that is john hendren live from chicago thank you. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his main rival benny gantz have agreed to form an emergency coalition government it and a year long for this crisis and prevents a fulfilling action the past say that will stand the country through the coronavirus outbreak the government will last for 3 years with netanyahu serving as prime minister for the 1st half they can't for the 2nd half netanyahu has to stand trial for corruption and denies all charges. you're watching on g.'s there are these all the top stories in the u.s. president donald trump says he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the u.s. he says it's to protect american jobs after the coronavirus pandemic left at least 22000000 people applying for unemployment benefits. for the 1st time in history u.s. oil prices have crashed below 0 dollars this produces a fast running out of space to store their oil early trading in asian stock markets has seen it rise slightly sitting at just $2.00 a b

previously suspended travel from europe china and other nations because of the virus let's talk to john hendren now he joins us live from chicago john so a rather ominous tweet from the president saying immigration to the u.s. will be temporarily halted what more can you tell us. that's right daryn this is a surprise in the sense that it was delivered late at night not in his news conference where he could be questioned about it and that just happened hours ago here in the u.s. but this is fully in character for donald trump you remember that he had the ban from immigration from muslim countries that was overturned by a court and modified and of course this is the president who has made his whole theme stopping illegal immigration and now in this case he is stopping illegal immigration you can bet that he'll be asked about that in the news conference tomorrow we expect to hear a little more on that when that happens but this is after all the president who said he was going to build a wall to keep out illegal immigrants but he's getting a little heat already from those people on twitter and else

suggesting that the president had listened to his recommendations on mitigation let's bring in john hendren from chicago so a big pushback from both talked about general so president trump on the on the criticism. that's right it's notable that this news conference was substantially delayed one wonders whether that involved a conversation between the president and anthony found she found she says he came out and spoke voluntarily saying a number of things 1st of all that the only time he actually recommended mitigation of the president was in mid march when he took those actions of the president said yes on that occasion and then on a 2nd occasion when he went to the president and recommended extending those lockdown measures that he had asked the president to institute an initial lease and then he was asked about the statement that he. made on american television on sunday saying there was a lot of pushback to trying to launch some of these mitigation efforts earlier on january february and he said in this news conference that is that was a bad choice of words so you've got him really dial

economic impact of the coronavirus was having an effect even before the something oil prices john hendren has more now on just how reliant the u.s. economy is on the vital results. across american oil country the pumps are shutting down since the coronavirus lost much of the western world in their homes the floor has dropped out of the oil market is a gas station selling gasoline to 99 cents a gallon now you would think was great and anybody going to run and there was a line of people there to fill the course the question is where are you going to go the price of the benchmark american crude west texas intermediate has collapsed from $60.00 a barrel in january to below 20 in the past week across the u.s. the price at the pump is lower than it's been in years rick even at rush hour if you are vying the international energy agency says the world's appetite for oil hasn't been this low since $195.00 especially hit hard the fracking industry that turned the u.s. oil industry into a net exporter since 2011 fracking companies which break rocks to find fuel need oil above $30.00 a barrel to make

lauren: john hendren, thank you.s violence after one post after -- one protester died in clashes security forces over the country's deteriorating economy. demonstrations began in october. in january, a new government was formed and tasked with reversing the economic downturn. protests in beirut and tripoli were triggered by a crash in food prices and the economy. correspondent: hunger and hopelessness drive the lebanese to the streets. the economy close to collapsing. protesters direct anger at banks for preventing people from accessing their training. the political elite is blamed for mismanagement and corruption. in recent days, the local currency has sharply devalued against the dollar. there are more protesters among protesters and soldiers during confrontations that began monday. >> people went to the streets because there are no jobs. children ask their parents for food and they don't have money to buy any. the young man who was martyred was a father who had nothing to lose. if his daughter asked him for food,

hit by a coronavirus and progress also on therapies to be used to treat coronavirus at reagan john hendren who's joining us from skype from chicago as are quite a big emphasis on the testing angle today. that's right laurin the president claims that the u.s. is in good shape for testing but we hear from governor after governor any state that they simply don't have the tests they need and the president was pressed on that i reporter who said if people aren't if we don't really have the widespread ability in the united states to test people how can you send them back to work when you don't know who has this virus and who doesn't the president said that the u.s. testing system was strong nevertheless but that's going to be a big question the governor of illinois where i am here in chicago right now said earlier today he did not see any public gatherings here through the end of this summer that means concerts and other events like that until there is a vaccine for the virus which there is not now and despite the president's efforts to put a rosy face on how things are going here in the united

reported a loss of half a $1000000000.00 we have 2 correspondents covering these developments john hendren is standing by for us in chicago to tell us more about the flaws of the aviation industry but 1st let's go to a white house forest correspondent kimberly hellcats. kimberly these quarter one g.d.p. figures today suggest that the slowdown was beginning before the lockdown began. yeah you know there's no question that there is a suggestion of that but well there were stay at home or is going into effect at the tail end of that quarter what we know is that the next quarter is going to be particularly dismal so this is kind of a snapshot the numbers that we have right now for the projection of things to come because that's when we will see the full brunt of a quarter where there have been almost across the board some impact on every single industry in the united states as a result of operational shutdowns people staying at home and also just simply the poll back in consumer spending which is particularly hard hitting given the fact that this is a mostly service based economy so well this

john hendren chicago. and latin america editor losin human reports on how hard hit nations across the region. in haiti the government has ordered a total lockdown but in the capital of the western hemisphere's poorest country some catholics ventured outside to the shuttered gates of this catholic church to hear the easter sunday service not everyone had internet to listen to the mass online so the probably wasn't for corona virus the church would be full of people there wouldn't be room for all of us today is the day of jesus' resurrection a great victory over death and it is fundamental to christianity others could not be consult them for women were still up in the morning we are seeing the end of the world so why can't we put our hands together and pray we can't great each other it's the end of the world the end of times. throughout latin america home to more than 40 percent of the world's roman catholics millions renounced tradition in the name of public health where they could catholics watched religio

at home orders imposed by many us state governess infringing on their constitutional rights john hendren has their story. in the home of the u.s. auto industry michigan residents naturally took to the road to voice their ranks. operation gridlock also spilled out into the streets of michigan's capitol calling for an end to one of the strictest lockdowns in the united states in a new beginning for businesses that have been shuttered for weeks this arbitrary blanket spread of shutting down businesses about putting all of these workers out of business is just it's a disaster but michigan is also one of the fastest growing coronavirus hotspots in the nation and governor gretchen whitmer who has banned residents even from traveling to their own vacation homes isn't backing down i know that people are angry and that's ok and if you want to take it out and send it my way makes you feel better that's fine. i support your right to free speech and i respect your opinions i just urge you don't put yourself at risk and don't put others at risk either in one of the nation's newest hot spots south dak

your rule even as american politicians lament the saudi incursion the ships sail ever closer john hendren al-jazeera chicago preliminary results from mommy's parliamentary election the show the governing party won the most votes but not enough for an outright majority initial results suggest the rally from mommy party has won the parliamentary election it's estimated to have taken 43 seats while the next closest party has 22 that action as be modded by violence the kidnapping of an opposition leader and the global pandemic because he has been monitoring developments from neighboring senegal and he says people were scared to vote because of the threat of violence as well as the pandemic. you know we thought hundreds of thousands of people take to the heat of the capital bamako protesting against the government protesting. with the fact that there is so many poor in cuba there and you had to security situation is just getting from word to even worse and so that the union among the the public has been been manipulated into the vote perhaps because they were the threat of armed groups during

europe italy germany spain and france have seen the rate of infections slow down let's bring in john hendren in chicago for us john so another grim milestone in the u.s. the rising number of krona virus says is quite alarming. as rightfully 500000 cases half a 1000000 and a 3rd of them alone in new york state that is 172 cases there now has only 0.15 percent of the u.s. population that's 327000000 but really we don't have a comprehensive testing system here in the u.s. so that is probably just a fraction of the actual number but we do know that so far 18000 people have died as you mentioned that crossed the 2000 mark on a daily basis for the 1st time on friday the 1st case just to take you back happened in washington state on january 20th and that viruses moved quickly the administration estimated on friday that it would be peak on easter sunday that is that this coming sunday since march 26th the u.s. has had more cases than any other country on earth and by march 31st president trump made a grim estimate saying 100-002-2400 extension 00 americans would die before the coronavirus pandemic w

thank you for that update there that's john hendren live for us and chicago a u.s. navy sailor has died delta cats in corona virus he was one of hundreds of crewmembers who became infected on an aircraft carrier the captain of the theodore roosevelt was fired for writing tests come on this begging for help to stop the spread on board so after the acting navy secretary resigned for calling the captain stupid and naive criticizing the crew for hailing him a hero. let's take a closer look at the situation in europe now john mccain has the wrap up of developments for us from then. for many thousands of people across europe this is the reality of the coronavirus for many millions more it means locked down and the loss of their freedom of movement and for many weeks that's been the case in france now it's a president says it must stay that way a lot longer. don't look on this good morning to force hospitals a saturated everywhere in france in the french overseas territories the system is under strain there and the epidemic is not yet under control so we must continue our

more now on the growing economic impacts of covert 19 john hendren reports on huge losses reported by the world's 2 big plane makers. buffeted by a global pandemic in a crisis of its own making boeing is plunging deep into negative territory the company has been scrambling for more than a year to get its most lucrative plane this 737 max back in the air after it was grounded following 2 crashes that killed 346 people then the coronavirus emptied planes in airports with passenger travel down an unprecedented 95 percent boeing reported a loss of 6 $141000000.00 and now plans about $16000.00 layoffs 110th of its global workforce light all shut not just europe and united states but pretty much everywhere in the world the ramifications are. for the most part the industry is not interested in taking delivery of airplanes at the moment or paying against contracts that we have been here and so as a risk. well there is this moment in time. frozen striking jen with the dramatic reductions southwest and other airlines are cutting their orders for the 737 max and with fewer long haul travelers bo

john hendren al-jazeera chicago the un's chemical weapons warsong has blamed the syrian government for a series of deadly sarin and chlorine gas attacks against civilians are diplomatic editor james baker reports the saw good of the use of chemical weapons in syria has been long and horrific but now finally the results of a technical investigation that finds the assad regime responsible the inquiry by the international chemical weapons body the o.p.c. w finds that the mena in hamma governorates was attacked 3 times in march 27th teen over a week long period twice the syrian air force used bombs containing sarin this is the off the mark of the other occasion patients being treated for breathing difficulties after an improvised barrel bomb containing chlorine was dropped from the syrian helicopter into the hospital in the town. the report will be delivered to the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists so off to such clear findings is he now prepared to directly condemn the assad government that secretary general his position is unchanged that any it is. intolerable that anyone an

the spread of the corona virus prosecutors say for every one they find there are hundreds more john hendren al-jazeera chicago. a tiger at a new york zoo has tested positive for cope with 19 the bronx zoo said nadia is a 4 year old female the lion tiger had developed a dry cough and was tested as a precaution so officials said 6 other tigers and 3 lions also develop symptoms it's believed they were infected by as you employee. pick up the headlines right now for you on al-jazeera a total of almost $9000.00 people have now died from kroner virus and france that's after more than $800.00 people died on sunday that is the highest daily death toll there so far more than 74000 people are infected across the country britain's prime minister boris johnson is undergoing tests in hospital 10 days after being diagnosed with chronic virus he tweeted that he is in good spirits despite suffering continuing sentence and u.k. foreign secretary reassured the british public that johnson is still leading the country as you know last night the prime minister was admitted to hospital for tests following advice

economy reopens death toll there is now approaching 24000 as the world's highest john hendren reports from chicago. president donald trump is determined to open american homes and businesses even over the objections of some states when somebody is the president of the united states the authority is total and that's so it's got to be hoed 36 total it's the states closed the governors of new york and illinois dispute that saying they want to end shelter at home orders based on science and they say the science isn't clear on that yet we want to get things back to more normal as soon as we can but one thing that we have to pay attention to is what direction are these curves going and what are the what is the advice that we're getting from again the scientists and the doctors who know more about immunology and about you know all the issues of covert 19 then you know then a an elected official is not a doctor you know fiery 2 and a half hour news conference president trump excoriated journalists you know you're a fake so whatever they're doing it smirked as he showed a montage of news repor

thank you for that update that john hendren live for us from chicago. one time a state media says praising has approved 2 new experimental coronavirus back scenes that could be tested on humans sarah clarke is live for us and hong kong to tell us more so sara what more can you tell us. look we don't have too much more information about that particular clinical trial but all we know is that they've approved 2 experimental vaccinations to enter a clinical trial of these vaccines are being developed by a beijing based a biotech company in partnership with the will hand based pharmaceutical group but certainly some good news now china has already given approval for an earlier trial to take place and that was in march so it will be looking at some more information as the day develops but look at the latest cases coming out of china we have 89 new cases and that's down from 100 night the day before but of the total 86 were actually what the chinese are describing as imported cases that this particular area where the now looking at all focusing on is in the no

had a situation so the oil industry waits and worries until all the pumps return to service john hendren al-jazeera chicago. so i have an al-jazeera china hits back over criticism of its handling of the covert 19 pandemic plus we report from kenya where flash floods of last several people dead and many displaced. hello there more rain and thunderstorms in the forecast across all central areas of the arabian peninsula lot of time has been streaming into that i'll see as and is actually coming down or coming up i should say really from the central areas of africa more rain in the forecast into yemen that will help patrol with the flooding situation there and look at these dark areas of blue in around re out that is where we'll see some very heavy amounts of rain and it could drift further tools east and push once again across into cattle meanwhile through turkey wanted to show is that some heavy spells of rain that will work its way for the east as we go through wednesday and maybe wanted to scattered showers across into iran but it should be on the whole a drier day still one or 2 showers

officials to try to tackle when the united states can go back to business as usual all right john hendren thank you. health officials in the u.k. say the coronavirus outbreak is yet to reach its peak despite the death toll nearing 10000 the government repeated its warning for the public to stick to the lockdown restrictions over the easter weekend with warm weather forecast across much of the country you start figures highlight the gravity of this national emergency the devastating impact of this virus and the unprecedented but necessary action that we are taking to tackle it is affecting every aspect of our daily lives but my message to anyone still refusing to do the right thing is clear if you don't pay your part our selfless police who are out there risking their own lives to save others will be unafraid to act or the virus has overwhelmed hospitals across europe and forced tens of millions of people into lockdown there are even questions about whether the european union will survive because of what critics say was a muddled response to the pandemic florence lee reports. try jeffrey h

it was a religious holiday fraught with perhaps more meaning than it's had in years john hendren and you 0 chicago. italy has ordered about $150.00 migrants on to a quarantine ship they were 1st rescued by a german charity that's only a system they've been refused access to italy's ports of the fears of corona virus infections the migrants mainly from africa and the middle east and on the go health checks but no decision has been made about their final destination italy has banned all charity boats until at least july the 31st life was tough for indigenous subsistence farmers in malaysia before the coronavirus now they can't sell their produce and these rich normal a speaking people have a higher risk of catching any disease because of their impoverished lifestyles florence louis has the story. keep out the signs say indigenous communities in the laser have set up roadblocks preventing outsiders from entering their villages these are photos and videos we obtained from the center for our concerns a local non-governmental organization that works for indigenous people the only ascii whi

more than double as it weathers a shutdown of its north american plants which cannot measure john hendren in chicago for more such on some brutal figures there. that's right lauren few people are even getting gasoline let alone looking for a brand new car so you would expect it to be a bad time for carmakers and it was ford says that 1st quarter cost them 2 $1000000000.00 in losses and it gets worse from there in the 2nd quarter they expect to lose $5000000000.00 were than that and this couldn't possibly come better or worse time for the darker. we're going to find so they are giving up on cars like the for tourists a ford fiesta the ford fusion sedan smaller cars and they have moved to more lucrative big cars so they're going to make 90 percent issue these crossovers trucks and this could have come at a worse time because while very cheap and people can afford petrol for those gas guzzlers they really can't afford the cars themselves because so many people are out of work. this cool car wreck the company is going to be restarting its european operations on may 4th with safeguards too. an

told to go it was a religious holiday fraught with perhaps more meaning than it's had in years john hendren and you 0 chicago. italy is ordered about $150.00 migrants on to a quarantine ship they were 1st rescued by a german charity vessel. but they've been refused access to italy's holds over fears of corona virus infections and migrants mainly from africa and the middle east along to go health checks but no decision has been made about their final destination italy has banned all charity about until at least july the 31st now turkey's president got to talk about it the wind has rejected his interior minister's resignation. you tried to quit after enforcing a 48 hour curfew a short notice the lockdown sparked panic buying in major cities and has since been lifted thousands of people flooded shops many without wearing mandatory face masks nearly 2000 people have died from the virus in turkey nearly 57000 cases have been confirmed. russia is facing a shortage of beds and doctors after years of medical layoffs and hospital demolitions many fear the decision to save money could have a serious

rather shortages of both food and workers if the virus spreads into their rural communities john hendren reports from chicago. here in america's bread basket the corona virus has yet to descending force on the nation's farms. but john keep her nose it's coming and the timing could hardly be worse some people are going to get sick the numbers are out there the history of this virus is we're not going to avoid it. like most farmers keefe nurse who raises corn soybean and chickens is already socially isolated but the average us farmers 58 and a half years old putting them in the high risk group for the global pandemic that is yet to reach much of rural america a lot of younger farmers aren't worried about it all i'm of the mindset that i'm probably not going to avoid it i'm going to get it and i'd rather get it now well in the past year american farms have endured damaging floods a trade war with china and now a virus that threatens their workers and their ability to transport food to market if we shrink the labor pool this year that's going to be terrible all the emphasis is on the supply

with john hendren is live for us in chicago john we're going to talk in a moment about it from are you defending himself can you hear me now john have you got me yes i can tell so we'll talk a minute in a minute about defending himself against those criticisms but 1st let's talk about the picture he's giving giving nationally and about the flattening of that curve as it's known. that's right president trump his long been the voice of optimism within his administration he once said that he was a cheerleader at the beginning of this pandemic he seemed to be pretty dismissive of it at one point he he said that it would go away in april with the warm weather magically he said and then as he began to take things more seriously he has still presented a very positive picture about how things would go from there on originally wanted businesses to open back up on easter sunday that was a day ago and then he'd been talking about some time by may and now he has got a new council that he plans to announce on tuesday which will be a number of administration officials and business officials who woul

transmission across a virus and move to a low level transmission on to something better well john hendren joins me now live from chicago john new york state is still the worst hit and the head boxing continues with the federal government as we heard there but also between those 2 leaders who were at the station and the sea levels. that's right for weeks now the mayor of new york city and the governor of new york state of been playing a kind of good come bad cop with president donald trump with mayor bill de blasio being confrontational and critical and governor andrew cuomo being essentially cooperative and saying nice things about the president but now they seem to be going on the same page you've got to blasio especially criticizing the lack of tests saying it's hard to send people back to work when we can't test them and tell who has been sick and who is vulnerable and then you've got the governor of new york state saying that need the money has been misallocated from the federal government that states like new york which have been especially hard hit should get more of the money that'

of some of those numbers so here on easter there does seem to be some hope thank you for that john hendren there live from chicago. italy has ordered a group of refugees and migrants rescued by a charity vessel necessarily on to a quarantine ship around 150 people mainly from africa and the middle east with picked up by german n.g.o.s cia but the current polls are fears that access to courts have a virus infections on hold people on board will now have to undergo health checks but no decision has been made about their final destination italy has banned all charity boats until at least the end of july. and the impact of the pandemic and international lockdowns have had severe impacts on the global economy reducing the need for oil with a grinding to a halt the u.s. energy information administration says demand for petrol by american drivers is the noticed in decades norway based energy research center stat energy full cost the change in demand from april last year to now could be as much as $27000000.00 barrels per day the price of brant crude oil has fallen from more than $67.00 a barrel i

500000 that despite that president tom says he hopes the curve there could be flattening ok john hendren is joining us now from chicago john we were hearing at the press conference that president trump was holding part of the coronavirus task force regular press conferences that we've been seeing that he is very keen that the economy should be restarted as soon as possible but he is getting some pushback from his medical experts. that's right today the tone as it's always been was optimism in a more than 2 hour presidential news conference he can't pushing to open the economy in his words very very soon and by open i mean end the restrictions that require people to stay home and begin allowing those businesses the non-essential businesses to reopen throughout the united states he said that on a day in which the death toll worldwide crossed 100000 he said he hopes to keep the u.s. death toll below that number and he's talking about numbers like 526-5000 dead ideally in his words those are horrific numbers more than all of the americans who have died in all of the wars since since korea in

tank has to be turned around because domestic oil storage is expected to be filled up soon as john hendren reports. a flotilla of saudi oil tankers is slowly steaming toward the united states and into a chilly welcome for a u.s. ally it's indicative of how desperate these petro states are to sell their oil to find a place physically to find a place to plant their oil with the coronavirus driving all prices to historic lows all u.s. oil storage is expected to be filled in the next month the saudi move to occupy much of that precious storage space on the u.s. gulf coast has been called by some industry insiders an economic pearl harbor a hostile attack on u.s. soil a coalition of 13 u.s. senators from energy state goes even further calling it economic warfare texas senator ted cruz writes on twitter 20 tankers filled with 40000000 barrels of saudi oil are headed to the u.s. this is 7 times the typical monthly flow my message to the saudis turn the tankers the hell around cruz says the longtime u.s. ally is exploiting a pandemic to kill the rival american shale oil industry some analysts say

john hendren al-jazeera chicago. there's always more news on our web site al jazeera dot com the very latest on the coronavirus pandemic on their al-jazeera doc . again i'm fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera president donald trump is doubling down on his criticism of the world health organization he says the agency has been unfair by a to the wild by taking decisions that favor china has to stop politicizing the kohen virus and that. we're losing more bloody bags i think we would have done. and he would have been much better serving the people that he's supposed to serve if they gave a correct analysis and everything was as said china centric everything was going to be fine no human to human keep the borders open he wanted me to keep the borders open and close the borders despite him and that was a hard decision to make at the time we're all together later decision against the world health organisation i can't believe he's talking about politics when you look at the relationship they have to china so china

incredible it with with no exceptions it's looking like it's low john hendren has this update from chicago. 500000 cases half a 1000000 and a 3rd of them alone in new york state that is $172.00 cases there now that's only 0.15 percent of the u.s. population that's 327000000 but really we don't have a comprehensive testing system here in the u.s. so that is probably just a fraction of the actual number but we do know that some of our 18000 people have died as you mentioned that crossed the 2000 mark on a daily basis for the 1st time on friday the 1st case just to take you back happened in washington state on january 20th and that viruses moved quickly the administration estimated on friday that it would be on easter sunday that is this coming sunday since march 26th the u.s. has had more cases than any other country on earth and by march 31st president made a grim estimate saying 100-002-2400 extension 00 americans would die before the coronavirus pandemic was over now that's less than the $2200000.00 that the administration estimates would have died had nothing been done no state wide shut

the president assailed throughout his news conference his chief rival joe biden won handily john hendren al-jazeera chicago. well still ahead in al-jazeera how greece's dependency on tourism is proving a weakness during the pandemic libya's internationally recognized government makes gains against all of the $34.00 halftime capturing 7 towns. because see dry weather now pushing across japan we got this far yet the weather system now in the process of pulling out of the way caught on tape area of low pressure still some strong winds just rattling northern and eastern parts of the country for a time but high pressure will dominate the region for the next couple of days we are going to see some wet weather gradually pushing in across northern parts of china having said that a few showers just creep in the way towards beijing on wednesday that become a little more widespread as we head into the 2nd part of the week i'm heavy we'll see them sliding down towards the yellow sea as we go on through thursday south of that generally fine and dry east of that and we find it dry much just catch your

other countries there's also been the surge in complaints about profiteering and opportunism john hendren reports from chicago. as the corona virus spreads around the globe so is a series of equally viral scams cashing in on the crisis there are dozens and dozens and dozens of unique and difference coronavirus cyber attacks that are happening right now tor excel is a malware researcher in seattle he found this step which promises to alert android users when they're in a coronavirus hotspot instead the program locks the phone and demands a ransom from the user so far we've uncovered over $68000.00 domains and that number is growing daily there are also offers for vaccines in home tests and a $50.00 patch that immunizes you from the virus that we're in fact there is no vaccine no in home test no patch the scam artists are coming out of the woodwork very area here in michigan attorney general dana nestle tells al-jazeera she has fielded 4200 consumer complaints when people want you reserve your home. they are desperate anger or. any kind of scare in one scam callers as consumers who are desp

will see more growth in less populated places the virus 1st hits in the most dense locations john hendren is joining us from cic agoa so more criticism leveled at the president from the new york's mayor and governor john. that's right during for a long time the mayor of new york and the governor of new york state have been playing a kind of good cop bad cop game with donald trump with mayor bill de blasio offering upfront criticism of the president they've got a long history of untag and tagging isn't between them and the governor andrew cuomo mostly playing nice with the president but recently releasing some critical things he recently said the president says this is a war well then start acting like it's a war he's also one of many governors who want more money for their states he wants he signed on to a measure that would give states another 500000000000 dollars he says the money that's been spent so far has been missed allocated by the federal government that states like new york which have had the lion's share of the problem have not really been getting that proportion of funds just

by day situation so the oil industry waits and worries until all the pumps return to service john hendren al-jazeera chicago in our last hour i spoke with an 20 he's a founding partner and chief analyst a kid also a data tech company specialising in energy commodities he says the drop in price will have both a good and a bad impact on the consumer. it's a mixed tory for consumers especially in the us normally when the price goes down that's that's great for consumers it's effectively a tax cut for consumers it's good for industry as well in this case that doesn't apply because consumers are stuck at home and cannot really drive and use the oil so the benefit of low prices doesn't really trickle through to the economy just yet it will eventually when we get out of this and we might face the pressure and then low prices will be a stimulant to the to the economy but that's not the case today the other problem for the u.s. is that of course it's not just a consumer so producer so producing country producing states producing counties producing companies people employed in the oil industry or s

their work voters vented their fury even as they braved the virus to go to the polls in vote john hendren. chicago aid groups are concerned about the prospects of the pandemic reaching rebel held city in syria its population lives under extreme shortages of medicine and supplies and its hospitals have already been depleted by nearly a decade of war some an added city have taken matters into their own hands producing mosques and also creating much needed jobs so then closer earlier reports 5 years ago the war in syria khost mohammad al assad family members and his leg. now the latest advents by the syrian government forces has forced him from his home in sarah cape with other relatives and they are living in atlanta they face and in threat the coronavirus pandemic yet for him and his father it is also an opportunity they found much needed we're making masks. about one. there are no schools we used to study but now we can and i hope to return to the country my study of happy that i work. i'm also with friends so i'm getting used to this commission. ahmad ottawa mon often the smell of factor

ensign's condition in just a moment 1st let's go to john hendren who's joining us from chicago john just a few moments ago the press conference by the corona tasca force in the us at the white house was concluded president something they're being as usual very positive and trying to be very upbeat about the situation but against this backdrop of these enormous numbers of joblessness coming out of the u.s. . that's right it was quite a contrast rob the president came out saying that the u.s. was at the top of the hill when it comes to the coronavirus and in some cases going downward but that's not the case when it comes to the economy of and of course that's a lagging indicator here 6600000 new jobless claims 17000000 over the past 4 weeks out of work and filing new jobless claims and an unemployment rate of 1213 percent that's a level not seen since the great depression forecasters are saying they expect that to go up to at least 15 percent and $1.00 to $1.00 said that this is really essentially the great depression 2 here in the united states one sign of that is the trouble of the u.s.

accuse trump of distracting people from what they describe as his faulty response to the outbreak john hendren with more now from chicago. the president issued this tweet in the dark of night and he seemed to do that for good reason he could have made his announcement at his daily news conference where he talks about the coronavirus and all of the actions the administration is taking but by issuing this mysterious tweet late on a monday night he gets the morning news cycles where the newspapers 'd in the morning shows talking about what he's had to say and then in the afternoon he gets another round where he explains what his policy is and then it gets to gestate in analyzed again and the president wants to show that he's doing something the centers for disease control just a month ago in a little known action. issued an order that allowed the united states to stop people at the border who didn't have the proper papers and because of the pandemic that order allows them to send people back similarily no court hearing no chance for asylum they're sent back automatically and now the president is

last minute ruling in the supreme court results aren't expected until next week let's speak to john hendren in chicago about this john a lot of people try to stop this election from going forward how did it go and what can we expect from the results. well foley maybe a charitable way to put it is chaotic other people have been calling this election a number of different things one of them is undemocratic and other is irresponsible undemocratic because the way it was carried out there will be a number of people whose votes alternately probably will not be counted irresponsible because the republican legislature in order to gain an advantage in this election forced people to go out in the rain exposing themselves to the coronavirus by gathering together in order to hold this in person election today you spoke about people trying to stop that that that happened yesterday when the governor tony even has issued a declaration he's a democrat saying this vote cannot go forward the state supreme court countermanded him say yes it will you don't have the authority to do that and then the u.s. suprem

their work voters vented their fury even as they braved the virus to go to the polls in vote john hendren l.g. 0 chicago and now medical stuff in ecuador struggling to deal with the number of infections their 2 sons of the nearly 4000 cases are in the city of gaia kill the government says it's ramping up containment measures that. well nicaragua has no quarantine restrictions and the government is actually promoting mass gatherings but one person has been missing from the public eye as john holmes reports. there's one question everyone's asking in it could i work with the country's president. this was the last time daniel take it was seen in a video conference almost a month ago. while he disappeared as the coronavirus pandemic gripped the world his wife and vice president has been telling everyone else to go as normal as he can you got out well here in a nicaragua all of our authorities report normality in all actions and activities but a salute they certainly do going into easter buddhist beaches and bars have been open beauty pageants have been held. and the government itself is actual

an election for supreme court seats voting to raise despite growing virus stay at home orders john hendren has a report. with a choice between risking their health and casting their votes tens of thousands of wisconsinites arrived at the polls i would rather wait newsline hand in hand come together as an american to come exercises great god given freedom write the book they came with masks gloves and an abiding faith in democracy i know and a rising fear for the leaders who put them at risk by compelling them to carry out an election amid a deadly global pandemic it was an election marked by a uncertainty and chaos it is a complete mess here in the city of milwaukee where there are 100000 registered voters there are only only places there are usually 180 voters did 2 metres apart in lines that stretched for blocks elections had been postponed no doubt no question the on again off again election began after a 24 hour whirlwind of judicial action on monday that began with a democratic governor tony even his calling the election off i cannot in good conscious a lot any types of gathering that

20000 cases in the city hoping to get patients into newly built field hospitals soon as possible john hendren has this report. detroit famed for its riches to rags to riches story is reeling. the coronavirus threatens to undermine the motor city's rapid recovery from a 2013 bankruptcy. detroit's t.t.'s center was scheduled to house in north american international auto show in june that was expected to bring in $400000000.00. now instead beginning thursday it will begin accepting patients of a 1000 bed emergency coronavirus hospital this facility because it's been told that . they're going to create negative pressure in here just like a little road so the patients can talk again if needed they will be for the other for the motor city is just the latest virus hotspot to make the demoralizing conversion from commercial hall to crisis medical center it's a model the u.s. army corps of engineers has pursued in coronavirus hot spots around the u.s. from new york's massive jacob javits convention center to illinois the largest city where engineers have been installing thousands of beds in a matter o

sufficiently safe way to administer in person voting to more live out of chicago and a serious john hendren can tell us more at the supreme court in wisconsin disagrees with the governor john why. that's right it is supreme court said that the governor exceeded his authority that the authority to oversee the elections lies with the legislature so the governor's efforts have gone on he has asked the republican legislature in the past to postpone the election they said no he is a democrat they are republicans and then he went on to ask on friday if if they would allow it to be male only elections and then now on monday he's asked the state supreme court if it would just postpone the election until june 9th that court which is dominated by conservatives that is republican leni leaning appointees said no. and the political element to this is that true democrats there is a presidential primary here so most voters would choose between joe biden and bernie sanders but for all of the local officials this is also a general election so primary for the presidency general for local officials and republ