To shadow a Russian warship as it's moved through the North Sea close to British waters yesterday the incident has only served to heighten tensions with Russia just days after foreign secretary Boris Johnson clashed with his counterpart in Moscow the defense secretary Gavin Williamson said person would not be intimidated or tolerate any form of aggression former Royal Navy officer Rear Admiral Chris Parry thinks it's a test this is just the Russians saying look we're entitled to be here we've got a shiny new forget we want to show you don't you we want to test you on look Christmas day to see if you're going to react to Syrian armed forces say a military jet has been downed by insurgents in the north of the country sources told Syrian state t.v. That the pilot was killed when the aircraft came down in Hama a British woman has been told chill spent 3 years in an interruption jail after being caught with prescription painkillers which are banned there 33 year old Laura Plummer from Hole has always insisted the tramadol tablets were for her boyfriend's bad back Laura's sister says she severely sleep deprived and anxious Jane Sinclair says the authorities are being unfair in Egypt they want to lose Torres and for good in the right way about just ridiculous is absolutely ridiculous how are you to do that if it's not even on the website website a police officer and a woman have died following a crash in Sheffield last night it happened on the a 57 when a Marks police car collided with another vehicle while responding to an emergency call the universities minister Joe Johnson has raised the prospect that academic institutions could be fined by a new regulator if they fail to protect free speech some universities and student groups have banned speakers who advocate controversial points of view Mr Johnson speaking in Birmingham and is expected to argue that students need to be challenging but Dr Pam Rowe a senior lecturer in sociology at Aston University in the. City questions the wisdom of the government's approach to time same time that we're talking about online a piece in the need to contain levels of sexism and racism around united society more generally again to then turn around and say to universities how if you've got to encourage this type of speech on campus. I worry about what actually is going on here and it suggests to me that the university's minister has actually got another agenda hurricanes broken a Premier League goal scoring record which had stood for 22 years the England striker. The 2nd. For more than the. Sherif. I was there when the person who was but. The lack of. That record was a great vision and it's. The . Only challenge. When I'm down I go will go down when I'm high and don't get angry they leave me. Just like that I can leave you just as fast but you don't. Own. Me. To get. Shoes. To one of them is a. Douche fish you can't. Feel bad to fix. Up our feet Oh you are yours so. You know she. Put you back again. Do you. See. To get. To one of them is open. To me. To Michael so that when we clean bandaging did that one could again I can I don't come in the name of them but I know she's being a woman of the moment that she hasn't seen she just sounds like someone was cool with yeah funny isn't it. It's one of those. Issues it's forces ready of the F.B.I.'s it's patching it's the best of the gas the best of the music from 2017 says hot should get. Great gas coming out of the South including an extremely candid into. With. Sonny struggled with depression after leaving the Army but he told us all about how getting all accessing really helped with his recovery coming up inside the next house much sooner than that coming up next we spoke to the team as they made history when the 1st. Made it to the top of the highest mountain in the world next. Morning just. A little bit. Of. A. The sea having a nice Christmas. Well you know still. These days either side of person says well this is all the left and the nuts yeah yeah they all called me didn't actually have time for me an asshole for about a week just place you can play around and Chris is an angle staff down the back of the side. So he should get all mins obvious right now and your belly button is all the time silent Kelly more than friends is force ready of f.p.s. . Because every state made history on the 15th of May this year when the team made it to the summit of Mount Everest it was the 1st time a serving soldier made it to the top of the highest mountain in spite of 2 major and you talk about the team's achievement and how they were all feeling about that ordeal winning up one minor minor issue one of the soldiers got minor snow blindness to 6500 meters and we we have to fly down. To be seen by specialists but it was all really sort of Monaco everyone else got mine a respiratory infection and coughs and colds but everyone else absolutely point all things considered That's incredible isn't it what was it like standing on the top of the summit to be on the summit I mean to make sure that team did and when you speak to the team the 1st guy to. Break the passage to the top of the summit the 1st time this year you know they were it was incredibly emotional what they did was a phenomenal achievement you know there had been about 3 weeks of lots of delays in getting the ropes think stop the. Top of the mountain. We had a meeting with the show. And we decided that we would do it ourselves and we put 3 go because along with 6 and they broke to the top of the summit from the south side for the 1st time this year I mean beating world leading mountaineers to the top it was it was it wasn't just a great achievement getting the 1st to the top but it was a great achievement getting the 1st you know mountaineering on the mountain this year it was fantastic stories it's a countries there mountain what want to see what does this mean to the guy because he's a huge amount I mean you're making a really good point now and you know we had cars and Sherpas the Nepalese working together climbing the mountain when Long young lance corporal Sherman to our g.r. Came down summits came down with Sergeant from the role 'd of just expression and they just put their arms around me and cries in cried and cried I mean it meant it meant an enormous amount to them many men enormous amounts of the team you know I can tell you you know we've we've made history by putting the 1st summit but we've also made mountaineering history by having a go an all Nepalese team leading the mountain for the 1st time so it was you know it's hugely rewarding work out there with some very sad news while you're out there that a famous climber died on the mountain and your team helped out what will happen absolutely one of our rotations on the climate was a sion we we pushed up to come 3 about 7200 metres we were aware of the state who's a phenomenal mountaineer was climbing in the area of the. Sea which is to the left of the Everest is perched between sort of 2 highest mountains in the world looks in the sea and he was probably will not see how we could see what we thought we now know was a body lying on the glacier and that was that was in fact that you know it would have been the wrong thing by we managed to recover recover the body and only cause it to a helicopter landing sir. Which took about 2 hours of moving across glacis it's quite dangerous and then we called the helical so it's probably famous now put a plan in history it cost you about the team how did the team. Time you were all together on their 1st of course it was the huge 8 point one magnitude quake and then you've got this different circumstance to deal with nationally how did the team handle all of the things that we said at the time we. Don't have a choice because we kind of got to deal with it and you just go into a process you know you could be and you could be on an operational tool you just go into this process of getting the job done in the same what happened in the twenty's . It was it was it was good in many regards. Found out what we believe in that we were able to help. Is that this is from falling a Dolly and cool me. Down better and Shawn Johnson struggled with depression after leaving the Army but he credits acting and the all so. His incredible recovery films blossoming acting career included lead roles in Hamlet's Richard the 3rd and 12th Night earlier this year he'll say starred in a short film that was shown at the London well being in creativity week his film talking about his struggles with p.t.s.d. I came from a military family father went to schools all around the world Brothers was a fantastic life I love being about out about going to schools in multi-site priest Germany so when Dad came back with the Queen's Lancashire Regiment I was staying in Blackburn that was for one thing. So I joined the military I joined the Royal Artillery and I intended to do 22 years and have it so I had an injury and that that's what that's when I came out 12 years that this will be a point can you just tell us a little bit about your time in Belfast Yeah I was I did 2 tours of Northern Alliance who form of tours I was based at the. One time I spent some time with the green jackets in West Belfast and my 2nd school was in encounter Tyrone right across the bar apart province if you will moving back and forth very very busy busy toll was always something going on in lads died you know it was it was a hard thing to adjust to when you see things in Northern Ireland you know and a lot of things were going on you've got to get on with it 1st and foremost I've got time to meditate on it it's when you get back from Northern Ireland you know and this is from a c.v. Now trying to drink my problem why I'll sit in a pub in Hammersmith and just lie for no reason 3 o'clock in the author now with some friends started crying and I had this image of a woman you know who we turned upon seen they've been a murderer in the galleries have. A good fella and she was screaming cause I was the 1st soldier on the ground and that was biting back and suddenly I had this feeling of empathy I have done just to stop that why won't be there a little bit earlier what could we have done is it my fault now I was a soldier now and a veteran trying to adjust to all this stuff and mind Frank as we call it that started to. Take me down now little bits of information might not matter to some suddenly became a big problem for me you know so that's when the really really really when love how loads you get how terrible that letter if we're going to put it on the table you know so bad I just lost all faith in who I was the person I sat in the car after a lot of time of thinking and and I I put a host pop in the back of the car and I brace the 3rd for my last if you will I really want to get out it was by the grace of God I was found unconscious I was put in the hospital and this is this is like a happy go lucky cage like most of our lives wanting out you know so I'm in the car I mean I'm now putting a hospital for 10 weeks I lie you did my way out of the hospital because I was determined to finish this task off took a massive overdose once it out and then you know it's when my life changed I realized this is a purpose in life for me just tell us about your recovery. This is when I start to make the the big the big. Of the big journey of life and find out what's my vocation and I found by tapping into acting 1st of all most treatment I did have to be myself I could be something through art and completely escape any mind fry and then I started working for the veterans in the same sort of genre if you will and it was all the same awful this is amazing the blokes are showing this amazing art through through through through through and escape in which tell us about this short film you're involved in well this is fantastic and this is why I'm really excited about what's coming forward now because we're going back to to that time when it was darkness you know doing this now is all fun and doing this film is going to demonstrate you know we're going to talk again roll like we did this morning how life can be and how love it can be but with the support anybody today out there now who's really really struggling with depression and thinking is absolutely no way out will I promise those he or she with the right guard support will get into the law and over the line so from a you know doing this it's more about it's great it looks nice on the flyer I've done it's not about now it's about. We can do this together there is hope from darkness to light. Of Ok but the thing. Is you. Can't. Go back. And. Put that down again I don't want to. Me. Nothing. Then you see the type. Of thing. Wanted. To sing. Want to sing. Me Feel. Me. From the flowers. From. The film. Touching gives you a special relationship feast falsities reach the F.B.I.'s independent international. Decision is binding and she's here to help she's the service complaints companies and Fionn forces can talk to her problems with yourself who have recently left the full sentence with the views p.s.e.c. For you typically She transcends with your. New case for families b. Listen to mission to improve the complete system for all service costs and the surface complaints commitment from the info since this itself is a complaints ombudsman. Kiersten valuable your opinion is to be yes yes your opinion could make a difference to what we do and 2nd you could win Took if you launch today. Today and probably for the rest of the month you know what it's like he's a sense. Amongst all 3 loving them you know it's a big draw and the 2nd day said. It's obviously. A pick so in a yeah yeah. I'm sure. It's the best of the guests it's hats it's also the best all the music that's the weekend and if it coming. But seem avoid it injured and sick veterans and service personnel sets off last June on Race Across America the race consisted all the 3000 mile race from the West Coast to the east coast of the u.s. The equivalent of Bryson to Edinburgh every day for 7 days on the. Same walles triple amputee. He came in to chat to us about his accident in Afghanistan and why he was taking part in the rice across America I'm not sure the engineer didn't want partially children when engine is pretty much why it's like Korea did 3 tours of Afghan O'Hair Ricks and then I was trying to regiment station courage so would have been lost you never saw the feds once upon Fortunately needs a few 1010 I went out with a bang as I said Go wait when you came into the us you call it self and then you took your hand off which I think is a 1st we never that in the studio the fact that bad things happen but life goes on it's all about just didn't just get on with life really if not tonight becoming is in our case we talk a little bit about the day that kind of changed your life can you tell us a little bit about what you remember about that day yes of course I remember from much the how it was New Year's Day where on a sort of dawn clearance patrol of the compound. It was an arched garden to go into just before me as well we were involved in clear in the West again back to Boston helicopter landing so yeah I had a couple on it so and yeah going back to Boston and then. 100 metres where he go enjoy student on a day who are such tapes that are going to state that look for the OJT they. They sing south and they sing is a call to find and yeah one thing that's another and I ended up in a ditch on the side of. The poison might say pretty much save my life I know they oughtn't to mention names and yeah it's sort of far from every one they sing so from then you say you were back in hospital in Birmingham within 24 hours and then over the course of some years I'm sure you learnt how to walk again and that sort of thing I remember the whole it's that to be honest for being injured sick I spent 2 in a cage on spin put on the back of a helicopter shot an airborne off the back of it in my face so that's the mother coming in. Saying came in within half an hour pain injured I was back in Count Bassey move in that golden hour yeah I call it the golden hour so if you if you've been injured or wounded. And you're back in Boston within an hour you've got a 90 percent chance of survival and. What the guys on the in the Guards in Boston that the surgeons etc do is just it's unbelievable but yeah. 2 weeks 3 weeks that she made to comprehend what happened yeah I mean my family and my partner they were trying have to tell me every day what happened I mean one put them in with that said to me that my hand up in. My brain still trying to send messages to and I thought you law and you could still fail it and it wasn't just the amount of drugs a pump it's the system you just don't know where you are what's going on. The facts about it it's absolutely amazing what you can see the funny side never. This isn't the 1st cycling challenge is it no it's not I go into cycling 2030 off to look at in that memory loss and you. I mean. It was watching health care saying that in 2012 it's all over and go I said it was great I did it because I wanted to get past the chariot and help make the raise the money expended on the part for me so it felt good doing that how important is the camaraderie with all of this I mean obviously you know to speak and be around people who've experienced what you've experienced you get a lot from that yeah there's a team of right. It says for vox and for price I think between us is $14.00 alms and 6 legs. Yeah it's going to be it's going to be if you speak to anyone who's been discharged into the true even if just left the minute you're throwing a coat it's it's the camaraderie you Mrs working in a section up to you not company it's working to give it to achieve a goal and that's what the Ramasamy is about how quickly we do it in yes I want to smash this record but it's all about being run in a small group of like ours again the team that did in 2012 was for Hamas and for rights and I did it in 7 days 7 hours and 39 minutes and I was sort of not have a call here it was going to have been trying for it but what I mean this time is pretty much you've got. To nothing you've got Joe towns and he's a Paralympian going to now is just to try and absolutely smashed his record and get across America on the 7 night. Bill if I'm not. Crazy. To find a school bus trip. Nationalists footballing legend says Stanley Matthews is Stanley Matthews Jr came into being yes he spoke to us about a new documentary called Matthews which chronicles his dad's rise to stardom and that's coming up in the 10 minutes time. Now in September Richard I went along to the launch at the Special Forces club in a secret house behind Haven't we with that support best selling author Damian Lewis who's been on the show a few times his new book is called S.A.'s case the trial is the incredible true story Damian uncovered about an secret fighting unit opposed his Nazi storm treatments to seize the German held port city of to broke in Libya during World War 2 He's Damien talking about how he. Spent 20 years as a kind of reporting from all the usual nasty places you can imagine so cross Africa Middle East South America and then I had to have a year off because I go very badly injured and during that year was approached by a publisher and also to write a book on international bestseller on the u.s. There was reason to go to the rest is history should I feel bad saying that you turn them out because it sounds like the quality is never the course is fantastic and you uncover incredible stories just give us to fly out the story in this new book When the journey to the story was was was fantastic After university I did an expedition across the horror drove there was a lot yes support wrote your graphics society supported expedition and in the process of that we came across want to pray for the 2nd World War Wow So like in the middle of our test you know Jeep's and all me and all I kind of stuff and it got me fascinated in the theater of war and then I researched it and I find out the longer. Ever overland special forces mission was a mission in 1902 to rate the film in Libya and it was like 1800 miles for the desert just to get behind other designs just to get there and then launch the attack so it's researching writing that story and then in the process of doing the files for the National Archives and I suddenly realized that that mission was part of. Missions that night in which they go through the enemy lines using this deception force he was set up deliberately to pose as German soldiers to bluff their way through the enemy lines and that is incredible he found out while you're doing your research in this story basically haven't been told and say you want to develop in. There when you need things that they see as I think why is no one done this before now with this story in particular I was absolutely Words fail me and they fell be then they deny and actually in the process of getting of researching we got to follow print that is actually officially closed until 2064 so these World War 2 files that usually closed under a 45 year rule a 70 year old or a 100 year rule this one was closed under a well more than 100 year old Angele and so we all and in that file with that was all this information about this this this unit and what was tossed today can I just say we need to explain. The long range desecrate yes and no say just tell us about the sig will you Ok so with long range desecrate who were the guys who basically did the S.E.'s through the desert on their rights and the sake of the special interrogation group that was the cover name for this unit set up to train these German soldiers or they actually looked and acted a marched and sang like German soldiers to speak only German to wear German uniforms to use German weaponry and to drive German vehicles through the lines and the sick was a cover name they were there to take allied. Special forces through the lines but there's some really strong characters in there as well that would just give us a glimpse of the main protagonists main protagonist 1st this Henry said Buck So he said he was a member of the assassins fencing club he's captured in early 1902 he escapes from German captivity but by taking a dead German officers uniform dressing in that stealing a truck and he bluffs his way. Of any territory and gets back to British law and it's he's experienced doing that makes him think if we can get out we can back in again with a much larger force using sin and being so he's the key. Sets up the saying and then he joins forces with a guy cooled that's on a kill Hazelton Hazelton was known as the Lawrence of will to this was a guy he was brought up in Egypt his family had been there for generations his mother was attorney and he was British so he had sort of thought good looks he could pass as an Arab and he speciality was going. Only dressed in Arab posing as a local to gather intelligence on German Italian positions that's just to them for . Get the. Kids to use 16 fell fast but. Competition's to 64 seconds and safety 8 bags at the total impact crumple zone bicycle to 60. No competitions amazing it conditioning and safety features no way of bags no quibbles So it's up to you if you're a cyclist you know how vulnerable you can be on the grounds of safety something you To. Push. I wish it. And. Now we've. Come out very very sane now 26 December is it too soon to mention New Year's resolutions. Basically I'm doing the usual get in shape. To make it realistic that's the well I'm going to put it out there maybe I'm chomping at the bit head to say you know I don't know I want to do a triathlon. Exactly and therefore if I've got some kind of tongue. I feel like I'm going to get in shape I'm going to eat better and those are 3 things I'm not very good at Amora is cycling. Swimming and the running I mean. If 2018 could be come the year of the triathlon for me that. You need to be a reasonable swim away. In a way in a like yeah normally you think do you think as far as resolutions go that's a bit tough I think it would be why don't we just. To the can say. I don't see any less you know exactly what I need to do their. Job. never be applied to me again. To believe it was become a stripper that. Gave me a dozen people live in. Me So. We. Start. Forces Radio be f.p.s. . Games the best against the best of the music limb pain and strip that down. To Stanley Matthews was one of the greatest players to play the beautiful game his son Stanley Matthews Jr came in to speak to us a few months ago to talk about his dad and to promote a new documentary called Matthews which chronicles his dad's rise to global start of he used to play for his school team and I guess from there that the scouts and Stoke realized they had a talent and then he signed on as an office boy I think when he was about 14 or 15 when when he was 16 he signed a contract with them it must mean quantify go for the documentary because there's not that much for teachers around is that you know I mean unfortunately as you say this was in the you know late thirty's and forty's and fifty's not much television was around in those days so yeah we've got a lot of photo clips which we reenacted a few things but yeah he was he was working would call an old fashion when you know he's on the right right wing and his his job in those days as we were all windows was to clear the ball and try and beat his opponent and supply a pool to just teammates he had a signature move as well and he had one signature move was used to teach us about that it's called the Matthews move and kids all over the place you know they know the Matthews move but they don't necessarily know who Mathews is you know it was a feint to his left and then he pushes the ball with these right foot on the outside and goes to the right and it's and again you'll see it in the film it's amazing that. The opponent says opponent 99 percent of the time knows where it's going but still can't get out it's a move every single song they just can't get Yeah yeah you must've had to pull right is that so much footage was there to make it sound we did have a lot of footage and we could have added on another 3 or 4 hours easily but you know you have to decide what what you want to put on. Sad I've seen it probably at least 50 times and I cry every time. When I cry when the when he wins the f.a. Cup because that was in 1953 and going back a little bit on that when when my father's father was dying he said to my father I want you to do 2 things I want to take care of your mother and I want you to win an f.a. Cup winners' medal so obviously to take care of his mother and you know the f.a. Cup was a big thing got to the final 2 years lost both times and now he's $36.00 and now it's $953.00 and everybody said it's you know he's pasties prime which of course he wasn't played until he was 50 but and then they were down 31 in the final 2 both in wondrous with 1015 minutes to play turn it around and they ended up winning 43. About his. Career because he gave up football for about 6 years or something on the 6 years he was in the already as he was stationed stationed in Blackpool and he you know he went around the country training the troops and then playing some exhibition games there are still football matches going on during the war years but they were very informal. Exhibition type games for morale for the troops and for the people could come and watch and what was it like growing up say you know your kid and your dad is just ridiculously famous What was that like growing up it was never going to anywhere without being recognized I mean if you tried to take a walk anywhere you'd have people. Coming up and you know one in order grass which you would happy to do the other thing is always interesting growing up used to when we used to go to the movies as a as a family we used to get to the movie theater and go in the manager's office and wait until the movie had started and then 10 minutes after the movie started to go and sit sit in that in the theater and then 10 minutes before the movie and it we. Never saw the beginning of. The. So best Christmas presents. So. Just. Kind of smelly something. Yeah. Yeah basically my scar that makes me think that can't be right yeah you watch them over the next couple of days either. 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