Gordon Brown is to outline proposals to counter roadside bombs which have led to rising UK deaths in Afghanistan.

戈登·布朗将要阐述一些反击路边炸弹的建议，据悉路边炸弹是导致英国驻阿富汗军队死亡率上升的主要原因。

Mr Brown spent the weekend with British troops in Helmand

The prime minister, who visited troops in Helmand at the weekend, will promise money for new equipment and a greater detection role for local forces.

He will tell MPs an Afghan intelligence network to identify where the devices are made and deployed¹ will be set up.

An extra £150m is due to be spent on the UK's campaign by "reprioritising" existing military spending plans.

It will come as part of a substantial大量的，实质的 change in defence priorities with more money being diverted to pay for equipment to target improvised²即兴的 explosive devices (IEDs) and more helicopters, says the BBC's deputy political editor James Landale.

The cash, to be spent over three years, will see a specialist training base set up in Britain.

The IEDs laid by the Taliban will be targeted with an additional £10m to be used to buy 400 hi-tech robot mine detectors³.

In an announcement on Tuesday, Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth is also expected to say a new centre will set up in the UK to analyse aerial空中的 surveillance监督，监视 photographs.

As part of the reallocation再分配 of funds, he is set to announce the closure of at least one RAF base and a scaling back of the UK sovereign base area in Cyprus, as well as cuts to the MoD Police and back office functions.

Basic quarters

During his visit to Afghanistan, the prime minister inspected new equipment and held talks with President Hamid Karzai in Kandahar.

At the Shorabak Afghan army base in Helmand, he witnessed sort of training local forces are getting to deal with IEDs.

He is expected to tell the Commons that President Hamid Karzai has promised to step up增加，提高 the training programme so his forces can take over接管 more of this role from allied⁴ troops.

Our correspondent said unusually Mr Brown spent the night in the country, rather than flying in and out in one day.

He slept in "basic quarters" at the Kandahar air base, the headquarters of Nato troops in the south of the country.