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14:00

houses to the

14:02

right of that is a

14:04

machine gun nest. I'll bet you and your

14:07

crew a beer each

14:09

you can't hit it on three

14:11

salvos. Well we hit

14:13

it in with the second and it

14:15

fell apart and so

14:17

we each had a beer on the captain. I was

14:19

gonna ask was he as good as his word? The

14:22

answer is yes. Oh God yes. Too

14:26

true. And when you think

14:29

of those days what

14:31

are your overriding

14:34

emotions? Well

14:37

I suppose

14:40

I think it had to

14:42

be done. Thank God we did

14:44

it and and

14:47

thank God it was comparatively light

14:50

in casualties. I

14:53

mean we lost heaps and thousands of

14:55

men but it could have been a

14:57

damn sight worse. D-Day

14:59

veteran 101 year old Tony Ditcham he's

15:01

written a book about his D-Day experiences

15:03

it's called A Home on the Rolling

15:06

Main and coming up later

15:08

inside Myanmar the BBC gets rare access

15:10

to a country where the army is

15:12

under increasing pressure and battle is raging.

15:15

One of the things you see is on both

15:17

sides of the road there are quite a few burnt out homes somewhere

15:19

literally there are a couple of pillars

15:22

wooden pillars standing and no other structure

15:24

left there's

15:26

another one here right in front of me

15:28

which is partially burnt on its concrete home

15:30

and when you go inside it everywhere

15:33

you can see pretty much nothing remains.

15:35

The full report a bit later but

15:37

let's turn to the general election now

15:39

not the cut and the thrust of

15:41

the campaign but the issues that matter

15:43

to voters today that most basic of

15:45

issues the cost of living because a

15:47

new study by Loughborough University for the

15:49

End Child Poverty Coalition has revealed that

15:51

in two-thirds of constituencies at least a

15:53

quarter of children are living in poverty

15:55

in parts of the country the figure

15:57

is even higher and I've been to

15:59

the constituency of Redcar in the north-east

16:01

of England which switched from Labour to

16:03

Conservative in 2019 and

16:06

where one in three children lives in

16:08

poverty. I've been hearing about the effect

16:10

of that on two women, a working

16:12

mother with primary school aged children and

16:14

a primary school head teacher. Hi,

16:16

how are you girls? Hi I'm Charlotte

16:18

Martin and I'm the head teacher at

16:21

Grinsham Primary School. It's the most amazing

16:23

place, the heart of the community. And

16:26

what have we got here? Tell us. This is our

16:28

main hall and off our main hall is

16:30

where we have our community pantry which we

16:33

will go and have a look around. Hello

16:35

my lovely. You all

16:37

look here. Over the last

16:39

couple of years there has been a

16:41

dramatic change in the support that we

16:44

need to offer our community. So we

16:46

have a community called Burdens School and

16:48

basically it's a food bank so

16:50

we offer free food to any families

16:52

who need it. I mean it's like

16:55

a big sort of larder really isn't

16:57

it? I mean there's bottles of orange,

17:00

there's tins of peas, mushy

17:02

peas, ketchup, pasta. And

17:04

down here we have a lot of sanitary products.

17:07

Sanitary products as well for the older

17:09

girls. For the old girls but also

17:12

for some of our mums because actually

17:14

this is a really expensive product to

17:16

buy and if you shop for cash

17:18

the sanitary products sometimes go out the

17:20

window. Shampoo, shower gel, we've got washing

17:23

powder. You are going far beyond what

17:25

most people would think of as what

17:27

a school does. Yeah and this is

17:29

kind of become our norm. But this

17:32

must be having an impact on your

17:34

nokon effect. The fact that some of

17:36

your school funds are now going to

17:38

this means you can't spend it on

17:40

other things. It does but children can't

17:43

learn if they're hungry. We did have

17:45

children that would come in and they

17:47

would say they hadn't had breakfast. So

17:49

we provide free breakfast for all children

17:52

across our school. If you're hungry the

17:54

one thing you think about is being

17:56

hungry and waiting till 12 o'clock can

17:58

be an awful lot. having

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a job is not enough to lift people

26:02

out of poverty. Does a general

26:04

election provide that sort of opportunity

26:06

to really bring about something new,

26:08

to think about an issue that's

26:10

perhaps not thought about so much

26:12

and then to find new ways

26:14

to address it? That's certainly what we

26:17

need to see. We need to

26:19

see a level of ambition around

26:21

tackling poverty in this country. It

26:23

has been 20 years and six

26:25

prime ministers since we saw any

26:27

sustained fall to poverty in the

26:29

UK. That is a shameful record,

26:31

especially for a wealthy country like

26:34

ours. So having this debate around

26:36

the election is crucial that all

26:38

of our leaders are putting forward

26:40

how they will respond to the

26:42

immediate hardship that people are experiencing

26:44

right now. That was Katie

26:46

Schmucker from the Joseph Roundtree Foundation. Myanmar's

26:49

military government is facing an armed challenge

26:52

to its rule in several parts of

26:54

the country. In the Qin state and

26:56

the West ethnic resistance groups have managed

26:58

to push the Burmese military out of

27:00

several border areas over the past six

27:02

months and territorial battles are currently raging.

27:05

The BBC has had rare access to

27:07

the state and has seen evidence that

27:09

the Burmese army has launched a campaign

27:11

of torture, abduction and murder to stop

27:13

young protesters from joining rebel fighters. The

27:15

Myanmar military has not responded to the

27:17

BBC's questions about the allegations. The

27:20

BBC's Yogita Lemay travel to Western Myanmar

27:22

with her colleagues Sanjay Ganguly and Akriti

27:25

Thapur and she sent this report. You

27:27

may find parts of it distressing. Hundreds

27:33

of young recruits are marching in

27:36

a big open field under the

27:38

scorching sun. We're surrounded by lush

27:40

green mountains. We're at Victoria

27:42

Base, which is the main headquarters

27:44

of the Qin National Army. It's

27:47

one of the rebel military groups that's

27:49

been fighting against Myanmar's military. This is

27:51

in the Qin state, which is in

27:54

the west of Myanmar. About two thirds

27:56

of these young recruits in front of

27:58

me are men. We

30:00

don't want dictatorship. We

30:03

need a federal democracy

30:05

government. And how does your family

30:07

feel about you being on a front

30:09

line? Sometimes they

30:12

also worry about me, but

30:14

I must do this job. For

30:17

my son, my family, for our

30:19

people, for our country. Most

30:26

of the people from the village are

30:28

living in a relief camp a few

30:30

miles away. I've come to it now.

30:32

Lots of temporary structures with tin sheets

30:35

or woven bamboo sheets

30:37

as walls and tin sheets

30:40

as roofs. We're

30:42

here on a Sunday, and you can

30:44

hear the sound of an ongoing church

30:46

service. Most of the people here are

30:49

Christians. Two

30:51

teenagers from the village,

30:53

17-year-old Lal Nunpui and

30:55

her 15-year-old brother Lal

30:58

Ratmuya were killed in

31:00

horrific circumstances. People have told us

31:02

that they were kidnapped by

31:04

the Myanmar military. They were tortured. The

31:06

girl was raped, and their bodies were

31:08

found in a jungle two days later.

31:10

All of this happened in August 2022,

31:14

while the fight to take control

31:16

of Haimul was underway. In this

31:19

relief camp, we've come to see

31:21

their mother, 37-year-old Lal Thang Klangi.

31:23

It's hard to think of what

31:26

my children went through, but we

31:28

will not be discouraged by their death. People

31:31

in the coming generations do need freedom. It

31:34

is a fight worth sacrificing one's life for.

31:37

I'm very proud of them. Just

31:43

a few miles from Haimul, I've

31:45

come to the village of Komoe. One

31:47

of the people who was killed in Komoe

31:49

was 22-year-old one, Lal

31:52

Pekthara. He used to be

31:54

in the Burmese police, but after the war,

32:00

After the military coup in 2021, he defected. He

32:03

joined the civil disobedience movement. In

32:06

a restaurant she runs by the side

32:08

of the road, we meet his mother,

32:10

Helen Molly Kiang. My

32:14

son was stabbed here and here,

32:16

Molly says, pointing to her chest

32:19

and back. He

32:21

was brutally killed. Even his

32:23

leg was cut, she weeps. I'm

32:27

sitting in the yard of Kamoi's primary

32:30

school, which is being used as a

32:32

temporary shelter. All around the yard, there

32:34

are classrooms which have been converted into

32:37

areas where the

32:39

people who have been displaced because of the fighting

32:41

can sleep, they can cook. One

32:44

of the classrooms, and it's got grade two written

32:46

on top of it, houses a family that came

32:48

here just two weeks ago. They

32:50

would drop bombs wherever

32:52

they wanted. We

32:56

were scared. My husband said, it cannot

32:58

go on like this. We have a baby,

33:00

so let's flee. The evening

33:02

we left, a man died in our village.

33:08

I've come to what used to be the

33:10

base of the Myanmar military. It's a few

33:12

miles from the western border of Myanmar, and

33:14

it looks completely destroyed right now in front

33:16

of me. I can see a deep sort

33:18

of pit, which used to be the barracks

33:20

where the soldiers used to sleep. There's

33:22

corrugated tin sheets lying all over it. I

33:25

can see to the left of me what

33:27

seemed to be trenches dug into the ground.

33:29

The Myanmar military was pushed out of this

33:31

base in November, 2023 by the Chin National Army.

33:37

And to the right of me, I can also

33:39

see they've hoisted their flag there. It's a tri-color

33:41

flag, red, white and blue, and it's got the

33:43

picture of a hornbill in the middle. And

33:45

this is one of the signs

33:48

that Myanmar's rebel groups are making

33:50

advances against the military. The military

33:52

base is about 30 to 40

33:54

miles from here now. A

34:00

couple of closing headlines for you tonight.

34:02

The British businessman Mike Lynch has been

34:04

cleared of fraud by a jury in

34:06

San Francisco in connection with the $11bn

34:08

sale of his software firm Autonomy to

34:10

Hewlett-Packard more than a decade ago. And

34:13

drones are being used in the search

34:15

for the Radio 4 health presenter Michael

34:17

Moseley, who has been reported missing on

34:20

the Greek island of Sime. And

34:23

that is nearly it from the World

34:25

Tonight team and from me James Kamara-Sami.

34:27

But we are leaving you with some

34:29

of the sounds of today, the 80th

34:32

anniversary of D-Day, a day when world

34:34

leaders paid tribute to the soldiers who

34:36

made the ultimate sacrifice in the presence

34:38

of some of those who served alongside

34:41

them. It is one of the

34:43

last times that will happen. Good

34:45

night. France

35:04

will never forget the British

35:07

troops who landed on D-Day

35:09

and all their brothers in arms. That

35:13

faith and freedom which you

35:15

have never lost, that

35:17

constant selflessness and

35:19

devotion both

35:21

guide us and

35:24

serve as a duty to us. We

35:28

are honoured by the ties of

35:30

remembrance, friendship and

35:33

loyalty which you have forged between

35:36

our countries. And

35:38

let me thank all of you for this bravery.

35:41

They shall grow not old as

35:43

we that are left to

35:45

grow old age shall

35:47

not weary them nor

35:49

the years condemn. At

35:53

the going down with the sun and

35:56

in the morning we

35:59

will remember them. We

36:01

will. We will. Wednesday

36:08

night, June 7, 1944. Dear

36:13

Mom, just a few

36:15

lines to tell you we are all

36:18

okay. We flew mission number

36:20

10 on D-Day. This

36:23

is what everyone has been waiting for.

36:25

Now we can see the results of

36:28

the bombing 8th Air Force has

36:30

been doing the past months. Just

36:34

received my rations for the week and

36:36

they have been increased. We

36:39

are getting American candy now.

36:41

Hope you all are okay. Love,

36:44

Ed. What the Allies did

36:46

together 80 years ago, far

36:49

surpassed anything we could have

36:51

done on our own. It

36:54

was a powerful illustration of

36:56

our alliances. Real alliances

36:59

make us stronger. A

37:01

lesson that I pray we Americans

37:04

never forget. Together

37:07

we won the war. Over

37:15

the past 40 years, I

37:17

have had the great privilege of

37:20

attending seven D-Day commemorations

37:22

in Normandy. And

37:25

meeting so many distinguished veterans.

37:29

Indeed, I shall never forget

37:32

the haunting sight and

37:34

sound of thousands

37:36

of bemetalled figures, proudly

37:39

marching past into

37:41

a French sunset on these beaches.

37:47

Our ability to learn

37:49

from their stories at first hand

37:52

diminishes. But

37:54

our obligation to remember

37:57

them, what they stood

37:59

for, and what they achieved

38:01

for us all can

38:03

never diminish. He

38:06

counted long, he counted

38:08

long. I'm not

38:10

a hero, definitely

38:12

not a hero. The

38:14

only heroes in any war

38:17

are the ones that don't come back. The

38:19

sids from his reserves He'll

38:22

out and rot er on his

38:25

legs Can he

38:27

hate God and

38:29

John no more?

38:33

Glory, glory, what a

38:35

hell of a way

38:37

to die Glory, glory,

38:39

what a hell of a

38:42

way to die Glory,

38:45

glory, what a hell

38:47

of a way to

38:49

die He

38:51

hate God and

38:54

John no more.

39:01

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39:04

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39:06

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39:08

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