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Guantanamo bay . All as part of this agreement with the taliban, they were swapped for Bowe Bergdahl who by the way, was promoted and received pay the entire time he was held captive by the taliban. So ive got ed lavandera, ive got barbara starr, theyve covered the bergdahl story extensively. Welcome back to the two of you. As we await this official statement from the army. Barbara let me just begin with you. Why dont we run through these initial charges and explain to me what this will mean for him. Well its very serious, brooke. Desertion. It doesnt really get more serious than that. But tha...

My honorable friend makes a very good point. This government have made available money for a council tax freeze. That has the consequence that money for that freeze is available in wales, so people in wales will know who to blame if their council tax is not frozen. It is the Labour Assembly government in wales they are to blame; they are the ones who are charging hardworking people more for their council tax. We all remember the Prime Ministers promise last october that he would legislate to force Energy Companies to put customers on the lowest tariff. Will he explain why his energy bill conta...

This is two hours. [inaudible conversations] good morning everybody and welcome. This morning the Committee Considers the nominations of two very distinguished officers to two of the most active and challenging combatant commands. General lloyd austin United States army nominated to be commander u. S. Central command and general David Rodriguez u. S. Army to be nominated to be commander of the u. S. Africa command. These two combatant commands centcom and africom are the centers of gravity for our militarys operations to counter the threat of terrorism. Oath nominees have served our country wi...

Reporting from washington. Lets start with a new video showing the release of Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl after five years in captivity. Its a rare view of the taliban and American Special forces. Our pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr takes us through the highlights. Reporter chanting praise for their leader 18 armed taliban militants seen standing in wait, perched on grassy hills in the valley, guns and rocket launchers at the ready. The narration says this meeting took place at 4 00 in the afternoon in Khost Province, eastern afghanistan. At the center of the action, a silver pickup truck...

Dubois good evening. Scott is off tonight, im maurice dubois. This is are western edition of the broadcast. Today we got to see for the first time how the release of u. S. Army Sergeant Bowe bergdahl went down. The taliban put out this video of his handover to u. S. Forces last saturday, five years after he was taken prisoner. We also learned more today about bergdahls Service Record in afghanistan. We have a series of reports tonight, first, bob orr with the video. Reporter with the sun setting over the mountains of khost, afghanistan, a small group of armed taliban fighters, one of them with...