i'm annette young. welcome back to the news room.k before frfrance followows suit and b begins th process o of ending confinement. this as s all three european countries registered their lowest daily death tolls for weeks. >> i hope peoeople will have common senense a and understandt even if we can move around, we still have to be cautious and we must act in a responsible way. i think that everything should slowlyly

i'm annette young. welcome back to the news room. italy is coming further out of lockdown today with spain already on its way. it's a week before frfrance followows suit and b begins th process o of ending confinement. this as s all three european countries registered their lowest daily death tolls for weeks. >> i hope peoeople will have common senense a and understandt even if we can move around, we still have to be cautious and we must act in a responsible way. i think that everything should slowlyly restart. because it's worse if we remain shut down for a long time. >> i'm really placing mymy hopen people's sense of civic responsibilility. and host: that in the coming weeks ththere will be no surge infections. anand that we will not go back into lockdown. annette: joining me now from rome is a professor in contemporary history. as someone who's been living in the world's longest lockdown, what has it been like for you? >> well, it was kind of a -- well, a little bit like being in prison. because the lockdown was very hard. it was

will its young population work in africa can's favor? hello, i'm annette.. welcome baback t the france 24 newsroom. we begin in washington, d.c. whwhere u.s. president donald trtrump is threatening to end american funding to the world health works over itits handlin of the covid-19 outbreak. this after accusing the u.n. body of being a puppet of china. trump saying g he willl permaney end all funding if the w.h.o. does not commit to substantive improvements within the next 30 days. shirley reports. shirley: the world health organization is funded by countries, institutions, and private donors. roughly 20% of its budget comes from flexible funds, which include contributions from member states. roughly 80% of the organizationon's budget comes fm voluntary contributions from either countries or private investors. the u.s. is the top donor in both sources. it pays 22% of assessed contributions. in comparison, france pays less than 5%. according to estimates, the u.s. has paid over the past decade $3.5 billion u.s. dollars to the u.n. body. the world health organ

i got our young man who is 16 years old in norway, who has everything a marine wor during world war ii, including his rifle, his by annette, everything else. i said, don't walk outside if there is a marine around, they might take you that i there. [laughter] but people are collectors. inre is one feather here detroit -- there is one fellow here in detroit or something like that who has collected so much stuff about world war ii that you can't even imagine it, and he has almost created a museum. i am in constant touch with people like that, talking about what they can do to advance the history. the history is being lost. to the everyday man. if they don't go to museums such as yours, the marine corps museum or any other, army museum, navy museum, if they don't go and listen to the lectures given walk-through and final kinds of things than they really will not know what happened. in this case, i don't know, out inthe battles we done fallujah and all the other theys over the, just how will fit in or what will be done with them after it is all over. the expressed interest, i don't think, care much about a lot of this. their l