michael o'connor it's good to have you with us germany has taken another major step towards returning to normal sea after months of coronavirus restrictions starting today germany is lifting border controls with luxembourg it's also relaxing checks with its border with austria france and switzerland authorities say that if they can keep the virus in check germans could resume free travel within the e.u. by mid june just in time for the summer holiday. correspondent busseron hard ease on the german austrian border in the town of kiefer's fault and from where he joins me now boston it's good to see you again and it's clearly a big day where you are the border between germany and austria reopened just a few hours ago. give us a sense of what the situation is. yeah as you can see michael it's fairly quiet there's one car at the checkpoint right now but if you look over here this lane i've been i've been told is up until yesterday this was packed with cars at any given moment because police pulled over every car that wanted to cross the border now they're only checking at random if you do

a michael o'connor it's good to see you with us germany has taken another major step towards normality after months of coronavirus restrictions this weekend border 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

watching the news for all of us here at the news in berlin i'm michael o'connor well stay safe there's more news at the top of the. story so that people the world over t.w. on facebook and twitter up to date and in touch.