for me one country is here a world reach for refugees who've come to your touched people's lives and meet a difference. photographers and activists on al-jazeera. struggling to cope with its coronavirus deads new york it's a record told for a 3rd straight day and the pandemic puts millions more americans out of work. for the bacteria watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead indonesia decides to get tough after a record rise in infections and criticism of the government or in producing countries reach a deal to cut production in an effort to offset the global drop in demand and

prices and out of intensive care about british prime minister voice johnson remains in hospital britain's death toll is nearing 8000. thank you very much for joining us millions more people have been added to the queues of america's jobless us the wider effects of the coronavirus pandemic become clear and now the 6600000 claimed unemployment 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 in 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 on the death toll from coronavirus across the u.s.

has now passed 16500 in new york say they are signs of improvement with a drop in hospital admissions but the worst affected say it had a record number of bets for a 3rd straight day and that's christensen only recourse is struggling to cope heart island is new york city's potter's field where those with no family are 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 of fact this is a disease that can really us cert 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 one country. and the bodies are expected to continue to stack up a grim reminder of a silent killer christian salumi al jazeera new york now the united nations security council has held an emergency meeting for what it's calling the fight of a generation it met the implementor global cease fire in the midst of a cone of ice pandemic on diplomatic answer james phase has the details. this is

a global pandemic but where is the global leadership many would say that one body that hasn't covered itself with glory is the un security council it's still not come up with a resolution about coded 19 and only now has it had its 1st meeting that's because of a great deal of division behind the scenes including a route between china and the us which wants in any resolution to call this the wu hand virus they have now finally had a meeting it was behind closed doors because of the divisions but one of the participants the belgian ambassador said this was a good 1st step it was frustrating when as i said we have been waiting for this meeting call for quite some time we've been waiting for a resolution for quite some time i think today was was when your progress it was an occasion to demonstrate unity in the council and i hope it is

you know the beginning of. you know making progress also on a resolution joining the close meeting the security council were briefed by the secretary general antonio good terrorists we have obtained a copy of his remarks he talks about 8 different threats to international peace and security as a result of the pandemic they range from conflicts already in existence around the world to human rights abuses and even to the idea that non-state actors could get hold of a variant strain of the virus and weaponize it. elsewhere indonesia's government has announced tighter social distancing measures after a sudden surge in cases public transport has been reduced to half capacity and gatherings of more than 5 people are banned the new rules effective friday are in place for 14 days the capital jakarta is the epicenter accounting for nearly half of the more than $3000.00 corona virus infections just to washington has more from jakarta she says the government has been criticized for its slow response. 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 not restricting travel into the city but they are checking just how many people are traveling 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 u.s. dollars now 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 it was only in launch that indonesia confirmed its 1st cases off 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 2 $180.00 confirmed deaths are 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 then jakarta they simply will not be able to cope and that the virus will continue to spread undetected across the archipelago. now. have agreed to his story cartoon 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 till early june osama bin job it has to detail. a price war would started in march did not last as long as

previous disagreements but its impact has been widespread u.s. shale oil producers filed for bankruptcy as major energy projects have been delayed or suspended in the oil industry face significant 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 differences the market went down and what is worse than not agreeing is course is competing for the c.m. limited area of demand in 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 there's agreement is to slash oil 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 others accused 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 is 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 but opec and the produces the gloom for oil economies may not be over. just he says demolished struction so far has been 20000000 barrels a day i think it's probably more towards the 3035000000 barrels a day if you look at india alone the 3rd largest consumer of oil having decreased this consumption by 70 percent i would say it is more 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 a big job. there. still ahead on al-jazeera european leaders agree on a trillion dollar rescue plan to help countries feeling the economic strains on the

pandemic and brazil's president grows increasingly isolated over is used on quarantine measures to stay with us. hello there are a few more showers across northern sections of the middle east of course the arabian peninsula some very warm in place they can see where the cloud is and in particular we'll see some heavier showers pushing through but as kid very nice day away from will northern areas of turkey this of course the bosphorus and there is the city in the background has a very nice sunny skies and in fact improving to friday across into the temperature beginning to come back up 16 degrees celsius but you'll see it through the eastern end of the time which is quite a bit lower than the average and also variance that with ranges and some fairly gusty winds and then the rain is quite widespread through northern iraq pushing on again into the central and western areas of iran but then to the south look at

these temperatures 40 celsius in doha this is about 10 degrees above the average as we go through saturday the temperature is about the same but you notice the winds that coming from the south they'll be very strong and in fact we could once again see some sand and dust storms meanwhile to the north a cold showers really for most part and then some heavier spells of rain just pushing to the east of it now we've got the full call sickles into southern portions of south africa madagascar the eastern side we'll see some fairly heavy showers over the next couple of days and then particularly heavy showers and thunderstorms around the gulf of guinea today. in a country beset by poverty and lack of infrastructure. sometimes we risk our lives in taking these roads with cattle saving lives is a dangerous job it's a vaccine so it's on a good 24 hours there are patients waiting because medicines who must be in pain

lives are threads of a week ago one of the gang stops some vehicles on the road at that can do good work for the risking it all guinea on al-jazeera. pool. welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera 6600000 americans lost their jobs in the past week because of measures to stop a coronavirus pandemic since mid march nearly 17000000 people in the u.s. have lived for jobless benefits after a sudden surge in virus infections indonesia is tightening measures to curb the

spread of coronavirus anyone breaking the rules can be fined up to $7000.00 and be jailed for up to 6 years the country has reported more than $280.00 deaths and opec and its allies have agreed to a historic cut in oil production to counter the slump in demand caused by the pandemic oil prices have plummeted by around 30 percent after knockdowns around the world cut demands. as being called the e.u.'s most important economic plan the brocks finance ministers are 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've reached the peak of the pandemic ever hayward has our report. 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 mortar is 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 until 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 landmarks empty deserted you know. the latest coronavirus numbers in germany our reason for some heart the increases 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. 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 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 there inside the e.u. about how it should be financed days of talks have no 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 to spur the economic recovery he needs it is imperative that we brought together. for many families in europe easter weekend would usually market time of togetherness coronavirus will mean many will now spend it apart remembering those who they've lost and the heywood out of their. britain's prime minister is out of intensive care 2 weeks after testing positive for cold at 19 after 3 days in i.c.u. boris johnson is now back in a hospital ward and is said to be an extremely good spirits chatty angela has a latest from london. he's been moved this evening from intensive care back onto 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 boris johnson's 4th day in intensive care he's 55 years old and he was admitted sunday evening with a persistent temperature and a pursuit 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 dominic 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 as 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 their 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. now brazil's president has gone on television again to defend his response to the pandemic and encourage people to return to work jay of also criticized state governments for imposing containment measures saying the consequences of combating the virus cannot be more harmful than the disease itself is facing widespread criticism and protests for downplaying the crisis you want marshall is the editor

of the news website the brazilian report he says boss narrow is the only major world leader downplaying the threat of the virus. he's called on a couple of occasions a little fluid and even referred to as the sniffles on one occasion and so you know he's repeatedly kind of played there in the severity he's pushing for these isolation measures to stop and people feel that he's just saying the economy and jobs ahead of massive public health crisis which is about to hit this country the thing that charles a man who usually does usually takes as political cues from donald trump united states and as we know donald trump is slated to change his approach towards the coronavirus are also man who has stayed firm sort of far but the thing is he is reaching close to a tipping point some may say because earlier in the week attempted to fire his own health minister the reason he came on there who has become something of

a superstar in purcell of the moment due to his handling of the crisis he's followed all the world health organization gay planes and his approval ratings are currently double charles and so on who attempted to kind of make a move on monday so he was getting a little bit too popular but he was then reigned in of the last minute by some of the military generals and his government basically suggesting that if you were to do that you may across the way an. allergen taina as one of the nato countries said take sends nationwide quarantine measures present. 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 now uganda's president has released a home workout video taken care of citizens to stay inside during the pandemic.

you know. they're wearing a 70 run laps around his office before proceeding to do push ups a 75 year old chair the video on twitter to demonstrate how to exercise in a confined space uganda has imposed some of the harshest measures in africa to contain the coronavirus 70 says too many ugandans are exercising outdoors crowding urban areas and putting themselves at risk. other news now an early voting is underway in south korea's parliamentary elections wearing gloves and a mask president mungy in cast his ballot south korea reported $27.00 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours the fewest in about 7 weeks is the 1st major country to hold a general election amid the covert 1000 crisis iraq's intelligence chief mustafa is the latest to be asked to form a government after prime minister designate a sophie withdraw his candidacy earlier he had until april 15th to form

a cabinet but there was mounting opposition from some parties to his candidacy one of the un's top human rights experts is warning that changes to egypt's anti-terrorism laws could lead to more rights abuses the recent amendments include tougher penalties broader definitions of terrorist entity s. and imposing the death penalty on those found guilty of funding terrorism the u.n. says a new measures could result in more obvious terry detentions torture and disappearances if you knew an eon is a un special wrapper tour on human lives and counterterrorism she says in order to effectively combat terrorism it's fundamental to respect the rule of law and she will reiss. 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 enact when starting in to 2015 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 a 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 the army in chad says it's killed $1000.00 fighters near the lake chad border region an army spokesman says $52.00 of its soldiers died in the operation that started more than a week ago officials say the vote has been for sad of the country the offensive was launched after attacking nearly $100.00 chaldean soldiers last month. canada has lifted its ban on military exports to saudi arabia to spite concerns over widespread human rights abuses by riyadh as renegotiated a controversial $14000000000.00 deal to sell ahmed vehicles to the saudis critics scientists 100 his involvement in yemen's war and the murder of saudi journalism aha shoji as reasons to cancel the deal but canada insists it will be delayed or scrapped if riyadh misuses the vehicles and the u.s. is urging a yemen's hold the rebels to respect

a 2 week cease fire announced by the sounds led coalition on wednesday but who the spokesman told on to syria they consider it a political stunt and want a comprehensive u.n. deal norburn manley reports. i hope in military operations in yemen. but in the days and even now this will cease fire came into effect all too familiar scenes of violence across the country injured people taken to hospital after who will shout the port city of her data more injuries to entails of the heavy shelling the who to say the saudi u.a.e. coalition also bomb targets in all job and side. although the coalition called for a cease fire the spokesman told our just era they have not agreed to it so long as the siege is not lifted all right through their missile systems our maritime air defenses including the drone who continue to target their military installations

and industrial sites is nothing but a continuation of the coalition is just manipulating words either a total cease and halt the still sees an end to the siege or the war will continue . the saudi vice defense minister khalid been solomon said on twitter that the kingdom is taking responsibility to bring stability to the region but some analysts believe riyadh in the u.a.e. looking for a face saving way out of an expensive war they cannot win at the un special envoy to yemen martin griffiths has called for all parties to urgently cease fighting and make progress towards peace. more than 100000 people have been killed in yemen since the conflict began 5 years ago the u.n. hopes a temporary ceasefire could be extended the warring sides are expected to hold a video conference to discuss halting ground air and naval attacks but millions of people are on the brink of fun and millions more suffering from displacement from

their homes and disease u.n. officials hope the law and fighting means they can prevent another dangerous disease from entering the country coronavirus. they fear yemen's health care system is already on the verge of collapse and it simply would be able to cope with another outbreak. among the al-jazeera. my her again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera 6600000 americans have lost their jobs in the past week because of measures to stop the coronavirus pandemic since mid 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 it did 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 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 all the death toll across the u.s. as 16500 in new york say there are signs of improvement with a drop in hospital admissions for the worst affected state had a record number of deaths for 3rd straight day on wednesday and those iraq there with 799 fatalities after a sudden surge in virus infections indonesia's tightening measures to curb the spread of coal the 19 anyone breaking the rules can be fined up to $7000.00 and be jailed for up to 60 is a country has or 4280 deaths opec and its allies have agreed to

a historic cutting oil production to counter the slump in demand caused by the pandemic the group of oil producing countries will cut 10000000 barrels a day until early june oil prices of plummeted by around 30 percent after lockdowns of on the world cuts demand the european union has agreed to make more than one trillion dollars available to member states under lockdown fighting the coronavirus france's finance minister has described the economic plan as the most important in the block's history south korean president has cast his ballot ahead of next week's parliamentary elections it's the 1st major country to hold a general election amid the cold in 1000 crisis south korea reported 27 you cases over the past 24 hours the fewest in about 7 weeks. those are the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next here it's a story. talk to al-jazeera we want your force with when you

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