In washington coming out new unemployment claims the United States drop below 1000000 for the week as we look to find the bottom of the pandemic coverage and there are a lot of headlines about trade tension between the u. S. And china dont forget the u. S. And the European Union well they still have trade issues of their own have a lot to get to so lets get started. Its thursday which means u. S. Unemployment numbers were released weekly jobless claims fell to 963000 last week now this is the 1st time the numbers are below 1000000 since mid march that was when the coronavirus was declared a pandemic in late march u. S. Filings hit nearly 6900000 in a single week while the better than expected numbers come as President Donald Trump issued an executive order that provides an extra 4 100. 00 a week of unemployment thats down from the original 600. 00 of insurance but those by. That may not show up for weeks and employment rate fell to 10. 2 percent last month this was after peaking near 1
Disputed waters. By their just turned one of the afternoon here so good afternoon from russia live from r. T. Internationals World News Center here in moscow my name is kevin know it if the next 30 minutes and hope you can maybe stick with me too as we go through the headlines today. Started to release protesters who were detained during the unrest that followed sundays disputed president ial election weve got images for you the 1st one by the russians walking free from detention some of those people have been held for 4 days the interior ministrys pledged to release all detainees on friday around 6000. 00 have been arrested during the 1st 3 days of what happened there all that unrest and ambulance stops are released overnight describe direct to us what she witnessed inside. There. So there was there women were lying on the floor and the men who were in the next out they were constantly so badly that they just how long it was a terrible how all the blood froze in my veins just from wha
Times listen to this 5 times out of the last 9 days in fact its safe to say that when it comes to coronavirus cases we here in the United States we are clearly in a league of our own take a look at this chart see that chart right there what it does is it compares the caseload thats the red line in the United States to the blue line in europe and i want to show you a couple of things theres the peak for europe you see that right there thats when they started to take some measures to try and create lockdowns for example ours came here in the United States just a little bit after word whats fascinating is as theyre measures went down you can see that they pretty much broke the curve right they even the curve and it continues all the way to this day because theyre at 4000 a day in europe and its just now right here that theyre starting to finally make decisions to open things up again we here in the United States did things differently for exe. Sample right there toward the end of april th
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By their good afternoon walk into the program just 12 pm here in moscow this wednesday im kevin owen with this 30 minute world news round up for you 1st lets go through the numbers today them a grim reading sadly this wednesday sad to say another milestone has been reached a bleak benchmark more than 2000000 infections have now been registered globally and over 127000 people have died in terms of people whove recovered thats going up as well of course its now heading towards the half 1000000 mark here in russia unfortunately theres a new record one day increase with 3388 new cases to report declared wednesday bringing the total to nearly 25000 almost 200 people are known to have died from covert 19 here. The worst hit countries are having to contend with getting enough hospital staff to treat the sick some are mobilizing medical students others bringing people into retirement but in germany the Health Authorities are also appealing for doctors and nurses among the 1000000 strong migran