See the jobs report, francine. I see all sorts of numbers modeled. 6 rate be looking at the u. I do not see any forecast of where that statistic is going, but it harkens back to an american job economy of 1933. Francine we will have a big look on whether we will go back to those depression years. Lets get to first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Francine, andd, tom, as you were saying, todays jobs report expects to see the u. S. Unemployment rate surge to almost 20 last month after reaching the highest level since the Great Depression in april. The may report is likely to show the jobs slump has extended into whitecollar positions. By 7. 5s publicly shrank million positions. The jobs report comes out at 8 30 new york time. In buffalo, new york, two Police Officers have been suspended after a video of them pushing an elderly protester to the ground went viral. The video shows the 75yearold lying motionless with blood pooling around his head. Been hospitalized in serious condi
A deal with the key suspect who wants to tell all in a scandal of corruption in high places. Im sumi so misconducts good to have you with us climate activists around the world are taking to the streets in the 4th fridays for future Global Climate strike they are demanding that governments step up their efforts to cut Carbon Emissions and theyre sending a message as well to the u. N. Climate change conference which begins in madrid next week now organizers say more than 3000 strikes are planned around the world today and here you can get a sense of the scale of these rallies that are taking place calling on politicians to do more to slash c o 2 emissions australians were among the 1st to take to the streets in sydney hundreds of young people skipped school to hold a rally outside the city hall. Our house is on fire. Part metaphor part call to arms of Climate Change activists as they seek to hammer home a sense of urgency yet for some here in sydney its been a painful reality already. Ri
Resign immediately as the crisis sparked by a journalists murder engulfs his close ally. Also coming up fridays for future goes global again thousands of young people taking part in rallies around the world the call to action coming ahead of next weeks un climate summit. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us so we start with some breaking news maltose a Prime Minister joseph has told his associates that he will resign his position had been threatened threatened by the political and legal crisis brought about by the probe into the murder of journalist Stephanie Cutter want to go who was investigating government corruption when she was killed in a car bomb attack 2 years ago angry protesters including a son have been demanding the Prime Ministers resignation although he has said he would. Stay in post until the Murder Investigation was complete earlier this week was cut former chief of staff keith tempering was arrested over alleged links to the case he was later released wit
Suggesting he used Cheddar Cheese and one of his souffles. Im told me well welcome to the program. Hong kong police have entered the police. For the 1st time since it was sealed off by almost 2 weeks ago the move effectively ends an 11 day siege which saw a standoff between the police and protesters barricaded inside your storage you see there cleaning up dangerous materials including petrol bombs and chemicals and collecting evidence many of the facilities have been left in ruins. Joining us reported cherry chan for more on these developments jerry has the university been completely cleared of protests as well actually in the past few days there have been different teams going inside the post to look for protesters who are still inside there was a team organized by the newly elected district councilors they went inside and they said they have met 2 protesters and also there was another team organized. By university and this tradition and they said they have met one protester but actua
What hong kongs minorities think about the protests, and what they mean for the citys diversity. And we talk to the people trying to save australias koalas from the devastating bushfires. Good morning. It is 9 00am in singapore and 1 00am in london. Time is running out to stop climate disaster and temperatures rising, says a new report from the un. The un environment aagency says global emissions need to fall by more than 7 every year over the next decade to stop warming by more than 1. 5 degrees. We can see the effect rising temperatures are having already, as droughts become more common all over the world, but especially in asia. Water levels in the mekong river have fallen to their lowest level in more than 100 years. That has devastating consequences for wildlife, and the tens of millions of People Living along the river. And australia has seen one of its longest dry spells. It has made massive bushfires even worse in New South Wales and queensland. And in zimbabwe, in southern afr