Almost every single one of them saluted back. It was an incredibly moving experience, and you always have to wonder when youre talking about faces and people that you remember how it impacted the lives of those young men. I guess, among many other things, ive always wondered were they able to rebuild their lives and to have good families and decent jobs and to really have a decent life. I want to interrupt then and tell an anecdote. Im going to take one second here. I was inside the pentagon working on the morning of 9 11, and as we came to understand the people who perished inside the pentagon, there was a man, older man, civilian, worked for the department of the army. His name was max bilky. You know who max was. Max bilky died in the pentagon on 9 11. Max as a young army draftee is listed in American History as the last combat american soldier out of vietnam, and he came home and he had a good life. Thats good. By all accounts. And he died that morning. So vietnam, its just its jus
Covering battlefields, to bringing the stories of american troops fighting in faraway places into our living rooms, into the front page of our newspapers. If nothing else, that era was such a turn in journalism that i probably dont have to explain to anybody in this room. And i thought that if were not all totally familiar with these womens backgrounds, we would just start by going down the line and have all of you briefly tell us how you came to be in vietnam. Its a far away place a long time ago. Lets just go down the line for a few minutes here. How did you get there . I got there it seems hard to believe, but someone in our day, like barbara, would be a pentagon correspondent. We reported on things like parties and gardening and cooking. We never really made the news because womens lives were so confined that we had our section, but the stories of women werent even news because their lives were tiny and circumscribed, so i got very bored at my job. I was reading papers all the time
The roll out of the welfare benefit universal credit. A senior cabinet minister has told the bbc that the government should consider borrowing more money to invest in building hundreds of thousands of new homes. Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, the communities secretary sajid javid said up to three hundred thousand new homes a year are needed a level of construction not seen since the 1960s. Our Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake reports. What are the government may be prepared to borrow money to pay fred. We are looking at new investments. What i want to do is make sure that we are using everything we have available to deal with this housing crisis. Where that means, for example, that we can sensibly borrow more to invest in infrastructure that leads to more housing, and take advantage of the record low Interest Rates that we have, we should absolutely be considering. As the how many, and he said that up to 300,000 new homes are needed annually. That is double the number bought i
Welcome to bbc news. A senior cabinet minister has told the bbc that the government should consider borrowing more money to invest in building hundreds of thousands of new homes. Speaking on the andrew marr show, the communities secretary sajid javid said up to 300,000 new homes a year are needed a level of construction not seen since the 1960s. 0ur Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake reports. New homes are being built, but nowhere near enough. The government admits that the Housing Market is broken. Building more is one way to fix that, and community secretary, sajid javid says that more money could be porridge to build them. What i want to do is make sure that we are using everything we have available to deal with this housing crisis, and where that means, for example, that we can sensibly borrow more to invest in the infrastructure that leads to more housing, take advantage of some of the record low Interest Rates that we have, i think we should absolutely be considering that. As
Im a refugee, i came to england at the age of six. He campaigned for more to be brought to the uk. Today he reacts to a government decision to stop receiving children under the scheme he championed, calling it shameful. Hello, welcome to the programme, were live until 11am this morning. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today accident and Emergency Departments in england had their worst waiting time performance last month since targets were introduced 13 years ago. Provisional figures leaked to the bbc also suggest that record numbers of patients have had to wait on trolleys for a bed to become available. The Department Of Health insists the vast majority of patients are treated quickly. Our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes has more. For months now, accident and Emergency Departments across england have been struggling. Last week, the bbc was gi