A ceasefire during ramadan soon after launching another attack on tripoli. We start with numbers just released in the us that show the continuing trend of widespread job losses more than 3800000 americans filed for benefits over the past week taking the total number of jobless to more than 30000000. 00 now the Unemployment Rate hovered around 3. 5 percent between december and february but in march it jumped to a 2 and a half year high of 4. 4 percent thats roughly more than 7000000 people the state governments now begin to restart their economies their easing lockdown measures more than half of the 50 states including florida or partially reopened by the end of the week whereas the Johns Hopkins dashboard shows at least 1000000 people in the u. S. Of contracted the virus and then the 61000 have died in just a few moments well take you live to gabriel and his own though in new york will have more on the citys planning to reopen but 1st lets start with our White House Correspondent kimbe
Economies the truth is many experts dont believe that will fully happen until there is a working vaccine but there is some promising news out of Oxford University in the United Kingdom according to a report in the New York Times scientists at the University Jenner Institute are ready to move forward with trials of an inoculation tested against previous versions of the crown of virus which were harmless to humans researchers at the National Institutes for health Rocky Mountain laboratory in montana tested the oxford vaccine on 6 monkeys now the animals were given a single dose and exposed to the current corona virus and after 4 weeks the monkeys are all healthy while other monkeys which were not inoculated and exposed to the corona virus did get sick speaking with the Economic Club of washington d. C. The United States top Infectious Disease specialist dr anthony said he was cautiously optimistic about these tests and spoke about the broader process of developing vaccines. There are goi
Lockdown is imposed in 31. 00 provinces across turkey including the biggest cities of istanbul and ankara. Google and apple a developing and alerts to let you know if youve come into contact with someone whos infected but does it infringe on privacy. And im peter same to you sport prosecutors dropped one of 2 cases against former fee for president sepp blatter. Say then the u. K. Is 0 in on the grim figure of 10000 coronavirus related deaths as we go to air it is the new hotbed of the pandemic in europe as the number of casualties just keep on climbing another 917. 00 people have died of the disease in hospital taking the total to almost 1900 and the Health Secretary warns its yet to reach its peak lets go straightaway to Marilyn Montague joins us on skype from london and 980 yesterday friday 917 today the numbers are still extremely high. Thats right the daily death toll that were guessing that rate of increase is nearing the 1000 figure and really feel as though the u. K. Has seen th
A Global Pandemic we go back to where it all began the wildlife markets of asia the being blamed for the crisis. So yes the u. K. Is closing in on the grim figure of 10000 kroner virus related deaths as we go to where its the new hot bed of the pandemic in europe and the number of casualties just keeps on climbing another 917. 00 people have died of the disease in hospital taking the total to almost 9900. 00 Health Officials have warned the outbreak is yet to reach its peak and the british home secretary says police will use new powers including fines to enforce lock down measures the start figure is highlight the gravity of this National Emergency. The devastating impact of this virus and the unprecedented but necessary action that we are taking to tackle it is affecting every aspect of our daily lives but my message to anyone still refusing to do the right thing is clear if you dont pay your part our Selfless Police who are out there risking their own lives to save others will be una
Flouting emergency measures. A lockdown is imposing 31. 00 probably just across turkey including the biggest cities the festival and ankara. And 2 Big Tech Companies developing an alert to let you know if youve come into contact with somebody whos infected but does it infringe on privacy. So then the United States has become the country with the highest death toll from corona virus thats according to the Johns Hopkins university tracker right here more fatalities were confirmed in the past day taking the United States past italy you can see the italy death toll right there 18849 here is the United States with a number of cases over half a 1000000 if we just bring up the u. S. You can see that they now come up with 18860. 00 deaths in the United States so thats a lot. Yes more than italy and of course its climbing all the time now confirmed cases in the worlds biggest economy have been skyrocketing in the month since a pandemic was declared lets speak to mike hanna who joins us from was