By american forces, the record hasnt always been that good. My guest today flew into the middle of the My Lai Massacre in vietnam in 1968 and stopped the wholesale slaughter of vietnamese civilians. It was more than 30 years before anybody even bothered to say thank you. Has the us military now learned the lessons it should have done from vietnam . Hugh thompson, a very warm welcome to the programme. Thank you very much. When you hear allegations of brutality by us troops in iraq, failure to respect the Geneva Conventions, what goes through your mind . Bad leadership. The past and my situation goes through it and wondering, has nothing been learned . How Something Like this could happen in the present that seems to have happened. I dont know to what degree because i dont have the facts, but it shouldnt have happened. In 1991, commanders were told when they went for desert storm, no my lais. Thats what i heard general schwartzkopfs Marching Orders were to his officers. That made me feel
At 16 45 gmt on wednesday. A short time ago, i spoke to our football reporter, john bennett, who rounded up the events. The spain and Borussia Dortmund defender has undergone surgery to remove shrapnel and repair a fracture on this hand and wrist area. There were three explosions as they left their hotel. This is them as they left the stadium. Police have given a Press Conference to explain. They say it was the Dortmund Team bath that was the target of the attack and say these we re target of the attack and say these were serious explosions. Bus. They could have been in a hedge or a parking lot. Police say they discovered a letter near the scene which they are trying to authenticate. They have not said what is in the letter. They are looking for a car with a foreign numberplate. The ground was packed. Police have praised the reaction of fans, with both showing their solidarity. They were evacuated in a calm manner. The dortmund players in particular were stunned. They will play again o
in the countryside first thing. so through the day tomorrow, then, blustery again in the north with some rain for the north west of scotland. best of the sunshine for central and eastern parts of england, i think, through the day. but it will be milder than recent days, especially in the north, with temperatures about 9 13 degrees. bye bye. in hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. recue efforts continue as over 17,000 people are now known to have been killed following monday s earthquakes in turkey and syria. the world health organization warns that without shelter, water, fuel or electricity, many more people who have survived the quakes but lost their homes could die. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky takes his plea for fighter jets to european union leaders after his surprise visit to the uk yesterday. planned strike action by firefighters is postponed after employers make a new pay offer
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hello. our spell of largely dry and increasingly hot weather is set to continue for the rest of this week. over the next few days, we see those heatwave conditions building and hardly any rain in the forecast. just the far northwest of scotland, where we see a weather front close by, we ll see a little bit of rain, but for the rest of us, high pressure dominates. as that high pressure shifts its way slightly more towards the east, that will draw in this really hot air from the near continent, so particularly by the time we get to thursday and friday, we ll see those temperatures soaring, particularly across a good part of england and wales. temperatures to start your wednesday morning between about 11 15 in our towns and cities, a touch lower in the countryside first thing. lots of hot sunshine on the cards for wednesday, that weather front bringing a bit more cloud to the far northwest, bit of rain for the western isles, perhaps. but temperatures in england, scotland and northern irel