this is the w. news live from berlin remembering d.-day at 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 micron 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 convicted former hospital nurse deals of killing 85 patients in his care over in 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 collapse of nazi rule in europe french president emanuel mccrum and u.s. president donald trump have been speaking to the remaining veterans assembled at a cemetery for 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 men. worries of those who were

killed. during the test ok when freedom had to be fought for abandoned they fought. they were soldiers of democracy they were the men are today and then we have 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 the 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 speeches 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 that that day we are gathered here on freedom's altar on the shore on the march

on there's been a 75 years ago. $10000.00 men and shed their blood. and thousands sacrificed their lives for their brothers for their countries and for the survival of liberty we know what we all. do you for the runs all freedom. on behalf of my nation. i just want to say 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 that fought for it's all a hugely being challenged by far right populism on the wrong in many countries

posing existential questions to democrats in europe and around the world. and max hope man has been reporting on the commemorations at the u.s. military cemetery in normandy he spoke with harvey seagal a veteran of the detail and when we 1st landed on the beach and we were shelled. i was just a 19 year old kid and i was just at a high school and they said they're trying to kill me i read what you know that trying to kill me how are you surprised by that oh the show was well you were going in the war well i didn't know what to expect really jerry. as a matter of fact when i went for life the circle. the standard weight was $105.00 i only way to 100 pounds so i said so the the examiner sets him a you don't have to go i said i want to go could you change the weight and

he did so like i got in and then when i was shelling me the 1st day i said what did i do you regretted it recreated the tele is telling them that but actually when i got out of the foxhole i felt exhilarated because like because i felt i survived i got i was able to survive the shelling like i like i'm like a man and you know i was very proud of myself thank you very much. a sense of duty and a bravery on display there well the d.-day landings in normandy not only took the german occupying forces by surprise it came as a shock to local french people as well to. catherine martin's one french woman who found his family home being taken over by advancing american troops. the normandy beaches the stage for

a major act in world history they are closing the bounds 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 of 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 i think told because of soldiers carry 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 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 door. 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. in the american army needed something they call it here. troop 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 omaha 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 was the 1st thing 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. 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. drawn 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 all 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. trip on. beach at 9 in the morning 108 he set up his office in our house. just one day later from here. just to climb and. for example who is

a man who wants 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. let's get a quick check now some other stories making news around the world sudan's pro-democracy demonstrators say that they are determined to continue their campaign of civil disobedience until the ruling military council is ousted it comes as the african union announces it suspending sudan's participation in all a you activities until a civilian government is installed dozens of people have been killed in 3 days of clashes between the military and protesters. in mexico with ortiz have arrested central american migrants traveling in a new caravan bound for the united states mexican soldiers and police escorted hundreds of migrants to a detention center at the country's southern border the arrests come as washington threatens to impose new tariffs on mexican imports in response to illegal

immigration. russian president vladimir putin and his chinese counterpart xi jinping on wednesday took part in a ceremony to hand over 2 giant pandas to a moscow zoo a new enclosure has been built to house a 3 year old male named rui and a 2 year old female named day. in germany a court has sentenced one of the world's most prolific serial killers to life in prison former hospital nurse kneels who 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 for sense to take them and impress his colleagues but many of who goes interventions failed and patients died had already been serving a life sentence or 2 previous murder convictions from his killing spree which lasted from 2000 till 2005 and. we're joined now by our correspondent marion 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. well needs to go he seemed very quiet and calm he didn't show any of his emotions he was pretty emotional as actually that was his behavior throughout the whole trial only yesterday he read it written statement saying that he felt sorry and ashamed and that he hopes that the families would find peace at some point but i talked to 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 sad pretty upset during during the reading of the verdict they even had to leave the courtroom to 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 needs to go injected medicine to his patients in the 1st place which may kill them so then he could come to the to the scene and be the big hero to reanimate and to save them actually but a lot of times that 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 feel 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 compared for example to the us there were $85.00 murders and for each murder 15 years that one make 1270 years so this particular you know guilds 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 near to where the former nurse was his colleague for 2 years at the main clinic in arden bock locks the man quickly became aware that there was something wrong with who. dug out my boot 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 hugel is one of those. who are 40 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 who was on duty. thank you for your paper at 1st we just thought it was bad luck until a colleague said so death to go on duty again through the of youth despite rumors

circulating neither lobsterman are any of his colleagues reported to the police he did tell us a period part of the 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 will simply transfer 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 in the new work 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 in deming horse 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 google. my grandfather was resuscitated by the murderer and then 2 or 3 days later the same thing happened again. so he was practically murder trial was. awarded. in 2005 who was finally caught red handed as he was about administering 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 we're told it was often controversial reaching these verdicts we

have achieved as much transparency as is legally possible the hope now is that many of the relatives find pieces of the. 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 needs to the 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 been 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 on which level of hierarchy in these 2 clinics so this is up to investigators to determine mary a mother and older thank you. well now we're going to head to denmark where the prime minister lars misson has handed in his resignation after voters rejected his center right government in a hotly contested election the opposition social democrats emerged as the biggest party with nearly 26 percent of the vote the party leader there will now be tasked with putting together a government backed by a group of left leaning parties denmark is the 3rd nordic country within a year to elect a leftist government following sweden and finland. and

joining us now here in the studio is a reporter and native dane peter doll so peter just you know what goes through who are the big winners and the big losers here right i think without a doubt the big winner is the center left bloc spearheaded by especially the social democrats the party has lost 4 of 5 previous elections in 2001 and for much of the noughts kind of trouble finding its voice but under the leadership of 41 year old. well it's in who's on track to becoming the youngest danish prime minister. the social democrats kind of cloth their way back they've frederickson has pulled off kind of this with markable split between returning the party to its social democratic groups with an emphasis on social issues and at the same time taken an unusually tough stance for social democratic party on immigration and that cocktail is kind of won over more than a quarter of the voters the big loser is an asher to soon prime minister rasmussen

. his party actually gained 4 points in part by painting himself to this kind of centrist statesmen and the bork against right wing populist the real loser is the last elections big winner and that's the national danish people's party the party has long dominated the immigration debate they've been calling for tougher sometimes outright discriminatory immigration and asylum policies particularly target muslims. and that we've seen so for them across kind of encroaching on their tour towards so they they seem appear to have lost some of their poll this time around so tell us peter i mean when we look just generally speaking at the population of denmark we're talking about less than 6000000 people here i read somewhere that you have twice as many pigs as people in fact so why should anyone care about this elections that she was so significant about it i think from an international viewpoint what is interesting about this election is that it

specially here you're right we've seen kind of the right wing parties. kind of riding this wave in recent years. the social democrats especially we've seen the center kind of eroding especially here in germany was very true the s.p.d. is almost flat lining at the moment so what this election and what the social democrats when could show could could maybe be a blueprint for the social democrats throughout europe by kind. showing. returning more to social democratic roots that appears have gone down very well with voters. emphasizing climate change big big issue with danish voters is election and the european parliament elections well and also and that's going to be the interesting questions to see how far do they have to move to the right on immigration in order to appease a lot of those fears and. a lot of voters are. feeling at the moment peter doll

with the latest on this election thank you thank you so much. well yesterday was the united nations world environment day and i knew will reminder to protect the environment in africa cities are growing rapidly and one raw material is especially in high demand sand in malawi it is causing disputes over land use and threatens the ecosystem to increase reports. lakemont we is one of the largest water bodies in africa it's a vital source of fish and the cheeriest attraction but it is also under threat. more and more of its famous sandy beaches vanishing as the highly coveted sand is removed even though this is forbidden. all over the beach you can clearly see the damage is the feel eagle sand mining the sand has

taken over here obviously there waiting for somebody to pick it up in the larger scale and on top of it you can feel the sand is very soft but a little bit further down you find the hardest sand that has pos of stones inside and this is the sand that is ideal for construction. these children loading an ox cart with the sand quickly leave as we start filming. you know people. who were going to they say the santas for their parents were building a house. but only a few blocks away it's clearly visible how money is made with the booming santa business a truckload of sand sells for the equivalent of $120.00 euros nobody wants to talk to us on camera so we film secretly the sellers say this is the only way they can earn enough to make ends meet is that morning taking a stand is not allowed we just get it from the beach it's not easy because it's

illegal we usually get into trouble with the beach owners or with the police samantha lewthwaite crew owns a guest house on the lake has been observing the increase in illegal sand mining for years she thinks the lake can withstand the loss of a few oxcarts for now and then but not all truck loads on a daily basis they're taking every day they were taking 50 tons they're doing it for. the beach in front of for a guest house is still intact because there's no excess or wrote but she's worried about the future although clear laws are in place and the authorities still did force them enough. they're reacting extreme you smoothly when i say they're not reacting that would be alive they are reacting but it's about having meetings about having meetings you meet with the local the chiefs the traditional authorities then you have to meet again with this other stakeholders which is environmental departments mining departments trying to get everybody together is extremely

difficult the environmental officer did get a stop loss order but the police have not acted on that stop or the local commissioner is aware of the problem and has promised to deal with it but he wants it won't be easy to find a solution that's acceptable to all parties. where now we're seeing that the situation is overweening so. indeed maybe for other people they might see 3. westroads to go in that one but the procedures of before but scientists warn that the time is running out the lakes water quality is endangered and that has a serious impact on fish stocks you have different fish species that do well and breed well in shallow waters so the depending of the of the shows will affect those fishes and do obviously go into decline in the short term most people just look at the immediate gains the money they get certainly in the long term we start feeling

the impacts and will start seeing things in future which is when people will start reacting and that will be too late. meanwhile cementer ludic wants to offer alternative jobs to the local sandra movers. she thinks it's the only way to save lake malawi so it can still provide a livelihood to local residents and an inspiration to visitors. a quick reminder now the top stories we're following for you here on d.w. u.s. president down trump has joined his french counterpart a man you are trying 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. coming up next sunday have you news asia we're going to be having a look at whether you know who is catching your seafood it could be enslaved

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