the four starr chief of staff and the civilian secretary of the airforce. he was their favorites fixer and he relished getting things done as he liked to put it quick and dirty. this was partly why clark encoura encouraged everybody to call him by his nickname snake or if regulations colonel snake. he had a reputation to intimidate real opponents. clark was an acquired taste. he spoke in a pruning pattern and when someone was in his way he loved playing what he called pentagon poker. i will see you a three starr and raise you a four star. i met him in 2009 and back again a month later and then again a month after that. as i talked to snake clark, i began to understand the predator was unusual in not only how the pentagon bought it but tht way the capabilities were improved and refined. initially as secretary peters pointed out, the predator like the first potential computers was a new technology that some people found interesting but most were not sure how to benefit from it. but over time, a few interested innovators came up with new software, new hardware

. >> speaking frankly, we depend on our airforce. and we have an airforce, and we have army aviation and troops on the ground. an international effort is helpful because we look some systems, but we do not depend on this assistance fully. there will be no ground troops in iraq. this is my decision, and this is the decision of the iraqi government. >> the iraqi prime minister's remarks reflect president obama's view that the effort against isil will ebb and flow. >> our strikes continue alongside our partners. it remains a difficult mission, as i've indicated from the start. this is not something that's going to be solved overnight. we're confident that we'll be able to make progress in partnership with the iraqi government. because ultimately, it's going to be important for them to be able to, with our help, secure their own country. >> it has been a month since president obama pledged to degrade and destroy the islamic state. is the coalition winning? if not, why not? >> the islamic state, iraq and syria this time on the program, si

leaders with us here today and retired lieutenant general who was the judge advocate general of the airforce. and retired general jack bailey is your. for former assistant and former deputy minister of nasa and director of the national air and space museum. after the fall o 2013 but with the aerospace museum and for anything in my book or what i will say today they're innocent. [laughter] it is a posner to talk about about drones with the then to posted by dhl they're doing what others have talked about. and i hope in addition into new delivering medicine maybe they will start delivering box. [laughter] my book tells what i thought was this story the story of invention. in the caa and how the age of aviation began. five years ago writing avenue book to get a comprehensive look and as many called them unmanned arial vehicle or uav. but then i read an article that the 10 aircraft that change the world. the only uav was the predator. the predator was the uav that change the world. it seemed to me more and more evident it natalie changed the world of warfare but opened the door to the m&a and ci

airforce and ammunition and supplies were dropped from the air and we have reaction from inside syriaeporter: isil forces surrounding the kurdish town of kobani and what stands in their way kurdish forces on the ground and they had weapons air dropped in the heavily devastated town. >> translator: in the earlier hours a good quantity of weapons, ammunition and equipment were air dropped by american planes over kobani and the quantity was great and not bad at all and will help defend kobani and america and we hope for more support and aid. >> reporter: after dozens of u.s. led air strikes on kobani kurdish forces were calling for more weapons and isil controls about a third of the town and armed with heavy artillery. . >> translator: kobani is under siege and arrival of the weapons is good. >> reporter: trying to go to the tip of kobani to take control of the border crossing in turkey and the they are stopped it depends how well equipped the force also be and calls for american and coalition help are unlikely to cease any time soon. i'm with al jazeera. >>> let's bring in al jazeera's

afghans apparently considering that making that now a commercial airport because they don't have airforceut down there, a very large base handed over and still some troops down there but leaving in the coming days and weeks and as you said the current nato mission end at the end of 2014, about a little about 30,000 troops still in the country and still a little less than half of that next year when the new division has support with a mission to train, assist the afghan security forces but no combat missions involved in that and marks the end of a combat phase for nato in helman province. >> you are in southern afghanistan where the security situation is still relatively unstable, are afghan forces prepared to fight the taliban and other militant groups? we are in kandarar and northern helman yesterday and security forces had a very, very difficult fighting season there in the area of helman providence where we were the taliban controls rural areas. afghan officials says the taliban has not been able to take district centers but the fighting has been very fierce in the town and afghan secu

airforce launched more strike against isil positions in kobane and ranging for control of the town which sight of the border and we are live on the turkish/syrian border and what is the latest you are hearing from kobane? >> kobane is two kilometers behind us and it's hazy and you cannot make it out clearly but we are hearing the sounds as you describe it an on going battle. we saw in the last hour-and-a-half or so a coalition air strike carried out on the eastern flank of kobane and know isil has positions to the east and to the south and also being told from sources that there is an attempt by isil to take the border crossing which is further down from here and an area that is extremely close to turkey and if you look at it geographicicily the position is about 50 meters across if they would take it and has not happened yet but it's by no means over and the coalition air strikes are happening somewhat but it's temporary and the kurds are managing to keep them at bay and have not taken the town but we know conditions in the town for the few people remaining there mostly elderly and hear

the government has major offensive against al-qaeda and airforced backed by houthi fighters by al-qaedand allies south of the capitol and dozens reportedly killed on both sides and u.s. drones took part in the attack. getting reports of a suicide bombing on iraqi bombing check point and took place in a village north of where the town was recently retaken from isil by the iraqi army and let's go to our correspondent who is joining us from the capitol baghdad and yesterday we talked about what a big gain this was for the iraqi army and what more can you tell us about this attack? >> well, the attack took place about 90 minutes ago, it was a captured army special forces hum-v into a check point on a village on the suburbs here and killing at least 15 army soldiers and injuring 23 others and we are going to see incidents like this as the army sweeps into the neighboring areas and tries to clear the neighboring areas and not so much the town itself which is in control of security forces but the neighboring areas of isil fighters and there will be pockets of the fighters in the area and cutof

the syrian airforce controls the skies, a weapon that has proven fatal for the opposition and on theund, opposition fighters continue to fight government troops and the armed group islamic state of iraq and the lavant and i'm with al jazeera. >>> at least five people have been killed in government shelling in iraqi city of falujiah and they are targeting residential areas in the city and iraqi government is trying to force isil fighters out of there for weeks. at least 16 people have been killed in the libya city of benghazi and follows fierce fighting between forces loyal to a rent grade general a fighters from benghazi council and battling malitia from mizarati across libya. runoff will be held later this month to choose brazil's next president and in sunday's election the current president failed to win an outright majority securing around 41% of the vote. she will face center right candidate in the second around. he got nearly 34%. in third place was the socialist parties silver and she was leading the polls in august when she entered the race following the sudden death of campos

slowly we see a lot of flooding and wind damage across the entire area, that is over the kadena airforcenawa base and it will go north and effect the mainland of japan and could make another landfall there, that will be toward the end of weekend and start of the week. this is what we are watching. the u.s. is flooding and this is a big issue here with a lot of rain coming down, a front which is stationary and could lead to more flash flooding and look at that in detail with the complete national forecast. >> thanks and kmart is the latest victim of cyber attacks against retail changes and the data breach happened at stores last month and sears which owns kmart said it did not effect department stores and the company said there is no evidence that customers' personal information and debit pin numbers and social security numbers were stolen. news of kmart comes a day after dairy queen confirmed 400 of the stores were hacked and customer name and card and expiration were gotten in the breach animal , malware was used and used for other retailers and jp morgan chase will debt will get more s

that's a far stretch from isis having an attack capable airforce. >> the pentagon says it has no informatione report but we do want to get more on this. let's turn to senior international correspondent ben weedman who joins us from baghdad. hi, ben. it is a great concern if this proves to be right. of course we don't have confirmation on this but talk to us about what firm you're getting on these defections from iraqi's military, training them how to fly these war planes. what do you know about this? >> we don't have any specific information about these specific individuals. supposedly iraqi pilots from the days of saddam hussein who have gone to train these isis fighters in the making. it's important to know they disbanded the navy and went over and joined the insurgency and the insurgency meta morphized into what is now al qaeda or isis. therefore it comes as no surprise that people with the skills that are intoed to fly isis to train a new generation. let's keep this in perspective. these are three old soviet mig 23s. easily spotted and destroyed by coalition aircraft if they decide do th

airforce one will arrive at the gary airport today. caused by last friday's arson fire at the aurora air traffic control center. tomorrow president obama will attend a fund- raiser and deliver an economic speech. authorities have released tapes. >> where is your emergency? >> when a smoke in the building be the fire department done here. >> and is coming from inside the building appeared to get a call from the fire department. >> police say the accused arsonist used his facebook page to announce the plan to set the fire. he was allegedly disgruntled over america's foreign policy and what he described as the laziness of government employees. >> 175 flights have been canceled the appearance of maryland experienci delays of 35 minutes. there are no delays or cancellations. meantime cleaning crews and technicians are working around the clock at the your air traffic control center to finish cleaning ventilation system. installing communications equipment. the faa hopes to have the operation fully operational. airlines will have to replace c

. >> when stewart's body was going to delaware airforce base he volunteered to be part of the motorcycle detail to escort his body back home. >> it was an honor for me to do this and make sure his family received him in an honorable way back home. >> a retired marine who was part of the u.s. force that led to the fall of baghdad in 2003, he didn't know that honorable gesture would lead him into a long battle with the maryland transportation authority. >> someone asked one of the officers about tolls and he said i can't imagine them giving us a toll. we're not going to stop. >> several days later he says he and many of the other cyclists caught on camera were slapped with a ticket for not paying the toll. he says he wrote letters and sent e-mails to the maryland transportation authority explaining he was part of the detail escorting sergeant stewart's body. he included this letter from the stafford sheriff's department confirming that fact. >> for what we were doing, it's sad. >> he then wrote the governor's office and received this letter back from the head of the transportation authorit

looking eastward toward andrews airforce base, that area, down river, some blue sky but the other way off to the west clouds are making progress in a hurry. the first round of showers now just south of winchester, front royal, so a few heavier downpours there are being picked up just north of strasburg. a little further west there is even more action to deal with. a real nasty line of thunderstorms and a number of tornadoes. in fact, the severe storms just posted a tornado watch for northeastern kentucky, southern and southeastern ohio. western west virginia. we think those storms will diminish once they cross the appalachians but an isolated thunderstorm later tonight certainly not out of the question. upper 60's, lower 70's. 73 reagan national. into the evening, rain will develop after 7:00. toward midnight for the second round. we think that will come to an end and become breezy in the late overnight hours. a lot more to describe coming up shortly. >> thank you very much. you can track conditions where you are right in the palm of your hand. just download the storm watch weather ap

airforce plane that was requested and i think required to go to north korea, but there was some type of arraignment and quilled pro quo. >> what could that be? >> well, again, i'm speculating a bit, but it seems to be that the north has been interested in getting back in conversations with america, and by conversations, i wouldn't go so far to say negotiations over the nuclear program, but since kim jong un has been in power, there has been very little, almost zero interaction. so it may be time, now that he has been in power for a year or so t. he's thinking, it's time to talk. >> so two americans in jail. and why fowle and not them? >> again, his transgression and the charge against him was the most marine of the three. and it's likely that it's most easy to sell to his domestic population. where all he did was leave a bible behind. and the other two detainees, at least what they're charged with, are much greater crimes. >> thank you very much. >>> in hong kong, talks between government protesters and students have ended without agreement. the students stuck to their demand for an

the syrian airforce controls the skies, a weapon that is proven fatal for the opposition and on the groundsition fighters continue to fight government troops and the armed group islamic state of iraq and lavant, i'm with al jazeera. >>> now at least five people have been killed in government shelling in the iraqi city of falujih. hospital sources say they are targeting residential areas in the city. the iraqi government has been trying to force isil fighters out of fallujiah and what is the latest with the fighting in iraq and in particular the fighting in fallujiah. >> reporter: what is happening in fallujiah is one cutoff point in baghdad and the main supply root and isil forces going through the town they control parts of into amaria and if that is a force it's a blow to baghdad and part of isil assault to try and get in baghdad. isil control parts of fallujah and two of the biggest cities in ambar and moving further west and control heat and two other towns. iraqi army has surrounded them and fierce, intense clash going on all through ambar province and what we see is another isil offe

his family escaped in the province when it was a battleground between iraqi airforce and fighters belonginge islamic state of iraq and lavont and a few weeks ago isil pushed out only to be replaced by sierra malitia men. >> what is the government doing? they need a solution. where should we go? our house is destroyed and now there are malitias there. >> reporter: people who live there found refuge further north in the city of kurkook but do not feel safe and they are looked upon with suspicion and some accused of cooperating with isil and at the same time say they are targets of sierra armed groups. >> translator: malitia men would not allow us to return to our village's and looting and burning our homes and we are scared to go back. >> reporter: iraqi government doesn't call these fighters malitia men instead it considers them volume tires on isil or part of the sierra dominated iraqi army and government officials insist the so called volunteers will continue to support the army and police until they are ready to secure areas on their own. but for many sunnis, their presence is tearing the

-led campaign and the latest is australia whose prime minister announced his airforce will carry outikes against isil targets in iraq, a second target of military hardware from germany are helping people fighting i sks il, britain, den mark and they are committed to strike targets inside iraq and arab coalition partners along with the united states have been striking isil inside syria and the turkish parliament approved military force against isil in both iraq and syria, the motion before parliament and it gives them to be allowed to bring fighters and to go on turkish soil and they have been pressed to have a bigger campaign against isil and fighters within the radical armed group are within turkish military positions within the syrian border and where the founder of the empire's tomb is located. >> translator: the existence of islam militants in the region, 37 kilometers away from the turkish/syria border where the tomb is located is an obvious risk and obvious threat against our national security and the tomb is an inseparable part of the territory and the up most duty of the stat

and that was not the case with clinton, but the very first airforce one trip i took with clinton, he came to the back and was telling these southern eight stories in a funny voice, imitating royal folks. and you can't imagine that today. obama does come back, but even then it is very, -- some lecturing. so i think that what we miss, though, to give him credit, he does more interviews than his predecessors, has less to predecessors. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] >> i am not getting these interviews. i am saying, give him credit for at least doing this. what he is not doing in the bread and butter of what the correspondence do is where you take a day in and the. [roll call] are two questions, how about this, that is where you hear the president day and day out about the main issues. we go weeks without hearing his voice and being able to ask any question. an entire issues come and go, especially these days, without ever having gotten his perspective on what he thinks about this or that, what he thinks should happen, anything. it is so different from the last two. >> stephen, how

the four starr chief of staff and the civilian secretary of the airforce. he was their favorites fixer and he relished getting things done as he liked to put it quick and dirty. this was partly why clark encoura encouraged everybody to call him by his nickname snake or if regulations colonel snake. he had a reputation to intimidate real opponents. clark was an acquired taste. he spoke in a pruning pattern and when someone was in his way he loved playing what he called pentagon poker. i will see you a three starr and raise you a four star. i met him in 2009 and back again a month later and then again a month after that. as i talked to snake clark, i began to understand the predator was unusual in not only how the pentagon bought it but tht way the capabilities were improved and refined. initially as secretary peters pointed out, the predator like the first potential computers was a new technology that some people found interesting but most were not sure how to benefit from it. but over time, a few interested innovators came up with new software, new hardware