at ver sur commemorative event at ver sur mer. it is going to be attended by a number of heads of state, including president biden, justin trudeau and olaf scholz. this national commemorative event, the first to take place in ver sur mer since it opened in ver sur mer since it opened in 2021. so it's the first time that a major anniversary has been held there, and those 23 veterans that we have been speaking about throughout the morning are going to be at the centre of this commemorative event, rightly so. they're testimony will be at the heart of that ceremony that we are about to experience. and as i was saying, stephen, the security lockdown here is very intense in arromanches with all of these heads of states that that are arriving . that are arriving. >> it's fascinating to just see these pictures. ellie and the

king and the queen just meeting the prime minister and other dignitaries there . but it's as dignitaries there. but it's as you say, and we saw from from the king and queen in tears, which are on the front of the newspapers this morning from yesterday. and it is someone who's who we hold in such high regard as the king who will be paying regard as the king who will be paying his tribute to those veterans who are there today. and because these are the men who serve king and country and that's what matters, doesn't it.7 and it's, it's that deference thatis and it's, it's that deference that is paid to the, to the veterans, which is so important in how our country operates and how our royal family operates, actually, which is which i think is a really beautiful thing . is a really beautiful thing. just such respect to these men paid even by our king and queen.

that's exactly as it should be. >> exactly as it should be, stephen. there's always been this special relationship, hasn't there, between the royal family and our armed forces. and, as you say, those who serve in the armed forces serve for king and country or queen and country. and it is something that i've been thinking about this morning, how much the late queen elizabeth would want to be here, meeting those veterans. there around the same age as she would have been if she was still with us. they will be all too aware. queen elizabeth, the late queen elizabeth and king charles of the sacrifices made by these men for our country, and we heard from the king yesterday, didn't we.7 addressing heard from the king yesterday, didn't we? addressing the crowds and at the event in portsmouth. and he was paying tribute to those courageous men talking about their courage, their resilience, their solidarity,

all of those involved in this historic invasion in in normandy. we know that it was a pivotal point in history in defeating the nazis. and the king reflected that yesterday . king reflected that yesterday. and as you just alluded to, we also saw queen camilla, didn't we? pictured in tears to talking a veteran, eric bateman, who was recalling his memories of d—day and stephen. it's almost impossible not to be emotional talking to these veterans . they talking to these veterans. they are so precious now, so very few are so precious now, so very few are left and their testimony is more important now on this anniversary than it has ever been. so we will be hearing their testimony and ver sur mer at this event. so that is about to take place. and also later on at this veterans parade, and i hope they feel honoured and i hope they feel honoured and i hope they feel honoured and i hope they really do soak up the love and respect and the admiration that they have from

all of the crowds here. yesterday i was seeing a veteran just walk through the main street and one of the villages here, and he was stopped by almost every single group of people among along the street from all over the world, and his hand was shaken and they all said, thank you. and i really hope they feel that overwhelming sense of love by everybody here, because they should be at the heart of these commemorative events, and they should be who are honoured and revered today and always . and always. >> it's interesting when sophie was down on on gold beach earlier on with one set of family members of people who were d—day veterans as, but also with them, their four year old granddaughter ellie, and that that's got to be the way forward , hasn't it? as as young as that child was, it's from the earliest age instilling a sense of history and letting them know

what was given , how much was what was given, how much was given by so many for the freedoms we enjoy today . freedoms we enjoy today. >> well, it should be something that everybody takes upon themselves as a duty to learn about what happened here, if you can, to come to normandy , to can, to come to normandy, to walk upon these beaches, to see the war cemeteries, to see the thousands of graves lined up in rows, to see the names and the ages of these young boys and men who sacrificed everything for the freedoms that we have today. i had a really emotional moment yesterday , stephen, with a 13 yesterday, stephen, with a 13 year old girl. she's in the sea cadets and she came here with her. cadets and she came here with hen her cadets and she came here with her. her cadet group, and she found the gravestone, the headstone of her great grandfather . it was the first grandfather. it was the first time that she had seen it. and she took me yesterday to see this headstone. and you can only

imagine the emotion from that 13 year old girl seeing that that headstone of her great grandfather, who died when he was just 21 years old. and i asked her if she knew his story and what happened on d—day, and he died a hero . he was inside a he died a hero. he was inside a tank with one of his friends. they were shot at. he got out. he managed to get free, but then realised that his friend was still stuck inside the tank and injured. so he went back into that tank to pull out his friend and then he was shot and died, and then he was shot and died, and his friend that he had saved lived for a few more days in a hospital and then died of his injuries. so speaking to that 13 year old girl yesterday who had heard about this story for her whole life, but then brought herself to normandy with her cadet group, it was completely overwhelming for her to see that headstone , which was so headstone, which was so beautiful and pristine and to

see the age that he died at just 21. but died a hero and a good man, saving his friend and laying down his life for his country . country. >> we absolutely remarkable. and it's all these thousands of individual stories like that which make up the great tapestry of our history when it comes to that particular conflict . but that particular conflict. but watching the images from ver sur mer, where his majesty the king, her majesty the queen, have arrived, meeting the dignitaries there, including the prime minister and various politicians who were there because, of course, quite rightly, party politics get put aside. and as ellie's been telling us, the centre of the commemorations there today will be the veterans, those 23 veterans who've been able to travel over for this 80 year anniversary. they're very much the centre. we're going to hear from some of

those throughout the course of these celebrations. these commemorations lie—ins this morning, but we're also waiting for that fly by as well, which is going to be quite something. the red arrows involved in that. so we understand. and now that the king and the queen are in position, hopefully that will be taking place imminently. we know it's something the royal family, particularly enjoy these great flypasts and it will be something to behold. a great sight to behold. but it's also something , as i think, which has something, as i think, which has been really important to mark on is, is the sense amongst the french people in all of this. we, we, we get a sense of , of we, we, we get a sense of, of the great moment of history for , the great moment of history for, for us, for our veterans, for the commonwealth veterans. but actually the sense of, of gratitude from the french in that area is really worth reflecting on as well, because thatis reflecting on as well, because that is not forgotten, is it,

ellie? >> no, it's certainly not stephen. and that is something that really struck me last night. i went down to pegasus bridge, which is, if you don't know , was a really a place of know, was a really a place of strategic importance for the allies. it's a really big bridge across the river, not very far from here. and the allies knew that they had to take that bndge that they had to take that bridge before the troops set foot on the sand. here at gold beach and the other four beaches along this stretch of water. and they had to do that because they had to stop the germans from meeting our troops face on. they had to stop them from getting here. so they had to take that bndge here. so they had to take that bridge and many people don't know that d—day actually began just after midnight on the 6th of june, 1944, with british airborne troops gliding into a field by pegasus bridge. they took that bridge from the germans , they crossed it and

germans, they crossed it and they went into a building there called cafe gondry, and inside was a couple, georges and kyrees, and they were cowering in their basement with their two children, who were just seven and four at the time. they were terrified, and they thought that the germans had come for them, but instead the british troops walked in and said, monsieur, we are here to liberate you. we are british and they hugged and they kissed. and georges, the father of the household, went out to the garden where he had buried all of his alcohol. we had 3000 bottles of alcohol. and he said to the british troops, this is now yours. he was trying to hide it from the germans . they opened it from the germans. they opened their very best bottle of champagne , and they toasted to champagne, and they toasted to those british troops who had liberated them. life had been very difficult under german rule, and this family were so delighted to see the british.

they saw them as a ray of hope. and that little girl in that story, that four year old little girl who was cowering away in the basement, is now an 84 year old woman called madame arlette, and she now hosts a champagne toast for british veterans that come to cafe gondry. every single year on d—day. and it's a beautiful ceremony that she hosts. still every single year, opening her very best bottle of champagne and toasting to those veterans. and i was speaking to her last night, and she even raised the fact because it's on everybody's mind this week , on everybody's mind this week, on this 80th anniversary of d—day, that that ceremony is getting smaller and smaller every year. and she says that now is the time that the torch needs to be passed on to the next generation. we can never, ever, ever forget what happened here.

so i spoke to madame arlette last night. the first child to be liberated from nazi occupied france. this is what she had to say. >> she was aware because he was warned by the last british spy just shortly before it was due to happen. so we are extremely grateful that they arrived very quickly and i will correct you, if i may. yes, because you were in english timing. if i may. yes, because you were in english timing . i was in in english timing. i was in german timing. so 2316 and indeed two bridges. but the one at the foot of the cafe was the important one to the family, because had the germans succeeded in blowing it up, then the house would have gone up with it and perhaps the family as well. so we are very grateful to the british, who have risked their life to give us the freedom which we all enjoy today i >> -- >> and tell us about what you did with the british troops, because your family did something very special to those men that came in and liberated you. >> that is absolutely right. my father had hidden his wine, his

champagne and liquor so the germans would not find it, or he would be forced to sell it. and so in the garden, almost 3000 bottles. but when the british troops arrived, and they were to be comforted also to say thank you to them, daddy said to the british soldiers who were digging the trenches, dig it up. it's all for you . it's all for you. >> such a wonderful lady. it was such an honour to meet madame arlette and to hear how grateful she is to the british. even now , she is to the british. even now, for everything that they did for her family and her country. after the 6th of june, 1944. and that was something that struck me, stephen, was the almost carnage atmosphere near pegasus bridge last night. it's been such a sombre week, rightly so. we are thinking about these great men who sacrificed everything for us and for our freedoms that we so enjoy today . freedoms that we so enjoy today. but last night was a celebration

of those british airborne troops who liberated that first home in france in 1944, because that is the other side of this story. it's a story of loss and sacrifice, and it's also a story of freedom and liberation and thatis of freedom and liberation and that is what madame arlette wants to focus on the liberation of france, the liberation of western europe. and then , western europe. and then, indeed, victory in the second world war. and it all started here on d—day. >> you see that odd mix, actually, as you . i hadn't actually, as you. i hadn't really thought of it like that, ellie. but as you say, that mix of these very sombre thoughts, but also a celebration and it's quite right as well to be a celebration , isn't it? as celebration, isn't it? as difficult as that is, as painful as some of the memories are. but having that sense of celebration of the fact that , you know, we of the fact that, you know, we triumphed in the end , even

triumphed in the end, even though it came at a tremendous cost . cost. >> the juxtaposition between the joyful scenes at pegasus bridge last night, people were drinking been last night, people were drinking beer. they were barbecuing. it was absolutely packed around that bridge and around cafe gondry. there was a fireworks display just after midnight. the dnnks display just after midnight. the drinks were flowing totally juxtaposed with my experience earlier on in the day at var war cemetery, which is indeed the largest war graves cemetery in normandy for commonwealth graves. and it's thousands and thousands of white headstones , thousands of white headstones, urns with names and ages on them. absolutely pristine and just so beautiful. but there was an event held there by the royal british legion yesterday afternoon, a commemorative event and the princess royal, princess anne, was there speaking to

veterans. and as we just alluded to there, that special relationship between the royal family and our armed forces that was on show yesterday with the princess royal, who is just remarkable in her job. i sat and remarkable in herjob. i sat and witnessed her sitting around the table as many of the veterans now can't stand, and she moved around and spent a good five minutes with every veteran that she could to hear about their experience here on d—day and to hear their testimonies. she was quite clearly moved by what she was hearing, as was sir timothy laurence, who was also there . laurence, who was also there. and then they actually had an afternoon tea for those veterans who were the guests of honour at this commemorative event. and then those veterans along with princess anne, made their way out into the bayeux war cemetery, where there was the most beautiful service not a dry eye in the house. stephen, the

last post played and there were testimony from the writings of troops on d—day that was read out. and there's something about heanng out. and there's something about hearing the diary extracts of 1819 year olds and the fears and the thoughts that they had, the things that they saw that they should never have seen at that age. but they did so because they knew they were fighting for they knew they were fighting for the greater good and the greater cause, which was for our freedom and for the freedom of europe as well. >> absolutely right . ellie, >> absolutely right. ellie, i don't know if we can see those. whatever's going on that . whatever's going on that. >> i'm not sure if we can work out what's going on behind us. there is a hub of activity. you might be able to see some amphibious vehicles in the water. now it looks as though they could be serving armed

forces . us or those who have forces. us or those who have come from all over the world. there are many veterans here from more recent service, not from more recent service, not from d—day, who were here on amphibious vehicles this morning at about , 6 amphibious vehicles this morning at about, 6 am, there was a line—up of genuine non british vehicles, jeeps. and so forth that would have actually been used here on the beaches and inland in 1944. and i was speaking to some of the men who had brought those vehicles over , had brought those vehicles over, and they had bought those vehicles back in the uk. they had restored them themselves at their own cost, and then brought them over on the ferry from the uk to normandy so they could be back on these beaches for the 80th anniversary of d—day. and thatis 80th anniversary of d—day. and that is how dedicated our armed forces are. there's huge amounts of respect from veterans who

have served in northern ireland and iraq and afghanistan. for those great men that went before them, those great men that stormed onto these beaches in the early hours of the 6th of june, 1944. and we've got to remember, it's difficult on a day like today when the sun is, is beating down and the water looks so still and so calm like it does today . but that would it does today. but that would not have been the case for these boys and men in 1944. this beach below us gold beach, which was stormed by 25,000 uk troops, would have been covered in mines. it would have been covered in booby traps. we were heanng covered in booby traps. we were hearing from some veterans a little bit earlier on that the ramps that many of the landing craft went onto had bombs strapped to the bottom , so they strapped to the bottom, so they simply blew up when the landing craft arrived on these shores, you can only imagine the scenes

of horror and chaos to these young boys, ordinary boys, as stephen just described them from all over the uk, who had to make their way through this beach and inland to face oncoming germans. we can't imagine the courage and the bravery that that took, but they took six miles here. those uk troops, those british troops that stepped on the beach here on gold beach, and they did us proud and they will be remembered today. not only those that came home, but those who paid the ultimate price for our freedom . freedom. >> well, ellie. brilliant stuff. this is andrew pierce here in bev turner, in the studio on this remarkable day. it is the 80th anniversary of d—day. we're going to have more on that still to come. ellie is in normandy. we're going to be there throughout the day. the king has arrived with queen camilla, senior members of the royal

family there, the prime minister, dignitaries . there'll minister, dignitaries. there'll be world leaders there too. biden will be arriving very shortly , ellie is there on the shortly, ellie is there on the beach in normandy . beach in normandy. >> morning, ellie, we've been watching your coverage. in fact, our gbnews.com forward slash your say comments page this morning is full of admiration for you, ellie, and the work that you've done. saul has said great coverage by ellie caroline. wonderful coverage of the d—day commemorations . the d—day commemorations. respectful and really moving. ellie, can i ask you a question? what's been the highlight for you of the last few days? being out there in normandy ? out there in normandy? >> bev, it has been the biggest honour and the biggest privilege to be here this week. i feel so lucky and so blessed to have been here to experience it and to speak with the veterans. to me, that's the most important thing and they should be at the centre of everything that we do and everything that we talk about. this week, because they are the men that are here, and there's not many of them left. bev and andrew there are 23

who've managed to make that journey over to normandy this week, and i managed to speak to one yesterday. ronald hendry , one yesterday. ronald hendry, which has been the highlight of my week so far. not only is he from essex, i'm also from essex, so we had a nice chat about that, but he spoke about his role here on d—day as an 18 year old boy from essex. you can't even imagine . he describes even imagine. he describes floating on a landing craft for over 24 hours in the english channel over 24 hours in the english channel, and he describes that in the navy at the time, there was not really any comms and nobody was told what was going on. he just sat there, cramped, not really sure what was happening, and we know that d—day was delayed, wasn't it? from the 5th of june 1944 to the 6th of june 1944 because of poor weather, and i asked him, sitting there in that landing craft, waiting to storm these beaches here on normandy, whether he was scared . and he

whether he was scared. and he said, no, he didn't have time to be scared . he doesn't recall be scared. he doesn't recall being scared at all. he said he had a job to do and he just wanted to get that job done. and there's something so incredible about that generation that i'm not sure exists in generations that have come since. and it is that have come since. and it is that sense of duty and potentially laying down your life in the line of duty like these great men did. so it was so striking listening to ronald hendry this week, i'm not sure if we can share the clip with you. if gallery could let me know if that's something that that we do have. but it really was so emotional listening to him, and it was only at the end when i called him a hero, that he started to cry and he said, he's not a hero . we were filming he's not a hero. we were filming this in bayeux war cemetery, which is the largest commonwealth war grave cemetery

in france, and he looked over at the graves and i'm sure if you've been this is something that you can you can relate to. that's overwhelming sense of grief , that's overwhelming sense of grief, really just looking at the rows and rows of white headstones. and he said, i'm not a hero. the boys and the ground are the heroes, the boys that never came home. and that's so striking . they're so humble. the striking. they're so humble. the veterans that do remain, they don't see themselves as the heroes. they see themselves as the men that came home. but we all know that even those that that came home, they never returned the same, did they ? and returned the same, did they? and everyone that served here on d—day paid a price. >> before we bring in cameron walker, our royal correspondent, meeting those men, i've met a few of them in my time. it's an incredibly humbling experience, isn't it ? isn't it? >> it is the most humbling experience. i was so honoured to meet ronald and i gave him a big

squeeze after our interview. both of us shed a tear after our conversation and they are just the most wonderful of people, aren't they ? they are dutiful. aren't they? they are dutiful. they are humble . they don't they are humble. they don't think what they did here was extraordinary vie they would just describe themselves as ordinary . but just describe themselves as ordinary. but we know the just describe themselves as ordinary . but we know the truth ordinary. but we know the truth and we know what happened here. you can't even imagine it now, can you? an 18 year old in today's world, storming a beach in normandy and making it six miles inland against an offence by the germans, you couldn't even imagine what was going through those boys minds. but they just saw it as a duty, a job to be done. and they knew that they had to do this for the greater good. they had to do it for the liberation of france and for the liberation of france and for the liberation of france and for the liberation of europe. and this was the day that changed history. it was the day that changed the course of the second world war, just 11 months after this day would be victory

for the allies. and so much of thatis for the allies. and so much of that is down to the bravery of the allied forces. on the 6th of june, 1944. >> all right. that's ellie. we'll be back with ellie in normandy shortly. cameron walker is with us. our royal editor, cameron. fantastic to see the king effectively leading the world in these commemorations. the king who? his first foreign trip since his diagnosis of cancen trip since his diagnosis of cancer. but was determ and to be there come what may. >> yeah, he absolutely was. and of course, the royal family have an incredibly important relationship with the royal family. it was the king's grandfather, george the sixth, who was the monarch during world war two. and the king spoke yesterday about how his grandfather was incredibly frustrated that he couldn't get across to normandy on d—day itself and had to wait kind of ten days. no, he wouldn't wouldn't let him. far too dangerous. similar to winston churchill. far too dangerous for him to get there as well. but we have seen the king arrive at the royal british legion commemorative event in normandy this morning. he is wearing his

military uniform. i'll try and get some more details as to exactly what he's wearing later on. it's unclear at the moment, but he's patron patron of the royal british legion and a number of other charities. but i think what was really lovely was, as he passed the veterans, many of which are in wheelchairs, they were all really kind of determined to get out of their wheelchairs and for stand up their king. and i think the that both charles and camilla were particularly touched by that. and you see the queen on a number of the front pages this morning in tears at the event i was at in portsmouth yesterday because her own family have a history in the armed forces. yeah, they absolutely do. her her father, major shand, served during world war ii in egypt. he was very badly injured in world war two. so she comes from a military family. so she really gets it. she gets the sacrifice that these veterans have made. she gets the hardship that they've gone through and what they have to live with post events. and for all these veterans who have made the journey across from the united kingdom to normandy, retracing

their steps from 80 years ago, and they were just, as ellie was saying earlier, just 18, 19 years old and having to fight on the beaches of normandy is just i think it really resonates. perhaps with the royal family. >> i know some of them were much younger. camera. they lied about their age because they were so keen to be conscripted for king and country. some of them were just 16. yeah, unbelievable isn't it? we're debating in this country whether 16 year olds could even have the vote. and there they were on those landing craft going to fight for king and country to liberate europe from, from from the germans. >> absolutely. and when, when i was at school learning about world war ii, you look at the archive footage of these soldiers and they all look so much older than yourself. but now i kind of look and they're so much younger than myself. and it's i think it's incredible that they're all as elianne. the reporters in normandy have been saying of just how young they were. we just see pictures here of the prince of wales. he is arriving at the canadian commemorative ceremony. these are live pictures you're seeing on television . it's at the juno on television. it's at the juno beach centre. >> that's important because of course , the it's the royal

course, the it's the royal family of canada, too. i mean , family of canada, too. i mean, yeah, we forget that it's australia, new zealand, canada and they all had a significant part in the in in d—day. yeah. >> well, justin trudeau is that the it is justin trudeau. >> we also have the prime minister of france, prime minister of france, prime minister atal attending this canadian event as well because 12 are separate countries took part in the allied invasion of france . but of course, france. but of course, commonwealth played a huge part in that canada, especially on juno beach, a number of sacrifices there, and i think it is very important for prince william in particular, as future king, honouring the sacrifices that canadian troops made 80 years ago. his his royal highness is expected to deliver a speech, meet cadets and the youth youth cadets of canada . of youth youth cadets of canada. of course, he prince william will be head of the armed forces for one day, including the armed forces , of course, of canada. so forces, of course, of canada. so i think it's perhaps fitting that he is he is joining. he's chosen to join the canadian memorial service rather than

joining his father and queen camilla at the royal british legion u.k. service. service. he is spreading out like most royals. >> he's had his own time in in the armed forces. >> yeah he did. he's an raf veteran himself. he was an raf search and rescue helicopter pilot . and of course, he's also pilot. and of course, he's also colonel of a number of the regiments. he took over recently, from his father as well for, for one of them, he's wearing his military medals there. i suspect they are the golden jubilee diamond, platinum jubilee, diamond jubilee and the coronation medal that the his royal highness has on. >> we're waiting to watch a fly—past, i believe, at the moment, cameron. but what else is going to happen today? what's the agenda for the royals today? >> so the prince of wales here is going to be delivering a speech and laying a wreath at the canadian commemorative ceremony. following that, the prince of wales again is going to be representing his father, the king, at the ceremony . the the king, at the ceremony. the international commemorative ceremony at omaha beach, which

has heavy losses. president joe biden is expected to attend , biden is expected to attend, along with a number of other heads of state. president emmanuel macron, i believe, is also going to be there. but this is significant because this goes back to the point about the king's health, actually, because it would have been his majesty the king, representing the united kingdom as head of state at the international commemorative ceremony later, but on doctor's advice, they have basically advised him not to take part in that. >> is it because it would take take so long and he'll be on his feet? >> quite possibly. we don't. they haven't gone into details, but we know, of course, he's at the royal british legion event this morning. he was at the portsmouth event yesterday but obviously trying to pace him and each individual engagement is decided on a case by case basis. and it appears that his doctors just thought that would be one too far. but of course, this is i think this is possibly the first time since the cancer diagnosis where we have seen the prince of wales actually replace or represent his father at an

official event, a little like a baton handover. >> in a way. it's such a global royal event on the world stage. it's almost like an easing william into the. >> and of course, we saw that with the king and the late queen. yeah. stepping in more and more to take because of her failing health. >> we absolutely did. but i think the king himself would have been incredibly frustrated that he couldn't go. and i'm sure if the doctors gave the green light, he absolutely would be determined to go. >> and it's important he listens to the doctors. we want our king around for a lot longer, and you've got to do as the doctor tells you. he's not. he's not getting any younger either. >> no, he's certainly not. but he'll be he'll be happy to meet as many veterans as he can. >> and this is a big moment for queen camilla. >> yeah, it absolutely is. and i think we just saw yesterday the emotion that queen camilla went through meeting the veterans. she's obviously going to be meeting a number of others today. she's accompanying her husband, the king, who clearly is undergoing cancer treatment. and i think this is queen camilla on the world stage as well, surrounded by veterans, surrounded by serving armed

forces personnel from a number of countries, both the united kingdom and commonwealth and the world. live pictures. there you just see prince william, prime minister trudeau and prime minister trudeau and prime minister atal going up to the canadian memorial service. this is hosted by the canadian government, actually. so this is nothing to do with ministry of defence or the british government's. this is purely a canadian event. but government's. this is purely a canadian event . but clearly canadian event. but clearly prince of wales is future king of canada , so that's why he is of canada, so that's why he is so heavily involved. >> he's not going to be an event quite like this. you know, because they because the 90th anniversary, god help us. none of those veterans will still be with us. no. and it's so poignant , so with us. no. and it's so poignant, so historic. >> this moment, this one last hurrah. >> we're going to be bringing you pictures live from this beautiful morning there this morning. stay with us until midday, though. let's get the very latest news with sophia wenzler . here. wenzler. here. >> bev. thank you. good morning. it's 10:03. i'm sophia >> bev. thank you. good morning. it's10:03. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . and as in the gb newsroom. and as you've been hearing, senior

members of the royal family and world leaders are gathering with veterans in normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of the d—day landings on the 6th of june, 1944. tens of thousands of british and allied soldiers landed on five beaches in northern france to push back german forces. the king and queen have been paying tribute to fallen soldiers at the uk's national commemoration event at the british normandy memorial in ver sur mer , they were joined by ver sur mer, they were joined by prime minister rishi sunak, labour leader sir keir starmer and french president emmanuel macron . meanwhile, prince macron. meanwhile, prince william has arrived at juno beach for the canadian commemoration service in the uk. d—day commemorations are also underway across the country. in lisburn in northern ireland, the town crier delivered a d—day proclamation . a flotilla of proclamation. a flotilla of boats will leave cornwall, where thousands of troops departed to take part in the invasion. while a beacon lighting ceremony will

take place in kent. the duke and duchess of edinburgh will join veterans at a royal british legion remembrance service in staffordshire and the duke and duchess of gloucester will meet veterans at a show at the royal albert hall in london. and the prime minister has pledged to boost veteran benefits in an election offering. rishi sunak says he wants to make the uk the best place in the world to have served in the armed forces. the policy pledge on the 80th anniversary of d—day includes reducing the price of veterans railcards from £30 per year to £21 and extending the existing national insurance relief for employers who hire ex—military members . employers who hire ex—military members. labour claims the tory record on veterans is shameful and their election plans mean no change. but secretary of state for work and pensions mel stride says it's an important step forward. >> we are to be re—elected and there will be looking at further plans and strategic plans that there will be a duty on ministers to come forward with.

we're going to be decreasing the cost of the rail car to veterans from 30 to £21. we're going to be extending the national insurance reductions that are available to employers that recruit veterans, for example, where we know we have higher employment rates amongst veterans than we do across the population more generally. so we stand full square with them. and i think, you know, this is an important step forward. >> but shadow defence secretary john healey says labour would go further for veterans . further for veterans. >> unfortunately, the government has created over 14 years of postcode lottery on help for veterans . they've halved the veterans. they've halved the support, on employment and they've allowed veterans homelessness to rise over the last year, not end it. and there's much more that can be done and needs to be done, we would start by putting fully into law the armed forces covenant. into law the armed forces covenant . now, that would covenant. now, that would reinforce and strengthen the rights of veterans to services

and also of service personnel and also of service personnel and their families. we'd also legislate in the first year of a labour government for a new independent armed forces commissioner , first minister of commissioner, first minister of wales. >> vaughan gething has insisted he's not going to resign after losing a vote of no confidence. he wiped away tears as colleagues spoke to defend him in the welsh parliament earlier, but he still went on to lose a no confidence vote. it follows criticism over accusations of accepting donations from convicted criminals and misleading the covid inquiry over deleted messages. he's called the defeat a desperate gimmick by the conservatives, but promised he won't be stepping down. and in other news, a rescue operation is underway in the english channel with reports of up to 80 migrants in the water. british and french vessels have raced to the scene about halfway across the scene about halfway across the channel between calais and doven the channel between calais and dover. gb news has been told that as many as 250 migrants are currently in boats on the french

side of the channel this morning, and attempting to cross to the uk , and an israeli to the uk, and an israeli airstrike on a un school in central gaza has killed at least 27 people, according to local officials . ambulances and rescue officials. ambulances and rescue teams have been rushing to the wounded and dead to a nearby hospital. the israeli military said it carried out a strike on a un school that housed hamas compound, and that 20 to 30 fighters were inside . the hamas fighters were inside. the hamas media office has rejected the claim, accusing israel of committing a horrific massacre . committing a horrific massacre. and for the latest stories , sign and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. common shirts. now it's back to andrew and . it's back to andrew and. bev. >> it is 1008 on this historic day. it's the 90th anniversary of d—day. you're with britain's newsroom in gb news with andrew

pearson. bev turner. we are in france, of course, where thousands and thousands, tens of thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of british troops joined allied nations storming the beaches of normandy. >> d—day opened the long awaited second front, of course, helping to liberate france from nazi rule. so joining us now is our presenter. well, ellie is has been working incredibly hard overin been working incredibly hard over in normandy, normandy. we're going to give ellie a few more minutes off while cameron stays with us. now here. i mean, this isn't just a commemoration, is it? of the history , cameron. is it? of the history, cameron. it's very much a royal event. >> yeah , it absolutely is. >> yeah, it absolutely is. because, as we said earlier, the king and by extension the royal family has an incredibly important relationship with the armed forces. the king is colonel in chief, you know , the colonel in chief, you know, the head of the armed forces. so he knows the sacrifice choices that these people make. and his grandfather, of course , was grandfather, of course, was monarch during world war two. and he was he spoke of his grandfather's frustration that he couldn't go across to normandy on d—day itself because it was far too dangerous. the

british government wouldn't let him. similarly with churchill as well. but what he would have doneis well. but what he would have done is heard the stories from his grandfather and also his mother, queen elizabeth ii of wartime and i think the king, because she drove appliances dunng because she drove appliances during the war. >> she did. she was in the women's voluntary service and she was with her sister. drove ambulances. yeah. >> women's auxiliary. women's auxiliary? yes yes, she she did. so he would have known all of that. and i think we saw a couple of days ago, the king ianed couple of days ago, the king invited four d—day veterans to buckingham palace with the queen. and they showed him, showed him their memories and little mementos . one of them had little mementos. one of them had a pair of lucky football boots that he tied to his backpack as he stormed the beaches to try and keep him alive, and he was very lucky. and did. and another one had his dog tag, which still had blood stains on when he was shot in the lung on d—day. he was saved by his friends that day. his friend was killed the following day. so the king and the queen heard all these harrowing stories . and i think harrowing stories. and i think with all of that in mind, when we saw them yesterday in portsmouth, i think the emotion

perhaps overwhelms the queen, as we've seen on the front pages this morning. the king looked visibly moved as well. he gave a very hot. he gave a very heartfelt speech, but today, of course, is actually in normandy on d—day. it's very formal events. the king has sat next to president emmanuel macron of france , of france at the royal france, of france at the royal british legion's commemorative event. he's patron of the royal british legion and the normandy memorial trust . excuse me, memorial trust. excuse me, memorial trust. excuse me, memorial trust. excuse me, memorial trust and the queen is also there. if you're watching, you're seeing live pictures of the prime minister of canada, trudeau , as well as the prime trudeau, as well as the prime minister of france as well. and you can just see behind trudeau there, prince william as well, greeting canadian , d—day greeting canadian, d—day veterans because, of course, 1212 countries from around the world fought for the allies dunng world fought for the allies during world war two on d—day. canada as a commonwealth country. incredibly important factor in that. on juno beach and specifically and this is where the commemorative event is taking place, because prince william, of course, future king

of not only the united kingdom but also canada. so it will be very important for him to meet the veterans of d—day . yes, but the veterans of d—day. yes, but also the young cadets who are going are helping out with this event and the king and the queen. >> during the war, cameron were incredibly important part of it because they there was a suggestion that the queen and her children, which had been princess margaret and the future queen, should be should be moved to canada to live in canada dunng to canada to live in canada during the war to protect them. and she said, i go where my husband goes. so she stayed in britain. they stayed in buckingham palace. buckingham palace took bombs during the blitz . there was the famous blitz. there was the famous moment when she went to the east end and said, i can now look you in the eye, because the palace had taken bombs too, and the king's broadcast, and we all know from the king's speech that very moving film, that he struggled with those broadcasts, but they were incredibly important to keep the british morale going. >> they absolutely were. and the king did eventually go and visit the normandy beaches around ten days after d—day. but also he was used, according to a documentary which has come out recently, the king was used by

the british government to try and deceive the germans into thinking that the d—day landings wouldn't be happening in normandy at all, but instead they'd happen in calais or scandinavia. so the king was sent to the south—east of england to visit british troops , england to visit british troops, to try and trick the germans into thinking it was going to land in calais. drawing germans away from normandy to give perhaps them a bit of more of a clear run on d—day itself. and ultimately it was successful that that invasion and the battle of normandy. >> okay . thank you cameron. of >> okay. thank you cameron. of course, commemorations aren't just happening in normandy. let's cross to our reporter, anna riley, who is in wonderful scunthorpe. anna >> good morning to you both. yes we're here in church square in scunthorpe, where cadets have gathered armed forces personnel, members of the council, including the mayor and also veterans. i'm joined by a veterans. i'm joined by a veteran this morning, jim newcomb . he served in hong kong. newcomb. he served in hong kong. he was in the artillery for nine years. he came out of service in 1971. jim, thanks for joining

us. this morning. what does this poignant day , 80 years on from poignant day, 80 years on from the d—day landings mean to you? >> it means a lot to me. even though i was only one coming up to one when the landing took place . but you've got to place. but you've got to remember the people that died and the people who gave their lives for us, for the way we are today. lives for us, for the way we are today . you. we don't. no more today. you. we don't. no more wars where where people are dying unnecessarily . it is dying unnecessarily. it is bloody stupid. what people are doing , like bloody stupid. what people are doing, like ukraine, putin. he's just like another hitler. he wants to take over the world and he can't because there's too many of us.

>> and why do you think it is so important to remember? we've got 100 cadets that will be here on parade any time soon. what is that message of passing it on to the next generation? because we know here in this area , sadly, know here in this area, sadly, there's no d—day veterans left that can come to this commemoration . commemoration. >> there isn't. there isn't, in fact , the youngest bloke to die fact, the youngest bloke to die at normandy was 14. and that was verified by bbc because it was on the news this morning . and on the news this morning. and i've seen i've been to australia and i've seen them there . war and i've seen them there. war memorial in australia, where it's got the names of everybody that was killed in, in, in the second world war and the first world war. and they're, they're in alphabetical order, except

for one his he's down and he was 14 when he died . 14 year old 14 when he died. 14 year old australian soldier that would be in gallipoli in the first world war. and we remember them for what they've done for us. but if we didn't have this in to remember us, who would remember us or who would remember them , us or who would remember them, that's the main thing. who would remember them ? as i say ? for remember them? as i say? for your tomorrow, we gave ours today and that's it. your tomorrow, we gave ours today and that's it . and that's today and that's it. and that's all i can say about it. today and that's it. and that's all i can say about it . all the all i can say about it. all the young people that watch it as well don't have to join the

forces. if you want to join, join a regiment, join the engineers or rempe and get a trade and you'll get to know everything . then that goes on. everything. then that goes on. >> thank you so much, jim. thank you for speaking to us this morning. so that parade due to start any time now here in scunthorpe with the flag raising, it's the armed forces day flag. that's going to be raised ahead of commemorations here on the 22nd of june for armed forces today. but today , armed forces today. but today, very much about commemorating 80 years on from those d—day landings on june the 6th, 1944, anna riley there in scunthorpe, some words of wisdom now we're joined in the studio by kevin maguire is here with us. >> what a joy. morning. how are you? >> are you too? are you too can have a scrap this week like you did last week? >> yeah, we know you can

disagree. >> disagreeably i like, i like, i like people who will say it as it is. as you know. exactly. yeah, we're just reflecting on d—day. kevin, we can't have you here without some thoughts. >> and even though you can't stand the royals, this is when they're coming to their own. >> sorry to interrupt you, kevin. right. it's like he's playing. >> it on earth. >> it on earth. >> so this is the flyover much , >> so this is the flyover much, much long awaited. they know spitfires. i think they couldn't use spitfires, sadly. but, this is all to mark the 80th anniversary of d—day. if you're listening on the radio. >> cameron. >> cameron. >> the battle of britain memorial flight unfortunately cannot happen at the moment because it's grounded, because of, unfortunately, this spitfire crash we had last weekend and the pilots unfortunately lost his life in that. so as they're investigating battle of britain memorial flight going over the is this going over the monument in in staffordshire , i'm afraid in in staffordshire, i'm afraid do you not have those details? i'll try and get somebody who does, i believe, i believe so, but there'll be a number of aircraft taking part. >> yeah, and appropriate because

so many planes were involved in the d—day landings. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> i remember speaking just a couple of weeks ago to one of the d—day boys who who flew in by parachute and saying to him, you were you scared? and he said, he was 19. he said, i was too young and too stupid to be scared. yeah. >> there were 18,000 paratroopers and 11,000 aircraft. they took part on d—day itself . extraordinary. d—day itself. extraordinary. >> absolutely. i mean, parachuting into i mean , gun, parachuting into i mean, gun, machine gun fire, unexploded bombs , mines on the beach. it bombs, mines on the beach. it fraught for the parachutists , as fraught for the parachutists, as with everybody else. >> yeah, absolutely. and there were unfortunately more than 4400 allied deaths on d—day itself. amazing, 73,000 killed in the battle of the subsequent battle of normandy as well. that's allied deaths and 153,000 wounded. >> we've got kevin maguire here who is, as you know, an old republican curmudgeon. but this is when the royal family kevin, comes into its own. the king, of course, is commander in chief of our military, andrew.

>> they they do and they do a good job on this occasion. but it's not really about them. it's the veterans and you watch them and you just feel humble. you feel a pride and also you get teary. yeah. because you know, their ranks are being thinned. i remember the end of the first world war generation. yeah. and we will see at some point the end of these, these veterans, very sadly . and we, you know, we very sadly. and we, you know, we must never forget him. we must keep commemorating them. and we got to treat veterans better as a society because you, you know, there are so many in poverty, there are so many in poverty, there are so many in poverty, there are so many people come out of the armed forces who end up in prison or living on the street. >> if you go to the united states, they have a veterans department, they have a minister for veterans. we do have a veterans minister, johnny mercer, but he's not paid, which tells you a lot, actually. it shows how serious and significant it is. it's just an add on, isn't it? yeah. >> i don't think there's been a veterans act since 2010. no. yeah. labour. labour when they were in power have questions to answer to about their treatment. and for instance, johnny mercer, the veterans minister, raised the veterans minister, raised the fact that when you went to vote, you couldn't if you were a

veteran and you had a veteran id card, it wasn't accepted as, you know, legitimate. yeah. you know, legitimate. yeah. you know, authority . yeah. it's just know, authority. yeah. it's just wrong. >> if our inbox this morning, kevin is, full of a lot of people, and this these pictures are really making people think about what has really changed since world war two, some people pulling together the issue of illegal migration today, the significance of the channel and whether we fought for our borders. and people feel the borders. and people feel the borders are porous . there's all borders are porous. there's all sorts of. and also whether the younger generation would go out and do this for the leaders today and even should they go out and do this for leaders today, should we be dragged into war? what does it make you reflect upon in terms of these bigger issues of 2024? >> if i just take those those two bits. spinner, one by one, i think it's insulting. on d—day when you're seeing those veterans who risked their lives to liberate europe from nazis to

then talk about people coming on small boats and somehow britain, as a defender. i'm sorry. it's a completely different skill. there was an issue on migration , there was an issue on migration, legal and legal. but this isn't the moment to raise it. and secondly, the younger generation , you know, if they were called up, i think they would be they would go and of course, you know , look at those veterans. they were having ordinary lives and ordinary jobs , and all of ordinary jobs, and all of a sudden they were called up and they had to fight the a lot of them were proud to a lot of them. >> yeah. some of them were 16. kevin and i think were too young to sign up but wanted to. but i don't think it's different if you've got a threat to your shores and invading people respond, you respond different. if we if the government wanted us to sign up to perhaps go to fight, to liberate ukraine from russia, i think i think there would be a more difficult, i think, totally different. >> i, i think i think my own family, my mom's dad, granddad wounded three times, first world war, including on the somme. yeah. her brother would have

been my uncle killed in the war. merchant navy convoy sank a nephew in the raf now and if we all had to, you know we'd be too old. but of course young people would sign up if there's an existential threat. and i think just now to say young people are lazy and not interested, i think is again, i think it's just just wrong. and it's not the moment to do it. it is hard to think that you've got to celebrate. yeah the veterans on a commemoration but not not go off on our, our hobby horses. >> well i do think on a day like today , we have to be careful today, we have to be careful with the word celebration. actually, no, no, i think that's the wrong commemoration. >> no no, no i'm not. it's a commemoration. but i want to celebrate veterans . yeah, i'm celebrate veterans. yeah, i'm not coming because they're still alive. but. >> but don't you think we. we have to. especially at this time when it feels like war or war is raging in the in the middle east and also in ukraine. i think this idea that there's a celebration element to this, i like to sort of play that down because we have to be mindful of the fact that we must never send

our young men to war again like we did then. we must always be looking for peace in all of these conflicts around the world. and that's the conversation that i do think is important to have on a day like today, that is you're absolutely right. because look, in in recent years, the last 20 odd or so, i think afghanistan and iraq, where hundreds of british personnel were killed, many more maimed, suffered life changing injuries physically and mentally. i think both those wars were wrong. i agree, and britain shouldn't have been involved in those. so i think the second world war was very, very, very different. i could have understood being a conscientious objector in the first world war, but not in the second world war. yeah, yeah, can we, talk briefly about the general election , we watch general election, we watch watched the debate. kevin, you and i have been watching these debates for donkey's years. when we were younger, we'd be in the spin room spinning, and now we just glad we're not bothered

with all of that. both bev and i were very struck, and i had to rewind it. when i was watching the debate the other night. did he really say that when he was, they were asked a very simple question. if you had somebody on a waiting list on a trolley in a hospital, potentially very serious deal, would you use private medicine? rishi sunak didn't hesitate to say yes. he said, absolutely no. keir starmer and made the point is why he worked for the nhs. under no circumstances. to my mind, it's when the masks slipped. i thought he's more ideological than i realised. i think much more left wing and ideological. >> we know, we know. rishi sunak uses private, private health. it's a very rich man. >> why shouldn't it? >> why shouldn't it? >> and he's in charge of the nhs. so you wonder about the commitment of the nhs when you don't use the service you run. keir starmer is committed to the nhs, his wife works in it. the truth is, i suspect on that question that was put to him, nobody knows until they are there. i don't have private medical care. i could have it at work, but you have to sign for it. i won't sign for it, but if one of my, one of my children or grandchildren , was the only way grandchildren, was the only way of saving them. if that's the way you put it, would i would i

pay, way you put it, would i would i pay, would i not? the truth is , pay, would i not? the truth is, i don't i don't know, i think i'd be trying to fight the system and get that care on the nhs, but i would not criticise anybody who makes a different choice. i wouldn't, i wouldn't criticise starmer on a life and death decision or sunak. >> so was it that he was was it that sir keir starmer was dishonest , that sir keir starmer was dishonest, or was it that he would put his principles and his ideology before the life of his loved ones? >> no, i think, i think he's being honest and he thinks he wouldn't be because that's almost more terrifying, kevin. >> that's more frightening. >> that's more frightening. >> it's not because he wants to create an nhs that works and when labour labour left office last time, they got a lot of things wrong. but what they got right was the nhs and they went with record low waiting lists, record high patient satisfaction. now, unfortunately it's absolutely on its knees. as we know, waiting lists had doubled before covid came along, sent them to record record levels . i think. sent them to record record levels. i think. i think he's just being very, very honest. i would have answered exactly the

same. but in truth, you have a hypothetical and then you have a real moment and your hypothetical may not translate into the real moment. if you're there. >> i think the question, though, was to keir starmer, if you could have access to private health care and your loved one was on a waiting list, would you use it? and he said no. it was either that he couldn't think quick enough to understand the question or , or or, as i say, question or, or or, as i say, genuinely believes it. and he would put that principle before the well—being of a of another human being. that that worries me enormously. >> would you do the same? >> would you do the same? >> i've waited. i've waited for appointments. >> if it was life and death. >> if it was life and death. >> i've waited for a point. >> i've waited for a point. >> if it was life and death, well, i would i would be badgenng well, i would i would be badgering the nhs, if that's what i think. >> there is no one to badger. >> there is no one to badger. >> you're coming up with a hype hypothetical. it's a fair hypothetical. >> it happens to people all the time. >> kevin, i would resist. i

would resist jumping the queue. okay i get that. i would feel that was wrong to other people if i'd been in his shoes, i'd have said i. >> he could have said if the tories hadn't screwed the nhs for 14 years, he could have said that. but he said, i'm in a position i can afford it. i would hope i can't do it, but if i had to i would. that would be the most people watching and listening would say it was a yes or no question, right? >> and i thought so. so you would have said you would have said no as well. i would, i would be very happy to watch him discuss this, you know, as we are now. are how. >> are now. >> yeah. and that debate, it was a yes or no. a yes or 110. >> a yes or no. >> he has been given opportunities to clarify, though, even with our christopher hope here, and he still hasn't done a good job of explaining what it was that he would do in that situation. and i thought, i'm no massive rishi sunak for nhs. >> that's why so, so does rishi sunak. >> it's not, but it's not that simple, is it? if you loved one, if you was great. well, that's that's the point. if your loved one is on a waiting list for cancer treatment or very nice to sit there virtue signalling say i believe in the nhs. well, that's not doing your grandma

any good when she's sat on a gurney in a corridor. >> i don't want to trigger another row. >> but it happens in in education, some people could. >> i don't want to trigger. i don't want to trigger. no. i'm happy. >> the parallels are very similar. it is. >> parallels are very similar. >> parallels are very similar. >> you could you could pay for privilege or you could believe in public services or you could let somebody you love die. no, it's not that. >> it is. he is. he is believing. he is believing. >> he is believing. he can get whoever it is treated. well, then he lacks him. >> he either lacks imagination or realised what's really happening, or he has no idea how bad it is. >> the nhs 7.5 million people on a waiting list. >> kevin. that is the question. look, if somebody, if somebody, if somebody kidnapped somebody close to you, would you pay the ransom? you might say, i can't pay ransom? you might say, i can't pay the ransom. >> yes, i would, i wouldn't sell me out. i not even a question. >> you've got three kids. >> you've got three kids. >> one of your children. are you insured? >> she wouldn't pay the ransom for me. she'd say, don't bother. >> don't send him back for you. >> don't send him back for you. >> don't send him back for you. >> don't send him back. >> don't send him back. >> paying the kidnappers to take you. sorry. probably organised it, but honestly. >> and i and i've always used

nhs. i believe in the nhs, but. but for the first time ever, kevin, i've now taken out private healthcare for my kids because i can't get an nhs appointment. one of them had a skin condition. it was two weeks to see someone and i've given up now and part of me hates the fact because i'm paying twice and paying massive taxes and i'm now paying private healthcare for that, and that. but in a sense, the only way i can reconcile that is, well, i'm taking my kids out of the already stretched system because i can afford to pay that. and so i'm taking the pressure off. it is similar to the private school, as long as you don't ask for a tax break, you can't. >> you can't. and this is a thing. no, i'm glad you don't. no you can't. >> there were tax breaks once, but you don't get one now. >> but but i do think that i do think that people wouldn't mind paying think that people wouldn't mind paying more tax if it worked. yeah. if it works well that's seen by a doctor. >> that's always a that's always a legitimate point. you'll pay you'll pay tax if you think you're getting something out of it. yeah right. kevin's going to stay with us. cameron walker is still with us in the studio. we're going to be going back to normandy as well to see the

d—day celebrations. first, though, the very latest news headlines. we're sophia wenzler. >> bev, thank you from the gb newsroom at 1030. your headlines, senior members of the royal family and world leaders are gathering with veterans in normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of the d—day landings on the 6th of june, 1944, tens of thousands of british and allied soldiers landed on five beaches in northern france to push back german forces. king charles has praised d—day veterans at the uk's commemoration event in ver sur. in france, the king and queen were joined by prime minister rishi sunak, labour leader sir keir starmer and french president emmanuel macron . meanwhile, prince william has arrived at juno beach for the canadian commemorative service . canadian commemorative service. and in the uk, d—day commemorations are also underway across the country. in lisburn in northern ireland, the town crier delivered a d—day proclamation . a flotilla of proclamation. a flotilla of boats will leave cornwall, where thousands of troops departed to

take part in the invasion. while a beacon lighting ceremony will take place in kent. the duke and duchess of edinburgh will join veterans at a royal british legion remembrance service in staffordshire, and the duke and duchess of gloucester will meet veterans at a show at the royal albert hall in london and the prime minister has pledged to boost veteran benefits in an election offering . rishi sunak election offering. rishi sunak says he wants to make the uk the best place in the world to have served in the armed forces. best place in the world to have served in the armed forces . the served in the armed forces. the policy pledge on the 80th anniversary of d—day includes reducing the price of the veterans railcard from £30 per year to £21 and extending the existing national insurance relief for employers who hire ex—military members . labour ex—military members. labour claims the tory record on veterans is shameful and their election plans mean no change. and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. common alerts .

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>> very good morning. it's 1036. >> very good morning. it's1036. it is, of course, d—day. >> very good morning. it's1036. it is, of course, d—day . and we it is, of course, d—day. and we are reflecting on events down in normandy. we'll be bringing you pictures live as the royals come and go there this morning. susan has said a shout out as well to

sophie reaper. she covers so many difficult news stories, always very professional and it's a good choice to send her to france. she's done a brilliant job. >> she's been brilliant in france and actually the other day she got a little bit emotional and i can well understand why, because i'll tell you, when i meet those veterans, i well up every time. >> yeah. somebody who calls themselves east coast guy because i know a lot of you do actually watch in america as well. anyone else noticed that the new election promises regarding all armed forces, veterans ? he feels like veterans? he feels like politicians are jumping on the d—day band . d—day band. >> i'm glad someone's made that point. i wasn't going to. we heard mel stride, who used to work in pension secretary, out saying something today. it went over my head and equally, john healey, the shadow defence secretary, listen , guys, people secretary, listen, guys, people see right through it. they could have done that two years ago, three years ago, five years ago. they're all as bad. >> yeah. and john, morning, john, he said, i'm watching your d—day commemorations. the amount of french school children there taking part over the last two daysis taking part over the last two days is significant. they're obviously taught about d—day. it feels like our kids aren't , it feels like our kids aren't, it still doesn't mean they like us, though. even before brexit.

>> but he's got a point, because there was that survey the other day saying, what was it, half of children of teenagers don't know what d—day is, which is chills my blood to think about that, because it should be taught in schools . yeah. schools. yeah. >> my children, i don't think they would know it's d—day today. >> saving someone a film like saving private ryan . and it's saving private ryan. and it's seen from an american perspective, but nevertheless , perspective, but nevertheless, it tells you everything about d—day and war and family and sacrifice and what it did to families and patriotism and duty. i think every kid should . duty. i think every kid should. every school child should see a film like that. yeah, or the longest day, and also people talking about our debate that we just had just now with kevin maguire about whether keir starmer would use, private health care. let's have a quick look here, ian says i had to pay private as my husband had a catheter for three months and was told he couldn't get an operation for a time he couldn't be given, but then also told the more time he had the catheter, the less chance he'd have been able to have it removed and live

normally again, so kevin maguire is lying when he says he would badgen is lying when he says he would badger. there's no way that it works. i don't think he's lying, but i think he's. i think, kevin, how do you hope over substance, isn't it? it is. and if you are badgering, i mean, kevin said i wouldn't want to jump kevin said i wouldn't want to jump the queue. i believe him in that. but of course, if you're badgering, you're badgering to jump badgering, you're badgering to jump the queue and there's no point badgering, and, i still think starmer would have got more plaudits if he'd said with the heaviest of heart. i have to admit, if it was somebody i loved dearly and it could get them off a waiting list, off a hospital trolley where potentially their their life is under threat. i would pay whatever it took, but i shouldn't have to. >> that's what he should have said. but i just shouldn't have to. of course i would. i'd always put people first rather than ideology. but he didn't say that. darren has said regarding starmer, with the waiting list , starmer, with the waiting list, he lied through his teeth. he said no because he thought it would be a good thing to say to us lemmings. he obviously thinks it's something that we'd like to heat! it's something that we'd like to hear. i think that's on the money there and i really do. i'd pay money there and i really do. i'd pay to go private in a

heartbeat. he's a flip flop lying rat who only wants the keys to number 10 at any cost. he's reminding me of a. scully has got the chance of getting a council house. >> he's going to get the keys to number 10. he's actually got. he's got one for over the threshold already. and of course, we've seen this poll today which shows reformer now within two points of overtaking, of catching up with the tories. thatis of catching up with the tories. that is called the nigel farage effect that is the nigel farage. >> i'm so glad you brought that up because i was thinking about that. i was reading about this that. i was reading about this that this morning because some people are now looking at this election not as an election, but as a referendum. it's a referendum almost on brexit again, because you've got if you have 51% of people who wanted to vote for brexit, who see nigel farage, he there could be more shocking reverberations if people start to see it like that. absolutely. >> we're going to cross now to our reporter, jack carson, who is at the national memorial arboretum, which is in staffordshire. hugely important part of the d—day celebrations. jack's morning to you, jack. part of the d—day celebrations. jack's morning to you, jack . sun jack's morning to you, jack. sun is shining. lots of veterans and military charities there. i'm

sure . sure. >> yeah, it's going to be a really big service later today at 2:00, when the royal british legion's commemorations here in the uk take place at the national memorial arboretum, we're here in the beautiful sunshine, and we are delighted to be joined by tom hill, who's 98, and a royal marines veteran. tom, thank you so much for joining us this morning. now, you were part of the landing craft and crewed a landing craft which came over in the second wave. i mean, tell us what you remember about that day . well remember about that day. well oh, i think we've lost. >> i think we might have lost jack carson. and we've got cameron. walk with us. cameron. of course , at the arboretum, the of course, at the arboretum, the national military, centre, we will see the duke and duchess of edinburgh, who we know better is sophie and edward. yes. >> of course. you see, earl and countess of wessex, now duke and duchess of edinburgh. so they are leading, i suppose the british tributes today in terms of members of the royal family.

also, i feel like we need to give a massive shout out to princess anne, the princess royal princess anne, the princess royal, who yesterday was a complete trooper herself and undertook four separate engagements in normandy, visiting the canadian royal regina. reception. she also went to the boer war cemetery. she delivered a speech. she attended a service of commemoration at bayer cathedral, as well as , bayer cathedral, as well as, attended another kind of vigil attended another kind of vigil at the war cemetery cemetery as well. so she was very busy yesterday. we also have an update from the king and the queen, who, as we've been speaking about, is attending the royal british legion's commemorative events. now, the king's delivered a speech where he said it is with the most profound sense of gratitude that we remember them, as in d—day veterans and all who served at that critical time. i also know that critical time. i also know that veterans during the king's speech were seen wiping their eyes with tissues as charles made his address to them . the made his address to them. the king also appeared emotional, as he has done, i think, a number

of times over the last few days. and the queen herself also seen with tears in her eyes and wiping her eyes during the king's speech and this very clearly, very visibly moving royal british legion commemorative service. and at the same time, of course, we've got prince william at the canadian commemorations. these are live pictures, i believe, of those commemorations . he's, he's those commemorations. he's, he's there alongside justin trudeau, president, sorry, not president, prime minister even of canada. and prime minister atal of france as well. organised by the canadian government. prince william expected to deliver a speech very shortly. we will be bringing that to you. >> yeah. we have any validity of this. cameron, this has just been , this is on nbc news site been, this is on nbc news site saying that , william said saying that, william said yesterday, asked by one veteran how kate is and he said she's feeling better . feeling better. >> yes, he did. so during the after the portsmouth commemorative service, which we covered yesterday. both the king, queen and prince of wales met a number of these veterans

and one of the veterans asked william how the princess was doing and prince william said she's getting better, thank you. and she would have loved to have been here. so there was a bit of an update. and of course we have missed seeing her over these last few days. >> the other, person i was thinking about today and this will be very hard for him to be watching this from california. prince harry of course, did active service in afghanistan twice. he had a very good, distinguished military career. he took his military duties very seriously. but of course , he seriously. but of course, he chose to leave the royal family. no role for him. but if he hadnt no role for him. but if he hadn't chosen to leave the firm, he would be there by side by side with his brother and his father in the thick of all of this and the veterans would have been thrilled to see him. >> yeah, i think if he was still a working member of the royal family, you are absolutely right. he would have been pretty much front and centre after the king because, as you say, he did serve two tours of afghanistan. perhaps resonates a bit more with those d—day veterans because. because of course, prince harry did serve. yeah, you know, in quite , quite heavy you know, in quite, quite heavy conflicts there. whereas as heir to the throne, prince william

was not allowed to do that. and then, of course, we're going to go to interrupt. >> sorry. we're going to go right to france now because prince william, prince of wales, is just starting his speech. >> good afternoon , prime >> good afternoon, prime minister trudeau, prime minister atal, veteran and distinguished guests . bonjour, premier. guests. bonjour, premier. minister trudeau, premier. minister trudeau, premier. minister atal. veteran. a distinguished invite. i'm honoured to join you. to commemorate the bravery and sacrifice of the canadian troops who gave so much 80 years ago, on june the 6th, 1944, as part of the 150,000 allied troops that landed or parachute into

normandy, 14,000 were from canada, far from home, they stormed these very sand dunes behind me, shoulder to shoulder with thousands of british troops standing here today in peaceful silence, it is almost impossible to grasp the courage it would have taken to run into the fury of battle that very day . the of battle that very day. the assault on d—day remains the most ambitious military operation in history. the events of that windy , grey day of that windy, grey day ultimately led to the liberation of europe , but it came at of europe, but it came at a heavy cost . we continue to heavy cost. we continue to honour every canadian who gave so much , every canadian family so much, every canadian family who lost a loved one, every canadian who lived with the

scars of battle, both physical and mental. i want to thank you, our veterans, for your extraordinary acts of bravery and sacrifice on juno beach and the liberation of europe . all of the liberation of europe. all of you demonstrated heroism and determination that ensured fascism was conquered . the fascism was conquered. the commitment to service displayed by canadian troops is a great testament to the strength of the people of canada . canada and the people of canada. canada and the uk continue to stand side by side as we did in 1944, just as strong together . 80 years later , strong together. 80 years later, ensuring the memory of those who fought for freedom lives on is why we've come together again today.to why we've come together again today. to say thank you. thank you for our freedom and thank

you for our freedom and thank you for our freedom and thank you for your service . merci. you for your service. merci. pour notre liberte. a merci pour votre service . votre service. >> a speech by the prince of wales and talking to. he's leading the canadian commemoration. justin trudeau, the canadian prime minister i imagine he'll speak to cameron walker. of course. it's canada is very . the monarchy is still is very. the monarchy is still popular in canada. this will do . popular in canada. this will do. this will underline the point. >> yeah, i think it certainly will. and prince william spoke in his speech there that canada and uk continue to stand side by side, just as they did 80 years ago. it shows how the monarchy really is, perhaps the glue that holds the two nations diplomatically together, or at least in part. and i think the fact that we have a number of cadets, very young canadians, there , watching their future there, watching their future king deliver that speech , i

king deliver that speech, i think perhaps will help to shore up that kind of relationship . up that kind of relationship. and we do have prime minister trudeau coming onto the stage now. but he also prince william also spoke of the bravery and sacrifice of canadian troops. and i think it's incredibly important to them to have a senior member of the royal family attend their vigil rather than the british one. >> canada has a long history in france because in the first world war there was there's a there's a war memorial in northern france called vimy ridge. and it is i mean , it's so ridge. and it is i mean, it's so moving. it's the most beautiful statue, and it's where the canadians dug underneath the trenches , the german trenches, trenches, the german trenches, and caught the germans from behind. and it was the most extraordinary bravery. and that part of france is known permanently as canadian soil, which just this is actually french prime minister gabriel attal we're looking at here, he's speaking in french. >> he's speaking. >> he's speaking. >> so we're going to give it a miss. he's the new prime minister. he's 34, 35, very young, very dashing. cause a bit of upset the other day in france

about what that was about. but macron, of course, will make the main speech, at the where the where the in the main. >> yes. so we've got so we've got the omaha beach commemoration, the international commemorative ceremony. so president emmanuel macron, as you say, is going to be there. we spoke of australia, i believe , a little bit earlier on because australian troops also served in d—day. it's the governor general of australia representing the country at these d—day commemorations rather than the prime minister. >> yeah, yeah. and our own prime minister is there. of course. yes. he will presumably have will speak will speak too, imagine. >> cameron he's i think yes, i think he certainly will. he's been at the royal british legion's commemorative event this morning with the king, the queen and president macron as well. i believe he may also be going to the omaha beach. i don't believe that has been confirmed. but over 25 heads of state and veterans are going to be attending the international commemorative ceremony at omaha beach , including president joe beach, including president joe biden. but prince william, representing his father there at

the event due to the king's health struggles, will the king come back at that point to britain ? yeah, he's got no more britain? yeah, he's got no more engagements scheduled for today that we know of. >> the only the rest of the week we. >> we. >> yeah, i don't think he's got any more scheduled. of course we also tomorrow prince william is going to have to hotfoot it up to chester for the wedding of the duke of westminster. of course, he's being an usher at that wedding, so he's got a very busy week. but as for the king and king and queen, they're not expected to attend that wedding. so i believe this perhaps is the last public engagements we have for his majesty the king. at this royal british legion's commemorative events. he's also meeting a number of d—day veterans there as well. but i think what we've seen over the last few days is most working members of the royal family really rallying around and really rallying around and really making a point that us as brits, have to really honour the sacrifice of these d—day veterans. and we spoke earlier about school children perhaps not knowing about what d—day is. so sad. and i understand that yesterday, yesterday in

portsmouth, there were hundreds of school children from the local area invited to this. good. and it's understood that the power, i suppose, the ministry of defence and etc. really wants to make a point of teaching the younger generation that it's incredibly important to keep remembering the sacrifices of their forefathers and being physically in the same venue as these d—day veterans, 99 or 100 years old, who 80 years ago today stormed the beaches of normandy faced with german machine gun fire and god knows what else. i think it's that kind of memory that i think perhaps the royal family can can help because it shines a spotlight on the occasion. >> and i remember being at those beaches a couple of years ago and being told how some of those young men, because they had the heavy boots on the packs, the rifles, if they fell in the water, some of them just drowned because they were so weighed down, just drowned. they did. >> and we've heard testimony, testimony over the last few days of soldiers arriving on d—day. plus one or very late in the evening as one one told the

king, i believe on d—day itself, and just being met by a sea of bodies, just drowned because they just didn't quite make it, because it was so heavy, extraordinary . extraordinary. >> one of our viewers, andrew, has got in touch to say, just a reminder that whilst d—day was on, there were other military personnel fighting on many fronts around the world. my granddad was in ceylon. yeah he said, and of course it was the d—day landings that that sparked the end of the war. it was three months later, wasn't it? after the d—day invasion, i think the and of course, when the war ended, victory in europe, we had the victory in europe celebrations. >> it was still going on in the far east. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> yeah. and i was very lucky enough to interview a veteran of world war ii enough to interview a veteran of world war i! called john. he's a chelsea pensioner now, a hundred years old, and he was called a d—day dodger because he took part in the invasion of italy a few months before and missed the normandy landings on the beach beaches. but he kind of made the point that everyone who, you know, sacrificed their lives invading italy and coming up from the other end of europe, i kind of forgotten because all the spotlight is on d—day and

normandy. >> and it's tough because you can't. i suppose you say you can't. i suppose you say you can't honour everybody, but of course it was because it was the largest ever, organised force to invasion ever in history and will probably never be matched. i mean, it was literally hundreds of thousands coordinated with eisenhower, the americans and churchill and an extraordinary operation. >> and it was seen as a turning point of world war ii, ending within 11 months. >> it was victory in europe. and of course, we shouldn't forget how many french civilians were killed. >> yeah, a number, a number of civilians killed, french civilians, but also a number of liberated . liberated. >> buy more pictures. we will be bringing you to the events this morning from normandy. and let us know your thoughts as well. this is britain's newsroom. we're also going to be crossing over to wales to talk about vaughan gething. >> but he's the first minister who's not he's not resigning . who's not he's not resigning. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of whether on . gb

news. >> hello. very good morning to you. here's your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. in many respects today is going to feel quite similar to yesterday. really. we still have plenty of showers feeding in across northern parts, particularly scotland , parts, particularly scotland, perhaps northern ireland to some of these will be heavy. maybe thundery, could even be a bit of sleet or snow over the highest ground of the scottish mountains. two meanwhile further south, yes, some showers around, but across many parts of central england and wales and southern parts two it is going to stay mostly dry and there will be some decent bright and sunny spells. however, we do have some cool air across us at the moment, so in the sunshine not feeling too bad, it is early june after all, but generally temperatures are a little disappointing. perhaps especially in the north as we go through this evening. then still watch out for some heavy showers across parts of scotland. and like i said, there could be some rumbles of thunder. there could even be a bit of hail mixed in, which could cause some problems on the roads and all the time, some wintry ness possible over the scottish peaks . also plenty

the scottish peaks. also plenty of showers as we go through this evening across northern england , evening across northern england, northern ireland but a drier story further south. yes there are some showers, but any showers here are going to be pretty short lived, quite fleeting, and most of us will avoid them overnight. we are going to stick with the north south split when it comes to our shower amounts. in terms of across the south, it is going to stay largely dry and some clear skies here. further north, plenty of showers. in fact, a swathe of more focused showery rain pushing its way in across scotland as we go through the early hours of tomorrow morning, where we get the clear skies, it is going to be a bit chilly. temperatures could drop to low, single figures, perhaps a touch of grass. frost is possible in a few spots. the showery rain across scotland will feed into northern england as we go through tomorrow morning. further south again, a few showers are possible, but generally a fine picture here, but a bit more cloud as we go into the afternoon elsewhere and there will again be plenty of showers pushing in across parts of scotland, possibly northern ireland. two and once more these could turn heavy and maybe even thundery by by that warm feeling

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gb news. >> 11 am. on thursday, the 6th of june. very significant day. 80th anniversary of d—day. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. as the world remembers that pivotal day which turned the course of the war. >> and at the british ceremony, a fly past marks the occasion as the red, white and blue streams across the sky. our reporters are there . are there. >> the world remembers today marks the 80th anniversary when british and allied forces stormed the beaches. here at normandy to attack german forces

i >> -- >> and remembrance events across the united kingdom are getting underway to remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice . paid the ultimate sacrifice. >> i'm in the garrison city of lisbon , where the theme really lisbon, where the theme really is the education of children. hundreds of school children have been brought in to be educated in the relevance of this day. >> thank you. dougie beattie now, no confidence in getting the first minister of wales. vaughan gething has vowed to carry on despite losing a no confidence vote. he's basically said i'm not going to go and you can't make me. we'll have the latest and pitifully . latest and pitifully. >> and what a pitiful figure he cut, weeping, i mean >> and what a pitiful figure he cut, weeping , i mean pathetic. cut, weeping, i mean pathetic. he's the first minister of wales. he's been there 78 days. he's lost a motion of no conscience. he says it doesn't

count because two labour members were sick. hello, mr gething. one of them was the minister you sacked ? well, they were sacked? well, they were convenient illnesses. do you remember when mrs. thatcher was in trouble in 1990? she wanted john major to endorse her nomination papers in the second ballot. you had a problem with his wisdom tooth? >> yes. do you remember? >> yes. do you remember? >> of course. yes, yes, yes. well, gbnews.com forward slash. yours is the sites. let us know your thoughts. this morning we'll be talking about the wales situation in just a moment. we'll be talking about the wales situation in just a moment . and situation in just a moment. and more d—day celebrations. first though here's sophia wenzler judnh though here's sophia wenzler judith raanan. >> bev thank you. good morning. it's 11:02. i'm sofia wenzler in it's11:02. i'm sofia wenzler in the gb newsroom. your top story this hour. senior members of the royal family and world leaders are gathering with veterans in normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of the d—day landings on the 6th of june, 1944, tens of thousands of british and allied soldiers landed on five beaches in northern france to push back german forces. king charles has

praised d—day veterans at the uk's commemoration event in ver sur mer in france. the king and queen were joined by prime minister rishi sunak, labour leader sir keir starmer and french president emmanuel macron . meanwhile, prince william has spoken at juno beach for the canadian commemorative service in the uk. d—day commemorations are also underway across the country. in lisburn in northern ireland, the town crier delivered a d—day proclamation. a flotilla of boats will leave cornwall, where thousands of troops departed to take part in the invasion. meanwhile, a beacon lighting ceremony will take place in kent. the duke and duchess of edinburgh will join veterans at the royal british legion remembrance service in staffordshire , and the duke and staffordshire, and the duke and duchess of gloucester will meet veterans at a show at the royal albert hall in london. the prime minister has pledged to boost veteran benefits in an election offering. rishi sunak says he wants to make the uk the best

place in the world to have served in the armed forces. the policy pledge on the 80th anniversary of d—day includes reducing the price of the veterans railcard from £30 per year to £21 and extending the existing national insurance relief for employers who hire ex—military members. labour claims the tory record on veterans is shameful and their election plans mean no change. but secretary of state for work and pensions mel stride says it's an important step forward. >> we are to be re—elected and there will be looking at further plans and strategic plans that there will be a duty on ministers to come forward with. we're going to be decreasing the cost of the rail car to veterans from 30 to £21. we're going to extending the national insurance reductions that are available to employers that recruit veterans. for example , where we know we for example, where we know we have higher employment rates amongst veterans than we do across the population more generally. so we stand full

square with them. and i think, you know, this is an important step forward. >> but shadow defence secretary john healey says labour would go further for veterans . further for veterans. >> unfortunately, the government has created over 14 years of postcode lottery on help for veterans . they've halved the veterans. they've halved the support on employment and they've allowed veterans homelessness to rise over the last year, not end it. and there's much more that can be done and needs to be done, we would start by putting fully into law the armed forces covenant. into law the armed forces covenant . now, that would covenant. now, that would reinforce and strengthen the rights of veterans to services and also of service personnel and also of service personnel and their families. we'd also legislate in the first year of a labour government for a new independent armed forces commissioner. >> in other news, a rescue operation is underway in the engush operation is underway in the english channel, with reports of up to 80 migrants in the water. british and french vessels have raced to the scene about halfway across the channel between

calais and dover. gb news has been told that as many as 250 migrants are currently in boats on the french side of the channel this morning, and are attempting to cross to the uk. an israeli airstrike on a un school in central gaza has killed at least 27 people. that's according to local officials . ambulances and rescue officials. ambulances and rescue teams have been rushing to the wounded and to the dead to the nearby hospital. the israeli military said it carried out a strike on a un school that housed hamas compound, and 20 to 30 fighters were inside the hamas media office has rejected the claim, accusing israel of committing a horrific massacre . committing a horrific massacre. and a 43 year old man has been found guilty of headbutting football pundit roy keane at a match. scott law, who's 43 and from waltham abbey in essex, had pleaded not guilty to a charge of common assault in relation to an incident in which he and mr keane clashed on september the

3rd. last year after arsenal's three one victory over manchester united. the ex—england international, who was working as a pundit for sky sports , was headbutted through sports, was headbutted through doors at the emirates stadium. by doors at the emirates stadium. by law . laws defence team by law. laws defence team claimed cctv footage from inside the stadium showed former manchester united player mr keane elbowing the defendant in the face. and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts now it's back to andrew and . to andrew and. bev. >> it's 1107 here with britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pearson. bev turner on this historic day, because it was 80 years ago, d—day, when tens of thousands of british troops, many of them young men, some of them 16 or 1718, stormed the beaches of normandy, an event which turned the course of the war.

>> that's right. we've got reporters all around the country this morning and also, of course , in normandy. so let's go now to sophie reaper, who is in normandy. and we're going to speak also to dougie beattie, who is in lisbon. good morning, sophie. great to see you. lots of commendations coming into our inbox as well about your work this week. sophie, what has it been like there and how is it today? >> thank you very much for that, bev. it's been an absolute privilege. i couldn't imagine anything better than having been given the opportunity to come here and see the commemorations and speak to those wonderful men, our veterans. so it really has been an honour. today we're here in arromanches in parade square, where we're currently just to my left, we're seeing a ceremony between the dutch forces and bring them together with the british. we've just seen the final remaining dutch veteran who was on d—day. he just come to inspect some wreaths that have been laid. we've also just seen the mayor of arromanches come to see that, because that, of course, is what

d—day and these commemorations and celebrations are all about. it's about bringing together those veterans and bringing together all those countries who risked their lives during world war two for our freedom. and on that note, we thought it might be quite interesting for our viewers to see some of the coverage that d—day has been getting here in france. so we've got a few of the papers that are here today. the first one here, this is actually really quite interesting because it is a special bilingual edition between this paper and an engush between this paper and an english one of the national press in england, and that the headuneis press in england, and that the headline is d—day 80 years the landing and a picture there. i think you can see one of the landing crafts that would have landed 80 years ago today. also really interestingly, this paper itself is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year. so i'm sure for this paper it's really

rather special. you can see, of course, it is leading. they've got i apologise for the wind. they've got a special bit here about winston churchill , really about winston churchill, really just taking in what exactly would have been happening on d—day. and we've also got this one, which is perhaps one of the loveliest stories to come out of d—day . this this man here, a 100 d—day. this this man here, a 100 year old veteran, has travelled to france to marry his 98 year old sweetheart as part of the anniversary of d—day. the lovebirds of d—day there. how absolutely incredible is that to be able to take in a story like that ? d—day. be able to take in a story like that? d—day. of be able to take in a story like that ? d—day. of course, most that? d—day. of course, most harrowing events that one could possibly imagine. but to bring such joy on a day like this. and thatis such joy on a day like this. and that is what it's all about, of course, isn't it? we're commemorating, but we are also celebrating . and i think we've celebrating. and i think we've got one final paper from here. this isn't a french paper, it's

the new york times, but there we see that, that headline there, last hurrah for d—day heroes. of course, as we know this, most likely the 80th anniversary will be the last anniversary of d—day that we get to commemorate with those veterans . of course, as i those veterans. of course, as i mentioned before, we've just seen the last remaining just one more veteran who is dutch of course, there are not many british veterans left. we are expecting to see some of them later here in parade square in arromanches. they're currently, up at where the vecima inn, where the royals and prime minister rishi sunak has also spoken today, and we're expecting them later here in arromanches, of course, where the thousands of the crowds gathered here will be able to mark pay their respects to our remaining veterans on this incredible day . incredible day. >> lovely. thank you sophie. really interesting. look at how it's being handled on the front

page of the papers around the world as well. there, sophie roper there in normandy. >> great to see so many people turning out to. >> yeah, let's go now to dougie beattie, where i think the sound of children running around there. dougie, where are you? what's going on? >> well, i'm in the beautiful lisbon city centre. this is, of course, a garrison town , and course, a garrison town, and lisburn and castlereagh city council have really put an emphasis here on educating the young as to the relevance of this day and joining me now is an sdlp councillor, pat catney , an sdlp councillor, pat catney, pat, just tell us, what's the relevance of this day for you, doug? >> as! doug? >> as i grew up, my father survived the last war. and his younger brother of 19, just pnor younger brother of 19, just prior to d—day , was blew up off prior to d—day, was blew up off the coast of tenerife. in the atlantic. so every time that i went out to visit my grandparents, there was always the photograph of my uncle lawrence, who i never met at 19, and his medals that he had there. i think that , it's

there. i think that, it's a reflection and a commemoration of the bravery of those that went before us, it means an awful lot to me that it embraces all of our district and i'm absolutely was delighted to be part of the commemoration, service today, but also part of that committee, that organised and helped organise the events today, along with our officers. >> so, i mean, what have you done? how have you afforded the ratepayer to actually bring all these children here? >> yes. so we knew that we wanted to do to have the commemoration, there was an underspend in the budget and i'm glad that we were able to use that underspend to bus the children that are here today. it's all about education. doing this is education. we raise the flag of peace today . that flag flag of peace today. that flag of peace is very important. it's for this generation , and we need for this generation, and we need to educate them of the horrors

of nazism and the third reich, as it was then, i have a daughter now living in, in, dachau. and that to me, is the horrors of what, i don't want to attack all of the german people. there was only one third of the german people that voted for that. but we have a great opportunity here today to educate all our young people. and as you see, they're here, the world is in a dangerous place at the minute, and we need to strive for peace the best we possibly can. well thank you for that, pat. >> and it is a credit to, lisbon council at this moment in time, i must say. i mean, there is absolutely hundreds of children running about here, people dressed in the, period costumes, as he said there. we've seen a proclamation this morning from the town crier. we've seen a flag being raised. we've seen, wreaths laid at a war memorial. and this event in castle gardens today is really, really, really important for the children here

to remember, not only d—day, but the events that ran up to it. >> lovely. thank you. dougie. it's to great see kids being educated about it as well. it's really important sophie and dougie thank you so much. we'll be back to you a bit later i we don't know. >> you've got kids at school. do they get taught about d—day? >> i don't know because exam week this week. >> so all the kids are doing exams this week. >> yeah. no they're not really talking about it. >> no about world v—e day and v-j >> no about world v—e day and v—j day. victory in japan. >> not really. probably not. no, i mean , thinking about the i mean, thinking about the history of vision that the kids have been doing recently. there is there is british history in there. they do talk about british history. yes >> they tend to go probably 1066. >> yeah, exactly. it's older than, i don't know what the curriculum is around world war two. not enough probably. frankly. right. still to come this morning, vaughan gething has lost a motion of no confidence as first minister of wales, but he's currently saying that he's not going to resign. it's like a sort of sit in, really. is it shameless? unbelievable. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> 1118 britain's newsroom. gb news with andrew pearson. bev turner this very, very special day. >> the king has delivered a speech at the uk's commemorative eventin speech at the uk's commemorative event in normandy for the 80th anniversary of the d—day landings. here it is. >> 80 years ago, on d—day , the >> 80 years ago, on d—day, the 6th of june, 1944, our nation and those which stood alongside us faced what my grandfather, king george vi, described as the supreme test. how fortunate we were and the entire free world that a generation of men and women in the united kingdom and other allied nations did not flinch when the moment came to

face that test. on the beaches of normandy , in the seas beyond of normandy, in the seas beyond and in the skies overhead, our armed forces carried out their duty with a humbling sense of resolve and determination . these resolve and determination. these qualities, so characteristic of that remarkable wartime generation in very many of them, never came home. they lost their lives on the d—day landing grounds or in the many battles that followed . it is with the that followed. it is with the most profound sense of gratitude that we remember them, and all those who served at that critical time. >> so that's the king talking movingly at the d—day commemoration . lie—ins poignant

commemoration. lie—ins poignant historian, journalist, broadcaster carmel downs here, and political commentator jonathan lisa. they normally disagree about everything, but carol, i think, you know, one can disagree on this. >> you know, 80 years ago today, you know, dawn broke and 136,000 troops marched onto those beachesin troops marched onto those beaches in normandy. you know, it's you we can't imagine today, can we? the unimaginable courage it took for those men to do it. there's a great piece in one of the papers today where the gentleman says it's the 103 year old veteran, and he says , you old veteran, and he says, you know, i thought, if i'm going to get hit, make it quick. and make it quick so that he doesn't feel it. now, you know, no, no young person alive today, no one of 20 today can imagine what these 1820 year old lads went through. and it it moves me beyond speech , really, because i know that i'm looking at this d—day and there will probably never be another one. the next one. those veterans who are there today may not be with us anymore. and the ones who are 103, the ones who are 98. and it will be their children who come to keep the

torch of remembrance burning. but you know these i, i feel a lot of young people today don't understand the relevance of d—day. it's not their fault. they've never known anything like it. they didn't live in those times. they've never known war. i feel this should be taught about the relevance of it. and the thing is, you know, to say it's not relevant. they literally couldn't be more wrong . you know, we see what's happening in russia. we see with china flexing its muscles, we see the militias in flames. we see the militias in flames. we see all of that. and this could happen again, you know, and i think it's just children. young people need to be prepared that it might, but they also need to thank the people, who sacrifice means that they have the lives they have today . they have today. >> quite right, jonathan. what do you think? >> yeah. i mean, it's a deeply moving event. obviously, it's the final farewell, i suppose, to a generation last next year for ve day, the 80th anniversary of ve day will be the, i think, the final one. i was very struck

by, the stat that i think there were 228 or so veterans who went to the 75th anniversary of d—day, only 23, i think , this d—day, only 23, i think, this yeah d—day, only 23, i think, this year. but also, you know, there are people that those those veterans left behind, my friend and a dear friend of mine, her father died on d—day. i think she was actually on the bbc yesterday, and she's out in france and, you know, she is still as fresh in her mind as the day as a nine year old girl where she came home from school and her mother in tears and told her about the telegram and everything. and that really stays through your whole life. so you have the war. it kind of does pass down through the generations . and, you know, generations. and, you know, carol is right. we can't possibly imagine what that was like, but it's absolutely right that we should commemorate these events and not have them as any kind of sort of party political acts. they are an opportunity for the country to come together and give thanks to a generation. >> what i think, what it also doesisit >> what i think, what it also does is it makes you realise, you know, the politicians at the

moment are scrapping about trident and nuclear weapons and all the rest of it. the bottom line is what this reminds you of is that we have to we have to ensure that our country is protected. i mean, above all, so that this can't happen to us again. and i think , you know, to again. and i think, you know, to have a 21st century slant on, on this, this is what needs to happen. but, you know, watching these guys, i, you know, charles and camilla were clearly the pictures on the front pages today. tears in their eyes. and, you know, i saw charles, to talking a veteran and i think it was at buckingham palace a few days ago. and, you know, we've always accused him of not having compassion or empathy, but with these guys, he is so empathetic, so compassion. and he was saying my, you know, my grandfather did this and my thing, and these guys had met the people he was talking about, and they were talking about, and they were talking about, and they were talking about meeting montgomery, his uncle. yeah. and he was fantastic with him. and i was looking at and thinking, charles is 74 years old, which is an age, but he's still 20 odd years younger than most of these guys that he's talking to. >> and the real at times like

this , i know i don't want to this, i know i don't want to make this about republicans versus monarchy, but it's one i'm glad we've got a monarchy because they're not political. it's not some boring president making the speech and his family, the royal family was steeped in the second world war. jonathan. yeah, exactly . jonathan. yeah, exactly. >> it really was. >> it really was. >> look, i'm actually a monarchist. anyway which is my least left wing opinion, i suppose. but, you know , i suppose. but, you know, i remember ve—day, in 1995 when you had the queen mother who was the queen. yeah, during the second world war. and, you know, people of my age, we can sort of remember the 50th anniversary of all these events where, you know, there were just thousands and thousands of people who could remember these events. and now we've got to the stage where we kind of can count them, you know, and there is singing outside buckingham palace and it much like, you know, how sort of 30, 25, 30 years ago, you could still meet people just about who had fought in the great war, the first world war. and now obviously there is no one at all alive who can even remember it really. so that's time does does move on. i hold on to these memories .

memories. >> i think that's the you know, it's not it's not because it's my paper, but i just think that to me it's lovely. sums everything up, you know, eternally in their debt. >> what a lovely, lovely old guy. just what he's probably one of the young ones. he could be 99. >> he he. well, he says he's 99. >> he he. well, he says he's 99. >> he's a youngster. >> he's a youngster. >> there's one that's 103. >> there's one that's 103. >> that's amazing. >> that's amazing. >> so you know, thank you for them right. >> let's talk about politics just for a moment guys. of course we have still got the general election coming up. it's a day to reflect on normandy, but let's, get the wisdom of your insight into these stories, so, jonathan, the what do we want to start with? we want to start out the reform, the reform effect. and nigel, one poll today showing that reform are only a couple of percentage points behind the polls and from the conservative right. >> and bev under the old yougov methodology, they're neck and neck because yougov has just changed its methodology. now, this is the tories absolute worst nightmare. all the all the punst worst nightmare. all the all the pundits were saying, well , it's pundits were saying, well, it's extremely bad for the tories, but thank goodness nigel farage hasn't entered the fray because

thatis hasn't entered the fray because that is apocalypse scenario. and lo and behold , farage has lo and behold, farage has decided to finish them off. and who can blame him? frankly i would do the same if i was him. so now you have the tories looking at an existential scenario. people are talking a lot more about canada 1993 than uk 1997. that's when the conservative party in canada went from being in the government to winning two seats in the canadian house of commons. >> the canadian prime minister, she lost her seat, the prime minister. >> right. and so, you know, obviously, i think it's important i don't support one party states. i'm sure we won't have a one party state, but the conservatives, you know, you can't argue with the voters and you have a lot of scenarios where reform and the tories are going to split the vote and labour will, i'm sure, slip through the middle. >> i think this might turn into another brexit referendum. carolyn away with nigel at the helm. >> i think you're spot on. i mean, there's talk now that reform we're going to get 4 or 5 seats. but i have a feeling it might even be more. yeah. but you know the tories are idiots because they they must you know, there's snobbery and snobbery among the wets and the tories, they could see this guy had the bofis they could see this guy had the boris effect. they could see he could lead people. i've been on

the campaign trail with him before and he's like a messiah. people come to him, you know, he's a very naughty boy. the fact that the tories, the fact that the tories have ignored that, the fact that a week ago when nigel put out the suggestion there could be a deal to be done . sunak just just just to be done. sunak just just just whipped, you know, said no , i whipped, you know, said no, i wrote about this yesterday in the mail and it's about 6 to 7 weeks ago. >> dame andrew jenkins, tory mp, hardline brexiteer they reform were desperate for to her defect but she didn't. she's always going to stay true to us. she went into number 10 and said if you do a deal around the european convention on human rights, if you do this, there's just a chance. yes. varieties. phone number is being bandied about, but what happened? do it. sunaks unelected advisers, they can't think about farage with their peg on their without a peg on their nose. >> he's he's spot on right because because this has been happening. it's funny because i heard starmer today you know trying to say that you know he's trying to say that you know he's trying to say that you know he's trying to knock sunak down now. well he's down already saying that you know sunak is a liar. and she said i don't use this word casually. but he does actually because he used it

about boris too. but, you know, bofis about boris too. but, you know, boris was one of those people like farage that he could bring people love him or hate him, he can bring people in. and to have this guy who has so much sway in the country, he's the most effective political figure of the last 50 years, and they have ignored him at their peril. and now they're going to lose seats. exactly what we all said. the vote is going to be split and we've got that. he was coming. their coffers are swelled by 200 grand, so they're ready to rock and they will take seats. and should you know, all of the red wall will vote for reform because they don't want to vote laboun because they don't want to vote labour. they're not convinced by. >> oh, you don't think that you think that there surely all the red wall seats will go back to laboun >>i laboun >> i don't think they will. for a second. >> i think reform might win some seats in there. me too. >> 100. >> 100. >> if you think about who nigel farage appeals to, yes, it's immigration because i'm not saying it's impossible, but it's likely. >> it's likely that the right wing vote will split and labour, ihear wing vote will split and labour, i hear that, but i do not think keir starmer particularly resonates with working class white voters. >> he doesn't.

>> he doesn't. >> i just don't think he does. >> i just don't think he does. >> he find a lot of late leavers who then went to conservative in 2019, they lent their vote. they didn't, they didn't become conservatives. but they will go back.labouris conservatives. but they will go back. labour is in labour's in the dna of a lot of those people are smarter than this. >> you know that debate the other night you heard starmer, you heard the groans in the audience when starmer went, my father was a toolmaker. no, your father was a toolmaker. no, your father was a toolmaker. no, your father was not a toolmaker. your father was not a toolmaker. your father owned the tool making factory. yeah. so stop pretending johnson does. >> he comes from humble background . background. >> you see, he does not have a humble background. he went to private school. >> he went. >> he went. >> no, no no no no no, no. he was at a grammar school that became a private school. he was not that his parents did not bearin not that his parents did not bear in mind that those people that leant that vote in 2019 to bofis that leant that vote in 2019 to boris johnson did it to get brexit done. >> they did. yes. if they look at farage now and go, right, well, this lot haven't got brexit done, i'm going to vote for the starmer. >> certainly won't get brexit done because starmer wanted to unpick it and he thinks we don't take enough illegal migrants. >> no one's. the interesting thing about brexit is no one's talking about it. remainers aren't talking about it either. >> i might do now. >> i might do now. >> that's the thing with nigel. they might start doing. >> that's because starmer can't. because he tried to overturn

brexit. that's not why. >> yes he did, because it almost right. >> jonathan and carol, thank you so much for now. you'll be back in the next hour. and of course we will have more of the moving footage from. oh no it's half 11 already. how has that happened? sorry guys. >> only one of them today. >> only one of them today. >> just one dose today. but a few doses of sophia wenzler. here she is now with you. news >> beth. thank you. from the gb newsroom at 1131. your headlines. the king has spoken of his profound sense of gratitude to those who fought in the d—day invasion as he addressed veterans during the 80th anniversary commemorations in normandy , veterans could be in normandy, veterans could be seen wiping their eyes with tissues as charles made her address at the national commemorative event in france, they were joined by prime minister rishi sunak , labour minister rishi sunak, labour leader sir keir starmer and french president emmanuel macron i >> -- >> it is with lam m >> it is with the most profound sense of gratitude that we

remember them and all those who served at that critical time. we recall the lesson that comes to us again and again across the decades. us again and again across the decades . three nations must decades. three nations must stand together to oppose tyranny i >> -- >> and in the uk, d—day commemorations are also underway across the country. in lisburn, in northern ireland, the town crier delivered a d—day proclamation and a flotilla of boats will leave cornwall, where thousands of troops departed to take part in the invasion. while a beacon lighting ceremony is taking place in kent and the duke and duchess of edinburgh will join veterans at a royal british legion remembrance service in staffordshire and the duke and duchess of gloucester will meet veterans at a show at the royal albert hall in london. and for the latest story, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or

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i heard one thing this morning about the anniversary of d—day, that sort of 80 isn't always sort of the stark anniversary. normally you'd think it's sort of the centenary, but thinking about it, when we have the centenary of d—day, there won't be anyone left who actually fought on those beaches . this is fought on those beaches. this is the last big ceremony where we can actually hear those stories first hand. >> yes, i saw a statistic that five years ago there were 100 veterans, and now there are only a couple of dozen. well, there's 23 there today, so very sad, very sad, and just thinking about how young some of these men were who sacrificed their lives and those that did survive, incredibly moving coverage this morning. >> i must say, the youngsters out there are 98. yeah, it's that incredible. really incredible 98 years old. and ellie was saying, who's done great stirring stuff out this morning, just how humbling it is to speak to them. yeah, because of what they saw and what they took in their stride. yeah. i mean, and often you hear them

talk about the fact that they've never really discussed what they went through, and that's why they kind of cry, probably at 98, because they really haven't discussed a lot. >> and we've had people getting in touch this morning saying, and yet the younger generation need a trigger warning when they go to the theatre. yes. and they're saying they if you want to talk about triggers, talk to those men about how different the generations. >> it's astonishing . >> it's astonishing. >> it's astonishing. >> it's astonishing. >> it's very interesting when these when these veterans get into their very late years, they start talking about they do about their experiences. and it's so important to pass that on to their, their children, their grandchildren, their great grandchildren are possibly there are all sorts of other stories as well. >> i was talking to ellie costello, who came across a woman who was one of the first liberated children, living in france, in a little village just not far from the beach , when all not far from the beach, when all the allied troops got there and they liberated that town. and this woman now, obviously an elderly woman, but a child at the time said, well, when the nazis took the town, they buried all of their booze in the

garden. thousands of bottles of champagne. >> woman after my own heart do when the allied troops got there, they dug them up and had there, they dug them up and had the most enormous, enormous celebration. >> wow. >> wow. >> did you say 3000 bottles or a thousand bottles? >> there must have been under the under the gun of a hangover. >> the very next day . >> the very next day. >> the very next day. >> can you imagine? >> can you imagine? >> but this woman has. for every anniversary since, been throwing anniversary since, been throwing a champagne reception to honour those those allied troops who came over. >> and she feels so privileged . >> and she feels so privileged. yeah. to live in this day and age and think about what those men i know put themselves. i'm quite interesting. >> the british legion are doing collections and putting out poppies today as well, and i think i've seen quite a lot of people wearing poppies quite right. shouldn't only have to be on remembrance day. >> yeah, absolutely, absolutely. >> yeah, absolutely, absolutely. >> and it's not about glorifying war. no, it's a horrible thing. it's about remembering the sacrifice . yeah. certainly. so sacrifice. yeah. certainly. so yes, we'll be continuing on and of course we'll sprinkle in a little bit of what's going on politics wise. >> don't forget cry—baby guessing goodness. >> and we are going to be talking about i was i was

watching what he said yesterday as he said, as he said it, as if the biggest tragedy of yesterday evening was the fact he'd have to get a slightly later ferry. >> i know, to be in normandy. oh woe is him. >> absolutely . >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> the biggest trial and tribulation on a day when we should be remembering those who fell and those who gave so much for us, is vaughan gething having to get a slightly later ferry being in convenienced by all of this democratic nonsense . all of this democratic nonsense. >> effectively what he said, didn't he? >> right. emily and tom, we've got to shush, we're going to be talking about that in just a moment. emily and tom, we'll be here from midday. but quick break and back to that. gethin jones, gethin, gethin jones story. >> vaughan gething. just call him cry—baby than that. >> just call him cry—baby. jones

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turner. we've been talking about vaughan gething. the first minister of wales. unprecedented. he's lost a vote of motion of no confidence. two labour mps didn't vote for him. he makes the point of. oh, well, they were sick. one of them, of course, was the minister he sacked. she wasn't sick. she just conveniently didn't want to support him. >> well, he was in tears yesterday. here he is. before the result was was read in the welsh senate . cry—baby. he's welsh senate. cry—baby. he's under pressure to resign, but he said he's not going to, even though he's lost the confidence of the senate . it's just of the senate. it's just extraordinary. let's bring in political correspondent katherine forster catherine, just explain this to us because there is no mechanism , to make there is no mechanism, to make him go, is there? i mean, what what point of principle is he basing this decision on? >> yes. good morning. andrew and bev. it is quite extraordinary because the vote yesterday, which he narrowly lost by two votes, is non—binding. so no, he doesn't have to pay attention to it. and he's basically said i am not going anywhere . but it's

not going anywhere. but it's quite incredible. i mean, we think of westminster as being a hotbed of political chaos, but look what's happened in the snp in scotland with humza yousaf having to go afterjust over having to go after just over a year and here we are. it's just 78 days since i was standing here talking to you on gb news about vaughan gething welsh first minister, not even three months. he's been in the job, but at that time an ever more loudly since there has been a lot of unhappiness about this £200,000 campaign donation that he accepted from a company unked he accepted from a company linked to a man convicted twice of dumping waste . now, as sir of dumping waste. now, as sir keir starmer told me when i asked him about this last week in wales and no rules have been broken. but the conservative welsh conservatives, who brought this vote of no confidence

forward, they say that it's about judgement . andrew rt about judgement. andrew rt davies said it's about judgement, transparency and honesty. so plaid cymru , the honesty. so plaid cymru, the welsh tories, the lib dems and we know that there's two, welsh labour mps very unhappy too. and they think this is about poor judgement and that this is simply indefensible . worth simply indefensible. worth saying that 200,000 vaughan gething ultimately had nearly four times as much money to spend on his campaign as jeremy miles, the other man who he lost narrowly to vaughan gething, most of the misses here didn't support vaughan gething in the first place, but the unions did so there was a lot of unhappiness then, and it has built up now . i was talking to built up now. i was talking to locals here in cardiff a little bit earlier. let's have a look at what they had to say . at what they had to say. >> it would probably be the decent thing to do. he's failed

a vote of no confidence. his own people don't want him, so he hasn't been in very long, has he? well, it doesn't really matter. look at the british prime minister's. somebody lasted a lettuce. was it the life of a lettuce or something. so it don't really matter the term. the term doesn't really matter . it's whether you can do matter. it's whether you can do the job or not. >> i believe the person he's taken the donation off is not a very respectable person. so you know, you can't sort of call out other parties and ask them to resign and then not do the decent thing again . but that's decent thing again. but that's labour all over, isn't it? >> well, we haven't broken any moves. why don't we give the money back ? and i mean, when money back? and i mean, when i say this, he said , in government say this, he said, in government a couple of days ago that i haven't got £200,000. well, i looked him up on google and it shows you how much they all got. and he's worth 5 million. >> are you a welsh labour voter? >> are you a welsh labour voter? >> no, i was , but i will never >> no, i was, but i will never vote labour again . vote labour again. >> safe to say, not much

sympathy for the welsh first minister there. now he's in normandy today, attending the d—day commemorations. but my goodness, there's going to be a huge amount of pressure on him. and this is not very helpful for sir keir starmer either, is it? in the middle of a general election campaign , catherine, election campaign, catherine, last week we had keir starmer in wales and we know in the past he's hailed wales as the blueprint for how he will govern the united kingdom as prime minister. >> wales has been under labour control since devolution . he control since devolution. he could intervene behind the scenes or even publicly to say to vaughan gething be off with you because this is embarrassing , it's going to drag the labour vote down. or do you think he just wants to get get this to just wants to get get this to just to go away so that he doesn't resign during a general election campaign? what's going on with starmer ? on with starmer? >> well, i do wonder whether either he might hang on for now and then stand down after the

general election. of course, we don't know. i did think it was interesting when i was at the welsh labour launch of , you welsh labour launch of, you know, with keir starmer last week, and he did not appear along with vaughan gething. he was not alongside him on stage when he went up to scotland , he when he went up to scotland, he was alongside anas sarwar. there so draw your own conclusions, but , you know, it is quite but, you know, it is quite extraordinary. he's lost the confidence of the senate at this point in time. it's very difficult to see how he can really continue indefinitely. let's see what happens. okay >> thank you. katherine forster there. >> that's quite interesting, isn't it? a very good point, catherine. he was there all over the scottish first minister, but no sign of it there. so dishonest about it, aren't they really? >> i mean, repeatedly disappointed by people in power. let me tell you honestly, we're going to be crossing back to normandy for the latest on the 80th anniversary of d—day in just a moment, and we'll tell you which long standing coronation street cast member is

down. don't go anywhere. this is britain's

gb news. >> well, it's 80 years ago today on d—day , tens of thousands of on d—day, tens of thousands of british troops joined allied nations. 163,000 troops. i think it was storming the beaches of normandy . normandy. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> they opened the path to freedom and peace in europe, liberating france from the germans and the nazis. >> well, in normandy , as she has >> well, in normandy, as she has been stoically throughout the week, is our very own eddie costello. ellie, a remarkable day and you are part of a remarkable piece of history that's an unfolding before our very eyes. >> a remarkable day, andrew and bev, and such a poignant and emotional too . one, and i feel emotional too. one, and i feel so honoured to be stood here on gold beach, where 25,000 british troops made their way onto these shores. and it looks beautiful

today, with the sun beaming down the sea looks so flat and so calm. but that is not the way that it looked on the 6th of june, 1944. these beaches below us would have been booby trapped with mines , with bombs that had with mines, with bombs that had been left there by the germans, and those brave boys and men had to get off that landing craft, wade through the waters here, and then try and navigate their way through those obstacles under enemy fire and then shoot relentlessly at the enemy who were coming towards them. i was speaking to a veteran yesterday who said he had to shoot for two hours straight into german pillboxes. you can't even imagine doing that right now. but that is what his order was, he said. the gun got so blisteringly hot that the paint started to melt from his gun. thatis started to melt from his gun. that is how intense that fighting was in those hours. in

the early morning of the 6th of june, 1944, i'll just show you what the scene looks like this morning. it has been an absolute hub of activity here this morning, but it's quietened down now as the security personnel and the police have moved the crowds back. but what we can see here is active royal marines on this landing craft landing craft, on gold beach, a lot more advanced than it would have been in 1944, of course, but we are seeing seeing many serving royal marines and other armed forces here to pay their respects to those veterans from 1944. and it's important to remember that it's important to remember that it's not just here on gold beach, where many thousands lost their lives. this fighting occurred on five beaches in normandy, omaha, utah , juno, normandy, omaha, utah, juno, sword and gold, where we are. so

there's been commemorations all day. andrew and bev there was a beautiful solo piper this morning at 625. precisely. that is the moment when the british troops first set foot on this sand that we can see in front of us, and it was the most beautiful moment that we will never forget. marking exactly 80 years since those boys stepped foot on this sand, and many of them paying the ultimate price with their lives for the freedoms that we so enjoy today. and they are at the heart of the commemorative events that are taking place today, and rightly so, because those veteran numbers are dwindling . numbers are dwindling. >> thanks, eddie. that's our presenter, eric. so you're very moved by this, aren't you? this story in the papers , coronation story in the papers, coronation street, your part of the world, isn't it? >> well, i just think on any other day this would probably be a bigger story. but gail platt from coronation street actress who's 73 years old now, she's played that character for 50 years and she's leaving

coronation street . helen worth coronation street. helen worth is her name. >> will the cobbled streets of weatherfield ever be the same ' 7 m. again? >> i don't know, i don't watch it, but i still think she's she's it's a significant actress stepping down. >> yes. >> yes. >> 50 years. >> 50 years. >> exactly. ken barlow, the actor who plays the character ken barlow, has been in it since it started in 1961. >> it's incredible. i get confused between myself and my character. >> yeah, i think people do. >> yeah, i think people do. >> yeah, i think people do. >> yeah, jfk was exactly i know, i know, it's just extraordinary. >> and he's still in it. >> and he's still in it. >> wow. >> wow. >> yeah. part of people's lives, right? you will be the part of everybody's lives, won't you, from midday to much more. >> so much more to come. and d—day, a rocket launch as well. >> and don't forget cry—baby guessing , >> and don't forget cry—baby guessing, here's >> and don't forget cry—baby guessing , here's the weather. guessing, here's the weather. see you next week . see you next week. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers as sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello. very good morning to you. here's your latest gb news weather update brought to you by

the met office. in many respects today is going to feel quite similar to yesterday. really. we still have plenty of showers feeding in across northern parts, particularly scotland , parts, particularly scotland, perhaps northern ireland to some of these will be heavy. maybe thundery, could even be a bit of sleet or snow over the highest ground of the scottish mountains to meanwhile further south. yes, some showers around , but across some showers around, but across many parts of central england and wales and southern parts two it is going to stay mostly dry and there will be some decent bright and sunny spells. however, we do have some cool air across us at the moment. so in the sunshine, not feeling too bad. it is early june after all, but generally temperatures are a little disappointing, perhaps especially in the north as we go through this evening. then still watch out for some heavy showers across parts of scotland. and like i said, there could be some rumbles of thunder there could even be a bit of hail mixed in, which could cause some problems on the roads and all the time, some wintry ness possible over the scottish peaks. also plenty of showers as we go through this evening across northern england, northern ireland but a drier story further south. yes, there

are some showers, but any showers here are going to be pretty short lived, quite fleeting , and most of us will fleeting, and most of us will avoid them overnight. we are going to stick with the north south split when it comes to our shower amounts . in south split when it comes to our shower amounts. in terms of across the south, it is going to stay largely dry and some clear skies here. further north, plenty of showers. in fact , a plenty of showers. in fact, a swathe of more focused showery rain pushing its way in across scotland as we go through the early hours of tomorrow morning, where we get the clear skies, it is going to be a bit chilly. temperatures could drop to low single figures, perhaps a touch of grass. frost is possible in a few spots. the showery rain across scotland will feed into northern england as we go through tomorrow morning. further south again a few showers are possible, but generally a fine picture here, but a bit more cloud as we go into the afternoon elsewhere and there will again be plenty of showers pushing in across parts of scotland, possibly northern ireland. two and once more these could turn heavy and maybe even thundery by by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> away . >> at 630 in the morning. on the 6th of june, 1944, the first boats arrived on utah and omaha beaches on the normandy coast. >> the reclamation of free territory in western europe had begun. >> over the next 24 hours, thousands of men, many just teenagers, laid down their lives in the largest amphibious landing in military history

against embedded defences and in places,