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D-Day veterans gather in France to mark tomorrow's 70th anniversary | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
of the Normandy landings. Prince Charles leads | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
the commemorations honouring the British paratroopers who were | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
the first to land in Normandy just after midnight. | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
We trained for months and months and months, and we landed with one | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
purpose in mind, and that was to liberate Ronville, | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
which we did before first light. On the other side of the channel in | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
Portsmouth, more veterans gather for a special service to remember the | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
fallen, and honour the survivors. And I'm Jane Hill in London. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
The other news tonight. Sticking together - President Obama | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
suggests he'd prefer the UK to remain united in the run-up to | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
Scotland's independence referendum. Three more babies are thought to | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
have blood poisoning as a result of contaminated drips. | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
One of the Birmingham schools at the centre | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
of an alleged extremism plot is put into special measures by Ofsted. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
And Qatar says it doesn't rule out possible legal action against FIFA | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
if the vote for the 2022 World Cup is re-run. | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
On BBC London, 900 people are evacuated from the Shard following | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
reports of smoke. And the missing Londoner in Malaysia | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
- a forensic team is examining a body believed to be that of Gareth | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
Huntley. Good evening and welcome to the | :01:34. | :01:51. | |
BBC News at Six from Normandy, where 70 years ago tomorrow, around | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
155,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches here during the most daring | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
amphibious assault in history. Hundreds of | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
the last surviving British veterans have come back, many of them to | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
Arromanches, to remember fallen friends and comrades during two days | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
of events along the Normandy coast. And the Queen has arrived in Paris | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
with the Duke of Edinburgh at the start of a three-day state visit. | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
She will join veterans and world leaders here tomorrow. | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
Robert Hall reports on the day's events so far. | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
At the bridge which has become an icon for the airborne divisions, | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
Prince Charles, the Colonel in Chief of the Parachute Regiment, marked | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
the loss of life during the surprise attack that was vital to the D-Day | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
plans. Today, the prince crossed the bridge, named Pegasus in honour of | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
the men who took and help their objective. His wreath commemorated | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
one small action on that summer night. In the hours before the | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
seaborne assault, 181 men carried in gliders targeted bridges over which | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
German reinforcements could threaten Allied forces. Then to the cafe. It | :03:06. | :03:15. | |
is still owned by the family who helped to treat the wounded and who | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
still welcome veterans and their families as their own. Hugh McGuire | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
attacked a machine-gun nest whilst badly wounded. He had returned for | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
the first time. The commanding officer came to see how I was, and | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
he asked the figure down to the first aid post. I said, no, sir, I | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
never refused an order in my life, but I would like your permission to | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
go to that machine-gun post. Which I did. 13,000 feet above the wartime | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
objectives, 89-year-old jock Hutton braced himself for one last jump. He | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
had helped his unit, the 30th Lancashire parachute battalion, sees | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
the nearby town of Ronville. Below him, and admiring audience watched | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
him and his partner from today's Parachute Regiment Sorin for the | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
perfect landing. Was I stuck my head out of the door and got a view from | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
the back, I was away. We trained for months, and we landed in one purpose | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
in mind, and that was deliberate Ronville, which we did before first | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
light. Around us, 300 parachutes loss and. Men from Britain, France, | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Canada and the United States representing the thousands who had | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
plunged on the darkness to protect the landing beaches. Some who took | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
part today had direct connections to those events. Major Ben Salt jumped | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
in memory of his grandfather. My grandfather fought literally just up | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
there as part of the 12th Devon airborne. He was one of the | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
survivors of those who started that battle. There are fewer to tell | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
their stories now, but today's sights and sounds reminded veterans | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
of the brotherhood who wear the red beret. It is a great honour. I am 91 | :05:09. | :05:19. | |
now. I feel as though I want to cry. Tomorrow, in Arromanches, veterans | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
will hold their last formal parade. Some have already promised that as | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
long as they are able, they will return here, and they will remember. | :05:30. | :05:44. | |
But Hall, BBC News, Normandy. But commemorations are not just to | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
keep it here in northern France. In Portsmouth, veterans have gathered | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
to remember those who lost their lives and to honour the survivors. | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
In the shadow of the naval war memorial on Southsea Common, the | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
drum head parade, with a ceremonial guard of honour. In a centuries-old | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
tradition, drummers piled their drums to create a makeshift altar | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
for a service to commemorate those killed in the D-Day landings and to | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
honour those who survived. The sacrifice that was made to free | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
Europe from tyranny 70 years ago is a vital lesson for all of us, not | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
just the military lessons we can learn from the amp to be as assault, | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
but from the courage and professionalism of the soldiers and | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
airmen that took part. Among those veterans, a royal Marine commando | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
who is now 93, taxed on the -- task on D-Day. A matter-of-fact hero. | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
who is now 93, taxed on the -- task charged up the beach. Got to the | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
fences, headed up to the radar station with | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
fences, headed up to the radar scuffle there, and then we took over | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
the radar station. You make it sound very easy. It was! | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
the radar station. You make it sound closest major port of the invasion | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
beaches that played an important role in the landings. What Smith was | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
just one of dozens of departure points all along the south coast -- | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
Portsmouth. Here, men embarked on to their landing craft from temporary | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
jetties built alongside South Parade Pier on Southsea beat. For a time on | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
that morning 70 years ago, the supreme commander himself, General | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
Eisenhower, watched them go aboard. This morning, a Dutch assault | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
Eisenhower, watched them go aboard. and the Royal Navy's HMS Bulwark | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
sailed close inshore to demonstrate what a modern amphibious landing | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
looks like. In some respects, not so very different from D-Day. Micky | :07:42. | :07:51. | |
Higham, BBC News, Portsmouth. -- Nick Higham. I will be back later in | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
the programme with the latest on the Queen's state visit to France and | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
look ahead to her visit here to Normandy tomorrow. | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
on the day's events so far. The US President, Barack Obama, | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
has signalled his unease at the prospect of Scottish independence. | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
Asked about the referendum, which is only three months away, | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
the President said the issue is one for the Scottish | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
people - but he felt that the UK ?works pretty well? as it is. | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
Our correspondent Lorna Gordon is in Glasgow. | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
Yes, American diplomats have previously said their country would | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
remain neutral in the debate over Scotland's future. Today, that | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
position appears to have shifted. Those campaigning in favour of the | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
union or the printing up leaflets which are citing President Obama's | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
intervention. Alex Salmond conmen meanwhile, appears unruffled. His | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
welcoming the comments, in particular President Obama say that | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
the decision of Scotland's future rests with the people of Scotland | :08:52. | :08:52. | |
alone. rests with the people of Scotland | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
It has been dubbed the special relationship. A deck old soul | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
political, diplomatic -- a decades-old relationship between the | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
United States and the UK. So of the many contributions about Scotland's | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
future, none have been as significant as this. I would say | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
that the United Kingdom has been an extraordinary partner to us, from | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
the outside at least, it looks like things have worked pretty well. We | :09:21. | :09:30. | |
obviously have a deep interest in making sure that one of the closest | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
allies that we will ever have remained strong, robust, a United | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
and effective partner. The US will be watching closely what happens in | :09:45. | :09:45. | |
Scotland. Fast lane on the be watching closely what happens in | :09:46. | :09:54. | |
weapons system, and the US maintains the missiles. The SNP has led out of | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
the country were to become independent, there would be no | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
nuclear weapons on Scottish soil. The party's leader, Scotland's First | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
Minister, has welcomed President Obama's intervention. I think the | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
president's remarks are well judged. This is a matter for the folks in | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
Scotland. It is our democratic choice. We are very aware that we | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
are in a position where we can make that democratic choice as a nation, | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
and we intend to do so. But also welcoming his comments, those | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
campaigning to keep the union in place. I was not surprised by these | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
comments, but I think they will be seen as a significant intervention | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
in the referendum debate, because they reflect what so many of us in | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
Scotland believe. The impact of President Obama's comments is as yet | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
unclear. It is by no means clear how this intervention will be viewed by | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
those deciding how they will vote in a little over 100 days' time. | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
in Glasgow. Three more babies are believed to | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
have blood poisoning as a result of being treated via suspected | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
contaminated drips. Public Health England says this | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
brings the total number of cases to 18. | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
The babies are in a number of hospitals across England, after | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
being infected by bacteria linked to batches of contaminated liquid feed. | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
The Government has promised a swift investigation into how | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
a newborn baby died on Sunday. Our health correspondent | :11:17. | :11:16. | |
Branwen Jeffreys has the latest. Born before their time, highly | :11:17. | :11:28. | |
vulnerable to infection. In intensive care, lives can hang in | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
the balance. So babies are monitored hour by hour for any change. That is | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
how nurses and doctors in Luton were alerted to the infection when two of | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
their babies became rapidly unwell. Within a matter of hours, we could | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
see that the babies were beginning to develop temperatures. They were | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
getting faster heart rates. We were always going to screen our babies | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
for signs of infection. We realised that something was going on. Now it | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
is known that up to 18 babies in nine different hospitals may have | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
been infected. One has died. The others are being treated with | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
antibiotics. The parents of rabies here and at the other hospitals, | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
their first priority is recovering -- for parents of babies. It is no | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
consolation to them that this kind of contamination is extremely rare. | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
They will want to know how it was allowed to happen. And a glass | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
screen, this is where the liquid food is made. Manufacturing is | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
continuing. Officials are satisfied that there is no further risk of | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
contamination, and the company said a possible source had been isolated. | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
From the investigations carried out so far, it would appear that the | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
potential contamination is link to a single raw material ingredient. | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
Duncan's daughter mayor relied on liquid food when she was born three | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
months early. He understands how anxious parents may feel. If parents | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
are worried, they should talk to the doctors and nurses in the hospital. | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
They are best able to advise them on the health of their baby. While | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
investigations continue, officials say there is no reason why any other | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
parent should be concerned. Ramone Jefferies, BBC News. | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
Branwen Jeffreys has the latest. One of the schools at the centre of | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
an alleged plot by Muslim hardliners to seize control of several | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
Birmingham schools has been accused of doing little to keep its students | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
safe from the risks associated with extremist views. The BBC has | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
obtained a copy of Ofsted's report for Golden Hillock School. Ofsted | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
gave the school the lowest rating of ?inadequate? in all categories, and | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
has placed it in special measures. Our Political Correspondent Vicki | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
Young reports. It's a startling allegation that | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
behind these gates, a hardline Islamic plot could be underway to | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
seize control of the education system in parts of Birmingham. | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
When concerns were raised, ministers sent in the inspectors. | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
Their findings are causing a storm of protest. | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
This is the Ofsted report into Golden Hillock School, | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
due to be published next week. It is being judged inadequate | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
in all areas, which means the school will go into special measures. | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
The governors and the head teacher could well be replaced. | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
In here are damning comments about the standard of teaching, | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
but also alarming conclusions about the risks of extremism. | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
Ofsted inspectors concluded that too little is done to keep | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
students safe from the risks associated with extremist views. | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
That could leave students vulnerable to the risk of marginalisation | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
from wider British society, which could include radicalisation. | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
The school says it wholeheartedly disputes those findings, | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
and points out that inspectors found no evidence that teachers were | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
imposing strict Islamic practices, a view shared by parents | :14:50. | :14:59. | |
at the school gate today. I used to go to this school. | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
My brothers and sisters have been to this school. | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
My son comes to this school, and I think it is a brilliant school. | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
It has all got out of proportion. I have been to this school myself. | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
The attitudes have changed, and it has got much better now. | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
Back in Westminster, the problems in Birmingham have lifted the lid | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
on a bitter ministerial row. Theresa May openly questioned | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
whether the Department for Education ignored warnings | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
about what was going on. But today, the Education Secretary | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
glossed over all that. I think Theresa is doing | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
a fantastic job. He has long believed the Home Office | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
only confronts extremism once it develops into terrorism. | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
Are we too soft on fundamentalism? Absolutely not. | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
develops into terrorism. We take a very firm line. | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
David Cameron is away on international business, | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
but warring Conservative ministers back home are a headache for him, | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
and a gift to Labour. As for these issues for the last day | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
or so, I will get to the bottom of who said what and what has happened, | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
and I will sort it all out once I have finished these important | :16:07. | :16:08. | |
meetings I am having here. I think it is | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
a deep concern that children in our schools are being exposed to | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
extremism, as the report suggests. We need David Cameron to show | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
leadership and sort this out. More schools here are braced | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
for bad Ofsted reports next week, but several school governors have | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
branded the whole exercise a witchhunt, based on false | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
and anonymous allegations. Vicky Young, BBC News, Birmingham. | :16:24. | :16:33. | |
Our top story this evening: And the Queen is in Paris | :16:34. | :16:50. | |
at the beginning of a three-day tour to mark the D-Day landings. | :16:51. | :17:23. | |
Qatar says it will do everything in its power to keep | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
the 2022 Football World Cup. Organisers | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
of the bid are believed to be considering all options available to | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
them, including potential legal action, if the vote which won them | :17:31. | :17:32. | |
the tournament has to action, if the vote which won them | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
It follows allegations of corruption in the bidding process, | :17:36. | :17:36. | |
allegations in the bidding process, | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
From there, our Sports Correspondent Richard Conway sent this report. | :17:39. | :18:24. | |
considering all options available to them, including potential legal | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
action, if the vote which won them the tournament has to be re-run. | :18:27. | :19:23. | |
Those responsible for building Qatar's new infrastructure said the | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
investment would be under threat if people were to strip the country of | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
its right to host the event. It would be very sad for us as a | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
people. In 2010, we were really happy as a nation to host this | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
event, especially within this region. At the same time, I'm | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
telling you that I feel really confident that we have won it in the | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
right way. The first World Cup in an Islamic state now lies largely in | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
the hands of FIFA's ethics investigator, Michael Garcia. He is | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
due to deliver a report into the entire bidding process next month. | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
The Sunday Times intends to print further allegations over Qatar's | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
alleged conduct this weekend. Qatar is understood to be considering all | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
options available to it in its fight to keep hold of its prize. | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
Meanwhile, both on and off the pitch, the preparations for | :20:23. | :20:23. | |
football's British okays continue. The European central bank has cut | :20:24. | :20:33. | |
interest rates to a record low in an attempt to boost growth and prevent | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
deflation in the Eurozone. The ECB cut its main interest rate from 0.25 | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
descent to .15% and took the president instead imposing negative | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
interest rates on banks. Our business correspondent is with me. I | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
hope you can explain what negative interest rates are? It sounds weird, | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
but it means the banks in the Eurozone will be charged for parking | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
cash at the European central bank. Just a little bit, in the hope that | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
they stop stashing and start lending. Unprecedented, but as yet | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
unproven. In another announcement, they have announced cheap loans to | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
banks on the proviso that they lend those two certain targeted sectors, | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
very like the system we have in the UK. Finally, a message from the head | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
of the central bank saying that if that does not work, we will open the | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
door to quantitative easing, a creation of new money to shove into | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
the economy to get things going. They resisted this at first, but | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
they are spooked by deflation, which is lethal to the economy. Why would | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
I buy something today which I know one year from now will be cheaper? | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
That is what they are kind to stave off. Why do we care? Because it is | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
our biggest trading partner, so we have to hope it works. | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
The Prime Minister is delivering a final warning to President | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
Vladimir Putin tonight that he has one month to end Russia's | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
destabilisation of Ukraine or face crippling economic sanctions. | :22:02. | :22:03. | |
The two are meeting in Paris on their way to | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
the D-Day commemorations. David Cameron has been attending the | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
summit of G7 nations in Brussels. From there, our Diplomatic | :22:09. | :22:09. | |
Correspondent James Robbins reports. The club of the world elite is | :22:10. | :22:22. | |
shrinking. Today, just seven national leaders, and the family | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
photo tells the story of Russia's suspension on isolation, punishment | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
for its actions in Ukraine will stop this was the G8 summit a year ago | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
when Vladimir Putin was welcomed as a host, but he has been scrubbed out | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
for now at least. The rest say it is the price of abandoning democratic | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
values. After today's slimmed down session, President Obama and the | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
Prime Minister emerged with a clear alternation, stop Ross and support | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
for separatists in Ukraine within a month, or face harsher sanctions | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
aimed at the heart of the country -- stop Russian. I urge President Putin | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
to take the steps when I meeting later today. Mr President, do you | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
see your real possibilities of opening up a pathway for the crisis? | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
There is a path where Russia has the capacity to engage directly with the | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
Ukrainian president, and he such a kid. If he does not, and he | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
continues a strategy of undermining the sovereignty of Ukraine, then we | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
have no choice but to respond -- and he should take it. For now, there is | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
no end to the violence in Ukraine separatists and government forces | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
fight for political control. One rebel leader told the BBC that there | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
was no going back now. But President Putin, asked on French television if | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
he would talk to the new Ukrainian president at the D-Day ceremonies | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
was careful not to rule this out. That direct dialogue is one thing | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
David Cameron will urge to Russia this evening, carrying the G7 | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
message to Vladimir Putin. More on our main story, and events | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
in France remembering D-Day. Let's return to Sophie Raworth | :24:17. | :24:18. | |
in Arromanches. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
arrived in Paris this afternoon the start of the three-day state visit, | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
her first in ten years. Tomorrow she arrives in Normandy and will join | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
world leaders and veterans at an international ceremony on what was | :24:34. | :24:35. | |
known on D-Day as Sword Beach. This is a state visit of very | :24:36. | :24:47. | |
special significance. Elizabeth II of the UK, a member of the wartime | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
generation, visiting France with what the French are describing as | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
the highest and rarest honours. It is a personal tribute to her, yes, | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
but it's more than that. For tomorrow is the anniversary of | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
D-Day, and this is France at its highest level, expressing its | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
gratitude to Britain for coming to its rescue with its allies on the | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
beaches of Normandy 70 years ago. At the Arc de Triomphe, President | :25:13. | :25:25. | |
Francoise Hollande of France, born nine years after the war ended, | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
stood alongside a queen who at the time of D-Day was an 18-year-old | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
princess serving in the military in the auxiliary or service. They relit | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
the flame of remembrance. Then together they made the ceremonial | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
ride down the sweep of the shone Scillies a, accompanied by the | :25:45. | :25:53. | |
Republican guard -- Champs Elysees. Second World War has not been the | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
easiest subject for France. Are sensitivities and sensitivities in | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
the relationship with Britain -- there are sensitivities. But the | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
passage of years has made it easier to say things, and the underlying | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
message of this visit is to say thank you. In Normandy tomorrow, | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
Queen Elizabeth will be the most honoured of all of the heads of | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
states -- state there. As they remember the events of 70 years ago. | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
Also heading this way to Normandy, a flotilla of ships which has just set | :26:24. | :26:32. | |
sail from Portsmouth. Leading the way, the Royal Navy's flagship, HMS | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
bulwark which is leading the flotilla heading to the Normandy | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
coast. They will retrace the route taken by thousands of warships and | :26:44. | :26:51. | |
landing craft. On board, some veterans will be taking part. They | :26:52. | :27:01. | |
are going to pay tribute to honour those who survived. Here, the crowds | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
are growing ahead of the commemorations. We will have full | :27:08. | :27:22. | |
coverage of events in Normandy throughout the day starting with | :27:23. | :27:24. | |
breakfast tomorrow morning. That is it from us. | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
Good evening. The weather story for the next few days is one of rising | :27:28. | :27:39. | |
temperatures for all of you, but warming up does not necessarily | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
correspond with completely blue skies, as I will show you. But at | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
the moment crosser many parts of England and Wales it is sunny. One | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
or two heavy showers in Northern Ireland and it will stay fairly | :27:51. | :27:53. | |
cloudy and misty with hill fog across parts of Scotland overnight. | :27:54. | :28:03. | |
A few spots of rain or drizzle, and one or two isolated showers in the | :28:04. | :28:05. | |
far south-west, not the most, dry night. A bit fresher first thing in | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
the morning, but most of you start the day the sunshine overhead, even | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
if it is a little hazy side. A chance of showers drifting from | :28:12. | :28:13. | |
south-west England. Even here, a lot of dry weather and brightening up in | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
Scotland with isolated showers in the afternoon. Most of you having a | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
dry day and temperatures already creeping up and turning increasingly | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
humid across southern areas later, and that sets the scene at the start | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
of the weekend. Warm and humid air pushing up from the continent, but | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
trying to push it out the way, cooler air from the Atlantic, and | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
where they meet, that is the recipe for some big thunderstorms. The | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
story at the moment looks like central and western areas likely to | :28:41. | :28:43. | |
see the storms during the first half of the day and as temperatures rise | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
some very heavy thunderstorms further east. The storms could be | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
torrential, but look at the chart, some big gaps there and some of you | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
will stay dry through the day, so keep checking back with the forecast | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
and do not write your day off by any means. It will be a humid day across | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
the country, turning pressure, and the process involves the risk of a | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
thunderstorm but they do clear out the way. Pleasant enough in the | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
sunshine on Sunday, one or two isolated showers, but the most | :29:15. | :29:17. | |
decent end to the weekend after a potentially stormy Saturday -- | :29:18. | :29:19. | |
foremost a decent end. That's all from the BBC News at Six. | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
So it's goodbye from me, | :29:26. | :29:26. |