Pandemic and accusations of slavery at sea in the leisure demands answers from china after the deaths of fishermen working on chinese boats. First begin in the us where numbers released china employment has surged in april the biggest in close to 90 year tens of millions of jobs were wiped out right across the country as coronavirus lockdowns bats of the economy unemployment skyrocketed to 14. 7 percent it was 4. 4 percent in march in april 20 and a half 1000000 jobs were lost the worst results in the Great Depression which began in 1929 far exceeds the 2008 global recession when 8700000 jobs were wiped out its going now to our White House Correspondent kimberly. So kimberly its another day and another round of depressing numbers and it comes to employment right. Yeah not unexpected but certainly not what this white house wants to hear at the jobs all of the jobs created 6 donald trump came into office and even the ones created by the Previous Administration barack obama those have all
Answers and a white father and son are arrested over the killing of arboretum who was shot to death while out running in georgia. Thanks for joining us we begin in the u. S. Where new figures released on friday show unemployment has surged in april the largest rise in close to 90 years tens of millions of jobs have been wiped out across the country as the coronavirus lockdown crippled the economy unemployment skyrocketed to 14. 7 percent it was 4. 4 percent in march and april 20 and a half 1000000 jobs were lost the worst result since the Great Depression which began in 1929 its far exceeds the 2008 global recession when 8700000 jobs were wiped out our White House Correspondent kelly how kits has the numbers were expected but not welcome. The u. S. President reacting to them in just the last half hour speaking to reporters talking about these numbers and once again time trying to project optimism calling the shutdown that resulted in the loss of these jobs as a sensually being artifici
Evictions beneath the shiny veneer of saudi arabias planned mega city and a virtual vigil in the us for a black man shot dead while jogging in georgia after the arrest of a father and son but his murder. For weeks we have seen the lines of the food banks stretching for kilometers the job center is overwhelmed with people it is given us a picture of how badly the u. S. Economys been hit by covert 19 but now we have the most concrete figure yet and it is 14. 7 percent that is the Unemployment Rate for april which tripled from the month before put another way were talking about more than 20000000. 00 jobs gone and some perspective now this is worse than the financial crisis old a recession which followed the financial crisis of 2008 it also creates a new post will recall that was previously set in 982 when unemployment regionally 11 percent so it is no exaggeration to say going right back this is the worst crisis for the u. S. Economy since the Great Depression of the 930 s. When one in e