welcome to the programme. we start this hour with the latest on the uk general election. the leader of the scottish national party, john swinney, has launched his party s campaign ahead of the vote onjuly the 4th. at an election rally in glasgow, mr swinney pushed for independence, celebrated his party s record on fighting the cost of living as well as attacking both the conservatives and labour. he said people in scotland wanted rid of a disastrous tory government, and he accused labour of giving an awfully good impression of them. let s take a listen to some of what the snp leader said. look, there are some people telling me to forget about independence at this election. but you know what? after looking at sir keir starmer s serial u turns in the pursuit of power, i think people are crying out for political leadership that sticks to its principles. applause ..for leaders who argue for what they believe in. and i passionately believe independence is the best opportunity
and as part of the commemorations a mass parachute drop has taken place over normandy. those who took partjumped from world war two era planes into the now peaceful skies as part of the commemorations. 0n the 6th ofjune 1944, 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 nazi occupied north west europe. normandy survivors were among those who gathered to watch the parachute jump. ijust want i just want to take you to a couple of sets of live pictures and let s first go to the middle east and jerusalem and i mentioned a protest outside thejerusalem office of israel s s prime minister benjamin netanyahu and these are relatives of the hostages held in gaza urging him to accept a deal with hamas and i can also take you to south africa where we are expecting the results from the election to be announced very shortly and we will bring you them live on bbc news.