via the winds this is cnn, the world s news welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper on june 6, 1944, american, canadian, british, and other allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in history. nearly 160,000 troops landed along five beaches in normandy, france. and what became known as d-day it was a turning point in the war in europe world war ii was fought against fascist regimes and germany and italy and imperial japan the victory of democratic principles was hard. one but 80 years have passed since d-day. and we thought it a good time to take a look at the state of our democracy today over the next hour, cnn s jake tapper looks back at d-day sacrifices. so many young men made on those beaches in normandy that day. and what it means to us now what were we fighting for? we were locked a battle with fascism. we re fighting for our freedom, for the freedom to think as we wish kopan with they gave their life to preserve and protect that constitution the
nato country all are obligated to respond allies, allies allies the british and the canadian and american troops landed on the beaches of normandy. we were allies and we were lincoln up. but the french resistance to shore so that tell you deal with for a terrion, we get the allies together, the democracy together. you stand up to him for some d-day veterans, the russian invasion of ukraine has disturbing echoes of the german occupation as history all over again showloading, let down. putin is just like hitler your tell a big lie and you re telling it often enough, people get to believe you the threat he poses a real, he is a creature straight out of dostoevsky, kinda putting me contained absolutely put and can be contained. so long as the democracies state tightly linked i would just point out though right
authoritarian governments. the increase in the world s population living in autocracies is staggering. in 2003, it was 50% two decades later 71% of people worldwide live under autocratic regimes according to independent think tank v dam, which monitors global governments annually man my executes for pro-democracy activists the un secretary general says the move signals further deterioration of nor ready dire human rights environment in myanmar. there s a lot of people who don t think that democratic republic is a successful form of how to govern yourselves. i think it would be fair to say that it s constantly under stress and of course that authoritarian rise goes hand in hand with a steep decline in democracy less than 8% of the world lives in a full democracy
decline in trust of public institutions that move the us from the category with countries such as sweden and canada, and put the us and the category with places where democracy is more recent and fragile, such as chile and estonia and that new categorisation came before january 6, 2021 was a disgrace what they did was corporately rod before her, people were killed lots of kind of stuff that makes me sick people can get by with that kind of stuff how concerned about american democracy? were you on january 6, 2021? i wasn t really i wasn t concerned. i mean, in many ways it worked the whole process work. i mean, it was ugly, is that it was and is embarrassed and horrified is we all should
via the winds this is cnn, the world s news welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper on june 6, 1944, american, canadian, british, and other allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in history. nearly 160,000 troops landed along five beaches in normandy, france. and what became known as d-day it was a turning point in the war in europe world war ii was fought against fascist regimes and germany and italy and imperial japan the victory of democratic principles was hard. one but 80 years have passed since d-day. and we thought it a good time to take a look at the state of our democracy today over the next hour, cnn s jake tapper looks back at d-day sacrifices. so many young men made on those beaches in normandy that day. and what it means to us now