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one of the british soldiers injured in afghanistan was rifleman craig monaghan from manchester. serving with c company, 2 rifles, he sustained serious head injuries and is still on medication. he says the news that the taliban are back makes him wonder why so many fought, bled and lost their lives. 10 of his colleagues were killed. he s been speaking to our correspondent, jeremy cooke. the pain i felt this morning. ..was like i felt sick. like physically went to the toilet, retching, thinking i was going to be sick. every area now that ifought, bled, friends lost their lives on, hasjust gone. i was 18 years old when i arrived in country, coming up to my 19th birthday. i d aspired to go to afghanistan, like i wanted to be in afghanistan. during that period, it was just like we went to bed one night, woke up the next day, and the world was against us. were you in combat every day at that point? yeah, by mid june, yeah, every single day we were. that 2nd ofjune incident ....
could be removing them. hello, i m ben thompson. welcome to the programme. within the last hour, indian company tata steel has confirmed plans to close blast furnaces at its plant in port talbot, south wales, with the loss of up to 2,800 jobs. tata said in a statement: tata steel today announced it will commence statutory consultation as part of its plan to transform and restructure its uk business. this plan is intended to reverse more than a decade of losses and transition from the legacy blast furnaces to a more sustainable, green steel business. following the confirmation, the general secretary of steelworkers union community, says tata s announcement is unacceptable and claims the uk s primary but a uk government spokesperson has said they are determined to secure the future of the uk steel industry. uk prime minister rishi sunak has been asked about this lets listen to what he had to say. well, i know first of all that it will be a worrying time for every ....
welcome to a special edition of cnn tonight. and we begin with the art of the deal that never was. tonight the washington post reports that donald trump rejected efforts by his lawyers to cut a deal with the justice department to avoid his second arrest in just ten weeks. the post reports that one of his attorneys, floated the idea of quietly approaching the feds last fall to take the temperature down on the classified documents case and to try to find a way to avoid charging the former president, but that never materialized because trump listened to other advisers and pundits pushing him to take a much more aggressive approach. now, cnn reported last fall that trump had conservative activist tom fitten in his ear telling him that returning records to the archives was a mistake. and so now as a result of all of that, trump faces 37 criminal counts for allegedly keeping and hiding those documents and of course obstructing the investigation. and behind the scenes, c ....
welcome to a special edition of cnn tonight. we begin with the arch of the deal that never was. tonight, the washington post reports that donald trump projected efforts by his lawyers to cut a deal with the justice department to avoid his second arrest in just ten weeks. the post reports that one of his attorneys, chris skies, floated the idea of quietly approaching the feds last fall to take the temperature down on the classified documents case. to try to find a way to avoid charging the former president. but that another materialized because trump listen to other advisers and pundits pushing him to take a much more aggressive approach. cnn reported last fall that trump had conservative activists tom in his ear telling him that returning records to the archives was a mistake, and so now as a result of all of that, trump faces 37 criminal counts for allegedly keeping and hiding those documents and of course obstructing the investigation. behind the scenes, cnn is also l ....
good morning. happy new year. welcome to a special new year s day edition of morning joe. we re on tape this morning with some of our top, recent conversations. we begin with a discussion about donald trump s increasing use of authoritarian language in his speeches and social media posts. in recent months, trump has repeated fascist rhetoric, including saying immigrants are, quote, poisoning the blood of our country, and referring to his political enemies as vermin. we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. the threat from outside forces is sinister, dangerous, and grave, more than the threat from within. donald trump echoing the words of 20th century authoritarians at a rally earlier this month. joining us now, national affairs analyst john heilemann. special correspondent at vanity fair and host of the fast politics podcast, molly jong-fast. ....