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 EditorLaura 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 CorrespondentJessica 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 fo