this is news coming to you live from berlin. freezes funding for the world health organization u.s. president accused of covering up the spread of the corona virus and mismanaging its response to the pandemic has come under fire this is not the logical step by the president. because. in germany or in america.

former british prime minister gordon brown warns that the west will be to blame if the w h o's efforts to help contain the virus developing countries fail or. as some cunto european countries gradually lift their lockdowns will germany follow suit chutzpa come back on the nation's 16 regional leaders are due to hold a video conference side what to do next and in paris it's been exactly one year now since fire badly damaged if you dump the restoration work has been slow but a couple of filmmakers are using virtual reality to show how the cathedral looked and how it will look in the future. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us donald trump has instructed his administration to. halt funding of the world health organization says that failed

in its early response to the coronavirus us president who has himself come under fire for his handling of the pandemic said the w.h.o. should have done a better job of investigating initial reports in china u.n. secretary general and tony harris responded by saying that now is not the time to end support for the w.h.o. he said its work was absolutely critical to the global effort to combat cope with 19. the w.h.o. failed in its basic duty to save lives those were the words of president trump place united states 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 trump has repeatedly criticised the w.h.o. throughout the pandemic this time claiming it's biased towards china is responsible

for the viruses rapid spread to other parts of the world. had the w.h.o. done its job to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to 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 paused and decision drew a sharp rebuke from the german foreign minister. said in a tweet blaming does not help the virus knows no borders we should work together closely against kuwait 191 of the best investment is to strengthen the u.n. especially the underfunded w.h.o. for example in the development and distribution of tests and vaccines. bill gates to call the move dangerous the us is the washed affected country in the world with

more recorded cases and deaths than anywhere else trump's handling of the pandemic has also been widely criticized and his opponents say this latest ones meant amongst him nothing more than a deflection tactic of former u.k. prime minister gordon brown has been calling for a stronger global response to the pandemic and he joins us now from fife in scotland mr brown thanks for being with us what to make of donald trump's decision to stop funding the world health organization where you know on march the 26 don't want signed or communicate that he was present at the meeting of the g 20 when he said he would strengthen the w rituals mandate they would increase the funding for disaster response they would give more money so it could develop a new virus and that would help it deal with the problems facing the developing countries this is not only in a logical step by the president it's an act of self wrong because to protect

ourselves locally in germany or in america we have to act globally and if this disease has a 2nd or 3rd round in africa or in the developing world and then comes back to the west then we will be to blame for not helping those african countries at the w. jurors in total supporting protect themselves when they have underdeveloped health systems and through social social safety nets who count adopt the social distancing or not the measures that we were docked to in the west i want to talk about those african governments those african countries in this pandemic in just a moment but 1st which so national governments leading the response to this pandemic so far have transnational organizations like the w.h.o. or the un failed. i think each individual organizations trying its best but you know when i had to deal with others with the global financial crisis in 2009 we were only able to say we will do what ever it can do which is what you got to be able to say when we brought everyone together we brought the international

organizations i met from the world bank of the u.n. to the w.h.o. but we'd also brought national leaders together in one forum the g 20 and what's missing at the moment is this concert to action together by world leaders and even if america is reluctant to start with and even if china is operating bilaterally i think the european union japan the rest of asia africa pushing us along i think we could get this global coordination and it's necessary one to finance the search for a cure and for a vaccine and from diagnostics and therapeutics secondly to build capacity because we're building each other at the moment for limited capacity we've got to build capacity in test kits and build it and ventilators never thing else and suddenly of course driven the 2nd and 3rd round of disease which has to be done by acting collectively and you recently helped pen an open letter to the g. 20 it was signed by more than $200.00 former world leaders and called for a coordinated global response to the crown

a virus do you think should lead that response. i think we need 2 things 1st of all a pledging conference to deal with the financing of global howth and i do believe that the european union has a major role to play in in leading this bringing and japan canada korea and then bringing in china of america and i think secondly we need a g. 20 task force and we need this coordination 'd on a week to week day to day level if we're going to get the world economy back to growth then there will be a moment when we need to expand demand in the economy at the moment we're in employment protection soon we will have to restore demand and that we were cried coordinated fiscal munna trade and central bank policies and it will also require the ins actually as the 2 sions the i.m.f. and the world bank to be given by the politicians the power in the money that will enable them to support developing country economies g 20 finance ministers are about to release their global action plan as a former finance minister yourself chancellor of aspects checker in the u.k.

do you think that plan should include debt relief for africa i definitely i've got an article in the washington post today with the larry summers which is saying $76.00 of the low income countries in the world should get immediate debt relief well this year and for next year not just for a few months but they are spending more on debt interest payments are the moment when the are on their health systems it is against our self interests that lead not spending on health we have got to help them do that one of the quickest ways is debt relief we will have to decrease they special drawing rights of the i.m.f. we will have to give the world bank and the i.m.f. the power to lend and to grant more money all these things are going to be necessary and it ought to be synchronized and brought together in $1.00 plan and i hope and try to win the i.m.f. and world bank meet they will agree that a plan that includes debt relief is required and has to be pushed forward mr brown thank you so much for talking with us that was former u.k.

prime minister gordon brown thank you. and here's a quick roundup of some of the other coronavirus developments around the world the world health organization says it's certain the world has still not seen the peak of the outbreak it says 90 percent of confirmed cases so far are in europe and the united states a french court has declared has ordered e-commerce company amazon to limit deliveries to essential and to conduct a thorough assessment of health measures at its warehouses finland is lifting road blocks around its capital its 1st measure to ease its restrictions and enough you know in year old man has become the oldest known patient in brazil to recover from the virus he has now left hospital. well with some countries in europe now starting to ease lockdown restrictions the european commission has released preconditions that e.u. member states should fulfill european commission president or slip under alliance or the lockdowns had comet quote an enormous price but they've been necessary here

in germany that the number of new cases has gone up after 4 days of decline the restrictive measures imposed to combat the virus are due to expire on sunday show so i'm going to michael's consulting with the premiers of germany 16 states about what should happen next it's been 3 weeks since restrictions were implemented schools have remained closed restaurants have cleared that tables indefinitely and social distancing has largely become the known now as the number of new cases in germany slows opiate plateauing as a high level the german government faces the grave decision making relaxing measures or extend them beyond april 19th german chancellor angela merkel will discuss the possibilities in a telephone conference on wednesday with leaders of germany 16 states health ministry and spun is already hinted at a rollback but with caveats. we should do it step by step and keep

control over the outbreak and make sure that we're able to keep treating patients patients and 100. suggestions from germany's national academy of sciences will be closely considered in talks including the gradual reopening of elementary and middle schools shops stores and nightclubs would fall or restaurants would open next as long as social distancing was upheld facemasks would be obligatory and publicly available g.p.s. data could be used for contact tracing but according to media reports on wednesday an extension of the current measures until may 3rd could still be on the table either way the consequences could be enormous easing restrictions could risk a spike in cases but there are also economic and societal risks to keeping them in place. and we can talk to frank he's a professor at the institute for psychology at the university of hamburg and

a member of the science academy lippold you know that presented the plan for how german authorities should reopen the country thanks for talking with us professor 1st of all. do you think it's time for germany to start loosening some restrictions imposed because of the pandemic. well on the basis of our a statement and i would not say that it's no time or $100.00 will be time because we gave a framework. about what could be happen and what should be happening but political decisions are dependent on many aspects not just scientific and booked certain interests have to be brought into a proper perspective of course yeah i understand appreciate your perspective as a scientist so how did you and your colleagues arrive at your conclusions about how to go about reopening the country. yeah the group of scientists who coauthored the

statement met over the weekend and daily is june conferences and trusts and smaller groups than with the whole group and finally with the smaller dettori board and all scientists cave in part from their disciplines perspective these are not just opinions all the statements could be backed by references of peer reviewed publications which going to each of the scientists and last but not least the centers of the statement has approved was approved by all members of the group right i understand that fessor it's not so much the process that i'm interested in but rather the criteria how you went about or weighing what should be done 1st and how you made those sorts of decisions yeah i mean in our discussions we had input from different aspects from education from psychological experts and so and we thought for example in the educational area. is needing.

schooling in the normal sense most urgently and these are of course children will have difficulty is in learning anyway and these are possibly also younger people not older because older can also use this tell a teaching folk a you're a psychologist are you worried about the impact that the lockdown is having on people's mental health. yes of course of course this is a situation of severe stress. might be more severe in some families family violence or there might be excess tension threats due to bankruptcy or unemployment and all this will leave marks on those we're software of course and we we have no proper data right now but we know from other areas from studying long term unemployed what might happen and such stressful experience is often lead to

psychological and also physiological diseases. we do not know for the time being how many and whole severely people would be affected. i see these problems coming to us in the european countries but i see even bigger problems mother countries do a lot down and in your for example will put thousands of people into existential borderline situations and they will not die of covert but of starvation professor thank you very much for talking with us today that was professor a psychology professor and member of the academy of sciences here in germany leopold in. a 2nd look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today german police have arrested 4 suspected members of the so-called islamic state officials say the 4 men are believed to have been planning deadly attacks in the country including on the u.s. installations all 4 suspects are from tajikistan. millions of people have flocked

to the polls in south korea's national parliamentary elections with unprecedented measures in place to deal with the current run of virus pandemic the vote is seen by some as a mid term referendum for president when j. in exit polls project his party will win a majority. zealand's prime minister. says she and other top officials are taking a 20 percent pay cut for the next 6 months or during the step was a symbolic acknowledgement of the struggle faced by many new zealanders frontline staff will not be affected. denmark has eased its coronavirus long reopening primary schools and daycare centers today but not all parents are convinced that it's a good move and thousands of children have been kept at home more than 6000 people have been infected in denmark and there have been almost $300.00 deaths although the rate of new cases has been falling scientists point out that children are the least affected by the coronavirus it's back to school for 7 year old from

copenhagen. and sanitizer before going in well there's relief there are concerns many parents are worried schools are reopening too soon so put it more. difficult transition is for us parents we have to hand over our children. that goes against our instincts as parents to protect our children women's rights groups in. denmark is reopening creches some primary schools up to year 5 under strict conditions. there has to be at least 2 metres between death and classrooms many are simply too small for the. most classes into 3 groups that basically means we need 3 times as many stuff so we've brought in all our teachers and some extra ones as well. not all

schools are ready some will reopen their doors in the next few days denmark has a shuttle for getting back to normal the government wants to bring forward its plans to get other areas of daily life going again the politicians will have to work out which ones. the people of sudan in northeastern africa have been marking a year since the overthrow of the dictator omar bashir hopes were high that the nation would be able to overcome 30 years of corruption an economic decline but those hopes are still a long way from being fulfilled as well as economic stagnation sudan is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic now and swarms of locusts eating across you know him caught up with a friend she made there during those heady days a year ago. it was a moment of relief and euphoria. 112019.

protesters in sudan's capital celebrate the removal of dictator i'm going to share . the months they dress their lives on the streets had not been in vain it was there and then that i met mohamed him into a photographer in the middle of the revolution. my pictures of for the coming generations experience of the people in my photos should not. the forgotten why that. was the time of violence authorities often attacked the protesters you know go the government has to bring justice to the people that died we're alive because of them everything that has happened is because they sacrificed their lives for those now considered murders by many are not forgotten but their families have not yet seen prosecutions. i asked prime minister hun duc about this issue back in february. so that the

constitutional committee which is guiding this transition. there's a very clear undertaking that will start bush has to get a committee so let us not jump to conclusions. come talk heads a new government that was sworn in in august. after a transitional deal was struck between civilians in the military. here is in prison for corruption while his former ruling party has been dissolved. sudanese officials have suggested they might even turn him over to the international criminal court for trial over alleged war crimes committed in darfur yet sudan's economy is still dire and attempts to improve things are hindered by the country's continued presence on the usas list of state sponsors of terrorism. many young people who protested and celebrated a year ago have moved abroad in search of

a job mohammad now lives and works in the united arab emirates. and the rise of art but i wanted to stay in my country with my family there were very little opportunity this is a time when sudan especially in needs us. she might not be able to be at home to mark the anniversary but like millions of. the heady days of hope and april 21000 will be next in their memory in life time. in other news turkey has started releasing prisoners across the country and moving to reducing overcrowding and containing the spread of covert 19 the country's parliament passed a bill tuesday for the early release of 90000 inmates rights groups have criticized the bill for excluding journalists and government critics. the owner of the busiest german airport in frankfurt fraport says passenger volume has dropped by more than

60 percent in the 1st quarter the current coronavirus pandemic has all but ended personal travel with most recent daily numbers down 95 percent similar reports coming in from heathrow with a drop of 90 percent in vienna were passenger numbers are down 99 percent. the us treasury department will spend $25000000000.00 to support major passenger airlines in the u.s. and help them whether the economic impact of the coronavirus on travel demand the country's largest airlines including american united delta and southwest will receive most of the money is grants and some low it's. now to paris some story not linked to the corona virus at least not entirely a year ago today the cathedral of notre dame was badly damaged by fire thought to have been started by an electrical short circuit restoration work is months behind schedule delayed by talk sic led winter storms and of course the pandemic as we

wait for the work to be completed 2 films about the cathedral have been released one shot before the disaster the other afterwards and hence by virtual reality. cathedral the symbol of paris in flames. is from april 29th teens satins the. 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 it the day after the fire we realized that our images are of extremely great value that we captured a moment in notre dame'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. a combined footage from before the inferno with newly

shot material to make a 2nd documentary titled rebuilding. their images of the current cathedrals interior are the only ones of their kind. else's money these images are in special because they were shot for virtual reality that is in $360.00 degrees with a very high resolution. 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 head set people can immerse themselves in the world of notre dame 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 sure dummy 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 films like yourself there. to make his own free building not 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. crumbling walls and high lead contamination pose to great to has it to people in these areas direct to chloe is delighted that she managed to be in the right place at the right time with the right technology. in sports the biggest cycling events of the year the tour de france has been delayed because of the public health measures against coronavirus this year's competition was supposed to begin in late june but organizers were forced to reschedule after france extended a ban on public events until mid july reigning champion is now due to get his title

of defense underway on the 29th of august in the riviera city of. a 99 year old war veteran has raised the equivalent of around $7000000.00 euros for britain's national health service after his campaign went birol captain tal more initially aims to walk $100.00 laps of his garden by thursday to raise just over 1000 euros but then his efforts were featured on national television and seem to resonate across the country he's now vowed to keep on walking for as long as donations keep coming in. keep on walking just remember the top story we're following here for you on t w news donald trump has instructed his administration to to suspend funding for the

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