:00:02. > :00:07.during a terrorist attack on the In Amenas gas field in Algeria and
:00:07. > :00:10.that a further three are believed dead. The Prime Minister told the
:00:10. > :00:16.Commons returning the bodies of the victims to the UK was a priority,
:00:16. > :00:18.but that it would take some time. Thousands of children have had the
:00:18. > :00:21.day off after freezing temperatures and heavy snow shut almost 5,000
:00:21. > :00:24.schools across the UK. Snow is still falling in Northern England
:00:24. > :00:31.and Southern and Eastern Scotland, where the Met Office has issued
:00:31. > :00:34.amber be prepared warnings. Barack Obama has been publicly
:00:34. > :00:36.sworn in for his second term as 44th President of the United States.
:00:36. > :00:39.Hundreds of thousands of people watched President Obama's
:00:39. > :00:49.inauguration speech in Washington, where he called on America to unite
:00:49. > :00:53.
:00:53. > :01:03.as one nation to lead the fight Now it is time for a special
:01:03. > :01:11.
:01:11. > :01:15.programme on Prince Harry's latest For this soldier who is third in
:01:15. > :01:21.line to the throne, this is the weight before the mission. What
:01:21. > :01:25.life has been like for the last five months. A PlayStation is one
:01:25. > :01:34.of the few creature comforts in an austere military tents thousands of
:01:34. > :01:42.miles from home. Filling in the time before the urgent call to arms.
:01:42. > :01:47.The most amazing thing is being at one minutes playing on the
:01:47. > :01:51.PlayStation, and the next minute you're running out to the
:01:51. > :01:56.helicopter. Sometimes you don't even know what is going on when you
:01:56. > :01:59.get into the helicopter. It sometimes is only when you are a
:01:59. > :02:05.couple of thousand feet above the target area that you get the
:02:05. > :02:09.information. Within minutes the crew has to be airborne, ready to
:02:09. > :02:14.come to the rescue of an injured comrade or to respond to an attack
:02:14. > :02:21.by insurgents. Why aren't we are on the other side of the fence we're
:02:21. > :02:25.doing as much as we can to ensure that the guys had been shot at.
:02:25. > :02:30.is here flying one of the world's most advanced ground-attack
:02:30. > :02:36.helicopters, the Apache, no one took that Taliban as the mosquito,
:02:36. > :02:40.or to British troops as call-sign ugly. This is the choice platform
:02:40. > :02:45.as far as we're concerned with the guys on the ground. I don't know
:02:45. > :02:51.where ugly came from, but it is a pretty ugly beast. I think it is
:02:51. > :03:01.cool. Captain Wales is in the front seat of the cockpit, sharing the
:03:01. > :03:03.
:03:03. > :03:10.flying ants taking control of the weapons. A I am in charge of the
:03:10. > :03:20.weapon systems. Two years ago when it was all decided, it was never
:03:20. > :03:22.
:03:22. > :03:26.expected because being a junior captain ants not to graduates, they
:03:26. > :03:32.were a couple of bus they got pushed forward to the front seat.
:03:32. > :03:40.It is a joy to me because I love playing Playstation and XBox, so
:03:40. > :03:44.with my thumbs I am probably quite useful. This is no game. Out here
:03:44. > :03:49.he is set and the controls upon the British Army's most potent weapons.
:03:49. > :03:54.Built like a flying 10, the Apache has been a saviour for British
:03:54. > :04:01.troops and a curse to the Taliban. Poor Harry, it has given him the
:04:01. > :04:10.chance to return to the front line. This is how his tour began, a
:04:10. > :04:20.surprise attack by insurgents on Camp Bastion. Just days after Harry
:04:20. > :04:20.
:04:20. > :04:28.arrives, and of his 20th birthday. 15 guys met up with me at the base.
:04:28. > :04:32.No-one knows if it was about me, or the Americans, but this campus in
:04:32. > :04:38.the middle of it cannot stand and you should expect to be attacked at
:04:38. > :04:43.any point. It was on my birthday, so it was a reality check.
:04:43. > :04:48.dangers have never been that far away. He won't give specifics, but
:04:48. > :04:52.captain Wales has had to use the weapons, the cannon, rockets and
:04:52. > :05:02.Hellfire missiles, and he has had to deal being targeted from the
:05:02. > :05:03.
:05:03. > :05:07.ground. We go straight into the overheads, and a complete the pits
:05:07. > :05:12.off the insurgents. Sometimes we do you think it's taken on in the
:05:12. > :05:18.overhead. It is a complex job for everybody involved, but it is not
:05:18. > :05:22.just about the shooting, but giving the effect to the guys on the
:05:22. > :05:31.ground. You are the man with Dick Trigger in your hand. If called
:05:31. > :05:35.upon you will fire and presumably you will kill the enemy. This
:05:35. > :05:40.squadron has been out here. Everyone has fired a certain amount.
:05:40. > :05:47.Probably a bit more than this time last year, but that is just the way
:05:47. > :05:51.it has balanced out. When you fire, you still get the cordite smell and
:05:51. > :05:56.hold forth by Brits. When you fire a missile the whole aircraft
:05:56. > :06:03.shudders. Take a life, to save the life. That is what we revolve
:06:03. > :06:07.around. If there are people trying to do bad stuff to our guys, we
:06:07. > :06:13.will take them out of the game, I suppose. It is not the reason I
:06:13. > :06:21.decided to do this job. The reason I did this job was to get back out
:06:21. > :06:28.here and carry on with the job. interview is interrupted by another
:06:28. > :06:34.court action. On returning, Harry shows up the cockpit that has
:06:34. > :06:44.become so familiar. Getting in and out of the aircraft with all this
:06:44. > :06:50.
:06:50. > :06:54.rubbish! We have the carbine rifle, we carry the green brain, which has
:06:54. > :07:00.all the information on it, call sign frequencies, guys on the
:07:00. > :07:07.grounds, I can assure you the contents, but basically it is maps
:07:07. > :07:17.and stuff like that. The tour Nikkei, we have one on the arm and
:07:17. > :07:22.
:07:22. > :07:29.spares. I keep my pistol in their. My helmets, it is a personal thing.
:07:29. > :07:34.It is the only place you can have all your own stuff on it. For me, I
:07:34. > :07:43.have my blue, red, blue badge. I have got my American wings that I
:07:43. > :07:49.was given by one of the instructors. Call-sign ugly. Once the engine
:07:49. > :07:53.starts a new rolling, that is one which will start to become rush.
:07:53. > :07:59.Get the sighting system up, make sure all the weapons, the inventory
:07:59. > :08:08.is right, making sure that's all the rockets are showing. Make sure
:08:08. > :08:14.we have enough fuel. Make sure no missiles are not latched. Apart
:08:14. > :08:18.from that, there is very tickle to do in the front until you take off.
:08:18. > :08:25.Once the Radio starts has won a start to get exciting. This is my
:08:25. > :08:30.office. It is quite cramped. I am 6 ft 2, and my knees are up against
:08:30. > :08:37.the screen the whole time. I'm not complaining! We get four or five
:08:37. > :08:42.weeks off when I finished this, so I will miss it. My friend keeps
:08:42. > :08:52.sending me pictures from London of the city up their computer screens,
:08:52. > :08:54.
:08:54. > :08:59.I think, no, this is mine. To computer screens. You have fixed
:08:59. > :09:09.action but action -- buttons of videos, columns, the mapping,
:09:09. > :09:10.
:09:11. > :09:16.weapons page and the fire control radar. You have the Comms Panel
:09:16. > :09:21.appears a you know exactly what is going on. This is my targeting
:09:21. > :09:26.system, and then the trigger grips on which are designed for the
:09:26. > :09:31.younger generation, put it that way. Every button has a different
:09:31. > :09:34.texture on it. For some reason, the buttons aren't Blitz. Instead,
:09:34. > :09:44.they're all different textures so it might you should be able to tell
:09:44. > :09:54.but in you're pressing. The best thing about this cockpit is that in
:09:54. > :10:02.
:10:02. > :10:06.her back we have... we have bags were going to the toilets. She to
:10:06. > :10:10.master the art of peeing when you're sitting down. This isn't the
:10:10. > :10:16.first time that Harry has been to Helmand province. He was here at
:10:16. > :10:24.the end to 2007 as a second lieutenant with a household cavalry.
:10:24. > :10:30.More exposed to danger, out on the ground, close to the enemy. Roger,
:10:30. > :10:34.happy with that. Last time he was working on the other end of a radio
:10:34. > :10:37.as a forward air controller calling in the air strikes. After just 10
:10:37. > :10:43.weeks, news of his double mint leaked forcing him to leave
:10:43. > :10:49.abruptly. This time, the Ministry of Defence did not try to keep its
:10:49. > :10:55.secrets. In part because of the law risks. For Harry, flying the Apache
:10:55. > :11:01.will always be second best. I do enjoy it. You are giving something
:11:01. > :11:07.back. It this is the only way I can do it, so be it. My choice would
:11:07. > :11:12.have been out on the ground of Regiment. That sounds quite spoilt
:11:12. > :11:16.when I'm standing in front of this thing, but my friends and family
:11:16. > :11:20.back home know what I'm talking about. Life on the sprawling
:11:20. > :11:25.military camp is certainly very difficult to being out in a remote
:11:25. > :11:31.patrol base right on the front line. Camp Bastion is the size of the
:11:31. > :11:36.town and houses 30,000 military personnel and it is hard to walk
:11:36. > :11:40.around unnoticed. It is a weird reality being stuck in Camp Bastion.
:11:40. > :11:48.I keep that. I would much rather be out at the patrol base with the
:11:48. > :11:58.lights. Lots of guys like the luxury and comfort of bastion. We
:11:58. > :11:59.
:11:59. > :12:03.are stuck in Camp Bastion, and what is going on is different. At the
:12:03. > :12:08.end of the day, we're out there to provide protection for the guys on
:12:08. > :12:12.the ground. Want to run that side of the fence, all this stuff has
:12:12. > :12:17.forgotten about. It is a pain in the arts being stuck in Camp
:12:17. > :12:25.Bastion. I go to the cookhouse and everyone has a good old look. That
:12:25. > :12:28.is one thing I dislike about being here. There are plenty of guys in
:12:28. > :12:34.their that they have never met before, so they look at me as
:12:34. > :12:38.Prince Harry as opposed to captain Wales. Out on patrol in the Apache
:12:38. > :12:43.may be the next best thing. Perhaps one of the reasons why he first
:12:43. > :12:47.took up flying. Probably the fact that you can only fit a certain
:12:47. > :12:53.amount of people and a helicopter, so nobody can follow us, like you
:12:53. > :12:59.guys! During my flying course especially, I would be fine at
:12:59. > :13:03.flying, should have done a lot more reading, and every now and then I
:13:03. > :13:08.have written test to come up and I would be useless. I have been like
:13:08. > :13:14.that since stage one of my youth. Exams were always a nightmare, but
:13:14. > :13:24.anything like kicking a ball around, playing a PlayStation, or flying, I
:13:24. > :13:25.
:13:25. > :13:30.find it easier than walking, sometimes. Then there is the of his
:13:30. > :13:35.family connection, and the sibling rivalry. It is still hard work, but
:13:35. > :13:42.I'm better than William, so it is fine. Have you been helping him
:13:42. > :13:46.with the exams. He needs a lot of help. Harry is following in
:13:46. > :13:50.William's footsteps, who first learned to fly. It is only Harry he
:13:50. > :13:54.has been allowed to serve in a war zone. He has strong views as to
:13:54. > :14:00.whether his brother should be allowed to do the same. There is
:14:00. > :14:06.jealousy because he would love to be out here. I don't see why he
:14:06. > :14:13.wouldn't. He would be doing tunic missions. No-one knows who is in
:14:13. > :14:16.the cockpit. Yes, he be get shot that, but the guys are being shot
:14:16. > :14:22.at on the ground so we don't think there's anything wrong with us
:14:22. > :14:31.being shot at. We are not special, the guys out there are, simple as
:14:31. > :14:35.that. In reality, he can just forget his other life. Before he
:14:35. > :14:38.arrived in Helmand province, he was representing the Queen at the
:14:38. > :14:48.closing ceremony of the Olympics and there will always be his royal
:14:48. > :14:49.
:14:49. > :14:56.duties. You have got to be able to flick the switch. They were three
:14:56. > :15:02.knees. There is me, socially in my private time, the army and the
:15:02. > :15:06.royal family. I flick the switch when necessary. At it like to think
:15:06. > :15:10.it is measured and balance. The army comes first, it is my work at
:15:10. > :15:17.the end of the day and known back home gets to see the stuff they do
:15:17. > :15:22.at work, and there is no reason why they should. Fine, and the grandson
:15:22. > :15:29.of the Queen and I'm representing her, but as far as I see it and
:15:29. > :15:34.Williams sees it, we are providing services to a country in the
:15:34. > :15:38.military. A father has always tried to remind me about who I am, but it
:15:38. > :15:43.is very easy to completely forget about to I am Wenham in the army.
:15:43. > :15:48.Everyone is wearing the same uniform and doing the same thing.
:15:48. > :15:55.All the officers get called Sir. I get on well with the lads. I enjoy
:15:55. > :16:05.my job. It really is as simple as that. Certain people were might be,
:16:05. > :16:06.
:16:06. > :16:14.you are who you are, so don't Harry spectacular dropped but died
:16:14. > :16:22.in Las Vegas. There was embarrassment, reinforcing a
:16:22. > :16:30.reputation of a gaffe-prone, partying a prince. I don't want to
:16:30. > :16:33.get into the details, but at the end of the day, I was in a private
:16:33. > :16:40.area and there should be a certain amount of privacy that one should
:16:40. > :16:45.expect. Back home, all my close friends were great. It was a
:16:45. > :16:55.classic example of me being too much on it and not enough prints.
:16:55. > :17:00.People might look at it going, it was letting off steam. The paper's
:17:00. > :17:06.new I was going to Afghanistan, so I don't think the way our was
:17:06. > :17:12.treated was acceptable. Even here, in Camp Bastion, it
:17:12. > :17:18.seems hard to forget about the media back home.
:17:18. > :17:26.The scars are clearly still roar from an early age when his mother
:17:26. > :17:29.was alive. It does back to when I was really small.
:17:30. > :17:37.The media should have a responsibility on how they report
:17:37. > :17:44.about people. Somebody behind a desk rights about someone which
:17:44. > :17:49.come persuade a holding nation about that people. Everybody says,
:17:50. > :17:56.don't read it because it is rubbish. I am surprised how many people read
:17:56. > :18:00.it, everybody is guilty I guess for buying the newspapers, but people
:18:00. > :18:05.should not believe what they've read. Of course I've read what is
:18:05. > :18:10.being said about me, but all it does his anger me that people can
:18:10. > :18:15.get away with the writing stuff that they write about. I don't
:18:15. > :18:21.believe there is such a thing about private life anymore. Everybody
:18:21. > :18:29.knows about Twitter and the internet. You cannot move an inch
:18:29. > :18:36.without somebody judging you. But is just the way life goes. It is
:18:36. > :18:42.not all but the media, but certain people have tried to do their best,
:18:42. > :18:48.but it is an unstoppable force. I am out here doing a job I really
:18:48. > :18:53.enjoy. There was and agreement made it to invite you guys out here on
:18:53. > :19:01.the deal but the media did not speculate on my deployment. There
:19:01. > :19:07.is no PR stunt, nothing like that. In Helmand, some respite. Four
:19:07. > :19:14.other members of the family, the attention is only intensified. The
:19:14. > :19:20.Duke and Duchess of Cambridge expecting a baby, his thoughts are
:19:20. > :19:24.with them. A cannot wait to be an uncle. It is very unfair that they
:19:24. > :19:31.were forced to publicise it when they were, but that is the media
:19:31. > :19:37.for you. I literally am very happy for them, but I hope that she and
:19:37. > :19:43.him, but mainly that she gets the necessary protection to allow her
:19:44. > :19:50.as a mother to be to enjoy the privacy that that comes with. I
:19:51. > :19:57.seriously hope that will happen. I chatted to them, I did not send a
:19:57. > :20:01.letter of congratulations like the papers said. How the papers think
:20:01. > :20:07.they know the relationship between me and my sister in law is
:20:07. > :20:16.incredible. They are wrong as usual. But I spoke to them, and they are
:20:16. > :20:20.both very happy. Is he ready to settle down? You cannot ever be
:20:20. > :20:30.urged to settle down. If you've meets the right person and it feels
:20:30. > :20:33.
:20:33. > :20:40.right, it takes time. As for as you are concerned, there is nobody
:20:40. > :20:47.waiting for you at home, you are 100% single? Are a map out here
:20:47. > :20:56.doing my job. -- I am I here doing my job.
:20:56. > :21:02.He has been working on VHR, very high readiness. You often get that
:21:02. > :21:09.adrenalin rush, and you have to slow yourself down in case you mess
:21:09. > :21:15.up something. You need to do the double checks. It is all about
:21:15. > :21:22.getting from A to B as quickly as possible. If you have had a few
:21:22. > :21:27.shouts and you have no adrenalin left in you, you are exhausted.
:21:27. > :21:33.Towards the end of his tour, the fatigue is beginning to show.
:21:33. > :21:43.Though he makes the effort to enter the festive spirit. Welcome to our
:21:43. > :21:48.
:21:48. > :21:58.home. I will show you the homely bit. This is as much privacy as we
:21:58. > :21:59.
:21:59. > :22:06.get, but that are under four of Oz. We have the store room, the usual
:22:06. > :22:16.things. It never changes. Tracker, I never used to eat them but I do
:22:16. > :22:17.
:22:17. > :22:27.now. Kit Cats and Mars bars, and a lot of plastic cups and plates. I
:22:27. > :22:27.
:22:27. > :22:34.get upset with people, saying don't use more than one plastic plate.
:22:34. > :22:43.Save the planet. Sleeping accommodation. This is my bed, I do
:22:43. > :22:50.not make it when I am down here. When we are off duty, we sleep in
:22:50. > :22:59.that the blog, which can be described as Portakabin is on top
:22:59. > :23:07.of each other. Each Portakabin is split into two, and you have a few
:23:07. > :23:12.home comforts but nothing big. I have a couple of rides, one from
:23:12. > :23:22.home and one is an Afghan rug. That side is a private side, what is
:23:22. > :23:23.
:23:23. > :23:30.left of it for me. Our shouts on normally late at
:23:30. > :23:36.night or early in the morning. You come back about 5:00am, and you
:23:36. > :23:40.have an hour and a half at a push. One minute you or in bed asleep,
:23:40. > :23:47.six and a half minutes later you are speaking to somebody on the
:23:47. > :23:51.ground or being shot at. In many ways this deployment at
:23:51. > :23:56.Camp Bastion has been more successful than the last, with
:23:56. > :24:00.Prince Harry this time being able to complete a full tour of duty as
:24:00. > :24:05.an Apache helicopter pilot. But with all combat troops leaving
:24:05. > :24:10.Afghanistan by the end of 2014, this could be his last.
:24:10. > :24:14.In it has taken how the years of hard work and hard persuasion to
:24:14. > :24:19.return to the front line, but with his deployment fast growing to a
:24:19. > :24:24.close, he will soon have to think about his plans for the future. How
:24:24. > :24:30.long will he stay in the army, and how well he juggle his commitments
:24:30. > :24:35.as a senior member of the Royal Family? By war always be here for
:24:35. > :24:41.my grandmother and whether it needs to send the abroad. I do not really
:24:41. > :24:48.have any plans, this was my main effort to come out to Afghanistan.
:24:48. > :24:53.It took a bit longer due to certain regions -- reasons, but I am out
:24:53. > :24:58.here now. As to how long I will spend in the army, who knows? I
:24:58. > :25:04.will continue to balance between where are my job and the other job.
:25:04. > :25:09.I have to be careful with it any more patron ages, because the last
:25:09. > :25:15.thing I and my brother and Catherine want to do is spread
:25:15. > :25:24.ourselves friendly. By will still state patron of Walking With The
:25:24. > :25:28.Wounded, missing out on the north Paul thing was a date in the ribs,
:25:28. > :25:36.but it was by another experience I had with a number of military guys
:25:36. > :25:42.who are really sound. Seeing on the news ex servicemen and women being
:25:42. > :25:46.used to incorporate the training and standards within the army, it
:25:46. > :25:51.is nice to see that the military is being used to bring along a youth,
:25:51. > :25:58.as such. The family bond that happens in the military is second
:25:58. > :26:04.to none. Those standards that we pride ourselves on, and that work,
:26:04. > :26:09.can be used more in schools, not necessary -- not necessarily
:26:09. > :26:13.against anti-social behaviour, but for team work. It is an opportunity
:26:13. > :26:18.that should have been used a long time ago.
:26:19. > :26:23.For Harry, it is those bonds that make his life more normal. Of war-
:26:23. > :26:31.zone providing a refuge from all the attention back home. But his
:26:31. > :26:36.time he has come to an end. I think now everybody wants to come home.
:26:36. > :26:45.We are getting up to five months. The handover period takes about two
:26:45. > :26:50.weeks as well, because there is less flying and it is more boring.
:26:50. > :26:55.Ten weeks last time was like a holiday, just to the point where
:26:55. > :27:02.you get bored it was time to come home. For me, that hurt, being
:27:02. > :27:12.pulled out at that point, been dragged away from my guys. I think
:27:12. > :27:14.
:27:14. > :27:20.it was done, not in the wrong way... His interview it is interrupted by
:27:20. > :27:25.another call allowed. Prince Harry once again rushing to aid his
:27:25. > :27:35.comrades on the ground, many as he puts it, to take a life to save a
:27:35. > :27:43.
:27:43. > :27:48.life. -- Reddy, as he puts it, to This no disruption continues, this
:27:48. > :27:53.time affecting north-east England and north-east Scotland. Be
:27:53. > :27:56.prepared for more disruption through the overnight period, the
:27:56. > :28:05.snow is also being blown around by a pretty strong south-easterly
:28:05. > :28:10.winds. Further south, we have that lying snow, ice will be a problem,
:28:10. > :28:16.with a cluster of showers across west Wales. Icy surfaces first
:28:16. > :28:21.thing in the morning, and in the south-west there could be snow
:28:21. > :28:28.across Devon and South Wales for a time. Rain across the south-west