Well who are going to watch it i robot and i will be across a music its incredible that our workers here in the United States have now got to go to International Bodies you know International Organizations in order to try to hope to get some kind of rights back hope to get some kind of Workplace Safety thats that mind blowing and having a ball and so many ways for in the past what 7 decades plus we have been seen as a nation that continually progressed when it came to workers rights and its just brush rating now that were going to institutions for assistance that we usually argue on behalf of other place. To go to when they are you know major problems like this the now were finding ourselves in that exact same lurch if theres a lot about our leadership it also says a lot about how demoralizing were actually making everyday work for american citizens. Richard trumka the president of the c. E. O. Told the Washington Post quote covert has laid bare what we already knew it is demonstrated
The pandemic. Oil producing countries reach a deal to cut production in an effort to offset the global drop in demand and prices. Millions more people are being added to the queues of americas jobless as the wider effects of the coronavirus become clear another 6600000. 00 claimed unemployment benefit last week alone that takes the total to nearly 17000000 people in the past 3 weeks and there is 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 for 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
Hello im Adrian Finnigan this is counting the cost on aljazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week 2019 and what a year its been called the world put aside short Term Economic gain to save humankind from latin america to the middle east people took to the street to protest the unequal spread of wealth and demand that governments and staring. At a trade war between the United States and china has put the brakes on Global Growth and is reshaping globalization. The biggest story of this year and for that matter this century has to be Climate Change and the lack of will or apparently the lack of will to do anything about it with the exception of the European Union theres very little effort to reduce emissions the cost of our inaction has been put at 2000000000. 00 a day the United Nations says that 48. 00 trillion dollars needs to be spent by 2050 to avoid catastrophe for humankind that means putting survival ahead of short term profits government submitted a vi
A germanys far right party surges to lure forward in a state election is a bruising defeat for chance the Americans Party not down into 3rd place and go out bucks are back on top of the bundesliga could they be the team to break by munich stranglehold on german football. Thank you so much for your Company Everyone but we begin this broadcast with news from brussels that the European Union has agreed to postpone britains departure from the block for up to 3 months in a tweet by the European Council president donald he said the remaining 27 Member States had agreed to accept the e. U. Case request for 8 brigs it. Extension until january 31st of next year all right lets take you now to brussels to barbara zola she is there she is barbara the e. U. Has granted the u. K. A socalled flex tension what is a flex tension now thats a flexible exit so it means that should britain get done with some kind of brics a deal to read a fiat and so on before the end of january 31st they could leave earli
These doctors decided which were the most vulnerable and needing to be transferred 1st. Distraught family members crowded nearby waiting for information oh my god my mothers inside serious time if you have no idea i can imagine the relief knowing that my father is alive hes 87 years old he was alone but thank god hes fine not everyone received good news though with firefighters searching through the night to recover the bodies of those who couldnt get out in time brian aljazeera. Swedish activist present has joined demonstrate is in washington d. C. Protesting outside the white house for greater action on Climate Change the 16 year old and dozens of other teenagers held banners and gave speeches demanding political leaders address the crisis arrived in the u. S. Last month after a 2 week transatlantic journey on board a carbon free sailboat have returned c. Has more from washington d. C. Began her climate strikes every friday preparing to protest outside the Swedish Parliament for urge