Than thoughts prayers. The canadian Prime Minister just in food bans 1500 types of assault weapons in response to the countrys worst mass shooting. Also ahead filling up fast with more on the way to 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 freezing coronavirus patients in the United States 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 medication shortened patients Recovery Time by about 30 percent and slightly improved mortality rates the boss of sciences the company that makes room disappear says they are now increasing production. And were also fully committed to continuing to expand the supply of this medicine and we started investing in this back in january as soon as we became aware of the krona 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 and to present with you your ministration to make sure that patients and you can get this important new medicine stay with us story mike hanna has more from washington. It has been given an emergency use flagged by the f. D. A. Which means that it can be used under very tightly controlled conditions which will be part of the ongoing survey into the a take a c. Of the drug now within the u. S. The f. D. A. Some urgency rissa lucian was given on the basis of a single trial in which patients were shown to recover 4 days quicker from the corona virus 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 to you as well that the answer to magazine reported on a similar study on. Being conducted in china which did not produce as favorable results and 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 vendor last year for price gouging on another off the drugs that it produced so certainly there are a lot of issues here both pertaining to the if we can see of the drug and also a possible conflict of interest involved with the mass production of the drug at this particular point 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 Donald Trump that it was created in a chinese lab. We have listened again and again numerous scientists whove looked at the sequences looked at this wireless and we are assured this wireless is natural in origin and what is important is that we establish what that natural host for this virus 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. 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 more on the virus later for now another developing story for you north korean state media says kim jong un has made his 1st public appearance in almost 3 weeks these images reportedly show the leader opening a Fertilizer Factory rumors have been swirling about his health and even as possible death its also been speculated that china sent a team of doctors to treat him after a heart procedure had gone wrong rob mcbride joins us live now from the south korean capital so rob good morning so hes alive and well what do we make of the pictures. Thats right apparently so this report was released by state run news agency k c. N. A. Reporting the conjunct. Company by his sister Kim Jung John attended the opening of the Ribbon Cutting ceremony at a fertilizer plant apparently according to the news agency there was rapturous applause from the workers there this all happened on may 1st which is a fitting way of marking workers workers day in north korea weve no reason to suspect that this didnt happen but we only have the one news Agency Report to go on and also these 2 photographs showing the redbook Ribbon Cutting and also kim jong un in attendance its a if its true then it does settle all of the speculation that has been swirling for several weeks now about his condition is this all originated of course because he missed a very important celebration 2 weeks ago the day of sun this is the day when the whole of north korea celebrates the birth date of kim il sung the founding father of north korea and kim jong uns grandfather he missed that and followed shortly after by all sorts of speculation that maybe he had some sort of procedure maybe it went wrong some News Agencies and some news media even reporting that he was gravely ill gravely sick well it seems to disprove that fact that he is alive and well and back attending these very Public Events once all but given how closed in on itself north korea is and given how much control he exerts over the country is there a chance here rob we may never know the real timeline of what really happened to him. Quite possibly i think when it comes to the activities of the leader of north korea it is of course one of the most secretive opaque countries in the world when it comes to the activities of the leader and more so the health of the leader then we really have very Little Information to to go on and when we get disappearances like this then we do tend to get all sorts of theories cropping up quite naturally relying upon all sorts of sources possibly defectors people who say they have contacts in north korea it is interesting that with all of the speculation that was mounting over the past couple of weeks people here in south korea work work work quite skeptical about all of this they of course monitor north korea very closely are always looking northwards in the intelligence agencies here were really downplaying a lot of all of this speculation saying that they had not really detected any other signs that you would normally get that there was something wrong at the very top of the hierarchy any unusual troop movements and so on so it has to be said that here in south korea where they process an awful lot of this secondhand reporting or rumor mongering that they were quite skeptical about these reports but it does highlight as well just about the how what kind of a rupture it would cause in this part of the world if you did lose somebody like kim jong un because it would leave such. Such a vacancy such a gap at the top because of the cult that surrounds him so it is a bit of a wake up call and just remind people once more of just the fragile nature of things in this part of the world rob thanks very much. 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 oh 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 outsiders daniel lak is in toronto he explains now how canadians are reacting. In rural areas hunting in 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. 00 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. Forces loyal to the libyan war lords has killed at least 2 civilians in tripoli earlier the u. N. Recognized government carried out strikes on a military convoy of the capital is the. This airstrike was carried out by libyas un recognized government in tripoli it targeted a supply chain for the forces of warlord honey for half dot 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 it will be. Bad this is his forces that was significant ground 0 on saddam on those bridges and then also d in the. Major was the. This was the amount of losses both boat battles and strategic. 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 well have to out 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 encrease and civilian casualties from the use of rockets and artillery. After a year of fighting the forces back recognized government in tripoli appear to have the upper hand in this ever changing battle for control of libya. Al jazeera. Still to come here on aljazeera coronavirus disparity the u. K. Data showing some ethnic groups are much more vulnerable to prove it 19. And u. S. Democratic president ial hopeful joe biden speaks out to deny allegations of Sexual Assault. Hello we still got some very hot sunshine across northern parts of china for the time being that will change as we go through the next couple of days area cloud into central areas of china thats going to push out into the East China Sea eventually well see some wetter weather just not doing its way towards south korea towards southern parts of japan but head of that saturday thats was dry and sunny were getting up to around 28. 00 celsius in tokyo that cloud on the right that will continue to ease further east with so it will cloud over it will turn increasingly wet some heavy downpours for the far south of japan and also into south korea as we go through sunday still some showers there into southern areas of china but for the far south you too bad hong kong around 31 celsius in the sunshine sunshine the showers meanwhile across a good part of Southeast Asia some of the showers on the live beside the seasonal rains of course and the great surprises here and wet weather anywhere from the philippines through malaysia indonesia to pat wanted to showers that a possibility one of those ones are those showers just pushing up towards malaysia pushing up into good parts of thailand from time to time and i showers just not in the way a little further north woods and west was we will see some showers there into the eastern side of the by a bingo much of injuries dry and sunny but showers for the northeast. In countries like mine people have been killed too because we in the United States have privatized the ultimate Public Function or this was a deal with saudi arabia things were done differently saudis other arabs when they came to britain for be all to help the path of alms deals you know you will rumsfeld was meeting saddam isnt that interesting there are a shadow on aljazeera. World. Welcome back youre watching aljazeera im peter double your top stories 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 rem disappear will be distributed to hospitals from monday. North korean state media says kim jong il now has made his 1st public appearance in almost 3 weeks these images reportedly show the leader opening a Fertilizer Factory rumors have been swirling about his health and even his possible death. Assault style rifle to be immediately banned in canada thats in response to the countrys worst mass shooting a little less than 2 weeks ago in the. Fighting on the yemeni island of has stopped after an agreement was reached between Government Forces and u. S. Backed separatists. Troops pushed back to separate us from the islands provincial capital on friday under the agreement saudi forces will secure the city and both sides will remove checkpoints and military vehicles. Statistics are emerging in the u. K. Showing the curve at 19 death rate is higher among ethnic minorities the total number of u. K. Deaths has risen beyond 27. 00 and a half 1000 but other parts of europe continue to see more promising signs of recovery is not in bob. Frankly is it going in the right direction in space Health Workers celebrating the closure of a huge Field Hospital installed at the end of march in la driggs largest Conference Center but although covered 19 infections are holding these facilities will remain in place in case theres a new outbreak i mentioned i want and i want them all and i feel happy because we have won the 1st battle of this great virus lets hope it was the wall but if not we will return here with more strength than before to continue fighting spains had one of the toughest lock downs but from this weekend people will be allowed to leave home for exercise on their own of course the crisis is having a huge financial effect to the government now says it expects the economy to shrink by 9. 2 percent this year the only places in europe with higher official death tolls than spain or italy and here in britain following fierce criticism over the relatively low covered 19 testing levels the British Government has been increasing its capacity it wants to put in place a network to test track and trace people with the virus as it looks to ease lock down restrictions and its announced its a past its target of 100000 tests a day for the end of april testing is crucial to suppress the virus i know from personal experience to just how much people with symptoms want to know if theyve got the disease i know that i did it helps remove the worry it helps keep people safe and it will help others to unlock the lock down. Meanwhile worrying statistics of emerge suggesting coronavirus disparities a new study in england says the death rate among British Black africans and british pakistanis is more than 2 and a half times that of the white population and people in the poorest parts of britain are dying from cobbett 19 a double the rate of people in the richest areas on friday the french president explained the traditional may day events including protests to work possible because of coronavirus restrictions but he said the spirit of workers solidarity was stronger than ever. Its thanks to the work is being celebrated today that our nation is Still Standing its thanks to the work and dedication of our Health Workers our Security Forces and our military that were saving so many lives every day there were demonstrations elsewhere like this one outside the Greek Parliament in athens keeping their distance but determined to keep up the pressure on the government. Today the countrys working class despite protective measures to minimize the spread of the fire is here has a voice demands not to be burdened by the crisis which is excel or rating because of the pandemic. Friday also marked the Catholic Churchs feast of st joseph the worker pope francis used the morning mass in the vatican to say too many people globally are either denied a fair wage or treated like slaves in forced labor his audience just a few months from priests his message universal the barber al jazeera. Al jazeera is Investigative Unit has obtained exclusive video revealing a backlog of goods at chinas bigge