Update on efforts to battle a pandemic that. After months of protests a plan to tackle lebanons financial woes put it will be will it be enough to pull the country out of its economic spiral. And put Us Birthday Party has been postponed South Koreans will have to wait until next month to celebrate. We begin in the United States where the economic numbers just keep getting worse the u. S. Labor department as released yet another bleak unemployment report more than 3800000 americans filed for benefits in just the past week taking the total number of jobless to more than the 30000000. 00 over the last 6 weeks the Unemployment Rate hovered around 3 and a half percent between december and separate but in march it jumped to a 2 and a half year high of 4. 4 percent thats roughly more than 7000000 people. State governments now begin to restart their economies easing lockdown measures more than hoff of the 50 states including florida partially reopened by the end of this week as the Johns Hopki
Security lockdown in its region of kashmir has been described now in its 6th week the lockdown has virtually cut off residents from the outside world the Indian Government says things are improving. Of this lockdown has been decision to strip the region off its constitutional autonomy pakistan has condemned the move leading to a war of words between both nations we come to that in a bit but 1st heres why the issue is so sensitive that india and pakistan came to. Me that the shaded in its entirety but control only parts of it india controls the valley and it is here where this lockdown has been imposed. On indian control are divided by whats called the line of control over here and this line also separates the armies of both nations and thats a brief historical background has been protesting the Indian Governments move and its latest criticisms were delivered at the Un Human Rights Council in geneva. Our should remind the word i shudder to mention the word genocide here but i must with
So i mean listening there to Martin Griffiths the u. N. Special envoy to yemen appealing for more calm especially in this situation with aid and also reporting as he sees it some progress having been made in implementing the stop home agreement lets bring in our diplomatic editor james bass hes live for us at the United Nations james what do you make of that. Well martin gryphus addressing the u. N. Security council at a regularly planned meeting on yemen the monthly meeting on yemen to update them on the situation in that country but clearly a meeting that has been overtaken by recent events the attack on Saudi Oil Installations and that was the subject of the very start of his address to the Security Council he described this as a terrifying moment that made regional conflict more likely he said that in conjunction with an attack on a prison at the beginning of the month that killed more than 100. 00 people and the tension in the south in aden and the separatist attendances there mad
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The resignation of a president he says is soft on corruption and bring you the latest from our correspondent also coming up. German foreign minister is ignore gabrial urges europe to be less dependent on the United States is says its time for europe to become more assertive in the world. Plus a fresh twist in the trunk russia tsonga u. S. Investigator Robert Muller demands that georgia Bank Released data want to count held by President Trump thats just part of millers probe into russias influence on the president ial election. Im sara harman welcome to the show its good to have you with us. Chaotic scenes on the streets of kiev today thats after police tried to arrest Mikhail Saakashvili hes the former georgian leader whos become an Anti Corruption campaigner in ukraine and a thorn in the side of president Petro Poroshenko Police Detained saakashvili but were forced to free him again when his supporters surrounded a van holding him our correspondent nick collie was there will have an u