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this is g w news live from berlin britain treats the u.s. president to a lavish welcome a state banquet with the queen and praise for the friendship between nations that donald trump calls a turn off but elsewhere in london there is a very different reception awaiting the u.s. president. also coming up sudan's military canceled all previous agreements with the opposition and calls for elections that's after troops opened fire on protesters killing dozens and injuring hundreds more pat on the 30th anniversary of
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china's tiananmen square crackdown d.w. speaks of the father and son whose lives were changed forever after they witnessed the massacre. i'm sorry welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump is in london on a state visit to the united kingdom he's been greeted with official pomp and ceremony but significant protests are also expected later today last night queen elizabeth hosted trump at a banquet at up in the alice she spoke of the along the lines between the u.k. of the u.s. state trump is today due to meet prime minister theresa may and senior members of the government for talks. correspondent potts is in london covering trump's visit for us so as we've heard charlotte day 2 of his visit protests are expected tell us more. well yesterday the protests really
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kept to a minimum but i talked to one of the organizers and they expect expecting massive crowds here in central london up to a quarter 1000000. to say they want to bring the central london to a standstill they are going to protest all over the city especially in front of downing street which is due to meet to reset may later today and we're also expecting to make the famous trump baby blimp to make a return that is the huge balloon that we know from last summer that is depicting trump as a baby in diapers or nappies depending on which part of the world you're from so many many protesters expected today from all over the country they are coming in by coaches and jeremy corbin the leader of the opposition party is due to speak at those protests making a huge statement there yesterday he already. at the banquet dinner the queen threw
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in. a very glamorous a state dinner that we saw there let's have a look. president trump and 1st lady milan here touched down on the lawn of buckingham palace to a royal welcome. this is trump 2nd visit to the united kingdom since he became president but his 1st official state visit this time of queen elizabeth's invitation. trumpeters family were guests of honor at the royal bank which where the president spoke of the bones forged between the u.s. and britain during world war 2. i offer a toast through the eternal friendship of our people the. yours truly remarkable ray. of her majesty the queen.
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head of his visit the us president had stirred up controversy by commenting on british politics downing street canceled formal talks between trump and prime minister to reason may after trump hinted at meeting her political rival boris johnson and nigel for raj populist leader of the brics it party. that. they wanted. as air force one touched down trumps twitter finger couldn't resist having a dig at the lord mayor of london. so de con who by all accounts has done a terrible job as mayor of london has been foolishly nasty to the visiting president of the united states by far the most important ally of the united kingdom he is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in london not me. outside
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buckingham palace protesters made a stand against what they see as trump's meddling in british politics and against the populism he stands for. much larger protests are planned for tuesday including the much anticipated return of the trump baby blimp. like so tell us charlotte what more should we expect today. well yesterday was all about the glamorous images that trump was hoping for as you just saw and today it's more about the nitty gritty of politics so trump is hosting a business roundtable with business leaders from the u.k. and the us this morning later that he will meet with the delegations and prime minister to resign may and we have to say that it's outgoing prime minister she recently on friday she will resign as leader of the conservative party so trump's visit really comes at a very awkward time and a chaotic time in british politics because he can't discuss anything with her that
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will be binding between the 2 countries because it is in the end for her successor to decide a 2 topics on the agenda there today though one is the chinese telecommunications company who or why once the u.k. to ban that from the country he also he is threatening the u.k. to withhold intelligence information if they don't do so a big topic on his agenda today and the other one being a u.k. u.s. trade deal possibly after a break the trump is eager to push that through so those topics will for sure be discussed today and then the big question is will meet with a possible successor off to recently as prime minister will he meet with boris johnson the man and he endorsed that trump and dorst over the weekend and meddled with domestic british politics. he also has more stops in europe what's coming in the days ahead. so tomorrow more celebrations he will go to the south
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of england and he will celebrate the 75th anniversary of d.-day of the deposits of d.-day he will meet with other world leaders there of course theresa may will also go there then he will head to ireland to his golf resorts to take a little time off he's going to meet of course also with the irish leader there and then he will head over to normandy france where the d.-day celebrations will continue for the 75th anniversary in normandy charlot parts of london thank you. get a quick check now some other stories making news around the world italy's prime minister just up the continent has said that he will resign if the 2 parties in the governing coalition don't stop squabbling the far right league party on the populist 5 star movement have been arguing for months over a range of issues who has no party affiliation says that he now wants a clear and
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a speedy response. hungary and south korean divers in budapest have recovered a 2nd body from the wreck of a tourist boat that sank on the river danube last week of the 33 people on board only 7 are known to have survived the accident. and the indian capital delhi is to offer women free public transport in an effort to improve their safety almost a 1000000 are expected to benefit crime against women has become a major political issue in delhi the city's government said that public transport was considered the safest way for them to travel around the city. and accordance weeden has rejected a request to detain wiki leaks founder julian assange over a 20 time rape case a song in prison in the u.k. today's ruling dashes swedish prosecutors hoping. to have him extradited swiftly from britain songes lawyer called the decision a big victory for spying. just in sudan the military has canceled
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a power transfer agreement with protesters and called for elections the move comes a day after security forces opened fire on protesters killing at least 30 people and injuring many more than had been ongoing demonstrations in khartoum calling on a caretaker military council to make way for a civilian government after the fall of sudan's longstanding dictator over all bashir. after weeks of sit ins ok patients and demonstrations the military opens file on cartoons protest as. i was heavily armed members of the paramilitary raf it support forces a unit formerly associated with messages were deployed along the capital's main roads to disperse the protests. killing and injuring many. civilians have been conducting a huge city in central khartoum for weeks demanding that the transitional military
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council hand over power to the people. once the news spread that the military had opened fire more protesters are out in the streets building barricades and calling for peace and more protests and. after the dispersant of the sit in we went back to the streets and squares and thank god with the help of the youth we closed the street and we will close everything again god willing. the protesters cut ties with the military council off to the bloodshed and then the generals hit back on previous agreements with protest leaders are off they say they'll now hold elections within 9 months but it seems very much on the military's own terms where it is almost. the bloodshed has drawn international condemnation the secretary general strongly condemns the violence and reports of the excessive force used by security personnel on civilians that have resulted in the deaths and injury of many
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and he is alarmed by reports that security forces have opened fire inside medical facilities both sides a calling for peace but with lines of communication down that won't be easy. and journalists are taken joins us now with the view from khartoum what is the situation like this morning. well it's a bit uncertain. unlike yesterday there has not been a lot of gunfire this morning so in that sense it is improved from where i can see there aren't as many troops on the streets but that certainly does not mean that the capital has either what's rise in any way. really today the day of. people are mourning people are mourning people who were killed people are mourning the loss of the sit in which had become basically a city within a city people are still trying to count the dead and wounded. and of course with both sides calling off any softening their haitian. there's
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a lot of uncertainty as to as to what will happen next. there are reports that there will be new demonstrations. even holidays coming up or is upon us actually so as people are burying their dead and going up celebrate ied it's possible that that those events take a strong political. and on the political level i mean we have the military share cropping the power transfer agreement with protesters and calling for elections with a 9 month. looks like a military power grab is it. well served already was a military power grab sensually or maybe we can say that the military simply never gave up power they simply removed. morale this year. and some of his associates but have remained firm control ever since. and we've seen you know the
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killings yesterday that they will use force to ensure that general jason patinkin what can we expect today. well one thing that we are wondering about of course is is the exact death toll so a doctors committee linked to the protests has said that the death toll is $35.00. but there are many wounded and access to hospitals has been has been or with reports of military surrounding even chancery hospitals and so one of the main things will be looking for today is a clear account of. who was killed who was wounded and how many yesterday the other thing that it's possible of course are. more were demonstrations demonstrations continued in other parts of khartoum and surrounding areas last night the roads were barricaded. so you know the people it's not like the people are backing down
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people have been protesting for months so we can well look out for more demonstrations visible change to be taken in costume thank you so much thank you ukraine's new president comedian turned politician followed him as the landscape is making his 1st official visit abroad to brussels a move that his team says underscores the new president's commitment to closer ties with the west you'll meet leaders of the european union and of nato at the top of his agenda is bringing peace to eastern ukraine ston boss region where around 13000 people have lost their lives in fighting between government troops and russia accept protests. looking the opponent in the eye only a few 100 meters divide pro russian separatists from the ukrainian army in these trenches near. on hand to see it for himself ukraine's new commander in chief president followed him as a lengthy it's a picture repeated along the 400 kilometer front line where positions have remained
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frozen for years as stuck as the political process in which both sides insist the other take the 1st step all the while the killing continues. in the business of putting an end to the fighting in donbass is our main priority. i said your thoughts are willing to do almost anything to stop our heroes dying but the caviar soon followed with more than 10000 dead and millions displaced in this conflict many people in ukraine are in no hurry to forgive and forget president selenski freedom of action to strike a deal is far from a given. but at this checkpoint between government and separatist held territory hopes are already running high that an end to the conflict could now be in sight.
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while i think we have an 80 percent chance of peace because selenski is really serious about it's only direct talks with putin are going to resolve this. with there's some hope of peace there was not with poroshenko fighting want to achieve anything. i think he'll manage to end the war he talks in a totally different way of course we want to be together again we want these board accused to be over. in his inauguration speech full of the ms alinsky made much of wanting to win the hearts and minds of people living in separatist held territory speaking to them rather than speaking about them but as his 1st weeks in office draw to a close selenski still owes ukrainians a no answer what diplomatic steps to see intend to take and what concessions is he willing to make to return donya it's going to haunt sgt ukrainian control for now selenski is keeping his cards exceedingly close to his chest. well it has been 30
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years since this image here was seared into into our collective memory that iconic photo of a lone man facing down a column of armor tanks defiance of the brutal crackdown in tiananmen square when chinese soldiers shot and killed hundreds of their own armed fellow citizens the spring of 1989 in that spring students occupied the square demanding new reforms and freedoms from the communist government but their hopes for economic and social change greater freedom of speech and less corruption were too much for this regime the chinese government declared martial law and the early hours of june the 4th troops move den and brutally ended the pro-democracy movement their actions shocked the world on sunday a chinese government spokesperson said that the 1989. crackdown had been the right thing to do this was a stark departure from decades of attempting to keep the event out of the history books and punishing those who commemorate that now despite that there are people
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doing their best to keep the memory of tiananmen square alive. you're back in 1989 i was a 4th year student in university who was a book publisher in hong kong. so i wasn't very interested in society to put it. back you know he was living in beijing. were to sit down i just went to tiananmen square to have a look everybody went there i didn't expect anything special happen. in april a former general secretary of the communist party dr impromptu memorials at the square became the focus for student rallies the reform minded leader had been 2 years before all of pushing each other when the historians but we firmly believe time will bring justice to him. juden saw him as a victim of the corrupt party and soon they started raising more issues poor living
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standards human rights corruption and. public mourning turned into the biggest anti party demonstrations in china's history i thought i had had an argument with my father and he had already said if the students continue this might lead to bloodshed when i don't i was like all the students nobody thought about bloodshed she. pleaded with his father bowed to him was then a high ranking official. we didn't know this would end in such a tragedy sequel freedom but i knew it was a very difficult situation that might bring many conflicts to like to talk. about on had been a close aide to jobs the young the success that we go by the young was also ready for. and want to dialogue with the students but you had to write. the conservative prime minister who favored the hard line approach.
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and i wasn't interested in my father's work especially what he was doing in the government to me he was part of that negative phenomenon i thought the communist party people for what the sun did not know was that another man was in control behind the scenes. behind china's economic reforms fishley retired from most duties. chair whole country near the students knew that it was done shopping who had ousted oh you know about until years before. at the end of a peruvian dung made a decision they labeled the demonstrations and as counter-revolutionaries turmoil via the party newspaper people stayed and ignited this is reduced and. more than 1000000 people took to the streets students and citizens alike
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average of the the. the the the they sang the internationale read from the constitution to remind the party of its own would. have. the. advantage if the government thinks it can suppress says it acts like a donkey trying to scare away a tiger. to get. on. but i know you go into everybody was enthusiastic and thought we would soon win a shooting because everybody supported us. and over the next few weeks the students became more and more confident they demanded negotiations with the polity some went on a hunger strike they want to not have simple. around the world. but when i came home there was a pessimistic atmosphere you don't use yours i learned the government was getting
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nervous and preparing something that i started to become more and more afraid that i really thought one their shows your kind of have hopped. on may 18th being instructed the government to do. the reformers in the party. that night the young appeared on the square chinese t.v. broadcast what became his last appearance. we have come to late. to. tell nothing nothing new that we're sorry. his sympathy for the students caused course to miss he spent the rest of his life on the horse race. and i knew that investigate me within the party.
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i didn't know they would investigate me in prison. he was detained a week after jobless for meanwhile the troops tried to enter the city but they were blocked by civilians several times i was. on the night of june 4th the troops were back this time with the order to use and me me as necessary. who was watching from their own. culture the whole why when they started shooting i thought they would shoot in the air or use rubber bullets it but with it all then i saw somebody with a bullet hole in his belly people were rushing the wounded on bikes into the hospital you know that's when i understood they were really killing people. to turn the ship i thought how many people lost their lives that night remains unknown to day kinnaman square is a tourist destination well guarded and with restricted access most people in
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today's china are too afraid to talk i think it's right. there with i for you or for me the events of 989 are still like an open wound. left the country shortly after he became a publisher of critical books about the communist party many of them about 1909. when i saw my father again in 1997 we found that we agreed on many things to show that something i'm very happy about and that most people my age envy me for him one of the most of them don't have a connection to their parents i don't have this problem that's great luck or do what i don't want to do and here i was here. bottom lives in beijing and is a vocal critic of the party humane zone the constant surveillance. the culture what i expelled me from the party they liberated me my brain and my mouth are free today
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father and son cannot talk often about who is allowed to visit once a year and some years not at all. now south african runner caster semenya will not need to take testosterone reducing medication to compete at least for now after a swiss court temporarily suspended recent polling last month the olympic 800 meter champion lost a challenge at the court of arbitration for sport and had been told that she would only compete if she medically reduced her testosterone levels so many have said that she was thankful to the judges for suspending that the session it means that she will be able to compete until her next court date on the 25th of june. a quick reminder of the top stories we're following for you here in london is phrasing for demonstrations to protest against the state visit of u.s. president donald trump yesterday trump was treated to a banquet in his honor at buckingham palace hosted by the queen elizabeth. sudan's
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military has canceled a power transfer agreement with the opposition and is calling for new elections the move comes after security forces opened fire on protesters killing dozens and injuring hundreds. and today marks 30 years since the chinese government carried out a bloody crackdown on student protesters and chant in the square the security has been stepped up around the square in central beijing where remembrance of the massacre is to rest. don't forget you can i was going to give you news on the go just download our out from google player from the apple store which will give you access to all of the latest views from around the world as well as push notifications for breaking news you can use the app to send us photos and videos and you can watch this program on live stream. up next a kickoff special on the women's football world cup you're up to date i'm sorry
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