and for more on the story we can speak to our correspondent lisa lewis who is standing by in a paris hi lisa good to see you can you explain what's been happening there this morning because not all of the countries are opening up in the same way. well absolutely so france is divided into green zones and red and one red zone is the overseas territory my yacht where actually no restrictions have been lifted today and then there's also the east of france and paris and it's region and here in these regions in the red zones public parks and schools remain closed for now what's more in paris actually you need to specify specifics of certificated take public transport young rush hours so that is 3 hours in the morning 3 hours in the afternoon at specific times you need to show that you know half have a reason to take public transport because of the the authorities want to prevent the public transport system from getting overcrowded. it's been 2 long months of lockdown there you know what is the atmosphere of fear like there today what are people telling you. well according to a recent poll 2

it's bringing in days every correspondent lisa lewis who is standing by for us in paris. this is a snow reopening of the country it's not all happening at once. absolutely as you mentioned as was mentioned in the piece we just saw before hand france is now divided into green and red zones one red zone is the overseas territory my york where no restrictions have been lifted so far here in paris there is an additional rule in the morning rush hour and in the evening so 6 hours a day you need to have an additional certificate saying that you need to take public transport if you want to take it otherwise you have to pay a fine of 135 years and that's also because here in paris the spread of the virus is still quite fast and authorities are quite worried about the situation. so how did things go today. quite smoothly i must say according to a recent poll 2 thirds of the french are quite right about the lifting of restrictions and you could see that most of the public transport network was not actually at cracking point there were only a few people taking the metro taking the t

good to see you that was the w's lisa lewis there in paris. performing artists have had to get used to smaller venues and audiences than they're accustomed to during the law here in berlin residents of retirement homes have been delighted by visits from one musician who has been able to take his act on the road. an exclusive show for the residents of a berlin nursing home thanks to cameron carpenter and just portable electronic organ. for me it's a great chance to get to play live music for people and in public here in the time of corona that's kind of unthinkable. 32 concerts in 4 days a performance shed chill made possible by sponsors local authorities on the police . the locations aren't publicized ahead of the events to avoid large crowds gathering on the program dedicated to chose to one musical maestro johann sebastian bach. box music is is quite a quite unique it's why i consider him so such an important composer and the best composer that music means that i can cram a lot of quality into a very short amount of time because we only have

s lisa lewis in paris. well china itself is reporting almost no new cases of cove in 19 and the government has been pushing for the economy to fully reopen but how confident are people that they can safely return to what they used as normal we visit one family in beijing to see how they're making that decision a bit of normality for 8 year old moment and his parents as restrictions in china have largely been east people slowly return to their pretty epidemic routines playgrounds and streets fill up shops have reopened even as official propaganda constantly reminds people to stay vigilant this banner reminds the residents be responsible. it's on the surface the epidemics influence on our lives is weakening. but i have the feeling that this isn't over yet it still affects our lives our movements. i've just bought an electric scooter so i won't have to use public transport anymore. this young queen manages an art gallery husbanding house young is an artist even before the epidemic to cold he used to work from

of war this we're now joined from paris by a bit of your correspondent lisa lewis of that with other camps prepared for a corona virus outbreak. well not really if you look at the pictures you can see that the migrants are camping outside yes but they really stick together especially when they're cooking when they're preparing food when they eating and when they're sleeping as well so it would be very difficult to put them under isolation there have been 3 confirmed corbett 19 cases weeks back and 8 workers have told me that several micah's have migrants have shown symptoms that could mean they have caught the disease but that hasn't really been confirmed given that wide ranging testing is also not available for them. it seems people in the camps under pressure from authorities who say they have no legal right to be there but even if they were to leave where would they go well that's a very good question really many of these migrants have been on the road for ages for years for up to 1011 years they've been to other countries in the european union applying for asylum there but were r

correspondent lisa lewis is in paris and we asked her how this 1st day had gone. quite smoothly i must say according to a recent poll 2 thirds of the french are quite right about the lifting of restrictions and you could see that most of the public transport network was not actually at cracking point there were only a few people taking the metro taking the trains there were some exceptions though for example online 13 which clings cents on the knee france's poorest department to the center of parents and where many people actually have to go back to work on that line additionally there was a technical problem this morning that's why the 1st few trains were really packed about apart from that most trains were quite empty people have been reporting that only a few people take it created or to taking trains and there most of them bearing mosques and trying to keep a distance from each other. of the world health organization says it hopes that germany can bring a recent flare up of corona virus infections under control the country has been scrambling to contain locali

but back to the renaissance of the bike is lisa lewis back. in times of k. with 19 magazine was are is all the more happy she bought an ebook like a few months back even better her hometown for tunis who was 3 kilometers outside of paris picked up over half the bill as part of a program to promote cycling to everybody to get out about now used to take public transport to paris but i have now decided to always cycle downtown i'm too worried to take the metro it's impossible to keep a safe distance from other passengers so i feel much more secure on my bike road renewal and cycling is getting easier here paris is carving out 50 kilometers of new temporary bike paths and banning cars from certain streets in cities and regions across france adding the saying setting aside fountains of kilometers for to be traffic. if you keep it in these new lanes are really well done and i'd like them to become permanent it's so good not to depend on the timetables of public transport and you're not being held up by the frequent allays on the metro going it was. what's more the

correspondent lisa lewis is covering events for us in paris how is friends marking this occasion. well as you said is a very downsize ceremony happening at the seans easy in my mcleod the president of france is also laid down a wreath at. the who was the man in power in 1905 when nazi germany surrendered to the allies across france the other really small ceremonies happening may is allowed to put down flowers as at at places of remembrance but on their own without of without any public some veteran as to say sions transmitting ceremony live because they think it's really important to mark this anniversary the 75th anniversary of the end of world war 2 tell us how relevant is this anniversary for the people of france today 75 years later it's in a way very relevant especially to veterans associations they feel saying you know this might be the last big anniversary where there are still people who can say i was there i have seen it and we should mark it what's more in the times of coronavirus here in france about half of the people who died about the 25000 people who died so far of

we'll be doubly correspondent lisa lewis is in paris we asked her how this 1st day go. quite smoothly i must say according to recent poll 2 thirds of the french are quite worried about the lifting of restrictions and you could see that most of the public transport network was not actually at cracking point there were only a few people taking the metro taking the trains there were some exceptions though for example online 13 which flings cents on the new francis pursed department to the center of paris and where many people actually have to go back to work on that line additionally there was a technical problem this morning that's why the 1st few trains were really popped about apart from that most trains were quite empty people have been reporting that there are only a few people taking to protect taking trains and most of them being mosques and trying to keep a distance from each other. he's a nurse in paris we're just crossing this channel from france a british prime minister barak's johnson has published his government's plans for easing the lockdown in england and i

correspondent lisa lewis joins me now from paris lisa what was the french government's reaction to this. well there were and really happy about this obviously the u.s. secretary of state and yes this morning she said actually that that it was unacceptable that a company would put a vaccine 1st on the market in the u.s. and not in europe at the same time and that would depend on money during the day though seems that the government has been talking to said no fee to the company only view they are the health minister here has said that he talked to the c.e.o. in the u.s. and that it looked it sounded to him like that had been some kind of verbal slip really that he didn't mean it that obviously that the vaccine would also be available in europe and the authorities are now trying to calm things down a bit more here in france so does that mean that all this was just a huge misunderstanding. well i'm not sure because the head of france sanofi has said in the news this morning that obviously the vaccine would be available at the same time in the us and on the french and the european market if

for more let's bring in deede of yours lisa lewis standing by for us in paris good morning to you lisa a breath of fresh air this morning in paris but not all the countries opening the same way some areas are being classified as red zones are what's happening in those areas. yes absolutely the overseas territory up for example there the restrictions are not being lifted yet in other areas in eastern france and here in the paris region that means that public parks and schools will not open for now and here in paris during rush hour public transport is more restricted you will still need a document saying that you need to take public transport 3 hours in the morning 3 hours in the afternoon early evening to show that you need to take it and actually for example you go to work because the transport companies here want to limit the amount of the passenger amounts to 15 percent of its normal volume really what's the people what's the government going to do rather to get people back to work projections right now are are indicating that this lack of activity public identity will lead to a con

shelters were bad before but many say the lockdown has made things worse do you have is correspondent lisa lewis visited the migrant camp in cali in northern france and spoke to people there about how the country's response to the coronavirus is affecting them. there's no let up in police procedure even in these times of covert 90 model of whatever we're asked to move on because we want to film what's been an almost daily routine since 2018. migrants are told to move their tens a few meters once the police have left. the migrants put the tents back no one here wants to film their face but the migrants told us they feel harassed. they don't see it as human beings they don't respect my they could buy food if you don't wake up when they come by take away your tent and we have to ask aid workers for a new one and wait for up to a week trying to preserve social distancing here is difficult senator the conditions are bad you know i'm proud of what we're not allowed to go into town this is the beginning of a pandemic we've been stuck in these camps some of us were taken to shelters but we have to stay

earlier we spoke to did have you correspondent lisa lewis in paris and we asked what the french government is doing to help boost the economy which is predicted to contract by about 8 percent this year. the government has already put on the table a package of 110000000000 euros it's helping different companies that are struggling injecting capital it's financing a temporary unemployment and today the minister of economy also said that the government is working on 3 stimulus packages for 3 sectors at the our daughter takes the kind of street and the tourism sector and the government is also working on a specific stimulus package to get the economy back on track in september they are hoping that by then the economy will have reopened completely again all across the english channel british prime minister boris johnson is set to provide further details today on his plan to reopen society on sunday he addressed the nation to announce a roadmap for phasing out pandemic restrictions but many in the u.k. say that shots and speech succeeded only in selling confusion for example on the question of w

ceremonies each year so it is an important day in the life of the french all right our correspondent lisa lewis reporting there from france thank you very much. oh. those are images of a 2 minute silence held in the u.k. to mark the end of the 2nd world war and our correspondent burgomaster standing by for us in london hypergrowth the events are also a bit smaller in the u.k. this year because of the pandemic but how are people marking this day. well exactly sumi not as grand as they would usually be with thousands of people in the city center with veterans walking paused much more small scale and people were encouraged to celebrate at home in my neighborhood this 2 minute silence was observed many of my neighbors came out and i think it was a moment of really quiet reflection and something that brought the country together in a way we also saw the royal air force fly past and throughout the day there will be smaller moments of calm in the ration boris johnson is going to speak there is going to be a nation's toast with people and courage to raise a glass and think about the veterans do this at