Latest target is the World Health Organization his criticism mounts over his response to the pandemic. Ethiopia declares a state of emergency warning of grave illegal measures against anybody who undermines the fight against. A bleak prognosis for African Americans and a plea to learn the lessons from current are. So then the uns a chemical weapons watchdog has released its 1st report explicitly blaming the Syrian Government for sarin and chlorine attacks against civilians the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and looked at 3 attacks in 2017 in the northern syrian town of the men in Hama Province it says there are reasonable grounds to believe Government Forces used bombs containing sarin that hit heavily can jet. Its civilian areas including a hospital the report goes on to say that Bashar Al Assads heavy use of chemical weapons has been a crucial part of his regimes military strategy lets cross straightaway to our diplomats at the james base who joins us from the U
A 1000000 coronavirus tests are being rolled out across africa as the continent steps up its fight against the pandemic. Could again be set for a truce the countrys u. N. Envoy says he expects want to be agreed in the immediate future. Hungry and exhausted hundreds of bringing the whole rescued but others starve to death on a refugee boat. Good to be with us and welcome to the news are the wide long term effects of the coronavirus pandemic are becoming even clearer as lockdown measures begin to show an effect on infection numbers the British Foreign secretary says easing restrictions now could undo progress thats been made and a few hours ago the u. K. Extended lockdown measures for at least another 3 weeks. In the u. S. The number of unemployed continues to rise rapidly a further 5000000 people have registered as jobless in the past week and thats on top of the 17000000 who applied since the shutdowns began and its also hope that some of that Economic Impact will be shouldered by 7 of
People from minority backgrounds more likely to get seriously ill from covert 19 in the u. K. An inquiry attempts to find that. Nigeria Security Forces killed 18 people while enforcing lockdown measures thats more deaths than from the virus itself and the drift for 2 months hundreds of Rohingya Refugees are rescued but at least 24. 00 die from starvation. Thank you for joining us we begin in the u. S. Were 3 phase plan for reopening the country for business is about to be launched the trams guidelines are being revealed in just hours after unemployment figures showed just how many jobs have been lost to the coronavirus pandemic since president from the cleared a National Emergency on the 13th of march thats just over a month ago. 22000000 americans have filed for Unemployment Benefits 5200000 of them in the past week before the pandemic unemployment in the Worlds Largest economy was at a near record low lets cross to our White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett so kimberly we are exp
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A look at the week ahead in washington and to do that this week we are joined by Daniel Strauss, a senior political reporter with the guardian and steve dennis, reporter with bloomberg. Now that supplemental is passed, the money is on his way out the door, what tools does congress have left in its toolbox to respond to the coronavirus p what should we look for on that front . Talking aboutre assorted other things to get done. Everything from paid sick leave for workers, a quarter of the workers the United States on have sick leave and there sort of other things they want including making sure testing is free, the treatments are affordable, that sort of thing. It will be interesting to see if they can get any of this on the floor this week. Theres a lot of other things going on this week. With markets plunging this morning and all the futures, you might hear more talk of doing some kind of stimulus. The last time we had this market shock was 2008. Remember what happened then. There were