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so much. easier to. play an important role in you would get. ringback out of work at a rate not seen since the great depression april figures show u.s. unemployment at a record high. salt 0 live from london i'm very novel gave also ahead stranded by coronavirus travel restrictions but now heading home in india big guns there repatriation of thousands of nationals suspicions around the deaths of 3 entities in fishermen on chinese vessels to cars her pushes beijing for answers. the white father and son are
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arrested over the killing of a model or burry who was shot to death while out running in georgia. hello we begin in the u.s. where new figures released on friday show unemployment has surge and april the largest rise in close to 90 years tens of millions of jobs have been wiped out across the country coronavirus lockdowns cripple the economy unemployment skyrocketed to 14.7 percent it was 4.4 percent in march and april 28th a half 1000000 jobs were lost the worst result since the great depression which began in 1929 it's far exceeds the through thousands in a global recession when a point 7000000 jobs were wiped out how to feel her pain caused more.
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it's a remarkable statistic 20500000 americans are out of work numbers not seen since the great depression almost 15 percent of the country's workers looking for help from the government but because of the way it's counted the number is likely closer to 20 percent of the country's workforce out of their jobs these are not just numbers they are people who are suffering well not out in the. financial and also makes things. or it and. so forth. you know making its aren't out and the number is likely higher because of old filing systems many people have yet to be able to file for unemployment data samone has been trying for 2 months ariane of patients i'm still one of the millions i do understand. but it's ridiculous some politicians are anxious to reopen the economy like iowa's governor trying to force people back to work if you
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are an employer and you offer to bring your employee back to work and they decide not to that saval and terry. what's more i'm looking for part of a quit ok a voluntary so we don't have it happen very often it's a voluntary quit and so therefore they would not be eligible for the unemployment the employment money and the us president is promising a quick rebound as well we're going to rebuild it we're going to rebuild it back. as fast as we can i think we're going to have an incredible transition. but transition leads to 4th quarter 3rd quarter i call it transition will start to see that it's already happening but economists are doubtful saying it could take years to get the economy back to where it was and it will be much longer for the unemployed workers you know from previous research like research in the great depression a great recession that workers who lose their jobs during a downturn take a long time to get back to. so the great recession has
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a lot of young work young workers took about 10 years to get back to the level of all of this could have a big impact and one job in particular his you can never stay this way no amber i think you will lose no president has ever been reelected with with numbers like this i mean they weren't nearly this bad when the 1st president bush was defeated for reelection in 1902 or when jimmy carter was abuse religion in 1980 a fight for his political survival for many of the 20 plus 1000000 americans out of work a daily struggle to stay financially afloat pedicle hain al-jazeera thousands of indian nationals are being repatriated from the middle east and southeast asia special flights have been chartered to bring back ex-pats from singapore cats are the u.a.e. and saudi arabia the goal is to return at least 400000 citizens indian naval ships have also been deployed to bring people back from the malvinas hundreds of
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thousands of indians have asked to be brought home after being stranded by coronavirus travel restrictions let's put purana has more from new delhi. the 1st of 2 flights touched down between the united arab emirates and the southern state of care that on thursday night and more have followed today landing in the capital new delhi in india administered to me this is what's being called face to face operation that will take all of may and maybe 15000 people will be brought home from 12 countries all 64 flights but hundreds of thousands of indians have registered to come back to put that into context the united states is repatriated something like $80000.00 and european nations together something like $65000.00 and it's not just planes naval warships are involved to have arrived in to bring something like a 1000 stranded indians back everyone a screened before and after getting on these flights and trains some people have landed showing symptoms of coronavirus have been taken to special closed hospitals
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most other people have to go into quarantine facilities for 14 days in their home districts that people who are pregnant women children under 10 i want to be allowed to go home but they have to self isolate there are some concerns though the government in the southern state of carolina with so many indians abroad from has actually asked people not to come back on this they absolutely have to because they're saying that they don't have the health infrastructure and testing kits and it has to be said that carolyn probably has some of the best health infrastructure in the country but this saying that they just don't have the health infrastructure in place for the hundreds of thousands just from kara who registered to come back and there's also criticism from some others who said that they have lost their jobs that they simply don't have the money to pay for these flights to come back. staring him in just 16 workers have been killed while walking home after losing their jobs during the pandemic they were crushed by a freight train in maharashtra when they stopped to rest on the tracks and fell
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asleep for laborers were going to their homes hundreds of kilometers away most public transport is shuts. to russia where the corona virus infections have continued to surge the 1st case of local transmission was confirmed in moscow on march the 2nd but it would be nearly a month before the government began its lockdown a large number of infections were traced to russians returning from china that prompted the suspension of inbound flights since then cases have skyrocketed to more than 180000 russia has the 5th highest number of infections in the world for the 6 day new cases have gone up by more than 10 thousands. more. yes but i am russian police and fire fighters patrolled the streets with instructions observe the corone teen take care of yourself and stay home as countries around the world start to open up much of russia is closing down case
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numbers have escalated to put it in the top 5 of the world with more than 177000 cases but most goes mia fears and maybe even worse there is the body or for according to straining studies the entire number of infections in moscow ranges from 252300000 that's 3 times the official figure they're pretty modest budget at the table and now we have to toughen the requirements for travelling through the city and for the symmetry protection of people starting may 12th they will be strict measures for using public transport and masks and gloves will be compulsory and public places. moskos 11000000 residents move be allowed to leave home for essential services only with restrictions extended until the end of may the only exceptions affect trees and construction sites of which many will become medical facilities prefabricated clinics are being built next to 13 most hospitals
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and other getting urgent extensions moskos all russian exhibitions seem to is also being transformed into a field hospital before but when there is that here we will have patients of moderate severe itching we will not host seriously ill patients they will go to actual hospitals with more sophisticated and tate's of care a quick matter. russia had avoided the exponential growth seen in other countries in the last week of march it had 1000 total cases is italy in the u.s. so past 100000 president bush and sent troops to help initially now they're needed at home in europe i think russia should be proud because when europe and. the whole world was struck by the coed 1000 pandemic you came to lend us a helping hand and not surprisingly russia has had similar problems and this is admirable it's all hands to the front line is russia's battle against corona virus as well and truly arrived shallop ballasts. the united states has blocked
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efforts by the un security council to agree a resolution on the pandemic because haitians have been going on for weeks after the u.n. secretary general called for a global sis fire to aid the fight against the virus our diplomatic editor james bays looks at the fraught talks that have felt the brits divides between the u.s. and china. here stonier the current president of the security council invited other members to an unofficial meeting to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the war in europe speak 945 also marked the birth of the united nations and the multilateral system but it's a system that many believe has failed to respond in a unified manner to cope with 19 it's now 6 weeks since the u.n. secretary general made this call the fury of the vials illustrates the folly of war
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that is why today i am calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the worlds. it is time to put out into conflict on lockdown and focus together on the to fight of our lives in the weeks since then an unseemly battle behind the scenes with the security council unable to agree on the words of a resolution to back the secretary general's call after president trump said he would cut future funding to the world health organization u.s. negotiators blocked any reference to the w.h.o. in the resolution while china threatened to veto any resolution that didn't mention it this latest version of the u.n. draft resolution includes compromise language instead of the references to world health organization it talks about the united nations and its specialized health agencies in reality there's only one of those and it is the w.h.o. negotiators thought they have the agreement of both china and the u.s.
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to this text but when senior trumpet ministration officials in washington surratt they objected taking us back to stage one deadlock james plays out 0 of the united nations. to a white man and a former police detective and his son have been charged with the murder of an unarmed black man in the us state of georgia a mad are bery was shot and killed in february but no one was arrested until a video of the incident was leaked online this week and gallagher reports. this is the moment that former police detective gregory met michael and his son travis were arrested in connection with the murder of a mode of the unarmed 25 year old was shot and killed almost 3 months ago while out jogging in the coastal city of brunswick the mcmichaels on themselves and pursued mr aubrey believing him to be
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a burglar local prosecutors took no action until this video went viral sparking outrage across the country within hours of the georgia bureau of investigation taking over the mcmichaels who are claiming self-defense which charged with murder and aggravated assault regardless of the amount of social media regardless of the amount of the mainstream media attention regardless of the emotion regardless of approach of a supposed none of that matters to the g.p. it doesn't matter who the person the years it doesn't matter who the victim ias it doesn't matter who potential defendants are all it matters is what the facts tell us really our tide of black blur. the shooting of mr abra and months of apparent inaction by local prosecutors has led to protests across georgia on friday ahmad would have turned $26.00 community leaders say they won't stop until justice is done so we knew the truth and we were not going to be silenced the. questions
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were asked because the action were made and you all of you stepped up to make a difference. we can't start now across the political spectrum concerns over a more killing and the hundley of the case a growing the deaths of michael brown and trayvon martin led to the black lives matter movement both were unarmed when they were shot and killed when trayvon martin was killed by a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain here in florida 8 years ago the case gained global attention the unarmed teenager was pursued by george zimmerman his lawyers use this state's stand your ground. law as a defense and he was found innocent race played a major role in that case and many see parallels with this latest death of an unarmed black man investigators say more arrests may follow and looking into who shot the video and what role they may have played activists say this is another example of racism there are 2 justice systems in america one for black america and
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one white america and 2 we come together as the united states of america we see this is going to continue to happen and the tragedy is it is our children who are being feel i'm owed aubrey's family have welcomed the arrests but neither man can be charged with a hate crime georgia is one of 4 states that doesn't have a hate crimes prevention lol and a gallica al-jazeera. still to come on al-jazeera. the somber salute to world leaders marked the 75th anniversary of the end of world war 2 in europe in the shadow of the coronavirus. i'm largely in your seaside town of which the ball which is looking all nervously at the potential easing of the lockdown and the arrival once again the tourists.
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we've got some blustery conditions now into the southeast of australia we have this little band of cloud and rain skirting through the bite next now making its way into victoria so we'll see it freshening up here as you go through the next couple of days ferrie strong winds gal force winds pushing across a good part of victoria some wetter weather making its way towards sydney ahead of the cloud and rain 27 celsius there in sydney on saturday before impact around 19 degrees as we go on into sunday brightest guys do come back in behind all the time it stays largely dry and bright high pressure in charge across that western side of australia perth will see plenty of sunshine plenty of sunshine for the time bay but it will cloud over into new zealand as we go into the latter part of the weekend with rain gradually making its way through we've got rain making its way into the korean peninsula at the moments along area clouds and disturbed weather pushing rod
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across south korea base of north korea saying some of that weather whether it will gradually make its way towards japan ahead of that pleasant sunshine in tokyo and around $23.00 degrees here comes out wet weather as we go on into sunday that area of wet weather makes its way into central southwestern parts of china to the north of that it's fine dry and warming up. on account of the cost the world's poorest nations get a debt repayment holiday to fight the threat of arms pandemic but not from private investors asia's gaba did the street sheds jobs and the surreal life in texas graphic for a share of indonesia's pranking. challenge of a cost on al-jazeera. be the hero of the world needs. washing.
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down the top stories on al-jazeera for evidence of the devastating impact of the coronavirus on the world's largest economy more than $20000000.00 people in the us lost their jobs last month the unemployment rate there has tripled since march thousands of internationals are be repatriated from the middle east and southeast asia special flights have been chartered to bring back ex-pats from singapore qatar the u.a.e. and saudi arabia. 2 men in the united states have been charged with the murder of an unarmed black man in
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a modern arbor it was shot dead in february but the former police detective and his son were not arrested until video of the shooting was released this week. indonesia's government is calling on beijing to answer accusations that fishermen were worked to death on board chinese vessels that these 3 entities in men allegedly died on ships between december and march some of their coworkers say they were physically abused and forced to work for days without rest just a washington reports from jakarta. underneath this sheet is the body of an intern asian fisherman it's time for a quick prayer and then an unceremonious farewell. he's one of 3 indonesian crewmembers who died on the launching 69 and its sister vessels members of the crew say the men all have the same symptoms swelling chest pain and breathing difficulties they also say the bouts captains refused to go to port to
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get their medical care after more than a year working in the seas near the pacific nation of samarra the vessel arrived in south korea where the men had to go into quarantine as part of coronavirus measures . the. leaders one of them died shortly after they arrived. the men were working for a chinese business the dalai and ocean fishing company they captured footage of their work which appears to show endangered species of fish being caught and shark finning. a south korean legal team looking into the case believes the captain
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refused to stop the ship because of these illegal activities. you know. it's. this. the. the men say they were forced to work for more than 18 hours at a stretch and often for 2 full days with no rest they say they were under fed and often physically abused by the chinese senior crew the indonesian government says it's speaking with authorities in beijing to investigate those claims. of the fishermen who worked for the same chinese company on different vessels have returned home to indonesia with similar grievances. with people that it is like slavery but because of the contract and were forced to follow the orders of the captain and the company al-jazeera has contacted the dolly and fishing company but it has yet to respond jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta. 2 former u.s.
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servicemen have appeared in a venezuelan court charged with attempting to overthrow the government there among 31 people accused the trying to kill the president in an operation on sunday or line america at its or the sea a newman haas more. prosecutors are saying quite a bit he started off by assuring the world or attempting to international public opinion no that unlike the way that the united states had treated arab prisoners in abu ghraib during the iran iraq we wore that israel out treated its prisoners well he said that the 2 u.s. captives had not been tortured or mistreated in any way now remember that there have been ample charges against the venezuelan government about the way that it treats its own political prisoners but he didn't get into that he did however say that all of them of these 30 people are being charged with treason with mercenary activities with the attempts to kill innocent people he said he did not specify
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whether this also included president nicholas who earlier had said that this whole incursion was aimed at killing him but later the testimonies by the 2 americans at least the ones that were published or put on television by the venezuelan authorities both of them said that the idea was to kidnap and taken to another country to get him out of power. in the meantime an international arrest warrant has been issued according to the prosecutor general for data and dawn and for the head of the american group that had organized this incursion this is jordan good drole they are both in the united states because they too are being sought the interesting thing is that the prosecutor general did not mention the name of the of the head of the opposition who allegedly had also signed a contract hiring these people to go into venezuela. to try to overthrow the
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government. there have been violent clashes in parts of kenya's capital nairobi as officials demolish homes and shops that had allegedly been built on government land hundreds of protesters in one of the city's impoverished neighborhoods set cars on fire and burned tires police responded with tear gas and live bullets rights activists have criticized the kenyan government for forcing a vixens back around a virus restrictions are in place. world leaders of marked the 75th anniversary of the day the end of world war 2 in europe but victory parades have been canceled and celebrations dampened as most european nations remain in lockdown because of a coronavirus pandemic i heard reports. flying low to mark the 75 years since the end of the 2nd world war in europe many fell silent to remember one of the world's worst conflicts and the british prime minister
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expressed his gratitude of us who were born since 945 are acutely conscious that we have everything we most value to the generation who won the 2nd world war today we celebrate their achievement we remember their sacrifice. then it been. on may the 8th 1945 britons who will time prime minister winston churchill addressed the nation nazi germany he told them had surrendered to the allied forces had crushed naziism in fascism after years of war time restrictions people kicked back celebrating but hours in crowding the streets. how different it looks now with all public gatherings and commemorations counseled because of the coronavirus pandemic. and britain cities towns and villages marking the day in homes and gardens for nearly 7 weeks people
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have lived in looked down on these parties our way of coming together safely staying apart a way of showing unison just like communities did 75 years ago. and queen elizabeth 2 was a 19 year old princess and the day has been a constant since then today it may seem hard that we cannot mark the special anniversary as we would wish instead we remember from our homes and our doorsteps but our strange should not empty they are filled with the love and the cat that we have for asia. across europe where tens of millions of people lost their lives in world war 2 there were more pared down commemorations because of coronavirus france's president emmanuel mccrone laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier well angela merkel led the remembrance of germany central war memorial in berlin. the result many people showed
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during world war 2 along with the sacrifices they made still inspire today and feel all the more pertinent in these times of crisis emma heywood al-jazeera lincolnshire. the u.k. government is preparing to lift some of its social and economic restrictions prime minister boris johnson will unveil a roadmap out of lockdown in a national address on sunday but this excess or failure of any changes will rest on one thing individual behavior warrants the is and was simple in southern england where some are worried about forests disobey the rules. for town which relies so heavily on tourists tells a story of totally changed priorities it's deserted many business is a suffering but they're adapting ross has changed his food and drink store to pick up and delivery only and is proud of how the community has responded what's been
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super positive is that. vast amounts of it have been coming on to the high street sensibly in sensible numbers but to support the small businesses sara has a business cleaning the houses of londoners who have 2nd homes here that has evaporated but she's managing with others as long as people keep their distance it will be a case of life i'm working down stay as they go into another room or maybe up stairs i swear i've been way of doing my customers off been able to go to you know we've all been in different rooms and then it's a case of musical room so to thing you know but the control of the crisis is under threats with the summer here and the government promising easing of the lockdown and they're right to be worried because this is what things look like here at the end of march hundreds of londoners having a day out at the seaside risking wits to bill's health the town was furious people were were outraged by it but we don't want is particularly london is because of the
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high degree of infection that see in london and therefore the perceived greater risk we don't want lots of londoners or will visit is coming down potentially bring in that additional hoyer risk to the area still some 6 weeks on perhaps the fact of the pubs remaining closed has made a difference because on this public holiday which civil remains quiet to the relief of the town for the moment celebrity knows what's actually going on yeah i think this is what we want we don't want busy beaches and we said need one busy street. if public behavior has genuinely changed over the last month or so undoubtedly the biggest reason is that people are more scared than they were and that is now a problem for the authorities as well having been bombarded relentlessly with stories about how deadly the virus is the public can now being asked to accept that going outside once again may not be totally risky and the economy needs it but if a place like which stable so reliant on tourism isn't convinced about that changing
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people's psychology maybe fall from easy largely al-jazeera in which to bill authorities in greece say the country will open to tourists on the 1st of july opt for resorts like sensory knee have been nearly empty since greece imposed a lockdown at the end of march last screens have been put up around sun loungers on beaches in anticipation of tourist return greece has reported fewer than $150.00 deaths. time for a check on the world headlines on al-jazeera more evidence of the devastating impact of the coronavirus on the world's largest economy more than $20000000.00 people in the us lost their jobs last month the unemployment rate there has tripled since march it's the worst result since the great depression after the release of
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those unemployment figures donald trump provided a stark prediction on how many people in the u.s. might die because of the coronavirus what i can say is if we did it the different way if we when heard if we just said let's wing it we would have been talking about numbers that would have been unsustainable and unacceptable you look on the screens you look on television today and you see. body bags and you see mass graves. we may be turkey to about 95000 people ultimately we may be jocular about something more than that. thousands of internationals are being repatriated from the middle east and southeast asia special flights have been chartered to bring back ex-pats from singapore cats are the u.a.e. and saudi arabia the goal is to return at least 400000 citizens stranded because the coronavirus indian naval ships have also been deployed to bring people back
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from the mall. the european commission is pushing for a ban on nonessential travel to europe to be extended on seoul june you countries started blocking foreigners from entering in mid march to stop the spread of the virus now the block is proposing an extension to the external border closures until june 15th 2 men in the united states have been charged with the murder of an unarmed black man i'm odds are barry was shot dead in february but the former police detective on his son were not arrested until a video of the shooting was released this week world leaders have martha 75th anniversary of ve day the end of the 2nd world war in europe restrictions because the coronavirus pandemic prevented planned street parties from going ahead those are the headlines counting the costs is coming up next but i. thanks will call did 19 and the drop in the oil price on the race to the white house. trumps of
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the story. until the job only have what it takes to beat. special coverage i'll just say. this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week as the g. 20 office or the debt payment holidays of the world's poorest nations to fight the coronavirus pandemic is it time for private investors to do the same. southeast asia garment workers and industry pay a heavy price due to the pandemic millions of jobs have been lost despite patchy government support.
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