upholds a law banning gay sex saying it must preserve national dignity. after a tumultuous day in british politics the race is on to find a new prime minister after theresa may announced she would step down as leader of the conservative party in two weeks‘ time. in a statement with an emotional end, mrs may said she d been unable to complete britain s withdrawal from the european union, despite her best efforts. the former foreign secretary boris johnson is the favourite to succeed mrs may. and he s declared that under his leadership britain would leave the european union in october, with or without a deal. our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. it was time. time to go to work, although the job has slipped away. good morning. lovely weather. for confidantes to choreograph the exit rather than plan the future. time to confront the truth. a broken government, a broken leader. time to forget distractions. the men in suits walk out. then silence drops. as with every l
the united states has approved the deployment of 1500 troops to the middle east. president donald trump says it would be a protective measure. he s played down the potential of conflict in the region saying that he believed iran did not want a confrontation with the united states. the american military deployed a carrier strike group to the region earlier this month. we want to have protection in the middle east, we will be sending a relatively small number of troops, mostly protective and some very talented people are going to the middle east right now and we ll see and we ll see what happens. our washington correspondent chris buckler has more on the us s motives. sending troops in order to send a message to iran. there is concern among military chiefs and intelligence chiefs here in washington that iran has become more aggressive. they have blamed them for attacks on tankers off the coast in the gulf and there is a sense that they want to do something to show they will not
during the 1960 s, as well is the idea of government censorship. this program is about an hour and 20 minutes. [video clip] host: the war was becoming the big story and i was determined that i was going to get there and cover it. so i became the first reporter from a texas newspaper to go to vietnam. i was a veteran. i had been there for years and i was ready to roll. i was there because i wanted to be involved with the biggest american story of my generation. because i learned essentially how to control my fear. my choice was to get as close to the action in vietnam as i possibly could. i was writing features about kids from fort worth. it is the single most rewarding thing i did in all my years in journalism because this would b righten their day that someone from their hometown would look them up. my best picture were woven through it. the kind of pictures i took showed people waiting for something to happen. i basically try to block out the emotional side
possibly could. i was writing features about kids from fort worth. it is the single most rewarding thing i did in all my years in journalism because this would brighten their day that someone from their hometown would look them up. my best pictures were woven through it. the kind of pictures i took showed people waiting for something to happen. i basically tried to block out the emotional side of it in the early years because i really believe that the journalism of detachment was what war coverage was all about. i was very jingoistic when i got there. when i got back, i was convinced that war suddenly could not be simply could not be won. part of the reason i have always done it is a sense of wanting to be where the action is, in the bigger theater we cast a light in dark corners around the world that you would not see without photographers. so, to come up with these dramatic, exclusive stories that riveted readers and editors was absolutely thrilling. and dro