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 was, l
we re not in election mode any more. now we have a president. until he s impeached. i think that s coming very soon. but i still love you. hello, i am katty kay in london, christian fraser is in london. i m in i m in washington. here is a picture you may have seen before. donald trump s former national security adviser, mike flynn sitting alongside vladimir putin at a gala dinner in moscow in december 2015. we have shown it to you many times before and it was widely circulated in the us media before gen flynn was appointed to his post. he was paid $45,000 dollars for that appearance by the kremlin s television station, russia today. a payment he s now accused of not disclosing when he joined the white house staff, and that would be illegal. today, the house oversight committee revealed that in 2014, general flynn was warened by the pentagon not to take money from foreign governments. the committee has been given documents from the department of defence which suggest gene
the police and intelligence services. let s get more on this with major general chip chapman, who is former head of counter terrorism at the ministry of defence. he is in our westminster studio. thank you forjoining us. what was your response to this incident, i don t know if you watched it unfolding, what were you thinking at the time? i was in whitehall at the time andi the time? i was in whitehall at the time and i think the first thing you can say in terms of the threat, it is three components, intent, capability and opportunity. whitehall is a credit place so he had the opportunity and the police officially separated the man with the intent from the capability which was the loaded weapons. in a very british fashion. they took the weapons away from him, he is no longer a threat, then they arrested him. lots of police forces in the world would have used excessive force so it was a very british police operation. also relevant to the fact that the head of mi5 said last year
of the day s news with clive myrie. first, the home secretary, amber rudd, has said that all but a handful of nhs trusts are now back to normal after the global cyber attack which has disrupted health services in england and scotland. one of those trusts affected was in wigan. our correspondent judith moritz is there. at this hospital they have been affected to a certain extent but they worked quickly to shut down computers to make sure that the virus did not spread even further. that is something that you did first of all, isn t it? yesterday afternoon, when did you first noticed there was a problem? just after two o clock we got our first notification of the ransom we re first notification of the ransom were appearing on one of systems. we closed down internal communications within minutes, meaning that the virus could not spread any further. we now know that reigned about 30 of out we now know that reigned about 30 of our desktops and laptops have been affected and about f
ukrainian capital, kiev. will britain face a brexit backlash? and manchester city close in on a place in the champions league. we ll have that and the rest of the day s sporting action in sportsday. good evening, and welcome to bbc news. five nhs trusts are still experiencing serious problems after yesterday s international cyber attack. a3 of the trusts affected in england and scotland are now returning to normal. the attack on friday caused ambulances to be diverted, and numerous cancellations or delays in treatment. a&e departments were not affected. the government s emergency committee, cobra, has been meeting today, chaired by the home secretary amber rudd. here s our health editor, hugh pym. the news shocked staff and patients alike. the cyber attack shut down key systems. ron grimshaw won t forget it in a hurry. he was in the middle of having an mri scan but it was abruptly halted and he will have to go back another day. i was stunned, obviously stunned, and as the nur