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 nerd on those same shores where they had once been prepared to die i'm bored often berlin this is the day. it's all came down to a bunch of 18 to 20 year olds who when they trashed. treaters prejudicial or abandoned thankful these men ran through the fires of hell. moved by a force that no weapon could destroy we will always remember that coverage that commitment that could take should we know once we. get the right. all freedom thank them. leaving

a. better world is the one. i want to say to people that we kept. on behalf of my nation. i just want to face thank you. 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 then 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 or 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. 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 ons. because she. would like to do it again but. 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 emmanuel 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 for him 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. asked 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. 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 populist 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.

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 order 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 sec refuse that has been made as i sat on

nothing to be what we live on and live by it nowadays it's just come out of nowhere it has been painted on to struggle 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 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 yes you alexander is trump is he the biggest danger to the world order as we know it. 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 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 what they want to hear and in the end you just you just drool and that's it and obviously that's it's a national security advisor of this country and if that's like its appeal or the idea and i don't achieve your 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 assess that i was up on 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. impetus the 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 it it's like societal uncertainty and and periods and which people like i was straight from the go they said for themselves it's a time where 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. then 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 that i would 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 reeling 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. it's 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 sphere 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 liberal democracy that's 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 repro 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 and dislike leads to to constructive politics if you look at the other side in the other camp the populists they live by resentment and obviously they if the witches are vibing party in germany when one of their leading figure was asked about a 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 and resending other people and grading them and that's also like and meddling or divert us 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 know to united states has been like reluctant to end of the war but then we also know by bruce well and his ideas and the prevailing ideas of freedom that the prevailing idea became one of collaboration and empathy and that's basically but then imagine his 4 freedoms on which then like let's choose a multilateral institutions and again like majesty the queen of england she was like emphasising on that she is one of. the political figures actually i guess the only one in europe has seen the hollows of 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 the. is there a 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 pharisees of the union that say europe is taking away our 70 actually it's the opposite a way if i'm if i'm a german i can live in spain hispania 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 and my i have a big ray of where i kind of what i can do 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 are the great leaders of our time alright alexander girl on giving us

excellent insights in context of what we've sold today in normandy the d.-day 75 years on all xander we appreciate your time tonight thank you thank you brian thank you for having me. well 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 i liked the president's speech of france in may a wonderful speech by calling. it. michael crow what did you like about it. before on 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 personal joke. and the germans are going to 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 they were brainwashed. when you look out to the sea here what do you see. and 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 war the

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 wanted to ask 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 that 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. 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 us washington post columnist dana milbank wrote d.-day is often referred to as the longest day but trumps 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 in his graded noble undertaking he had the support of republican national committee chairwoman wanna 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 he's words can have very dangerous negative consequences just take this example of the transatlantic relationship so today presidents trump was praising the breakable bonds between europe and the you ask but he has disparaged alliances and he has questions institutions such as the usefulness of institutions such as a european union and nato institutions that's had to 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 and to the global economy or let's talk about the way he's crazy and he has been crazy and 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 fairly and i think that we have to question our soul of the join the list to question our motives but it is our obligation to report the facts as they are and to tell the truth you're. 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. 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 occupied by german soldiers. this is where the americans came in and you could hear them quite clearly i think told because of soldiers carry water bottles and a training sound every step of. the noise acted as a warning for the german occupiers hold a month says it took the u.s. soldiers 2 attempts to take the house and set up their logistics of a ration center bear for 4 months the g.i.'s went in and out of here and each room has its own story door. 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 that of all the trucks go

here. and if the american army needed something they call it here. even if you want to do slip or let me tell you the truth the major d.-day landings weekend 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 chats 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 a plow here on the coast and here i was the 1st 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 to spar here in the fields suddenly he heard a deafening noise. ready that day i was plowing right in the h. 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 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. 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 old some months 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. trip on. at 9 in the morning 108 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 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 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 soldiers were the strong silent type as their numbers nailed 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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