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Top shot of Guildhall speech in London2. Audience3. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown standing up to give speech4. Audience listening to Brown5. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister:\"So that is why is ay the...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Top shot of Guildhall speech in London\u003cbr/\u003e2. Audience\u003cbr/\u003e3. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown standing up to give speech\u003cbr/\u003e4. Audience listening to Brown\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"So that is why is ay the Afghan campaign is being prosecuted not from choice, but out of necessity. And vigilance in defence of national security will never be sacrificed to expedience. Necessary resolution will never succumb to appeasement. The greater international good will never be subordinated to the mood of the passing moment.\" \u003cbr/\u003e6. Various shots of audience listening\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Following the inauguration this week of President Karzai, I am urging him to set out his contract between the new government and its people, including early action on corruption. And I welcome today's announcement that the government in Afghanistan will dedicate the next five years to fighting corruption. I have pledged UK support in this effort, but we will require this effort to be undertaken.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Cutaway of audience\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It should identify a process for transferring district by district to full Afghan control, and if at all possible, we should set a timetable for transferring districts to Afghan control starting next year, in 2010.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Cutaway of audience\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are in Afghanistan because we judge that if the Taliban regain power al-Qaida and other terrorist groups would once more have an environment in which they could freely operate. We are there because action in Afghanistan is not an alternative to action in Pakistan, but an inseparable support to it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Audience listening\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Britain is prepared to lead the way proposing a financial plan to ensure all countries - poor as well as rich - are in a position to cut carbon emissions. And this should form part of a comprehensive agreement based on politically-binding commitments by all countries, which can be implemented immediately and which can act as the basis for an internationally legally binding treaty as soon as possible. The agreement must contain the full range of commitments required: emissions reductions by both developed and developing countries, proper verification of that and finance to support this task.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Audience applauding\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"On October 1 we offered Tehran engagement and negotiation. Over the last six weeks that offer has been comprehensively rejected. So it is now not only right but necessary for the world to apply concerted pressure to the Iranian regime. President Obama has set the deadline of the end of the year for Iran to respond. If Iran does not reconsider, then the United Nations, the EU and individual countries - lead by Britain - will impose tougher sanctions.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various shots of audience applauding\u003cbr/\u003eBritain's security depends on its success in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in a speech on Monday, seeking to convince a sceptical public that his country has no choice but to keep fighting there.\u003cbr/\u003eBrown said his country's domestic security depended on the success of its Afghan mission, saying that three quarters of the major attack plots uncovered in Britain were traceable to the region.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The Afghan campaign is being prosecuted not from choice, but out of necessity. And vigilance in defence of national security will never be sacrificed to expedience,\" Brown told an audience at London's 15th century Guildhall.\u003cbr/\u003eBritons' patience with the progress of the war in Afghanistan has been shaken by the steady increase in casualties, nearly 100 this year alone. \u003cbr/\u003eAnd Brown has been buffeted by charges levelled by soldiers' families, lawmakers and even members of his own government that British troops have been sent to the conflict without proper equipment, including body armour and helicopters.\u003cbr/\u003eHis speech, an attempt to rally public opinion and reassure voters that progress was being made in Afghanistan, came the same day as hundreds of mourners thronged the streets of Wootton Bassett, a small town west of the capital, to honour two British soldiers whose remains were flown back from the country.\u003cbr/\u003eThe death of another of their comrades - slain in an explosion on Sunday - was announced a couple of hours before Brown took to the podium.\u003cbr/\u003eBrown insisted on Monday that their sacrifice had resulted in real gains.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are in Afghanistan because we judge that if the Taliban regain power al-Qaida and other terrorist groups would once more have an environment in which they could freely operate. We are there because action in Afghanistan is not an alternative to action in Pakistan, but an inseparable support to it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eHe said seven of the top dozen al-Qaida leaders had been killed since January 2008, damaging the group's morale. \u003cbr/\u003eHe added that British intelligence services believed their country now had the chance \"to inflict significant and long-lasting damage\" to Osama bin Laden's network.\u003cbr/\u003eBut while Brown claimed that more had been done this year to dismantle al-Qaida than in any other year since the military invasion in 2001, Taliban insurgents have also grown bolder, increasingly challenging the weak central government led by President Hamid Karzai.\u003cbr/\u003eKarzai's position has been undercut by an election victory tainted by charges of widespread fraud.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I am urging him to set out his contract between the new government and its people, including early action on corruption,\" Brown said.\u003cbr/\u003eEuropean leaders, including Brown, are waiting for US President Barack Obama to set US policy, which may include an escalation in troop strength, as sought by top generals. \u003cbr/\u003eBrown has indicated a willingness to follow suit, but he was at pains on Monday to reassure his audience that Britain and its allies hoped to leave once they were satisfied that Afghanistan could face the insurgents on its own.\u003cbr/\u003eBrown also used the speech to propose an international conference be held in London in the new year. The goal, he said, would be to ensure there was momentum toward handing over as much control to Afghan authorities as soon as practicable.\u003cbr/\u003e\"If at all possible, we should set a timetable for transferring districts to Afghan control starting next year,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eAlthough Brown's annual foreign policy speech also touched on climate change, nuclear proliferation, Iran, and efforts to resolve the global financial crisis, the heart of it was devoted to a defence of his government's policy on Afghanistan. \u003cbr/\u003eHe conceded there's not enough time to strike a detailed and binding deal at next month's Copenhagen conference on climate change but said nations can still succeed if they agree on binding commitments.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Britain is prepared to lead the way proposing a financial plan to ensure all countries - poor as well as rich - are in a position to cut carbon emissions,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003e\"And this should form part of a comprehensive agreement based on politically-binding commitments by all countries, which can be implemented immediately and which can act as the basis for an internationally legally binding treaty as soon as possible.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBrown also issued a warning to Iran that it faced action if it failed to engage with the international community over its nuclear activities.\u003cbr/\u003e\"On October 1 we offered Tehran engagement and negotiation. 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