So weve seen a year on year 6. 8 percent drop in chinas g. D. P. Which is really significant and quite in line with peoples expectations analysts expectations because the current virus control measures that the government put in place for a few weeks in february and march really saw the economy come to a standstill factories were closed businesses were closed hundreds of millions of people were stuck in doors and just to unpack that figure a bit more also manufacturing vestment in the 1st quarter was down 25 percent year on year Infrastructure Investment also down 20 percent retail sales down 19 percent so really at the more when the government is doing all it can to get the economy restarted the National Bureau of statistics has said that the economy faces new difficulties and new challenges but the long term growth of the economy shouldnt be affected well at the moment there are questions as to whether that can be possible because this is really taking chinas economy is really taking
A 51 percent increase in the number of reported cases in my own continent africa and a 60 per cent increase in the number of reported does with the current challenge of all painting testing kits its likely that the real numbers are higher than reported or rossi has signed is that an epidemiologist and professor at Massey College he says the pandemic poses a major threat to africas densely populated cities. Enemy of Public Health is a kraut and when you think of most african countries the uk hard to rise by overcrowding its actually in the urban areas but adding to that as well as Health Care Infrastructure are factors that can lead to serious illness and death for example endemic all year round in most of those countries are diseases such as tuberculosis it beat aids and malnutrition and those conditions tend to lead to compromised immune systems and therefore in fewer and lead death be done and lead to soonest disease and death so its a perfect recipe so dry an epidemic in the 2 explo
A white house that continues to try to put a positive spin on very negative news but thats going to become increasingly difficult because the numbers are expected to continue to rise in terms of the number of americans that are filing for unemployment claims in the United States in fact its expected that in the coming weeks that number that were at right now in the low 20 millions well it could double because the reality is that over night its predicted that roughly 46000000 americans lost their jobs and the only reason those numbers arent up at 46000000 right now is that the states where they processed these claims just cant cope with the sheer number of claims theyre overwhelmed theyre using antiquated Computer Systems and as a result the numbers we have are not really reflective of how many people dont have a job right now and just to make matters worse quickly the money that had been in that big rescue package the 2. 00 trillion dollars rescue package from congress well 35000000000
Sanctums say a National Security officials among them is the head of the iranian judiciary the iranian chief of staff and very importantly the 2nd son of the Ayatollah Khamenei hes the only one of the i told his children to actually works with in the office and certainly represents his father at times in public so this is a significant selection of sat inside with the 40th anniversary of the arabian hostage siege now certainly these are significant the sanctions aimed at the very most senior levels of iranian leadership the 9 figures who individually singled out all members of the inner sanctums say a National Security officials among them is the head of the iranian judiciary the iranian chief of staff and very importantly the 2nd son of the Ayatollah Khamenei hes the only one of the i told his children to actually works within the office and certainly represents his father at times in public so this is a significant selection of sat inside with the 40th anniversary of the arabian host
Theyre seen as symbols of the state that these armed groups are fighting against as they vie for independence from thailand or autonomy from this country which is predominantly buddhist the u. S. Envoy to the e. U. Is old it is testimony in the impeachment inquiry and president don trump. Now recalls a meeting where he said u. S. Military aid was likely dependent on ukraine launching investigations demanded by trump i did joe castro has more from washington d. C. The transcripts reveal that a key witness has reversed his testimony regarding the question that is at the center of this impeachment inquiry and that is whether trump used u. S. Security aid to bribe the Ukrainian Government to help him with his Reelection Campaign the witness in question here is ordered some of the u. S. Ambassador to the u. And initially he had testified that there was no quid pro quo but upon reviewing the transcripts of other witnesses who had implicated him directly he now says his memory has been jarred