i'm controlling the virus for the recount list he didn't victims even when the pandemic passes there will be many in desperate need of help. millions more joined the jobless cues in the u.s. as the coronavirus crisis bites leaving people like university graduates facing an uncertain future. are you going to hire the kid who's like fresh out of school or you can hire someone who's been on a desk or for 5 years. hello i'm down in jordan the saudis iran live from doha also coming up. i am very proud of general flynn i can tell you that right now criminal charges are set to be dropped against donald trump's former advisor michael flynn good method lying to

the f.b.i. about his russia contacts. shelling by heavy for have task forces close to diplomatic areas in libya's capital after the war old want turkey about its role in the conflict. and setting up home depot in the amazon the indigenous tried that's trying to ensure its survival during the coronavirus undamaged. welcome to the program the unemployment numbers keep soaring in the u.s. it feels the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic the country with more than $1200000.00 cases that's a 3rd of the world's total is on track for its worst month of job losses in history the private sector laid off more than 20000000 workers in april and in the past week alone more than 3000000 people filed for unemployment benefits the latest monthly job figures from the u.s. labor department on friday. day and these would include people working for the

government as well they're expected to put the unemployment rate at more than 15 percent and that would be the worst since the great depression nearly 100 years ago well that's in stark contrast to where the u.s. was not just 2 months ago 3.5 percent jobless a 50 year low a white house correspondent kimberly helped get. one in 5 americans filing for unemployment insurance since march what we have now 33000000 and climbing really this is a nation that is bracing for an historic unemployment rate because essentially all of the jobs that we saw really added to the u.s. economy in the last decade have now been wiped out simply a 20 percent unemployment rate and you have to remember that's astonishing given the fact that it was just weeks ago 3.5 percent previously which was a 50 year low last envoy go as

a resident scholar at the american enterprise institute he says the official response to those numbers has been reassuring. i've actually been somewhat relieved that quickly congress as has acted and how dramatically the federal reserve has intervened as well so we've seen a drastic expansion of the unemployment insurance program both in terms of generosity and duration we've seen. you know again i'm president support for for businesses grants for businesses with fewer than 500 employees and very significant market support for larger companies through the federal reserve and so i think that's all you know better maybe then some would have expected coming from from a congress that has and hasn't worked perhaps as effectively as you might hope over the last few years what we don't know yet is whether it will be enough fred we have obviously seen that that bleeding in the labor markets continues i think people

would have hoped that by now it would stabilize a little bit what we saw up just today that you know over 3000000 people thoughts on employment benefits in the past week hopefully some of that is simply a bad lot right under some states like florida for example where people have really struggled to be able to file their their unemployment claim and so hopefully some of the some what we saw today is a backlog and situation stabilize but it's certainly not getting great the u.s. justice department is dropping its case against president trump's 1st national security adviser former general michael flynn was fired from in the early days of the trumpet ministration after admitting lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with russia's ambassador to washington alan fischer reports. during the trump presidential campaign general michael flynn often led the chance of look around far end at the republicans opponent hillary clinton yes that's right

walk her was he faced a very real prospect that would happen to him after he pled guilty of lying to the f.b.i. in recent weeks his new legal team insisted documents had been uncovered which suggested misconduct by f.b.i. investigators no the justice department wants all charges dropped i didn't know that was happening at this moment i felt it was going to happen just by watching and seeing like everybody else does he was an innocent man he is a great gentleman he was targeted by the obama administration and he was targeted in order to try and take down a president and what they've done is a disgrace and i hope a big price is going to be paid a big price should be paid $24.00 days as national security adviser is the shortest of a rein in the important government post he resigned when confronted with evidence he lied about his contacts with the russian ambassador to the us that made him

vulnerable to blackmail he also lied about his law being for the turkish government and the white house said he'd lied to the vice president his resignation was an issue of trust. when an initially what with the militant quality into russian collusion with the trump campaign to win a lighter sentence but last year he changed lawyers and took a more aggressive approach to court proceedings even though he'd already pled guilty the decision to drop the case has left many legal experts surprised it is appalling that somebody who actually pleaded guilty to 2 crimes is now walking away because the attorney general of the united states is deciding there isn't enough evidence to prosecute him i think at that given the judge's. statements in this case all along judge emmet sullivan i think judge sullivan may have something to say about the sudden reversal going trump has hinted he's open to bringing michael flynn back into the administration

a federal judge now has the final decision but it seems the legal case may be coming to an end the political fallout of the justice department's decision is only just beginning alan fischer al-jazeera washington forces loyal to libyan warlord honey for have to have shelled central tripoli explosions when he the turkish and italian embassy is in a hotel after he's been trying to seize the capital now for more than a year the issued a warning to turkey on thursday about its support for the u.n. recognize government which is fighting to defeat the let's talk to william laurance he's a former u.s. diplomat to libya and a professor of political science at the american university and joins us live now from washington d.c. williams and yet another shelling attack by have to us forces on tripoli how significant is this given the damage caused by the turkish and italian embassies. well it's a violation of international law because it's attacking diplomatic areas it's a violation of international humanitarian law because they're deliberately hitting

civilian areas and this is the 1st attack in a downtown civilian area this year 2020 it's a reflection of the fact that i have to who we've been we need a drone war begin to lose it with recent changes technological changes by the turks who are supporting the western government and that means they're using more imprecise grad rockets in the downtown area and also some of their ground lodgers were just destroyed at a nearby airbase by the western government and so it's it's have to are sort of making a statement that he can still hit the downtown area but it's it's part it's partially because he's losing the front line battles and you talked about turkey that just yesterday you have to issued a warning to turkey of course which you say supports the u.n. recognized government in tripoli well sort of reaction are we likely to see from response to this. they'll be angry and they've been the most outspoken about what the eastern. renegade government is doing and it's been

a war of words going on provide a week now between the u.a.e. and turkey the 2 main backers of each side and the mean change in recent weeks is there's been a lot more international criticism about what the russians are doing and a week u.n. report assessing all of the illegal russian actions in in libya so these are the 3 main outside powers that are intervening in the conflict and over the last month or 2 it's started to tip in the western government because of these new manpower churchmen from syria about 4000 have been sent in and these technological advances air defense and offense of that the turks and salt that are beginning to defeat the u.a.e. supply technology on the other side in terms of the bigger picture and if i have to has been trying to seize the competent tripoli now for over a year but his forces as you say have suffered a number of recent defeats so what's likely to be his next move on the ground. i

will he's proven that no matter what the international pressures are he's always willing to play the long game it took him 3 years just to take over a few neighborhoods in benghazi and he called for a cease fire only after his recent feats after having refused before that and so if he has to call a cease fire p.s. a step back and regroup even for months or a year or more that he'd be willing to do that he's proven he's in it for the long game really takes advice from no one and just as he pleases and the long game is to take over the government and reassert a sort of authoritarian in t. revolution any democratic power backed by egypt and others it's not very clear that even when he goes to these political peace conferences that he's there to negotiate seriously it's more just to string along conversation so that ultimately in the long run he feels he can win the war a little he said because you know or even recruiting soldiers what in just a quick final thought from you the u.s.

has condemned russia for providing hopital with mercenaries and weapons and we're saying even syrian fighters being drawn in by both sides but where are we now with u.n. sponsored peace talks which have been stalled since february so we had an international conference in february which passed a $55.00 point communique which the russians and everyone else approved in berlin and then the russians have stayed at the u.n. but everyone else voted for it $14.00 to 01 and that's the peace plan for libya for the internationals now a lot of it is about enforcing the arms embargo and that's why there's a new e.u. i in that regard but that's only really targeted at turkey in the u.a.e. so i won't be affected but the libyan libyan negotiations have failed 5 times over the last 3 years and there's no prospects for any progress as long as one side or the other is winning what immigrants thank you very much afraid to talk into us thank you. now the u.s.

is reportedly removing patriot anti missile systems and other military assets from saudi arabia as it winds down a military buildup that began as tensions with iran flared up last year that's according to the wall street journal among the facilities affected will be saudi oil installations the u.s. deployed more assets off an attack on saudi aramco plants last september dozens of u.s. military personnel will also be reassigned when asked about the report trump wouldn't be drawn on specifics well i don't want to talk about it but we're doing some things will make it a lot of moves in the middle east and elsewhere we're doing a lot of things all over the world militarily we've been taken advantage of all over the world our military and. in the sense that we're and this is nothing to do with saudi arabia this has to do with other countries frankly much more we have the most powerful military in the world or some of the romani is the middle east analyst he says that will draw has more to do with saudi arabia's oil price war with russia. i think the problem and this is largely related to the ongoing salary

or price or with russia recent rightly relates us shale gas over the past several weeks is now a lot of pressure from republicans and. prozac on competition or actually in saudi arabia. i think the secondary factors could be the u.s. needs you know we don't mind worries darcy's towards egypt's immigration as tensions escalate with china and also the belief that the rabbit was something of a back foot and has receded you're israeli airstrikes it's a military force in iraq in fracture and also that he'll be combining back at home at night you know saying. all right for us the primary factor and eventually china and the weakness of iraq a secondary or tertiary type you're just like in this new decision. time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back that's been developments in the case of the death of an unarmed black man in the u.s. which has prompted a national outcry and preparing for

a new normal european countries get ready to reopen their borders as they are the summer tourism season more or not stay with us. had there we have some more severe storms about to brew across southern regions of the united states at the same time this plume of cloud you can see is offering in some very cold air across the northern and central plains that will sing south was on friday it will also then of course meet this warm moist air across the south and this is where we're going to say these severe storms actually beginning to develop really throughout much of the day but work their way into the south the southeast and pushing up towards the northeast as well now the temperatures it will really dipping the northeast as we head into saturday look at that just 8 celsius in washington d.c. some very strong winds coming from the great lakes and. these temperatures really

the average for washington him a should be about 23 degrees celsius meanwhile there's more rain and snow across the northern plains and that will grandcolas think its way southwards not quite as hot there across the far south west 29 in los angeles 22 in san francisco the very woman seattle with a high of a 26 and then into central america and the caribbean was in a fair few showers here lately but the rain is going to become really quite widespread and heavy on friday across much of guatemala much of the yucatan peninsula southern mexico as well seeing some heavy downpours at times in through saturday is going to be this eastern coast of mexico where we could have some very heavy rain and it could lead to some localized flooding. as italy went into lockdown people empower us to filmmakers to document the effects on ordinary people from the immense suffering and loss the forgotten abandoned or exploited to sing a longs every day heroes and hardly any acts of kindness the stories they capture

reveal how the virus is forcing society to take a look in the mirror and exposing its inequalities coronavirus long down italy people in power on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on the al jazeera the u.s. is on track for its worst month of job losses more than $20000000.00 americans applied for unemployment benefits in april official figures out later on friday could push the jobless rate to the highest point since the 1930 s. . the u.s. is reportedly pulling out its patriot anti-missile systems and other assets from

saudi arabia the wall street journal says washington is winding down a military buildup began as tensions with iran last year and libyan warlord anything after a shelled central tripoli resulting explosions near the turkish and italian embassy is trying to seize the capital now for more than a year. let's return to those dire unemployment numbers out of the u.s. fresh university graduates looking for work are coming into the worst jobs market in a century many have large student debt and are leaving courses with little hope of a successful start to their careers. for the class of 2020 there will be no caps and gowns no proud march to accept diplomas no celebration after years of study and hard work it's a distressing time for grads like james werner who attended vassar college in new york but is now with his parents in los angeles in terms of like you know graduating school and going into the workforce it's such

a big change in general and kind of having the you know dark cloud of this pandemic over that adds even more stress and intensity to that process back home in gorham maine after american university in washington closed its doors may have terri says she feels like she's in limbo i've been trying to take everything one day at a time to preserve my mental health for both of them and for millions of. graduates in the u.s. and around the world job prospects are slim i've done some searching mean doesn't have a lot of economic opportunities other than the tourist industry so that's entirely shot at the moment are you going to hire the kid who's like fresh out of school or are you going to hire someone who's been on a desk or flight 5 years and i don't know i just it makes me feel it's it's top young adults leaving college today could face

a prolonged period of unemployment for many members of the class of 2020 economic fallout could linger for years decades or even longer research shows that even if and when the economy picks up again the graduates of today may struggle i mean will be sessions is that they are going to and i would say that it well to begin to go so you see. income losses etc the maybe. we've seen that goes into office as well were they really hard it. might have been. despite these negatives workforce experts advise new graduates to remain optimistic no one thing is going to. you. you know. that advice can be hard for anxious young people to follow i

want to go start my life i'm like really ready to do that and it's just like painful having to just sit for now the class of 2020 can only wait and hope for the best robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles a father and son in the u.s. state of georgia have been arrested and charged with the murder of an unarmed black family of. says he was out jogging when he was confronted by the 2 white men who thought he was a burglar. under gallagher has more now from miami. this is a story which essentially this 35 2nd mobile phone video changed everything so we have to back up a bit to get things into context our model or bree was killed on february the 26 almost 2 and a half months ago when the case went to 3 different prosecutors 2 of whom recused themselves because one of these 2 men gregory mcmichael was

a former police detective who worked into these offices and the 3rd prosecutor said this has to go to a grand jury then that mobile phone video that we've all seen at this point was released to the governor of georgia said this was horrific joe biden the former vice president said it reminded him of a lynching and then you've got all sorts of protests going on in the state of georgia now our model bree was a regular runner a sportsman a former football player who was simply jogging through that local neighborhood but the father and son thought or believed he was a burglar so they both on themselves one with a shotgun the other one with a pistol and decided to go in hot pursuit after this 25 year old unarmed man who was wearing running clothes and you can see in the video at that armando bree tries to get around them tries to avoid them and then the shots are fired and he falls to the street and dies from 3 gunshot wounds allegedly fired by travis mcmichael the

son of the former police detective and now across the political spectrum even up to president trump this is being viewed as a very contentious case a lot of the prosecutors in this part of georgia are being criticized but they have now been arrested both father and son and charged with murder. a woman has accused u.s. presidential candidate joe biden of sexually assaulting her says he should quit his race for the white house tara reid claims biden assaulted her in 1903 when she was a 29 year old aide in the then senator's office biden says the incident never happened reid says she's willing to take a lie detector test. the u.n. is asking governments companies and the world's richest people to contribute to a multi-billion dollar fund to assist poor countries in their fight against covert 19 it's warning a failure to help could lead to famine riots and more conflict as our diplomatic editor james bates an appeal for the most vulnerable countries on earth taking part in a virtual event the un's top humanitarian officials have identified $63.00 countries

that need help both to fight the virus and to withstand the effects of the economic downturn here is what we're facing now is a double pandemic surely them an impact at biblical proportions there's no question mega famines are on our break literally right now. before koby hit the scene we already had 130000000 people as i say marching on the brink of starvation the u.n. emergency relief coordinator who also spoke at the event told me why the rich countries of the world need to act to tell us the benefits of acting early it's always cheaper and better to act early and take me with this kind of problem we're going to see if there is growing instability and growing migrates repressions and more space created for terrorist and other extremist groups is was apparently

a one year problem potentially being turned into a 10 year problem and that's not in anybody's interests the problem we're dealing with has the potential to settle back all around the world know what we say everybody say so even in the midst of dating with this huge domestic challenge and all the rich countries the smartest strategy is to spend one percent of your effort and he about why the world is well the problem for this appeal is even the richest countries on earth are currently facing major economic problems the 1st version of this appeal was some 2000000000 dollars and the u.n. only managed to raise hol fact some now they're asking for $6700000000.00 james but out zira at the united nations an indigenous tribe that lives in ecuador is amazon region is moving deeper into the rainforest members say it's a last resort to escape certain death from coronavirus to try to regenerate in the ecuador's border with peru

a lot of america at its on the sea and human reports. members of this chicken pie nation in the shoeshine feen the region of the ecuadorian amazon prepared to leave their village they decided to move down beyond legal river and deep into the rain forest to escape a disease they believe will wipe them out in the sort of demographic i mean we demographically are $700.00 inhabitants. risk of total extermination as a 2nd part nation and previous centuries our nationality has been the victim of these types of diseases today we don't want the same thing to happen. this new disease corona virus has already infected members of the tribe. down the river they begin clearing their new home. my nation along the border between ecuador and peru has 15 confirmed cases of the virus to older leaders have already died in the last 2 weeks after showing symptoms of cold with 19 other indigenous groups in the

amazon have also become ill according to the indigenous organization can face. with at least $30000.00 ecuadorans already infected the government is struggling to contain the spread of coronavirus but indigenous leaders suggest the health ministry is leaving them from last putting them at risk of ethnocide through inaction and leaving them with no choice but to flee get a move we want to tell our communities that it is better to isolate ourselves but also to use our ancestral knowledge it seems the families who have already had this disease are using traditional medicine and we know what type of medicine should be used for the sake of the few 100 members of this nation who are left it's hoped that he's right you see in human al-jazeera the mayor of russia's capital fears the number of cases in that city alone could be as high as 300000 that's 3 times the

official figure the lock down in moscow has been extended until the end of the month it's 11000000 residents can only leave their homes for essential services and must apply to use public transport but construction sites and satirists are reopened. now there are signs the european union is repairing to reopen its borders several countries have been easing restrictions to various degrees it's a tricky strategy as a busy summer tourism season approaches lansley reports. symbolism matters at times like these in the size of one of madrid smokes like conic restaurants beloved by locals and tourists alike getting ready to open its doors once again is bound to be a psychological boost for a city so badly damaged by the virus. tomorrow city hall gives us permission witnessed on the one me text tension to grantee the 2 metre distance between tables on monday we will be open although we don't know the shuttle b. would have yet but unless the deal is definitely we would open from noon until 10

pm and while the european countries worst affected like italy are only tentatively dreaming of what the summer might hold if the new normal can be organized other european nations are now going further announcing similar taney asli that their cherished open borders close nervous several weeks are being restored. in vilnius the capital of a few ania the prime minister said the 3 baltic states were reopening to each other and indicated that neighboring poland might follow. this would be quite a serious signal both to europe and to the world that in our region we properly handled the situation we applied similar methods we have similar epidemiological situations so we can do a regional opening. well in the austrian capital vienna so popular in both summer and winter with german tourists the chancellor said his country would reopen both

to germany and to the czech republic it's in turn said it was reopening to croatia in contact we are in contact with these countries and we want the borders reopened because when it's possible to drive from salzburg to terrill and from terrell to salzburg without an increased infection risk and the same is true for salzburg to be very very to salzburg or vice versa it doesn't make any sense to uphold borders which hinder people but don't offer more protection for countries like the u.k. are still battling the trip to the beach spain has their reopening as part of a staged return to normality undoubtedly with an eye on the summer as a way of desperately trying to recoup lost income while so many major airlines are laying off thousands of stuff the low cost $1.00 dairy and carrier whizzer announced it was resuming flights from the u.k. to tourist destinations including lisbon and 10 arrays and even increasing them at one airport abandoned by the careys. perhaps europeans might have

a summer holiday after all lawrence lee al-jazeera. on the last super moon of the year has lit up landmarks in britain's capital the tower bridge and london i were illuminated by a bigger and brighter than usual full moon event happens when the moon's orbit is closest to earth making it appear larger. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the u.s. is on track for its worst month of job losses more than $20000000.00 americans applied for unemployment benefits in april official figures out later on friday could push the jobless rate to the highest point since the 1930 s. our white house correspondent can really help get us more. one in 5 americans filing for unemployment insurance since march what we have now 33000000 and climbing really this is

a nation that is bracing for an historic unemployment rate because essentially all of the jobs that. really added to the u.s. economy in the last decade have now been wiped out socially a 20 percent unemployment rate and you have to remember that's astonishing given the fact that it was just weeks ago 3.5 percent previously which was a 50 year low the u.s. justice department is also judged to drop charges against donald trump's former national security advisor michael flynn that follows mounting pressure from the president and his political allies the case against flynn was one of the most high profile to come out of special counsel robert mullah's russia investigation. they've been awarded me for have to shelled central tripoli resulting in explosions near the turkish and italian embassy is after all has been trying to seize the capital for more than a year edition a warning to turkey on thursday about its support for the un recognized government which is fighting to defeat. the us is reportedly pulling out its patriot

anti-missile systems and other military assets from saudi arabia the wall street journal says washington is winding down the military build up that began as tensions with iran flared up last year. a father and son in the u.s. state of georgia have been arrested in charge of the murder of an unarmed black man the family of a say he was out jogging when he was confronted by the 2 white men who thought he was a burglar. and a woman who's accused the u.s. presidential candidate joe biden of sexually assaulting says he should quit his race for the white house biden denies assaulting tara reid in 1903 and she was a 29 year old aide in the then senator's office reid says she's willing to take a life detector test those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after people in power coronavirus locked down it's an extension time to watch it but for. me steve clemons on the bottom line for your weekly take on u.s. politics and society i'm changing but the institutions frequently don't the system

itself is set up to benefit those who understand that you have people who actually believe things that are not true that is a crisis for democracy is a crisis of concentration the bottom line is iran. when the pandemic began spreading across the world in 2020 italy quickly became europe's worst affected nation and soon after went into law. as it hospitals began to fold its population retreated into isolation and its economy ground to a.