Cross in its history the strelley International Airline has fired 6000 stuff and another 15000 workers will stay on leave for months this crisis has still hit those ferry fairly hard and the impact will be felt for a long time particularly im sorry to say the impact on our people. With borders closed and flights grounded quantas says the ongoing collapsing global air travel left it no choice but to cut 20 percent of its workforce its a huge setback for the Aviation Industry 100. 00 planes will be grounded for at least a year with a stroller as International Borders predicted to remain closed the tourists potentially into next year to be not english just next Financial Year july next year we may start seeing some International Services and that will on against a 50 Percent Union groups have strongly criticized the cuts quantas officials hope to save 10000000000. 00 over 3 years a lot dramatic restructuring and change the culture because its a sea alliance or job enough to see the opport
Supporters there backing his call to lift restrictions despite an increasing number of cases. And a sigh of relief for the u. S. Economy as carmakers send their employees back to work. The worlds 3rd largest economy has slipped into recession japan has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic its economy shrank for the 2nd consecutive quarter by just under one percent in the 1st 3 months of this year Prime Minister shinzo abhi had announced a massive Relief Program last month to keep the economy on track japan has recorded more than 16000 cases of the virus and close to 750 deaths Robert Wright is in seoul he says the stimulus announced by the japanese government may not be enough to revive the economy. Weve had now 2 quarters where the economy has contract and so it is in a recession but this started at the end of last year in the last quarter this is well before anybody had even heard of coded 19 japan had already been hit by a rise in a culture of virtual sales tax from 8 percent t
Lets get to some of todays news from our washington and new york teams. I want to return to trade tensions between the u. S. And trump president responding to questions on implementing the phase one trade deal amid the coronavirus pandemic. We signed the deal. I heard that too, they wanted to reopen the talks to get a better deal. China has been taking advantage of the United States for many decades because we have people in this position, sitting in the oval office that allowed that to happen. I am not interested. Alix Kevin Cirilli joins me now. Walk me through. Kevin good morning. This comes as the president has increasingly attacked china politically speaking, and raised questions about chinas response to covid19, including Senior Administration officials. From an economic standpoint, the president saying not so fast as it relates to u. S. China trade tensions. Democrats with the newest round of economic stimulus, i spoke to the undersecretary of Economic Affairs who said the Unite
Catching coronavirus. Taste of home we need to syrian family celebrating ramadan manes that house. The u. S. President s handling of the Coronavirus Crisis is on the even greater scrutiny after accusations he sought quick fixes by rushing unproven drugs to patients and as the death toll passes 70000. 00 from says hes considering winding down the task force set up to respond to the pandemic mike hanna has the latest from washington no facemask for the president while visiting an Aerospace Company repurposed to produce masks this in defiance of his administrations guidelines that masks should be worn in public at all times. The president confirmed reports that he was considering shutting down the Coronavirus Task force that has been responsible for the federal response to the pandemic as far as the task force my pension the task force and done a great job but were now looking at a little bit of a different form and their former safety and opening and well. Have a Different Group probably
Economic indicators are looking very poor right now and the figures relate to the 1st quarter of the year and of course the pandemic only really took hold in march so what about it begs the question what about whats happening right now what about whats going to happen in may and in june and if the rest of the year the u. K. Prime minister baraks johnson is leading his 1st weekly Cabinet Meeting since falling ill with coronavirus the government is under pressure after new figures pushed the number of deaths to more than 26000 or theres some positive signs in spain which has recorded its lowest daily increase in new cases since a state of emergency was declared 6 weeks ago the Health Ministry has also recorded 268 new deaths. And for the 1st time in 2 months theres been no new domestic cases recorded in south korea restrictions have eased down the british communities being allowed to hold events marking borders birthday Robert Wright is in seoul with more. Weve been seeing numbers of aro