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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are author and broadcaster, | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Dreda Say Mitchell and David Williamson of the Western Mail. | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
The Independent has a striking image of a lone piper | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Arromanches. And asks, as the world remembers D`Day, "what, if anything, | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
have we learnt"? "The Great Escape" of Bernard Jordan makes the front | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
if anything, have we learnt"? absconded from a care home to join | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
his comrades on the beaches of The Daily Mail. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
pictured on the front of The Daily Express as she lays a wreath in | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
Bayeux but it headlines the arrival of monsoon weather this weekend. The | :00:54. | :01:05. | |
The Western mail reports that Peter Hain will stand down as an MP at the | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
general election. And the financial Times says Western authorities have | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
handed Turkish authorities a list of 5000 people they fear are trying to | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
travel to join Al`Qaeda groups. Where else should we begin but the | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
incredibly moving commemorations we have seen on the beaches of Normandy | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
throughout the day. A gift for photographers, and the papers making | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
the most of the pictures they have been offered. D`Day, the final | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
tribute, commemorating the invasion that rescued Europe from the Nazis. | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
That is 99`year`old Bill Price on Gold Beach. Men of this age, | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
determined to be there, even if they are frail and ill. That makes you | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
feel choked, just to think of that. It does, really. One of the things | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
that really moved me was not just that they were there, but their | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
families were there. I remember yesterday watching a programme on | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
someone pulls my granddaughter was talking about her grandfather who | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
had just passed away. She had a wonderful picture of him with his | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
medals, but also has a handsome young man. Prince William was | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
talking today. Young people mustn't forget. That is why it is key that | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
we continue to commemorate this as long as we can. That is what makes | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
this poignant. Yes, it is a special anniversary, the 70th. The next | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
commemoration, the big one, the 80th year, these men will not be here. | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
They want. And when you think of how society has changed as a result of | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
their victory, these are the men who made possible the birth of democracy | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
across so much of the world. And some of them, like Bill Price who we | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
see standing here, have lived to see their victory. When we talk about | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
the numbers of the fallen, the 4000, more than September the 11th, that | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
personal experience of disaster and tragedy, suddenly perhaps in our | :03:16. | :03:24. | |
society after 9/11 macro, we have been reminded that history is full | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
of surprises. History follows a narrow course of events, and these | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
men define the course of events that made democracy and freedom possible. | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
And now as we look at the rest of the world thrown back into | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
uncertainty and new threats, we can't take this for granted, now | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
that the Berlin Wall is down. The Independent also have a very | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
beautiful picture on the front page, a piper playing a lament on Gold | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
Beach as the Royal Marines landing craft arrived at Arromanches at the | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
start of the D`Day commemorations. But the headline, the world | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
remembers, but what, if anything, have we learnt, making the point | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
that there were diplomatic manoeuvring is because of what is | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
happening in the Ukraine, in Syria and how it is spilling over and | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
affecting Europe. The divisions within the European Union, that all | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
of that was present on these beaches today. It is the whole thing about | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
human beings. Do we ever learn? I don't think we do ever learn. It | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
seems when you look at history, we are always commemorating wars. Some | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
that we think are just, and this was definitely a just war. That is one | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
of the reasons I think we have to commemorate it. It is also the 100th | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
anniversary for the great War, and here we are again with all these | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
conflicts. In my home, I have a fabulous carpet that I bought in | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
Syria. I often look at it and think, I can't get on a plane and go there | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
now. I sometimes think, are we ever going to learn? I sometimes think, | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
we are not going to learn because we we are not going to learn because we | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
are human beings and I wonder if conflict is part of our psyche. That | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
context makes the events of D`Day more extraordinary. Here were | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
nations coming together in the biggest ever invasion force. This | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
was not an invasion to occupy, it was an invasion which literally | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
confronted evil, and one. And then left. We are still talking in school | :05:26. | :05:36. | |
rooms about battles from over 2000 years ago. I think, as time passes | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
the events of D`Day will become more extraordinary, simply because what | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
other precedent is there for a battle of freedom? Another | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
interesting thing, and why I think we need to commemorate the D`Day | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
landings and what happened in World War II, is that there is no grey | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
line with this will stop it was a just war. However, I think we have | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
moved in modern times, if you think about the Vietnam War, the war in | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Iraq, the forces that were in Afghanistan, what is happening in | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
Syria, we have these wars that are very grey, not so clear`cut. It | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
would be very interesting in the future, are there going to be | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
commemorations of those wars? If you think about the Vietnam War, it is a | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
war that in America people don't really talk about. So I think this | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
one is a very important one in terms of reminding us about our values as | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
human beings in society. The Daily Mail says after Charles accused | :06:38. | :06:46. | |
Putin of behaving like Hitler, the Russian leader brazen it out on | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
D`Day. Is that the right verb? Millions of Russians died in the | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
Second World War. Exactly. Millions of Russians will be watching him | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
there and remembering the sacrifices that their communities made. And the | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
danger is in reporting anything like this that we see it as rain much a | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
European event. This genuinely was a world war. Today, the politics that | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
Putin stands surrounded by our not just European politics. Through the | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
Cold War one of the criticisms of the response from the West was that | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
we always thought whoever was the Russian premier was thinking about | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
Europe, when they were thinking just as much about China. And now he's | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
looking across and seeing China's ambitions in the South China Ocean | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
and such things. There is an opportunity for Russia still to be | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
brought in from the cold, and Putin still has an opportunity to go down | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
in history as a great state maker. The pressure is on him to make | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
overtures of some sort to the new President`elect of Ukraine. He is in | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
no doubt about how the Western leaders feel that his relationship | :08:00. | :08:09. | |
should progress with Ukraine. I think one of the issues is that some | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
people would disagree with how we are talking about this and would say | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
that Western leaders have two make overtures. Once again, the conflict | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
in the Ukraine is one of those that is not clear`cut. If you stand on | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
both sides, you can see where they are coming from. What is interesting | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
with this story, there is a wonderful quote. Mr Putin cut an | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
isolated figure while otherworldly does clustered around the Queen. So | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
you get this image that everyone should be together but nation states | :08:42. | :08:42. | |
are not actually together at all. should be together but nation states | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
Like David Cameron's entreaty that they should do that. Let's take a | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
look at a lighter story from the D`Day commemorations on the Daily | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
Mail. Navy veteran defies care home ban and absconds to join comrades on | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
D`Day beaches. This is a man by the name of Bernard Jordan, who lives in | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
Hove. I think at 89, if you are a veteran, you can do what you like | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
today. I think he should be able to do what he likes every day. There is | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
poignancy to this story. He was one of the men who came back from the | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
beaches and was part of the generation that created the welfare | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
state. It does make you think about how many other heroes are sitting in | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
nursing homes, which this year has come up the agenda so much. If we | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
are going to honour their contribution, it can't just be for | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
one day. It has to be the care that they receive. Absolutely. That is | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
one of the issues that came out of this, and even some of the use of | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
language `abs gone, escaped. It gives a view of what we think of | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
care homes. Don't you think they are saying it in a valiant way, good on | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
him for doing it? Yes, but underneath there is this thing about | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
how we treat older people in care homes, and a sense that we will all | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
end up as older people and are we going to be subject to carers? If | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
lots of veterans were in care homes, why wasn't there a concerted | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
strategy to get them to Normandy? Mr Jordan, also a former mayor, decided | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
to come back early and is on board an overnight ferry. We understand he | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
found the whole experience far more emotional than he expected and he | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
missed his wife. I hope you have a comfortable berth on the ferry back, | :10:43. | :10:51. | |
Mr Jordan. One more story. The Western Mail. We have to have that. | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
Peter Hain top stand down. 23 years Western Mail. We have to have that. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
Peter Hain top stand down. he has been the Labour MP for Neath. | :10:59. | :11:07. | |
They will miss him there. One of the things that are outstanding about | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
Peter Hain is he was able to combine the micro`and macroin an outstanding | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
passion. He was able to command in the world stage, arguments and at | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
the same time would be fighting about the closure of a court there | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
and there was never any conflict between the two. You were aware of | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
him a very long time ago because of his involvement ` he was very, very | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
focal antiapartheid campaigner. I studied African history. He was one | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
of the pivotal people for me because ` I believe, you know, he talks | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
about ` both his parents were part of the Liberal Party in South Africa | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
and they were antiapartheid activists. He remembers as a | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
teenager, the police turning up at his home and coming to look for | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
documents. He was part, when he came to London, Stop the '70 Tour and the | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
South African cricket and rugby tour if '69 and '70. Do you remember all | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
of that, New Zealanders digging up pitches. When you look at Peter | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
Hain, you have a real grossing of a life in politics, not just in | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
Parliament, but as a young man, at the grassroots fighting for justice. | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
He is said it is not over yet but he is making us wait to see what he is | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
going to get up to next. That's it for the now but my guests will be | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
with me in the next hour to look again at the papers. Stay with us | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
for more from the D`Day commemorations in Normandy. | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
Coming up now, time for the sport. Hello and welcome to Sportsday. | :12:39. | :12:56. | |
Andy Murray is out of the French Open. He lost in straight sets to | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
Rafael Nadal who will now play Novak Djokovic in the final. | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
With just eight days | :13:05. | :13:05. |