good it is top of the world to discuss the super rich starts june 10th the. this is the w. news live from berlin remembering d.-day the hour allied troops landed in normandy to free europe 75 years ago this invasion marked the beginning of the end of the nazi regime we'll go live to the commemorations in northern france later in the show yesterday world leaders to join britain's queen elizabeth to begin paying

tribute to those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for freedom also coming up. called make her feel chrysler puts on a brave face as the italian american company pulls out of plans to merge with france's for now that after the french government applies pressure to delay talks. and thailand's parliament confirms approves cherno china's prime minister the former leader of the country's military who is now the head of its civilian government will get the latest back. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us commemorations for the d.-day invasion moved to france today to the beaches of normandy where 150000 allied troops landed 75 years ago it was the. of europe's liberation from loss in germany

a massive fleet brought the mainly american british and canadian troops across the english channel to the french coastline it remains the largest assault of its kind in the history of warfare operation overlord involves some 7000 ships and landing craft heading for a small 70 mile stretch of sand on the french coastline disembarking soldiers came under withering fire on the beachheads their code named utah omaha gold juno and sword well they left from the naval base of portsmouth on the southern coast of england where the commemorations began yesterday. remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice with drums. and the words of the fallen. canadian prime minister justin trudeau colonel merritt

french president emmanuel mccall and just 2 days before she stepped down british prime minister to resign may all read letters from those who were part of the struggle to defeat nazi germany one was from a soldier who died 2 days later another from a member of the resistance who didn't survive the war donald trump read a prayer that was broadcast nationwide by u.s. president franklin d. roosevelt on d.-day almighty god our sons pride of our nation this day have set upon a mighty endeavor. a struggle to preserve our republic our religion and our civilization and to set free a suffering. humanity. many thought the past d.-day commemorations to mark the 60th and 70th anniversary would be the last to honor those who took part in the invasion of normandy. but john jenkins

a 99 year old veteran from portsmouth was one of several 100 d.-day veterans in attendance. when he took to the stage he was greeted with a standing ovation. that floyd the card instructor for for so many. center 4 rooms on we were never. chancellor un-american is only the 2nd german leader to take part in d.-day commemorations she praised the normandy invasion for its role in liberating germans from the nazi regime. it led to something that we can be very proud of today namely reconciliation and unity in the whole post. that has brought peace in europe for more than 7 decades. the fact that i as german

chancellor can be part of this today that we are working together for peace and freedom is a gift of history that we need to protect and up hold. there to shift to. the host of the ceremony queen elizabeth expressed her gratitude to the d.-day veterans. it is with your military and pleasure on behalf of the entire country indeed for her own free will. that i see you all think he'll. remember a sions are continuing today of course in normandy often standing by for us and call the so there max this day 75 years ago was a turning point for the world and its outcome at the time was by no means certain what is the atmosphere or you are. i can tell you this brian the weather today is

much better than it was 75 years ago maybe you can see it in the back there is omaha beach so you have the sea there the problems that the allied forces were facing back then were strong winds but also unexpected cloud banks so that's what made it difficult for them to find their landing spots and indeed land in the spots that they had planned and therefore the whole operation became much more difficult especially here omaha beach which is also called bloody omaha because of the death toll that was paid here and it's really you know just standing here imagining that this happened right here 75 years ago but now you have this peaceful coast this just gives me gives you the shivers and shivers in a way and it's really really really hard to imagine that from the standpoint today we expect the ceremony itself to be more solemn than the one in portsmouth but if you travel in the area which we have then the mood is

a little different than you would expect you have a lot of american tourists very interested a lot of experts actually indeed a very interested in what happened they're always trying to strike up a conversation trying to tell about what they see they have. a connection to the past and you know get getting into conversations with the locals. commemorations are very much focusing on on the men who are on those beaches those who died those who survived how our world leaders are gathering today going to to underscore the importance of this event to it to people who weren't born at the time to the generations who came later. and this might be one of the last anniversaries brian where you actually have those veterans still present we saw in the report they're all in their ninety's some even older some beyond 100 but yet we still have some of them here also today and they all have the same message they say we need to

be careful with each other in this world to make sure that something like that never happens again that this these sacrifices will be necessary in the future the sacrifices they and their comrades made back then and you can tell those are the real backbone of this trans-atlantic relationship especially here of course between france and the united states because the families of those that fought here are often still in contact between friends and the united states when you go into the cities surrounding this area you see a lot of americans at the moment talking to the french locals and you can tell this is really the tissue the backbone of this transit i think relationship and not necessarily the politicians there's of course a certain irony that you have a president like donald trump coming here to commemorate this very important anniversary because he seems to be inscribing himself in a different american tradition than the one that made the americans intervene here

and he seems to be more into you know isolationism isolating america in the world you know max appointing out that the families are still on in contact is important emotional element there there's going to be memorials and commemorations taking place in many locations in normandy today these kind of family events included they'll be in churches and cemeteries what are some of the other highlights that will be going on where you are. we have a couple of big events going on because you always have to remember of course it wasn't only the americans that had the d.-day and operation overlord as it was called no the british had a huge part of it and actually they had the general oversight of it so the day is kicked off by theresa may the u.k. prime minister and my new and i call the french president. to lay the foundation for a british memorial in the area actually there is none so far which is quite astounding

so they will start that after that will be here at the normandy american cemetery and memorial so what you see behind me are mainly u.s. soldiers that fell during the normandy conflict here the normandy part of the intervention of the american intervention with donald trump and a man whom i call later you have what they call an international ceremony with the canadian prime minister justin trudeau and even later on there is a french part of the ceremony so the whole events are spread out farther than in the u.k. and like i said earlier the important part though is of course those families getting together all over the area will have much more from max often there normandy as these commemorations move forward max for now thanks very much. this is deja vu news live from berlin still to come on the show our special coverage of the 75th anniversary of d.-day continues in about 20 minutes from now

we'll go live to our correspondents and will also be looking here in the studio but how this turning point in history shaped our world today 1st here's some of the other stories making the news at this hour early results from denmark's general election show left leaning parties making gains the social democrats have emerged as the biggest party with just over 25 percent the vote that after promising to get tough on immigration denmark is set to become the 3rd nordic country within a year to elect a leftist government allowing sweden and finland. and mexico with ortiz arrested central american migrants traveling in a new caravan bound for the us mexican soldiers and police escort in hundreds of margins to a detention center at the country's southern border is arrest comes washington threatens from posner tariffs on mexican imports in response to illegal immigration . officials in nepal say 11000 kilos of

garbage in the 4 dead bodies of the new moon from mt everest a team of 20 climbers spent weeks on the slopes as part of a drive to clean up the world's highest now. now a planned merger between italian carmaker fiat and france's renault is dead in the water this after abruptly pulled out of negotiations by blaming the french government in terms of 15 percent stake in renault 4 stouffer in the deal tested issues reportedly included demands over jobs governance and factories the merger would have created the world's 3rd largest automaker dropping over 3 percent on the news. monica jones from d.w. business is here with more on that monitor good morning to you lighting a watch what happened here why did your chrysler pull out and so quickly so swiftly . remember we're talking about a $35000000000.00 possible that's a lot of money even when you look at today's standards and paris holding as you say

to 15 percent stake maybe they were just a little bit too you know upfront i mean the finance minister going on in there yesterday say you know we wanted that merger to go ahead but you know on the ex-wives that conditions the headquarters in paris corporate governance job security and so forth it's all very well but if you're on the other side you say hold on we're talking with another company about a possible call peroration with the government so that's probably that approach didn't go down well with the chrysler however maybe it's just a gamble it is ok you know if if you want to play like this then let's just call it off maybe paris is going to tone it down a little bit and say yeah well we didn't mean it like that so let's let's keep talking and gamble is possible the talks could be continuing then this would have been the world's 3rd biggest automaker why the merger in the 1st place well as you say it would have been the white house says there is a lot of you right now she had chrysler and red no i mean these are well known

brands but this sort of chill going along the not really big players they do have their problems and like all the automakers big automated they face a major major. because the industry shifts to electoral mobility there are strict emission standards there is new technologies like auto autonomous driving and there are a lot of players out there especially new ones like tesla even google who have an edge so in order to actually still get a piece of the market there is consolidation and chrysler and then all that was the plan to consolidate to pool their resources in order to share all the investment in new technologies and hopefully give them an h. ok if there's no edge by pooling resources where does this lever know well right now at least renault sort of will this out of the u.s. market because french cars don't really have much market share in the united states now joining forces with the cries of i would have opened up a new market position for them and right now for i know this is

a really tough spot bad timing that will have problems still with their other partner nissen and the foreman this and c.e.o. calos go on just yesterday both of them announced that they will file legal actions against go on for embezzling 11000000 euros basically money that he spent in appropriately on private flights and so forth and to tunnelling into a dutch based holding company so that renault is in the headlines but steadily for the wrong reasons and they go on story making a part of a lot of the jobs thanks for bringing us up to date monica. it's through thailand our parliament there has elected president as the country's 1st of all in prime minister since the 2014 military coup he led back to his election came as no surprise because the members of parliament were appointed by the military and despite that the opposition believes that democratic democratic change will come to thailand. as soon as all the votes have been announced

it was clear more than half of the thai parliament has voted for president as thailand's prime minister the former crew leader now becomes the head of a civilian government he was elected by the senate an institution handpicked by the military rulers his only challenger just a 40 year old billionaire son a store in june rank it leads to and to military opposition young voters in particular have friday to his support but the military junta has filed charges of sedition against thomas thorn in the attempt to intimidate him. but. he strongly believes the final victory will belong to the people. of the teachers cannot resist the wind of change forever. since the military junta seized power 5 years ago it has restricted the work of the

opposition and curtailed free speech. trial and remains bitterly divided after 13 years of coups violent street protests and short lived civilian governments are used to not just new government will face off against a democratic front made up of 7 parties seeking to end military dominance in the country. let's get the latest now to charlotte so some fill in bangkok good morning charlotte led the military a 5 years ago but the country's now held elections are held back in march is this truly the will of the people what we're seeing right now in bangkok. well brian if you look on twitter this morning the answer would be a resoundingly no trending on twitter the hash tags are ip thailand and not my prime minister people that very unhappy it was unfolded since that election in march praised of course the new prime minister will say that he's he's appointment

was legitimate he will point to the fact that he had a huge majority in parliament he will say that he is a stabilizing force here in thailand but opposition opponents to his prime minister his premiership do have some reason for complaint and also in an english language newspaper that actually listed 7 reasons why they don't see this prime minister and legitimate among them for example whether the fact that there was some allegations of some election manipulation in march is votes those who say the fact that a number of the m.p.'s who supported. approach or number one piece of hardware approach to support pruett and of course there's the issue of the senate which was mention mentioned in not reported that 250 senators who voted for prop one hand picked by the military itself that was part of the constitutional change that was brought in under the military government so that is some concern about the

legitimacy of this premiership here in thailand there's also concerns. about stability there are 19 different parties within the coalition that doesn't sound exactly like a recipe for stability. if there are already questions being asked here about exactly how long this government can spray you will say you know he's been in charge for 5 years he says if then hand the wheel but other people are pointing to the fact that yes there are 19 different parties who've been culpable together to form this coalition that's going to make for an extremely fractious parliament some of the policies that supported prior natural bedfellows of his party either some of them that had to be some eggs trim horse trading in the build up to yesterday's vote which meant that they would support him there is also some concern about private himself whether he can make the transition from a minute treated to

a civilian leader he's not particularly known for his consensus building in fact he made headlines here in thailand in the build up to the election for his lack of interest in talking to the media in fact at one point he put up a couple of cutout himself at a press conference walked off and said you can address my questions to this couple cuts out so there is some concern here about how long this government and private as prime minister will last some of the west's estimates i've seen put it at just months and of course here in thailand and the possibility is that if things start to become too fractious is never is not too much beyond the the realm of people's imaginations. and to diffuse charlotte tells him tell for us and bangkok out thanks so much for that update. let's get back now to the commemorations of the d.-day landings 75 years ago we're getting some live images right now of the commemorations that was the biggest invasion force 75 years ago of its history and

one that marked the beginning of the for nazi rule in europe we covering the events in normandy here on you for the next hour. or earlier at 7 26 am local time the exact moment in 1044 when the 1st british soldier touched down on gold beach that moment was remembered by a lone piper playing atop the remnant of the harbor wall there. now this is the exact location yet 75 years ago that's the same tune that was played island. well the d.-day landings in normandy not only took the german occupying forces by surprise it came as a complete shock to local french people as well it obvious catherine martens that one frenchman who found his family home was being taken over by advancing american

troops. to the normandy beaches the stage for a major act in world history they are close rebound to the personal history of some french people here. we will introduce you to the man whose family home in the aftermath of the normandy landings was transformed into a little just it had quarter of the american soldiers. not far from omaha beach is john paul who is on mines home he's 89 years old and he still lives there many of his memories come from family stories he was 14 when the d.-day landings happened only a few hours after the allied forces had taken the beaches the americans reached his house which at that time was still occupied by german soldiers. this is where the americans came in you could hear them quite clearly i've been

told because of the soldiers carried water bottles thinking sound every step of. the noise acted as a warning for the german occupiers hold them on says it took the u.s. soldiers 2 attempts to take the house and set up their logistics separation sent a bear for 4 months the g.i.'s went in and out of here and each room has its own story. as a cargo ship arrived the commander gave orders for this and that on board so many trucks such and such an amount i mean. and it especially that of all the trucks go here. nearly the american army needed something they call it here. for let me tell you the truth the major d.-day landings weekend in the early

morning precisely at 6 30 am here at the operation overlord as it was stopped was the largest landing operation in history nearly 200000 soldiers were engaged against nazi germany the allies conquered 5 great chats with over a 1000 of them dying on the beach on june 6th alone. exactly that morning same spot same time a young french boy labored with a plow here on the coast and here i work the 1st american troops in normandy. michelle back 15 years old at the time saw the whole thing the rocky coast point york was heavily bombed on the morning of june 6th 1944 he heard his father here in the fields certainly he heard a deafening noise. that day i was plowing right in the edge of the cliff i saw a plane flight over the sea it disappeared for

a 2nd then suddenly rose sharply and flew directly over me the blades of the grass around me were completely flattened by the wind of the plane so i still have it like a photo in my head. thinking. he wasn't afraid he says not even of the ground troops. i was surprised i never thought the soldiers would actually climb the 40 meter high cliff and i was even more surprised when the americans arrived. back to the it was a month the american stayed in their house for several months and his wife are dead still feel close to the americans one of the g.i.'s became a friend he often visited them here in normandy up until his death. trip on. at 9 in the morning and junaid he set up his office in our

house going to be all just one day later from here. just to climb and. for example who is a man who once to tell the story of his house this is important to him in memory of all the soldiers who gave their lives here in normandy. and to talk about these commemorations we have max often in normandy and here in the studio our political correspondents on the front and the money will chase welcome to all of you max if we could start with you what's happening where you are right now. rehearsals are in full swing you can hear the band playing in the back of course everybody is expecting the u.s. president donald trump and the french president a man to remark all that will also give speeches here later on as you can imagine the place is in full lockdown lots of security but of course the main protagonists

are the veterans that are still alive and by the way that house that you saw in the report by catherine martin's right right now just a couple minutes ago that is within walking distance from where we are standing really you cannot take a step here in this whole area omaha beach in the back that catherine mines was talking about the graves of the u.s. soldiers behind me without encountering history that's how history charged this whole area is. not only an area steeped in history this entire day is steeped in so much money well what does d.-day mean for for your generation in france today this event of 75 years ago is echo still being heard yes it is still being heard but less and less so because the last direct witnesses are slowly disappearing and it's up to people far from my generation to actually make sure that we don't forget the messages that they had that we don't forget the sacrifices

and right now we had to cross was between history and memory and politics as well because such come immigration's are so an opportunity for where they do is to meet and discuss more contemporary issues while those 2 are remembering things that happened more than 70 years ago so vermont generation is to a lot is that important that mike's was saying you cannot walk in no mandy we thought seeing those maybe military cemeteries i come from as us we also have military cemeteries all around the place not only french but those so german so it's still very relevant to the states you have such come immigration taking place especially for younger generation to stand. be aware of what happened and what cost freedom came at what cost exactly among you all these physical reminders including the german graves how is this day remembered today in germany the former enemy of 75 years ago well i think there has been

a change obviously in the way it's been perceived over the decades directly off of the wall the stay was seen as the beginning of the end for germany and. i say the 1st step towards defeat for germany nala days and this is something that i'm going to medical the german chancellor said yesterday as well it's regarded as the 1st step towards the debate ration of germany from nazi rule and the liberation of europe from nazi rule so that reassessment that feeling that this in fact the efforts that the allies put into this and the. numbers of this that they took and so on. is something in favor of germany because it was a liberated germany eventually from nazi rule and this wasn't always the view in germany as early as up until the 1980 s. or so it was viewed as as a german defeat well directly after the war in germany 11 did not talk about what happened on the war one kind of trying to look forward when live try to forget what

was seen as to some extent a humiliation for germany being defeated and that generation of people who were involved the war simply wanted to get on with their lives and it was their children in the sixty's the students that started examining that and turning it around the way one talks about it today we're getting live pictures right now from normandy the british prime minister theresa may arriving there grieving a number of fishelson dignitaries there in normandy she's the 1st one apparently of a number of world leaders and military honor guard there underway in normandy right now they'll be a number including of course a french president man or woman call us president donald trump. for this day which is very much focusing on the veterans the men who sacrificed so much to make the freedom that we're enjoying today it's possible the money well you were talking about that this it's a word in a lot of ways that that isn't used very much freedom to talk about freedom and

but on a day like today as it does does you are a generation to young people in france get a sense that.