wealthiest people live why do they keep such a low profile we have a snoop around to catch a glimpse. of a top of the world the disc life of the super rich starts to take it to dublin. they were the men of normandy the allied soldiers who 75 years ago today began saving europe and the world from the abyss of nazi tyranny or today the veterans of d.-day were on or on those same shores where they had once been prepared to die i'm bored off in berlin this is the day.

it's all came down to a bunch of 18 to 20. 4 when it crashed a plane free to present a full or abandon day for these men ran through the fires of hell. moved by a force that no weapons could destroy we will always remember that coverage that commitment that. we know what we. all freedom we thank them. leaving a. better world than it was spared i want to say the people that we can. thank you on behalf of my nation. i just want to face thank you. alex. also coming up as leaders promise to never forget d.-day veterans tell us why for them forgetting has never and will never be

an option you leave. the war never leaves you you'll always been in war all the rest of your life till they put you in that box. but to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all the around the world welcome we begin the day remembering d.-day today on a beach in normandy france code named omaha. world leaders gathered and personally think the veterans who turned a naval invasion of war into a lasting bulwark of peace the presidents of france and the us the british prime minister and the queen or some of those who held the air with them that helped to push back nazi germany and pave the way for the new global order we know today. alone piper marked the moment 75 years ago when british troops began coming ashore

on the normandy coast. some of those who fought in and survived d.-day returned to take part in the anniversary events. and would like to do that again because. more than 150000 allied troops stormed the beaches of nazi occupied france in 1904 in what remains the biggest ever naval invasion thousands were killed within hours. u.s. president donald trump and french president emanuel maicon looked out over one of the beaches captured by american soldiers as planes flew a red white and blue tribute in the sky overhead. in their speeches to veterans the 2 leaders honored the men whose courage ultimately liberated france and europe from nazi dictatorship. today we remember those who fell and we honor all who fought right here in

normandy. they won back this ground for civilization 2 more than 170 veterans of the 2nd world war who join us today you are among the very greatest americans. who will ever live. i just want to say thank you. abbi for many of the elderly veterans this year's d.-day anniversary will be their last visit to the battlefields of their youth but the rows of crosses will remain a reminder to future generations of the allies joint sacrifice to defeat evil.

well tonight we want to talk about the state of the world order that was made possible by d.-day 75 years ago my guest tonight says that the world is my sins that is much more than economic or political he says we are in a moral crisis in his new book entitled homo in particular scapegoats populace and saving democracy. describes a world order that shuts down human empathy and he calls for a realignment in values centered on the greater good alexander. is currently a fellow at the council for ethics in international affairs he joins me tonight from new york. good to have you on the day before we talk about your book the world as it is. about today's d.-day commemorations in france was there one overriding message in those speeches today or were there competing histories being

sick. thank you for having me tonight i guess the overarching theme from the queen speaking at the state banquet until today at the event and normandy is to up this that has has been. such a sacrifice and i feel everybody who was present they had a president of the united states including also how he spoke you could see that people are moved and touched by. the sacrifice that has been made as i sat and nothing that we went to live on and live by it nowadays is just come out of nowhere it has been baited on to struggle with and the fights of the 2nd world war. the u.s. president he was praised for his statesman like demeanor and words today but he also drew considerable criticism for the new york times columnist roger cohen today he offered a blistering description of the u.s. president this week and he writes the american moral collapse personified by trump

is not beautiful or phenomenal or incredible or any of the president's other clunky to opinion it's sickening and dangerous that's what he wrote today the s.q.l. xander is trump is he the biggest danger to the world order as we know. well at least he's not going to help it before the president and bach to his trip to europe like his special security advisor bolton was like saying things as unlikely support for exit and we support the president as a power and this is rhetoric and also the style of politics divvied it in. which i don't know how to lay and sorry i just translated into english but means like you just give everyone like a little bit of what they want to hear and in the end you just you just drool and that's it and obviously it's a national security adviser of this country and if that's like its appeal or the idea and i don't see if you will of foreign policy that's way beyond what we have

been successful in in the last 75 years so there is a good message of today where the president of the united states says that i will pound break about it but just a week ago the message was a complete different one and i feel that it's that this ballot should be seen regardless of where you are on the aisle on which side of the aisle you are that there is not a clear constant signal in favor of the world order that the united states helped to build in your book alexander you say that this leaves that we're in today that transcends economics and politics and you're right we've really lost. implicit how did that happen. well i mean how does this happen that's a that's a long process and it's actually i guess like every time that we have seen that it's like societal uncertainty and so and periods and which people like i was straight from the get go they said for themselves it's time for technological

progress is like so enhancing and so accelerating that even as alvin toffler wrote in his book the future shock 50 years ago even the elites cannot cope and cannot keep up they have been seeing tremendous development in technology what we describe as globalization digitalisation and that has has led to a lot of unrest in societies but also judy like you remember the economic crisis in 2008. and created in the aftermath lots of lots of jobs but that was not enough for the people for one reason as and the people who were responsible for the crisis none of them went to jail and people felt that was not just and that was not fair and so i called to me it's not just about like rationality it's the concept of to homo economy because it's already proven wrong it's also about fairness and justice and people are willing to go down the road and accept these advantages for them in order to restore the sort of fairness and this is why i believe they have been spaciness swing from the president like about argo bamma to

a president like don't trump. are you simply the busy are you are you calling for a return to the golden rule do unto others as you would have them do unto you and less of the you know the rule of the almighty dollar for example i mean is it that simple. actually it is that simple that if you can if you think about what makes a democracy walk it's empathy but i mean but if you enter a public see if you discuss if you want to like you know you have your point that you want to advocate so of course you need to understand what other people's perspectives are and you have to at least understand where they coming from and this is how you create like consensus going to stanford with this model of the liberal lucrative democracy does the same it just brings people together fighting that say over whether or not to privatized the water in a city and as long as the group is really a repressed sending the people off that city consensus is easier reached and like in other formations so it's clearly about like you have to be empathetic and if you

see like to to constructive politics if you look at the other side in the other camp the populists they live by resentment and obviously day if the witches are vibing party in germany when one of their leading figure was asked about the concept for retirement and the restoration of her time and it was so we don't have one yet clearly because you run completely on resentment and resending other people and grading them and downs also like and method or by voters in a book about how fascism comes about it's the same the moment you start to be known empathetic to other people other groups in your society that is where it all starts to go down his so you considering all of this let's take this then back to 75 years ago to today did those d.-day allied soldiers did they have a moral compass instilled in them that we no longer hands. what would be a question i can't i cannot on savina united states has been like reluctant to end

of the war but then we also know by roosevelt and his ideas and the prevailing ideas of freedom that the prevailing idea became one of collaboration and empathy and that's basically what and imagine his 4 freedoms and would stand like let's choose multilateral institutions and again like majesty the queen of england she was like emphasising on that she's one of. the political figures actually i guess the only one in europe has seen the horrors of the whole she was clearly emphasizing and telling the president of the united states to be like part of our polling these institutions in order to never see these things that happened 75 years ago again and. is there a political leader in power nell who used. could maybe help restore a homo in particular. well if you look at the european union and its core its like its opponents like the ferocious of the union that say europe is taking away our

sovereignty actually it's the opposite a way if i'm if i'm a german i can live in spain the spaniard can live in poland and an italian can live in england for now so it's mean like for me as a citizen it has amplified that comes with my human dignity of my i have a big ray of where i can be i can be i can live and i live with like minded people on the same under same continent so everybody who now is from chancellor merkel to others and and europe concerned with like keeping up this year opinion that i had a great leaders of all the time all right alexander girl an excellent insights and context of what we sold today in normandy d.-day 75 years on alexander we appreciate your time tonight thank you thank you brant thank you for having me. or the commemorations this year are possibly the last which will be able to feature d.-day veterans you know we use max hoffman he was in normandy today and he spoke with one that train named frank de vito mr de vito was 19 years old when he helped

steer a landing craft on to omaha beach. frank how did you like the ceremony it was a very well done very well unlike the president's speech of france in may a wonderful speech by color trump if. i call micro what did you like about it. he brought out a lot of things brought back a lot of memories. and did you like the part where he said it's important to work together today and yes yes we're all brothers not even the germans. this is going to be a parser jump. and the germans are going to jump with us is that hard for you to believe that. we're just we're friends with the germans now no no no no we're all brothers there rob rob you know the germans they were brainwashed they were young kids like myself. you know. they didn't know what they were doing they were

brainwashed and when you look out to the sea here what do you see. i see a lot of dead bodies. i see a lot of dead bodies still today. i took back to england 308 dead bodies american soldiers. and. is this still something you think about every day today or has it passed no never passes. you leave rule the war never moves you you'll always been in war all the rest of your life till they put you in that box. and what does it mean to you to be here today. well i'm very proud i'm very proud to be amongst all these beautiful people of all nationalities yeah. right there is a question i want to test

a veteran of d.-day for a long time would you have done it if you had known what you were getting into. of course because i would have done it and i didn't know what i was getting into. we had films. and people talked into it we knew what was going on. so you weren't surprised by the magnitude. and when i saw when i saw the pictures of the concentration camps i knew why i had to fight. no i added the. thank you very much right. well that clearly was unimpressed with his own president dilma trump's trip to europe it has met with some harsh criticism back home in the u.s. washington post columnist dana milbank wrote d.-day is often referred to as the longest day but trends wednesday had to be a close 2nd as the world focused turn to the legendary world war 2 battle trumps

attention remain fixed on the commemoration of drum in his graded noble undertaking he had the support of republican national committee chairwoman want to mcdaniel who said the d.-day anniversary is quote the time where we should be celebrating our president. d.-day and the president will talk about that now with our washington bureau chief alexander phenomenon she is on the story for us in washington good evening to you alexandra you know you were just elected president of the white house foreign press corps i mean you're in a great example of a foreign correspondent observing the u.s. president and how he appears to the world is donald trump is dangerous to that world order as we're hearing today. well i think what we have to say is that his actions and his words can have very dangerous negative consequences just take this example of the transatlantic relationship so that today

presidents trump was praising the breakable bonds between the euro and the you ask but he has disparaged alliances and he has questions institutions such as the usefulness of institutions such as the you repeal the union and nato institutions deadheads have given you the longest period of peace in centuries let's take care of his favorites tool to negotiate to put adversaries and friends under pressure they can pose a great damage to the us and to the global economy or let's talk about the way he's praising he has been praising strong man this fact really undermines democracy is so indeed we have to say that he's the words can have very negative consequences and you know i just have to add that for us here it's very

difficult to cover this president because he constantly accuses of you know being fake can use notes treating him furley and i think that we have to question ourselves as join the list to question our motives but it's our obligation to report the facts as they are and to tell the truth you're. only going to nominate a washington bureau chief on this so that if you think of her story of the day alexander think. any time. well the d.-day landings normandy not only took the german occupying forces by surprise it came as a shock to local french people as well as catherine martin's met one frenchman who found his family home being taken over by advancing american troops. to the normandy beaches the stage for

a major act in world history they are close rebounds to the personal history of some french people here. we will introduce you to the man whose family home in the often lot of the normandy landings was transformed into a little just it had quarter of the american soldiers. not far from omaha beach is john paul who was on my mom's home he's 89 years old and he still lives there many of his memories come from family stories he was 14 when the d.-day landings happened only a few hours after the allied forces had taken the beaches the americans reached his house which at that time was still occupied by german soldiers. this is where the americans came in you could hear them quite clearly having told consumer soldiers carry water bottles thinking sound every step of.

the noise acted as a warning for the german occupiers hold them on says it took the u.s. soldiers 2 attempts to take the house and set up their logistics of a ration center there for 4 months the g.i.'s went in and out of here and each room has its own story. as a cargo ship arrived the commander gave orders for this and that on board so many trucks such and such an amount i mean. and it especially. the trucks go here. nearly the american army needed something they call it here. to treat the major d.-day landings we get in the early morning precisely at 6 30 am here at. operation overlord as it was stopped was the largest

landing operation in history nearly 200000 soldiers were engaged against nazi germany the allies conquered 5 bridge hats with over a 1000 of them dying on omaha beach on june 6th alone exactly that morning same spot same time a young french boy labored with the plow here on the coast and i witnessed the 1st landing of american troops in normandy. michelle back 15 years old at the time saw the whole thing the rocky coast point york was heavily bombed on the morning of june 6th 1944 he had his father here in the fields certainly he heard a deafening noise. that day was ploughing right in the edge of the cliff i saw it plain flat over the sea it disappeared for a 2nd then suddenly rose sharply and flew directly over me but the blades of the

grass around me were completely flattened by the wind of the plane i still have it like a photo in my head. thinking for. he wasn't afraid he says not even of the ground troops. i was surprised i never thought the soldiers would actually climb the 40 meter high cliff and i was even more surprised when the americans arrived. back to the o's amongst the american stayed in their house for several months jump a man and his wife were dead still feel close to the americans one of the g.i.'s became a friend he often visited them here in normandy up until his death. trip on. at 9 in the morning 108 he set up his office in our house. just one day later from here. just like to

know. for example there was a man who once to tell the story of his house this is important to him in memory of all the soldiers who gave their lives here in normandy. well many times this week i have wished that i could talk with my grandfather about what d.-day meant to him edgar god was a young man when the u.s. army sent him into german territory in the fall of 1904 he had never left the us the back of farms of rural north carolina they were the only world that he knew now my grandfather survived an ambush by german soldiers by playing dead he didn't flinch when a german soldier used a bayonet to stamp his wrist to make sure that the bullets that worked he was the only survivor in his company he received a purple heart the medal that's given to us soldiers who were wounded in battle he received that when he returned home but that could not prevent the 20 years of

nightmares that would follow and he never talked about the war like most in his generation those soldiers were the strong silent type as their numbers now and window loud strongman leaders are multiplying in challenging the peace and principles that those legions of grandfathers secured force i don't know what my grandfather would say about the leaders of today but i am confident he would tell us to do the right thing to make sure another generation doesn't have its own nightmares or the day is almost done the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at the news or you can follow me of britain t.v. don't forget to use the hash tag the day and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll leave you tonight with images of today's d.-day anniversary commemorations. the but. a i.

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