Country emerges as a new virus hotspot. Also no cheering fans but major professional sport is back south koreas baseballers finally get to start their season. And a 97 percent for all in the u. K. 0 car sales in india how the coronavirus has shaken up the Auto Industry. Welcome to the news that india is launching one of the Worlds Largest International Repatriation missions flights to 13 countries will start on thursday while warships have already been deployed to bring back hundreds of thousands of workers stranded overseas due to the Coronavirus Travel restrictions because more. There are an estimated 70000000 indians who Work Overseas now some of those who desperately want to return home will be able to. Live in the Indian Government has given the go ahead to bring back indian citizen stock abroad the travel will be done either by airplanes or naval ships off flights into india was suspended in late march because of the coronavirus lockdown the Indian Government says arriving passen
Happening as a tsunami losing so many people at the same time as terrible. Images from overwhelmed new york mass graves and makeshift morgues in a city struggling with huge numbers of. Things help stories from the past 7 days on right up to the moment of elements as well this is the weekly on r. T. International hello and welcome im you know neal. Well lets start with the latest figures on the 19 demick ever changing the number of cases around the world continues to rise to with more than 1800000 people now infected more than 113000 in all have succumbed to the virus with billions so. Thing under lock down there is some good news over 421 thoughts and people have recovered additionally the 1st trials of a vaccine are now under way here in russia some experts are confident it could be ready as early as september. Lets go through some more developments here in the country from next week people in moscow will need to start getting special digital policies to travel around the region right
President unveils his plan for reviving the Worlds Largest economy but there are doubts about whether it will work. And the rush to make masks in kenya as the World Health Organization walled 300000 people could die across africa. And canadians come together to help societies most vulnerable get the goods and services they need. Welcome to the news hour its 1500 g. M. T. 6 oclock local here in doha welcome to the news hour we begin in china where the coronavirus pandemic has stopped decades of Economic Growth the countrys g. D. P. In the 1st 3 months of this year shrank for the 1st time since records began on the news comes as the government revised the death toll in the city of where the pandemic began officials now say 50 percent more people died than. Its the reported from beijing our correspondent katrina you reports. The coronavirus pandemic has Strained Health systems around the world and now its caused the uninterrupted growth of the worlds 2nd largest economy to falter for the
A far better measure is the ten Million People who filed for jobless benefits in the last two weeks. Fed governor lockhart just told maria the jobless rate is already more like 10 . Clearly, we are in an employment crisis, and another report that comes up at 10 00 eastern will likely show the Services Sector in collapse. Thats a strong word to use but its accurate. Later this hour, we are going to talk to larry kudlow, the president s chief economic adviser. I will ask him how bad is it and he will spell it out. Look, with nearly 300 million americans under a stayathome order, the economy is shut down. Morgan stanley says that between now and june, the economy will shrink by 38 . That would be a depression, the likes of which we have not seen before. Travel, shut down. At the airport tsa checkpoints, they are processing two million fewer passengers every day. Thats down 93 from a year ago. Those flights that do take off, virtually empty. Public transit ridership, down 75 . Commuters ju
Abdullah abdullah has held a separate ceremony to inaugurate himself. Welcome to the program the spread and fear of crude a virus is starting to have a major Global Economic impact on top of the growing he would cost u. S. Stocks plummeted in the opening minutes of trading in new york forcing a temporary suspension of the markets also hit with big drops in asia Europe South America brazil stock market also had to suspend trading after a 10 percent drop mondays market shock was triggered by a 30 percent plunge in the price of oil has been following events for us in new york and its been a bit of a bumpy road for the dow jones just a little whats been happening in the last couple of hours. Yeah a very dramatic morning here in new york as all of the major indices remain down significantly they have recovered a bit now the Dow Jones Industrial average and the s. And p. Both trading around 5 percent lower earlier shortly after opening bell they plummeted more than 7 percent triggering that