eight operations were carried out wednesday alone by the italians as well as the german navy and thewedish coast guard and the maldives. it estimates around 150,000 migrants have come to europe by the sea so far this year. doctors treating a comatose french man whose family has been arguing for years over whether to continue to care for him have announced they are unable to make a decision on his care. the case has been so emotional they are asking for a legal representative to be designated and they are seeking protection against threats made against them. he was left comatose after a 2008 motorbike accident. his wife once a doctors to stop life-support, but his parents disagree. the dispute has riveted france. >> a small victory for his parents. the hospital that has been treating the 38-year-old paraplegic has postponed the decision on whether or not to end his life support. they say they fear for the security of the man and his medical team. he has been kept alive by machines since a car accident in 2008. for the last two years, his family has been locked in a legal battle that h

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will be dependent upon a stronger navy and that are weak navy is holding us back, and other societies, particularly the newcomers of the germans and japanese, they are developing a navy and we better have one. mahan makes the argument called -- in a famous set of lectures that are later published, i often assign them to undergrads, the influence of sea power upon history. it is a study of rome, britain and the united states. mahan argues the democracy of the world, the great republics that brought power together with freedom were the naval powers. not the landed army powers. armies for mahan are bad. you talked to anyone in the navy and they will always say that. armies are expensive. armies take lots of people and armies stage coups. when you have lots of people holding guns it is natural they have the ability to take power. this happens time and again in history. army figures use their guns to overthrow civilian leaders they do not like. it happens recurrently to this day. he argues seapower is different. it does not involve occupation of land. it doesn't involve terrorizing people. seapower, sailors don't take over and ruin

navy building in tennessee. german.s are voting on the 85 billion euro greek bailout. ♪ ♪ >>> yemen's government says the southern port city of aden has been liberated from houthi rebels. the leadership in exile says the province is now under the control of fighters loyal to the government. the announcement comes after they took control of aden's seaport and its international airport. senior ministers return to aden on thursday, three months after being forced to flee. president hadi is telling yemenis a victory in aden is just the beginning of retaking control of the nation, but clashes are still going on in the southern city fighters loyal to the government say they are still battling houthis and rebel militias in pockets on the outskirts. let's bring in a political analyst joining me now from the capital sanaa. good to have you with us. got forces saying they have liberated aden. what does that actually mean nothing. >> it means that they pretty much more or less have corolla den right now. there are still pockets o

president truman on his very first occasion to key west he's invited by the navy to go out on a captured germanub, the u-2513. so president truman and 16 of his closest staff go out upon this captured german sub. the captain of the sub is a missouri native. so they felt every bit of confidence that he would look after them. and, of course, as fate would have it they submerged to 254 feet and the sub springs a leak. the staff wrote in the official logs widow happen to be on our website, that they weren't the least bit concerned because we have a missouri captain they knew he would look out for them but on the next breath they weren't denying submariners extra 50 cents or $an hour they earned in pay it was a very hazardous job and so after a time the instruments re-engaged and slowly go the surface and crack the hatches and president truman scrambled up and sat down on the wet deck awaiting the president. he sits there sees them soaking their trousers and says i see you're hiding you're lack of apprehension sitting in the puddles. president truman started coming here in 1946 and the navy had not

equally bombing commissions and one german general said he wanted to turn it into the graveyard of the r a f, he wanted them to shoot him down but what the air force did, the navy gave up after one more attempt. ear for started sending drones after factories, german factories, after cities and never succeeded in doing any damage to anything and in the end you had several injuries most of them fairly minor, but one amputation, mid-air amputation, and four fatalities. it was in vain. >> did they ever determine what caused it to explode? was a short of some kind? >> not with any 70. the cover-up may have originated with joe sr. he wanted his son to be a war hero killed in a desperate secret mission, did not want to associated with the failure. one is the breadboard this plywood circuit board was so poorly constructed that it shorted out and prematurely detonated, another possibility is a straight f am radio signal, very crowded airwaves and this was long before the days of digital tune in and things like that, there was all kinds of overlap, it could have been there was some instability, could have vibrated had not blown up could also have been this is a safety de

which the united states knew about, and the japanese had probably be most powerful navy in the south pacific, and the germanse carrier, two carriers, and they were relegated around the southern part of south america to defend against that the tuition. that was one, so that was a pivotal point, i think, with the united states being -- and one question. it was said that democracy was the best of the least, no system was good. where did that come from? john maurer: yes, churchill said democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others, and, again, what he is trying to highlight is no form of government is going to be perfect, but of all of the forms of government, this is the one that is the best for humans to organize themselves around, and in the history of the two were wars, it shows democracies can be effective in war in that they won both wars and the cold war too, so i think at times people get down on democracy, and they see the fighting that takes place, and sometimes that can be unhealthy. there is no doubt about that but at the same time, people are able to get caught up in debate, an

navy. that won't do anything against the germans.eir area but not going to raqqa and mosul. there's more that needs to happen. >> we have 3,500 men and women there. do you want to see us put more of our folk there is? >> no. like an invasion force like we had before? no. 110,000, i don't think that -- that will exacerbate the problem. we could do more with the integrating into the iraqi forces. it's fragmented along sectarian lines. and that is counter productive to defeating i sy. sunni lands are afraid of doing anything. shia are you sunni, they'll whack them on the head. they're caught. as much as they don't like us as people don't think they like us over there in iraq, they trust us more than the shia of their own nation. >> wow. >> we can leverage that in the army itself. >> coming to isis you have spent so much time studying terrorism and predicted things that have happened what keeps you up at night thinking about isis, about what potentially could happen as it relates to the real threat that we face? >> what keeps me up -- no

navy building in tennessee. >>> yemen's exiled government declares that the southern port city of aden has been liberated. but the fighting goes on. >>> german.s are on vote on the 85 billion euro greek

navy building in tennessee. >>> yemen's exiled government declares that the southern port city of aden has been liberated. but the fighting goes on. >>> german.s are on vote on the 85 billion euro greek bailout. ♪ ♪ >>> growing calls to investigate the downing of mh17. britain has joined the netherlands and australia in pushing for u.n. support. saying justice must be delivered for the victims. you rain vinnie m.ukrainian m.p.s have gathered. 298 people aboard the malaysia airlines plane were killed. 2/3 of them were dutch. early investigations suggest a russian-made missile was used toe take down the plane as it flew over rebel-held territory. emma hayward is in moscow for us. before we get to russian reaction, just talk us through the ceremony and how it's being marked today. >> reporter: well, jane, there has been a small ceremony in the village close to the crash site around 30 pima tending. coming from different local villages. there is another events, though, taking place right now where a cruz fix is being taken to the crash side, a plaque there is also going to be dedicated. i understand this has been arranged by local people. there

german mps to back an 85 million greek bail-out. >> few answers and still no justice for 298 people killed when the jet was brought down. >> a gunman kills .4 marines at a u.s. navylding in tennessee. >> yemen's government says the southern port city of aden has been liberated from houthi rebels. the leadership in exile says the province is under the control of fighters loyal to the government. the announcement comes after they took control of aden's seaport and its international airport. senior officials return after three months after being forced today flee. they are told the victory is still ongoing to the city. they say they are battling houthi and rebel malitias on pockets on the outskirts. a political analyst tells us there are still pockets of houthi fighters wen aden but that they are being cleared out. >> there have been airstrikes in aden small clashes. but they are being cleared out. for everybody concerned, aden has been liberated. >> the president is saying that you know, some sort of celebrations are in order and this is a good sign. do you think this could be leading up to a tipping point? >> i think it is actually a major tipping point but i woul