Good evening. I'm I'm Ammanivaz. And I'm Jeff Bennett on the news hour tonight.

80 years after the Allied invasion world leaders converge on the beaches of Normandy

to mark the anniversary of D-Day. Dozens are killed by an Israeli strike on a

United Nations school building in Gaza as ceasefire negotiations

continue. And Attorney General Merrick Garland pushes back against

Republican attacks on the Justice Department. Welcome to the news hour. President Biden is in Normandy France today to mark

80 years since the D-Day landings ushered in the bloody final chapter of World War II.

But today he also pointed to the urgent threats once again raging in Europe, this time in Ukraine.

And while the specter of that brutal war haunts Europe now, it was for the hundreds of

veterans of the longest day that these ceremonies were most poignant.

Both Mr. Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron extolled the uncommon valor of ordinary men and women who

accomplished the extraordinary some 80 years ago.

Today we are as far from D-Day as D-Day was from the height of the American Civil War, but the history

made on those bluffs above the wide beaches of Normandy feels closer still.

Here's Malcolm Brababin in northern France.

80 years ago these veterans counted their life expectancy in minutes.

Yet here they were back at Omaha Beach, 100 years old or thereabouts.

Among those greeting President Biden, who was 18 months old on D-Day, was 99-year-old Staff

Sergeant George Mullins of the 101st Airborne.

He landed on Utah Beach in a glider and fought through Europe for 11 months until he reached

Hitler's Eagle's Nest nest in Bertesgarde, Germany.

The President drew on the heroism of the greatest generation and their liberation of France to implicitly warn against the isolationism

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