clinics desperate for supplies after years of blockade. also ahead after 9 years of war in syria the 1st trial linked to alleged state sponsored torture kicks off today in germany. install the n.f.l. draft gets ready to go virtual the game s best young players will be selected remotely with millions of fans watching on. let s get going beginning this news in the united states where figures just paint a devastating picture of the state of the economy in just 5 weeks all of the jobs created since the end of the 2009 recession have been wiped out here are the numbers last week another 4400000 americans filed for unemployment benefits. that s fewer than the week before when more than 5300000 registered for jobless support but the speed of the rise in those figures is unprecedented in all more than 26000000 americans have now applied for unemployment benefits since the end of march that was when president donald trump made the 1st of his covert 19 outbreak declarations let s talk
easter is april 12th. it is now march 24th. it s less than three weeks away. new york governor andrew cuomo whose state has the high test number of coronavirus cases in the country sharply disagreed with the president s view. if you ask the american people to choose between public health and the economy, then it s no contest. no american is going to say, accelerate the economy at the cost of human life. because no american is going to say, how much a life is worth. job one has to be save lives. let s take a closer look at where things stand in the united states right now. there are now more than 50,000 confirmed cases in the united states. at least 637 deaths. the world health organization said today at this rate, the united states could become the next epicenter of the virus. as all of this is going on, so do negotiations over a massive emergency package to deal with the economic fallout. senate minority leader chuck schumer said earlier today, negotiations were, quote
hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we re covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. first, just two months ago, the jobless rate in the united states was at a 50 year low. but that was before the coronavirus pandemic ripped through the nation s economy. last week three million more people applied for unemployment benefits. that means more than 33 million americans have lost theirjobs over the last seven weeks. nick bryant, who s in new york, has spent the night on the city s subway a refuge for the poor and the vulnerable. midnight on the new york subway, and many of the city s homeless are bedding down for the night aboard its empty carriages. by day, the subway has become a virtual ghost train. by night, it s become a mobile shelter. in the first five carriages we went in, we found people in search of refuge and sleep. many are newly unemployed. some of them labourers who rent rooms by the week, unable now to
America’s economic mood remains glum. This is despite great news: Growth is strong; the stock market just hit record levels; unemployment is low; and inflation has significantly cooled in the
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