this is bbc news. my name's mike embley. the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world: president trump brushes off opposition to his temporary immigration ban. he insists it's to protect americans from the current economic crisis. by pausing immigration we will help put unemployed americans first in line forjobs as america reopens. this is what that crisis looks like in parts of new york, reeling from the pandemic as long queues form for food. a plane carrying badly—needed ppe equipment has landed in the uk. the government is still under pressure for failing to supply hospitals and care homes adequately.

the world food programme issues a stark warning about the millions in regions of conflict who could starve because of covid—19. by by the power invested in me... the couple who used zoom to hold a socially—distanced wedding. 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. new york's governor andrew cuomo, fresh from a meeting at the white house, has said more federal funding would be provided to ensure more aid is available and testing is carried out. 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'll examine what additional immigration—related measures should be put in place 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. earlier i spoke to our

north america correspondent peter bowes, who gave us a bit more detail about that announcement. yes. when we heard about that, talking about suspending immigration in response to the "invisible enemy", how he's described coronavirus, it did sound quite dramatic. but now we know the details and we have just heard a few of them from the president. that 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, farm workers for example, people working on the us food supply, the people working in response to the coronavirus. it will last for 60 days, applying those people that are applying for the green cards, after which it will be reviewed depending on the economic circumstances at the time. and when you consider people who are seeking a green card, are often seeking to come to the us for the rest of their lives, long—term plans, a two—month delay may not provide them with too much hardship. but what the president is trying to do, clearly, is as he said, protect americanjobs. those 22 million people

who have had to apply for unemployment benefits over the last month, he wants to give those people the first opportunity at getting those jobs back when the economy is revived. and taking that point further on, the senate seems to have agreed for more help for smaller businesses in the us? yeah, this is the second initiative for small businesses. this is a $500 billion package which will largely provide small loans for businesses. these businesses that are really suffering from quite terrible times at the moment. this is a lifeline for those companies, that really, it's very small companies — the backbone of industry to some extent in this country. they've had to continue to pay rent and they've had to lay off workers. and this is just going to help tide them through until a time again that the economy is working fully. the money from this initiative also will be spent on hospitals and coronavirus testing

around the country. peter around the country. bowes for us there. 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 past the peak of its coronavirus outbreak. but it's still in the depths of this economic disaster. nick bryant, bbc news, queens. here in the uk, within the past half—hour an raf plane, believed to be carrying a delayed consignment of personal protective

equipment for nhs staff, has landed in the uk. the plane had been dispatched from the 0xfordshire base, where two other planes are on stand—by to pick up further kit from turkey. there is a global of shortage of ppe and the government has been criticised over its efforts to secure the essential equipment for healthcare workers. earlier, the health secretary, matt hancock, denied reports that the uk had refused for political reasons to take part in a european union scheme to secure supplies of essential equipment. that statement was later withdrawn. 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. 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.

stay with us on bbc news. still to come: an artistic appreciation. how one british painter is paying tribute to the nation's health care 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 glad 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. a plane carrying badly needed ppe equipment has landed in the uk. the government remains under pressure for failing to supply hospitals and care homes adequately. a town in southern greece is now under a strict curfew and a two—week lockdown after a cluster of the novel coronavirus. broke out inside the kranidi migrant facility.

150 people — including staff — have tested positive — but are yet to show symptoms. freya cole reports. 0utside this hotel in kranidi, migrant women and children line up for essential supplies. a cluster as covid—i9 has broken out in their living quarters and for the next two weeks they will not be allowed to leave. as stocks run low, panic breaks out. three aid workers from the un's international 0rganisation for migration walk away, unable to control the rush for the remaining supplies. the hotel is used as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers. many are single parents, fleeing conflict and famine in sub—saharan africa. out of the a71 people who live there, 150 have tested positive for coronavirus, including a staff member and an aid worker. the majority are asymptomatic but as a precaution the military has set up a medical clinic in case

the situation worsens. greek authorities have also implemented a citywide lockdown for two weeks, including a 12—hour curfew from 8:00 every night. translation: we are monitoring all contacts of the employees of the hotel and prioritising the selection of any vulnerable groups, in case they need hospital treatment. so far, we have not found any symptomatic patients that need further care. greece has, so far, managed to avoid the worst of the global pandemic. stringent lockdown measures are kept people at home to stop the spread but aid agencies have grave fears for migrants living inside severely overcrowded facilities. a handful of unaccompanied migrant children were evacuated at the weekend but there are calls to ramp up the protection of the most vulnerable people living inside the camps. greek leaders say they are facing a crisis within a crisis and have called on other european countries for solidarity. freya cole, bbc news.

the pandemic is having a huge effect on mental health and well—being and, as ever, it's an open question whether social media is helping or making it all worse. when so many people of a certain age all start posting pictures of themselves at 20, what's going on here? is it alljust a bit of fun, or is nostalgia one of the brain's mechanisms for getting us through a crisis? i've been asking professor steven taylor, from the school of psychiatry at the university of british columbia, for his opinion. there are three reasons why can be helpful. 0ne, it is mental time travel back to happier times and it cheers people up. secondly, sharing photos through social media is kind of a way of coming together and having a bit of a laugh in those times when you had bad hairstyles — or when you had hair — or bad clothes but the other thing that nostalgia can do is it addresses mortality

salience — this is when people feel threatened with death. they're sorts of non—conscious mechanisms to deal with our fear of death and one of those is looking back at a form of yourself at an earlier time. so they can be fun, social trends but they could be dealing with deeper emotional crises? it won't solve any deep—rooted emotional crises but it can help people get through these times. in some ways, we are all used to getting through tough times, but this can shorten lives, if we're talking about drugs, alcohol and overreaching ? we are finding some people, particularly highly distressed people in lockdown, who are engaged in emotion focused coping, doing things that make them feel better in the short—term but create problems in the long—term and that is overeating, overusing drugs and alcohol and engaging in excessive online shopping. do you have recommendations? well, you know, reach out to family and friends and there are online mental health services you can help people he was suffering significant distress. would you expect all of this

to have lasting effects? that is a big question. professor steven taylor. 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. i'll have that picture forever and be able to look back, you know, and remember what a difficult time it had been. 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. 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. for couples who had hoped for spring and summer weddings this year, the coronavirus pandemic has meant postponing or cancelling plans. however some have decided to go ahead but in a more socially distanced fashion. by by the power invested in me by the state of oregon eye now pronounce you both husband and wife. you may kiss the bride. that is kevin smith officiating at the wedding of nora and zac simon. they invited their closest friends and family to take part over zoom.

earlier i spoke to the newlyweds about their last minute change of plan. we had the wedding plan for about a year, but, yeah, the night before we said we're just going to do it, we have it all planned and we want to get married and so we just wanted to go through with it. and you didn't think it's worth waiting for the big day? we don't know when the big day's going to happen, really. it's so uncertain right now. i think we just wanted to be married so we went through with it. well, a lot of people would understand that. when you sent out the e—mails, the night before, what were the reactions you are getting? mostly everybody was so excited. my grandma just started talking about how she would do up her hair and get all dolled up for it because she been able to go to church recently. did everyone get dolled up? yeah, they definitely did. everyone put on their best. lots of folks were in suits and dresses. it was really nice. did you go for the full dress, the wedding dress? i was also in like a short, white dress. and what about things like, you know, the father of the bride giving a speech, did that still happen? yeah, afterwards everyone gave speeches on their little zoom window. and we all toasted afterwards. it was really nice.

a lot of people watching it will be thinking, their experience of zoom, especially when there are a lot of people is a whole load of people going, "hang on, i can't hear you." "hang on, you've disappeared." there must have been a lot of problems like that. no, everybody just kind of sat there and watched. i think we tried to speak really loud so we could be heard through the computer and kevin did a really great job of officiating. we've just seen kevin officiating just now. do you think you will come together again and do it physically? yeah, that's the plan right now. we just don't know when that will be. well, that's the problem. it could be quite some time. exactly. apart from congratulations, we owe you thanks. you are both healthcare professionals working to try to find a vaccine. we both work at jason. i am in environmental health and safety and she's in public health. we're both working all day and doing our part to help as much as we can.

nora and zac simon. that is it for now. thanks to you 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. and, 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 won't 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: president trump has given more details about his intention to sign an executive order, temprorarily blocking immigration into the united states. he said the restrictions, which will apply for 60 days to green card applicants, are to protect workers, from overseas competition, after the lockdown. a plane carrying much needed protective clothing has landed in the uk. the government has come under under pressure for failing to supply hospitals and care homes adequately. the health secretary, denied reports that they had refused to take part in a european union, procurement scheme, for political reasons. the un world food programme has issued a stark 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 an economic crisis.