as well as king charles. there will be about 200 veterans mostly from the us, britain, canada and france. this 80th anniversary is focusing minds on the need for unity in the face of new conflicts. 0ur europe editor katya adler reports. les america. the americans are back in town. and it s feeling like the 1940s. from all over europe, the young and a little less young, clad in world war two allied military uniforms, celebrating and commemorating soldiers who landed here on d day to liberate nazi occupied france. these men changed the course of history. 99 year old donald cobb s modesty is humbling. i don t feel like a hero. i mean, wejust did what we were told. i m happy that we were able to help. 80 years on, they are still huge heroes here. it is really a lot of emotion for me. brave french men and women played their part in d day too. katharine s father and brother were members of the resistance. this street, now named after them. translation: the allies i is needed detail
godlike personality that has grown around him, that is not seen as invincible any more. russia has faced repeated rounds of western sanctions, but its economy has continued to grow thanks to help from china. it means the mood at russia s equivalent of davos welcome to newsnight. our political panel tonight philip collins, who was tony blair s speech writer and worked alongside sir keir starmer on his 2021 conference speech, and mercy muroki, who is a former policy adviser to the conservative s kemi badenoch. today has been very much about the fall out from last night s tv debate when mr sunak claimed housesholds would be paying £2,000 more in tax if labour win. we questioned energy secretary clare coutinho on newsnight last night straight after the itv debate. clare coutinho, where did you get this £2,000 figure from? because it is not an impartial independent figure, is it, it is your own tory special advisers who have added this up and come up with the sums? no, no, n
lone piper plays. tonight at 10:00, a vigil in normandy here at the bayeux war cemetery to remember the fallen on the eve of the 80th anniversary of d day. more than 4,000 gravestones are lit up one by one a tribute to those who never returned. in portsmouth, the king tells the last surviving d day veterans, we are eternally in your debt. more than a0 british veterans have travelled here to normandy i ve been speaking to one of them. all these memories of d day and all the men in the water, swimming, sinking, scrambling ashore in the sands and the other main stories on tonight s programme. wales s first minister, vaughan gething, gets emotional and loses a confidence motion after barely two months in the job. scientists say may was the hottest on record globally, as the un chief warns the world is playing russian roulette with the climate. and how president putin s war economy is funded by the countries buying russia s oil. and join us later for bbc london, when we l
there s been a very unexpected turn of events with the election result here in india, the bjp finding itself in a position that it never thought it would have to be in. all of its allies have agreed to back narendra modi as prime minister, but because they need the allies for that full majority, the bjp will have to make concessions on things like cabinet and parliamentary positions. as far as the parliament is concerned the building behind me even with its allies, the bjp does not have the numbers to pass through a law, so to pass any bills, it will need to get at least some members of the opposition to agree with it. over the past five years, what we ve seen a lot of is a number of laws being passed without debate or discussion or questioning just by brute majority. that cannot happen any more. but the biggest setback of this election result has come for narendra modi, for brand modi it was a brand that was everywhere in india on welfare programmes,
all of its allies have agreed be in. all of its allies have agreed to back narendra modi for prime minister but because they will need them to pass that for majority mark in parliament, they will have to make concessions on things like parliamentary and cabinet positions. in a broader sense as well, even with the allies, in that parliament building they do not have the numbers to be able to pass through laws, so they will need to get at least some from the opposition to agree with them. in the past five years what we have seen numerous times is bill s been passed without debate, without discussion, without questioning by a group majority. that cannot happen any more but the biggest setback of this election result has come to brand modi. it is a face we see everywhere whether on welfare programmes, vaccine certificates and banners on the streets. it is not a presidential contest, it s a parliamentary one but because his face is everywhere, it had become about him and a