operational and capable quicker than we would be on iswrong. russia s already provocatively describe the carrier is a large convenient target. the royal navy insists it will be well protected by a fleet of frigates, destroyers and supply ships, in this exercise that includes a us and dutch warship, as well as the american squadron of jets. so the question, who is in charge? so, the american squadron on board, as with the american ship and the dutch ship, will fall under the operational command of myself. so the brits are in charge, not the americans? this is a uk carrier. even though it has got more american jets? even though. the americans are currently conducting a defence review which will reshape the armed forces. the navy s to new carriers, expected to be in service for the next 50 years, are seen as part of that feature. none of this comes cheap. the two carriers cost more than £6 million £6 billion to
limbs. a spokeswoman for mr navalny has told one news agency he intends to stay in germany for that treatment for now, but longer term, mr navalny has indicated his intention to return to russia. large numbers of migrants return to russia. reached the uk yesterday in a series of small boat crossings. the border force says it dealt with 26 incidents involving 393 people. the french authorities dealt with a further ten crossing attempts, with more than 90 people involved. nearly 1,900, migrants have arrived in the uk this month, more than in the whole of last year. a deputy head teacher has been killed by cows while walking in fields in north yorkshire. dave clark, who was in his 50s, died on monday evening. police are trying to establish exactly what happened. the head of richmond school, where mr clark worked for 23 years, described him as a lovely man who d enriched the lives of everyone he met. they are horrific scenes nearly 400 pilot whales dead or dying beached on the west coa
and the troops who were serving abroad, but it was a dangerousjob. the merchant navy suffered one of the highest casualty rates. huw edwards tells the story of his grandfather who served with the atlantic convoys. huw: the story begins in the tiny seaside village of llanddewi aberarth on the coastline of ceredigion. this is where i‘d come to visit my grandparents and this is the little house where they lived. nothing much has changed in the main street. and you can see the house in the background to this family photo, which was taken after the war and my grandfather‘s return after four years away. he‘d gone to sea in the first instance at the age 01:14 in 1920. it was the natural thing to do for the boys in the village. but, as he told me many years later, never could he have imagined that that first voyage as a merchant seaman would lead, eventually, to three years in a german prisoner of war camp. newsreel: this is a story of the men who brave the dangers of the sea to bring
how many of them would stop at this memorial, do you think? v0: but that‘s not the only memorial to the merchant navy, of course the most prominent of which is here in greenwich, a reminder of the dangers the men faced. you‘ve a 50% chance of not making it at these peak points in the conflict and conditions would be poor, your pay was poor and your recognition was also not up there with the armed forces. without the merchant navy, we could not have won world war ii. it s as simple as that. my grandfather did make it home to west wales before the end of the war and, despite fragile health, he lived to the age of 85 always modest, always hardworking and always grateful. in a rare comment on his difficult wartime experience, he said simply this i was very lucky. and he always thought of the tens of thousands of merchant seamen who did not