the being a. leg. length. leg the bad. news coming to you live from blooded the world remembers the historic d.-day landings that led to the end of the 2nd was. britain's queen elizabeth is joined by was leaders after the portsmouth naval base in southern england to mark the 75th anniversary of the biggest invasion of its kind in military history also coming up truly a cardinal george pell begins an appeal against his conviction for child sexual abuse the form of vatican treasure is the most senior catholic clergy meant to be

convicted of these crimes. and. in the czech republic trying to topple the nation's billionaires media the demonstrations he's helping to mobilize the biggest since the fall of communism in 1809. class speech president john infantino is reelected on opposed to the footboards top job despite continued concerns for many of the games the demonstrators lack financial transparency. well it is a gathering on the southern coast of england to mark the 75th anniversary of d.-day the day in $944.00 when allied forces landed in normandy in began to retake europe from nazi germany representatives of 16 nations have joined britain's queen

elizabeth at the ceremony in portsmouth where many of the troops in box for. the 5944 among them are french president in modern mcchrystal and german chancellor. u.s. president donald trump has been paying tribute to the allied soldiers sailors and airmen who gave their lives. today are the veterans of that campaign some $300.00 of them are taking part in the commemoration ceremonies. now did 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 of its kind in the history of modern warfare almost 7000 ships and landing craft headed for a 15 mile stretch of the french coast the names the code names of those landing the

beaches are etched in history utah gold juno and sword to discover commemorations didn't begin in france but at the english naval base of portsmouth from where d.-day veterans are to depart on a ship for france correspondent charlotte potts is in portsmouth and joins me now from there shot of the mean part of the commemoration ceremonies have begun there talk us through as to what's happening there. well we're here in parts most and this is the site where thousands of soldiers left for their journey to normandy so you see that the entrance right here and you can imagine how it was like in 944 when all these ships were departing from normandy to fight over the commemorative ceremony is happening right now 16 world leaders are gathered there and they have basically reliving those events of d.-day of this important day that changed the course of history really and the change changed the course of the 2nd world war

they were living it with musical performances was beaches we've seen already justin trudeau and donald trump taking the stage there the canadian and american leader and we will see many more over the course of the next hour we will also hear more musical performances and also see a flyby of modern and historic aircraft before this commemorate commemorative ceremony comes to a close. as you mentioned several leaders there to these commemoration ceremonies. on the surviving veterans off and be in the end on the real styles of the show. they really are there over 300 veterans that really participated in d.-day back in the days and 944 they are now all over 90 years old as you can imagine and i've seen some of them this morning it's a very humbling sight to see these men that survived this one of the greatest

battle in history it's a very humbling sight those veterans will. will participate of course in the commemoration but they will also later on board a ship here and then make their way over to normandy where those events are supposed to continue those commemoration events and what i found quite fascinating young and old have gathered here and parts missed to honor those that have fallen and those that have survived and they're really thousands of people that are watching these commemorative ceremony at the moment and we've been seeing some of the live pictures of what's going on there charlotte before we continue our conversation let's take a look at the events of 75 years ago and have some legacy. first glance it's hard to see any sign of the horrors 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 5 you know 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. 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 before and the domestic the band of european unity continues to be put to the test 75 years after the events of d.-day. now do you know a shot of the german chancellor angela merkel is also there for these commemoration

ceremonies how special how significant is that that the german chancellor is part of the ceremonies. it is very significant we've just heard in the piece that a german chancellor has. before 2004 so this is a quite recent thing that a german chancellor is joining these commemorations and we also have to say the day in itself the significance of this day and of those commemoration can be underestimated at d.-day was a key moment that changed the course of history and really created a new post world war 2 author with democracy the freedom institutions like the united nations and the european union and those values and institutions they have come under threat and under pressure not only from president . from u.s. president but also from the british people that voted to leave the european union

so they are. in this western alliance at the moment but i think this event shows some kind of unit amongst all that nations that really fought each other to the death of 75 years ago can now come together peacefully to celebrate this day. bring the commemoration ceremonies in portsmouth on d.-day 75th anniversary thank you very much for that. 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 silage charge of 3 journalists involved in a 2017 investigative report on the alleged killing of gun civilians by australian special forces is the 2nd high profile probe into a news organization in just 24 hours and comes a spot of

a crackdown on sensitive leaks. denmark is voting in a general election leading in the polls are the opposition social democrats led by a met a free dixon seen here casting doubt on it now the party is likely returned to power comes after it adopted the hardline stance of right wing parties on the issue of immigration denmark's socialist parties also expected to see a surge in support. intense flooding as if the southern and central united states especially hard hit on missouri and arkansas apologies of 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. doctors in sudan say the number of people killed in a crackdown on a pro-democracy protests camp has increased to at least 60 this comes as 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. muslims around the world have been celebrating either fitters which marks the end of the holy month of ramadan in the indian capital dannie thousands gather to pray at the country's largest mosque john i'm asked and the timing of each depends on the sighting of the new moon and it varies from country to country. and the most senior catholic cleric found guilty of child sex abuse has launched an appeal against his conviction 77 year old cardinal george palestrina is asking an appeals court to overturn his conviction for molesting 2 choir boys in a cathedral in the 1990 s. held was convicted by a court in the state of victoria last december and is serving

a success sentence in a melbourne prison i'm innocent of these earlier correspondent raja may not give this update on what happened in court today. those legal to what exactly they're appealing or. the lawyer. says that the guilty verdict and this year were a reasonable and got the part of the appeal rests on questions of credibility. he said that among the reasons the girl should look into this with the claim the court the abuse of the the job have world. was in full growth 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 big. 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 the fellow was 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 logs that the judge should have allowed a video reconstruction of when everybody was in the cathedral at that side and that video reconstruction should have been played to the jury and finally the the the the pillars of lawyer argues the appellate was not properly arranged 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. was jealous of roger may not to porting from sydney not to the czech capital of prague where tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets on tuesday demanding the resignation of prime minister. it was one of the country's biggest political demonstrations since the fall of communism

bobbish is a multi billionaire who has vowed to stay on and despite allegations he illegally profited from e.u. subsidies in his private business dealings of the was one student against a billionaire. the last min are has been mobilizing big crowds for weeks. this evening more than 100000 came out to demonstrate against. obama some of them 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 a good opening it's opened up their ship was it isn't. for the czech prime minister these demonstrations are a political campaign on 3 bobbish is the owner of agra fair to holding 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 where. 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. you had. the e.u. commission is halting subsidies on bad issues companies according to a policeman area. port's that accuses him of conflicts of interest now parliament has raised the issue as well but bobbish is firmly in control of his party and its coalition partners the social democrats bobbish 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. the. demonstrators say they won't quit as long as babbitt 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 european commission is recommending legal action against italy for failing to bring its debt under control and that could mean billions of euros in fines and financial oversight of europe's 4th largest economy it comes after italy's populist government increased borrowing to fulfill election promises. italy and the e.u.'s relationship status complicated last year the country only narrowly avoided disciplinary action over its budget plan now its finances are back in the spotlight with brossel is once again sounding

the alarm over the country's ballooning desk 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. . 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 1st. workers. promises that are already proving costly to deliver. joining me now from brussels is the max zonda max that he was announced its decision can you explain it to us. yes the commission concluded that italy

is indeed in breach of the u. fiscal rules and also said that it only made limited success in reducing debt so we're not looking at any decrease and essentially italy is not respecting the rules and regulations regulations and fiscal regulations of the e.u. that's what the commission said so they suggested to open this deficit procedure which is actually not happening today the member states will have to 1st of voice their opinion this will happen in the european council with the foreign ministers and this will be the 1st step in a long process which could have sanctions and fines against italy in the end right but will the sanctions if there impose change anything because it is leaked fatah leaders indicated he's going to take a tough stance on this issue and he blames in fact that he was fiscal rules for the

state off the italian economy. well 1st of all it's quite unlikely that it will you will have fines imposed against them in the history of the european union this is actually never happened i'm back in 2011 we had 24 out of 28 or 24 member states that were in breach of fiscal rules and were had an open deficit procedure against them and none of them got fined the last kind of that was on the list which is spain was taken off as of today but what italy is facing possibly is or most likely is mark attorney all they will look at is spike in boring costs and if you add this to the in stable governing coalition in italy this will add quite a quite an amount of pressure to those of union and the league party and it's really a tug largest economy in the eurozone and the 4th largest in europe how big a concern is the country's budget deficit for the block as a whole what it is it is

a major concern also according to the i.m.f. . there is going to be a less trust in the tele markets. there is this is going to have a major consequences for trade and also for italy's financial fiscal responsibility is within the european block. like mike found in brussels thank you very much for that update from the. to the chinese after chinese foreign policy and the criticism it's faced over human rights specially in hong kong when britain negotiated the conditions off the handle of off its former colony to china in 1907 the u.k. insisted that the right to assemble and protest must be protected and the document how to hong kong dissidents who've got asylum here in germany this say china steadily chipping away at those rights in hong kong. there the 1st time kong

refugees to be granted asylum ray juan 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. is a very very sad thing actually because i think no one wants to leave their home country and never go back. but anyway we were saying that. we must do it is because reese we should let the let the whole growth know what 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. gray warm 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 claim it's our unique culture try to kranz our language try to class our identity as a hong kong hong kong or 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 briards 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. they told me that. when they were young they had.

germany west germany. united. but somehow it upand saw. 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. news from the world of sport on fee for his president and johnny in frontino has been reelected for 4 more years he was the only candidate in frontino is fast i'm so dramatic reforms introduced to the game they included the controversial video assistant refereeing system and the future expansion of the world cup from $32.00 to $48.00 teams and fee for revenues a rose to a record $6400000000.00 u.s. dollars here. now to talk more about johnny in fronting as

reelection i'm joined now by tom going to live from the sports desk welcome tom went on the team it was brought in egypt this idea was that he would read fifo of corruption has he done that well i mean sepp blatter. left the institution in a lot of disrepute there were f.b.i. investigates as you know swimming around that was a real time of disarray for free for. like you say infantino came in saying he was going to clean up the game get rid of corruption increase transparency obviously the elections in which only one candidate stands don't tend to be the most transparent. this. someone told jani who's the president of the association of north american football associations was also exactly that question yesterday whether or not he thought it might not have been a bit healthier for somebody to contest the election against inventing not his answer. was not the thief as an institution it's not good he said to have elections

every 4 or 5 years for an institution like it if they need to consider violence in the immodesty with institutional stability so i think you can see. some of the priorities of a lot of these delegates there then why is it in frontin are so popular would she find any gets well i mean it does bear mentioning of course they it's not been that rosy for him fans you know he has butted heads with you a felon in occasions over the club world cup over the global nations' league he's faced plenty of criticism over the issue of transparency not least when he basically sacked the chief of the ethics committee in 2017 he has of course been reelected they're obviously happy enough to let him go through you know take the example of monk tiger yani again north america will host the world cup in 2026 there are going to be $48.00 teams like you mentioned robin $32.00 at that tournament that means increased revenues. and by that measure which continues to be a crucial one the game continues to grow you know these revenues are an all time

high we're going to hear that a lot more and that's enough to keep smiles on time if i says and be future if you cannot and for an infantry officer 1st if you fall under his control as the new fee for us of what can we expect from him in the next i think certainly probably the crucial thing is going to be a bit more of an involvement in club football previously fief as revenues have been very closely tied to the world cup we've seen now with the establishment of a new club world cup competition a new global nations league this is. particularly example of the club world cup of course trying to expand its revenue streams i think in times you know is a busy man he gets a lot of things done very ambitious is certainly probably going to be a visit to a busy time busy time and lots of a vinnies but he's also been getting told we're going to have him be debbie splits this thank you very much. you're watching the news here's a recap of the top story that we're following feel one leaders in veterans are gathering in britain and france to mock a 75th anniversary of d.-day the day in 144 when allied forces landed in normandy

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