No more come on peter told me youre watching aljazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up a record hit to the euro zone economy after lockdowns turned cities into ghost towns and plunged nations into recession. Also ahead a frustrated u. N. Secretary general lashes out at the World Leaders he says are falling short when theyre needed now more than ever. Lets get going we begin with the impact of the coronavirus on the worlds biggest economy almost one of the 4000000 people in the u. S. Applied for Unemployment Benefits support last week meaning more than 30000000 have made claims since march the Unemployment Rate hovered around 3 and a half percent between december and february but in march it jumped to 4. 4 percent some economists believe it could be as high as 20 percent when the figure for april is released next week hoping to begin clawing back some financial ground more than 2 dozen states are moving ahead with plans to relax restrictions on business and social life. As a White House Correspondent kimberly how could these are just the ones that have managed to file their claims online or even to get into an Unemployment Office that has been overwhelmed by the sheer number of americans that suddenly found themselves out of work this is just another bleak indicator we seem to be reporting on them every day that reminds us just how bad things have gotten in the United States as a result of the stay at home orders that were broccoli put in place to you know keep americans safe and well it has certainly resulted in a lower number of deaths than was initially projected there are certainly some very dire impacts economically and this is the latest measure of that now for his part of the u. S. President has been speaking at the white house today he was meeting with yet another governor this time new jersey of course a very hard hit state about reopening the economy this is something that is going to be done very gradually and as a result this means that the sort of jobs returning is not going to be a very quick snap back even as the u. S. President continues to project optimism why is he continuing to sort of cheerily the economy of this economic recovery well because its an Election Year and hes trying to win reelection in november but its going to be difficult because most Business Experts projects that while the jobs were lost overnight could be 2 to 3 years before they come back. Well the u. S. President says hes seen evidence the corona virus originated in a lab in the chinese city of han and he speculates that the coop at 19 could have been unleashed due to a quotes horrible mistake mr trump went on to say its possible that china chose not to stop the virus from spreading. One of 2 things happened they they either didnt do it and you know they couldnt do it from missed competence in point or they let it spread and. You know i would say probably it was it got out of control but you know theres another case that how come they stopped all the planes and all of the traffic from going into china but they didnt stop the planes in the traffic from coming into the United States and from coming into all over europe. Earlier i spoke to robert scott he works at the u. S. Based Economic Policy institute he says it is clear what President Trump is doing. Well unfortunately the president is looking for a scapegoat mistakes you want somebody else you can blame for the now 60000. 00 plus deaths that weve experienced in the United States its certainly true theres plenty of blame to go around the chinese dithered the covered up they didnt they didnt want to acknowledge what was going on at 1st but they got serious after a few weeks very similar in many ways to the United States where the president denied and promises he was going to suppress the virus and didnt respond for 6 or 8 weeks until it was too late now weve had to bring the the endemic spread all d over the United States and the hardest hit country in the world i think its got everything to do with the election in the fall and the president is pulling out all the stops to try and get the economy going again and he knows that to his his best calling card for the election was the strong state of the economy early in the year before the pen demick it when we had very low Unemployment Rates and very strong stock market and he was gearing up to sell himself on that basis to the voters but now we are probably entering the worst recession in the history of the United States and women could easily exceed 20 or even 25 percent of the time it peaks later this summer and it looks like output of the economy is going to fold one more than it has sensed the Great Depression in 1933. The eurozone economy has sustained his biggest hit since the block started compiling those statistics back in 1905 outputs in the 19 countries that use the euro strength by 3. 8 percent between january and march unemployment in germany the e. U. Strongest economy rose by more than 300008 parole the German Government has already predicted is g. D. P. Is on track to shrink by more than 6 percent this year. The u. K. Meanwhile is past its coronavirus peak thats according to the Prime MinisterBoris Johnson fronting his 1st government Briefing Since recovering from covert 19 you promised to lay out plans to ease lock down rules next week the u. K. s death toll europes 2nd highest is now heading for 27000 new barker reports from london but leading britains Coronavirus Response after his personal battle with the virus and only a day after his fiance gave birth the Prime Minister faces mounting criticism of his governments response to the outbreak and questions over how to ease current restrictions amid a backdrop of rising death but now a glimmer of optimism in britains battle with covert 19 i can confirm today that for the 1st time we are past the peak of this disease were past the peak and we are on the downward slope britain may be over the worst but its still a risk for now the lock down will not be loosened weve come through the peak or rather weve come under what could have been a vast peak there weve been going through some huge outpoint turn and we can now see the sunlight own the the pasture ahead of us. And so it is vital that we do no lose control and run slap into a 2nd an even bigger minute in the past 24 hours compass and flowers have been arriving here to 10 downing street to welcome boys stauntons new baby closely followed by scientific advices of ministers coaching folders it is a confusing juxtaposition echoing a Wider National confusion over how and when this crisis will end the government also under mounting pressure to reach its mass testing target by friday at the start of april the Health Secretary matt hancock said he was determined to deliver 100000. 00 tests per day so determined he reportedly made 100. 00 Pound Charity betty to achieve it in recent days mobile testing unit started by the army have been travelling around the country as the government races to meet its target smashing his goal with an air force fly past his captain tom moore he initially wanted to raise just over a 1000. 00 for completing laps of his garden before his 100th birthday to mark the milestone having raised more than 37000000. 00 for the National Health service the Prime Minister described captain tom as a point of light for the nation the government is now under pressure to be a point of trust in Uncertain Times need barkha aljazeera london. Russias Prime Minister says hes putting himself into isolation after testing positive for me hurl mistrust and is the highest ranking politician there to be diagnosed his deputy will step up in his place for the time being russia has so far recorded more than 100000 cases and is in excess of a 1000 deaths now. Mexican hospitals say they are quickly becoming overwhelmed questioning the governments assertion that is well placed to stay on top of the Outbreak Health workers are protesting saying there are shortages of both equipment and qualified doctors manuel reports from mexico city. The medical staff of this hospital in the mexican capital are the latest Health Sector workers to protest a lack of personal protective equipment they say theyre afraid of contracting coded 19 but he thought it meant that were protesting because we are not a covert designated hospital yet where except in clovis patients and so far 45 of my colleagues have been infected. Protests like these with doctors and nurses demanding medical supplies have been taking place in mexico since early march in some cases medical staff have had to find and purchase their own protective equipment i will check whether. The country has a lot of protective equipment like boots caps and goggles but no piece of equipment is asked important as the high fissions the mask known as the n 95 these any short supply all over the world but in mexico in particular in many places have never even had this mass in the wind. As coronavirus contagion in mexico nears its predicted peak so does the expected capacity of the Nations Health centers. This emergency room staff and can coon say donations have helped alleviate their demand for protective equipment but they fear the facility will soon be overwhelmed seeing by the government. Who would definitely reach a moment where we suppose capacity this clinic is now dedicated specifically to treat coronavirus the flow of patients is constant we will suppose capacity in mexico city more than a dozen hospitals have announced they have already hit capacity the Mexican Government however says that 70 percent of hospital beds set aside for kobe 1000 cases remain unused. Many public spaces have also been repurposed to accommodate for unexpected older floor patients at hospitals all across mexico medical personnel are warning over the possibility of a Health System collapse adding that now more than ever is the time for people to stay in their homes and continue to abide by social distancing guidelines. Mexicos president said in a recent address the country has prepared very well to meet the demand for medical equipment many of those on the front lines of the fight against the pandemic dont seem to agree. Mexico city. Still to come here on aljazeera the police in new york are investigating why dozens of decomposing bodies were put on ice in trucks outside a funeral home. Plus with the economy in freefall and on rest growing lebanons leader says hell seek a rescue deal from the i. M. F. Hello the conditions have definitely improved over the last few days across areas of japan as the want to further to the north in through but that sunshine has certainly brought a rise in the temperatures and people out and about in chiba park enjoying those kiss on the skies aside the timers actually set to rise a little bit further by friday 25 to saka and im pretty warm as well back across the Korean Peninsula 27 in seoul and still very warm in beijing these temperatures a good 10 degrees above the average the rain back in for crossfire to cross seasonal southern eastern sections of china all the way toward shanghai so 24 the high there on friday by saturday its a little bit warmer the rain for the most part actually working d its way eastwards away from shanghai becoming quite a bit heavier across the southern areas but warm to the south 30 celsius in hong kong widespread rains of course across much of indonesia and weve seen some heavy rain through our is a similar to this system here were his way down the west coast so this could bring some localized flooding some very heavy rain at times and also very widespread across much of the man a peninsula meanwhile some scottish central philippines and some heavy rain across borneo well that is really the north and east of india seeing the heaviest rain and the next couple days showers into kara. As the world fights the corona pandemic were learning more about this every day the new patent your new join our global community. How we come together to fight for answering your questions can i just honestly tell you this is directly whats coming on on you tube as youre saying im concerned about the fact life well and i think are a crisis and not keeping you up to date and weve seen countries retreat back and beaten back to translate the strain on 00. 00. 00. Welcome back youre watching aljazeera live from doha your top stories as the coronavirus pandemic continues to battery connellys around the world almost another 4000000 people have applied for unemployment support in the u. S. In just the last week a total of 30000000. 00 americans have made claims since late march. With the bad numbers mounting donald trump has again focused on chinas role in the pandemic he suggested without evidence that covert 19 might have been created in a chinese lab and the government may have chosen not to stop it spreading. And the british Prime Minister says the u. K. Has passed the peak of the outbreak Boris Johnson will outline next week his plans to restart the economy. A funeral home is being investigated in new york after the discovery of dozens of bodies in an refrigerated trucks the owner says he had no option but to store bodies on ice in the rented vehicles because he had run out of room his gabriel elizondo. The lives lost already victims of new yorks Coronavirus Crisis now part of a funeral home for dozens of bodies were found decomposing in trucks at this funeral home in brooklyn there maybe were as many as 50 bodies inside the police moved in and discovered it after residents complained about a foul smell emanating from the building by thursday morning caskets were arriving to take away corpses to unknown locations and family members with loved ones inside who are showing up in a desperate search for information ronald 60 year old brother francoise died of cope at 19 he tells me his brothers corpse has been inside the funeral home for more than a week now. About it because every day. So its not good not only exactly what they say because its really so very very sad to me should covington said she thinks her moms body is also inside so right here this is too much for me im sorry but im so cloudy right now because this hurts her words hurt people who live in the neighborhood were shocked this is a residential neighborhood its unbelievable unbelievable people. And that. You know. The funeral home said its freezers failed so it had to bring in the rental trucks to store bodies and explanation that did not satisfied new yorks mayor they have an obligation to the people they serve to treat them with dignity i have no idea in the world how any funeral home could what this happened for a city that is supposedly coming out of this crisis the nightmare that happened at this funeral home is a grim reminder of how far there is still to go and the incredible toll this is having on a city. How does it in brooklyn they are. Joining us live here on aljazeera eric adams hes the borough president of brooklyn he also served as a new york state senator he joins us from Brooklyn Eric adams great to have you here on aljazeera so how can this possibly have happened im sorry how can this possibly have happened well i think its almost a perfect storm when you look at the entire process from the review of when a person immediately died sort of time that you bury them theres several different components and pieces number one the hospitals order locations where they died the morgue swear their health the Funeral Directors and then the actual grave site or if they want to be in bomb this some way and i think that the lack of coordination of all of those pieces of kit turning crises into an actual is a travesty of this proportion who is responsible for that coordination that youre talking about there is the nobody directly responsible i mean is there an oversight and overseeing body here involved. Well we know we dont have been overseen by that court need each one of those pieces and its unfortunate when you look at it and many of our funeral home directories was caught in between the 1st many of our a cemetery some of us in metairie stop burying at the same level that they were doing a lot of our cremation locations were sending back bodies because they were receiving too many and our morgues were not whole in the bodies long enough so that we could continue a real flow so when you think we had an increase in deaths a large proportion a decrease in burials and cremation because of the overflow d and no coordination in between you im sure we have more places in the city where you have bodies are being stored and some really an ethical matters because of these as far as this particular funeral director and his business a concerned clearly people are innocent until proven otherwise but is there or should there be a criminal charge laid at his door. Well i spoke with the funeral director this evening that went back to dont know cation to speak with those who were there im i think is really too early to determine if something was criminally done i think we could have made better decisions on how long you kept the body out of bottom of the bodies that would there but i dont think and my preliminary observation that there were any criminal activity on his part you know as you know it was a former Police Officer that conduct a criminal investigation has tried to become a state senator and when you look at this which is really looking ad men and women wh