As the war in Afghanistan enters its final chapter, Sean Smith's brutal, uncompromising film from the Helmand frontline shows the horrific chaos of a stalemate that is taking its toll in blood
The BBC's denial of Mark Thompson meeting with Downing Street ministers to discuss spending cuts and the 'compromising' of its independence is an interesting one.
According to the BBC News website Mr Thompson was seen 'walking into Downing Street holding a memo from BBC's head of news, describing its new season of programmes about the government's spending review.'
Mr Thompson's spokesman said the director general 'discussed the possible participation of ministers in programmes about the spending review.'

Artist Gunter Demnig makes brass cobbles he calls stumbling blocks that are set into the pavements of Berlin. Most have engraved in them the word, "ermordet" - murdered. Others say, "Flucht in den Tod" - "killed whilst trying to escape." Each marks the home of a victim of the holocaust. Joanna Robertson, the BBC's Berlin correspondent,
Mark Thompson, the Director-General of the BBC, is to deliver the second Bob Friend Memorial Lecture at the Centre for Journalism in March.