every. marriage has divided democrats on al jazeera played an important role in judging it with. ringback despair on the dole queue the number of people seeking unemployment benefits in the us well so 36000000. i'm tempted al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. some science has raised early warning signals that were overlooked a top u.s. immunologist tells congress he was fired for choosing science of politics. world leaders called for more coronavirus vaccines to be free and universally available.

2 years into tension calls for saudi arabia to release a group of women's rights activists. the coronavirus is wreaking yet more havoc in the u.s. jobs market almost 3000000 people filed for unemployment benefits in just the past 7 days it's down from previous weeks but it brings the number of those seeking benefits to more than 36000000 since the lock down of a crowd of virus began our white house correspondent kimberly health that joins us now live with more kimberly so even though this number is down on previous week it's weeks it's still obviously not good news and certainly not what the trump administration will be wanting to hear. absolutely i mean the numbers are down in terms of the number of claims from the previous week but the number overall continues to clive and it is predicted to continue to climb

potentially another 10000000 american somewhere in the neighborhood of 46000000 americans is where this number is supposed to settle in terms of the number of americans that filed for unemployment claims since coronavirus hit the united states and we see this across all sectors of economy and what we're seeing is kind of a 2nd wave that's now occurring initially it was in some of the areas you might expect as restaurants close down or retail close down but now as other sort of secondary businesses are realizing that the reopening of the economy is going to be face they too are now laying off their workers so that they can claim jobless benefits now the white house is trying to push back on these numbers paint an optimistic picture the white house economic adviser kevin hassett saying in the last hour or so that they believe that the side that these numbers have gone down in terms of the numbers of filings for the previous week is a signal that the economy is turning back on but we know that the economy is not

going to turn on like a light switch the way it shut off and that's what's so discouraging for so many many americans that's why the u.s. president's about to take off from the white house here in just the next few moments or so he will be going to the state of pennsylvania it's a battleground state we should point out for the u.s. election where he's making the case that the economy needs to reopen because in fact some of these numbers are so dismal complete we'll get you to stay with us we're going to pivot knowledge talk about a whistle blower who says he was sacked for raising concerns about the u.s. coronavirus response. is the former head of the u.s. agency responsible for developing a vaccine for the virus he's right now giving evidence before a house of representatives panel has some of what he's had to say. our window of opportunity is closing if we fail to improve our response now based on science i fear the pandemic will get worse and be prolonged there will be likely

a resurgence of co at 19 this fall and we greatly compound it by the challenges of seasonal influenza without better planning 2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history so camillia really done a warning from bride have we had anything from from the president about this. we expect that the us president may have something to say about this he did try to discredit this testimony in advance tweeting that rick wright was nothing more than a disgruntled employee but since then we've had some from the white house press secretary kaley mcenaney and she's pushing back on the assertion made by dr rick wright that essentially the administration has been ignoring the advice of scientists he being among them the press secretary saying that's not at all the case the president has a number of experts he takes into consultation and he decides what is best to go

for the president regularly talks to doctors and ultimately ultimately makes the decision on how to move forward but there's no question that this testimony is is particularly difficult to try and do now that it is out there on capitol hill i mean not only is this scientist predicting that the next fall could be particularly bad in terms of numbers of deaths that infections but he's warning that essentially this administration continues to not listen to the advice of its own experts to prepare and what he's saying essentially is that when he tried to urge before he was let go from his job he was told that he was causing a commotion and he was removed from those meetings this is not going to sit well with many on capitol hill who have already been critical of the white house response thus far and we will of course continue to monitor that testimony for now that is i want house correspondent can be healthy thank you. world leaders have

made a plea for any eventual covert 19 vaccine to be distributed free of charge to all countries in an open that more than $140.00 current and former that is about laureates and academics called for the global sharing of dos and technologies related to the virus and that when a vaccine is developed that it's just reputed equally fast and according to need that it has also called on the policy setting body of the world health organization to rally behind the cause when it meets next week so hall has more from london. the point of this letter is that it reflects concerns among developing nations some of the countries the world's poorest countries the so-called global south that if and when a vaccine emerges it will likely emerge in the global north in one of the richer countries of the world and the concern is that it will be used preferentially among you know richer populations before it makes its way down to the poorer countries but many of whom of course will need it most to don't have the finances the

resources to be able to carve out their own share so this letter has emerged it's talking specifically about a vaccine when it comes to being patient free not a property of any particular country or company quickly produced then at scale to be made available to billions of people around the world at no cost as a sort of gesture of global public good we cannot afford says the letter for monopolies crude competition and near-sighted nationalism to stand in the way of a global vaccine that will end this great pandemic now of course the race to achieve that vaccine is well underway there are more than 100 kind of clinical tests going on at the moment in europe in the u.s. and elsewhere one of the most advances here in the u.k. at oxford university and the best guess that scientists seem to be able to reach for the moment is that there may be a vaccine that is shown to work a little later this year possibly by september is a date that's been mentioned but it'll be a lot longer than that before production is scaled up to the levels that will be

required in the whole process could take well into next year so this is developing countries the world's poorest trying to ensure that they aren't made to wait any longer than anyone else u.k.'s health minister there has hailed a new antibody test as a potential game changer in the fight against the virus the test was developed by swiss company and has now been approved for use in the u.k. germany has already made a deal with the company that tests can reveal whether someone's already had the disease and developed an unity. as france emerges from 8 weeks of lockdown the government is hoping to tackle a looming crisis of a different kind the health of the country's tourism sector france was the most visited country in the world and 29 from paris natasha bhalla tells us what's being planned to get the industry back on its feet. well the french prime minister ed wofully has announced a rescue plan for france's tourism industry not tourism is one of the main

contributors to france's economy about $2000000.00 jobs rely on the sector but of course the tourism industry has been battered by the coronavirus pandemic alog downs around the world meant that international visitors haven't been able to come to france of course french people haven't been able to take holidays or travel travel is nearly stopped airlines grounded trains a bus or visit a hold hotels restaurants bars museums all shot now the french government has been easing its logged on what is looking at now is trying to revive this industry but it is a point balance because they also have to make sure that it is done in a way that still safeguards people's health so what they're suggesting is that when hotels and restaurants can eventually open they put in place a special measures social distancing measures special hygiene meshes the french prime minister is encouraging french people to take their holidays in france to not travel perhaps to other european countries if that becomes an option and he's also

saying that perhaps some restaurants will be able to open at the beginning of june . to cities in northeast china have reinstated lockdown measures because of a new cluster of infections 4 and a half 1000000 people injured in cities have been told to stay home transport has been halted and recently reopened schools closed again neighbor insurances she was locked down on sunday in tests are under way in the 11000000 people living and who hung with the virus was 1st reported. as more details on what's happening and children should learn and who home from the chinese capital beijing. to some people looking down 4 and a half 1000000 people because of 20 or so cases may seem like a bit of an overreaction but the reason that this is happening is that the authorities are suspicious that this cluster may have been growing undetected for some period of time and all of these cases are linked to a 45 year old woman insure lun city that's the smallest city and it's

a mystery so far as to how she caught core of a dying teen she has no trouble history no contact with important cases there is some speculation that she may have caught it from clothing in her workplace for example but the authorities in this area are very keen to contain this as soon as possible especially saying that next week in beijing it's the most important political event of the year is going to be held the national people's congress or the last thing that they want to see is this getting out of hand we know that so far rouhani all the residents that's 11000000 residents are expected to be tested if they haven't already been tested in the last 2 weeks all residents would have received a text message at some point this week and being told by the local district authorities to head to the closest clinic to schedule their own test and authorities expect that districts will get this testing done in a period of 10 days that's about 1000000 people paid day roughly being tested outside of what hons so far no sign of mass testing the reason that authorities in

ruhani are spurious they have been spared to do this mass testing is because there has been a cluster located this 6 new transmissions located there but elsewhere around the country as domestic travel restrictions is this a clear nucleic acid test is increasingly being used as some sort of possible local governments are asking travelers to to show it as a condition for them to arrive in their area and certainly other cities including beijing and shanghai it's very easy now to gore's who is testing sent to do a test for about $30.00 and get your results in 24 hours so this is increasingly becoming a crucial part of everyday life in china so far it's voluntary but at some point it may be rolled out on a compulsory basis. so ahead on now his era. there on the front lines but still getting fired health care workers being dismissed when they're needed the most plus . coronavirus changes the way millions of people work one swedish company hopes

remotely driven vehicles can make truck driving a stock in time job. how it's about to get very wet again with the seasonal rains redeveloping in this part of china cyrus was more or less down the line does extend through the east and towards the korean peninsula that's one palls of heavy rain if you see dark blue orange that's the heavy stuff then a bit of a break and then it starts to redevelop again a bit further south so you've got that right from china stretching and he sees no way out towards honshu and just going south to tokyo come saturday but significant right where it does fall now the last several hours fairly obviously south of that and the 1st tropical storm of typhoon of the season has made landfall fairly recently is a category 2 it's equivalent of

a hurricane in the landtag so it's pretty windy and very wet now of course the philippines use this as the big break now some preparations were done by expect damage and flash floods of this thing new study north through zone over the next 2 days as you can see the orange core is the heart of it there is a big gaffe of scattered thunderstorms in the bay of bengal a development seems to be taking place in fact that will take several days to amount to anything in the meantime we have significant running up the coast of kara up to go actually occasional big showers in the forecast for bangladesh. a beleaguered out of 5 paying the price for his political maneuvering in the netherlands now desperate for american recognition good technique and absolutely denounce. goodies how did the p.l.o.

find strength and support from their only lifeline oppressed palestinians living in the occupied territories chronicling the turbulent story of the struggle for a palestinian homeland p.l.o. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. watching auxerre on her mind our top stories this hour dozens of current and former world they visit making a plea for free and equitable access to a covered $900.00 vaccine once developed a sense an open letter to countries to share dos and virus where they can take knowledge it's. a whistleblower has told the u.s. house of representatives cattle that early warnings about the crowd

a virus pandemic were ignored over the prize says he was removed from his government post because he raised concerns over the u.s. response to the outbreak. almost 3000000 people have filed for unemployment benefits in the u.s. in the past 7 days is down from previous weeks but it brings the nationwide figure to more than 36000000 people since coronavirus lock down measures began. among those losing their jobs in the u.s. the health care workers while others are saying their hours and their wages cut she has bhutanese has a story. it hasn't gone unnoticed or that even as the u.s. salutes front line workers in this case with military flyovers at a conservatively estimated $60000.00 an hour over at least 22 cities health care workers are being fired at alarming rates due to a lack of firms and that's despite $100000000000.00 in funding passed by congress specifically to help medical providers preliminary estimates for april showed

a loss of $1400000.00 health care jobs with 135000 hospital staff sacked as revenue rich elective surgeries and routine visits were canceled his data report well on the situation as of the 12th so what we're seeing today is what was going on in and around the middle so i certainly think i would not be surprised to see more losses where we see next month 317 staff were fired at this hospital in san diego. those who remain say some of those well frontline kovan stones i was with millions of others in the u.s. then without their employer based health insurance when they may need it most everybody was still devastated were reeling and that. everybody demoralized on the or is that right now and of course their work. or nursing and now they're worried that after a 14. day between 2 to 14 day incubation period what if they get infected now we

don't have insurance so it's easy for a lot of. executives to say oh oh you know these health care workers and nurses are hero and then they can really just drop it like nothing but problem on health which runs the hospital said it had no choice not only is revenue down in areas not connected to the pandemic it isn't treating high numbers of patients on either meanwhile health care workers who remain acing that hours on wages cut while fearing drug laws and that's particularly so it would have been a little noticed but a growing sent to in u.s. med some hospitals and medical style thing controlled by private equity firms wolf street spent 100000000000 dollars on health care assets in 2018 aloon private equity is financial bill is based on profits for investors that beat the rest of the markets and that's made these assets particularly vulnerable now those

emergency rooms are the ones that have been at the forefront. of cutting salaries of cutting doctor salaries it's the extreme form of a for profit system they are reacting quickly in order to get their money out to repay their investors before the organizations collapse private equity blames medical insurance companies for forcing them to make cuts and it's true insurance companies are already seeing i'm projecting healthy profits as a result of the pandemic because the emergency continues while many fields within the us health care system have been revealed increasingly there's debate as to whether it's the system itself that is brute can she have written see al-jazeera. i see international is calling on saudi arabia to release several women's rights activists 2 years after they were detained amnesty says had been peacefully advocating for the rights of women in the kingdom to drive and other reforms

a few weeks later the saudi government lifted the ban and said it would relax smile guardianship laws but ordered an end to the campaign and the rest is other women involved 13 women's rights activists remain on trial 5 health and sentient than most of middle east research director amnesty international says she says the activists should never have been arrested. they were accused and charged as a crime for speaking to and connecting with human rights organizations including amnesty international so they are being accused simply for doing their human rights peaceful activism that's all they're accused of now the charges that they're facing are charges under the cyber cruel cyber crime law which has been together with the anti-terrorism law these are 2 extremely problematic tools that have been used for years now for for the past 567 years against any form of dissent inside of the kingdom because of very vague definitions of the crimes they are being abused

and specifically through the use of the of the judiciary so one of the one of the major courts that has been that has been a real tool in in crushing dissents inside of the country has been the specialized criminal courts which examines all of the cases under the anti terror. 13 antigovernment protests in israel where a new unity government was due to be sworn in and that's now been delayed until sunday because of last minute wrangling over cabinet posts and this whole rivals benjamin netanyahu and benny gantz agreed to a coalition deal last month and a more than a year of political deadlock. tens of thousands of people have been forced into emergency shelters after a typhoon hit the east and for the pings power has been cut off and homes destroyed by winds of up to 180 kilometers an hour it's raised concerns about people now being able to unable to keep social distance in crowded conditions

tauranga muslims inside a refugee camp in bangladesh have tested positive for covered 19 the government says one of the infections is from inside the camp the other from the surrounding area health experts warn that the virus could race through the on senator camps where nearly 1000000 people live. u.n. agencies are warning that libyans are being threatened by both fighting and the coronavirus un says there's a high risk the outbreak will escalate following the deaths of 3 people and dozens of infections it's also warning that fighting is hampering the delivery of aid in having a catastrophic effect on civilians during migrants and refugees. meanwhile fighters loyal to warlord really for half the launched a rocket attack on the capital tripoli overnight that's where the un recognized government is based hospital and civilian areas were targeted in during at least 14

people after has intensified attacks on civilians a small profit on the trip the government's military repelled his forces recent advances. to the un security council has met in the past couple of hours to discuss the crisis in yemen and what it calls the worst humanitarian situation on earth it so far failed to broker a cease fire or prisoner swap added to that the lack of testing facilities is making it difficult to assess the extent of the coronavirus spread pretty good to reports. a new military offensive in the middle of a global pandemic. the southern province of the army is the latest frontline in human swarm. government forces sparked by saudi arabia are inching closer to was a provincial capital since a bar they are fighting to end with the cold and armed rebellion by the southern transitional council the separatists movement was just part by the united arab

emirates and determined to break away from gold in yemen the breakaway fighters will want allies in the fight against these in the north. now enemies in the battle for control in the south last month the southern separatist fighters declared self rule in the stronghold the port city of aden and now want to extend control over nearby provinces. victory is close only a few hours suppurating us from an aide and we are well prepared a morale is high and men are ready. to not fall from the shelf yemeni's an agent i find to against the civil enemy. the new corner virus the city is reporting the highest number of infections and ducks in yemen as more cases are detected elsewhere the lack of testing facilities means many infections are going undiagnosed and many deaths and good quarter.

director we have taken many steps to prevent the spread of coronavirus we've implemented an educational campaign we've implemented a sterilization campaign in streets and stores 5 years of war between who the fighters and government forces backed by a saudi u.a.e. military coalition has forced millions of yemenis from their homes. and clubs the running water is a luxury. that we are afraid for our children we have elderly people and we are in a remote place and we are afraid the virus will spread like wildfire is spatially that the disease appeared in tires and only the directorate of motor is between us and the virus meaning that is very close and we are in fear that the world health organization says the virus could flip through yemen really hard the hospitals are functioning aid agencies how border famine yemenis are caught between the pandemic

and civil war with no end to their suffering inside plank up the. the number of infections in russia has passed a quarter of a 1000000 another 9900 were reported on thursday the 1st time in 2 weeks the daily total has dipped below 10 bells that the government has eased the nationwide lockdown with many russians returning to work this week. qatar has recorded its highest only increase in infections a further 1733 people were confirmed have the virus on thursday taking the total number of infections to more than 28 bells that containment measures are being stepped up from sunday with people ordered to wear a face mask in public or risk being fined. lebanon has imposed a lockdown for 4 days following an increase in infections more than 100 new cases have been reported in the past few days a lockdown excludes the health agriculture food and manufacturing industries they

haven't had begun lifting restrictions last month. the main border crossing between pakistan and iran has reopened for the 1st time in 2 months queues of people were at a tough time to resume trade and travel down the government sealed the border as iran became one of the world's worst affected countries. as many people continue to work from home one company in sweden is developing new technology that could allow truck drivers to do the same. explains now from san told in southern sweden. this may not be the most thrilling driving experience just yet but it could be the future of long distance trucking this is a testing site for i mean right already in commercial operation with one haulage company in sweden on right builds remote controlled trucks driven from a far from the comfort of an aerodynamic office chair. we just have to show the

general population that the trucks are safer or safer of them the trucks that we have on the roads today they will never get tired they will never fall asleep and the reality of today is that there's a shortage of truck drivers if you're doing trucking it's very very hard to find drivers it's hoped that some may find this less exhausting than life on the open highway now from the point of view of a truck driver taking this job instead of buckling up for a long day on the road they're just arrive to the office drive the truck from here perhaps go to the gym at lunch time and even at the end of the day of the truck was hundreds of kilometers away they could be home in time for. the trucks off fueled by battery and operated via mobile data so it sends out in progress some measures the distance the government right now restricts them to 5 kilometers per hour so the trucking company already using them only does so at their own premises their actual top speed is still secrets but is already much closer to national traffic

limits i write say the trucks can also keep the flow of goods moving during crises such as the coronavirus pandemic while the remote strivers remain isolated. it's not an idea as yet fully embraced by sweden's existing army of truckers here in the southern city of mile might. that i will to go home and job. i like my job you meet many people say hello sometimes 60 stops a day this thing can work and thoughts would mean ferry terminals but the way. we drive i don't think so. we can make things easier when it works but it's hard to replace a human being who doesn't force me into retirement anyway i don't want things to change too fast. water closures and reduced production have caused job losses in sweden stroking industry but the lack of a lockdown has helped keep it rolling remote driving may be

a vital addition if not a replacement for a system that keeps people and the economy alive paul reese al-jazeera some told sweden. 2 big landmarks in southwest germany have disappeared in just a few seconds. cooling towers were part of the now closed for the nuclear power station all of germany's nuclear plants are being phased out by 2022 decision made after the fact she made disaster in japan green activists welcomed the latest demolition and called for more investment in renewable power sources. this is and is there and these are the top stories almost 3000000 people have filed for unemployment benefits in the u.s. in the past 7 days that's down from previous weeks but it brings the nationwide figure to more than 36000000 people since coronavirus lockdown measures began

a whistleblower has told a u.s. house of representatives panel that early warnings about the coronavirus pandemic were ignored and overlooked it says he was removed from his government post because he raised concerns over the u.s. response to the outbreak initially our nation was not as prepared as we should have been as we could have been some scientists raised early warning signals that were overlooked and pages from our pandemic playbook were nor did i some in a leadership. there will be plenty of time to look back to assess what has happened so we can improve right now we need to focus on getting things right going forward . dozens of current and former world leaders making a plea for free and equitable access to a covert 19 vaccine once it's developed the sent an open letter urging countries to

share data and virus related technologies in china there are fears of a 2nd wave of infections after noon local transmissions were reported trying to test all residents of rouhani in the northeast chilean cities being put back into lockdown and 700 people quarantined. to roaming the muslims inside a refugee camp in bangladesh have tested positive for covert 19 the government says one of the infections is from inside the camp the other from the surrounding area health experts warn that the virus could race through unsanitary camps where nearly 1000000 people live. there have been anti-government protests outside the israeli parliament where a new unity government was due to be sworn in and starving delayed until sunday because of last minute wrangling over cabinet posts. to stay with us football rebels next.

lucasian. september 26th seen nearly 2 months before the then presidential candidate donald trump's election president barack obama spoke at the un general assembly zaya address this hall as president for the final time. let me recount the progress that we've made a quarter century after the end of the cold. the world is by many measures less violent and more prosperous than ever before. but with millions of people displaced worldwide. unresolved conflicts from him.