And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Trevelyanim laura porting from new york city. The president pushes to reopen america and new sugstions are that the curriculum of the thousand cases per day by june and mr. Trump bmes china for the spread. Ar preads in the amazon have coronavirus of health services, with digital format at risk. Crashed into the rubble of german cies. 7years since will or two ended in europe, we havehe story of the actor turned officer who played a pivotal role in the surrender. For all of you watching on pbs, welcome to world news america. Half the country begins reopen and there are dire projections about the spread of the virus. The New York Times boards on p estimate of 3000 people day could die by early june, double the current number. The president is blami china for losing control of the virus. John starts our coverage. What ppened in wuhan dit stay there. The billions, effected a billion millions, killed hundreds of thousands, claiming a new casualty u. S. China relations. On the american eade there is over secretiveness and an unsubstantiated charge that the student originate in a wet market ithe city, but in the government of oratory. This is the first time w, and en to verify so that we are certainyout i can tell there is a significant amount of evidence. Seems designed to cause ximum effect to the. Hithe presid cent lastne nightsd they would bring forward as it at the right time. Ask my opinion is ey made a mistake and try to cover itt ad out, like a fire, really like a fire. Against the backdrop of the lin memorial, donald trump raised totential death toll to 100,000 at each time he does that, it brings fresh scriny of his own erratic handling of the isis. With an election is mo, having someone else to blame, the ch organization, has the politically essential. But this is it outore than electoral politics. Atthere is growing unease china has become too powerful on the multilateral bodies a that americ needs to reassert itself. The coronavirus pandemic is becoming a defining and deeply insettling moment. , giving as good as it gets. This cartoonampooninerg icthes s agency in english. Theoctors. It will magically go away in april. Ti deterioration in res have been rapid. This is donald trump in the early relations of the obreak. Resident she loves en presxi loves his people and is doing a good job with a tough situation. He used to talk extravagantly about it. You dont hear much about that now. For more on the new estimate im joined by dr. Richard besser, president and ceo of the Robert Wood Johnson foundation, advising new safely. Dr. Besser, thank you for being with us. The white house is now suggesting the hundred 35,000 people could die in the u. S. By august. I tend to not react to new models. Models can give you a sense of where you need to focus. M the true number is far higher than has been reported. T as states real economies they need to do it slowly and carefully or we will continue to see black and latino americans hit so much harder by pandemic. Some states are, cases take up. Texas, as the does that make sense . It doesnt. And we need more data and testing available. Not just the people who are really very sick. But for mild cases and wvile those indials will do fine, they can still spread this in communities and t data needs be broken down by race and ethnicity, not just terms of race, but we need to see who is being tested and who is not so that we contract the virus through communities to make sure that the protective measures needed look into the people who dohe essential work. Scott gottlieb says that efforts to mitigate the vus didnt work as well as expected. Would you agree . If you expected it would be the same as in the as in china, singapore, south korea, i never expected them to be at that level. American democracy doesnt take as well to governments telling people what to do. They were going to be leaking from the start. They have slowed things. Itn has led to declinesates that are seeing the greatest burden. No, i ner expected them to show up with a massive decline and it ss that we will be with social distancing if wwant to control this, we will need to do this for a long, long time. Do you think that the heat is going to kill the viruthis summer and provide respite there are so many important science questions. Thats onof them. What will the virus do as the weather gets hotter and the humidity goes up . Another importan question, if someone had the infection once the war, can they get iin . Once before, you dont want to count on it. F you have to pl a variety of scenarios, like a scenario where it doesnt decline or a scenario where comes back really rong in the fall. The virus hasnt told us oit what it is to be doing and we have to be careful about that. Thank you for being with us. R ple thank you. Mp president tits the road this week, going to arizona on tuesday. More lets ring and anthony zurcher. What is the president s strategy here . Ts dealing with the electoral consequences of this pandemic. It not a natural disaster, something where it is about a responsibility to outside external actors on the united states, where there is soone else to blame. He has to reboot his president ial reelectionpa cn. He was going to run on the economy. As not going to work anymore, so he has to find a way of getting out there, talking to people, presenting a calm front and getting in front of voters, dominatingthhe media. Sog that he is to be an honest very good at. Anthony, why is the president going to ohio . If you look at the electoral map, arizona will be pivotal in november. Its a state that donald trump one four years ago and there has been a lot of focus on the midwest on ohio. Wisconsin, and pennsylvania. Joe biden could lose, and arizona is a key battlegund. These volumes that he has decided to go there in his president ial Campaign Reboot and theno focus on the midwest and ohio, which he must win if he wants to be reelected. Joe biden is in his basement, former obama advisers saying that they need to make more of anmpact . You can see that donald trump had a fox news event on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial last night and is going fly to different events around the country. In a normal election season, the challenger doesnt get as much press at this time of year. Its kind of quiet, where they are organizing fundraisingh. The real pll have to come later in the rate the yearpi when is up. I think the Biden Campaign where heso cant in p its going to require a lot of careful planning and outside the box thinking. Coming in to oregon with these situations. Senators are back in washington wou are, what are they up to . Trex one of the things that they are focusing on first and foremostto ionfer to the registration and a key inapent on the court that he wants to get it filled. He wants to come up with another round of stimulus measures, particularly ones that esotect themse from workers that say they caught it at the workplace. I priority for mitch mcconnell. E decrats will be coming up with other lands, helping with states or local governments. Mitch mcconnell doesnt want to sit on his, handss trying to get things done, sayingt t still has me back into gener session. Antho with us. You for being this year does this week brazil over to cha in terms of cases of coronavirus api the true ure it is warned is far worse than the total. The fear is that the virus could devastate the indigenous population. Katy watson reports. N e middle of the rain forest, the virus has taken hold. This is the biggest city in the amazon, where they are digging mass graves. How else can overwhelmed authorities cope with the numbers of people dying. They are at a breaking point. Ey have one of the highest action points rates in the country and one of the most underfunded alth systems. Isideo shot inside one of the hospitals shows body bags lying next to people they are home to many indigenous communities where poverty, malnutrition, and displacement makeackl tg thinvirue a ggs bi hes an Indigenous Health astsstant supporting residen were sick. History has taught people here that viruses from outside bring devastation. One of their feud is fewer events one of their few defenses now is homemade mask. We alreadhave a lot of people in the community. But we dont have a doctor. We dont have a nurse to look after us. Indigenous communities in the city struggle to accesslt hea services and they are struggling to work, to. The those living deehe rain forest have medical help that is days away by boat. Some communities are shut themselves away, fearful of contagion. There are huge consequences and a country where illegal loggers and miners haven bold by a government set on developing the amazon. Cannot forget the attacks keep happening and are never resolved. Here people are killed through abandonment or damnation. The invaders are taking advantage. They are using this time to explore. Us tds of miles from the capital this remote part of brazil feels forgotten. The mayor has called on the young activists for support. Im telling you that we need help. We havto save the lives of the protectors of the forest. We are under the influence of it feels lik barbarism. I know your influence. I know your capacity of the feelings for other people. Pple are suffering much. Th is why i am directing t you just a few words. Help us. The amazon forest must be saved. But the countrys leader is oblivious. Onaro spent sunday meeting hundre of a few masks and no social distancing. Just president ial e cking for tho want an end to democracy and a return to military rule. This man v says tus is just a little cold. I want a government with no in crowds, angry at local authorities have imposed strict measures. He says he wants a government that works for the future of brazil. What will the future look like . As theke amazos burying its dead, their most vulnerable communities and their lananare in dr and there is little suppt from the top. Katy watson, bbc news. T most vulnerable in brazil affected by the virus. In other news now, the Treasury Department lands to borrowtr nearly illion in the Second Quarter as they battle the economic flout of the crisis. D nearly a recr twice the total of 2019. Scientists have discovered a micro the say has enormous potential to control malaria and found that 5 of mosquitoes l the shores oe victoria have a malaria blocking bug. Malaria kills more than 400,000 people theear, mainly young children. American football legend johnhu r has died at the age of and he won a Record Number of championships. The team he was inducted into the hall of fame init 1997 still to come on tonights program, investigating the wildlife trade. Or will have a special rept on how the coronavirus jumped species, from animals to humans. Crerican fashion retailer has filed for bankruptcy. The company is considered the first major retail casualty of the coronavirus pandemic, the experts warn of multithe last area here is thebc Business Correspondent michelle fleury. They call this the first retail victim of the coronavir here in the uted states. Wellknown for its preppy style of clothing, j. Crew, i think youll start to see this winnowing out, going into the crisis the stronger players will have a better ability to wurther the closes. Go to any main streets with lockdowns and lays across america, the shops are all closed and you can only buy that people really arent buying close at the moment and that is having a big iact on retailers. The who went into it in a stronger positioare in a bett place, well, you can see the result. We have been reporting on how the Trump Administration is laming a chinese lab for the coronavirus. Scientists have been studying the global trade in wildlife as they look at how the disease left from animals to humans. Fingers are being pointed at wildlife markets and callsor them to be banned. As victoria now reports. Captured to be sold. U new scrutiny as the possible origin of this and a neck. Before the first humanase, the coronavirus was undetected. Genetic clues all point to a virus found in bats as the source, but working out how it spilled over, wildlife and humansry, that isnt straightforward. Part of the structure is that it unlocks the cell that it needs to get inside. Imagine these padlocks are from a different species, they might require a different key, but some different species share the same lk on their cells. The key from the back virus fits and unlocks some human cells. How did it reach the first human cell . Its access was most likely not directly from bats, but through another intermediate host. F animal infected first o people came into close contact with. Scientists havent yet worked out what species past covid19 to human, or whether the apple was for sale in that infamous wildlife market. At the moment there is nothing terriblyvi cing. The intermedia host may never found. Mixing partial numbers of species under these contions, species that wouldnt normall come close together, it gives opportunities for pathogens to jump from species to species. Previous outbreaks in intermediate species have been und. Camels provided the likely root to humans for thevilosely relateses mers and sars and that includes the way the rare and wildly trafficked. Traded not only in china, breaking those chains is a global challenge. Victoria gill reporting there. This week marks 75 years since celebrated the end of world war ii. It too just one officer to wr the articles of surrender that germany signed. He was an actor who had no idea ld wind up in the histor books. Meet john council, the a Critical Role in ending world war ii. Actor in theater lover, he was but army life, his twin of war. Daughters told m wasnt for him. What kind of soldier was he . Inept. He said he was the worst soldier they ever come across. They were small children at the time. Their father despite being a poor soldier, was a good writer and was compell ghost writing reports for general eisenhower. Not he is him was rushed. By the spring of 1945, germany overpowerethe countrysurrender was inevitable. The task than was drafting the document and it felt to john council. He was ordered to go away an wrdocument in an hour and a half, for the germans to sign. Saying that typists shout. Know about off he went. He sat down at his task. Extraordinary, what a huge responsibility he didnt know what it was apart from militar surrender. They showed him the style of how these things with done. So, he sat down and began to write. We, the undersigned jenny, you say a this art, y better at it than i am. We the undersigned, acting by authority of the gman high command, hereby surrender unconditionally. The german delegation has arrived for the faithful ceremony. The general princes signature to the document that acknowledges german armed horses by those of britain, russia, and the united states. Id he have a sense of how important his role was . Yes, he did. He knew he was making history. Tahe haded out as basically an actor. Night, there was a mixture of terror and excitement as he knew what he had to do and that it was terribly important. Its lovely to thie, when i see footage of the crowds in piccadilly circus, dancing in the streets, that famous shot of churchill, thought my gosh, my daddy did that. What an extraordinary thing for him to have done, actually save lives with a sheet of paper. Before we go, the sears Pulitzer Prizes for journalism were announced today. The Anchorage Daily News and thopublic i got the Public Service award for reporting on the lack of Police Protection and alaska villages and New York Times cap best reporting for coverage of Vladimir Putin in the firs ever pulitzer for audio orting went to this American Life for theirp adok at the it of the tru onrantima. Congratulations to all of those winners. Im laura trevelyan. Thanks for joining bbc world news america. Narrator funding for this presentation of this program is provided by. 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