Secretary general criticizes World Leaders he says a falling short when they need it more than ever. And is locked down restrictions disrupt Food Supplies in india farmers struggle to sell their crops. We begin with yet more bad news out of the worlds biggest economy nearly 4000000 people in the u. S. Applied for unemployment support last week meaning more than 30000000 have made claims since march of the Unemployment Rate hovered around 3 and a half percent between december and february but in macia jump to 4. 4 percent some economists believe the figure for april could be as high as 20 percent more than 2 dozen states hoping to call back some financial ground and are beginning to relax restrictions but as politicians in michigan debated whether or not to do that armed protesters surrounded the State Capitol building some even made it inside calling for an end to confinement mashes our White House Correspondent kelly health that has more on the latest unemployment numbers in the u. S. 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 probably 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. With bad numbers mounting donald trump is again focused on chinas role in the pentameter he suggested without evidence that covert 19 might have originated in a chinese lab and the government may have chosen not to stop it from spreading pedicle has more. A Conspiracy Theory has been floating on the fringes of conservative media for weeks and now its made its way to the white house you seen anything at this point that gives you a high degree of confidence that they would have instituted a raji was the origin of this virus yes yes i have that was the president of the United States indicating hes seen something that says the coronavirus was made in a chinese lab he didnt say if it was from a us agency or from Cable Television where he gets a lot of his information after reports that the cid ministration has been trying to get the Intelligence Community to find a connection to the lab the director of National Intelligence issued this statement saying the Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide Scientific Consensus that the covert 1000 virus was not manmade or genetically modified and 2 weeks ago the u. S. Military seemed to make the same conclusion on the on the lab piece but thats theres a lot of. Rumor and speculation in a wide variety of media the blog sites etc should be no surprise to you that weve taken a keen interest in that and weve had a lot of intelligence take a hard look at that and i would just say at this point its inconclusive although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural some republicans have been trying to point the blame and public anger at china some even saying they should simply refused to pay china back for the u. S. Bonds it holds the president though said he wouldnt go that far indicating more tariffs could be his response further straining the relationship between the 2. 00 countries and the whole ready stretched Bank Accounts of consumers in the u. S. Who ultimately pay the price for those tariffs pedicle hain aljazeera and our tangan china political analysts say says mistrust is running high between washington and beijing. Just remember that this is the. Institute were talking about was he joined lee run by french and chinese the french authorities have put out an absolute. Statement saying that it never happened there was no accidents they were involved in this kind of are all and so at this point you have to believe that the french that are involved including with china and the w. H. O. If you want to believe this kind of narrative that donald trump is trying to put out your hat here is an American Public and an increasingly. The chinese public are seeing each other as hostile i mean when you have all of these attacks against asians theyre not even necessarily against chinese just anyone perceived as chinese theres a lot of you know that feeling i mean many chinese help hold and help out United States as a you know kind of. The ultimate in systems that there is a lot of opportunity in things like this theres a tremendous amount of soft power at this point though thats changing now you are hearing a lot of people who are saying theyre moving back and these are just College Professors and its like that these these are titans of various industries who feel very uncomfortable in their families feel uncomfortable in the u. S. So i dont know if this is the plan for decoupling i dont know that its necessary you know benefit the United States. The eurozone economy has sustained its biggest hit since the bloc started compiling statistics and 995 outputs in the 19 countries that use the euro shrank by 3. 8 percent between january and march unemployment in germany the strongest economy rose by more than 300000 an april germanys government has already predicted its g. D. P. Is on track to shrink by more than 6 percent this year the u. K. Meanwhile s. Past its chronic virus peak thats according to Prime MinisterAbbas Johnson fronting his 1st government Briefing Since recovering from covenanting he promised to lay out plans to ease it all down rules next week u. K. Death toll europe 2nd highest is heading towards 27000 if barker reports from london but cleaving 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 and meet a backdrop of rising deaths but now a glimmer of optimism in britains battle with covert 19 i can confirm today 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 law will not be loosened weve come through the peak or rather weve come under what could have been a vast peak is that 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 not lose control and run slap into a 2nd an even bigger mounted in the past 24 hours hampers and flowers have been arriving here to 10 downing street to welcome boyce johnsons new baby closely followed by scientific advisors of ministers coaching folders it is a confusing juxtaposition echoing a Wider National confusion over how and when this crisis will end the governments also under mounting pressure to reach its mass testing target by friday at the start of april the Health Secretary 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 the parka aljazeera london. The u. N. Chief has spoken else has irritation what he says is a lack of World Leadership during the pandemic and says nowhere near enough is being done to help developing countries and his calls for global ceasefire are mostly being ignored his own diplomatic editor james banks. Speaking to reporters by video link the frustration of the u. N. Secretary general was clear its well over a month since he demanded a global ceasefire but the fact the Un Security Council has been unable to pass a resolution was the result of what he called a dysfunctional relationship between the major powers and that makes it difficult for the Security Council to decide as it makes it difficult in many other areas for International Cooperation to work secretarygeneral given the scale of the pandemic do you believe that Global Leadership has been adequate. It is obvious that there is a lack of leadership it is all is obvious the International Community is divided in a moment where it would be more important than ever to be united there is indeed a problem of leadership or if you want a disconnect between leadership and poll we see remarkable examples of leadership but they are usually not associated bollard and when we see power we sometimes do not see the necessary to the ship i hope this will be overcome sooner rather than later as a Security Council session this week a very public demonstration of the disagreements among the worlds Top Countries as the un syrias special envoy spoke during the Virtual Event one of the ambassadors had not me to this microphone in ukraine my counsel. The french ambassador was on a separate phone call unaware everyone else could hear him ask. One thing you know at the franks my his words were very telling he talked to problems related to the w. H. O. And then starts to talk about the americans before hes alerted to the fact hes on muted microphone. That its going to go through security on the ballot in that moment the ambassador inadvertently revealed in public the problems the u. N. Security council has been facing in trying to come up with a resolution on covert 19 the french have been leading those negotiations for weeks diplomats say its a torturous process the u. S. Is objecting to any reference in the resolution to the World Health Organization after President Trump pulled funding from the Global Health body meanwhile russias foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has been pushing the idea of a meeting of the 5 permanent members of the Security Council russia china the u. S. U. K. And france at leader level it still though hasnt happened james. Spays aljazeera of the united nations. So its come here on aljazeera well have the latest on the investigation into a discovery of decomposing bodies outside a new york funeral home. And after months of protests a plan to tackle lebanons economic crisis but will it be enough to pull the country out of the spiral. Hello there are still plenty of showers across Northern Areas of the middle east to take you through areas of turkey and also a few scattered showers work its way eastwards across much of iran but as a say that rain across turkey if theres one thing we can say is the last few weeks weve seen so much rain that some of the countryside is looking very green indeed theres more on the way as well particularly well central and eastern areas through friday you can see those shots working the way for the east was pushing on through much of afghanistan and eventually on into Northern Areas of afghanistan quite an amount of cloud across more sudden sections of the Arabian Peninsula the winds are quite strong as well and really we could see over the next couple days yet more scattered showers and thunderstorms very isolated but its high as it could be quite heaviest the warm of course 38 in riyadh on 34 and on a very warm 43 celsius in dubai then down into Southern Africa south africa the temperature cools have been coming down over the last few weeks it is that the sauce or the majority of or 70 you see here these beautiful a colors is of course the leaves on the trees are changing the rain is not cleared out the forecast much as south africa say plenty of sunshine of the next few days warming up slightly in johannesburg and then to the north youve got to reach out the d. 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Is past the peak of its corona Virus Outbreak last johnson outline next week how here reduce lock down measures. A funeral home is being investigated in new york after the discovery of dozens of bodies in an refrigerated trucks the owners say a freezer failed so they had to rent the trucks to store the bodies under. 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 covert 19 he tells me his brothers corpse has been inside the funeral home for more than a week now. About it because they were. So theres not only exactly what they say because its really very very sad to me shit covington said she thinks her moms body is also inside so right here this but its 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 there were 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. Brooklyn new york. Authorities have begun reopening public spaces in chinas capital after months of closure or the most famous landmarks the forbidden city is among the places again there are restrictions so only 5000. 00 visitors are allowed on each day down from 80000 it comes at the start of a 5 day Holiday Weekend which could see millions of people travel lets go live now to our correspondent adrian brown who is in hong kong so tell us more about these rio names and other precautions that are being put in place. Well kim this is a further sign that china is slowly gradually returning to normal the forbidden city of course is now open to visitors once more but as you pointed out in your introduction only 5000 visitors a day will be allowed into the a bit in city which of course was home to chinese emperors now normally 30000. 00 visitors a day would go in but now theyre having to keep that production down to 5000 days really for the coming weeks parks are also going