as a legend of rugby league who had a huge heart . rob burrow s life is defined by his defiance of the odds. as the smallest player in a giants game, he was world class. absolute legend. pound for pound, probably the strongest player we had in the squad and the strongest guy who s played in super league. so honoured to have played alongside him. it was obvious at an early age that rob wanted to be a professional in the sport he loved. they always used to say, oh, he s good, is that rob, but he s never going to make it because he s not big enough. after signing for leeds rhinos as a teenager, he went on to become one of their greatest. but not long into retirement, he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. it was a condition he faced with incredible positivity. i m not giving in till my last breath. you know, i have too many reasons to live. the love he had for his family and the love they had for him shone through as rob made his private battle a public one to help
spells, although more cloud the further north you are, all the details shortly. it s sunday, june 2nd. our main story. sir keir starmer has pledged to cut levels of legal migration to the uk, if labour wins the general election. in a newspaper interview he set out plans to prioritise british workers and crack down on businesses that break employment laws. the conservatives said no one believed the labour leader was serious about tackling immigration. our political correspondent alex forsyth has the latest. every year, people come to the uk to live, work or study. last year, net migration that s the difference between the number of people arriving and the number of people leaving was 685,000. sir keir starmer, who launched his election battle bus yesterday, has previously said that s too high. now he s promised to cut that number if labour wins the election, though he hasn t said by how much or by when. he told the sun on sunday newspaper read my lips, i will bring immig
and as part of the commemorations a mass parachute drop will take place over normandy. next week marks the 80th anniversary of the d day landings ahead of the event, our reporterjoe campbell went meet three generations of a family with a special connection to one of the planes involved in the liberation. and as soon as we get south towards the english channel, the clouds are going to break up and get a little higher, so we should. the weather should be improving, the further south we get. just like on d day itself, the hope was for a break in the weather. al reeves, my dad flew this plane. among the passengers for this trip, three generations of one family with a special connection to the plane. today, actually going over the beach.will bring me up. you know, he was a hero. didn t think of it very much at the time, since i knew that he died quite young, and much of this stuff i found out after he died. like many people in i guess probably almost anywhere they don t talk about it
the world for help. now he returns home to the war, and a peace conference he hopes can break the deadlock, on his terms. suranjana tewari, bbc news, singapore. china has landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon for the second time. the mission is difficult because this region of the moon permanently faces away from the earth, making communications difficult. the probe is expected to use a drill and mechanical arm to collect rock and soil, and transport them back to earth. this week marks the 80th anniversary of the d day landings and as part of the commemorations, a mass parachute drop has taken place over normandy. those who took partjumped from world war ii era planes into the now peaceful skies. 0n the 6th ofjune1941i, troops from the uk, the us, canada and france attacked german forces on the coast of northern france. it marked the start of the campaign to liberate