this is t w news live from berlin remembering d.-day as the moment when allied troops stormed the beaches of france to free europe from nazi rule 75 years ago u.s. president donald trump joined his french counterpart emmanuel not to honor the veterans and the fallen during an emotional service at a u.s. military cemetery in normandy. also coming up a life sentence for one of the world's most prolific serial killers a german court convicts former hospital nurse kneels her good at killing 85

patients at his can't over a 5 year period. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program on this day 75 years ago the biggest invasion force of its kind in history began the assault that would lead less than a year later to the total collapse of nazi rule in europe french president emanuel mccrone and u.s. president donald trump had been speaking to the remaining veterans and assembled guests at a cemetery for the americans who died on d.-day on the beaches of normandy. the beaches of normandy. i am. 75 years later veterans of that fateful day with the memories of those who were killed . when the curtain when freedom had to be

fought for abandoned they full. they were soldiers of democracy they were the men are today and then we owe our freedom. tens of thousands of our like troops french civilians in german soldiers died here in the summer of 944 d.-day marked the beginning of the end of the war making their way to victory over the nazis the following year today 2 ceremonies one british one american marking d.-day as an indelible victory for democratic values it is incredibly moving to be here today looking out across beaches where one of the greatest battles for freedom this world has ever known took place. and it is truly humbling to do so with the men who were there that day we are gathered here on freedom's altar on the shore on this block

on this day 75 years ago. $10000.00 men and shed their blood and sacrificed their lives for their brothers for their country. and who are the survival of liberty. we know what we all. do you over there on. our freedom. on behalf of mine. i just want to thank thank you. for the french president it was a moment to try to shore up alliances in divided and troubling times. age is reducing the number of veterans but those who can are determined to mark the anniversary but what they fought for is being challenged by far right populism on the rise in many countries posing existential questions to democrats in europe and

around the world. that's going to be is next hoffman who is standing by at that american cemetery in normandy next what were the most striking parts of the ceremony today we talked to some of the veterans after the ceremony and quite frankly that's what touched me most you have these well brother old people on their ninety's the ones i talked to were 9494 years old and they tell you that when they look into the sea which is right behind me i don't know sure if you can see the blue back there they tell me when you they look at that see they still see the dead swimming in there so this is how deep those memories went how big of a trauma they sustained and yet they're here year after year at the try to tell their story they you know that they're accessible and really to talking to those whose those witnesses of one of the most important military interventions in the last 100 years is truly impressive and we heard the french president speak today we

heard the u.s. president speak as well and really you know one of the standout things were some of those incredible stories about the veterans who survived weren't they. right the u.s. president especially did that he had a rather emotional speech telling the stories of some of the veterans then going to them hugging them shaking their hands and that was something of course that the crowd here and also the veterans that i talked to later on like very much in my remarks on the french president on the other side had a more political speech of course he thanked the americans for helping liberating france not only in the 2nd world war but also during the 1st world war but then he became more political he stressed the importance of the partnership between the u.s. and france with not only that but also the importance of the international institutions that were founded in the wake of the 2nd world war namely the united nations and also in nato and then you understand that this might be

a slight jab towards the u.s. president that was sitting in front of him listening because donald trump is more of pursuing a very old american way of doing international politics by favoring isolationism and when it comes to certain things not for trade but for example when it comes to international organizations like nato or even the european union. and you're right i forgot to say that sara but just just remember that because we have a great piece also on hold here that my colleague catherine martin's produced and it plays just you know within walking distance from where i am standing right now she caught up with one of the the french men who who provided shelter and also in this case the headquarters for the americans that arrived here at this beach at omaha beach i highly recommend this piece take

a look. the normandy beaches the stage for a major act in world history they are closely bound to the personal history of some french people here. we will introduce you to the man whose family home in the off the lot of the normandy landings was transformed into little justin headquarter for the american soldiers not far from omaha beach is john paul who was on my mom's 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 and you could hear them quite clearly having told consumer soldiers carry water bottles was 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 of a ration center there 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. and if the american army needed something they call it here. let me tell you the truth the major d.-day landings weekend in the early morning precisely at 6 30 am here at mar 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 the plow here on the coast and here i witnessed the 1st landing of 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 had his father here in the fields suddenly he heard a deafening noise. ready that day was ploughing right in the edge of the cliff i saw a plane fly 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 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 were 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. at 9 in the morning 108 he set up his office in our house. just one day

later from here. for example who is a man who once to tell the story of his house this is important to him in memory off all the soldiers who gave their lives here in normandy. so many stories of bravery there max and you know we don't only heard about the stories but we also heard from the politicians talking today about messages from the past which are important for the future and especially about the importance of the alliance as well to listen well we're sort of at a crossroads for many in many ways at the moment politically speaking because you have those veterans their numbers are being reduced year by year this is probably the last really big anniversary we see in here in this place commemorating so those are the ones that can really credibly try to transport the message from that time

that it's better to work together and try to work things out than having shores like back then happening on european soil and then you have. you have a lot of criticism within the european union for example but not only there also in the states of the way things have been running in the last decades criticism of the european union criticism of the united nations criticism of nato on the behalf of donald trump for example so this makes it shakes things up to say there you mildly some think it's very dangerous actually and that's why the message by moniba call the french president was we need to keep working with multilateral institutions like they don't like the united nations and maybe that's a reason why donald trump try to avoid that topic he was all about. he was all about that that's actually one of the most belo speeches i've ever heard from here of course of work with the with the people here that's what they wanted to hear but it didn't really indicate that michael or child are ready to set those differences aside and that's often in normandy thank you. so.

a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world results from denmark's general election showing when the 4 left leaning parties the social democrats have emerged as the biggest party with just over 25 percent of the vote denmark is set to become the 3rd nordic country within a year to elect a leftist government following sweden and finland. sudan's pro-democracy demonstrators said that they are determined to continue their campaign of civil disobedience and told the ruling military council is ousted this comes as the african union announces its suspending sudan's participation in all 8 you activities until a civilian government is installed dozens of people have been killed in 3 days of clashes between the military and protesters. the russian president vladimir putin and his chinese counterpart she's in pain on wednesday took part in a ceremony to hand over 2 giant pandas to moscow zoo

a new enclosure has been built to house a 3 year old male named ruby and a 2 year old female named dane doing. well here in germany a court has sentenced one of the world's most prolific serial killers to life in prison former hospital nurse kneels fogle has been found guilty of killing 85 patients in his care prosecutors said that he deliberately induced cardiac arrest in patients so that he could then recess the tape down and impress his colleagues but many of those interventions failed and patients died he had already been serving a life sentence for 2 previous murder convictions from his killing spree which lasted from 2000 until 2005. we're joined now by our correspondent marianne miller who is at the courthouse today so 1st of all how did he react and also the relatives who were also there in the courtroom. but needs to go he seemed

very quiet and calm he didn't show any of his. emotions he was pretty emotional as actually there was his behavior throughout the whole trial only yesterday he read written statement saying that he felt sorrier and ashamed and that he hopes that the families would find peace at some point but i talked to him and talked to members of these families and they told me no we can't believe any of what he's saying he has proven too many times throughout the trial that he is a constant liar. and yes. the victim's families reactions actually they were pretty pretty upset during during the reading of the verdict they even had to leave the courtroom to console each other. mariel just walk us through here because i mean he was convicted of murder but the court also accepted the fact that he wanted to see the patients. yes so needed to go injected medicine to his patients in the 1st place which may kill them so that then

he could come to the to the scene and be the big hero to riyadh and me and to to save them actually but a lot of times it didn't work so they just died and she was fully aware of that she actually used his patients only to make himself better and to feed him to make himself feel better so also that's that was the motivation behind it and that's also why a judge berman. there is a particular. sense of guilt which which is given that means that after 15 years of jail he might have to stay longer in prison and if you compare the for example to the u.s. there were 85 murders and for each murder 15 years that one make 1270 years so this particular you know gilts which is here also talked about this feeling of how it is to work with this kind of person for a long time to find clocks a man a former colleague i met him a couple of days ago take a look. frank locks the man still reflects on the time working alongside mears who

the former nurse was his colleague for 2 years at the main clinic an aardvark lock someone quickly became aware that there was something wrong with who their. government but clark it was obvious he wanted to be the action hero who saved people but you sometimes get that people who work in rescue services who are under the illusion that they're the big heroes google is one of those. who are for blokes the man only became suspicious after around a year and a half that's when he started to notice that patients would suffer cardiac arrests more often when hoover was on duty. but he thought of paper 1st we just thought it was bad luck until a colleague so dirty who go on duty again. despite rumors circulating neither like stamina any of his colleagues reported it to the police he did tell a superior about it though when he noticed that a patient had elevated levels of potassium in his blood but there was no

consequences it was later discovered that who would inject patients with potassium in order to bring on cardiac arrests so that he could reanimated them and appears the great lifesaving hero again and again and then on a single weekend on who could shift there were 14 resuscitations and 5 tests and yet who were simply transferred to another ward and the clinic lied all the reason why a clinic director a chief physician or a nursing director stay silent is to prevent the reputational damage to the clinic because we all know that that would mean fewer patients coming into our care in believe. it took several further resuscitations and the new word for the head of the clinic to decide that google had to go now the nurse alleged to have killed 36 people by this point he was dismissed from his post with glowing references he then applied for a job at a clinic condemning her was just a few kilometers away we continued to murder unabated. 64 more patients were to die

it who could send their. grandfather was one of his victims he underwent a gastrointestinal operation shortly before he was to be released he suddenly suffered a cardiac arrest so. my grandfather was resuscitated by the murderer and then 2 or 3 days later the same thing happened again so he was practically murder trials. awarded. in 2005 through there was finally caught red handed as he was about to administer an injection to a patient it was the end of a killing spree unprecedented in germany a nurse who doesn't help sick people but secretly murders them possibly in more than 100 cases it's hundreds often cons but in reaching these verdicts we have achieved as much transparency as is legally possible the hope now is that many of the relatives find peace. still the legal proceedings have not yet been completed fellow nurses doctors supervisors who among them was complicit in news who those

crimes then the stations are ongoing. so marial tell us a little bit more than about those investigations who exactly is being investigated and for what. so for now charges have been filed against 2 doctors one nursing director and his deputy and the accusation is that they knew what neil who was doing they knew that he was actively killing patients and they didn't stop him they didn't intervene so that he could further kill even more and continue his killing spree and. the judge women clearly said that he also had the feeling that there was a cover up so during the trial when he was asking witnesses they wouldn't answer you know in a way which was credible to him so now 4 witnesses are actually also facing trial for perjury and so the question still remains who knew what and which level of

hierarchy in these 2 clinics so yeah this is up to investigators to determine mary a mother and older thank you. you're watching t w news still to come on the program france is gearing up for the women's world cup which starts on friday macand those lists the title it's to the young to find out why the city is keen to fight. the 1st planned merger between italian carmaker fiat and france's were no is dead in the water she had abruptly pulled out of negotiations for a deal that would have created one of the world's biggest car makers shares and dropped more than 3 percent on the news and those in renault plunged by around 6 percent it was meant to be a match made in heaven with multiple synergies together feared cries are in red no would shake up the world car market both firms are set to benefit hugely from the landmark deal now it's dead in the water rose most successful markets are in europe

and emerging markets but it hasn't sold in the world's 2nd biggest market the u.s. for decades that's where few cries their strengths lie. if you crys it was also hoping to profit from meadows expertise in developing autonomous and electric vehicles the newly merged entity would have been well positioned to compete with the world's biggest players. the world number one bokes wagon sold over 10800000 cars last year followed by toyota with 10500000 autos emerged crys and red 0 would have come in 3rd place with 8700000 cars without a merger crys there is an 8th place with 4800000 cars and red nose in one place. chrysler's decision to withdraw its proposal came as a surprise the retro board said it needed more time to consult on the merger but feared chrysler feels the french government which owns 50 percent of rancho interfered in the process cries or said demands from paris including guarantees

that already planned some jobs in france would be preserved let's of the deals collapse. now the women's football world cup gets underway on friday france is hosting it at the final on july 7th will take place not in paris but instead in the a city that has become central to the development of the women's game in the country the hosts are among the favorites to follow their male counterparts and lift the trophy if they do the young will have played a major role here is more. it's here that the world champions will be crowned but leon's park olympique is a stadium that's already seen its fair share of glory olympique leon's women's team play some of its games here asyut whose dominance in europe is near total they've won the last 13 french league titles and 4 champions league in a row so with the world cup coming to france leone was the natural choice to host the biggest game of all. is known in europe and around the world for

this team olympique leonis it was obvious that the final would take place there. leon success are as much to the backing of club president michel all or he's provided the funds and supports that have allowed the club to bring in stars like ballon d'or when the hague a bag and germany's jennifer. and leon play is also make up the spine of the french team including club captain wendy when are. we near the stadium very well and wimmer on the pitch and see the fans jumping for us it's a boost. it's an additional motivation. us for stupid want their tickets for the final sold out within 30 minutes of going on sale the level of support athletes received today is a far cry from the days when the vice president of the french football federation

bridgette was playing football. when i wanted to join a team at age 5 they said they didn't take girls we didn't exist in football and is only. as for the local fans they have high expectations for the home world cup. and i think they're doing everything to push woman sports and football we expect a lot of the french team. good for us they won their warm up games and saying they will win the world cup they have huge potential. difference so no holes where in france our teams often play good championships a good tournament when they're at home i think it's in the bag. and for bridgette on rica's success for the french team would mean much more than just a trophy. because i want the title would feel like the end of our journey to get recognition. france faced plenty of tough opposition in the bid to win the world

cup on home soil but if they do manage to lift the trophy they couldn't be a better place for them to do it than. a quick reminder now the top stories we're following for you here under. us president dumb trump has joined his french counterpart a manual mock trial to honor the veterans and the fallen of the d.-day landings 75 years ago trump assured america's allies that the bond between them forged in the heat of battle was unbreakable. and in germany former nurse kneels fergus has been given a life sentence for murdering 85 patients in his care making him one of the world's most prolific serial killers he carried out the killings over 5 years while working in hospitals in northern germany. don't forget you can always get you to be in his on the go to center after school player from the apple store it will give you access to all of the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications from breaking news you can use the app to send us photos and videos.

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