Pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. America. Boom times to heartbreaking bust , 20 million americans lost their jobs last month, as the coronavirus laid waste. Revisiting americas other medical crisis, how the battle against opioids has been made more complicated by covid19. Charges filed in the killing of an unarmed black man in georgia, a case that has inflamed passions nationwide. Anchor Prince Charles among those leading tributes for the end of the Second World War. The queen also marked the occasion. Many people lay down their lives in that terrible conflict. They fought so we could live in peace, at home and abroad. Anchor for all you watching on pbs and around the globe, weome to bbc world news america. Todays snapshot of the u. S. Unemployment was for the record books. The rate sword it to its highest level since the great dression in april, as the pandemic battered the economy. More than 20 million jobs were lost in america commit many more than the previous record of 800,000 during the great depression. That means that u. S. Unemployment rate has surged to 14. 7 , the highest since the 1930s. Our Business Correspondent has been speaking with some of those affected. Correspondent americans tend to be resilient, but that toughness is being tested by the coronavirus, the speed and depth of the downturn, uncomfortable comparisons. It is a grave shock and something we need to take seriously. Correspondent it has been a tough month for this single mother. She is now collecting unemployment benefits. Im not sure what will happen next. Correspondent she received a total of 1800 from the u. S. Government and use the money to pay her rent. How much economic damage has this done to you . I am afraid to think about future. For now, im good. I got paid. I will pay my rent, pay my bills. What the future brings, this is something you try not to think of. Correspoent the virus has left countle americans and die your financial straits. The economic pain plain to see at protests like this one in california. Here, they want state leaders to cancel rent for the health crisis. Nearly a third of renters one able to afford monthly housing costs in april. With so Many Americans out of wo, many worry a housing crisis may not be far off. This is the worst housing isis in generations. If eviions continue as normal, this Public Health crisis will turn into a fullown crisis. Correspondent one person works as a contract medical assistant and tell the pandemic took her job. I am one among so many experiencing this. Correspondent she lives in a two bedroom apartment. With no income, she could not pay the rent and was unable to reach an agreement with her landlord. They were not willing to work with me or waive any administrative fees or late fees. Correspondent in february, the Unemployment Rate was at 3. 5 . After 113 straight months of job creation. The coronavirus changed that. The pandemic took with it millions of jobs, wiped out a decade of job growth, and now threatens other parts of the economy. The changeas swift and dramatic, and therere signs the recovery wont be nearly as quick. Anchor for more on those crushing job numbers, im joined now by the chief economist for an organization. Thank you for being with us. You said this was one of the hardest days you face as i economist. How can we compared this with past economic challenges . You cant. We have lost more than double the losses of the great recession, 2008 two 2000 time, in five weeks, in the month of april, really stunning, and those numbers are in undercount as well. The statistical agencies went to great efforts to change their methodologies to capture and estimate the losses among Small Businesses. The losses were accumulating faster than they could catch them. That in the Unemployment Rate, which is also an understatement. Many workers say they are absent from work, which is what you do when youre sick, at home, or on vacation. They actually lost her job. If you add those in, the Unemployment Rate was closer to 20 . We also had a lot of people drop out of the labor force, hispanic, black, women, and that kept the Unemployment Rate lower than it would have been. Anchor certainly this has been concerning for women and minorities. There is a sense that temporary jobs, will they come back . Will they be permanently lost . The issue that many people on furlough and will be call back would be great news if it were to happen, but the reality is that as we ramp up and reopened, many businesses will not run near the capacity they did precovid, especially in a postcovid contagious world we are in, and a high contagion rate. We still have to do social distancing through the summer. Restaurants are being asked to do 25 , 50 capacity. That does not cover their overhead or waitstaff. Disney nights are thursday through sunday, and the bar is the most profitable part of those nights, so the hardest hit of the economy, travel, tourism, restaurants, that will be hard to reopen and recall these lowwage workers hit so hard. Anchor given that, and i think during the financial crisis of 2008, it took eight years to recover the Unemployment Rate to 5 , so how long could this impa america . The real issue is whether we can get more relief to preserve as much of the economy as possible and stimulus on the others this. Investors are begging us after adjusting for inflation are long term treasury bond are negative. They are saying go ahead and go into more debt. I am a deficit hawk, but im sorry, at this time, we need to spend more money to keep the economy intact and have Infrastructure Spending and training on the other side for all the other workers who will be displaced. I worry about all the Small Businesses that will never be able to open again. They will shut down over the summer or have gotten close to shutting down and not able to reopen in enough Critical Mass way to cover their costs, let alone their personnel. Anchor thank you so much for your insight. Until the coronavirus hit, the Opioid Crisis was americas biggest Public Health emergency. Overdoses accounted for 46,000 deaths in 2018. New hampshire was one of the worst affected states. Services and treatment for addiction have been reduced to buy covid closures, and there is now concerned there could be a new spike in this use and deaths. We have this report from new hampshire. Correspondent andrew is one of the few Still Available to the struggling opioid and tricks addicts. I have needles Correspondent Health centers close, resources cut off. The Opioid Epidemic that killed more than 400 people year at its peak risks being sidelined by another health crisis. I dont know anyone that has covid or has got covid or has died of covid. I have a long list of friends that are all dead because of opiates. I would say the sentinel sentinel problem is worse and it ever was. The only hope we have is the clean needle exchange. Correspondent for this homeless mother of three, she is even more vulnerable to drug abuse. I am around all the usage. Thats all im seeing. Thats all im around. Constantly wanting to use her constantly around and there is nowhere that i can go that is safe. Correspondent andrew kes us to a tent city on the banks of the river. I will go see how everybody is doing. Correspondent it is cold, but Homeless People are leaving shelters because theyre worried about getting covid, exposing them to other dangers. We have come to this homeless camp and were hearing that one of the people here has died, probably from an overdose. I read about it happening, but i did not know who it was. , so people are kind of in a bad place. Elsewhere correspondent elsewhere, facilities are open, but limited by staff working from home. That does not stop the emergencies. We do have a person in there who is currently suicidal and were trying to get some help as quick as we can. Correspondent without support, the woman has suffered a relapse, and staff knoshe is not the only one. All of us in the treatment world are trying to say, how do we prepare for the inevitable, because we know weill see a spike, but what will it look like . Correspondent while we are filming, the Police Arrived to take the woman to the hospital. She has little choice. She was threatening to harm herself and others. They kw she will be safe for at least one night, nobody knows what will happen after that. We are out here. Covid might have shut things down, but we are still here. The emergency never stops. Anchor just another example of how the coronavirus is exacerbating problems in this country. In other newfrom around the world, airlines and the u. K. Have been told that the government will bring in a 14day quarantine for anyone arriving in the country froany country apart in the republic of ireland. The restriction on arrivals in the k. Is expected to take effect at the end of the month. The press secretary to the u. S. Vice president mike pence h tested positive for the coronavirus. She has been identified as katie miller, the wife of stephen miller, a close aide to President Trump. On thursday, a valet also tested positive. Both mr. Trump and the Vice President are now beingested daily. A federal watchdog has found reasonable grounds to believe the Trump Administration was retaliating against a whistleblower remove from his post. He filed a complaint after being reassigned from his job as head of a Government Agency combating the coronavirus. He had voiced concerns about the administrations response to the outbreak in january. The president has calm him a disconsolate employee. Disgruntled employees. Memorialuns have been taking place to mark the killing of the unarmed black man who was chased and gunned down while out for a run. Authorities in georgia have deined two white men and charge them with murder. The case gained attention when video was made public this week. The man would have turned 26 today. Our north american correspondent has more. Correspondent this is the video that appears to show in unarmed black man jogging close to his home, before being stopped by two men. There is a struggle before he is shot dead as he tried to get away. It is proof my son was out for his daily jog, and he was killed. Correspondent he was killed in february, by a father and so who claimed he resembled a burglary suspect. After the video was released, protesters demanded their arrest. It would have been his 2h birthday. People do racist things. This is a racist state. But, this is a coverup. Do not get it twisted. This is a coverup by the police department. Correspondent the men armed themselves and followed him. Prosecutors didnt initially pressed charges, but the videos release and public pressure finally led to their arrests. The applied the law to the facts in this case and came up with a solid belief that there is sufficient probable cause to charge him with felony murder and aggravated assault. Correspondent the family now awaits justice, but given what it took to just get arrests, that might not be a straightforward process. Anor so much frustration across america. We will be watching what happens. You are watching bbc world news america. Still to come tonight, the changing face of the city, how the pandemic has led some of new yorks beloved institutions to close the doors, hopefully, only for now. Anchor mosques have reopened in parts of the middle east to allow for friday prayers, iran, syria, lebanon, worshipers will be asked to maintain a distance and wear masks. Correspondent in usual circumstances, the Muslim Community would spend most of the day inside the mosque, but there are lots of measures to be taken to prevent any infection. You can see only 30 of the capacity of the mosque are allowed in. People are asked to wear masks. They have to keep distances among each other. The changes will follow suit on sunday. This is part of a fivephase plan the government has introduced for slowly and gradually opening up the country , depending on assessments of the coronavirus situation. Mo of the cases of covid19 in the past two days have been people who arrived from abroad into lebanon. Anchor we were talking earlier in the program about those massive job losses. That is having a devastating impact on the places we hold dear. Here in new york, the cultural fabric of the city has been dramatically transformed, and businesses and institutions have closed, some never to reopen. We have been surveying the damage. Correspondent times square, the crossroads of the world, pretty much deserted, except for a street musician. Not too far away, the Empire State Building still stand. On the streets, there is uncertainty. Hey driver has been driving a cab for eight years. One thing i can tell you, i knew a lot of people, especially fore i owned this one, that right now he has 200 taxis in the garage and no one is working, no one is making any money. It is a killer. Correspondent the yellow new york taxicab immortalized in Television Shows is part of the fabric of the city. In the future, they may be few and far between. Correspondent 25 blocks south of the Empire State Building is the east village. Here you can find small, familyowned businesses on the brink of collapse. Among them is one home to a fabled beverage. It has long been a favorite of local celebrities over the decades. Weve had madonna, chris rock , leo dicaprio, many many times. Correspondent now because of the pandemic, it is probably going out of business. It is not alone. I think a lot of the care in the city will be lost, because of other businesses like us, and i already started to see a lot of foreign rent signs up. I drove through the city yesterday and it was really sad. Correspondent other small, renowned establishments, like this is dairy, are determined to stay in business. This kosher diner which opened in 1938 says different foods. Uptown, some of the most august institutions are under threat. The metropolitan opera has closed its doors with no word on when it will reopen. It was in a weakened financial state before the pandemic, but it has been active online. Correspondent it recently held in athome gala in which opera stars performed in a live from their homes. But could this pandemic bring down the metropolitan opera . It is my job and the job of my colleagues and the donors and the board at the metropolitan opera to make sure it does not fail. We have faced many challenges and 135 years. This is the greatest one of all. Correspondent it is a sobering time in new york when you begin to realize that businesses and institutions that you long regarded as being solid might not be there forever. It is one more disconcerting aspect of this devastating pandemic. Anchor now, the world has been marking the 75th anniversary of dday, the end of the Second World War in europe. In the u. S. , President Trump paid respects at the memorial to the conflict in washington, d. C. He was there alongside his wife. In the u. K. , a series of communications and celebrations habeen held throughout the day. Our correspondent reports. Correspondent in streets largely deserted due to the lockdown, britain remembered and gave thanks for the day was the Second World War in europe came to an end. Correspondent the nations tribute was led by the prince of wales with the duchess of cornwall at the war memorial. A kanaan at the castle marked the start of the twominute silence and carefully managed moments of remembrance across the nation. As the silence ended, the prince his reef to the generation that overcame the tierney of nazi germany. The cost had been high, nearly 4000 members, and a further 60,000 civilians. Over the white cliffs near dover , two spitfires, the wartime Fighter Aircraft that played such a key role in the defense of britain, flying in remembrance of the few. On this day in 1945, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in joyous celebration that the war was over. At 3 00, they heard a broadcast prime winston churchill. Yesterday morning at 2 41 a. M. , at general eenhowers headquarters, aeneral, a representative of the german high command and grand admiral, the dedicated head of the german state, signed the act of Unconditional Surrender of all german land, sea, and air forces in europe. Hostilities will end officially at one minute after midnight tonight, tuesday, may 8. Rrespondent at Buckingham Palace that evening, churchill appeared on the balcony with the king and queen and their daughters. Later, the two princesses left the palace to join the crowds. As elizabeth recalled in a broadcast in 1985, reissued today by the palace. We were with the king and queen on the balcony, then walked miles to the streets. I remember lines of people linking arms and walking down whitehall, all swept along the tide of happiness and relief. Correspondent the contrast between the crowded streets of may 19 45 and those same streets today is striking. Yet, 75 years after the end of the Second World War, a nation in lockdown look beyond its present challenges to give thanks. Anchor it seems fitting thate leave that last word on the dday celebrations to the queen herself, who has delivered a televised message at 9 00 p. M. Local, the same time her father delivered the message of victory 75 years ago. Here is what she had to say. Today, it may seem hard that we cannot mark the special anniversary as we would wish. Instead, we remember from our homes and doorsteps. But our streets are not empty. They are filled with the love and care that we have for each other. Anchor the queen also sent another message, never forget and never despair. It is a poignant message for all of us. You can find more at our website and see what were working on it any time. Check us out on twitter. Thank you for watching bbc world news america. Narrator funding for this presentation of this program is provided by. 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