the stories of abuse in an aged care homes in the west to shock the world but there's no alternative when no one is makes those sending elderly loved ones to thailand to live out there on al-jazeera. several u.s. states take steps towards reopening on the same day that claims for unemployment support saud passed $30000000.00. mostly bad numbers stack up the u.s. president donald trump further sharpens his rhetoric about china's role in the pandemic. one of 2 things happened if they didn't do it and you know they couldn't do it from his competence in point where they let it spread.

no more come on peter told me you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up a record hit to the euro zone economy after lockdowns turned cities into ghost towns and plunged nations into recession. also ahead a frustrated u.n. secretary general lashes out at the world leaders he says are falling short when they're needed now more than ever. let's get going we begin with the impact of the coronavirus on the world's biggest economy almost one of the 4000000 people in the u.s. applied for unemployment benefits support last week meaning more than 30000000 have made claims since march the unemployment rate hovered around 3 and a half percent between december and february but in march it jumped to 4.4 percent some economists believe it could be as high as 20 percent when the figure for april

is released next week hoping to begin clawing back some financial ground more than 2 dozen states are moving ahead with plans to relax restrictions on business and social life. as a white house correspondent kimberly how could these are just the ones that have managed to file their claims online or even to get into an unemployment office that has been overwhelmed by the sheer number of americans that suddenly found themselves out of work this is just another bleak indicator we seem to be reporting on them every day that reminds us just how bad things have gotten in the united states as a result of the stay at home orders that were broccoli put in place to you know keep americans safe and well it has certainly resulted in a lower number of deaths than was initially projected there are certainly some very dire impacts economically and this is the latest measure of that now for his part

of the u.s. president has been speaking at the white house today he was meeting with yet another governor this time new jersey of course a very hard hit state about reopening the economy this is something that is going to be done very gradually and as a result this means that the sort of jobs returning is not going to be a very quick snap back even as the u.s. president continues to project optimism why is he continuing to sort of cheerily the economy of this economic recovery well because it's an election year and he's trying to win reelection in november but it's going to be difficult because most business experts projects that while the jobs were lost overnight could be 2 to 3 years before they come back. well the u.s. president says he's seen evidence the corona virus originated in a lab in the chinese city of han and he speculates that the coop at 19 could have been unleashed due to a quotes horrible mistake mr trump went on to say it's possible that china chose

not to stop the virus from spreading. one of 2 things happened they they either didn't do it and you know they couldn't do it from missed competence in point or they let it spread and. you know i would say probably it was it got out of control but you know there's another case that how come they stopped all the planes and all of the traffic from going into china but they didn't stop the planes in the traffic from coming into the united states and from coming into all over europe. earlier i spoke to robert scott he works at the u.s. based economic policy institute he says it is clear what president trump is doing. well unfortunately the president is looking for a scapegoat mistakes you want somebody else you can blame for the now $60000.00 plus deaths that we've experienced in the united states it's certainly true there's plenty of blame to go around the chinese dithered the covered up they didn't they

didn't want to acknowledge what was going on at 1st but they got serious after a few weeks very similar in many ways to the united states where the president denied and promises he was going to suppress the virus and didn't respond for 6 or 8 weeks until it was too late now we've had to bring the the endemic spread all 'd over the united states and the hardest hit country in the world i think it's got everything to do with the election in the fall and the president is pulling out all the stops to try and get the economy going again and he knows that to his his best calling card for the election was the strong state of the economy early in the year before the pen demick it when we had very low unemployment rates and very strong stock market and he was gearing up to sell himself on that basis to the voters but now we are probably entering the worst recession in the history of the united states and women could easily exceed 20 or even 25 percent of the time it peaks

later this summer and it looks like output of the economy is going to fold one more than it has sensed the great depression in 1933. the eurozone economy has sustained his biggest hit since the block started compiling those statistics back in 1905 outputs in the 19 countries that use the euro strength by 3.8 percent between january and march unemployment in germany the e.u. strongest economy rose by more than 300008 parole the german government has already predicted is g.d.p. is on track to shrink by more than 6 percent this year. the u.k. meanwhile is past its coronavirus peak that's according to the prime minister boris johnson fronting his 1st government briefing since recovering from covert 19 you promised to lay out plans to ease lock down rules next week the u.k.'s death toll europe's 2nd highest is now heading for 27000 new barker reports from london

but leading britain's coronavirus response after his personal battle with the virus and only a day after his fiance gave birth the prime minister faces mounting criticism of his government's response to the outbreak and questions over how to ease current restrictions amid a backdrop of rising death but now a glimmer of optimism in britain's battle with covert 19 i can confirm today that for the 1st time we are past the peak of this disease we're past the peak and we are on the downward slope britain may be over the worst but it's still a risk for now the lock down will not be loosened we've come through the peak or rather we've come under what could have been a vast peak there we've been going through some huge outpoint turn and we can now

see the sunlight own the the pasture ahead of us. and so it is vital that we do no lose control and run slap into a 2nd an even bigger minute in the past 24 hours compass and flowers have been arriving here to 10 downing street to welcome boys staunton's new baby closely followed by scientific advices of ministers coaching folders it is a confusing juxtaposition echoing a wider national confusion over how and when this crisis will end the government also under mounting pressure to reach its mass testing target by friday at the start of april the health secretary matt hancock said he was determined to deliver $100000.00 tests per day so determined he reportedly made $100.00 pound charity betty to achieve it in recent days mobile testing unit started by the army have

been travelling around the country as the government races to meet its target smashing his goal with an air force fly past his captain tom moore he initially wanted to raise just over a $1000.00 for completing laps of his garden before his 100th birthday to mark the milestone having raised more than $37000000.00 for the national health service the prime minister described captain tom as a point of light for the nation the government is now under pressure to be a point of trust in uncertain times need barkha al-jazeera london. russia's prime minister says he's putting himself into isolation after testing positive for me hurl mistrust and is the highest ranking politician there to be diagnosed his deputy will step up in his place for the time being russia has so far recorded more than 100000 cases and is in excess of a 1000 deaths now. mexican hospitals say they are quickly becoming overwhelmed

questioning the government's assertion that is well placed to stay on top of the outbreak health workers are protesting saying there are shortages of both equipment and qualified doctors manuel reports from mexico city. the medical staff of this hospital in the mexican capital are the latest health sector workers to protest a lack of personal protective equipment they say they're afraid of contracting coded 19 but he thought it meant that we're protesting because we are not a covert designated hospital yet where except in clovis patients and so far 45 of my colleagues have been infected. protests like these with doctors and nurses demanding medical supplies have been taking place in mexico since early march in some cases medical staff have had to find and purchase their own protective equipment i will check whether. the country has a lot of protective equipment like boots caps and goggles but no piece of equipment is asked important as the high fissions the mask known as the

n 95 these any short supply all over the world but in mexico in particular in many places have never even had this mass in the wind. as coronavirus contagion in mexico nears its predicted peak so does the expected capacity of the nation's health centers. this emergency room staff and can coon say donations have helped alleviate their demand for protective equipment but they fear the facility will soon be overwhelmed seeing by the government. who would definitely reach a moment where we suppose capacity this clinic is now dedicated specifically to treat coronavirus the flow of patients is constant we will suppose capacity in mexico city more than a dozen hospitals have announced they have already hit capacity the mexican government however says that 70 percent of hospital beds set aside for kobe 1000 cases remain unused. many public spaces have also been repurposed to accommodate

for unexpected older floor patients at hospitals all across mexico medical personnel are warning over the possibility of a health system collapse adding that now more than ever is the time for people to stay in their homes and continue to abide by social distancing guidelines. mexico's president said in a recent address the country has prepared very well to meet the demand for medical equipment many of those on the front lines of the fight against the pandemic don't seem to agree. mexico city. still to come here on al-jazeera the police in new york are investigating why dozens of decomposing bodies were put on ice in trucks outside a funeral home. plus with the economy in freefall and on rest growing lebanon's leader says he'll seek a rescue deal from the i.m.f. .

hello the conditions have definitely improved over the last few days across areas of japan as the want to further to the north in through but that sunshine has certainly brought a rise in the temperatures and people out and about in chiba park enjoying those kiss on the skies aside the timers actually set to rise a little bit further by friday 25 to saka and i'm pretty warm as well back across the korean peninsula 27 in seoul and still very warm in beijing these temperatures a good 10 degrees above the average the rain back in for crossfire to cross seasonal southern eastern sections of china all the way toward shanghai so 24 the high there on friday by saturday it's a little bit warmer the rain for the most part actually working 'd its way eastwards away from shanghai becoming quite a bit heavier across the southern areas but warm to the south 30 celsius in hong kong widespread rains of course across much of indonesia and we've seen some heavy

rain through our is a similar to this system here were his way down the west coast so this could bring some localized flooding some very heavy rain at times and also very widespread across much of the man a peninsula meanwhile some scottish central philippines and some heavy rain across borneo well that is really the north and east of india seeing the heaviest rain and the next couple days showers into kara. as the world fights the corona pandemic we're learning more about this every day the new patent your new join our global community. how we come together to fight for answering your questions can i just honestly tell you this is directly what's coming on on you tube as you're saying i'm concerned about the fact life well and i think are a crisis and not keeping you up to date and we've seen countries retreat back and beaten back to translate the strain on 00.

00. 00. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera live from doha your top stories as the coronavirus pandemic continues to battery connelly's around the world almost another 4000000 people have applied for unemployment support in the u.s. in just the last week a total of $30000000.00 americans have made claims since late march. with the bad numbers mounting donald trump has again focused on china's role in the pandemic he suggested without evidence that covert 19 might have been created in a chinese lab and the government may have chosen not to stop it spreading. and the

british prime minister says the u.k. has passed the peak of the outbreak boris johnson will outline next week his plans to restart the economy. a funeral home is being investigated in new york after the discovery of dozens of bodies in an refrigerated trucks the owner says he had no option but to store bodies on ice in the rented vehicles because he had run out of room his gabriel elizondo. the lives lost already victims of new york's coronavirus crisis now part of a funeral home for dozens of bodies were found decomposing in trucks at this funeral home in brooklyn there maybe were as many as 50 bodies inside the police moved in and discovered it after residents complained about a foul smell emanating from the building by thursday morning caskets were arriving to take away corpses to unknown locations and family members with loved ones inside

who are showing up in a desperate search for information ronald 60 year old brother francoise died of cope at 19 he tells me his brother's corpse has been inside the funeral home for more than a week now. about it because every day. so it's not good not only exactly what they say because it's really so very very sad to me should covington said she thinks her mom's body is also inside so right here this is too much for me i'm sorry but i'm so cloudy right now because this hurts her words hurt people who live in the neighborhood were shocked this is a residential neighborhood it's unbelievable unbelievable people. and that. you know. the funeral home said it's freezers failed so it had to bring in the rental trucks to store bodies and explanation that did not satisfied new york's mayor they have an obligation to the people they serve to treat them with dignity i

have no idea in the world how any funeral home could what this happened for a city that is supposedly coming out of this crisis the nightmare that happened at this funeral home is a grim reminder of how far there is still to go and the incredible toll this is having on a city. how does it in brooklyn they are. joining us live here on al-jazeera eric adams he's the borough president of brooklyn he also served as a new york state senator he joins us from brooklyn eric adams great to have you here on al-jazeera so how can this possibly have happened i'm sorry how can this possibly have happened well i think it's almost a perfect storm when you look at the entire process from the review of when

a person immediately died sort of time that you bury them there's several different components and pieces number one the hospitals order locations where they died the morgue swear their health the funeral directors and then the actual grave site or if they want to be in bomb this some way and i think that the lack of coordination of all of those pieces of kit turning crises into an actual is a travesty of this proportion who is responsible for that coordination that you're talking about there is the nobody directly responsible i mean is there an oversight and overseeing body here involved. well we know we don't have been overseen by that court need each one of those pieces and it's unfortunate when you look at it and many of our funeral home directories was caught in between the 1st many of our a cemetery some of us in metairie stop burying at the same level that they were

doing a lot of our cremation locations were sending back bodies because they were receiving too many and our morgues were not whole in the bodies long enough so that we could continue a real flow so when you think we had an increase in deaths a large proportion a decrease in burials and cremation because of the overflow 'd and no coordination in between you i'm sure we have more places in the city where you have bodies are being stored and some really an ethical matters because of these as far as this particular funeral director and his business a concerned clearly people are innocent until proven otherwise but is there or should there be a criminal charge laid at his door. well i spoke with the funeral director this evening that went back to don't know cation to speak with those who were there i'm

i think is really too early to determine if something was criminally done i think we could have made better decisions on how long you kept the body out of bottom of the bodies that would there but i don't think and my preliminary observation that there were any criminal activity on his part you know as you know it was a former police officer that conduct a criminal investigation has tried to become a state senator and when you look at this which is really looking ad men and women who thought they were doing the right things didn't realize the heavy influx of bodies that came to them without any real guidance i believe from the city state we really put these directors all across the state in a terrible circumstance and is maybe would 3 states seeing at this juncture as well eric i guess that everyone involved in vats and all of that part of the end of somebodies life the funeral homes the funeral directors they are doing the best job they can possibly do in excess of the challenging situations. so to you

the number of deaths that came about from kobe in 1008. hours cities we must start to think about proper preparation and i believe soon as the 19 was on our radar we should have put all the individuals involved in the room to coordinate a real coordinated effort we should have increased the hours in our mosques right now many of our blogs are closing a 6 o'clock chief medical examiner's office is closing around 8 o'clock i think everyone should be on a mole will we increase in the by you of people we have to hand do we should have a priest i was also i think we should be broke into 121212 am at minimum if not 24 hours and we should need to have an extended of freezer space to hold out as we can all bodies i grade site so i simmered terri's were you able to have more land

to do so this was a very challenging role we put our funeral directors in and i think we need more guidance to support and that's why on monday i'm holding a bereavement committee to bring people together to discuss every part of this process ok i got them so we have to leave it there thank you so much thank you. or most us states are moving to ease up their lockdown measures michigan's governor has been pushing to keep her state's restrictions in place for testers some of them armed surrounded the state capitol building demanding governor. backed down several even made it inside a democrat wanted politicians to extend her emergency declaration for 28 days but politicians in the republican party that house refused the governor says the state of emergency will continue regardless. the u.n. chief has spoken of his irritation of what he says is a lack of world leadership during the pandemic and turning to terrorists says

nowhere near enough is being done to help developing countries and his calls for a global ceasefire are mostly being ignored as a diplomatic james bays. speaking to reporters by video link the frustration of the u.n. secretary general was clear it's well over a month since he demanded a global cease fire but the fact the un security council has been unable to pass a resolution was the result of what he called a dysfunctional relationship between the major powers and that makes it difficult for the security council to decide as it makes it difficult in many other areas for international cooperation to work secretary-general given the scale of the pandemic do you believe that global leadership has been adequate that it is obvious that there is a lack of leadership it is all is obvious the international community is divided in a moment where it would be more important than ever to be united there is indeed

a problem of leadership or if you want a disconnect between leadership and poll we see remarkable examples of leadership but they are usually not associated bollard and when we see power we sometimes do not see the necessary the ship i hope this will be overcome sooner rather than later as a security council session this week a very public demonstration of the disagreements among the world's. top countries as the u.n. syria's special envoy spoke during the virtual event one of the ambassadors had not me to this microphone in the remark was. the french ambassador was on a separate phone call unaware everyone else could hear him that asked you. for one second thinking you know you're the friend my his words were very telling he talked to problems related to the w.h.o. . and then starts to talk about the americans before he's alerted to the fact he's on muted microphone. it's going to go through security on the

ballot in that moment the ambassador inadvertently revealed in public the problems the u.n. security council has been facing in trying to come up with a resolution on covert 19 the french have been leading those negotiations for weeks diplomats say it's a torturous process the u.s. is objecting to any reference in the resolution to the world health organization after president trump pulled funding from the global health body meanwhile russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has been pushing the idea of a meeting of the 5 permanent members of the security council russia china the u.s. u.k. and france that leader level it's still low hasn't happened jamesburg days out 0 of the united nations ok let's wrap up some other top stories for you libya's internationally recognized government in tripoli has rejected a ceasefire announced by the warlords after the government of national accord says

hafter has violated previous truces after said his forces would pause hostilities during the muslim holy month of ramadan his key ally the u.a.e. is calling for all sides to find a political solution to the conflict through what it describes as a supervised process after it's been trying to capture tripoli for a year now. a bomb explosion has hit an armored egyptian military convoy in northern sinai the army says it happened in the city of beer or lobbed at least 10 personnel have been either killed or injured the military hasn't given specific details no group has claimed responsibility. the lebanese government will ask the international monetary fund for a financial lifeline the economy is spiraling having been in deep trouble even before the virus pandemic began to reports now from beirut. since taking office in january prime minister has sandy abs government has been working on

a plan to save lebanon's economy that plan is now ready the state is close to bankruptcy and lebanon defaulted on its debt for the 1st time after much reluctance the government intends to seek financial assistance from the international monetary fund somebody. with this plan as a stepping stone we can build our future we will continue with our request to the i.m.f. and willing gauge seriously with our creditors as a result we will reduce the burden of debt on the shoulders of all citizens the economic hardship has been mounting anger spilled onto the streets and it turned violent the national currency the pound lost more than 60 percent of its value in recent weeks international donors have demanded economic reforms and then end to corruption to unlock billions of dollars in aid while the government's plan mentions the need for reforms its focus seems to be on the banking sector and taking back what the prime minister calls unrealistic interests on bank deposits

over the past 5 years while the government wants the banking sector. because of the crisis. if you asking for a special of the story structure of the banking sector this will result in a total lack of confidence in the lebanese economy and the banking sector by the generation of deposits lebanese politicians most of whom are accused of involvement in corruption have traded blame over who is responsible but the opposition says the governing alliance is using its power to target them in an anti-corruption drive for. the current government chosen by those in power in their political allies unfortunately has been turned into a tool to settle political schools and revenge practices. the power. the struggle is worsening tensions the government has to restore the trust of its citizens deb

says his cabinet is made up of independent experts but it was brought to power by some parties implicated in corruption scandals that is why protesters have been trying to topple the political class say they have little faith and promises to recover stolen public money the prime minister may think the plan will put the country back on track but the concerns of many lebanese who have lost the value of their money have not been eased senator al jazeera beirut. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories as the coronavirus pandemic continues to batter economies worldwide almost another 4000000 people have applied for unemployment support in the u.s. this past week that means unprecedented 30000000 americans have now filed claims in just 6 weeks with the bad numbers stacking up donald trump has again focused on china's role than the pandemic he suggested without evidence that coded 19 might

have been created in the chinese lab and the government may have chose not to stop it spreading one of 2 things happened either didn't do it and you know they couldn't do it from his competence in point or they let it spread. you know i would say probably it was a control but you know there's another case that how come they stopped all the planes and all of the traffic from going into china but they didn't stop the planes in the traffic from coming into the united states and from coming into all over europe several u.s. states are beginning to reopen after white house guidelines on social distancing expired more than 30 are expected to relax their stay at home orders allowing some businesses including restaurants to reopen. a funeral homes being investigated in new york after the discovery of dozens of bodies in an refrigerated trucks the owner says he had no option but to store bodies in the rented vehicles because he

ran out of space it's unclear how many of the people died from the corona virus the british prime minister says the u.k. is past the peak of its virus outbreak boris johnson stressed they shouldn't risk a 2nd spike coronavirus the u.k. has the 2nd highest number of deaths in europe after italy the russian prime minister says he's putting himself into isolation after testing positive. is the highest ranking politician that. russia has so far recorded well than 100000 cases . a bomb explosion has hit an armored egyptian military convoy in northern sinai the army says it happened in the city of. at least 10 personnel have been either killed or injured but the military hasn't given full details those are your headlines the news continues after history of a revolution i will see you very soon. as it breaks with.

coverage. and feel from around the world many coming to. the state of israel was proclaimed. palestine was lost. 16 years later in 1964 the palestine liberation organization or the p.l.o. . made up of different factions the p.l.o. has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since.