Miliband backs troops in Afghanistan
Updated on 07 February 2008
The foreign secretary told British soldiers in Kabul today he'd defend "heart and soul" their role in Afghanistan.
David Miliband and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had flown in for a crisis meeting with President Hamid Karzai.
We report on the high price both physical and mental, being paid in the conflict.
Based at the main military headquarters of Camp Bastion, near the city of Lashka Gar, British medical emergency response teams, Merts for short, are tasked with picking up the wounded from the battlefield.
Since 2001 87 British forces personnel have died and 105 have been seriously wounded while serving there.
Channel 4 News was given access to one Mert team and found out it's not just British fighters the army medics are risking their lives to save.
