zanuck had a bird's eye view.he chronicler, documenting every detail of june 6th, 1944. fuller had a worm's eye view. he wanted to tell the story of grunts and their sergeant. i met sam in the early 60s. he's my kind of style of a storyteller. so he said, "you know, i'm doing this thing called 'the big red one' and you'll play the sergeant." and i said, "oh, yeah. sure. right." and then as the years went by and he finished other projects he sat down one day and he wrote it. and he sent me a copy and i was absolutely thrilled. it's possibly one of the few combat stories i ever thought that made any sense to me. i didn't want to compete with some highly exciting war movies. i saw, "iwo jima" "the longest day." i've seen things like that, wonderful, wonderful epics. i was not interested in trying to top them. i was only knowledgeable about one thing, i could not shoot it. theirs was fake and i didn't want mine to be fake. (announcer) omaha beach, d-day ... (sam fuller) every 5 minutes a wave came in, 32 infantrymen i

likely and slovakia except to elect its first female president in the election runoff taking place now zanuck up at dover is an environmental activist and a lawyer who campaigned to end corruption she had a large lead in the initial round of voting over her rival mara seth of h. i'll have more from london for in about twenty minutes time now back to folly in doha thank you very much for that al-jazeera has seen a draft of the communique that leaders will release after the thirtieth summit in tunisia on sunday it mentions a unified response to what's described as a charm but ministrations unlawful recognition of israel's sovereignty over the occupied golan heights and the group that calls itself the libya quartet is meeting on the sidelines of the arab league summit the quartet includes representatives of the united nations the african union the arab league and the european union they're looking at how the plan for a political transition elections and constitution are coming along. is covering this week's summit for us he joins us now live from tenacious capital tunis tell us more first hashim