really check out our talk cast you can get it wherever you go your pod cast you can also follow us and dot com look for inside science. this is day to me is live from berlin donald trump phrases funding the old how will that i say the u.s. president accuses it off covering up the spread of the grown a virus and mismanaged its response to the madness also on the program. as some european countries gradually lifted off downs won't germany follow suit chance of getting tackle and the nation's 16 regional leaders are due to hold

a video conference to decide what to do. and a sad anniversary and paris is exactly a get some fire badly damaged down to feed trolls the place shocked people in france had around the world restore ration but it has so far been snug but a couple of filmmakers have been able to use virtual reality to show how the cathedral looked and how it will look in future. hello i'm christine want to welcome to the program donald trump has instructed his administration to hold funding for the wall of household and isolation mr trump say's the w.h.o. failed in its early response to the coronavirus the us president who has himself come under fire for his had been off the pandemic say that the w.h.o. should have done a better job off and. initial reports in china human secretary general antonio

terrace responded saying that now was not the time to end support for the death he said it was absolutely critical to the global efforts to combat cliff at 19. the w.h.o. failed in its basic jussi to save lives those are the words of president trump a c.n.n. outs to freeze on funding for the u.n. agency today i'm instructing my administration to halt funding of the world health organization while a review is conducted as the organization's leading sponsor the united states has a duty to insist on full accountability well trump has repeatedly criticized the w.h.o. throughout the pandemic this time claiming its bias towards china is responsible for the virus his rapid spread to other parts of the world you had the w.h.o. done its job to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation

on the ground and to call out china's lack of transparency the outbreak could have been contained at its source with very little death trump says the roughly $400000000.00 in annual donations will now be reappropriated though he refused to serve america's relationship with the w.h.o. entirely we will continue to engage with the w.h.o. to see if it can make meaningful reforms for the time being we will redirect global health and directly work with others the us is the worst affected country in the world with more recorded cases and deaths than anywhere else trumps handling of the pandemic has also been widely criticized. and his opponents say this latest announcement is nothing more than a deflection tactic. i'm now joined by

a famous analyst michael wasicka he's in sydney canada hello to you michael is any off donald trump's criticism often justified. of course i've got to be with you by the way he's not the only world leader to come out and speak against the w.h.o. we all know that it's in need of you reforms like many u.n. agencies but now is the wrong time to decapitate the w.h.o. unfortunately i think mr trump is deflecting criticism from his own deplorable record i don't think he realizes that handing handling a health emergency is different than solving a condominium building in new york city he spent a whole month doing absolutely nothing but to tell the deputy joe that their funding is going to be cut in the middle of this pandemic is not only depriving them of badly needed funds but also perhaps signaling to other countries that they

too could deprive the organization of badly needed money as well. but is there anything to the allegation that the devil you know relied too heavily on data from china in terms of its response to the pandemic. well i've been sitting on every briefing pretty much since early january and i have to say that my judgment did drop in early january when they said that china was setting the gold standard in terms of fighting an epidemic or a virus spread we know now that they did we don't really cover up figures and. you know we're late to the game in terms of declaring that there was an emergency what's on your own country so there is a certain closeness that makes this kind of uncomfortable with the show not only with china but with other members states as well which makes them a bit too close to these countries and that's it they don't allow themselves to be hold these countries accountable. so if this funding that f. on the u.s.

desk come through how is that likely to impact the whole help in isolation. i think the symbolism is more important than the dollars and cents i mean the u.s. contributes you know 15 percent or so to the budget and by the way that b.h.o. budget is about the same or actually less than the budgets of many u.s. university hospitals so goes to show you that you know they do a global kind of mandate on very little funds but i think what it really really hurts them is their moral credibility that when they do speak and we've a long way to go in terms of seeing the end of this pandemic when they do speak it may not give them the same more authority as they once did and that would be very very bad and and much of the race that will do now in response to the action that thank you mr president has taken. well i think continue what they've been doing i mean the united kingdom just gave a multi-million dollar donation to adopt

a child to fight the pandemic look where crossing a very important line right now i think in terms of fighting terrorists to run a virus i think what we're all hoping for and praying for is that doesn't really hit hard on a lot of countries with weaker health systems especially in africa because most of those countries have very weak ministries of health and that is where the w.h.o. expertise and you know ability to mobilize will really come into place so god forbid that it isn't able to operate and. that's kevin face and just like a boss accused. time to take a look now at other news around the world south korea is holding national assembly elections with unprecedented measures in place to deal with the coronavirus before being allowed to cost their ballots voters must win last stab at least one need for a pause have

a temperature taken disinfect their hands and break ups. new zealand's prime minister just into our dance says she's she and other top officials are taking a 20 percent pay cut for the next 6 months odd analysts say the staff was a symbolic acknowledgement of the struggle faced by many new zealand is frontline staff will not be affected. and the us treasury department will spend $25000000000.00 to support major passenger airlines and help them with the economic impacts of the coronavirus on travel to mont the country's largest airlines including american united delta and south wales for receive most of the money as grants and some as you know us. here in germany chancellor merkel is preparing to talk to regional leaders about whether to relax the country's walked on medical interest limits on freedom of movement on the march the 22nd initially for 2 beats and then until april 19th but reports suggest

they could now be extended they get in until at least made good a study published on monday called for the measures to be loosened gradually but only when the number of new cases has stabilised at a low level in one 130000 people are infected here more than 3000 have died. and joining me now is to have a new political correspondent emmanuel shah say good to see a man who also social distancing missions could remain in place until may 3rd what else to be already know. well indeed the german press agency say does that was the aim of the federal government to advise for the problem geisha not earth until at least the 3rd of may so this afternoon. we'll need to a phone conference to leaders of the 16 german states to see eve that indeed can be

implemented because it is up to those as to see the head of state is to actually implement the rest to action measures and i think it's fair to say that each region hasn't been seeing eye to eye in that regard for example in north rhine-westphalia which is the west affected region in germany to minister of education saying that she wanted schools to reopen right after the easter holidays so as to not penalize people as students having exams to pass on the other hand. i mean it's our president our very our say that for him and to him it was very unlikely that we would see a reopening of schools anytime soon. he actually contradicts what has been advised by the national academy of sciences which actually recommended a progressive a gradual reopening of schools here in germany so all those matters and it's special to the reopening of schools and other ways of social they stand saying it

will be discussed these afternoon between the chancellor at the federal level and the head of the heads of each. original state east german state to see hard as measures can be implemented ok and what about public sentiment what do people in germany want. well interesting me more than half of the german population actually easier favorable to further the log on to come to nation does restaurant to have measures and even some of them would like more majors to be put in place so that that's not something that will. be taken into account this after these optimistic vision is right that's playful correspondent. thank you now to paris where a year ago today the cathedral of dom was badly damaged by a fire fall to have been started by an electrical short circuit sadly salvage and

reconstruction works are running months behind sched jewel delayed by massive quantities of toxic mid winter storms and now the coronavirus pandemic but luckily all is not lost what remains on film stock you maintain the cathedral one shot before the disaster the other off to wits and enhanced by virtual reality. not true don cathedral the symbol of paris in flames the images from april 29th team savage the world. filmmakers cloues or shirley and victor argue long had been shooting a documentary on the world famous landmark just weeks before the fire. it almost hit the day after the fire we realized that our images are of extremely great value that we captured a moment longer to adama's history that will be able to pass on to the public

whether european american asian or parisian everyone who ever visited has a special memory of not what. they combined footage from before the inferno with nearly shot material to make a 2nd documentary titled rebuilding dr dhar. their images of the current cathedrals interior are the only ones of their kind. elses movies images are even special because they were shot from virtual reality that is in 360 degrees with very high resolution and even. that produces one image for the left eye and one for the right which gives you the illusion of depth as if you were actually there. with a vi headset people can immerse themselves in the world of not sure dumb for 16 minutes motion sensors allow them to move through and explore the structure independently. such an experience in actual reality is no longer possible

not tradition is now closed to the public. it's also a tourist landmark that each year drew millions of visitors of any faith or even without one this is a monument of importance to the history of france and it was important to us to put that across in our film the for their loss. to make his own free building notre dumb acquired a very rare permits to film inside the damaged cathedral but in some spots only one member of the team was allowed the camera robot crumbling walls and high lead contamination posed to greater has it to people in these areas director chloe o'shea is delighted that she managed to be in the right place at the right time with the right technology. now for lots of people stuck at home during the current virus crisis the lockdown is an opportunity to hone certain skills while he is one from a budding golf but in any after many attempts 8 year old nicholas managed to pull

off this team on one cup and getting it to land inside and never has been able to play out goals so for more than a month he's been practicing his endorse shots into this hole in one. show watching the news from berlin remember you can get the latest headlines on the d.w.i. at all on our website and having a dot com for me christine want to add the team thank you for joining us for back with more news at the top of the hour. go beyond your own soledad. we're all about the stories that matter to move. around doing. whatever it takes. to running now.