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Miliband: 'Afghanistan stalemate'

Updated on 17 February 2009

By Nick Paton Walsh

Foreign Secretary David Miliband tells Channel 4 News that British troops need more resources to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan. Nick Paton Walsh reports.

There is a strategic stalemate in parts of Afghanistan, the foreign secretary admitted today, as he visited the southern Helmand province.

He was speaking with our foreign affairs correspondent Nick Paton Walsh, who is embedded with British forces on patrol in Helmand.

The ministry of defence also announced the death of another British soldier, from 1st Battalion the Rifles, the eighth British serviceman to die in the conflict this year. His family has been informed.



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