when you move, resources to the special forces, special operations forces.rd point i'd make is strategic impact is going to be limited, usually by scale. you simply can't produce enough special operations forces, in most cases, to have a decisive impact on their own. this is worth remembering because we keep saying there's a tendency to think that special operations can be strategically effective and when we think that we usually try to reach far. the last point, last theme of the book, is the relationship between special operations forces in the conventional military forces. this has been a problem from the very beginning and part of it is simply human nature. when you have one organization that is touted as being special and it goes around pulling the best people you will create resentment and the rest of the organization. it's not to simply jealousy but there is a valid argument to be made and is often been made by conventional forces that if the police forces out and put your talent out of one party organization and focus them here that the rest of your

air force, you're creating another organization under the air force so they're still doing it. we're changing organizational boxes under the same organization, rather than tasking and funding and working strategically to insure their performance. again, my only concern is is i think there's a whole lot more information that we all should have before we go to that level and that's why i offered the amendment, and i would -- certainly appreciate your intention, the needs that we have in space, but i think we should be well-informed, of both the negatives of doing this and the positives of doing this before we would undertake imposing this. i yield back. >> it if i could reclaim my time. mr. chairman, i think all of us are saying the same thing. we want to move into space significantly. the air force is saying the samg thing. we all want to do that. there's some concern as far as how fast we go and in what direction we go. with a little bit more input coming from the air force, i feel much more comfortable with that i think with the turner amendment or the underlying bill we're st

forces. and we had a very ominous statement from russia, that plays into the hold the whole deconfliction agreement between the countries. essentially saying west of euphrates we're shooting down. what's the latest? any updates on where that stands? what is the latest? gen. dunford: we worked really hard on deconfliction. it is important to work out why. for the last months, we worked on deconfliction with the russian federation proregime forces. through the russians. the purpose was to make sure our crews were safe. make sure the personnel on the ground were safe and make sure we can prosecute and the defeat crisis campaign in syria. which is the reason we're in syria. that has worked very well over the past eight months. we have worked through a number of issues with the russian federation. we have an effective link between our operation center in qatar. and the russian federation on the ground in syria -- that link is still ongoing here this morning. when i left the building this morning,

in combatting isil forces. so it will be a challenge for us. i think we need to repeal the 2001 or replace it, but we need to know what the administration's strategy is and they haven't done that. we do know they're using the 2001 and 2002 authorizations well beyond what we ever intended. >> of particular concern to me is the meaningful restrictions on deploying u.s. ground forces to combat isil. i do not believe significantly escalating our direct involvement in current combat operations is beneficial to actually solving the crisis inciti bated by isil. >> there is no easier or assured way for the u.s. to unintentionally commit to a quagmire as this. as we know too well, once committed and then under attack, it becomes nearly impossible to withdraw those troops. however, i'm not at all convinced that evolving threat from isil to uses and to our friends and partners necessitates committing more of our brave men and women to ground the combat operation. the need for significant combat military operations to dimi

military force?ithout an honest and frank national discourse we run the risk of the executive branch activities separating the only from the legal basis upon which use of force rests but a disconnect between the will of the people and military actions pursued by a duly elected government. to be effective it should strike an appropriate balance between the national command authority to respond to emergency threats and congress's ability to exercise appropriate oversight. specifically congress should ensure any aumf address key entities, targeted geographical limitations, ,pecial military force reporting requirements, associated detention issues, and sunset provisions. stakeholders rightly support a to create legitimacy for the use of military force. they range of proposals from the senate and house offer pathways for repealing and replacing. the time is now right for reconsideration and discussion of congressional war powers. thank you for your efforts to draw attention to this matter and calling this

military force with more than 180,000 u.s. army soldiers from the active component, the national guard and the reserve committed to combatant command missions in over 140 countries worldwide. america's soldiers directly contribute to our nation's efforts to defeat isis, support governance in afghanistan and deter conflict throughout europe, asia and the middle east. this steady demand for trained and ready army units provides our nation with the ability to defeat adversaries, assure our allies and deter potential aggressors. while this chart depicts current operations where america's army is engaged, the next fight could represent an existential strategic challenge posed by peer powers. some with nuclear capabilities, advanced technologies and large and more sophisticated militaries. while it is difficult to define with precision, the character of future warfare, it's broad outlines can be anticipated. we should plan on all domains of warfare being contested. a technologically sophisticate and numerically superior enemy that i

forces but in defense of nonstate or forces that we are supporting on the ground.hat seems clearer. that seems to me there's no way article to authority. i'd love for you to confirm whether my suspicions are right on the second count and address the limit to authority with respect to the justification of self-defense. >> we can divide this up. something dr. hicks said before you came in witches both of us would like to see clarity out of the administration about their legal administration. this was sort of when the united states is doing ag or controversial things legally, we ought to say why we are doing now. we as united states believe in the rule of law we are acting legally. and if we are, we ought to say why. others may not always agree, but we always say what we are doing. when a legal adviser i tried to explain our actions and i would like to see clarification on the strikes against the chemical weapons in response a month or so ago and now. like you, i have a hard time seeing the congress authorized the use of force against syria in the 2001 aumf or that it

getting this right is important, because air force capabilities are critical to the joint force. our challenge in the fiscally constrained environment is to dominate the high ground, leading and flawlessly executing our missions. we are america's 911 force, able to deliver full spectrum effects anywhere on the globe in matter of hours. we ensure freedom from attack and the ability to attack at a time and place of our choosing. and an able to operate freely in both peacetime and wartime. we are the eyes and ears of the joint force. we provide secure, survivable and timely command and control capabilities over multiple domains. while at the same time protecting the homeland and ensuring a strong nuclear deterrence. to meet current and future demands, we must invest in capabilities to fight and win today but also the capabilities needed to fight and win five, ten, 15, 20 years from now. next slide. on the last slide you saw a number of platforms. but it's our people that make us the world's greatest air force. behind every one of those weapons systems are airmen who support, develop

forces won't be shot down? >> i'm confident that we are still communicating between our operation center and the russian federation operation center. i'm also confident that our forces have the capability to take care of themselves. >> some people have been writing some of the early questions, russia effectively declared world war iii. it's not that bad. >> i honestly, the worst thing any of us can do would be addressed this thing with hyperbole. an incident occurred. it's going to require engagement in the next few hours to restore the deconfliction we had in place. the deconstruction that we had in place is in mutual interest. it allows us to address what at least proregime forces indicated is our common enemy, isis. >> have you been in touch with russia? >> i have not. this morning. i have met with my russian counterpart twice this year. we've communicated maybe another five or six times. >> which also leads to -- what's the situation in iraq going to be when it's all said and done? who's going to control it

see themselves as targets for the russian forces stationed in syria. and they they might fear a potential let's say that their jets might be downed by russian forces let's take a look at how the u.s. presence in syria has evolved under the pretext of fighting islamic state u.s. led coalition airstrikes began in september twenty fourth without the permission of the syrian government we will degrade and ultimately destroy eisel at the end of twenty fifteen washington officially began sending special forces into syria to help the so-called moderate opposition again without the permission of damascus twenty sixteen u.s. troops were spotted across syria with washington reluctant to say had it set up bases there that bite september twenty sixth the u.s. led coalition bombed a syrian military base for the first time although officials admitted that it was unintentional ultimately we made an unintentional regrettable they were primarily based on human factors in several areas in the targeting process then in april of this year washington launched dozens of cru

still when the force is ageing. in all too often a bill payer is key to maintaining capabilities. the funding profiles on this slide are familiar. the black line is the 2012 budget. the last time strategy and budget were aligned. the red is the funding by bca and the maroon is the enacted budgets. every one of which was delayed by a continuing resolution. is worth noting that the final enacted budget for the first two years of bca were below bca and that the fy 17 budget when submitted last year was 3.9% below the president's budget of 2016. this forced the department to make hard choices to balance during which only three areas were exempted. deployed and next to deploy forces, personnel, and shipbuilding. shipbuilding being the least reversible of our mitigations. the take away, however s not the dollars, although important. the take aways are what the profiles represent. a strategy funding mismatch budget instability combined with consistent and lengthy crs most importantly the squandering of a precious resource

growth we need that labor force growth. reporter: given this is a small part of bringing the labor force participation rate up, what else do you think needs to happen? is it tax reform? what else needs to happen? secretary acosta: all of the above, right? this is a small but very significant part because, you know, if you start providing, if you start changing the system to demand driven education, where educational institutions, whether they be two or four-year colleges or other experienced-based educational institutions are providing work force skills, with each passing year for every hundreds of thousands of folks that go through this, those are all new jobs, but shortly all the policies you see this administration administering, whether it be tax reform or other is part of bringing individuals back into the work force. ma'am? reporter: when would we see results? when will the skills gap close? what types of jobs are we talking about exactly versus professions? secretary acosta: so when i think is a very speculative ques

that's the force against fletcher. so you have it nearly impertive and you remember midway itself has an aircraft carrier's worth of aircraft on it it's four versus four and because of the complexity of the plan and the formations all over the ocean, at the point of contact, at the actual battle, that's what meets each other. this illustrates it better. you could see the parody is not that exstream now. they're almost equal. they're meeting on near equal odds. if you remember eliot's presentation going into the code break throughs and the reading of the japanese signals up to -- incidentally that cut off around may 25th and having to guess after that. because the japanese changed the j and 25 code after that. but until then, they had the japanese advance information that they had been able to figure out from the codes and the trick with midway saying it was running low on water. so you have to figure the coding advantage's a huge force multiplier in the american advantage. the japanese are coming in thinking they have

we had rushing trains from forces. that's what they're doing and comes running back and then in off ca and ordering home on the scene. she will be at the canal, which will be sunk. after midway, this is about four japanese carriers, we had three. this is going into the battle of the canal. this is the next moment of parity. now ready for battle up against the enterprise. this is why it is so important. it is the final touch what makes a midway victory because it is the canal that has all the surviving, some survive the war and stuff an write the memoirs. the bulk of the japanese pilot court, there weren't that many of them other than the hearing. anyone who survived midway appeared to be killed in the two big battle of guada canal. it puts the final thing on it. here is why. this is the very next year. you see the american industrial force kicking in a replacement community. this is the battle of the philippines. they had the new heat carrier and lost four at midway. they lost the show one and that's going in the battl

claimed survivors of the grenfell tower fire are being forced to sleep rough guess as a day of rage in london plans to bring down the government. broadcasting live from the russian capital it just turned twelve in the afternoon here in moscow you're watching r t international. top story at this hour russia's foreign minister says moscow is waiting for washington's explanations after the u.s. led coalition down to syrian army plane near the city off rocka survey lavrov also stressed that the pentagon is still treating various terrorist groups differently. for. the french we have sure the u.s. is really targeting but we don't recall america bombing so actively. so. it's constantly changing its name but it doesn't change its nature because russia has not hold that some cooperation with the u.s. over syria by pulling out of the agreement it has signed with washington to prevent collisions in syrian airspace meanwhile australia has announced that it is temporarily suspending its air operations in syria. the u.s. led coalition says the downing of a syrian fighter jet came in quote self-defen

back forces it's difficult to know who to believe is it. well yes and no number one i would tend to believe the syrians because there are sorties and their pilots are very valuable and they would be very careful the russians are the lions all mapped out and they know that the u.s. would just love to have an incident like this but there are i still forces in the area of the u.s. coalition is the one that has refused to coordinate these types of missions and campaigns to avoid this type of thing so they bear the responsibility of it and of course the syrians and the russians have been trying to destroy any of these isis force of forces coming out of rocca so they can redeploy attack them on the flakes and palmyra. what sort of reaction should we expect them from syria. well i think it's really going to be in the russian hands now are we going to have to see the russian fighters having to fly fly air cover for the syrian sorties and that would be a escalation where if a syrian plane with force fired on with a russian plane fire on the u.s. coa

fighter jets down an drone pro syrian government forces it's the third syrian aircraft downed. also in syria. as tensions escalate between washington and moscow. on sunday. in an exclusive. tell us about the horrors of folding in the north. taking root. here at the. six pm here welcome to the program first the breaking news that i just told you about mad lines that the pentagon says a u.s. fighter jet was downed an drone belonging to pro syrian government forces in southern syria the coalition statement says the drone was advancing on u.s. backed forces it happened in the south of the country near a base in the region with more let's talk to jacqueline. jacqueline what are you hearing. yes like you said they did come out with a statement saying that they have shot down an iranian made pro series in regime drone in southern syria now this is the third prosperi an aircraft that has been shut down this month alone by u.s. led coalition forces another drone was shot down on june the eighth in the same area and just this sunday a u.s. led coalition the u.s. led coalition dropped dow

and american forces and. in this case the russians would. see themselves forced to get into the conflict which might escalate into a regional and maybe international conflict so that's why the russians were so for in that a message to the americans and this is the seriousness of the russian message was felt by the most trillions who feel that they could be victims of a collateral like collateral victims of probable clash between the russians and the americans over syria should we expect to could we expect more coalition members not to pull and suspend their as strikes as well following in the in the heels of australia here or not you think. well this might be a possibility but i also fear. and escalation by the united states because the united states is losing ground in syria and this is failing all its strategy in the region which was trying to impose and you would your political map and this region that could secure the loyalty of the middle east. to the united states it could ensure that the influence of t

the first force that we must recognize is 16 years of war, when congress approved the volunteer force and 73 our country never envisioned send in our military to work for more than a decade without pause or constrict constriction. this placed a heavy burden on men and women in uniform and their families. second concurrent force acting on the department is the worsening global security situation. we must look reality in the eye, russia and china are seeking veto power over the economic, diplomatic and security decisions. north korea's reckless rhetoric continue despite united nations sanctions while iran remains the largest challenge to middle east stability. all the while terrorist groups murder the innocent threaten peace and regions, and threaten us. a third force acting on the department's adversaries actively contesting america's capabilities. for decades the united states enjoyed uncontested or dominant superiority in every tell me. we could generally deploy your forces when we want to, assemble them where we wanted and operate how we want to. today, every operating timing includ

we call him the united states and others who have their forces word by as. is on the ground in syria to ensure the coordination of our work zones of deescalation are one of the possible options to move forward jointly we call in everyone to avoid unilateral moves respect syrian sovereignty and join our common work which is agreed with the syrian government. the downing of the syrian jets is the latest in a series of u.s. strikes against forces fighting for the asaad government the us led coalition recently conducted several bombing raids against pro-government fighters in syria in those cases the same justification was used by the pentagon that pro assad forces have breached a de confliction zone. right with me now mark almond who's director of the crisis research institute welcome back to r.t. professor orman good to see you hello how might this latest suspension of cooperation has happened before how might this latest suspension affect the situation in syria and the anti terrifying. well it depends how calculated both sides are particularly in this case th

the first force that we must recognize is 16 years of war, when congress approved the volunteer force and 73 our country never envisioned send in our military to work for more than a decade without pause or constrict constriction. this placed a heavy burden on men and women in uniform and their families. second concurrent force acting on the department is the worsening global security situation. we must look reality in the eye, russia and china are seeking veto power over the economic, diplomatic and security decisions. north korea's reckless rhetoric continue despite united nations sanctions while iran remains the largest challenge to middle east stability. all the while terrorist groups murder the innocent threaten peace and regions, and threaten us. a third force acting on the department's adversaries actively contesting america's capabilities. for decades the united states enjoyed uncontested or dominant superiority in every tell me. we could generally deploy your forces when we want to, assemble them where we wanted and operate how we want to. today, every operating timing includ

forces leaving in the short term. but he wanted to lessen turn sions what the russians thought it was. that he wanted to focus our us military policy towards the elimination of the islamic state what we've seen however over the last five months since he was inaugurated is just the opposite so it seems in this effort to defeat the us could in fact be fanning new hotbed of tension if you like washington has a case of tunnel vision trying to solve only one problem without seeing the bigger picture sound familiar and show iraq anyone but history teaches us nothing clearly not even past week for just this one from donald trump to then president obama in two thousand and thirteen he warned that nothing good would come to the us from attacking syria apparently hindsight isn't twenty twenty one to get to the white house or r.t. washington d.c. . a train station in the belgian city of now more has been cordoned off after a suspicious package was found but he's tweeted that the neutralization of the package is underway at the s

nato forces or all green on green which is the afghan forces killing afghan forces is the key element within their new strategy for spring offensive. but no so far there is no claim of responsibility or no word from taliban claiming that this guy this perpetrator belonged to the taliban or had linked to that. this is this is you know when we had the previous attack in that chain. posted photos and said. that perpetrator that attacker was one of them but in this case they have their side and the only prays that he was. he was a true muslim and praise the attacker but to be to tell you of the background of what these attack happened or why they were happening twenty twelve and thirteen when the record of the internet. was at its peak you know there were several motivations for afghan forces one was the infiltration where afghan afghans were sent to carry out these attack the second was co-option where serving military police were recruited by the taliban for whatever motivation sometimes because their family were living under taliban area or they were provided some and incentives the se

we of yemeni forces that indeed violate. laws. jews dad doesn't practice as.e should all every body accountable to start with the government of yemen and the us well to stop. treatments just stop course all the. spirit people started really the daily total detainees and to release any one of the drug again for dormant political activities at my french embassy from human rights watch thank you very much indeed for your thoughts escaping thank you. to. our french president a man you might call says he doesn't want to see a repeat in syria of the mistakes made in libya the intervention there which france was part of is why they regarded as having field global terrorism r.t. shallot do bensky reports from paris he almost gave a suggestion that there could be uncomfortable times ahead for the two countries the u.s. and france are chaffed been historically very strong allies the historical conflicts that the u.s. and france have been involved in together particularly in libya where he actually said that the intervention of nato allies france and the u.s. alongside o

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the external forces anthe internal forces both collided to make china nearly impossible to put back together. this is on the other side for china. i do not in new -- i do not know anybody like chiang kai shek who did the most to keep it together. he lost it but i don't think there was anyone could have ever won it. ve day in europe, the united states was involved in refugee resettlement. did we have any similar programs in china? effort, is relief official relief effort and the truman library has archives on that. they were not part of my study theme were try to help rebuild their industry. >> we have to stop fighting each other, that is called the second united front. the first united front is there. the second united front is in 1936 and marshall is trying to build the third united front. in some ways it is reasonable to believe that if the economy is, nationalists -- if the communists and nationalists who work together, they could again. --er the massacre in 1942, the nationalists thought the communists. chiang kai shek has 500 are a lot ofthere not very good ones that are all over the pl

forces in south korea and okinawa and plans to position forces in australia, singapore and elsewhere. i'm interested in hearing how the navy is implemented these strategic decisions. the administration is asking for an increase of roughly $54 billion for fiscal year 2018 prescribed in the budget control act. othat total would constitute abincrease of roughly $12 billion. however i must point out that unless congress can achieve a wrod and bipartisan agreement, any approval of the $12 billion increase for the department of the navy will create a sequestration of a similar amount they feel president's budget addresses the issue by making cuts of roughly $54 billion nondefense discretionary as a way to balance the increase, which is an untenable position and won't accomplish unless the b.c.a. is modified because you'll forfeit what you're given in a confusing and disorienting way. i thank the witnesses and look forward to their testimony. senator mccain: thank you, welcome to the witnesses. secretary stackley, we'll start with you. secretary stackley: thank you for the opportunity to app

side says it was the kurdish forces that what it is really designed to do is to block the syrian forces move east to relieve the town of bear as the war which is really the key to eastern syria which way this war is going to go and jim what about the military action taken by the iranians for the first time in three decades say they've fired missiles they take military action was this just retaliation or is this a new engagement by iran i think was part of partly retaliation for the terrorist attack we saw in tehran for which isis claimed responsibility and tehran accused the saudis of being behind but i think it also means that they understand that everybody understands that we are nearing some kind of a crucial battle for eastern syria those strikes hit dying targets around the town of the arizona or that's where everything is converging it seems to me. and your thoughts on the cutter response to the embargo and the position of the surrounding countries well of course the turkish troops have begun to arrive there they're holding joint exercises with the qataris that are not directed ag

as college and forces advance on rucka islamic states defacto capital the u.n. secretary general has expressed concern over the plight of civilians trapped in the say when setting in sas they think is threats from every direction the secretary general is particularly concerned about the perilous situation for civilians in iraq who are trapped and face threats from every direction the secretary general made an urgent appeal to all those conducting military operations in syria to do everything in their power to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure. according to u.n. estimates. alone at least three hundred civilians have lost their lives as a result of u.s. led coalition airstrikes but the coalition itself admits fewer than five hundred deaths or for it three years of its military campaign as also reported it employs just seven full time investigators to monitor or civilian casualties however a little progress has so far been made that i knew little about i knew the fish for what they are judgment of my family and i know much about the model. of the ration

the coalition sees it was in retaliation for the jets opposition forces. in syria has launched missile strikes against. terrorist positions and. with the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the moment developments as well your welcome to the week the n.r.t. international my names you know your company we begin with breaking news from syria where one of the country's fighter chance has been shot down by u.s. led forces the syrian government says the plane was conducting counterterrorist raids when it was brought down. the mosque a space journalist told us more near. so if one of the u.s. refers to the democratic forces which is the militia group operating along with the u.s. led coalition trying to take the city off. from the control of eisel but we can also confirm according to suffer through sources from the syrian military operating in that area that the popular jet was actually carrying strike against a convoy from ice and that the fighter jet in no way you posed any direct or in direct threat to any militia group from those militia gro

leadership of the secretary of the air force. we have also established a u.s. space command with a new subunit command within u.s. strategic command. we prohibited the secretary of defense from entering into contract for satellite services that propose a cyber security risk or where they have been provided by satellites launched by certain four countries. on launch, let me be clear what the mark does. and insurers continued focus on the development of an american-made rocket engine to replace the are 180. it does not specify which engine anyone needs to use. it ensures that we do not lose existing highly capable launch vehicles like the delta for heavy. it prioritizes national securities requirement over launch vehicles to protect space and and reliance on russian-made engines. we simply don't have enough money in the defense budget to build new launch vehicles for three commercial companies. we have a provision crating strong oversight processes to ensure the nations command control and communication systems remain robust and se

air forces and also the russian air force and hitting each other and this of course came after sunday when the u.s. shot down a syrian fighter jet and that has prompted russia to announce that any coalition airplane flying on the west of the euphrates river or potentially targets that could be tracked down here's exactly what the ministry of defense said any aircraft belonging to the u.s. led coalition detected in the skies west of the euphrates river with the russian air forces operating will be tracked as targets by russian air defense systems well that statement certainly sounds threatening but bear in mind the russia also made it very clear that no coalition play will be shot down automatically that everything will be decided on a case by case basis and action we only be taken if a coalition airplane poses a threat to russian aircrafts another thing to bear in mind is that on sunday's incident is barely the first time that the u.s. has attacked syrian government forces in fact there been four attacks in the past three months and the u.s. actions in syria certainly raise concerns w

force. that was furnished to him by the soviet union on may 12, 1967, when the soviets reported egyptians, falsely, that they had learned of a secret plan from israel to invade syria and conquer the capital. they quickly ascertained the report was false, but they saw it as an opportunity. gamal abdul nasser used it as an opportunity to get rid of the u.s. forces in the area. he closed the streets of toronto -- tehran. he made defensive packs -- pacts with georgia and syria. 1967, it wasin only a matter of time, and they acted preemptively. ie entire sequence of events just outlined for you can be traced back to the event of november 11, 1966, when the three soldiers stepped on the mine. except we now know from the declassified documents that that raid, the event of the raid, should never have taken place. it was in fact easily preventable. the back to november 11, the death of the three soldiers. the word of the event reaches king hussein. in his rhetoric, he was anti-israel, as any current

led forces in iraq the u.s. says it carried out the attack after the syrian jet bombed opposition forces also in syria tonight iran says it has launched missile strikes against what it describes as terrorist positions in the country. and at least fifty eight people dead the west london tower block fire has grown for the prime minister to reason to resign. hello there is just a midnight here in moscow you're watching r.t. international start with breaking news today from syria because one of the country's fighter jets has been shot down by u.s. led forces damascus says the plane was conducting a counter-terrorist raid when it was brought down to the south of iraq a damascus but him joins us live now good evening. as we're hearing there the pentagon has confirmed the incident saying it was a retaliatory strike their words after the syrian plane bombed opposition forces what forces exactly do you think the u.s. is referring to there. the u.s. refers to the syrian democratic forces which is the militia group operati

forces leaving in the short term they have been deploying more pentagon troops in syria president. ordered hundreds more over the last several months he did indicate that he wanted to lessen tensions with the russian federation that he wanted to focus our u.s. military policy towards the elimination of the islamic state. what we've seen however over the last five months since he was inaugurated is just the opposite so it seems in this effort to defeat the u.s. could in fact be fanning new hotbed of tension if you like washington has a case of tunnel vision trying to solve only one problem without seeing the bigger picture sound familiar and should iraq anyone but history teaches us nothing clearly not even past tweets such as this one from donald trump to then president obama in two thousand and thirteen he warned that nothing good would come to the us from attacking syria apparently hindsight isn't twenty twenty one to get to the white house. r.t. washington d.c. we heard from several experts and got their take on the latest developments. the united states and the coalition are th

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claims survivors of the ground felt tower fire being forced to sleep rough as a day of rage in london plans to bring down the government. hello this is r.t. international coming to you live from the russian capital i'm kate thank you for joining us. russia's foreign minister says moscow is waiting for washington's explanations after the u.s. led coalition shot down a syrian army plane near the city of raka saturday lover also stressed the pentagon is still treating various terrorist groups differently for. the franks we have sure that the u.s. is really targeting arsenal but we don't recall america bombing so actively. so whatever it's called now it's constantly changing its name but it doesn't change its nature. and russia's now holtz's some cooperation with the u.s. over syria has pulled out of the agreement it signed with washington to prevent collisions in syrian airspace or meanwhile australia is announced it is temporarily suspending its air operations in syria. well the u.s. led coalition says the downing of the syrian fighter jet came in self-defense however in the last months

we'll only empower it by empowering the air force, funding the air force. we're doing this coming off sequestration, what a great message we have, these are our new priorities, we're going to create a new service branch. and obviously, the just the minimum out sha that will be required for establishing this is burdensome and something we need to consider that should be undertaken in a study. emblems, uniforms, how people report to each other. all of this is are issues that i think bear more than a meeting and they bear more than just discussions in a subcommittee of the armed services. we've not had secretary mat toys te mattis here to tell us what this means. if you read the bill it requires that the person who become the space corps join the joint chiefs of staff. we're expanding the president's joint chiefs of staff. we should hear from the secretary of defense as to whether or not the joint chiefs of staff need to be expanded. to establish a service branch. now, i can tell you as you all probably know that the secretary wilson, secretary of the air forc