A moment to double youre watching aljazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up hours after launching another attack on tripoli the libyan warlord after says his forces will stop fucking changing the holy month of ramadan plus. Utterly until it is like. A parting shot from the uns outgoing special rapporteur for me in march against leader Aung Sun Suu Kyi. This is still early days in the worldwide recession brought about by the coronavirus pandemic but we have a better sense of the damage it is doing the u. S. Economy the worlds biggest seen a decade of growth wiped out in 3 months shrinking by almost 5 percent the u. S. Plane maker boeing has reported 1st quarter losses of more than 600000000. 00 over the same period its european rival lost 515000000. 00 and the e. U. s biggest economy germany is forecasting its worst year since the end of world war 2 will begin in the u. S. We have this report for. She had her tanzi. The 4. 8 percent decline for g. D. P. Between january and march represents the largest decline since the 2008 recession Consumer Spending which accounts for 70 percent of g. D. P. Dropped by an idealized rate of 7. 6 percent the largest drop since 980. 00 moreover this is just a preliminary estimate Analysts Expect the eventual number to be far higher than these numbers are for a quarter in which the economic locked down only accounted for a few weeks 2nd quarter g. D. P. Figures for april to june a projected to register a decline of around 30 to 40 percent with some Financial Institutions predicting much much worse the white house is still clinging on to the hope of a v. Shaped recovery helped by a rapid reopening of the u. S. Economy i think is a tremendous feeling of optimism in this country i think the 3rd quarters transitional that it would were transitioning into but its a very transitional period i think its going to do good but i think the 4th quarter is going to be fantastic but reopening the economy too soon and then facing an even deeper recession is a risk i think fundamentally its going to end on whether the u. S. Is capable of actually putting implants sophisticated widespread testing in crime scene which allows people to essentially go out and where they can be in this community is likely to be as might be true on our recovery mountains back at the Federal Reserve drain poll pledge to do all that could be done were doing all we can to help American Families and businesses whether this difficult period we will continue to use our tools to assure that the recovery when it comes will be as robust as possible Interest Rate cuts and trillions of dollars in spending by the fed have injected liquidity into the Financial System along with the stimulus passed by congress markets have been reassured in fact this treaty. Whos after the g. D. P. Figures were announced but there is more and more evidence of that the money being spent is not reaching those most in need with unemployment now projected to reach 20 percent in june there are increasing calls for far bold action to help those who now find themselves without the money for rent mortgage is health care and food. Well there does appear to be some better news on the treatment front top u. S. Infectious diseases advisor dr anthony felt she says theyre seeing progress in trials with an antiviral drug disappear dr she says the average Recovery Time was cut from 15 days to 11 while the u. S. National institutes of health are reporting that the mortality rates dropped from 11 and a half to 8 percent. Although with 31 percent improvement doesnt seem like a knock out 100 percent it is a very important proof of concept because what it is proven is that a drug can block this virus live to washington and my colleague our correspondent Mike Anderson might there must be in building a lot of hope into this drug. Or certainly on that recommendation from the foremost medical authority in the United States dr Anthony Fowler tree hes worked on combating viruses from the bowler hiv aids and now the current pandemic occurring now one must stress as well this is very early days the trial that was conducted using rem disappear was a limited one it was a little more than a 1000 patients some of whom were given placebos some of whom were given the actual antiviral drugs and as you heard there the Recovery Time of those who took the drug was far less than those who were given the placebo so certainly this is an indication as dr files pointed out that there is some kind of impact that this drug does have on the virus very important but it must also be stressed this is not a vaccine this is for treatment of the virus and what it appears to do is that the virus replicates itself as the patient is suffering the drug is aimed at preventing that duplication of the virus within the patients body so as felt she points out is an indication that at least one drug has some kind of impact on the virus to date no drug has shown any kind of impact on the virus whatsoever now the f. D. A. Is not giving a blanket approval it may well issue a emergency recommendation in coming days to allow wider trials to continue to take a little closer look at exactly how the struct can impact the care of coronavirus patients mike thanks very much. Well have more coverage of the corona virus pandemic a little later but for the moment well turn to another developing story for you this half hour the libyan warlord liefer have to has announced his forces will observe a cease fire during the muslim holy month of ramadan hes been trying to take over the capital tripoli for a year and remove the u. N. Recognize government thats based there now early on weapons say at least one person was killed and several were injured during an attack on a Health Complex east of tripoli the tripoli government blamed it on a leaf after on monday he ended peace talks with the government our correspondent mahmoud uphill will head joins us from the libyan capital has this ceasefire this sation of hostilities actually started. Well its now quite peter on the front lines but it does not mean that it has to other remember that have to as spokesman announcements has been contradictory you know that the last ramadan last year they said that ramadan is the month of jihad were boosting their forces to continue the battle to attack the capital of tripoli this ramadan this year he is calling on to he is an hour saying get the cessation of hostilities but that this has been interpreted here in the west of libya as a kind of maneuver to gain time to maintain their positions maybe to regroup and rearrange their plans and to also plan another or fresh attack on the capital tripoli in a member have to others have to himself rejected that many cease fire proposals in the past and only this comes only a few weeks after this set back his forces suffered in the west of libya after the last several strategic cities and towns along the highway linking the capital tripoli to the tunisian borders and only a few hours ago have those forces have been engaging in heavy fighting against the Government Forces in the vicinity of the city after now this and i was meant has not been taken seriously has not been taken for granted especially in the worst of libya forces do not trust hafter specially with his past experience of rejecting many ceasefire proposals markman thanks very much. And in another development out of libya sources have told al jazeera that an aircraft carrying prominent officials from the United Arab Emirates flew to the sudanese capital khartoum on tuesday sources say the m r r t delegation including the brother of Abu Dhabis Crown prince met sudanese officials to discuss military support for after sudan these officials have denied any meeting taking place lets talk to William Lawrence formerly a u. S. Diplomat in libya and a professor of International Affairs at American University he joins us from washington william welcome back to aljazeera these discussions assuming for a 2nd they did take place they didnt take place for a particularly long time so realistically what could they achieve. You know to our discussion as much as you are or it these were probably relatively quick discussions about how to recruit more sudanese troops sudan and other east african countries thats provided some 3000 troops to support general have turned east in the last year or 2 and it was a major feature the u. N. Experts were to came out in december winking at u. A. E. Is sort of the worst violator of the arms embargo on libya they were accused of son sudanese that were falsely recruited to work in the u. A. E. And then sent to libya theres another case breaking in multiple speak about a unique funded arms dealer has been running people in and out of libya that is now under arrest along with several of. His comrades conspirators in malta and its increasing it is an international spotlight on the u. A. E. Insofar as its providing more and more on seeing more and more troops to support her and this is one of the reasons why that plane you mentioned flew in under the cover of the Manchester United logo and has been denials all around ok thats a slightly unreal element to what were discussing but the idea of an aircraft with amongst a united logo emblazoned on the side of it surely thats in direct contradiction of the sanctions that exist and are in place surrounding the jigsaw players in this scenario. And one of the thats true and one of the surprising things is that early on current switched to not nature resolution among the living parties as had been hoped i would give me a resolution among all the International Parties that lead to what should by a point communique have passed by the Un Security Council 14 to 0 to one with a russian abstention just as russian mercenaries have been looking about a certain way but even the russians this week are earth in a positive way to the International Consensus over libya which is to name and shame the buying leaders of the arms embargo which are chiefly a u. A. E. Turkey and russia now russias been a little bit left out of recent conversations all of that increasing our. Sounds of alarm about the russian mob increasing about east is from the u. A. E. And will be issued to see in the coming days and weeks whether at this site which an annuity leads to a change in direction as we saw in yemen when pressures on the u. A. E. Or whether theyll just go ahead with this plan to support have there in any way they can ok when it comes down to the bottom line against william when you talk there about supporting have to or not you couldnt you could not say in the last couple of years that sudan khartoum is in a state of equilibrium anyway so what would they get from that and why would they say yes we will give you what youre asking for. There are several reasons one is the core of the sudanese troops that were sense. Were the farmers in india we accused of war crimes in darfur and elsewhere and using a sort of a safety valve effect on sudan and letting the sort of worst of the worst of city students were implicated in hard to massacres last june out and awful you know where the in committed whatever war crimes they want but dont want to have any effect on sudan so theres that site in a back theres also debates within the Sudanese Security forces and military about you know which troops are involved in the current machine which arent and certainly theres a lot of poverty now its a gang to be aggravated further by all the could be venting shutdowns and those nice soldiers and guards and others while the employments whats interesting on the front lines in libya is theres increasing segregation among all these mercenaries who dont trust each other so weve got russians running away from syrians on the front line we on the other side be as afraid to line up with syria churchmen and so could the 19 is also affecting the front lines which makes it much harder for have to are which is part of the context of this quiet zone cease fire that were looking at right now william great to get your context and your take on this developing story nice to talk to again thank you very much. In the news ahead here on aljazeera angered by the worsening economy lebanese protesters back on the streets for another day. And this could be 19 looms over the war ravaged syria president Bashar Al Assad is accused of holding on to medical supplies so. Weve got another round of severe storms making their way across southern parts of the u. S. Central plains also seeing some rather wet weather day perrie of low pressure here just tucked in and lot will drive the wet the windy weather and a few tornadoes further a switch as we go through the next few days pushing across the appalachians alabama georgia seeing some very heavy rain through the carolinas right into the middle antic states and that very wet weather with the possibility of some localized flooding will be in place as we go through a good part of thursday dry weather comes in behind so very hot down towards the Desert Southwest temperatures hit could well get up around the 40 degree mark over towards the west coast some mild pleasant weather but a more pleasant weather coming through here at around 20 celsius a few showers there just tumbling across the rockies on thursday theyll skirt a little further east which is we go on through friday pushing across the Northern Plains central parts of canada and by friday notice that wet weather into the northeastern corner so pulling across new york into new england that is to sort of kind of the further south it should be last fine and dry slightly fought and dry across the caribbean although we do have some showers little bit more clout there into cuba so for the Greater Antilles you can expect see a little bit of wet weather with a chance of some showers making their way to jamaica. Easily. And trace frank assessments wise its really struggling. Cope with the number of her own virus failure to take really aggressive action with them behind her informed opinions its going to be much more challenging in a place like haiti where theres one way here very relieved people in depth analysis of the days global headlines as india done enough to nip the spread of their own of ours in the inside story on aljazeera. Welcome back youre watching aljazeera live from the peter dhabi these are your top stories so far new Financial Data shows the impacts the coronavirus and make is having on world economies the us germany and nigeria the economic heart of africa are among the countries experiencing their worst recessions in years. The libyan warlord holly for how tough has announced a ceasefire in the muslim holy month of ramadan earlier on weapons day he was accused of ordering an attack that killed at least one person in tripoli. And al jazeera has learned that a plane carrying prominent officials from the United Arab Emirates flew to the sudanese capital khartoum on tuesday sources say the amorality delegation was missing sudanese officials to discuss military support for after. Lets get more now for you on the growing Economic Impacts of covert 19 john hendren reports on huge losses reported by the worlds 2 big plane maker is. Buffeted by a Global Pandemic and 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 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 and or. Against contracts that we have in here and so as a result there is this moment in time for try to contend with the dramatic reductions southwest and other airlines are cutting their orders for the 737 max and with fewer long haul travelers boeing is cutting back on production of its massive 777 and 787 dreamliner jets boeing is the United States largest exporting manufacturer and it said that when boeing sneezes americas economy catches cold now foundations of highly skilled highly paid boeing workers will be joining the waiters Service Workers and others who are among the 1st wave of coronavirus layoffs and that will reverberate down the boeing supply chain and throughout the u. S. Economy boeing rival airbus also posted a 521000000. 00 loss in what it c. E. O. Calls the greatest crisis. The Aerospace Industry has ever known analysts say boeing and airbus will have to restructure for a new marketplace and compete with their own cheaper used planes languishing on tarmacs around the globe theyre all up theyve got nowhere to go really being there isnt any certainly across the Pacific Coast that new europe not many people are planning a trip. Really right now so its going to be own long time theyre going to readjust and be a Smaller Company although the Global Pandemic took just months to ground much of the Aviation Industry analysts say it will take years to arrive at a new normal john hendren which is era chicago. Well staying with the economic aspects of that nearly half of the worlds workers are in danger of losing their livelihoods because of the pandemic the uns International Labor organization is forecasting that up to 1600000000 people working in the informal economy could be out of a job most of them have no welfare protection nor access to health care in just the 1st months of the outbreak these workers lost 60 percent of their income manufacturing Food Services and retail are among the worst hit sectors the number of coronavirus related deaths in the u. K. Has jumped to more than 26000. 00 for the government including care home numbers for the 1st time the lockdown in europe is raising fears about the economy catherine stansell with more. Despite 5 weeks of lockdown the u. K. Reaches a grim milestone the death toll from coronavirus is now the 2nd highest in europe behind italy. The man standing in for Prime MinisterBoris Johnson himself still recovering from corona virus says this is down to the fact that deaths outside of hospitals were not being recorded in the daily figures until now we have recorded an additional 3811. 00 deaths in total and i think its just important to say that those additional deaths were spread over the period from the 2nd of march the 28th of april so that they dont represent a sudden surge in the number of deaths but secretary robert lee or face a grilling in parliament for a Prime Ministers question time where most m. P. s took part in virtually not in person Opposition Leader cure starmer wanted to know why there are still so many people dying of coronavirus in care homes and shortages of protective equipment for Frontline Health workers. On monday the promise to said in his short speech that many were looking at our apparent success in the United Kingdom but just the 1st secretary agree with me but far from success these latest figures are truly dreadful so he also asked when the government would announce a strategy for lifting the current restrictions rob simply said it was still too early but he will know because i know hes in a situation of the International Evidence that germany has now had to think twice about easing up on the measures because of the risk of the 2nd spike germanys economy minister says he now expects Economic Growth to shrink this year by minus 6. 3 percent meaning the countrys deepest recession since the 2nd world war output is predicted to rebound by more than 5 percent next year. But that depends on government being able to gradually lift lockdown measures from wednesday germans have to wear a mask when entering shops which began to open last week nose and mouth coverings are already compulsory on public transport but while this kind of travel is permitted International Trips are very much off the agenda its given it to. The cabinet decided that Global Travel restrictions were nonessential on Holiday Travel will be up held until june 14th this is a decision that we have had to take because we are not at the point in our fight against the disease to be able to offer safe travels. Meanwhile in spain one of europes worst hit countries theyve recorded a daily coronavirus death count below 400 for the 6th day in a row in the summer times theres reason to be hopeful catholics dancer al jazeera. Theyre being processed in several lebanese cities for a 3rd straight night against the worsening Economic Situation of the demonstrators in the Southern City of sidon through a molotov cocktail the branch of the Lebanese Central Bank the banks chiefest and i delegate thousands of trying to destabilize lebanon. Errancy. 6 u. N. Secretary general is again appealing for an immediate cease fire in syria following what he described as a horrific market bombing and the humanitarian chief is accusing syrian Government Forces of weaponize in covert 19 diplomatic editor james bays hours before the u. N. Security council held a virtual session on syria a fuel tanker rigged with explosives was detonated in the Northern City of a 3 the death toll stands at well over 40 even though the worlds attention is on the pandemic and the overall level of violence in syria has reduced in recent months this a grim reminder that the countrys war is now in its 10th year the u. N. Special envoy repeated his call for an immediate cease fire it cannot afford hostilities which would soon surely lead grenada search in displays removed to build communities something that no bitterness in our are only 2 months ago we cannot afford this scenario before the pandemic the prize could only be higher now the u. N. Humanitarian coordinator mark load says its been impossible to get all of the much needed medical supplies to northeast syria across the front lines from damascus mr president gaps in medical supplies in the area are widening as its high when we should be urgently scaling up. Africa over 90 days gaps in narrow. In an interview one leading human rights campaigner told me it looks as though the Assad Government is putting deliberate obstacles in the way of the delivery of medical supplies our concern is that the reason why the mask is blocking a lot of the syria is the same reason why theyve been waging a war and the last few years which is to put pressure on the population to capitulate and to really submit to be off or of damascus and so we are concerned that the regime is weapon mazing that pandemic to bring the people of northeast syria to its knees so the accusation is clear the Syrian Government which with its allies in the past has bombed hospitals and has used starvation as a way to defeat rebel areas is now using coded 19 as a weapon of war clearly it would be possible for the Syrian Government to refute this easily all theyd have to do is allow the free flow of medical aid to all parts of the country james plays out his era at the United Nations. The uns outgoing human rights envoy for me in ma says the countrys leader Aung Sun Suu Kyi has failed to live up to her reputation as a humanitarian and young he has told aljazeera she believes me and mars army carried out ethnic cleansing is waning. For more than 2 years young he leave was unable to do her job properly the United Nations expert on human rights in myanmar was barred from the country in late 2017 as the government labeled her biased and unfair just months earlier Security Forces had begun their latest and most violent crackdown against ridding get communities in Rakhine State now as she prepares to leave her position leases the military continues to deliberately target running and other ethnic groups as it fights a buddhist separatist army they know where their houses are really now where the religious right are now where schools not one monastery was yet and shelling and bombings continue and its really hard to believe theyre not targeting civilians. Following the violence of 2017 hundreds of thousands of running get fled to neighboring bangladesh where they remain the murder rape and torture carried out by Security Forces was documented by many Rights Groups and resulted in genocide charges being laid against me and at the International Court of justice in december last year me and mas leader Aung Sun Suu Kyi travel to the hague to open her Governments Defense against the charges which she said are misleading in a preliminary ruling the judge has ordered the National League for democracy or n l d government and the military to take steps to prevent further attacks on the ring but li and other observers say nothing has happened not yet variac human right attack by the burning me and the there are repression and i remember the army and the government not in any direction are there in your nation in every direction are men in their right and yet all are very tense many are right in vision or in the current remain suchi was once held up as a symbol of hope for me and my but his silence and inaction on rights abuses mean most of that hope has been extinguished young he leases shes utterly disappointed in her real knew that she was put on how to still were great trade as the icon democracy and human rights but as a sense the n l d has to end and ever since she took the our state. All of her actions and her words statements quite otherwise. There is an election judge ruled later this year and sue cheese party will be expected to win again many believe the military which once ruled the country for almost 50 years will continue to control it from behind the scenes and the uns new human rights inspector will probably continue to be banned wayne hey al jazeera. This is al jazeera these are your top stories new Financial Data shows the impacts the coronavirus pandemic is having on world economies the United States germany and nigeria the economic heart of africa are among the countries experiencing their worst recessions in years the Aviation Industry is also reeling from the pandemic u. S. Plane make a boeing has reported losses of at least 600000000. 00 it says it will cut 10 percent of the workforce its rival in europe as it lost more than half a 1000000000. 00 in the 1st quarter as well there appears to be better news on the treatment front top u. S. Infectious diseases advisor dr anthony felt she says there seem progress in trials with an antiviral drug dysrhythmia dr fauji said the average Recovery Time was cut from 15 days to 11 mike hanna is in washington. Certainly this is an indication as dr prouty pointed out that there is some kind of impact that this drug does have on the virus very important but it must also be stressed this is not a vaccine this is poor treatment of the virus and what it appears to do is that the virus replicates itself as the patient is suffering the drug is aimed at preventing that duplication of the virus within the patients body the libyan warlord has announced a ceasefire for the holy month of ramadan it comes after numerous calls from the International Community for a stop to the violence to focus on combat in coronavirus aljazeera has learned a plane carrying prominent officials from the u. A. E. Flew to the sudanese capital khartoum on tuesday sources say the emirates delegation was meetings to tunis officials to discuss military support for half the sudanese officials denied that. Lots more news on the web sites is always there for you to see a dot com up next counting the cost im back after that with more news see that. A time of spirituality reflection and gratitude raise the flags the flags every color. Well how how he reveals the stories behind some of the arab world songs and chants for the holy month. Touched the hearts of. Songs. Carried this is counting the cost on aljazeera your look at the world of business and economics this week billions now to save trillions in lost economic output the hunt for a vaccine is on well talk to the c. E. O. Of a drug maker that is using a cancer drug in trials to treat over 1000. 00 patients and from senegal the 1. 00. Oil shock brute