navy in particular but royal navy ships as who pretty much did save the day at least i'm going to argue that on omaha beach. before i do that, let me make a couple general observations that almost everybody, this audience and probably everybody in audience is very sensitive to. but i to to reiterate to them, to remind us all of the broader context of this. first of all, the invasion of nazi europe was an amphibious operation. it's an old aphorism in war that amphibious operations are most difficult to carry in war. it's often attributed to basil little heart, but i've actually found antecedents to that, in part because this was a joint operation as has been emphasized. my friend john susan mentioned it as well. it required a ground. the army, of course, a sea force. the navy and in this case an air coordinating three services in a and complicated timetable is difficult. but in d-day, it was not only a joint operation. it was a combined operation involving countries. again emphasized earlier. britain the united states and canada france is often mentioned but also norway, poland, belgium,

the head of the royal navy has apologised.misconduct, after stopping british sprinter bianca williams and partner ricardo dos santos, have won an appeal to get theirjobs back. the athletes were searched for drugs while their three—month—old baby was in the car. nothing was found. mr dos santos plans to challenge the decision in civil court. you're live with bbc news. here in the us, kamala harris and donald trump are in the home stretch of the race for the white house, with november's presidential election just 32 days away. they're ramping up campaigning in the handful of key states where both ms harris and mr trump stand a chance of winning. battleground states that sometimes swing democrat, sometimes swing democrat, sometimes swing democrat, sometimes swing republican. the democratic nominee is in the hotly contested state of michigan on friday, trying to appeal to working—class voters. she made stops in the union stronghold cities of detroit and flint, touting her record on labour rights. during her rally in flint just a s

the royal navy would come help.o delancey and his supporters are releasing is a popular political figures. they're not holding elected office. the time between 65 and 68 people look towards them. and in particular james. for leadership. when it comes a 1768 they mount a concerted campaign to secure people. not only announcer candidacy theyth published in the press, broadsides they can be stuck on tavern windows or coffeehouse windows people walking by canee see. the publishing newspapers. the commission pamphlets, people can study them a little bit more. the flood manhattan with the lecture materials. not only this, they start to hold it in. they hold events in taverns. inon the lead up to the election on a monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday there is an event every nightsa. and benjamin stout tavern. there's a lot of beer, there's a lot of fighters, there's a lot of alcohol. and the delancey's paper at all. and you can imagine these events for the alcohol is falling, the wind is flowing, cider, people come togethe

part talks about the ability of america to govern itself into form a navy that could challenge the royal navy this is a first edition and i don't know exactly how many copies were printed in the first edition. there were several additions printed very quickly because it was a very popular pamphlet. there have been estimates of around 75,000 to 100,000 printed within the first few months. eventually i have seen figures that suggest there were around half a million copies printed in total. at the time, the colonies consisted of about 2.5 million inhabitants and that makes it the best selling book in all of american history. they would have purchased this pamphlet from local booksellers or the printer, in terms of the technical production it uses probably handmade paper that was created on a chain line type paper. and it would have been issued without its binding. it is a pamphlet. people were expected to bind their own books at the time. this particular book or pamphlet is part of our american imprints collection. with this collection at the american imprints collection, we tried to document th

the royal navy will come help. delancy and his supporters like james johnson, jake walton and others are really seen as popular political figures, sort of out of doors at this time. they're not holding elected office. so for the time between, 65 and 68 people look toward the differences and in particular, james to lancey for leadership. and when it comes to 1768, they mount a concerted campaign to, secure people's votes. they not only announce their candidacies, they publish essays in the press, they release broadsides that can be, you know, stuck on tavern windows or coffee windows so people walking by can see essays that are published in. these will be left and tyrants tables and coffee house tables so people can read. they commissioned pamphlets which are longer so people can study them a little bit more and. they what manhunt with election materials not only this they start hold events they hold events in taverns. so on a monday in the lead up to the election, on a monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, there's

the royal navy fleet that went to enforce an abolition of the slave trade on the atlantic, not for justseizing foreign ships and trying to stop africans because africans are actually one of the most vocal opponents of an end to the slave trade. and so the cost of actually ending slavery probably negated any of the profits that were achieved through slavery, because slavery actually didn't contribute that much to the british economy. the second point to make is that there are no victims of slavery alive today. victims of british empire slavery, i should say. and this is key, because reparations are fundamentally an issue of tort law. that's tort tort law. and the purposes of reparations is to put the victim back into the position they were in before the harm occurred. so if we were talking about this in the 19th century and there were people alive, i would absolutely support reparations. but we're talking about 200 years ago, that's 6 or 7 generations, and no one can tell me that the great, great, great great grandchildren of slaves in the canbbean grandchildren of slaves in the caribbea

meeting on lebanon, i would have thought, that that will have two purposes, the first uh to use uh royal navy assets to try to lift british citizens of whom... "there are quite some number in lebanon to try and lift them uh out of the war zone, and that's the least you would expect a british government to do, but rather more sinisterly, the british government before the last 60 days and the one we have now, so-called labour government is up to its neck in the crimes of the israeli state, it is..." literally actively participating, not just in the much discussed issue of licensing the selling of british weapons to netanyahu, nine out of 10 of those contracts and licenses are continuing, you heard patricia talk there about an f35, delivering death, some 20% of the f-35. is made in britain, so that f-35 that tried or succeeded in killing people in patricia's village would not be able to do so if it were not for british weapon sales, but even worse than that, are using our sovereign air base in acroteri in cyprus and somebody else's country, heaven knows why cyprus toll. such a colonial arrangeme

they served in refugee corps, they served in the royal navy.they even served in regular british regiments. there were hessian officers amongst the provincials. they even enlisted some french deserters. you had a few of up, but and don't even get started by continental deserters. and they were all different types of troops. so when we talked about militia, but amongst the provincial forces as well, you have rangers, you have cavalry, you have dragoons, light infantry. they tried to model themselves after regiments to some degree. so you had your standard battalion company troops light, troops grenadiers. but the british cavalry only had one regiment of cavalry in america after 1778. they had to supplement that with loyalists. they found out very quickly that the war in the south needed cavalry, and by the way those swords for all those cavalry were manufactured in new york city by a guy named james potter, who became in 1781, a second lieutenant in the new york city militia. i was going to tie that in somehow. but yes the british utilize them an

british militaryjets didn't shoot down any iranian ballistic missiles fired overnight, nor did the royal navy hms duncan fire any of her sea viper missiles. this is coming from the uk defence secretaryjohn healey defence secretary john healey who defence secretaryjohn healey who said earlier that uk forces played their part in the strikes last night on israel. —— in the defence of the strikes last night of israel. spring in our correspondent who has been to see the effects of one missile which did explode on israeli territory. this is just north of tel aviv, israel's largest city, this is where one of the ballistic missiles landed. this car has taken a lot of the force of the blast. if you look in the middle of the road, in between the dual carriageway, there is a mound of earth where, last night there was an absolutely huge crater, may be eight metres deep. they've already filled it in, but it really gives you a sense of the force of the blast. we have some sort of the blast. we have some sort of commercial centre behind us, and this is quite a built—up area. if this had hit perhaps a tower

no continental levies, ships prowling the hudson that were going to threaten it as long as the royal navy had anything to say about that. however, that changed in the winter of 1779. 1780, which was referred to as the coldest winter in human memory. the hudson froze new york bay froze? yes. what new york is no longer an island. the main british army, as it seemed to do, went south for the winter. it went to go lay siege to charleston, south carolina. so a small british garrison under general kinship and governor tryon, a major general of the british army, embodied the entire population of manhattan, creating four battalions of militia, plus new volunteer companies, in addition to the others raised. and some of them were pretty cool. one is anyone ever heard of the new york marine society still around? they raised their own artillery company as a militia unit to serve the british during that winter. they got it. they had a charter from king george, the third, and they said, our our people are used to serving great guns, which you can infer, meaning naval guns. those are the sorts of guns y

the british army was headquartered with a lot of royal navy ships there and a lot of money flowing in when the war endsth in 1763 the soldiers and sailors leave and it dries up. people in new york remember this. to do this they want to rely on the fact that they are merchants. they say you should vote for us and not for our t opponent. they want to weave together their economic views. they are almostt the same. people really buy into that. >> now they are in power in the assembly. what was their political behavior like inss the assembly and debate continues democratizing or did they go a different way onceen they were n power. sometimes when you're powertel different story. >> this is one of my favorite parts of researching this. i mentioned the chamber of commerce and they do that. perhaps more significantly one of the things they did was they led the charge to build a chamber in the assembly. they said we will be your representatives and you can check on us and make sure we are advancing your needs. you can them actually come and watch us at the assembly. they developed a viewing ch

fog, you know, the hms prince of wales emerges this dreadnought port, largest battleship in the royal navy still bearing the scars of its recent battle with the bismarck comes out and anchor and the launch comes over, carrying churchill. when it comes up the gangplank. and as the band plays god save the king. fdr holding tightly under elliott's arm, puts out his hand and says at last we've gotten together. now, this is the moment where, you know, literally the future of the free world hangs in the balance as these two leaders of their great countries together for the first time and turns out they like each other. and that may seem a small detail, but it really set the tone for everything that happened afterward. so over the several day the military leaders get together, roosevelt refused it for it to be a formal because then they would have to have congressional. so basically, fdr to draft a press release with words that they can be used to fight hitler. now, churchill's hoping for something a little more metallic and pointed, but he didn't get it, but he understood what fdr was doing. so

fog, you know, the hms prince of wales emerges this dreadnought port, largest battleship in the royal navy still bearing the scars of its recent battle with the bismarck comes out and anchor and the launch comes over, carrying churchill. when it comes up the gangplank. and as the band plays god save the king. fdr holding tightly under elliott's arm, puts out his hand and says at last we've gotten together. now, this is the moment where, you know, literally the future of the free world hangs in the balance as these two leaders of their great countries together for the first time and turns out they like each other. and that may seem a small detail, but it really set the tone for everything that happened afterward. so over the several day the military leaders get together, roosevelt refused it for it to be a formal because then they would have to have congressional. so basically, fdr to draft a press release with words that they can be used to fight hitler. now, churchill's hoping for something a little more metallic and pointed, but he didn't get it, but he understood what fdr was doing. so

an investigation by the royal navy has found that women in the submarine service were subjected to misogynybullying and unacceptable behaviour. the inquiry took place after allegations of widespread sexual assault and harassment made by a female former navy officer. a metropolitan police officer has been charged over the death of an 81—year—old woman who was killed in a collision with a motorcycle that was part of an escort for the duchess of edinburgh. helen holland died in may last year after she sustained severe internal injuries in the incident. we start with the crisis in the middle east. lebanon's state news agency says four hospitals in the south are out of action as israel continues its offensive against hezbollah. there have been a number of explosions throughout the day in beirut and elsewhere in lebanon. the health ministry says that more than 37 people have been killed in israeli ground and air attacks in the past 2a hours, including 11 hezbollah—affiliated paramedics. meanwhile, iran's supreme leader, ayatollah khamenei, has made a rare public appeareance. he's defended his cou

that british jets did not shoot down any of the iranian missiles over israel, and neither did the royal navye hms duncan, fire any of its missiles. so we are waiting to hear a little bit more up from john healey, the defence secretary. he is in cyprus today, where hundreds of british troops are preparing for a potential evacuation of british nationals from lebanon following israel's ground invasion there. the government has chartered commercial flights for british citizens trying to leave beirut. but clearly the situation on the ground is pretty fast moving and ministers here will be preparing for all eventualities, both in terms of support for british nationals trying to free the fighting, as well as any potential for the role for british forces. thank you. israel has banned the un secretary general from entering the country. our correspondent in washington is tom bateman. tom, what is the united states doing to support israel? well, what we have had in the last few hours was a statement released on social media by israel katz, the israeli foreign minister, in which he said he was declaring

highlights of the trip will be visiting the aboriginal and islander memorial, a fleet review of the royal australian navyn sydney harbour. they will also go to the national botanic gardens and a community barbecue, of course a tradition in australia. the king will also meet two australians, hearing about the work they do to help those affected by melanoma, one of australia's most common cancers. this year is the start of the national nine—day tour by king charles and queen camilla. in the build—up to this trip, politics has been a key focus there, especially the ongoing debate as to whether australia should become a republic. and of course, we have our teams on the ground in australia. they will be following that trip over the next nine days and this will be the biggest overseas trip by king charles and queen camilla following the revelation of the king's cancer diagnosis in february. we understand that his cancer treatment will be paused whilst he is in the country and that trip has been cut short in orderfor the king to come back to the uk to resume that treatment. welcome to sydney in australia, where

the royal navy carrier strike groups do not have enough sailors. don't say this out loud because they're going to think of invading us now? sure, i'd invade us now and probably get away with it , but at least we away with it, but at least we now we're reminded we have a navy. i thought we'd got rid of that ages ago. but the thing is about that. i mean, we do need some sort of i mean, last night, was it not the case that in the iran bombardment against israel the other night, that it was there was a us interception going on when they have a higher technology even than the iron dome? yes. i mean, yes, this is simply saying that we aren't going to be that much use, but we're not being asked. no. well, we're not being asked. no. well, we're not being asked. no. well, we're not that much use, are we? and our navy and our military has been depleted for a number of years now. was that a mistake, nick? >> yeah, it's a bit embarrassing. i mean, number one, i agree with steve. i was going to say the same thing. there's a balance between raising the alarm and

their schedule now includes a review of the royal australian navy in sydney and meetings with top cancer before continuing to on samoa . those are the latest samoa. those are the latest headunes samoa. those are the latest headlines for now. i'll be back with you for another update. in around half an hour. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , or go to gb news the qr code, or go to gb news .com forward slash alerts . .com forward slash alerts. >> good morning. the budget is around the corner. >> certainly is. it's being the telegraph front page today says it will be the biggest tax raiser in history, but really significant. three cabinet ministers have written to the prime minister objecting to what rachel reeves is proposing to do with cutting spending and raising taxes. we don't know about the taxes. unusual to say the least. let's talk to the former labour minister, ivor kaplan. ivor morning. of course, ministers have negotiations with chancellors in the run up to a to a budget. they don't normally go over the head o

in my old constituency on the isle of wight, we make the royal navy's radars in cowes at the bae sites potentially of this puzzle. just on the iron dome bit. martin, as i'm sure some of your readers know, iron dome itself is the short range air defence. above thatis short range air defence. above that is something called david sling, which is medium range, but like the british sky sabre and the long—range is covered in israel by something called the arrow missile system . and then arrow missile system. and then they have the patriot on top of that. so all of that makes up the israeli defence shield. and actually, i mean, if you look at what they have achieved, thousands of missiles coming into the country, this year, hardly any civilian casualties. i was in kharkiv in ukraine three weeks ago, and that place is being hit every night by some pretty horrendous , missiles, but pretty horrendous, missiles, but also very large bombs . and the also very large bombs. and the ukrainians don't have the air shield. and because of that, scores of ukrainians are dying every month from russian stri

period of seven years, he was able to get ten different navy officers to leak him classified information secrets on a regular basis. even got a royal australian navy officer who was a liaison, the u.s. seventh fleet, to leak him classified information. he was he was a really, really spy. he was able to cultivate these people and bribe them for. military secrets, which, you know, as you is just i mean, not today's concerns about classified. it's bad enough, but going back in the navy, everybody knows the phrase loose lips sink ships. you not mess around with giving classified information to. foreign nationals or people aren't to have it. but leonard was able to his hands in this stuff. and so think that's an underappreciated aspect. this whole scandal is what a threat it leonard posed to national security. and to this day it's, unclear to what degree was handed over the or they were hacked or by a hostile foreign power such as china. leonard says he didn't hand over of his military secrets to another country, but he also didn't protect them. he left them strewn about his home and office and printouts. he he kept them unprotected on

one of the things i love about captain cook is the royal navy at this time, most people i got to thennections, people with money, people who knew the right people. captain cook did have a sheer work ethic. he made his way up from literally nothing. this was the town where he grew up in the more of yorkshire. he lived in this beautiful area but he was bored out of his mind. he was a young kid, seven years old, at least so goes the legend that he climbed this place and he climbed to the top of this very small mountain were very high hill, which i did with my wife anne. by the way, anne is here. shout out to anne, my wonderful wife. he got to the top of it and the reason i show this is because, at least according to the story, captain cook, at seven years old first saw the ocean 12 miles away and he said, what is that? i want to go there. apparently from the very beginning he was like, i've got to get out of here. he sought a very circumscribed life for himself as a farmer and he's like, got to go over there and he does. he very quickly goes to this town, a place called would be -- whid

one of the things i love about captain cook is that the royal navy of that time, most who got to thatnnections with money, people who knew the right people? captain cook did it by sheer work ethic, by by an skill for astronomy and mapmaking. he worked his up from from, you know, from literally. this is ayton, the town where he grew up in the it's kind of the the moors, the the moors of yorkshire and he lived in this beautiful but you know, he was out of his mind. he was a young kid. he was about seven years old. and he at least so goes the the legend that he climbed this place called rosebery. and he climbed to the top of this small mountain, a very high hill, which i did with my wife and and oh, by the and is here shout out to and my wonderful wife wife. we got to the top of it and reason i show this is because at least according to the story, captain cook at seven years old, first saw the ocean. 12 miles away. and he said, you know, what's that like? want to go there? apparently from very beginning, he just like i got to get out of here. i got you know, he saw a very circumscribed l

and 70 years ago, 1955, he joined the royal navy and i ended up on operation grapple.he south pacific. and he witnessed three h—bomb tests, the third of which my dad is very emotional about when he speaks about. i watched a video of it with him that i found on the imperial war museum archives, and he this was last year and he still, like, burst into tears. really . burst into tears. really. >> what was what was significant about the third one? >> it was bigger than all the others. right. >> and were they on christmas island? >> were they on the ship at the time? >> he was on the ship, and he was the engine room writer and scribe. so his handwriting i assume, and he was saying to me this weekend will be either in the admiralty or the imperial war museum documenting all that was happening. >> and he's lived to a ripe old age. >> yes. >> yes. >> has he therefore been lucky with health effects from the tests? >> two things really. he has had cancen >> two things really. he has had cancer. he had a surgery on a lesion on his head just here, and radiotherapy at the christie

part talks about the ability of america to govern itself into form a navy that could challenge the royal navy. this is a first edition and i don't know exactly how many copies were printed in the first edition. there were several additions printed very quickly because it was a very popular pamphlet. there have been estimates of around 75,000 to 100,000 printed within the first few months. eventually i have seen figures that suggest there were around half a million copies printed in total. at the time, the colonies consisted of about 2.5 million inhabitants and that makes it the best selling book in all of american history. they would have purchased this pamphlet from local booksellers or the printer, in terms of the technical production it uses probably handmade paper that was created on a chain line type paper. and it would have been issued without its binding. it is a pamphlet. people were expected to bind their own books at the time. this particular book or pamphlet is part of our american imprints collection. with this collection at the american imprints collection, we tried to document t

served in parliament, military hero, advocate for british subjects who have been in press in the royal navy, he fought against debt of prisoners and passed legislation that resulted in the release of 10,000 british to us. and on. and on. and on. for any of you like myself who will educate it in the schools, public or private here in georgia. these were things we were familiar with that we learned in junior high school or middle school, but then literally my mind was riveted to eight words. one passage carved in the white marble, words that i first read. and process says in disbelief amidst all of those accomplishments, i saw something in that literally stunned me. eight words. he was the friend of the oppressed --. the father of georgia james oglethorpe, according to his wife, who commissioned the plaque. he was the friend of the oppressed --. i rejected it. i thought it to be puffery, but i could not move from that spot. the rest of the 57 of 56 member delegates then were ushered to a meeting hall. and i stood motionless, encased in the silence, reading and rereading that passage. he was t

and ben and i went there on the dockside when the royal navy frigate came in and took all the brits outer's research uk, - much. on behalf of everybody at alzheimer's research uk, thankl much. on behalf of everybody at - alzheimer's research uk, thank you, it means the world to us.— it means the world to us. thank you for talkin: it means the world to us. thank you for talking so _ it means the world to us. thank you for talking so openly. _ it means the world to us. thank you for talking so openly. i'm _ it means the world to us. thank you for talking so openly. i'm sure - it means the world to us. thank you for talking so openly. i'm sure a - for talking so openly. i'm sure a lot of people watching will be very grateful for your openness. here's carol with a look at the weather. good morning, everyone. this morning is fairly cloudy to start, rein around, but the next couple of days you will find a it is drier and colder as we pull in a northerly component, if not a straight to our weather. today the dregs of low pressure pulling away to the north sea. a couple of weather fronts pushin

think the raid all begins and that would be with the battle of port royal in coastal south carolina on november seventh, 1861, when the us navy drove, its armada, the largest armada date in history, up port royal sound and white and black residents of the area. this would be buford. this would be the scylla and this would be port royal. remember this day differently, the white planners referred to it as the great skedaddle. because they fled when they saw the armada coming. they got out of dodge and they tried to push, pull, drag force, often at gunpoint. the people they held in bondage to follow them. so the descendant of the enslaved, the who today would call themselves particularly people from the sea islands called it gun shoot at bay point because when the guns started shooting at bay point the, white people left and they were free. they weren't exactly, but they were no longer enslaved. okay. so important to know, to situate ourselves. okay. so the battle of port royal takes place on the coast. the cambie. the lower can be where the rice are located. it's about 40 miles away and i have it on good authority. mary boynton