but at dawn today, on the beaches of normandy, they remembered. making their own 80th anniversary normandy landing, a group of royal marines, wading ashore as those before them had done in 1944. but these are now peaceful waters, thanks to the sacrifices made on d day. archive: this is it, | they re on the beach. few truly understood the onslaught they d face. young men, thrust into the brutality of war. 80 years on, those who survived and grew old honoured lost friends. it is all because of gummy s quick thinking, his desire to help those around him, that i can stand before you today. i wish i could tell him i have never taken his sacrifice for granted. and we ll always remember him and ourfriends. so, gummy, thank you, my old friend. a tribute, from the one who made it home. at the british normandy memorial, the service of commemoration put the veterans centre stage. relegated to the back rows, the king and queen, and president macron. watching the service wasjoe mines. he
president there and the french president there and the french president at the centre of many of those commemorations today. we are just hearing news from french television, president emmanuel macron is speaking to television at the moment saying that ukraine has requested western military instructors on its soil and we are hearing from the interfere on french television that france is to tell maras 2000 fighterjets to ukraine to sell maras 2000. that is just coming into us that president macron is speaking to french television that they are to sell fighter jets to ukraine. we will bring you more on that on bbc news as we get it. let s head to the middle east now, where at least 35 people are reported to have been killed in an israeli air strike on a un school in gaza that was sheltering displaced palestinians. the un agency for palestinian