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Shutting on immigration he says is to protectjobs. Will go straight to the United States now. A couple of big stories brewing they are. The first is meeting between President Trump and the governor of new york and her combos. Why is that significant . Theyre and her combos. Why is that significant . They re trying and her combos. Why is that significant . Theyre trying to Work Together in the next stage of this pandemic. However they havent got on swimmingly so far. There is been criticism from both sides. So lets eat what this is all about. We can speak to kathy k in washington. Kathy, nice to see them again. Lets start with the basics here, why are these two then getting together . The primary issue here is testing. And the comparative roles of the federal government which is run by the white house and the states which in this case is run by Governor Cuomo of new york. Thats where the conflict has been. How much of the states be responsible for testing and how much should the the responsibility of the white house. As you said, theres been a lot of bad words between the two. A tickly on twitter where theyve been criticising each other. From President Trump side hes keen to show people and his supporters in this Election Year that governors like what hes doing. That they think hes been doing a good job. So in the last couple of press briefings, hes run these clips of Governor Cuomo praising the federal governments response. From Governor Cuomo sighed what he wants to get out of this white house meeting is more commitment on testing. He needs more commitment on testing. He needs more testing in the state of new york in order to be able to start to reopen the economy of the state. And he says that has to come from federal coordination because some of this is to do with supply chain acquisitions and some of those suppliers are outside the country. And its better at the federal government does it. There are a lot of technical things that need to be cleared up between the two subsides about whose responsibility it is. But from the point of view from the American People it would be much better it seems if governors and the federal government Work Together rather than criticise each other on twitter. That does seem the priority. There is another complication with the relationship with the unit states here. Which is the devolution of power to the states to make their own decisions about things like restriction. Which means weve got a rather confusing picture for people outside the us, certainly. About which areas i have in lockdown, which are easing restriction, whats going on there . I think itsjust restriction, whats going on there . I think its just been pretty confusing for people inside the us too. To actually try to understand ina too. To actually try to understand in a crisis like this where disparate ally in the country . And that too as you suggest has been a source of some confusion. It actually lies with the states. Its eight two up to the states when they shut down and its what up to the states when they start to reopen. What the white house has done it really only as put out guidelines. Those 15 day guidelines and its extended to 30 day guidelines and then guidelines for reopening. But those are only guidelines. All the back and forth between President Trump saying he had total authority and then saint actually this is up to the governors, it is up to the governors under the us constitution. This is something that governors can do. Which leaves us in a slightly odd situation where states like georgia for example, have announced that they are effectively reopening in the next few days on friday. And friday and georgette nail salons, tattoo parlors, hair salons, friday and georgette nail salons, tattoo parlors, hairsalons, im not sure why theyre included, will be allowed to reopen for business. On monday in the state of georgia cinemas and restaurant will be allowed to reopen. That could technically mean that somebody could drive from washington, dc where i am in lockdown, drive down to georgia and get themselves a haircut. Itd be rather long and expensivejourney but you could do it. Technically there is nothing to stop you from crossing borders. Thats where some of this confusion comes in. And where you see the weakness in the sense of the system, one state can open up, the next day doesnt open up open up, the next day doesnt open up andi open up, the next day doesnt open up and i can mean that people can cross between them and potentially ta ke cross between them and potentially take virus between those two states. Confusing. Thank you for clearing that up. To stay there a second i wa nt to that up. To stay there a second i want to just try quickly to touch on another story in the us. Donald trump has an ounce he will impose a temporary ban on all immigration in the United States. On all immigration in the United States. He will impose a temporary ban on all immigration into the United States in order to protect american jobs during the pandemic. He made the announcement in a tweet. In light of the attack from the invisible enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our Great American citizens, i will be signing an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States the invisible enemy is a term he uses to describe the coronavirus. His critics arent happy. Democratic president ial nominee joe biden pushed back with a blunt tweet. The president needs to stop blaming others and do hisjob. On the other hand from the republican side, we heard from congressman paul gosar who represents arizona. Thank you donald trump. All immigration to the United States should halt until every american who wants a job has one lets go back to caddy, if we can. And just ponder this issue of immigration. We know donald trump favours this tough stance on immigration. We know it plays well for him with his electorate. Is it different though ina with his electorate. Is it different though in a time of seem to be using this political issue . There is a little difference with what hes proposing in this particular order. Throughout his presidency he has pushed hard against illegal immigration. People basically coming across the border from x this targets legal immigration. Its something that people in the white house have been telling me for the last few years theyve been wanting to do for a long time. Hes using the pandemic as a way to ask restrict for example people coming into work and the american tech service. There are a lot of people who come in here from Asian Companies to work for companies here in the United States. In the white house for a long time has felt that this tookjobs house for a long time has felt that this took jobs away house for a long time has felt that this tookjobs away from americans. Under this executive order and get a read it because the news is just coming into us, underthis read it because the news is just coming into us, under this executive order people who have those tech visas, they call h one v pieces. Would have to provide updated certification that they were not taking jobs away from americans. For example, there will be exceptions made and the details are just coming m, made and the details are just coming in, seeing the president but the tweet out and some of the detail is being filled in. But therell be exceptions made for food workers and also for people working in the medical care industry. All of this being fleshed out. We expect to hear more about it in the press briefing that comes up in a couple of hours time. This will be the big headline of that meeting. 0k great to speak to you as always. Lets move back to the uk. Lets move back to the uk. After falling for the last few days, the number of people in the uk whove 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 following a post weekend dip in yesterdays figures. 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. Around a third of deaths that week were linked to coronavirus. 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. And there are fears the number may be higher still. But despite todays grim figures, our Health Correspondent jane dreaper says there is some cause for hope. Overall, the trend for the past couple of weeks seems to be a csteadying in the figures for uk hospitals, at least. Some experts in statistics, when theyve looked at this, are pretty certain that the peak in hospitals of death in hospitals was reached on 8 april. There is a separate situation with care homes, and we saw some figures about the broader patterns of death for the whole community, which is not good news. But that dates back to a couple of weeks ago, there was a time lag in these figures so it paints quite a complicted picture. But overall, statistical experts think that the peak in hospitals has been reached for the moment. We could still get a nasty shock if some other figures are uncovered, and we are by no means out of the woods yet in terms of the lock down measures from the governments point of view. But there is starting to be some cause for hope in these statistics. A shortage of protective equipment for Health Workers has been a major concern in the uk for the last few days. At todays virus briefing our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg asked the Health Secretary how that was allowed to happen. 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 weve been hearing from today who could supply british hospitals and care homes to sell their products abroad . I think the most important thing that we concentrate on is, what are the offers that could get us the most ppe, to be able to get 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. Protective equipment is essential for keeping Health Workers safe while treating covid i9 patients. The government has confirmed 49 nhs workers have died from the disease, but that number is thought to be much higher. One of them is Manjeet Singh riyat, who died yesterday at the royal Derby Hospital where he worked. Mr riyat was the uks first sikh a e consultant. Colleagues described him as the father of the current emergency department, who was widely respected across the nhs. Jagdeesh Singh Dhaliwal is a gp in melbourne in australia, who trained with mr riyat at medical school in leicester. He says there is a stark contrast in covid repsonse between the uk and australia. Im in a position to be able to compare and contrast whats happening in my home country, the uk, with my new country, australia. And the contrast is fairly stark. Colleagues back in the uk tell me how ppe isnt available. We do have ppe here in australia. Mass testing isnt really happening in the uk. Here im being told that i can test for covid, you know, for any patient im worried about. And some of these things do make me angry, to be honest, because i do think that some steps could have been put into place earlier back home in the uk that may well have cut the risk for some of my other colleagues, in terms of covid. You dont send your troops out to the battlefield unarmed, you just dont do that. It doesnt matter how brave they are, you dont send people out if they dont have the equipment they need. We ot do that with our soldiers, why would we do that with our Health Care Professionals . There have also been developments today for rolling out Virus Testing for all front line workers, as Richard Galpin reports. 27 of these drive in testing centres are now up and running across the country. Besides Health Workers, teachers, police, prison officers and others can now get tested for the virus. Theres huge progress being made in building lab capacity. So there is a plan to deliver that level of lab capacity. We now have a number of ways of meeting demand and matching that capacity to demand. But the real aim is to secure the testing capabilities that the country needs. And im confident that we have that, and will be able to allow the country to respond to the testing that is required. The governments pledged to scale up the programme to 100,000 tests a day by the end of this month. Whether thats possible was not something the new Testing Coordinator would answer. Today, parliament returned to work, in an unusual format. Only 50 mps are now allowed to sit in the house of commons, meaning many mps will now have to contribute virtually. Our uk Political Correspondent Jessica Parker was watching. Today was a little bit process y, to be honest with you, because yes, parliament is returning in a virtual format, but first mps kind of needed to give it the nod to move to this new way of working, which as you were saying, they will see no more than 50 mps actually in the chamber in order to observe those social distancing rules. So though it seems that people may be familiar with quite a rowdy house of commons, chamber packed with people we wont be seeing that for the time being. And up to 120 mps will be able to dial in via a Video Conferencing software app. So thats what will happen. And today, what they were discussing where these proposals to allow that to happen, that was given the nod, then the leader of the house of commons outlined the business for the week. So in terms of actually seeing this hybrid Virtual Parliament that people are talking about, that will kick off properly tomorrow. And it will be quite a big day, because on the agenda tomorrow, Prime Ministers questions, obviously usually a big event in any week of the parliamentary calendar, wont be taken by borisjohnson, who continues to recover from coronavirus at his checkers retreat in buckinghamshire. The first secretary of state, dominic raab, will take his place. But sir keir starmer, who has recently become the leader of the opposition, the leader of the labour party hell have his first pmqs, we understand he will be one of those small number of mps actually in the chamber. And the other thing is well that we understand will be happening will be a statement from the Health Secretary, matt hancock. Now youve been talking about these issues regarding ppe personal protective equipment testing as well. I think thats likely to be raised in both those sessions. Stay with us on outside source. Still to come italy looks to ease its lockdown restrictions, as other European Countries have already started to introduce changes. Scotlands first minister Nicola Sturgeon says shes cautiously optimistic about the latest reports on the coronavirus in scotland. She said hospital figures appear to be stabilising. I do remain cautiously optimistic that firstly while the numbers being admitted to hospital are still fluctuating on a daily basis they do appear to be broadly stable. And secondly, the numbers being admitted to intensive care are at this stage reducing. We shouldnt forget how important that is. Its not too long ago that we were seriously worried about the potential for our Hospital Capacity to be overwhelmed. The fact that it is not is down to the planning thats been done in the National Health service of course, but more than that it is down to the High Compliance with the lockdown restrictions. So my thanks to all of you for helping us to ensure that the nhs has been able to cope although the work that they do is very difficult and challenging. This is outside source, live from the bbc newsroom. The governor of new york is meeting donald trump at the white house to discuss funding for coronaVirus Testing. It comes as donald trump is criticised after promising to stop all immigration into the us because of the pandemic. Italy is looking to ease its lockdown restrictions other European Countries have already started to introduce changes. Ros atkins has more on this. Hi, ros. Hi, lewis, good to see you. There have been over 65,000 covid 19 deaths in france, italy and spain and while the situation remains urgent across the eu daily death tolls and infection rates are stabilising and in some cases falling and that means attention is increasingly turning where going to start by looking at italy. Where going to start by looking at italy. Its recorded over 24000 deaths and over 180,000 cases. Later this week we expect the italian Prime Minister to announce easing of restrictions. Sara monetta has spent the last month in italy for the bbc here she is on the options the Prime Minister has. Social distancing will be the new way of life for as long as its needed and a new vaccine and therapy is found. This means using facemasks and gloves, but also for instance for companies to give Flexible Working hours in order to allow public transport not to be too crowded. Also the government has said that they will increase investment in the Health Systems so, they will create some hospitals specifically dedicated to the treatment of coronavirus patient. To avoid contamination of other patients who dont have coronavirus and also testing, currently there is between 40 and 50,000 tests every day. The government said they will continue doing that and on top of that they will also add antibody test. And finally, Contact Tracing. This has been a very contentious issue. The government wants to use Contact Tracing that can be an app ordered on everybody. But the planning is very sad this use of this app would be said on a voluntary basis because of course, there are privacy with regard to the app. So these are the main guidelines. The government will implement in order to allow summer and tourism start. And the government will give more details on that later this week. Next this is the Prime Minister himself pledging a new economic stimulus package to help the country recover from the outbreak. Translation in addition to the 25 billion euros that the government has already allocated with the so called cure italy decree, the government is now requesting from the the 2020 budget an additional 50 billion euros, which will be added to the 25 billion already allocated, to make an overall intervention of no less than 75 billion euros. Its notjust about economic recovery this is important too. Headline in this article from the local. italy considering psychological tests to judge how long people can stay at home. A group of scientists is lobbying the the government to assess the psychological toll of the lockdown and to factor that into its policies. Heres sara monetta again on how italians have fared through this lockdown. This week is the seventh week that most italians have been in lockdown. The people have been in lockdown longer. There are two feelings here, on the one hand people are on their knees, many businesses are going under, many families are going hungry because they havent brought in any income for the past two months now. So people are really struggling to be able to go back to work. At the same time many people are developing corona anxiety at the thought of going back into the street. So right now with a lockdown they feel safe, they see that it has been working so they are scared that whenever the government decides to ease the restrictions there might be a second outbreak of coronavirus. Which nobody wants. Sara monetta there. Next, from italy, to austria. This week some small shops in germany have been allowed to reopen and austria is following suit with changes of its own. Bethany bell is in vienna. He says that if all goes well, restaurants and cafes will be allowed to reopen as of 15 may. Now we dont know all the details about this yet. We dont know the social distancing rules that will be in place, how many guests will be allowed in, what the size of groups will be. He says all of that detail will be announced next week. But it is expected that serving staff certainly will have to wear facemask. He said austria is moving more quickly, faster than other countries in returning to what he called a new normality. This was he said, due to the fact that austria took tough measures early on in the outbreak. Spain and germany next. It may surprise you that any major sporting or cultural events remain in the calendar for the next few months. Two more have been cancelled. Oktoberfest in munich worlds biggest beer festival is off. Heres the bbc correspondent in germany, jenny hill. We heard from the bavarian regional Prime Minister announcing the cancellation, and he said this is an unbelievable shame. The authorities in bavaria describe oktoberfest as the biggest and most Beautiful Party in the world. If youve been, you may disagree with the last part of that description, but in all seriousness, this is huge. Not just for bavaria but for germany, a lot of tourists come to this event, six Million People were expected in munich for a few weeks that fesstival runs for, this autumn. It brings in well over one billion euros to the local economy, so to have to cancel it is a massive deal, not just for the region, but for germany too, and i suppose is an indication, isnt it . Whilst we are seeing some elements of daily life coming back to normal, it is going to be a very long time before, really, german life, european life, life across the globe can go on as before. Oktoberfest off so is the running of the bulls in pamplona. Am sure youve seen pictures like this over the years. The event takes place every july, not this year. The mayoress said although it was to be expected, it still makes us sad. Which is an excellent summary of how lots of you will have felt as plans have been cancelled and continue to be cancelled because this goes on. Today, the netherlands has said today that large public gatherings will remain banned until september. We go to greece to a town called kranidi in the south. I want to show these pictures from there the town has been put into lockdown with a nightime curfew after a Virus Outbreak in a local migrant hostel. The hostel houses around 500 people mainly from sub suharan africa, and now 150 people have tested positive though none are showing symptoms. And of course this plays into broader concerns about the impact the virus could have in the various overcrowded migrant camps in greece. One other last thing to show you. This is the european parliaments website its looking ahead to an eu Leaders Summit that starts on thursday. All done by video as youd expect. The background to this is that Emmanuel Macron has already warned that the eu could collapse if it doesnt act collectively to rebuild europes economy. But since this crisis started the eus 27 members have very much looked like well 27 countries. So on thursday theyll face yet more fundamental questions about whether they can act as one or indeed if they even want to. What we can be sure of is that theyre all making plans for easing the lockdown. And that however those plans turn out as Angela Merkel reminded us this week, this is not going to be getting back to normal. There is much more on the bbc website. There is much more on the bbc website. Some news justin in some newsjustin in the last hour or so. Some news justin in the last hour or so. Canadian police now say that 23 people died this weekend in a shooting in novia scotia, raising the death toll up from 20. Its the worst mass shooting in the canadas history. Again for the most of us its been another day of clear blue sunny skies. But we did start off with a little bit more clout in the sky around the channel islands. That gave us this start to the day was up that cloud also bought a few passing showers the far west of cornwall. They moved out of the way quickly for the morning special days to spin dry and sunny. Northwest whales probably some highs get up to 21dc. This was one of our weather watcher pictures, showing the White Sand Beach on the Western Isles of scotland. Now, overnight tonight, we will keep that clear whether initially. For the second half of the night, we may well see just a little bit of patchy cloud form over the pennines in the Southern Uplands. Temperatures similar to last night, 4 7 degrees celcius for many of us. But cold enough to put some frost again in some of the sheltered valleys in scotland, where temperatures could get down to around 3 or minus four degrees. Tomorrow, High Pressure again with us, but the isobars are opening out, and that means although the winds are still blowing from an easterly direction, they wont be blowing as strongly. Now, any cloud initially over the pennines and Southern Uplands will clear off very quickly, and its another day of almost unbroken sunshine, just a bit of high cloud moving across the skies of Northern Ireland. Temperatures, higher across the board, it is going to be a warmer day, more widely for england and wales, we will see those temperatures into the low 20s. It should get up to about 18 for Northern Ireland, 18 19 for Western Areas of scotland. But its thursday that looks like the warmest day of the week. Maybe a few mist and fog patches to start off with. Those temperatures could reach 23 2lid celcius, the warmest areas likely across southern england. Thats thursdays weather, what about towards the end of the week . Well, friday, there could just be a few mist and fog patches around, little overall change for most of us can its going to be another dry day, a little bit of patchy cloud develops through the afternoon, but still spells of sunshine, and still very warm for just about all of us. However, we are going to start to get northerly winds blowing in across the north of highland and shetland. Here, it will be turning cooler. Temperatures around nine celsius. The weekend to set fair for the most part, bit more cloud, temperatures coming down just a few degrees, but still on the warm side. There could be a few isolated showers, more especially on sunday. This is outside source on bbc news for viewers in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. All eyes are on washington as the governor of new york prepares to meet President Trump after clashing over funding for coronaVirus Testing. So, then, lets just co ordinate who does what. What do the states do . What does the federal government do . President trump is criticised after promising to stop all immigration into the us because of the pandemic. He says its to protectjobs. Figures show that deaths in england and wales have hit a 20 year high with more than 1,000 covid related deaths recorded at care homes in the week before easter. The Uns World Food Programme warns the coronavirus pandemic could double the number of people around the world suffering from acute hunger. And indonesia bans the annual exodus of millions of city workers to their villages, to try to curb coronavirus. Welcome. Back to our top story donald trump is hosting new York Governor Andrew Cuomo at the white house for what could be a tense meeting. The two have clashed frequently during the outbreak most recently over funding for coronaVirus Testing. Mr cuomo a democrat says large scale testing for covid 19 is the next biggest challenge and cant be done without federal help. He had a message ahead of the meeting. I understand the federal governments point that its up to the states, and i believe it is largely up to the states. But then even the federal government will stand there and do a whole presentation on what theyre doing on testing. So, then its not really up to the states if the fema people get up there and an admiral gets up there and talks about what theyre doing on testing. All right, so then lets just co ordinate who does what. What do the states do . What does the federal government do . New york has been hit hard by covid 19 and the citys immigrant communities have been disproportionately affected. Nick bryant reports from the borough of queens. 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 for food hand outs, the length of the line a measure of the desperation. Every person has a story of need. Almost all are economic victims of covid 19. 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 were trying to survive with that. While. When do you think that money will run out . We dont know yet. I mean, we have talked with our landlord to see what were going to do this month, but i dont know how were going to survive. Even in this time of crisis, Mary Bautista spoke of her civic and national pride. We are a nation where we support each other, and you have seen the tremendous. The abundance of support from all the americans, and im glad to be a new yorker, and god bless america. And these are the meagre food packages they spent hours queueing for. A sandwich, some applesauce. In this, the land of plenty. From queens, you can see the residential skyscrapers the abundance of support from all the americans, of Billionaires Row in manhattan. But these neighbourhoods are part of another america, one thats been ground zero in new yorks outbreak, one thats 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 dont 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 ten to a one bedroom apartment. When you think of new york city, youre 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 yorks iconic yellow cabs have been drafted in to deliver aid. Taxi drivers have become caregivers, handing out meals to people who cant leave their homes. New york believes its past the peak of its coronaVirus Outbreak. But its still in the depths of this economic disaster. Nick bryant, bbc news, queens. The United Nations has warned the number of acutely hungry people around the world is likely to double this year to more than a quarter of a billion, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Heres the head of the Uns World Food Programme speaking in geneva. We are already facing a perfect storm. So, today with covid 19, i want to stress that we are not only facing a Global Health pandemic, but also a global humanitarian catastrophe. Millions of civilians living in conflict started nations, including many women and children, face being pushed to the brink of starvation with a spectre of famine a very real and dangerous possibility. The World Food Programme estimates 130 Million People will be forced into hunger this year because of the pandemic. Thats on top of a similar number already facing malnutrition. It says the democratic republic of the congo, ethiopia, nigeria, sudan and south sudan are all at risk of widespread shortages unless aid is made available to millions of farmers who depend on a daily wage. Heres the World Food Programmes director in south sudan. Nowhere else in the world has the level of Food Insecurity as south sudan. Last year, we had to feed 5 Million People due to fighting and flooding. Already in 2020, weve had locust invasions, and now there is the covid 19 pandemic which we predict could almost double the people in acute hunger by the end of 2020 across the world. East africa is already facing a serious food crisis following consecutive seasons of drought and a Desert Locust invasion that has destroyed crops. Heres more from the bbcs Emmanuel Igunza in nairobi. Millions of people who are in displacement camps, and this is a particularly big worry for the international community, the humanitarian agencies, because they are very concerned, if covid 19, if coronavirus gets to some of these displacement camps where they are living in very cramped spaces, then the situation could become really dire. In particular also in the Eastern Africa region, we have already seen that many countries are have been going through seasons of drought, and also, recently, there has been an invasion of Desert Locusts, and this has destroyed large tracts of land, crops for many farmers who depend on it for a living, and therefore, the food situation is already precarious, added to the threat posed by coronavirus, and you begin to see just the magnitude of the danger that this country is facing. The hunger pandemic is being made worse for millions of people with continuing conflicts in countries such as afghanistan, syria and yemen. Heres more from our chief International Correspondent lyse doucet. The wfp describes it as a hammer blow that they are not getting the daily wages with these lockdowns. The World Food Programme feeds already 135 Million People who are on the brink of starvation and that figure could double. And, you have a sharp intake of your breath when discussing the Health Systems in new york. The Health Systems in london, what about the Health Systems in afghanistan, in yemen . Which are barely functioning at the best of times. I heard a statistic today that afghanistan only has between 12 to 20 ventilators for the whole country. In yemen 80 of the population depends on assistance of some kind. Thats higher than any other country in the world. 10 million yemenis already live a step away from famine to use the uns words. There is a crisis between aaid agencies and the authorities in the north of yemen which means the aid, as it is, is already encountering difficulty. So, there is only one confirmed case of covid 19 in yemen. But if it spreads, it could be a nightmare. Stay with us on oustide source, still to come indonesia bans the annual exodus of millions of city workers to their villages, to try to curb coronavirus. Back to england now where dentists are the latest group of Health Workers to say a shortage of protective equipment is hampering their work. Danjohnsons report does contain some graphic images. This is supposed to be one of the centres offering urgent dental care. Charlotte has been at work but she has not seen a patient for nearly a month. Its been very difficult for the last few weeks and we frustrated weve not been able to get up off the ground and get running and we have individuals whove been working very hard across the network to get the centre moving, but without the correct levels of ppe, we have not been able to do that. Normal dental equipment does not guard against the virus, and working close up, face to face, dentists are especially vulnerable. We need appropriate levels of ppe, so the special facemasks and the long sleeved gown is, its been an issue getting those through to us, but we are here and we want to be treating our patients. It would be quite hard to take out a molar. So some patients are resorting to diy after failing to get treatment. They basically said unless it stopping me from breathing, they couldnt do anything and there was no point coming in unless i literally couldnt breathe properly. The pain never lessened, and it was excruciating, so i thought i would take it into my own hands, really. It was quite tricky. I thought maybe ten or 15 minutes, but it took an hour and a half. We are living and working in unprecedented times. This was englands chief dental officer sarah hurley rallying the troops in an online update earlier this month. There has been criticism and a sense that the situation is better in other uk nations, claim that more than 200 dental centres are open has been challenged. We are told protective equipment is in place and more is promised, but patients in pain are still troubling to get struggling to get treatment. Dan johnson, bbc news. This is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. The governor of new york is meeting President Trump at the white house to discuss funding for coronaVirus Testing. It comes as President Trump is criticised after promising to stop all immigration into the us because of the pandemic. Next to indonesia, because its banned the traditional exodus of millions of city workers to their home villages at the end to ramadan. Needless to say this all connected to covid 19. Ros is back with us presumably ramadan is posing challenges for a number of countries. Hi lewis, yes it is. There are nearly two billion muslims in the world and they are living in countries which are responding to the virus in quite in different ways. If we start in indonesia it has the highest number of coronavirus deaths in asia after china. And while this travel restriction is a major intervention some are asking why it didnt come sooner. Remember, were only two days away from ramadan starting so many people have travelled already. Resty woro yuniar reports. So, here in the capitaljakarta, up to a Million People have already made thejourney home. Travellers are using masks but they are not keeping apart. So, the big fear is that many could spread the virus to rural areas across the country. For her, it was a simple decision. She took the bus home to her village before the band came into place. Translation ifi didnt go home, i would be very sad. Of course im scared of getting infected with coronavirus. Actually, if i have the option to stay here, i would but all of my family told me to go home. So, i must go home with her i like it or not. All i can do is protect myself by wearing masks, gloves, carrying hand sanitiser. This was last year. 20 million travelled home during ramadan. If people decide to go ahead with their travel plans this week, the risk is that they would spread the virus. The decision to ban travelling is a u turn from president joko widodo. Until today, the government was just advising the public not to participate. The move upset a lot of indonesians. Many are still planning to travel home anyway while they can. However, Health Experts are warning it could be a disaster given the lack of testing and Proper Health care facilities in remote areas. Translation and this would increase the number of those hospitalised because of covid 19 by 200000. In ramadan, we are supposed to be joyful. But some of us will end up in hospital, and some of us will die because of circumstances that we can actually prevent. If people decide to go ahead with their travel plans this week, the risk is that they would spread the virus. And by giving them a 48 hour window to travel, its unclear how effective the government began will be. Resty woro yuniar, bbc news, jakarta. The World Health Organization has published some advice for ramadan. It says, cancelling social and religious gatherings should weve been talking to sophia smith galer, a religion reporterfor bbc world service. She has more details. Essentially, the guidelines are to obey the general rules that are in place in your country. So, where we are seeing in normas lockdown measures where mosques are already closed, the World Health Organization is recommending virtual alternatives. In other countries where there possibly are still mosques open, or the lockdown isnt quite so severe, they are offering mitigating measures for people to go with. For example, when it comes to social distancing especially both during congregational prayer and charity during this month as well, limiting the amount of times spent outdoors or at an event, minimising the flow of people in and out of an event. So, its good advice. We know that saudi arabias top religious body has urged muslims around the world not to congregate for prayer during ramadan. Saudi arabia had already closed its mosques including the grand mosque in mecca. Also in iran the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei says muslims are not required to fast during ramadan if doing so poses a threat to their health. For all these changes, of course ramadan continues and muslims want to continue its religious and cultural traditions as best possible. Heres sophia on how Different Countries are trying to make that possible. When it comes to congregational prayer, we have mosques from saudi arabia to iran that have suspended the traditional congregational prayers that we see at this time of the year. But there are some countries for example pakistan which is still have lots of mosques open and what they have done is they have issued guidelines around social distancing. But what about culture and charity . We see that countries like malaysia, brunei, singapore are suspending their traditional ramadan bazaars which would be full of people and full of food, full of clothes on sale and charity, traditionally you might see in enormous meals for people to the needy as muslims break their fast, and we are seeing that will be really limited for this time of year is well. As with so many of the religious and cultural activities that make up our lives some can continue at home, but more you know activities will now shift online. And 5 for many muslims, for those hugely important moments when they would have gathered during ramadan, they will now have to gather virtually it will be different, no doubt though muslims leaders in the uk have told the bbc the essence of ramadan can be maintained. That can be found on our website. Thanks, ross. To mexico now, where the coronavirus pandemic is reaching a more serious stage. The government has announced today its moving to what its calling phase three of the outbreak heres the Deputy Health minister. Translation today, we want to start our phase three plan for the cobit epidemic, remembering that we are in the face of rapid ascent where a large number of rapid ascent where a large number of infections and hospitalizations will accumulate. We must continue to maintain social distancing so that these remain at the minimum level possible. Like many other countries, Mexican Medical staff are facing shortages of crucial equipment. But its also one of the Worlds Largest producers and exporters of medical devices. Lets speak to david luhnow, the latin america editor for the wall streetjournal. David, good to speak with you. It seems like a cruel irony here, it produces a lot of equipment but has two exported to is that . Well, if there is one thing that this pandemic has laid bare, its the extent to which globalisation can create some new vulnerabilities that countries werent aware of. Thats for countries like the us and uk, who rely on manufacturing in china for a big part of their Global Supply chains. But in cases like mexico, countries that make some of these products for the global marketplace, they are finding out that even though they make this stuff they cannot quite keep it. So mexico is a big player, for example, in the production of ventilators. But those ventilators are made by Foreign Companies that come to mexico under certain rules, including the fact that they can import parts duty free without taxes to assemble them here. Now, mexico relies on export manufacturing for a third of its annual economic output, so its not going to be easy for the country to change the rules on these companies and say, hey, you have to set aside a certain amount of your production here before you are allowed to sell, because that would be changing the rules of the game halfway through. So its a difficult situation for countries like mexico. One governor of a northern border state decided to kind of take matters into his own hands and so he agreed with the uk medical producer that they would divert some ventilator parts to mexico, where we have had, as you mentioned, shortages of this equipment in hospitals in addition to protective equipment, but that equipment is probably going to have to be imported from elsewhere, so its a complicated conundrum for many countries. David, just briefly talk us countries. David, just briefly talk us through what the situation they are more broadly to make it the feeling its kind of a couple of weeks behind europe and america. Yes, very much so. We are sort of 23 yes, very much so. We are sort of 2 3 weeks behind. The curve is starting to go quite high now. Mexico officially on has 9000 cases, but it does, among the least number of tests in the world. So there are definitely the Health Minister that you had on says that the estimated number is about eight or nine times that level, so 60 70,000 with about 900 dead so far. That number of dead are starting to decline, the hospitals in mexico are getting out capacity, they are missing key equipment, so the next couple of weeks will be crucial. I would say not only in mexico, but a lot of other countries in brazil as well to see just how fast this thing is spreading and how deadly it is in some of these developing countries. There was some hope that warmer temperatures in these places might slow the virus down, bites, so far, that doesnt really seem to be happening. So the next three weeks will be crucial. We will keep a kenai over the developments there in those next couple of weeks. David, thank you very much for being with us. You can always keep up with the stories covered here on an outside source. I am on social media. Making the headlines. Showing gratitude for the National Health service in an artistic way. The artist tom croft has painted a lot of portraits over the years. Hes 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 . Ill 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. Its very emotional. Critical care nurse carolina pinto also got in touch with tom, so far, thereve 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. Thats it. This is bbc news. Bye bye. Hello again. This was one of the weather watcher pictures we had sent to us on tuesday showing the clear skies over the western aisles over what looks like to be almost a White Sand Beach. Now, and a satellite image, you can see the extent of the clear skies across Northern Europe and the uk, where we are underneath an area of High Pressure. Low pressure remains in the mediterranean command here, it is quite windy, we have seen rain in spain across Southern France and into italy, more rain here on wednesday. Isobars are getting more widely spaced on wednesday, what that means as the winds wont be blowing quite as the winds wont be blowing quite as strongly, now it could be a little bit of cloud just to start the day across the pennines. , hike out across Western Areas covering the sunshine its another day of unbroken sunshine, and its going to bea unbroken sunshine, and its going to be a warmer day as well with those later winds helping temperatures to get on into the low 20s across england and wales, the high teens are england and wales, the high teens a re parts of england and wales, the high teens are parts of Northern Ireland and western scotland. Now, looking at the weather picture as we head into wednesday night, again, we will keep clear weather for the most part, wednesday night, again, we will keep clear weatherfor the most part, but we could start to see if you mist and fog patches forming towards the end of the night. Its not going to be quite as cool as recent nights as well, given those high temperatures by day, overnight, were looking at temperatures staying up at around 68dc temperatures staying up at around 6 8dc for many of us. And if we do see some mist and fog patches, they should tend to clear away fairly quickly as we go through thursday morning, the afternoon looking fine with long spells of sunshine, thursday promises to be the warmest day of this week, with temperatures reaching around 24 25d with the warmest weather across parts of southern england. Lets take a look at the weather chart as we careened towards the end of the become of that area of High Pressure is declining, its weakening. It should just about be in charge enough to keep another financial id for most of us on friday. So, again, day of spells sunshine, little more in the way of cloud building just for a time as we head into the afternoon, but that will be fair weather. The winds are going to start to. Here, temperatures will be dropping highs of just temperatures will be dropping highs ofjust 9 degrees, but, otherwise, and other warm and sunny day on the way. Heading into the weekend, we could see the remains of weak weather friends trying to move their way towards the uk, moving into that area of High Pressure, they are going to be very weak features indeed, but it could be that we just see a little more in the way of cloud and perhaps a few isolated showers. Only showers on saturday are most likely to be across the very far north of scotland particularly the northern aisles, but for the most part, its another dry day. Again with those temperatures running into the high teens to low 20s. So those temperatures are just coming down a few degrees, but it still warm for the time of year. Sunday into next week, an area of High Pressure will continue to weaken, and low pressure sta rts continue to weaken, and low pressure starts to move a little bit closer to the uk. There is some uncertainty about whether we do see a big change in the weather, but i think what we probably will see as we go through sunday and into the early part of next week as there will be a bit more cloud around some of the weather will be getting a little bit cooler, and we may well start to see just a few isolated showers bubbling up just a few isolated showers bubbling up here and there as well, so it may not be entirely dry. Damages eggs you can see coming down from london to around 16 towards the middle of next week. Thats her latest weather. Goodbye for now. Tonight at ten, the heavy human cost of coronavirus is laid out in the latest officialfigures. The number of deaths in england and wales in the week ending the 10th of april was double the level normally expected and the highest level for 20 years. 18,500 registered in that week thats over 2000 more than the week before, and that is 8000 higher than what we would expect to see at this time of year based on the previous five years. In that same week, the number of deaths in care homes quadrupled, as providers describe the challenges they face. Its been, you know, a very lonely experience. Thats all i can say. We dont feel as though weve been prepared or led through this