Government extends lockdown instructions for at least 3 more weeks. And Brazils Health minister is fired over his handling of the coronavirus price. So join his crate of eyes crisis has tipped its economy into sharp decline quarterly Gross Domestic Product figures showed that demand for its goods and services has plummeted by 6. 8 percent in raises yet more pressure on beijing to prop up growth and made mounting job losses in 40 exports in the worlds 2nd largest economy lets go straightaway to beijing correspondent katrina youre standing by for us they could train almost 7 percent these are extremely serious figures. Thats right this is a historic plunge this is the biggest contraction weve seen for the 1st quarter growth in china since records began and its not entirely surprising it is especially due to this corona virus pandemic now chinas economy was already slowing last year was it slowed to its slowest growth since the 1970 s. Now this has really this pandemic has really brought
Die after spending months adrift on a boat. Battling poverty and decades of repression we look at how one Indigenous Community in canada is no working to prevent the fire spreading. And on santa hamas has support around the world continues to take a big financial hit u. S. Soccer federation asked me no 4th deployment of the knows its Youth Development academy having a World Champion at womens team. The covered 1000. 00 pandemic has left no country touched and its having widespread ramifications not just in health but in politics and diplomacy to china which was the initial epicenter of the outbreak has once again strongly. Decides the u. S. President s decision to cut funding to the World Health Organization state media is calling it a move against humanity that affects every country by the International Monetary fund says the crisis will cause asias economy to stall at 0 percent for the 1st time in 16 years it says the outbreak has taken an unprecedented toll on the region trump donal
Donald trump says the number of new infections in the United States is slowing the president is making a prediction despite his country marking a record 2300 deaths in just 24 hours he says restrictions could be lifted and up to 30 states in just 2 weeks but hes also struck and another threatening ours as mike hanna reports. These daily news briefings up a ported lead to keep the nation informed about the battle against a coronavirus but invariably the president strays off message and today he used the forums to rail against what he described as congregational obstruction in the confirmation of government officials and threatened to Adjourn Congress and then push through his nominations during the recess the senate should either fulfill its duty and vote on my nominees or should formally adjourn so that i can make recess appointments we have a tremendous number of people that have to come into government and now more so than ever before because of the virus and the problem its a threat
Or the lack of it remains a critical issue in the u. K. And in nigeria more people have been killed by Security Officials and forcing a covert 19 locked down that have died from the virus also. Already living in miserable conditions now the pandemics causing more problems for yemenis displaced by war also becoming a mass that were talking about is that theres a whole me. And we get advice from a doctor on how to stitch together your own protection during this pandemic. The weather so on the news we begin in the United States where another 5200000 people have lost their jobs in the past week and that means at least 22000000 have been made jobless and acclaiming in less than a month as a result of the coronavirus pandemic in a few hours time President Donald Trump is expected to release guidelines on how and when to reopen some u. S. States but in the meantime hourly workers are especially worried about how theyll pay the bills natasha has more from chicago. If there was ever a boom time
Also coming up hungry and exhausted to hundreds of earth are rescued but all this stuff to death on a refugee boat. The coronavirus pandemic is chipping away at the Global Economy and its now brought forward the worst stretch of job losses in the u. S. On record figures just released show 5200000 americans filed jobless claims last week thats roughly one in 7 workers and in the past 4 weeks a total of more than 22000000 americans have requested Unemployment Benefits and if you are as President Donald Trump is expected to release guidelines on how and when to reopen some u. S. States stand virga is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise institute he says steps to reopen the economy will work as long as people dont feel safe outside their homes. They were definitely not ready for the economy to reopen because obviously you know the president can can can say to the left would like to reopen the economy and even governors and mayors can go people that are ready to reopen the economy