f. sixteen fountains and none of those people are combat ready themselves so it could take years for the f. sixteen jets and the pilots to be ready for battle that leaves the iraqi government reliant on the u.s. for help from the sky and fighting alone on the ground in the meantime reporting in washington meghan lopez r t. and in afghanistan voters will be going to the polls on saturday to elect a new president it will be the country's first ever democratic transfer of power but whoever gets the job is going to have to hit the ground running as u.s. troops withdraw further the taliban has been gaining momentum the election is a runoff between the two highest vote getters in the april fifth primary election which saw a surprisingly high turnout and estimated six point six million afghans voted in the primaries adela doll is the former foreign minister he's an ophthalmologist who was a member of the northern alliance fighting against the taliban he finished first in the primary with forty five percent of the vote his opponent ashraf ghani. is the former finance minister and a former u.s. c

f. sixteen fountains and none of those people are combat ready themselves so it could take years for the f. sixteen jets and the pilots to be ready for battle that leaves the iraqi government reliant on the u.s. for help from the sky and fighting alone on the ground in the meantime reporting in washington meghan lopez r t. and while the u.s. now watches iraq descend into violence after its troops left in two thousand and eleven one thing it is trying to do is to avoid if a similar fate is in store for afghanistan as voters go to the polls on saturday to elect a new president a security deal determining how much longer american troops will remain in the country hangs in the balance it will be the country's first ever democratic transfer of power but whoever gets the job is going to have to hit the ground running it'll be up to the next president who will decide if some american troops will stay in the country's past the end of the year as the taliban gains momentum the election is a runoff between the two highest vote getters in the april fifth primary election which saw a surprisingly hi

f. sixteen and a ten aircraft and he had little good to say about the f. thirty five it's one of the worst airplanes we've ever designed. for a lot of reasons but the most important reason is that it was compromised by having to do three different jobs you can never make a good airplane if you don't focus on a single a single mission and then they made it even worse price saying that we saved money by giving it up among three services so now you have three missions pulling the airplane in different directions and now you have three services three bureaucracies adding their parochial point of view of the airplane it was a complete mess and mind you this is the most expensive single project that the that the defense department has ever undertaken. now distain it for a promotional campaign coming up the u.s. offers hard. to gain support for its trade agreement with europe but gets only a stream of sarcasm and condemnation. and the ugly side of the beautiful game later we sort fact from fiction surrounding the infamous hooligan antics of a russia football fans

f. sixteen and a ten we're going to try and get more not but the planes not being targeted to foreign buyers as artie's marina explains the f. thirty five stealth fighter jet is the crime to look ram of military planes. and the pentagon's most expensive conventional weapons program it's a game changer the f. thirty five fighter jet is manufactured by lockheed martin combining state of the art technology with highly advanced avionics and maneuverability the pentagon plans to buy nearly twenty five hundred f. thirty five but delays and cost increases have left u.s. lawmakers frustrated over the three hundred eighty five the billion dollar price tag and that's where america's allies come in. lockheed martin has turned to international partners including britain australia and canada collectively the countries have invested more than twenty billion dollars buying up the war craft a weapon that many experts view as a global gamble there's never been anything anywhere near as expensive and the entire process is one in which the costs can only go. the other problem is that the more they spend in the

f. sixteen there if they take that base over it's a question of what what strength what military strength. he will have it's interesting you talk about the relationship between the kurds and isis of us and get the kurds as was saying just now the potentially very rich and sitting on we think an estimated forty five billion barrels of oil that's going to be of interest to isis what's their relationship maybe form their own future or is it dead in the water. well you know i think that kurds will probably pursue their own interests the peshmerga their military their millet militant force has been somewhat successful and. holding up the isis advances but you're right there is that oil there and isis may ultimately attempt something but i think. are going to resist that you see you see a much more unified. unification among the kurds and any than anywhere else and i think it would be difficult for isis to do it would be easier for isis to head west and go into jordan and go into southern turkey and consolidate those positions to enhance its caliphate that is building up on and ultimately of co

f. sixteen fighter jets let's get more now from our teaser a marina. who is following the u.s. leaders european war nato has been bolstering its security in europe since ukraine's crisis deepened well this billion dollar fund be aimed at. well the funding u.s. president barack obama announced during his visit to poland seeks to increase exercises training and rotational presence of u.s. troops across europe according to the white house but the program is designed to bolster the capacity of countries including georgia moldova and ukraine which some are not even nato countries to better work alongside the u.s. and nato as well as to provide for their own defenses u.s. president barack obama says that america values its relationship its security agreements with poland and europe as the cornerstone for its own security now the u.s. is sending more troops and equipment to eastern europe it says to also reaffirmed its commitment to its nato allies and president obama has called on other nato members to follow by example specifically to step by increasing their own role in the allianc

lightning but we spoke to the man who helped design the iconic sixteen and a ten aircraft and they had let's look at society up out the f. thirty five it's one of the worst airplanes we've ever designed. for a lot of reasons but the most important reason is that it was compromised by having to do three different jobs you can never make a good airplane if you don't focus on a single shingle mission and then they made it even worse by saying that would save money by giving it up among three services so now you have three missions pulling the airplane in different directions now you have three services three bureaucracies adding their parochial points of view the airplane is a complete mess and one to this is the most expensive single project that the defense department has ever undertaken this dane for a problem campaign coming up for us all far as a hard cash for ideas on how to gain support for its trade agreements with europe but gets only a stream of sarcasm and condemnation. plus the ugly side of the beautiful game late so we sort fact from fiction surrounding the infamous looking antics of russia's football fans. bu