And russia seeing sharp rises in their cases brazil topped 127000. 00 and factions leading to an even gloomier outlook for the 2nd largest economy in the western hemisphere this as analysts Capital Economics have predicted at least a 10 percent decline in the nations quarterly growth this due to the outbreak while russia still seeing a surge in cases with most of its capital and largest city moscow the virus lock down combined with the global drop in oil prices well theyve contracted russian economy activity by one 3rd according to the countrys federal tax service chief meanwhile the us still the epicenter of the global disease with more than 1600000 cases the us unemployment numbers are still growing last week another 3300000 people filed for jobless claims bringing the 7 week total to 33500000 this while President Trump has renewed his calls for the Supreme Court to strike down the countrys Affordable Care act also known as obamacare this is a move criticized even by his own general
Pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. This is bbc world news america. Im reporting from new york city. Im laura trevelyan. Jobless and homeless, with 33 million americans unemployed, new york subways, a haunting symbol of the impact of the pandemic. Coronavirus once a day after a white house eight tested positive. Mr. Trump says he does not have covid19. Germany is cautiously reopening its economy amid worries about a second wave of infections. Plus, life under lockdown. The story of a person who lives crammed in new york, but a big change is coming. I just committed to cornell. Well, im probably abouto cry. Laura for all of you watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to bbc world news america. Every thursday, the staggering impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the American Economy is revealed. 3. 2 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits in the last week. More than 33 Million People
Tensions between the United States and china are on the rise creating concern that it could be the start of a new cold war and many likely eliminate progress on a trade deal the archies Rachel Blevins joins me now to discuss all of these details so rachel we can only imagine this escalation has been fueled by the global covert 19 pandemic and the origins of it all right that is exactly right and you know right now in the United States and china were supposed to be in the process of finalizing phase 2 of this massive trade deal but instead President Trump is questioning whether china is fulfilling the agreements it made on phase one and so because of this hes saying that he is now planning to Start Talking to farmers to question whether those agreements are being fulfilled and as a result of that he could decide to terminate the deal altogether and that could mean more tariffs on china now trump of course was asked about this and heres what he had to say about whether or not china is fu
A great show for you tonight lee cam sits down with the jaipur shot a journalist and an author of 30 books a political philosopher and the executive director of the Tri Continental Institute for social research they talk about the failures of our government to deal with this crisis the demands workers should be making and much more than redacted correspondent Natalie Mcgill will talk about some mind blowing old news from Medieval Times the era not the eatery then i will go into how big businesses are taking Small Business support good news for people who like breathing and how the virus is remaking the College Process College Education process but 1st lets go to that interview between we camp and jay per shot the ship rashad thank you so much of a there late. On the big fan of your writing you wrote an excellent article recently in which you said during a pandemic the private sector austerity model has fallen apart weve seen such a tremendous collapse of the capitalist state institutio
Pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. This is bbc world news america. Im reporting from new york city. Im laura trevelyan. Jobless and homeless, with 33 million americans unemployed, new york subways, a haunting symbol of the impact of the pandemic. Coronavirus once a day after a white house eight tested positive. Mr. Trump says he does not have covid19. Germany is cautiously reopening its economy amid worries about a second wave of infections. Plus, life under lockdown. The story of a person who lives crammed in new york, but a big change is coming. I just committed to cornell. Well, im probably abouto cry. Laura for all of you watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to bbc world news america. Every thursday, the staggering impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the American Economy is revealed. 3. 2 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits in the last week. More than 33 Million People