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Body then there was no head proper jake larson, theyre talking to us for the d-day documentary. >> we did the other day. yet another story from yet another american veteran who survived that hideous, horrible crucial day in history, june 6, 1944, d-day, when allied forces stormed the beaches of normandy and parachuted behind enemy lines, 2,500 us forces did not survive that day alone more than 400,000 us service members did not survive world war ii goldstar families left behind have spent their ...

Commemoration today in normandy. i know you were watching part of this to the 80th anniversary of d-day. biden talking about the quote, unending fight between freedom and democracy. you were of course the command and in general of the us army, europe and the seventh army. and you have a special connection to europe what do you think on this anniversary, the beginning of europes liberation or world war ii? >> well, i wasnt watching brown, but i was listening to cnn as i was driving from gettysbur...

No, its not. the air will keep on streaming in from the north, so temperatures will remain below the average for the time of the year, but it will be often dry with fleeting showers. thats it for me. bye— bye. hello, im christian fraser. youre watching the context on bbc news. history tells us freedom is not free. if you want to know the price of freedom, come here to normandy, come to normandy and look. go to the other cemeteries in europe, where our fallen heroes rest. translation: were all ...

Stavridis, its one of the places that have most moved me of my entire life. i was privileged enough to go there twice. theres an inscription on a wall right by where you are, general mark clark, chair of the month moments commission, and i took a picture of it. its written there. it set -- if every proof were needed that we fought for a caught and not for conquest, it could be found in these cemeteries. here was our only conquest. all we asked was enough soil in which to bury our gallant dead. t...

International ceremony. there is prince william who was speaking to veterans and hundreds of people had gathered at the square to catch a glimpse of prince william on this 80th anniversary. and the prince delighted by the crowd there and when he walked away there was applause and enthusiastic cries of william ringing out on the streets. earlier, we heard from presidentjoe biden, who gave an address. lets listen to what he had to say. history tells us the freedom is not free. if you want to know ...

Some high-profile help. >> i think its minimal cost to the government minimal work for the government. i suppose who some administrative costs and they battle monuments, but i cant imagine very much it even if it was a lot of pain they did give their lives for the country. let me sit least we can do it would seem to me, but it just doesnt seem to me that step much work and even if it was a lot of work i mean, just consider the sacrifice that was a lot of work to theres also a bill in congress wi...

Commemorated in this way. on the 6th ofjune 1944 troops from the uk, canada, france and the us attacked german forces on the coast of northern france, where you see the ceremony happening. it was the largest military seaborne operation ever attempted and mark the binning —— marked the beginning of the campaign to liberate nazi occupied north west europe. it involved the simultaneous landing of tens of thousands of troops on five separate beaches on normandy. we saw canadian troops landing on...

From joe biden, drawing comparisons with the war now in ukraine as well. lets listen to some of what he has been seeing enormity.— been seeing enormity. history us freedom is _ been seeing enormity. history us freedom is not _ been seeing enormity. history us freedom is not free. _ been seeing enormity. history us freedom is not free. if _ been seeing enormity. history us freedom is not free. if you - been seeing enormity. history us freedom is not free. if you want i been seeing enormity. his...

Cemeteries in europe where our fallen heroes rest. go back home, tomorrow, i will pay respects, go there as well? remember, the price of unchecked territory as the blood of unchecked territory as the blood of the young and the brief. their generation, in their hour of trial, the allied forces on d—day did their duty. now the question for us is, in our hour of trial, will be two hours? we are living in a time when democracy is at risk across the world, since the end of world war ii since the be...

The struggle between a dictatorship and freedom being an ending. and ukraine, who is present we werejust seeing, president zelensky, joe biden saying that it has been invaded by a tyrant. joe biden thanks the forces who did their duty on d—day and invited the audience to ask whether we would do the same in our hour of trial there. he said that we cannot allow what happened here to be lost to the silence of years to come. we must remember it, and honour it. he said every generation must preserv...