the age of the coronavirus pandemic that's one chancellor angela merkel and french president emmanuel mcconnell have been discussing near berlin today the latest acknowledged differences between a u. countries about the most viable approach when germany takes over the rotating presidency of the european council this week it will try to pull the union together to support a budget and recovery front is what merkel had to say in the coming months we are going to work together and to make sure a fit for tackling this crisis this crisis that's going to last. only germany. to take over the rotating presidency on july 1st and i am very happy that we agree. on the challenges that we want to master them together and help each other. the expectations are high and of course we know very well when france and germany agree that does not mean that the whole of europe agreements but when france and germany don't agree then there is no agreement in europe so maybe when we agree on several questions we can also contribute to more positive in the right direction for the european future. political correspondent h

sweden french president emmanuel colon is claiming the country's 1st victory in the fight against covert 19 restaurants and cafes operating operating at full capacity boss mcconnell is cautioning people to be vigilant. well the u.k. is still working to contain the virus england is easing restrictions anyway allowing non-essential businesses to trade again wells in scotland are still waiting to hear when stores they can open to haul it joins us now from london's oxford street journal one of the busiest shopping streets in london is there much excitement at the out of these shops. there's been quite a deal of excitement at some stores large queues outside nike town for instance that snaked around the block 2 hours before the shop even opened but otherwise i mean take a look at this street as you say ordinarily one of the busiest streets shopping streets in the u.k. it's not certainly that today the bustling throngs that you'd expect to see are not here most of the shops the big ones are open a lot of the smaller ones simply aren't it's the next sort of tentative step if you like in the u.k. or england particularly journey out of lockdown allowing retail stores to o