A leaked document reveals the daily death toll could double by early june. And nigeria is locked down restrictions in some places fears of a new outbreak emerge in the countrys north. And coordinated attacks in iraq killed 14 members of the Security Forces we meet the group that was targeted. Welcome to the news our World Leaders organizations and banks have pledged 8000000000. 00 for research into a Coronavirus Vaccine and treatments the e. U. Which hosted the online fundraiser hopes it will kick start unprecedented Global Cooperation and this comes as europes worst affected country italy began listening tough social restrictions that means people can go back to work visit family and some business. A reopening after 8 weeks in lockdown alexia brown begins our coverage. Of the how good theyve been waiting for for 2 months. Old grandfather and granddaughter 3 united. During the korean teen we were desperate because now i call you can speak for how excited i am too excited we have only seen her with video calls for 2 months but it was not the same it couldnt be the same. Quarter when i saw her my heart stopped it seemed to be a century since id seen her after the longest lockdown in europe family visits ever allowed but only of relatives live in the same region. Elsewhere the queues were back at romes main determining station though its not just take it but temperatures being taken. By a lot of the what is that obviously after staying at home for almost 60 days it feels good i feel good and i feel safe. Across as a lay more than 4000000 people were back at work as construction sites and factories reopened and restaurants were allowed to sell takeaway food but taking public transport is still being discouraged by government and mosques a compulsory when share in public spaces and doors. Funerals remain limited to 15 people but the bereaved able to lay flowers on the graves of the dead the florists nearby carefully disinfected. With more than 210000 reported cases and around 29000. 00 deaths italy is one of the worst affected countries government leaders fear the loosening of restrictions will lead to a resurgence in cases Health Care Workers are taking extreme measures to track infections isolate clusters and make sure hospitals and overwhelmed again. Want to get every morning. Were being careful trying not to do too many things but at least were finally outside and breathing some fresh air families making the most of the sunshine and parks that have been reopened so playgrounds remain off limits but some of them think youre happy because finally today they have opened up or gezi after having close to 4 months and a half even though obviously my daughter was disappointed to find the playground up walked off there are many reminders that life isnt the same with school cinemas and theaters shot indefinitely but those ancient country has witnessed plagues before and recovered italians just need to find a balance between staying safe and embracing their new found freedom. Brian al jazeera. Francesco gambit tony joins us live on skype from well and good to have you with us just tell us a little bit more really about how italians a feeling the must be mixed emotions sort of life tries to get back to normal. Well you are as you were saying they were saying the emotions are definitely makes because there is excitement for this 1st return to a sort of normal life of course with masks with social distancing with new rules but many people where on the streets today thousands of people went on the streets today because. The service was saying there was a lifting on the restrictions on personal freedom so people are now allowed to go out for a walk or to go to visit their family and the police cannot check who they are actually going to meet for privacy reasons so much is left to the sense of responsibility of the italians and there are on the other side there are also concerns that this face if the responsibility d doesnt work this phase could bring to a 2nd wave of cases so of course the next 2 weeks will be crucial to understanding of the lockdown will continue or not here in italy gives you touch upon the issue of concern about a 2nd wave if it does happen whats the strategy of the government to either prevent that 2nd wave or put in the stops stops and checks that it requires to make sure 2nd wave doesnt happen. Well the apparent lack of a strategy is one of the reasons that worry people more because it doesnt seem to be as it doesnt seem that there are new measures to control the virus except from masks mandatory and public transport close spaces and in the distance and growth thats why many people are worried nothing was said about the possibility of increasing the number of tests in march and in february were not enough for everyone who needed to be tested there is a long public debate about the content tracing app that the government is working on but this app is not ready and the government didnt even decide to isolate infected people in facilities like hotels to avoid in fact ing family members so its not easy also to understand why some regions are making immunity tests and some are not as i was saying before much as still asked to the responsibility of people but these people are also asking authorities to implement new strategies to fight the possible new cases after 2 months or. So the latest from jessica battery thank you now the search for a crown of honest vaccine and treatment has been given a big boost for leaders from the e. U. And other nations have pledged 8000000000 dollars for research that the United States didnt participate in the Video Conference that included president s prime Ministers Health officials and other donors china hope. Corona virus is going away so the world must find ways to live with it better ways of testing for it more effective ways of treating it most importantly eventually a vaccine against it. The practice on many the goal is one to defeat this virus and virtual pledging conference aims to channel billions of dollars into the Global Response its not just about pouring money into research but also about pooling resources and expertise for the common good. Measure of science and. Its really. Now. Why. The u. S. Isnt involved and while china is offering to help there are concerns the worlds Top Economists already had political loggerheads may engage in a vaccine war donald trump has already claimed a vaccine is just months away scientists point out that even if a vaccine is discovered in months it will be a lot longer than that before its stale dup and available to the billions wholl need it which is why its so important to find drug treatments that work in the meantime both are central to the funds being pledged and both are at advanced stages of trialing and research here at the university of oxford professor Martin Landry is leading the Worlds LargestClinical Trial into coronavirus drug treatments a project called recovery hes hoping to find an existing drug or combination of drugs that works to save lives well before a vaccine becomes globally available. I think your is probably too strong i dont think therell be a single drug that suddenly wipes out clone a virus but i think effective treatments are in sight and theyre critical theyre critical because patients are dying today and tomorrow and the day after and even with the best will in the world with 18 months off having a scaled up vaccine at best we need treatments that deal with the problem of now. Only in europe and parts of asia are there real signs of an infection slowdown globally new cases of covert 19 are being reported at more or less the same rate as they were a month ago he was a greatest for the developing world where social distancing is an adequate impossible the greatest hope lies in a global effort against a global threat jonah how aljazeera oxford the hardest hit country in the middle east is reopening some mosques but irans capital tehran remains a virus hotspot president rouhani says social distancing is more important collective prayer. Is in the capital. Irans government announced the names of more than 100. 00 towns and cities across the country that they now consider safe or white stones these are places that Health Officials say have seen a dramatic drop in the rate of infection of the coronavirus mosques have the green light to go ahead and reopen their doors and in some cases friday prayer congregations will also go back to normal but it has to be said these are small Population Centers in a very big country to iran still one of the worst affected places in iran this city remains a red zone major religious sites into one musher than home in the cities places that were considered hotspots for the virus at the start of this outbreak those remain closed for now when the pandemic began in iran the government response was about weighing what was good for Public Health against what was good for the countrys Economic Health some say iran implemented a lockdown too late and reopened too early now in the islamic fasting month of ramadan the countrys leaders are under pressure to find a balance between managing Public Health and the countrys Spiritual Health we have to remember that modern day iran was built on the back of a religious revolution this is a country that has a large and vocal population of religious people and this is one of the most religious months of the islamic calendar its a time of religious gatherings and the government will no doubt be feeling the pressure to reopen places of mass worship some mosques like the one behind me local neighborhood houses of god have restarted limited operating hours individuals can go inside and pray throughout the day but as long as they maintain social distancing measures its a small but significant nod by the government to the countrys religious identity but bigger gatherings of any kind for any sort of mass worship remain forbidden. Well hundreds of Migrant Workers stranded in western india her fault with police. Workers from across the country have been stuck in suter since covert 19 restrictions began in late march they say the government hasnt provided them with promised food and train tickets home and government leaders say doctors need time to check their infections. Now the trumpet ministration is predicting coronavirus deaths in the u. S. Will reach 3000 today by june the 1st now thats according to an internal report seen by the New York Times the document also forecasts about 200000 new cases each day by the end of the month it comes as a number of states and started to reopen their economies despite warnings from some Public Health experts well lets go live to our White House Correspondent kelly healthcare in washington d. C. And of course the death toll being apparently much higher than is officially forecast in the usa where is this all coming from. Yes coming from the centers for Disease Control modeling and also fimo which is the federal Emergency Management agency these are Government Agencies and certainly the trumpet ministration has access to this information and we started to see on sunday evening the changing of this projected death toll and also the number of infections when the u. S. President was speaking at a town hall he talked about how initially it was thought that there would be 60000 deaths the number he put forward that was downgraded from an initially very high number now saying it be closer to 100000 but these models from within these agencies suggest that it is much much higher you pointing out there that it could be 200000 a day and deaths as high as 3000 a day by june the question becomes with such high numbers why is the administration pressing for the reopening of these economies now that is something that the administration is going to have to speak to but for its part it has just responded in the last hour to this wide reporting about these new numbers saying that these are not Trump Administration models that they have not been reviewed by the current virus taskforce that these guidelines that they have for states to reopen are based on science and also that the white house is monitoring the state led efforts to reopen their economy so it doesnt seem to speak to the question of why this administration is turning a blind eye to these numbers but those numbers have now been made public and as they continue to sort of reverberate across the United States certainly this will be astonishing to Many Americans indeed but it also feeds it in directly kimberly to this very nasty war of words over covert 19 between the u. S. And china and its getting very contentious. Its getting very contentious and increasingly we see a number of members of the trumpet ministration laying blame against china for what the United States is now dealing with you have to put this into the context of an Election Year it certainly bears repeating that this was once the historically low unemployment Strong Economy all of thats been obliterated as a result of covert 19 this is ministration and particularly this president is looking for someone to blame and its very easy to blame the Chinese Government given the fact that. We dont know because of the classified nature of the intelligence the president has provided per syslog when he knew what he knew now he is since this thing that the initial intelligence he was provided was downplayed that this would not be severe and when it became clear that it was very he began those travel restrictions particularly from china in january that did lead to we should point out at least 40000 people coming from china following those closures so the u. S. President is insisting that hes done all he can but of course this is something that his democratic opponents have seized upon given the fact that they believe that he could have done more and the president they say has blood on his hands given the high number of deaths that are occurring now in terms of these models we now know that the numbers will be even higher can be held to a White House Correspondent. On Chinese State media say the u. S. Has been throwing around groundless accusations over the origins of going to you katrina you is in beijing with reaction to it. Theres been a escalating war of words between the u. S. And china in recent months and this latest state media editorial is only adding fuel to that fire so it was in the global times which is a Chinese State media newspaper and its published both in english and mandarin and both versions really had searing words attacking secretary of state mike pompei oh in particular they called him a liar saying that he quote is engaging in filthy behavior to mislead the public and that hes lost his moral compass theyve also accused Michael Pompei of really only being interested in getting donald trump reelected in the next elections in november and in store king and the chinese hatred in order to do this now this is in response to the comments we had earlier of my composure saying that there is significant evidence that corba 1000 region ated in a chinese lad in the history of roller g. And they doing has flat out denied this its also denied that its engaging in any cover up would just Information Campaign and this editorial is really demanding that mike pompei and his colleagues really produce this evidence that they say they say that they have and theres just said look hes really just engaging according to state media in a bluff in a big bluff and really just continuing this anti chinas Smear Campaign in order to divert attention from washingtons mishandling of the crisis back home. Is an associate professor in the school of policy and government at George Mason University joins me now via skype from washington d. C. Good to have you with us on the program so i mean it would be easy for the u. S. To point fingers now but china could have done that back at the u. S. In 2008 during the financial meltdown. Sure they could have and there were fingers pointed at the u. S. But i think people at that time all around the world were concentrating on how do we stop this financial pandemic and today it is very bad news not just for the United States and china but for the world that the 2 largest economies and 2 of the most important nations are in a blame game a war of words that is going to really hurt cooperation as weve already seen with america withdrawing funding from the World Health Organization in the past 24 hours weve seen this war of words over the source of the outbreak the u. S. Saying one thing the china saying you have a how do you sort of analyze the way that china sort of rebuffing the statements well it is amazing how china has gotten so good at International Media because they released a short cartoon about a minute and a half film that ad teams from madison avenue would be very proud of its brilliant it takes trumps own words his own contradictory statements his own lies and accurately depicts them and makes america look stupid and its devastatingly effective and so china is anxious for the world to forget its mistakes its lies the way it kept the truth in the early days of this epidemic when it was just an epidemic and it was located in will one day want to focus on trumps obvious misbehavior lies and incompetence but the attacks on china come from various angles of various Pincer Movement per