on the last day of his state visit to the uk, donald trump said d day may have been the greatest battle ever . almighty god, our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavour. a struggle to preserve our public, our religion, and our civilisation, and to set free more than 300 veterans of the normandy landings gathered most of them in their 90s to remember the great military achievement. making their way to normandy on a specially comissioned ship, retracing their journey across the english channel. and 75 years since he first pa rachuted into normandy, 95 year old harry read recreates his jump behind enemy lines. hello, and welcome. i m katty kay, with christian fraser in portsmouth for d day commemorations. from these shores 75 years ago, allied troops set sail under the cover of darkness an armada of about 7,000 vessels carrying more than 150,000 troops. their goal was to land on five beaches in northern france and push nazi germany out of the
pleasure. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer 1: you are watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. like us on facebook. this year is the 75th anniversary of operation overlord. it was on june 6, 1944 that allied troops stormed the beaches of normandy, france. next, naval historian craig symonds talked about dwight d. eisenhower and the naval decisions that led to the d-day victory. mr. symonds is author of operation neptune, the d-day landings and the eisenhower invasion of europe. the eisenhower institute at gettysburg college and the dwight d. eisenhower society co-sponsored this event. ian: my name is ian isherwood. i teach history here at gettysburg college, and it is my distinct pleasure to welcome dr. craig symonds, the distinguished visiting ernest j. king professor of marit
the worltd s top economic powers are sending a warning to russia, that was ousted from the group, pull all of ukraine for face more sanctions and stopped short of new penalties, president obama is leaving to head to paris. putin s in paris too and meeting separately with the french president and the other leaders are planning to meet with putin. president obama is saying that the g-7 and the united states cannot show lack of resovm and not allow drift as putin is moving some of the borders off of ukraine but continuing to destabilize ukraine. president obama has no plans to meet with putin. but the man he stood next to is meeting with putin tonight one on one. president obama is saying if he does have the opportunity and they ll bump into each other, he ll say the same thing privately as said in public. russian armed forces annexing pieces of a neighbor is illegal and in violation of national law and the kinds of destabilizing activities that we now see funded and encou