A meeting of two isolated leaders, usually too afraid of leaving home. North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un left his country by armoured train for the first time in four years to meet President Putin in Eastern Siberia.
Mark Francois, a former defence minister and Conservative MP who now sits on the defence Select Committee speaks to Matt Frei who starts by asking him if the UK has a moral duty to protect the Afghan translators who worked for the British army in Afghanistan.
Cathy Newman asks Jeremy Corbyn: When in the last half century has British-backed military action been necessary?
Sergeant Blackman’s former commanding officer reveals to Channel 4 News the untold story of warnings issued about the disgraced marine’s unit, a lack of leadership and how “more could have been done in advance to avoid” the tragic outcome.
This investigation highlighted the case of Rebecca Crookshank and – for once – actually produced video footage of bullying in the RAF at a Falklands base. Nicola Williams, who’s just become the new military ombudsman, says she’s determined to root out sexual harassment in the armed forces.
North Korea is marking 60 years since the end of the Korean War. John Sparks is in Pyongyang, where he’s being treated to mysterious city tours, chaperoned by ever-present government minders.
Jon Snow
Sixty-eight years ago today America detonated the world’s first nuclear bomb at its Trinity testing site in New Mexico. Today the most intriguing aspect of the nuclear debate is that it is so low-key.
Matt Frei
Drones are the corner stone of Barack Obama’s security policy, but the debate is now raging in the CIA and beyond on whether the unmanned and unseen weapons are counter productive, and driving recruits to al-Qaeda.
Jim Murphy has challenged the government to “come clean” about how much its aircraft carrier u-turn has cost the taxpayer – which he’d heard could be as much as £250m. “This is an embarrassing shambles,” he said, after Defence Secretary Philip Hammond went from outlining a bill of something between £40m-£50m only to admit later that it could be as much as £100m. Mr Hammond insisted however that the bill would be “much less than £250m”. Who’s right? FactCheck investigates.
It’s a new era for defence as the French and the British sign a co-operation declaration. But are they making the pact for the same reasons? Lindsey Hilsum does not think so.
Margaret Evison is as pretty far removed from the tub-thumping anti-war campaigning Mother. She would have great sympathy for such women – it’s just that she’s not one of them. She supports the Afghanistan war. Though having just returned from a trip to Kabul and the Panshjir Valley with the veteran reporter Sandy Gall, her…
Jon Snow
At the Mandy book launch last night there were some wonderfully tedious ‘no-shows’ and some equally intriguing ‘shows’, the Prince of Darkness was in ebullient form.
Nick Clegg says the MoD employs one civilian for every 2 serving military members of staff – but does his claim give the full picture?
It is very hard today to read the foreign secretary’s new strategy for Afghanistan. The aims of Nato are laudable. They are invariably necessary and they are vital for the security of both Britons and Afghans alike. But, worringly, they are becoming more unattainable every day.
I remember the horror when we entered the plundered Baghdad Museum two days after the Americans took the Iraqi capital in April 2003. We picked our way through broken shards of pottery and destroyed statues – the looters had smashed as well as grabbed. A lone archaeologist was wandering around in shock. “We would have…