And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. America. Am laura trevelyan. Claims the band will protect President Trump claims the band will protect american jobs but it is facing backlash. In russia, Small Businesses arer under threat the coronavirus outbreak. At is a political problem for plus, how your back is taking thee. Train of working from h at will explain how to avoid the aches and pains ow triple s that now triple s troubl e us. Get up and ve. U could have the most perfect posture for eit hours and you will still be sore. Laura for all of watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news america. There are now more than two point 5 million confirmed cases of coronavirus around the world. 2. 5 million confirmed cases of coronavirus around the world and the u. S. Has more than ryy other cou pressure grows to limit the economic damage. The president tweeted that he will impose a temporary ban on all immigration to t. While in the new york borough of queens, immigrants have been for disproportionately affected by the virus. 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 in line for food handouts. The length of the line, thepe measure of dtion. Every person has a story of need. Almost all economic victims of covi. Only a few weeks ago, restaurant workers, cleaners, lorers, now thrown out of work. Alfredo moreno was laid off last month. Av wea little bit of money saved. So we are trying to survive with that. When do you think that money ll run out . We dont know yet. I mean, we talked with our landlord to see what we are going to do this month. But i dont know how we are going to survive. Ve e in this time of crisis, mary bautistapoke of a civic d national pride. We are a nation where we support eacother, and you are seeing the tremendous abundance of support from all the americans, and i am glad to be a new yorker, kouw . God bless america. These are the meager food packes they spent hours waiting for. A sandwich, some applesauce, in this, the land of plenty. Om queens you can see the residential skyscrapers of billionaires in manesttan, but thneighborhoods are part of another america. One that has beenround zero inw yorks outbreak. One that is home to the hardest hit public hospital. Here, a mother and daughter had to wavout of the windows to their husband and father. His birthday spent in covid isolation. On its doorstep is a neighborhood cald corona. Heavily populated by immigrants who dont have the luxury ofle rking from home. People pursuing American Dreams that are beingy crushed bis global contagion. The Coronavirus Crisis has really held up a mirror to income and equality in america inequality in america. Many people fled the city early on and went to their retreats. That was not an option for the poor. Many people here live in multigenerional households and overcrowded housing. The lower your income, the distant. T is to be socially with latino and black residents dying twice the rate of local newcoronavirus has revealed a te of two cities. Lot of the Latino Community are living 10 to eight in one bedroom apartment. You are used to thinking of luxury condos and highrise apartments in the city. You have to come out to the ngrros and see how the wor class and the poor live. Ew yorks iconic yellow cabs. Taxi drivers have become caregivers. Handing out meals to people who cannot leave their homes. New york believes it isast the peak of its coronavirus outbreak. But it is still in the depths of this economic disaster. Bbc news, queens. Laura you hea nick talking about immigrant communities there. President trump has yet to give details of his n ban on all Legal Immigration to the u. S. For more on that and all the days political news, lets bring in katty kay. Why is the president banning all Legal Immigration here . Katty it is an interesting call given that effectively a lot flights from europe have been canceled already. A lot of flights from asia have en canceled already so there is not a ton of people coming to the United States at the moment. It is partly political, too. President trump knows that his base likes it when he respects immigratio it has been a big theme of his presidency. Using the coronavirus as a way to protect american jobs is somethingshat gown well politically with his supporters. Is a very busy day washington as the Senate Reaches a deal to help Small Businesses. Is it really going to be taeted at them and not the shake shacks of the world . Katty yes. We have spoken about this before, havent we . This is the concern particularly for democrats who feel the last amount of funding for Small Businesses disappeared incredibly fast. Loe of peoo were standing in line to try to get it could not actually get any of that money, and then we got reports that it was big chains already have millions of dollars and access to millions more dollars from bank loans who were getting these funds and not those mom and popar stores, as the called, across the country. The democrats have tried to build in provisions. Now this has to go from the senate once it is signed to the house, whi is in democratic hands, so they will try to make sure there are safeguards built in for more vulnerable parts of the country and more vulnerable communities. The kinds of communities that nick was talking to in queens, for example. Laura someone else who wants money who is in washington today was the governor of new york state, Governor Cuomo. Met with the president. Those two have been sparring. How did the meeting go . Katty functional. Not quite sure whaa functional conversation is but that is how Governor Cuomo described wis conversatih the president. It is not quite cantankerous and not quite cordele is how one person put it to me. This book about testing and about the need for more funding. You know new york has been and could we badly hit. Iwaefulor t thehi snkta gte of w york useful for funding, and he seems to havead an impact on e president , describing how hard it had been the president grew up in new york for a long time. It is an area of the countryhi that is dear theart as well. But this issue of testing is what governors really want, and at is what Governor Cuomo wants sorted out. They need more testingn new york before they can open up the state again. One thing andrew cuomo said is the president did not put any pressure on him to open up speedily. Laura why wont the president take the lead on testing . Katty you know, it is a complicated question. So you got the states saying,ere need the f government do more. In the white house, wch itatess th responsibiity. The state argument is this is a complicated supplychain issue and the white housis in the best position to sort components of the test from other countries. The white houses argument is this has to be coordinated at the state level. There is some politics in this. If thelyesting goes b the white house can say the states did not do it well. If the testing goe well, the white house would like to be ab to claim some responsibility. It will be fascinating watching how the relationship between the two men having met today develops Going Forward to see where the blame is actually going to fal laura indeed. Katty kay, thank you s much for being with us. Lets turn now to be state of the coronavirus outbreak in the u. S. We are doing now a doctor o m preventatiicine and Infectious Diseases at vegetable university. Thank you for joining us vandbilt university. Thank you for joining us. 43,000 peoe have died. Happy past the peak of the outbreak, do youhink . Shat ihe big question, isnt it . You have been talking with katty. Where ishe testing . We needabore testing to b to tell us whether we are at the starting to go down, or in other areas, perhaps it is just revving up. We dont know that yet because fi like we are on a plateau. We hopthat ired cctor. We thinkg a downturn. So that is bringing a small smile to our lips. Socialata ngteflt tniha but whan the go of georgia opening up gyms and hair salons friday . Is that wise . Elltogo hvtates, 50 rnofve t li ne and be perhaps overly eager to open things up again tha my colleagues in georgia on the medical side and public side are cautioning him not to move too fast. Once we gettaed, i am a little concerned that it is a human tendency. People want to get going again. Aand there may be a bit rto o. A lot of us will beush saying social distancing,llhose things having to do with Wearing Masks as a fashiontatement, and lots of hand hygiene will be with us for quite some time. Laura what is worrying you the most about the outbreak in this country right now . My worry just reflects what i have said. Iope that we do not open up too soon and then get another surge up, which would reduce confidence in the governments, the State Government government and national government, and i dont think we will be able to get back to the kind of lockdown, if you will, that we have had to date. So we will be struggling along. I dont want another surge. Laura wheren the world has ealt best with this and where can we learn from them . South korea, germany. Lots of testing, case finding, and then contact tracing. Finding people and testing them and putting them in a sort of isolation or quarantine for a peri of time, all very well coordinated throughout the entire country doing the same thing. I think those are the examples that we can look to. Laura so many people in america want to kw, when is life g back to normal . Not until there is a vaccine . There is no back to normal. It will be a new normal. I think we will see much mask wearing during influenza and now covid seasons. There may be such. I think there will be elements of social distancing. Wi thinkwill not travel so much for business reasons. Meetings mor more. Al business we are moving into a new normalr but yo right. If we had a vaccine that was effective, and if it were safe, and if could then deploy it so that we could essentially vaccinate the entire country, then we cou get back to a semblance of normal. Laa thank you for being with us. My pleasure. Laura turning to russia now come over this week is not playing up as president putin had planned the country was that planned. A vote has been postponed due to the outbreak. Sarah reports reports. They used bake here for whole chains of cafes until the coronavirus. Now just a hanul of staff. This businessin is barely scr by but the state is offering no lifeline. When she came facetoface with her president , she did not hold back. Iont know if i can beg for your help without crying, the businesswoman told vladimir putin, but it is a tragedy, she said. She was not thonly emotional one. Her 12 minute takedown went viral. A couple weeks on, she says nothing changed. At that moment, i jusneeded him to heame. I thought it worked when i spoke, but there have been no results, and the government hasa taken measuresare not enough. We will just have to do what we can ourselves. It is not only Small Business leowners who are in tro it is their staff, too. Social dtancing for an terview is no problem in sibea. How long caou you manage wi work, do you think . I think something about two weeks and one month. N like many russians, she has been laid off wi pay. It is thought coronavirus could wipe out some 8 million jobs here before it is done. But now, i dont feel that they are really thinking about how to make people more cm, more happy, more something at all. They are onl worried. President putin has always presented himself as a symbol of stability. The n who broug russia out of the chaos of the postsoviet years and made it great again. This pandemic is developing to a challenge to that, not only economically, but politically. Pressure is not icrisis, and here, most of the help is going to state workers and b others feel abandoned. S this isious challenge to putin. A pandemic works more efficiently compared to political opposition of protesters. For now the cafes stand serted with no clue when the business will open again, if at all. W. Bbc news, mos laura in other news now from around the world, the u. N. s World Food Program is warning of famines of biblical proportions. It estimates the number of people going hungry could double to more than 250 million per good most of those are inlr countriesdy affected by conflict and climate change, like south sudan, yemen, and syria. The famous oktoberfest in germany will t not go aheads year. The Worlds Largest beer festival had been due to start in midseptember but has been canceled due to coronavirus. The event usually brings around 6 million visitors to munic every year, but not this time. Canadian police have raised the death toll from e weekend shooting in nova scotia to 23. A man disguised p as aiceman went on a 12 opera rampage in the worst 12 hour rampage in the worst mass shootingn canadas history. Authorities are still trying to establish a motive. You are watching bbc world news america. Still to come on tonights program,rtistic appreciation. Britain isnter in paying tribute to health care workers. Laura austrias chancellor says the countrys coronavirus restrictions will be eased in the middle of next month. On the story for u now. Details heng said austria is mo more quickly, faster than other countries in rheurning to what alled a new normality. This was he said due to the fact that austria took tough measures early on in the outbreak. Already, small shops havbeen able to reopen. S the plan everything goes well for all shops to open as of thfirstf may, and there are also plans for the schools, high school students, people doing their final exams will start at the beginninof may and then as of the middle of may, stepbystep, other schools will expect to start up as well. But we are still waiting for the details of all of those things, o. The government has ssed that brakany time if the on the infections start going up again. Laura li ms of people around the world are working from home these days. That means endless hours slumped over laptops in kitchens. That can bring bad posture and back pain. So how do you work remotely without getting a bad back . Fobbd an expert with a few crucial tips. It is important not to overthink things, and i think just think of the general step to get up and move. Our body needs movement soav you can the most perfect posture for eight hours, you will still be sore and still end ng orth some sort of ac injury i think it is important to have that vbi yia caranli set up a standing station, you spend half your time sitting, half your time stding just watch when you are stating that you were not getting into habits where you put all of your weight of on of the upper extremities on a countertop. The neck is not in the likely ideal position. It is ideal to lift the laptop a little bit so that your screen is actually iline with your eyes. The ideal situation would be that you have some sort of external keyboard and mouse so that your keyboard and mouse are in an optimal position with your laptop on something. Pug it on the small of your forr back in a position. Dont freak out if you feel a little bit of back pain. It is probably going to happen. It would probly happen in an Office Environment as well. Maybe te a walk at lunch hour to try to get the little pieces of activity, movement on the day. Ifs the little ac and pains do not disappear, there are tons of great t providet are affordable at the moment that are offering virtual services. You can get a lot from a virtual physical therapy session. Laura how to ckoid that bad lets recap our top stories tonight. President trump has pushed for a ban on immigration. Th ae are few detaithe moment. This could affect those seeking greek cards and visas to live and work in this country. Mr. Trump has beerkhosting new overnor at the white house today. The twoenad a functional and effective conversation. They have often traded jabs on social media over there efhictive handlings of crisis. Struggling Small Businesses in america can soon. Getting a ha congress has reached a deal with the white house onbi a 480 ion aid package. This includes moreha 300 billion in loans to Small Businesses that have been hardhitno by the ec impact of the coronavirus outbreak. Saluted around the globe forg their dedication to patients. , an artist tom, an artists n britain,ying to by painting portraits. O do thespiring others same the artist has painted a lot of portraits over the years. H done footballers, politicians, bishops, and rock stars. But the pandemic left him short of subjects, until that is he had an idea. When theockdown first started, i was really struggling, as i know a lot of artists were, to find almost a and so i thought about a portrait being aelebration of people achieving extraordinary professional lives, and who is more deserving at the moment then the heroes on the front line of the nhs . He posted an instagram message. T fst doctor, nurse, key e in thto contact m post, i will paint therefore their portrait for free. Tom got to work, painting her wearing her ppe. Oe ms ditfo iean u r yo will he forever and be able to look back tid remember the to diffingcule it had been, beoheuti wplit p eg together. I can look back and think, gosh, very emotional. Critical care nurse also got in touch with tom, who has been inundated wh hundreds of requests. He matched her with someone who conducted a ritual sitting. I am really excited to pat you. I think this is such a lovely idea. I never had my portrait done before, but i find it od to have this kind of eererience people are supporting us in a different way. That must be really difficult when you he your mask on. Considering the connection with your patients, that is such a huge part of it, ld king at them t having that. They cannot r, the expressio it is the same if i am smiling or not because althey really see is your eyes. Most of the time, it seems like we are screaming. Wem just want t understand what we are saying. So, yes, you loshua bit of the n connection. Soee far, there have pairings under the hashtag. The hope is once the lockdown is over to have a public exhibition of themio all as a combinof an initiative that has been copied in america, spain, belgium, and ireland. Laura back here in the u. S. , the Police Department in fort myers, florida, sent ant a special you message all of their own. Theyan oed 15 police cars into a heart outside the local hospital, which has been treating coronavirusatients. Officers stood in the middle holding a sig that read fort myers Police Department thanks you as the cars flashed red and blue. Speciagrthanks from onp of lifesavers to another. Not to be outdone, new york citys mayor says the very first public event to be held after this crisis will be a tickertape healthcare worke and first responders. We cant wait for that day, whenever it may come. 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