exactly fatima bhutto meets marc lamont hill i very much thought i was going to get shot it was a bad movie studio to be unscripted on al-jazeera. and the it is. struggling to cope with its coronavirus day new york it's a wreck it told for a 3rd straight day and the pandemic was millions more americans out of work. play watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully batty boy also coming out indonesia decides to get tough after a record rise in infections and criticism of the government's oil producing countries reach a deal to cut production in an effort to offset the global drop in demand and

prices preparing for a 2nd wave of attack farmers in east africa try to battle millions of locusts that destroyed farm lands early in the sea. thank you very much for joining us millions more people have been added to the queues of america's jobless as the wider effects of the coronavirus pandemic become clear and now the 6600000 claimed that employment benefits last week alone that takes a total to nearly 17000000 people in the past 3 weeks and there's fear the rate could rise to numbers not seen since the end of the great depression and some cities drive ins have been created for people to collect unemployment forms john hendren has more from chicago. 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 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 and 11 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 the death toll from

coronavirus across the u.s. has now passed 16500 in new york say there are signs of improvement with a drop in admissions in the hospital but the worst affected state had a record number of deaths for a 3rd straight day n.-s. case christensen omeri force as struggling to help heart island is new york city's potter's field where those with no family or means to arrange a funeral are laid to rest they used to bury 25 people a week here in the age of the coronavirus it's about that number every day. counting the dead is now part of the daily routine for the gov 911 was supposed to be the darkest day in new york for a generation we lose 2753 lives on 911 we've lost over 7000 lives through this crisis. that is so

shocking and painful and breathtaking. i can't i don't even have the words for as the daily death toll continues to reach new heights and the state builds more temporary hospitals like this 350 bed the syllabi there are signs that the spread of the disease is slowing thanks to mandatory social distancing measures that have all but shut down the city of nearly 9000000 those measures will remain in effect for the forseeable future as the number of new hospital admissions has gone down for the past 3 days if we're not careful if we're not strong if we're not disciplined in fact this is a disease that can really us surge resurge you should be very worried about resurgence we all are. the last thing we can afford is to let down our guard and let this disease back in the door even more and then see the numbers spike up pressured to lift restrictions and let people return to work has been growing along

with the unemployment rate the number of new yorkers who have filed for unemployment claims in the last 3 weeks has more than double but there's one industry where they can't get enough help funeral homes. the governor says new york state will be bringing in additional funeral directors to help people like a sous pujols who's been working long hours 7 days a week and still can't keep up right now money is not worth it it's not worth it it's not worth it i would give up my job any day for like a normal normal job and every much rather be quarantined in a country. and the bodies are expected to continue to stack up a grim reminder of a silent killer kristen salumi al jazeera new york elsewhere indonesia is struggling with a sudden surge in the number of people with the coronavirus the government is now enforcing new measures to contain and spread the country has the highest number of

infections in southeast asia with more than 600 deaths that speak to jessica washington in jakarta for us jessica so tell us about these new measures that are coming into effect and how people are going to be affected. well people are waking up to the reality of living under these new social distancing measures here in jakarta for a number of weeks now schools and many businesses have been closed these restrictions hasn't have now been extended there are numerous police checkpoints at various border entry points churcher kata they're not restricting travel into the city but they are checking just how many people are travelling in vehicles there's also restrictions on the number of people who can gather at any point in time maximum of 5 people at any gathering any people found to be in breach of these new regulations could face a fine of around $7000.00 us dollars at these regulations are only in place for the

jakarta area it's not a nationwide social distancing regulation what is lacking here in indonesia is some sort of national strategy so many of the provinces have been scrambling together their own responses to this virus to stop the outbreak in their own cities and the government has been criticized for the waves handled this crisis czeska. that's correct there has been a lot of criticism leveled towards the president joko widodo for his handling of this crisis it was only in launch that indonesia confirmed its 1st cases of the coronavirus here by that point the virus had spread well beyond china the government has been criticized for failing to use that time to get the hospitals ready and now that we know that the virus has spread across multiple provinces here in indonesia there is concern that although the virus is largely concentrated here in jakarta and most of the deaths that's around $280.00 confirmed deaths here in

the capital there's concern that if travel continues from the capital to other provinces that health care systems around the country many of which are incredibly poorly equipped even more so than jakarta they simply will not be able to cope and that the virus will continue to spread undetected across the archipelago thank you very much for that jessica washington live for us in jakarta opec and his eyes have agreed to a historic cut in oil production to counter the slump in demand caused by coronavirus the group of oil producing countries will cut $10000000.00 barrels per day and early june osama bin javid has this report. a price war which started in march did not last as long as previous disagreements but its impact has been widespread u.s. shale oil produces filed for bankruptcy as major energy projects have been delayed or suspended in the oil industry face again if it can job losses the oversupply

coincided with a massive reduction in demand for oil because of the global slowdown caused by coronavirus in some markets oil was selling for less than $10.00 a barrel which spell trouble for oil reliant economies when they agreed the market went up when they had their own difference is the market went down and what is worse than not agreeing is course is competing for the c.m. limited area of demand and the world as it stands right now. the crisis began after a deal to limit production fell apart and saudi arabia increased its supply to a record 12300000 barrels a day along with russia's 11300000 barrels the markets were flooded to an extent that storage even started to run out as there's agreement is to slash or in production at least until next year the decision will be reviewed in december iran venezuela and libya are exempt from the production cuts

a few hours after the opec agreement the g 20 group of nations meet and decide in cuts from the u.s. canada norway and others some say the crisis created a perfect opportunity for big investors to buy stakes in european oil firms there's a cute saudis and russians of economic warfare against the u.s. u.s. media reports 2 senators were working on legislation to remove u.s. troops and defense systems from saudi soil if there were no output cuts the united states says its output fell because of the price for and decreasing demand but it hasn't committed to any cuts for many years i used to think opec was very unfair i hated opec you will know the truth i hated it because it was a fix but somewhere along the line that broke down and it went the opposite way and we have a tremendously powerful energy industry in this country now number one in the world and i don't want those jobs being lost but experts believe even after the record cuts by opec and other produces the gloom for oil economies may not be over

internationally just he says to modest russian so far has been 20000000 barrels a day i think it's probably more towards a 3035000000 barrels a day if you look at india alone the 3rd largest consumer of oil having decreased its consumption by 70 percent i would say it is more oil so 10000000 barrels a day is what so far been priced into the market and you saw the last cluster response so we probably need more to do the trick. what began as an attempt to grab a bigger share of the market is ending after 31 days with no real wins for anyone involved some of. the there are still ahead on al-jazeera european leaders agree on a trillion dollar rescue plan to help countries feeling the economic strain from the pandemic and we'll tell you about an 80 south american country to extend its nationwide.

hello 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 so the warm day 21 celsius in denver want to see more showers maybe since honest it was a valid thing into southern areas of texas and all the while we got some pretty stiff 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 to clear things 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. greece the birthplace of democracy but ethnic turks from the northeast tell a different story they bounce to control our nation our believe their religious leaders jailed journalists silenced schools closed and a surge in the far right they say that if you don't like police you can vote why i'm turkish but i'm also brings people in power investigates western thrice

contested space on al-jazeera. welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera 6600000 americans lost their jobs in the past week because of measures to stop it on a virus and to make since mid march nearly 17000000 people in the u.s. a filed for jobless benefits after a sudden surge in virus infections indonesia is tightening measures to cap this write off on a virus anyone breaking the rules can be fined up to $7000.00 and be jailed for up to 6 years in the division has reported more than 600 deaths and opec and its

allies have agreed to a historic cut in oil production to counter the slump in demand caused by a pandemic oil prices have plummeted by around 30 percent after knockdowns around the world cut demand. as being called the e.u.'s most important economic plan the brocks finance ministers have agreed on a trillion dollar rescue package the deal comes on a day of hope for member states as germany and spain signal they have reached the peak of the pandemic emma hayward reports. the rise in new infections seems to be slowing in spain the country's hospitals though were still overwhelmed and after weeks of loss and mortar predicted trying to keep coronavirus at bay in public spaces is paramount and residents are reminded they should stay at home. spain will remain in lockdown into april the 25th but the prime minister says the risk now room for hope that is the same one as the. after weeks

of this fight which has been from the moment agonizing we see how the 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 mock town appears to be working with the. landmarks empty deserted. and silent the latest coronavirus numbers in germany are a 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 it's 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. to think that. 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 this 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 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 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. for 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 a man he would to their. britain's prime minister is out of intensive care 2 weeks after testing positive focal that 19 after 3 days in i.c.u. boys johnson is now back on a hospital ward and in is said to be extremely good spirits according to don and streets nacho argentina which is one of the latest countries set to extend nationwide quarantine measures president are better off and nanda says strict controls will remain in place until april 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 ball is in worse when osiris and 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 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 harmed 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 so it's like it right now i'm standing in this is the most important avenue in one aside is there 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 has. ministers already restructuring that payments because argentina will be able to meet many off the books the credit part of it for and debt and that's something that scares argentines away because it reminds them of the crisis back in 2001 there's also the latest that this fix said that small businesses for example 50 percent of them won't be able to pay salaries this month the people going to soup 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 lockdown in place for president out of this 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 extended this this coming weekend. brazil's president

has gone on television again to defend his response to the pandemic and encourage people to return. to work as i have also narrow criticised state governments for imposing containment measures saying the consequences of combat in the virus cannot be more harmful than disease itself is facing widespread criticism and protests for downplaying the crisis let's turn our attention to other world news now and canada has lifted its ban on military exports susanto arabia despite concerns over widespread human rights abuses by riyadh is renegotiated a controversial $14000000000.00 deal to sell ahmed vehicle suicide arabia critics cite cited saudi arabia's involvement in the yemen war and the matter of saudi journalist shoji as reasons to cancel the deal but canada insists it will be delayed or scrapped if riyadh misuses. iraq's intelligence chief has been asked to form

a government as the new prime minister designate will suffer. 3rd person to be named to the post in just over 2 months simona holton report somebody that. on thursday at 9000 feet became the 2nd prime minister designate to withdraw his bid in just 6 weeks prolonging iraq's leadership crisis affect the political agreement is important iraq is living through a catastrophe and there should be a political consensus that we can convince the political powers to reach an agreement and we found it difficult for this government to pass in the parliament. for now the consensus seems to have converged around another man within an hour of sort of his resignation president barham saleh surrounded by leaders of major political parties appointed most of the me iraq's intelligence chief as the next prime minister designate. the previous terms were accompanied by a lot of acute struggles and disagreements and between us and the political blocs

today the political blocs national and social patriotic sectors have choice. to me for this position. government has 30 days to form a new government and although he seems to have secured widespread support at the moment that could quickly change many iraqis question whether he is the one who can put an end to months of political uncertainty the crisis began when caretaker prime minister abdullah abdullah mattie resigned last december after widespread anti-government protests constitutional deadlines to find a replacement were repeatedly missed because a fierce political infighting last month president saleh took matters into his own hands appointing a man i was a free as the new prime minister designate the move drew stern warnings from iranian linked armed groups who regarded sort of feel as being backed by the us their political wings in parliament accuse the president of overstepping his authority and put forth their own candidate mostafa the me that. there was no way

to accept because he didn't come from the political blocs we have a parliamentary system the majority of the political blocs should agree to nominate him. as negotiations to form the new government continue iraq appears rather less as it tries to steer its way through a deepening political economic and health crisis iraqis are angry at the political class for not acting class enough as if they keep going with their conflicts we want this we want that there will never be a government because all these parties. they want to fill the post with one of their own and there's a growing feeling that caretaker prime minister other the may weather this political storm on our ticket makes they want to point to new prime minister they will prolong this crisis and keep. in power because he pleases everyone. in march of he said he had no longer act as caretaker but has never did less continue to

chair government meetings the protests that forced his resignation have all but gone away as the country battles the coronavirus pandemic and with that the prospects for systemic political change are growing increasingly finn simona fulton al-jazeera. the amin chad says it scaled 1000 fighters near the lake chad border region and army spokesman says 52 of its soldiers died in the operation that started more than a week ago officials say the armed group has been forced out of the country the offensive was launch after a book or i'm attack killed nearly $100.00 soldiers last month. one of the un's top human rights experts is warning that changes to egypt's untied terrorism laws could lead to more rights abuses the recent amendments include tougher penalties broader definitions of terrorist entities and imposing the death penalty on those found guilty of funding terrorism the u.n. says a new measures could result in more arbitrary detentions torture and disappearances

if you knew anyone is a un special roberts or on human rights and counterterrorism she says in order to effectively combat terrorism it's fundamental to respect the rule of law and human rights. egypt has been in a permanent state of emergency for a number of years so we've had the occasion of the consistent use of exceptional law which is of course having a significant effect on the protection of human rights layered on top of that are a series of legislative in ackman starting in 22015 some of which directly relate to terrorism but many of which build on that 2015 terrorism law and essentially expand the ambit of counter-terrorism regulation in ways that are extensive they're far reaching they relate to a whole range of fundamental rights practice freedom of expression freedom of acts of assembly and fair trial and of course the practice of these laws over the past 5

years plus and has increased our concerns about arbitrary detention enforced disappearances and the use of torture inhuman and degrading treatment so the list is very long and i think it's deeply concerning that you have the state which is currently leading the global counter-terrorism strategy review process egypt as one of the 2 cold facilitators of that process and in a context where we need global leadership on the fundamental reality that countering terrorism will only be effectively done when we fully protect and enforce the rule of law and human rights. second wave of desert. kenya and the savak a region this time the swarms are expected to be up to 20 times larger than the ones that ate there with her family and any this year from get to leni said kenya katherine sawyer reports. this farmers in eastern kenya skittery county are running

out of time lined raided by millions of desert locusts that used their farms to breed now the hope is are about to mature and leave the farmers don't kill them all before they develop we think this 2nd generation of luckiest that over 80 devoid tens of thousands hacked years of vegetation across east africa will cause even more devastation. if the matter before we are done killing them or they will overwhelm us came here and. we cannot kill them because they were flying so we are trying to finish the hope before they can fly swarms 1st landed in north in kenya at the beginning of the year and spreads to other parts of the country eating all the vegetation along the way most of last season's crop in this area was destroyed by the law casts the long rains are starting and farmers are afraid if they don't clear the breeding grounds all the insects quickly then their family and is going to be destroyed again. mary cary me lost most of her have assists surely got one

sack of grain down from the 5 sacks you usually have a. total have children and i had to serve a sack of green grams was coffee's now i'm buying food and it's very expensive. the east african regional body guard is tracking the movement of the law casts using a supercomputer the relays climate conditions and wind patterns to predict where the lock has a heading the swarms in kenya will be moving north in the region countries such as if e.o.p. or somalia south sudan and he will be he tied as a lock us head to where there are a b. and peninsula. some farmers are concerned that with the onset of coronavirus many governments will die of ak resources meant to deal with the law costs honestly yes there is a concern because this means restricted movement and restricted movement means in areas where specialists who are supposed to come or also in

a system in the control efforts from other countries there's no restriction on who can come into or travel to certain countries because of the coffees lockdowns and the like back in the village the families are doing what they can to ensure that this new swarms will not make it out alive to destroy crops anywhere else catherine saw al-jazeera get to east and kenya. well again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera 6600000 americans have lost their jobs in the past week because of measures to stop the coronavirus pandemics and made march nearly 17000000 people in the u.s. have filed for jobless benefits john hendren has more from chicago the president came out saying that the u.s. was a good turn up 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 and

that's 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. the death toll from corona virus across the us has now passed 16500 in new york say there are signs of improvement with a drop in hospital admissions but the worst affected states had a record number of deaths for a 3rd straight day with $799.00 fatalities on 3 same after a sudden surge in virus infections indonesia is tightening measures to curb the spread of colvin 19 anyone breaking the rules can be fined up to $7000.00 and be jailed for up to 6 years public transport is being reduced to half capacity and

gatherings of more than 5 people banned the country has reported $280.00 deaths opec and its allies have agreed to a historic cut in production oil production that is to counter the slump in demand caused by the pandemic the group of oil producing countries will cut $10000000.00 barrels per day until early june oil prices of profited by around 30 percent after lockdowns around the world cut demand the e.u. has agreed to make more than one trillion dollars available to member states under law citing the coronavirus france's finance minister has described the economic plan as the most important in the blocks history and britain's prime minister is out of intensive care 2 weeks after testing positive for 19 after 3 days in i.c.u. voice johnson is now back on the hospital ward and is said to be in extremely good spirits those are the headlines coming up next the knowledge is there people in power. when a prime minister takes a lump of coal into his own parliament that call means

a lot of the country's fortunes we bring you the stories and developments that i'm rapidly changing the world we live in get a break sit down that was a slave in that one of the prime minister boris johnson counting the cost on al-jazeera. greece has a proud reputation as the birthplace of democracy of government by the people for the people but the ethnic to kish minority of ptrace in the country's northeast who say they've suffered decades of discrimination from the state that's not haven't seen today we've been to investigate.