A ceasefire during ramadan soon after launching another attack on tripoli. We start with numbers just released in the us that show the continuing trend of widespread job losses more than 3800000 americans filed for benefits over the past week taking the total number of jobless to more than 30000000. 00 now the Unemployment Rate hovered around 3. 5 percent between december and february but in march it jumped to a 2 and a half year high of 4. 4 percent thats roughly more than 7000000 people the state governments now begin to restart their economies their easing lockdown measures more than half of the 50 states including florida or partially reopened by the end of the week whereas the Johns Hopkins dashboard shows at least 1000000 people in the u. S. Of contracted the virus and then the 61000 have died in just a few moments well take you live to gabriel and his own though in new york will have more on the citys planning to reopen but 1st lets start with our White House Correspondent kimbe
Caution. And will people travel . Will conventions still come . So much uncertainty. The major challenges facing San Franciscos billion dollar Tourism Industry as the busy season approaches. Good evening. Im garvin thomas. And im jessica aguirre. We begin with a controversial move by President Trump. As he talks about reopening the economy, he says he plans to close the borders to immigrants. Tonight on twitter, the president announcing his plan to suspend immigration because of the coronavirus. Nbc bay areas cheryl hurd has that story. Okay. You know what were going to do . Reporter referring to the coronavirus as the invisible enemy, President Trump tweeting that he will sign an executive order temporarily suspending immigration into the united states. Usf Professor James taylor. Ti think the president is jut carrying out his normal policy position with regard to immigration. This is how he introduced himself. This is how he has sustained his support with his base. Reporter a Senior
Of work and a fly past and a promotion for a british war veteran as he turns 100. 00 captain moore who raised over 37000000. 00 for the National Health service. So the latest coronavirus developments from around the world now were starting with some good news from south korea which was one of the worst hit countries in asia for the 1st time in 2 Months Health officials have reported no new domestic infections thats the 1st time since the outbreak peaked in february meaning south koreas total now sits at a little over 10700. 00 cases and 247. 00 deaths according to Johns Hopkins university not such good news in britain though the number of deaths there is jumped to more than 26000 because the government is now starting to include fatalities from places like care homes for the elderly previously was just the hospitals so with that change the u. K. Now has the 2nd highest number of fatalities in europe after italy but some positive news about a possible treatment coming out of the u. S. O
A country out of its economic spiral. And put Us Birthday Party has been postponed will suffer the South Koreans will have to wait until next month to celebrate. The sport paris man is set to be crowned champions in france is the Domestic League season is cancelled. Just 1500 hours g. M. T. Will start this news in the United States where the economic numbers just keep getting worse the u. S. Labor department has released yet another bleak unemployment report more than 3800000 americans filed for benefits in just the past week taking the total number of jobless to more than 30000000. 00 over the last 6 weeks the Unemployment Rate hold it around 3 and a half percent between december and february but in my. Watch it jumps to a 2 and a half year high of 4. 4 percent thats roughly more than 7000000 people the state governments now begin to restart their economies the easing lockdown measures all the hoff of the 50 states including florida or partially reopened by the end of this week as the
Fight against the pandemic one of the worst hit countries in asia reports no new local cases. And the u. S. City of miami starts to lift its lockdown restrictions despite a high number of cases. Im going to go with sports is italy its football season looks set to be scrapped players are about to start training again but the country sports minister wants to follow france and the netherlands and focus on next season instead. Its 10 g. M. T. And we start in europe where the economy has suffered its biggest quarterly hit on record shrinking by 3. 8 percent so far this year thats the eurozone sharpest drop since records began in 1995 so yet another indicator of the widespread economic devastation caused by the coronavirus lockdowns around the world all that comes after germany which is europes strongest economy announced its g. D. P. Is on track to shrink by more than 6 percent this year because straight to don. It came it joins us live from len so dominic we were expecting of course the ec