the centre of the memorial signifying the invasion by land, sea and air here at gold beach on the north coast of france. and i m naga munchetty in the studio. also in the news this morning. the first minister of wales, vaughan gething, faces an uncertain future after losing a vote of no confidence he insists he ll carry on. premier league clubs will vote on whether to scrap the use of the video assistant referee, after a season of notable errors and mounting scrutiny. good morning from hms belfast, one of the first warships to arrive at the normandy beaches. it is a cold start to the day, across the board, sunshine and blustery showers, most of which will be in the north. all the details later. it s thursday the 6th ofjune welcome to normandy where 80 years ago today, more than 156,000 allied troops launched an attack on german forces which would change the course of the second world war. it would forever be known as d day. it was just before 6.30 in the morning onjune 6t
The historians are looking for eyewitnesses to event that happened 60 years ago. Inall know if it happened these halls here, the only people still alive for the pages who were 16 years old at the time. We are come in handy if you times with a couple of the project and we hope to continue to do so in the future. Constantly amaze me. Meeting judge tracy was a page for eight years. Having the pleasure of driving over in his car with his Capitol Police man afterwards. Still has his badge and we got there all the security. If anyone needs a ride back, he is here. , great pressure pleasure, i. T. Is met i introduce matt. Thank you all, i met wisniewski, the historian of the house. Lineittle further down the , the senate associate historian. We are very pleased to be with you as you kick off the page union weekend. We would like to spend a little bit of time telling you about research,r recent collection acquisitions related to pages and leave sometime at the end for questions might have. The
Down. The Ruling Ak Party pills to his upcoming local elections this amid a fresh ground swell of corruption allegations. It all. Despite a worldwide diplomatic slurry no let up in the tension in ukraine just hours after authorities restore the ukrainian flag atop a government building a pro moscow crowd. Once again taking it down and replaced in the russian flag these are the images and nighttime images that were seeing meanwhile falls and gets team in crimea witnessing the take over of the Ukrainian Ground to air missile base no shots fired at soldiers loyal to kiev were disarmed by Russian Special forces. Your correspondent arms to its hes now up more recently weve just got news that the United Nations envoy to crimea is leaving up for prematurely. This after being surrounded by a crowd of people chanting Putin Putin Putin in the east of ukraine we mention the tensions and thats good. Earlier we spoke to correspond gulliver cracking another russian speaking city in the east. Is that
walls, all sorts of poignant things like that around here at the memorial that really take you back 80 years and make you think about exactly what happened on these beaches way back then. we can talk to the man responsible for the stone and the wonderful sculpture behind us, alan mcconnell and david william ellis. good morning to you. allen, when you are given a brief to take on something like this, i assume it is quite daunting. i know you have great experience, but how do you approach it? irate great experience, but how do you approach it? great experience, but how do you approach it? we get to design and for this design approach it? we get to design and for this design it approach it? we get to design and for this design it was approach it? we get to design and for this design it was liam - approach it? we get to design and l for this design it was liam o connor who put for this design it was liam o connor who put the for this design it was liam o connor who put the design
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