this is deja vu news live from berlin president joins queen elizabeth to commemorate the d.-day landings the president and other world leaders will today honor of the 75th anniversary of the largest combined land air and sea operation in history. and after talks with the prime minister tree so many on the 2nd day of a state visit the president held the british america alliance as the greatest the

world has ever known and promised britain a phenomenal post-crisis it has prayed deal with it also coming up cardinal george pell begins an appeal against his conviction for child sexual abuse the former vatican frazier is the most senior catholic clergyman to be convicted of such crimes. and were also in the czech republic to meet one of the students trying to topple the nation's billionaire leader last mean hours helping to mobilize demonstrations against prime minister andre published there some of the biggest since the velvet revolution of 1989. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us but world leaders will be gathering today in britain and france to mark the 75th anniversary of. a day that's the day

in 1944 when allied forces landed in normandy and began to retake europe from nazi germany the brutal fighting on the beaches and surrounding towns would play in the lives of as many as $13000.00 allied soldiers and thousands of civilians on the normandy coastline today france and its allies will stage a series of reenactments of the landings and other stages of the battle of normandy which led to the liberation of europe and helped bring about the end of world war 2 . well d.-day began with operation overlord a massive naval operation to ferry american british and other allied forces across the english channel to the french coastline well it remains the largest this assault in the history of warfare some 7000 ships and landing craft heading for a small bit of coastline from portsmouth

a 50 mile stretch along the coast of the french area of normandy now the code names of the beaches are etched in history utah omaha gold juno and sword those beaches in normandy well today's commemorations will begin not in france but in the english port city of portsmouth where d.-day veterans will later today depart in a transport ship for france t w a correspondent for a lot of parts at today's event in portsmouth let's join her there live now there's a lot planned for today where you are there in portsmouth can you fill us in. right so portsmouth is the town where many of those allied forces of those soldiers left on their journey to normandy so there will be a huge ceremony today where 16 world leaders will attend including the royal family from prince charles and queen elizabeth to prince william so all of the royals

there and they will celebrate with $300.00 veterans in a commemorative ceremony we will see. crofts flying by modern and historic right here over this celebration area imports miss and 300 veterans will attend they are all over 90 years old and those veterans will later as you mentioned then go on a ship that will take them to normandy where the celebrations will continue tomorrow. the d.-day landing plays a central role in the british american relationship of an essential part of its collective memory how will the president and the leaders of britain the leader britain trees the many in the queen be marking specifically this event. the u.s. president donald trump is on a state visit at the moment to the u.k. he's been he's been received by the queen over the last couple of days and by theresa may and london and now today they are commemorating this anniversary here

in portsmouth to reese and they will host a luncheon here in portsmouth together with the other 15 leaders and they have this occasion have written down a pledge that pledge is that those horrific events of what to should not be repeated and that conflicts around the world should be resolved peacefully so we will see a lot a unity today we will see a stressing that west and unity and i think that is also one of the significance of this day ok unity and peace are big messages for today let's take a look back at the event now before we discuss further these commemorations of the events of 75 years ago and the invasion and their legacy. 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 to a combined force with 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 him his 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 a 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 realize you're all the successful invasion completely changed europe for the best they brought us democracy we lost the war. we are you see we've had 70 years of peace here. all the people lying in the cemeteries there. this is what goes through my head when i visit them on d.-day. the be do all those people died for us so that we could live in peace. 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 strain transatlantic time. 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.

shalott and that report we saw some of the changing views of d.-day of the invasion not only in germany but but in europe at large and it's very significant in the light of that isn't it that the german chancellor will be on hand at these commemorations. absolutely brian we saw it d.-day being the key events that changed the course of history and they have by also created in the end the post world. order so we're talking about democracy. liberalism and these are all values president time and time again questions so i think well leaders might give him a little nuts and a lesson in history here today at that commemorative ceremony but you're right absolutely significant that chancellor merkel is also attending really what leaders coming here together in unity 75 years after those nations have fought each other

to the death and this unity will really show here today this is one of the key themes of this commemorative ceremony. for us in portsmouth where we'll have much more throughout the day thanks very much now for. well back in london thousands of protesters have taken to the streets during president trumps state visit to demonstrate against his presence there now he insisted that reports of the protests were fake news and focus instead on what he called the extraordinary relationship between britain and the u.s. that after meeting with the british prime minister he pledged vastly improved ties with the u.s. if britain leaves the u. this fall. it was a date the special relationships u.s. president donald trump and the outgoing british prime minister to resign made on stage together for probably one of the last times for the past 2 and a hole for the president and i have had the privilege of being the latest guardians

of this precious and profound friendship between our countries. when we have faced threats to the security of all citizens and. we have stood together and acted together. and a big part of that special relationship is trade. as the u.k. makes preparations to a. at the european union the united states is committed to a phenomenal trade deal between the u.s. and the u.k. there is tremendous potential in the trade deal i say probably to get even 3 times of what we're doing right now tremendous potential. but in the streets around the british prime minister's residence there was a less than friendly welcome for the us president was. was. was. they went to pay a horrible. standards on us in britain. and it's all

because we look as if we're going to be reduced by threats. we going to have to accept. but i pray is not going to happen. everyone knows that the bush prime minister is on her way out and it will be up to her successor to make sure the special relationship remains smoke ordeal. now for a look at some of the other stories making news this hour intense flooding is hitting the southern and central united states especially hard the states of missouri and arkansas authorities have imposed mandatory evacuation orders for a number of communities along the arkansas river the swollen missouri and mississippi rivers have forced hundreds of roads to close and inundated homes and businesses. authorities in peru say they've seized more than 5 tons of illegal drugs destined for europe for his presence saying the hole was made in

a multinational operation involving police in argentina spain and italy officials say the suspects were using front companies pretending to export agricultural commerce. denmark is voting in a general election project of results show the opposition center left social democrats returning to power after adopting the right wing's hardline stance on immigration denmark's socialist people's party which focused on climate issues is also expected to see an increase in support. well tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of prague tuesday to demand the resignation of prime minister andre bobbish it was one of the country's biggest political demonstrations since the fall of communism as a multi-billionaire who's vowed to stay in power despite allegations he fraud we used you it's the 1000000 moments of democracy group staging the route he says it will not give up until he resigns. the one student

against a billionaire. make a last minute are has been mobilizing big crowds for weeks i this evening more than 100000 came out to demonstrate against premier papias obama some of them we're afraid that the czech republic could become more like hungary oh poland a powerful oligarch because 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 get over the many soap and there's it does it isn't. true the czech prime minister these demonstrations are a political campaign. that this is the owner of aggro fair to holding now in a blind trust at least in theory. the company isn't just involved in at. a culture that is also owns major newspapers 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 bella scorning in italy never experienced in his best years and you know if he thought even if they think. the e.u. commission is halting subsidies to badasses companies according to a policeman ary report that accuses him of conflicts of interest now parliament has raised the issue as well. but davus is firmly in control of his party and his coalition partners the social democrats babba says the report is baseless and the ability to focus reporters extremely questionable i consider it as an attack on the czech republic an attack on czech interests as a destabilization of the country this is. this stuff believe the.

czech authorities are supposed to investigate the reports accusations that the opposition has little faith they're demanding real consequences for what the report describes they want babbitts 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 problem and has rightly challenge that for months now this conflict of interest means he must be excluded from budget talks about sure he must be alone you know you demonstrators say they won't quit as long as babbitts 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. it's to australia now where the most senior catholic cleric found guilty of child sex abuse as 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. he was convicted by a court in state of victoria last december and is now serving a 6 year sentence in a melbourne prison. i spoke earlier to correspondent roger maynard in sydney and asked him what we can expect in this case. 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 up those legal team and what exactly they're appealing along. with the lawyer propellor brett walker says that the guilty verdicts and didn't know this here well ron reasonable and up the heart 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 the argue 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 victim's claims were impossible given the pearl was reportedly greeting parishioners at the entrance to the theater at the time he said it was credible evidence that shows that the western jaws 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 all the grounds of appeal to one of the law is that the judge should have allowed a video reconstruction of when everybody was in the cathedral at that tion and that video reconstruction should have been played to the jury and finally the the the the pillars of lawyer argues the pell 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 to me tells would with 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 in the next lowest you're going to shoulder thursday afternoon but what happens after then is very unclear how long it will take for the 3 little 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 uphill is law if we were if the good people it's not a belt then i 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 they're up against so there's a lot of interest there's also an usually been a live stream of the court case at the victorian supreme court so that people around australia and indeed around the world can watch what's been going on. roger maynard forces latest on that appeal scase in the city thanks very much in sudan the death toll from a violent nor terror crackdown on peaceful protesters has increased to 60 opposition groups have rejected plans by the country's military rulers to hold elections within 9 months and say they will keep up their campaign of civil disobedience this comes after the country's military scrapped all existing agreements with the opposition. after the slaughter khartoum holds its breath protesters barricading roads as their leaders call for a campaign of civil disobedience and the trust they have in the military council has gone their agreements torn up by the generals after the brutal crackdown on

opposition leaders reject the military's plan for rapid elections they want to lodge a structural change before without is held with that they say elections will not be free and fair and could allow elements of former president the shias regime to hold on to power. the military council's leader has not learned the lessons of history it seems he is clearly repeating it in every way we believe that it's now in the hands of the sudanese people they have begun setting up barricades or have succeeded in their strikes they are heading towards disobedience. as this regime will fall no matter what loves those for. monday's violence was the worst since the shia was ousted in april on tuesday the military council expressed regret at the deaths. in the. form is to investigate to monday's incidents and have asked for general prosecutor to handle being issued we are

calling on the people to improve our homeland and to spread the spirit of tolerance and forgiveness we remain open to all needs to be constructive suggestions for taking our country forward. but taking stock of the con it demonstrates has a skeptical. this speech will lead to a mess in the country and will drag it down the opposition alliance will not accept it and people in general support us no matter what their political affiliation the government should abide by the people's will and the people support what the opposition alliance is calling for. that's alliance and it support has to continue that fight for full civilian room that. 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 and are

looking to further deepen trade ties between their nations and that's china's heated trade war with the u.s. an interview with russian media ahead of the trip called putin his best 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 given the skipper china is by any measure a strategic partner so we biggest trade turnover is with china get that 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 river it's set to open for traffic next year. in france 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 was going to go it is mistaken about altering its up is pushing for 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. the presidential visit to st petersburg has been in the works for a long time there would. need when your boss china and russia support each other diplomatically against and say globalization protectionism and unilateralism is fully reflects the high level and special nature of the 2 countries strategic partnership and. one thing united states 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 saw set 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 venezuela is another 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 the as the countries and india russia's asia policy is more than just a china policy but if. a sign that russian foreign policy is based on pragmatism and can be easily adjusted depending on which way the wind blows. emily sure wins following that visit in moscow for us iris earlier to tell us about the common interests that are drawing china and russia closer together 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 mudra 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 that piece in recent years of 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 basis comes up with today in terms of possible trade deals i'm only sure one worst moscow thanks for. get your mind out of our top stories at this hour on his 3 day state visit to britain president trump has hailed the british american alliance as the greatest the world has ever know today he will join queen elizabeth and other leaders a commemorative of the 75th anniversary of the d.-day landings. and in australia

this for the grace of cardinal george go has begun his appeal against his conviction for child sexual abuse from about the 1st is the most senior cause a clergyman to be convicted of such crimes. this is 11 years live from berlin up next a documentary looking at forest talk 1st 2 plus to develop the amazon doesn't get you can always find out more about these and other stories at our website w dot com i'm dr thomas gray entire team thanks for joining.

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