Minister designate in just 10 weeks on the stuff carver may be able to unite 6 hereon factions hungry and helpless the coronavirus pandemic impacting Food Supplies for hundreds of millions dependent on. And living in fear of the dead why some in indonesia dont one virus victims buried in their towns. Well staggering new figures reveal the extent of the damage to the worlds biggest economy by the coronavirus shut down in just one week another 6600000 people filed for Unemployment Benefits that means nearly 17000000 americans have lost their jobs in the past 3 weeks thats around one in 10 workers for more on this lets turn to our White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett shes live for us from washington d. C. Kimberly how much of a shiver are these numbers sending down the spine of the economy there. Well they were expected but still the numbers are staggering never before in u. S. History has there been such a significant job loss in such a short amount of time the numbers are simply a
Democrats carry out final preparations for only the 3rd impeachment trial in u. S. History the white house lays out its defense of President Donald Trump. And chaos as hundreds of migrants cross from guatemala into mexico as they continue their desperate journey to the United States. Be disturbed in doha with only a small door for the bush fire consumes its rain which hampers the opening day of the Australian Open but on the court under the roof framing. The lights the crowds in melbourne. A low a very warm welcome to the program our top story this hour at least 2 people have been killed in baghdad after Iraqi Security forces used tear gas and live ammunition to break up antigovernment protests meanwhile in the south of the country hundreds of demonstrators that blocked main roads in several cities the had been a brief lull in protests as regional tensions between iran and the United States took center stage but iraqis continue to say the Prime Minister has not fulfilled his promises a
By their very good evening this is r. T. And. The Senior Commander of irans elite military unit the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps has accepted full responsibility for shooting down a ukrainian passenger plane on wednesday he said the boeing 737 was mistaken for a cruise missile. When i heard why it had been shot down i wish there was i never wanted to witness such a terrible incident. And you also added in their Defense System operator had faulty communications that had just 10 seconds to make what was described as a bad decision earlier tehran admitted its military unintentionally hit the jet despite days of denials of any involvement in the downing of irans chief investigator says the black box data will now be sent to france my colleague Jacqueline Vega discussed the details with r. T. Is donald quarter. We heard from ukraines president vladimir selenski who said that he expects he expects irans take full responsibility and for the investigation to continue without any obstructi
U. S. Start screening passengers from china as fears grow about the spread of a new virus. Libyas stage oil from says its been forced to Halt Operations at 5 major oil ports in the east of the country interested as he is have been under attack by forces loyal to ward who have to say the ports revenues are being used by the rival chipley based government to pay turkish fight says the National Oil Corporation says 800000 barrels a day of output will be lost that amounts to 55000000. 00 per day while the uns envoy for libya says oil revenues should be used to feed the people. Leni i dont need to clear our position at the u. N. Is very clear you must not play with oil because it is the livelihood of libyans without oil libyans are starving we have to tell it like it is so we must not clear with oil we must not turn it into a weapon of war we must not allow it to become a matter of division or outbidding. Pause in operations comes ahead of a major peace conference on libya diplomats. On sun
We speak to Manchester Uniteds max taylor about his battle with testicular cancer. My my mind was running 100 miles an hour, what is next . Will i play football again . Will i be alive . Will i be alive . Two teams, joining for one common purpose why europes struggling womens golf circuit isjoining forces with the lpga. Also coming up in the programme. Hes a three time grand slam champion, a former world number one and overcome major surgery but how will andy murray cope in our escape room . Just watch the hip, 0k . Do you trust me . Go for it. Wow hello and welcome to sportsday. Good evening and welcome to tonights programme. Its another busy night in the Champions League as both chelsea and liverpool look to confirm their places in the last sixteen. Later tonight, the current champions of europe host napoli a side in crisis both on and off the pitch. As for chelsea, theyre out for revenge following their 1 0 defeat to valencia last time out. Austin halewood is following that match an