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We're in Normandy, where world leaders have joined veterans | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The Queen, on a state visit to France, joins thousands to pay | :00:09. | :00:23. | |
tribute to those who changed the course of the Second World War. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Many of the veterans, in their late 80s and early 90s, | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
say they don't expect to attend another commemoration of this kind. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
My chaps with me, my company commander, they're all dead. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
The events of 70 years ago, when Allied forces invaded Nazi-occupied | :00:42. | :01:01. | |
Europe, brought a powerful tribute from President Obama. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
These men waged war so we might know peace, they | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
sacrificed so we might be free, they fought in hope of a day in which we | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
Britain's spiralling house prices could threaten economic recovery, | :01:17. | :01:26. | |
warns the IMF, though growth is better than expected. | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
UKIP makes gains but not enough to take a parliamentary seat, | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
as the Conservatives win the Newark by-election. | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
In Sportsday, Andy Murray is out of the French Open - Rafael Nadal | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
beat him in straight sets and now plays Novak Djokovic in the final. | :01:42. | :02:17. | |
Good evening from the port of Arromanches in Normandy, where heads | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
of state, including Her Majesty the Queen, and political leaders | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
have joined thousands of veterans to mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day. | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
President Obama praised a generation who'd "defied every | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
danger", he said, to liberate Europe from the tyranny of the Nazis. | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
There were hundreds of British veterans here in Arromanches | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
for the last formal parade by the Normandy Veterans | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
Association, in the presence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
Our first report tonight on D-Day remembered is from our royal | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
Dawn at the D-Day beaches, where old soldiers remembered that morning | :02:46. | :03:02. | |
when they helped to change the course of history, and where some | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
of those who survived and grew old remembered the many who did not. | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
At the Commonwealth War Cemetery at Bayeux, five miles | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
from the coast, the graves of more than 4000 young men, mostly | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
British, who died on D-Day or in the weeks of fighting that followed. | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
Aircraft from the Second World War flew overhead as the Queen arrived | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
The veterans had been seated close in amongst the headstones, upon | :03:30. | :03:52. | |
which are the inscriptions which lose none of their emotional impact | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
They are the tributes of families, of mothers for sons, | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
and wives for husbands, the men who gave their lives | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
After the service, the Queen joined the veterans. | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
She mingled and chatted, a monarch from the same wartime generation | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
sharing memories with those who had fought in the name of her father. | :04:18. | :04:28. | |
At Omaha Beach, to the west, lies the huge military cemetery | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
There are nearly 10,000 graves here, a reminder of the ferocious | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
resistance the Americans faced at Omaha Beach, and of a time | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
when the New World sacrificed so much blood in support of the old. | :04:39. | :04:48. | |
In his speech, President Obama said that what the Allied troops had | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
achieved on what he called this tiny sliver of sand had determined | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
Whenever the world makes you cynical, whenever you doubt that | :04:55. | :05:03. | |
courage and goodness is possible, stop and think of these men. | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
Along with all our veterans of D-Day, if you can stand, please | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
Let us recognise your service once more. | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
These men waged war so that we might know peace, sacrificed so we might | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
be free, fought in hopes of a day when we no longer need to fight. | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
At Sword Beach, the heads of state and heads of government assembled | :05:26. | :05:35. | |
Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, was there, | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
Also there, Ukraine's president-elect, a reminder | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
For the first time, Russia's Putin and America's Obama | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
had a brief face-to-face meeting to discuss Ukraine. | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
They confirmed that current problems must be solved | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
President Putin's reaction on the public | :06:02. | :06:14. | |
President Putin's reaction was harder to read. | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
But this, most importantly, was a day for the veterans. | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
And so this afternoon Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge joined | :06:26. | :06:34. | |
And then, in the centre of Arromanches, | :06:35. | :06:46. | |
the small town just above Gold Beach where one of the British | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
divisions came ashore on D-Day, old soldiers marched, almost certainly | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
William laid a wreath in tribute to those who fell on D-Day. | :06:52. | :07:06. | |
And tonight in Paris at a state banquet in her honour, | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
the Queen spoke of her great pleasure at visiting France, and the | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
Stirred by the day's commemorations, we are also filled with other | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
With sorrow and regret, remembering the loss of so many fine | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
With pride at the sheer courage of the men who stormed those beaches, | :07:29. | :07:38. | |
And with thankfulness, knowing that today our nations are | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
free and sovereign because Allied forces liberated this continent | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
This evening in Arromanches, the British Normandy veterans | :07:49. | :08:00. | |
lowered the flag of their association for the final time. | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
But the story of D-Day, of what these men achieved | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
and what it meant for every one of us, will live on, because the world | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
will not forget what was done on these beaches 70 years ago today. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
Nicholas Witchell, BBC News, in Arromanches, Normandy. | :08:17. | :08:26. | |
For many of the veterans, now in their late 80s and early 90s, | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
it's likely to be the last time they will travel to Normandy. | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
Some have returned many times over the years. | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
Others came back for the very first time today. | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
And they all had a different story to tell about | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
Our special correspondent Fergal Keane spent the day with | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
the veterans, who still have vivid memories of that day 70 years ago. | :08:46. | :08:59. | |
D-Day has come. This morning, the Allies began the assault. On a | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
summer's born in Normandy, distant voices summoned the great invasion. | :09:08. | :09:20. | |
-- a summer's morning. Your enemy is well, said General Eisenhower, he | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
will fight savagely. This warning was well founded. And for the | :09:24. | :09:37. | |
veterans of today, painful memories. It is hard to picture them as they | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
were on this day 70 years ago. Then, their average age was 19. Like Len | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
Fox from Norfolk. He was a dispatch rider who came ashore under heavy | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
fire. Men were being killed and there were bodies floating in the | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
sea. And where the sea had come in and gone out, it left a red mark | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
with the blood of the lads, parts of bodies and everything. It was | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
horrible. As a 19-year-old, it was sickening. The procession of elderly | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
people in wheelchairs, a symbol of passing time, the Long distance | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
between the events of June the 6th, 1944, and today. The D-Day | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
commemoration brought back memories of a special encounter for Margaret | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
Dickinson, then a 20-year-old nurse who helped to tend the wounded. | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
There was a German prisoner of war, and he said, he was very badly | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
injured and I was determined he was going to get better. And he did. We | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
got him better. And he said to me, he said, your bombs killed my | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
mother, and you've got me better. And I would like you to have this | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
medal that the Germans gave my mother. The patience. He said, we | :11:00. | :11:13. | |
didn't want to fight. I said, no. We didn't want to fight, but we had to, | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
haven't we? An estimated 9000 Germans were killed on D-Day. And | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
these, some of the nearly 3 million captured by the Western allies | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
between D-Day and the end of the war. Many of the German dead are | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
buried here outside Bayeux. Because of the memory of what Germany | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
inflicted on Europe, commemorations here are low-key and sombre. These | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
men are from a German peace group, that where the modern uniforms of | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
democratic nations as a statement against Nazi militarism. It's the | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
first generation since over 300 years in Germany who had no war, and | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
that's fantastic. Today belonged to the men and women whose individual | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
efforts formed part of the spearhead to defeat fascism. A French | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
generation raised in security greeted them warmly. For the | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
veterans and their families this is the last great public | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
acknowledgement of this # the sacrifice on D-Day. But for those | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
who survived, the images, the sounds of that day have been embedded in | :12:21. | :12:35. | |
their memories for 70 years. Ward defined the D-Day generation. Those | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
hours on the beaches, the most vivid and terrifying in so many lives. As | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
many as 4000 Allied soldiers died on D-Day. They were the heroes. I | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
always think they were the heroes. We weren't, they were the heroes, | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
the lads we had to leave behind. They sacrificed their lives. I was | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
lucky, I survived. There was a final parade by the | :13:00. | :13:08. | |
Normandy Veterans Association here And among the soldiers, sailors and | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
airmen taking part was Tony Colgan Our defence correspondent | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
Caroline Wyatt joined him and his grandson on a veteran's journey. | :13:17. | :13:37. | |
Just over there we landed. At the age of 90 Tony Colgan has brought | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
his grandson Antony here, to a place that defined his life There was all | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
hell breaking loose when we were about a mile off shore. I thought - | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
this is your last day. You are just not going to get out of this. All of | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
a sudden as we came to the shore t went dead quiet and there was no | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
firing or anything like that, just for a matter of a minute or two. | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
Antony wants to know more about his grandfather's war, before it is too | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
late to ask. : It is weird to think of him as a 20-year-old kid driving | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
on to this beach and experiencing what he is describing. It is | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
important to remember as much as we can, so I can pass that information | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
on to his great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
NEWSREEL: Not a soul to be seen this this village where a tank battle was | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
fought. Surviving D-Day was just the start. | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
Only a week later, Tony helped liberate this Normandy village in a | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
crucial Allied victory. We were down this road here and there was a tank | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
there knocked out. Were you scared a lot of the time? Scared all the | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
time. You were naturally scared. It was a life and death situation. The | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
whole of your life was life and death. Will you be able to get | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
around the corner? Will there be antitank guns around there? An | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
antitank gun, if it fired at me would wipe me off the face of the | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
earth. You are so lucky, you and Jim to manage to stay alive. As the | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
Durham Light Infantry pushed inland into the weeks after D-Day, the toll | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
of the dead and injured went up quickly. We lost over 200 in one | :15:27. | :15:36. | |
day. 200! He is 27. He is 19. 19. It is extraordinary. That they have not | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
had a life. No, that they didn't have a life. It can be emotional. It | :15:41. | :15:50. | |
is, isn't it? Yes, it's all right. Oh, man, you have made me cry now. | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
As D-Day fades from living memory, Tony's grandson will also do his | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
duty to remember and pass on what his grandfather and his comrades | :16:02. | :16:12. | |
With time in France is actually 11.15pm. It is late. The square in | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
Arromanches is still packed. They are enjoying the music. | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
We should mention one other veteran who was here today in Normandy, | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
an 89-year-old, who'd been reported missing from his care home in Hove. | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
Bernard Jordan, who served with the Royal Navy 70 years ago, disappeared | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
yesterday, wearing his medals. Police were alerted but happily | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
Mr Jordan is safely on his way back home. | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
Good to be able to say that. We will have more from norm andy later in | :16:47. | :16:55. | |
the programme. Back to Jane for now. -- from Normandy. | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
Now the rest of the day's news. The International Monetary Fund ha | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
given an upbeat assessment of the British economy, saying | :17:07. | :17:08. | |
growth is better than forecast. But it's warned that ever-increasing | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
house prices could threaten the recovery. | :17:11. | :17:12. | |
The Government said the Bank of England has the powers it needs | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
to deal with any problems. Here's our Economics Editor, | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
Robert Peston. His report contains some | :17:18. | :17:18. | |
flash photography. Lovely, | :17:19. | :17:18. | |
lovely, lovely. The sun's out and Lovely, | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
the economy, well, if it's not exactly soaring away, well, it's | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
recovering nicely. Now that's not exactly what the powerful IMF, | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
monitor and watchdog of the global economy, thought was likely just | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
over a year ago when it warned that the Chancellor was playing with fire | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
by pushing ahead with austerity. Contrition from the IMF's boss? I | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
completely acknowledge that we underestimated growth. Now, do I | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
have to go on my knees? We underestimated. Look, we got it | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
wrong. We acknowledged it. We were not the only one to get it wrong. | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
This man isn't exactly weeping at the IMF's embarrassment. Today's IMF | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
report shows our long-term economic plan is the right one. The British | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
economy is firing on all cylinders. And the IMF say we are right to | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
carry on tackling Britain's budget deficit, fixing the banking system | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
and backing businesses to create jobs. So, we're if you werely on the | :18:18. | :18:27. | |
sunny side of the street, are we? Mm. Elegant, swanky, rich London, | :18:28. | :18:47. | |
prices going through the roof. Now, the IMF says it is not a serious | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
bubble yet, but if the overheating in the housing market were to | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
intensify, if it were to spread to the rest of the country, that could | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
be dangerous. So the IMF is urging the Bank of England to move early | :18:58. | :19:06. | |
and gradually to cool down the housing market. By curbing | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
mortgages that a high multiples of what people earn. By streetening | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
banks so they can absorb losses if mortgages go bad and, if all else | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
fails, perhaps changing or ending the Government's cherished | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
help-to-bye subsidised mortgage scheme. The ball is in the Bank of | :19:17. | :19:25. | |
England's court right now. The Bank of England has a lot of new | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
powers to deal with house prices rising very | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
quickly. Some of them, I think it will deploy this month by trying to | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
Mick affordability tests more difficult. But, Britain will remake | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
vulnerable to boom and bust in housing, warns the IMF, unless there | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
is much more of this, the building of new homes. | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
The father kooi Kew of a nine-day-old baby boy, who died from | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
blood poisoning hopes lessons | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
can be learnt from his son's death. 20 other babies are still being | :19:49. | :19:50. | |
treated in a number of neonatal wards | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
across the southeast of England. Yousef Al-Kharboush who died | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
on Sunday, was a twin and was born eight weeks premature. | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
Today, his father spoke of the family's loss. | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
Anybody who has a child and thinks about them being dead, | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
you would understand what a father would feel in that case | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
and seeing him suffering in front of you, before he dies. | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
But, this is what life is all about and we accept it the way it is. | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
Yousef's father, Raaid Hassan Sakkijha, speaking earlier today. | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
The front-runner in the Afghan presidential election, | :20:28. | :20:28. | |
Abdullah Abdullah, has survived an assassination attempt. | :20:29. | :20:38. | |
six people are reported to have been killed, and more than 20 | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
injured, when two explosions struck his convoy in Kabul. | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
No-one has admitted carrying out the attack, | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
but the Taliban has threatened to disrupt the election campaign. | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
The Conservatives have been celebrating a comfortable victory | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
in the Newark by-election. UKIP made gains, | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
pushing Labour into third place. The Liberal Democrats recorded one | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
of their worst results - coming sixth behind the Green Party. | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
From Newark, here's our Deputy Political Editor, James Landale. | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
His report contains some flash photography. | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
My first duty as a new Member of Parliament. | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
Good luck. From the excitement of the campaign | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
to the reality of the job. Today the new MP | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
for Newark opened a pub. But even here, even now, | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
he wouldn't drink to celebrate his party's first by-election | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
victory in Government for 25 years. At least the boss was happy. | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
It's a good result because we worked hard. | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
We had an excellent candidate and we had a very clear message | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
about our long-term economic plan. How it is working | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
but how we need to stick at it. As | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
the ballot papers were counted early this morning, the piles of votes | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
very quickly showed that the massive Tory effort here had paid off. | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
Robert Edward Jenrick is duly elected for the Newark constituency. | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
Cheers of joy - yes. But also some tears of relief. | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
For the Tories' success in holding a safe seat, | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
meant Nigel Farage was looking, for once, not quite his usual self. | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
This by-election mattered because for the first time it pitted | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
the Tories against UKIP. The Tories had to show they could | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
take on UKIP and beat them. Well, they've certainly done that. | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
For him, the wait for a seat in Westminster goes on. | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
You promised an earthquake. It hasn't really happened. | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
Has it? Well we won the European elections | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
two weeks ago with 28% of the vote across the country and in | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
this fiercely contested by-election tonight, we have 26% of the vote. | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
So the earthquake is still rumbling on. | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
Labour put on a brave face. Their core vote didn't collapse | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
but third place in a seat they once held will worry some. | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
The Liberal Democrats did beat the Loonies, but not many others. | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
They came sixth and once again lost their deposit. | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
Clearly, this is a very disappointing result for the Liberal | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
Democrats but it's also clear that an awful lot of our supporters in | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
this by-election voted tactically. People absolutely didn't want | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
to be represented by UKIP. So, the people of Newark have | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
stalled UKIP's momentum. The Tories are shouting it | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
from the rooftops and life here, at last, can get back to normal. | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
Sir Bradley Wiggins has told the BBC he's disappointed not to be | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
competing in this year's Tour de France. | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
The 2012 champion says Team Sky is focusing its efforts on the | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
defending champion, Chris Froome. Wiggins hasn't been chosen to | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
compete in this weekend's Criterium du Dauphine, | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
a key warm-up event for the Tour. Here's Joe Wilson. | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
Bradley Wiggins' is British cycling's outstanding individual. | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
Tour de France winner in 2012. Four time Olympic champion. | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
But there is a problem, there are two stars in Team Sky. | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
Wiggins and alongside him, Chris Froome. | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
The team ain't big enough for the both of them. | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
It seems it's Wiggins who is going to leave. | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
I'm gutted. I've worked extremely hard | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
for this hard for this all winter and right through the summer. | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
The team is focussed around Chris Froome, the defending champion who | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
has a great chance of winning his second Tour, and it's been decided | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
that, as things stand, they are going to base the team around him. | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
So, unfortunately, I won't be there. The whole point | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
about the Tour de France this year is that it starts here in Britain. | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
In a month's time The Mall here in central London will be filled | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
with cyclists and fans. The star attraction, had, of course, | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
been Bradley Wiggins. The first stage is in Yorkshire | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
where there has been a huge marketing and publicity drive | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
around the race. Great scenery, but without Wiggins, | :24:27. | :24:28. | |
some of the prestige must have disappeared. | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
I'm very disappointed that Bradley won't be in the start in Yorkshire, | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
in the start in Leeds on 5th July. Of course, him winning the race | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
in 2012 was one of the reasons that the Tour de France was coming back | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
to the UK as quickly as it had, having only been here in 2007. | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
Meanwhile, Chris Froome, the reigning champ, | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
has already seen off his main rival, sorry, team-mate, Wiggins. | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
He may already feel he has won the Tour, once more. | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
Well, that is it from me for tonight. Now let's return to Huw, | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
and the D-Day commemorations in Normandy. | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
Thanks. Welcome back to Arromanches where world leaders and veterans, | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
thousands of family members and friends have been marking the 70th | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
anners have riff D-Day. As you say. Our royal correspondent Nicholas -- | :25:21. | :25:30. | |
anniversary of D-day. Our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell has | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
been following events. What was the poignant moment? I would defy people | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
and not be affected by the poignancy. These ageing veterans, | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
many in wheelchairs here. The inscription on the headstones, still | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
there despite the passing of years. I remember being here for the 40th, | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
people said it would be the last big commemoration. Since then we have | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
had the 50th, 60th and 70th. This will be the last, big, formal | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
anniversary. It is for that reason that Prince William said this | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
afternoon that it is so important that younger people understood. It | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
is no exaggeration to say that if these landings had not gone as | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
smoothly as they did, that nothing of significance that we know today, | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
would be quite as it is. That is why, what happened here, matters. | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
Thank you. That is all from the BBC team here in Normandy after a day | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
that few will forget, paying tribute to the Allied force who is liberated | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
France back in 1944 and changed the course of the Second World War. In a | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
moment the news where you are, but we'll leave you with some of the | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
enduring images of this 70th anniversary of D-Day. From Normandy, | :26:50. | :26:58. | |
from all of us here, good night. BELL TOLLS | :26:59. | :27:17. | |
delr There was all hell breaking -- there was all hell breaking loose | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
when we were about a mile off shore. Then I thought - this is your last | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
LAST POST PLAYS day. You are just not going to | :27:28. | :27:53. | |
! Whenever you doubt that courage and goodness is possible, stop and | :27:54. | :28:02. | |
think of these men. Snool age shall not weary them, nor the years | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
condemn. At the going down of the sun and in | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
the morning, we will remember them. We will remember them. | :28:13. | :28:18. |