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 before but when it comes time to. Dont be concerned about your health and safety of your community and your family and these companies and. Taken a serious us to take the power back it was smalls who drew global attention to conditions at amazon warehouses after he was 1st leaked memories share amazon executives attempted personally to discredit him to tamp down protests he was organizing amazon also you know naturally declared him a potential coronavirus kariya they quarantine me only me not even the person that i ride to work with every single day what does that tell everybody that sounds everybody that they want to silence. How is all insists simply taking all precautions to protect its workers the companys also temporarily raised some pay for jeff bezos but across Industries Workers are asking for hands of pain protective equipment cleaning supplies transparency about infections and the cleansing and cleaning of workplaces where there are infections paid sick leave is key currently many have no option but to go to work even if there is a will but the longer goal is to address these structural basis of the inequality that so apparent amid covered 1950 states. Since the 1930 s. When f. D. R. Was one president even as the more moderate candidate. And people forget that the strikes or step in are to adopt the new deal all kind of Worker Protection measures. Workers feel that unless there is direct action the pandemic will simply lead to yet more polarization between the self isolating rich and essential workers she over time see aljazeera. Meanwhile in germany there were may day protests against restrictions of movement several people were detained in Berlin Germany has eased some restrictions but social distancing is still being enforced in public 163000 people are known to have been infected there more than 6 and a half 1000 have died. Italys Prime Minister has apologized for the hardships being faced by his people during the pandemic the government will start easing europes longest lockdown from monday any big economic improvements though are a long way off as prion computer now reports. Food on the table and some hope this store run by the clergy in northern italy is helping some of these men and women whove been out of work for weeks theyve been living through the worlds longest and some of the toughest go down measures of the military movements here in the i come here because i dont know how to cope i have no savings i dont earn anything the situation gets worse and worse i cant do anything but come here. Things are even worse for some of the 600000 undocumented mostly african migrants who barely found enough work to survive before the outbreak no food not in order to have my husbands nazi have documented. Almost no good and they had. Italy has endured the worst of the corona Virus Outbreak in europe with the highest number of deaths in the region and now with a fall in the daily number of infections and deaths the government is allowing factories Construction Projects and parks to reopen starting on monday putting 4000000 people back to work. But with the limited easing the fistric sions has come a surge of anger from people barely coping under the strain of a pandemic and its Economic Cost we dont pay much weve been responsible and staying at home for the last 2 months for 2 months to tell their Prime Minister decepticon to has been the only one speaking and make a decision social problems are growing also because many of the promises the government made have not materialized on friday Prime Minister just epic contrie apologized in social media for the hardships italians have endured and promised new measures for aid and economic recovery but even before the pandemic italy had one of the highest unemployment rates in the European Union and a large Government Debt and now the euro zones 3rd biggest economy is facing a deep recession i think its going to be extremely difficult for italy to recover from the pandemic in part because even my performance has been so poor of the past 2 decades it hasnt yet recovered from the 20089 financial crisis and the eurozone crisis of 2012 and indeed italians are scarcely richer than they were 20 years ago when a country joined the euro and that means that the underlying performance of the economy even in good times is weak. During the difficult weeks of the pandemic italians have relied on each other to support the many who have been struggling there are fears that those hardships may continue if its lease fragile economy doesnt recover soon priyanka gupta. An agreement reached last month among the worlds Top Oil Producers to put has now come into effect the global Oil Benchmark thats brant crude hit a 21 year low last month as lot done squeeze demand oil prices in the u. S. Went into negative territory at a merged earlier in the week the donald trump reportedly pressured saudi arabia into cutting its output by threatening to withdraw u. S. Military support for riyadh. Even with demand so low dozens of saudi tankers a still heading for the us where some politicians want them to be turned back according to the website tanker truck has more than 50000000. 00 barrels of Saudi Crude Oil are on their way to american ports marine traffic shows at least 26 tankers near Southern Africa theyre bound for terminals in the gulf of mexico for delivery to refineries and storage sites in texas and louisiana one has already completed a delivery to a saudi aramco and refinery in texas but john hendren now explain storage is becoming a more precious commodity than the oil itself. Cushing oklahoma is a small town with a big job in the oil industry it is the oil pipeline crossroads of america and that made it the logical place to become the nations Oil Storage Hub right now were just shutting in wells and doing whatever we can to just reduce production work to the minimal mccree we can now one tank after another stands in a landscape lined with Storage Farms brimming with crude waiting for delivery but with oil at historically low prices the crude keeps flowing in is sellers wait for higher prices and cushing is filling up fast its the Worlds Largest storage now. It has. 6 no you bottles. Storage however right now there and else on. Everyone scrambled on and. Thats why im saying use of oceangoing tankers just a little or no tankers with no destination full of oil waiting for better days and bigger prices nearby gas sells for under a dollar a gallon its hard to believe that the oil industry could face worse than when sellers had to pay buyers to take this stuff off their hands but thats what happened on april 20th when prices went below 0 but with prices going nowhere in sight. Were drilling up fast the worst could be yet to come. With the benchmark west Texas Intermediate Oil below 20. 00 a barrel now and with oil futures not selling for more than 40. 00 until 2022 bankruptcies in shutdown save already begun is storage rises production is shutting down refineries on average are operating in the u. S. Below 70 percent some could soon refuse to fulfill their contracts to buy oil invoking a clause that makes it known void in case of an act of god virus. So. We get a lot period its a major imbalance. A dramatic imbalance with no sign of ending anytime soon john hendren aljazeera chicago. Recapping our top stories for you so far today an experimental antiviral drug has been authorized by the u. S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency use in treating coronavirus patients 1500000 vials of the drug is called rem dysrhythmia will be distributed to hospitals from monday 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 of the chrono virus this is a long time to manufacture it used to be 12 months its now 6 months our scientists 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 mr president with you your ministration to make sure that patients and you can get this important new medicine. The World Health Organization says it doesnt believe the virus was manmade after the u. S. President on the trumps claim that he had seen evidence that has come from a liberal retreat in the chinese city of. North korean state media says leader kim jong un has made his 1st public appearance in almost 3 weeks he reportedly has opened a Fertilizer Factory rumors have been swirling about his health and even his possible death assault style rifles are being immediately banned in canada in response to the countrys worst mass shooting a little less than 2 weeks ago. 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. Fighting on the yemeni island of so called for has stopped off from agreement was reached between Government Forces and backed separatists troops pushed back the separatists from the islands provincial capital on friday an agreement reached last month among the worlds Top Oil Producers to put has now come into effect the global Oil Benchmark brant crude hit a 21 year low last month as lock downs squeeze demand emerged earlier in the week that the us President Donald Trump reportedly pressurize saudi arabia into cutting its output by threatening to withdraw u. S. Military support up next its witness here on aljazeera ill have more news in half an hour ill see that. As the sun goes down. Russia is a very challenging place to work. Even though the authorities here say you cant do it its not allowed to build. On the other people are being taken from. You for the things that we. Go. 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