newsline from berlin the us president has hailed relations with the united kingdom despite his attack on britain's brags that plans donald trump brains prime minister and said bilateral relations has never been stronger that's after blasting her strategy for leaving the european union. correspondent in london where tens of thousands took to the streets in protest at his visit also coming up. remembering news rights activists in hong kong defied china's warning not to mark the

anniversary of the nobel peace prize winning dissidents and a memorial ceremony is held here in berlin to keep his memory alive. a look ahead to today's third place match at the world cup it's belgium against england with both sides hoping to be crowned the world's third best team. and welcome to the program u.s. president has insisted that bilateral relations between the united states and the united kingdom have never been stronger that's despite scathing criticism of trees amazed brags that strategy in an interview he gave to britain's most widely read newspaper trump told the sun tabloid he had advised prime minister may to take a different strategy on bragg's it and that her plan for post brags of ties with

the e.u. would probably kill prospects for a u.k. u.s. trade deal. a giant balloon taking to the skies over london kicking off a day of protests against u.s. president donald trump's visit. but trump did receive a warm welcome from the u.k. prime minister. after talks with theresa may said he'd back whatever strategy her government wants to pursue you. whatever you do is ok with me that's your decision whatever you're going to do is ok with us just make sure we can create together that's all that matters and with that the president completely backtracked on comments published just hours earlier and a u.k. tabloid in an explosive interview trump trashed the prime minister's back set plan . a much different i actually told her recently had to do it but she didn't

agree with she didn't listen to me now but it'll definitely trade with the united states unfortunate negative way. despite criticising his host the president was later welcome to windsor castle. in a minor breach of protocol trump walked ahead of the queen but he got the pomp and pageantry he wanted. the president's trip has been choreographed so that he largely avoided coming face to face with more than one hundred thousand demonstrators in london. what do we know. correspondent barbara vessel is in london and has been covering the events for us barbara it's good to see you there were huge demonstrations. yesterday that's where you were what have people been saying to you about his visit. oh people of course really came out to put such a sign against trump's policies in all regards he's a racist they said he's

a sexist he's scapegoats migrants and whatever he does on international relations is a disaster he has left the paris climate accord i mean the list is just endless of white people who are really coming out and protesting against trump yesterday and so it is really that a lot of londoners in particular when he got into this tussle with london's well love the mayor said he can londoners really came out to say we don't want this man here on our soil and so that it was more part of the story but the other was of course that people followed throughout the day this crazy roller coaster off the visit when he first insults to reason me and then says she's great when you first praises boris johnson and then says yes we'll do trade was you and it will all be fine so people many people may have and must have understood until today that the president really sort of came through britain like

a wrecking ball sort of hitting out the left and right and that in the end what could they rely on there are many doubts the day after are you mention the roller coaster ride with this regard to this visit there were conflicting reports on what he was saying in terms of first he said that criticized her and then he was fully on board with her brands of plan can this meeting be characterized as a success for tourism a. it's a disaster for two reasons that may because what does it make her look like in the eye of many brits i mean the problem is that if the president praises her it makes things worse but then on in the first end of course she pointed out the weakness of her breasts of plaid because she says on one hand she wants to stay close to the e.u. on the other hand she says yes we'll have this fantastic trade deal with the united states and we will sort of get into that and then obey us standards and regulations for instance on agriculture which is mutually exclusive so many people many commentators here today in britain struck the point that they said taking taking

back sovereignty from europe that is an idea but what we do then afterwards is sort of give our sovereignty over to the u.s. because that's what trump really pointed out here you either obey me you go along with me or you my enemy so that it was pretty clear after the stay in for two reason may things have become even more difficult because because he pointed out who weaknesses politically and the weakness of her brakes a plan d. w. correspondent bar of aizawl in london thank you very much barbara. now of some of the other stories making news around the world the death toll from friday's suicide bombing at an election rally in pakistan has climbed to more than one hundred thirty and local officials say the number of dead is likely to increase the so-called islamic state group has claimed responsibility for the attack follow just on province officials fear even more violence in the run up to elections on june twenty fifth. the u.s.

justice department says twelve russian spies have been charged with hacking into democratic party e-mail accounts ahead of the twenty sixteen presidential election u.s. intelligence agencies have said the interference aimed to help donald trump's campaign and harm his rival hillary clinton indictments calm days before a summit between trump and russian president vladimir putin. british police say they have found a small bottle containing the nova chalk nerve agent in the home of charlie he's one of two brits who fell ill after exposure to the substance last month his partner don sturgis died on sunday police are investigating how the bottle came to be around his house. a ceremony has been held here in berlin to remember the chinese dissident and nobel laureate new xiaobo one year after his death the democracy activist died of liver cancer while serving an eleven year prison sentence his wife who had been under house arrest for years was allowed to leave

china this week and she's arrived in berlin a few days ago but she was too unwell to attend the memorial service. because some of the church is located in the eastern part of prelim it was once a refuge and meeting place for the east german opposition. on friday evening chinese dissidents were commemorated including the nobel peace prize winner lucy albo who died after a long imprisonment. and. the chinese will continue shabbos legacy. his love for democracy and freedom. we will fight for a democratic and humane china and the book. earlier this week chinese authorities allowed lucy elbows widow lucy to travel to germany after

years of house arrest but she was unable to attend the ceremony because of poor health. to. a former critic of the east german government china's granting permission to use ya to leave the country is typical for a dictatorship or. a less well known person such as this woman is sacrificed like a chess figure moved around for this is not an occasion for exuberance but it's also not make asian for annoyance for afford it. and she says no it's obscene to this woman to fight against a communist dictatorship the romanian german heritage. she sees louisiana's release as an encouraging signal to home does he know we help china will change its mind about human rights and individuality that the individual no longer belongs to the state but may have his or her own opinion can think and feel and that would also

benefit the chinese state. many regard the late in the u.c.i. albo as one of the most courageous fighters for freedom and human rights in china. belgium to. take on england at the world cup later today to see who will be crowned the third best team in the world already from d.l. the sports joins me now from moscow ali i'm going to ask you both teams are certainly hoping to play in tomorrow's final and not today's third place match but surely they're looking to leave russia with a win. of course i think this is the place playoff is one of the weirdest events in sports you know these players have just missed out on what would have been the biggest game of their careers because of that you actually get often quite entertaining game in these third place playoffs because there are

some real motivating factors like professional pride and simply not wanting to end what has been a successful world cup campaign on a low note by losing two games back to back and so the question really is who will be more affected by those motivating factors and who will be more affected by the disappointment of losing their semifinal well let's get some insight into that now by having a look at how both teams have been preparing. i belgium were demoralised after france stopped them from reaching their first ever world cup final but just four days later the red devils need to shake off that disappointment and get ready for saturday's third place play off. this if you could simply if. that's what. you have to do to restart the time. it's just part of the life of you know you lose to next week you win so means we didn't

put them to play for the. belgians best performance at the world cup was in one thousand nine hundred eighty six when they finished four for this time they want to go one better and only england stand in their way. and the three lions manager is raring to go. i'm not scared of anything away from the big bad wolf really we have high motivation to perform we have the chance to win a medal. at a world cup which only one other english team has ever done the england manager is not planning on making many changes in saturday's clash so with both teams almost at full strength fans can expect a cracking match in st petersburg. now believing it all on the field as they try to get this when all you no matter the outcome well belgium and england see this as a successful tournament. well i think certainly this is the best they've done at the world cup the furthest that they've progressed

since nine hundred ninety. and they weren't expecting to get this far either i think a lot of people thought it might get to the round of sixteen of the quarter final so the semifinals and now the third place play off is is a real bonus also there's a feeling in england the times of change that the negativity is gone and that this young team is actually heading in the right direction now head of future tournament for belgium it's a bit more complicated they are a better side than england so perhaps we're expecting to make it this far at least and hoping to make their first ever world cup final they also love their players at the peak of their powers right now and when they beat brazil in the quarter final there was this real feeling that this was their time obviously it wasn't to be but they have given their fans a lot of great moments that win over brazil that i just mentioned and also that last minute victory against japan it was a real electrifying moment so i think both teams certainly although they haven't made it to the big day itself they can go home feeling very proud of what they've achieved now looking ahead to the final which will take place behind you on sunday

what's the mood like in moscow before france plays croatia well perhaps unsurprisingly the atmosphere hasn't quite been the same since russia went out of the world cup quarter final stage and i think just generally the latter stages of the world cup are not quite the same as the football festival that you have in the group stages simply because a lot of teams have gone home and they're fans of followed them but that being said we've got more and more french in croatian fans now turning up in moscow for the final french fans were brilliant at their semifinal and some petersburg they made a lot of noise although there weren't a huge number of them there and of course croatia fans after their semifinal the extra time semifinal victory over england were absolutely ecstatic so i'm expecting a great atmosphere here at the luzhniki stadium to fit the occasion of the world cup final. sports reporter all the movie in moscow thank you very much. and reminder of the top story we're following for you u.s.

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