and 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 year old when the trash talk a plane printers present before or abandoned thankful these men ran through the fires of hell. moved by a force that no weapons could destroy we will always remember that courageous that commitment that we take should we know what we owned. all freedom thank them. leaving

a. better world. i want to say to those people this week. 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're leaving the war never leaves you you'll always be in in war all the rest of your life till they put you in that box. 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 were some of those who held the heroism that helped to push back nazi germany and pave the way for the new global order we know today. and the 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 of the ones. who would like to do it 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 looked out over one of the beaches captured by american soldiers as planes flew a red white and blue tribute in the sky overhead thinking and 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. to more than $100.00 several. veterans of the 2nd world war who join us today you are among the very greatest americans. who will ever live.

on behalf of my nation. 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 mired in a crisis 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 shut down human empathy and he calls for a realignment in values centered on the greater good alexander

the illusion is currently a fellow at the carnegie 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 i'd like to ask you 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 brant 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 the people that moved and touched by. the sec refuse that has been made as i sat and

nothing that we what we live on and live by it nowadays is just come out of nowhere it has been based on the struggles 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 2 opinion it's sickening and dangerous that's what he wrote today we asked you alexander 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 x. it and we support the president as a power and this is rhetoric and also the style of politics d.v.d. . 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 dots 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 a foreign policy that's way beyond what we have been successful in in the last 75 years so that is a good message of today where the president of the united states says that i will pound the 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. 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 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 and periods and wish people like i was straight from the get go they set for themselves this time where technological progress is like so enhancing and so accelerating that even as alvin toffler wrote in this 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 they 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 economicus it's already proven wrong it's also about fairness and justice and people really need to go down the road and accept is 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 you do want to 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. it's actually it is that simple that if you can if you think about what makes a democracy walk it's empathy and what i mean by that 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 and 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 liberty of 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 it's to to constructive politics if you look at the other side in the other camp the populists they live by re sentiment is the 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 doubts also like and meddling or divert us in a book about how fascism comes about at 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 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 i cannot on the united states has been like reluctant to end of the war but then we also both know by bruce well and his ideas and then 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 which then like let's choose multilateral institutions and again like majesty the queen of england she was like emphasising on that she was one of. the political figures actually i guess the only one in the present seeing the whole was off the wall 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 before we run. is there any political leader in power nail who you see could maybe help restore a homo in part because 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 then italian can live in england for now so it's i mean for me as a citizen it has amplified that comes with my human dignity and my i have a big 4 i kind of what i can but 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 in europe concerned with like keeping up this year opinion and that i had a great leaders of our time right alexander girl on giving us excellent insights and

context of what we sold today in normandy the d.-day 75 years on all xander we appreciate your time tonight thank you thank you friend thank you for having me. well the commemorations this year are possibly the last which will be able to feature d.-day veterans 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 i like the presence piece of france in may a wonderful speech by colin trump. and i crawled across what did you like about it . he brought out a lot of things for a buck a lot of members. and did you like the part where he said it's important to work

together today yes yes. we're all brothers not even the germans. this is going to be a person's job. and the germans kind of jump with us is that hard for you to believe that. we're just your friends with the germans now no no no no we're all brothers. you know the germans they were brainwashed they were young kids like myself. you know. they didn't know what they were doing there were brainwashed. 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 and. i think back to england 308 dead bodies american soldiers. is this still something you think about every day today or has it passed no never passes. you leave rule of

war never leaves 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. 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. the 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 was when i saw the pictures of the concentration camps i knew why i had to fight. no i added

. thank you very much right. now that clearly was unimpressed with his own president trumps trip to europe it has met with some harsh criticism back home in the us 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 trump and his graded noble undertaking he had the support of republican national committee chairwoman one mcdaniel who said the d.-day anniversary is quote the time where we should be celebrating our present. 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 he's words can have very dangerous negative consequences just take this example of the transatlantic relationship so today president's trump was praising the breakable bonds between europe and the you ask but he has disparage the alliance and he has questions institutions such as the usefulness of institutions such as the european union and snape 2 institutions that have given you the longest period of peace in centuries let's take care of his favorite tool to negotiate to put adversaries and friends

under pressure they can pose a great damage to the your ass and to the global economy or let's talk about the way he's crazy and 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 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 join the list to question our motives but at this hour 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 martins met one frenchman who found his family home being taken over by advancing american troops. 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 aftermath of the normandy landings was transformed into a little just and headquarter for the american soldiers. not far from omaha beach is john paul who is on mines 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 and you could hear them quite clearly i think told us it was all just carry water bottles was making sound every step of. the noise acted as a warning for the german occupiers hold them and says it took the u.s. soldiers 2 attempts to take the house and set up their logistics operations center there for 4 months the g.i.'s went in and out of here and each room has its own story but all. you need is 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. all the trucks go here.

and if the american army needed something they got it here. to try to treat the major d.-day landings began in the early morning precisely at 6 30 am here at the 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 great chats with over a 1000 of them dying on the beach on june 6th alone. exactly that morning same spot same time a young french boy labored with a plow here on the coast and here i work the 1st thing 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 suddenly he heard a deafening noise. that day it was ploughing right in the edge of the cliff i saw a plane flight 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 so i still have it like a photo in my head. thinking. 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 among the

american stayed in their house for several months 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. on trip on. beach at 9 in the morning and tonight he set up his office in our house. just one day later from here. just. for example who is a man who once to tell the story of his house this is important to him in memory of on 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 go off 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 and 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 had worked he was the only survivor in his company he received a purple heart the medal that 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 old soldiers were the strong silent type as their numbers now and window wild 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

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