The hour and these are the headlines on aljazeera white house adviser stephen millers become the latest Trump Administration official to test positive for covert 19 is the man seen as the architect of trumps anti immigration policies but a dozen white house officials have now tested positive including of course the president and top pentagon officials are in quarantine after the u. S. Coast guards 2nd in command tested positive as well mike hanna has more from washington. Steven miller whos a very close advisor of the president has now tested positive for the coronavirus has been in close proximity of the president for a long period of time he was also in close proximity to some of the other assistance to the president to have tested positive in recent days and certainly that list is growing and growing indeed a large number of members of the president s staff now have tested positive a number of journalists who work there and as well as a number of military aides it is said who are al
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
A live update from beirut. Libyan war logs Khalifa Haftar announces a ceasefire during ramadan soon after launching another attack on. The with the sports man is set to be crowned champions in france as the Domestic League season is cancelled. With numbers just released out of the us that show the continuing trend of widespread job losses more than 3800000 americans filed for benefits over the past week well that takes the total number of jobless from 26000000. 00 last week to more than 30000000. 00 now the Unemployment Rate hovered around 3. 5 percent between december and february but in march it jumped to a 2. And a half year high of 4. 4 percent thats roughly more than 7000000. 00 people a state governments now begin to restart their economies their easing lockdown measures more than half of the 50 states including florida or partially reopen by the end of the week as the john hopkins dashboard shows at least 1000000 people in the u. S. Have contracted the virus nearly 61000 have di
Chanting of protesters drowns out one of latin americas biggest Music Festivals. Welcome to the program the World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus epidemic is escalating rapidly and action must be taken quickly to prevent it from becoming a pandemic chinese authorities working in the epicenter of the outbreak have just released new figures the rate of new infections to remains in decline and cured patients have begun returning home. This is a rapidly escalating epidemic in different places that weve got to tackle super fast to prevent a pandemic i mean its actually were trying to demonstrate heres where this goes is within the control of our decisions to apply this kind of rigor and approach to to to this disease but within the past hour south koreas Health Ministry has announced 169. 00 more infections mostly in and around daegu bringing the total number of people with the illness to 1146 European Health ministers meanwhile upheld emergency talks in italy where the
A race against time to banks today. After a Measles Outbreak killed more than 60 people. The u. S. President has hit out at House Democrats as they draw out formal impeachment charges against him donald trump tweeted they are trying to impeach him over what he called nothing the pressure is increasing on trump as democrats move towards an Impeachment Vote in the house before Christmas Heidi jocasta reports from washington d. C. Its official me that was confidence and humility with allegiance to our founders and effects of love for America Today i am asking our chairmen to proceed with impeachment. Donald trump will become the 4th president in u. S. History to face formal impeachment charges that could remove him from office the facts are uncontested the president abused his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our National Security by withholding military aid and crucial Oval Office Meeting in exchange for an announcement of an investigation into his political