Paris by allied forces 75 years ago in august, 1944. Narrator the heart of european civilization is beating strong again. Paris is free. Four years of courage of hope have been answered, and a tide and a flood tide of jubilation has burst forth. The people of paris, always great performers in historys drama, rose to meet their liberators. Once more, france held high her head. Unswerving victory marched proudly along the champselysees. In the weeks preceding, the nazis had paid a frightful price. Senne have the become a vast slaughterhouse of German Military power. 40 days of attacks by the allied forces had torn the best of hitlers arm to shreds. Nothing emerged but days of wounded prisoners. First they appeared singly, then in small groups. And finally in great masses of beaten nazis. With fatal justice, they found themselves in a prison camp of their own making, one intended for french men. Some cannot hide their happy relief at coming through alive. Others are stunned and bewildered
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A 17 year old has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, after a six year old boy was thrown from a 10th floor viewing platform at the tate modern in london. Heathrow airport holds last minute talks with unions in an attempt to avert strikes next week, with travellers told to check with their airlines before leaving home. And coming up in sportsday in half an hour, well have the latest from edgbaston, where smith and wade make centuries, as australia lead past 350 in the ashes. Good evening. There have been two Mass Shootings in the United States, just hours apart in texas and ohio. In el paso, texas, 20 people were killed when a man opened fire on shoppers in a walmart supermarket, in one of the worst Mass Shootings in modern us history. A 21 year old white man has been arrested. Fbi investigators said that they were looking at whether to charge the suspect with domestic terrorism charges. The fbi continues to look at a number of different potential crimes to be charged. We h
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