i was then put forward to go to combat stress. combat stress saved my life. now. i would be lying in a ditch, or i may have committed suicide. now, i am happy. i have got lots of friends. i help other veterans, and my family, i get a chance to show my family that that was not the real me, that i actually do care for them, and it wasn't me that was there. i can't turn the clock back. ican there. i can't turn the clock back. i can say sorry, but i can't turn the clock back. but now i can affect the clock back. but now i can affect the future. combat stress have basically given me my life back. they have been there, they have understood me. the clinicians are specialists in dealing with military vetera ns. specialists in dealing with military veterans. the veterans language at times is not perfect, but the clinicians at combat stress are aware of that, they are also aware of the way that the military act and react. the clinicians are dealing with people who have been taught to fight, taught to kill, and they understand the way that a military vetera n understand

i was then put forward to go to combat stress, and combat stress saved my life.d be lying in a ditch, or i may have committed suicide. now, i'm happy, i've got lots of friends, i help other veterans. my family...| get a chance to show my family that that wasn't the real me, that i actually do care for them, and it wasn't me that was there. i can't turn the clock back. i can say sorry, but i can't turn the clock back, but now i can affect the future, and combat stress have basically given me my life back. they've been there, they've understood me. the clinicians there are specialists, to dealing with military veterans. the vetera ns' language at times isn't perfect, but the clinicians at combat stress are aware of that. they are also aware of the way that the military act and react. the clinicians there are dealing with people who have been taught to fight, taught to kill, and they, they understand the way a military veteran likes to be spoken to, the way that they like to be treated. but the whole ethos around combat stress is helping, but also having other veter

for military veterans, combat stress, has said it is unable to deal with new cases because of cuts in funding. from monday, former service personnel in england and wales will be re—directed to the nhs for treatment. the charity helps treat servicemen and women suffering from complex mental health problems. our correspondent chi chi izundu reports. they're known as tough and resilient, but being in the military can be an incredibly stressfuljob. reports after reports have shown the impact it can have on the mental health of personnel, but now one of the leading charities for veterans‘ mental health is warning, from monday, thanks to funding costs, it will now have to stop taking on new referrals. combat stress says it receives around 2,000 referrals for treatment every year, but its income has fallen from £16 million to £10 million in this current financial year. very, very reluctantly — i think this is the only time the organisation has ever considered doing this — we have decided that we need to make sure we can meet the needs of everyone who is currently in our system and we are not

he's concerned that combat stress is going to be dealing with fewer veterans from monday.s a real problem. we need the expertise of combat stress to help the growing problem of veterans‘ mental health. we know that 80% of veterans do not receive mental health treatment on the nhs, and combat stress is a vital part of the ability for veterans to get treatment. can you explain your experience of serving, and that of your colleagues, and the impact afterwards? i was on one of the most intense tours of afghanistan in 2009. we had 800 firefights and about 200 roadside bombs which went off in our area of operations, affecting about 150 people. we were all graded as red on the trauma risk management scale, the most severely traumatised. many colleagues were killed and lots were injured. and being exposed to that level of trauma is a bit like being exposed to radiation. some people get affected immediately, and the burns are very obvious, but for some people it takes a long time for the cancer of post—traumatic stress to develop and then to come out. we need a process to be funded

paul says the leading charity for veterans‘ mental health, combat stress, saved his life when he was, the charity says any new referrals from england and wales won't be taken on. it receives around 2,000 referrals for treatment every year, but its income has fallen from £16 million to £10 million in this current financial year. we have decided that we need to make sure we can meet the needs of everyone who is currently in our system, and we are not going to take referrals in england and wales where we have the greatest risks of safety, if you like, for the near future. all new referrals will now be redirected to the nhs. in a statement, the nhs said providing the best care for veterans is its number one priority, but veterans ministerjohnny mercer said he would hold an urgent meeting with combat stress to discuss the situation. chi chi izundu, bbc news. a year ago today, a damn about a mining village collapsed in brazil, and vaulting the community and killing 270 people. it was one of the country's worst ever industrial disasters. 16 people from the mining company, along with the min

the uk's leading mental health charity for military veterans, combat stress, has said it is unable toh helps treat servicemen and women suffering from complex mental health problems, has lost millons of pounds of support from nhs england. 0ur correspondent chi chi izundu reports. they're known as tough and resilient, but years on the front line can take its toll, with some military personnel like paul smith facing battles with their mental health. i was verbally abusive to my wife, my children. i alienated them. i'd walk round and i'd be looking at escape routes, i'd be looking for people carrying weapons. at night, i'd go to our bedroom and hide behind the bed and cry my eyes out. i'd have nightmares. i'd have flashbacks. paul says the leading charity for veterans‘ mental health, combat stress, saved his life when he was referred to it — but now, because of funding cuts, the charity says any new referrals from england and wales won't be taken on. it receives around 2,000 referrals for treatment every year, but its income has fallen from £16 million to £10 million in this current fina

s leading mental health charity for madrid veterans combat stress has said it is unable to deal withity which helps to treat servicemen and women suffering from complex mental health problems has lost millions of pounds of support from nhs england. the uk's leading mental health charity for military veterans says it is unable to deal with new cases because of cost of funding. the charity which helps to treat servicemen and women suffering from complex mental health problems has lost millions of pounds of support from nhs england. the unknown is tough and resilient but he is on the frontline can take its toll. some military personnel that paul smith facing battles with their mental health. i was verbally abusive to my wife, my children, i walked round and i had been in for escape routes. i'd be looking for people carrying weapons. at night i go to a bedroom and hide behind the bed and cry my eyes out. i'd have nightmares, i'd have flashbacks. paul says the leading charity for veterans mental health, combat stress, safety of his life when he was referred to it. but now because of fundi

i'm joined now by sue freeth, the ceo of combat stress, the veterans mental health charity.has been yourfunding has been cut. what is the reason you have been given? over the reason you have been given? over the last few years, the amount of funds we have had from government has been declining, and that is partly due to decisions to redistribute the funds we previously had in response to growing demand to, to get it closer to where people live. we have no issue with increasing the amount of funds that go towards supporting veterans and theirfamilies, but go towards supporting veterans and their families, but we go towards supporting veterans and theirfamilies, but we have been saying that our service compliments what the nhs provides. wants people have been stabilised from crisis, our service helps people to recover and it is life—saving. most veterans who turn to us, 80% have already tried or use the nhs, but it has not been sufficient to help them to make a full recovery. so what do you do thatis a full recovery. so what do you do that is different? we have a multidiscipli

earlier i spoke to sue freeth, the ceo of combat stress, she told me why they've seen got less money.ment has been declining, and that's partly due to decisions to redistribute the funds we previously had out in response to growing demand, and to get it closer to where people live, and we have no issue with the need to increase the amount of funds that go into supporting veterans and their families. however, for some time, we have been saying that our service complements what the nhs provides. people have been stabilised from crises, and our service helps people to recover, and it is essential, life changing and life saving. most vetera ns life changing and life saving. most veterans who turn to us already have, 80% have already tried or used the nhs but it has not been sufficient to help them to make a full recovery. what do you do that is different? we have a multidisciplinary team, psychologists, psychiatrists and nurses, so we can work psychologists, psychiatrists and nurses, so we can work intensively ina way nurses, so we can work intensively in a way that the nhs is not able to

pulse is a leading charity for veterans mental health, combat stress, safety of his life when he was won‘t be taken on. it receives around 2000 referrals for treatment every year. but its income has fallen from £16 million to 10 million in this current financial year. we had decided that we need to make sure we can meet the needs of eve ryo ne make sure we can meet the needs of everyone who is currently in our system. and we‘re not going to take referrals in england and wales where we have the greatest risk of safety if you like. for the nearfuture. only referrals will not be redirected to the nhs and in a statement, the nhs said providing the best care for veterans is its number one priority. veterans ministerjohnny mercer said he would hold an urgent meeting with combat stress to discuss the situation. madonna has cancelled the first london show of her madame x tour, saying she has to rest because of an injury. the singer was due to begin a run of fifteen london performances on monday. it comes after she cancelled a show in lisbon, portugal, earlier this week. she posted on social

number one priority, but veterans ministerjohnny mercer said he would hold an urgent meeting with combat stress to discuss the situation. chi chi izundu, bbc news. let's get a look at the weather. the sun will reappear tomorrow after it has been quite some time. it comes it has been quite some time. it co m es after it has been quite some time. it comes after a spell of rain and that will overnight push into northern ireland and western scotland. ahead of that plenty of cloud and some patchy light rain. the wind is picking up across the uk, there isn't any frost going into the morning. this rain courtesy of a front with cold air following. it will clear away for northern ireland in the morning, push across scotland, through wales than across england, not reaching the far east until later. there will be brighter skies following behind, more especially to northern ireland and scotland. a few showers on the hills of scotland. as it turns colder, enhanced by a stronger wind, a blustery day tomorrow. temperatures are coming down as the rain clears away. further wintry showers in 00:01:36,646 --> 429

we‘re joined now from our london newsroom by ‘combat stress‘ chief executive, sue freeth.y to provide this sort of service alone. are you the only charity that does this? there are others that do it. how practical is it to pool resources? we are, and what we do dovetails with the services that the nhs is providing, and we welcome those in welcome the investment they have made, but the work that we do, veterans can‘t get from the nhs, and can‘t get from any other service. we are a cqc registered service and we operate throughout the uk and each of the devolved nations, but we don‘t receive enough support from government to be able to protect what we have done and grow it. there isa what we have done and grow it. there is a growing demand, and we really are ata is a growing demand, and we really are at a funding crisis point moment, i‘m afraid. are at a funding crisis point moment, i'm afraid. what conversations have you had with government, because obviously you have been assessing the income fall, you have been assessing the need for funding. what feedback have you had fro

it will be a bit colder and just a bit more unsettled. for military veterans, combat stress, has said cases because of cuts in funding. from monday, former service personnel in england and wales will be re—directed to the nhs for treatment. the charity helps treat servicemen and women suffering from complex

i think the combat the stress savage combat they endured after d-day basically killed him. but the son just a couple hours before his father died, he was able to see his father and check with him how he was doing. >> let's go back to calls for alex kershaw. this is janice, in plymouth, michigan. >> good morning. >> good morning. mr.kershaw, my dad was a sea center in the army air corps and d-day was his 24th birthday. and he had met my mom, a scottish girl in a pub in manchester, england and they got married in'43. he put her on the queen mary when they learned she was pregnant with me so his first child would be born in the u.s. but i have always been curious about the second wave because my dad, sandy blakeman, was a photographer and he went in on the second wave and through rest after the war, he published a book called over there which was a collection of photographs he took, what happened there. and it is out of print of course, but i was just wondering what happened in the second wave? we have heard stories about the first wave and i look forward to reading your book

it's unacceptable and that is because of the united states presence in the region he stressed that the only way to combat this is by strengthening the ties between the regional countries hinting of course that the fact that the is a large u.s. military presence in qatar and making it very clear that they are rainy and see that as unacceptable and domestically how is this playing out in terms of the diplomatic fallout from that downed ukrainian plane. well there's been a chain reaction really because the iranians are very angry at their government for not coming forward straight away with what happened saying that they withheld the truth from the public for over 48 hours there was a gathering a vigil at a university in tehran on saturday where the british ambassador was in attendance and he was briefly arrested and released and he's been since summoned to the foreign ministry to answer about why he was there in the 1st place because the cording to the iranians it was that illegal gathering since then we've seen a number of people gather outside the british embassy in tehran demanding its closure and the e

i think there is still a lot of research to be done about the stress of not just the surge decision but sustained combat over the bin laden decades. youhe all volunteer force, see this in things like ptsd, retention rates in the services. you see this way way of traumatic pain -- traumatic brain injury, exposure to all the bull -- exposure to multiple concussions. i think some of these long-term physical and mental health impacts -- and this is not directly related to the surge -- but it is related to employing an all volunteer force as we have for so long and really sort of the human experimenting that is going on with this exposure of this force to sustained combat. in recent years, our numbers are much lower in these combat situations. to brett and his military colleagues in the fight against isis, which happened on a different model. we do not have to americanize the effort. we are not dealing with 15 or 20 brigades. we are dealing with smaller more d towinable forces keye partnership with capable indigenous partners. that was not the model we were talking about in iraq. that is the personal lesson

involved, but the nato allies have been very de-stressed by his lack of notification by them and nato had to stand down on their anti-isis training in combat in iraq because they had no warning of the soleimani kill. >> reporter: that is one of the key questions moving forward, how will president trump try to get those nato allies on board when so many of them have been critical about the way in which he carried out the attack against soleimani, the fact that they weren't looped in. a couple of key takeaways that i thought from the president's remarks. he said iran appears to be standing down. he noted the fact that there were no casualties last night in the attack. the question is, is that in fact the case. what if any proof does the white house have that there won't be attacks through iran's proxies? the president gave a very robust defense of his decision to pull out of the iran nuclear deal and his decision to attack iran's top general. the administration has for days been arguing that the general, qassem soleimani, posed an imminent threat to the u.s. but has yet to provide any evidence and the president didn't provide anymore details

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stress of the job. we were 182,000 people and rising in over 140 countries. we're everywhere. and what comes with that is a tenuous balance to make sure we can support all those combatant commanders. you mentioned the night court exercise, that's what happens when middle age men get to bring something, a tv show from the '80s. they did that, the army staff has a sense of humor, because of four of us sat at the end of the table and you have to go and try to get your program funded and we riddled them with questions like the supreme court, you get one of these. but we had to find the funding. you mentioned the challenges with increases in defense spending and the countries in debt. we need to be better public servants with every penny that they give us. that's what we try to do. when you have 180,000 people deployed, over 60% of your balance sheet is fixed. operations, maintenance, military personnel, pay people. you have 40% of your budget for research, development, and acquisition. you had to make hard choices within there for your present and your future. and we did that, we made some big bets and we'll see how we did here in the next 18 months. >> fantastic, because

effectively, the charity combat stress, their income has fallen, and with that the opportunity to haveportant for us. we have seen really important for us. we have seen what happens when we do not capture these cases early. capturing cases early, screening early, is so key, because we see the impact that comes later. we have seen suicide. we have seen homelessness. and obviously through my experience at the invictus games, we are seeing the invictus games, we are seeing the increasing numbers the invisible illness. so it is a really important thing to do. there was of this programme they know that a few days ago, we had alysia davis on. jamie davis, her husband, he died just a few weeks ago after suffering from ptsd for five few weeks ago after suffering from ptsd forfive or six few weeks ago after suffering from ptsd for five or six years. you mentioned the invictus games, in your previous life, working with the invictus games and in the military, this is something you will have seen over and over again. yeah. and the issue here is, if you go out to, you know, there are or afghanistan