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Hello and welcome to the programme. world leaders — and some of the last surviving veterans — have taken part in ceremonies in france to commemorate the 80th anniversary of d—day. onjune 6th, 191m — along sword, juno, gold, omaha and utah beaches — tens of thousands of troops took part in the largest ever seaborne invasion. it helped drive nazi forces from france, ahead of germany's eventual defeat the following year. today, president macron hosted a centrepiece event close to omaha beach; us president, joe biden, warned that democracy in europe was once again under threat, in the wa...

More recent history can still be felt today. 0njune 6th, 19114, 80 years ago, the d—day landings happened on a stretch of normandy�*s beaches. the objective of d—day was to secure a foothold in nazi—occupied europe. it was the largest naval, air and land operation in history. on that fateful summer's day, the allies used over 5,000 ships and landing craft to carry more than 150,000 troops to normandy�*s beaches, codenamed utah, 0maha, gold, juno and sword. 4,414 allied soldiers died on d—day itself. in 2021, the british

Story this morning, a cool, clear de, on the shores of normandy, france, and that is where we find cnn senior correspondent, melissa bell, melissa, you are in a remarkable spot if we can bring wallace up there, she is. i actually out on the waters, set the scene for us and tell us what would these men have seen on that day this case is one of those amphibious vehicles now alderman, 80 years ago today to make their way toward the beach and take those full trig steps towards what would be the liberation well, france and europe, you can see we've got a couple of french policeman here on our duck ...

82nd. then there are over 11,000 bombers. they're supposed to soften up german targets. then there's going to be in phase three of five beach landing. the british are going to take gold and sword. the canadians are going to take juno and have a pretty hard time of it. utah americans are there teddy roosevelt junior with just a cane, marches ashore. it's omaha, that's the big problem. it's a wide beach, it's the biggest beach. the tanks that are set off just go right to the bottom of the sea. a lot of the lstm are swamped i mean, the heroism of the people that then in the face of weathering fir...

American, canadian and french soldiers began landing on sword, juno, gold, omaha and utah beaches, taking the enemy by surprise in what was the largest ever amphibious invasion — leading to the liberation of france from nazi occupation. last night, a candle—lit vigil was held at the bayeux war cemetery. 4,600 headstones were illuminated in honour of the fallen troops. today there will be a series of events attended by world leaders, including france's president macron, germany's chancellor 0laf scholz, us presidentjoe biden and britain's king charles. this is the scene live in normandy whe...