this is deja vu news live from berlin and world leaders and veterans gathered to commemorate the historic d.-day landings that were to end world war 2 all the people lying in the cemeteries that. 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.

3 months batterings will be joining queen elizabeth and other world leaders on the southern coast of england trauner the 75th anniversary of the largest combined land sea and air operation in history. also coming up to the space cardinal george pell begins an appeal against his conviction for child sexual abuse the former vatican treasurer is the most senior catholic clergyman to be convicted of such crops. that were in the czech republic to meet one of the students trying to topple that nation's billionaire leader nicholas menard is helping mobilize the demonstrations against prime minister andre bobbish for some of the biggest since the velvet revolution of 1989. our brian thomas thanks so much for joining us. world leaders will be gathering

today in britain and france to mark the 75th anniversary of d.-day that's the day in 1944 when allied forces landed in normandy and began to retake europe from nazi germany the heavy fighting on the beaches of the surrounding towns resulted in more than $1000.00 allied troops killed or wounded on the 1st day alone as well as thousands of civilians german casualties are put at least $4000.00 now on the normandy coast today france and its allies will be staging a series of reenactments of those landings and the other parts of the battle of normandy which led to the liberation of europe and helped to bring about the end of world war 2. well the day began with operation overlord that was a massive naval operation to ferry american british canadian and other allied forces across the english channel to the french coast it remains the largest amphibious assault in the history of warfare some 7000 ships and landing craft

headed for a small 50 mile stretch of the french coastline they headed across of course the english channel to normandy and the code names of the landing beaches are etched in history utah omaha gold juno and sword all those beaches on that small stretch of sand in normandy well today's commemorations don't begin in france but at the english naval base of portsmouth where do you day veterans will later today depart in a ship for france did obvious show lots of parts at today's event in portsmouth let's go there now live dates here there's a lot planned at these commemorations today can you give us a taste of what's ahead. so brian portsmouth is the town where many of those allied forces many soldiers left on that journey to normandy and 944 and portsmouth has seen many commemoration ceremonies over the years but this one

being the biggest we can expect 16 world leaders attending today including theresa may president but also all of the royal family from queen elizabeth to prince charles and they will be commemorating this event together with the $300.00 veterans all now of course over at 90 years old we will see a fly by of modern and historic aircraft here of course something that especially president trump will appreciate he was known to too like this kind of military display of strength and we also expect the veterans later on then to go on that ship to go to normandy where the celebrations will continue tomorrow we are also expecting protests here but not on the side of the come in a race in the protesters want to be respectful to the veterans but they nonetheless wants to protest the presence of president of u.s. president donald trump ok no president will be standing inside the queen and the

prime minister as part of the commemorations today how will the 3 of them be marking this very important day so central to the 2 nations collective memory. well of course america and great britain the 2 key allies in d. day without them it wouldn't have happened to reason may prime minister theresa may and u.s. president donald trump who is on a state visit to the u.k. we have a stress that special relationship between the 2 countries in the past couple of days and they will do so today the 16 world leaders have written a joint it said d. day proclamation and they have written that they don't want the horace all of the world war 2 to be repeated and that conflicts should be result at all times peacefully so we will we will see here in portsmouth today

a show of unity those western allies ok unity is so important such an important message there before we talk more about this let's take a look back at the events of 75 years ago today and that the legacy of d.-day. 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 su 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 hitler's 3rd reich. commemorating the fall and became an important ritual for the

victorious allied powers a reminder that they fought on the side of right and adjust. 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 and rosy 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 you know 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. lou.

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. we've just seen in a report how much has changed in germany as to how d.-day is viewed here and that makes the visit today by the german chancellor all american all the more significant at these commemorations. it really does we've just heard no german leader has attended the ceremony before 2004 so this is quite a new thing that chancellor merkel is attending the ceremony and it is of utmost importance the day being the key day here that changed the course of history and

created a new post world war 2 author multilateralism democracy but also institutions like the european union and the united nations and those institutions and values have been put in question by donald trump for instance but also by great britain with the whole process leaving the european union so it is very important that those world leaders amidst those struggles are coming together today to really stress that they can stand unites at 70 s. 5 years after the nations have fought each other to the death. of for us from parts reports most will have much more throughout the day thanks much for a lot to. now for a look at some of the other stories making news at this hour australian police have raided the headquarters of the public broadcaster a.b.c. in sydney executive said the search targeted 3 journalists involved in

a 2017 investigative report on the alleged killing of afghan civilians by australian special forces this is the 2nd high profile probe into news outlets in 24 hours amidst a crackdown on sense. of leeks. denmark is voting in a general election project the results show the opposition center left social democrats returning to power after adopting the right wing's hardline stance on immigration and march socialist people's party which focused on climate issues is also expected to see an increase and support. intense flooding is hitting the southern central u.s. especially hard hit missouri and arkansas law authorities have imposed mandatory evacuation orders for a number of communities along the arkansas river the swollen missouri mississippi rivers and forced hundreds of roads to close and inundated homes and businesses well the most senior catholic cleric found guilty of child sexual abuse has

launched an appeal against his conviction 77 year old cardinal george pell is also be 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 and is now serving a 6 year sentence in a melbourne prison. i spoke to correspondent roger maynard in sydney earlier and asked him what we can expect today. well most of it has already happened the hearing actually began about 6 hours ago and there's a just recently it all into a closed military alert alert course during others 6 hours we've heard from up those legal team and what exactly they're appealing on. the lawyer propellor brett walker says that the guilty verdict handed down over this here well right on reasonable and up the heart of the appeal rests on questions of print ability. he

said that among the reasons that phil should not have been found guilty was that the claim the call the abuse of the lead 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 robes aside to give it 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 there was credible evidence that those at the western doors of the factory it's cathedral 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 law is that the judge should have allowed a video reconstruction of when everybody was in the cathedral at that tion and that the 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 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 have michelle or thursday afternoon what happens after then it's very unclear how long it will take for the the 3 at the pool 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 the appellate is law if it were if the guilty but it's not a belt then i could be that the pill is released immediately there is an intense

interest in this case the court was packed today with both poles supporters members of his family and also abusive i was and they're up against so there's a lot of interest there's also only 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 force latest on that appeal scase in the city thanks very much now to the czech capital prague where tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets on tuesday to demand the resignation of prime minister andre bobbish was one of the country's biggest political demonstrations since the fall of communism in 1990 bobbish multi-billionaire who's vowed to stay in power despite our patients he fraudulently used you subsidies. of the money students against a billionaire. last minnaar has been mobilizing big crowds for weeks.

this evening more than 100000 came out to demonstrate against babbage. obama says it wasn't 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 good openings open but there's more as it isn't. for the czech prime minister these demonstrations are a political campaign on 3 babbage is the owner of agra fair told ing now when a blind trust at least in theory the company isn't just involved in agriculture bobbish also owns major newspapers critics including the ngo transparency international say he has too much power what. he's a huge industrialist stand 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 you know if he thought even if he or she had. the e.u. commission is halting subsidies on baddish these companies according to a policeman area imports they accuse him of conflicts of interest now parliament has raised the issue as well the bobbish is firmly in control of his party and his coalition partners the social democrats bobbish says the report is baseless. and of the devil is that this report is extremely questionable i consider it as an attack on the czech republic and attack on czech interests as a destabilization of the country. this believe the 13 year old yeah demonstrators say they won't quit as long as bad as 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. for more on this let's bring in you she harsh eric a journalist in prague chief commentator for t.v. says thanks for joining us i can you tell us more about prime minister bob mission how much power does he have and why are people so very angry well it was mentioned in the report that therese a very strong suspicion also of fraudulent claims of european subsidies and now we have a very critical preliminary report filed by or does this of the european commission playing a very gross conflict of interest of. being in charge of other go for the holding and basically setting the rules of the game in you know economic and political perspectives as previously finance minister and now prime minister and also people take to the streets and they remind about the possible system because it was

approved by the court that he was a collaborator of communist secret police now this toxic combination is just too much for some people in the czech republic but we also have to and society that we are primarily talking about the protests in prague that 50 kilometers away from prague they recently completely different czech republic where people do not care too much and seem to be pretty satisfied with the public of what you know and spite of the report's findings that that you just mentioned and the protests that were just tuesday they go back a while now that we've seen abolishes anno party amerge the 1st and last month's european election now considering that level of report how much of a threat are the protests in prague to his power. within his own party he is in complete control there is no resistance whatsoever this is pretty much

a one man off with pool members being more or less dependent on the bobby so they reached no threat to under a bobby from inside his own of the and also it was mentioned his junior coalition of the social democrats they're also in all kinds of trouble they didn't also pose any major threat now we can also think about the force the spillover effect of the protests to the rest and tree but i don't thing this is going to happen in a fake massive scale that it will spread and bubblicious position but it's really the criminal investigation in the czech republic goes on and he actually will be tried as they swill be a significant issue for bob franken abolishes is accused of wrongly claiming millions in new grants how's that you respond specifically to those allegations. now this is something that we have to wait how this will materialize but european

union is i think responding very sensitively to the fill him in there or did you with the commission experts and name actually these allegations about a conflict of interest will materialize we can see on day by bush and his on no movement being for instance expelled from fraction in the european parliament because he still holds the lead off all the said that he very much expects on the bobbies to comply with the findings of the european commission ok thanks very much for that bring us up to date. in prague pleasure. in sudan the death toll from a violent military crackdown on 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 leaders call for a campaign of civil disobedience and the trust they had 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 a vote is held with that they say elections will not be free and fast 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 we have succeeded in their strikes they're heading towards disobedience. as this regime will fall no matter what loves this part of. monday's violence was the worst since

the shia was as did 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 the issue of good we are calling on the people to improve our homeland and to spread the spirit of tolerance and forgiveness we remain open to honest and constructive suggestions for taking our country forward. but taking stock of the konichiwa demonstrate has a skeptical. the whole other delays 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 its supporters

and vowing to continue their fight for full civilian rule. but it's to china now and the criticism beijing that beijing is facing over human rights especially when it comes to hong kong when britain negotiated the conditions of the handover of the former colony to china in 1907 long an assisted that the right to assemble and protest would be protected w met up with 2 hong kong dissidents who have found asylum here in germany they say china is steadily chipping away at those rights in hong kong. they're the 1st time kong refugees to be granted asylum ray one and ellen 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 fairy story set things 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 swear should let the let the whole road know what is happening in hong kong if you look back to 2014 when 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 were also there they later found at their own movement hong kong indigenous they are fighting for hong kong's independence from china. we need to. we found that the government tried to cleanse our unique culture try to 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 common like in our the city in china right you won't and were taken into custody in 2016 the accusation there where involved in violent riots one of their

fellow companions 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 after i came to help with some. they told me that. when they were young they had imagined east germany and west germany would be needed united reunion again but somehow it's happen 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 like in germany . we have some sports now in the french open is said to have a match of the titans in the men's singles world number 2 rafael nadal will face long time rival roger federer in the semi's on friday fate of a past stand in a tie game that went into 4 sets with 2 tie breaks getting one step closer to his securing his 2nd title in paris and earlier the dall chasing his 12th french open crown be japan's key corey in straight sets friday's semi will be the 39th professional meeting between faith and nidal. get your mind of our top stories at this hour veterans of world leaders are gathering in britain and france to mark the 75th anniversary of d.-day that's the day in 1044 when allied forces landed in normandy and began to retake europe from nazi germany. and australia disgraced

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