this is bbc news. i'm mike embley with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. president trump announces that the governor of new york, andrew cuomo, is to visit the white house on tuesday. the governor's going to come in to see us tomorrow. he's coming to the oval office tomorrow afternoon. andrew is going to be coming in with some of his people. so we look forward to that. the price of us oil goes negative, as demand dries up and producers sell rather than store their supplies across the uk there are still urgent calls for supplies of protective equipment as ministers say that every effort is being made. canadians are to hold

a virtual vigilfor the at least 18 people killed by a gunman in nova scotia on saturday. and why harry and meghan are taking on the tabloids vowing not to cooperate with the biggest titles. president trump has announced that the governor of new york will visit the white house on tuesday to discuss the nation's response to the pandemic. the price of us oil has turned negative, with demand all but drying up, as lockdowns across the world keep people inside. for the first time, italy has recorded a one—day fall in the number of people currently infected. the latest figures for the uk show there were 419 deaths reported in the last 24—hour period, reflecting a steady fall over the past few days. the official number of deaths in the uk linked to coronavirus is 16,509. but that number does not

include deaths in care homes or in the community, in england and northern ireland. the uk govenment remains under sustained pressure about the lack of personal protective equipment, or ppe as it's known, available to medical and care staff. more on all that in a moment but first, here's president trump speaking a short while ago. i want to draw your attention to governor cuomo‘s remarks during his press conference today. he said, "the president is right, the state's testing is up to the states to do, which will implement the tests "and logistically co—ordinate the tests." "we have about 300 labs in new york."

and they do, they are great labs, actually. "and it's myjob to co—ordinate those 300 labs. "i think the president's right when he says that the states "should lead," and the governors — really, they‘ re really getting it together in new york, a lot of good things are happening in new york. and i think the governor is going to come in to see us tomorrow. he's coming to the oval office tomorrow afternoon. andrew is going to be coming in with some of his people. so, we look forward to that. 0ur north america correspondent, peter bowes, says we've heard a different tone from president trump. andrew cuomo, the governor of new york has over the past few weeks been one of the president's harshest critics but also a case of praise where praise is deserved and that is what he has been presenting the president with over the last 2a hours or so when he agrees with the president's actions, indeed thanking him for some of the measures he has taken over the last few weeks and he is talking about testing at the moment being up in new york state. and that was the latest theme of the latest press briefing. and president trump made the point, in fact, he is getting on with the vast majority of governors around the country. and i think it is fair to say there has been a lot of bipartisan support

and cooperation during this crisis, this medical crisis. clearly there have been differences over the availability of ventilators and testing around the country. but by—and—large, as far as the president sees it, the country has come together to try and fight this epidemic. and, peter, for a president who has put so much store by the health of the markets, the oil price is surely a great difficulty? yes, it's gone into negative terrain, so you have the producers essentially paying buyers to take the oil off their hands — a very unusual situation. the president talked about this at his news briefing saying he thinks this is going to be relatively short—term, maybe a month before things will start to improve. in the meantime, taking the opportunity in fact, with all of this cheap oil, to top up the country's national reserves. peter, thank you very much indeed. the price of oil in the united states has plunged into negative territory for the first time in its history as demand dries

up because of coronavirus. a barrel of west texas intermediate traded as low as —$40, and it led to a day of chaos in the oil markets and has left the world awash with oil and not enough storage capacity. at his daily briefing president trump said his administration aims to top up the america's emergency oil stockpile. based on the record—low price of oil that you've been seeing. it's at a level that's very interesting to a lot of people. we're filling up our national petroleum reserves, strategic, you know, the strategic reserves, and we're looking to put as much as 75 million barrels into the reserves themselves. that would top it out. cornelia meyer is an independent energy analyst and expert commentator on the oil industry. she told me this is going to have a great impact on the smaller

energy producers. it does have big ramifications. if you look at shale producers in texas, and thereabouts, they are usually smaller companies and they are very highly leveraged. so they will not be able to afford their debts, so that would be bad for them, because they will have to default on their loans. it will be bad for the banks because they will have non—performing loans. it will also be bad for the banks who have hedges out there, and let's say they have hedged the oil price for a company to exit at $50, they now have two pay. the interesting thing, though, is the risk, the big oil companies, the shells and exxons, were only down 2—4% at close of us markets yesterday evening, which shows everybody knows they have the wherewithal to weather the storm. leading health organisations in the uk have repeated their warning that a lack of protective equipment

— or ppe — is putting lives at risk and they've called for a clear strategy to ensure a sustained supply. an raf aircraft has flown to turkey to collect a shipment of 400,000 clinical gowns — the delivery was expected on sunday and it's still not clear when it will happen. public health england has admitted the lack of ppe is a concern, as our health editor hugh pym reports. we have recently got these gowns made locally. 0ne care home's response to equipment shortages, get it made by local contacts. these are the supplies that we have up in head office.

as you can see, they are very limited. we have ten litres of hand rub. while supplies are coming in, they're hard to get — and staff who look after residents with symptoms fear they may run out. we are putting notjust our residents at risk, but also our staff, and that makes us feel awful and it keeps us up at night. and we are trying our best. josie was a nurse for 30 years. in recent weeks she worked on covid—i9 wards and died on easter monday. she told her family she thought the protective equipment was not the best. i feel like they should protect those on the front lines because they are kind of sending them over there naked. i feel like without the proper protection, then more families will lose a loved one. the trust where she worked said they had implemented national guidance on protective equipment. first of all, we're putting our gowns on. for hospitals, specialist gowns and masks used in intensive care are in short supply. some, though not this one, say they're down to only a day or so of stocks. usually staff put on new items every few hours, but the guidance has been changed so they are allowed to wash and reuse the gowns. front line staff, though, are concerned about the situation.

we want to treat patients and we never expected that we would be putting our own health at risk by doing that. and not knowing whether you are going to be able to protect yourself is a worry we shouldn't have to have. 0ne trust in lincolnshire made up of three major hospitals has revealed how much protective equipment known as ppe they use in a single day. 39,500 surgical masks, nearly 11,500 gloves, around 1,500 gowns and about 4,200 specialist ffp3 masks. in total, that is 72,000 items forjust one day. i raised the concerns about shortages in some areas at the downing street media briefing. are you ashamed as a government that there are so many nhs staff going into work who say they're worried about their safety because they fear their hospitals might run out of ppe? absolutely, everybody working hard on the front line deserves to have the equipment they need to be able to do theirjobs safely and we are working around the clock to make sure we can deliver on that. obviously, a billion pieces of ppe have been delivered, i think 12 million yesterday, and we are improving our sourcing internationally and domestically to make sure we can get the ppe we need in what is a challenging

international context. the chancellor said there were delays with the planned turkish consignment of ppe, but a shipment of gowns from myanmar had arrived. with the new temporary nhs hospital in glasgow ready to take patients, the government said it was working at pace to improve the supply of ppe. the opening ceremony for cardiff's new temporary hospital, the principality stadium, with room for up to 2,000 patients. the duke of edinburgh said he wanted to acknowledge the vital work taking place. there was more uplifting news at east sussex trust as staff gave one of their own a round of applause as one

of their own, a nurse, left critical care. hugh pym, bbc news. let's get some of the day's other news: the number of people currently confirmed to have the coronavirus in italy has fallen for the first time. officials announced a drop of 20 compared to the day before, with fewer people in intensive care beds. the total number of fatalities is more than 211,000. israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, and his main rival the knesset speaker, benny gantz, say they're forming an emergency government of national unity to deal with the pandemic. mr netanyahu will be prime minister for the first 18 months. mr gantz would then take overfor the remainder of a three—year term. virgin australia has confirmed that it's gone into voluntary administration. the airline is one of the first

major corporate casualties of the covid—19 pandemic. the company said revenue dried up after it was forced to cancel nearly all flights due to the global health crisis. more than 10,000 jobs could be at risk. the president of madagascar, andry rajoelina, has officially launched a locally—produced herbal tea which he claims is both a prevention and a cure for the coronavirus. this is despite the fact that health experts say there is as yet no known cure or vaccine. mr rajoelina claims it's proven to be effective and has cured two patients in madagascar. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: why harry and meghan are taking on the tabloids vowing not to cooperate with the biggest titles. the stars and stripes at half—mast outside columbine high. the school sealed off, the bodies of the dead

still inside. i never thought that they would actually go through with it. one of the most successful singer songwriters of all time, the american pop star prince, has died at the age of 57. ijust couldn't believe it, i did't believe it. he was just here saturday. for millions of americans, the death of richard nixon in a new york hospital has meant conflicting emotions. a national day of mourning next wednesday sitting somehow uneasily with the abiding memories of the shame of watergate. mission control: and lift-off of the space shuttle discovery with the hubble space telescope, our window on the universe. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: president trump has announced

that the governor of new york, andrew cuomo, is to visit the white house on tuesday. the price of us oil goes negative, as demand dries up and producers sell rather than store their supplies. let's talk to our middle east business correspondent sameer hashmi. significant is this? it is historic because never before has the price of crude, and this is the main benchmark the us crude prices falling into negative territory butjust to clarify, this political grade which has fallen below zero is for the month of may so how oil works, it works on future pricing and it differs from month—to—month so this is for

the contract for the month of may and on tuesday was the expiry for the contract which meant that after that, or the buyers and creators have to physically collect the oil and given there is a huge oil supply in the market right now, a lot of suppliers in the united states are renting tanks so united states are renting tanks so they can store the oil. most of the buyers did not want to ta ke of the buyers did not want to take this oil and that is why they started selling which led to oilfalling they started selling which led to oil falling below zero. and how much can governments and big economic institutions do about it? well, if you look, the governments have, especially the oil producers, they have already made a decision led by saudi arabia and russia, the well‘s two largest oil exporters, that they would be cutting oil supply starting from the first of may. they are talking about ten billion barrels of oil per day, about 10% of the global

current all supplies. but if you look at the current market there is an oversupply of about 25- 30%. there is an oversupply of about 25— 30%. there are two reasons because about, the coronavirus, demand has dried up, and this spat between russia and saudi arabia, pumping in more oil overcoming —— through coming weeks. so most analysts believe even when these cuts come in from the first of may they may not be enough and oil producers may have to make deeper cuts to really stabilise oil markets. may have to make deeper cuts to really stabilise oil marketslj know really stabilise oil markets.” know this is a big question, sameer, but knowing in the bigger picture knowing the world has to move away from fossil fuel people will be wondering whether this is an indication or opportunity for something like that to happen? well, in the long—term, yes. there is an opportunity to move away and a lot of countries have been focusing on renewable energy over the last decade or so. energy over the last decade or so. but dependence on fossil

fuels has really continued. if you look at the current energy mix as faras you look at the current energy mix as far as supply goes, countries are still not in the position to meet 100% of their demand through non— fossil fuels. so they will have to rely on fuel, oil, at least for the next couple of decades or three decades before you reach a point where renewable energy 01’ a point where renewable energy or nonfossil fuels become the major contributor as far as energy supplies go. so there is a need for oil in coming years and decades that you cannot move away from it, but, yes, this is a good opportunity to speed up projects we don't have to rely on oil and you can focus on nonfossil fuels. sameer, thank you so much for that. some counties are starting to ease restrictions and move towards ending their lockdowns. what happens next is likely to be keenly watched by governments around the world, as our science editor david shukman reports. even when the worst seems

to be over, the virus remains a threat. in china, the authorities are still on their guard — checking forfever, a common symptom of covid—19. every government is now trying to work out what to do next. new zealand is held up as an example of a country that's got it right so far. it cut itself off from the rest of the world. an extreme lockdown was introduced rapidly and cases of deaths have been kept unusually low. so, the prime minister has announced the first cautious moves to open up. we believe that decisive action — going hard and going early — gave us the very best chance of stamping out the virus. and it has. we have done what very few countries have been able to do. we have stopped a wave of devastation. in europe, germany is seen as a model for how to hand

the virus. —— handle. it's leading the way in testing. in munich, this team is checking a thousand people for antibodies, to discover who's been infected. right from the start, mass tests were seen as vital and now, like in new zealand, there is a first step to re—opening. julia gless runs a shop in heidelberg. closed for weeks, she's now got permission to start again, this time from behind the protective screen and with only one customer allowed in at a time. do you think it's the right time in germany for shops like yours to reopen? yes, i think so, because if we couldn't do that, it would be very, very difficult to exist. it is maybe more important for the small businesses. but what's happening injapan shows the risk of easing measures too soon. controls were introduced, but then relaxed, only for cases to rise sharply again.

and the world health organization is warning countries against moving before they're fully prepared. please make sure you've got the defences in place at the community level. please make sure that everybody knows what their responsibility is. please make sure that older people are given special care and attention. please make sure that hospitals have got ready. japan's hospitals are now struggling. they're short of personal protective equipment. the government there is accused of assuming they'd got the outbreak under control. david shukman, bbc news. a national virtual vigil will be held this week to honour nearly 20 victims of canada's deadliest shooting, which unfolded in nova scotia as the province was locked down due to coronavirus. at least 18 people were shot dead by a gunman during a 12—hour rampage on saturday night. matt graveling reports. applause this was a hero's welcome and for a community

in mourning, something finally to cheer about. cheering constable chad morrison was shot while responding to reports of a gunman killing people across nova scotia this weekend. the officer had been in hospital since the attack. tragically, others were not so fortunate, losing their lives at the hand of the gunman, gabriel wortman. this include morrison's colleague, constable heidi stevenson, known by many in the community. some of the people have said she's a beautiful person and her smile lit up a room, you know? and just how caring she was and she was so sweet and always had a goofy humour. people in nova scotia have paid tribute to the fallen, leaving flowers, flags and signs outside this police station. but while people stopped to remember, officers continued to look for answers.

why did 51—year—old gabriel wortman, man who owned a denture clinic, dress as a police officer, get into a marked police car and begin killing innocent people? wortman was killed after being intercepted by officers at a petrol station in enfield, about 92 kilometres south of portapique. the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau, said his government was on the verge of introducing bans for assault—style weapons before the coronavirus outbreak. the pandemic will prevent us from mourning together in person. but a vigil will be held virtually to celebrate the lives of the victims at 7pm on friday through the facebook group colchester supporting our community. i don't know how the community will move on from this. it's not going to be

an overnight thing, it's not going to be next month thing. it will take time and we will all have to bond together as we can to get over this. the prime minister reassured people he has every intention of moving forward with bans to weapons once the outbreak is curbed in a bid to prevent a tragedy like this from ever happening again. matt graveling, bbc news. private text messages between the duke and duchess of sussex and meghan‘s father have been revealed in court as part of the couple's claim against associated newspapers, which owns the daily mail and the mail on sunday. harry and meghan have also told the uk's tabloid press they are ending all co—operation with them. 0ur royal correspondent nicholas witchell has more details. it's six weeks since they walked away from britain and now harry and meghan are stamping out the rules of their new, non—royal life. and rule number one, it seems, is that they'll have no contact with britain's tabloid newspapers. they are tired of false, invasive stories, they say. harry has had a difficult

relationship with the tabloids for years. it's a dislike from which he has never moved on. very early on have been very prickly with the press, they've almost encouraged them to misbehave. to be honest with you, i would say that they are betterjudgement was they should simply ignore it. ignore it and if the papers are not getting a rise out of them, they won't continue to do it. meghan is currently suing associated newspapers over the publication of the mail on sunday of extracts from a private letter she sent her estranged father, thomas. the sussexes' lawyers have now disclosed some of the text messages the couple sent to try to help mr markle.

meghan and harry are now concentrating on new opportunities. she was heard on us television today talking about a disney film she has narrated about elephants. and if we had more of an awareness about the obstacles they're facing, i think we would take care of each other, this planet and animals in a very different way. two months into their new life and harry and meghan are doing their best to navigate a new course. supporters will applaud them taking on the tabloid press. detractors will question theirjudgement as the world wrestles with more pressing matters. nicholas witchell, bbc news. and, before we go, for all those parents out there who could use a hand with story—time these days, help is here. a mouse took a stroll through the deep, dark wood. a fox saw him... michelle 0bama will narrate a classic kids book online each monday for the next four weeks. the first offering was that

much—loved tale the gruffalo, byjulia donaldson. the idea is to give children a chance to practise their reading, and give their parents a much—needed break. that's it for now. thank you very much for watching. hello. through our window on the weather, it's nothing but blue sky at the moment. and a few more days of that to come. but there is that complication of the brisk easterly wind. it does make you feel rather cool, especially along the north sea coasts. it will ease down later in the week, and all parts will turn a bit warmer. but the isobars are still squeezed together as we look at the big picture for tuesday around that area of high pressure close to scandinavia. we start tuesday fairly chilly, but particularly in scotland where there will be glens that have dropped a few degrees below freezing. so frosty start to tuesday in scotland, and a bit of cloud for the channel islands, south devon, cornwall, the isles of scilly may produce a bit of rain for a time, but that won't last long before it clears. plenty of sunshine across the uk, these are the wind

speeds, gusts around 30—a0 mph in places. just as we saw on monday, that has an impact on the temperature along the north sea coasts, some spots just around ten celsius or so, whereas most areas are in the mid—to—high teens, near 20 celsius in the warm spots. now overnight and into wednesday morning, a bit of patchy cloud here and there. the breeze stays up, meaning we will avoid a frost again, bar1—2 spots in scotland getting close to maybe a little bit below freezing. now there may be a bit more cloud around on wednesday for northern ireland, parts of western scotland, north—west scotland, with the outside chance of catching a shower. but if you want some rain on the garden, you'll be disappointed because much of the uk, nearly all of the uk, will stay dry. some sunshine, maybe not as breezy, a bit warmer by 1—2 degrees. but by the time we get to thursday, the isobars

opening up, meaning the wind will be easing. could be 1—2 mist and fog patches to start the day, but actually more especially on friday morning, parts of scotland and north—east england. but for most, thursday will be a day of clear skies. the wind isn't as strong, even along the north sea coasts it's a bit warmer, but the warmest parts of england and wales will be approaching the mid—20s. just a few subtle changes going into the weekend, perhaps a bit more cloud around with the slight chance of a shower, and a little bit cooler by then.

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president trump said he was working with state governors to make sure they had the resources needed to ramp up coronavirus testing, and added that new york governor andrew cuomo would visit the white house on tuesday to discuss the response to the pandemic. the price of us oil has turned negative for the first time in history, with the main benchmark price closing at minus $37 a barrel. president trump said the us would add 75 million barrels to the national reserve. global demand for oil has all but dried due to the lockdowns. an raf plane is on its way to turkey to pick up a delayed delivery of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers. the government said it was working "around the clock" to address the lack of protective gear. a delivery of gowns was expected to arrive on monday.