this is bbc news and i'm shaun ley. today at eight 75 years on, tributes to the fallen heroes of d day. hundreds of veterans gather in normandy for a day of commerative events, honouring those who helped liberate europe and change the course of world war two. as the commemorations drew to a close, a fly pass. our other main story, a devastating blow, ford confirms it is closing its plants there that have been in place since 1980. 1700 jobs lost. devastating,

especially for the youngsters, these are good well—paid jobs. especially for the youngsters, these are good well-paid jobs. playing with his children does hours before murdering innocents, more from the inquest into the london bridge terrorist attacks. the latest in the leadership contest, says that boris johnson is not a serious politician. hello. seventy five years after allied troops stormed the beaches of normandy, hundreds of veterans have returned for the anniversary of one of the most momentous operations in military history. today began with a lone piper marking the moment british troops landed on the beaches onjune the 6th,1944,

alongside mainly american and canadian forces. prince charles, theresa may along with the presidents of france and the united states attended commemorative events across northern france to honour those who fought there. lucy williamson has the story of d day, 75 years on. piper plays. the sounds that made europe's history are buried on these beaches. above gold beach, where gunfire rang out 75 years ago, a lone piper marked the moment british soldiers set foot in occupied france. the din of battle echoing for some beneath the silence of the crowd. along the coast, at ver—sur—mer, theresa may and emmanuel macron saw the foundation stone laid for a new memorial in honour of the 22,000 british—led troops

who died in the normandy campaign. the faces around them, a reminder that wars between nations, between ideologies, are fought by individuals, that this war was fought by these men. these young men belonged to a very special generation, the greatest generation. a generation whose unconquerable spirit shaped our post—war world. they didn't boast. they didn't fuss. they served. they did their duty, and to our veterans, here in normandy today, i want to say the only words we can. thank you. george batts, a d—day veteran who'd campaigned for the monument in honour of his fallen comrades, rose to remember them. none of them wanted to be part of another war, but when the test came,

when freedom had to be fought for or abandoned, they fought. they were soldiers of democracy. they were the men of d—day, and to them we owe our freedom. last post plays. at bayeux cathedral, those who never returned from the normandy beaches were honoured by veterans and leaders from the commonwealth in a service of remembrance. the prince of wales paying tribute alongside the men who'd fought under his grandfather. the bittersweet words of the kohima epitaph read on behalf of the fallen here in the first french town freed by the allies. for your tomorrow, we gave our today. at the us cemetery, america's modern day president gave his thanks to the servicemen of the past.

you are the pride of our nation. you are the glory of our republic. and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. the experience of american soldiers on omaha beach among the most brutal of the allied campaign, etched onto the faces in front of him. we know what we owe to you veterans. our freedom. on behalf of my nation, i just want to say thank you. at arromanches, british veterans gathered on the beaches they once took. as europe remembers those who will never grow old, there is a need to cherish those who grow older each year. those for whom remembrance is memory, for whom a nation's heroes were friends. for whom a minute's silence holds

within it the noise of war. news archive: this is it, they're on the beach, plunging waist deep into the sea and treading their way among the steel asparagus tops which project out of the water. as the sounds of remembrance drifted back across the channel, there's a sense there may not be many more moments like today. when europe pays tribute to the heroes who are here with us, as well as those who aren't. when the biggest operations in history. as we've been hearing the d day landings were the biggest combined land, airand naval operation in history. up to 7,000 ships delivered more than 150 thousand allied troops to five beaches along the normandy coast which was heavily defended by the occupying nazi forces. so how did the events of that momentous operation unfold? news archive: there comes the grinding of keels on shingle and our troops spill ashore across that open stretch...

at 6:30am, the first of more than 130,000 allied troops began to scramble onto the beaches of normandy. american, british and canadian forces had to wade through chilly waters onto shore under heavy fire. many never even made it onto the beach. to the west, more than 57,000 americans landed on two beaches, code—named utah and omaha. at omaha they face the stiffest resistance from german troops who had dug in on the cliffs above. that beach is where the allies suffered the highest number of casualties on d—day. further east, a force of more than 8a,000, led by britain and canada, landed on gold, juno and sword beaches near the city of caen. around 75,000 german troops were waiting for them in normandy, but many of them were young and inexperienced. they knew an invasion would come but hadn't expected it until later that summer, so on d—day they were taken

completely by surprise. and they were slow to react. elaborate deception schemes in the months before the invasion convinced many nazi commanders that a second invasion force would also strike elsewhere, so many of their best soldiers and tanks were held back. none could be moved without hitler's direct approval, and he wasn't woken until 10am, hours after the allies had begun to land. such delays helped the invasion force to gain a significant foothold, but at a high cost. there are no precise figures for casualties on d—day, but it's estimated around 11,000 allied troops were either killed or wounded. german casualties were high too that day, between 4,000 and 9,000. tens of thousands of french civilians were also killed in the bombing and intense fighting across normandy that continued for almost three months. hundreds of those who served have made their way to normandy for the anniversary. robert hall has spent this week

with the veterans on theirjourney back to northern france. along the narrow streets of bayeux, dappled with sunlight this morning, the sound of pipes and drums, the sight of old men parading with pride. in191m, the first allied liberators moved cautiously between the old houses. the people of bayeux have never forgotten what that meant. humbling. it makes you feel humbled that people want to come out and applaud you. not enjoy, but i've come here just to remember those that never came back. how important is it for you to be here on this anniversary? it's nice, yes. we're all getting old, aren't we? well, iam. i'm nearly 96. ken hay came ashore with the dorset regiment. i got captured a couple of weeks later. i went out coal mining in poland. and then the long march for,

freedom of course, back. it's a bit overwhelming, i find. they're so welcoming. i think it's great. at the bayeux cemetery, eric strange, his head still full of last night's emotional departure from portsmouth. as a young officer, eric commanded a landing craft underfire from german defences. and then the bang. there was this royal marine lieutenant, actually, and his chest was not very good. all one could do was try to get some first aid up to him as quick as, but... for a moment, among the lines of white stones, eric and his fellow veterans were back on the beaches. there's a lot of lads there that were unlucky.

you've got to thank god that i was lucky, but it's very moving when you see that, there the people who did give their lives for it. eric rarely talks about his d—day experiences, but his voyage on the boudicca has helped him open up and today he found a willing ear. this evening, as veterans reach journey‘s end, the message they carried was simple. don't say i'm a hero. i'm no hero, iwas lucky, i'm here. all the heroes are dead. in severe reports. 156,000 men disembarked on the beaches of normandy, on the first day, a400 disembarked on the beaches of normandy, on the first day, 4400 had been confirmed dead. our correspondent matthew price

is in caen which is less than 20 miles from the beaches where the allies landed. trying to retake the talent that had suffered severe casualties. let's talk about to matthew. the town itself, but was its strategic importance? it was a base for the germans occupying forces, there was a prison on the outskirts of the town where they were keeping french resista nce town where they were keeping french resistance fighters that they had locked up and that is one of the stories that the french are aware of ona stories that the french are aware of on a day like this that in the morning ofjune the 6th, 75 years ago when those landing started to happen, the germans brutally killed 83 of their prisoners and that prison and they took them out, i am was told that their hands tied behind their backs and they shot them. and then on the streets here, german occupation forces were in something of a state of chaos and

panic but they also started to get more brutal with local civilians, the civilians knew that of course the civilians knew that of course the war was now coming to them and they had went for several years of occupation and many of them tried to ta ke refuge occupation and many of them tried to take refuge inside the building behind me. it is the city hall now and then the hours after the landings when people knew that the war was coming landings when people knew that the warwas coming and landings when people knew that the war was coming and that the forces would advance naturally, they went onto the roof and started painting a large red cross symbol in order to signal to the allied bombers that there were civilians inside and 10,000 people lived in that building for 43 days as the allies try to ta ke for 43 days as the allies try to take it, we will see the gardens outside the front but the reason we are moving the camera around is to shape some of the damage that is still visible here. that is the

church here and you can clearly see on the left—hand side the fact that they have not rehabilitated since they have not rehabilitated since the roof was hit there in the damage was done by allied bombardment. one historian told me that about a third of the city lay in rubble after the battle and this place is a reminder of the fact that d—day was just the beginning of the end of the second world war. it took several weeks to ta ke world war. it took several weeks to take normandy and establish a firm foothold, it took a lot longer, several months, eight or nine months to get up to belgium and the netherlands and retake those from german occupation and in the end, we have been remembering quite rightly today, the number of service personnel killed in the landings, during the battle of normandy which lasted about a month and a half,

20,000 french lasted about a month and a half, 20 , 000 french civilians lasted about a month and a half, 20,000 french civilians lost their lives. talking about the history of the town and indeed as she said, days and days all those people held up days and days all those people held up as the fighting continued. we are seeing some of the scenes of the town immediately after it was liberated and you can see how much damage had been done, clearly those memories must still be surprisingly fresh for people you had been speaking to. how has the town responded to today? you must be a very strange mix of emotions for that generation that lived through it. it is a very strange mix of emotions. but i will give you one anecdote which helps to answer that question. the city hall here decided that they would put up some bunting in the streets and there is some bunting to commemorate this event and to commemorate this moment and we spotted it, my team and i last

night as we walked through here for the first time. it is bunting above the first time. it is bunting above the street and it has four flags on it repeated over and over again and they are occupied, the fourth flag is the british flag, german flag, french flag and the flag of the united states. they say that they put it up deliberately, saying that the german story was much the story of caen and normandy as the stories of caen and normandy as the stories of those other nations that are represented in the flags. they also asked us but we thought of it and we thought it was a nice gesture. but they also said that they have had quite some pushback saying why are you doing this? their message was clear in the message was repeated by the french president today during a

couple of his speeches that he gave at the commemorative moments where he set, no, we are now in an era where time has moved on. we need our countries to be together and we need to represent the horror that all of oui’ to represent the horror that all of our countries face, not just some of them. matthew price there and caen who has had a fascinating day broadcasting on the towns commemoration. thank you so much for telling us about those people and stories in a town that really suffered so much, as many did in northern france. they suffered during the occupation, during the initial invasion and they suffered again in the liberation. but for many, it was a price they were prepared to pay to taste freedom. we will have more than commemorations later in this sour and they will be covered in tomorrow's newspapers at 1130 this evening will be taking their first look at the front pages. i know that she'll have a lot to say

about the ford announcement today to stay with us for that. the headlines on bbc news. gathered on the beaches of normandy, those who gave their lives, 75 years on from the d—day landings. and this evening, a fly passed by the red arrows for the commemorations are drawing to a close. a devastating blow to ford is the confirm closing their engine plant there with 1700 jobs at risk. sport now and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. not a great warm—up for the england match, at the sportscenter good evening. good evening, england are an action for the semifinals of their nations league encounter with their nations league encounter with the netherlands, sterling is the

captain on the side winning his fifth cap tonight and at the moment, portugal, there are 1—0 up, just after a half an hour or so, so looking good for england at the moment, liverpool starts forward for the netherlands, winning the last five ina row, netherlands, winning the last five in a row, could it be six. they agreed to sell to real madrid for an additional million patents, the deal be competed in a matter of days, despite no official confirmation, it could cost up to £130 million with add—ons, which would be a record fee for both. in the last year of his contract and hinted after the europa league win that the final would be his last game having won six major trophies and two premier league titles. written was by smith cannot

etch the champion elaine thompson and the diamond league after beating her in the 200 metres in stockholm, she came second in the first 100 metres of the season to the jamaican who clocked at time of 10.89 seconds, the fastest time and distance in the world and was just five hundredths of a second faster. just one game at the cricket world cup in what a match was, does make huge names at the bridge, australia taking on the west indies, both times open for a second win in the competition but of the current row champion who were victorious. to great sites, the west indies and australia, expectations and anticipation. through the rich history comes tradition, thomas, a fast bowler and the new west indies generation, quick and comfortable, australia immediately struggling. forced into errors, west indies

taking their chances brilliantly. some of the memories of glorious past, they faced australian starting to put their own past behind them. here, steve smith beginning the revival. but they're beginning to lose their grip and he caught hold of it again and again. it was going to ta ke of it again and again. it was going to take something special get rid of smith for this or any tournament that did the trick. 92 from nathan took australia 2288, the target set. with the great at the wicked, anything is possible, hence his final world cup, he seems determined to make most of it, but he cannot get away with a third. west indies have new talent waiting to take his place, for one, but the west indies are coasting but things are suddenly confused, hit by a stranded, ran out, the cause of the match turning. sta rt out, the cause of the match turning.

start once again spectacular. west indies falling short in australia once more living up to that reputation. completing a comfortable win in the first of three internationals against the west indies and leicester, the matches are with points and they try to qualify but in 2021 world cup, england batted first and made the title of 318 for nine with amyjohns making 91 and heather knight, a run, a ball at 94. west indies lost wickets regularly and were well behind the required rate, they were then bullied out for 110 and 36 to give england victory by 208 runs. an american teenager, amanda has stunned the open defending champion to reach the semifinals of the competition she had never won a match before this year and took the victory in straight sets, 62 —— 64,

she went off his australian seed, ashley and the semifinals. madison keys, and the other semifinals tomorrow. meanwhile, novak reaches his first finals since 2016 with alexander, tracing a fourth straight grand slam in the last four. and thatis grand slam in the last four. and that is all the support, still currently 1— mail, it is still 1— nam, will have more at half the car maker ford has confirmed plans to close its engine plant in bridgend in south wales next year. the company blamed huge changes in the industry and insisted the decision was not connected to brexit. 17 hundred workers have been sent home after receiving a letter, which says

they will lose theirjobs in phases from 25 september 2020. it is the latest blow to car manufacturing in britain, following honda's decision to close its swindon factory. our wales correspondent sian lloyd reports. it's been a turbulent few years for workers at this plant. many had feared this news could come, but not quite so soon. at lunchtime today they were sent home. i'm not due back in until monday. we have been told we will have support but what that means we don't know. quite a lot of us relocated from southampton to bridgend and there's not going to be anything left when the place closes. gutted, especially for the youngsters. these are good, well—paid jobs. since it opened in the 1980s, the bridgend factory has been the biggest employer in this area. but the company says customer demand for the type of engines made here has fallen and it hasn't been

able to find additional work. ford announced in january that 1000 jobs would be lost. today they said the plant would close completely by the end of 2020. union leaders said the workforce felt abandoned. i think what they have done is condition a lot of the workers to feel that it's going to go one day. that's what it feels like. when that day does happen, like today, it is a devastating blow and ourselves as a union, we will be fighting them on this. the impact of these job losses will be felt in the wider community too, including at this local cafe. i do quite a bit of business with ford, and to sever that, to take that away will leave a big, big black hole. graham rees has worked at the plant for 35 years. he was one of those sent home today. there is no light at the end of the tunnel. you have just got to face the truth

and the truth hurts. workers hope to learn more on monday, but many like graham believe their future prospects are bleak. well let's have a look at the motoring industry across the uk, if we start north and in the midlands, toyota has plants in deeside and burmaston, jaguar land rover has plants halewood and wolverhampton, they've announced they‘ re cutting 5,000 jobs overall, and there have also been closures at the nissan plant in sunderland. if we look further south, we've got today's closure in bridgend by ford they also have a facility in dagenham, honda is in swindon they're closing their plant in 2021, bmw in

oxford, vauxhall in luton and we've seen job losses from jaguar land rover in solihul and castle bromwich. and in fact motoring jobs have been steadily decreasing in the uk. this shows jobs in the car industry from the late 1970s where 500,000 people were employed, now it's just 167 thousand. it appears customer demand is changing, and so is the technology. does impacts. demand is declining and the

technology is changing. many car companies are investing more in electric and hybrid, particularly as consumers move away from diesel. on wednesday jaguar land rover announced that they're teaming up with bmw to produce electric cars. peter campbell is the motor industry correspondent at the financial times and is here. sad that it is on another day of bad news. what is the overall picture for the news. what is the overall picture forthe uk? news. what is the overall picture for the uk? the obvious question is what the future doesn't have? the industry as you saw there has a huge fall in employment, but in terms of reduction, they been doing relatively well until a couple of yea rs relatively well until a couple of years ago, car sales are rising across the uk that meant car production was growing strongly and there was lots of new investment in new models in the car industry was

on track to break its all—time production record of hitting 2 million vehicles a year by 2020. the last two years, that is come off, car production has fallen considerably and is now down to about 5 million vehicles addressing several decisions go against the uk, hondas closing its plant next year, pulling several models from its plant and jag wire has moved production over to a new site in slovakia and we have the news about ford closing. to the predictions, what has gone wrong? what has changed? the car industry is cyclical by nature there been years of strong demanding growing demand of strong demanding growing demand of the financial crisis. that came toa of the financial crisis. that came to a natural and as it was expected to, but then it is impossible to talk about the car industry and investment without talking about brexit. since 2016, there has been a dramatic fall in investment across the industry. figures show that

there are about 80% thomas some of there are about 80% thomas some of the car industries, trying to see how brexit pans out and other times it is money going elsewhere because car companies cannot afford to wait indefinitely while we work out our relationship with europe. for it is been very clear that it was opposed toa been very clear that it was opposed to a no—deal brexit but they did say that this did teddy make decision has nothing to do it brexit. one of the reasons why is partly because of the reasons why is partly because of the programme but they're changing and cutting lots ofjobs everywhere, partly it's because of the loss of the key contract that they used to make engines forjag wire and and also because but they made at bridgend was for a segment of the market, 1.5 metre petrol engine that goes into a ford focus or cougar and customers are not buying that engine any more. so that decision, but they

would've made irrespective of brexit, but that still leaves a lot of decisions that have been heavily influenced by brexit because as you know, britain exports 80% of all the ca i’s know, britain exports 80% of all the cars it makes, half of those go to europe, two thirds go to countries with which europe as a trade agreement and almost all the parts are going to bridge in‘s cars come from overseas so access to free trade across the border is a crucial issue for the industry. what about some of the criticisms that is saying that they have been pushing for months to get the company to use the plant for electric car engine production and theyjust do not think the company has been very quick on the mark with the electric. it is kind of focused on hybrids, not recognising that in a sense, the bandwagon has moved on. ford has this issue globally, all car—makers do about the question of whether they invest in electric and how much hybrid they do against pure electric. ford has been relatively

slow to run out hybrids and quite slow to run out hybrids and quite slow to run out hybrids and quite slow to bring out the electric car. whenever a car—maker wants to decide whether to make an electric vehicle, they're going to do it either closest to their r&d centre or do it in the markets they feel they can have the biggest sales and ford is making an electric vehicle that will make it, does not have plans currently to make electric vehicles in the uk or in europe and in fact, many of the car companies that look at making electric cars, they want to make them closest to their will be producing the batteries and for many car companies they do not make the batteries in the uk, and this, nissan makes one in sunderland and assembled in sunderland, but even bmw in oxford is going to making an electric many for next year and the batteries will come over from germany. so in the future they really wa nt germany. so in the future they really want to have a strong and vibrant car industry but what they really need to do is get battery production here. you mention

germany, germany has already seen significantjob germany, germany has already seen significant job cuts and germany, germany has already seen significantjob cuts and as you made clear, this is notjust a uk problem, it is a much wider problem but if the move is towards more electric vehicles, this is to have big move for collaboration, are we effectively seeing fewer car companies, bigger car companies and may be concentrated in fewer sites? that is almost certain to happen the car industry is under a huge consolidation process and even the big car companies are looking to expand. ford has a global alliance and wants to tie up to get it a little bit more scale and all the companies are looking to get more scale. he saw companies are looking to get more scale. he sanaguar land rover and bmw work in order to try to produce electric vehicles of the future and car companies are to spread those across the largest number of

vehicles possible that they sell. it also makes no sense for car companies individually ought to be spending billions and billions on new technology and replicating investments across the industry, particularly because this has such thin margins and this is one of the logics behind a mass of the other we have seen the past two weeks, the attempt to merge which fell apart last night, but both of those companies are still left in a position of needing to think about other partnerships and other ways to keep consolidating. so this is an industry and a real state of flux at the moment. what is kind of the policy push that is adding to this? what are governments, what are countries doing that are, if you like, nudging in a particular direction? it's more than a nudge, particularly in co2 in europe, this is why they were investing in your because there are still a tiny proportion in the sales and the uk's

only 1% of the sales, but across europe they have tight admissions rules that are coming in with c02 and is very difficult to meet those rules about selling electric cars in this industry is a global industry and a lot of countries are going for electric, china is a huge example that they have huge electric sales targets for all of the manufacturers and so they have to make these investments in order to meet the rules across the world. if you had to make a prediction on this, with the car industry be left in the uk? britain has a very strong heritage and specialist, niche sports car, rolls—royce, bentley, lotus, all of those will survive. but if you look at the direction of travellers as an investment. unless the investment situation changes and people feel confident to invest in the uk and put in new cars of their plans, that we are looking at a situation that

looks awfully lot like managed decline because car—makers every few yea rs, decline because car—makers every few years, bring out a new model and the deciding what to make that, there are plants that compete for that work, but the old sales manager around the world which is come to britain and sent to europe is not as strong as it used to be. motor industry correspondent, thank you so much for that fascinating inciting to make insight to the developers of the industry. you're watching bbc news with me, let's take a look at the headlines this hour. hundreds of veterans have gathered for a day of commemorative events honouring those who helped liberate europe and the change the course of world history. hundreds gathered in

normandy for this day of commemorative events and there was a fly past by the red arrows to mark the end of the main commemoration today. in other news this evening, ford has announced the closure of the bridge and a plant in new south wales. it will mean 1700 jobs are at risk. guided, especially for youngsters. these are good well—paying jobs. youngsters. these are good well-paying jobs. playing with his childrenjust a few well-paying jobs. playing with his children just a few hours before he murdered innocent people, more and be impressed at the london bridge terror attack. the latest in a tory leadership contest, sajid javid had thought about muslim women that borisjohnson made. thought about muslim women that boris johnson made. those are wrong and not write comments and i do not think any politician should use that language like that.

when we talk about the normandy landings, we often forget the role that french forces and the resistance have played both on the sixthjune and in the following two months of battle. the bbc‘sjean mackenzie, went to speak to three people who — in different ways — lived through the day's events. what did you think when you first saw the plan? leonjoined what did you think when you first saw the plan? leon joined the what did you think when you first saw the plan? leonjoined the french navy when he was 17 and when the nazis invaded he went to the uk became part of an elite unit of commandos, in preparation for the day. what did you think your chances of

survival were? on guard with the german army, paul saw the first flares land on the beach. he was then captured by the allies and taken to scotland as a prisoner of war. how did you feel about that? colette was 12 when the germans invaded her village and she joined the resistance and was sent to help the resistance and was sent to help

the wounded on d—day. leanne has been awarded the highest honour in france. how did it feel to get that middle? couldn't care less? a lot of people think you're a hero. how often do you think about that day?

what life lessons has it taught you? memories from some of the french people who lived through that innovation. as france was slowly

reta ken innovation. as france was slowly reta ke n by innovation. as france was slowly retaken by allied troops beginning on the 6th ofjune, 1944. while there had been commemorations not only yesterday but also today. the duke of cambridge was at the national memorial arboretum to meet vetera ns national memorial arboretum to meet veterans there. and they duke of sussex met veterans at the chelsea hospital and chatted to them about their experiences. in fact, that's like i have been taking oliver that uk, and amy has been looking at how the east midlands came together today to mark the 75th anniversary of d—day. 75 years after d—day, a special service is held at leicester cathedral to a member of the dead and to pay tribute to those still alive. it's about honouring those who sacrificed their own lives and they know the freedom that we have today, and honouring those who showed such bravery and courage and extraordinary circumstances. dba saw

the largest command —— combined land air history. the change request of the second world war, allied troops crossed normandy to begin liberation of german occupied france. in the thick of the action was off from burbage, who at 19 played a key while transporting he told me, cargo and troops in amphibious vehicles. while transporting he told me, cargo and troops in amphibious vehicleslj spent and troops in amphibious vehicles.” spent the night on d—day ferrying the wounded back along the east of the wounded back along the east of the dressing station. and that was not very nice. someone told me once, you were brave and i said we were, but we would get stupid. today while many comradesjoined but we would get stupid. today while many comrades joined commemorative events, he mark the occasion closer to home at this luncheon leicester organised by the charity for vetera ns organised by the charity for veterans who could not make the

trip. we wanted to do something to honour them and for them to be able tojoin in the commemorations. honour them and for them to be able to join in the commemorations. today is poignant for these veterans and theirfamilies. they is poignant for these veterans and their families. they may be is poignant for these veterans and theirfamilies. they may be in their 90s now but there were little more than children when they served in the second world war, but they tell you, time and time again that is we re you, time and time again that is were just you, time and time again that is werejust ourjobs. you, time and time again that is were just ourjobs. arthur thompson is 21 on and worked as a communications specialist. coming underfire for three communications specialist. coming under fire for three days. 75 years on, today he was recognised for his service but france's highest accolade, presented by rene weiner, the last surviving member of the french resistance. in the night to me that nato, is the one i want to share with all my veterans. they should share this matter with me. because it would give me great

pleasure. it's been for many, and emotional day. moving tributes to the men who fought with such courage and theirfallen the men who fought with such courage and their fallen comrades who fought at such cost. let's move on to some of the days other news now. tory leadership candidate sajid javid has said he would chose to leave the european union on 31 october without a deal if the alternative was no brexit. but the home secretary also said he would not seek to frustrate parliament's will which suggests he could be forced to extend the brexit process by mps. and when he thinks his immigration target. our political correspondent nick eardley is in westminster. let's start with what he had to say on the essential question of brexit. brexit is the dominating issue for the leadership race, and the question is, how hard the candidates think that they first and october is

basically with day be prepared to see leaving that date no matter what, even if we cannot get a deal evenif what, even if we cannot get a deal even if it means about a deal, we had borisjohnson saying they would be prepared to do that but other candidates not so much, not so keen to commit without leaving without a deal, sajid javid says he prefers the idea of leaving without adl at the idea of leaving without adl at the end of october. to the idea of cancelling brexit. at the end of october as well but it was interesting ladies on top of that as well, i asked we be prepared to categorically say the uk leaves 31st of october and that was not his answer, he did not say categorically that he would and it was also clear and some of the comments he made tonight that he will respect whatever problem it says. if parliament were to come up with some legislation to try and stop in a deal, he's not going to be the to try and block it. there has been a bit of that debate in the party in

the last 24 hours about the idea of provoking president basically suspending it to make sure it cannot block no deal. that something that wasn't rolled out and i have to say the reaction to that has been critical and the speaker of the house saying it's not going to happen. in some sense, gloves are really coming off and his tory leadership race. because sajid javid tonight saying that ibm is nonsense, another one of the candidates, rory stewart saying it's unconstitutional. let's hear from sajid javid now. and the gentleman behind you, the main question about the comments i think about letterboxes and comments about that, i think they are wrong, i don't think as i don't think anyone should use that language like that. sol

think they are wrong. sajid javid talking about borisjohnson and his letterbox comments, not a serious politician or something that should not use that language i was also struck by two of the things he said he had one you don't beat the brexit pride by becoming it, that the strong signal getting people had been talking about possible electoral arrangements for the brexit party, i think there is a potential time for that. there was also a scott for the net migration target, but as home secretary spending many years and defending eddie now says he thinks is nonsense. absolutely, it was a pretty impassioned defence of immigration from sajid javid in that speech, his parents are immigrants to the uk, and he made it clear he thinks that immigration has been on the whole a positive and basically saying again, i've got net migration target, something teresa may with a

extremely keen on in the last ma nifesto, extremely keen on in the last manifesto, and wise government policy by the way, that that was nonsense. he's not going to pursue that any further if he does get top job ina that any further if he does get top job in a few weeks' time. as comments about boris johnson job in a few weeks' time. as comments about borisjohnson i think area comments about borisjohnson i think are a real rebuke to mrjohnson as well. sajid javid of course if somebody who runs the home office, he's pretty clear that those comments in his view cannot be made bya comments in his view cannot be made by a serious politician and there is a real sense if you combine that with what he said about dominic rob and let others have said about dominic rob comments on provoking president, this is getting a nasty fight, and the gloves are off. and haven't even really officially begun yet not a nasty fight, and the gloves are off. and hasn't even really officially begun yet until teresa meg is at the tory leadership. i know you are following everything on this and bring it to us, so thank you. here are some

stories that turned up in the course of today. road rage killer kenneth noye has been released from prison. he stabbed 21—year—old stephen cameron to death on the m25 in kent in 1996 and was sentenced to serve a minimum of 16 years in prison in 2000. his release follows a decision by the parole board which says he no longer poses a risk to the public. the former owners of an oil refinery in pembroke have been fined five million pounds afterfour contractors were killed in an explosion in 2011. they'd been draining a chemical storage tank at what was then a chevron refinery. chevron have to pay the fine and court costs of £1 million as part of a deal it struck with valero energy, which bought the site shortly after the disaster. a former snp mp has beenjailed for 18 months for embezzling money from pro independence groups. natalie mcgarry stole more than 25 thousand pounds, including donations for a foodbank, and spent it on rent, a holiday to spain and transferred money to her husband. she pleaded guilty to two

embezzlement charges last month. a nurse who murdered 85 patients in his care has beenjailed for life in germany. thejudge described niels hoegel‘s killings as "incomprehensible." hoegel murdered patients at random with lethal injections, before being caught in the act in delmenhorst, in the north of the country, in 2005. an independent inquiry has been launched into the running the wife of the leader said she could and that there has been's victims. she described how she refused to go on holiday with him with her two children of her fears he would take them to syria. the family took away their passports and from the old bailey here is daniel

sa nford. hours before the attack, but hours later he walked out of his home and never saw him again his widow till the inquest... that evening, while she was out for a family meal, he returned to the flat with the other to killers making his final preparations for the murders at the london bridge. she told the court which you cannot come, all the lights were on at the back door was open. she was serious and started texting her husband obviously by that time, he was not even alive. a people had just been killed, three attackers and sets shot dead. the next day she was told one of them was her husband.

they married in 2013 and she said he was charismatic and confident and funny. but her husband was spending time with extremists and calling her an unbeliever. when he booked a family holiday to turkey, she worried he was going to take them to syria. at one point, his brother and i even called the anti—terrorist hotline. but no one thought he would attack britain. she said in the aftermath, she had secretly joined britain. she said in the aftermath, she had secretlyjoined other londoners laying flowers at the bridge. an independent inquiry has been launched into the running of a failed nhs trust amid concerns 150 deaths were not properly investigated.

liverpool community health ran services such as district nursing and dentistry on merseyside for almost eight years before being taken over last year. the inquiry will look into "historical incidents of serious harm" and 17,000 cases related to patient safety. our social affairs correspondent, michael buchanan, reports. personally, it destroyed me. i was suicidal. our decision was overruled and the lady died six hours after she was admitted to our ward. last year, former staff at liverpool community health told me what it was like to work there. today we learned what some of the consequences of that culture were. 150 deaths were not properly investigated, 43,000 further incidents were not accurately recorded, including 17,000 that involved patients. they will have to give evidence... labour mp rosie cooper, whose own father was badly cared for by the trust, has campaigned for six years to uncover the scale of the failings.

this time the people of liverpool will actually understand what was done to them in their name by a group of renegade nhs directors and managers. this board was dysfunctional from the start, and all the regulators, not one regulator spotted it and held them to account. it has been a disgrace. more than 20 of the deaths being investigated occurred at liverpool prison where lch ran health care services for four years. some of the records were found in a cabinet in the health care unit but there is little evidence they had ever been entered into any computer system, even less so that any of the information they contained had been acted upon. in fact, it took investigators a while to get access to the records. nobody could find the key. medication errors led to patients not getting the drugs they needed or getting double doses,

or the most severe pressure ulcers would develop virtually unchecked. harm became normalised. the impact that had on their wellbeing absolutely needs to be established. in my 30 years in the nhs i haven't experienced something that feels so systematically not fit for purpose. bernie cuthel, who led the trust for four years, told us today she was truly sorry for the failings of the trust. this independent inquiry should now reveal the problems in full, cleansing a dark and shameful period in the history of the nhs. michael buchanan, bbc news, liverpool. in a moment we'll have the weather but first here's a reminder of today's extraordinary events in normandy paying tribute to all those who took part in the d day landings three quarters of a century ago. last post plays. these young men belonged

to a very special generation, the greatest generation, a generation whose unconquerable shaped our post—war world. when my life is over, and i reach the other side, i will meet my friends from normandy, and shake their hands with pride. today, america embraces the french people and thanks you for honouring our beloved dead. i'm no hero, iwas lucky, i'm here. all the heroes are dead. # where is death's sting? # where, grave, thy victory?

# i triumph still if thou abide with me.# good evening a lot going on with the weather in the next few days unseasonably wet and we the weather asa unseasonably wet and we the weather as a beep area of low pressure approaches from the south. at low already throwing rain across the channel islands as he moved to the small hours of friday morning, expanding into southern parts of england by the end of the night, elsewhere largely try with chris bell is on a relatively chilly night down to one or 2 degrees on some parts of scotland, but tomorrow the rain splashes across the channel islands by the rush hour, and then moving into parts of northern england and eventually by the end of the day clipping into southeast areas of northern ireland and the

price at the scotland, without increasing window turning st for southern coast later in the day, temperatures no great shakes, 15 or 18 degrees. the weekend very u nsettled, 18 degrees. the weekend very unsettled, lots of shadows around and funny spouse, saturday very windy but a little lighter window by sunday.

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