David Cameron has made his first visit to Afghanistan as prime minister. But what difference will the new government in Britain make to the UK's military strategy? The last government was accused of failing to equip the armed services for the job. Will the new government do any better?
I'm joined in the studio by the Guardian's security editor, Richard Norton-Taylor, and in Kabul by our Afghanistan correspondent, Jon Boone.
Chief political correspondent Nicholas Watt accompanied the prime minister on his trip to Helmand. He says Cameron was better at articulating the purpose of the UK's mission in Afghanistan: to reduce the terrorist threat to Britain.
Some 298 British troops have now been killed in Afghanistan. We hear from Cheryl Telford, whose son Matthew, a Grenadier Guard, was killed in Afghanistan in November. She's pressing the MoD to pay Matthew's family a full sergeant's pension, which the ministry says it won't because he hadn't been in the post for a year.
