the world food program, headed america's own david beasley, sent more than 85 shipments of protective sonal equipment to 74 countries to help them battle the virus. e provided $8 billion in resources just last year. 2% of that organization's budget. look, you all get the idea. we don't talk about assistance uch, but the american people should be aware of and proud of our vast commitments to these institutions. they not only help citizens throughout the world, but they protect americans and keep us as well. with that i'm happy to take a andful of countries this morning. >> try to get to everybody. pompeo: hi. won't allowed to come or she because -- from home. secretary pompeo: not because of the state department? correct. sorry. [laughter] >> wanted to ask on venezuela. hat future do you say for gaido? is it recognition he has not will the u.s. president? as secretary pompeo: absolutely yes. he is the most popular politician. continue to do well. we'll continue to support him. when we put together this athway to democracy, we worked closely with him. aware of how it is we're presenting

food program and we've got confirmed news that the executive director of the world food program david beasley who's an american in fact he's a former governor of south carolina he has tested positive for corona virus ok thank you for all as updates james bays is our diplomatic editor in new york keeping an eye on what the world health organization has been telling us. now you've seen this hopefully on the red ticker at the bottom of your screen now but we should go into it into some more detail italy reporting and this is extraordinary $627.00 for the deaths across the whole country due to coronavirus they are now saying that the death toll is up above 400-4032 in fact is an increase of 18.4 percent the biggest one day increase we have seen in the numbers coming out of basically until today friday is 3 hadn't seen more than 475 deaths in a day which is of course an extraordinary number but now 627 may have been in our european news center in london i can't believe we're reading out numbers. the situation in italy is it just feels like it's getting out of control. it does it feels like it's wo