Fishermen on chinese vessels jakarta pushes beijing for answers. Hello thanks for joining us we begin in the u. S. Where new figures released on friday show unemployment has surged in april the largest rise in close to 90 years tens of millions of jobs have been wiped out across the country coronavirus lockdowns crippled the economy unemployment skyrocketed to 14. 7 percent it was 4. 4 percent in march and april 20 and a half 1000000 jobs were lost the worst result since the Great Depression which began in 1929 it far exceeds the 2008 global recession when 8700000 jobs were wiped out so lets bring in our White House Correspondent kelly how to joining us from there so its a Significant Development where these numbers expected kimberly. They certainly were expected but they are not welcome thats for sure the u. S. President reacting to them in just the last half hour speaking to reporters talking about these numbers and once again time trying to project optimism calling the shutdown that resulted in the loss of these jobs as a sensually being artificial in other words that this is not a bad economy is what hes saying the only reason these jobs have been lost is because it was this something that was necessary in order to save lives the stay at home orders that resulted in so many businesses being shuttered now the president seems optimistic that laid a light switch you can just turn things back on but thats not what his own Public Health officials are saying in fact just the opposite as well as Business Experts because well many argue including from this administration that these job losses are temporary others believe that it will be some time in order that there is a need for this recovery and this economic recovery in other words very simply well these jobs were lost over a matter of weeks it will be months even years in order to bring them back and what is the president saying on the number of coronavirus thats yeah well the u. S. President in as you recall one time projecting that the number of deaths could be in the 2000000 mark and thats why he says there was a need to shut down this economy but then that number was stayed home orders was significantly downgraded to 60000 what i can tell you though is that the u. S. President has now recalibrated that number somewhat now projecting that it will be much higher heres what he had to say. What i can say is if we did it the different way if we went heard if we just said lets wing it we would have been talking about numbers that would have been unsustainable and unacceptable you look on the screens you look on television today and you see. Body bags and you see mass graves and we may be talking about 95000 people ultimately we may be talking about something more than that. Now the u. S. President for his part doesnt want to see that number go beyond 100000 that is certainly what some are projecting that it could go much higher but the u. S. President for the 1st time really putting a fine point on the numbers in terms of deaths one other thing the u. S. President did say though because again hes the Eternal Optimist you projected that quote a virus is just going to go away as he spoke to reporters he was challenged by that fact that he put out there saying you know there isnt a vaccine you know what gives you so much optimism the u. S. President basically said it doesnt have any evidence hes listening to the scientists but in his view this is something that will clear up but thats not something that his own Public Health officials believe in fact dr foushee one of the top infected factious disease specialists in the United States said that this is going to be with the United States the world for some time now having said that we should also quickly mention speaking of corona virus cases there has been another one confirmed here on the white house campus just a day after learning the president s personal valet had tested positive for coded 19 weve now also learned of us president confirming this that a member of the Vice President s staff mike pence also testing positive now in terms of the name he just threw out the name katie we can tell you that there is a press secretary for the Vice President by that name he didnt confirm the last name but certainly if it is the press secretary it just gives you a sort of understanding of just how close this is coming to these top officials as they try to make the case that it is safe for ordinary americans to go about their jobs and can resume their lives that they too are being confronted with the real risk to their personal health all right kimberly thank you for that updates are from the white house. Well thousands of indian nationals are being repatriated from the middle east and Southeast Asia special flights have been chartered to bring back experts from singapore qatar the u. A. E. And saudi arabia the goal is to return at least 400000 citizens indian naval ships have also been deployed to bring people back from the mall deaves hundreds of thousands of indians have asked to be brought home after being stranded by Coronavirus Travel restrictions elizabeth purana has more from new delhi. The 1st 2 flights touched down between the United Arab Emirates and the Southern State of care that on thursday night and more have followed today landing in the capital new delhi in india administered meade this is whats being called. Operation that will take all of may and maybe 15000 people will be brought home from 12 countries all 64 flights but hundreds of thousands of indians have registered to come back to put that into context the United States is repatriated Something Like 80000. 00 and european nations together Something Like 65000. 00 and its not just planes naval warships are involved to have arrived in to bring Something Like a 1000 stranded indians back everyone a screened before and after getting on these flights and trains some people have landed showing symptoms of coronavirus have been taken to special closed hospitals most of the people have to go into quarantine facilities for 14 days in their home districts that people who are pregnant women children under 10 i want to be allowed to go home but they have to self isolate there are some concerns though the government in the Southern State of carolina with so many indians abroad from has actually asked people not to come back on this they absolutely have to because this saying that they dont have the Health Infrastructure and testing kits and it has to be said that carola probably has some of the best Health Infrastructure in the country but this saying that they just dont have the Health Infrastructure in place for the hundreds of thousands just from kara who registered to come back and theres also criticism from some others who said that they have lost their jobs that they simply dont have the money to pay for these flights to come back. Staying in india 16 workers have been killed while walking home after losing their jobs during the pandemic they were crushed by a Freight Train in maharastra when they stopped to rest on the tracks and fell asleep the laborers were going to their home state motor pradesh hundreds of kilometers away most public transport is shots to russia where corona virus infections have continued to surge the 1st case of local transmission was confirmed in moscow on march the 2nd but it would be nearly a month before the government began its lockdown a large number of infections were traced to russians returning from china and that prompted the suspension of inbound flights then it only took a month for infection rates to skyrocket with officials reporting 100000 cases more than china at the time which brings us to today where russia is now in the dire situation of having the 5th highest number for infections in the world and for the 6th day new cases have gone up by more than 10000 charlotte bellus has more. That Russian Police and Fire Fighters patrolled the streets with instructions observe the corone teen take care of yourself and stay home as countries around the world start to open up much of russia is closing down case numbers have escalated to put it in the top 5 of the world with more than 177000 cases but most goes mia fears and maybe even worse there is the body or for according to straining studies the entire number of infections a moscow ranges from 252300000 thats 3 times the official figure. At the table and now we have to toughen the requirements for travelling through the city and for the cemetery protection of people starting may 12th they will be strict measures for using public transport and masks and gloves will be compulsory and public places. Moskos 11000000 residents movie allowed to leave home for essential services only with restrictions extended until the end of may the only exceptions affect trees of construction sites of which many will become medical facilities prefabricated clinics are being built next to 13 most hospitals and other is a getting urgent extinctions moskos all russian exhibition same to is also being transformed into a Field Hospital before but when there is that here we will have patients of moderate severe itching we will not host seriously ill patients they will go to actual hospitals with more sophisticated and treats of care quite mature. Russia had avoided the exponential growth seen in other countries in the last week of march it had 1000 total cases is italy in the us so past 100000 president putin sent troops to help initially now theyre needed at home. I think russia should be proud because when europe and the. Struck by the code 19 pandemic you came to lend us a helping hand and not surprisingly russia has had similar problems and this is admirable its all hands to the front line is russias battle against corona virus as well and truly arrived shallop ballasts. Indonesias government is calling on beijing to answer accusations that fishermen were worked to death on board chinese vessels at least 3 indonesian men allegedly died on ships between december and march some of their co workers say they were physically abuse then forced to work for days without rest just to washington reports from jakarta. Underneath the sheet is the body of an intern asian fisherman its time for a quick prayer and then an unceremonious there well. Hes one of 3 indonesian crewmembers who died along ching 69. 00 and its just a vessels members of the crew say the men all have the same symptoms swelling chest pain and breathing difficulties they also say the boats captain has refused to go to port to get them medical care. After more than a year working in the seas near the pacific nation of some oil the vessel arrived in south korea where the men had to go into quarantine as part of coronavirus measures. The. Leaders one of them died shortly after they arrived. The men were working for a Chinese Business the dolly and ocean Fishing Company they captured footage of their work which appears to show endangered species of fish being caught and shark finning a south korean legal team looking into the case believes the captain refused to stop the ship because of these illegal activities. You know. Its. This. This. The men say they were forced to work for more than 18 hours at a stretch and often for 2 full days with no rest they say they were under fed and often physically abused by the chinese senior crew the indonesian government says its speaking with authorities in beijing to investigate those claims. Of the fisherman who worked for the same Chinese Company on different vessels have returned home to indonesia with similar grievances. People that it is like slavery but because of the contract we were forced to follow the orders of the captain and the company aljazeera has contacted the dalai and Fishing Company but it has yet to respond jessica washington aljazeera jakarta. Hundreds of protesters have rallied outside a courthouse in the u. S. State of georgia condemning the killing of an unarmed black man. In february it was captured on video which was leaked online this week prompting outrage across the country 2 white men have been charged with murder and aggravated assault and a gallagher has more. Well this case is now being run by the Georgia Bureau of investigation remember its almost 2 and a half months since our model bree was shot and killed allegedly by these 2 men who believed he was a burglar before that to prosecutors offices recused themselves from this case because one of the men suspected of killing him actually was a Police Detective who worked in those offices and had relationships with those prosecutors so the family of mr are being very frustrated to say the least until at this viral video came out its about 35 seconds long it seems to have changed everything across the political spectrum across the pace of which this investigation is now moving at the governor of georgia thought it was a deeply disturbing video joe biden the former Vice President said it reminded him of a lynching so these 2 men Gregory Mcmichael and his son travis were arrested on thursday they wont be charged with hate crimes because hate crimes do not exist in the state of georgia and investigators also said as this investigation widens out there may be more developments but certainly this case is now moving at a pace that it wasnt before it basically came to a standstill it was almost being brushed under the carpet but we will see what happens next because any jury could take weeks or even months to convene because of the current restrictions across the United States. Still to come on aljazeera grounded by the pandemic but looking to the future can the Aviation Industry charts a new chorus. Sleuths World Leaders mark the 75th anniversary of the end of world war 2 in europe in the shadow of the coronavirus. How low we go somewhere where the pushing into western parts of here for the next couple days but for the time being it is largely fine and dry for the central and western parts the west the weather is further east got some lively showers just around that western side of russias just 12 celsius with the sharon around for moscow but into the heart of europe its generally dry we got a few showers just around southern germany down towards the alps and he comes out west of weather pushing into western france just around the brest peninsula see some cloud right also tumbling in across spain and portugal over the next day or so this feature that we have making its way across scotland well introduced much cooler air across the British Isles as we go through the next day or so something of a change coming through it will probably not be high having said that but certainly feeling a good deal fresher than a flight those showers continue across western parts and big downpours into southern areas of france at least the side of spain into the western side of the bed but for much of the mediterranean it looks fine to drive with plenty of sunshine as is the case too across much of north africa you might just catch the old shower just around the far north of morocco pushing into Northern Areas of algeria for a time but for the most part were looking at plenty of sunshine over the next couple of days there we go with those showers around the bats on sunday with a top temperature of 20. A city defined by military occupation theres never been an arab state with the capital of jerusalem everyone is welcome but this default structure that maintains the can only project thats what we refuse it was one of the founders of the settlement with this and the story of jerusalem through the eyes of its own people segregation occupation discrimination injustice this is apartheid in the 21st century jerusalem a rock and a hard place on aljazeera. Following on the top stories on aljazeera more evidence of the devastating impact of the corona virus on the Worlds Largest economy more than 20000000. 00 people in the us lost their jobs last month the Unemployment Rate there has tripled since march. Thousands of indian nationals are being repatriated from the middle east and Southeast Asia specified to have been chartered to bring back expats from singapore qatar the u. A. E. And saudi arabia. 2 men in the United States have been charged with the murder of an unarmed black man ahmads are bery was shot dead in february but the former Police Detective and his son were not arrested until a video of the shooting was released this week. While the European Commission is pushing for a ban on nonessential travel to europe to be extended until june countries started blocking foreigners from entering in mid march to stop the spread of the virus and now the block is proposing an extension to the external border closures until june 15th currently only Health Care Workers and researchers from non e. U. Countries can enter. So one of the industrys worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic has been the Airline Industry departures from the u. Case 10 biggest airports have fallen by about 90 percent since the country shut down at least 4 airlines have entered administration or shut down completely u. K. Regional airlines fly us regionals trance state and compass and Virgin Australia which has domestic and International Flights but its not all despair on friday germanys lufthansa said it would double the number of operational aircraft next month to 160. 00 although thats 600. 00 fewer than at the end of last year while British AirwaysParent Company wants to be operating a 1000 flights a day between july and september 70 percent of its schedule lets speak about the Aviation Industry with alexander addition iacke hes the c. E. O. Of the International Air transport association i hes joining us live via skype from geneva thanks very much for your time with us on aljazeera mr so as youre going to zation has stated boosting Consumer Confidence in air travel is going to be critical for airlines recoveries but how do you do that when you yourself have recently said that passenger confidence will suffer a double whammy even when the pandemic is over thats a result of economic concerns and concerns about the safety of travel. We are working you know with governments and within the. Framework of the International Organization to restart our industry one of the key element to restart the industry is to organize and to implement a worldwide process to force send it all and check of passengers 1st of all truly straw their confidence and must fly safe and be sure that that plane is safe and secondly governments to be there and that they can lift problems frictions or border closures without risking really imploding the virus. In their countries so we are working with governments we are working with the National Organization to set up the process of control and so that will allow. Her to fly safely to safety the main concern and convents passenger to come back ok and as youre saying so there seems to be much discussion and debate right now over which measures will actually be need to put in place to convince people to come back and that theyre not at risk of traveling are catching the virus when theyre traveling now you yourself have said that you back there wearing a face masks but you dont back and the idea of leaving the middle seat empty or in the every 3rd seat empty in an aircraft i mean why is one of these social distancing measures better than the other. But 1st of all our preliminary study and system. Come urged to say that the risk of being contaminated on board is very limited and when they say its really minimal. First of all these studies have been made when passengers when the obliged to wear special equipment or where and when the they were not controlled or shipped so what we say is if we implement checking point such as our temperature control if we introduce the very sure to wear a mask of india for then on board men 3. The risk to the company noted. In the ford. Car is absolutely minimized i understand what youre saying about preliminary studies just allow me for a 2nd then astonishingly i because isnt there a risk though that you could be going against the scientific advice of scientists and Health Officials as well as the World Health Organization and governments who as you know have been advising for people to social distance no matter where they are. I fully understand your comment but you must know that the process described as being put together by a met specialist one and some of them are sitting in the w. H. O. And we are working with government and International Organizations such as i and w. H. O. To expertize this process to confirm to confirm it and to be sure that if it is implemented the risk is minimal viewed by the scientists and by the medical community so that you know safety is our cue priority theres no compromise on safety in their lives and then there will be no compromise on health. For group and of course. For youth from the governments from the respective countries of origin and destination ok and finally let me just ask you while i have you with us i mean how much worse do you think this crisis is going to get for the Airline Industry and how would you rate this crisis. For seats that the most souvenir crisis since the 2nd world war. We have never experienced you know a drop in revenues by more than 50 percent of revenue than 20000000000. 00 u. S. Dollars last approve it used to 20 cash burn that is putting. In a situation in which they are. Very close to bankruptcy and so we rely on Government Support packages to bridge the gap they will do it every day supportive and positive so i think that will prove but the set that will be probably will shrink it will be. A bit weaker than it was which is the good news for president and lead for anybody but we will be stuck in a safe way that can trust us all right alexander doesnt act we thank you very much for speaking to us from geneva thank you thank you very much. Authorities in greece say the country will open to tourists on the 1st of july popular resorts like sensory ne have been nearly empty since greece imposed a lockdown at the end of march screens have been put up around sun lounges on beaches in anticipation of tourists return greece has one of the lowest infection rates in europe with fewer than 3000 cases and 150 deaths. Despite spain being one of the worst affected countries one small village has so far managed to stay virus free him in the south of the country doesnt have a single coronavirus case the town has a mostly Elderly Population and people there are praising the mayor for keeping them safe francisco have yellow bus has and forced Strict Lockdown measures hes also been delivering food medication and musts throughout the Community Leaders across europe on beyond have been marking the 75th anniversary of d. Day the end of world war 2 on the continent but victory parades have been canceled celebrations dampened as most european nations remain in lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic and i heard reports from lincolnshire. Flying low above london to mark the 75 years since the end of the 2nd world war in europe. Many thought for i didnt remember one of the worlds worst conflicts any of us who were born since 940 thought are acutely conscious that we are we most value to the generation who won the 2nd world war today we celebrate their achievement we remember their sacrifice on unity and. On maybe 8 in 1945 britains wartime Prime MinisterWinston Churchill addressed the nation nazi germany he told them at the end it the allied forces have crushed naziism in fascism. After years of wartime restrictions people kicked back celebrating for hours and crowding the streets. How different it looks now with public gatherings and commemorations canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. And birth in cities towns and villages marking the day inside gardens for nearly 7 weeks people have lived in looked down on these parties our way of coming together safely staying apart a way of showing you know just like communities did 75 years ago. Across europe where tens of millions of people lost their lives in world war 2 there were pared down commemorations because of coronavirus frances president emmanuel mccrone laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier while i hope that the remembrance of germany central woman morial and berlin the European Union was borne out of the war with former enemies coming together politically and economically to secure a lasting peace what we had seen in the last 70 years is not the european project is remarkably flexible countries join countries leave the name of the Organization Changes the powers and the institutions that it will eyes on will develop and walks away so the European Union is currently at a crossroads. The result of many people show during world war 2 along with the sacrifices they made still inspired today and feel all the more pertinent in these times of crisis emma heywood aljazeera lincolnshire. As always you can head online aljazeera dot com for much more news. Hello again the headlines on aljazeera more evidence of the devastating impact of the coronavirus in the Worlds Largest economy war than 20000000. 00 people in the u. S. Lost their jobs last month the Unemployment Rate there has tripled since march its the worst result since the Great Depression and after the release of those unemployment figures donald trump provided a stark prediction on how many people in the u. S. Might die because of the coronavirus what i can say is if we did it the different way if we went heard if we just said lets wing it we would have been talking about numbers that would have been unsustainable and unacceptable you look at. The screens you look on television today and you see. Body bags and you see miss graves. We may be talking about 95000. 00 people ultimately we may be talking about something more than that thousands of indian nationals are being repatriated from the middle east and Southeast Asia special flights have been chartered to bring back expats from singapore qatar the u. A. E. And saudi arabia the goal is to return at least 400000 citizens stranded because of the coronavirus into naval ships have also been deployed to bring people back from the mall deaves the European Commission is pushing for a baton on nonessential travel to europe to be extended until june you country started blocking foreigners from entering in mid march to stop the spread of the virus now the block is proposing an extension to the external border closures until june 15th. 2 men in the United States have been charged with the murder of an unarmed black man im odds are barry was shot dead in february but the former Police Detective on his son were not arrested until a video of the shooting was released this week World Leaders have marked the 75th anniversary of d. Day the end of the 2nd world war in europe restrictions because the coronavirus pandemic prevented planned street parties from going ahead its. 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