the british commander, sir douglas haig. haig planned a week long bombardment followed the explosion of, several mines that had been burrowed underneath the german trenches that would be blown up at the moment of the attack. and haig assured his soldiers that the enemy fortifications the enemy trenches would be utterly destroyed and that they could simply walk across. no man's land. that was the promise. this is what british civilians all at their cinemas. wow. see, i can make this work here. now, this never to work, right? here we go. the craters created by those explosions, by way still exist. today. the german weren't destroyed. some of the dugouts that the germans had put in place were 20 to 30 feet deep. so the shells never reached them. when the shelling stopped, the german soldiers simply climbed out of their dugouts, set up their machine guns, and started firing. by the end of the first day, july the first, 1916, the army had suffered 58,000 casualties, 20,000 of whom were dead. it still ranks as the worst day in bri

despite this disaster at the somme on the first day, haig ordered the attacks to continue. just one second. well into the autumn. it was only the weather itself that finally forced hague to call off the attacks in november of that year. by the time the battle of the somme ended, at the end of 1916, the british had suffered 420,000 casualties, the french, who also took part in this offensive, suffered 200,000. the germans, it is estimated, suffered around 650,000. for all of that loss, the allies gained about five miles of land. there was no breakout. yes, sir? >> did bt survive? that is a good question. i have been trying to find out and i don't know. i'm not sure if he was in that photograph. i have been looking, i haven't been able to find out. >> any other questions about the somme? yes sir? >> why did general haig continue the fighting despite the horrendous casualties on the first day? >> because he thought if they just kept pushing the germans were on the verge of cracking and then they could breakthrough. the other problem was he never went to the front. he never saw

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she said we want accountability for the death of our aunt. janet, thanks latch on how life for us in haig. a ukrainian jones has been used to attack an air field in the russian region. of course, that's according to the governor, has been no comment from key of all moscow rushes defense ministry accuse ukraine of to strikes on monday. barbara ango, reports the blast came in the early as of monday morning. daylight revealed the damage at one of russia's abbe says, not far away from moscow. the defense ministry accused in care of using drones to attack the facilities or their russia claimed some success in blunting the strikes . ukrainian you avi's, flying at low altitude, were intercepted by the air defense of the russian aerospace forces. human russian officials say several servicemen were killed in the explosions at military bases near the cities of realism and serrato of kiff hasn't commented. but if confirmed it would be the deepest ukrainian strike in russian territory since the start of the war under ukrainian counter punch. after weeks of russian bombardment on energy infrastructure

i am going to go to you chief herr do now, says haig eyes really. i hope he's growing much larger and larger. this time, tomorrow is from ethiopia. you know, africa is rich and blessed so much. no doubt we will have the world cup soon. ha, coach massey said, he's got to say yes, it is going to be gone. all right, holding that copper loft and a couple of weeks time. is it going to be the black star we have now? can you go with picking wood, their realities and objectivity and, and, and, and i think that's an africa. i still have a lot to, to put in place africa is sort of presenting and, and beginning to show all the quality we have with oral spurts to, to, to dupree diseases, especially the bigness, is there still a lot to learn to learn on that level. and as i said before, it is important that we still get our clear. i'm all it because of the intelligence and thanks to nightly coach marcell, simply thank he said inc. thank you kingsley. thank you to all of our football fans here. been talking and sharing your thoughts about the future of african fo

and spokes woman, louise haig and employment spokesperson.madrid at. the expenses of the trade union congress . okay. collective. it's congress. okay. collective. it's worth seven grand. now that to me is quite lot of money and me is quite a lot of money and they should know. should they should know. they should know shouldn't be know better. they shouldn't be accepting that. why know better. they shouldn't be accitheyg that. why know better. they shouldn't be accithey so? that. why know better. they shouldn't be accithey so? i that. why know better. they shouldn't be accithey so? i feel that. why know better. they shouldn't be accithey so? i feel that.at. why know better. they shouldn't be accithey so? i feel that. why?y are they so? i feel that. why? look, you could have look, you could only have a balanced conversation about this if take some conservative if you take some conservative mps. indeed many conservative mp, and ask who is giving them gifts as well? who's funding the tory party you know, we all know and it says in this article it

david haig is henry bolton about that ? i think i bolton about that? there's a lot what henry said certainly in terms what's neededin said certainly in terms what's needed in terms of the comprehensive policy and not the policy actual action. like you said, we hear a lot rhetoric coming out , a lot of pr stunts coming out, a lot of pr stunts which . you could essentially which. you could essentially call the rwanda policy , which is call the rwanda policy, which is not to happen . you know, not going to happen. you know, we're not we're not going to see any flights for a long time. any flights off for a long time. they the know, the home they made the you know, the home office easily won the high court judgement recently. but there'll be an appeal and then maybe even to supreme court and to the supreme court and then the european court human rights also back involved. so i also may get back involved. so i think, there does need think, you know, there does need to comprehensive, proper to be a comprehensive, proper comprehensive review . that's comprehe

but like all such statements, the apology was quite diplomatic, and haig chose his words with great care. we continue to deny liability on behalf of the government from british taxpayers to day for the actions of the colonial administration in respect of the claims he made it very clear that the blame for this did not lie with the british government. but it lay with colonial gong in kenya. so he made a distinction between the 2, between london and nairobi. but we now know that from the british government to say, london had had no hand in what had happened. it was at the very least been economic with the truth. and some would say, distorting the history the leash of new documents and has rob disclosure has given us a very much fuller account of what macpherson was trying to do. and how you had been obstructed. for the 1st time, we began to get a really clear picture of how the executive in nairobi deliberately suppressed, evident the key mechanism in this process was something called toughness complaints committee. it was set up towards the end and i e $53.00 by the close. the ministratio

joining me now is garrett haig, nicholas wu and joyce vance is back with us.w about the report as it stands right now and what do we expect to learn monday? >> reporter: committee members and staff are rushing to finalize everything that will be in this report as quickly as they can and getting section toss the printer as they finish them. the way to think about this is most of the news will come monday. monday we'll hear the overarching findings and we'll get the referrals the committee is planning to make to the department of justice and to the ethics committee or state bar associations for some of the attorneys involved in the investigation. it's going to be wednesday and beyond that the balance of the report, transcripts, kind of all the rest of the work product gets made public. the committee wants to get this out as quickly as they can and make it available to people in case the new congress decides to come in -- the committee won't exist in the new congress, but the new congress might pull the website down. there's a lot of work being done between now a

pulls up, and president ford had continued in office, president nixon's chief of staff, alexander haig the i'm in charge guy of the reagan era. and the the president, and y his team, wondered what's going on, and they said stop, to the process of moving the materials to the president, the former presidents home in san clemente. and the asked the justice department who owns the papers. this matter was extremely important not just for historians, , though i think wee really important, but because there were a bunch of lawsuits that were in the air, not simply the famous watergate once, but there was a lawsuit regarding people who had died at wounded knee. and there were many people who were seeking, were already actually issued subpoenas for presidential records. and so president ford's team asked the justice department who owns the records, and the justice department's lawyer, who was a man you named may have heard of him, antonin scalia, would write president nixon owns these papers. the fourth people thought oh, my god, if he takes these papers, we could be involved in an obstruction

and it takes al-haig to focus richard nixon's attention on this which he does in this phone call that sunday morning. here. hello. yes, sir. hi al how what about the cash receipt you got to figure yet? no server. i think it's going to be quite low. mm-hmm. you should be as should be last week or better. yeah, it should be less than funny. i would think yeah, so be very when do you get that? do you know we don't get it officially till monday afternoon get a reading on it very well monday afternoon officially. well, let's wait till then. hi, okay, nothing else of interest inhe world, very significant this god. --, new york times expose the most highly classified document. all that i see that i didn't read the story. but you mean that that was leaked out of the pentagon sir. the whole study that was done for mcnamara and then carried on after mcnamara left by clifford and the peace snakes over there. this is a devastating security breach of the grace magnitude of anything else. well, what what's being done about it then? i mean i didn't like did we know this was coming out? no, we did. n

and it takes al-haig to focus richard nixon's attention on this which he does in this phone call that sunday morning. here. hello. yes, sir. hi al how what about the cash receipt you got to figure yet? no server. i think it's going to be quite low. mm-hmm. you should be as should be last week or better. yeah, it should be less than funny. i would think yeah, so be very when do you get that? do you know we don't get it officially till monday afternoon get a reading on it very well monday afternoon officially. well, let's wait till then. hi, okay, nothing else of interest in the world, very significant this god --, new york times expose the most highly classified document. allhat i see that i didn't read the story. but you mean that that was leaked out of the pentagon sir. the whole study that was done for mcnamara and then carried on after mcnamara left by clifford and the peace snakes over there. this is a devastating security breach of the grace magnitude of anything else. well, what what's being done about it then? i mean i didn't like did we know this was coming out? no, we did. no

, a small company in a tiny village in dorset would be working with a worldwide superstar like pat haigfour or five times a year and he would signing photographs and shirts and things . us, photographs and shirts and things. us, which was our contract mainly entailed . we contract mainly entailed. we have worldwide rights to his number. and we'd sit there for 12 hours at a time, go out for lunch in the middle of it. pretty odd going lunch with pele. the way that people stare you and when you're having even once in a italian . there was once in a italian. there was i think it was late bernie ecclestone and the guy owned queens park rangers at the time . they popped in and it was just just bizarre to be out with him or even him with him. people come and meet him. and one guy we took in, someone we did quite well to meet him and a friend did when he got in the room. so just to be in his presence, it was fairly out. he was a lovely chap. but those photographs there that you would see could see what a great, fun, warm character he was. and in the mail here it said, look, he won three world c