or visit our web site at state dot com. as the number of dead from coronavirus in the u.s. passes the 50000 mark americans are also dealing with the disastrous economic fallout of the crisis millions of people have lost their jobs in the past 5 weeks and there are fears the pandemic could lead to a larger unemployment right and the great depression in the 1930 s. . this is the day. to get to $26000000.00 job loss and just a month it is terrifying i know a lot of economists and the answer is they have no idea it would pay out below that with me with with let's not have and i think our economy will start to pick up her substantially as soon as the states get open to say we really don't know if you

know if you know the name is this job is not enough because our country has to get back to work they want to get back to work. also coming up former georgian president mikheil saakashvili is set to become a deputy prime minister of ukraine a comeback for a man who once went to war with russia but now says he wants peace with moscow. also for peace with russia and our support of every step. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome in a moment we'll move on to our main story the skyrocketing level of unemployment in the u.s. but 1st the controversy over speculation by the u.s. president that injecting disinfectant might help to cure the coronavirus now let's be clear ingesting disinfectant is extremely dangerous and will not cure the virus president donald trump made the suggestion at his daily briefing in the white house

and since then he's rolled back on his. manson said he was being sarcastic but what he said went around the world and led to fierce reaction not least from medics and scientists that's here now what the president said about using disinfectant and light to defeat the virus as well as one doctor's reaction. rather than actually the disinfectant not. in a minute when it is their way we can do something. injection . or almost a cleaning it is a ghetto no longer has a tremendous number of interesting projects so that you can have to use medical doctors with better terms sounds interesting to me. while. children may be listening so i doubt very much where i could actually say my true feelings here but i think it is. the most one of the most.

dangerous and idiotic suggestions made so far in how one might actually. truett cope with 19 injecting disinfectants into people will quite often kill them and then i said supposing it were the lady in the body you can which you can do either through the skin or. in some other way. and i think you said you can attest so i was interested in were able to put you very would be very good for disinfecting perhaps disinfecting services usually has been used very commonly to the same drinking water supplies although there is no evidence that. 19 right through drinking water. but it cannot be used in the context of treating individual.

90. 9 to the rising level of unemployment in the united states caused by the spread of the coronavirus there 26000000 people have registered as jobless in the us in the past 5 weeks and that's a huge increase in unemployment that harks back to the depression era of the 1930 s. all the gains in employment since the crash of 2008 have been wiped out and i'll be talking with an analyst about the social and economic impact this will have but 1st our washington correspondent over salat looks at how it's affecting people in the u.s. . when monk looks at her old construction site she still struggles to comprehend what happened 3 weeks ago the immigrant architect from poland was working on one of washington's biggest apartment buildings then she lost her job in just a blink of an eye so very challenging it was of our time saying actually to even an

intro for unemployment it took me 2 weeks of nonstop calling sometimes i was on the hold for 56 hours in her 20 years in america mark delano was able to build a life she owns her own home. and raises 2 sons. you know for the 1st time she is fighting to make ends meet she can't afford the mortgage and she has been forced to learn new skills like home schooling the kids there tell. can recount i have 6 who have. her savings will last for another few weeks she says she is trying not to think about what comes after that. call. the right now the main thing gets to. be able to provide them with food and to have

a shelter and we don't have that when we are in there only about stories. only a few miles away in washington sean neighborhood bar that was shut down has reopened as a food bank catering to some of those who are hit the hardest hit. laid off workers from the hospitality business get one hot meal per day has been tough is day by day but all you can do is just be optimistic and you know be glad that you're healthy you have my wife baby and will work for your restaurant and we are now working its very happy these are great people and i appreciate everything they do it like it's helped me through some type of tours that could have been a lot tougher for. the bar's owner and of the liril had to furlough 70 off or $85.00 employees she collected some 300000 u.s. dollars in donations and is now trying to keep the community afloat.

here in d.c. one in 7 workers is actually in the hospitality industry so you're talking about a huge number of people who are suddenly hitting the the public safety net programs and so there have just been a lot of delays in them receiving the aid that they're applying for it. how much of . elliot too is still waiting for her unemployment 8 as a skilled worker she hopes to find a new job once the crisis is over but she knows that many americans will not be that lucky a month when i see. you and i say ok well i'm joined from new york by its rays again or gigi professor of economics and policy analysis at the new school for social research welcome trees and we just heard have sudden on employment is affecting the individuals in our report but can you illustrate for our viewers how big of an impact it is on the u.s. to have tens of millions of people lose their jobs in the space of just

a few weeks. there's chile in facts one is that there's a lot of income from these people but not as much as it was in the last recession the congress immediately boosted the unemployment benefits so that for many people there will be giving more on unemployment than they were working so in a macroeconomic sense that helps mitigate the impact of of the unemployment because there's income in place and so that's the good news but what it means that the longer term is is not so good we should have had a program like the germans do which keep keeps people connected to their employer payroll payroll protection or table maintenance would have connected the employ the employer and the employee during this temporary shutdown has imposed shutdown that would mean their return to work would be

a little bit slow there and the insecurity about what happens when the unemployment benefits will be less attenuated and what does that insecurity do to people it makes them stop spending and that has a negative an impact tries i'm just going to play a sound bite from president donald trump who says the u.s. economy will eventually return to what it was before the corona virus crisis let's take a listen. i know a lot about economists and the answer is they have no idea think i have as good an idea as anybody and i think our economy will start to pick up verse abstain fully as soon as the states get open and that's happening as we speak and it's actually very exciting and. people are just just thrilled to see it because our country has to get back to work they want to get back to work back to work and donald trump right will the u.s. economy pick back up when that still states start easing the lockdown.

he's right and i'm thrilled to there will be a lot more employment but it's going to be a lot more gradual than he suggests this downturn is because of the health crisis and right now the economists are following the overall just the public health officials are leading the way they tell us that the return to work has to be gradual will see it 1st in the factories will see the return of work last in hospitality. places that are essential and that can handle the safety restriction the safety precautions and will return back to work and i am in the university sector of all of your professors are told not to be in a room with more than 10 or 1550 people so our whole way of managing the return to work is going to be a lot slower than that after mr. you know quote but if we return to

where we were we're going to have a lot more inequality we're going to have return back to a growing number of jobs that are just very very poor poor quality so i hope we don't return back to where we were pre-code that and we actually have some institutions in place that raise wages permanently for lower income workers and it actually changes our unemployment insurance system well you know you've mentioned some obviously very important issues there for for people in the united states have but what impact will the high job loss figure have on will say industrial relations in the united states. yeah i was with a with 300 at a con in a soup deal with industrial asians we asked just that question 2 days ago we are forecasting that since unemployment is going to remain quite high probably 10 percent for next year for many workers they will have much less bar-b.

power and employers that emerges sort of vibe from this recession will actually have more of our the hour we're seeing for the biggest and wealthiest employers kind of winnie from this recession amazon google facebook are all of the richer and more cash. cash cash rich that means they can pay more to workers will go back to work but they also need that they can resist it put employees demands so unless we have countervailing institutions our social partnership we could actually see a return to work that looks good for g.d.p. but it means that workers have less bargaining power it's a political choice now the economics certainly suggest that workers can be paid more after this recovery but that doesn't just happen because we can't there has to be forces to make cloisters share the. professor of

economics and policy analysis of the new school for social research in new york take care thank you thank you. well the spread of the corona virus is a global event affecting every country in the world political leaders are being measured by their response to the crisis and among them is germany's chancellor angela merkel she's jute to step down from role before the next general election thanks to rising public approval ratings over her handling of the crisis there are calls for merkel to continue in the job for now that seems highly unlikely but could the crisis opened i'm glimmer goals future plans here's more. of capitals around the world have largely absorbed the initial soc 19 is doubt that society's the outlook for the future defense greatly between well to me to. have just sighed

an executive order to parolee suspending immigration into the united states this will ensure that unemployed americans of all backgrounds will be 1st in line for jobs as their economy reopens. so the struggle to start opening up for business is a risk that i will take. if it gets worse it's on me. to nobody likes to hear it but this is the truth we're not in the final phase of this pandemic we're only at the start of it and we will have to live with this virus for a very long time. i'm going to machall sober science driven leadership on the final stretch of her last term in office see some wanting her to stay beyond her announced retirement in 2021 i'm glad merkel is is a great european. and a great friend of poland. my own point of view. you know we need to clone

angle of merkel and to have someone similar run in germany let me tell you straight that is not going to happen mainly because i'm going to america has ruled it out many times but also because her own c.d.u. party isn't keen on a medical reload so do this when not discussing this now or in the future. and while merkel's popularity ratings have risen so has the sense that after 16 years it will be time for a change up the chancery certainly quite likely that i can't imagine any other candidate but after so many years it could be time for a change. please you cannot i'm glad when she's finally gone carone are not welcome but what corona house changed overnight is the perception of going to merkel in her final term. within the space of just a few weeks she's gone from lame duck chancellor to one of the few world leaders

speaking in the name of science so corona staying with our societies for now is just as safe an assumption as angle americal leaving her term is up in autumn 2021. former georgian president saakashvili is preparing to make a political comeback as deputy prime minister to ukraine 2nd severely says president voted to mediate selenski has asked him to drive economic and political reforms in ukraine parliament must now approve his candidacy it would be really 2nd stint in ukrainian politics he served as governor of the country's odessa region in 2015 but quit after falling out with ukraine's then praise leader petro poroshenko sectors really cited corruption amongst officials as his reason for stepping down and in an exclusive interview but you asked me. how he plans to succeed where he

had once failed. 4 years ago or years that there's a good in their full ukraine on this original you made this decision the course involved who it was impossible to fight corruption among officials what makes you believe that it will be different this time because cause 3 friends umansky is definitely against fifths that's for sure we can argue about different aspects of his policies but i have no doubt about it that he has couric their action he is absolutely sincere in his desire to tackle the old system but right now either old you know you do or he will drain the swamp or the old system which will swallow him and i don't want to for ukraine is too loose. their hope because the last east still very much connected with their hold a few months ago you were you were in that ukraine might fall apart into 5 pieces no ukraine that's certainly a dream of for human putting to make to have not one ukraine but several grains but

we should but you know unless you created forms and cause corruption and also cracks down and separatists in the movie way of rule of law. we are facing the risk let's face it but i think with proper strong policy we can definitely for the nightmare scenario not only for the craniums for us here for the entire world. to promise the peace and then that's your lesson says russia. is that no one has been strained since your presidency in georgia how can you support a president who isn't afraid to make concessions told us to clearly and well also for peace with russia and to lower support of every step toward in terms of peace will present the last year because i think that's what ukrainian people and any nation would want in the world but it takes time go to it takes 2 to dance tangle we need a partner in the talks and unfortunately we are not getting the same attitude to

trim the russians living realized what it will be in the ukraine after that $1000.00 ukraine is going to have face very difficult challenges our economy is going to be. to collapse by more than. 78 percent of g.d.p. we're going to get several millions of extra unemployed not least the people who came back from europe ukrainian so-called hours or be chinese who are making their money in europe and ukraine not include shape right now to cope with osho and yes that's why we need urgent changes we need to crack down on corruption we need to change the system that has existed here for have survived. soviet union and existed in ukraine for the us for 2 years our goal is to change the entire philosophy of administration here and without that there is no long term success or even survival because this crisis is a huge challenge but it's also an opportunity to reform it's an overall pool huge opportunity to change thank you very much well for more on this story let's cross

over to detail you correspondent nick conley in kiev nick how does an exiled former georgian president end up becoming the deputy prime minister in ukraine. well public this is going to be a one off doesn't it i mean just imagine a former portuguese a president becoming a senior minister or a vice prime minister in government for instance just unthinkable this seems like a story from the 18th century where european countries are bringing in monarchs from other countries to rule them but he is really a kind of a maverick an unusual guy for an unusual time he is no stranger to ukraine he studied him back in the eighty's when his home country of georgia and ukraine were in the same country in the soviet union he made friends with petro poroshenko at university he went on to become president as did he he really built a reputation for himself as a disruptor is a real liberal someone who's willing to make enemies in the in the path of really shaking up that system for instance when faced with

a corrupt police force he just fired everyone and hide newbies whose only real qualification for the time was just having nothing to do with the previous regime the previous police some of the enemies but also who has really built a brand around that kind of uncompromising reform something that lets people in ukraine. for. concern that ukraine is really just muddling through and not living up to its full potential so this is someone who also as we mentioned before has fallen out with his bosses in ukraine before. stripped of his passport he broke over the border to come back in and extraordinary scenes that he was running over the rooftops behind me so this is someone who really thrives in a crisis. so it's safe to say that he's not your standard politician nic why bring him into the game now. i think there's no coincidence that this is happening now at a time of extraordinary stress through code 19 millions of ukrainians have lost their jobs most have savings that will only last them a month or so those of the 4 cos and the government simply just doesn't have the

cash to pay their wages as is happening in western european countries say added to that the board is a shop millions of ukrainians work in western europe and send money back to families they mostly lots of them have returned but 2000000 are estimates of return and they can't get back to work will those jobs be there for them to get when the borders reopen we don't know stress so let's get think he's he's a real gamble now is that given he can't give people cash he can't promise them support now he has to sell them a dream of an improved ukraine and a real real deep structural change and that is what's actually brings with his promise of reforms in his track record back in georgia. interesting times nick conley in cave thanks for joining us. 30 years ago that the hubble space telescope was launched from cape canaveral in florida it marked a milestone in astronomy and has transformed how we view the universe. discovered

evidence of super massive black holes and take an incredible pictures of the cosmos that's what's happened over the past 3 decades but it almost went all wrong ere as we discover in this report. space telescope has a clear view into the cosmos. that because it's floating over the earth's atmosphere. it's hard to believe that this groundbreaking mission started with a disaster. the world was waiting with bated breath for hubble's 1st pictures but when they arrived they were blurry. couple's main mirror was too flat the telescope had a flaw. nasa engineers were able to analyze the flaw in hubble's main mirror.

they then developed corrective optics for the telescope. space shuttle endeavor delivered the new optics to hubble in december 993. american and european astronauts installed them. the space telescope could finally sent clear pictures back to earth the the hubble telescope made landmark discoveries in a number of astronomical areas it was able to determine the size of the universe and show that it's expanding at an ever increasing rate something no one at the time faught possible. couple also delivered new insight into the birth life and death of stars the color of the pictures help astronomers understand these mysterious processes. just recently

hubble sent home images of a black hole some 50000 times heavier than the sun. astronomers have long been looking for objects like this to learn more about how black holes develop and grow if all goes to plan hubble will keep exploring space until 2024 its successor is scheduled to lift off next year. and that was the day he has ever heard the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at the news or don't forget to use our hush time at this day and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day.

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