from the world you can actually save every generation has its moment this one is ours ringback. these are heartbreaking numbers the coronavirus pandemic sends us unemployment soaring to its worst level since the great depression nearly a century ago. hello i'm come all santamaria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera there is an increasingly bitter dispute over the origins of the virus and its preventing the un security council from agreeing on a pandemic resolution india begins the mammoth task of bringing 100 thousands of

its citizens left stranded by travel restrictions and also reports of threats bloodshed and forced eviction beneath the shiny veneer of saudi arabia's planned megacity. well for weeks we have seen the lines of the food banks stretching for kilometers was in the job center is overwhelmed with people it's given us that physical picture of how badly the u.s. economy's been hit by covert 19 but now we have a concrete figure it's this 114.7 percent that is the unemployment rate for april in the u.s. which tripled from the month before put another way that 14.7 percent means more than 20000000 jobs have gone for some perspective this is worse than the global recession which followed the 2008 financial crisis and actually it creates a new post war record which was set back in 1902 that was when unemployment region . 11 percent but we can go back any further because it's no exaggeration to say

this is the worst crisis for the u.s. economy since the great depression in the 1930 s. when one in every 4 american workers had no job from washington d.c. patty calhoun a small 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 all sorts of trying to. you know making 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 aaron out of patience 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 are an employer and you offer to bring your employee back to work and they decide not to do 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 yes for previous research like research in the great depression a great recession that workers who lose their jobs during a downturn are a long time to get back to. senator sessions like. young workers took about 10 years to get back to the level of hurting all of this could have a big impact and one job in particular his if the numbers 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 pre-election in 1902 or when jimmy carter was if you have reelection 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 fell off the release of those figures donald trump offered his prediction on some other numbers

how many american lives would be lost through the pandemic at least 76000 people have already died and the number of confirmed infections is approaching 1300000 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 jocular about 95000 people out of italy we may be jocular about something more than that. when have a look at russia where infections continue to surge more than 10000 new cases of bird have been reported every day for most of the past week we go back in time to the 1st case of local transmission was confirmed in moscow back on march the 2nd

but it was nearly a month before the government began lockdowns a large number of infections were traced to russians coming back from china which prompted the suspension of inbound flights then only took another month for the number to skyrocket to $100000.00 which was more than china at the time which brings us to today russia now has the 5th highest number of infections in the world it's the thoughts now from maria lipman who is a senior associate of the institute for european russian and eurasian studies at george washington university she knows the real concern for russia is when the virus moves into the provinces which aren't as wealthy and health care isn't as well equipped. all countries of the world or nearly all were unprepared for this pandemic i would point out however that the number of deaths in russia or is relatively low compared to the number of those infected and the official authorities are telling russians that actually the right is

a number of infections is the effect of the growing number of testing. so it remains to be seen of course but in the other thing about russia that should be borne in mind is that over half of those infections in over half of deaths are in moscow which is russia's largest city but also the wealthiest place in russia and a place where health care quality is the highest where doctors are the best hospitals are more equipment is more state of the art and protective gear is not a shortage to the extent that it might be elsewhere so moscow mary sounds confidence in the grave cases is not growing anymore and passed but also are not yet overwhelmed whether or not was should necessarily believe everything this or it is a say is an open question but it should be remembered that

we may be in for a worse crisis when the epidemic moves to the provinces full force well the united states has blocked efforts by the un security council to agree to a resolution on the pandemic negotiations have been going on for weeks off to the us secretary general call for a global ceasefire to help fight the virus diplomatic editor james bays has more. here is 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 code 19 it's now 6 weeks since the u.n. secretary general made this call the fury of the vials illustrates the folly of

what that is why today i am calling for any needed global ceasefire in all corners of the world it is thank to put out a conflict on lockdown and focus the gather 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 or 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 is though 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 had the agreement of both china and the u.s.

to this text but when senior trumpet ministration officials in washington saw it they objected taking us back to stage one deadlock james plays out as era at the united nations. the e.u. wants a ban on non-essential travel to europe to be extended until the middle of next month e.u. countries are blocking foreigners from entering in mid march for the time being only health care workers and researchers from nonnie you nations can enter the total number of deaths in the u.k. has gone beyond 31000 now with more than 600 in the past prime minister boris johnson is planning to announce changes to the lockdown measures on sunday but his ministers say there won't be drastic ones we have to be realistic that there isn't going to be any dramatic overnight change we will be very very cautious as we loosen the restrictions we have as the data that we're outlining on a daily basis shows we are not out of the word there are still major challenges

with this virus we will be living with this virus for some time to come and it's therefore important to avoid that 2nd that could overwhelm our n.h.s. that we exit and evolve these restrictions very very carefully there is across europe and beyond have been marking the 75th anniversary anniversary i'm sorry of ve day coronavirus really put an end to the usual parades and celebrations but people were still able to take part from their homes and the hayward has more now from billing here in the u.k. . flying low above london to mark the 75 years since the end of the 2nd world war in europe. many to remember one of the world's worst conflicts all of us who were born since 945 are acutely conscious that we are everything we most value to the generation who won the 2nd world war.

today we celebrate their achievement we remember that sacrifice. where on maybe 8 in 1945 britain's wartime prime minister winston churchill addressed the nation nazi germany he told them had surrendered the allied forces had crushed naziism in fascism. after years of wartime restrictions people kicked back celebrating for hours and crowding the streets. how different it looks now with public gatherings and commemorations cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic. and birth in cities towns and villages marking v.-day inside gardens for nearly 7 weeks people have lived in looked down on these posts is our way of coming together safely staying apart a way of showing unison just like communities did 75 years ago.

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 that the remembrance of germany's central woman morial and berlin the european union was born out of the war with former enemies coming together politically and economically to secure a lasting peace what we have seen in the last 70 years is that the european project is remarkably flexible countries join countries leave the name of the organization changes the powers and the institutions that are relies on will develop and wax and wane so the european union is currently at a crossroads. the result of many people show during world war 2 along with the sacrifices they made still in spite of they can feel all the more pertinent in

these times of crisis emma heywood al-jazeera link and share. a lot that the headlines in a moment and then venezuela charges 2 u.s. citizens citizens with terrorism and conspiracy to overthrow the government. we got some very heavy rain making its way towards the korean peninsula now we've got this big massive cloud and area of low pressure which will roll across the yellow sea pushing across south korea some big downpours possibility of some flash flooding and it will eventually slide its way across a good part of japan says we go on through sunday that wet weather will tumble in across much of japan 24 celsius in tokyo sheltered by the mountains something that

is more the way of sunshine than showers but the wet weather certainly there nevertheless cloud and rain today down towards the south will eventually see some of those showers making their way across hong kong but still hot and humid 32 celsius here over the next couple of days hot and humid to across a good parts of southeast asia some lovely showers just brewing up to the east of the philippines and this system will gradually make its way towards the philippines as we go into the early part of next week usual rashness showers across the region some of them on the backside some lively downpours coming in across much of malaysia and we got some wet weather today pushing up across the marcha that's going to make its way up into the andaman sea some very heavy rain coming through here as is the case to into the southwest of india for much of india is hot and sunny with a heat wave to the northwest. they wanted 43000000000 pounds worth of weaponry that was 6000000000 pounds

income if. there is no anymore because there's always a small. really really good move. in essence we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function more shadow on al-jazeera. you without as they were these are the top stories this hour u.s. unemployment has surged to 14.7 percent in april the highest rate in almost 90 years more than $20000000.00 jobs were wiped out during the month of coronavirus

shut down the economy and the united states has blocked efforts by the u.n. security council to agree to a pandemic resolution diplomats are trying to back the call from the u.n. secretary general for among other things a global ceasefire. thousands of indian nationals are being repatriated from around the world special flights have been chartered to bring back ex-pats from singapore qatar the u.a.e. and saudi arabia the goal is to bring home at least 400000 citizens indeed naval ships have also been deployed to bring people back from the maltese many indians have been stranded abroad due to coronavirus travel restrictions more from elizabeth purana now in 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 phase one of a full phase 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 to bring something like a 1000 stranded indians back everyone to screened before and getting on these flights and train some people who have landed showing symptoms of coronavirus have been taken to special closed hospitals most of the people have to go into quarantine facilities for 14 days in their home districts but 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 this saying that they don't have the

health infrastructure and testing kits and it has to be said that carola 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. libya's un recognized government has launched air strikes on warlord khalifa haftar is positions after his forces fired shells into the capital tripoli the government says it struck half to controlled areas near an airbase southwest of tripoli an attempt to stop hafter from using the base for assaults on the city shells landed near the turkish and italian embassies on thursday and at least a dozen civilians have been killed in may mahmud has more from tripoli. we know that the government of national accord is very keen to recapture. a debate

because it has been a stronghold for how to use force and how according to the government for starters fighter jets and drawings taken off from there and targeting the government forces locations in southern tripoli and in many cases it is additional and civilian areas killing and wounding get innocent civilians the government of national accord according to this statement issued by the prime minister the face of a large stated that. has been used as a hub for a militia. groups we know that the forces locations are now close to the. base and the government forces have been besieging have to force inside a would. try to cut the supply line that connects. to the other pool have to look asians in the west in the mountain. but the death of a prominent tribal leader in saudi arabia has thrown the spotlight on tensions over

the kingdom's new mega city project. he was shot by security forces 3 weeks ago after he refused to give up his home to make way for this planned city it's called me on financial concerns are mounting about the city's future too and some of binge of it reports. this is when the officials reported 300 over the body of a piece to his tribe his family denies the official narrative that up to him was a terrorist who was killed after opening fire at security forces. and in videos uploaded on the internet he complained that he was being asked to leave his ancestral land a rare public defiance to a royal decree. that if. i am from out of here i but we're mohammed bin solomon wants to build. new neon projects so many villages have started the phases of displacing people in this area these are sort of houses

surveyed start forcing people to leave their houses of course the people here are all rejecting this and refusing displacement i'm still not sure whether muslims are welcome to be here or not. the tribe in northwest in the blue province is in the path of a mega project called neil hm a $500000000000.00 city to be built from scratch on the picture rescue at sea and a regime said he was standing in its way. this is when he was killed for refusing to comply in a shootout with security forces. the saudi crown prince is ambitious vision 2030 and the construction in the new york project had snags center to announcement in 2017 satellite images are pained by al-jazeera sure that in the last 3 years just a few royal palaces have been built the small airport for private planes is far from the grand junction promised in the marketing campaign 3 years ago activists say

there is major corruption involved to a degree which transfers land to mohammed bin sole man that's then bought by the saudis state for new york and the people of the land are evicted the confiscation of the land will not be stopped g.m. will take them out and it will effect to be able to destroy their houses but there is no and i was no financial ability to build and was not able to convince international investors to put money in this region and soon the killing of 3 most of the international companies. decided not. to come inside today beyond and invest and unable to act so neither the gene kranz was that it's not good because of why international investment. the kingdom is likely to borrow $58000000000.00 to balance its budget and with record lower prices additional finances for ambitious projects on unlikely. progress and a failure to attract investment was before the coronavirus pandemic and the global

economic slowdown if that doesn't change the prince's dream could remain just that some of the job aid are there spoke to bill law for more on this he's an editor of arab digest and says this project could end up becoming mohamed bin salman's biggest mistake very recently tribes and was shot and killed the saudis claim that he was carrying at them he had truck tested against that action this is a tribe that has lived in the area for centuries and centuries is the tribe that would have been very very supportive of the also family now this tries and it's been killed that's an issue it's caused a big uproar on social media i think that the effort is to try and push that aside try and somehow keep this project going but in the current situation the current economic crisis saudi arabia is facing the world is missing i think neon is going to become one of the biggest fawley's markets all month thus far pretty reckless

career after all in the war in yemen that was supposed to end within weeks and that is still going on 5 years ago 5 years on. 2 former u.s. servicemen are yet to appear in a venezuelan court charged with attempting to overthrow the government they are among $31.00 people accused of treason president nicolas maduro says their plan was to come ashore on a beach take of a caucus airport and then put him out there on a plane to the u.s. a lot in america edison seen human as 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 war that is without 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 whether this also included president nicolas maduro 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 j.j. to dawn and for the head of the american group that had organized this incursion

this is jordan goudreau 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. no the head of the opposition who allegedly had also signed a contract hiring these people to go into venezuela to try to overthrow the government. now a virtual vigil has been held in the u.s. on or in the life of a mode he was shot and killed after being pursued by 2 white men in the state of georgia prayers were led by the human rights activists reverend al sharpton parents also connected into the virtual gallica reports. this is the moment the former police detective gregory met michael and his son travis were arrested in connection with the murder of a more. 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 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 supposed none of that matters to the g.b.i. it doesn't matter who the person he is 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 many hours tired of black blur. the shooting of mr r. brain 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 we know the truth and we were not going to be

silenced the. questions were asked because the actions were made and you all of you stepped up to make the 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. around 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 where for black america white america and 2 we come together as the united states of america we see this is going to continue to happen in a tragedy is it is our children who are being you a mode arborist 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 gallica al-jazeera. the headlines this hour on al-jazeera u.s. unemployment has surged to 14.7 percent in april the highest rate in almost 90 years more than $20000000.00 jobs were wiped out during the month coronavirus shut down the economy after the release of those figures donald trump offered his

prediction on some other numbers that is how many american lives would be lost to the pandemic and the 76000 people have already died and the number of confirmed infections is approaching 1300000 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 jocular about 95000 people out of italy we may be jocular about something more than that meanwhile the u.s. has blocked efforts by the un security council to agree to a pandemic resolution diplomats are trying to back a call from the un secretary general for among other things a global cease fire the u. wants a ban on non-essential travel to europe to be extended until the middle of next

month e.u. countries started blocking foreigners from entering in mid march thousands of indian nationals are being repatriated from the middle east and southeast asia special flights have been chartered to return experts from singapore concert the u.a.e. and saudi arabia libya's un recognized governments launched airstrikes on ward cleaver half to positions after his forces fired shells into the capital tripoli the government says it struck have to controlled areas near an airbase southwest of tripoli and 2 former u.s. servicemen will appear in a venezuelan court charged with attempting to overthrow the government they are among $31.00 people accused of treason for allegedly trying to kill the president in an operation on sunday. up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera the latest edition all the inside story is next.

was the us involved in the attempt to venezuela washington says it wasn't even those detained suspects seem to claim otherwise but the u.s. and most of latin america want nicolas maduro out of power but does that mean venezuela this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program now on the 3rd of may the venezuelan government announced it had detained a group of what it called mercenaries trying to reach venezuela on speedboats along

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