We begin in the United States where millions more people have filed for Unemployment Benefits he keeps april track to be the worst month for job losses since records began more than 33000000. 00 people have filed for unemployment now in just the last 7 weeks economists say growth could plummets by a 3rd in the 2nd quarter in the u. K. The picture is also bleak the bank of england expects economic output to shrink by 14 percent this year and unemployment to rise to 8 percent the European Union had earlier warned to brace for the worst ever recession with the economy tipped to slump by 7. 4 percent but figures from china suggesting a different picture their exports rose in april for the 1st time this year up 3 and a half percent after many factories reopened. Well lets go now to our White House Correspondent kimberly how could 1st lets talk about those unemployment figures just put them into context for us committee. That will were waiting to see what the u. S. President might also have
A trip to shift gears of war crime. Internationally sorry intentionally directing attacks against hospitals and places containing the sick and the wounded and against medical units using the red cross or red crescent emblem. Is a war crime the number of People Killed by the corona virus has now passed 1800 after china reported 98 more deaths the head of a Major Hospital and one han thats at the center of the outbreak has also died of the virus has sarah cox from hong kong with the latest updates on the situation on the mainland. Today in a bid to try and curb this ongoing outbreak across china the government is in a tough new measures with the focus being on weve had of course this is the epicenter of the corona Virus Outbreak theyre doing door to door knocking on every single house and what theyre describing as the city wide sweep trying to identify those people are showing any signs of symptoms that are associated with the corona virus now those people who refuse to be tested they fa
France are still raging on r. G. P. Correspondent Charlotte Dubinsky brings us the latest from paris on the impact the movement has had on the nations economy and later facebook is yet again back on the fire as a social media giant has found itself in federal court for anticompetitive practices r. T. Correspondents and months as they are that is standing by to take a deeper dive into the controversy and what maybe it had by the embattled tech company. Today so lets get to it. Official figures where china shows the country expanded by 6 point one percent and 29000 year over year which is the lowest figure and 29 years last year china has struggled with weak domestic demand and suffered impacts from the bitter trade war with the u. S. The 6 point one percent is down from its historical double digit growth however policymakers maintain that this is within the governments target range policymakers have for many years been trying to gradually step down expectations and slow the unsustainabl
A solid no with industrial output investments and retail sales all rising more than expected however chinas annual aluminum production fell for the 1st time in 10 years and unsurprisingly chinas pork output plunged to a 16 year low as the african swine fever killed millions of pigs down 21 percent imports of pig pork surge as china is also the worlds biggest pork consumer which in turn caused chinas food prices to soar to an 8 year high. This is fascinating because weve seen actually World Markets react in a positive nature due to these numbers despite the g. D. P. Of china going down now we kind of expected this and this was all because we couldnt maintain those double digit numbers correct correct its because it is now a stable number and this is actually exactly in line with what the government policymakers they predicted at the beginning of the year so you could actually say that they have just met expectations and this was very positive because for the entire year people were very
Policymakers maintain that this is within the governments target range policymakers have for many years been trying to gradually step down expectations and slow the unsustainable growth that has polluted the environment and lead to an explosion in debt 29000. 00 ended on a solid no with industrial output investments and retail sales all rising more than expected however chinas annual aluminum production fell for the 1st time in 10 years and unsurprisingly chinas pork output plunged to a 16 year low as the african swine fever killed millions of pigs down 21 percent imports of pig pork surge as china is also the worlds biggest pork consumer which in turn caused chinas food prices to soar to an 8 year high. This is fascinating because weve seen actually World Markets react in a positive nature due to these numbers despite the g. D. P. Of china going down now we kind of expected this and this was all because we couldnt maintain those double. Numbers correct correct its because it is now a