are we ready for the next crisis. crash. in 75 minutes on d w. what secrets lie behind us will. discover new adventures in the 360 degree. and explore personating world heritage sites. t.w. world heritage 360 to get enough now. this is news and these are our top stories german leaders are calling for a return to a harder lockdown as coronavirus cases remain high and the vaccine roll out remains slow ahead of uncle americal c.d.u. party says tougher restrictions are needed until the inoculation campaign reaches critical mass the german health ministry says the vaccination program will pick up

pace in april. ukraine has expressed alarm over a large russian military build up near the country's eastern border calling it a serious challenge to security the kremlin has denied its troop movements near the french air pose a threat the u.s. has asked moscow to explain what it's calling provocations on the border. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has appeared in court for the opening of his corruption trial he faces multiple charges including a bribery and fraud because the case it which honors israeli politics is in chaos following another inconclusive election for president rife in a rivlin is holding talks with political parties to work out who will form a new government. is the news coming to you from berlin you can follow us on twitter and facebook or you can go to our web site that's g.w. dot com.

on both sides of the atlantic in the u.s. and the u.k. the speed of corona virus vaccinations is going from fast to faster there are so many vaccinated people that the centers for disease control has issued new travel guidelines in america if you've had the shot you can fly again the british were hoping to hear something similar today when the prime minister announced an easing of lockdown restrictions nonessential stores and restaurants will soon reopen but will there be summer holidays tonight the official line is yes but best not to book anything just yet i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. we don't want to see the virus being reimported into this country and. i think it's

going to take a while for the world globally to do the global travel top schools is going to school later on this week for example to fully vaccinated people. but i love to be able to be able to do more thank you to for example fully vaccinated grandparents and fight at their house speaker in. 98 has my grandfather and i have grandchildren and i have found that. also coming up for practically the entire 20th century polls showed that most americans belong to a church in the 21st century a dramatic departure and exodus from religion. i grew up with race something that my whole life it was my world to me not something that there. were to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day

with britain reopening with baby step. today british prime minister boris johnson announced plans to ease the coronavirus walk down restrictions with the country's vaccination drive the best in europe and with summer quickly approaching there was much anticipation ahead of today's news and there was a good dose of disappointment to the good news is that non-essential restaurants pubs and shops will begin reopening next week but nonessential travel outside of the country that will remain a no go the earliest date for resuming international travel is mid may but even that could be delayed have surges in new infections continue elsewhere now this all means for now going out to dinner yes going on vacation not yet here is prime minister boris jobs i can today confirm that from monday the 12th of april we will move to step 2 of our road map there is absolutely no question of people be

off to produce certificates no covert status report when they go to the to the shop so to the pub. or to the head dresses or whatever obviously we're hopeful that we can get going but only from may the 17th well hopeful but i do not wish to give hostages to fortune or. to under estimate the difficulties it was seeing in some of the destination countries people won't want to go to we don't want to see the virus being reimported into this country from abroad are you let's go now to our london correspondent charles until she is covering these lockdown easing for is tonight getting to you charlotte some flights start with the positives here you will soon be able to go out to dinner again you can get a haircut even if you're boris johnson and you can go to the zoom that's all good

right. right and now you really have to bear in mind here is just some of the background the context of this is well how it's now which is has a huge bearing on how it's being viewed hey in the u.k. i mean they've been months of a very very strict lockdown to say as recently as last month it was only possible to meet one person outside for exercise now we're hearing you to meet in groups of up to 6 in pubs now outside at all costs of boris johnson's latest session what he's calling his roadmap to freedom and he indeed says that he asked me was going to be celebrating this latest step saying that he is cautiously but airboats that they be in the pub on monday next monday when they play sister stiction 7 and i wouldn't be drinking a pint to celebrate i mean you know u.k. has that was the highest death toll in europe and in fact it was just a year ago when this farce johnson himself was admitted to hospital weeks kobus 19

so desperately needed news here in the u.k. the restrictions on now being now we know that is being being fueled by the u.k. very successful back same program in fact overhaul of adults now in the u.k. have received a festus of the vaccine that's 1000000 people have 5000000 have received a 2nd dose and we had just today that said that effort is going to be boosted by 3 testing rapid testing twice a week for everybody in the u.k. so it really is full steam ahead here at the moment but what we don't know is you a nudist to just now is exactly when it will be up to you to travel for the holidays. through airport today she did statement saying that they were disappointed in the lack of clear the coming from the prime minister this means simply put they want people to fly again yesterday. well of course and i'm

sure you can understand it is the same everywhere in the well but they've been restrictions on travel so a good deal of disappointment not just from the in the aviation industry which was hoping for more clarity but also of course from countries which benefit from tourism take you from british tourist given the speed as a vaccine program that when many countries spain for example he was saying that the verses stories in british tourists would be sort of a shining light and what could potentially be quite a dog on the given the but the way that sweeping across all the parts of europe now is that of those giving a date on on when international travel would resume doris 1 jones and said the prime minister has said that it was too soon to say at the moment non-essential travel is legal now because british tourists and the reason that he gave is just too much concern at the moment about the risk of new battery and potentially squandering all the banking efforts that have been taking place in the u.k.

undermining the feinstein program now the one bit of clarity that we did get was it's been confirmed that there will be a trust that client system introduced when travel regimes that would be sort of a red amber or green system web by though be a different rules for different countries based on their own bank scene programs and they're going to see fit that if he's the genome sequencing testing for a new battery and so potentially countries like the u.s. israel could be on the greenness making travel and little bit easier but as you say at the moment tourists here in the u.k. are being told not to because holidays you know joe we've got about a minute left talk to me about the plan for vaccine passports and why is there already opposition in parliament. yeah about 6 training a controversial picture of this issue of domestic boxing possible internationally it's generally accepted that there might have to be some sort of crisis criteria went by people have to be vaccinated travel but the big question is do you need to

be vaccinated 20 pop in the office about is if currently 'd on clay but the opposition from across the us a full spectrum of civil rights groups as well is based on the idea that it could be discriminatory how can you not allow people who are contacting to medical reasons to access the same things that people who are vaccinated offer that clearly is going to be something that proves continues through to be controversial in the weeks ahead all right our very own show the children people with the latest tonight from london and charlie as always thank you. what's not we can say with certainty that germany would willingly trade positions with the u.k. when it comes to corona virus lockdowns vaccinations remain slow here the number of new infections continues to rise and now there is talk 'd of a tougher and longer walk down today the head of germany's conservatives and a possible candidate to be the next chancellor proposed what he calls

a bridge to carry the country until most people are vaccinated now this could mean a lockdown for all of me in june with nightly curfew. may not shoot during a visit to a vaccination center last week the approach of him and other state premiers to the pandemic so. he solve it would return a call for more talks until the measure is. and that's why i think we need a bridge lock down. we have to build to preach to the point in time where a lot of people of oxen a tilt. i know a lot of people are tired of the pandemic but also because a lot are ready to go a step further i mean shit so in. that it wants more people working from home and stricter curfews put this few restrictions as possible for schools and kindergartens he says he has allies including the chancellor but not everyone is on

board. disclosure i think a lot of what mr lasher says is unclear bridge lock down the temporary with what measures are not supposed to go on until many people have been facts native what does all that mean i don't think it has thought things through so i can't see any point in calling the state premiers back for talks earlier than planned so in a minister position conferences. for problem is simply the time we've lost one for a month we've known that the numbers are going up so it's clear that we need decisive measures now. and she can amass. the man next to last it is a leading german intensive care doctor and he warns. the need for the next fortnight or so we expect the number of infections will continue to grow we'll have 5 or more 1000 cope with 1000 patients in intensive care the situation really is very dramatic you know august as a. lot of. the health minister says vaccinations will not break the

3rd wave only about $10000000.00 germans have had their 1st job so far. i my next guest is dr eric dane he's an epidemiologist and senior fellow at the federation of american scientists he joins me from washington d.c. tonight it is good to see you again german leaders are as you heard there calling for a harder lockdown calling it a bridge to carry the country until enough people have been vaccinated i mean what's your take do you think a bridge too late or is a bridge to nowhere well certain things are water under the bridge but right now we do definitely need to lock down because you know germany is a possible rise soon you know its neighbors are having huge huge rises just cæsar it's in for example in hungary in oman and also in france so i think right now stopping the transmission before this gets out of control is so critical especially

with the more transmissible be 117 that is surging in numbers and replacing the old stream and also p one strain that's now circulating through many go corners of the world not just in brazil is series a critical critical time in germany is not about seen. nation countries hungry in many other countries are actually ahead of germany so germany has to be very careful at this stage and since let me ask you about the united states over the easter weekend the number of passengers flying hit a new pandemic high there are still areas in the u.s. with surges in new infections of well what are you expecting to see in about 2 weeks' time from now. you know every month predicting that there will be some kind of increase does more dramatic in the coming weeks and us where are you seeing the majority of states to go into states actually seeing increases last week compared

week before and i think this is just the tip of the iceberg u.s. is definitely not out of this but hopefully with the vaccines are rolled out really being so fast and so our u.s. can get ahead of it and hopefully temper whatever small surge it will be us is actually at well over 3000003 and a half 1000000 people a day and that that piece us could be catching up with ultimately by this summer potentially herd immunity love but we're not there yet and herd immunity only guarantees that you can slow and surging epidemic from peak it does not mean that you can stop it right away and that's what we have to really mitigate before we get to that nation in a speaking of airplanes and air travel the c.d.c. the centers for disease control has issued new guidelines for vaccinated people who want to travel is this

a green light to go. i think don't mess to travel is still tricky i would encourage people to watch how are you. is the case is surging and where you want to go and if you are also in one of those places with i number of cases a caution that is very risky i still think that it's best precaution is to stay home as the as close to where you are as possible c.b.c. they are encouraging more busy you know especially people who are vaccinated there relaxing lot of measures in certain ways margie's measures are misunderstood when they say vaccinated people can't be together now elderly people who are vaccinated now going to bars and i don't think that's really a good ideas. protects you from illness but he still has a small chance that you can still be transmitted transmitting it and carry especially to those who are not vaccinated yet when you still have to be very

careful is there a communication problem there could be that but what you're saying that you know it is you and i know that but there's the public know that all of these nuances that come attached to this vaccine. yeah the nuances are because somewhat lost like for transmission we know that you will stop about 75 to 95 percent of all transmission depending on the rock scene but it's got its last minute you will think oh vaccine you're protected now you're protected message is completely lost and also just so you know the one segment in some studies. it's the protection against some of these other variants is not nearly as high as we hope it is and so we have to be extra extra vigilant especially since we don't have enough sequencing people just don't understand people here must use whatever you show them out of you don't want one driving down the road at high speed but they don't pick

up the new ones in the nuances you're still potentially trans many please stay home or we are not asked $35.00 being as always they're going to start with you we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you hungary has one of europe's highest per capita coated 19 death rates and that despite being one of the european countries with a relatively high vaccination rate something somewhere is not working but leaders in budapest apparently don't want the media to report it that way hungary's government is clamping down on independent reporting connected to the country's vaccination campaign and the number of hospitalisations d.w. correspondents on if a char spoke with one doctor who told her it is clear there are 2 stories being told here the government's and then there's the reality soldiers money for people checking into this hospital treating patients when we

start to film the building go there and do you go to the thing over there they ask us to film the parking lot according to staff inside the hospital is that capacity . one doctor has to take care of 10 patients and is in short supply these are just some of the claims for hearing from inside the hospital from a doctor but we cannot verify these claims as. independent media from entering that doctor is. we need him after his shift 120 hour working reeks of the average now he says but the hungry and government says everything is under control. every effort a lot from the prime minister for those who get sick you shouldn't worry they will be cured that we have strong medical staff. every day we are left wondering why did we not have time for today. that most of his colleagues don't want to talk in

public because they are worried about repercussions we need to reach to people and tell them about this illness not to create panic but you see the people around them this is what this is about and this is why. i wrote in an open letter to the government a large number of journalists requested access to hospitals. prime minister viktor orban responded in a televised interview. this is not the time to go inside hospitals and produce bogus videos and fake news. is a photojournalist he too would like to show what's happening in hungary right now stop filming the hospital this is a public space or it's a very common situation says martin. sam attaché after he asked this affects to people who want to know the real situation inside hospitals we know that more than 300 people died today it's our job to tell the story behind those numbers.

as a form to fill out and put them again but. meanwhile many young people in hungary are starting to shed their masks without knowing what's really going on in hungary hospitals to them it might seem as if the pandemic is already over. i think your scriptures were called to be. a people of community and many would argue. with all of the electronics we can have community separate and we've done very well as a society doing that over the past year but it's being together. where we can hear and see and smell each other where we can commune together we haven't had communion for over a year. well that was craig foster the deacon of the trinity episcopal church in columbus ohio speaking about easter sunday services that was that church is 1st in person service in more than a year a cup of 19 is of course

a challenge to congregations of any creed but it's not the only challenge for people who consider themselves religious for the 1st time in more than a century the number of people in the united states who think of themselves as members of a church a synagogue or mosque it's fallen below 50 percent a new gallup poll shows a dramatic drop since this century began 20 years ago 70 percent of people belong to a house of worship a number that remained unchanged for decades but by last year membership had dropped to just 47 percent and that's also roughly the same percentage of people who say they consider religion to be important. and my next guest has dedicated her career to studying america's religious congregations and she says the growth in religious lee an affiliated people is no surprise nancy ammerman is an award winning author of numerous books including her 2013 book sacred stories spiritual tribes finding religion in everyday life is a mormon was also

a sociology professor and recently retired from boston university and she joins me tonight from the great city of boston and it's a moment it's good to have you on the program gallup says church member church membership. numbers were constant for 80 years and around 2000 the numbers began dropping do you know why. well i think there are 2 primary things driving that particular trend one is actually a basic a background context is that membership in form organizations has really begun began to decline in the seventy's and eighty's the sort of don't trust institutions attitude of the vietnam war era years and the years after that have seeped into american culture so that people simply aren't joining anything as much as they

used to but driving the particular religious aspect of this are 2 important trends 0 one is simply what we call cohort replacement that is older people who are much more attached to being members of congress geisha ins or of any kind of organization or timing off and younger people who've been much less attached are coming into the population in greater numbers so you get an overall decline but the really interesting thing about this trend i think is the link between that decline and the kind of public perception that religion equals conservative politics and that really became very strong by the neck 190 days people began to see you know i don't want to be religious because

that would align me with these people who don't believe in 1st control or don't believe in same sex marriage were don't believe in lots of things that i think are important so that so is the politics that in the country that you're saying it has maybe turned people off 'd to being members of a church or synagogue or mosque. we actually have really good research that that backs that up. a number of studies have shown that there is this link between seeing religionist wanted to conservative politics and. ceasing to be affiliated with a religious tradition i know that you are the daughter of a baptist preacher and so there are so the southern baptists they remain what is it the the largest protestant denomination in the united states 2nd largest christian

denomination after roman catholicism have the preachers have they led their congregations to the future or have they led them to nowhere i would say that those eventually go preachers like the southern baptists certainly are have led their congregations into what a no win position they're defending aspects of culture in that the vast majority and certainly the increasing number of younger people are not aligned with and in spite of the front or so visible and maybe even because their stuff is old they are. turning people off from you know religious membership yeah yeah it is this is why i should just get out of southern baptist ok ok good i would be that in your bio that you were not but but you were a preacher's daughter i said i had to bring that up people would love that they had

their man we appreciate your time and we appreciate your sharing your thoughts with us tonight please come back when we have more time we'd definitely like to talk with you again sure happy to do it thank you well the day is almost done but the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at u.w. news or you can follow me at brant go off t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody. oh boy. oh. boy.

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