mary see you know no bounds does a series of spider splinter groups down the palestinian cause or ensure its survival chronicling the turbulent story of the struggle for a palestinian heart deal known history of a revolution on al-jazeera. the coronavirus pandemic and its threat to aid and food supplies a stark warning that the number of people in acute hunger could double by the end of 2020. below and barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up the u.s. president says he will temporarily suspend immigration to protect american lives and jobs from the virus outbreak donald trump also pledges to bail out the u.s.

or oil industry up to prices that dip into negative territory for the 1st time in history and why the constitution and tradition are making it difficult to slice of the coronavirus curve in japan. the thank you for joining us the current a virus pandemic could lead to famines in thousands of countries pushing tens of millions more people around the world to the brink of starvation a un report has highlighted the vast number of people around the world who are now acutely food in secure the world food program has requested 350000000 dollars to set up a network to keep humanitarian supply chains moving around the world. there are no examples yet but i must warn you that if we don't prepare and act now to secure access avoid fundies shortfalls disruptions to treat we could be facing multiple

famines of biblical proportions within a short few months the answer is it we take will determine our success or failure and build a sustainable food systems as the basis of stable and peaceful societies the truth is we do not have time on our side so let's act wisely and elicits a i do believe that our expertise and our partnerships we could begin we can break the get of the teachings of the programs necessary to make certain the night team pandemic is not become a human and food crisis catastrophe well the world food program says if it is unable to reach those in need to do to coronavirus restrictions at least 300000 people could starve to death every day for a 3 month period and that's not taking into account those affected by the outbreak which will push the number of people on the brink of starvation to more than

a quarter of a 1000000000 unless they get help soon they're warning that in a worst case scenario that could be famines in more than 30 countries and then 10 of those more than 1000000 people are already close to starvation the world bank has also cautioned countries against hoarding food they say global grain production and stocks are near all time highs making restrictions unnecessary. well more than 5000000 people in south sudan rely on food aid to survive in the current virus pandemic is making their lives even harder the outbreak is slowing down humanitarian operations that the liver essential food supplies hit morgan reports from geneva. even prior to the 1st coronavirus case in south sudan many face starvation that's the result of 5 years of fighting between forces loyal to rival political leaders the conflict ended in february with a new transitional government sworn him somewhere in the room if my children

survive i want them to go to school and learn to take care of themselves before the coronavirus emergency aid organizations estimated more than half of the 12000000 population would need food aid this year. the were forced a 3rd of the population from their homes 200000 of them are now in u.n. camps around the country hundreds of thousands of others are in hard to reach areas for them food drops are sometimes the only way they'll get food last year we had to feed 5000000 people due to fighting and flooding already in 2020 we've had locust invasions and now there is the covert 19 plan demick which we predict could almost double the people in the queue hunger by the end of 2020 across the world the only way we can hold this trend is if generous funding for humanitarian crises like the one here in south continues floods last year affected nearly a 1000000 people forcing the declaration of a state of emergency in some parts of the country then

a plague of locusts in the eastern part worsened an already dire situation the u.n. describes the insect threat as extremely alarming and president farmers who have relied on their crops fear another invasion as eggs hatch from the 1st wave to human. i've tried to chase them away but they wouldn't leave they're everywhere in my backyard in my banco plantation the mangos the papayas the glovers that i plant is what provides me with food and income well i do if they're being eaten by locusts preventive measures by the government and aid organizations have been imposed to contain the spread of coronavirus they include restrictions on movement making many in need even harder to reach people more going on just they are. u.s. president donald trump says that he will suspend all immigration to the u.s. to protect american lives and jobs from the coronavirus the announcement on twitter is the latest in a string of moves cracking down on immigration as the virus spreads in the united

states last month old travel to the u.s. from china parts of europe and the u.k. has been blocked well let's cross to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett of 1st of all i mean this was announced on twitter was it explained how this ban is actually meant to work. no there was very little explanation given by the white house but certainly a vigorous defense of it essentially the trumpet ministration says it is studying a timeline to implement this policy that it will kind of evan flow and have some carve outs of flexibility given the fact that this is a response to the pen demick here in the united states the national security adviser robert o'brian saying that this is really just a temporary issue in the view of the administration so there aren't substantial changes says but here just some of the impacts it a visa processing will be halted immigration and citizenship ceremonies and

interviews those sorts of things those will be put on hold the refugee program has been positive and also migrants that are crossing the border potentially illegally into the united states we already knew that they were being quickly rounded up and expelled so the administration is saying that this isn't really that dramatic of a change what we do know is this executive order is expected to have some exemptions within it namely for farm workers who are essentially migrant workers that have come up to work on u.s. farms make up about 110th of the labor force in that area and also when it comes to immigrants who are working in the health care field particularly when it comes to treating cope with 19 patients that those will also be workers that are exempted now what we know is that the executive order will not address the removal of immigrants already in the united states but i can tell you this is not been received well by democratic critics on capitol hill they're calling it

authoritarian they're saying that this is being used to take advantage of a crisis in order to advance a anti immigrant agenda we also know that the democratic presumptive nominee for president joe biden has called this hysterical xenophobia but the white house again it's defending this policy saying that tens of millions of a. americans have overnight lost their job the neighborhood of some $40000000.00 plus and when they look at the polls that have been conducted widely that at least 2 thirds or upwards of 2 thirds of americans actually support putting immigration on pas well americans try to find jobs or deal with the coronavirus you know the lack of employment that has occurred as a result of the stay at home orders can really help here with the latest on that from the white house can belief thank you. saying the u.s. president probably trump has pledged to bail out the u.s. oil industry after the u.s. futures market plunged into negative territory for the 1st time ever on monday.

well that volatility saw u.s. stocks open in the red for a 2nd straight day the dow jones index lost nearly 2 percent just after it began trading it's still trading about 2 percent that down well let's speak to al jazeera as gabriel in the zone the who's in new york for us gave rubin tracking the values of the u.s. and international benchmarks where do they stand now. not very good quite frankly the plunge in oil prices really continues what we have on the air the west texas intermediate that's the u.s. benchmark that's selling for about $12.00 a barrel now it was about 2 dollars a barrel earlier it's been growing up to about $12.00 a barrel is roughly where it stands right about now brant crude the international benchmark standard for oil that is about $1000.00

a barrel now it's important to point out just taking a step back for a 2nd if you will not always the same we should differentiate between the 2 you have a u.t.i. which is as i mentioned west texas intermediate is what it's called and that's the american benchmark that's oil that comes from texas louisiana and north dakota and then of course you have the texas from the oil from the north sea that's brant crude that is really the international standard used by about 3 fourths of the world as that but it's really the the american benchmark oil that w t i that we've been watching closely because that's the one on monday that saw that incredible historic head scratching collapse in prices and that is still basically at $12.00 a barrel now it's basically the price of a quick lunch in a coffee in new york city to put it in very simple terms a fast food lunch if you will but bottom line is that there will prices on both sectors are not looking good but particularly with the here in the u.s.

it's just been decimated and what impact has the plummeting of the value of oil had on the markets. wall street is looking at this closely and everything is in the red the dow is down by about 550 to 600 about 2 percent or so as you just mentioned it's been in the red all day since the 2nd of opening bell closing bells in about 45 minutes or so so it's definitely in a close in the red all 11 of the s. and p. sectors are in the red as well but here's the real troubling part it's not only the may or you'll futures market that was down that we saw had that hopes to soar claps now you're looking at june and july and june now just within the last hour june the price of the barrel of oil in the futures market has gone below $10.00 that's new and so what traders are doing is they're looking at all of this they're looking at the medium term future prices of oil they're looking at the u.s.

economy that is shut down completely for all intents and purposes and likely will be for weeks if not months to come and they're basically saying this is what you're seeing this sell off in the markets. it's in there everything simply in the red there's no other way to describe it everyone with the latest on that from gabriel thank you. and still to come here on al-jazeera after clashing in recent weeks over there coronavirus response york's governor. testing plus more turbulence for global airlines the coronavirus pandemic puts a virgin australia into administration. however the weather remains frightening breezy across northern parts of your very

different story further south big massive cloud through those sense down into the med this well to where. as of low pressure just swirling away was seen some very heavy rain recently into the northeast the spine that will drive its way a little eastwood's the riviera will see some very heavy rain across southern parts of france pushing across into central and southern parts of italy further north it does stay largely dry not say about on the temperatures but it is quite a keen wind that we have just rolling across than all say take a nice temperatures back to around 18 celsius which isn't too bad but there's a brisk wind the sun shines out 24 celsius there for paris 19 celsius madrid it will brighten up in madrid as we go on through the next couple days much of spying will see more in the west sunshine but notice live the showers there to central parts of the mediterranean one of those showers my will affect the far north of africa particularly around northern areas of morocco pushing across northern algeria into tunisia some showers coming through here possibly leading to some

flooding quite a brisk wind into northern parts of libya no i'm areas of egypt for a time card with a top temperature of 30 degrees. but . as the world fights the corona pandemic we're learning more about this every day and the new path that you join our global community up the aisle for how we come together to fight your own soaring and your questions can i get on with you trying to say directly that coming on on you tube as you are saying i'm concerned about the front line for you and i think for a crime that is not keeping you up to date and we've seen countries retreat back and beaten back successfully the strain on his iraq. route. or.

welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the coronavirus pandemic could push tens of millions more people around the world to the brink of starvation the world food program warns that in a worst case scenario there could be famines and 3 dozen countries u.s. president says he will suspend all immigration to the u.s. to protect american lives and jobs from the coronavirus months old travel to the u.s. from china parts of europe and the u.k. has been blocked. well with the pandemic throwing world oil markets into turmoil donald trump says his government will bail out the u.s. industry he told his energy and treasury secretaries to make funds available to ensure the survival of american oil and gas companies. staying in the u.s.

new york governor andrew cuomo will meet to donald trump at the white house on tuesday and as they in the press conference cuomo said the focus of the meeting will be on how to ramp up testing pasadena. how do we do it how can the federal government work with the states. basically because this is all new. it's a situation that is very difficult. it is a situation where however you do it it's going to be a big. saloons in new york interesting to hear under cuomo finished there talking about a blame game it's fair to say the 2 men haven't always seen eye to eye so what is cuomo hoping to get out of the visit. absolutely well he's going to talk to president trump about 2 things the testing and also funding for not only new york

but all seats in the united states on the testing from governor cuomo has sat in fact president trump's own medical advisors and said that more testing will be key to reopening the state to allowing people to go back to work into business so they know the full extent of coronavirus exposure and who could possibly be safely going back to work and the governor says you know look new york has the labs to do that testing but the demand for those kits has gone up exponentially and now we're competing against other states some of the chemicals you need to do those tests come from china and we're not used to dealing with china we need the federal government to coordinate these efforts so he's going to make that case directly to president trump on the funding he says you know we're not collecting income like we used to in the states income taxes are taxes are down our tax revenues are down we need to be able to pay our teachers we need to be able to pay our police officers and our ambulance workers right now and it's great that you want to bail out small

businesses congress and president but the states need help too so he's asking on behalf of the governors association as well they've asked for some $500000000000.00 for all of the states $10000000000.00 is what new york is looking for so that will be center those will be the center topics of his conversation and christine we can see from the traffic behind you that all of this the new york is much much quieter than it would be normally in new york actually accounting for about a 3rd of all u.s. . cases we've seen rallies and in some other parts of the country to lift social distancing requirements i wonder is governor cuomo facing any kind of similar pressure in new york and so. yeah i think all politicians are facing incredible pressure as you know the economy suffers as people lose their income as kids are forced to stay home from school in new york a protest is planned at the state capital tomorrow wednesday here in new york the

pressure is coming from what we like to refer to as upstate new york i'm in manhattan upstate would be anything north and west of the city and its suburbs it's more rural the cities are smaller and frankly they've had less coronavirus cases out there so the pressure there are to reopen businesses is very intense and pres and governor cuomo made a concession to upstate areas today when he allowed some of the hospitals to start doing elective surgeries and elective procedures again and. again don't have a lot of coronavirus cases and were forbidden from doing those things and they were actually started to lay off people from hospitals upstate because because of the situation so that was a bone to those areas but here in new york people are much more densely populated there's very real concern the hospitals have been overwhelmed and even as hospitalizations are down there's concern about a 2nd spike so the governor is saying we need to be very cautious about this and have those tests before reopen and here in new york you can see around me that

things are very quiet people are taking those warnings very seriously and staying home christmas salumi with the latest there from new york kristen thank you. well meanwhile in the u.k. more than $17000.00 people have now died from covert 19 in hospitals but the true extent of the outbreak is feared to be much higher the u.k. says it will start human vaccine trials on thursday may have barker has. an intensive care unit in scotland. where the youngest to test positive has only just been born. ringback the medics here are traumatized by what they're dealing with. for the stuff to. hurt so far and now research by the office of national statistics suggesting the actual death toll in england and wales in early april was 40 percent higher than the number reported by downing

street. those daily government figures don't include deaths outside hospital in care homes hospices or in the community they also classify what counts as a covert 19 deaths in a slightly different way there are concerns the u.k. could soon have the highest number of deaths in europe putting pressure on the search for a vaccine human trials will begin at oxford university on thursday this is uncertain science but i'm certain that we will throw everything we've got at developing a vaccine the u.k. is at the forefront of the global effort we've put more money than any other country into the global search for a vaccine the crisis is now also defining the shape of britain's democracy with m.p.'s making plans for a virtual parliament the proposal allows up to 120 m.p.'s out of 650 to join the debate by video conference

a further 50 will be in the chamber sitting spaced apart there are some who believe the parliament should close altogether given boris johnson the prime minister's recent bout of coronavirus but others insist it must remain open to continue scrutinizing the government technology offers a compromise. but it doesn't provide easy answers on the rising number of deaths elsewhere in europe germany where infection numbers are for the sharply car make a volkswagen has become preparations to restart production some kind of for all sorts but the country's foreign minister said normal travel in europe is unlikely to happen this year italy's the latest hard hit country to announce it would begin lifting some restrictions starting in early may and in austria restaurants churches and some schools will reopen in 3 weeks time the world health organizations warmed governments that lifting lockdowns must be gradual these are europe's 1st tentative

steps towards normality. neve barker al-jazeera london. all during that daily u.k. briefing the health secretary right hancock calls confusion over whether the u.k. was part of a european union scheme to procure more ventilators paul brennan explains. there is some confusion as to the motivation for the u.k. not joining the european union procurement scheme there are several procurement schemes that the european union is coordinating to prevent each individual member nation of the european union from going off and trying to do its own deals and therefore probably end up bidding against each other and thereby driving the price up now the u.k. chose not to join some of those schemes and the reason why it was said as far as ventilators goes was because the government said there had been some missed emails and there was kind of a breakdown in communication then it was said this afternoon by apparently the

senior civil servant in charge of the foreign office simon mcdonnell's that it was actually a political decision not to join the european union and that's put the cats amongst the pigeons somewhat apparently he's issued a clarification as to exactly what he said or what he meant i haven't seen the clarification yet but there is apparently one being issued to see. that said the shortages of p.p. is the shortages of ventilators initially at least. as has been a bone of contention here in the u.k. because the global shortage is impacting all the countries in the u.k. simply one of them poverty with the latest death well meanwhile strict measures continue to be imposed across asia as countries try to reduce kovac 1000 cases singapore has extended its lock down by another 4 weeks while people arriving in hong kong need to stay at a testing center they take a palin report style phone call. scenes like this are the main reason japan is

struggling to contain its current virus outbreak according to the country's prime minister siniora today the medical situation on the ground is under pressure to relieve this pressure if even by a little bit to protect your own lives and health we would like you to refrain from going out. the number of cases in japan has exceeded 11000 while tokyo is still reporting more than 100 new infections daily but locking down the country is not straightforward despite it being under a state of emergency. the constitution makes it impossible to legally enforced social distancing and the traditional work culture discourages remotes working it's in stark contrast to hong kong which has imposed tough social distancing restrictions and encouraged people to work from home and that seems to have paid off for more than a week the city had only single digit daily increases in infections and on monday

recorded none but hong kong's government isn't taking any chances despite the adverse impact on the economy is indeed a very very difficult balancing act you are right that on the one hand we want to fight the virus to keep our citizens safe but only the head of the city is that it doesn't have any business people do not have normal. at tipitina's that becomes also a very very difficult the government announced it will extend the measures for another 2 weeks hong kong people have been here before the number of you daily infections fell to 0 in early march but soon after the city was hit by a 2nd wave some blame people letting their guard down too soon and the number of imported cases rose as hong kong residents rushed to escape a growing outbreak overseas from wednesday all passengers arriving are required to stay at a testing center or a hotel until the coronavirus results are in less than

a month ago singapore was hailed as an example of a success story in avoiding a major outbreak but now it has the highest rate of infection in southeast asia suffering more than a 1000 new cases a day this week mostly among migrant workers making the city a cautionary tale and a lesson in what can happen when the vulnerable members of the population are overlooked the vehicle pollen are designer of hong kong. the kernel of virus pandemic has claimed another big name virgin australia the airline entered voluntary administration on tuesday seeking new buyers and investors and it is unlikely to be the last the future for south african airways which entered a form of bankruptcy protection in december is pretty bleak there are reports that the airline will lay off all of its $4700.00 employees by the end of the month the international air transport association says the mystic air traffic globally is

that 70 percent and then he recovers is expected to be slow other airlines to have already collapsed under the weight of the coronavirus include the u.k. regional service flight b. and american regional carriers trance state airlines and com pass quickly gauge reports from sydney. with billions of dollars in debt and most of its fleet grounded the announcement surprised few virgin australia handed over its books to insolvency firm deloitte as board members placed it in administration it's the largest global airline to collapse or fall under the shock of the coronavirus outbreak this is not just something that is. strongly we know it's hurting the industry globally and is the worst ideation process i was saying that the company will continue to operate while it's being restructured but it leaves nearly 16000 people in a strong uncertain about their jobs at

a time when unemployment is rising due to code 19 shutdowns and a global recession becoming a me is certain reality. stuff had already been stood down due to floods being cancelled for weeks the airline has been urging the government to loan it hundreds of millions of dollars to survive the crossest but it's refused saying it wants bail out a company that's 90 percent oil and by foreign shareholders with big pockets if the airline suspends operations the national carrier quantas would have a need monopoly in a stroller which many say would be ignored but if the interest the straining. the street well i suspect this and they really do need to support station astray. now it's an administration which. i know so quintus virgin australia remains optimistic it will survive and says there's been interest from foreign investors

richard branson who co-founded virgin and owns 10 percent of the australian tweeted this is not the end of virgin australia but i believe a new beginning the question is whether it will be an attractive investment when borders remain closed and the industry is under pressure worldwide guy. al-jazeera . and the reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the coronavirus pandemic could push tens of millions more people around the world to the brink of starvation the world food program warns that in a worst case scenario there could be famines in 3 dozen countries there are no famines yet but i must warn you that if we don't prepare and act now to secure access avoid fundies shortfalls disruptions to treat we could be facing multiple

famines of biblical proportions within a short few months the actions that we take will determine our success or failure and build a sustainable food systems as the basis of stable and peaceful societies. u.s. president donald trump says he will suspend all immigration to the u.s. to protect american lives and jobs from the coronavirus last month soul travel to the u.s. from china parts of europe and the u.k. has been blocked the pres and president trump has also pledged to bail out the u.s. oil industry after the u.s. futures market plunged into negative territory for the 1st time ever on monday that volatility saw u.s. stocks open in the red for a 2nd straight day the u.k. office for national statistics says the number of coronavirus that's could be more than 40 percent higher than the government's official data suggests more than 7 100000 people have now died from covert 1000 u.k.

hospitals earlier a top diplomat said the u.k. had made a political decision not to participate in a european union of a ventilator ski. at least 150 migrants in a shelter in southern greece have tested positive for the corona virus the hospital in the town of kearney was placed in isolation on monday hundreds of people who live and work there were tested after it was confirmed that a pregnant woman was infected last week it's the 3rd migrant facility in greece to confirm cases of the virus. those are the top stories remember you can get more on everything that we have been covering here on our website the adverse al-jazeera dot called stay with us coming up next it's the street asking how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting people with disabilities and i'm going to have more news for you in half an hour journey that.

and you are in the stream that home edition of welcome to my dining room table now today we are talking about people with disabilities and the impact that the coronavirus is having on them i have an excellent lineup of guests so i am going to get them to introduce themselves that. i am director of disability rights and human rights watch. good to have you in the stream i'm. all right. disability rights. campaigner.