Coronavirus wipes out decade of US jobs growth

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More than 20 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefit in the past four weeks. The BBC's Michelle Fleury takes us through the latest figures. Also in the programme, we consider the significance of the growing governmental debt burden as a result of the coronavirus crisis. Dr Ross Levine is professor of banking and finance at UC Berkeley's Haas Business School, and Dr Atif Mian is professor of economics and public policy at Princeton University. Amid concerns that there are not enough workers to harvest crops in countries like the UK and Germany, journalist Meercha Barbu discusses charter flights that have been departing from eastern Romania bringing seasonal workers to those countries to help. Plus as Poland makes it compulsory to wear facemasks in public to try and limit the spread of coronavirus, the BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw tells us that facemasks have become increasingly widely available in recent days. (Picture: A NY Department of Labour building. Picture credit: Getty Images.)