and then again once the lawyer gets involved that she wants if she gets appointed it, it s another legal road to go down. but her fans who are so integral to this, they re going to be out in force again at the courtroom in la cheering her on free britney , the free britney movement which you ve seen so much of over the past year back out in force. but yeah, it ll be interesting to hear what goes on today. another chapter in this long running legal saga for britney spears. steve holden. a nine year old boy from dorset has won a national pageant giving him the ability to compete in the us next year. charlie russell took up modelling after being bullied for dancing. and now wants to encourage more boys to take part. jon cuthill has been to meet him. meet charlie. nine years old, bounces on trampolines, plays football all the usual stuff. oh, yeah, also a pageant king. he s quite good at it. i walked to the side and then i posed and that i walked
and fabian? the boy who ran for miles through the fields of sunflowers trying to save his dad s life has grown into a a disciplined athlete. plays football, baseball, soccer. and wanted to talk to us about his dad. what did he want for you? a good career. reporter: did you talk about that with him? yes. he told me to study hard. reporter: what do you want the world to know about your father? that he was a good person. like he would always want to do things. he would take me out when he had something to do. reporter: you were the apple of his eye, i bet you. yes. reporter: you loved to be with him? yeah. reporter: two families in the great fertile valley of california. one of them worth millions. and the other far more.
all accounts, he was doing the right thing and you talk about player safety, you try to teach kids how to tackle the right way, how to play the game the right way, how to not injure themselves on the football field, but some things are unavoidable. this is a free accideak acciden happened on the football field. i m so, so happy that a lot of occurrences like this, especially as it relates to football, and it s a collision sport. these things happen on the football field. it s unfortunate it happened to this kid, a talented guy who played not only on the defensive side but the offensive side as well. you talk about having your two boys, your oldest, 8, plays football. there are former pro players who say you ve got to be kidding me, i m not allowing my boys to play. you do. why? they love it. i love the sport of football. for me, i had very, very good football coaches growing up and again, they taught me so many things. i had such tremendous experiences on the football field playing
figure, a national broadcaster, on commercials that everybody sees. an actor. aaron hernandez, i would say, is known really only in the new england area, and only for plays football. he has no fame outside of that. he does have a pretty checkered history. he s been charged in a civil suit in connection with a shooting in florida. he has a troubled background, but certainly nothing on the order of this. hi just received a $40 million contract from the patriots. he s not seeing that money any time soon or probably ever. the patriots dropped him immediately issuing a strong statement along those lines. jeffrey, thank you very much for a lot of work today. up next, the confusion over edward snowden s middle name allow the nsa leaker to slip away? ready? happy birthday! it s a painting easel! the tide s coming in!
spring offensive. that threat follows this deadly attack in kabul but a taliban suicide bomber two hours after president obama left afghanistan and the taliban claiming it s just a sign of things to come. let s go straight to nick payton walsh in kabul. when the taliban says spring offensive, tell us exactly what that means. reporter: well, something they were talking about two weeks ago but today their statements shortly after barack obama left made it clear they consider it a new operation ahead of them. something they called al faruq, an arabic term referring between a person who can distinguish between good and evil. many targets, principally foreigners, those assisting foreigners, afghan security forces and a variety of other tactics which, of course, this kind of statement is try to design fear through the afghans working with the nato campaign here. we saw this morning a suicide bomber driving a car laden with explosives into the gates of something called the greenvi