier the un recognized government carried out air strikes on a half to military convoy south of the capital as it tries to build on recent gains against his forces the harding reports. This airstrike was carried out by libyas un recognized government in tripoli it targeted a supply chain for the forces of warlord honey for have to who has recently lost control of nearly 6 towns and cities in the west of the country. Earlier this week have to abruptly called for a ceasefire during the month of ramadan giving him time to reorganize his overstretched supply lines. The government in tripoli rejected that saying have has not abided by previous cease fires analysts say have to it is losing momentum he declared himself the leader of the country this week insisting he has popular mandate to govern libya but that was shortly after losing more ground in his military campaign to take control of the capital. This is his forces that was significant growth. On some of those bridges and then also d in the. Major was. The amount of losses both boat battles and strategic interests. About libya has been divided by warring factions since the overthrow of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi 9 years ago the situation on the ground is changing day by day the un recognized government in tripoli controls this area in blue while have to watch and his self declared Libyan National army control the areas in red and his forces are based in the eastern city of tobruk in a statement the uns mission to libya said it is very concerned by the targeting of civilians in civilian Populated Areas and the increase in civilian casualties from the use of rockets and artillery. After a year of fighting the forces backing the un recognized government in tripoli appear to have the upper hand in this ever changing battle for control of libya were hearting al jazeera. Still to come here on aljazeera. Internet giant amazon is accused of putting profit above Workers Health during this years made a demonstration. One place to say weve got some quasi weather now pushing across the eastern seaboard of the u. S. Eastern parts of canada still a fair amount of cloud showing up on the satellite picture here but thats in the process of pushing out into the north atlantic subprocess guys come in behind and the temperatures responding quite nicely to that sunshine 21 celsius in new york and also in d. C. That way some showers just around the lakes pushing up into central parts of canada some of them of a wintry nature so wet weather there just spilling out of the mountain states easing across the ohio valley as we go on through the next day or so brightest guys come in behind over towards the northwest there will still be a few showers but they will become human for the between as we go on through the next couple of days l. A. Gets up to around 26 celsius not too bad here not too far off thats in washington d. C. Ahead of our next area of rye south of that it is fine and dry hot one in dallas around 35 celsius fada dry across a good part of the caribbean as well although we do have some sherry rain just making its way across cuba that will push into jamaica into hispania smaller as they would generally be settled and sunny we have got lost the dry weather which was the western side of the caribbean but always a chance of picking up some showers into costa rica and also for good parts of panama. In countries like a mine people have been killed. We only United States have privatized the whole team a Public Function or this was a deal with saudi arabia things were done differently saudis and other arabs when they came to britain for be all to help the past bombs do you know you will rumsfeld this meeting sit down isnt there interesting. Shadow on aljazeera. Welcome back youre watching aljazeera a reminder of our top stories this half hour an experimental antiviral drugs been authorized by the u. S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency use in treating coronavirus patients 1500000 vials of the drug is called from disappear will be distributed to hospitals as of monday. Assault style rifles are being immediately banned in canada thats in response to the countrys worst mass shooting a little less than 2 weeks ago. North korean state media says leader kim jong un has made his 1st public appearance in almost 3 weeks he reportedly opened a Fertilizer Factory rumors have been swirling about his health and his possible death lets get more on our top story that emergency drug approval in the us live now to washington and our correspondent mike hanna mike clearly lots of people have got hope built into this how good is the drug how well it worked we think. Well there need see that in the weeks and possibly months ahead it has been given an emergency use flagged by the f. D. A. Which means that it can be used and a very tightly controlled conditions which will be part of the ongoing survey into the efficacy of the drug now within the us the f. D. A. Submergence e. Lucian was given on the basis of a single trial in which patients were shown to recover 4 days quicker from the coronavirus than those who were given a placebo within the trial but it was a very narrow trial involving just a little more than a 1000 people the emergency approval by the f. D. A. Means that wider studies will be able to be made on the drug that 1st of all theres got to be at some stage be a peer review which is an essential part of full f. D. A. Approval so its a long way away i must mention too as well peter that the answer to magazine reported on a similar study on. Being conducted in china which did not produce as favorable results it did show that patients recovered a little bit faster but not to the extent to which the us trial showed also one must say that as ever with this administration there are some conflicts of interest involved a very senior official in the Us Health Department is a former lobbyist for gilliard science the company that produces this particular drug and also one must ironically that the trumpet ministration was suing science only in the last year full price gouging on another of its drugs that it produced so certainly there are a lot of issues here both pertaining to the efficiency of the drug and also a possible conflict of interest involved with the mass production of the drug at this particular point and mike the World Health Organization talking dont mr trumps theories on the where the virus originated from where it originally came from but the white house doubling down on that debate as well. Well indeed the president has been somewhat schizophrenia can recent weeks with his attitude towards china on a number of occasions praising the chinese president to in particular saying that he has done a great job within china in combating the pen demick in recent days attacking china very strongly saying this week that he had seen evidence that the virus was produced in the Chinese Laboratory now he would not quote exactly what intelligence you seen but he has publicly instructed his intelligence agencies to look into the origin of the virus the w. H. O. Youre hearing making very clear that 1st of all it is ruled out completely any idea that the viruses synthetical otherwise made by humans and also sticking to its attacks as it has established that the virus did emerge from some market within china not necessarily from a live bar a tree itself so all of that being said some are speculating that the real reason for President Trumps doubling down on chinas responsibility in this is that his Campaign Officials tell him its a very good election ploy to be back in china during an election period and also at the same time some would observe that it takes attention away from President Trumps own handling of this pandemic crisis which many have said is a bumbling effort to deal with so there are a lot of factors here once again at play the w. H. O. By all intent is measuring its response on the science that it has available president may well have other factors coming in to where he believes the origin of the virus is. Thank you. Workers across the world have protested on labor day to highlight the Economic Impact of the pandemic countless numbers of being laid off as Companies Cut costs to save themselves in the u. S. Some of those still at work say theyre not getting enough protection from the virus and she have pretenses. Since the pandemic began there have been wildcat strikes across the u. S. As workers deemed essential come to terms with the lack of protections theyre being given and interactive map has been created to keep track of over 150 actions from coast to coast since the beginning of march from port workers in california on the west coast through to meat packers truckers postal workers and sanitation workers all the way to canteen workers at Harvard University in the east and now workers have been organizing over Video Conference to transition from disparate wildcat strikes to coordinated collective action from may day European Amazon are employees of amazon insta called whole foods walmart target and fed ex pledge to walk off the job together at lunchtime to form both an impersonal and virtual picket line that urging consumers not to cross we put our logo aside. From linus right now thats the family. We all have one common goal so this is the beginning of something and best never been seen befo