A deal to cut production iran says its exempt from the agreement along with libya and venezuela. A 2 week cease fire comes into effect in yemen but the heathy say they wont stop fighting while the country is still under siege. And hundreds of millions of children desperately needing food we look at the difficulties for aid agencies during the coronavirus crisis. So that the damage to the worlds biggest economy from the current of our shutdown is really hitting home in the past week another 6600000 people in the United States have joined the jobless queue and that means nearly 17000000 americans have now filed for Unemployment Benefits in just 3 weeks that figure is around one in 10 workers White House Correspondent can be help it says there are fears the figures could be even worse. Nothing like this scene in modern history and it is expected to be more because heres the reality the states unemployment offices are overwhelmed they cannot keep up with the processing of claims so weve ha
Weeks of restrictions schools and some businesses a reopening and migrants in indias out some state walk free from Detention Centers after the Top Court Orders to reduce overcrowding. Starting in lebanon actually where protests have erupted again as the pandemic threatens to push its economy to breaking point demonstrators defied the lockdown throwing petrol bombs and vandalizing banks in tripoli near beirut people are angry about the failing currency and the soaring prices the support from victoria kate. Defying a look down and a curfew protesters attack a bank in the capital beirut the value of their money is decreasing at an alarming rate. Chart and all monday the anger at the Central Banks policies and a Political Class they accuse of corruption and mismanagement erupted in a wave of violence across the country i demonstrators in tripoli knew the neben on blocked roads and food with Police Officers responded by firing rubber coated steel bullets which injured protesters. 2 soldier
And it concerns the peak is just weeks away. Irans revolutionary guard says the country is now able to monitor the world from space after successfully launching its 1st military satellite into orbit the u. S. Has accused iran in the past of using its Space Program as a cover for Missile Development allegations iran denies israel has condemned the latest launch without addressing the launch director the us President Donald Trump has gone on twitter saying he has a warning about iran how are seeing american ships at sea is what the head of the revolutionary guard said about the launch. It is a necessity for such powerful Defense Forces like the revolutionary guard to have access to advanced capabilities today the powerful armies of the world have no comprehensive defense plan if they dont have a place in space. Today we can monitor the world from space and it means boosting strategic data for the i. R. G. C. Within it putting the satellite into orbit gives us the technological advantage
A 1000 infections now. And the. Coronavirus patient in london sends a message that itself goes viral across europe. To hamas now have all the sporting puting. That crickets most lucrative t 20 tournament at the Indian Premier League will be able to get underway next month because of the current a Virus Outbreak. Of there have long been warnings that the right of corona virus infection in the u. S. Would be worse than thought and now there is proof the United States has surpassed all other countries with 85000. 00 plus infections close to half of those are in new york state alone and chinas president xi jinping says he is offering his support to. Help the u. S. To fight the virus well be talking about that a little later on weve also got these 3 correspondents bringing Us Developments this hour laurence lay there he is in london with the latest updates from the u. K. And youre in johannesburg i mentioned this of africa with its 1st 2 deaths katrina you also with the latest from beijing
A deepening economic crisis. Also warnings that cities powering the worlds economy and soon be lost beneath the waves. The Syrian Government has launched a counter offensive to recapture the town of sort of keep in italy province. It was captured by Turkish Backed rebels overnight to turkey soldiers were killed by airstrikes jurong but fight. Or heres why set a key is important it sits on the junction of the m 4 and m 5 highways both of which the government seized last week whoever controls the highways gains considerable military and economic advantages the m 5 links aleppo with the capital damascus in the south the growing red areas are controlled by the government. The shrinking green are rebel territory yellow in the north and the west is controlled by the kurds live now to aljazeera bar on the turkey syria border in a moment 1st shelagh bellus tells us more about the ongoing situation in syrias last rebel stronghold. Syrian troops on the move it live province is the holdout the on