for that part was really designed for national security, companies that are either major suppliers for the department of defence, or companies that have top—secret clearance. that national security division was very clear when we did that. the president has has asked me to work with the secretary, obviously, the energy business is important to us. as has national security issues, and we look forward to looking at what existing capabilities we have, and that will be something we may need to go back to congress and get additional funding for. so for the airline bill out at all? it's a completely different situation. what you have at the airlines is you know, we had a very very good airline industry because of the virus, they basically shut down. we have a situation now with the oil business, partially because of the virus, 0k? for less demand, but also partial because of too much supply. but you know, the president is determined, we want to maintain out is determined, we want to maintain our energy independence, and the president has asked me to look at all of our options, and what we ——

we are doing that. it's a pretty extraordinary circumstance where you saw the first month of oil trailing negative. on the issue of this ford stimulus bill and aid to state and local governments, any thoughts on whether that money should be proportionate to the rates of infection in states? interesting but way too early to consider that. whatever we do, we will do ina consider that. whatever we do, we will do in a bipartisan basis. the president has listened to the governors, i've had the opportunity to be on multiple video conference calls with the president and the vice president, reaching out to a lot of people. there are a lot of states that have been impacted, but way too early to figure out that level of design. of a large company applies for one of these loans and manipulate its artworks the system oi' manipulate its artworks the system or works the loopholes to get it, what are some of the consequences? you use the word manipulate come i will go people of the doubt. we will up will go people of the doubt. we will up clear guidance so that people

understand what this certification is and what it means if you are a big company, again, there is a provision for where there are multiple affiliates that people can access this, but the intent was not for companies that had access to ple nty of for companies that had access to plenty of liquidity and other sources. again, to the extent these companies did not understand this and re pay companies did not understand this and repay the loans, that will be ok and repay the loans, that will be ok and if not, there will potentially be the consequent support up can you talk about what those could be? you can look at the certification. they're quite significant. —— could be other cots quizzes. how many jobs have been say with all the money thatis have been say with all the money that is going out so far?|j have been say with all the money that is going out so far? i can tell you the ppe so far is over 30 millionjobs and you the ppe so far is over 30 million jobs and that doesn't account for other money that we have sent out. that's ppp. the direct deposit have gone out. we have started sending out the checks. we're also going to be supplementing oui’ we're also going to be supplementing our capability in sending prepaid debit card so we can get out quickly

to people. so everything the president has had is working on is providing significant stability in the economy while we are dealing with this difficult time for medical reasons we have closed a major part of the economy. thank you very much. —— have of the economy. thank you very much. — — have closed of the economy. thank you very much. —— have closed all major parts of the economy. there was a good question. the snowball fight against the invisible enemy is inflected as steve told us of the american work for. —— the fight against. millions of americans sacrificed theirjobs in order to battle of the virus and save the lives of our fellow citizens. we have a solemn duty to ensure these unemployed americans regained theirjobs and their livelihoods, therefore order protect american workers i will be issuing a temporary suspension of immigration into the united states, you heard about that last night. by positing immigration will help the unemployed americans first in line forjobs as

americans first in line forjobs as america reopens. —— pausing immigration. it would be wrong and unjust for americans laid out by the virus to be replaced with new immigrants labour flown virus to be replaced with new immigrants labourflown in from abroad. we must first take care of the american worker and take care of the american worker and take care of the american worker and take care of the american worker. this deposit will be in effect for 60 days. after which the need for any extension or modification will be evaluated by myself and a group of people based on economic conditions at the time, this order will only apply to individuals seeking a permanent residency in other words those receiving green cards, a big factor, will not apply for those entering on a temporary basis as we move forward we will examine what additional immigration related measures should be put in place to protect us workers and we want to protect our

workers and we want to protect our workers and we want to protect our workers and i think as we move forward , workers and i think as we move forward, we will become more and more protective of them. this pause i knew immigration will also help to c0 nse rve i knew immigration will also help to conserve vital medical resources for american citizens, a short breakfrom break from madison, wisconsin breakfrom madison, wisconsin income working three shifts a day to quadruple the productive of ventilators, we had a schedule. —— today vice president pentz went to visit the many women. ge is also working with ford to make 50,000 ventilators in the next 100 days. more than our entire country, typically produces in a very long period of time. doing to any matter

ofa period of time. doing to any matter of a few weeks. and a few days. earlier today at a very productive meeting with governor andrew cuomo as you probably saw. to discuss his state—wide testing strategy and how we can work together to help expand it with the goal of doubling testing in the next few weeks. and in new york state, we will be continuing to control of the testing of their citizens and also manage state and local laboratories. they have a lot of great laboratories there. whether anybody would ever have known frankly. the federal government will work along with the state. that's better than anybody. working with the national manufacturers and distributors and we will all work together to help them secure additional test and we hope that this model will work with the other states as well. i think it will for the most part. new york has a lot of very exceptional laboratories but most of the states do. he saw the

chart yesterday. i am proud of the relationship my administration has forged with new york and i can say is very honestly with new york state and new york city they have been terrific to work with. the new york metropolitan area has been the epicentre of the outbreak here in america. in the federal government has spare no expense or america. in the federal government has spare no expense oi’ resource america. in the federal government has spare no expense 01’ resource to has spare no expense or resource to get new yorkers the care they need in the care they deserve. we have sent over 5 million mask, and now that number has about two days from now that number has about two days from now will be more than doubled. thousands of ventilators, so many that the government will be sending up that the government will be sending up some to massachusetts and other locations. we have a great deal of ventilators. —— that the governor of new york will be sending to. thousands of hospital beds and the

us ns comfort was sent as you know to the air. —— uss comfort. it was originally for more of a normal medical purpose and we changed it over so that it could take care of people that had the unfortunate circumstance of going through the problem that we know so well. u nfortu nately problem that we know so well. unfortunately that we know so well. isaid unfortunately that we know so well. i said from the beginning that no american who needs a ventilator would be did not admit to later and we would be did not admit to later and we have kept that promise all over the united states. other countries are desperate for a ventilator and have many debts because they don't have many debts because they don't have a ventilator and i've asked andrew if we could bring the comfort back to his base in virginia so that we can back to his base in virginia so that we can have it for other locations he said we would be able to do that. the centre has been a great help to them. we will bring the ship back at them. we will bring the ship back at the earliest time and we will get it

ready for his next mission which will i'm sure be a very important one also. it was an honour. they reco nverted one also. it was an honour. they reconverted after one also. it was an honour. they reco nverted after he one also. it was an honour. they reconverted after he got there into handling an event they were not expecting to be handling. the fda has not authorised more than 50 diagnostic tests, including as of late last night, the first test that a patient can take home, take it home, highly accurate. lab core intent is to make the home collection tips available to consumers in most states. with a doctor's order. —— the fda has not authorised. we have four different antibody test already authorised. —— has now authorised. it will help identify individuals who can help donate convalescent plasma thus providing potentially life—saving antibodies to american patients.

doctor hein will be providing you with an update on these developments inafew with an update on these developments in a few moments he has done a great job with the fda. we continue to gain ground and the war against the unseen enemy and i see light at the end of the tunnel. i see a lot of light at the end of the tunnel. and we are light at the end of the tunnel. and we are starting the process, a very powerful and important process. you see people are getting very anxious, they want to get going back to their jobs. they want to make money. they to ta ke jobs. they want to make money. they to take their families. the light is getting brighter and brighter every day. and what that if i could i would ask doctor burke to come up and then doctor hein. thank you very much. thank you, mr president. we will pull away from that press briefing there at the white house. president trump they're talking about his decision for a temporary suspension for 60 days of

immigration into the united states. to protect the american workers. but also talking more broadly about the coronavirus crisis in saying that he sees a lot of light at the end of the tunnel. let's speak now to the bbc‘s katty kay — who's in washington. she was watching and listening. first of all, talk us through his thinking about this temporary suspension of emigration. to what extent is this a political appeal really to his base in this election year? interesting listening to him there because a sound from what the president has said this evening it isa president has said this evening it is a lot more restricted in terms of a restriction if that is a possible thing. then we had originally thought. now it looks like it is only applying to people who are applying for a green card. actually applying for a green card. actually a lot of the processing of green cards has been kind ofjammed up a nyway cards has been kind ofjammed up anyway because of the coronavirus, and the office is being shut down. there were not very many applications going on for green cards as a wares but from what he was saying this evening, my understanding is not that this

immigration restriction applies to people who are in the process of applying for a green card or permanent residency here in the united states. it doesn't apply and they have been exceptions made for people working in the food and agriculture industry in the health ca re agriculture industry in the health care industry. it didn't seem to apply for people applying for temporary immigration visas either. maybe we will get more filled out on that when we get to the question—and—answer portion of this. you are right. it is largely political. not many people coming in to the states or anywhere else at the moment. there are not flights very much coming from europe or from asia. it is much more of a political, and as happen quite often in the past with the president when he has made immigration policy in particular on twitter, and then turns out as we get the details it is less dramatic than the original tweet seemed and sometimes objected to in the courts in some cases as well. so i think when the president announces policies on twitter it is

announces policies on twitter it is a good idea to take it with a pinch of salt and wait for the actual details to come through and see what practical differences it will make. when he talks about saying a lot of light at the end of the tunnel, like burning brightly he said, what exactly burning brightly he said, what exa ctly d oes burning brightly he said, what exactly does he mean? the president has been quite honest about the fact that he wants to be the optimist in the room. he wants to be the cheerleader for a resumption of normalcy. and what he is talking about is the place like new york and governor cuomo is in the white house today have said that they feel that they have reached the plateau now, they have reached the plateau now, they don't know how long it will last and how long it will take to get down the other side and what happens when people do get down the other side given they are still not a vaccine or a medical therapy for this virus yet, but the president is a lwa ys this virus yet, but the president is always keen to put the best possible spin on this, he says he wants to rally american humour and keep people morale up in the country, it is also partly political, there's a

lot of pressure on politicians, not just here in the us but in europe to to try and find some good news. they have populations that are scared and grieving in some cases, and have lost theirjobs, grieving in some cases, and have lost their jobs, and grieving in some cases, and have lost theirjobs, and are worried about how much longer this will go on. and any politician will think what can i get people to reassure them. the balance here and elsewhere is how you balance public policy and health policy, with that light at the end of the tunnel promise of things getting back to normal. because our states that will start that pretty soon here in the us. georgia on friday it will open up businesses like gyms in tattoo parlors and massage parlors. let's see how that will go. a lot of public health people are saying we need more evidence yet that we can do that safely. we also heard from the us treasury secretary with details about the economic plan and how they hope to help the american people. yes. i think so far that is spending more concrete part of this

press briefing. what is much more releva nt to press briefing. what is much more relevant to most americans than a temporary ban on green card application. there was hundreds of billions of dollars pumped into the economy if you wish ago for small businesses. it disappeared very fast. now the senate has agreed to a new plan for small businesses. —— a few weeks ago. people are desperate to know it will actually go to small businesses. there's been a lot of reporting on how some very big businesses in the country manage to get money and got in front of the line if you like i had a small businesses. generally small businesses. generally small businesses will go bankrupt if they don't get this money fast. in some of those businesses have said they will return the money and we are the president there and the treasury secretary calling on big businesses who don't really need this money to make sure they don't take it. this is money for small businesses being stressed this evening and the treasury secretary saying we want those businesses if they taken this money and he will give them the benefit of the doubt and if they

believe there were allowed to take this money he would like them to return it and make sure the people who really needed in order to stay up who really needed in order to stay up low and not to go bankrupt and not to have to fire their workers who want those to be the people who get this money. katty, many thanks. her take on what president trump and the us treasury secretary have been staying at that press briefing in the white house. let's focus here on the uk. 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. 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. 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.

for weeks now health experts have been emphasising the importance of testing people for coronavirus. the government set a target of 100 thousand tests a day by the end of this month. current testing levels are nowehere near that figure — home testing kits are now being given to some key workers, as our health editor hugh pym explains. des is a prison officer on his way into a drive—through coronavirus testing centre. as a key worker, he can, in agreement with his employer, get a test to confirm if he is fit to stay at work or return from self—isolation. i'm going to get you to say, "ah". that is really good. a simple throat and nasal swab, and thejob is done. he must wait a couple of days for the results to come back. i was coughing at work, and my colleague didn't want to work with me, which is fair enough. the prisoners as well thinking, oh, hang on.

so i was sent home and sent down here, which is fair enough. there is a network of testing centres for key workers like this around england. and a similar drive—through site near aberdeen airport. and home testing has started this week in england, allowing key workers to take their own swab samples and sent them off for analysis. the number of tests carried out each day on patients and essential staff in the uk has risen to around the 20,000 level since data was first available earlier in the month. still well short of the government target of 100,000 tests per day by the end of april, less than two weeks away. that target set by the health secretary, matt hancock, is for the number of tests carried out. testing capacity is another matter. facilities like these can be set up which are not fully used. the real aim is to secure the testing capability the country needs. and i'm confident we have that and will be able to allow the country to respond

with the testing that is required. are you confident of getting to the 100,000 tests per day by the end of april? you would need to talk to the secretary of state about his target, but we do have the lab capacity to deliver the testing service that the country needs. the swabs are brought here to one of three so—called megalabs. this one in milton keynes has been created at an existing research centre. management here got a call in late march saying they would be part of a national virus testing effort. equipment was lent by laboratories all round the country and brought here by the army, the navy and even in cabs. testing started a few days later. soon they'll move up to a 24/7 operation. at the moment, the manual process will support many thousands of samples per day, and as the automation develops, that will rapidly escalate into tens of thousands of samples per day. those tens of thousands

will be part of the move towards the government target, with volunteers like beth, a research student, helping out. it's really nice. it's really rewarding to be able to contribute, i've got a lot of friends in the front line and health care professionals and to be able to help them out in a way is good. it is another part of the drive to escalate testing capacity which will be crucial if there is a second spike in cases late in the year. whether it is enough to hit the government targets this month is another matter. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: we'll bring you the story of these front line workers showing their love for other people put in harms way. the stars & stripes at half mast outside columbine high. the school, sealed off. the bodies of the dead,

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donald trump announces a 60 day ban on all immigration into the country saying he needs to protect american jobs during the pandemic. deaths due to covid—19 have spiked in uk — while the health secretary said they are "throwing everything" at developing a coronavirus vaccine. in italy — 534 people with coronavirus have died in the past 2a hours — the highest daily death toll there for five days. but authorities are encouraged by a drop in the overall number of people, known to be currently carrying the illness — which has now declined for the second day in a row. mark lowen gave me this update from rome. we will go back to president trump with martha washington. will have exemptions from there? certain exemptions. will be notifying you tomorrow. we will sign it most likely tomorrow and it's been dry

now likely tomorrow and it's been dry now and tonight. it is something we have to have in this country. for the people who say it doesn't track with opening up the country, to shut down immigration across the board, companies and the pipeline that is already in place, would you say to them? i think it really does. it is really strong. and it is countrywide as opposed to specifically like china or some of the other ones are shut down. we will see it and you will see a very accurate definition tomorrow. last thing, north korea, what can you tell us about the status of kim jong—un? what can you tell us about the status of kim jong-un? well, these are reports that came out and we don't know. i've had a very good relationship with him. ican i can only say this. i wish him well. if he isn't in the condition the report say in the new say, that would be a very serious. —— if he is. i wish him well. we had a good

relationship. i said is. i wish him well. we had a good relationship. isaid it is. i wish him well. we had a good relationship. i said it many times. if somebody elsewhere in this position, we would've been right now at war with north korea. we are not aware. nowhere close to war with north korea. i had to say to kim jong—unl north korea. i had to say to kim jong—un i wish him good luck. they came it was very serious medical reports. nobody has confirmed that. cnn came out and said was that when they come out with the report, i don't place too much credence in it. governor cuomo, did he convince you ofa governor cuomo, did he convince you of a need for expanded testing? we have an agreement and understanding our testing. they have lapsed as you know in new york. especially in the beheading area but all over the state. great medical schools and federal labs, so we have a very good understanding. we will do very significant testing. not everybody

wa nts to significant testing. not everybody wants to do testing. testing is good in some cases and some cases it is not. governors you have some that don't want to go all out because they feel they can do in a different manner and do it better. we had a very good meeting and the governor and i. is there more federal aid can be used to help governors who want to expand testing? we keep hearing... $25 billion we have. a tremendous amount of money. far more money than my opinion that we will need. again, already we are testing were by far than any other country. i read yesterday a report that we have done more than everybody else come every other country combined. i think our people should be getting a lot of credit for that. we have done a lot more than everybody else combine and you never hear that in the news. unfortunate. back on the executive order, you mentioned there will be exemptions was that we are reporting right now it only applies

to employment and green card for employment and not those for... we will be reporting on that later. it might be tonight or tomorrow. we'll give you an exact description. people who might be worried about bring immediate family members.|j think it is been covered pretty accurately. i think most people know what it is. some people will be able to get in. we have to do that. even from a humane standpoint, but there will be some people coming in, but it isa will be some people coming in, but it is a strong order. it involves a big circle. immigrants in the country already come are the greater risk of deportation based on the sort i don't think so. icing they are here illegally? if the immigrant is here for a court order, are the risk of being deported? if you have a corridor, you have to go to court order and thejudge a corridor, you have to go to court order and the judge will make a determination. if they have a court order, they would have to leave

until they go to that process. we will see what happens. —— they would not have to leave. there are some. that means they have a child coming up. obviously under immigration executive order, you raise concerns about immigrants taking american jobs. —— they have a trial coming up. under what condition would you consider lifting this hold on immigration? or is this an opportunity to address what you have seen as a problem for a long time? right now, there is never been... where the greatest economy. one day we where the greatest economy. one day we had to shut it down. we did the right thing. i think we would've had 1 million or to me maybe more than that death. we did the right thing. —— or even that death. we did the right thing. —— or even2 that death. we did the right thing. —— or even 2 million. when you look at it right now, the last thing we wa nt to at it right now, the last thing we want to do is take american workers jobs. one thing when we were essentially used to collect full employment, it is another thing right now. right now we have people that have lost theirjobs and we

hope they will come back and come back fast. then we can have an even deeper discussion but right now we have to have jobs for americans. any sense of if on the plumbing is to 4% oi' sense of if on the plumbing is to 4% or 5%... sense of if on the plumbing is to 4% or5%... we sense of if on the plumbing is to 4% or 5%. .. we will have to see. -- if unemployment gets to. we will have to have that the bay. we are not in that position right now. we close down the largest economy in the greatest economy in the history of the world. it is the most successful economy when you look at the stock market. breaking records virtually every week. sometimes every day. the stock market is still not doing badly considering what this country has been through. which tells you how strong it was in the first place. but no i hope we will be able to help to have that discussion and i hope we are in a position. there will be a little bit later. a question for dr breck about the cdc director saying an interview that perhaps this second wave of coronavirus in the fall could be worse because it is time with the

flu. could you talk about that more? -- dr flu. could you talk about that more? —— dr birke. in the context of opening up the country and the guidelines loosening. we were clear in the guidelines that we believe that we can monitor communities at a community level by using the influe nza community level by using the influenza —like illness. in this respiratory and gastrointestinal components of this particular virus. obviously when we had the flu, we will come and we're working on algorithm that you test for the flu, and you test for covid—19 and make sure that we are building the testing capacity to be able to do that. we will pull away from that briefing where we were hearing president trump talk about his temporary suspension of immigration into the united states. you have been watching bbc news.

this is bbc world news, the headlines hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are talkradio presenter daisy mcandrew and katy balls — the deputy politcal editor of spectator. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. the i reports on the start of coronavirus virus human vaccine trials in oxford. they'll begin on thursday — and the times says the government will ‘throw everything' at being the first country to develop a succesful vaccine. the race for a vaccines also features on the front of the daily express, alongside the uk prime minister's return to work — as he recovers from coronavirus. the telegraph reports that nhs workers have been given flawed virus tests. the guardian leads with claims that the uk missed chances to buy