Including its 2 biggest cities. And a month on from the declaration of a pandemic we go back to the one of life markets of asia to blamed for causing the chaos. So the United States has become the country with the highest death toll from corona virus according to the Johns Hopkins university tracker more fatalities were confirmed in the past day taking the u. S. Past italy which is on 19 1468. 00 deaths you can see that top right and heres the United States where the total is now 19701. 00 as you can see a confirmed cases in the worlds biggest economy have been skyrocketing in the month since a pandemic was declared and lets speak to mike hanna who joins us now from washington d. C. So mike now the United States has small fatalities and anywhere else. Weve lost our connection there with my camera well try to get it back a little bit later in the program now critics of President Donald Trump say his slow response is largely to blame for the high numbers in the u. S. Lets hear now from o
The same again. As the u. K. Reports more than 900 hospital deaths the government has criticized for its handling of the crisis and mobile phone alerts and electronic waste wristbands how technology is helping stop the spread of the virus but what does that mean for our privacy. Hello the United States has become the country with the highest coronavirus death toll dots according to latest figures from Johns Hopkins university this one month after the World Health Organization 1st declared a pandemic well back then there were over 4000 confirmed deaths and in 30 or so days that number has surged to 100000 the epicenter of the virus has shifted as well moving from china and asia to europe and north america and here in the u. K. Officials have again reported more than 900 hospital deaths and the total number of deaths is nearing 10000 the u. K. P. Could be weeks away in spain however there is cautious optimism just seen the lowest number of daily deaths of more than a fortnights while in
A lot of the countrys fortunes we bring you the stories and developments that im rapidly changing the world we live in get a break sit down that was a slave in that one of the Prime Minister Boris Johnson counting the cost on aljazeera. Greece as a proud reputation as the birthplace of democracy of government by the people for the people but to the ethnic to fish minority of trace in the countrys northeast who say theyve suffered decades of discrimination from the state that snots have it seems today weve been to investigate. In the. West and thrice. The northeastern corner of grace bordering both kerry and turkey is wild and remote. 3rd day payment in secret struggle these 3 countries form a spectacular natural frontex. The history of this region is no less dramatic. It has changed hands cant list times over the centuries finally coming and also man rule in the 1300s which lasted until about a 100 years ago. But even today the mountainous province of western thrice which is now given
And here they come again dramas in east africa prepare to battle millions of no concern for the 2nd time in months. Millions more people have been added to the queues of americas jobless the wider effects of the coronavirus pandemic become clear another 6600000. 00 claimed Unemployment Benefits last week alone that takes a total to nearly 17000000 people in the past 3 weeks and theres fear the rate could rise to numbers not seen since the end of the Great Depression in some cities drive ins have been created for people to collect unemployment forms john hendren has more from chicago. 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 thats not the case when it comes to the economy of and of course thats 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 12 to 13 percent thats a level not seen sin
Downward but thats not the case when it comes to the economy of and of course thats 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 12 to 13 percent thats a level not seen since the Great Depression forecasters are saying they expect that to go up to at least 15 percent and 11 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. Airline industries the president did address that in that briefing today he said details will come out over the weekend over the u. S. Aid package for those airlines he said the Airline Industry has hit very hard as everyone knows and we are going to be in a position to do a lot to help them but of course no details on that until the weekend so were looking forward to see what the president has to say on that british Prime Minister baraks johnson is out of intensive care after impr