Hello, welcome to News Hour. From the BBC World Service, I'm Paul Henley.

The program is coming to you live from London. Leaders of the Western world have been honouring the sacrifice of those who began the liberation of

Europe from the Nazis on D-Day 80 years ago today in a succession of ceremonies throughout today, today's commemorations in Normandy

where Allied forces landed in their tens of thousands, started with a British military Piper coming ashore

at the exact moment of the assault beginning. That's a funny kid.

What fair?

We're not fair.

What's bad?

France's president Emmanuel Macron speaking at the British War Memorial near Gold Beach

said his country would always remember the bravery and the sacrifice of those who fought.

France will never forget and the that faith in freedom which you have never lost, that constant selflessness and devotion

both guide us and serve as a duty to us.

King Charles said he felt a profound sense of gratitude to all those who took part in the landings.

Over the past 40 years, I have had the great privilege of attending

seven D-Day commemorations in Normandy

and meeting so many distinguished veterans.

Indeed I shall never forget the haunting sight and sound of thousands of be meddled figures proudly marching past into a French sunset on these beaches.

The operation in 1944 changed the course of the Second World War.

In his remarks at the American Cemetery, President Biden compared the Allies joining forces

with the current work of the NATO Alliance in

in support of Ukraine. We know the dark forces that these heroes fought against 80 years

ago. They never fade. Aggression and greed, the desire

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