lift lifting the restrictions to france to austria to switzerland deeply convinced this is a very important signal especially for those citizens who live next to the to the borders and certainly in a lot of reach and. the economy is linked to each other very intensively and it's very important for the people on both sides of the border that we lift these restrictions now mr my you're from the c.s.u. this is the ruling party and the biggest party in the state of bavaria and bavaria as we've been known to many of our international viewers is really a tourism hot spot not just within the e.u. but also internationally are you under any pressure from the tourism industry within a very all from a neighboring austria for instance to try and open the borders. certainly we are in a very intensive dialogue and discussion with the tourism industry but on the other hand. i'm deeply convinced that everyone understood that we had to impose this boss to restrictions and all the and also to impose these border controls because specially in austria and italy there was in a very dynamic spread off the corona

freedom of movement but the coronavirus put a stop to that cross border travel to neighboring austria switzerland and france was limited to those with an urgent reason to move now the interior minister has announced a road map to get the roads open again. that is simply that if people continue to show discipline observe the hygiene rules and wear face coverings then in spite of the easing of restrictions during may not only here but across europe we can foresee that the borders will be open on the 15th of june. 5th and 6th. race if a. border points which were closed completely will be reopened and there will only be random checks by police all 4 countries have agreed to review their policies in mid june and there are hopes of freeing up travel to germany's other neighbors as well but the minister warned if the virus spreads the rules could change again that is in line with the cautious exit strategy set out by angela merkel on wednesday the chancellor was facing questions in the bundestag the unknown is that now it's a lift if not accepted all these previously unimaginable limitations in our live

borders to help revive the continent's summer tourist season and battered economy france austria and switzerland say that they'll start relaxing their coronavirus closures as early as this weekend germany and some other e.u. states will open their borders by june the 50 s. others though are not convinced spain which has the world's 5th highest death toll plans to keep its borders shop until at least july thousands of people in england meanwhile have gone back to work for the 1st time in 7 weeks but leaders in scotland wales and northern ireland say it's too early to relax restrictions and china has placed a 2nd city under lockdown this week after a cluster of more than 20 cases were discovered in jean well the european union's a summer holiday season is worth $160000000000.00 with tourism providing 15000000 jobs and the e.u. says the industry is at risk of collapse unless urgent measures are taken that the reports from paris. a glimpse of war going on a holiday in some parts of europe will look like this summer barriers separating sun loungers on the greek island of santorini not the beach exper

in switzerland smiles and celebrations after it opened its borders with germany and austria and now unmarriedcouples in long distance relationships can give united once again previously only people who are married live in a registered partnership or have children together could dentist switzerland and in austria tight security remains on its border with germany but despite relief that the crossing is open once more travelers still have reservations. asking me to stay as it's for me this has been a real challenge because me my girlfriend are expecting a baby and she lives across an order in bavaria. up until now we could hardly meet if i was going to get easier now in. europe isn't in the clear over the covert 19 pandemic yet but at last there seems to be something to say cheers about. time now to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. kenya's president hu of kenyatta has announced that the country will close its borders with tense india and somalia in a statement on saturday he also extended an existing dusk to dawn curfew and a ban on movement in and out of th

control says some of germany's neighbors are being eased this includes luxembourg france austria and switzerland the goal is to resume free travel within the e.u. by mid june just in time for some holiday but it all still depends on keeping the virus in check. the endless beaches of france and the majestic mountains of austria in any normal summer german tourists love to head for these and many other european beauty spots but because of the corona virus the route to germany's neighbors has been blocked at the borders for many the pandemic has given travel a new importance. just gets a lot of courses about our health all around the world but they can't take away our freedom to travel and not because of corona or an economic crisis and of the tough to do that but in front of i'd like to go to spain i don't yet know if that's possible it depends if the spanish open their border at the moment there's no sign maybe we'll know in 4 weeks if you will. but there is a sign from the german government how it plans to reopen its frontiers the border with belgium and the netherlands was never closed from tod

in switzerland smiles on celebrations off to is hoping its borders with germany and austria and now unmarried couples in long distance relationships can be viewed united once again previously only people who are married live in a registered partnership will have children together could anticipate finland and you don't stray a tight security remains on its border with germany but despite relief that the crossing is open once more chapman is still have reservations. after me because this is for me this has been a real challenge because me my girlfriend are expecting a baby and she needs a cross and in bavaria. up until now we could hardly meet i was going to get easier now. to. europe isn't in the clear over the covert 19 pandemic yet but at last the seems to be something to see about. oneself and let's have a look now at all of the latest developments in the krona virus endemic spain's government says it will seek a fresh extension of its state of emergency that will last about a month until the transition out of walked on is completed british researchers are launching a trial to see whether d

basically as of saturday may 15th there will be relaxed controls on the borders of france switzerland and austria and on the border of looks and border controls will be completely lifted and that could also be the case even with denmark as well but the whole civil for and the medical research as well during the chances question time that the plan is to have you free free travel across the e.u. by made june but of course in the meantime germany's global travel warning still remains in place around our political correspond kate brady there for us thank you . as germany and many other countries across europe loosen lockdown measures the aviation industry is preparing for a resurgence in passenger numbers depending on the airline that could mean a radically different airport and on board experience let's take a look at what taking to the skies might involve. flying during a pandemic passengers on board this booked out ryanair flight from london to lisbon may have been wearing masks but they weren't able to keep much distance from each other. all over the world airlines are having to contend with the

cross-border travel to neighboring austria, switzerland, and france was limited to those with an urgenteason to move. now, the foreign minister has announced a roadmap to get the roads open again. >> [speaking for language] >> if people continue to follow the distancing rules and where face coverings, we can foresee that reporters will reopen on june 15. border points which were closed completely will be reopened and there will only be random checks by police. all four countries will agree to review their policy in mid june and there are hopes of freeing up travel to germany's other neighbors as well. but, they warned, if the virus worsens, they will have to change again. >> if the picture worsens in the coming weeks, we will have to be prepared to react. that is in line with the cautious strategy set out by angela merkel. she was facing questions in the bundestag. translator: we have not accepted all of these limitations in our lives including temporary curves on our rights only to risk sliding backwards now by dropping our guard. it would be depressing if we had to return to limitatio

months of coronavirus restrictions germany is relaxing checks at its borders with france switzerland and austria and on saturday germany's foreign minister went to the border of another e.u. country to mark the lifting of all restrictions there. the border and may be open once again between germany and luxembourg and an easing of coronavirus restrictions but don't relax too much german foreign minister heiko must know early but not quite sure cannes with his luxemburg counterpart shown us a bone at a border crossing between the towns of pal and shank and. author of that name will start border controls for denmark in the next few days and from june the 15th there will be no more checks at the borders with france austria and switzerland i'm hoping that the border controls that the polish and czech friends currently do have will also be lifted in the forseeable future. however both warsaw and prague say they are keeping the restrictions in place for the foreseeable future in switzerland smiles and celebrations after it opened its borders with germany and austria and now unmarried couples in long di

in switzerland smiles and celebrations after it opened its borders with germany and austria and now unmarried couples in long distance relationships can be very united once again previously only people who are married live in a registered partnership will have children together could dentis with them and and in austria tight security remains on its border with germany but despite relief that the crossing is open once more travel is still have reservations. they have to make it as it's for me this has been a real challenge because me my girlfriend are expecting a baby and she needs across an order in bavaria. up until now we could hardly meet i was going to get easier now in. europe isn't in the clear over the covert 19 pandemic yet but at last there seems to be something to say cheers about. people have demonstrated again in several german cities against the government's coronavirus restrictions this. some of those measures being lifted on friday thousands of demonstrators in cities it's in stuttgart munich berlin and duesseldorf called for a complete end to the long protests have been held s

lifting some travel restrictions germany says that it wants to reopen its border with fraud switzerland and austria and britain and france say that they won't impose quarantine for now on people traveling between the 2 countries paris is one of the world's most visited cities they look down has been eased but more humans museums hotels and restaurants remain closed the french government has advised people to holiday in france this year after 2 months a home some people can't wait to travel. abroad and friends will be a valid i have a holiday home in spain and want to go but for now there are restrictions but i want to go we can't stop living more than $6000000.00 tourism jobs in need you could be lost unless the industry is revived the european commission says the challenge is to encourage the sectors recovery but prevent a resurgence of corona virus cases or risk is spreading even further across the bloke who talks about how just 0 powers the u.k. economy shrank by 2 percent in the 1st 3 months of the year and there were fears it could get much much worse on wednesday some versions of return to th

france, austria, switzerland say they will start relaxing their coronavirus closures as early as this we can. thousands of people in england have gone back to work for the first time in seven weeks, but leaders in scotland, wales, and northern ireland say it is too early to relax restrictions. u.s. president donald trump has expressed surprise at a warning from one of the country's leading infectious disease experts. anthony fauci says there are dangers in reopening the economy too soon. in other news, the fragile peace process and afghanistan appears to be unraveling after toussaint's attacks on the maternity hospital and funeral which killed 56 people. the president immediately ordered the military to resume operations against the taliban and other armed groups, but the taliban denies responsibility for either attack, blaming both on isil and says it is ready to fight back. >> survivors of the suspected suicide bombing at a funeral struggle to contain their grief and anger. >> my brother is male was standing next to me when i heard the bomb blast. i saw several dead bodies on the gr

some bug lifted and also a number of the restrictions lifted between travel from germany to austria switzerland and france from saturday you're allowed to make business trips and also travel to meet family what we're hearing from horse and see a hope for the interior minister though is he wants to see all of those restrictions to those countries removed by the middle of next month and it by that date of june 15th that he also wants to see travel from the united states and russia or in other countries allowed to come back to germany what we also saw over the weekend was the return of football here in germany the bond as leader is back albeit with no fans in the stands and social distancing protocols in operation for coaches and other stuff fantastic for many of the union berlin did lose 2 nil at home to buy in munich good to see in the end anyway football fans certainly happy but not everybody happy across europe we saw another weekend with another round of protests with tempers flaring here in germany and elsewhere across the continent as well. well when it comes to lifting restrictions politic

preserving application which is currently i mean our design is just kind of choice from germany austria switzerland or stone you know that yeah i'm more countries that have yet to declare. the reason we do this is because we strongly believe it should be voluntary i strongly believe that we've also written a draft law for the u.k. that indicates that and the only way you can do that is if people truly have the trust of them of especially privacy and security checks that say this is an ok thing to use and you don't have that trust your developing a core system you might have to make it mandatory and then you get the worst of both worlds. but joshua if it is only voluntary it's not going to be as effective as it could be is it. it's not necessarily a tradeoff that we would make willingly. the tradeoff between. giving up your you'll move some of your privacy for something that may. or may or may not actually help in contact tracing is is still something that is. and individual records concerned should be down to individual goals to make choice not to the state will the collective as a whole there are

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traffic to flow but needs more time to work out the details germany's borders with france austria and switzerland will 1st see looser controls than at present if there's no new major spread of the virus the checks will be completely lifted in me june. the borders with poland and the czech republic have not been closed by germany but by the governments in warsaw and prague those 2 countries are not yet ready to open their front is to germany but berlin is hoping to persuade them beyond certainty has made some germans rethink their plans. based thinking that i think i'll just work a lot this summer and then go away in the arctic and i hope i won't take a holiday this year it makes no sense my friends and. there's still a long way to go until europe's vacation hot spots of crowded from this weekend germans who want to travel at least have a timetable for when they will enjoy freedom of movement once again. well stephan meyer is a junior minister in germany's interior ministry we asked him whether now was the right time to relax border controls we are successful in our containment policy or with rega

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german interior minister abbas they hope by says agreements have been reached with france switzerland and austria to ease travel restrictions starting on saturday a border checks with luxembourg will be entirely lifted from that day and similar measures are being discussed with denmark germany closed its borders to all but essential travel almost 2 months ago. or more before groom our political correspondent kate brady is following the story for us hi kate give us the latest on this announcement. well that press conference where these measures are being announced is just coming to an end right now a lot of the details still being questioned but what we know so far is that indeed as you say there will be a relaxed border checks the in the coming days out of the 15th of may with friends austria and switzerland but there will still be some checks in place but with look some back however all of the border controls are being lifted and we can expect to see a similar situation with denmark as well for the german interior minister said that that would most likely be possible once denmark has finished it

traffic to flow but needs more time to work out the details germany's borders with france austria and switzerland will 1st see looser controls than at present if there's no new major spread of the virus the checks will be completely lifted in me june. the borders with poland and the czech republic have not been closed by germany but by the governments in warsaw and prague those 2 countries are not yet ready to open their front is to germany but berlin is hoping to persuade them you know uncertainty has made some germans rethink their plans. they stick but i think i'll just work on this summer and then go away in the autumn i hope i won't take a holiday this year it makes no sense. there's still a long way to go until europe's very cation whole sponsor crowded from this weekend germans who want to travel at least have a timetable for when they will enjoy freedom of movement once again. well lots of restaurants cafes and hotels have started to reopen across germany mounted so welcome relief to some in the hospitality industry a choosing to stay closed i did abuse our next forest white house welcome