Withdrawal from afghanistan in terms of the earlier question about our capacity to deploy in two separate theaters of war . Right. I think the lessons i slightly change the angle here and say i think there are lessons from the afghan experience which can be applied to iraq. As i said earlier the business of doing it properly, building up an army from the grass roots, building up the respect of the confidence, capability, is in a way which wasnt done frankly in the british experience in iraq is relevant to what might happen. On that point do you think the afghan army is likely to perform better than we have seen with the iraqi army . Im optimistic. Providing theres one major caveat, providing the International Community stays committed both in continuing to train and also, and very importantly, in providing the money. Because dont forget the afghanistan did not collapse after the soviets left, it collapsed when soviet union collapsed when the money dried up. I am optimistic that providi
Crucial details. And its an ancient city facing a modern problem. Climate change means athens is getting hotter and dryer, but the greek capital was finding ways to adapt to biasing temps. Ah, hello, im terry martin. Good to have you with us. Russian shelley continues to target ha heave ukraines 2nd largest city. Ukrainian Officials Say at least one person was killed when 5 rockets hit the city early on friday. Between wednesday and thursday, 17 people died in russian. Shelley in hockey. Meanwhile, media report say a russian air field in crimea has been rocked by a series of explosions. Blasts were reported near a military airport. North of the city of sebastopol were dozens of combat aircraft, were part russian occupation. Authorities are quoted as saying, no damage was done. This comes as United Nations secretary general antonio guitarist is visiting ukraine on thursday he held talks in libby with the countries president , polonius zalinski, and the turkish leader of type out one. Go
U. S. And russia takes hold. Major victory for iraqi forces to tell you about troops pour into the troops of mosul celebrating the citys liberation from isis. Iraqi troops now control almost all of mosul. Its the moment that everybody is still talking about, the president boarding marine one and it appears to be a very windy day. He helps this marine with his hat. When you come in it will be playing been thinking about you all week long oh, baby dont keep me waiting you got about 45 minutes. Brian thats got to be a new song. I thought i heard about everything jason aldine has done. Ainsley you made him famous im sure. Brian al some point we had him on, right . Ainsley you saw a picture at the white house. The president is back at the white house after the successful g20 summit last week. Steve you said successful g20 summit. Gee, i wish we had a list of stuff they did. Ainsley i think we might. Steve we do. If you missed it, because there has been a lot of coverage about all sorts of s
A fight over the president s border wall taking new shape at this hour as the Trump Administration threatens californias bullet train project in two major fronts. First targeting nearly 1 billion in federal funds. And second trying to reclaim 2. 5 billion. Governor newsome calling it political retribution. The cost overruns are becoming world record sending is hundreds of times more expensive than the desperately needed wall. Good morning. The Transportation Department says it is looking into its Legal Options to take back that 2. 5 billion in federal funds that california has already spent and the timing of this is in question because it was Just Announced just a day after california filed a lawsuit challenging President Trumps Emergency Declaration at the border. Now, this all surrounds a 77 billion project creating a bullet train from l. A. To san francisco. Governor gavin newsom fired back it is no coincidence that the administrations threat comes 24 hours after california led 16 s
Postponed for a week the Electoral Commission made the announcement just hours the full polling booths put you to open. Hello and a very warm welcome im. In but when its day two of the Munich Security Conference and with Global Leaders missing in the german city that to discuss peace and diplomacy german chancellor Angela Merkel and the u. S. Vice president mike pence are expected to deliver a jew ling speeches today the conference was opened by its chairman who was making a point about europes role in the wold of three superpowers. He couldnt have made his point more clearly the head of the Munich Security Conference open proceedings wearing an e. U. Hoodie forgoing issuing a wants World Leaders to know that europe has to fulfill its role within the growing struggle of the superpowers the e. U. Russia and china crucial. All new leaders carry an even greater responsibility than in the recent past security chairman defense minister funded lyon gave one of the keynote speeches she began