Is counting the cost on aljazeera your look at the world of business and economics this week the coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc across Subsaharan Africa nations turn to the i. M. F. And world bank to see them through the crisis the biggest Oil Production cut in history but album on a case of the persian gulf about to blow their wealth and just how low oil prices. A union divided on sharing the Economic Cost of the pandemic why france and italy are lining up against germany and the netherlands. Now Subsaharan Africa could be plunged into its 1st recession in 25 years as the Global Health crisis brought about by the coronavirus wreaks havoc many nations like nigeria south africa are dependent on commodities for a large chunk of trade and revenue. All have been decimated as economies have ground to a halt well the World Bank Estimates growth could tumble to minus 5 point one percent from 2. 4 percent triggering Food Insecurity the pandemic could cost the region as much as 79000000000.
The coronavirus outbreak is making it worse. Anchor hello. Authorities around the world are warning people to stayathome and abide by tough restrictions to movement is the coronavirus pandemic reaches a significant point. The official global death toll has now passed 100,000 with more than 1. 6 million cases confirmed. Experts believe the number of deaths attributed to the virus is deceptively low. The u. K. Has recorded europes highest ever number hospital fatalities in a single day with 980. In spain, the government says it is beginning to see results from its strict lockdown, but it does remain europes most affected country after italy with nearly 16,000 dying from the disease. So despite the success being seen in some countries, the World Health Organization has warned governments against prematurely rolling back restrictions aimed at containing the pandemic. It says while the rate of infection has been slowing in some countries, others are seeing an alarming surge in cases. I know
Biden has secured his place is the democratic nominee but can still trump joining us for continuing coverage of the u. S. Election 2020 on aljazeera. Hello im daryn jordan this is counting the cost on aljazeera you look at the world of business and economics this week the coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc across Subsaharan Africa nations turn to the i. M. F. And world bank to see them through the crisis the biggest Oil Production cuts in history but album on a case of the persian gulf about to blow their wealth and just how low oil prices. A union divided on sharing the Economic Cost of the pandemic why france and italy are lining up against germany and the netherlands on polling day. Now Subsaharan Africa could be plunged into its 1st recession in 25 years as the Global Health crisis brought about by the coronavirus wreaks havoc many nations like nigeria south africa are dependent on commodities for a large chunk of trade and revenues all have been decimated as economies of ground to
Based in the worlds coldest region. Right at the very south of our planet lies antarctica the continent of snow and ice. In 1911 the norwegian Roald Amundsen became the 1st person ever to reach the south pole the last region of earth that was still unexplored and uninhabited by humans. In 195912 nations signed the antarctic treaty pledging to use the beach and only for peaceful purposes and particularly for scientific research. Today there are around 80 research stations in the antarctic used by 4000 scientists from all over the world so we wanted to know what its like to spend months in the cold and ice and so we headed there starting at the airports close to the russian polar. Search station. Sky. Approaching antarctica from the air. On board this aircraft are scientists from 10 different countries. Theyll be spending the polar summer doing their research here. This year the team from bellaver is especially large. Billow says would be a program for science and sibylla just cause more
Every weekend on cspan three. Mr. Henesy my name is greg henesy. Im one of the people who give school tours to the weeks and the world war ii section. In this area we have set up represents the buildings we quickly put up at the start of world war ii. The reason we had to cook up to quickly put them up was that we were not prepared for war. The u. S. Military had less than 350,000 soldiers at the outbreak of world war ii. The army, navy, and marines combined. No air force yet, they were the Army Air Corps. By the end of the war we had about 17 million people. To do that we had to put Training Centers all over the country and expand what we had. We had to put Training Centers all over the country and use those types of buildings that are represented. Now, if you notice this is a friend of mine. His name is richard. This is him in september of 1942, when he started his training in georgia. Im wearing boots, coveralls, just the way they did to train. One reason they issued coveralls to tr