Our August Mitchell institute forum. Today our subject is the next Generation Air dominance. For those of you i havent met, im the dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Power studies. We are plead we are pleased to have the president of the air force association, general bruce right, amongst a set of distinguished visitors to include general mike low, force former vice chair of air force staff. We have an expert panel to discuss this topic. Say again . [laughter] [inaudible] they are all youngsters, sir. Forlanned this Panel Feedback and discussion. I will offer remarks to set the stage for the discussion. Ability tority, the deny enemy forces access to key portions of the sky, is today a bedrock mission for the department of defense. Everybody over there and each one of the services, understands that the viability of soldiers and marines on the ground, ships at sea, space and cyber installations, logistics lines and command and control facilities are fundamentally dependent on
Is 6 00 here in london. Lets get uptodate on greece. I will show you a chart. Some of the release we are already seeing what Alexis Tsipras and his team have put together. You see the jump in five weeks, on the sense of optimism just this morning around, and the last 24 hours, around the greek stories. The finance minister of the netherlands had a role of the eurogroup. He is reporting in a dutch publication that he is asked the ecb and the imf to assess the greek aid request, which would be the next step after that request has been submitted by Alexis Tsipras. The other thing on the agenda is the Greek Parliament has to look at the proposal. Lets backtrack and show you what is happening the markets. In yesterdays session, before we saw this proposal submitted by the government guy lets come to you first. Is Alexis Tsipras caving . And giving the stresses and the capital controls in place perhaps knows a prize . Guy that is the obvious reasoning,. It was rejected by the greek people on
It follows the disputed independence referendum for the catalan region, which the Spanish Government declared illegal. Mr puidgemont, whos in belgium, has insisted hes not there to evade justice. Tom burridge reports. Another night, another protest. This time, calls for catalan politicians to be released. These prisoners are not. They didnt commit any crime. If they take them to jail, they should take us to jail too. We only want to vote, and to be free. Catalonias former government, which they elected, is accused of rebellion. Eight former catalan ministers will spend the weekend in prison, after a judge denied them bail. And now, an arrest warrant for the former catalan president carles puigdemont. Hes in brussels. Tonight, on belgian tv, he described the case against him and his colleagues as exceptional and wrong. Translation this is not normal, that we face up to 30 years in prison. 30 years because we respected the wishes of the electorate. This is not normal. It is extremely bar
It follows the disputed independence referendum for the catalan region, which the Spanish Government declared illegal. Mr puidgemont, whos in belgium, has insisted hes not there to evade justice. Tom burridge reports. Another night, another protest. This time, calls for catalan politicians to be released. These prisoners are not. They didnt commit any crime. If they take them to jail, they should take us to jail too. We only want to vote and to be free. Catalonias former government, which they elected, is accused of rebellion. Eight former catalan ministers will spend the weekend in prison after a judge denied them bail. And now, an arrest warrant for the former catalan president Carles Puigdemont. Hes in brussels. Tonight, on belgian tv, he described the case against him and his colleagues as exceptional and wrong. Translation this is not normal, that we face up to 30 years in prison. 30 years because we respected the wishes of the electorate. This is not normal. It is extremely barba
The world is watching to see how mr trump handles this round of diplomacy. On his first stop, the president and first lady visited a us battleship sunk by japanese bombers, before laying a wreath at the uss arizona in pearl harbor. After travelling to tokyo on sunday, its on to south korea, followed by china, then vietnam. Mr trump will round things off with a visit to the philippines. Steven mcdonnell is in tokyo for us. He says the president s tour has had quite a sombre start in hawaii. Absolutely here on the streets in tokyo people absolutely here on the streets in tokyo people are expecting Donald Trumps visit to be completely dominated by the security question around north Koreas Nuclear Weapons Programme but on his way to asia he has stopped off in hawaii and visited pearl harbor. He had a wreath laying ceremony. They tend to do this on the way to japan, us president s. He has received a briefing from the us Pacific Command and no prizes for guessing what they would be talking a