this is d.w. years live from baghdad a cautious step towards easing germany's lockdown chancellor machall announces that shops can reopen for next week and schools will reopen gradually from the 4th of may social distancing however will remain for the foreseeable future also on the program. international concern as donald trump says he'll freeze u.s. funding of the world health organization accusing it of mismanagement the coronavirus pandemic but critics say now is not the time for unilateral action.

and it's exactly as since fiat badly damaged paris is not for them cathedral restoration work has been slow so couple of filmmakers are using virtual reality minds of how it used to look and show us how to look in the future. i'm phil gal welcome to the program germany is extending current social distancing measures until the thought of many but steps are being taken to ease the lock down gradually the announcement followed talks between chance of i'm going back on german state leaders that overrun by almost to oust chancellor merkel described the country's success against a pandemic as fragile with little room for maneuver and stress that any further because oxidation of restrictions would depend on the rights of new infections. it's been 3 weeks since chancellor angela merkel announced the initial restrictions

on contact now have been largely extended social distancing rules will remain in place until may 3rd groups will remain limited to 2 people and at least 1.5 metres must be kept from other us. from may 4th schools will gradually re-open 1st for school leavers in primary and secondary education day care will remain shut religious gatherings will also remain banned while major events including germany's beloved football will be called off until august 31st meanwhile restaurants cafes there to cinemas and music venues will keep the shutters down only shops up to $800.00 metres square can reopen from monday face masks are also being recommended in shops and on transport. announced in the amended restrictions chancellor angela merkel warned against complacency but the bureau. what we've achieved is an interim

success no more no less and i emphasise it is a fragile interim success this is now determined our deliberations should be no rushing forward even if it's with the best intentions we have to understand that as long as there's no vaccine we have to live with the virus. it's kind of them you become in the zone located in still 50 controls along germany's land borders with its neighbors in the schengen free travel zone will also remain in place for another 20 days. from now germany will continue keeping its distance the curve may be flattening but the government it seems is taking things slow. because both from the political correspondent song would you welcome song and so those talks between the chancellor states premiers overrun by merely your 2 hours clearly a lot to get through. well indeed there is some sense that there was a discussion even argument to between the different states in germany you've got

slightly different ideas of how quickly they want to reopen schools for instance reopen businesses and what other messages they want to send to their people because you know different states have got slightly different issues there's a staggering of the school holidays in the school exams in germany between the different states and also of course the geographical different differences a country like a state like the varia in the south closer to austria closer to italy which has been particularly hard hit of course it's understandable perhaps that they've got a slightly more cautious approach than some of the other parts of germany in the north the been further away from the senses of the virus. and the the vexed issue of facemasks that this is a recommendation rather than it being mandates that why given that it's supposedly

important. i think one reason is that germany still doesn't have all the mosques it needs the economy minister paid out maya said the other day that germany needs billions of mosques of all different kinds and it's very difficult to get hold of those during the corona crisis so that remains a problem if you're then going to tell people that they've got to wear one and there's also been some argument about whether these cloth mosques that have to be washed and you know have to be disinfected full reuse whether they really work or whether they possibly arouse a false sense of security if people think that they can then forget about the social distancing that of course is really a very important part of the fight against the virus and you mentioned the different states have different priorities so well will these measures be imposed in the whole across the whole of germany or will the various states decide which bits to implement when. there's

a real hope on the part of the government here berlin that they will be able to have a coordinated and indeed united plan and policy because you know any mixing and diluting of messages tends to make them less effective having said that as i say when it comes to schools for instance probably there will be a little bit of staggering in the degree to which each of the regions is able to open up the schools and they will have to do it in a way that they can ensure that the hygiene rules in the distancing is still possible and to some extent that will apply to the reopening of businesses to so at the moment it's a step by step approach and a cautious approach i've about simon political correspondent simon young. now there's been international condemnation of donald trump's decision to freeze u.s. funding of the world health organization president trump accuses the u.n.

body of failing its response to the coronavirus pandemic u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists responded by saying that now it's not the time and to end support of the w.h.o. as its work is absolutely critical to the global effort to defeat covered 19 president trump who has himself faced criticism for his handling of the pandemic and the w.h.o. should have done a better job of investigating initial reports from china. the w.h.o. failed in its basic duty to save lives those were the words of president trump it's 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 criticized 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 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 paused and decision drew a sharp rebuke from the german foreign minister. said in a tweet blaming does not help the virus nor 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 u.s.

is the washed 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 ones meant a month to nothing more than a deflection tactic. of former u.k. prime minister gordon brown has been calling for a stronger global response and speaking to d.w. from 5 in scotland he gave this assessment of donald trump's decision. march 26th donald trump 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 they would help it deal with the problems facing the developing countries this is not only 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 or the w jurors in total supporting protect themselves when they have underdeveloped health systems and through soft social safety nets who can't adopt the social distancing are not the measures that we're adopting in the west gordon brown has a look at some other stories making news around the world a new zealand's prime minister says she and other top officials will take a 20 percent pay cut for the next 6 months to send to our dan said if it was a symbolic of knowledge about the struggles new zealanders are facing frontline staff will not be affected by. a 106 year old woman has been released from hospital in britain after recovering from covered 19 great grandmother conny to chin is but i have to be the country's oldest patient to recover from the disease she said she felt lucky to survive homeless hungry after her month long ordeal. the 1st

flight carrying unaccompanied children from greek migrant camps as arrive in luxembourg a number of european countries have agreed to resettle 1600 children from overcrowded camps on grant island and germany says it will take 50 activists have criticized governments for not accepting more. u.s. senator senator that u.s. senator elizabeth warren has become the latest high profile democratic party figure in toss it joe biden to be the party's president. the rommany was warren who ended her only bid for the white house last month and i'm certain support a video message for mr biden is now a 1000000000 dollars but his major form riot is young now i mean now not tomorrow now and now to paris and a story that has nothing to do with the coronavirus a year ago today the cathedral of not redound was badly damaged by a fire thought to have been started by an electrical short circuit restoration work is months behind shadow i delayed by toxic all that winter storms and now the

pandemic ahead of the works complacent to films about because people have been released one shot before the disaster the other afterwards both enhanced by virtual reality. not true don cathedral the symbol of paris in flames the images from april 29th team sad news the world. filmmakers cloues or slate and victor argue long had been shooting a documentary on the world famous landmark just weeks before the fire. and almost it's the day after the fire we realized that our images are of extremely great value that we captured a moment on notre dame's history that we'll 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

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 images are even special because they were shot from virtual reality that is in $360.00 degrees with very high resolution and even 3 d. 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 60 minutes motion sensors allow them to move through and explore the structure independently. such an experience in actual reality is no longer possible not for dummies 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 an awful stuff there. 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 robots crumbling walls and high lead contamination posed too great a hazard 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. and just a few members ago workers at launch adama mock the anniversary by ringing the cathedral's great board on bad.

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