kate brady hi kate you know germany's government has for years now avoided debt and championed this have balanced budget policy are we witnessing a shift now. we certainly are seeing a shift and it seems that those days at least for now in the initial response to the economic fallout of the current virus pandemic those days of penny pinching or sent pinching at least here in germany do at least for now seem to be over and let's not forget they say a stimulus that was announced late last night after a mammoth 21 hours of talks isn't just the only financial measure that germany's been implemented throughout the pandemic and also in the coming months we also at the end of march saw in the announcement from the german government again a financial aid package to the tune of some 750000000000 euros and we also have seen the german government decide to take a new debt as well a massive to do here in germany so it seems that they really are pulling out all of the stops to make sure that germany's economy the largest economy in europe stays on its feet kate take us through some of the big takeaways of this package. well there are several quite broad wide ranging measures so some of the things that really stand out things like. financial aid for families so families are going to be provided with an extra $300.00 euros per child we're going to see a v. 80 temporarily reduced as well until the end of the year from 19 percent to 16 percent say really an incentive to get german spending again and on top of that as well there's also going to be a government supported rebate for purchases of electric cars and also it was noting included in this package is a 50000000000 euros to address things like climate change innovation and also digitalisation within the german economy so this is already been seen as a chance innovation as well an opportunity to move forward in germany something that german the country's been lacking in recent years and how is this all being received here in germany. well in germany there's been a reasonably positive respons

let's get the latest with our political correspondent kate brady hi kate tell us more about what is being relaxed. well a massive move back towards what was the previous normal here in germany as of the 15th of june border checks on neighboring countries to germany will indeed be lifted so named people in neighboring countries will be able to travel into germany without having to quarantine or undergo any checks when they arrive in the country say they say will also apply to countries across the e.u. and also to people coming in from switzerland as well there is however one exception and that is spain and people flying in from spain to germany they won't be able to do that until the 21st of june which is when spain will also start except in some small numbers of tourists there as well kate we understand that germany's travel warning to most of europe will also be lifted starting june 15th but there are exceptions to that as well tell us more about that. exactly the main exception is indeed spain but interestingly that is going to be a vacation pilot project if you will on the belair of hi

auto industry could not prevail let's get more of the story with our political correspondent kate brady hi kate you know germany's government has for years now avoided debt and championed this balanced budget policy are we witnessing a shift now. we certainly are seeing a shift and it seems that those days at least for now in the initial response to the economic fallout of the current virus pandemic those days of penny pinching or cent pinching at least here in germany do at least for now seem to be over and let's not forget they say a stimulus that was announced late last night after a mammoth 21 hours of talks isn't just the only financial measure that germany's been implemented throughout the pandemic and also in the coming months we also at the end of march saw an announcement from the german government again of a financial aid package to the tune of some 750000000000 euros and we also have seen the german government decided to take a new debt as well a massive to do here in germany so it seems that they really are pulling out all of the stops to make sure that germany's economy the largest

kate brady with the very latest on this story hi kate can you tell us more details about what is being relaxed exactly so as over june 15th all border controls on germany's borders with neighboring countries will indeed be lifted and at the same time that will allow aid to citizens with citizens to travel freely into germany without checks but as you mentioned there are a couple of exceptions it's worth pointing out that controls on flights from spain will still indeed be in place until june 21st but of course all of these relaxed measures and relaxed controls are all subject to change depending on how the situation develops in the coming months when it comes to the $1000.00 pandemic kate germany's travel warning to most of europe will also be lifted starting june 15th but there are exceptions there as well can you tell us more about that. exactly similar rules but the travel warning will be lifted on june 15th both of the e.u. countries for any normal e.u. member states of the schengen zone and also for the united kingdom as well but again spain will only be accepting a limited number of tourists from june 21st except for a large number at least up to almost 11000 german tourists who are going to be able to travel to the belair araik islands particularly to may all car huge tourist destination for many germans every year and so they're going to take part in what effectively will be a whole a day a pilot project to see how people cope with certain social distancing measures and coping with hygiene restrictions that are in place while the pandemic is still going but still while that able to enjoy a holiday if you look at all these measures together if you're in germany

kate brady with more on the story hi kate a richard grenell sparked a lot of controversy during his time in germany why is that a lot of that controversy came off the back of grinnell rather actively advocate in donald trump foreign policy and as you mentioned already very early on during his time in office as a u.s. ambassador to germany he was all public already publicly warning german companies to no longer trade with iran and that was following the u.s. withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal and there's also been rather loud vocal criticism from grinnell over germany's military rather contributions to military spending and on top of that as well he had lashed out on previous occasions over germany's commitment to the controversial gas pipeline the north stream to gas pipeline with russia so plenty of issues there in a very short amount of time to ensure that he didn't make all that many friends here in the political sphere is so what prompted his departure now that we're not completely sure about so we know that he handed in his resignation on monday evening to donald trump but there is a lot of speculation that he will indeed be joining donald trump on his presidential election campaign throughout the rest of this year sorry down the we've seen the last of him just step all right our political correspondent kate brady thank you. let's check in on some other stories making news around the world now al salvador is dealing with widespread damage after a fierce storm swept in from the pacific over the weekend leaving many people homeless 18 people were killed and 7 more are still missing the president has declared a state of emergency. the democratic republic of congo as reported new cases of the deadly ebola virus and declared a new epidemic the health ministry says 4 people have died in the northwest of the country just as it was poised to declare the latest outbreak over and it comes as the country battles the coronavirus with over $3000.00 confirmed cases. italy is celebrating republic day which marks the referendum 74 years ago when italians voted for a republic to replace the monarchy a fly past by the italian air force is the highlight of the anniversary despite some lockdown measures still in force celebrations are taking place across the country. worldwide smartphone sales took a big hit