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 are you going to hire someone who's been on a desk or for 5 years. hello i'm daryn jordan this is our jazeera 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 form advisor michael flynn who admitted lying to the f.b.i. about his russia contacts. shelling by anything half task forces close to diplomatic

areas in libya's capital after the warlord warned turkey about its role in the conflict. and the high price on the president did this attract bounty hunters in a failed coup attempt against venezuela's nicolas maduro. welcome to the program unemployment numbers keep soaring in the u.s. is 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 with the latest monthly job figures from the u.s. labor department are out on friday these will include people working for the government as well and 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 it's in stark contrast to where the u.s. was at just 2 months ago 3.5 percent jobless that was a 50 year low white house correspondent kimberly help it has 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 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. voice good as a resident scholar of the american enterprise institute he says the official response to those numbers has been reassuring. i've actually been somewhat relieved to have 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 that maybe even 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 we've stabilized a little bit where we stop just today that over 3000000 people thoughts on the

political benefits in the past week hopefully some of that is simply a bad law 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 with ingrate. the u.s. justice department is dropping its case against president trump's 1st national security adviser former general michael flynn was fired in the early days of the trumpet ministration offered missing lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with russia's ambassador to washington an official reports now from washington. during the trump presidential campaign general michael flynn often led the chance of look around far into the republicans opponent hillary clinton. won her face the 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 days as national security adviser is the shortest ever remain 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. flynn and initially what with the miller inquiry 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 at . palling 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 that given the judge's. statements in this case all along judge emmet sullivan i think judge sullivan may have something to say about this 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 you have the turkish and italian embassies and a hotel after 1000 trying to seize the capital now for more than a year he issued a warning to turkey on thursday about its support for the u.n. recognize government which is fighting to defeat well william laurance served as a u.s. diplomat in libya he says hostile won't stop until he's in control of the government . 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 peace after having refused before then and so if he has to call a cease fire for us to 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 into the revolutionary anti 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 a strain a long conversation so that ultimately in the long run he feels he can win the war although he's having trouble even recruiting soldiers. families in venezuela searching for relatives they say are political prisoners after a failed attempt to overthrow president nicolas maduro follows accusations of opposition members negotiated a multi $1000000.00 deal with a us security company to invade venezuela in stories about. amber you know rather well and her sister margaret are desperate to find their brother and only 4 he was arrested for allegedly participating in the plot to oust president. they came here

to the and infamous detention center in that back us where political prisoners are said to be detained almost and their awareness where we found out about the detention of my brother like everybody else we spoke with him one week ago we don't know where he is and we've gone to several places prosecutor's office my family have been politically persecuted by the government and this is just one more proof of it. is the son of a bellwether oil a former minister of defense of chavis who is also in prison accused of inciting rebellion against the current administration. on may 3rd the venezuelan government announced it had detained a group of mercenaries who were trying to reach venezuela on speedboats 8 people were killed it was part of what is known as operation gideon organized by jordan to draw director of a security firm in the united states the venezuelan government insists that trump and ministration knew about the plan. please explain to me how some planes would

leave from the united states led in venezuela airports which these terrorists were going to clear take members of the venezuelan revolution and take them to the united states how would that happen without any knowledge from trump's administration. precedent says the u.s. security firm sign a contract with the opposition leader why the why though denies involvement in the plot but one of his political advisers does admit signing a contract with to draw to remove my were from power and even paid him $50000.00 as retainer the advice or says that plan was canceled last year. why jordan would draw 60 man private army went to venezuela regardless is now the subject of intense speculation one theory is that security firms such as good ross i retracted by the bounty offered by the u.s. government 50 $1000000.00 for mother were alone and more than $40000000.00 if high

ranking officials are taken with him. must be many companies interested in ousting material because now that you put the private option on the table the bounties big now they say why they did not sign a contract his advisors signed it they say it was an exploration but it's a bit strange signing a $42.00 page contract on how they're going to pay a private company $242000000.00 for us in the doura draw is now in hiding by the incident is a blow to the already weakened venezuelan opposition and gives the government even more power. to go after those who dare to defend the several. the u.s. is reportedly removing patriot anti-missile systems and other military assets from saudi arabia as it winds down a military build up that began as tensions with iran flared last year that's according to the wall street journal among the facilities affected with the saudi oil installations the u.s. deployed more assets off an attack on saudi aramco plants last december dozens of

u.s. military personnel will be reassigned when asked about the report president trump will be drawn on specifics. but i want to talk about it but we're doing some things were making 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 summer omanis a middle east analyst he says the withdrawal has more to do with saudi arabia's oil price war with russia i think the problem and is largely really. an ongoing saudi oil price or russia which indirectly relates us shale gas over the past several weeks is now a lot of pressure again for our public and think it's to eventually produce that on companies stronger actually in saudi arabia. i think the secondary factors could be

the u.s. needs you know we don't apply more divorces towards egypt's immigration as the tensions as late with china and also the belief that he ran on something you know back and in syria is receiving your israeli airstrikes it's a military force in iraq in fracture and also deals with the combined impact of overnight you know thank you but i have every right for the primary factor and like that and the weakness of iran i thank you very much as i like in this new decision . time for a short break here on al-jazeera when we come back then developments in the case of the death of an unarmed black man in the u.s. which prompted a national outcry. next door an indigenous tribe trying to ensure its survival in the coronavirus pandemic or not stay with us.

hello there most of his guys throughout much of the middle east because the temperatures higher further to the south across the arabian peninsula are we seeing some good case guys that lee through the eastern and of the mediterranean that does of course include lebanon so people out and about on these rocks is enjoying a very nice warm sunny day some top clouds overhead but it should stay fine and dry throughout friday there is actually a system working its way through turkey now that could just bring some cloud across into lebanon maybe across into beirut but not really expectancy much in the way of rain further to the south we have got arrows of cloud which could actually produce one or 2 shots even a scott a thunderstorm but it's a fairly calm picture as we go through friday and saturday the challenges of course beginning to rise anyway this time of year and certainly on saturday the winds particularly strong through all central and northern areas assaad in across into iraq so that could also bring some sand and then down into southern africa the usual seasonal rains across the central areas they've been very heavy late you across these coastal areas of towns in and across into kenya pushing up into

somalia and really that is the case as we go through friday very heavy as well around the gulf of guinea bit further to the south who got the clearest skies we have got some rain showers for the next few days across the eastern areas amount of asked but it's fine in trying to south africa on a warm day in cape town at $25.00. as the world fights the corona pandemic we're learning more about this every day the new passenger and join our global community it's up to us on how we come together to fight i'm sorry your questions can i just ask you think this is me directly that's coming on on you tube as you were saying i'm concerned about the funny like oh nothing very quiet is not keeping you up to date i'm using countries beaten back and beaten back successfully the stream on 00.

welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. is on track for its worst month of job losses more than 20000000 americans apply for unemployment benefits and april official figures out later on friday could push the jobless rate to its highest since the 1930 s. . the u.s. justice department is also judged to drop criminal charges against donald trump's former national security adviser the case against michael flynn was one of the highest profile to come out of special counsel robert muller's russia investigation . maybe an award he to have to shell central tripoli resulting in explosions near the turkish and italian embassies after he's been trying to seize the capital now for more than a year. but more now on those dire unemployment numbers in the u.s.

fresh university graduates looking for work are heading into the worst jobs market in a century many have large student debt and on leaving courses with little hope of a successful start to their careers from reports. 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. at you it's 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 are you going to hire someone who's been on a desk for flight 5 years. and i don't know i just it makes me feel old it's it's tough young adults leaving college today could face a prolonged period of unemployment for many members of the class of 2020 the 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 that are the baby. we've seen that goes in kind of us a says well they really are it. might not be. despite these negatives workforce experts advise new graduates to remain optimistic no one thing is going to. 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 man the family of i'm not aubrey says he was not joking when he was confronted by the 2 white men who thought he was a burglar and they got a guy 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 armand 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 armada obree 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 who's accused u.s. presidential candidate joe biden of sexually assaulting her says he should quit his

race for the white house biden denies assaulting tara reid in 1903 when she was a 29 year old a in the then senator's office means that she's willing to take a lie detector test. i'm not a criminal joe biden should take a polygraph what kind of precedence is that sat for survivors violence does that mean we're presumed guilty and we all have state power grabs so i will take one after bind takes one but i'm not a criminal more toxic gas has been detected coming from a plastics factory in india where a leak on thursday killed at least 11 people officials have been evacuating people from the area around the plant in the southern port city of. hundreds of people are being treated in hospital factories operated by a south korean company australia says it will begin easing social distancing restrictions brought about by a coronavirus in a 3 step process prime minister scott morrison aims to remove all curbs by july

step one includes opening schools restaurants and shopping malls after that australia will relax restrictions on social gatherings it's been in lockdown since march and has nearly $7000.00 cases it is our aspiration is agreed amongst premiers and chief ministers myself that in july we will have moved through these 3 steps across the country the price now i would totally be up to the states and territories but i will be responsible for sitting there on time tribal and communicating that to this isn't and residents in their own states interior choose the mayor of russia's capital is the number of covert 900 cases in that city alone could be as high as 300000 that's 3 times the official figure a lockdown in moscow has been extended until the end of the month it's 11000000 residents can only leave their homes for essential services must apply to use public transport but construction sites and factories of reopening. black people

are 4 times more likely to die of coronavirus than white people in the u.k. the national statistics agency says people of bangladeshi pakistani and indian origin are also at a significantly higher risk builds on evidence of significant racial disparities in how the virus is affecting minority communities john holl reports in north west london. food donations being prepared for the community and a pentecostal church in the london borough of brant the reverend desmond hall shows us around. some of the story. brant is one of the areas of london worst affected by cope with 19 new research suggests that see in part because of its high percentage of black asian and minority ethnic all. residents occupants are struggling. are committed as you may be aware this side of brant is within that double digit deprivation so

in this is a separation we are double digit deprivation figures from the office of national statistics indicate that people from be a.m.e. groups of 4 times more likely to die from covert 19 than their white ethnic counterparts the oas points to social inequality as a major factor and health officials agree that any communities are more likely to live in deprived situations they're more likely to live another half of a crowded commuter and many of them are in front line work which is exposing them to the virus so it does show that they spar us rather than being. this excess space in the existing health inequalities that sadly are all too prevalent in our society the latest numbers are in line with similar trends among ethnic minority groups elsewhere in the world at the reverend hall's church we meet jennifer green who does what she can to help those struggling in her community despite having

underlying health conditions herself these people that b. c i'm not well. they're sick so some of it's hard for some of them as you mention the poor community some of them can't read so it's hard for them to pick up the phone or they have a right they don't know who to turn to so people are dying as we say in the biblical biblical terms people advance knowledge knowledge is power i want to conclude it doesn't have knowledge of the community its power is taken away in the end this looks like an issue of poverty and of race of minority ethnic groups less well connected to public services more likely to be doing low paid jobs that they can't afford to give up and very often directly exposed to the virus as nurses as bus drivers often on the front line of the fight against coronavirus. it's yet another way in which this virus is tearing into societies and communities jonah how

al-jazeera london. brazil has reported another $10000.00 new infections and $615.00 deaths both numbers are new delhi record that's prompted the health minister to flunk the possibility of strict lock downs and hard hit areas overall brazil has registered more than 8 and a half 1000 deaths and 125000 cases president john bolton error has repeatedly downplayed the dangers of the virus. people in argentina have been protesting against lockdown measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus. they say government restrictions are excessive a lockdown has been in place for 7 weeks argentina has more than 5000 cases and 282 deaths an indigenous tribes that lives in ecuador's amazon region is moving deeper into the rainforest members say it's a last resort to escape certain death from coronavirus the tribe originated in ecuador's border with peru

a latin america editor the same human reports. members of this nation in the shoeshine 3 in the region of the ecuadorian amazon prepare to leave their village they decided to move down the river and deep into the rain forest to escape a disease they believe will wipe them out. i mean we demographically are 700 inhabitants are risk of total extermination as a 2nd part nation in previous centuries our nationality has been a 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 the nation along the border between ecuador and peru has 15 confirmed cases of the virus 2 elderly leaders have already died in the last 2 weeks after showing symptoms of coded 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 last superman of the year has lit up cities around the world in istanbul the moon ruminated the turkish

city's famous blue mosque appearing larger and brighter than usual the phenomenon occurs when the moon is closest to earth there were 2 previous super moons in march and april. ok 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 as it feels the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic more than $20000000.00 americans applied for unemployment benefits in april official figures out later on friday could push the jobless rate to its highest since the 1930 s. white house correspondent can really help get a small one in 5 americans filing for unemployment insurance since march what we have now $33000000.00 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 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 the u.s. justice department is also judged to drop criminal charges against donald trump's former national security adviser michael flynn the case was one of the most high profile is to come out of special counsel robert muller's russia investigation. libyan war not only for have to have shelled central tripoli it resulted in explosions near the turkish on the telly and embassies after has been trying to seize the capital for more than a year it issued 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

a military buildup that began as tensions with iran flared up last year. a father and son in the u.s. state of georgia have been arrested and charged with the murder of an unarmed black man the family of ahmad abra says he was out jogging when he was confronted by the 2 white men who thought he was a burglar. and i 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 when she was a 29 year old aide and then senator's office when says she is willing to take a lie detector test those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream station themselves or other. talk to al-jazeera we ask what will force were when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen to after the war saying you'll europeans go build united states we will but we will not be with you

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