Declared to his mates on their way into captivity. 75 years on, young and old, remembering those who died in one of the most Daring Missions of the second world war. Extraordinarily remembrance. Now its time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. Saturday was a glorious day of summer saturday was a glorious day of summer like weather across much of the uk with temperatures in the mid 20s and we saw highs of 27 celsius in anglesey during saturday afternoon. Ng salter and more u nsettled afternoon. Ng salter and more unsettled from sunday onwards. Through the rest of the evening and tonight we have rain moving from the west to northern ireland, wales and the southwest will have heavy bursts with thunder and only 15 i7d overnight. Clear skies across scotla nd overnight. Clear skies across scotland and Eastern England on sunday morning at this band of showery rain arrives across eastern areas through the middle of the morning and the next area of rain moves west to east through
Hello and welcome to world news today. The Us Democratic president ial contender, joe biden, has accused donald trump of an overwhelming abuse of power. It follows reports he tried to pressure ukraine into opening a corruption investigation against mr biden and his son. President trump has not denied the reports claming it doesnt matter what i discuss. This is what mr biden had to say about the affair a few moments ago. Know trump t investigated. I know trump deserves to be investigated. He has violated every basic norm of a president. You should be asking him the question, why is he on the phone with a foreign leader . Trying to intimidate a foreign leader, if thats what happened. That is what appears what happened. That is what appears what happened. You should be looking at trump. Trump is doing this because he knows i will beat him like a drum, and theres usually an abuse of power in every element of the presidency to try to do something smear me. David willisjoins me now from wash
Courage and resilience. Today, we gather virtually to bestow congresss highest honor, the congressional gold medal on nearly 3000 american heroes, merrills marauders. Let us salute the family and friends who have continued to tell the story of these bright for years and advocated for the recognition they deserved. Thank you to the u. S. Army leaders joining us today including secretary of the army, christine mormon, and army chief of staff general james mcconnell. Let us recognize the members of congress who work to make this momentous of impossible, including the late senator Johnny Isakson, who should has Great Respect for our veterans. Through his leadership on the Veterans Affairs committee. And congressman sandy bishop, who has long championed the marauders legacy. Former congressman peter king, always a reliable voice for our nations veterans. Finally, thank you to all those joining us online to honor the marauders profound patriotism and unwavering devotion to duty. Ladies and g
Were actually going to continue discussions about resistance with this panel, which a conversation between jenny Institute Senior historian Stephanie Hinnershitz, who many of you recall chaired panel on women in resistance movements yesterday and end with the cold. Enberg now recall also we introduced nicole yesterday to the audience and now heres a great chance to hear from her. Nicole was a member of the French Resistance as a teenager and assisted with Daring Missions to aid her country against nazi occupation during the Second World War from supplies and messages for members of her local Resistance Network to tending to wounded partizans, nicoles work is an important reminder of the importance of everyone to include women in the fight against fascism. So without further delay. Stef. Its all yours. All right. Thank everyone. And thank you, mike, for that introduction and probably doesnt need much of an introduction from me. But i am very honored to have nicole here with us today, an
Were asking, is it time to ban the sale of it. 7 a group of raf cyclists ride to a memorial site in the netherlands in honour of an aircrew killed during the dambusters raid back in 1943. And in the sport this morning , big clubs with under fire managers had a good night. Matches tonight to beat newcastle. Chelsea won away at brighton, celtic are scottish champions, which was pretty standard fare to be honest. And standard fare to be honest. And could var be scrapped next season. 7 we can always hope. Season . We can always hope. If youve started the day with cloud and outbreaks of rain, some sunnier weather is on the way. Either later today or the way. Either later today or the next few days. Ill have the full details in the forecast coming up soon. Morning to you. Morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im ellie costello, and this is breakfast on gb news. I am thrilled to be back today. Are you . Are you . Yes i am. yes i am. Did you enjoy your break . Did you enjoy your break . Well,