be our guest transferred airport city managed by from part. of. this is g.w. news live from berlin remembering d.-day and 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 bach kong to honor the veterans and the fallen joint and emotional service at the 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 goal of killing 85 patients in his care 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 assaults that would lead a less than a year later to the total collapse of nazi rule in europe but the days victory came at a heavy cost thousands of allied troops lost their lives fighting to break through nazi defenses on the beaches of normandy france president a manual and u.s. president donald trump have paid tribute to the remaining veterans at a cemetery for the americans who died there on d.-day. the beaches of

normandy. 75 years later the veterans of that fateful day with the memories of those who were killed. when the test. when freedom had to be fought for abandon they fought. they were soldiers of democracy they were the men are today. we have freedom. tens of thousands of our like troops french civilians in german soldiers died here in the summer of 1944 d.-day marked the beginning of the end of the war making way for 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 this block on this day 75 years ago. $10000.00 and shed their blood. and sacrifice. for their brothers for their country. and for the survival of liberty. we know what we owe. to you for the runs. freedom. on behalf of my nation. i just want to say thank you. i 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 it's all you bleeping challenge by far right populism on the rise in many countries posing existential questions to democrats in europe and around the world and. it's going to the man 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 busy and they tell you that when they look into the sea which is right behind me i don't not 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 big of a trauma they sustained and yet they're here year after year try to tell their

story they you know that they're accessible and really to talking to those 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 the 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 one remark 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 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 we have a great piece also on hold here that my colleague catherine martens 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 closing the bounds 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 had quarter for the american soldiers. not far from omaha beach is john paul who is on one'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 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 separation sent up 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. this and that on board some of the trucks such and such an amount i mean. and it especially that of all the trucks go here. nearly half the american army needed something they call it here. let me tell you. the major d.-day landings began 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 went 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 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 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 old 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. on trip on. beach at 9 in the morning and tonight he set up his office in our

house. just one day later from here. for example who is a man who wants to tell the story of his house this is important to him in memory of all of the soldiers who gave their lives here in normandy. so many stories of bravery there max and you know we not 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 to what we're sort of at a crossroads for many 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 this shakes things up to say there you mildly some think this is very dangerous actually and that's why the message by money by calling 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 tried to avoid that topic he was all about. he was all about that that's actually one of the most bellow speeches i've ever heard from here 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 trump are ready to set those differences aside that's holzman normandy thank you. in

germany a court has sentenced one of the world's most prolific serial killers to life in prison former hospital nurse who has been found guilty of killing 85 patients in his care prosecutors say that he deliberately induced cardiac arrest in patients so that he could then recess the tape and impress his colleagues but many of hoboes interventions failed and patients died vocal had already been serving a life sentence for to prove his murder convictions when his killing spree from his killing spree which lasted from 200-2005. 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. 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 sorrier 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 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 need 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 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 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 guilt which is here i also talked about this feeling of how it is to work with this kind of person for a long time to find clocks and 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

bach locks the man quickly became aware that there was something wrong with her there. double my blood clot of 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 hugel was on duty. but he thought of paper 1st we just thought it was bad luck until a colleague said so dirty google on duty again. despite rumors circulating neither lobsterman or any of his colleagues reported it to the police he did tell his 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 was 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 the belief. 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 in dam and was just a few kilometers away we continued to murder on the. 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 murdered tries. award. in 2005 who 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 times 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 pieces of the. still the legal proceedings have not yet been completed fellow nurses doctors supervisors who among them was complicit in years his crimes in 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 newt's who was doing they knew that he was actively killing patients and that didn't stop him they didn't intervene so that he could further kill even more and continue his killing spree and. judge brinn one 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 no way which was credible to him so now 4 witnesses are actually also facing trial for perjury and so the question still remains knew what and which level of hierarchy in these 2 clinics so this is up to investigators to

determine marion and oldenburg thank you. to denmark now where the social democrats have emerged as the winners of national elections putting its leader mehta fredrickson track to become the country's youngest prime minister the 41 year old led the social democrats to be the center right government in a close race she's now been tasked with gaming support from the other left leaning parties in the parliament denmark is the 3rd nordic country within a year to elect a leftist government following sweden and finland. and joining me now here in the studio is due to be reporter and native dane peter dollar and peter you know 1st of all we have to ask denmark is a relatively small country we're looking at 14000000 people here more pigs than people in fact in the country so why should people outside of denmark care about what happened in this election it's really a question and i think the answer to god is you know this election comes at

a time when national parties have been on the rise across europe we've seen in many countries especially here and right here in germany the political center almost eroding. what we've seen in denmark was pretty much the polar opposite we've seen the left parties dominating the debate by focusing on on issues like social issues and above all the climate so at the same time the main nationalist danish people's party received a thrashing the one from 21 percent in 2015 to under 9 this election so i think at a time of deep extension this crisis for social democrats across europe here comes as younkers matic leader 41 years old who. you know may have this blueprint for you know the way ahead for social democrats what to do to secure the victory well she steer the social democrats away she's young but she's kind of

feared the social democrats kind of like to see some viking captain right she's what she's done effectively is that she has moved the party on immigration so far to the right that she's basically left no room for the danged people's party and going into the elections she's very clearly said she's not going to change anything about the country's tough immigration policies and not left her a lot of room to just focus on social issues and climate and. and i think that was the key to success this summer so is this the end of the far right in denmark. it's a very you know i think the questions that is just plain know these people party like we said was almost eviscerated but at the same time we've seen 2 right wing parties much for the right who was sprung out one made it into parliament and what's going to be interesting to see is really measure fredrickson will now have to negotiate with center left parties the left wing parties they're probably going to want to demand her to soften her stance on immigration what happens next if you

compromise is what is going to do in terms of voters support it's a very fine balancing out she's facing and it's one that social democrats across her are going to have to we're going to want to watch very closely thank you things . now turning to some sports news the women's football world cup gets underway on friday france is hosting it but the final on july the 7th will take place not in paris but instead in the on 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 leon will have played a major role has for. 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 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 winner are the hagar bag and germany's jennifer merritt jan. and leon players also make up the spine of the french team including club captain wendy when our. stadium very well and when we're on the pitch and see the fans jumping for us it's a boost. it's an additional motivation. for super montana

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 on recursion 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 because i was. as for the local fans they have high expectations for the home world cup. i think they're doing everything to push women sports and football we expect a lot of the french team. was good for us they won their warm up games and saying they will win the world cup they have huge potential. difference so we'll know fall somewhere in france our teams often play good championships and good tournaments when they're at home i think it's in the bag. and for

a regime on rica's success for the french team would mean much more than just a trophy. no more than a 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 there couldn't be a better place for them to do it the. mind of the top stories we're following for you here andy wu u.s. president donald trump has joined his french counterpart emmanuel mark ronson on of 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 here in germany former nurse neil's photo 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 at hospitals in northern germany. coming up next it is d.w.

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