# you ve got no choice.# feel the heat! and we speak to the american rock legend, alice cooper, a singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spans over 50 years. president biden is ending america s longest ever war. us soldiers invaded afghanistan in 2001, almost 20 years later, they are still there. but not for much longer. he will withdraw the remaining 2,500 troops by september the 11th, the anniversary of the terror attack that launched this fight. here s what mr biden had to say a little earlier today. keeping thousands of troops grounded and concentrated in just one country at a cost of billions each year makes little sense to me and our leaders. we cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in afghanistan, hoping to create ideal conditions for the withdrawal and expecting a different result. that s what the president is saying. let s get more from the brookings institution, following these developments very closely. what you make of them?
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
in the uk after brexit? we have exclusive new information. good evening and welcome to bbc news. president trump has suffered a major defeat tonight over one of his biggest campaign pledges his vow to reform america s healthcare system, known as obamaca re. mr trump was facing opposition notjust from democrats but from his own party in congress. the president had staked his personal authority on his scheme, issuing an ultimatum to the republicans that he d drop it altogether, if they didn t back him. but tonight, just minutes before the vote, he was forced to abandon his plans dramatically, after being told he simply didn t have enough support. our north america editorjon sopel reports from washington. mr vice president, do you have the vote 7 a day of truly frantic meetings and phone calls, as the vice president, mike pence, went to the hilt to try to secure the votes needed to pass health care reform trumpcare. and the usual tools deployed, a mixture of menace and flatt
crisis. the wife of the gulf coast guard nov 27th on. this is due to be news live from berlin fears of a new flare up of violence in the middle east israel carries out a targeted air strike at daybreak over gaza killing the commander of a palestinian militant group the response just hours later rockets fired at israeli towns near the border we ll ask a reporter in jerusalem whether a further escalation is likely also coming up kid house while you can
australians are urged to flee catastrophic bushfires one fire chief says conditions are so bad there crews are unable to stop the flames and ascending a foot in exile the former bolivian president evo morales arrives in mexico after leaving office in what he says was a coup look at the latest on the power vacuum he left behind in bolivia. and while iraq thank you all for your company there are fears of an escalation of tit for tat violence between israelis and palestinians tonight after some of the worst attacks in years along the gaza
Pay their respects. talking about those names, looking at the pillars and walls, the names are carved in stone, they are set out in units and days, the days which people died, those that didn t make it home, those that didn t make it home, those who died here in the waters off the coast, or here on the normandy soil. people can touch those names in position on the numbered pillars. it is a sombre spot but beautifully chosen, especially on a day like today, you look across the sea, as i am sure those soldiers, sailors and airmen would have done 80 years ago, wondering what was going on back in blighty, what their families and friends were up to. you can see the remains of the mulberry harbour. there would have been metal, machines, main as far as i could