Ago is into its third day. This time the enemy is not saddam hussein, but the Islamic State group in their last major stronghold, muscle. Mosul. Theyve artie taken a series of villages on the road into the city. Successful. N very the enemy is pulling back but small groupving a behind composed of three or four persons. The iraq he army is attacking from the area in the south and ist Kurdish Peshmerga attacking from the north. The jihadists are only a few thousand, but they are well done again and their tactics are dangerous, as this general explained to france 24. They put these bombs everywhere, in the houses, on example onend for of the villages was 11 houses connected to each other by tunnels. Special forces and paratroopers from a westernbased Coalition Including the u. S. , the u. K. , and france, or providing support , such as bypassing on coordinates of jihadists positions. When they reach the city itself, the current plan is for only iraqi for special units to enter and conduct
Ago is into its third day. This time the enemy is not saddam hussein, but the Islamic State group in their last major stronghold, muscle. Mosul. Theyve artie taken a series of villages on the road into the city. Successful. N very the enemy is pulling back but small groupving a behind composed of three or four persons. The iraq he army is attacking from the area in the south and ist Kurdish Peshmerga attacking from the north. The jihadists are only a few thousand, but they are well done again and their tactics are dangerous, as this general explained to france 24. They put these bombs everywhere, in the houses, on example onend for of the villages was 11 houses connected to each other by tunnels. Special forces and paratroopers from a westernbased Coalition Including the u. S. , the u. K. , and france, or providing support , such as bypassing on coordinates of jihadists positions. When they reach the city itself, the current plan is for only iraqi for special units to enter and conduct
An additional 25 trapped mosquitoes have tested negative since the three in miami beach were found. Global news, 24 hours a day. Im mark crumpton, this is bloomberg. Bloomberg west is next. Emily im emily chang, this is bloomberg west. Another blow for elon musk, the second spacex rocket explodes in just over a year this time also a blow for facebooks mark zuckerberg, well tell you why. Facebook continues its expansion of live video onto its messenger platform. Well hear if the cocreator turned competitor of Facebook Live. And could pairing up with centex with an answer to better profits. But first our lead. 5 Spacex Falcon 9 rocket xploded on the launch pad in Cape Canaveral today. It occurred in routine preparations for an upcoming launch this saturday. In a statement they said there was an anomaly on the pad and the pad was clear and there were no injury. The falcon 9 in this accident was supposed to carry an Israeli Communications satellite into orbit that, too, was lost in the bla
Suppliers and manufacturers have recognized the challenge we face for this century, literally this weapons platform will be critical to our national defense. We we can look back and draw lessons and we should from the challenges that cause that improvement to take place. Maybe even the overall conceptual framework as you suggested should there have been more individualization of the platform for different services. But i can well recall that the conventional wisdom not so long ago was the services should get together and collaborate and the by a single fighter and that was the wisdom does your of contracting in its day. Now maybe lessons point in different directions. I hope we will learn lessons from this experience but there has to be a recognition that this weapon platform will do things that no fighter engine or platform has done in the past, would you agree doctor fillmore . The investment ranking is large and the need that we have is large to deal with the threats that currently
To be good for the medicare to do over time and to provide some kind of services and theyre in fact one of the things that would be good for medicare to be able to do over time is to provide not om some of those ombudsman kinds of services but potentially even a structure to help people manage the long term services. That might be an addon program that people would enroll in and pay a modest income related payment for in which they could get additional help in managing that system. But i think the whole idea of managing it and to the family members and then the area thats that and maybe even a model on to itself in terms of an innovation. I think that were wrapping up because while we do have more questions, i dont think that we can get to all of our questions. I want to thank the alliance for this interesting discussion and the panelists. I want to give a plug for our primmer which two of our panelists worked on. If you havent learned everything you need to know about payment Delivery