If they can keep the virus in check the germans could resume free travel within the e. U. By mid june. And demonstrations take place across germany against coronavirus restrictions thousands called for an end to lockdown measures. Im nick spicer welcome to the program the bundesliga is the 1st major European Football League to resume play this weekend after a 2 month break due to the coronavirus pandemic all eyes were on the ruhr darby as boosted dortmund thumped shock at home without any fans in the stadium. This doesnt look a sound like you usual going to seek a game bullis your daughter been playing shaka in front of an empty stadium due to the coronavirus pandemic players who didnt start have to wear masks and keep their distance but whats not unusual is some of each machine earning holland scoring goals and 1900 groped a deadlock in the 26th minute for his 10th eve goal of the season and it was a muted celebration with play as unable to embrace one another have. But there was no stopping to outland just before the break they made it to nil thanks to laugh i am paula. And it all started with this nifty pass from you until. The 1st half was one to forget. And so was the 2nd. One picked up exactly where they left off the top and added a 3rd goal minutes into the 2nd half and if that wasnt enough gayo with the brace to seal a 4 nil victory for the black and yellow was. There now one point behind by and munich moment is 80000 but but we knew that we we had the support at home from the fans so we were not. We were never afraid of anything we knew that we are going to win dogman play is kept with tradition and at the match with a celebration in front of an empty yellow wall. And to tell us how it all went down im joined by did davis fall off dorper standing outside the comparatively quiet stadium home to dortmund davis the entire sporting war world has been watching the bonus league is return how successful has it been and what can other needs learn from today do you think. One terms of crowd control it actually works out spectacularly there were some police here in dortmund our little worried that diversity dont want fans wouldnt act here to the player that they gave to their fans of staying home and watching the game on television but they barely any fans showed up sticking to what the fans team said back in march when the game was originally supposed to take place that they would be an intended city game so in terms of people being outside the stadiums and causing issues of trying to get into the stadium things friend rather smoothly this afternoon and for actual buddhist leader give us the goods who won well bruce had peered to have been taking their coronavirus had this little bit more serious than the shock of did because they came out with a for nothing victory in this historic darby between these 2 teams holland actually scored the 1st goal of the bundesliga restart when he connected with a pass and he received government tacked on 3 more after that so they definitely were prepared for this game and much more than a shocker where is there any way of knowing if playing in an empty stadium had an effect on the way the players actually played well actually a lot of these blunders sneak in teams have been hiring bring in special specialists to deal with the the new mental situation of playing games without stadiums that sebastien kayo one of the employees here for posey dominate former players who dont mind captain he actually mentioned that theyve bet brazil dormant players have actually been working on mentally preparing not just physically preparing for when the bundesliga eventually returned so did everything go pretty much according to plan that. Yeah i mean the stewards were a little worried that there was going to be some some far right move there were murmurs of far right movement maybe taking advantage of events to push their own agenda but it was really quiet here outside the c. M. You could hear the faint whistle from the referee henri cheer from the players when the goal was scored but outside of that it was really it was a really quite spring day here outside a signal in a park. All right davis outside the home of boise dortmund thanks for that and here is a look at the results from match day 26 in the bundesliga so far dortmund didnt need fans to dominate shall go 4 goals to nil as we just heard our b. Leipsic in freiburg share the spoils her suburban down hoffenheim 3 nil a scoreless draw for disabled orphan and powder born. Blues to wills berg mentioned blood back when in frankfurt and there is lots of action to look forward to including byron munich at when youre in berlin on sunday now as well as sport germany has taken another major step towards returning to normalcy after months of coronavirus restrictions germany is relaxing checks at its borders with france switzerland and austria and in an even bigger step all border controls have been ended between germany and luxembourg. The border and may be open once again between germany and luxembourg and an easing of coronavirus restrictions but dont relax too much German Foreign minister heiko mass nearly but not quite sure cannes with his luxemburg counterpart shown us a bone at a Border Crossing between the towns of pal and shank an author of the. Star 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 im 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 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 its 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 isnt 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. Kenyas 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 the areas worst hit by the outbreak. In London Police have arrested several people during a protest against coronavirus lockdown measures at least 100. 00 people took part in the demonstration in hyde park. Italy is easing coronavirus restrictions allowing people to travel freely inside their home region as of monday and between region starting on june the 3rd with some International Travel to the treasury will also be allowed and the 14 day mandatory quarantine is being scrapped but local authorities will be able to reimpose travel limits if infection numbers spike. German finance minister olaf schultz is proposing an aid package to help us apologies in the country he wants to invest 57000000000 euros to help cities and towns cope with declining tax revenues and to stabilize their finances germany is facing its deepest recession since world war 2. 1 of the biggest casualties in the krona virus crisis has been a culture and in particular live music and theater although some performances are being streamed online some theater and Production Companies are warning that they may well go bankrupt unless they receive financial help. Alex Forrest Whiting joins me now to give us the measure of the problem just how big is it alex well its a global problem and lets just take one element of life it and its likely to be one of the last sect is to reopen after this crisis now we know that some theaters are already taking the decision to close as one in the south of england that has already gone into administration there are other british that it is that say they are very close to bankruptcy and thats despite the fact that the government is helping those star financially theyre saying its not enough but its not just regional fit theyre also these global Production Companies now earlier this week disney and mounts that it hit musical frozen which has been on board way since 20. 18 will not return now that was taking in around about a 1000000. 00 a week but theyve decided that it is time to properly shut the doors on that which was a pretty significant announcement how many of those stations on broadway turn the lights off if you like at the beginning of march theyre unlikely to reopen until probably mid september and that may well be at the earliest it probably may not be until next year now ok so hopefully one day they will reopen but soon there will have to be a period of distancing so the bottom oslo its a good question because there will be social distancing issues not only for for those people on stage but also for audiences now russias boesch i fear to is hoping to reopen by mid september but the theatres director has already warned that social distancing and other issues could make that a big issue for them would be demolished. A musical theater with mosques and gloves and just incidents of 1. 5 meters is impossible. And you have to remember of course if youre talking about social distancing youre talking about fewer numbers of tickets being sold to people fewer numbers of fewer tickets being sold means less money less money means will Financial Difficulties for these organizations and just briefly to bring it back to germany has a sector fair yeah well there have been process that have been held in germany today outside the finance ministry in berlin a few days ago with activists and musicians there saying that despite the emergency money that theyve been getting from the government they need more and it looks like the government is listening you just said earlier about finance minister show he is saying that he will include arts and culture in whatever money he can next and that is good news ok to diffuse outsourced writing thank you for that. People have demonstrated again in several german cities against the governments coronavirus restrictions despite some of those measures being lifted on friday thousands of demonstrators called for a complete end to the lock down demonstrations have been taking place since the end of march. That protesting against the governments corona restrictions and supporting more freedom once again thousands are gathering in stuttgart families with children corona deniers or people who are afraid of compulsory vaccinations. Its going to fly and we cant be beaten down and have a fundamental rights taken away but this is our lives this is all the deprivation of liberty its manipulating people and frightening entire groups of society thats crazy right by because im the mother of 3 i want them to go totally free as i did i dont want to have to secretly meet up with my trying t. 3 year old daughter across germany organizers have called for demonstrations about Constitutional Rights like here in berlin. And munich only a 1000 people were allowed to the demo but at times more came a demonstration remained peaceful political scientist tom mann of it sees similarities between the protests and the far right picky to me from cover to answer i dont believe that the number of people unhappy with democracy in the governments policies is really risen but the polarized nation between the 2 sides has become huge and has come back again due to the corona process. Experts like mine of its a warning that the protest movement could radicalize you can already see more and more right wing extremists gathering including here in chicago. And a reminder of the top story were following for you the bundesliga is that german football is the 1st major league in europe to restart those spectators are allowed to stadiums but dortmunds and celebrated afford nail victory over local rivals shelter. And this is of course to give you news live from berlin more headlines of the top of the hour meantime you can keep up to date with all the latest news on our web site and stevie dot com on this pfizer extra last. Stand for. Language courses. Video audio. Any time anywhere. W