president biden joining other world leaders at this hour to mark this milestone anniversary of d-day the allied invasion of continental europe during world war ii hello, two meters, zelenskyy, the wartime president of ukraine, had this heartwarming moment and a hug with one of the americans who fought at normandy. president biden also met with a handful of the last surviving us veterans who stormed those beaches are parachuted behind enemy leinz as very young men. today, they are all around 100 100-years-old making this anniversary, especially poignant and moving as the world s pays tribute to the greatest generation the man who fought here became heroes not because they re the strongest and toughest herb or fiercest although they were but because they re given an audacious mission knowing everyone in the new, the probability of dying was real but they did it anyway they knew and beyond any doubt there are things that are worth fighting. and dying for hi, joining us now fro
of the americans on omaha beach, some 2000 men lost in those first few hours on that features dewey s to where we are. now. this is elbow gold beach speak to the horrors of what they would have been facing. and i think what we ve seen at the heart of these commemorations that we ve seen today. for this, what is most pointedly wolf, one of the law i ll commemorative events around d-day were any living veterans are likely to be able to make the trip given their age. what we ve seen this a great deal of remembering it s about the extraordinary logistical operation that was operation overlord. remember that beyond those first few troops who took those first staggering steps up towards the liberation france and europe. there were all of these vehicles that you see here gathered on the speech, not least, this duck that i m standing on that allowed until the artifacts you support that you can just see the remains off off the coaston normandy there just to see 570 hectares of artificial port t