And jobs from the Virus Outbreak donald trump also pledges to bail out the u. S. Oil industry after prices they put into negative territory for the 1st time in history and serious questions are being asked about the true number of coronavirus related deaths in england and wales. The current a virus pandemic could lead to famines in dozens of countries pushing tens of millions more people around the world to the brink of starvation a un report has highlighted the vast number of people around the world who are now acutely food in secure the World Food Program has requested 350000000. 00 to set up a network to keep humanitarian supply chains moving around the world. No samples yet but i must warn you that if we dont prepare and act now to secure access avoid fundies shortfalls disruptions to treat we could be facing multiple famines of biblical proportions within a short few months the actions that we take will determine our success or failure and build a Sustainable Food systems as the basis of stable and peaceful societies the truth is we do not have time on our side so lets act wisely and elicits a i do believe that our expertise and our partnership we could begin we can bring the gether the teams of the programs this assert to make certain that covert night Team Pandemic does not become a human food crisis catastrophe the World Food Program says if it is unable to reach those in need to do you to coronavirus restrictions at least 300000. 00 people could starve to death every day for a 3 month period and thats not taking into account of those affected by the outbreak which will push the number of people on the brink of starvation to more than a quarter of a 1000000000 unless they get help soon theyre warning that in a worst Case Scenario there could be famines in more than 30 countries and in 10 of those more than 1000000 people are already close to starvation the world bank has also cautioned countries against hoarding food they say global Grain Production and stocks are near all time highs making restrictions unnecessary. Why than 5000000 people in south sudan rely on food aid to survive and the coronavirus pandemic is making their lives even harder the outbreak is slowing down humanitarian operations that the liver essential Food Supplies hit a morgue and reports from juba. Even prior to the 1st coronavirus case in south sudan many face starvation thats the result of 5 years of fighting between forces loyal to rival political leaders the conflict ended in february with the new transitional governments warn him somewhere in the room if my children survive i want them to go to school and learn to take care of themselves before the coronavirus emergency aid organizations estimated more than half of the 12000000 population would need food aid this year. The were forced a 3rd of the population from their homes 200000 of them are now in u. N. Camps around the country hundreds of thousands of others are in hard to reach areas for them food drops are sometimes the only way theyll get food last year we had to feed 5000000 people due to fighting and flooding already in 2020 weve had locust invasions and now there is the covert 19 plan demick which we predict could almost double the people in the queue hunger by the end of 2020 across the world the only way we can hold this trend is if generous funding for humanitarian crises like the one here in south sudan continues floods last year affected nearly a 1000000 people forcing the declaration of a state of emergency in some parts of the country then a plague of locusts in the eastern part worsened an already dire situation the u. N. Describes the insect threat as extremely alarming and president farmers who have relied on their crops fear another invasion as eggs hatch from the 1st wave to the human being ive tried to chase them away but they wouldnt leave theyre everywhere in my backyard in my banco plantation the mangos the papayas the glovers that i plant is what provides me with food and income well i do if theyre being eaten by locusts preventive measures by the government and aid organizations have been imposed to contain the spread of coronavirus they include restrictions on movement making many in need even harder to reach people who are going on just there. Well for more on the how dire the situation could be in many parts of the world lets fake the sarra base of who is the representative of the unicef in yemen she joins us now on skype from atlanta in the United States wedeman thank you so much for joining us here on aljazeera i would obviously like to focus on in yemen with you were just watching the example of south so that yemen obviously a country effectively torn apart by civil war where the Health System already is pretty much the story just tell us briefly how vulnerable the country now finds itself for a potential spread of coronavirus. Thank you bob and thank you for drawing the attention thats really needed for yemen at this time you find that prior to the conflict we had children already out of school and as you see it now with the coronavirus pandemic we have almost 5000000 children who are now unable to go to school where you have a situation in western countries where children can continue to learn Online Children and women dont have this opportunity Health Systems that were already fragile in at the brink of collapse weve been working with other agencies to ensure that we preserve those system so systems are not under threat and with the blockade where you have you have limitations to access to food importations we do not have Free Movement of humanitarian supplies and staffing you can only imagine that the situation in yemen is further exacerbated with the cold it endemic testing is a huge issue that i mean its a big issue everywhere but aden yemen do you get the sense that we actually know how widespread coronavirus and covert 19 are there. Well what i can tell you is that the authorities in the north and in the styles have developed master plans and as you know theres been one confirmed case of corona virus in hydra martin in the south but with that with all size authorities are developing their plans theyve requested the United Nations for support and for unicef specifically were supporting already with risk inform communications were supporting with the Health Infrastructure that we have supported prior to cohabit in showing that there strengthened and working with with you and others who are in the lead on that making sure that we look at how we can continue to maintain our humanitarian response which existed prior to call that which is required doing covert for example Water Infrastructure for example communications at the Community Level but especially intervention such as social safety nets we have emergency cast transfer that reaches almost 9000000 yemenis in at this time between march 10th and april 9th it critical moment in this cool pandemic weve been able to reach those same people who were already vulnerable prior to the conflict and remain further exposed in most vulnerable now during during call that. The u. N. Obviously faces many logistical difficulties in getting help to yemen many of those are of a military and political nature iraq and i ask you details about those but i am going to ask you about funding because already even before the covert crisis there was a Funding Crisis that when it came to the u. N. In yemen of course now countries everywhere were seeing could be facing a recession how difficult is the financial situation from your point of view and what do you think you can do as unicef representing the representative in yemen to try to haifa to to raise attention to what potentially could happen to that country. Well i think a couple of things the International Community as you rightly said had raise harrys concerns around the need for funding increased funding in yemen at the same time there had been issues raised around the need for ensuring a risk inform operation and all of those were underway when called it hit us i can tell you that donors the u. N. International n. G. O. S all concerned making of the International Community and media like yourselves all are galvanizing all efforts to ensure that we get resources into yemen and this is an effort thats ongoing right now in addition to resources we can have all of the funds required right now but there are many things that will facilitate in showing that people are reached and people are peoples lives are saved from from coronavirus we need to have unfettered access to airports and seaports right now for humanitarian supply for the supplies supply chain and logistics to be ensured right now we only have the oman route through salah we need to have airports and seaports open for humanitarian access for staffing and for supplies we also at this point in time need for the International Community to make a loud cry to all of the parties to the conflict were looking at interventions for coronavirus and youre looking at children we recently had a call from the unicef executive director asking for the unconditional release of children in detention when you see the response to people in detention right now around the world theyre furloughs their Early Release is different mitigation measures we need all children who are already vulnerable who are suffering physical mental and Emotional Distress to be released from prison at this particular time a lot of issues and difficulties facing the country as sort of a southern anti unicef representative in yemen we will fall of the situation closely and hope to speak to you again as the develops for the moment thank you thank you very much for having me. U. S. President donald trump says he will suspend all immigration to the u. S. To protect american lives and jobs from the coronavirus the announcement on twitter is the latest in a string of moves cracking down on immigration as the virus spreads in the United States last month all travel to the u. S. From china parts of europe and the u. K. Has been blocked as cross live now to our White House Correspondent kimberly how kids are kimberly do we have a clear idea about how this fan is meant to work. Well the u. S. President or at least his administration their press secretary has been in the sort of trying to explain this to reporters and defending it essentially saying this will sort of respond to the ebb and flow of the pandemic this is they insist a temporary issue we already knew that a lot of the ng aspects of the immigration system in the United States had essentially shut down for example visa processes had been halted there was citizenship ceremonies had been postponed what we expect is that in the midst of all of this there will be some carve outs for some essential workers deemed essential by the Trump Administration for example Migrant Workers will be allowed to continue to work in the area of farm work theyre valuable to make up 110th of the farm working workforce and then also as well as those immigrants who work in the Health Care Field will continue to be allowed in under the immigration system to deal with chronic virus now what the executive order we know wont address is the removal of immigrants that are already in the United States but i can tell you the details that we know this far are not sitting well with democratic critics and capitol hill theyre calling this an authoritarian type move taking advantage of a crisis to advance an anti immigrant agenda but the white house is defending this saying look at we have tens of millions of americans that are unemployed right now the numbers continue to climb in terms of those filing for Unemployment Benefits and right now the president s responsibility is to take care of those americans already here in the United States not the ones that wish to come to this country so they are defending it and we should point out that some polls in the United States seem to show across the board about 2 thirds of americans support this type of action as this country deals with this pandemic ok lets focus then in more detail about how the country is dealing with the pandemic new York Governor Andrew Cuomo is actually in washington to meet the president that relationship. Been strained through much of the crisis so what did they discuss. Well theres not been a lot of detail about this meeting so far were watching very carefully in fact to see if the Governor Andrew Cuomo makes it to the crown a virus Task Force Briefing today that set to begin in the next half hour if its on time what we do know from some of the leaks that have come out of this meeting was about 30 minutes and in it there were essentially discussing the big issue that so many governors are having a problem with with this is ministration and that is testing they say they cant get the access to the tests they need in the quantity they need and that is the message we understand was conveyed by the new york governor we also know they did discuss some of the budget problems that new york is facing given the fact that it is the epicenter still in the United States when it comes to combating coronavirus but very quickly on that issue of testing barbara i can tell you that just passed on capitol hill in the u. S. Senate in the last few moments is a very large legislative package to top up helping Small Businesses that Paycheck Protection Program weve heard a lot about but tucked in it 25000000000 for a National Testing fund this is the 1st step towards getting what democrats been working very hard for and that is some sort of National Testing program that the president was very resistant to so democrats who this is a victory no doubt again were going to hear a lot of questions about that at the upcoming briefing that is set to take place in the next hour absolutely we will be taking the briefing live here and ill just there and kimberly you and i will be discussing what is said there in a little while for the moment Kimberly Halkett thank you. For saying with President Trump hes pledged to bail out the u. S. Oil industry after the u. S. Futures market plunged into negative territory for the 1st time ever on monday. Here over the price of oil so u. S. Stocks open and close in the red for a 2nd straight day that would jones index closed more than 2. 5 percent down on tuesday lets speak to al jazeera as gabriel is on the in new york what did we see happen on the oil markets on tuesday then gabriel. Well the oil plunge really continues u. S. Oil is now about 13. 00 a barrel thats what it closed at thats the w. T. R. The west texas intermediate as its called thats different from brant crude which brant crude of course is the International Benchmark thats about 1000. 00 a barrel so were watching both of these closely but its really the markets here in the u. S. Who are really watching that the u. S. Or oil so closely and thats what essentially went from 0 or less than 0 on monday depending on how you want to look at it barely 13. 00 a barrel so things arent really getting much better. In terms of both of those oils the. The american oil of course is coming from texas louisiana mostly and north dakota and thats the oil that can really help it was mentioning there with donald trump with that tweet that came just about half an hour after the new York City Stock Exchange opened with the opening bell this morning that tweet that came out said he was going to you know help or Oil Producers in the u. S. Because they are absolutely getting destroyed by these low oil prices especially down there in texas in these other places so really no end in sight to that sought to manifest itself in the markets and just you know why dont we get out so these Terrible Oil Prices a story close one wider impact are they having on the u. S. Financial markets we saw yesterday what about today. Everything is in the red the dow dropped about a little over 500. 00 points thats what it was all day all of the s. And p. 11 indexes of the s. And p. All were in the red as well but heres the real critical part what theyre now looking at is oil futures sales for june and july and june u. S. Or Oil Futures Market dropped below 10. 00 at one point on tuesday so what the market was reacting to was many things but the fact that this is going to go on at least for u. S. Oil potentially to june and july and the same time you still have coronavirus no vaccine no proven remedy for it and you have a new u. S. Economy that remains completely shut down no one driving to work or flying and theres a real realization now here in the markets that the u. S. Economy will remain shut down for weeks if not months to come a lot of people are hoping that maybe there could just be a switch that would turn on the economy again but its been clear now for a while particular here on the markets that thats not going to be the case its definitely going to take a while for it to come out of this and were still very much in it at this point yeah not just the u. S. Of course globally Gabrielle Elizondo thank you s