w. . this is deja vu news live from berlin president trump tells the british american alliances the greatest the world has ever known the president promising britons is a quote phenomenal to host breck's a trade deal before welcoming prince charles and other dignitaries of the u.s. ambassador's residence in long. and today on the final day of a state visit the president will join queen elizabeth and other leaders in commemorating the 75th anniversary of the d.-day landings to greatest combined land air and naval operations in history. also coming up colonel george pell

begins an appeal against his conviction for child sexual abuse former vatican treasurer of the most senior catholic clergyman to be convicted of such crops. plus run the czech republic to meet one of the students trying to topple its billionaire leader make a last minute are is helping mobilize demonstrations against prime minister on the revolver are some of the biggest the country seen since the velvet revolution in 1000 if you not. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us on the 3rd day of his state visit to britain president trump will join other government leaders and marking the 75th anniversary of d.-day now that was the day when the biggest beijing force in history stormed the beaches of france. to liberate europe from the nazis last night

the president hosted a dinner for prince charles of fun mr trees in may at the residence of the u.s. ambassador the days and gauge was also included a visit to number 10 downing street hailed the extraordinary relationship between britain and the us and pushed through trade ties with the us that is if britain leaves the european union this off. well later today the president will be going to the naval base in portsmouth that's in southern england for the d.-day commemorations for more on that we're joined from there by did abuse or a lot of pots good morning to usual autumn president trump says that america's special relationship with britain is something that should be highlighted and how is that message invoking the special relationship being received in britain amidst all the uncertainty of breck's. well of course the special relationship is of utmost importance to the u.k. the u.s. is arguably the u.s.

could you case closest ally that is for sure but the president made waves with many comments yesterday in the press conference with 2 recent may he was meddling with u.k. domestic politics and that didn't go down well he was for example talking about that phenomenal trade deal between the u.s. and the u.k. offered to break that and he was suggesting that everything in that trade deal everything would be up for grabs even the public health care and here in the u.k. and that didn't go down well across the aisle with tories and labor alike so this morning actually president trump was rolling back his comments and said that national health would be out for the u.k. to decide in that deal so president trump as always making waves there in the u.k. but highlighting that special relationship and of course that's important to the u.k. . part of that special bond was of course forged during world war 2 and d.-day

plays a huge role in that collective memory how will the president along with the queen be marking the start of the invasion today. so there will be a huge ceremony here in ports miss the site where many many of the soldiers that were landing in normandy left to normandy and $944.00 and it is going to be the queen alongside president trump and alongside other world leaders such as the french president in monterrey mccall in the german chancellor they will all be here security measures already in place the city is basically under lockdown for the celebrations later and the world leaders will be joined by veterans from back then they will the those veterans will also be leaving on a ship to normandy later on to mock this anniversary so this town really celebrating here today but some very critical some of the citizens saying that president trump will take the focus away from the veterans and from this important day ok before we talk more about this important day let's take

a look now at some of the events of 75 years ago and at some of the days like this . at 1st glance it's hard to see any sign of the horrors that this stretch of sand played host to about 75 years ago on june 6th the fate of an entire continent rested on the soldiers who came ashore here on omaha beach. operation overlord sue a combined force of nearly 160000 american british and canadian troops land on the beaches of normandy. gaining a foothold in nazi occupied france came at a heavy price the fighting on d.-day in the weeks afterwards claimed the lives of tens of thousands of allied soldiers but their sacrifice hastened the defeat of hitler's 3rd reich. commemorating the fall and became an important ritual for the victorious allied powers as

a reminder that they fought on the side of right and it just. the germans also suffered heavy casualties but it wasn't until 2004 that france invited to german chancellor to take part in the annual commemorations. what was once viewed in germany as a calamitous defeat is now seen as marking the start of the long road to peace and liberation do you gloomy and rosy all the successful invasion completely changed europe for the best they brought us democracy we lost the war. you see we've had 70 years of peace here. though all the people lying in the cemeteries there. this is what goes through my head when i visit them on d.-day. all those people died for us so that we could live in peace. luke and. when france and germany 1st commemorated the invasion of normandy together it was

seen by observers as a sign of deepening european unity in the face of strained transatlantic ties and faced with threats both foreign and domestic the bond of european unity continues to be put to the test 75 years after the events of d.-day. oh shots were heard there how how the view of d.-day has been changing in germany and in europe over the years in light of that how significant is that german chancellor all america all will be attending today's the day commemorations. of course it is absolutely huge i think the significance of those day can't be underestimated we saw that in the piece it's a key moment that changed the world of the course of 2 of course and also created the liberal post world war 2 author and democracy. with a that is something that president has been attacking time and time again and i

think will leaders such as i'm going to give him a little knots on that today and remind him off that special bond and relationship that was forged after world war 2 and i think the significance is really important also that 75 years after those nations fought each other to the death on this continent that now the world leaders can come together and commemorate and celebrate the special day and we'll have much more from portsmouth throughout the day for now for a lot of pots thanks very much. let's check out some of the other stories making the news at this hour intense flooding is getting the southern and central united states especially hard hit are missouri and arkansas authorities impose mandatory evacuation orders for a number of communities along the arkansas river the swollen missouri and mississippi rivers of forced hundreds of roads are closed down inundated homes and businesses. a school security officer who failed to intervene in

a mass shooting at a florida school last year has been arrested scott peterson has been charged with child neglect probable negligence and perjury 17 people were killed during the shooting at the marjory stoneman douglas high school. doctors in sudan say the number of people killed in a crackdown on pro-democracy protests camp has now reached at least 60 now this comes sudan's opposition rejected a plan by the country's military rulers to hold elections within 9 months opposition leaders are calling for a campaign of civil disobedience to force the army to hand over power. also to australia now in the most senior catholic cleric found guilty of child sex abuse has launched an appeal against his conviction the disgraced 77 year old cardinal george pell is asking an australian appeals court to overturn his conviction for molesting 2 choir boys in a cathedral in the 1990 s. l. was convicted by a court in the state of victoria last december he's now serving

a 6 year sentence in a melbourne prison. let's get more on this story now with roger maynard joining us from sydney good morning to you roger can you tell us what's going to happen today. ok we don't have any a sound connection with with said they will be getting back to that if we can later in the show. in other news tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of prague a survey to demand the resignation of prime minister bobbish it was one of the biggest political demonstrations there since the fall of communism bobbish is a multi billionaire who's vowed to stay in power that despite allegations he fraudulently used european union subsidies the 1000000 moments for democracy group staging the rally says it will not give up until resigns. one student against

a billionaire may clash may now has been mobilizing big crowds for weeks this evening more than 100000 came out to demonstrate against premier bobbish according to the organizes it's one of the biggest demo since the velvet revolution of 1989. obama says some of it we're afraid that the czech republic could become more like hungary or poland a powerful oligarch conquers state institutions and puts them to his own use and if someone wants to call on him to resign he can't because he'll go to jail it's people put them in the soap and get their ship as it is. for the czech prime minister these demonstrations are a political campaign andre bobbish is one of the richest people in the country the owner of agra fed holding now in a blind trust at least in theory the company isn't just involved in agriculture bobbish also owns major newspaper has critics including the ngo transparency international say he has too much power. he's

a huge industrialist and at the same time he's prime minister and owns media interests he gets huge amounts of public money from e.u. funds and national subsidies he's sucking up all this public money that's a level of power that even below scorning in italy never experienced in his best years and i mean if you think you know people have. the european commission is halting subsidies to publishers firms according to a preliminary report that accuses him of conflicts of interest that now paula meant has raised the issue as well but bobbish is in control of his party and coalition partners analysts say that if there were new elections the policy would become insignificant published calls the report baseless at the end of the devil is the focus reporter's extremely questionable i consider it as an attack on the czech republic and attack on czech interests as a destabilization of the country this is. this stuff believe that the more czech

authorities are supposed to investigate the reports accusations but the opposition has little faith they're demanding real consequences for what the report describes they want bobbish excluded from upcoming e.u. budget talks then in these in these negotiations he's going to try to limit the use influence in order to increase his own power polman has rightly challenge that for months now this conflict of interest means he must be excluded from budget talks if. the u.s. demonstrators say they won't quit as long as bobbish is in power but his supporters don't care the economy is humming along and they don't want the e.u. telling them what to do. and we have the line back up to australia where colonel george pell is asking an australian appeals court to overturn his conviction for molesting 2 choir boys in 1990 s. let's bring in roger maynard in sydney following this for us this morning roger can

you tell us what's going to happen today. well most of it has already happened the hearing actually began about 6 hours ago and there's a just recently drawing to a close it will carry alerts locals during others 6 hours we've heard from the film's legal team and what exactly they're appealing on. the lawyer propellor brett walker says that the guilty verdicts and didn't know this here well right on reasonable and up the part of the appeal rests on questions of credibility. he said that among the reasons that phil should not have been found guilty was that the claim the call the abuse or that the that the child abuse happened while the then us bush was in full road he argued that it would have been physically impossible to pull his rhodes aside to commit what he described as this allegedly atrocious act it was a pointed out that the victims' claims were impossible given the pearl was reportedly

greeting parishioners at the entrance to the theater at the time when he said there was credible evidence that the film was at the western doors of the fact rick's cafe jewel in melbourne which was some distance from the sacristy where the alleged offenses were supposed to have taken place up there on the grounds of a bill to one of the logs that the judge should have allowed a video reconstruction of when everybody was in the cathedral at that time and that video reconstruction should have been played to the jury and finally the the the the pillars of lawyer argues that hell was not properly arraigned in other words he was not given the opportunity to plead not guilty before the trial before the jury at the beginning of the trial. ok roger tim you tell us what it was so much riding on issues of credibility and some of the technical issues you mention is as well how long this appeal is going to last and how's it being received in australia

especially by the victims well. the actual appeal will last for 2 days at the maximum as you have michel or thursday afternoon what happens after then is very unclear how long it will take for the 3 of your court judges to respond it could be days could be weeks maybe even a month or more on the other hand if the case against apparel is not in who are if the go to go it's not a belt then it could be that the pill is released immediately there is an intense interest in this case that the court was packed today with both poles supporters members of his family and also abuse survivors and there are ads against so there's a lot of interest there's also only usually been a live stream of the court case at the victoria supreme court so that people around australia and indeed around the world can watch what's been going on. roger maynard force latest on that appeal scase in the city thanks very much.

while the chinese president xi jinping is traveling to russia today at the invitation of president vladimir putin the 2 leaders have met dozens of times in recent years are looking to further deepen trade ties between their nations amiss china's heated trade war with the united states and in its view with a russian media ahead of the trip she called putin his best and bosom friend adding that he cherished their deep friendship. friendships must be cultivated to that end china bestowed an honorary doctorate on russia's president last month at a press conference for the event vladimir putin praised the 2 countries relationship good enough for the skipper china is by any measure a strategic partner so we biggest trade turn of is with china. last year trade between the 2 countries rose 27 percent to $107000000000.00

russia sells china raw materials while china sends back machinery transport and consumer goods to increase trade the 2 are investing in new transport links like this cross border bridge over the am or river it's set to open for traffic next year but. in for us we've long said that we need to build more infrastructure. right now 2 friendly countries with a long shared border can't trade normally because they lack the proper infrastructure to go it is michigan about offering it's up this machine for us was very weak and both presidents have promised to remedy that they've met dozens of times in recent years and the kremlin says they have good personal chemistry as well. as presidential visit to st petersburg has been in the works for a long time or would it. need when your boss china and russia support each other diplomatically against and say globalization protectionism and unilateralism this

fully reflects the high level and special nature of the 2 countries strategic partnership and heard. one thing united's china and russia their rivalry with the west russia has been hit hard by sanctions china is living with the looming threat of a trade war with america the bilateral agreements offsets to come out of the summit but the main aim is seems to be to send the west one message we're just fine without you. both russia and china are permanent members of the united nations security council where they often block resolutions from western countries especially relating to syria and then as a way a lot. of other key part of the russian chinese relationship is increasing military coordination russian t.v. news recently showed joint military exercises 3000 chinese soldiers joined hundreds of thousands of russian troops on maneuvers last year alone chinese numbers

a sign that the russians don't completely trust them yet oh. we don't intend to become dependent on china and that's why we're developing relationships with japan korea that as the end countries and india russia's asia policy is more than just a china policy. a sign that russian foreign policy is based on pregnant. and can be easily adjusted depending on which way the wind blows. you simply sure want to fall in this visit in moscow for us this morning emily can you tell us what signals are china and russia sending to the west with this very high level visit today well the signals that they're sending are mainly being sent to the u.s. both countries are united in their anti u.s. downs both countries have now for

a while been railing at what they call the unilateralism of the u.s. position their attempts to kind of. be a leader in the world order but if china is being is turning away from the u.s. because of the trade war then russia is there were ready to welcome china with open arms after all russia was hit by u.s. and by western by western sanctions in general in 2014 after they are next the crimean peninsula so they have actually been looking to as they say pivot to asia and they've been looking for other partners apart from western partners since then so this is certainly a welcome development for russia ok so we see u.s. unilateralist pushing the 2 together but they're also in competitors they have been in the past especially what common interests do they have right now that are

drawing them together. well as you say brian this is a marriage of convenience in some ways but there is also a lot to it a lot of basis to it russia and china have a lot a lot in common when it comes to some of the main political issues in the international arena at the moment both support mudder or in venezuela both are trying to salvage the iran nuclear deal both also have a similar position on the denuclearization of the korean peninsula they even have a joint road map that they have been working out that they've been pushing on that process they often vote together on resolutions in the security council and economically as well they've been developing ties as we just saw in the piece in recent years russia's china's main energy supplier china is russia's main trade

partner so even though we have been hearing a lot of rhetoric from both sides about deep friendship that isn't just hot air there is also a basis to it ok we'll see what the big comes up with today in terms of possible trade deals and we sure were worse of moscow for much. or going to focus on chinese foreign policy right now and the criticism beige of beijing has faced over human rights especially in hong kong when brittany go she added the conditions of the handover of that former colony to china in 1907 the u.k. insisted that the right to assemble protest would be protected met up with to hong kong dissidents who have found asylum here in germany they say that china is steadily chipping away at those human rights in hong kong. there the 1st time kong refugees to be granted asylum ray one and ellen lete now feel safe in germany they were threatened with a prison sentence in the homeland for having taken part in an anti-government

protest. as a very very set thing actually because i think no one wants to leave their home country and never go back. and. but anyway we we thing that. we must do it is because we swish it let the let the whole road know what is happening in hong kong if you look back to 2014 many young people took to the streets of hong kong calling for civil liberties and more democracy both sides became violent. grey ones and ellen lee were also there they later found at their own movement hong kong indigenous they are fighting for hong kong's independence from china. we teenagers we found that the government tried to cleanse our unique culture try to pass our language try to

class our identity as a hong kong hong kong and we don't want that to happen and we don't want hong kong just to be calm and like an hour to see tea in china right you won't and we're taken into custody in 2016 the accusation there where involved in violent riots one of their fellow. eunice was sentenced to 7 years in prison on the same charge but the 2 feel the punishment is disproportionate fearing what might happen the 2 fled to germany while on probation they lived in limbo for 6 months until germany granted them political asylum. i think the history of. that trip for me personally is quite encouraging because i came to. they told me that. when they were young they had never imagined germany and west germany would be. united.

but somehow it happened so. that those german told me don't lose my home because everything could happen both men hope for hong kong homeland where democracy and the rule of law prevail just. as your mine are now of our top stories this hour on this 3 day visit to britain the president held the british american alliance as the greatest the world. today you will join the queen and other leaders in. the 75th anniversary of the d.-day landings. and in australia the disgraced cardinal george howell a sort of an appeal against restriction the floor child sex abuse former vatican treasurer is the most senior catholic clergy convicted of such crimes. this is the next is our business was. there could be bad days ahead for the e.u.

decides what to do about its budget busting deficit. that much more i'm brian thomas for the entire news team thanks so far for joining us.

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