Sitrep February 21st 2013

21/02/2013 30 min
Sitrep February 21st 2013

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Episode Synopsis

The aid budget could be used for defence-related operations but what does that mean for British forces?
 
Was he PM’s visit to India a success?
 
The truth about war – are today’s reporters telling the full story?
 
Plus - cyber warfare, Chinese style
 
And find out why British soldiers are training in extreme conditions in the arctic
 
PRESENTER:  Kate Gerbeau
STUDIO GUESTS:  BFBS’s defence analyst, Christopher Lee
 
OTHER INTERVIEWS: 
British Forces News reporter Rob Olver at the Nato Defence Ministers’ meeting in Brussels.
 
The BBC’s Andrew North on the PM’s visit to India
 
Journalist and former Grenadier Guards Vaughan Smith on the media and the military.
 
British Forces News reporter Julie Knox on Exercise Arctic Norway
 

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