reporter craig whitlock wrote that article and joins me now from washington. talk about the bigger picture first before we get to this example. how prevalent are sexual assaults? are they getting better or worse? >> well, that's a good question. we don't know, last year there were over 6,000 reported, a new high. the pentagon says that is a sign of confidence in the system that more people are willing to come forward, at the same time their survey shows that is only a fraction, maybe one-third of the number of people who actually experience sexual assault. the pentagon talks about how a zero tolerance but still several thousand people a year report sexual assault. >> sreenivasan: all right n this particular case you focus in on an air force colonel, what happened? >> so in this case it is an air force colonel named ronald jobo. colonel is a pretty senior officer in the military, one step down from a general. and he was harassing a woman under his command. and he started out harassing her with texts saying he wanted to have a relationship. and it escalated pret

they're going to get thank you you're welcome the british government's treasury whip craig whitlock of there speaking to me outside the convention center protected by police and machine guns we also moved to somewhere more quiet to catch up with britain's former secretary of state for international development u.k. privy councillor andrew mitchell conservative m.p. for something called field to get his impressions of how well to raise amazed government is doing and joel way from all the gossip and personalities you were secretary of state for international development any sign of international development issues being spoken about here the conference the first thing is going to do is to show that we know what we're doing have a bracks set we've got to deliver successful praxis for the u.k. the second thing is to do something about the levels of intergenerational unfairness in britain today and the third is to demonstrate why the free enterprise system why private enterprise is the great engine of opportunity and growth and raising living standards if we just get that do what you said a

championships, the all—around men's final, i'm joined by craig heap, part of the team, thanks forjoining us, no matter works were —— no max whitlocktic chance, he qualified in eighth place with mistakes and we know he can push and 86 as mistakes and we know he can push and 86asa mistakes and we know he can push and 86 as a total score. 86 would put him into third place but it all starts from scratch tonight. anything can happen. he's had a tough year, ankle injury at the start of it, just being here is a positive, does that take the pressure off? it's a high—pressure sport. it is high pressure but will it take it off? probably not. the pressure they put on himself to perform is what he has in his favour, he is a great performer i saw something in the olympics and maybe then they could potentially be a better all—rounder than max whitlock come it's a big claim but he's got that potential. i am excited to see on his first outing since the olympics how well he will perform. you can follow the action live tonight. catch up tomorrow with highlights on bbc two from 1:35pm. couple of these lines to bring you, the man in charge of the bra

craig heap. thanks forjoining us. they don't have max whitlockistic chance of getting onto the podium, he qualified in eighth place and we know that he can push 86 as a total score. that would put him in third place however it starts from scratch tonight and anything can happen. he's had a tough year, ankle injury at the start of the year. just being here, is that positive and does it ta ke here, is that positive and does it take the pressure off? it is a high—pressure sport but will it take the pressure off him? kolbe not, i think the pressure he puts himself to perform. —— probably not. i saw something in the olympics that made me think he could potentially be a better all—rounder than the max whitlock. that's a big claim but he has that potential. i'm really excited to see come on his first outing since the olympics, how well he will perform. you can follow the action tonight on bbc two from quarter past midnight. if that's too late you can catch up tomorrow with highlights on bbc two. the half-time whistle is have gone in the world cup qualif