this is bbc world news, the headlines. donald trump is due to host new york governor andrew cuomo at the white house for what could be a tense meeting. the two have clashed frequently this is outside source on bbc news during the outbreak — for viewers in the uk most recently over funding and around the world. we're covering all the latest for coronavirus testing. coronavirus developments the number of deaths in the uk has here in britain and globally. spiked again and in england and wales they are nearly doubled all eyes are on washington above what would be expected. as the governor of new york prepares the uk health secretary said to meet president trump they are "throwing everything" at developing a coronavirus vaccine. after clashing over funding for coronavirus testing. the united nations has warned that the coronavirus pandemic let's just co—ordinate could almost double the global number of people suffering who does what. from acute hunger. what do the states do? what does the federal government do? the world food programme said that unless swift action was taken, president trump is criticised there could be multiple after promising to stop famines within months. all immigration into the us because of the pandemic. oil prices have tumbled, with brent crude falling by 25%. he says it's to protectjobs president trump promised to support

american oil and gas producers after the price of us oil plunged deaths in england and wales hit a 20 to its lowest ever level. year high, with more than a thousand covid—related deaths, recorded at care homes, in the week before easter. the un's world food programme warns the coronavirus pandemic could double the number of people around the world suffering from acute hunger. italy looks to ease its lockdown restrictions as other european countries have already started to introduce changes. welcome. donald trump is hosting new york governor andrew cuomo at the white house for what could be a tense meeting. the two have clashed frequently during the outbreak — most recently over funding for coronavirus testing. mr cuomo — a democrat, says large—scale testing for covid—19 is the next biggest challenge and can't be done without federal help. he had a message ahead of the meeting. i understand the federal government's point that

it's up to the states, and i believe it is largely up to the states. but then even the federal government will stand there and do a whole presentation on what they're doing on testing. so, then it's not really up to the states if the fema people get up there and an admiral gets up there and talks about what they're doing on testing. all right, so then let's just co—ordinate who does what. what do the states do? what does the federal government do? katty kayjoins us from washington. is this a blame game between states and federal government? or do they need to work together more closely? isa need to work together more closely? is a clash of personality, what's going on? well ideally of course for americans they will work together and work together in a way that is sufficient, that gets the testing done and reduces the number of people that are dying from the coronavirus. the relationship from these two men have been fascinating over the last few weeks. ultimately praising each other and then sometimes on twitter being out right

rude about each other. truth is they both need each other. as governor cuomo said they do need help from the white house. their coordination to do supply chain issues, sometimes with plug supply chain issues coming in from foreign countries that are better or coordinated by the federal government. the president for his pa rt government. the president for his part would like to be able to say, as he run for reelection, and this isa as he run for reelection, and this is a political year in the united states as well as a coronavirus year. that the governors are on his side. and he has made a point over the last couple of days at white house press briefings of airing clips of andrew cuomo praising him in public for steps so, he wants the governors to give him credit and the governors to give him credit and the governors want the system to work and let states get what they need. hopefully this will be a clearing of the air between these two men. it would be fascinating wouldn't it be a fly on while in that meeting? you mentioned those clips won from mr cuomo previously saying don't pass the buck without passing the box. about sums it up. about sums it up. stay there katty, i want to touch

on another big story in the us. donald trump has announced he will impose a temporary ban on all immigration into the united states in order to protect american jobs during the pandemic. he made the announcement in a tweet... "in light of the attack from the invisible enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our great american citizens, i will be signing an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the united states!" the invisible enemy is a term he uses to describe the coronavirus. his critics aren't happy. democratic presidential nominee joe biden pushed back with a blunt tweet... "the president needs to stop blaming others and do hisjob." california democratic senator kamala harris tweets... "trump failed to take this crisis seriously from day i. his abandonment of his role as president has cost lives. and now, he's shamelessly politicizing this pandemic. on the other hand from the republican side we heard

from congressman paul gosar who represents arizona... "thank you donald trump. all immigration to the united states should halt until every american who wants a job has one! in the past hour we have been getting some detail of who the ban might affect. according to reuters, those responding to the pandemic — including farm workers will be exempt. the new york times has some more detail. people familiar with the plan told the paper a formal order could temporarily stop new green cards and work visas being issued. so the government would no longer approve any applications to live and work in america for an undetermined period of time. the washington post says that move would leave hundreds of thousands of visa holders, many whose family members are american, in limbo. the paper reports the order could be signed off by the end of tuesday. remember, strict restrictions on people coming into the us already in place.

the us has the most coronavirus cases and deaths than any other country by far. more than 787,000 people have been infected and 42,000 people have died. it's a public health crisis — that's inevitably become political in the run—up to the election. let's go back to county. donald trump saying this is now essentially an immigration issue as well. he's been criticised for that. but i'm imagining in some quarters he won't mind that kind of criticism too much at all. there is some precedent for this. in the 1918 flu pandemic the us congress actually voted to have a broad restriction of immigration into the united states to do what many countries are doing in this crisis which is to try to stop the movement of people in and out who might be carrying the virus. it is partly political as you say, donald trump likes to raise immigration as an important issue for his political base. and he wants to show his political base as we head into an

election in november that he's on top of this issue and doing all he can to restrict immigration into the country. i'm not actually sure what it means in practice. on march the 18th the office that issued green cards and visas to people applying to live and work in the us was actually shot anyway for the duration as much of much of the federal government. the workings in the uk have brown to a halt. it's not as if it america has been issuing a lot of immigrants and visas in the last few weeks. on top of that, most flights from asia and from europe have stopped into america. so this sounds more like a political pr announcement that it doesn't want that's going to have massive amounts of practical consequences. particularly as we hearing from these latest reports that farm workers and medical workers as well could be excluded from it. but it is a strong political play for the president with his base. always be slightly

wa ry with his base. always be slightly wary of policy being made across social media. thanks very much. let us social media. thanks very much. let us return to the uk now. the uk now. after falling for the last few days, the number of people in the uk who've died with coronavirus has risen sharply. the latest figures show that in hospitals across the uk a further 823 people have died from the virus following a post—weekend dip in yesterday's figures. that takes the total number of deaths to over 17,000. seperate figures suggest that in the week up to easter, deaths in england and wales hit a 20—year high with 8,000 more people dying than would be regarded as normal for the time of year. around a third of deaths that week were linked to coronavirus. the figures from the office for national statistics also found in that same week the number of deaths in care homes quadrupled, rising to more than a thousand. and there are fears the number

may be higher still. but despite today's grim figures, our health correspondent jane dreaper says there is some cause for hope. overall, the trend for the past couple of weeks seems to be studying in these figures for uk hospitals, at least. some experts and statistics when they looked at it are pretty certain that the peak in hospitals, death and hospitals was reached on the 8th of april. there is a separate situation and care homes we saw some figures about the broader patterns of death for the home community. which is not good news. but that dates back to a couple of weeks ago. there's a time lag in those figures so it's quite a complicated picture. but overall, statistical experts think that the peak in hospitals has been reached for the moment. we still could get a nasty shock of some other figures are uncovered. by no means out of the woods yet in terms of the lockdown measures. from the government point of view. but there is starting to be some cause for hope in these statistics. a shortage of protective equipment

for health workers has been a major concern in the uk for the last few days. at today's virus briefing our political editor laura kuenssberg asked the health secretary how that was allowed to happen. this was declared a pandemic well over a month ago. why is the government still having to scramble now to get our health workers the equipment they need and allowing uk firms we've been hearing from today who could supply british hospitals and care homes to sell their products abroad? i think the most thing we've been concentrating on is what are the offers that could get us the most ppe to be able to get it into the country, to be able to manufacture it here and to be able to then get it out to the front line. and we have done everything we possibly can to make that happen. protective equipment is essential for keeping health workers safe

while treating covid—19 patients. the government has confirmed 49 nhs workers have died from the disease, health workers safe while treating covid—19 patients. the government has confirmed 49 nhs workers have died from the disease, but that number is thought to be much higher.0ne of them is manjeet singh riyat, who died yesterday at the royal derby hospital where he worked. mr riyat was the uk's first sikh a&e consultant. colleagues described him as "the father of the current emergency department", who was widely respected across the nhs. jagdeesh singh dhaliwal is a gp in melbourne in australia, who trained with mr riyat at medical school in leicester. he says there is a stark contrast in covid repsonse between the uk school in leicester. he says there is a stark contrast in covid repsonse between the uk and australia. i'm ina i'm in a position to contrast my own country with a new country australia. the contrast there is stark. college back in uk tell me how ppe isn't available, we do have ppe here in australia. mass testing isn't really happening in the uk. here i am being told that i can test for cove aid for any patient i'm worried about. and some of these things i think do make me angry to be honest. because i do think some

steps could have been put into place earlier back home in the uk. and may well have cut the risk some of the other colleagues in terms of covert. you don't send your troops onto the battlefield unarmed. you just don't do that. doesn't matter how brave they are. you don't sell people out if they don't have equipment they need. we do delete i don't do that to our soldiers why would we do that to our soldiers why would we do that to our soldiers why would we do that your health care professionals ? today parliament returned to work, in an unusual format. only 50 mps are now allowed to sit in the house of commons, meaning many mps will now have to contribute virtually. our uk political correspondent jessica parker was watching and joins us now. what exactly was going on? today we re what exactly was going on? today were all processing to be honest with you. yes parliament is returning in a virtual format. they need to give it the nod to give it the new way of working which as you we re the new way of working which as you were saying they'll see it no more than 50 mps actually in the chamber in all the terms of those social

distancing rules. so those scenes that people may be familiar of commons we won't be saying that for the time being. and there up to 120 mps are going to be able to dial in via videoconferencing. that's what's gonna happen. today they were discussing what were these proposal to allow that to happen, that was given the nod and then the leader of the house of commons outlined the business for the week. in terms of actually seeing this hybrid, virtual parliament that people are talking about. that will kick off utterly tomorrow. it will be quite a big day because on the agenda tomorrow prime ministers question obviously, usually a big event in any week of the parliamentary calendar. it won't be taken by borisjohnson who continues to recover from coronavirus at his retreat in buckingham chart. the first secretary of state will stand in its place. starmer who has recently become the leader of the opposition, the leader of the labour party,

he'll have his first pm cues understand he'll be the first of one of the small number of mps actually in the chamber. the other thing we understand as well is a statement from the health secretary matt hancock, you've been talking about theseissues hancock, you've been talking about these issues regarding ppe, personal protection equipment, testing as well. i think that's pretty likely to be raised in both the sessions. given the fact that it will be raised almost certainly tomorrow. what do you make so far of the government response on that issue of ppe? matt hancock has been talking about the pp e issue today. at the press co nfe re nce , about the pp e issue today. at the press conference, different ministers turn up to take questions and get the latest. health secretary saint today is an unprecedented challenge. they talk frequently about the global demand in terms of getting hold of masks, gowns has been a particular issue as well recently. gloves. he talked about working with 159 domestic manufacturers that they've received over 8000 offers from domestic

manufacturers to try and source more of this ppe on a domestic basis because there is such a global demand. i think ministers always trying to show that they're doing their betters but my very best saying they're working 20 for seven and delivering over a billion items of ppe so far today. however, a point made by the leader of the labour party in an interview today is there seems to be and his view, a bit of a gap between what ministers are saying about all these millions of items, ppe going out to the front line and then these accounts that we re line and then these accounts that were getting from people actually working on the front line saying that they are not getting the protective equipment that they so desperately need. 0k, thanksjessica. stay with us on oustide source, still to come... a stark warning from the un — it says the number of acutely hungry people around the world is likely to double this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. scotland's first minister

nicola sturgeon says she's cautiously optimistic about the latest reports on the coronavirus in scotland. she said hospital figures appear to be stabilising: i do remain cautiously optimistic that firstly while the numbers being admitted to hospital are still fluctuating on a daily basis they do appear to be broadly stable. and secondly the numbers being admitted to intensive care are at this stage reducing. we shouldn't forget how important that is. it's not too long ago that we were seriously worried about the potential for our hospital capacity to be overwhelmed. the fact that it is not is down to the planning that's been done in the national health service of course, but more than that it is down to the high compliance with the lockdown restrictions. so my thanks to all of you for helping us to ensure that the nhs has been able to cope

although the work that they do is very difficult and challenging. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. the governor of new york is meeting president trump at the white house to discuss funding for coronavirus testing. it comes as president trump is criticised after promising to stop all immigration into the us because of the pandemic. italy is looking to ease its lockdown restrictions other european countries have already started to introduce changes. ros atkins has more on this. hi, ros. hi louis, good to see you. let's look at europe. there have been over 65,000 covid—19 deaths in france, italy and spain and while the situation remains urgent across the eu, daily death tolls and infection rates are stabilising and in some cases falling and that means attention is increasingly turning to what the italian government is calling lockdown. so let's start there, in italy.

it's recorded over 211,000 deaths and over 180,000 cases. later this week we expect the italian prime minister to announce easing of restrictions. sara monetta has spent the last month in italy for the bbc, here she is on the options the prime minister has. social distancing will be the new way of life for as long as it's needed and a new vaccine and therapy is found. this means using facemasks and gloves but also for instance for companies to give flexible working hours in order to allow public transport not to be too crowded. also the government has said that they will increase investment in the health systems so, they will create some hospitals specifically dedicated to the treatment of coronavirus patient.

to avoid contamination of other patients who don't have coronavirus and also testing, currently there is between 40 and 50,000 tests every day. the government said they will continue doing that and on top of that they will also add antibody test. and finally, contact tracing. this has been a very contentious issue. the government wants to use contact tracing that can be an app ordered on everybody. but the planning is very sad this use of this app would be on a voluntary basis because of course, there are privacy with regard to the south. so these are the main guidelines. the government will implement in order to allow

summer and tourism start. and the government will give more details on that later this week. sara monetta there. next, from italy — to austria. this week some small shops in germany have been allowed to reopen — and austria is following suit with changes of its own. bethany bell is in vienna. he says if all goes well. he says that if all goes well, restaurants and cafes will be allowed to reopen as of the 15th of may will stop now, we don't know all the details about this yet, we don't know the social distancing rules that will be in place, how many guests will be allowed in, announced next week. but it is expected that serving staff certainly will have to wear facemasks. he said austria is moving more quickly, faster than other countries and returning to what he called "a new normality." this was, he said, due to the fact that austria took tough measures early on in the outbreak. germany next.

it may surprise you that any major sporting or cultural events remain in the calendar for the next few months. oktoberfest in munich — world's biggest beer festival is off. here's the bbc correspondent in germany — jenny hill. we heard from the bavarian regional prime minister announcing the cancellation, and he said this is an unbelievable shame. the authorities in bavaria describe oktoberfest as the biggest and most beautiful party in the world. if you've been, you may disagree with the last part of that description, but in all seriousness, this is huge. not just for bavaria but for germany, a lot of tourists come to this event, 6 million people were expected in munich for a few weeks that fesstival runs for, this autumn. it brings in well over1 billion euros to the local economy, so to have to cancel it is a massive deal, not just for the region, but for germany too, and i suppose is an indication, isn't it?

whilst we are seeing some elements of daily life coming back to normal, it is going to be a very long time before, really, german life, european life, life across the globe can go on as before. quickly remind you as were talking on the bbc news channel you can also get updates on the coronavirus crisis via the bb seat news website. bbc .com/ news. and will have an even more detail to the situation later on in the program. the united nations has warned the number of acutely hungry people around the world is likely to double this year to more than a quarter of a billion, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. here's the head of the un's world food programme speaking in geneva. we are already facing a perfect storm. so, today with covid—19, i want to stress that we are not only facing a global health pandemic, but also a global humanitarian catastrophe.

millions of civilians living in conflict started nations, including many women and children, face being pushed to the brink of starvation with a spectre of famine a very real and dangerous possibility. the world food programme estimates 130 million people will be forced into hunger this year because of the pandemic. that's on top of a similar number already facing malnutrition. it says the democratic republic of the congo, ethiopia, nigeria, sudan and south sudan are all at risk of widespread shortages unless aid is made available to millions of farmers who depend on a daily wage. east africa is already facing a serious food crisis following consecutive seasons of drought and a desert locust invasion that has destroyed crops. here's more from the bbc‘s emmanuel igunza in nairobi. millions of people who are in displacement camps,

and this is a particularly big worry for the international community, the humanitarian agencies, because they are very concerned, if covid—19, if coronavirus gets to some of these displacement camps where they are living in very cramped spaces, then the situation could become really dire. in particular also, in the eastern africa region, we have already seen that many countries are have been going through seasons of drought, and also, recently, there has been an invasion of desert locusts, and this has destroyed large trucks of land, crops for many farmers who depend on it for a living, and therefore, the food situation is already precarious, added to the threat posed by coronavirus, and you begin to see just the magnitude of the danger that this country is facing. the hunger pandemic is being made worse for millions of people with continuing conflicts in countries such as afghanistan, syria and yemen. here's more from our chief international correspondent lyse doucet.

wfp describes it as a hammer blow that they are not getting the daily wages with these lockdowns. the programme feeds already 135 million people who describe, who are on the brink of starvation. in that figure could double. and, you have a sharp intake of your breath when discussing the health systems in new york. the health systems in london, what about the health systems in afghanistan, in yemen? which are barely functioning at the best of time. i heard a statistic today that afghanistan only has between 12 and 20 ventilators for the whole country. in yemen 80% of the population depends on assistance of some kind. 10 million yemenis already live a step away from famine to use the un's word. in the midst of all this there was a crisis now between the aid agencies and the authorities in the north of yemen. which means the aid as it is is already encountering

difficulties. there is only one confirmed case of covid—19 so far in yemen. but if it spreads it could be a nightmare. this is bbc news. for most of us another day of clear blue sunny skies. but we did start off at the cloud in the sky through the channel island that give us a stunning start to the day. that cloud also brought a few passing morning showers far west of coal. they blew down the way quickly for the rest of day is just been dry and sunny. the high temperature for the medic in northwest wales where we saw highest get up to 21dc. which is 70 in fahrenheit. underneath those blue skies it looks pretty stunning up and down the country. this was one of our weather watch pictures on a white sand beach and the west nels of scotland. overnight tonight were going to keep clear whether

initially this i half of the night we may see out little patchy form over the pen lines. temperatures similarto over the pen lines. temperatures similar to last night. four to seven celsius for many of us. cold enough to put some frost again and some of the sheltered valleys. in scotland where temperatures can get down to _3’ where temperatures can get down to -3, -40 where temperatures can get down to —3, —40 degrees. tomorrow high—pressure again with us but the isobars are opening out that means although the winds are still blowing from the easterly direction they won't be blowing and strongly. any cloud initially over the pen lines will clear up very quickly and it's another day of almost unbroken sunshine. just a bit of high cloud moving across the skies of northern ireland. temperatures higher across the board. it is can be a warmer day, more widely for england and wales will see those temperatures into the low 20s. should give us about 18 for northern island 18 or 19 for western areas of scotland felt up looks like thursday being the warmest day of the week. maybe if you missed and filed patches to start with but those temperatures could reach 23 or 20 for every celsius where the warmest areas

likely to be across southern england. that's thursday's weather. what about towards the end of the week? well friday it could be a bit of mist and fog patches around. little will change from most of us. it can be another dry day another patch throughout the afternoon. still smells of sunshine, still very warm forjust still smells of sunshine, still very warm for just about all of still smells of sunshine, still very warm forjust about all of us. however it will start to get northerly winds blowing in across the north of ammon, shuttling, and here it will be turning cooler. temperatures around 9dc. the weekend set fairfor the most temperatures around 9dc. the weekend set fair for the most part. temperatures around 9dc. the weekend set fairfor the most part. a bit more cloud temperatures down a few degrees but still on the warm side. could be a few isolated showers more 00:28:35,755 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 especially on sunday.