this is you know we news live from berlin remembering d.-day world leaders future a future the fallen and mark the historic landings that helped turn the tide of world war 2. britain's queen elizabeth joined by world leaders in world war 2 veterans at portsmouth naval base in southern england to mark the 75th anniversary of the biggest of 50 years in they should in military history also coming up the

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you so much for your company everyone world leaders have come together on the southern coast of england to mark the 75th anniversary of d.-day the day and 944 when allied forces landed in normandy well that was the beginning of europe's liberation from nazi germany d.-day began with operation overlord a massive naval operation to ferry american british canadian and other allied forces are crossed the english channel to the french coast it remains the largest assault of its kind in history of modern warfare almost 7000 ships and landing craft headed for a 50 mile stretch off the coast of france the code names of the landing beaches are of course etched in history you've got you to omaha gold juno and sword well today's commemorations didn't begin in france but at the english naval base of portsmouth from their d.-day veteran veterans will depart on a ship from normandy. the ceremony commemorated the soldiers who landed in normandy

75 years ago tomorrow weather had forced a one day postponement of the invasion which was supposed to be june 5th 1044 the queen was among those present to honor the operation to liberate western europe from nazi german occupation it is with humanitary and pleasure on behalf of the entire country indeed to her own free will. that i see you all think killed more than 160000 allied troops from britain the us and canada set off from england to land on a heavily fortified stretch of french coastline the d.-day invasion was supported by 5000 ships and 13000 aircraft. run cross and bob jones now both in their ninety's were on board one of those ships. a crit groups of. people who says that they are in the mood to what they do and in the winter thought

it in a good mood to come up and join me where i am now maybe i was made on thursday the actual anniversary of the landing in normandy another commemoration will take place on the northern coast of france and britain's prime minister theresa may also took to the stage to read a letter from an army captain to his family when just 2 days before the normandy landings although i would give anything to be back with you. i have not yet had any wish a tool to back down from the job we have to do. there is so much that i would like to be able to tell you. nearly all of which you've heard many many times but just to say that i mean it even more today. please give my fondest love to my arm and my jamie. god bless and

keep you safe. emotional tribute there by prime minister may well german chancellor angela merkel was also on hand to pay her respects she called her own participation in the ceremonies a quote gift of history here's. the military it was a unique military operation unprecedented for us in germany it lead ultimately to liberation from national socialism it claimed an unbelievable number of lives hundreds of thousands of soldiers were involved a huge logistical operation. and it was to lead to something that we can be very proud of today namely reconciliation and unity within europe and the whole post will order that has brought us peace in europe now for more than 7 decades. and the fact that i as a german chancellor can be part of this today that today we are working together

for peace and freedom is a gift of history that we need to protect a maintain. that chancellor is speaking there in our correspondent barratry that is in portsmouth and he joins me right now. good to see you now under american one of the many world leaders who joined the queen or to mark this very special anniversary put this in perspective for us how significant is it that a german chancellor participates in these ceremonies. the coming. time here is a certainly a strong symbol for the fact that germany is part of this international community that germany is part of the alliance of the force is no longer an enemy or. something like that and this is also seen in the declaration of the 60. heads of state and government that attended. these commemoration today they all issued

a statement that says we stand together as a free democracy is to stand up to any any me that threatens freedom and independence and all its only as very small sign of the state fair close to this comer ition that was also german brought forth on and part of that is of course the sister city of new spoken germany so no bad feelings here all right now a lot of a world leaders in attendance where you are but this day is really about the fallen and the veterans world war 2 veterans who some of which were in attendance as well . you have and john jenkins for example at age 99 walked on the stage nobody votes and it seat anymore even the queen stood up and gave standing ovation to this veteran who was stood for 300 residents in attendance and the conversation was about the the life stories of these brave men and women

who. took part in the operation over a lot of there but no long speeches was more i read an excerpt and of the preparation of these operations very emotional very impressive and the queen said i am part of this generation and we are very resilient and she got lots of applause for that and i bent standby for a 2nd going to get back to you in just a moment because i'd like to take a look now back at the events of 75 years ago that changed the course of history. at 1st 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. to gain a foothold in nazi occupied france came at a heavy price. the fire 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. through. 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 big 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 ties. and faced with threats before and in domestic the band of european unity continues to be put to the test 75 years after the events of d.-day. all right want to go back to my. colleague at bangor who is at portsmouth a variant how significant are these commemorations and nowadays i mean does it still resonate with people. sometimes it's very good to remember where you come from and 65000 people have watching these events here and it's also about

strengthening or remembering the transatlantic ties because the invasion 75 years ago was of course that the special relationship with you america and the great britain and the other allies and today these 2 transatlantic ties under stress so it's good that donald trump there was president was here he didn't say a bad good and everybody's happy now that this is also a symbol for the friendship between the continents. are banter eager to reporting from portsmouth thank you. wanted to find out about some of the other stories making news around the world. president trump has now left the d.-day commemorations and has just landed in the republic of ireland it's his 1st visit to the country as u.s. president he's holding talks with the irish prime minister of iraq kurt but otherwise it's serbian billed as a low key visit with the president and 1st lady spending 2 nights at

a golf course all. doctors in sudan say 40 bodies have been pulled from the nile in the capital hard to rein in the number of people killed in a crackdown on a pro-democracy protests camp too at least 100 sudan's opposition has rejected a plan by the country's military rulers to hold elections and has refused their latest invitation to tocs. time as parliament has convened to pick the country's next prime minister while the vote will officially restore civilian rule in thailand 5 years after in military coup the ruling junta leader a preview to china is expected to keep his post to seen as having a major advantage over his only rival who leads a coalition of anti military parties. authorities have seized more than one ton of cocaine from a fishing vessel intercepted off portugal's atlantic coast the crew of 7 brazilian men who were arrested are believed to belong to an international drug smuggling

gang which intended to distribute the cocaine throughout europe. muslims around the world have been celebrating evil feat which marks the end of the holy month of ramadan in the indian capital delhi thousands gathered to pray at the country's largest mosque on the timing of it depends on the sighting of the new moon and varies from country to country. chinese president xi jinping has met with the president of lattimer putin in moscow while the 2 leaders met to dozens of times in recent years and are looking to further deep. when trade ties between their nations well today's talks take on extra urgency amid china's heated trade war with the united states in an interview with russian state media ahead of the trip that she called putin his best and wasn't friend is and he cherished their deep friendship to have us we had our storage filed this report.

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 strategic skipper china is by any measure a strategic partner so we biggest trade turnover is with china skipped it 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 but . in france we've long said that we need to build more infrastructure. right now

to friendly countries with a long shared border can't trade normally because they lack the proper infrastructure to go it is because you cannot offer nukes up this machine for was very meek are loath presidents have promised to remedy that they've met dozens of times in recent years in the kremlin says they have good personal chemistry as well . as president she's visit to st petersburg has been in the works for a long time there would have to 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 to come. to teach it partnership. 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. but other key part of the russian chinese relationship is increasing military coordination russian t.v.

news recently showed joint military exercises $3000.00 chinese soldiers joined hundreds of thousands of russian troops on maneuvers last year on the low chinese numbers a sign that the russians don't completely trust them yet oh no. we don't intend to become dependent on china 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. that russian foreign policy is based on pragmatism and can be easily adjusted depending on which way the wind blows off or more on that meeting and we share in joins me now from our moscow bureau good to say i am only do we know what the 2 leaders discussed. well there was a lot on their agenda today including basically all the main issues of

international politics speaking at their press a joint press conference after their meetings they said that they had discussed the iran nuclear deal a deal venezuela syria and the denuclearization of the korean peninsula and both leaders emphasized that they had a lot in common on all the issues. of that international agenda they also signed during this meeting today 30 agreements including trade deals we just saw a ceremony of those documents being handed over as well and after this meeting today. will travel on to these same fears economic forum and also today on the agenda is some symbolic stuff the. 2 pandas from china are being handing over handed over to the moscow to correspond of diplomacy you can't miss that from any significant bilateral meeting on

a serious note prison she and and president putin are they hoping with this meeting to send a message to the west. absolutely i would say that that's the main item on the agenda today there have been kind of bombastic declarations of friendship from both sides ahead of the meeting things said that putin was his closest and most reliable friend among international leaders state t.v. is running this story with the headline golden era and it's all just beginning the 2 countries are united in there and to u.s. position and china is kind of being driven away from the u.s. by the looming trade war and russia is waiting with open arms after all they have been kind of courting china in their hit to ages since 2014 when they were hit with western sanctions they've been kind of looking for other partners ever since then

so they'll be this will be very welcome news for the very very welcome news i'm just wondering as well you know yesterday china and russia joined forces and blocked a proposal by germany and britain at the u.n. to condemn the brutal killings of civilians in sudan and warning is this a sign of things to come well it's hard to know china and russia and russia often vote together on resolutions at the u.n. security signal and we'll have to wait and see whether the signals that we've been seeing today the smiles all around the promises of deepening cooperation will mean that they will present a united front on the international arena going forward sure when reporting from moscow thank you. police in the austrian capital vienna are facing criticism after several videos appeared on social media showing officers

violent detention of climate protestors well the videos show a beating alongside an incident where a man's head is shoved under a car companies are facing accusations of excessive use of force and of in danger e a man's life. very disturbing pictures there social media editor all the alice carr is here to talk through this story and these images what exactly did we just see as a 1st of these videos have made the rounds on twitter of the last few days after these climate change versus in vienna last friday and the 1st video that have just recently see a protest the being beaten by the police it's unclear why he's being beaten but the police have come out and said that they did use physical force on protesters who resisted arrest now but it's the 2nd video that has caused most of the roll on social media it shows a different person protests are being shoved on the this car and then the driver of

the car the officer starts the car and appears to almost be rolling over his head before the protest is pulled to safety last minute and then the discussion that's going on now is whether the police not only deliberately endangered a man's life but also purposefully tortured him basically. i mean it's incredible what has the reaction been to twitter so far well we have 1st of all we have a tweet from the man who was under the car his name is. he tweeted go ahead and scream no one will believe you anyway that's what i was told by the officer who was twisting my arm i guess he was wrong. we also have a reaction from a berlin police officer siding with the protesters in this case this is from detective chief superintendent all of a fun job or wolski he says this is in no way a mistake and that's what's awful and have we heard from the van

a place where what was their side of the story well 1st they came out saying that the coverage the media coverage of this was biased specifically this episode with the man who was under the car that they have since changed that shooting and today they've come out tweeting that this video perspective shows a dangerous situation regardless of the criminal investigation that's already underway this incident will be included in the deployment tactics and mission training that are part of police evaluations so that is that's a good thing they've also said that one of the officers in question has been taken off the streets and is now for 2 office duty and they're also said that clarifying this incident as of highest priority or am i off the car thank you. and we're going to take a lighter turn now to the fascinating world of the mondays and the humdrum the drab and the dull at the annual boring conference that took place in london recently and you know me as a going to kennedy was there and discovered how subjects' that normally might

appear trivial or tedious can be given a new lease of life. conway hole is a famous home of radical free thinkers in the hot poker room is great the boring conference is taking place here for the 9th time. founder james ward is master of ceremonies and a veritable titan of tedium. and my name is james ward and i need found hope to bring conference a one day celebration of the mundane people would marry the obvious and the evident the theme is boring but the content shouldn't be broadcasting corporation or example rachel really is fascinated by the greenwich time signal. mike bates has a passion for postcards of nearby battersea park. joyce smith explains how she started collecting books certificates. that's

one. of the conferences so down so who are these people and why are they wasting their weekend here. what's the big attraction here. being bored of listening to people talking about things that they care way way to the plea about i'm a nerd i enjoy science i enjoy competing and things like that the trivial monday of my story the most boring thing is to lunch break there's quite a which is you thankfully over james to cherington likes to walk in straight lines for his film underfoot he paused once a minute to take a 5 2nd shots over. the ground. thing beginning to take the child. lizzie or storms paper on the smell of laundry is accompanied by a video of

a washing machine cycle. and life and dump a bit of audience participation holmes how intense is it does it remind you james wood has generously allowed me to take to the stage myself to bestow a prize most boring. at the boarding conference. goes to joyce smith. pioneering work phone book certificate. at the end of the day i've gathered a lot of fun facts kind of person that made the roads for a. thing i could be boring i think given enough practice because you could get that for you a boring person can they be boring. school.

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