this is bbc news — my name's mike embley — with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. there's been oppostion to president trump's temporary temporary immigration ban. he insists it's to protect americans from the current economic crisis. by by pausing immigration we will help unemployed americans first in line forjobs as america reopens. an economy in crisis — people in parts of new york form long queues forfood as the big apple reels from the pandemic. the uk government remains under pressure for failing to supply enough personal protective equipment to hospitals and care homes. the world food programme

issues a stark warning about the millions in regions of conflict who could starve because of covid—19. and leading artists respond to the dedication of health workers with striking portraits of some frontline staff. in just the past few hours, president trump has outlined more measures to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus and help smaller businesses hit hard by the lockdown. here in the uk the health secretary has confirmed 823 more deaths in hospitals in the past 2a hours, taking the total above 17,000. matt hancock also came under pressure to explain the problems in acquiring personal protective equipment for the uk's health workers. and the world food programme has said urgent action is needed to avoid large—scale famine in conflict zones

as food supplies come under threat. more on all that in moment. first, let's hear more on donald trump's plans for suspending immigration. this order will only apply to individuals seeking a permanent residency, in other words, those receiving green cards. big factor. will not apply to 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. we want to protect us workers. we want to protect our us workers and i think as we move forward we will become more and more protective of them. the us president there. let's get the latest from our our north america correspondent, peter bowes. first of all, the immigration ban is not as dramatic as it appeared from that wheat from the president about 20 hours ago? yes. when we heard about that, talking about suspending immigration in response to the invisible enemy, how he described rotavirus, it didn't sound quite dramatic. now we know the details and we have

just heard a few of them from the president. this will apply only to people seeking permanent residency in the united states, the green card, it will not apply most significantly to those wanting to come into this country on short—term basis, foreign workers for example, people working on the us food supply, people working in response to the coronavirus. it will last for 60 days, those people are buying the green cards, after which it will be reviewed depending on the economic stand there circumstances at the time. people seeking a green ca rd time. people seeking a green card are time. people seeking a green ca rd a re often time. people seeking a green card are often seeking to come into the us for the rest of their lives, long—term lands, a two—month delay may not provide them with you much hardship. what the president is trying to do, clearly, is as he said, protect americanjobs. do, clearly, is as he said, protect american jobs. this 22 million people who have had to apply for unemployment benefits, he wants to give them the first opportunity to get those jobs back when the economy is revived. and the

senate seems to have agreed for more help for smaller businesses in the us? this is the second initiative for small businesses, this is a $500 billion package which will largely provide small loans for businesses. these businesses are businesses. these businesses a re really businesses. these businesses are really suffering from quite terrible times at the moment. this is a lifeline for those companies, really, very small companies, really, very small companies, the backbone of industry to some extent in this country. they have had to continue to pay rent and they have had to lay off workers. again, the economy will be working for this. an ongoing testing around the country. new york in particular has been hit hard by the effects of coronavirus. thousands have died and the city's immigrant communities have suffered more than most. nick bryant reports from new york.

in a city of ambition, in a city of abundance, a scene that looks like a throwback to the days of the great depression. these people were queueing forfood handouts, the length of the line a measure of the desperation. every person has a story of need. almost all are economic victims of covid—i9. only a few weeks ago, restaurant workers, cleaners, labourers, now thrown out of work. alfredo moreno was laid off last month. we have a little bit of money saved, so we're trying to survive with that. while, you know... when do you think the money will run out? we don't know yet. we have talked with our landlord to see what we're going to do this month. but i don't know how we're going to survive. even in this time of crisis, mary bautista spoke of her civic and national pride.

we are a nation, we support each other, and you have seen the tremendous... the abundance of support from all the americans, and i'm glad to be a new yorker, you know? and god bless america. and these are the meagre food packages they spent hours queueing for. a sandwich, some apple sauce. in this, the land of plenty. from queens, you can see the residential skyscrapers of billionaires row in manhattan. but these neighbourhoods are part of another america, one that's been ground zero in new york's outbreak, one that is home to the ha rdest—hit public hospital. here, a mother and daughter had to wave up at the windows to their husband and father, his birthday spent in covid isolation. on its doorstep is a neighbourhood called corona, heavily populated by immigrants who do not have the luxury of teleworking from home. people pursuing american dreams that are being crushed

by this global contagion. the coronavirus crisis has really held up a mirror to income inequality in america, and especially new york. many of the richest people simply fled the city early on and headed to their coastal and country retreats. that was not an option for the poor. many people here live in multi—generational households in overcrowded housing, and the lower your income, the harder it is to be socially distant. with latino and black residents dying at twice the rate of white new yorkers, the local councillor, francisco moya, says the coronavirus has revealed a tale of two cities. a lot of the latino community and the poor community are living, tend to — in one—bedroom apartments. when you think of new york city, you are accustomed

of thinking of these luxury condos and high—rises throughout the city, but you have to come out to the outer boroughs and see how the working class and the poor have to live. in this crisis of need, new york's iconic yellow cabs have been drafted in to deliver aid. 0ne box each. taxi drivers have become caregivers, handing out meals to people who can't leave their homes. new york believes it's passed the peak of its coronavirus outbreak. but it's still in the depths of this economic disaster. nick bryant, bbc news, queens. the british government is facing increasing pressure over its strategy for supplying personal protective equipment to hospitals and care home. matt hancock, the health secretary, denied reports that the uk had refused for political reasons to take part in a european union scheme to secure supplies of essential equipment. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg has the story. so as you can see, our machines sit idle, and our staff are furloughed. empty workshops that don't have to be. tomorrow, jim griffin's car—parts firm will start up again to make gearfor medics.

he will repurpose his kit to make protective equipment. but although he says he's filled in form after form, this nottinghamshire factory will be making medical equipment for orders from ireland. i don't understand why it is so difficult for people to be getting in touch with companies like ours to make the products here in the uk. mps are now back at work in a very different parliament. and the squeeze on equipment for health workers is top of many of their demands. the green benches have been carefully spaced out. 0rder, order. from tomorrow, they will able to ask questions of ministers online. members may launch forth into fine perorations, only to be muted or snatched away altogether by an itinerant internet connection. ministers defend themselves to mps and others by saying that they're focusing on larger providers after a vast 8,000 firms offered to help with kit. but the opposition believes the government has had time enough.

manufacturers here are saying, look, we have stepped up and offered and did not really hear back from the government, and yet at the same time we've got planes trying to bring stuff back from abroad. so something's clearly going wrong. do you think this is a bit of a reflection of what is going on in a wider sense in terms of management of this crisis? the other decisions about testing and equipment appear to have been very challenging for the government, and i think they have been slow into it. and they are still not fully accepting the gap between what they say or think is happening and what the front line is telling us is happening. the health secretary has always said the government was well—prepared to cope with the terrible reality of this crisis. since the start of the crisis, we've now delivered over a billion items of ppe. we're constantly working to improve that delivery system, buying ppe from around the world and working to make more here at home. 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 important thing we concentrate on is what are the offers that can 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 are doing everything we possibly can to make that happen. but tomorrow, ministers will no doubt again be asked in this very different—looking parliament whether doing everything they can is the same as achieving what needs to be done. laura kuenssberg with that report. let's get some of the day's other news: the us state of missouri is suing the chinese government and the ruling communist party over what its lawyers call a sinister campaign of malfeasance and deception which, it says, led to the global covid—i9 pandemic. the lawsuit seeks damages for the loss of life,

human suffering, and economic turmoil. there's been further turbulence on global oil markets because of the pandemic, with the price of brent crude slipping below $20 a barrel for the first time in 18 years. one key oil price turned negative on monday, as producers paid buyers to take supplies off their hands. south africa has announced a $26 billion package to help business. president cyril ramaphosa said the lockdown is having a devastating effect on the economy, but it's nothing compared to the catastrophic costs the country would bear if the virus spreads. netflix has seen a surge in new subscribers in the first three months of the year as lockdowns around the world confine people to their homes. sign—ups so far have jumped by almost 16 million. 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 is in rome. 534 people have died in the past 24 hours. that is 80 higher than the death toll we we re higher than the death toll we were speaking about on monday. so that is frustrating, certainly for italians were waiting for this death toll to fall considerably in order to see light at the end of the tunnel. but on infected numbers, they seem to give grounds for optimism. they have fallen, the number of current positive cases have fallen since yesterday by just positive cases have fallen since yesterday byjust 20. in the past 24 hours they have fallen by 528, so that is optimistic, that is encouraging for the scientists who are looking at the figures here. they show that the curve is stabilising and for the time numbers are beginning to drop. until that death toll calls from a stubbornly high level, really, italians are going to be very frustrated and waiting for tangible signs that the virus is improving rather than simply losing hundreds of

people every day. mark lowen there in rome. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: an artistic appreciation. how one british painter is paying tribute to the nation's healthcare workers. 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 didn'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. welcome back. very good to have you with us on bbc news. the latest headlines: president trump brushes off opposition to his temporary immigration ban. he insists it's to protect americans from the current economic crisis. the uk government remains under pressure for failing to supply enough personal protective equipment to hospitals and care homes. the un's world food programme has warned of famines ‘of biblical proportions‘ because of the coronavirus outbreak. the agency estimates the number of people going hungry could double to more than 250 million. here's our chief international

correspondent, lyse doucet. queues in a kabul lockdown. not for medicine to fight the deadly virus. for sacks of wheat to fight hunger. the poorest now deprived of daily wages to survive. nobody would help you if you stay home, this woman says. "i cried for the last two—three days. whoever talks to me, it makes me cry. i don't know what to say." millions more people around the world now need food aid fast. the wfp is now warning of a global hunger pandemic. this airdrop is for the starving in south sudan. they're social distancing here, be few other defences in poor countries torn by war. the un security council met virtually to hear how bad it could get. when it ended, the head of the wfp told us of his worst fear.

if we lose our funding, or lose supply chain access, we are talking about 30 million people, literally over a few months, could die. that is without putting the new numbers of covid on top of that. so we are literally looking at biblical proportions of famine and the possibility in anywhere from ten to 36 countries. what do you say to donors who say we would want to help the world's poor but there's hungry people in our own countries so we can't help you now? you know, i haven't had a donor yet say we are turning our back on these vulnerable people. they all say that we will do everything we can and of course they have to stimulate their economies and do what they can and let's see what happens. understand that in many places, if we have chaos and destabilisation, you can have migration by a necessity, destabilisation by extremist groups, you'll end up paying for it one way or another. in yemen, no lockdown yet.

millions here already a step away from starvation. to reach them, the un also says it needs a ceasefire for all sides to fight the common enemy. in syria too, war takes its toll. in this poor neighbourhood, they queue for wfp aid. like millions around the world, if they don't receive this daily bread, there is nothing to eat. lyse doucet, bbc news. until recently, singapore was attracting global praise for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak. but, the city state is now facing a surge of cases — most of which are linked to migrant workers who usually live in tightly packed staff dormitories. for more on this, we can speak to professor dale fisher, who chairs the world health organisation's global 0utbreak and response network. professor, i know you are also professor there of infectious

diseases at the national university of singapore. singapore was doing so well and getting so much praise until suddenly it wasn't. would you have expected the authorities to foresee this particular avenue of spread? i must say the praise wasn't coming from us. the praise wasn't coming from us. we've always been very nervous about this disease. but, yeah, we're running two outbreaks now. there's very much, you know, we've got this huge problem in the dormitories. these are accommodation for foreign workers. there's up to 300,000 people in dormitories which are, you know, the biggest dormitory has 24,000 people in it over ten blocks and there are about 12 men per room. so this is high density living. but the rest of singapore is running a different outbreak stop we are on what we were on

before, which is about 20 cases a day. 0ut before, which is about 20 cases a day. out of the dormitories we're diagnosing 1000 today. do you feel the authorities are concentrating sufficiently on the dormitories? do they have access to food, soap, bathrooms? can they get to hospital? it's taking up the majority of our time now, mike. there's neglect happening. in fa ct, there's neglect happening. in fact, people are coming out of the hospitals to move upstream to try and prevent as much bread as possible. 0bviously there will still be some transmission, but there are a lot of strategies in place to act on this. there are quite a few places in the world, are there, where workers, especially migrant workers live in conditions rather similar to the stop are there lessons here? 0h the stop are there lessons here? oh yeah. there are going to be lessons going on for as long as this virus is having its way with the world. and

this is a huge lesson to look for any country to look as any sort of vulnerable spots. you know, we've all looked at nursing homes and prisons and these sort of places where there are outbreaks that have happened before. we have seen cruise ship. i think this is the first foreign worker dormitory. it obviously all got something in common. the good thing in this scenario is that they are mostly young, fit people. but it is a huge lesson to have a look around your country and see what other places could explode like this. professor, thank you very much indeed. thank you very much. across the uk in recent weeks, there've been repeated public expressions of gratitude for all those nhs staff caring for patients affected by coronavirus. 0ne leading artist came up with the idea of celebrating the doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers — by offering to paint their portraits.

other artists then followed — as our arts editor, will gompertz reports. the artist tom croft has painted a lot of portraits over the years. he's done footballers, politicians, bishops and rock stars. but the pandemic left him short of subjects. until, that is, he had an idea. when the lockdown first started, i was really struggling, as i know a lot of artists were, to find almost the point in their work. and so i thought about a portrait being a celebration of people achieving extraordinary things, maybe in their professional lives. and who is more deserving at the moment than the heroes on the frontline of the nhs? and so he posted an instagram message. the first doctor, nurse, key worker to contact me in this post, i will paint their portrait

in oils forfree. harriet durkin, an a&e nurse at the manchester royal infirmary, did just that. and tom got to work painting harriet wearing her ppe. what does it mean to you now to have it? i'll have that picture forever and be able to look back, you know, and remember what a difficult time it had been, but people that i work with, people i call my friends, everybody coming together, i can look at that and think, gosh, you know. it's very emotional. critical care nurse carolina pinto also got in touch with tom, who has been inundated with portrait requests from hundreds of doctors and nurses. he matched her with bp portrait award finalist mary jane ansel, who conducted a virtual sitting. so i'm really excited to paint you and i think this is such a lovely idea. i never had my portrait done before, but it's also good to have like this kind of experience where people are supporting us in a different way. that must be really difficult when you've got your mask on, because i know that that sort of connection that you have with your patients, that's such a huge part

of looking after them. and not being able to have that? they can not really understand your expression. so it's the same if i'm smiling or not, because all they really see is your eyes. most of the time it seems like we are screaming, and we just want them to understand what we are saying. so, yeah, you lost a bit of the human connection. so far, there've been around 500 parings of hospital key worker and professional artist under the hashtag portraits for nhs heroes. the hope is once the lockdown is over to have a public exhibition of them all as the culmination of an initiative that has already been copied in america, spain, belgium, and ireland. will gompertz, bbc news. now, a special thank you message from the police department in fort myers, florida. 15 police cars we organised into a heart shape outside the local hospital, which has been treating coronavirus patients. 0fficers stood in the middle holding a sign that read ‘fort meyers police department thanks you' as the cars flashed red and blue. a special thanks, from one group of frontline workers to another.

another consequence of the pandemic. the famous oktoberfest in germany will not go ahead this year. the world's largest beer festival had been due to start in mid—september, but it's been cancelled due to coronavirus. the event usually brings around six million visitors to munich every year. just briefly, that manias again. a reminder, president trump saying he will temporarily migration into the united states for foreign nationals seeking permanent residency. are movies that will protect americanjobs residency. are movies that will protect american jobs during the crisis. at a white house briefing mr trump said it would be long americans laid off during the pandemic to be by immigrant labourloan in during the pandemic to be by immigrant labour loan in from abroad. farm labourers and those on special visas will not be affected. there has been announced more help for smaller

businesses in the us. much more on all the news for you at any time on the bbc website. thanks for watching. hello there. tuesday was another sunny but windy day for many parts of the country. there was some cloud for a while, actually, across cornwall, the channel islands, gave a couple millimetres of rain, and then in the sunshine along the west coast of wales, south coast of england, temperatures reached 21 celsius. and we had a lovely sunset across the southern parts of england, helped by a bit of high cloud that's coming in from continental europe. still actually a lot of wet weather to come in the mediterranean, but our weather is dominated by that area of high pressure over scandinavia. not as many isobars on the chart for wednesday, the winds won't be quite as strong. but with a bit of a breeze overnight, these are the temperatures we are starting off with on wednesday morning. again, with lighter winds in the scottish glens, there may well be some frost around here.

there may well be some mist and a low cloud affecting the southern uplands, onto the pennines and the welsh hills, but, again, that won't last long at all, it soon gets blown away. lots of sunshine on wednesday, a little bit hazy at times perhaps across more southern parts of the uk. but the winds want to be quite a strong, it may well be a degree or two warmer. still a touch cooler along those north sea coasts, but as you head further west across the uk, those temperatures widely 20—21 degrees for england and wales. as we move into thursday, again, some mist and some low cloud to clear away early in the morning, same sort of areas. again, lots of sunshine around, that higher cloud is drifting a little bit further north by this stage. the winds will be much lighter though on wednesday, everywhere. it will feel warmer as well. the temperatures will probably peek at maybe 25 degrees somewhere in 0xfordshire, berkshire or hampshire. that's probably going to be the peak of the temperatures on thursday. mind you, friday's not far behind, again, a few mist and fog patches to clear away very quickly in the morning. and then light winds again, lots of sunshine around too, and those temperatures still making 22—23 degrees across southern parts of england and wales. a little bit cooler

across northern scotland, bit of a northerly breeze here. the weather is starting to change a bit over the weekend. pressure is going to be much lower, especially across scandinavia, but also across the uk as well, pressure is falling away. a very weak weather front coming into more northern parts of the uk. that may bring a few showers across scotland, mainly northern scotland, perhaps into northern ireland. 0n the whole, it is going to be dry over the weekend. a bit more cloud coming down the eastern side of the uk, temperatures beginning to slip away a little, highs of 19 or 20.

this is bbc news. the headlines: donald trump has given more details about his intention to sign an executive order temporarily blocking immigration into the united states. the president says the restrictions — which will apply for 60 days to green card applicants — are to protect workers, from overseas competition after the lockdowns. the uk government remains under pressure for failing to supply enough personal protective equipment to hospitals and care homes. the health secretary has denied reports that they had refused to take part in a european union scheme, to secure supplies of essential equipment for political reasons. the un world food programme has issued a warning about the millions in regions of conflict who could starve because of the coronavirus outbreak. the agency estimates the number of people going hungry could double to more than 250 million. most are in countries already affected by conflict.