and on this day in 1940 , the dunkirk operation ended, it is also called the miracle of dunkirk.e beginning of the second world war, european. countries surrendered to the germans one after another. france was almost captured. the germans drove large allied forces to the sea near the town of dunkirk. suddenly general gudarian's tanks stopped advancing, then britain and france gathered all their warships, and through radio and newspapers asked the population who had anything that could float to go to the aid of the army. and in 10 days, under enemy fire , 340 thousand soldiers and officers of the allied armies were taken from the continent. dunkerskaya. the official name of operation dynamo allowed the british army to be retained, although all heavy weapons were left with dunkirk. why did hitler allow the allies to evacuate? historians are still arguing. according to one version, i thought that the infantry and aviation would cope without tanks, which would be needed to defeat the french military group on north. and according to another, the most famous wanted to quickly make peac

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this was d-day, fourth anniversary of the battle of dunkirk and the allied armies were striking back. the great fleet was underway. and. the morning of june 6th, this was the battleground. pierce fighting around can. last squadrons of bombers and transports led the way. more than 11,000 planes spearheading the attack. paratroopers landed in normandy behind the coastal defenses. landings made with timing and precision perfected only through scores of rehearsals like this. barges approached shore, ready for instant action. some bearing artillery and rocket guns already opening, firing. today. just ain tsenes, the armies of the united nations have made their first landings on the soil of western europe. another of the great, decisive battles of world history has been joined. this is the day for which free people long have waited. this is d-day.

there were the british, whose nobility and fortitude saw them through the worst of dunkirk and the londonlitz. the full violence of nazi fury was no match for the full grandeur of british pride. thank you. [applause] there were the canadians, whose robust sense of honor and loyalty compelled them to take up arms alongside britain from the very, very beginning. there were the fighting poles, the tough norwegians, and the intrepid aussies. there were the gallant french commandos, soon to be met by countrymen ready to write a new chapter in the long history of french valor. [applause] and, finally, there were the americans. they came from the farms of a vast heartland, the streets of glowing cities, and the forges of mighty industrial towns. before the war, many had never ventured beyond their own community. now they had come to offer their lives half a world from home. this beach, codenamed omaha, was defended by the nazis with monstrous firepower, thousands and thousands of mines and spikes driven into the sand, so deeply. it was here that tens of thousands of the americans came. the gis w

. >> were you the one who got it confused with dunkirk and the dardanelles? no.kirk until i watched the film. >> i didn't learn much about it at school. i've had to learn outside of school. i think we need more narrative history where we emphasise the things that we did very well, but we do quite a lot of that . quite a lot of that. >> we depends where you watch and where you do enough. >> we need to teach more of it in schools. i think we need to teach a bit less about the bolsheviks, more about d—day, more about dunkirk, and to make students feel proud about these moments. because, you know, you look at the pictures of the of the veterans. and this is probably the last big celebration, celebration we're going to have with so many people. we really need to , you people. we really need to, you know, get to work on making this an educational thing. >> i hear you, but there's to an extent, if you asked a young person what is a veteran, they would say somebody aged 99 with clinking medals when actually we've got veterans from the falklands, from afghanistan, from no

yet unborn, there were the british whose nobility and fortitude saw them through the worst of dunkirkand the london blitz. the full violence of nazi fury was no match for the full grandeur of british pride. thank you. there were the canadians whose robust sense of honor and loyalty up arms alongside britain. from the very, very beginning, there were the fighting poles, the tough norwegians and the intrepid aussies. there were the gallant french commandos. soon to be met by thousands of their brave country, had been ready to write a new chapter in the long history of french valor. and finally, there were the americans. they came from the farms of a vast heartland. the streets of glowing cities. and the forges of mighty industrial towns. before the war, many had never ventured beyond their own community. now they had come to offer their lives half a world from home. this beach, codenamed omaha, was defended by the nazis with monstrous firepower. thousands and thousands of mines and spy striven into the sand so deeply. it was here that tens, thousands of the americans came. the guys who

today, will hollis speaks to 98 year old alec penstone of dunkirk. >> when we stood alone with nobodyo help us except our own selves there, we realised we were in a very precarious position. we thought we were doomed. i mean, we were digging holes in the ground to hide in it . it. >> david beckham and the king have joined forces as they bond over bees . over bees. >> good morning. it was real madrid who once again triumphed in the champions league final, as their two nil win over borussia dortmund gave them a record extending 15th title. but there was another worrying security breach at wembley. more on that later. security breach at wembley. more on that later . elsewhere, the on that later. elsewhere, the boxing saw a one sided five versus five in saudi, while in tennis, novak djokovic left it late to prevail in paris. >> well, there's going to be plenty of warm sunshine across the country today, though a little bit cloudier across the northwest with some rain and drizzle and a bit cooler here too. so stay tuned for your latest weather updates. >> good morning to you. i'm stephen di

bertram ramsey was the man who organized the dunkirk evacuation in 1940.now he's commander in chief of the of the naval forces assigned to bring command. and according to his chauffeur, it's about two days before the invasion. they're there in a jeep just the two of them. ramsey asks the chauffeur to pull over. he steps out and looks out over the which is gathering in southampton, portsmouth and so forth. he looks out over that it's a tremendous scene. and he says it is tragic and ironic that the stage is being set. such great sacrifice, but if out of it comes peace and happiness. who would have it. well, on it goes. depends on a weather report. eisenhower gambles on a weather report and orders the invasion forward on june. about 9:00. according to people in the room when he was presented with all the factors. he sat in silence for 5 minutes and then gave the order reluctantly, but gave the order. this decision of turns the war since the war in a different direction. some years later, in fact, the 25th anniversary of d-day, there was a supposed him in abil

there were hopes that the war would end within weeks of dunkirk in 1940, or when the allies crossed the english channel in 1944, but it did not. because wars don't end quickly. that is why you should tighten your belts, roll up your sleeves, recognize that this is an existential struggle and move forward only to victory. and why do you think putin did not open the northern bridgehead when we are talking about the republic of belarus, yes, because it is an extremely serious threat, but there is a feeling that putin is afraid of it. putin determined to leave a deep mark on history, and therefore he can be relentless. however, the forces that will determine the result come from the heart. the heart of the ukrainian people pulsates more and more strongly, after centuries of struggle. after the disappointments of 1918, after the problems of the 20th century, revolutions, the loss of crimea in 2014. all this is part of the evolutionary process of the struggle for its formation. success comes to those who persevere. this is the challenge ukraine is currently facing. unfortunately, i have to en

there were hopes that the war would end within weeks of dunkirk in 1940, or when the allies crossed the english channel in 1944, but it didn't, because wars don't end fast, that's why you should slow down. buckle up, roll up your sleeves, recognize that this is an existential struggle and move forward only to victory. and why do you think putin did not open the northern bridgehead when we are talking about the republic of belarus. yes, because it is an extremely serious threat, but there is a feeling that putin is afraid of it. putin is determined to leave a deep mark on history, which is why he can be relentless. however. the forces that will determine the outcome come from the heart, the heart of the ukrainian people live, kamikaze drone attacks, political analytics, objectively and substantively, there is no political season, exclusive interviews, reports from the hottest points of the front, free-flowing, frank and unbiased, you draw your own conclusions. andriy pionkovskyi, a famous political scientist who is in washington, will now work on the espresso tv channel. glory to ukraine

this is after the catastrophe at dunkirk and the catastrophe at dunkirk and the war in norway, the battleke, yeah, yeah , it was quite obvious what yeah, it was quite obvious what had happened. yeah. the greater germany had been established at that point. i'm still thinking the and the front with russia was if not open, then certainly they were starting to unroll the shutters in 2024. >> if you're the reform party, do you want these people standing for you? it turns out no, because if the checking people would have checked, they would have got rid of him. >> but i think what we really need to do is change our culture from one in which social media posts are dug up from 12 years ago and misinterpreted it to make people look bad. very hard to do that. you pay a lot more than 144 grand to change the culture. staying with reform in the daily mail now, stephen, a counterargument to the anxiety over working from home. >> yes reforms uk code deputy leader. it sounds like the greens don't. it has said that it's a travesty that working mothers don't have any time for their children . this is docto

bertram ramsey was the man who organized the dunkirk evacuation in 1940.mander-in-chief of the naval forces assigned to supreme command. it is about two days before the invasion. they are in a jeep the two of them. ramsey asks the trooper to pull over, he steps out and looks out over the fleet, which is gathering in southhampton, portsmouth and so forth. he looks over that tremendous scene. he said it is tragic and■ ironic the stage is being set for such great sacrifice. but if out of it comes peace and happiness, who would have it otherwise? on it goes, depends on a weather report. eisenhower gambles on a weather report and orders the invasion forward on june 4. about 9:00, according to people in the room. he's presented with the factors. he sat in silence for five minutes. then he gave the order. this decision turns the war, sends the war in a different direction. some years later, the 25th anniversary of the day, there is a symposium in abilene after my grandfather's death. one of the participants was admiral friedrich root, who was rommel's naval advis

beach at all, the only thing i remember about zugress is zugress, and before that, probably only dunkirk men there, not children, please, so what concerns. but she is also physiologically, physically chained, they cannot take any step back as long as the west supports them, they will do everything to demonstrate to the west their readiness to fight with russia, and russia , in particular, to inflict it out of malice... like the others, that is, accept surrender it’s possible with the nazis, but it’s impossible to negotiate with them, because they will deceive you anyway, well , plus even for moral reasons, so this will all continue, and the only thing, of course, is that the west will not spare weapons, in fact, judging by quite contradictory, as we often have reports... from military correspondents, as i understand it, in fact, the old soviet weapons are no longer used by ukrainians at all, because they have all been knocked out, well, except for small arms, apparently they have completely switched to western weapons, this conveyor belt is working, but again the question is, when will w

newsreel: these pictures take you right in among the men - who are putting dunkirk...as you come across the beach, the ground went higher. and we had lunch on that bank there. to get at it, unfolded like. first thing we saw, seven or eight pairs of boots sticking out of these blankets. and then we realised they were dead soldiers. alan was servicing aircraft. dennis pushed inland to relieve paras at a bridgehead. there was a general stench of death over all the area like. it's important that people know about it. a lot of people, i'm not criticising them, they don't know about it. 12 of my 16 people in the sixth form went into the services. the others couldn't. one was shot down. one was drowned. and the other one, which was the one i still can't get over, was a captain in the tank corps and he was burnt alive in his tank next door to one of the airfields in normandy. both men would go on to serve across the world. their memories still with them, 80 years on. well, itjust happened, and that's it. i mean, it's something you don't forget. dicken hooper, bbc news. speakin

seen the movies, we've seen saving private ryan, you can see the beginning of world warm ii with dunkirkcliche to say, seeing it in person. so we went, spent our first day or two there, and it is, i don't know how -- it's really, really hard to put into words. it's incredibly solemn. it is awe-inspiring, and i mean this and, again, or it just sounds cliche, it makes you so proud on to be american. rachel: yeah. will: so you stand there and, you know, england is just across the english channel, and you learn about everything that went into operation overlord. and operation overlord was massive of. i mean, i'm talking about spying, misinformation -- pete: deception, yep. will: they had the germans thinking they were going to go to a calais are which is way further up the coast. they had fake army, on-land blow-ups, you know? and, you know, here's another big -- these were kids. these were kids. they were 18 and 17 years old. when we went to point duhawk, you see there the german if pill boxes. it's on a 90-foot cliff, 225 army rangers took that a cliff, climbed it, scaled the cliff under h

so some british units come back from dunkirk and they simply don't do anything until d—day.s before he was severely wounded that afternoon . that afternoon. >> and what some of these young men will have witnessed that day, what they will have seen will be etched on their memory. those who survived and lived to this day, you can tell whenever you speak to someone, whenever you speak to someone, whenever you speak to a veteran , just the you speak to a veteran, just the enormity of what they saw, gruesome, horrifying , and they gruesome, horrifying, and they live on with those memories. >> i think it's also the fact that when they landed, they realised they were making history, there are so many things that we all do, never mind being in the forces that you really don't know whether they're going to be significant or not. but if you were taking part on, on anything to do with the invasion of normandy, that morning 80 years ago, you would have realised that this was of world, changing impact. and i always think that the, you know, the day of most consequence in the day of most

>> well, i imagine the telegraph sent a reporter to a camp in dunkirk.d the they seem to they seemed pretty intelligent. the people, one was a student. one was an older lady who was selling iraqi lady selling stuff. i imagine it's true, if you're given the choice of hanging for on ten days. the truth about the matter is that that many of them actually said, look, if we get chosen, if we get offered a boat, we're going to grab that boat anyway. however, you could claim that if you were, if you were, if you'd come from africa and the idea of being sent back to rwanda, that could have been a disincentive, l, could have been a disincentive, i, i can see nothing but an absolute nightmare from. if the polls are correct, the polls are correct. i can see nothing but an immigration nightmare from july the 5th. first of all, on the basis that the july and august are always the heaviest of the months . because the of the months. because the weather is the channel is calmer, and secondly, because the word will go out across the world. it's okay. they're all on our s

i thought there was a slightly dunkirk dad's army feel to the word surrender.ly sort of, you know, union jack waistcoat, john bull feeling to it. so undoubtedly there was an effort there to get at that sort of reform voter and try to make them think twice about either not voting, voting or voting labour. >> i think it is. or voting labour. >> i think it is . i pooh—pooh >> i think it is. i pooh—pooh the idea, and i rolled my eyes at the idea of 150,000 voters, but i find it quite plausible that there are voters who, on the morning of the election, won't know whether to vote conservative or reform. i find that a plausible proposition, because in many ways, you know, i can see how voters float across, you know, those two possibilities. is it plausible? >> and usually you get a sort of slight row back for the government and talk about hidden tory voters. is it is it right to think about hidden reform voters , about people who've not voters, about people who've not declared for reform, who feel it's somehow not respectable to say that you're going to support reform

we saw dunkirk, the christopher nolan film . i think younger nolan film.'m as i say, i think that perhaps more than half of the respondents were thinking of sicily. when and therefore, do you think that's an overly churchillian view? >> of course, he referred to it as the soft underbelly of europe . stalin didn't view it that way. he was urging the allies to make the make the french assaults. it was . assaults. it was. >> and actually, it makes for a great what if. i always think that had we not gone in in june 44th, waited a little bit longer , the soviet union, the red army would have would have advanced further into europe. and so who can tell where that would have ended? >> and of course, to the poles particularly, perhaps at the end of the second world war, wasn't a liberation . they didn't get a liberation. they didn't get their liberation until 1989, 1990. >> that's right. much of eastern europe as well. so so yeah, i think that the second world war i think the other thing to point out is that the d—day, whilst a vital operation and a massive succes

one of our reporters went over to dunkirk, asked some migrants there what they were thinking about thespect of a labour government and some of them said, well, we're waiting for a labour government because they're going to scrap the rwanda scheme, and that's going to make it easier for us to come into the uk. >> yeah, so i'll be very clear on this. i don't think there is any evidence at the moment in terms of statistics that suggest that migrants have stopped coming to the uk by boat, as you've just shown, because they're waiting for a labour government. i think the home office data that you use, and told us about earlier that 882 migrants arrived on june the 18th alone. yes. shows that this is the case. so they're not just there waiting, are they? no, they're not waiting there. >> rwanda or the spectre of rwanda, even in the improbable likelihood of the conservatives winning the next election and instigating rwanda and having those flights take off, as rishi sunak has promised in july, it can't be acting as a deterrent, theoretically, because these are record high numbers. >> absolute

today, will hollis speaks to 98 year old alec penstone of dunkirk. >> when we stood alone with nobodyin a very precarious position. we thought we were doomed. i mean, we were digging holes in the ground to hide in it . it. >> david beckham and the king have joined forces as they bond over bees . over bees. >> good morning. it was real madrid who once again triumphed in the champions league final, as their two nil win over borussia dortmund gave them a record extending 15th title. but there was another worrying security breach at wembley. more on that later. security breach at wembley. more on that later . elsewhere, the

from the retreat at dunkirk to the assault on the normandy beaches, the uk and its allies had to build fallen below 73,000 for the first time since the napoleonic era. troop numbers have been cut by 27,500 since 2010. when labour left office, the army had more than 100,000 soldiers. in the 12 months to april this year, the number of army personnel who completed phase one and two training, and are ready for active service, fell by 2,300, taking the total figure below that 73,000 target. by comparison, the french army have more than 110,000 troops. at the commemorations in portsmouth today the outgoing army chief general sir patrick sanders, said the uk is not ready for a third world war. in the member in mind of everything we'vejust in the member in mind of everything we've just discussed, and the conservatives have said they will increase spending to 2.5% by 2030, why is labour calling for a spending review when it's obvious we need to go far and beyond what's currently on the table? let go far and beyond what's currently on the table?— go far and beyond what's currently on the table?

that's to according reports in the telegraph, after their reporter spoke to some migrants near dunkirkof crossing the channel in small boats until they knew there was a new government. this is likely the knock on effect from sir keir starmer pledging this on rwanda . rwanda. >> we will restore serious government to our borders, tackle this problem at source and replace the rwanda policy permanently . permanently. >> i think the problem is for many people now, the source is the migrant hotel next to where they live. but rishi sunak claimed last night that migrants will be queuing up in calais if labour wins power. >> either you believe illegal migrants should not be in our country, they should be removed to somewhere else or with keir starmer . they're all going to be starmer. they're all going to be released. all the people we've detained and they will be out on the streets and that's a choice for everyone. do you want illegal migrants on planes going elsewhere, or do you want illegal migrants out on your streets with labour? those illegal migrants will not be on planes to rwanda. they

the queen's father served in the royal lancers, bruce shand and won the military cross in dunkirk.may have seen the queen on the front of our newspapers visibly moved by veterans during the recent events in portsmouth and at home in the uk. the king will be speaking at the commemoration this morning. we hope you have beenjoining our coverage and you may have heard his majesty addressed the crowds in portsmouth and he spoke in praise of the great wartime generation, calling on the nation today not to be purely passive. he said "it is our duty to ensure that we and future generations do not forget their service and their sacrifice in replacing tyranny with freedom." and we are reaching the heart of our morning and shortly, our service will begin. to the left of our picture, the north—west of this remarkable memorial, is a special section devoted to french losses. you can see that at the top left of our memorial here. as james was telling us, more than 20,000 french civilians. band plays joe mines, 2nd battalion essex regiment, landed here on gold beach 80 years ago today. he joins us

. >> yes, it's a camp called the grant shapps camp in dunkirk.hey spoke to people who have fled war torn areas, they said. and they are waiting. some said to come across here when the new government is elected and they assume it's going to be a labour government. looking at the polls, few would dispute that if those polls are correct now, sir keir starmer has vowed to scrap this rwanda plan on day one of being in office. we do know that rwanda well, it seems rwanda, anecdotally , has led to a degree anecdotally, has led to a degree of putting migrants off from coming to the uk because we are seeing a building up of numbers in dublin, in southern ireland, from migrants going there to avoid the threat of, of rwanda. so it may well be that this idea of this, of this deterrent is actually starting to work and hence these migrants in calais are saying we're not going to come across . that was seized on come across. that was seized on by rishi sunak last night in the tv debate. james cleverly, the home secretary, again today to show that the rwanda can