the legend was simply a human being. was new warm strong starts july 20th on t.w. going to. this institute of you news lot from berlin in sudan reports of sniper shooting at a major pro-democracy rally sparked fears of more deadly unrest in khartoum. protesters are demanding the country's military rulers hand over power to civilians in the biggest civil action since a violent crackdown on june the 3rd also on the program an unprecedented and

unexpected handshake as donald trump becomes the 1st sitting u.s. president ever to cross the north korean border but will the historic photo op yield results. and in turkey is 10 goals at l g b t community just pfizer's banta rally for gay pride event is broken up by police using tear gas and rubber bullets. welcome to the program. there are growing fears of a renewed military crackdown in the sudanese capital khartoum after reports of a sniper shooting at a major pro-democracy rally. tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across the country calling for civilian rule nearly 3 months after the army forced out long ruling autocratic omar al bashir talks between the 2 sides over

a power sharing agreement collapsed earlier this month when security forces used deadly force to break up a protest camp in khartoum. joining us now from nairobi is mohamed el name a sudanese activist mohammed thanks for joining us the deputy head of sudan's ruling military council said snipers shot up to 6 civilians you just watched that press conference what is your reaction well yeah in addition to saying that he also said that the unknown spite snipers had killed a few r.s.s. soldiers i think that the credibility of the transitional military council should be put to question because they have a history of this on this city and it seems to me that it would be very convenient for them to claim that this occurred considering the fact that for months these protesters have been very disciplined in their. violence

or you're in touch with those protesters on the ground what are they telling you. what we do know for a fact is that people are in the streets in millions that the vast majority of people if not all are maintaining nonviolent stance and as one of the slogan says we started this peacefully and we will end this peacefully. and they question the credibility of these reports. and believe that. everybody else should as well. you yourself earlier in addition to that story go ahead. in addition to that there have been reports of. sniper fire in the eastern city of. and these these videos have been distributed on social media so. yeah it's good to know ok so more than one report listen you took part in many

demonstrations before you left at the beginning of the month after the military opened fire 4 on protesters on june the 3rd today's demonstration is the biggest since that day what goes through your mind as you watch this protest evolve well i just amazed by the momentum of the protests i'm amazed the finance of people going into the streets and what's what's most surprising about this is that people have been able to organize themselves without using the internet there has been a huge internet crackdown and millions of people have been taking to the streets demanding immediate civilian government and demanding justice for those that been killed in these demonstrations coming after a week's long standoff between the ruling military council and protest leaders what would you like to see happen when all of this is over well i would like to see an immediate handover to a civilian government under no conditions whatsoever and i would like to see an end

to the transitional military council and its regional backers. keep their end to them postponing any solution to the problems that are occurring today and i would like to see international support for our aspirations to have a free and democratic civil state. ok mohamed a sudanese activist in nairobi thank you very much. thank you let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. in hong kong tens of thousands of people rallied in support of the city's police some marchers carry chinese flags showing their support for beijing's government rally follows weeks of mass opposition protests in hong kong during which critics accuse police of using excessive force. e.u. leaders are in brussels for a special summit to choose who will fill the blocks of top positions following

european elections but french president emmanuel mccall and german chancellor angela merkel are at odds over how to allocate the e.u.'s top jobs merkel says difficult talks lie ahead and that finding a compromise will be easy. italian interior minister met tales of the need has claimed the crew of the sea watch 3 vessel committed an act of war by ramming a police boat the captain of the rescue ship. could face up to 10 years in prison after forcing her vessel into lampedusa port ok to defend her act as necessary to avert a humanitarian tragedy. is being called an historic event u.s. president donald trump has met with north korean dictator kim jong un in the demilitarized zone between north and south korea where both leaders shared a symbolic handshake trump is the 1st sitting u.s. president to enter north korea he described today's events as without precedent.

this has never happened before an american president stepping foot to north korea crossing a line that has divided the peninsula for nearly 70 years trump said he did not know until the very last moment whether the meeting would take place. this point handshake is all it was supposed to be when trump made his surprise off while at the g 20 summit in osaka. but then there was more kim said he hoped the moment would signal and new beginning after the break down of nuclear talks in february. you can go to one source. i believe that just looking at this auction is an expression of his willingness to eliminate all the unfortunate past and open a new future. on the markets but. then trump went further saying he would invite him to the us and the white house. minutes later at

a joint news conference he said it was the personal friendship between the 2 leaders that helped to diffuse tension you develop a great relationship i really think that if you go back to whatever years and you look at what was going on prior to my becoming president it was a very very bad situation a very dangerous situation for south korea's a good career for the world. in the end what was supposed to be a brief encounter turned into a 15 minute meeting also involving the president of south korea kim and trump have agreed to start working talks on pyongyang's nuclear weapons but it is unclear whether down the line this will remain any more than a photo op for a president keen to leave and nothing legacy here or you're here in turkey police have used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a rally by people marking the gay pride day in istanbul gay rights groups and. activists had defied an official ban on the event to gather in the city the

pride of it has been banned in turkey since 2014 when 100000 people took part in the march the turkish government outlawed pride described in the l g b t community as objectionable to society. for more on that i'm joined by the correspondent dorian jones dorian you were at the pride gathering today was there hope that police would not break up the march and indeed there won't such hope since a short fic tree last sunday of the opposition in winning the match ship of istanbul. did say that he would try to lift the ban and speak to the governor but it seems that those attempts had failed although the police did allow the hundreds possibly thousands of l g p p t people to gather in the back streets and they did carry out their celebrations until the police then got the orders to break it up and they did that using large amounts of gas and police not school to riot police

and for hours off that that there was a game of cat and mouse hole through the back streets as they tried to chase the people out of the center of the city and how is the situation of the teaching unity in turkey as a whole at the moment. well they have been impacted along with the wider toxicity on this crackdown on democracy and both and the claims of a growing authoritarianism of the president l g b t groups have been closed down and other activists have been detained in this general crackdown and but homosexuality still remains legal in turkey it does it has ever since the formation of the republic in 1923 but the problem has always been that. people have complained they haven't been able to express a sexuality in public has been little tolerance of that that's why privacy in a show in full to that really did help to change people's attitudes in fact the last legal pride march in istanbul so maybe 100000 people got ok the fact that it

has now been banned still remain committed to keeping it alive during jones thanks very much. and we go from istanbul to the place where the modern fight for gay rights began new york. to this there are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the police raid that sparked a political movement in the us. remembering that landmark day in 1969 when the stone wall in the bar was stormed by police has been at the center of this year's festivities despite the advances in acceptance and rights since then many protesters feel fear a possible rollback of progress under the trumpet ministration. to shed light on that i'm joined by our correspondent carla blocker who is at the 50th gay pride in new york where hundreds of thousands are expected on the streets carla how is the situation and this is a big question for the community in the u.s. 50 years after stonewall. well the situation has of course

improved when you compare to 50 years ago not people today here are out there crowds are celebrating their identity and that would have been on thinkable just a few decades ago. legal rule on gay marriage is also to legalize now in all 50 us states which was another important step forward but as the community points out there's also still a long way to go and that one topic of particular concern is the safety of transgender people because we've recently seen several african-american transgender women feel silly as the other piece of unity points out the struggle is far from over we understand that for the 1st time there is no turn it of l g b t march in new york why is that. yes that is tracked now what you see behind me right now is the big events that i hear you know the of national heritage by

march and that was. our friends and today loaded by critics so these critics have organized not. gain of a racially charged which they say is much more of the light was the spirit of still ride that came through here just how does it feel this morning that one of the hutchison that i talked just told me she was rushing to be part of that march instead of what she thought of the current event i knew that was kind of broker in new york thank you very much was i to motor sport now and the red bulls max finished up and has won the austrian formula one grand prix after a stunning comeback from a bad start the dutchman produced one of the drives of the season to claim his 1st victory this year but he was made to wait before he can really celebrate there's more. the dutch fans were out in force to watch that mad max for stop and give

a lesson in recovery starting 2nd on the grid on the left he slipped down to a place where he was slow to get away pole sitter charlotte clare the nearly man this season streaked ahead in his ferrari but for stop and was on the march into the podium prices off the passing sebastian fratto. start for them and him. boss ass no problem for stop and again making it look so easy god the red bull driver was eating intellect clare's lead and before too long this happens. for stop and forcing the ferrari wide with just 2 laps left he was away and those that didn't contact the stewards would later ruled this was simply a racing incident that decision taking longer than the race itself to stop and rewarded for his determination to come up with. a

1st win of the season and the 1st time this year someone other than the missy's driver has stood on to. top of the podium. and that's all the news for now next up with a look at the invaluable treasures held by berlin's prussian cultural heritage foundation and i'll be back at the top of the hour with more news you can get all the news any time on our website at steve w. dot com or on twitter of hearings rich folks. or 1st economy lots of. grand moments arrives. on her journey back to freedom. in our interactive documentary.