mile an hour winds and heavy rain. we will go there live as some covid-19 testing sites are closed for the storm. our sunday focus on misinformation about coronavirus. where it comes from, how it spreads and why it is hampering america s handling of this crisis. plus, harry smith visits olympic gold medallist tommy smith, a half century after his iconic stand at the 1968 summer olympic games to get his thoughts on the athlete protests of today. and later, a sunday sit-down with oscar, emmy and tony win are viola davis on her rise from a childhood of poverty to the heights of hollywood and why she knows there s more to life than all of those golden statues. the elixir is living a life that s bigger than you. that s what it is. if you are not doing that, then you are not doing anything. nothing. a sunday sit-down with viola dave us plus another life well lived later in the show. let s begin with the latest on tropical storm isaias moving slowly along the coast of fl
employees who have been out of work now for months. the second quarter gross domestic product plummeted 32.9% between april and june. that s almost a full third and it s the sharpest decline we have seen in u.s. history. the drop in gdp is nearly 4 times worse than it was at the peak of the financial crisis in the fourth quarter of 2008 the previous record was 10% in the first quarter of 1958. turning over to the stock market and see how stocks are reacting to this dire news. the dow jones is down by almost 200 points, just a little bit more than that right now. s&p is suffering a loss of not quite one half of 1%. the nasdaq is the only right spot if you count the addition of 52 points. nasdaq is up by one half of 1%. you can see stocks mostly regained their footing after a very steep drop at the opening bell and after we got that labor news. california s jobless claims were down last week despite a nationwide increase. our state reported 249,000 workers filed first-time clai
organization says close to three hundred libyans have been killed in the three week battle for control of tripoli and tens of thousands forced from their homes many civilians including women and children were killed by indiscriminate shelling the owner recognized the government accuses have to his forces of targeting gray s attention areas with heavy weapons more than thirty thousand people have been displaced and aide workers are struggling to reach people trapped in parts of tripoli the forces of the u.n. recognize the government are valid to push half the forces south out of tripoli. fighters lake mohammed and his comrades are determined to reclaim the city but with no sign of the fighting in any time soon there are likely to be many more commemorations in this main square with at the. tripoli. well still ahead an al-jazeera not an exclusive club china s president reassures the world about his signature foreign policy project. and the war on migration goes south mexico suc
influence worldwide was a three day conference what s expected to produce by the end well we had the opening today in a round the some of this going to be a lot of bilateral some bilateral meetings president xi jinping met with the record four teams and heads of state yesterday and this definitely going to be more of that over the next coming days tomorrow will be the big day there s going to be a summit president xi jinping is expected to give some sort of press conference and there will be a communique and we re all watching closely as to what that will say i mean he s made a lot of promises in his speech today but it remains to be seen how he actually plans to implement those promises in a concrete way going forward all right thanks so much katrina you there. well still ahead on al-jazeera the red cross warns densely populated residential areas in the libyan capital of turning into battlefields the war on migration goes south mexico succumbs to u.s. pressure and cranks dow
some places say it s. much better than has been recently into parts of iraq into iran of its wasn t going to stop and had some still a few showers in the forecast as we go through friday but they are pulling away twenty one celsius feel compelled to get up to around sixteen and twenty nine in baghdad temperatures starting to nudge up and just around the levant getting up to the mid twenty s for beirut out also for jerusalem over the next day or so i could catch wanted to shout by saturday to central parts of turkey elsewhere much of iraq iran is dry find it s sunny twenty two celsius a couple we ve got thirty six in karachi we re getting into the thirty s to now quite widely across the way but instead behave we do have some base of plowed into central areas of saudi arabia over towards the red sea and we see the cloud could always catch a special two of right so that includes us here because i was a go on through the weekend but biologics settled and it is a sunny may want to