Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240712

For Racial Justice in the United States renews pressure to change the name of washingtons Football Team. Not just in american football Lewis Hamilton says formula one isnt doing enough to fight racism and ive not seen. Any change and that upsets me Will Champion urges are forced to confront his lack of. Starting in ethiopia this says they were tension remains high days after a popular singer and activist was killed by an unknown gunman. He was laid to rest on thursday in his hometown of west the capital was an icon for ethiopias biggest ethnic group the oromo his murder sparked days of protest with an 80 People Killed in that violence the government says armed gangs have been roaming the streets and so the military is now patrolling the streets in the capital addis ababa. On the line for us now bill in salem who is the spokesperson for the ethiopian Prime Ministers Office of International Media thank you for your time today 1st of all what is the situation after the funeral is the military still out patrolling is theres still violence on the streets thank you very much. Look i think weve got phone problems already unfortunately if you can still hear me were going to try to get back to you maybe reestablish that connection and have to talk more about that in the meantime someone i spoke to earlier who is a senior lecturer at Keele University and an analyst on the horn of africa he explains here. Political significance. This government killed to power on the power of the circus was in the struggle of the only people in which. Was instrumental. In this that we would not have the kind of you know that in that we had between 20152018. Without the bottom where you protesting we would not have had the political change that have happened when he brought the current Prime Minister into power and since coming to power the current Prime Minister do not really have to act as some of the fundamental questions of the world was what a very long period of time its a key question on this asking the fundamental question that all of you ask you have movie answered some of the statistics that the crime this that have taken really under the number of people so what we saw after the day of rage openly is you know he is so it a towering figure whose or right could ignite you know significant level of anger but i think its also a look. Of all laws expectations that really didnt go in. The other countries used in terms of you know all of them going to this is that so this is what all those frustrated that are boiling and. Were going to try again now say im spokesperson for the ethiopian Prime Ministers Office special can you hear me all right. Yes ive got you ok can you give us an update 1st of all on the status of the military on the streets and if there is still any violence ongoing. Like i said earlier before i got caught up in them ive been struggling a little bit in terms of the phone call but 1st on behalf of the government if you care p. I would like to express my deepest condolences to the Family Friends and friends of the renowned. As well as those that have passed away in that and so we process. Far as the situation right now the government is in control there are functions of submachine law and order are in place as well and the very deliberate intention in action for the government to be dispensing its responsibility of meeting rule of flow and stability the Prime Minister spoke about external forces being involved that is a very broad statement can you be more specific. The moment. As i said. 9 investigations that are currently happening in terms of who is behind the assassination on unknown figures are have been a pretended and the government as i mentioned is dispensing this responsibility with regards to who is behind it which is something that would be kind and Police Investigations that are currently ongoing. But that doesnt mean we dont accept the fact that the Prime Minister did say that an external forces could mean any of a number of players in the moment given there are geopolitical tensions in the region already i understand that but i cannot comment on that at this point because this is something that is an investigation that is ongoing so in due time this would also be made or clarified ok tell me little bit more about your reaction of we look at the pictures of all the people on the streets mourning his death did it surprise you at all but there was such 1st of all such an outpouring of grief and then also the violence that followed. Its not surprising that theres an outpouring of grief he is and iconic figure not only for the people of all but hes an iconic figure for ethiopia and. Hes much appreciated across the country for the consciousness that he brought into erics song without the outpouring on the street is a demonstration in my opinion of the love and respect that they had for such an iconic figure i believe as well throughout that process of coming out to mourn the loss of such a prominent figure some elements may have hijacked this morning there has been destruction of public and private property as well and there has been and you know relate the deaths of when theyre mourning. The same time but this outflow of love and respect for them that manifested in you know hundreds of people going out into the streets to warn them that that is not something that surprising is this a chance then even to address the concerns of the overall more people more given that have such prominence now. The time of. Death is a critical point in time what the government over the past will have years has been taking or undertaking Critical Reforms now one of the things we have to bear in mind is that the president s creation has a very broken system and a lot of grievances that have been accumulating over several years and these grievances have not had a chance to express themselves within the past 202829 years so this administration having come into place over the past 2 and a half years has been really trying to unlock a lot of the book and next to that theres a lot of expression of grievances that arson ring and minds of invention but at the same time in terms of the civilized way of. Portraying or sharing some of these grievances there are groups and are there are also hijacked platforms they have also hijacked some of the available reforms that are in place in order to describe my reforms that are taking because one thing that you have to also consider is. The reforms that have been introduced by his excellent the other yahoo image and his administration has tried to. Shake the start of school that is in that sense and image of the reforms they are progressive they will take time to materialise their low hanging fruits that have been also addressed but the reforms process is a long journey not something that would be fulfilled in 2 and a half years for a lot of the grievances that have been stifled over the past 2 years are going to be continuously addressed in the due time with patience and the goodwill of the people that a lot of people guns are showing all of the systemic changes in revenge because that will be addressed into playing in for you and speaking on behalf of the office of ethiopias Prime Minister thank you for your time. So the news had a landslide at a jade mine in may and ma has killed at least 123. 00 workers a pile of waste collapsed into a lake burying mine is in a wave of muddy water this disaster in the mineral rich region follows days scuse me of heavy rain. Hold on its with us now me and my Campaign Leader at Global Witness which is an International Ngo working on Natural Resource exploitation hes with us from washington and we thank you for your time. An accident of this scale were talking upwards of 120 People Killed how i want to say how normal is this but do we see these sorts of accidents happening in the mines in me and regularly unfortunately we do hear. Deadly landslides just last year there was an accident. And especially during the rainy season when heavy rains. And then. Were seeing more and more is landslides every year. This particular type of mining jade quite often when we hear about mining and mining problems these days its mining for minerals which are important for electronics and the like is purely on the mental is that correct and yet there is this much demand and theres many accidents happening. Yeah thats true i mean jade is a cult a special place in the hearts of chinese consumers of Chinese Culture and the valuable chain for myanmar called j. Date which is the worlds most valuable jade her merely goes to china where its a multibillion dollar market so its a its a rip asia industry its poorly regulated and we continue to see these types of acts thats ok so that leads on to my next question if you think its poorly regulated already that say the government is just letting companies do business there giving them the permits and letting them carry on as they were. Well in 2016 the government actually suspended the assurances of the new licenses and extending your speculations in try to begin a process of reforming and regulating the industry unfortunately despite a new law and policy there developing we continue to see the governments inability to regulate the environmental and social impacts of Mining Sector remains controlled by powerful armed groups the military itself and Crony Companies which are operating outside of the control of the government so are you aware of any efforts which have been even moderately successful as you know trying to regulate or bring people to account. Today we have not seen those efforts we continue to see large scale destructive mining despite the licensing suspension we think its the only way that the government begin to take control and regulate the sector by immediately suspending all these large dangerous operations and implementing the reform measures that theyve gone but you have to be able to actually implement on the ground right hold on with some Global Witness in washington thank you for your time to appreciate it thank you. Lets have a look at whats coming up for you on this news out in humane conditions the European Court of human rights rules against france in a case about Asylum Seekers with millions of jobs lost in the u. S. May the pandemic fears some of those positions might be gone for good and in sport we will look at how coronaviruses changed the way football fans stay connected with the cops. Russians have backed changes to their constitution that would allow president Vladimir Putin to stay in power to lead a 2036 Electoral Commission says almost 78 percent of people voted in favor of the amendments to happen claims of irregularities at the polls including from an Election Monitor rival palestinian groups hamas and fatah have said they will Work Together to fight against israels annexation plans for the occupied west bank secretarygeneral Jabril Rajoub has been speaking in ramallah where he said there is a National Consensus against an accession and says a day after the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to launch the annexation process that has now been delayed as high level talks continue to be held we are united and we will this is the tactics on the ground the tactics on the field according to the israeli actions this is the eally behaviors the israeli way of trying to destroy trying to do this coalition and so on as therefore intifada for us does it mean the end is to in the in the end is to end and to remove the annexation from the table. Lydia abram is in ramallah for us and says the issue is being seen as an opportunity for the 2 palestinian parties to cooperate they say that annexation is an existential threat for effect there and also the whole Palestinian National project and thats why they say that they expect that this would be an instant or this this would be a chance for them to get over their differences and unite they say that talks between them are not new theyve been discussing for awhile ways to stop the israeli plans they said that not only that israeli plans are dangerous on the National Cause on a regional level but also on the Palestinian People who are going to be pushed out of the land because israel is making life for them so unbearable that they have no option but to leave it but on the ground the rift between the 2 parties is still ongoing they said that they acknowledge that they still have points of differences that rift is more than 13 years old and there has been many attempts to bridge the gap and have palestinians reunite but its proved every time they meet that they couldnt implement these decisions or some came up between the 2 but. I have asked neither speaking from beirut so that theyre going to be overcoming these differences that this is an instant for them to really go because its they said its going to be the end of the 2 state solution so it does seem here is a chance for the 2 parties to mend their gap of course there is a lot of skepticism and many journalists in the press Conference Addressed that but both leaders said that they are annexation is a threat its an existential threat and thats what is going to make the 2 parties unite and work on mechanisms once netanyahu announces his annexation plans. Ok latest job figures in the United States of been released in the last few minutes and there are signs of a slow recovery 4800000. 00 positions were added as more businesses resumed their operations but in total tens of millions of jobs have already lost this year and as kristen salome reports some of those may be gone for good. Dining in a sidewalk cafe a pleasure new yorkers have been denied for months restrictions imposed to control the spread of the coronavirus are gradually being lifted an attempt to bring the stalled economy back to life finally yes theres a reason i feel so good to be out here with my family. You know feel good the donna interact with people and not take my cake out of the park only outdoor seating is allowed however forcing restaurants to adapt their Business Model Jeremy Alatas got a special permit to allow tables in the street in front of his establishment but he and the public are still trying to figure out how its going to work its care complete chaos but i give the city credit for a time thing to do something we need something thats the only so many Small Business for us to survive so far hes been able to bring back less than a quarter of his harvest kitchen staff for going his own salary while trying to keep his 6 restaurants afloat there are some 27000 restaurants in new york city alone the mare here says allowing Outdoor Dining is a way to help keep some of them afloat while mitigating the impacts of the coronavirus sale not all will be able to maintain news social distancing requirements and still be profitable the writing is on the wall says bar owner peter walsh after 35 years in the business last month he closed what had become a neighborhood institution in new yorks Washington Heights i mean after whats gone on here are people going to run out and said oh i want to be in a crowded bar right now and people are a customizing to what their own lives and teaching them right now. And people surviving bars and restaurants arent the only sectors of the economy likely to see a slow recovery as many as 40 percent of jobs that have been lost in the pandemic may never come back says economist Nicholas Blum and sickly Business Travel i just a lot of that i dont see coming back are you know maybe dining restaurants maybe you know jim. Movie theater. Cruise liners they dont so much through parts as a lot of basically industries that have long on ice to face interaction between tight spaces he predicts that it will take years for the u. S. Economy to fully recover and it will look much different when it does christine salumi aljazeera new york. More now with our White House Correspondent kimberly how can i can really lets go back to the numbers show we 4800000 more jobs in june versus an estimates of almost 3000000 so the headline figures good can you take us through the details. Yeah this is a snapshot of the economic picture for the United States and really there are 2 numbers that were focusing on not just the nearly 5000000. 00 jobs that were created in june but also the Unemployment Rate that we usually get on a friday coming a day early because of the july 4th Holiday Weekend essentially this is also very good news for the president whos really trying to win reelection on a Strong Economy which obviously has been decimated by coronavirus the number was expected to be 12. 4 percent in terms the Unemployment Rate is actually lower than that 11 point one so the white house pretty excited about all these numbers what theyre seeing is this reopening of restaurant retail sectors that Service Industry that really pushed this into a good direction heres the problem with these numbers they came from the middle of the month and since then weve seen these spikes happening with coronavirus cases and as a result we expect that these numbers are not going to be good moving forward because the economy has had to pull back a little bit in response so the u. S. President has Just Announced hes going to talk about these good numbers the bottom of the hour as an impromptu briefing hes obviously very excited but at the same time well there is a good headline as you dig into the details a little bit more problematic. Another number kimberly and that is approximately 50000 the new record high of daily corona virus infections in the United States. Thats the kind of news which i just dont know trump will try to offset with these unemployment numbers but you just cant ignore those sorts of figures the way theyre going up absolutely theyre interrelated and this is the problem the numbers from that snapshot in the middle of the month very good but already weve seen as you point out the sort of record setting thats occurred just yesterday 50000 new cases and were heading into this Holiday Weekend where americans traditionally like to have big barbecues and family gatherings and the fear of local officials around the country is these could become super spreader events where asymptomatic guests may go and mingle with others and soon youve got a massive outbreak already some flashpoints around the United States youve got texas arizona georgia florida and what weve seen is the result is already weve seen places like new york city kind of scaling back some planned reopening of restaurants miami beach putting in place a nightly curfew starting on thursday so this is not going to impact those job numbers as we look forward in a good way in fact it could make them trend in even worse direction but again the u. S. President looking at the numbers hes gotten hand right now excited to talk about them in the coming 15 minutes or so thank you kimberly how kids at the white house will talk to kimberly good enough to we hear from the president probably in about 10 minutes time. The European Court of human rights has condemned france for its treatment of 3. Judges said they were forced to live on the streets in what amounted to inhumane and degrading conditions the government has been ordered to pay the compensation more with Natasha Butler now in paris get on to the specifics of that in a moment but 1st can you tell us about exactly where you are and all the things you see there with regards to the refugees and homeless people. Thats right im in central paris you can probably see tents lined up behind me and this is something of a camp protest if you like because n. G. O. S along with. Thousands of teenage migrants have set up these tents in the center of the city to try and highlight the plight of young refugees and migrants who find themselves on the streets in paris now all of these tents are full Young Margaret mainly from west africa some from afghanistan a sleeping in every night and what they are saying is that the french state is basically completely failed them if they were right here now in a perhaps a bit of a safe zone with the engineers looking after them by just being next to their own devices in the street with no one to give them shelter with no food or protection under french nor of course all of company unaccompanied minors should be taken in by the state we also spoke to a spokesperson for m. S. F. Doctors without borders one of the n. G. O. S working here and she said these are all children under 18 and quite frankly they should also be in school because under french law all children under 18 should be in school so this is a ruling from the European Court of human rights on the specific case of 3 Asylum Seekers just tell us a little more about that and and what france has to do. Yes the European Court of human rights condemning france over its their treatment of 3 Asylum Seekers so its a particular case the case of 3 men in a rain in russian and an afghan that the European Court of human rights said basically the french state failed to look after them that these men were left almost streets in france living without protection without shelter without food and in terrible sanitary conditions degrading conditions said the chords without the french stage intervening or helping them and fulfilling its moral and legal duty to offer people a basic human right so the court has ordered the french state to pay compensation to these 3 Asylum Seekers who are frauds has been during the over the past few years is actually tightening its immigration laws and also trying to crack down on what it calls economic migrants and that means it is far harder say campaigners for Asylum Seekers to actually apply for asylum and even when they do theyre not actually given any provisions of a not taken in a given shelter was their applications go through and most the time they just end up back on the street. Reporting from paris thank you natasha. Firefighters are still struggling to control huge wildfires burning across siberia in the Russian Arctic strong winds of fan the flames creating more fires in the last 24 hours around 800. 00 firefighters are trying to contain them and reinforcements are being flown in a 1000000 hectares of forest has already been burned this region experiencing one of its hottest summers on record and see what the weather is doing in north america this thursday everton. Looking at all the yellow spots on your map there one of those yeah lots of storms going on over moment to this pretty hot here as well Holiday Weekend of course and we can its going to be a hot one a stifling one for many there we go with those storms just banging away across central and eastern parts of the u. S. Lots of really high temperatures even up into canada actually see this weather system that we have across the Pacific Northwest into that western side of canada just to the west of the rockies and ive got the cooler air some cooler air as well behind this line that we have just coming out to get you one minute tobar pushing across into ontario and quebec south of that thats where the heat really is in place so we paid 31 celsius in one of those thirtys all the way down into the deep south its hot and humid stifling heat here really really horrible conditions as we go on through the next couple days it doesnt really change too much as we go through friday through saturday and on into sunday the end of the Holiday Weekend some showers there as well some lively ones just around the deep south pushing down towards the southeastern corner miami still a 33 cell just miami incidently has just had its hottest week on record hot enough up into central parts of canada the heat will ease a touch as we go through the next couple days of showers just slide out across the dakotas down towards the southeast and colder come saturday was a far worse of course natures fireworks to be coming in across the deep south gradually making the way further east was for sunday kemal david and thank you so much for that evident folks with your weather update there still. Head to the snooze on. My message where its always about doing this ok fully cautiously a United Kingdom but 2 very different approaches how wales has kept its infections low while england grapples with a high number of coronavirus states also struggling to fill the shelves lebanons economy continues to fall while food prices on the rise in the top tennis player in the world is now cleared of kovac 19 and even about the rest of the sport about tend to be. Joining a Global Community called the price is just slapped isnt the place the blessing upon latin upon lasss Human Capital equals the global south keeping you up to date is why so for situation where we have a human rights prices that persist beyond the health crisis. Questions is a dialogue just nothing we are now approaching across route this is an opportunity that we must keep on the street on aljazeera i care about how the u. S. Engages with the rest of the world i cover Foreign Policy National Security is very much a political impounds heres the how do we illustrate it are we telling a good story will people get what were trying to think here theyre living outside in makeshift tents this is not the way any family wants to raise their children were willing to give in taking you into a place that you might not visit otherwise and to actually feel as if you were there. From the news here at al jazeera and these are the top stories tensions still high in ethiopia 3 days after a popular singer and activist was murdered a child of their sons been laid to rest following a funeral in his hometown of on both just west of at the sound of. A landslide at a jade mine in me and moss killed at least 123. 00 workers pile of waste collapsed into a lake burying miners in a wave of money also the disaster in the mineral rich account region follows days of heavy rain. And the latest jobs figures in the United States are out there are some positive signs 4800000. 00 positions added and the Unemployment Rate has fallen and Small Businesses resumed operations in the middle of them of. Course in london has ruled that venezuelas Opposition Leader is the president of venezuela and heres why that is Important High Court judges are hearing a dispute over gold with a 1000000000. 00 that venezuela keep safe in the bank of england now president Nicolas Maduro wants access to that gold lawyers say that would help ease the Coronavirus Crisis there but its an attempt that was challenged by one guy doe who wants the decision on spending to be in the hands not of the president but of the legislature in venezuela last year why dont you cleared him self the interim president and dozens of countries including britain and the United States recognized him as venezuelas legitimate leader so more on this whats on your in london sun yeah im interested that this has been a court ruling rather than anything to do with the British Government can you take us through the process here of whats happened. Yes fundamentally it was for. The governments attempt to try to get access to the more than 1000000000. 00 worth of gold that is in the vaults of the bank of england has kept its gold there for decades of course with the economic crisis that has been happening under nicolas muddles government as well as the sanctions having an effect as well times are very very tough and of course with a pandemic on top of that making things even worse venezuela is really in a very financially dire situation so what it needs to do is try and see if we can get more cash into its country and by doing that by selling some of the gold that it has or at least having access to some of the goal that it has now interestingly enough this call this case was raised in the u. K. To try and battle the bank of england for access on this as well recall of course that last year the u. K. Along with other 50 other countries stated that because of what they said was vote rigging and other electoral irregularities that it refused to recognize Nicolas Maduro as the head of state and instead looked at one wide or as the constitutional interim president now while that has been the decision that the high court has handed out now there is of course an interesting discrepancy with this while the u. K. Has made that political statement it still has full diplomatic relations with the government of nicolas model for example the appointed ambassador is here in london you also have the u. K. With their own representation in caracas in venezuela as well and there have been 2 of the you know. Other means normal diplomatic relations so while the mother or board will contest this they said theyre going to appeal this they are going to raise this issue of the discrepancy that the u. K. Has and if they are assuming their argument is that if the u. K. Is assuming normal diplomatic relations with Nicolas Maduro appointed their representatives then surely they say it has to recognize that model is the defacto leader of the of the country but then again that of course really goes against what the u. K. Has stated last year as well as other 50 countries but if they win that appeal then it could have a significance for the other assets the frozen venezuelan assets that are scattered around the world. So youre going to go with that update from london thank you. Well the push for Racial Justice in the United States is putting renewed pressure all on the Washington Redskins Football Team to change its names activists of long said the term redskins is racist and offensive to native americans alan fischer but the support from washington. The calls for change are getting louder religious Groups Community organizations even mirs and president of called the name used by the american Football Team in washington racist offensive and outdated. The team says it has no plans to change i dont think they can understand. Pain it causes us. The feelings that we have when someone uses that term. I think understanding the historical nature of that term and what it meant. Is the closest they can try and get but i would hope they could try and understand the name came from bone to use placed on native americans in the 1800s money would only be paid out for the bloodied skins of dead men women and children. Across the country in the wake of george boyds killing prompted Many Companies into a rethink of names brands and imagery sports organizations issued statements of support but have been slow to follow words with actions speaking on a sports radio show this week the teams new head coach ron rivera said he wasnt pushing the issue adding i think thats a discussion for another time i think its all about the moment and the timing this is the stadium where the Football Team in washington used to play its games there was a statue to the man who brought that into the city but he pulled it down he was a segregationist a man who refused to integrate black players into his team until the last possible moment and critics say by refusing to change the name the team is once again on the wrong side. Interrupting that report there from alan fischer to take you to the white house president on a trump on the u. S. Jobs numbers American Workers and American Families and for a country as a whole theres not been anything like a record setting it was just. Put out that the United States economy added almost 5000000 jobs. In the month of june shattering all expectations i was watching this morning and the expectations were much lower than that the stock market is doing extremely well which means to me jobs what it means jobs is the largest monthly jobs gain in the history of our country. The Unemployment Rate fell by more than 2 Percentage Points down to just about 11 percent were down to the 11 percent number we started a number very much higher than that as you know we broke the record last month and we broke it again this month in an even bigger way this news comes on top of mays extraordinary jobs report which was revised upwards by the way to 2700000. 00 jobs it was 2. 5 that was last month and that was a record setter but it actually got a little bit better we revised that it was revised upward to 2700000. 00 jobs for a combined total of 7500000 jobs created in the last 2 months and thats a record by many millions of jobs so its 7500000 jobs created in the last 2 months alone todays announcement proves that our economy is roaring back its coming back extremely strong we have some areas where were putting out the flames of the fires and thats working out well were working very closely with governors and i think its working out very well i think youll see that shortly. In june we added 2100000 leisure and hospitality jobs 740000 retail jobs 568000 education and Health Care Jobs 357000 service jobs these are all historic numbers and 356000 manufacturing jobs in manufacturing looks like its ready to really take off at a level that its never been before and a lot of that has to do with trade policy because were bringing manufacturing back to our country and these take a long time to get. To get going and theyre now going so these are historic numbers im really happy when i see 356000 manufacturing jobs and thats just a small number compared to what it will be soon because of our great trade deals african American Workers really happily for me made historic gains with 404000 jobs added last month alone and thats a record and the 2nd largest jump will be last month and what we have if you add the 2 months together its 700000 jobs for african American Workers added to the last 2 months and thats a record by a lot likewise hispanic employment is up by 1500000 jobs a record by a lot hispanic employment up 1500000 jobs 3000000 more women were employed in the month of june a record never had a number like that workers with a High School Education or less made the biggest strides of all so people that have just a High School Education or have less than a High School Education with unemployment those without a High School Diploma dropped a full 3. 00 Percentage Points thats the largest drop. In recorded history 80 percent of Small Businesses are now open 80 percent. And we think were going to have some very good numbers in the coming months because others are opening and especially as we put the flame out getting rid of the flame is happening new Business Applications have doubled since late march thats a number that is not even think of all to achieve this early into a pandemic the latest i ascend manufacturing report rose 10 Percentage Points with new orders jumping a remarkable 25 Percentage Points or d record Consumer Confidence which is great thats a great number to me because that means confidence is really good if you dont have good Consumer Confidence its like life if you dont have confidence youre not going to do very well Consumer Confidence has risen 12 points since april and 6 month job expectations hit the all time an all time high so think of that for a 2nd with all we go through with all of the trials and tribulations that we read about every night much of it totally fake news fortunately. And of the consumer didnt get it you wouldnt have good Consumer Confidence we have Consumer Confidence has risen 12 points since april an all time high think of that retail sales surged at a sonnet. 18 percent so retail sales went up an astonishing 18 percent in may thats the largest 1 increase in the history of our country thats a quick tremendous number 18 percent the number of what it means to me is jobs the number of unemployed americans re entering the labor force rose by 43 percent. And fuel workers are dropping out of the labor force than before and the crisis. Is being handled you know if you look were talking this morning something to think about. China was way early and theyre getting under control just now and europe was warily. And theyre getting under control we followed them with this terrible china virus and we are likewise getting them to control some areas that were very hard hit and now doing very well some were doing very well d and we thought they may be gone and they flare up the were putting out the fires but other places were long before us and there now its a good life its got a life. And were putting out that life because thats a bad life that were talking about but all of this suggest that workers are confident about finding a new job the stock market is soaring with the best gains in over 20 years in the 2nd quarter the dow jones increased 18 percent this isnt a quarter of years and not numbers that people of heard about its a best in 33 years the s. And p. 500 increased by almost 20 percent the best since 1998 for the quarter and nasdaq increase over 30 percent the best since 1999 and we had a 15 month. If you look over a long period of time a phenomenal number but if you look since the election weve gone up. The dow went up close to 45 percent the s. And p. 501 up 47 percent and nasdaq composite went up getting close to 100 percent so these are numbers that are not numbers that. Other president s would have and they want to have it the only thing they can kill its a bad president to a president that wants to raise taxes who want to raise taxes this whole thing you know for a one case will drop down to nothing and your stock market will drop down to nothing this is not just luck whats happening this is a lot of talent all of this incredible news is the result of historic actions my administration has taken working with our partners in congress to rescue the u. S. Economy from a horrible event that was formed took place in china and came here and they could have stopped it they could have stopped it nobody likes to write that but they could have stopped it they know it and i know it through the Paycheck Protection Program weve extended over 520000000000. 00 in loans to nearly 5000000. 00 Small Businesses saving and supporting the jobs of tens of millions of American Workers this has been a tremendous success. Levels that nobodys ever seen before but we saved all of those all of those jobs and all of those Small Businesses and some will be Large Businesses and perhaps we also rushed urgently needed relief to millions and millions of Hardworking Taxpayers they got that directly and were working on a phase 4 working with congress that work has started see the new tune can give you a little briefing. Talking about payroll tax cuts were talking about more money being infused and it comes back to us comes back its all coming back its coming back faster bigger and better than we have a thought possible these are the numbers these are not numbers made up by me these are numbers weve implemented an aggressive strategy to vanquish and kill the virus and protect americans at the highest risk. While allowing those at lower risk to return safely to work at whats happening our Health Experts continue to address the temporary hotspots in certain cities and counties and were working very hard on that where the relationship with the governors is very good d we made a call mike pence made a call d just yesterday and said what you need not one governor needed anything they dont need anything they have all the medical equipment they can have thank you u. S. Government they have all of the ventilators they have you know were giving many ventilators and selling in some cases and giving when needed but where were the ventilator king were now producing thousands of ventilators thousands of ventilators a week and were helping other countries and other countries are desperately in need of ventilator because this is now 189 countries that changes all the time that number our last count is 189 countries and many of them dont have money and they almost all of them dont have a capacity to build a ventilator which is hard to build very complex very expensive very big in many cases a weve done an incredible job so we have Assembly Lines building ventilators and were building thousands a week all of these people are working with governors and local officials to restore our best practices and thats what weve done that includes Face Covering social distancing testing and personal hygiene washing hands state officials will decide how rapidly to open their economies thats largely up to them if we see something thats agreed just weve gotten involved with a couple of them where with thought it was unfair wed like to see churches opened quickly. And some of them just dont want to do that in new york we got a great ruling from the judge thank you judge that they can open if these best practices are implemented then the hotspots can be calmed quickly and we understand this horrible disease right now we didnt understand the disease at all we did the right thing we closed it up we wouldve lost millions of lives weve done a historic thing we would have lost millions of lives and now were opening it up and its opening up far faster than anybody thought even possible and more successfully and as i said youre going to have a fantastic 3rd quarter itll be a 3rd quarter the likes of which nobody has ever seen before in my opinion. And the good thing is the numbers will be coming out just prior to the election so people will be able to see those numbers the 4th quarter likewise will be extremely good and maybe most importantly from the standpoint of our country itself next year will be a historic year next year is going to be an incredible year for jobs for companies for growth things are happening like nobody would have thought possible i do want to comment boeing as you know is moving along in their process its been a very hard process a very complicated progress but process but they have made tremendous tremendous gains and theyre going for approvals on the aircraft the 737 max. Theyre also starting to some real business so i just want to congratulate boeing theyve been through so much i think those probably the greatest company in the world i used to say was the greatest company in the world and then it ran to a very tough period of time but i just want to say that boeing is made tremendous progress in a short period of time and other companies i dont even have to talk about because theyre all setting records everyone virtually every one of our Great Companies are setting records so i want to thank everybody for being here today these are historic numbers. In a time that. A lot of people would have wilted it would have wilted but we didnt wilt and our country didnt wilt and im very honored to be a president thank you very much. He was president dont trump speaking about us job numbers switch he said shouted all expectations were spectacular and that also on the coronavirus that the crisis is being handled its going to bring kimberly how kits are White House Correspondent in quickly on this 11 of the things i love about having you with us kimberly is that you can give us the context because if you took everything the president said at face value right now you would just believe that well what crisis is there everyones got a job and everyones happy. Yeah and i can tell you thats not the case on the streets of the United States that i havent traveled throughout the United States since this virus broke 2 out but certainly here in washington d. C. It is a very bleak picture of the city still very much shut down buildings boarded up and its not just because of the social unrest its because the buildings are closed people are not going back to work restaurants are barely open and the concern is that these cases are spiking now this is a u. S. President this trying to put a shia not a sort of a tarnished economy to put it very mildly the fact that there are still millions of americans out of work even if some of those job numbers have improved quite a virus cases are also spiking back up now the u. S. President pointed out number of times there that it was the stock market that has been strong and that indicates jobs he also talked about Consumer Confidence being very strong but again that is not the picture that most americans are seeing in fact we know that Consumer Confidence has been plunging and one other point that we should put in terms of context for all of this the u. S. President was counting on winning reelection on a Strong Economy cope with 19 changed all of that so you heard there at the tail end of his remarks he took a bit of a veiled jab at the Presumptive Democratic president ial nominee joe biden not mentioning him by name but clearly we know who is talking about saying that the only way youll get a good economy is if you keep donald trump in office for another 4 years the only way this could be ruined is if you put in his words back in place a bad president who wants to raise your taxes its true joe biden has said that if he becomes president he does plan to raise taxes at least when it comes to Corporate Tax and also high income earners in the United States so its going to be one of the big start differences between these 2 candidates come november the thing kimberley and kryten if im wrong on any of this is that these job numbers which we have to say are beside them were expected they came out from earlier in the month is that right so it doesnt take into account whats happened in the last say 2 weeks with things have gone through what the president said actually sought to to shut down again in some parts of the country. Absolutely 100 percent these snapshots are before we started to see these spikes and already as the u. S. President is talking about the economy reopening is particularly in the hospitality sectors retail restaurants were seeing the exact opposite happening in advance of this july 4th weekend things are starting to shut down because the concern is that as you know party goers start to celebrate the independence holiday theyre going to go out to bars theyre going to go out to restaurants and those will become super spreader events weve seen in many local jurisdictions putting in place curfews like in miami beach were also seeing in new york city a planned reopening of some resident restaurants being scaled back given the fact that were seeing spikes in a number of states florida arizona just to name a few so yeah the u. S. President is talking and is excited about what are good numbers but there before we start to see these big spikes happening in fact their local officials are very concerned about the trend moving forward in terms of a spike in cases increasing. A White House Correspondent thank you for that information and context as i said before very helpful. While the president has been speaking and you would have seen it on the red breaking news ticker at the bottom of your screen an associate of the accused sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested by the f. B. I. In the United States were talking about the british socialite guinean maxwell who is accused of recruiting women into epstein circle epstein you remember died in his jail cell or last year in what was ruled a suicide Gabriel Elizondo on the line from the new york with the latest on this scale. Yes they have confirmed that feeling maxwell has been arrested by the f. B. I. We think that it was in the state of New Hampshire just north of new york in the northeast of the u. S. This is significant because the f. B. I. Had been trying to track. Ms maxwell for many many months now shes a longtime associate of the now deceased financer Jeffrey Epstein who hung himself in a new york jail while he was awaiting federal sex trafficking trial charges that were against jim. Maxwell a longtime associate of epstein and authorities had been suspecting quite a long time her potential role in his. Alleged sex trafficking that went on for many years she has not been seen publicly for many many months and knowing where she was sort of all sorts of rumors where she was around the world essentially she was hiding out by all accounts well now the f. B. I. Apparently has found her and has her in custody in new york we expect to hear from federal prosecutors in the Southern District of new york where she will likely be charged here within the next hour or 2 just briefly deborah a little more as i would like context on this topic sort of thing this goes further than the United States and involves a member of the u. K. The British Royal family as well this has been a Major International story and issue. It has been it goes well way beyond the borders of the United States crips gang wars accused of. Providing underaged way of ending engaging in sex trafficking of underage women allegedly to people around the world powerful people some of whose names have been brought to light to deny al of these allegations against them but this was not just a Jeffrey Epstein that had contacts throughout the entire world and he travelled widely throughout the world in many circles and giving maxwell his longtime associate was often there with syria and it is alleged that she helped provide. Under aged women to some of Jeffrey Epstein. Powerful friends around the world as well so clearly this is a story that goes way beyond the borders of the United States or even new york it is on the thank you for bring us up to date with that more to come in the next hour here on aljazeera that is the breaking news that the as weve heard the longtime associate of Geoffrey Epstein the disgraced and deceased finance. Maxwell has been arrested by the f. B. I. In the United States the other developing news in this past hour jobs numbers out of the United States 4800000 jobs added in the past month beating expectations of 2 point 9000000. 00 u. S. President only trump has said it shattered expectations and that the Coronavirus Crisis is being handled still latest on those stories and the rest of the world news in just a few moments here on aljazeera. Frank assessments tourism but income stream is dead in the water whats been the result missing perching go up quite significantly and indepth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on aljazeera. These men are survivors of covert 1946 year old is a limousine driver hes the only one here who needed to go to hospital when he became ill in early march and weve been broke for dual boot on balance already november so deep is a 34 year old driver for kotori family and he tested positive for years but it will all be small but what you want to give the Health Officials say the rate of new infections slowed the goal here is to conduct a broad serving to better understand transmission and asymptomatic cases which in turn could help policy decisions in the future so it would be easy for us to inform the Decision Making on what to do next the goal now is to increase testing and contact trees that. The government provides free testing and medical treatment for those who need it while campaigns to raise awareness continue. A Global Pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. Aljazeera. Where every. Breaking news this hour the f. B. I. Has arrested british socialite Dylan Maxwell former partner of Jeffrey Epstein wanted in connection with sex trafficking charges. Hello again im Kemal Santa Maria here in doha with the world news from aljazeera. The popular ethiopian singer whose murder spot 2 days of violence is laid to rest in his hometown. Also more than 100 miners i killed in a landslide in me in the worst act