this is you know we use life for role and respect and reverence remembering d.-day and the moment when allied troops stormed the beaches of normandy to free europe from nazi occupation 75 years ago u.s. president donald trump joined his french counterparts in money and mccall to pay respect to veterans and the fallen during a moving ceremony at a u.s. military cemetery in normandy also coming up the worst serial killer and modern german history is sentenced to life in prison

a german court convicts former hospital nurse her goal of killing 85 patients in his care over a 5 year period in a case that has shocked the nation plus europe is seizing record amounts of cocaine a new report says it's never been easier for people to get their hands on the drug with the internet playing a pivotal role in driving up sales of illicit substances. very warm welcome everyone 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 but the day's victory came at a very heavy cost thousands of allied troops lost their lives fighting to break through nazi defenses on the beaches of normandy french president. 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 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 germany 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 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. yours on this block on this 75 years ago. 10000 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. 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 determine to mark the anniversary but what they fought for is arguably being challenged by far right populism on the rise in many countries posing existential questions to democrats in europe and around the world and. let's go to max hofmann now who is in normandy at the american cemetery in corvallis your math max a very good to see you a very moving day what working you tell us about how the day on folded in the ceremonies that took place. it was a little more complicated here in france that it was in the u.k. because the french really wanted to mirror all the different activities of d.-day and as you know you had 3 lead nations a year plus

a couple of other smaller nations that were involved in d.-day the u.k. the americans the canadians and so they had these commemorations on different parts of this stretch that part you could maybe can see behind me where the blue is that's the that's the sea and this whole stretch you had different commemorations we saw one of them with the u.k. interests of may where i am right here this is where donald trump came together with the french president a man whom i call later on there was another one with the canadians and then there was a purely french one on top of that so a flurry of activity here mirroring what happened on d.-day and now i understand that you also had the opportunity to speak to some of the veterans that are participating in the ceremonies and what have they shared with you. yes with a couple of them and it's of course one of the last chances to talk to them so if you really want to pick their brain what's going on you know what do they see when they when they look at the ocean and one of them for example told me he still sees

people drowning their way out when he looks at that so it's those are not necessarily easy conversations but there's still a lot of humor and the main message from these veterans was come on everybody we got to get along we're all we're all humans and i talked to one of them harvey siegel who is 94 years old now so when he came up on that beach behind me omaha beach he was 19 years old but he still thinks about it every day but why don't you have a listen to yourself here is. when we 1st landed on the beach and we were shelled. and i was just a 19 all canned 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 all the show was well you were going into war well i didn't know what to expect really kerry. as a matter of fact when i went for my physical. the standard weight was 105

i only way to 100 pounds so i said so the the examine a sense to me you don't have to go i said i want to go could you change the way and he did i so i could a 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 that and tell him 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 got like and like a man you know i was very proud of myself thank you very much for our great firsthand account there maxa i also understand leaders of course from the several countries that have also taken to the podium and addressed those who are attending what that they say. well let's focus on the french president my calling the u.s.

president donald trump because those 2 really haven't been going getting along that well in the past in the past years you could really say and so the question beforehand was would they put their differences aside for a day and they did although there were differences in the speech as well 1st of all they all stressed the unbreakable bond between france and i did states that's what donald trump called unbreakable but then when you listen to the speeches of course that were differences really focused on the emotional part he didn't focus on the individual stories of the veterans he even went to embrace them when he when he talked about them and him i knew in my column wanted to make a point in front of the u.s. president saying that international institutions like nato and the united nations rose from the ashes of the 2nd world war and stressed how important they were that of course is sort of a jab towards donald trump who has repeatedly said that he's not very fond of those institutions now of course conspicuous by absence absence was of course the

president of russian president vladimir putin why wasn't he invited to russia played a very pivotal role in helping bring world war 2 to an end. that is true just not here they did that on the eastern front and that's what the team you're putin or at least spokes person stressed in their answer in saying that we did all the work on the eastern front and d.-day wasn't that important you would meet many people right here who would say the contrary but he just wasn't invited and i can only assume it's also because of the current relations between western countries and russia all right thank you so much max hoffman reporting it from your math thank you. 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 the abuse catherine martens met one

frenchman who found his family home being taken over by advancing american troops. on 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 after lot 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 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've been 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 operations center there for 4 months the g.i.'s went in and out of here and each room has its own story. even. 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. your deduce the border me tell you the truth the major d.-day landings weekend in

the early morning precisely at 6 30 am here at. 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 a plow here on the coast and 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 and suddenly he heard a deafening noise. ready that day 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 as 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 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 tonight he set up his office in our

house. just one day later from here commander. for example who is a man who once 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. to some of the other stories making news around the world. sudan's pro-democracy demonstrators say they're determined to continue their campaign of civil disobedience until the ruling military council is ousted all this comes as the african union announces its suspending sudan's participation in all african union activities until a civilian government is installed on dozens of people have been killed in 3 days of clashes between the army and protesters. in mexico with ortiz of 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 tears on mexican imports in response to illegal immigration . now to the worrying findings of the e.u. drugs agency their latest report says the continent is being inundated with unprecedented amounts of cocaine almost one in 3 european adults have tried alyssa drugs at least once or europeans are taking more illegal drugs than ever before with men twice as likely than women to have used here are some more of their findings. 7 on the report once again named cannabis as the most highly consumed drug in europe. nearly 25000000 european adults smoked marijuana in the past year according to the researchers they say the amount of t.h.c. the main psycho active ingredient of cannabis products has doubled in the past 10

years because of new growing and production methods the main producer for the e.u. is morocco. after marijuana. the 2nd most popular illegal drug is cocaine with roughly 3900000 users authorities say consumption of this drug has risen cocaine has never been so available in europe and such high volumes police confiscated over 100 tons of it in 2017. in 3rd place is m.d.m.a. commonly known as ecstasy more than 2 and a half 1000000 europeans said they had taken this drug in the past year police seized over 6 and a half 1000000 ecstasy pills and 2017 the highest amount since 2007. a total of $730.00 illegal substances were addressed in the study by carrying out surveys and examining wastewater for drug residue content researchers are able to

detect changes in drug consumption. i'm joined here now in the studio by henry a social scientist who specializes in drug policies and the consequences of drug abuse good to have you here with us i mean it really stopped me in my tracks one in 3 europeans have used illicit drugs is it that easy to come by in your. well of course that's not something that comes with a surprise so in the united states and other countries. consumption is much higher and actually the european drug report didn't tell us something that we didn't know before so there would be paid percent so $100000000.00 jura peons have been using some illegal drug 90 percent of fed is a catalyst of course and cocaine is a slightly rising we also have to say coming to the european direct monitoring system is actually working well and the europeans apply a lot of policies that try to keep the damage control that's still you're not

concerned i mean i find you're not enough alarmed i think one in 3 years inc ok that's not using coated with the drug yes and i mean the use of cocaine has risen significantly according to the report i mean that's quite worrying that's not something that we can just kind of shop away as well you know we're monitoring it and it's all ok actually no no no that's not what the that's what i'm saying i mean they have policies and plays to keep it down the way it is now. you think it could be much worse could be much much more much much much worse so let's talk about not only cocaine i mean even in cocaine we have we have 1.3 percent off the total population that is that a high frequency users and these sued be our concern to address them to talk to them to offer facilities where they can have therapy let's also talk about cannabis and can the busy night 90000000 people have tried it but 15000000 are only half

used it in the last in the last year and only one percent in the of the people who have used cannabis are high frequency users and that that should be also alarming because a lot of the people who are now looking for therapy are cannabis comes. not anymore the of course all. so the opioid users and cocaine users but there's a percentage of cannabis years who don't get along well with with a substance with a substance and of course we think that cannabis or in the general public cannabis is considered less harmful than cocaine but you're suggesting this actually is less wholesome than then cocaine but with so many people using it on course there is a harm to the society all right thank you so very much and make your own arbor social scientists who specializes in drug policy is greatly appreciated thank you thank you thanks a lot. all right here in germany a court has sentenced one of the world's most prolific serial killers to life in

prison former hospital nurse knew her goal has been found guilty of killing 85 patients in his care prosecutors said he deliberately induced cardiac arrest in patients so he could then resuscitate them and impress his colleagues but many of her girls interventions failed and patients died ogle had already been serving a life sentence for 2 previous murder convictions from his killing spree which lasted from 2000 until 2005. and did every correspondent to mariel miller has been reporting from that trial in the city of oldenburg she went to meet a former colleague of neil so who or it's with him in one of the hospitals where he murdered dozens of patients. frank locks the man still reflects on the time working alongside near to the former nurse was his colleague for 2 years at the main clinic in arden block like someone quickly became aware that there was something wrong with who care. about 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. people. who are for. 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. for a paper at 1st we just thought it was bad luck until a colleague said so death google on duty again. despite rumors circulating neither lobsterman are any of his colleagues reported to the police he did tell us a period 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 was simply transferred to another ward and the clinic lied all the reason why a clinic director a chief physician or a nursing director still 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 ward for the head of the clinic to decide that hoover 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 hospitals to 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 murdered tries. award. in 2500 it 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 $100.00 cases. yes 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. still the legal proceedings have not yet been completed phelim nurses doctors supervisors who among them was complicit in its his crimes then the stations are ongoing. in denmark the social democrats have emerged as the winners of national elections putting its leader met

a fredrickson on track to become the country's youngest prime minister 41 year old frederickson let the social democrats to beat the far right governments in a close race she has now been tasked with gaining support from other left leaning parties in 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 my colleague and dayna native peter and also i'm great to have you here with this denmark is a small country only about 6000000 people fewer than 6 and you know well why is this election significant for us well i think because this election comes at a time of rising nationalism across europe and then a time when really the political center is eroding many countries particularly right here in germany where we see the german s.p.d. the social democrats almost you know flatlining right in them or what we've seen is kind of the polar opposite we've seen the social democrats and center left this

election making very big gains the campaign was dominated by climate and social issues like climate change and social issues like welfare retirement. at the same time the immigration debate is much less poll the danish people's party the national party went from over 21 percent last election to less than 9 in this election so i mean you already referenced you know the s.p.d. here in germany. just completely wiped out basically in this last election the european elections why is the left successful this particular party successful in denmark how did they manage to to where change the trend well i think what mehta fredrickson have done in this case is kind of a stroke of political genius in a sense she's moved the party so far to the right on immigration policy that she's basically co-opted this phase where the nationals used to be so there's very little

room for them to kind of stake a claim there at the same time she entered the race saying you know we're not even going to discuss immigration it's the way it is we're going to remain tough and that left her a lot of room to focus on social issues to focus on climate change the other issues that people really cared about so she stole the far right thunder where does that leave the far right in denmark now yeah i mean i think it's easy to to understand why some may draw the conclusion that the you know the evisceration of the danish people's party may. spell the end of the far right i don't think that's true we've seen this election to even more extreme parties spring up one made in a parliament. i think the reality is the danish immigration policy has moved so far to the right. that there are basically there are limits to how far they can go the really interesting issue now is going to be see or are going to see

how that affects and who will need the backing of the left leaning parties. will she have to soften her stance on immigration if she does what happens next. well they get punished or rewarded i think that's the the kind of math that democrats are looking at definitely worthwhile let watching thank you so much that peter thank really appreciate and thank you for spending hundreds if not enough to get a copy out.

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