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During their selection tests to ensure women have a better chance of joining the elite units today Sunday Times says changes are being considered to encourage female recruits to the S.A.s an s.p.s. In over a years time Sue Mansfield has more details the proposed changes are reportedly to the initial phase of Special Forces selection which involves a series of long launches carrying heavy rucksacks in the Brecon Beacons The paper says women will be allowed to carry lighter loads and be given lon...

Families. may god bless all those who this day wear the uniform and stand ready. and may god continue to bless the united states of america. [applaus [applause] >> at times a slightly emotional, certainly a very personal speech from vice-president mark pence at arlington national cemetery, marking veterans day, himself the son after korean war vet to received the bronze star for valor, the father of a young marine, second lieutenant currently in flight training as were still watching some of the...

Out -- i mean really a full-fledged effort at the local state and federal level to start developing humans. short for human intelligence services. whats different from 9/11 style plot, it required the attackers to get out of their communities, learn flight training. they had to learn to get money and contact people outside of their community to. jump behind the wheel of a car and tragically mow people down you can stay isolated for as long as possible and holed up in your cacoon and never leave ...

Upgrade from the last plane they used, a 737. when we tagged along for a ride in 2008, dickinson revealed he was already dreaming of bumping up his ride. >> 747 is starting to look nice. >> you already want an upgrade? >> he has been promoting the bands first double studio album, book of souls, hes also been opening up about a major health scare that could have derailed his singing career. >> halfway through the record. singing away, quite happy and chirpy and i get a lump in the side of my neck...

Here, syria, isis, belgium, france, the attack being perpetrated on innocent people on friday the 13th. tell me what has to be done. >> indeed, were in a perilous spot right now, clearly been a tactical shift amongst a lot of the terrorist groups looking to attack the world democracies, that tactical shift is at best summed up by the two say 9/11 and the small arms tactical assault that "charlie hebdo" by what we saw in the westgate mall in nairobi, kenya. now 9/11 kelly left some, i call them i...

Director. tom, thank you for being here. you say what is different now is that there is quote, no need for permission control or coordination by terrorists. what do you mean in terms of how the threat has changed? >> the threats changed because before especially under osama bin laden, he micromanaged the attacks so it rerdquired a lot of communication. he hand-picked the 9/11 hijackers, oversaw their training oversaw the financing of them. it required a lot of communication back and forth betwee...

Captain mistakenly switched off the working engine after the other one lost power and that he failed a flight training a year earlier. 15 of the 58 peer -- people aboard the flight survived. how do you have somebody who is flying a plane who filed the flight simulator training earlier? could this have in the united states? >> well, it has happened, probably not with those kinds of fatal results but it happens all over the world and it proves again that sometimes some people are just not cut out ...

Yuntded complained to its pilots there were too many errors in the cockpit and there was poor communication. enough the "wall street journal" reports the faa has sent a letter to united telling them that pilots are flying too many hours and not staying current in their flight training. what makes this letter so unusual is that the faa doesnt have the resources nor the manpower to fully police the airline airline. so it relies on the airline self-policing and united did exactly that, telling the ...

Weapons and attack an american shopping mall doesnt take that much training or time. also, keep in mind, this is an important point, it doesnt leave as many bread crumbs or investigative contacts. if you go to flight training, the people in the school teaching you have time to develop suspicion. if you are engaging in a soft target its that much fewer bread crumbs. >> appreciate it. talk to you again soon. a man suspected of murder after being released from gitmo. police shooting caught on t...

Investigation will be interviewing everyone who interacted with the law enforcement source. saying one person reported he seemed normal on the flight the day before the crash. what will they be asking what could they find out by talking, lets say, to more of his colleagues? >> you just said something about missed opportunities and i think the first missed opportunity was before he was hired, and i think theres going to have to be a much more robust prescreening of pilots coming into the industry...