why did the p.l.o. fight for independence from. chronicling the turbulent story and the struggle for a palestinian home. in the history of the earth ready . a huge jump in u.s. unemployment it's nearing 17000000 as the economy takes a hit from the corona virus outbreak. mothers and this is all just here on live from doha also coming up out of intensive care but boris johnson remains in hospital with coronavirus britain's death toll is nearing 8000. european leaders agree on a trillion dollar rescue plan to help countries feeling the economic strain from

the pandemic oil producing countries reach a deal to cut production in an effort to offset the global drop in demand and prices. the u.s. unemployment rate has soared to 17000000 in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic the country's economy has been crippled as businesses are forced to shut down in an effort to stop the spread figures released on thursday so 6.6 millions of americans filed unemployment benefits last week alone that's on top of that 10000000 in the 2 weeks before and more than 15000 people have died new york state is the hardest hit accounting for nearly half the total number of deaths and the british government says prime minister abbas johnson is out of intensive care very was being treated for the virus and we're going to have more on joe. ensign's condition in just

a moment 1st let's go to john hendren who's joining us from chicago john just a few moments ago the press conference by the corona tasca force in the us at the white house was concluded president something they're being as usual very positive and trying to be very upbeat about the situation but against this backdrop of these enormous numbers of joblessness coming out of the u.s. . that's right it was quite a contrast rob the president came out saying that the u.s. was at the top of the hill when it comes to the coronavirus and in some cases going downward but that's not the case when it comes to the economy of and of course that's a lagging indicator here 6600000 new jobless claims 17000000 over the past 4 weeks out of work and filing new jobless claims and an unemployment rate of 1213 percent that's a level not seen since the great depression forecasters are saying they expect that to go up to at least 15 percent and $1.00 to $1.00 said that this is really

essentially the great depression 2 here in the united states one sign of that is the trouble of the u.s. airline industries the president did address that in that briefing today he said details will come out over the weekend over the u.s. aid package for those airlines he said the airline industry has hit very hard as everyone knows and we are going to be in a position to do a lot to help them but of course no details on that until the weekend so we're looking forward to see what the president has to say on that front john for now thanks very much indeed that's john hendren live for us in chicago laurence kotlikoff is a professor of economics at boston university he's joining us from boston massachusetts via skype we appreciate your time so thank you very much indeed donald trump has been saying that the u.s. economy is going to come back strong is it. well i don't think i don't think he has a game plan for ending the crisis because if you just wait for the curb to flatten

and then you let people out. there might be better behavior but in terms of social distancing but you know frankly i wouldn't boston when you go to the supermarket people are not that isn't apart from each other they are more often wearing masks and gloves but i don't think that's going to be sufficiently protective against this virus and i think if it were the case we would not be not have seen a usual option in china so until we have a game plan there's only 2 ways out of this. because if you just open things up and the virus spikes again then everybody locked up inside again and this will just continue so i don't. get it well ah well. this all ends and now we have the greatest depression there's a way i caught the there's 2 ways out one is

a vaccine as americans will discover but so what are the other option is your chance to basically everybody every day or are we everybody few years what's called a group testing method where you test large numbers of people at the same time you put the swabs together in one testing container and you testing tired batch if you test $500.00 b. but once with one test and it comes out negative you can release everybody with a green bracelet that is green and are we now in terms collars turns into red and then those people can be operating in the economy we're going grandchild being going to restaurants for entire week and then they get we just a so that's a way to contain the virus because the people who don't test on it negative are back in under quarantine for that week and that's how you can really walk up the buyers and ended and also you which has the book come across the border in the same

way so there is a mechanism but it requires we're seeing everybody to be tested well if they are to be tested the abstain so i so it requires a national policy in our government doesn't our president doesn't want to is not want to adopt a national policy he wants to have. because the states to going him whatever abends you want he's the years so call it what back up that's really the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard as an american arms an economist in a federal crisis like this national crisis is not a government is be is the back up it's not the case that bob is going to stop right on his desk and i think it's going to find out in november what people think about excuse let me ask you about that because they don't trump has made it very clear from the start of this that the state of the u.s. economy has been out. salut key that appears to have been his focus certainly to those of us on the outside and this state of the american economy is intrinsically

locked into how he sees the performance of his presidency how do you think speculating i know this is going to impact on those elections are going to happen in november if indeed they do happen then well i think. i do think given where we are that if he opens up the economy we're going to be back right back where we are now in a couple of months and we'll go from. maybe perhaps 80000 people having died by the end of may 216-0000 people and all those deaths will count much more in people's minds then what they're you know. fraction that were it were employed when things were going well so. you know people's attention is going to turn to how and how he's actually handled this crisis and i have to say i think

he's handled it miserably in every respect he. he booboo the entire problem he's acted too little too late and he's oh i do too little too late and he has no game plan when there is a very obvious way to deal with this which is your ramp up the testing you do this efficient justing in his really really test of the idea of testing one of the method of testing about 350 people in one batch and they turned out it you know figure out it's very successful this is been done with p.c.r. testing we now have comfortable swapping methods now we can just swap the inside of your nose. so this is where we have to go where every country has to go so i know your broadcast is going out to many many countries so what i'm suggesting and if people go to college dot net they can see a column there's a couple columns that written that kotlikoff dot net which just drive how this can be fixed and how we can get all the economies of the world back to work right away

with testing and of course countries in that don't have great testing out. potentiality need like in africa need to be helped by. economies that do countries that do so we have to get into that understand that this is a worldwide problem we have to pool resources worldwide lawrence go ahead of the we appreciate it forgive me for jumping and unfortunately time is against us but laurence kotlikoff we appreciate your experience on this and giving us the benefit of your analysis thank you very much indeed. mike boettcher thank you after 3 days in the intensive care unit the british prime minister a minister has been moved out he's now back on a hospital ward and is in extremely good spirits according to downing street charlie andrea as the latest he's been moved this evening from intensive care back on to the main ward at st thomas' hospital which is one of the country's leading hospitals and he said to be an extremely good spirits now this would have been for

instance 4th day in intensive care he's 55 years old and he was admitted sunday evening with a persistent temperature and a pacific persistent high temperature and a persistent cough and he received standard option treatment for 3 nights but he did not need mechanical ventilation and earlier it was reported that dominick rob who is the foreign secretary and was designated boris johnson's deputy during his time in hospital had not spoken to the prime minister since saturday and that was obviously a very large cause for concern so there's no doubt going to be a huge collective sigh of relief throughout the cabinet and throughout the government this evening and no doubt the prime minister will be keen to get back to work as soon as possible soon if he's fully recovered before he was admitted to hospital he left behind some very clear instructions for what was going to happen in this country for the rollout of mass testing for covert 19 for the provision of personal protective equipment for n.h.s.

staff and i have to say neither of those things have really reached that targets yet earlier at the government's chief scientific officer said that the u.k. death toll from corona virus has reached 881 that's the number of deaths recorded in british hospitals today and that brings the total number of deaths to 7978 and the scientific office said that it is expected to continue to rise for at least 2 weeks. it's being called the e.u. is most important economic plan the blocks finance ministers have agreed on a trillion dollar rescue package the fund is designed to help member states recover economically from the effects of the virus and reports. the rise in new infections seems to be slowing in spain the country's hospitals though are still overwhelmed and after weeks of loss and more deaths predicted trying to keep coronavirus at bay in public spaces is power amount and residents

are reminded they should stay at home that. spain will remain in lockdown until april the 25th but the prime minister says the risk now room for hope that this is not someone i was going to go on after weeks of this fight which has been from the moments agonizing we see how the fire the pandemic released is starting to come under control the figures are encouraging we have reached the peak of coke at 19 and we are close to the beginning of the descent in germany the lock down appears to be working with landmarks empty deserted even you know as. the latest coronavirus numbers in germany are reason for some hope the increase is flattening and the current number of infections is lowering a bit if we count the people who are recovered and those who lost their lives. more than 18000 people have died in italy its squares remain empty the impact of weeks

of prescriptions is clear to see for those families hardest hit the government says loan and mortgage repayments will be suspended and there are questions about who will help pay for the pandemic. the thing. italy is an integral part of the e.u. the e.u. must show a strong swift and unified response to the repercussions of this pandemic we have to provide answers about politics finance and the economy because this is in all of our interests that does not only concern italy but also spain and all countries that face economic and social problems and those questions are being asked across europe it is grappling with this crisis from the north to the south nowhere is untouched by. the happening deep divisions that are inside the e.u. about how it should be financed days of talks have now resulted in an agreement held by the french finance minister as the most important economic plan in the e.u.

history it will allow credit from the blocks bailout fund to go to the worst affected countries until the crisis is over this emergency plan and we'll shield our economic and social fabric as we dive into a recession. where house prices abates we need we will need to spur the economic recovery he needs it is imperative that we brought together the many families in europe easter weekend which usually market time of togetherness coronavirus will mean many will now spend it apart remembering those who they've lost and then he would out as there are. still ahead on al-jazeera brazil's president grows increasingly isolated as this country tries to stem the spread of coronavirus. plus the african region that's being awarded will suffer its 1st recession in 25 years as a result of the virus. and

of those seen a few severe storms across southern areas of the united states we've got a bit of a breather from that meanwhile more showers and activity across areas tools the midwest and pushing off towards the northeast but it has made for some pretty good evenings this is lower manhattan actually towards midtown as well the sun there reflecting off the buildings and then meanwhile across into colorado look at this in a very nice sunny skies in this particular palm things all set to change there and i'll show you why not so much on friday it's a warm day 21 celsius in denver want to see more showers maybe since honest i was about looking into southern areas of texas and all the while we got some pretty stiff weighing the winds across the northeast pushing particularly towards these coastal areas so maybe some showers in the 4 calls for new york a high of just 13 even cooler in d.c. at just 11 degrees and still the rain on friday quite heavy into these southern

areas of california finally by the start of the weekend it really does begin it's a clear thing bit cooler in san francisco with a high of just 18 but that is nothing compared to the temperatures up towards the canada and ushering down into the central plains we've got this system sinking south is bringing the very cold air we will see some rain some sleet even some snow and this is what it does the temperature in them so look at this friday saturday 20 degrees and then by sunday down to long with snow. survival for haiti's poorest depends on illegal charcoal production. but for park rangers sworn to protect the dominican forests it can have deadly consequences . witness discovers the head in world where the stakes for the environment and those who make their living from it couldn't be higher. death by

a 1000 cuts on al-jazeera. you're watching out is it a reminder of our top stories this hour 6600000 americans lost their jobs in the past week due to measures to stop the coronavirus pandemic that brings the total number of people who filed for jobless benefits to 17000000 since mid march. british prime minister bars johnson is out of intensive care after an improvement in his condition but he will remain in hospital 2 weeks after testing positive for corona virus. the e.u.

has agreed to make more than one trillion dollars available to member states under lockdown and fighting the coronavirus the french finance minister has described the economic plan as the most important in the blocks history. opec and its allies have agreed to a historic cut in production to counter the slump in demand caused by coronavirus the group will cut $10000000.00 barrels per day until early june that will be followed by a daily $8000000.00 barrel cuts from july through to the end of the year all prices have plummeted by around 30 percent off the lockdowns around the world cut demand will both cabinet has been a specialist in the oil and gas industry for over 30 years he's joining us now from houston in texas we appreciate your time sir thank you very much for those of us on the sidelines of these negotiations that have been going on plus the implications for the oil industry as a whole why is it so important that we should be focusing on the state of the oil

industry in the middle of a pandemic. well the whole and gas industry globally is a here's a major industry and our economies are horror are based on hydrocarbon. burning and so the oil and gas business is important to all economies even as we grow in alternative fuels basic transportation is about 70 percent of total oil and gas burn per day per day so you've got to have a strong industry but with the demand then about 30000000 barrels a day now even with the 10000000 barrel a day cut from opec we are still a bit of a drop in the ocean when it comes to the problem of lower demand. how easy is it to understand the skepticism of those of us again standing on the sidelines for it looks as though they own the industry is actually very fighting for its own

survival when in fact people are dying around the world and the focus should perhaps be on the medical side rather than protecting an industry which to all intents and purposes is already extremely wealthy. there's no question that everyone should be focused on controlling the pandemic of cain that is that should be the priority for all societies around the globe but we also have to prepare for what happens after there will be a vaccine there will be control of the pandemic at some point the issue here is that it says specially in places like here in houston we're laying off thousands and thousands of employees who are are going on employment and it's causing huge upheaval in the economy in the united states and it is globally in other countries is the same same issue so we're having to balance those issues. economics for

keeping people employed and keeping people with food on their table versus fighting the pandemic and it is a difficult situation there's no question about it clearly the pandemic has to take priority over everything else one of the things that's been key to these new current negotiations is of course with a partner falling out between saudi arabia and russia give us some context here why did they fall out and why did they manage to come back together again it looks as though we're going to get some sort of announcement positive announcement from them possibly in the next few hours right. right to. the opec agreement was set to expire at the end of march and russia wanted to take a larger percentage of the global market and announced that they were going to increase their production. saudi saudi arabia responded saying that they are going to increase production and the effort was to take market share away from the u.s.

which just start of the next port market a few years ago about 3000000 barrels a day is what we've averaged for the last year or so and so russia and saudi arabia got into a low price war trying to take. market share from one another but also. made the effort to take away market share from the u.s. also so u.s. kind of got caught in between the oil price war between saudi and russia and that's where we got to where we are today but coming out we appreciate your time thank you very much indeed for joining us on knowledge is happy to be with you thank you the world bankers warning sub-saharan africa is set to fall into recession for the 1st time in 25 years because of the pandemic the continent's 3 biggest economies that are expected to bear the brunt on goal is oil reliant economy as a ready been hard hit by the falling oil prices as it struggles to recover from

a 2014 recession south africa has had to shut down its economy in response to the outbreak in central bank says the direct impact of the 21 day lockdown has been a 2.6 percent economic decline and the i.m.f. has revised nigeria's g.d.p. growth rate for this year down to 2 percent after initially saying it would grow by 2.5 percent from a dangerous is in nigeria's capital now boucher he says the impact on west african economies is already showing. the nigerian government for example has cut down its forecast for this year and it has also been forced because of low oil prices to revise the 2020 budget taking of more than 14 percent of the budget office simply because it doesn't have enough resources to fund government activities for this year and it's the same thing in many west african countries the problem now is such that the recession will hit nigeria and many of african countries especially in

west africa very hard simply because these are countries that have bought up so much in the past and there will be little to borrow from a lot of countries will be struggling after this pandemic to rebuild their own economies and they would be willing as they used to to loan these countries a lot of funds or resources to help them with their economies now if you look at a country like nigeria for example where the growth rate has been reversed revised unemployment is mounting by the way and it's expected that some companies either government or private will suck their workers in the coming months or in the coming year so the situation is so bad yet but the government is struggling to deal with the problem government has already borrowed so much from from external boards and it's looking to borrow more from international bodies like the world bank and the international monetary fund brazil's president has gone on television again to defend his response to the pandemic and encourage people to return to work jailable

criticized state governments for imposing containment measures saying the consequences of combat in the virus cannot be more harmful than the disease itself is facing widespread criticism and protests for downplaying the crisis in sao paulo hossam lawsuit says both the novel is also backing the use of a controversial drug to treat the virus. once again president. confirmed that his orders and directives to the ministers and his government the federal government of brazil is to return to work he said that he believes that most of resilient people wants to return to work and he held the governors the full responsibility for the decisions and actions that they took regarding the social isolation he said that they didn't ask or consulted the federal government for

those measures that they took and their states at the same time president to support and supported again the use of the treatment of secure queen and he said that although it's not approved by the w h o and he think that using this treatment may be historical decision for the poor saving the brazilians life at the same time also announce that brazil want to start producing the treatment other particular queen here in the brazilian industry after receiving the basic material from india after a call between him and the prime minister of india and he thanked india for that he said that brazil would receive the basic material next saturday. argentina is one of the latest countries to extend its nationwide quarantine measures president all bets are off and none says strict controls will remain in place until april the

23rd security forces are patrolling the streets to make sure people stay home some businesses are being allowed to operate again but under tight restrictions there is a bow is in bonuses she says the extension will come into force within days. the president has not announced it officially yet he's expected to announce it over the weekend but there's already talk about that this quarantine in place will be extended mostly because most of the people we have spoken to here say that it has worked i mean that the amount of people infected in this country will be much greater than what it is today argentina right now has around 2000 people that have been termed as infected and 70 people have died got the situation could have been much worse like for example in brazil that's the figure the fear you know it's like it right now i'm standing in this is the most important avenue in one aside as there is some circulation it's a holiday but there's also i look down and place only supermarkets and pharmacies are allowed to remain open and very and those who are allowed to leave their homes

are people that have are carrying very specific permits in order to be allowed to be on the streets and what's worrying many people here in argentina is the economic situation there's an enormous crisis an economy that's hit with recession inflation among other things argentina's kaname minister is already restructuring that payments because argentina warm be able to meet many off the books the credit part of it for in debt and that's something that scares away because it reminds them of the crisis back in 2001 there's also a latest that befit said that small businesses for example 50 percent of them won't be able to pay salaries this month the people going to kitchens is increasing by the minute those lots of people who work in the informal sector in argentina they're not able to make ends meet especially this month with a lock down in place but for president right now the priority is saving lives in this country and that's why it's likely that the quarantine in argentina will be

extended officially expanded this this coming weekend. new zealand has introduced tough border restrictions ordering all citizens arriving from overseas into 14 days quarantine. or nun's to the lowest number of new cases in 3 weeks saying the locked on measures are working foreigners are not allowed to enter the country which has been shut down for 2 weeks. iran has recorded a further 117 new deaths from corona virus bringing the official death toll to more than 4000 but the latest figures show there could be a downward trend in the number of new cases and with ramadan approaching iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei as warned that mass gatherings could be banned throughout the holy islamic months. modernize told to the problem of the coronavirus must not make. the enemies and arrogant power. if towards the overt you

know the islamic republic. uganda's president has released a home workout video to encourage citizens to stay inside during the pandemic. you know you're already most of in the line laps around his office before proceeding to do push ups the 75 year old shared the video on twitter to demonstrate how to exercise in a confined space uganda has imposed some of the harshest measures in africa and contain the virus was of any says to many ugandans exercising outdoors crowding urban areas and putting themselves at risk. this is all just here are these are the top stories 6600000 americans have lost their jobs in the past week due to the corona virus pandemic the us has the highest

number of infections in the world and more than $15000.00 deaths so far. the president came out saying that the u.s. was at the top of the hill when it comes to the coronavirus and in some cases going downward but that's not the case when it comes to the economy of intercourse nantz a lagging indicator here 6600000 new jobless claims 17000000 over the past 4 weeks out of work and filing new jobless claims in an unemployment rate of 12 to 13 percent that's a level not seen since the great depression forecasters are saying they expect that to go up to at least 15 percent but as prime minister voters johnson is out of intensive care after an improvement in his condition but he'll remain in hospital 2 weeks after testing positive for corona virus the e.u. has agreed to make more than one trillion dollars available to member states under lock time fighting the cut on the virus the french finance minister as described

the economic plan as the most important in the blocks history opec and its allies have agreed to a historic cut in production to counter the slump in demand caused by coronavirus the group will cut $10000000.00 barrels per day until early june oil prices have plummeted by around 30 percent off the lockdowns around the world cup's the mond brazil's for president has gone on television again to defend his response to the pandemic and encourage people to return to war without also nado criticize state governments for imposing containment measures now you can get lots more on all these stories of course on the web site al-jazeera dot com i'll be back in about half an hour but not an al-jazeera it's rewind by. the latest news as it breaks with no treatment or vaccine for her and

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