the, the, this is the w news life from the island western allies. remember that wild horses sacrifices the us president joe biden joins president and my new or my call in from the ceremonies mocking the ac is of the 3 of the day bite and pays tribute to surviving best friends in attendance and recalls with huge losses and codes to liberate western europe from nazi dictatorship. also coming up on the show, thousands all killed. and then it's raining as strike on central garza the attack. his a u. n. brun school in the city of those or us. israel says it was targeting

a homeless compound inside the school, the menu mccain and welcome to the program. good to have you with us. events come memorizing the a see a sign of the street of the day underway and fronts. us president terabyte and then french president and manually my call i taking part in the main ceremony. remembering june, the 6th 1944. that's is when thousands of allied soldiers came a show along an ac, columbus, a stretch ship, the normandy coastline to begin the liberation of western europe from nazi germany . it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. speaking a norman de biden, president biden said the anniversary comes at a critical time for the nations that took part. let's listen to some of what he had

to say. and we live in the time of democracy in more risk across the world. they point since the end of world war 2, essentially beaches were storm in 1944. now we have to ask ourselves where we stand against charity, against debo, guys of crushing brutality. they are best. when we stand for freedom, we do brand new democracy. we stand together. my answer is yes, only can be yes. president biden speaking the in normandy, which are not by dw correspondence on sonya fall and the call who is in the city of come in normandy. sonya president biden was very direct in his speech in reaffirming america's commitment to the defense of ukraine. can you tell us more about what he said, that that's true. i mean the present biden, i mean basically just stopped with it. i think this was

a very starting set of many of the american a symmetry and cause being sort of matter in, in normandy. the cemetery is home to about, you know, 10000 grieves of american victims of the buffalo for normandy, oppressive bite, and of course, invoked you know, the bravery and sacrifices of the american troops. he talked about the importance of defending freedom and democracy. but what was interesting is that he also drew, you know, strong 5 levels between the boss and the present to you to forward to the wall that is raging in your ongoing russian invasion of ukraine. and. and basically he said that the smuggling off ukrainians in the face of flushing the question, you know, captures in a way the spirit of the day it echoes the stronger than the full freedom. and the he described the conflict of the fox. oh, you know what, he called an ending struggle between the dictatorship and tell me and, and essentially he pledge that to you don't, he works. he pledge of me to and the wider pro ukraine intellectual coalition was stand with ukraine. they said we will not leave you alone on what preston plate and i think was trying to do was essentially quite a re of,

of this commitment to the concept volunteer relationship. because we have to admit that this is also, unfortunately. so bring to mind that this could no longer be taken for granted. and you know, there is concern mounting among the autopay leaders about the possibility of president trump potentially being elected into the white house of during the presidential elections off the presidential elections in november. and the concerns here at all costs, what that would mean for the concert logic relationship, whether that could undermine you will be hosting the leaders of other countries. adults depart uh in the do the landings of countries like did. he doesn't countries like australia, bedroom pulling a know we, they mock and we'll be kind of wondering, big contributions for this as well. what is also interesting is that job and chance that one of shaun's is also wouldn't be there. you know, it's kind of representing the vanish vanquished enemy if you like. in a marco funeral, europe's we could see the to okay. now the memory sions, of course, happening in front because that's where thousands of allied soldiers came ashore to

begin the liberation of western europe. ac, is it? go, can you tell us more about what this sound of us free? what this anniversary actually? what this means for fonts in particular what i think the landings occupier, a slightly more complex police in, in fonts has a nation memory. you know, i mean frontal the see is, is huge. the grateful to the i like to visit with is an old 40 to practice students and recent these entity, of course, on, on the normandy to like posting the americans in particular for liberating them from the german occupies. but french officials in recent days of also been waiting commemoration. so remember they ordered us to fight us. also head start with this one a foot by providing the intelligence to allied forces, guiding those sabotaged operations. some of these resistance, spite those executed by german troops and frankly,

does it also been paying on march to to civilians this applicant joining the nearly 3 months? a bottle of normandy, that's the total de landings president. my call was in the tone of sallow, an enrollment. he has to be way allied bonds, you know, flattened, the tone. $600.00 civilians are killed, the hundreds were injured. and this, of course has caused you know, a lot of trauma and pain and many communities across normandy. i'm spending the in the tone of cool a large part of this style and was also completely reduced to rubble. but i like bumping. so i think what the french are trying to do is also, you know, trying to recognize what officials of important upload. i look to you of memories around the detail, endings dw correspondence on your phone, the current in the city of khan and norman d. thank you. so much for that reporting and the dummy reports of william blue cross joins me now in the studio. welcome williams. so we've heard a bite and president biden speaking today, making some very pointed references to what's going on in the world right now,

as well as overseas memorizing. what happened a few years ago, tell us more about what he said and what stood out for you. the presence of mind continued with, i've seen that's really been part of his administration, which is this idea of democracy's versus autocracies, or democracies versus authoritarianism. it's a very simple and simplified narrative that de day really helps him with because dd the moment itself, the historical event, was a moment of good versus evil of as we heard hundreds, you know, 150000 soldiers going basically walking into a wall of bullets to liberate europe, and that is an incredible, you know, sacrifice to think about. but if we zoom out, it's, of course, a much more complicated picture, the democracies that we talked about, even back then we're also colonial empires, right? the british, the french, we saw many black soldiers last veterans getting metals pinned on them. today they went back to the united states that was segregated,

that was under jim crow. so the history looking back seems very simple of good versus evil, that 5 and would like to present. but of course back then when it was the presence for them, it was a very complicated picture of exactly what good and evil was that democracy doesn't necessarily only mean good. and authoritarianism only means bad as a much more complicated picture then biden is trying to present as he faces current political challenges. absolutely. and, you know, one of the main challenges today is the war that is going on in europe, the ukraine, val, with russia. and he drew parallels between those 2 didn't need to let, tell us more about what he's trying to say that right. he, he wants to talk about the importance of allies, right, nato nato. the nato alliance came out of world war 2. but the, the makings of it was already there in world war 2 because those major nato allies, the british, the french, the americans, canadians, all thoughts together in the lions that then became a much bigger, more formal,

more legal treaty base, a western alliance that exists to this very day, and there was this, this, obviously, this parallel to you range or russian aggression. of course, there's been more in, in europe since world war 2. but what we're seeing in ukraine is the largest land battle since world war 2. so there are the obvious, dramatic parallels to be made. but it's, it's a much more complicated time because people are not as united. there is much more divergent opinion, is much easier and a 24 hour media landscape to pick apart more new ones positions. whereas in this time, in world war 280 years ago, it was a total, social and cultural political mobilization to fight a common fun. and so bite is trying to your, he said, you know, they will, they were worthy of their sacrifice or we were the best sacrifice. now we continue that, that legacy of defending freedom, defending democracy. and of course, you know, speaking of time and we timing,

we have an american election happening this year. president biden is speaking today in normandy, who knows if the us will have a different presidents in the next few months. and of course, we know what donald trump's opinion is, of ne, so and america's commitment to europe. so in fact, we really are in, in, in moving times there only, and in the election in 1944 when the day was taking place as an election year as well. for franklin rook, franklin delano roosevelt, and he went on to the 4th term president, then died, and his 4th term. um, so there are a lot of parallels, right. things seem to repeat themselves and, and i think joe biden is very well aware of that for bite. and, you know, we're looking at these live pictures. this is very salient for him, right. she grew up in a post war america. these memories, these historical stories are really close to someone like him, but for much of the electorate, they've moved off. they want more more concrete stories of,

of the politics now and not be constant going back and ceiling duct in history as if we're in this kind of time loop. and that's that the bridge that joe biden had is challenged to bridge. if he's trying to attract younger voters and people who are not as attracted or attached to this very western centric narrative w's williams and pro, thank so much for that analysis. we are going to go back to fronts now to correspond to the sonya falling because she's standing by for us in the account in normandy. sonya, there are about 2 hundreds surviving veterans. they are taking center stage today, of course, that these commemorations. can you tell us more about how they're going to be participating in this era many as well. i think we, we still very somebody moving images audio at the american symmetry where

a french western micro on, you know, awarded francis highest onto the visual and don't know too many of these american veterans. many of them in wheelchairs who may belong to the hill of the bulk of them about the 200 veterans. what attending to the most of them are from america. many of made the sponsor plotting jody with their relatives and medical teams and assistance in attendance. so, so it's been very moving images of use that of course the veterans like you said, have really taking center stage of instead of movies because just to perhaps be the, you know, the last last month, the memorization of the, of the, the, the landings where you will actually see, you know, what, we'll do that awesome. this operations actually physically presents because obviously many of them are as an advanced age of the numbers. it wouldn't be, they would probably not be at all much longer. and they of course have played a very crucial release, even in the 7 many because even of the bees leading up to it, you know, we heard so many testimonials and apologies uh,

some of them very clipping and visiting about the stories of d. d. a. about the photos and pain free that the encounter during the war. and, you know, many experts see that is absolutely invaluable and that amounts to, you know, those are based on the features of history, if you like. absolute pop up. absolutely. pausing on those lessons learned to the next generation because of and of course the, you know, a lot of young people find it difficult to relate to what is happening today. but we'll have to leave it the dw for respondents on your phone. the call reporting from normandy. thank you so much. thank you. a watching dw news has a quick reminder for you of our top story today. the u. s. president joe biden has joined the manual maximum of france, the ceremonies in normandy, mounting. the 80th anniversary of the day tonight and on it surviving veterans in attendance to the event and pay tribute to the huge sacrifice is made by allied

forces to liberate western europe from nazi dictates of shit, fight and noticed that democracy was in grace of danger than at any time since world war 2 and said that today's strong nato alliance would not walk away from ukraine and its fight against russia. thanks so much for watching dw needs the why do, how many does not get drunk? why do gravitational waves squeeze out bodies? how much do we need to put a stop comp claim for help find beyond this is getting smaller on dw science and i'll take talk 10 of 2024 is the biggest election year in global history and many of the several 1000000000

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