for all true friends. was. more than football. the best. this is coming to you live from berlin why leaders in veterans gathered to commemorate the historic d.-day landings that were to end was war to. all the people lying in the cemeteries that. this is what goes through my head when i visit them on d.-day return. all those people died for us so that we could live in peace

with. 300 veterans will join some 600000 people and told in southern england to mark the 75th anniversary of the biggest invasion and military history also coming up. call to the george brown begins an appeal against his conviction for child sexual abuse the form of vatican treasury is the most senior catholic clergy meant to be convicted of these crimes in australia. and we need to make a last minute out of a student in the czech republic trying to topple the nation's billionaire leader the demonstrations he's helping to mobilize are some of the biggest since the fall of communism in 99. plus the very fast hong kong refugees to be granted political asylum anywhere in the wild came here to germany to tell the damn thing about the price they paid in the fight for hong kong independence from china.

one leaders are gathering on the south coast of england to mark the 75th anniversary of d.-day the day in 944 when allied forces landed in normandy and began to retake europe from nazi germany the start of the ceremony to begin shortly at the naval base of. veterans of the campaign some 300 taking part in the commemorations many of the troops embarked there for normandy on june 5th 944. boarded a ship later to return to the landing beaches overnight just as they did 75 years ago representatives of 30 nations are joining. including us president donald trump paid tribute to the allied soldiers sailors and airmen who gave their lives

in the invasion. began with operation overlord 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 a sort in the history of warfare almost 7000 ships and landing craft headed for a 50 mile stretch off the french coast the code names of the landing beaches are etched in history utah. and soared. to this commemoration zone begin in france though but at the english naval base of portsmouth from where d.-day veterans are due to depart on a ship for france now for the allied powers d.d. has long been a symbol of the combined victory in the 2nd world war but in the decade since berman has a time struggled with a legacy we take a closer look at how that legacy and some of the events of the 5th of june and 944

and its legacy have a look at this report. at 1st glance it's hard to see. that the stretch of sand played host to. but 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 saw 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 fison on d.-day and 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 fallen became an important ritual for the victorious allied powers a reminder that they fought on the side of right in a just war. the germans also suffered heavy casualties but it wasn't until

2004 that france invited a german chancellor to take part in the engle 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. the successful invasion completely changed europe for the best they brought us democracy we lost the war. 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 day 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 strained transatlantic times. and

faced with threats before in the domestic european unity continues to be put to the test 75 years after the events of d.-day. and of course we'll have more coverage of those events commemorating d.-day in our latest shows and throughout the day let me bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world australian police have raided the headquarters of the public broadcasting a.b.c. in sydney executive said the search targets regions involved in a 2017 investigative report on the election killing of civilians by australian special forces it's the 2nd high profile probe into the news organizations in 24 hours a spot of a crackdown on sensitive leaks. denmark is voting in a general election school show a likely victory for the opposition social democrats led by metaphysics and seems costing a ballot the parties like you return to power comes after it adopted the hardline

stance of right wing parties on the issue of immigration and denmark socialist parties are also expected to see a surge in support. intense flooding has hit the southern and central united states specially hard on missouri and arkansas authorities have imposed mandatory evacuation orders for several communities along the arkansas river the swollen mystery and mississippi rivers have forced hundreds of roads to close and inundated homes and businesses. the most senior catholic character found guilty of child sex abuse has launched an appeal against his conviction 77 year old cardinal george pell in australia is asking in a peace corps to overturn his conviction for molesting 2 choir boys in a cathedral in the 1990 s. taylor was convicted by a court in the state of victoria last december and is serving a success sentence in a melbourne prison. only

a correspondent drawn to me not gave this update on what happened in court today but heard from up those legal teams and what exactly they're appealing all the lawyer propelled brett walker says that the guilty verdict handed down and this year were on reasonable and up the part of the appeal rests on questions of print ability. he said that among the reasons that bill 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 last push was in full road the argue that it would have been physically impossible to pull his robes aside to give it what he describes as this allegedly atrocious act it was a pointed out that the victim's claims were impossible given that pearl was reportedly greeting parishioners at the entrance to the theater at the time he said

it was credible evidence that the fellow was at the western doors of the fact rick's cafe jail 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 a bill to one of them argues that the judge should have allowed a video reconstruction of where 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. it was john this may not apply to sydney now to the czech capital of prague where tens of thousands of protest has filled the streets and tuesday demanding the resignation of prime minister. it was about the country's biggest political demonstrations since the fall of communism bobbish

is a multi billionaire who has vowed to stay in power despite allegations he illegally profited from you some to d.'s in his business dealings of the. one student against a billionaire. last minnaar has been mobilizing big crowds for weeks. this evening more than 100000 came out to demonstrate against premier pappas obama some of them were afraid that the czech republic could become more like hungary or paul and a powerful oligarch conquers state institutions and put some to his own use and if someone wants to call on him to resign he can't because he'll go to jail that's good openings hope and there's it was it isn't. true the czech prime minister these demonstrations are a political campaigner andre babis is the owner of agro ferret holding now in a blind trust at least in theory. the company isn't just involved in agriculture

babbitts also owns major newspapers critics including the ngo transparency international say he has too much power her. 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 you know if he thought even if he had. 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 babbitts is firmly in control of his party and its coalition partners the social democrats babba says the report is baseless. this report is extremely questionable i consider it as an attack on the czech

republic an attack on czech interests as a destabilization of the country. they stopped believe the. 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 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 reigns he must be excluded from budget talks about. 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. the international monetary fund believes italy's debt

poses a major vist the euro zone economy and later today the european commission is expected to say that italy is in breach of european bunch of drones that could result in the e.u. imposing financial sanctions on the country and putting full of the pressure on the country's coalition government. italy and the e.u.'s relationship status complication last year the country only narrowly avoided disciplinary action over its budget plan now its finances are back in the spotlight with brussels once again sounding the alarm over the country's ballooning debt and here's the problem italy's current debt stands at 132 percent of g.d.p. in other words the country owes far more than the value of its entire economic output under e.u. rules member states aren't supposed to a mass death worth more than 60 percent of their g.d.p. . but 0 skeptic government has questioned those regulations and wants them to be

reviewed. it has at least 2 reasons not to want to rein in spending earlier this year the governing coalition rolled out a new welfare scheme and committed to reduce the retirement age for some workers. promises that are already proving costly to deliver. max covering that story for us in brussels max that expecting a decision on it in these budget deficit today how likely is it that the e.u. commission we'd recommend financial sanctions on it. well and if you can believe the words of e.u. budget commissioner commissioner going to the he said a deficit procedure against italy is in evitable so it's very likely that the commission will go ahead in recommending to launch the sanction process against italy however this is only the 1st step in a long and difficult procedure in the end the council of the european council the

foreign ministers of the member states next month will decide will give their green light or not to start the sanction process against italy however noteworthy in the history of the european union no country has ever been sanctioned under such circumstances and it is a deputy prime minister much he has been easily the league body has scored for an evil meeting to review the blocs fiscal rules which he blames for impoverishing italians how did that go down. well the e.u. has given italy a lot of financial leeway in the past months and weeks leading up to the european elections but now they have toughened their stance basically they're very clear in their message now italy has to get rid of their debt and e.u. commissioner said if italy this respects the rules of the e.u. then it is the use responsibility and the responsibility of the member states to

act right to mock sunda in brussels thank you very much for bringing us up to date on that story in saddam the debt still violent military crackdown on piece of protest as has increased to 60 opposition groups have rejected plans by the country's minute to do less 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 on existing agreements with the opposition. after the slaughter khartoum holds its breath protesters barricading voted 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 a photo is held with that they say elections will not be free and fair and could

allow elements of former president obama 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 while 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 are heading towards disobedience. as this regime will fall no matter what the results as part of. monday's violence was the worst since the shia was ousted in a cold 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 be assured that we are calling on the people to improve our homeland and to spread the spirit of tolerance and forgiveness we remain open to all honest and 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 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 of vowing to continue their fight for full civilian rule that. chinese president xi jinping is a traveling to russia today at the invitation of president that you need putin the 2 leaders have met dozens of times in recent years and i'm looking to find the deepen trade ties between their nations amidst china's heated trade war with the united states in an interview with russian state media ahead of the trip she caught

putin his best and saying he cherished the 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 to finish the skipper china is by any measure a strategic partner so we biggest trade turnover is with china skipper 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 have long said that we need to build more infrastructure. right now to from the countries with a long shared border can't trade normally. because they lacked the proper infrastructure it was going to go at this michigan about altering its obvious machine 1st 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 that there would have to. 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 to teach it 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 are 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 coordinations russian t.v. news recently showed joint military exercises 3000 chinese soldiers joined hundreds of thousands of russian troops on maneuvers last year was a low 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 asean countries and india russia asia policy is more than just a china policy. a sign that russian foreign policy is based on

pragmatism and can be easily adjusted depending on which way the wind blows. to china's foreign policy and the criticism it's faced over human rights specially in hong kong when britain negotiated the conditions of the handover of its former colony to china in 1997 the u.k. insisted that the right to assemble and protest must be protected did have you met up with to hong kong a dissidents who found asylum here in germany this is a china is steadily chipping away at those rights in hong kong. there the 1st time kong refugees to be granted asylum re wanton and now feel safe in germany they were threatened with a prison sentence in the homeland for having taken part in an anti-government protest. is a very very sad things actually because i think no one wants to leave their home country and never go back. and. but anyway we were saying

that. we must do it is because reese we should let the let the whole road know what what is happening in hong kong. 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 i. pray wong and alan 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 train us our unique culture tried to trance 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 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. history of. quite encouraging because after i came to. germany. but somehow it's. those. because everything could. both man hope for hong kong homeland where democracy and

the rule of law prevail just like in germany. news now from the world of sport and at the feet for us today president johnny infantino has been reelected uncontested as president for 4 more years his from the dramatic reforms introduced the game including the use of the controversial video system. and the future expansion of the world cup from $32.00 to $48.00 teams fifo revenues reduced to a record $6400000000.00 u.s. dollars under i'm fine. delegates confirm to 2nd term of the position as president via a vote for which he was the candidate. the french open is set to have a match of the titans in the men's singles world number 2 nadal will face a long time rival roger federer in the semifinal on friday federer got passed.

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