hello, i'm kasia madera, this is outside source. 75 years on from a turning point in world war two — d—day is being remembered. the queen has been joined by other heads of state and government — to pay tribute to those who changed the course of the second world war — injune19li4. it is with humility and pleasure on behalf of of the entire country, indeed, the whole free world, that i say to you all... thank you. doctors say at least 100 people are dead in sudan — with a0 bodies pulled from the river nile.

the military council calls for an investigation. and australia's public broadcaster abc has been raided by police investigating the leak of classified material. news organistaions — including the bbc — are calling it an attack on press freedom. 75—years—ago british, american and canadian forces were given the go ahead to invade northern france and liberate nazi—occupied europe. d—day was the biggest combined land, airand naval operation in history, and — one of the most decisive moments of the second world war. today, veterans and world leaders gathered in the portmouth, in the south of england to remember. the queen arrived for the ceremony —

and met president trump, and representatives from the 16 other countries that fought alongside the uk. veterans were at the heart of the commemorations. they received a standing ovation from the audience as the took the stage. all of these men are now in their 905. it was a day of tributes and reflections. world war two—era planes flew over portsmouth during the ceremony. there are events in normandy too — with a team of british war veterans skydiving in tandem into historic drop zones. some of the fearless veterans whojumped are in their 90s — including this man, jock hutton. he is 94—years—old. 2,500 americans died on d—day — the second worst day of losses

for the us in world war two. president trump called it one of history's darkest hours. here's more of what he said at the service. almighty god, our sons, pride our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavour. a struggle to preserve our republic, either religion and our civilization and to set free a suffering humanity. britain lost 1500 men on d—day. prime minister theresa may read a love—letter written by captain norman skinner — to his wife gladys, on june the third. he died with it in his pocket. my darling, this is a very difficult letter for me to write. as you know, something may happen at any moment.

and i cannot tell when you will receive this. i had hoped to be able to see you during last weekend. but it was impossible to get away. and all the things i intended to say must be written. captain skinner died without letter in his pocket. captain skinner died without letter in his pocket. the queen also paid tribute at the event, by describing her wartime generation as resilient. it is with humility and pleasure in behalf of the entire country, indeed, the whole free world, that i say to you all, thank you. the cmmemorations wre in portsmouth — because that's from where troops set sail onjune the 6th, 1944. they had been due to leave 24—hours before, but storms forced a delay. the destination was normandy. they began landing on these five beaches code named utah, 0maha, gold, juno and sword.

the landings were a turning point in world war two and these pictures help explain why. the scale of d—day was huge. 156,000 troops landed. the operation involved 4,000 landing craft and 12,000 air craft. it was bloody — more than 4,000 allied troops died. but — a foothold in france had been achieved. within 11 months nazi germany was defeated. and the war in europe was over. as we've mentioned, many brave veterans have been re—enacting the parachute jump in normandy. this is tom rice — a d—day war veteran from san diego. he was part of the normandy air invasion in 1944 and among tens of thousands of troops who arrived by parachute or glider. he said this jump went much smoother than normandy, even though he's now 97 years old.

more than 200 veterans are right now sailing on the boudicca to normandy, retracing the journey they made across the channel. here's christian fraser in portsmouth. it was very moving this evening to watch them pull up the dockside board on their way to normandy and of course that's where the focus shifts tomorrow they will then bear in the morning and be transported to the cathedral and they will be commemorations there alongside the cemetery death holds 4000 grays of allied sawridge and servicemen, and there will be by soldiers, we should remember given that the prime minister is resigning formally on friday, this will be her last set piece event all commonwealth leaders will be there. and of course,

president trump will be flying from ireland to the commemorations and will be hosted by the french president tomorrow, that was a really warm relationship, wasn't to? about 18 months ago, if you're a member of french president rolled out the red carpet for president trump on his visit to paris for the steel day but it seems to have cooled somewhat that relationship after the statement about heading there to washington and some of the tru ces there to washington and some of the truces that were spoken they don't have the same relationship, so as much as we watch the commemorations tomorrow and listening to mar this relation —— stories of veterans, which is where the focus should be, we have one wary eye on the relationship between president trump and emmanuel macron to see where it's going. my coverage of christ on air tomorrow. in sudan, 40 bodies have been pulled from the river nile in the capital khartoum following a violent government crackdown on pro—democracy protests.

doctors linked to the opposition say at least 100 people have killed. catherine byaruhanga hasjust filed this update from khartoum. hospitals across khartoum are getting with the influx of injured patients, must the fed —— most of them shot, now disturbing is that some of the victims could have been thrown into the nile river. she literally just filed that thrown into the nile river. she literallyjust filed that report within minutes and now there are... there are reports members of the feared paramilitary group, the rapid support forces, pictured here — are roaming the streets beating and shooting at civilians. but the head of the rsf says another group is responsible for the violence, not his men. people on the ground say they're struggling to get reliable information. right now the internet is disconnected said basically what we had been doing is texting each other and everyone in their own area,

people like for example saying their gunshots and smoke for example someone gunshots and smoke for example someone will say that they are dragging people out of cars and beating them up. another person will beating them up. another person will be saying that i am in khartoum north, and we can see widespread looting. lots of confusion on what's happening on the ground there. these pictures were filmed on the ground today — protesters are chanting the word "civilian" — they of course want a civilian administration. rather than a military one. demonstrators have been occupying the square in front of the military headquarters in the capital khartoum since the start of april — just before sudan's military ousted president 0mar al—bashir and agreed a three—year transition period to a civilian administration. the military council scrapped that on tuesday, opting instead for elections held within nine months. the protestors want a longer transition period to ensure free and fair elections. the head of the military council has apologised for the loss of life,

and offered to resume negotiations. translation: only in the military council open our arms to negotiate with no restrictions. but in the national interest to build our legitimate power expressing ambitions of the revolution in every way. the international community is monitoring the crisis. the un security council has been briefed — at the request of britain and germany. but china, backed by russia, blocked a bid to condemn the killing of civilians. here's olga ivshina from bbc russian to explain why. it's not the first time when china 01’ it's not the first time when china or russia are supporting each other the question of looking at resolutions, they definitely have common interest and number of questions that this is one of them. this was a bright example of russia presenting its interest in the global politics especially in africa. russia has increased its

presence in sudan and in recent yea rs presence in sudan and in recent years especially from the beginning of this year, recently though they got some contracts for gold mining in sudan, and many reporters told us that there is increased presence of a russian private military contractors in sudan. allegedly, they were training sudanese security forces and military forces said this clearly means russians had directed good contact with the military counsel because one they are training the military and it seems that they manage to reach a deal that they manage to reach a deal that they manage to reach a deal that the contract would stay and of course they're interested to keep it. all got expressing that there is interest there. human rights groups are calling for international action — here's the executive director of un watch tweet @hillelneuer "101 peaceful protesters killed by sudan... un human rights council reaction: zero resolutions, zero emergency sessions, zero commissions of inquiry." saudi arabia and the united arab emirates also back the ruling military council and have pledged

a combined $3 billion in aid. egypt is also a supporter of the military — it wants sudan's help fighting islamists in the region and has a stake in water resources from the river nile. let's get more on the international response from bbc arabic‘s omar el—tayeb ahmed. the united states, because it has been boycotting the islamist regime for quite a long time, a communicated through saudi arabia and asked them to solve the problem to re—engage with the opposition in dialogue to form a government and to resume talks. it's mainly because the current military counsel and the rabbit forces, they had soldiers fighting alongside saudi arabia and

the uae in yemen. what my complicated situation as minor website. stay with us on outside source — still to come... australian police raid the headquarters of the public broadcaster abc — sparking claims press freedom is under attack. there are concerns for the future of the ford plant at bridgend in south wales. union leaders have been called to a meeting at the company's headquarters tomorrow morning. our correspondent, tomos morgan has more. tomorrow it's thought that workers here will find their fate, back in 2015, this plant won a contract to make 250,000 new engines, but that work diminished over time, just a year later, that number was five to 125000 and then it was asked, is that this workforce in the bible with a number of 2000 people, is a bible to stay open with only a

limited number of agents made, fast—forwa rd limited number of agents made, fast—forward earlier this year into january, forward announcing that 1000 jobs were to be gone, they did not get a time limit on when they wa nted not get a time limit on when they wanted them gone by, but they did wa nt wanted them gone by, but they did want as many as possible to be volu nta ry want as many as possible to be voluntary redundancy as soon as possible and now we understand that tomorrow, trade union leaders and florida bosses will meet at headquarters in essex and thought that the workers here will find out their fate. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... the queen has joined veterans of the second world war and western leaders in southern england for events marking the 75th anniversary of the d—day landings. on the stories we are monitoring here... 100,000 people living on the slopes of mount elgon, in the east uganda, urgently need to relocate after days of heavy rain.

at least six people have been killed in flooding and landslides. that's on the bbc world service. the mexican security forces have dismantled three synthetic drugs labs in the northern state of sinaloa. the state says it's the biggest blow to meth trafficking this year. 17 million doses of methamphetamine, worth an estimated a $160 million were also seized — that's on bbc mundo. and this footage has got many people's heads spinning. an injured hiker was taken for a dizzying ride in phoenix, arizona when the basket of a rescue helicopter began spinning wildly as she was airlifted. the 74—year old woman was transported to a trauma centre for evaluation and was said to be in a stable condition. she is in a stable condition. there's been outcry

after australia's public broadcaster, the abc, has had its offices raided by the country's federal police. this is the moment when federal officers entered the sydney headquarters of the australian broadcasting corporation. the police had a warrant. as they explained in this tweet it related to "allegations of publishing classified material" it's quite extraordinary for this to happen in a country like australia, which has strong press freedoms. here's some reaction from the abc's editorial director. to have a warrant executed on the headquarters of the national pride as public broadcasting i cannot get enough, is an unwelcome development to be taken seriously and it's very

serious and you know, if he is uncomfortable because this is a personal comment, not the australia i know for example. i have been a reporter in this country for a long, long time. and it's not what we expect and that's why it feels so unusual and uncomfortable. it should be uncomfortable and we should stand up be uncomfortable and we should stand up and call out. the police were looking for information relating to this. it's an abc report called "the afghan files" which was published injuly 2017. it details allegations of unlawful killings and misconduct by australian special forces in afghanistan between 2009 and 2013. the report claims that afghan authorities were becoming increasingly agitated over australians allegedly killing unarmed civilians that they threatened to stop working with them. here's craig mcmurtrie again.

is solicit outstanding reporting, it's two years ago, it was challenging content and looking to conduct a special forces in afghanistan it was not an easy subject matter to report on, but i invite anyone who wants to have another look at the content to take another look at the content to take a look at it because it was clearly in the public interest and sometimes difficult truth has to be told to stop but that reporting was based on hundreds of secret defence force documents leaked to the abc. the australian federal police — or afp —police appears to be trying to gather information about the source of that leak. here's a tweet from the executive editor of abc news. "i won't reveal the name... but it's clear the afp is trying gather evidence against one particular person." that executive editor, john lyons,

was in the room with police and live—tweeted for all nine—hours of the raid. here's another tweet from him "i'm still staggered by the power of this warrant. it allows the afp to "add, copy, delete or alter" material in the abc's computers...." what's getting many journalists in australia worried is the fact this isn't the only raid carried out this week. on tuesday the federal police searched the home of this journalist, annika smethurst who works for news corp — that's rupert murdoch's stable. she reported that the government was considering a secret plan to spy on its citizens. so should the australian media be worried. here's rebecca vincent from reporters without borders. it seems the national security

coverage is used as a pretext because these measures are extremely serious and should only be used rarely in a case of an urgent national security matter. but this piece in question was broadcast at nearly two years ago, and the rate yesterday was also related to that national security, but that was a piece from a year ago, silly question actually why it's being done and it seems to be a means of exacting pressure particularly on investigative journalist. so when it comes to australia, should they be worried then about this reduction of press freedom and what happens with whistle—blowers? press freedom and what happens with whistle-blowers? i think absolutely they should be worried, as the rest of the world because actually press freedom is deteriorating globally, but in australia, in particular, the country has already dropped two places on the world—class freedom indexed it's now 21 out of 180 countries and this really calls into question the agenda of the new government is going to be. it's really certainly very the impact

really certainly very the impact really could be devastating, particularly for protection of journalistic sources. whistle—blowers by default now are going to be more nervous about speaking to joyless and this is absolutely information that in the public interest to know, so if a public interest to know, so if a public who will suffer if you are stories published on the sorts of issues that the public has a right to know. for absolute transparency, it's important to stress... at this point it's worth mentioning the abc is a partner of this organisation bbc news and bbc world news. the bbc has expressed solidarity, releasing this statement: "this police raid against our partners at abc is an attack on press freedom which we at the bbc find deeply troubling. at a time when the media is becoming less free across the world, it is becoming highly worrying if a public broadcaster is being targeted for doing itsjob of reporting in the public interest". that statement referenced the global trend when it comes to press freedom. here's rebecca vincent again.

suppress freedom is deteriorating globally, our relative press freedom index shows it did significantly in 2016 and has not recovered and is a pa rt 2016 and has not recovered and is a part of that we see a decline of democracy so australia is not the only state where actually, measures are being taken in the name of national security and are being used to restrict press freedom and to put fear and interfere with journalists doing ourjob and that's the case in the uk as well. thanks to rebecca for talking to us. there are a lot of trade tensions troubling the global economy right now. this is from the politics website the hill "trump tariffs could lead to global loss of over $450 billion, imf warns" the international monetary fund is increasingly concerned about the us china tade war. its boss christine lagarde wrote in a blog post that "these are self—inflicted wounds that must be avoided.

how? by removing the recently implemented trade barriers and by avoiding further barriers in whatever form." samira hussain is in new york for us. someone won't like that particular suggestion. now, well, the role of the imf is to act as the kind of schoolteacher if you'd like, warning stu d e nts schoolteacher if you'd like, warning students and for performances and i think we have seen the bell sounded quite time spoke earlier in the year, the spring meeting they cautioned that trade tensions between the us and china are more broadly speaking at protectionist trend and would be harmful to the global economy, now as we are starting to see more tariffs imposed, they are continuing to repeat that whining and now obviously place some figures behind that basically saying that trade tensions between us and china could

cut and weld economic growth next year by about half a protectionist trend and would be harmful to the global economy, now as we are starting to see more tariffs imposed, they are continuing to repeat that warning and now obviously putting some figures behind that basically saying that trade tensions between us and china could cut world economic growth next year by about half percentage point. this obviously is amounting to less than about $455 billion as mentioned, just putting it in context for viewers, that's larger than the size of african economy. definitely puts it in context, thank you, michelle. let's take you to italy now. the government's debt stands at more than $2.6 trillion and could be about to get it in big trouble with the european union. that's because they amount to more than 132% of the size of the entire economy and given that number is projected to rise the european commission has recommended starting disciplinary procedures. that's not going down well in rome as our correspondent adam fleming explains from the comission‘s hq in brussels. under the eu treaties, the ratio of the country's national debt to the

size of its economy, the gdp, should not exceed 50% and in italy, it's currently more than 130% and it shows no sign of shrinking anytime $0011. shows no sign of shrinking anytime soon. officials here at the european commission in brussels say that debt interest payments in italy equate to the equivalent of 1000 euros for every single citizen there. they also say it poses a risk to the entire european economy. so today, they recommended the eu access to they recommended the eu access to the opposite procedure be triggered. but i could see italy being given recommendations on how to remedy the situation are in an extreme case, be fined until the situation is fixed. the decision bell is in her hands of european finance ministers who will have to decide what to do at some point in the next fortnight. i'll be back shortly for the next part of outside sources to stay with us.

good evening. it's time for our nightly look at the weather around the globe, we are going to start close to home across europe. this is the latest satellite image showing a lot of thundery activity across europe and the last 24 hours. clouds had been brewing and bubbling up across parts of the balkans and france and germany as well, but parts have been coming in of vicious thunderstorms free gust of wind up to 80 miles an hour and large hail as well and on top of that, downpours as well a tremendous downpours. this is a close—up of the storms that were across the balkans and eastern parts of europe, france and germany as well. this pattern is likely to continue into thursday as well, but another area of bad weather we are watching is towards the southwest, nasty little area of low pressure bringing high wind

at the price of portugal, and eventually drifting into western parts of france and also bringing wet weather to the uk as well, so it's looking very turbulent on the weather front across the airport right now and you're asking where is summer? it's across eastern and northern parts of europe you see a plume of that warm air across western areas of russia and scandinavia, that's going up from south to north and then hear the weather is going from north and south it's like a seesaw, what goes up must come down so we are in a cool unsettled spell of weather at the moment here in the uk. other parts of the wild, extreme heat across the middle east, and very hot time of the year about 45 degrees, but we are watching the heat building across the subcontinent in india, where it's that pre monsoon heat, so temperatures are rising

before the monsoon arrives in india, this is the monsoon on the satellite, it's not necessarily a big wall of rain racing towards india, it's just spell that heavy rain and thunderstorms, which gradually ease into india. and this year that monsoon is about a week late, meaning the heatwave across some parts of india will persist that much longer, and at that moment, temperatures approaching high 40s and parts of central and northern india, and on top of that we have poor air quality as well. yes there are rain showers expected across some southern parts of indiana, but these are three months in showers, so waves of rain before the main thrust of it and bulk of it arrives, sometime in the next 42 or 48 hours or so. now, the forecast down under obviously a different season in australia, and set up conditions across western australia there, recently high wind and gail's battering southeast areas of australia date very unsettled in new zealand as well, this is pretty much where winter is right now. and the weather for the week i had is also coming

up, that's it from me, thanks for watching.

hello, i'm kasia madera, this is outside source. 75 years on from a turning point in world war two — d—day is being remembered. the queen has been joined by other heads of state and government, to pay tribute to those who changed the course of the second world war, injune1944. it is with humility and pleasure in behalf of the entire country, indeed, the whole free world that i say to you all... thank you. doctors say at least 100 people are dead in sudan — with 40 bodies pulled from the river nile. the military council calls

for an investigation. also coming up on outside source — the pop singer miley cyrus is grabbed while walking through a crowd — we'll talk about the conversation it's sparked. the us vice president mike pence, and the mexican foreign minister marcelo erbrard are meeting in washington around now, discussing this threat made by president trump on friday. on june 10th, the united states will impose a 5% tariff on all goods coming into our country from mexico, until such time as illegal migrants coming through mexico, and into our country, stop.

building a wall along the us—mexico border was donald trump's signature campaign promise. he's not been able to do that, which is one reason he announced this policy instead. and even though he regularly uses words like "invasion" to describe what's happening at the border, take a look at this. it shows the number of people arrested trying to cross the border since 2000. trump's frst year in office saw the lowest number since 1971 — although border agents do say they are overwhelmed. barbara plett usher is in washington. what exactly does the us want, and can mexico deliver it? well, we do not know exactly what they're going to be proposing, at

their meeting right now but administration officials have said that they want mexico to stop central american migrants from crossing into mexico from guatemala, so crossing into mexico from guatemala, so tighter border controls, but they wa nt so tighter border controls, but they want mexicans to break up the gangs that are illegally transporting the migrants up to the us border and they want the mexicans to hold asylum—seekers on their side of the border, they have taken steps in these areas, but the resources are limited, so it is not clear how much more they can do it is not clear how much is enough because the administration hasn't really spelled out a clear benchmark for us to where hoping to hear shortly about what they're proposing and whether thatis what they're proposing and whether that is going to be enough to get rid of this threat of 5% tariffs. the markets have been reacting. you can see a big drop on friday in reaction to president this is the dowjones, one of the major us stock markets — you can see a big drop on friday in reaction to president trump's announcement — although it has since recovered. and as we heard in os business

the head of the imf has expressed concern too. but this is turning into a political problem for the president — both democrats and republicans in the senate are opposed. let's hear from mitch mcconnell, let's hearfrom mitch mcconnell, who gave his reaction. well, there is not much support in my conference for tariffs, that's for sure. but we appreciate the opportunity to talk to a number of representatives of the white house about this particular strategy. i think i can safely say that for most of us hope that this mexican delegation that is here and discussed the challenges of the border and what the mexicans may be able to do to help us more than they have will be fruitful. i believe there will be a disapproval resolution, whether the president uses the previous emergency declaration or a new one, i believe it is quite clear that many memberof the

i believe it is quite clear that many member of the house and senate, it could be within 15 days and ask for disapproval. let's go back to barbara plett usher in wahsington. how unusual and strong is the republican rebellion on this? they have grumbled on trade and ta riffs before they have grumbled on trade and tariffs before and other things, but this is an unusually strong response that i would say united, at least in the senate, there were no people who we re the senate, there were no people who were supporting the tariffs and give earful to the were supporting the tariffs and give ea rful to the administrators were supporting the tariffs and give earful to the administrators who are honest, and that's because the are so honest, and that's because the are so intertwined and because the tariff proposed are so sweeping, so they're arguing that this will hurt their constituents and their economy and he could even hurt his reelection campaign and presumably their own was not the question is whether they are going to put money behind those words and do something about it. chuck schumer was talking about a "disapproval resolution" — can the senate stop this? yes, it can. that would in effect be

voting against the tariffs but the form it would take would be to vote and disapprove the emergency powers that the president is using to justify this action, but they would have to have quite a critical mass to make a difference to have it in the majority and the senate to override the veto, is not clear that that the numbers for the veto and it is not clear when the deadline for the first tariff will come into place because they are breaking today for recess. the hope is there'll be some kind of breakthrough before then and if not, probably the tariffs will go and negotiate to prevent further tariffs being added. after watching the d—day comemorations in england president trump continued his tour. tomorrow he'll be travelling to france to comemorate the normandy landings, but first donald trump left portsmouth and flew to ireland, for his first visit

to the country as president. he landed at shannon airport, where he held a 30 minute meeting with leo varadkar, the irish prime minister, before heading on to his golf club, in doonbeg, which his organisation bought in 2014. one journalist asked what lay behind donald trump's visit. is this trip for you for promoting your golf club? no, this trip is really about our great relationships that we have in the uk and i really wanted to do this stuff in ireland. this stop in ireland. those are the important to me because of the relationship that i have for the people in the prime minister. the people and the prime minister. the president also weighed in on brexit, and fears it could lead to a physical border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland. here's a clip. we will be discussing various things, probably brexit because

there are some very good people that are involved in brexit and i think it will all work out very well and the wall, the border, we have a border situation in the united states and you do over here. but i think it is going to work out very well. it's going to work out very well. it's going to work out very well here. we want to avoid an actual wall. i think we do, the well here. we want to avoid an actualwall. i think we do, the baby works the way it works now, and respect to brexit is the border. nuala mcgovern is in the village of doonbeg for president trump's visit, here she is with more on that meeting. there was a laundry list of issues they wanted to get through, whether it was brexit, whether it was trade,

whether it was more visas for irish people within the united states. but you know where they met? shannon airport in the vip lounge and that's because they could not come to an agreement on whether to meet in the castle which is a very fancy hotel not far from here, where former us presidents have met with irish leaders. or, as mr trump wanted, at his golf resort, trump international. that is over my left shoulder, far in the distance. i saw marine one just go there and land there not too long ago. carrying mr trump and first lady, melania trump. that did not suit the prime minister, so instead it ended up to be in shannon airport, a brief press call, leo said afterwards, they talked about the border, saying that he was not completely sure if mr trump had a deep knowledge of all the issues of all the countries that he deals with. so it was very important for engagement. so some diplomatic language there when it came to their meeting, but i waited to see if in fact, there are some hard facts to come

out in the coming hours. at least as in the vip section of the airport, given miss donald trump's connections with doonbeg, china's president is in moscow for a three—day state visit. xijinping and vladimir putin say it's to celebrate 70 years of diplomatic ties. the chinese leader arrived into moscow's vnukovo airport. this is the moment he stepped off the plane — and as you can see, he was greeted with full state honors. xijinping and vladimir putin then met at the kremlin, with the symbolic handshake between the two. they held meetings, with trade as the key issue on the agenda — and the kremlin announced that a number of documents were signed. the pair then travelled to moscow zoo for the official handing over ceremony of two giant pandas that beijing has gifted to russia. russia and china are geographically close —

as well as being huge in size. they appear to be intent on strengthening their alliance in the face of increased political and economic hostility from the us. beijing and washington have been locked in an escalating conflict over trade and tariffs over the past year with donald trump tightening restrictions on the chinese telecoms giant huawei. compare that to these figures released by the russian government, showing that trade with beijing has increased. meanwhile russia has faced economic sanctions from the west following its annexation of crimea and troubles with ukraine. let's hear from the two leaders. translation: last year we set a goal to reach 100 billion dollars of bilateral commodities turnover. due to the efforts of our teams and our two governments, we exceeded this number —

we have 108 billion dollars. and this year in the first quarter of this year, trade is also on the increase. translation: our bilateral relations have not reached the maximum and can become even better. we are ready to work together with russia in order to continuously increase the effect of our countries' high level cooperation — so that we can promote russian—chinese agenda in international affairs. politically, russia and china seem consistently aligned. they're both permanent members of the un security council and have in the past vetoed resolutions aimed at pressuring the syrian president bashar al—assad over the war in syria. they also support each other on a wide variety of foreign policy issues ranging from the iran nuclear deal, the venezuela crisis — and north korea's nuclear programme. this is xi jinping's seventh visit to russia and he's due to attend an economic forum in st petersburg on thursday and friday. sarah rainsford is in moscow.

there are an awful lot of warm words around this visit. the presidents are talking about the relationship moving to an unprecedented level, a historic height, according to the two men. vladimir putin talked about the trade level increasing up 25% in the trade level increasing up 25% in the past year, talking about unprecedented cooperation, while they were talking particularly about they were talking particularly about the relationship they have developed over 30 meetings with him, talking about him as a close friend in the close ally. it dates back to 2014 minutes relationship with the united states began to sour when us sanctions kicked in over russia's actions in the ukraine. and at the time there was some suggestions that vladimir putin's alliance would be

superficial, but in 2006 team in china's relationship with the united states began to deteriorate —— 2016. that has brought us to where we are today with both men smiling broadly throughout their meeting, their initial encounters and talking about this unprecedented peak and their relations. as a symbol of that friendship, the chinese president has come here, bringing two pandas for russia, pandas for vladimir putin, that was a symbol to him of how much trust the chinese leader had in russia, the two men will be visiting those pandas in the zoo when they have been given a new enclosure. to stay with us you an outside source, lots more to come. stay with us on outside source — still to come. the pop singer miley cyrus responds after being grabbed by a stranger in a crowd.

attempts to predict the weather played a crucial part in the preparations for d—day. military planners wanted to ensure calm seas, tidal patterns and the light from the moon would all work in the allies' favour. our weather presenter, carol kirkwood has been looking at how meteorologists plotted the best time to attack. months and years of waiting were over. planning an operation as important as d—day took months, but despite the greatest military precision, there was one thing they could not predict. the weather. the requirements were strict, a combination of clear skies, a full moon, camp sees and a low tide were all needed seas and a low tide were all needed to make the day a success. this put enormous pressure on meteorologists to identify a suitable weather window at a time were predicting just 24 hours ahead was a challenge.

the man responsible for advising general eisenhower on the best day to launch the invasion was group captainjames stagg. i had long had in the back of my mind that technical use of my mind that tactical use of weather, just being able to pick out some little interlude which would be unknown to the enemy forces that would allow was to make use of it and catch people on the other side unaware. heading out to see after a 24 hour delay because of the weather. the invasion was originally planned for the 5th ofjune, but after stagg predicted bad weather in the channel, it was postponed by 24 hours. in the end, the weather on d—day was not ideal. strong winds and rough seas made for a difficult landing, but if the troops had waited for the next window, the fleet would've been battered by one of the worst summer storms to hit the english channel in decades. as it was, the success of stagg's forecast allowed the troops to land on the french beaches and the tide

of world war ii began to turn. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... the queen has joined veterans of the second world war and western leaders in southern england for events marking the seventy—fifth anniversary of the d—day landings. the us has imposed heavy new restrictions on travel to cuba — including a ban on cruises. cuba is only 145 kilometres from key west in florida to cuba and cruises have been popular since 2016 when this us cruise ship docked in the capital havana — the first one in more than 50 years.

cuba and the us restored diplomatic relations in 2015 under president obama — here he is meeting the cuban leader raul castro in 2016. but the trump administration is changing that this tweet from the us treasury says the measures are to the aim is also to put further pressure on cuba's communist government because of its support for the venezuelan president, nicolas maduro — the two leaders here in 2016. but, it's the tourists being affected. that a shame, that's a real shame. the government should do what's best for its people. it'sjust kind of sad that it affects so many people, the way the governments can't get along, so i'm very disappointed. he is a businessman and he always does

and he always just thinks about money and he doesn't think about the people in their hearts. let's speak to the bbc‘s south america correspondent will grant. what is the reaction been like? you heard from tourists, that is nothing in comparison to the disappointment of ordinary cubans. particularly those who are running businesses that are backed by kind of the tourism industry on the island. so many people come off of those cruise ships and docking in havana ports on the island and they go straight to a variety of private businesses, eating restaurants and spend money in stores, things that are propping up in stores, things that are propping up the private business that is been relaxing economic rules, and part of the cu ban economy relaxing economic rules, and part of the cuban economy that he wants to strengthen and that is what his

critics say ours what is wrong with this decision. and those who run this decision. and those who run this business are very distraught and worried about the future stop by looking at what is happening in venezuela and worrying about could potentially happen given the situation there. in terms of the policy, yes, that things are very closely linked. the national security adviser has referred to both of those countries and nicaragua as the tyranny, the three socialist analysed as part of the same issue in they're going to be strengthening sanctions on all three. and without a doubt, these restrictions, not just three. and without a doubt, these restrictions, notjust on the cruise ships but also on important people to people exchanges, by which americans would come into the island in absolute droves, that is also being ruled out and sanctioned. this is all about strengthening and

attacking because of the support for nicolas maduro in venezuela. how many tourists do pass through from the us into cuba? since these cruise ships arrived and i was on the first one that you mentioned at the start there from miami to cuba for the first in 50 years, which was a fascinating experience. since the beginning of this year, there been 140,001 of beginning of this year, there been 140 , 001 of the beginning of this year, there been 140,001 of the estimates it hundred thousand customers will be affected by this decision. wow, thank you very much, our south america correspondent. take a look at this video captured in barcelona by a spanish twitter user. it shows miley cyrus and her husband liam hemsworth being escorted to a waiting car by security. then this happens.

a fan grabs her by the neck and tries to kiss her. the singer and former disney star responded angrily online, tweeting: i asked newsbeat‘s nomia iqbal if there'd been a lot of reaction to this. there has been and it's been very supportive of her and there has been quite a few comments from people on

social media suggesting that miley somehow invited the abuse that she faced on this man who has not been named because of the way she dresses because of the lives of her songs and she has hit back at that and basically said, he does not matter, i was not asking for it, i will not be grabbed without my consent. do you know what is happening with the person who grabbed her. know, we do not know if the police are investigating or if she wanted to be investigated either. in terms of who he is, that has not been named either. this was on social media, she was headlining on friday and this happened on a saturday when was leaving. the reaction has been really interesting, actually, because she is known for a very crunchy, provocative image and that is fine, but some of the comments

have been along the lines of, you wa nted have been along the lines of, you wanted to be sexy, this is the reaction and in terms of what she said on twitter. she can be wearing what she wants, she can be a virgin, she can be sleeping with five different people, she cannot be grabbed without consent. and she actually said this and take a snapshot of the reaction and all the negative reactions and just put hashtag, can't happen without my consent. she has really hit back on the negative comments that she has god. she has been very strong in terms of her reaction but has supporters also did —— gotten. and it has been used by a lot of her fencing it does not matter, if you see the video, it is quite frightening, actually. this manjust comes out of nowhere to grab her and asi comes out of nowhere to grab her and as i say, she is known for being outspoken, so it is not a surprise that she has come out and defended

herself this way. and this is dominating social media, your thoughts always welcome. weather conditions across the uk for the past few days are going to be changeable for one day to the next, to some extent it is stuck in or out, the jet stream, to some extent it is stuck in or out, thejet stream, dipping down to the south of us at the moment and continuing to do so almost forming a big area of low pressure in the atmosphere that does end up like an old washing machine, just revolves around each other, keeping them feeding, there will be gaps between the low pressure systems that as we get a few showers surrounded by will be one of the stays on thursday where the areas of low pressure will be pushing toward shipment, pushing the rain back to northern scotland and also come from sunny spells and heavy thundershowers breaking up, particularly across the northern half of scotland, blustar have parts

of england and wales. slow moving because there is a bit of rain around, but will get a bit of sunshine out there. we will find quite a nasty one towards the area of low pressure pushing across france being named miguel by the spanish authorities, some storms across southern france in central france, will avoid the west of the winds but a blustery day for england and wales that starts with sunshine. outbreaks of rain developing quite widely, or persistent across western areas and thundershowers across the south later. southern parts of scotla nd south later. southern parts of scotland in eastern northern ireland, some rain in the afternoon but sting largely dry, where mr brader, 20 degrees possible in the afternoon. but it's just to work his way northwards into scotland and northern ireland to a certain extent as we go through to the beginning parts of the weekend. on the southern flank of it, for england and wales, bit of a fresh day, blustery day with that area of low

pressure, not having as much potency as he moved across france but still as he moved across france but still a raft of showers to the west and east, some will say dry through the day and saturday and will stay wet and cool across much of scotland, a big change in northern scotland compared to friday. saturday night into sunday, most to than others, we are back in to than others, we are back into acquired his own, and between weather systems, still print a few showers breaking out on sunday, particularly across western areas, heavy with hail and thunder bit breeze, eastern england for staying dry if not completely dry throughout the day and temperatures here up to 19 or 20 degrees for some. as we going to monday, the atmosphere is generally unstable and we see showers pop up just about anywhere, which is not much in the way of lines on it, so that means winds of be light and then most likely to its england and wales this time, the pressure across the continent, diesel be slow moving heavy and thundershowers that will

give some minorflooding problems heavy and thundershowers that will give some minor flooding problems as they develop, fear showers, later showers across scotland and northern ireland, some staying dry getting water once again, beyond that, 24 hours ago we are seeing that it's a bit of a mix between those areas, not sure what happens between the states. high pressure builds the atla ntic states. high pressure builds the atlantic and keeps things may be dry, bit of a court flow of winds, and keeps things may be dry, bit of and keeps things may be dry, bit of a court flow of winds, another scenario that keeps blood pressure across us scenario that keeps blood pressure across us and it keeps it more towards this than a high—pressure system. we do see that, showers lasting a bit longer next week, staying fairly cool, but i think the middle grandma probably find high—pressure building and across the west. of course, will keep you up—to—date with all of those details same time tomorrow. bye for now.

tonight at ten, we're in portsmouth for the latest stage of the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of d—day. earlier this evening, hundreds of normandy veterans set sail for france, ready to mark the anniversary of one of the most decisive operations of the second world war. during the morning, the queen has been joined by other heads of state and government to pay tribute to those who changed the course of history in june 1944. it is with humility and pleasure on behalf of the entire country, indeed the whole free world, that i say to you all, thank you.