A covert 19 and trade relations and their fathers one of hundreds of people missing during the 5 year war in yemen we talked to a family seeking answers. To the arab. Thank you for joining Us Donald Trump has triggered a double dose of controversy as a number of coronavirus cases in the u. S. A pos is one and a half 1000000 the u. S. President is threatening to make funding cuts to the World Health Organization permanent and message chemist so improvements within 30 days he accuses a body of being a puppet of china trumps ultimatum to the w h ok moments after he revealed his taking a drug that Health Experts warn could have fatal side effects. As more. President donald trump is so confident in the drug he himself dubbed a game changer against covert 19 that he himself takes one pill of hydroxy chloroquine with the zinc every morning jacket hydroxy for what went right out yeah when. A couple of weeks ago i started to get it because i think its kind of had a lot of good stories and if its not good ill tell you right doctor to get hurt but its been around for 40 years from malaria for a loop as for other things the president unsolicited admission came at the end of a winding press conference next to restaurant executives about reopening the country what do you have to lose ok what do you have to list thats despite no evidence of the drug working to prevent infection and own food and Drug Administration warning against using hydroxy chloroquine to treat coated outside of an Emergency Hospital setting a leading government immunologist testified before Congress Last week that he was demoted after doubting hydroxy clore whens efficacies we also knew that there were potential safety risks or clerk when they cause an irregular heart irregular heart rhythms and even in some cases a greater portion of u. S. Military veterans who took the drug to treat cope with 19 did die according to a government study as compared to fellow covert patients who did not take hydroxy chloroquine and 2 larger studies from new york found the drugs offered no significant benefit to hospitalized patients trump said his faith in hydroxy clore when comes from anecdotes that make their way to the oval office. I get a lot of positive calls about it the American Medical Association says it strongly opposes the non f. D. A. Approved use of hydroxy cork when without careful consultation with ones doctor trump says he has the white House Doctors approval he says he asked for it himself heidi joe castro aljazeera washington. As we mentioned trump has threatened to pull World Health Organization funding permanently after it was frozen last month that means w. H. O. Would lose its largest single contributor the u. S. Giving 400000000 dollars last year or the threat in a letter to the head of the organization which he posted on twitter the 4 page document boils down to 3 points accusing the w. H. O. Of mistakes and inaction he wrote it is clear the repeated missteps by you enjoy organisation in responding to the pandemic have been extremely costly for the world he also accuse officials of backing china writing the only way forward for the World Health Organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence from china he ended the letter demanding major changes of the Organization Trump wrote if the World Health Organization does not commit to major substantiative improvements within the next 30 days made my temporary freeze of United States funding to the w. H. O. Organization permanent and the u. S. President s not shying away from criticism of china he accuses of the accuses beijing of partly being responsible for the w. H. O. Of the actions but i think theyve done a. Very see the list period of time. And again the United States pays them 450000000. 00 a year china pays them 38000000000. 00 a year and theyre a puppet of jonah. China centric to put it nicer but theyre a puppet of jonah and in the past china has reacted to the letter saying the u. S. Is trying to shift the blame of its own incompetent response to coronavirus between e. U. Is in beijing joins us now live that response coming from the Chinese Foreign ministry katrina. Thats right this afternoon chinas Foreign Ministry have tried to paint the us as a rogue states not abiding by the rules of the International Community as you mentioned theyve really attacked the u. S. For this letter back to donald trump saying that its the obligation of ever every member state of the World Health Assembly to pay their assessed contribution on time and in a fall and also saying that the u. S. Is simply politicizing the World Health Organizations relationship with china in order to divert blame away from its own mishandling of the crisis back home another interesting comment it was made by chinas Foreign Ministry this afternoon is that while it welcomes a comprehensive review by the World Health Organization into the origins of curve of 19 it also said that it would be disastrous for this review to be undertaken at a time when the panic when the pandemic is still now not in control so really in a way its kind of trying to really delay the timing of this review and in a sense kick the can down the road and chinas relationship with the u. S. Has historically low no doubt katrina how is this being interpreted in beijing. Well many analysts that ive spoken to here in beijing say that they do feel that china and the u. S. Have entered a new cold war and have been brought closer to confrontation in the 2 countries have been in the last few decades and its not just about the coronavirus although that seems to really be pushing the relationship the bilateral relationship to the brink the u. S. Has made an attack on china multiple fronts they have multiple complaints in recent weeks theyve intensified sanctions against chinese tech giant quali banning the sale of u. S. Chips another technology. To huawei in for its use in smartphones and other networks its also curtailed and limited the amount of journalist visas for chinese journalists in the u. S. And at the same time donald trump has made threats to raise tariffs on chinese goods exported to the u. S. And encourage companies to further decouple those 2 economies and because of this we are seeing this relationship at an all time low as some analysts saying at its lowest point since the founding of the relationship in the 1970 s. Thank you very much for that katrina you live for us safe from beijing. Ties between china and australia are also under growing strain after beijing impose tariffs center suspended imports of australian agriculture products its being seen as a retaliation for surliest push for a global investigation into the origins of call that 19 make a gauge reports from a farming town in the state of New South Wales. The panics of return to green on this farm in regional New South Wales which if henderson looks after 550. 00 angus cattle recent rain brought. Drought but the multibillion dollar cattle industry is now in the middle of an installation trade dispute between australia and china putting thousands of jobs at risk this run a certain. Things considerably plant crops up to the future and we dont need any potential like this to sort of put the brakes on that china has suspended beef imports from 4 of destroying these major rabbits was but its being seen by some analysts as china using tried to punish a strong leader for pushing for a global inquiry into the origins. Of the back of droughts and floods and far as what we need in rural and regional australia at the moment is investment certainty and where there are reasons in markets like china that is not a good thing for farmers as well as disrupting the cattle industry china is also threatening to impose tariffs of up to 80 percent australian bali imports some farmers have stopped going to to the. Beijing followed through with that threat on monday thank you flea putting in into israeli is bali trade with china ripping hundreds of millions of dollars from the industry china is no longer a rising power its a reason power and what we know of superpowers is that they are their wealth to try and influence other countries to do their bidding and i think we will see china. Doing more of that in the future relations between the 2 nations have been under strain well before coded 19 overall a geisha in chinese interference in australian politics but china is biggest trade partner the question is how to strike a balance between business and standing up to one of the worlds biggest economies gauge aljazeera in the town of kook world. Another world news libyas internationally recognized government discontinuing its offensive against forces loyal to warlord highly for have to are in the west after taking control of the what here air base d on monday jna forces now say of every take in the towns of t. G. And bodiless half of the base that site had been used as hard times headquarters in western libya since 2014 as hawkman 4 have Task Force Says is downplaying the loss of the air base. This move was not made in the spur of the moment it was planned for months weve been pulling out strategic of quitman of heavy military gear from the brakes 3 months ago we pulled out the jet fighters and their ammunition and spear parts only yesterday orders were given for personnel to withdraw under cover the withdrawal was successful and we moved the personnel and all the weaponry and ammunition that we have on planes and we will recapture the air base. It is in tripoli he says this is a major setback for have task forces. Meanwhile the Government Forces say that they will not jeopardize by proceeding or advancing in the areas half that his forces are planning to was that all from. The say that there could be a landmine supplanted by how far his forces in the areas they are positioned at before meanwhile said catheters forces are suffering now is being reflected clearly on their positions on the ground as you know the Government Forces not only have taken control of this strategic ally. In the west of the country the whole soul advanced and their progress towards the Western Mountain taken control of 2 major towns tedy embedded and theyre now proceeding get towards one of have bases in the Western Mountain its called the last one which is closed to the u. N. City the base of half the us forces which they lost last june generally speaking it seemed that have those forces are losing momentum especially thanks to the. Surge. Drones that helped the Government Forces taken control of all these strategic locations. Still ahead on aljazeera anger in chiles capital way khurana down protesters needing from the money plead for help and a major test as u. S. Adelaide workers go back to work but does more need to be done to save the industry. Colors the very high temperatures that have been in this part of europe and southeast corner being pushed out of the way brother cloud over the top of it in the balkan state is still hot in turkey and in cyprus and not as hot on the heat is building now further west and these this area of High Pressure so most of western europe involved in that the still something of a coolish breeze in germany and poem attempt is in the teens. And this sundry stuff it italy slovenia in the balkans will probably spread eastward through hungary and beyond significant rain seemed likely there is still relatively cool to the north but the suns quite good this time of year and its warming up nicely as i said further west so paris a case in point 2829 degrees by a little less on friday but this is certainly a very warm and to may. Now north africa is not really much affected by this anymore weve got the on shore breeze which means is cooler in tunis and tripoli we come down out of the thirtys now most of north africa of course is just hot and dry and dusty these showers in the tropics and beyond the making northward progress in fact theyre reaching once again into the ethiopian highlands a full cross the outer suburb or its the next 3 days rain of some sort possibly sundry has got to be good news. As the world bites the corona pandemic were learning more about this every day. Its a new year new join our Global Community its up to us on how we come together to fight on serene your question can i just recently directly thats coming on on you tube as youre saying im concerned about the front line owners to require that theyre not keeping you up to date. And. The stream on 00. The e. U. Welcome back our top stories on aljazeera this hour libyas internationally recognized government in tripoli says its forces have retaken the times of t. G. And baghdad that follows mondays takeover of our what here air base from highly for have tossed forces donald trump is threatening to permanently freeze funding for the World Health Organization if it does make improvements in 30 days the agency is facing growing criticism from several countries for its handling of the pandemic and the u. S. President has revealed his taking a regular dose of the antimalaria drug seeker of wayne to prevent coronavirus government Health Experts warned last month of its potential fatal side effects. Saying with that story dr are not is a medical doctor and former chief medical correspondent at n. B. C. News he says most studies are so poorly done that they are no real answers about hydro. The drug. The intriguing thing about what the president s doing is this when you look at the entry of the virus into the body has a thing called a spike protein here that then goes on to a particular receptor needs to receptor its meant to perhaps block that in theory and then once it gets into the body it likes a more and more acid environment in the hydroxy cork and can make it less acid so its a theoretical basis to take it for prevention and theres a current trial going on with no results when you look at hard endpoints its sort of looking like apples oranges and great fruits and trying to compare all these studies the best hospitals in america right now are saying the number or risk their patients are getting is that what they call paul the pharmacy its been on too many drugs theyre finding was straight Supportive Care giving no drugs at all theyre doing better than if they load them up with all kinds of drugs that are have proven in trials that are poorly conducted when you look at all of these various comorbidities when you look at the diabetes and the high Blood Pressure in the corner yarder disease that various people have with this you know you add these other drugs to it and you get you really get bad results the one thing theyre following you know and i say use is a tremendous numbers of a rhythm ias irregular heart rates because of the amount of hydroxy corke when thats being used at this point having is the Human Rights School bad celeb ms accusing israel of a campaign of violence against panna scenes in East Jerusalem neighborhoods so we a is home to about 22000 people and is one of the poorest suburbs in the city as hemmed in by jewish neighborhoods and israel institutions including a military base Medical Center and university the most says a so we is 90 percent smaller than when it was seized by israel in 1987 how guy at law does director add bits and then the not israeli Nongovernmental Organization which wrote the report he says the oppression of the neighborhood has been building for yes. Gradual process and from the israeli perspective as is correct with regard to so many other Human Rights Violations conducted by isnt against westerners its all according to law so that gradually you search of various mechanisms to overtake the land. Is very situations taking some of the land to build on the neighborhood settlements just for jews. And implementing that gradually has been one feature of what is happening that has been compounded also by a policy of not landing not giving the neighborhood and proper a master plan according to which people will be able to build. The Building Permits and just little normal life so that israel has done exactly the opposite totally willingly and to as an example of a brother situation existing all over. And East Jerusalem and theres a little doubt of course and no other option but us to go without a permit and again they have turned out to a risk their life savings 100 have disappeared during yemens 5 year war many are said to have been taken in for questioning by the coalition and their families have desperate for answers about their relatives whereabouts stephanie as astore its they know knew him which is the hardest part its been 5 years since these children lost their father since his wife last year for certain that he was alive and then isnt even you must put up with my i havent heard about my husband since he was abducted not even a call or news i havent heard his voice since then i dont know anything i searched and looked everywhere i made reports to the police and the security directorate i even went to the ministry of the interior. According to his wife adel her dad was a bus driver in yemen southern port city of aden she says he was taken for questioning by groups backed by saudi arabia and the u. A. E. November of 2016. He isnt the only one to disappear the 5 year war has left many families with the same pain and uncertainty these Mother Holding protest they want answers. We appeal for the