The pandemic. Oil producing countries reach a deal to cut production in an effort to offset the global drop in demand and prices. Millions more people are being added to the queues of americas jobless as the wider effects of the coronavirus become clear another 6600000. 00 claimed unemployment benefit last week alone that takes the total to nearly 17000000 people in the past 3 weeks and there is fear the rate could rise to numbers not seen since the end of the Great Depression in some cities drive ins have been created for people to collect unemployment for john hendren has more from chicago. The president came out saying that the u. S. Was at the top of the hill when it comes to the coronavirus and in some cases going downward but thats not the case when it comes to the economy of and of course thats a lagging indicator here 6600000 new jobless claims 17000000 over the past 4 weeks out of work and filing new jobless claims and an Unemployment Rate of 12 to 13 percent thats a level not seen since the Great Depression forecasters are saying they expect that to go up to at least 15 percent and 11 said that this is really essentially the Great Depression 2 here in the United States one sign of that is the trouble of the u. S. Airline industries the president did address that in that briefing today he said details will come out over the weekend over the u. S. Aid package for those airlines he said the Airline Industry has hit very hard as everyone knows and we are going to be in a position to do a lot to help them but of course no details on that until the weekend so were looking forward to see what the president has to say on that. Its being called the e. U. Is most important economic plan the blocks finance ministers have agreed on a trillion dollar rescue package deal comes on as a day of hope for Member States as germany and spain signal they have reached the peak of the pandemic and i hayward reports. The rise in new infections seems to be slowing in spain the countrys hospitals though are still overwhelmed and after weeks of loss and more deaths predicted trying to keep coronavirus at bay in public spaces is power amount and to residents are reminded they should stay at home that. Spain will remain in lockdown until april the 25th but the Prime Minister says the risk now room for hope that is not someone i was going to go on after weeks of this fight which has been for me moments agonizing we see how the fire the pandemic released is starting to come under control the figures are encouraging we have reached the peak of coke at 19 and we are close to the beginning of the descent in germany the lock down appears to be working with landmarks empty deserted even you know. The latest coronavirus numbers in germany a reason for some hope the increase is fashioning and the current number of infections is lowering a bit if we count the people who are recovered and those who lost their lives. More than 18000 people have died in italy its squares remain empty the impact of weeks of prescriptions is clear to see for those families hardest hit the government says loan and mortgage repayments will be suspended and there are questions about who will help pay for the pandemic. The thing. Italy is an integral part of the e. U. The e. U. Must show a strong swift and unified response to the repercussions of this pandemic we have to provide answers about politics finance and the economy because this is in all of our interests this does not only concern italy but also spain and all countries that face economic and social problems and those questions are being asked across europe it is grappling with this crisis from the north to the south and nowhere is untouched by. The happening deep divisions that are inside the e. U. About how it should be financed days of talks have no resulted in an agreement held by the french finance minister as the most important economic plan in the e. U. History it will allow credit from the blocks bailout fund to go to the worst affected countries until the crisis is over this emergency plan and well shield our economic and social fabric as we dive into a recession. Where house prices abates we need we will need to spur the economic recovery he needs it is imperative that we brought together the many families in Europe Easter weekend which usually market time of togetherness coronavirus will mean many will now spend it apart remembering those who theyve lost and then he would out as there are. Philip the hall is a financial analyst and he explained why you ministers struggled to reach a deal. Well obviously northern europeans tend to think of themselves as as frugal and they tend to think of southern europeans as profit and they dont therefore dont want to share a bank account its slightly more complicated than that but really at base thats what its about but nobodys actually talking about neutralizing all debt theyre talking about a common physical effort a temporary calm and physical effort which has to be large in order to respond to the economic emergency but would be time limited and would be for specific purposes like medical assistance or indeed helping to spark a recovery when the pandemic passes i think its absolutely crucial because of the threat. Of post crisis austerity and a financial crisis neutralized and indeed because of the political acrimony you know at a time when thousands and thousands of italians and spaniards. Have died theres a feeling that northern europeans are blaming them for their plight and that has gone down very badly indeed opec and its allies have agreed to a historic cut in production to counter the slump in demand caused by call of virus the groups going to cut 10000000. 00 Barrels Per Day until early june so a binge of it has this report. A price war which started in march did not last as long as previous disagreements but its impact has been widespread u. S. Shale Oil Producers filed for bankruptcy as major Energy Projects have been delayed or suspended in the oil industry face again if it can job losses the oversupply coincided with a massive reduction in demand for oil because of the global slowdown caused by coronavirus in some markets oil was selling for less than 10. 00 a barrel which spell trouble for oil reliant economies when they agreed the market went up when they had their own difference is the market went down and what is worse than not agreeing is course is competing for the c. M. Limited area of demand and the world as it stands right now. The crisis began after a deal to limit production fell apart and saudi arabia increased its supply to a record 12300000 barrels a day along with russias 11300000 barrels the markets were flooded to an extent that storage even started to run out as theres agreement is to slash Oil Production at least until next year the decision will be reviewed in december iran venezuela and libya are exempt from the production cuts a few hours after the opec agreement the g 20 group of nations meet and decide in cuts from the u. S. Canada norway and others some say the crisis created a perfect opportunity for big investors to buy stakes in european oil firms or theres a cute saudis in russians of Economic Warfare against the u. S. Us media reports 2 senators were working on legislation to remove u. S. Troops and Defense Systems from saudi soil if there were no output cuts the United States says its output fell because of the price for and decreasing demand but it hasnt committed to any cuts for many years i used to think opec was very unfair i hated opec you will know the truth i hated it because it was a fix but somewhere along the line that broke down and it went the opposite way and we have a tremendously powerful Energy Industry in this country now number one in the world and i dont want those jobs being lost but experts believe even after the record cuts by opec and other produces the gloom for Oil Economies may not be over just because he says demolished russian so far has been 20000000. 00 barrels a day i think its probably more towards a 3035000000. 00 barrels a day if you look at india alone the 3rd Largest Consumer of oil having decreased this consumption by 70 percent i would say it is more oil so 10000000 barrels a day is what so far been priced into the market and you saw the last cluster response so we probably need more to do the trick. What began as an attempt to grab a bigger share of the market is ending after 31 days with no real wins for anyone involved some of the job their indonesia is struggling with a sudden surge in the number of people with the virus the governments not enforcing new measures to continue to spread the countrys the ha got the highest number of infections in Southeast Asia with more than 600 deaths of jessica washingtons life for us in jakarta jessica what more do we know about these new measures that are coming in. Well rob millions of people around her awaking up to the reality of these new mass social distancing regulations now schools and businesses have already nonessential businesses have already been closed here in jakarta for a number of weeks the real change that starts from today friday in jakarta is that they will be military and Police Patrols around the streets of jakarta to enforce the social distancing regulations so gatherings of more than 5 people and you could face a fine of around a 700. 00 us 700. 00 us dollars or even a year in 7000. 00 u. S. Dollars sorry or a year in jail if you are found to breach those regulations the real problem that is happening here is that there is a lack of a coherent National Strategy that has left regions and provinces scrambling together their own response while we wait for a more coherent strategy from the president here in indonesia indonesia has been criticized for the way that its been handling this crisis the spread of the virus why is that. Well the reality is indonesia was incredibly slow to even confirm initial cases of the virus here in the country it was already march by the time we confirmed cases by that point the virus had spread well beyond china in the early weeks of this crisis the intonation government was actually actively trying to recruit trying to draw in foreign visitors to come to indonesia rather than trying to get the Health Care System ready people are waiting for perhaps even a partial lockdown or some sort of more coherent guidance from president djoko doto so far that has not been forthcoming in fact what were witnessing right now in the lead up to the muslim holiday of aid many millions of people are expected to travel from the capital cheer their hometowns to celebrate with their families many people are out of work and khan afford to live in the capital we have not even heard whether that travel will be and the real fear is that is that people will travel from jakarta when most of the confirmed cases of corona virus here in indonesia and take the virus with them to provinces that dont have any Health Infrastructure just a washington giving us that update from jakarta Jessica Thanks very much. Well still ahead and aljazeera. Developments on the health of britains Prime Minister after 3 days in intensive care. Plus brazils president to grows increasingly isolated in his his country tries to stem the spread of the coronavirus. Hello there weve had some very nice weather conditions across the Korean Peninsula over the last few days rather unsettled areas of japan and in fact a bit of a carousel lately across central and Southern China that is set to change but in the meantime as a say some good guys into seoul in south korea it is the time of year they do a spring clean up on some of the monuments and as you can see the conditions also very nice to do just that it will stay fine and dry as we go through friday want to see shots pushing into west the Northern Areas of honshu tom it is not too bad 16 degrees across into tokyo and osaka but then look at this rain walls again back in the 4 calls really all the way up towards beijing and in particular very heavy on friday across the central areas but then it sinks southwards and this is when it could be particularly heavy Guangxi Guangdong up towards a fusion as well attempt is there not too bad but this rain is very heavy we could have some localized flooding its coming down in some very saturated ground and really the same commutes that across much of indonesia we have also had a well have more rather heavy rains across areas of combo dhea as well as you can see sumatra widely unsettled borneo same story as we go through friday and saturday and then really a southern areas of india across into carols whole night over the next couple of days where well see the shadows and elsewhere it remains very warm. Greece the birthplace of democracy but ethnic turks from the northeast tell a different story they bounce to control our nation our believe their religious leaders jailed journalists silenced schools closed and a surge in the far right they say that if you dont like police you can vote why im turkish but im most of the people in power investigates western thrice contested space on aljazeera. The arab. World. Youre watching aljazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour 6600000 americans lost their jobs in the past week because of measures to stop coronavirus pandemic since mid march nearly 17000000 people in the u. S. A filed for jobless benefits after a sudden surge in violence infections indonesias tightening measures to curb the spread of coronavirus anyone breaking the rules can be fined up to 70000. 00 u. S. Dollars and be jailed for up to 6 years the countrys reported more than 600 deaths. The e. U. Has agreed to make more than one trillion dollars available to Member States under lockdown and fighting the coronavirus the french finance minister has described the economic plan as the most important in the blocks history. Britains Prime Minister is out of intensive care 2 weeks after testing positive for corona virus after 3 days in i. C. U. Wallace johnston is now back in a hospital ward and is in extremely good spirits according to downing street johnny angela has the latest. Hes been moved this evening from intensive care back onto the main ward at St Thomas Hospital which is one of the countrys leading hospitals and he said to be an extremely good spirits now this would have been Boris Johnsons 4th day in intensive care hes 55 years old and he was admitted sunday evening with a persistent temperature and episode persistent High Temperature and a persistent cough and he received standard option treatment for 3 nights but he did not need mechanical ventilation and earlier it was reported that dominic rob who is the foreign secretary and was designated Boris Johnsons deputy during his time in hospital had not spoken to the Prime Minister since saturday and that was obviously a very large cause for concern so theres no doubt going to be a huge collective sigh of relief throughout the cabinet and throughout the government this evening and no doubt the Prime Minister will be keen to get back to work as soon as is possible soon if hes fully recovered before he was admitted to hospital he left behind some very clear instructions for what was going to happen in this country for the rollout of mass testing for covert 19 for the provision of personal protective equipment for n. H. S. Staff and i have to say neither of those things have really reached their targets yet earlier at the governments chief Scientific Officer said that the u. K. Death toll from corona virus has reached 881 thats the number of deaths recorded in british hospitals today and that brings the total number of deaths to 7978 and the Scientific Office said that it is expected to continue to rise for at least 2 weeks. Brazils president has gone on television again to defend his response to the pandemic and encourage people to return to work jailable so noddle criticized state governments for imposing containment measures saying the consequences of combat in the virus cannot be more harmful than the disease itself hes facing widespread criticism and protests for downplaying the crisis well youre marshalls the editor of the news website the brazilian reporter is joining us now from south part of thanks very much indeed for being with us why is the president getting so much pushback well the thing is the 1st thing theyre made is that job also moderate no is an old lawyer among so you know all major countries is the all only president of a major state who has kind of ogrady dismissed this debate the all the coronavirus so brit has called it on a couple of occasions a little fluent even if it is the snuffles on one occasion and so you dont hes repeatedly general in the severity hes pushing for these isolation measures to stop and people feel that hes just saying the economy and jobs i hated or Massive PublicHealth Crisis was about to hit this country given the amount of response that negative response that he seems to be getting and it seems to be increasing is that a Tipping Point do you think at which both sonata is going to have to change his focus. Well i mean we thought that that could actually already happen because the thing that terrible samantha usually does usually takes his political cues from donald trump in the United States and as we know donald trump has slightly changed his approach towards the comment about a separate bush oval sol