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Track and trace people exposed to corona virus. Dangerous prospect. Is a growing. United nations criticizes israels plan to annex parts of the occupied west bank saying it violates International Law. A stand off in the South China Sea the us in australia weighed into the dispute between china and malaysia. To begin in the u. S. Where figures released just hours ago paint a devastating picture of the economy in just 5 weeks tens of millions of jobs have been simply wiped out take a look at the numbers last week another 4400000 americans filed for Unemployment Benefits thats fewer than the week before when more than 5300000 registered for jobless so. Port but the scale of these weekly figures is unprecedented you see in total now more than 26000000. 00 americans have applied for Unemployment Benefits since the end of march that was when President Donald Trump made the 1st of his covert 19 outbreak declarations our White House Correspondent Kimberly Howard live for us from washington d. C. The jobs situation devastated so must be this administrations feeling about what its doing with the jobs. Yeah the grim reality is that while we are in the mid 20 millions in terms of unemployment claims were expecting that number to continue to climb for a number of we still because the estimates put it somewhere in the 40000000 mark of the number of jobs lost in the United States over night its hit all sectors of the economy especially the Hospitality Industry Hotels Restaurants but we also know that it is starting to hit some of the white collar workers as well is especially given the fact that you know there are so many that have found that these stay at home orders have in some cases been extended Many Companies just not able to keep their employees on the payroll now of course the u. S. President has hinged his reelection chances on the fact that he was a job creator but we now know that all of the jobs created will donald trump was president and took office those are all gone and even some that were created before him as a result of the recovery following the late 2000 economics crash so what were seeing here is some real desperation and dire situation setting in in the United States sadly i can tell you not only people are trying to figure out how theyre going to pay the bills but theyre also wondering how theyre going to put food on the table in fact we know that the alliance for food banks in the United States are already starting to set records of their own are any of those lines of people waiting outside food banks going to get any support from whats going on in congress where theyre putting together an aid package too right. Yes so there have been a few aid packages already people are still starting to receive their checks some have some havent from the federal government from that 2 trillion dollar rescue package but theres another one in the works for Small Businesses so that they can keep people on the payroll there was initially 350000000000 set aside to help Small Businesses so much in need that they ran out of money so now congress is in the process of topping that up its already passed the senate now is sitting in the house of representatives its going to be voted on and the hope is for so Many Americans that the president will sign into law by the end of the week something he says he will do whats in this package it just isnt rescue for Small Businesses to keep them going but also there is money for hospitals for that personal protective equipment thats so important and also this is notable 25000000000 for National Testing to help the states conduct testing of these workers so that they can safely reenter the workforce so 25000000000 set aside there but in the midst of all of this there is the big question mark and that is how is all of this going to be paid for not even registering really on the radar right now all of that this white house is focused on are these requests to congress for money to keep this economy afloat again we should point out in Election Year donald trump knows that looming on the horizon is the prospect that corona virus could hit the United States with a 2nd wave in the fall before americans go to the polls all right good stuff that can be counted thanks so much. As millions of americans lose their jobs those considered essential workers are stepping up to keep the u. S. Economy going but in doing so theyre often putting their own health at risk especially when reports from chicago. When you work at a jail keeping the lights on and the power flowing or a matter of Public Safety Beatrice Thompson is among the team of electricians working at the cook county correctional facility in chicago it has been a little stressful being an electrician carries its own set of risks but these days going to work also means potential exposure to a covert 19 outbreak about 9 detainees and a correctional officer have died and more than 700 have tested positive for the virus at the facility Thompson Says she pushes the stress aside to focus on being as meticulous as she can about implementing coronavirus Safety Measures to me is not an option. We just have to continually move forward. Whatever stronger us. Just deal with it. From transforming Mccormick Place Convention Center into an alternate care facility to ensuring people can stock up on groceries essential workers are keeping the American Economy humming yet it great risk to themselves and their families theyre continuing to fight for safer workplaces across the u. S. There have been protests workers have walked off the job and others have threatened to strike essential workers the ones who must go to work in order to make sure that our city in our state or country keep moving are oftentimes the ones who are paid the least have the fewest rights on the job and are generally overlooked by a large swath of society at the Chicago Federation of labor which represents half a 1000000 Union Members is lobbying political leaders to expand a paid sick and family leave the Spokesman Says this Health Crisis has highlighted the need for workers to become empowered to organize and advocate for their rights. Thompson says at times the coronavirus pandemic feels like an unpleasant dream yet the limited social interaction both on and off the job has brought benefits for me it has been a time of reflection i have been able to reevaluate my own life and the things that i do and and how i do them despite the risks thompson is also grateful shes still bringing home a paycheck her union says about half of its 10000 electricians are now unemployed the talks are going to name ole jazeera chicago. German chancellor Angela Merkel is calling for unity among leaders in the fight against code with 19 during a speech to parliament merkels success can only come if the bloc fights the virus together the number of new infections in germany rose for a 3rd day merkel is warning politicians the country is still only at the beginning of the outbreak. New madrid nobody likes to hear it but its the truth were not living in the final phase of the pandemic but still at the beginning we will have to live with the virus for a long time just a few hours after merkels call for unity european leaders met online to discuss the blocks economic response to the pandemic the e. U. Is seeking a joint Financial Fund of up to 2 trillion dollars to a Recovery Efforts block has already agreed on a 500000000000. 00 package to help those countries worst hit by the outbreak. Talk about the Virtual Meeting of e. U. Leaders natasha joins us now from the west of france so what was on the virtual agenda of the Virtual Meeting. Well e. U. Leaders met by Video Conference to talk about a Recovery Plan how can the European Union. Survive economically recalls an economically off to the current of ours pandemic which left tens of thousands of people on a date in europe and also really shaken the economies especially some of those in the south such as me and spain now its clear from at the end of the summit i have to say it is clear that all you need is agreed on one thing and that is that there is a great necessity to put in place saw a form of Recovery Plan however what they called agree on is how to finance it now they went into this meeting with divisions over this and they seem to have come out to break with those same divisions it was something the french president about all my girls said he said theyre all still disagreements on how to finance this plan the main issue is that fronts its a nice plane some of the countries most affected by the current virus pandemic where infections are very high death rates are very high they are calling for the solidarity unity for mutual eyes to day if they want to sort of sharing all of the burden if you like by all Member States to try and recover they werent home to try to finance this quick recovery together equally that that hasnt gone down well with some of them nor will the wealthy im all fiscally conservative nations such as germany and the measurements who are worried that in the moment they will be shouldering the burden really the greater responsibility holds of financing recovery so they havent agreed on exactly how to finance this plan we do know that it is also the European Commission to look into perhaps expanding the budget that could be one way of getting money into that recovery system but they will still continue to talk french presence of model mycroft the meeting said it is very important at this time of crisis to show this sort of darts and to show that the European Union can act in unity because he say. At the very essence all the European Union is at stake as its being chipped because of European Union doesnt show unity and solidarity in this crisis well in the future that could feel euro skepticism and sentiments in places where people feel theyve been left behind for example in already many italians feeling that the e. U. Has let them down and mental michael also pointing out that in order for the eurozone to continue to be strong it has to have all the colonies on side you called just how what economy absolutely struggling and left behind otherwise very very future year is and will be at stake as well all right thanks so much natasha model of an Oxford University has begun testing a possible covert 19 vaccine on humans Scientists Say theyll know in a few months if it works and if it does millions of doses could become available by autumn but i experience are warning its going to take a lot longer to control the pandemic trial itself will take take at least a year because we want to monitor these volunteers after theyve been vaccinated and see what both what happens from a safety perspective whether the vaccine works and also to study their immune response to see how long it lasts so a lot of work has to now go into the process of upscaling to be able to make large amounts of vaccine and that process is already started its certainly possible if nothing goes wrong in that upscaling process that the could be millions of doses available in the autumn but to get to the scale that we really need to control this pandemic is going to take much longer than that. Well the u. K. Is also launching a mass testing and tracing program in the hope of keeping transmission rates low or a challenge is in london he says the government is keen to show its taking on board public concern particularly for frontline workers. U. K. Health secretary matt hancock used stays press briefing to outline the governments latest push to increase the capacity of coronavirus tests being done now this has become a scandal for the government so i think. What hancock said was that as of today any essential worker who wants one could log onto d a government website and book themselves a test now the government has pledged to reach a capacity of 100000 tests a day by the end of the month of the moment its only 850000 capacity but the actual real number of tests being done is is less than that also asked everyone whos approached by the governments or the office of National Statistics asking them to take part in a new survey to say yes to this there is going to be potentially 300000. 00 people tested over the coming months blood test and swab test to see either if they have the disease but also if they have had it to give the government a better idea about how and when it can release restrictions on the population and then theres also the question of facemasks the government at the moment is considering whether or not its going to make these sorts of things mandatory where in public and public transport going out shopping things like that. As governments discuss when and how to lift down restrictions one piece of Technology Keeps coming up in their discussions bluetooth in our mobile phones you see its a powerful tool for Contact Tracing which is Health Authorities do to figure out who else an infected person has been in contact with smartphones keep track of where weve been and use bluetooth to record who comes near so if someone gets sick digital content. Tracing can be used to notify others who may have been exposed this is a vague about the effectiveness of the technology where to keep the darter well there are 2 main camps really apple and google favor the kind of decentralized approach that singapore used darters kept on an individual phone until a person reports themselves Sick Companies say this will be incorporated into i. R. S. And android operating systems germany france and the u. K. Favor a centralized approach closer to those used in china or south korea which keep starter on the central server Lillian Edwards is professor of law innovation and society at Newcastle University she joins us from edinburgh in the u. K. Good to have you with us 1st of all the 4 we get into perhaps the legal and ethical nitty gritty from what we know of the information thats out there how effective is it in the 1st place is that as a tool the kind of you know trace where people have been in terms of their health risk. Well its difficult to say with that though is that details are the app in question that the u. K. N. H. S. X. Appen although weve now seen pictures of it being tested was still a little bit in the dark about how its being coded there are a number of problems we know about from the experience in other countries and in the past you have to get a very High Percentage of the population to install the app pretty useful epidemiologists have estimated that about 80 percent of the smartphone using population about 20 percent of the population in the u. K. Doesnt use smartphones so youre talking about 60 percent of the population but very very hard for installing a new app many people never install new apps there are all the technical problems doesnt work that well when youre talking about heavily populated urban areas it may think youre near somebody whos behind a wall behind sam plasterboard wall in another keep cool in another office so there are still quite a lot of issues all right now from a legal perspective whats your take on the idea that governments are going to use this and keep the data in a central server as is you know the case in china south korea possibly the u. K. Yeah i mean this is a big debate in europe obviously Everyone Wants to do everything they can to get this out the hard to get the economy back to work but i think people are also conscious in europe that the history of this kind of centralized state surveillance and Data Retention is not good and obviously we have the history of the snowden revelations weve had a lot of cases in the European Court of justice and therefore theres been a made very much in your tool its more criticism preserving decentralized apps. And i think the debate in the cave right now is that were not again really sure where that the n. H. S. Is using a centralized or a decentralized paradigm so we know so far for example that austria and switzerland are gone for a very purpose of preserving the centralized paradigm were hearing that france and germany are there in the other way so that is why were not sure a case of the u. K. And sure thats something that can be clarified through legal action right. I dont know if they can be terrified of that legal action im sure there are people taking freedom of information requests right now i mean obviously it is a National Crisis and therefore one hopes that the governments are acting in good faith but i do think it would be helpful to have more information out there one point tha