spells, although more cloud the further north you are, all the details shortly. it s sunday, june 2nd. our main story. sir keir starmer has pledged to cut levels of legal migration to the uk, if labour wins the general election. in a newspaper interview he set out plans to prioritise british workers and crack down on businesses that break employment laws. the conservatives said no one believed the labour leader was serious about tackling immigration. our political correspondent alex forsyth has the latest. every year, people come to the uk to live, work or study. last year, net migration that s the difference between the number of people arriving and the number of people leaving was 685,000. sir keir starmer, who launched his election battle bus yesterday, has previously said that s too high. now he s promised to cut that number if labour wins the election, though he hasn t said by how much or by when. he told the sun on sunday newspaper read my lips, i will bring immig
artefacts the british museum says have disappeared. we ve discovered that two gems were unwittingly put on display at another museum in germany. we ve also established that around 260 ended up in washington, dc the fbi has been investigating. but many of the objects hadn t been catalogued, which means the museum hasn t yet been able to prove they were actually stolen. it s since begun to register all its objects, and has improved security. the truth is, mistakes were made. but i think in life it s how you respond to those mistakes that matters. the museum today a couple of years on as a result of this saga, i think is much more open, much more transparent. of the 1,500 items it believes were taken, the british museum has got back almost half. but others including ancient gold jewellery and other treasures missing from its collection will likely never be found. katie razzall, bbc news. you can watch the full documentary, thief at the british museum , which airs on b
and as part of the commemorations a mass parachute drop will take place over normandy. next week marks the 80th anniversary of the d day landings ahead of the event, our reporterjoe campbell went meet three generations of a family with a special connection to one of the planes involved in the liberation. and as soon as we get south towards the english channel, the clouds are going to break up and get a little higher, so we should. the weather should be improving, the further south we get. just like on d day itself, the hope was for a break in the weather. al reeves, my dad flew this plane. among the passengers for this trip, three generations of one family with a special connection to the plane. today, actually going over the beach.will bring me up. you know, he was a hero. didn t think of it very much at the time, since i knew that he died quite young, and much of this stuff i found out after he died. like many people in i guess probably almost anywhere they don t talk about it