Banned bitcoin purchases on its credit cards it says people need protecting from debts they may never be able to repay. Donald trump provokes another row claiming the nhs is going broke and not working but ministers say theyre proud of the health service. And cold and freezing fog disrupt travel as temperatures are set to fall sharply across the uk this week. Its five oclock. Our main story is the latest stage of the brexit negotiations, taking place in london today. The European Unions chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, has warned that trade barriers for goods and services are unavoidable for the uk once it leaves the eu if it leaves the Single Market and Customs Union as planned. Mr barnier was in downing street where he said the time had come for the uk to make a choice. The talks followed days of public squabbling among conservative mps on the desirability or otherwise of staying inside a Customs Union. Our Political Correspondent leila nathoo reports. On his way to london, the eus
Started calling them started saying you are dead men risen and he was referring to the type of battalion the number nine company. That Company Since the end of the Second World War said he was trying to say you are a reincarnation of these men from the Second World War. You are their descendents. You are dead men risen and this was a way of unifying them but it also became a sort of a theme of the book really because the three main characters Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorne bowl and the Company Commander and a the platoon commander were all killed in action. It was the first time those three levels have been killed in action since the korean war. In a sense that story is from the grave. Their testimony from the grave is at the core of the book and so in a way their detriment and the other resonance for me was there was an incidence which was the emotional heart of the book which has won seven watch guardsmen were in the back of a vehicle that toppled into a canal. A horrendous inciden
In the last few months is so debased and wave. Its unlawful, its immoral that the book shows yet again that there are two things that torture absolutely guarantees. One is pain and the other is false information. Booktv continues now. Toby harnden recounts a british battalions efforts to prevent the taliban from seizing a province of afghanistan while awaiting the arrival of u. S. Marines in 2009. Mr. Harnden discusses his book with dan lamothe National Security reporter for the washington post. Its about an hour. Host toby thanks for joining me today on after words. I am dan lamothe and i run the military blog checkpoint. Im toby harnden with the bureau chief. We are talking about his book dead men risen which has just been released in the United States. Its about a unit traveling to afghanistan in 2009 i was unit that saw quite a bit of combat. Toby i was hoping off the top of the good explain about the title of the book. A very striking title. Guest its a phrase that in is a poem. I
Suspended animation since the end of the Second World War and so he was trying to say to them, you are a reincarnation of these men from the Second World War. Youre theyre descendents. Youre dead men risen, and this was way of unidentifying them and became a theme of the book because the three main characters lieutenant the Battalion Commander, the Company Commander, and the pursuing commander were all killed in action and those three levels of leaders have been killed in a british battalion since the korean war. Sense their testimony from the grave is at the core of the book and theyre dead men risen. And the other thing was an incident which again is one of the emotional parts of the book when seven welsh guardsmen in the back of a vehicle that toppled into a canal. They were hacking upsidedown in the dark with water rising like this and they were upsidedown, and some blacked out and just before one reached for a picture of his wife and a sonogram of his unborn child and clutched to
We believe Prime Minister questions and Keir Starmers questions to borisjohnson and Keir Starmers questions to Boris Johnson focus on the and Keir Starmers questions to borisjohnson focus on the amount of money spent by the government to external Pr Consultants through the pandemic. We will catch up with the we are taking you straight to weather with said keith lucas. Downing street. This is the first of a weekly i pressure brings a mist and fog for session of scientists taking questions about coronavirus some of us, but we is about to take place are turning to something much more at downing street. Jonathan van tam is one of the u nsettled are turning to something much more unsettled through not just are turning to something much more unsettled through notjust today but into the remainder of the week as speakers. Lets begin. Well. A windy day ahead today with some rain around that is the traditional vaccine sequence particularly heavy across north and under velleman timeline for a wes