NATO-TV

NATO ships sail from the port of Gdynia in Poland to take part in the week long exercise “Steadfast Jazz”. Includes interviews with Dutch, Italian and Polish naval officers and file footage from the pre-runner exercises “Brilliant Arrow” in Norway and “Brilliant Mariner” in Italy. Interviewees: Lt. Col. Harold Liebregs, Commanding Officer of HNLMS De Ruyter; Col. Fabio Agostini, Commanding Officer ITS Caio Duilio andCapt. Mariusz Koscielski, Polish Navy. Also available in high definition.

Next year, the command of the NATO Response Force will pass to Allied Joint Force Command, which is based in Brunssum in the Netherlands. We learn how its staff are being put to the test during Exercise Steadfast Jazz 2013. They need to demonstrate that they are able to run joint operations involving land, sea and air forces in response to the full range of crisis situations. This version includes graphics and voiceover.

Teenage girls in Afghanistan are often caught between two conflicting worlds; tradition and modernity, but after the recent successes of the Afghan national football team on the world stage, a new generation of teenage girls in Kabul is kicking against old traditions and taboos and paving the way for the future.

Shows highlights from SFJ13 Media day, including live fire demonstration in Poland, and NATO Secretary General meeting troops. Includes soundbite with NATO Secretary General and Commander JFC Brunssum, General Hans-Lothar Domröse. This version includes graphics and voiceover.

In Afghanistan mines are quite literally everywhere. Along with other explosive remnants of war or ERWs, they are responsible for the serious injury or death of more than thirty Afghan civilians every month. NATO TV ventures to Parwan province in central Afghanistan to meet the men whose job it is to unearth and destroy an enemy that lives beneath the ground.

Teaser: In Afghanistan, mines are a plague that terrorize rural communities, with children their primary targets. Clearing mines is a secluded, dangerous and high-pressure task that requires nerves of steel.

Produced by Jake Tupman, Parwan, Afghanistan. Also available in High Definition.

Mazar-e Sharif in Regional Command North (ISAF). Germany has been lead nation in RC-North since 2003. NATO Channel interviews the Commander of RC-North, Major General Jörg Vollmer. He gives his views on progress in this region, since his first deployment back in 2009.

Teaser: The German commander of NATO-led forces in the north of Afghanistan, Major General Jörg Vollmer, gives his views on progress in the region and underlines Germany’s long-term support. Produced by William Bonnett. Also available in High Definition.

Afghan medics are now treating their injured soldiers and police in a newly built trauma center, a first for the country, based in Helmand in the country’s south. In the past, any Afghan security forces wounded on the battlefield were taken to ISAF’s hospital at Camp Bastion but now, local medics at the field hospital for the 215 Corps, are treating their own.

It’s been five years since Poland first sent troops to Ghazni. Here the 10th Armoured Cavalry Brigade take over from the 25th Air Cavalry Brigade in the same week as the Polish side of the joint Provincial Reconstruction Team closes. Apart from improving combat capability and instilling confidence in the Afghan National Security Forces, Polish-funded projects have also developed areas of the province.

Two and a half thousand Afghan leaders gathered in Kabul, to discuss the country’s pending Bilateral Security Agreement with the United States, which will be the basis for a US presence in-country post-2014 and pave the way for the planned NATO train, advise and assist mission due to start in 2015.

NATO’s ARRCADE Fusion 13 exercise brought together 2,500 military and civilian personnel from 16 NATO and partner nations. This report shows how the UK-based Allied Rapid Reaction Corps trains and develops its ability to command the NATO Response Force by simulating a large-scale deployment from a temporary command and control centre in Cornwall, England.