88 years the year he smashes the frankish army captures the king of jerusalem if sees is the true cross and this is the great military victory the crusades an arab perspective the result 3 unification on a just. the coronavirus pandemic batters some of the world's biggest economies new figures show huge losses in the us germany and nigeria. time sammy say that this is down to 0 live from coming up. actually actually quite. outgoing un special rapporteur for me and mark calls out the country's leader aung san suu kyi over the 1st persecution of reigning good muslims

saudi arabia's all revenues 24 percent in 3 months as the pandemic drains demand protect the children charities sound the alarm about child abuse during long downs . the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic continues to reveal itself in the last few hours the world's largest economy the us reported a 1st quarter g.d.p. loss of nearly 5 percent that's the worst result since the 2008 financial crisis airplane make a boeing suffered a $640000000.00 loss in the 1st quarter. also reported a loss of half a $1000000000.00 let's cross over now to our white house correspondent kimberly

halkett so pretty grim figures for the 1st quarter and apparently they're expected to get worse going forward right. that's right because this really takes into account the reflection of when the stay at home order started in march but not so much for january and february so there is an expectation that the next quarter is going to be nothing short of horrific in terms of those numbers projected to be almost great depression levels when you hear of members of the administration talking openly of a drop some 30 to 40 percent in the next quarter it's an acknowledgment of just how far this economy is plunging given the fact that at one point we had 90 percent stay at home orders here in the united states most businesses were no longer operational this is also the reason though that you hear the president continuing to cheerily talking about this being somewhat of a v.

shaped economy in other words plunging but then spiking right back up but given the fact that the president's guidelines talk about a phase reopening of this country many people do not expect the recovery to be as swift as the drop in fact was now we do know that the there are some efforts that are under way in terms of trying to shore up the economy in terms of the central bank they have done a number of different things not only putting in place expanded sort of bond buying programs of it also dropping interest rates to near 0 even small business loans but again we're watching very carefully as it wraps up its meetings in washington what more announcements may come out of the central bank we're also watching very carefully for the u.s. president he has a number of media appearances today those replace those white house coronavirus briefings that we were accustomed to respect to see the president with the governor of louisiana at 900 g.m.t. or rather 15 g.m.t. at 20 g.m.t.

he will be meeting with the hospitality industry executives as they discuss opening up america of course the hospitality industry one of the hardest hit again this u.s. president election you're looking to try and build back this economy but these numbers are certainly going to make it difficult all right time so much can believe how kids. let's turn to libya now where the un recognized government has complained to france over allegations its warplanes have been operating over the city of misrata let's go straight over to our correspondent mahmud these live for us from those so the color response some curious to know is the jna getting from france. according to the spokesman of the foreign ministry at the government of national court he says that the foreign ministry the libyan foreign ministry has can tack to its french counterparts and inquiring about the presence of french

crafts over the skies of the city of misrata he also says that the french foreign ministry has responded that it's can tag thing the french defense minister ministry to get detained so that they can respond to the libyan foreign ministry that's all what we've got so far from the libyan foreign but in all cases as you know that france has been supporting the warlord family for have to for the past few years as you know that in last june the government demanded the an explanation from france over the. discovery of french supplied jubilant missiles to the warlord who for have they were found by the government forces in the city of lost dawn and also in 2016 a french aircraft. crashed over the mcgoohan town

near the city of bun harvey away 3 french soldiers on board that aircraft were killed and france then admitted that it seemed that france has been supporting the war logically for have to politically and militarily and as you know sami that. the french president. has been giving have to diplomatic support even in the international conferences that hosted the libyan rivals and oro take us through the front line of course between holly for half thought and g m a force with have been battling it out for $100.00 for have to force the being on the back for where do they stand now. well the government military sources say that they have advanced and they have

recaptured new areas in southern tripoli and heavy fighting continued with the heavy artillery between the 2 warring factions parties especially insular had a neighborhood in and around the mork military camp and also in ns our neighborhood the government military commanders say that they targeted have to his forces locations inside camp with heavy weapons and meanwhile the government military sources say that they are now besieging have to his forces in. camp a military camp that's is located there hamza military camp is located on the highway linking the capital city center to the in active old international airport in southern chippie meanwhile the government military sources say that they targeted a convoy of trucks loaded with the ammunition for have to the forces in the

city of lahore now a medical sources say that one engineer that was killed in the vicinity of m 80 good airport today and 6 others one did as have to us forces targeted the hospital in the vicinity of the main airport and that's also where the house of. 19 medical equipment was also targeted in the vicinity of m 80 get well that's where the engineer the one engineer was killed and 6 other medical workers were injured by a grad rocket launch of by you have to his forces sami thanks so much mahmoud on below 100 from tripoli. the international monetary fund has approved emergency funding of 3400000000 dollars to help nigeria tackle the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic its economy relies heavily on oil which has been hit hard by

the unprecedented fall in demand a minute greece has more from the butcher hours before the international monetary fund and now the $3400000000.00 loan grant to nigeria the national parliament approved $2100000000.00 for going to a german government following a request by the president for such an amount to be borrowed from domestic market to finance the 2020 by the it may interest you to know that already the country is reviewing its budget by nearly 40 percent down want and this is a country that has seen a lot of borrowing in recent times in march early march 2020 the government at the parliament approved more than $22000000000.00 as for for the nigerian government to borrow externally so this is also coming at a time when the external results of this country has seen

a significant drop from more than $40000000000.00 just a few years ago to only $33000000000.00 the grant from the i.m.f. is seen by economists and government officials here as a welcome development it could help stimulate growth and also cushion the effect of the covered 19 impact on the kind of me but a lot of economists also fear that this country may need much more than what it has already gotten from the i.m.f. external other external and internal bourse at the at the moment germany europe's economic powerhouse is expected to plunge into its deepest recession in 50 years new numbers released by the government of the country's g.d.p. shrinking by more than 6 percent this year dominic cain has more from berlin. before the coronavirus pandemic really took hold here people thought that the economy of germany would grow by just over one percent this year and now in the full flood of 'd the statistics coming through every day about corona one really

gruesome statistic economically for this country that it is going to go into recession will shrink by 6.3 percent and there's no way of sugarcoating that from the governmental perspective the economy minister peter meyer a key ally of anglo-american who works in that building behind me in the chancery building she and mr altmire are having to deal with this very serious economic shock that everyone in this country is experiencing they say they project that germany will rebound from this recession the worst in 50 years that they expect the economy to rebound next year in the next calendar year but of course those are projections those are based on an interpretation of how this pandemic might unfold if there is a 2nd wave of infections if they need to be more lockdowns if restrictions can't be eased so much then of course that means they'll be even more economic pain. the

u.n. south going human rights envoy from in marseilles the country's leader aung sang suu kyi is failed to live up to her reputation as a humanitarian her time in the role has been especially dominated by men miles crackdown in iraq and state in 201-775-0000 people mostly rohingya muslims fled across the border to bangladesh let's hear some of those comments from gang healy. we all knew that she was put on a pedestal trade as the icon of democracy and human rights but ever since the n l d has taken office and ever since she took the oath as a state to counselor all of her actions and her words statements point other whines and recently when the pandemic of cole that 19 how she is supporting him giving more power to tell my daughter

in containing why it's right and also end corentin as that managing co had 19. really scares me and and how she had pretty straight. tech my jaw in day during the i.c.j. is also very alarming and very indicative. of how she has changed her stance or maybe i know i still would like to relieve the she can't change what how she's been doing now. perhaps the world really know who she is she really wasn't. still ahead on al-jazeera south korea launches the world's biggest container ship pandemic will make it difficult to keep

a commercial vessel full of goods extreme measures in el salvador's prisons the president orders a crackdown after an outbreak of brutal violence. hello we've got some rather hot weather into northern parts of china at the moment pleasantly warm for the korean peninsula and also for japan a little bit of cloud there just spilling out some of the sea of japan that'll just flood over towards northern parts of honshu northern sections of the kid just cash for the most part it will be fine and dry that's certainly the case across a good part of japan 2324 celsius here so the temperature there for so there is that heat in beijing 33 degrees pretty warm too into shanghai for time a little colder as we go on into friday's cloud and rain spills its way across central and southern parts of china to the south of that it is largely fine and try

to hong kong getting up to around 28 celsius over the next couple of days dry weather stretches its way down across a good part of india china but still a few showers here will see some wet weather pushing towards the gulf of thailand central and southern parts of thailand could see a little bit of wet weather and the usual rush of showers right through southeast asia and i shall is actually join up with the wet weather we have around the andaman sea pushing over towards southern parts of india be some live showers there for a time into were western parts of india over the next couple of days still looking rather disturbed into the northeast with big shot was bangladesh. but. isolating times the listening post cuts through the noise leave the looking at another side of this story not so much the information around the outbreak but the misinformation separating propaganda

from fact it's really has a long exposing the optics try to manipulate the rhetoric. but they cannot manipulate the listening post your insight go to the media which is the era. of comeback you're watching i'll just hear a time to recap headlines the u.s. economy has shrunk by 4.8 percent in the 1st quarter of this year it's the worst economic decline since the 2008 recession president trump has been pushing for some states to ease coronavirus restrictions to get the economy moving again. europe's

biggest economy germany is expected to suffer its deepest recession since the 2nd world war newly released government statistics show g.d.p. shrinking by 6 percent this year. the u.n. south going human rights envoy for me and says the country's leader aung sang suu kyi has failed to live up to have a reputation as a humanitarian young the time a special rapporteur focused on crackdown and back home states in 2017 she tells al-jazeera she believes the army conducted ethnic cleansing against muslims. saudi arabia's all revenues have fallen 24 percent since the start of the year the world's largest oil exporter suffered a deficit of $9000000000.00 in the 1st quarter global demand is collapsed and storage units are nearly full as factories stay shut and cars remain parked. the global oil saw plus has affected the u.s.

economy as we've been hearing but it's also creating a strange spectacle off the coast of california well runnels explains. a sign of global economic breakdown floating offshore dozens of huge oil tankers sit it anchor outside the port of los angeles each vessel up to 365 meters long is brimming with tons of crude oil but there's no place to put it or what we have right now is a significant balance in supply and demand in the oil markets be asleep driven by significant demand contraction as a result of the economic slowdown translated from corporate economic speak that means that in the global lockdown fewer people are driving to work or anywhere else as evident in these shots of near empty streets in los angeles with so many out of

work people are buying less so fewer goods are being trucked from place to place and check out this near empty airport hardly anyone is flying so who needs jet fuel u.s. consumption of petrol diesel and aviation fuel plummeted 31 percent since mid march with the price of benchmark texas crude dow 90 percent for the year in normal times we use about $100000000.00 barrels of oil per day globally and in the month of april experts are estimating that that number is going to be around 75 or 80000000 barrels a day which is about the amount that was used globally 20 years ago storage tanks on land are chock full so we'll companies are using ships as expensive storage bins the price charged by shippers for doing so is up to more than $150000.00 per. day and there is more oil on the way

a flotilla of 20 saudi arabian super tankers is steaming toward the gulf of mexico u.s. purchasers bought the saudi crude earlier when prices were higher as the ships keep on coming the u.s. government plans to store millions of barrels worth in the strategic petroleum reserve a series of gigantic underground caverns below louisiana and texas as seen here from above and meanwhile back off shore from the port of los angeles the u.s. coast guard is monitoring and adapting its procedures to make sure the mammoth ships remain safe and that the maritime traffic jam doesn't pose a hazard to navigation or the environment ending the oil glut depends on reviving the economy which in turn depends on beating back coronavirus industry experts say it may be months before those oil tankers can unload their cargo rob reynolds al-jazeera sand piedro california but any central bank governor has defended his

organizations role during the economic crisis protests against lebanon's deepening financial problems have turned violent for the 2nd night in a row. in the northern city of tripoli demonstrators set fire to a bank and hold rocks as security forces they responded with tear gas and rubber bullets the central bank governor says it only finances the government it is not responsible for how any of the money is actually spent enough to me we hide nothing in the central bank of lebanon nothing is being done unilaterally and the central bank expenditure belongs to the financial system in lebanon other than that it is an attack that aims at not telling the truth to the public of lebanon in order to increase the campaign i keeps the governor of the central bank said a hole that is in beirut she says the government in central bank are blaming each other for lebanon's financial problems. a few days ago the lebanese prime minister

has even insinuated he went as far as to insinuate that the central bank governor is tampering with financial stability for political gain said he was engineering the collapse of the currency to topple the government today we're hearing from the central bank governor saying i've been very transparent the government has been involved in the decisions i've been taking i have never acted unilaterally and that the central bank was funding the state and it was the state which was spending the money but what is interesting is that he is seeing this as a campaign against the financial institution and against himself because at the end of the day in lebanon there is a power struggle and you cannot you know discount the fact that what is happening is that you have a government that is being accused of trying to control the financial sector the government is controlled by hezbollah the iranian backed group and their allies the opposition which is supporting riyadh who is seen as pro american and in fact the

u.s. assistant secretary of state david schenker yesterday said that he has been implementing u.s. sanctions against hezbollah so you have these 2 camps and they're both accusing each other of trying to topple each other accusing each other of trying to stage a coup and in the interim the economic crisis is only worsening and people's livelihoods are at stake the world's biggest container ship has been launched in south korea just as global trade is suffering a sharp downturn juta the pandemic but having largely control the spread of the disease is very country the government is now looking to repair the economic damage bryant reports from the southern port city of tucson. about to start its maiden voyage to europe the world's biggest container ship loading at the port of busan able to carry 24000 containers she's the 1st of 12 ships intended to make south korea one of the word. leading shippers but the giant

vessels were ordered in 2018 well before anyone had heard of cove it 19 clear so back all the about those are big bestsellers everybody trusts simulation maybe a market gross is as part of sketch right we have a no good histories to every year how much passant you know grow by volume increase so based on their concept we all don't always or esle the however to change to tell a difference global shipping has been hit badly with predictions of a world recession lasting months or even years and then there's the longer term prospect of countries restructuring industries that will further hurt trade but south korea is trying to look beyond this pandemic to a future recovery wise from the recent lesson of the past in 2017 the country's

biggest ship or hand gin went bust provoking a national debate about whether the government should have intervened given the country's unique geopolitics occupying the southern half of a divided peninsula south korea has for decades effectively been an island it relies upon air and sea links with the rest of the world and for this export driven economy ships are essential a point to the country's president stressed when he launched this vessel. on make sure that we want repeat the history of ups and downs by strongly pushing to rebuild the shipping industry i mean to become among the top 5 shipping powers in the world. shipping along with other key industries like car making and davey ation have been designated as essential in the allocation of relief funding south korea like many other countries realizing it's not enough simply to survive this pandemic

but ensuring it comes through with the means to make it prosper wants more mcbride al-jazeera to sun child protection agencies are worried millions of children around the long down in nature are at risk of domestic violence 7 charities are asking governments to prioritize the safety of children who may be in danger many asian nations including india and singapore have reported sharp rises in domestic violence during the pandemic and in this roy chowdhury is director of programs and policy at save the children india he says child protection services are reporting a record number of young people calling in for help. i think this is an unprecedented time and to be very honest none of us have seen anything like this before we have now noticed that in the last if you if you compare the pre lockdown period and and the current scenario there is a rise of 50 percent in terms of domestic violence against children through our

child which is a government mechanism where children can record you know their complaints over the telephone call the telephone number being 10998 and that has been this is unprecedented we have never seen this many cases of domestic violence against children and we still don't know where to go with it so so it's a it's a pandemic of a different sort while it's a health pandemic globally and people are dying of the corona virus but what is also true is that there is shop rise in you know in violence against children which we are experiencing in india and many other countries in asia the number of cases that we see now are only the ones that are being reported which means that these are the ones that have probably gone to a certain extent the children feel the need to. you know need to reach out to the child mechanism. el salvador's president has launched a crackdown on gang members in prisons it comes after the country saw its highest

single day homicide tally on friday with 22 people killed prison officials say inmates are using the pandemic to cover their crimes but human rights activists claim president tactics goto far john home and explains. extreme measures in a prison sealing of cells so that gang members can't make contact with the outside no. no ray of sunlight will enter to self we're going to look at all lines of sight so that they can not have any type of communication. authorities say that many hits in the violence play country from jail in prison gang leaders have taken advantage of the covert pandemic would move killings. last week and dozens of people were murdered after a period of relative calm in response to 30 stripped him mate and packed them together in a 24 hour lockdown. after that members of the warring gangs were mixed together and

so was part of the new plan to break the communication lines. before they've been separated to avoid prison riots. it's all come from the top president. on monday he tweeted we're going to make sure the gang members who committed these murders regret it for the rest of their lives he's also said security forces can now use lethal force against gang members on the streets human rights groups have denounced images is inhumane and authoritarian reminding the also recently marched into congress with soldiers to get a security bill passed but many in el salvador think differently gangs have controlled entire neighborhoods in the country for decades extorting raping and killing it will really be lascaux one to transport company told us they've murdered more than a 1000 people in his sector and. almost $20000000.00 a year from operators where system look at this is what every government needs to

do if there are criminal groups to effect in the population is stopping the country's economy from developing in the least it can do is take a line and establish order they can't look the other way. and president clearly remains extremely popular for now it seems many salvadorans support is hard line strong john home and how does it. take you through some of the headlines now the u.s. economy has shrunk by 4.8 percent in the 1st quarter of the year it's the worst economic decline since the 2008 recession president dan trump has been pushing for some states to ease coronavirus restrictions to get the economy moving again europe's biggest economy germany is expected to suffer its deepest recession since the 2nd world war newly released governments this is 6 showed g.d.p.

shrinking by 6 percent this year the u.n. south going human rights envoy for me and maher says the country's leader aung sang suu kyi has failed to live up to her reputation as a humanitarian yankee leaves time a special rapporteur surf oak astronomy and mass crackdown on muslims in america and state in 2017 she told al-jazeera she believes the army conducted ethnic cleansing chaucer said she was bitterly disappointed in suchi. about en masse later. we all knew that she was put on a pedestal. trait as the icon democracy and human rights but ever since the n l d has taken on an ever since she was a state chancellor all of her actions and her words statements quite otherwise. saudi arabia's all revenues have fallen 24 percent since the start

of the year the world's largest oil exporter suffered a deficit of $9000000000.00 in the 1st quarter or for a 2nd night of violent protests the governor of lebanon central bank has defended his organizations role during the economic crisis he says it only finances the government and is not responsible for how any of the money is actually spent. child protection agencies are worried millions of children under lockdown in asia risk of domestic violence 7 charities are asking governments to prioritize the safety of children who may be in danger many asian nations including india and singapore have reported sharp rises in the mastic violence during the pandemic it's the stream now the kid news continues though with adrian at the top of the hour so stay with us here on al-jazeera. as corona virus continues to devastate the united states the

race to the white house goes on joe biden has all but secured his place is the democratic nominee but can he beat still trump joined us for continuing coverage of the u.s. election 2020 on al-jazeera. ok and your industry in america is making headlines by the way it is handling the global pandemic what does it mean for brown and black people today we compare stories and stats and stories about racism health care and the coronavirus you can jump in that conversation you can weigh in on the new chief professed i want you to meet the guests nicole hannah jensen welcome to the stream introduce yourself to our international audience. hello downs on the fabric of new york times magazine covering racial inequality and.