i want to re—engage so we can challenge the very issues mentioned and i visited helmand province, i wass whatsoever to kandahar i couldn't have done that on any one of the dozen visits i did in the last couple of decades. everywhere went across helmand province there were these solar panels which had been distributed to every dwelling, every household, irrigation pumps working, changing the produce being built not from poppies but to cotton and fruit and so forth. this is the sort of livelihood programmes we never saw going when nato was there to absolutely let open the embassy. thank you very much, tobias ellwood and fawzia koofi. that's all from us tonight. kirsty�*s back here tomorrow. have a good night. breaking news from around the world 24 breaking news from around the world 2a hours a day. this is bbc news. you're live with bbc news. scientists are calling it a breakthrough — an enormous moment of hope. trials of a new drug to treat alzheimers shows it slows the early onset of the disease by up to 60%. the disease gradually destroys key areas of the brain involved in memory and u

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i'm here back in helmand province in afghanistan, courtesy of the halo trust. mr elwood was challenged on those points by my colleague yalda hakim. do you think it sends a certain message when it comes to things like human rights, women's rights, if you just say, "well, they've got solar panels now, they've got less violence, and therefore we should open up our embassy and be back in the country"? you're simplifying what i'm saying. i'm saying the current strategy of us shouting from afar, to try and affect the agenda in afghanistan, is not working. we need to engage more directly, more robustly, and that can be done if we open up the embassy. shabnam nasimi is a former policy adviser to the minister for afghan resettlement and minister for refugees. she's also a human rights and girls�* education advocate. thank you for coming on the programme. mr ellwood has upset a lot of people with this video. how have his comments gone down with afghan women?— afghan women? thank you. look, i do auree afghan women? thank you. look, i do aaree with afghan women? thank you.

after my injury in 2011 in helmand province, afghanistan, semier iffy fund came to my bedside to be thereths pregnant at the time, and they provided everything we would need to bring our second child into this world. and they've been there every step since. griff: corporal, what was your wife courtney's reaction when all of a sudden she's dealing with the the most difficult trial of her life of with you injured at walter reed and then in comes the semper fi america's fund folks to throw a baby shower for her? >> we were blown away. my wife had a lot going on at that time taking care of our 4-year-old, dealing with my needs at the time and being pregnant. she had a lot on her plate. the last thing she was of thinking about is getting everything necessary that you would need for a baby. so when they stepped in and threw the baby shower, it was really cool stuff that we needed immediately at that time, and she was able to properly welcome our child into this world at same hospital i was being cared at. griff: john, you are a tremendous inspiration for other wounded service members because of

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