they are organized into six plane squadrons. the second division will be the first one in, and the other bomb divisions, again, to take care of the congestion of all of the aircraft in these narrow zones, they will try to spread people out by time. the problem is, the closer you are to the actual landing, the more you have delay dropping your bombs. nobody wants to drop bombs on the invasion fleet. that is the main guidance. i will read you some of the navigation notes in a minute. it is being done by pathfinders looking at radar and trying to pick up land-water contrast through overcast on the beaches. and they add an extra couple of seconds to make sure none of the bombs will fall onto the troops on the beaches or the landing craft. you can see the bomb delays. the closer you get to zero hour, which is 6:30 for omaha and 7:25 at the british and canadian beaches, the more you delay. if you are up to 20 minutes before zero hour, you don't have the bomb delay, but by the time you are to zero hour, you have a 32nd bomb delay. you

for further analysis we now cross live to retired squadron leader and the pakistani air force now from a military point of view what do you make of a civilian airport being so close to a missile launch site. 1st of all i'm extremely grateful for you giving me the opportunity to speak and extreme caution to the people who have lost their relatives very candidly there are a few factors that drive a very important one despairing one accident or the shoot down of this situation or tonight of your many a delete. causal factor which to build causation t.d.'s that come across in this case if it gets closed to a clause vicinity of the vicinity of a military installation and as mention does an abrupt maneuver. didley with all the guns cocked emotions raised high and everybody ready for flight this was bound to happen by dressed to short we really have to understand why leads to this situation in which the gin of command in the military is overrun oil has some misgiving some weird which resulted into a launch of this missile and shooting down of the p.s. $75.00 to it alignment. as you mentioned

the squadron commander put it in his report and it stuck. to the aviators who fought it, the battle of the philippine sea would be known as the great marianas turkey shoot. the one-sided outcome of the air battle, mitscher remained unhappy. chance ton denied a go after the enemy carriers, themselves. though he did not know it, the japanese carrier force had already suffered a heavy blow. two hours before the air battle even began, commander blanchard in the american submarine on aore, lined up brand-new japanese carrier. it fired a spread of torpedoes. carrier, the japanese had invested a lot of their infrastructure into the production of this new carrier, which they hoped would reassert the balance of power. only one of those torpedoes from the albacore struck the ship and the ship, which was well armored, seemed to shrug it off, barely slowing down. what few do with the time was deep inside the ship, gasoline vapors from a ruptured fuel tanks began to seep silently. meanwhile, another american got a pearl harbor veteran in his sights and h

number 501 squadron, paul's squadron, they all insisted they had to have their own table.mmander paul farnes, who'd been awarded the distinguished flying medal in 1940, was the last of the wartime fighter aces. and there are nowjust two surviving battle of britain pilots. never in the field of human conflict was so much owed, by so many, to so few. winston churchill recognised the extraordinary achievement of these pilots, without whom the second world war could have turned out very differently. and paul farnes was one of the elite. paul farnes, who's died at the age of 101. new images of the surface of the sun have been released. they were taken by a telescope based on hawaii — and reveal unprecedented detail. these cell—like structures, roughly the size of the state of texas, are superheated plasma reaching the surface. the darker areas show where it's cooling and sinking back into the body of the star. scientists say they hope it will help them establish how changes in the sun can affect weather conditions here on earth. they are not the only ones looking. nick miller i

ainsley: what do you know about their squadron 388 squadron or fighter jets? these are fully operational now. they're brand new part of our arsenal. the ability to reach further and more stealth capacity and pay load is larger than the past as well. just because they're taking off from utah doesn't mean they don't have global reach. and you are right. you pointed out that this exercise has been planned for months. but, maybe at the last minute they could have refined the exact number to 52. and if you are the iranian regime and you realize the capabilities of the united states of america. your rhetoric has consequences. ainsley: apparently aircraft war fighting capabilities after four years in the works. 388 squadron, already sent one squadron over to the middle east. they have since returned and second squadron from that air force base is now deployed in the middle east. steve: the number certainly not only coincidental but symbolic with 52. ever since the airstrike took out their top general, if you have been watching television, you have been listening to p

and i think the air, the next air squadron destroyed the whole group. i am general anthony mcauliffe, united states army retired. i was at bastogne with the 101st airborne division in 1944. one of the saddest and most dramatic incidents occurred christmas eve night. we had asked for volunteers when we lost our hospital. and a very fine trained nurse, the daughter of the village hardware store keeper, renee le mere, volunteered. she took charge of a group of wounded from the 10th armored division on the streets of bastogne. but on christmas a five hunter pound bomb struck the house, went all the way through and none of the 10th armored division soldiers nor renee le mere survived. not a one survived. >on december 26, element of the fourth murder division crashed into bastogne. the encirclement was broken and for the germans it was the beginning of the end. >> after we had been in there, about 30 days, on the 16th of january we were relieved. we left bastogne in one of the worst blizzards i have ever seen. going up the hill about 40 miles south, a great b

number 501 squadron, paul's squadron, they all insisted they had to have their own table.iving battle of britain pilots. never in the field of human conflict was so much owed, by so many, to so few. winston churchill recognised the extraordinary achievement of these pilots, without whom the second world war could have turned out very differently. and paul farnes was one of the elite. paul farnes, who's died at the age of 101. now it's time for a look at the weather. into period of whether over the coming days, through the weekend as well, we will see areas of low pressure moving through, bringing spells of windy weather as we have seen today, and of course some rain as well. this is today's area of low pressure, this is the cloud are tied in with those weather fronts behind me, the next area of low pressure coming on as well for tomorrow. in between, we get some a brief respite, but we have got some drier weather around today, she was prevalent in higher areas, anti—wind across the north as well. but a lot of grey, low cloud like cloud around. if you're lucky to see some a

they had it to command at my old squadron where they got it right and he was still station. he'd only been and command for 4 days and he made the decision over illegal to stop the case what i saw was was commanders i mean these are field grade officers lieutenant colonels colonels. who have been 2025 years you know they're career officers they sweep cases under the rug the last thing a company commander in the army wants to do is make the phone call to his or her battalion commander to say i have had a allegation of a rape in my unit this is viewed in many cases as a failure to command that will adversely then affect their career sometimes you'd see a guy get for 5 years for selling minor amount of drugs and you'd see a guy get you know 2. weeks duty for the military hides behind this notion that it is really really hard almost impossible to prosecute rape but when you look at prosecution rates in the 2010 department of defense reports you begin with 2410 unrestricted reports and 748. what that means is they've already funneled 748 sexual assault victims into a system that h

and people in my old squadron i've talked to. they say they don't see any effect that it's had on him and that hurts. because it's a struggle every day it's completely changed to i. am really hoping that he falls off the coast guard but they never find him i'm really hoping for that like they fight for so poor mishap got chopped up by the proper. big that would be great there'd be an exciting but i price over and. i hope this reaches them too you know i hope that someone or someone sees my face you know wherever it is and goes. i know them and they're talking about me. because they know what they did you know and then although half the mater is some friend there goes a station with her you know and then they can't be a secret anymore. they have to deal with a to you know some way shape or. most rapists. repetitive criminals that it's a kind of crime that's and has an obsessive quantities to people do it again and again so the tragedy of that is that every one of these guys who gets off free will be doing it to other women again a

but when you have actually a 100 newspapers in a country and i cited example one is free but our squadron with here i think should be fair to us that we have a very robust free press amnesty international says that between january and september last year at least 19 journalists and media practitioners were attacked those attacks and clued verbal and physical assault and indiscriminate arrest and detention by your security forces in the impression ministers therefore that your aims seems to be to stifle freedom of expression especially critical voices you don't like criticism that's the current you see because i think many of these people don't live on that don't know the eco system of the media in injury virtually every major you know print media is owned by individuals and i can tell you that this they had a list of about 12 national newspapers and trust they will trust i don't i don't remember what the story was but you cannot take the example of one newspaper among about 20 to say that the country is stifling the media on the contrary at a point in time i thought that was the governmen

number 501 squadron, paul's squadron, they all insisted they had to have their own table. britain fighter aces. and there are nowjust two surviving pilots from that time. never in the field of human conflict was so much owed, by so many, to so few. winston churchill recognised the extraordinary achievement of these pilots, without whom the second world war could have turned out very differently. and paul farnes was one of the elite. paul farnes, who's died at the age of 101. the british costume designer sandy powell has won awards for her work in some of the biggest films of the past 30 years, including shakespeare in love, gangs of new york and the favourite. she's been nominated for a bafta and an oscar for her creations in martin scorsese's mob movie, the irishman. and this evening, she's being honoured with the top award for excellence in film by uk film critics. our arts editor, will gompertz, has been to meet her. the oscar nominees class photo 2020. packed with famous faces and a few not so familiar, like the acclaimed british costume designer sandy powell. a multip

in the end there were bari of squadron 6 and 9 they were deployed from cyprus to bomb a damascus science research center 2 in the morning on the 14th of april 28th. can you really see how this could have. led to lead to british bombers bombing another country with stakes suppression of truth i think you'd have to go back into statements by the british government over the previous 5 years in terms of how it would react to the continued use of chemical weapons in syria. my stance is that the report has been question very genuinely very accurately. and i'm not interested in why that's done and dusted the important thing to me is that you should look at its internal regulations eccentrics cetera to see how they can prevent such a thing happening again get it its value it is its independence and cannot be influenced by outside actors broadening this out a little. memory has been britain's enemy i says to ash. how do you view what happened what was happening in syria with hindsight now the war the main body of the war appeared to be over. i think you. a civil war that goes on for what 8 gives

the fbi has joined the investigation into a squadron of unidentifying flying drones seen over coloradoka. authorities are searching for a suspicious vehicle that may be directing the drones. janet shamlian is in greeley, colorado with the latest. >> reporter: authorities are calling it a mobile command vehicle with antennas and there is an active search for it here in northern colorado. foreseeing these drones ourselves, it's clear they are not hobbyists flying them. it is a very sophisticated operation. >> that's a drone. >> reporter: michelle has been watching large drones fly over her home for the last week. just after dark, several at a time. the first time you saw one, what did you think? >> it was odd. obviously, it reminded me of "war of the worlds." the sky is lit up with christmas lights. there's lights and things flying all over. >> reporter: hers is among several reports of large, commercial size drones flying at night, often in formation. what are you doing from a law enforcement perspective? >> there's no criminal violation that we can deal with in the law. we're trying to

. >> sometimes it's hard to be the only female in a squadron. >> o'donnell: women weren't allowed to force for decades, until jeannie marie leavitt became the service's first female fighter r lot just 26 years ago. >> those women that have blazed a trail for me, they're just t halar people that were driven yd, you know, stepped outside their comfort zone. >> o'donnell: do you think that's part of what you show, is whase your dream, live outside your comfort zone?" >> absolutely. living outside your comfort zone is something that can be scary, but that's what i've found is the most rewarding. at's'donnell: well, flying in an f-16 is living outside my comfort zone. co you'll be fine. ( laughter ) >> what i'm looking forward to showing you is what the torformance of the airplane is like. lieu'donnell: lieutenant colonel eric gorney, call sign "miami," is in charge of flying civilians. >> all right, there's the afterburner, 100 miles an hour. >> o'donnell: oh, my gosh! wow! amazing! he showed me a series of maneuvers the team performs during shows. wooo! i like that one. ri nice job. tha

should have done and indeed which the opposition took to the last election was in preparation a squadronconverged to firebomb roles. that would have made a difference, i don't think there is any doubt about that. charles, we are going to have to interrupt that, thanks so much for coming on. there is so much to discuss and such an important story, to stay safe and thanks again for giving us that a date as to where you are and what you have seen. the united states has announced a nationwide ban on some e—cigarette flavours, amid concerns about vaping among teenagers. the ban applies to mint and fruit flavours that are offered in ca rtridge—based e—cigarettes. menthol and tobacco flavours will still be allowed, as well as fruit flavours delivered in other ways. laura trevelayan reports. let's cross live to the us and speak to professor ilona jaspers, from the university of north carolina, who's spoken to school children, teachers, and parents across the state about the risks of vaping. thanks forjoining us. donald trump's original plan was to ban all flavours including menthol from all e—ci

. >> a score for a squadron. >> twenty-one - 13. >> and then printed. >> i will be serving anything. i will be somebody's guess this year. i will go to kids' city. i think her my fiancÉ said that he think they will win. brady, something is lost for me. >> only thing i will be missing arm and wings. i will go with middle of america, kids' city, and it's also time for andy reid to actually minute. and i be watching it on fox. david: adam. >> the older i get the better i eat a super bowl parties. no bean dip for me. i'm a chicago bears fan, so i can not support the 49ers. i like the golden retriever in the weatherhead. a big golden retriever lover. so that is my prediction. >> you have any horse in this race in this one. >> i can't root for synthesis company can't do it. another disappointing printed. david: my wife makes the best walk molly. she has big chunks of guacamole. it is just spectacular. she also makes wings john. some of you could come over printed and i am for kids' city. i think they will when it. but i think it will be very close. i've got a score for you 20 - 17. kids' c

commander eugene was the commanding officer of the navy fighter squadron when he was shot down and captured. he listened to world news and knew all about the moratorium days against the war in vietnam. he was referring to both october and november 15. even the professor appy referred to the moratorium's. so it was a common expression. just as the two events were called moratorium days, so worthy activities of sane, which called for the abolition of nukes, and the freeze, which is just that, freeze but not abolishing nuclear weapons, a freeze. is david here? you can tell david had referred to him. david was the executive director of sane. so the huge disagreements, the fighting, the arguing among some of the adherence to either group meant nothing to the majority of the demonstrators. you were in the moratorium whether it was october or november, and you were in the freeze whether you were for abolition or not. who here knows that george washington university will receive $12.5 million over five years for its stewardship of the nation's nuclear stockpiles? part of the 50 universities getting

fighter squadron.rizona center martha mcsally and member of the armed services committee is joining us now. now we see the president intimating there might be some diplomatic openings. do you think this is a win for the organization? >> at this moment in time, we really appreciate the presiden president's resolve and decisiveness to go after this murderer and terrorist leader. because of activities in iraq, they shouldn't confuse restraint with weakness. president trump is willing and able to make it so painful for iran for all elements, economic and military deterrence, ease giving them the opportunity to change their course. the next move is definitely iran. i am so proud of our troops by the way, w they are over there n harm's way, and it's still a volatile time. >> trace: i want to play what chuck schumer said. this by the way was prior to president trump's speaking. listen to senator schumer. >> the american people rightfully have serious concerns about the war with iran and whether we are safer t

her husband was a squadron commander in iraq.ou see somebody like that, that has deep experience that is pumping the brakes, say thing requires more debate than we had leading up to the 2003 invasion of iraq and that we should at least debate what is the proper role for the congress here. >> you know, you mentioned, andrew, that hawkishness. i read a fantastic article today talking about his mixed feelings, his opposition to escalation, but there are a lot of folks that served in iraq during the period of insurgency in 2006, 2007, peak violence when there were these efp devices being sent out and killing american soldiers, people that lost loved ones and friends and people in their unit to those devices that ultimate intelligence suggests traced back to soleimani. i wonder what you think about that from almost a first-person perspective. >> that's absolutely right. not a lot of good has come out of the wars in iraq or afghanistan. but phil clay's things is one of those things. i think you're absolutely right. a lot of veterans wh

the squadrons on these bases.hen there is the american troops that arrived in the cocountry back in 2014 when the prime minister at the time sent a letter to parliament asking and assistance in the fight against isis. president trump himself that he wanted these troops out. it is weird you would sanction a country for doing what he actually wanted to do. but in any case, the awkwardness started when americans brought justs to iraq out of syria to counter the presence of iranian -- that is when iraq found itself in an awkward position pulled between iran and the united states. i can't see a way if iraqi government says these troops that came in 2014 should leave, i don't see how these troops will stay in the country. the bases are different issue. no one is talking about strategic agreement with the united states. amy:y: d.c. a possible isis iraq resurgence and iraq? forces, they were fighting isis. resurgence already in iraq. where i saysangle are active. there are doing their own attacks. yes, these she of forces

navy's north atlantic blockading squadron, he organized one of the largest fleets ever assembled in america -- 56 war ships, including 3400-ton crew of more its four600, 48-gun minnesota, monitor class warships in what theat that time probably navy's most famous vessel, the iron plated, heavily armed, steam frig on the u.s.s. ironsides. porter also provided butler's floating bomb. picked an aging blockading vessel, the u.s.s. of 1812, from the war which was packed with 200 tons of gun powder in bags and barrels. the flotilla of army transports neared the atlantic newport news on the afternoon of december 14, 1864, heading toward the north carolina coast. porter's naval fleet arrived first and admiral porter detonate thelf to powder boat offshore fort fisher without general butler's knowledge. far out to sea, away from the floating bomb, the sailors of admiral porter's fleet lined the ship's railing, peered into the darkness at night and waited for to explode at a safe distance. blast was expected at 1:00 a.m., december 24. nothing happened. soon it was 1:30. 1:35. 1:40, 1:45. the powder boa

they have a squadron of troops, m-tank destroyers and the sherman tanks of the sherman fusiliers. they are supposed to go into action with huge artillery support, and as is the allied way that you go in with plenty of firepower. they are supposed to have naval support as well. the naval forward observation officer can't get through on the radio because the radio has been so scrambled. he just cannot get through, so they do not have that support either. in other words, what you are talking about is a handful of infantry. 800 men, tops. it's not like all 800 are just swarming up in one direction, you know, you go up in companies and you have one company in reserve and two companies up forward, and then you have of those companies, two platoons up there and on reserve. your actual spearhead is comparatively light. they are going up against camp oops. sorry. i'm being too keen. they get up to this hamlet and they push on through there, then they get into bureau on, and by midday, beer on is captured. captured. and and they push on. it is actually quite hot by this type of day. the can

happened on the day that protesters of mainly women also complained that police had gone to the squadron i asked them to leave they are worried that they will be asked to wrap up the protests and all of this is happening at a time when india's home minister has started what's being described as a door to door campaign to convince people that the controversial citizenship law may be a good thing for the country. as state of punjab in india which has the majority community has seen some of the most folk no objections to the government's new citizenship law with many saying it discriminates against muslims so how raman reports from d'anna. hindu sikh christian brothers real one now and. this is a day of peaceful but noisy protest against india's citizenship law in and across the state of punjab. outside the main mosque the minority wisdom community are making their voices heard and the majority see community a joining them. if they target the largest minority after the hindus in this country and who they go for next from all religions it will be the poor that are worst affected. like many i

luckily enough as michael mentioned, i had the privilege to be part of an initial squadron at the the fighter weapons school, the best institution and of his first table instructor there, but i will tell you when you ask somebody about what molds you, that was probably one of the places that really molded me. the place that taught me about being part of the team, because you would brief with the pilots can execute with the pilots, debrief with the pilots, hang around together. but more important, the biggest lesson i learned there, we had a boss, and our boss was awesome to us, you realize you're you are part of something bigger than yourself. and i r r thought, what is he talking about? you know? it was over time i realized that it wasn't about me, that it was about the institution. and so that place, , that time really molded me. just for context say, my husband is sitting up here, he was at dulles air force base at the same time and that's will remit. he flew for the thunderbirds and a very dear friend of mine, retired lieutenant general, my husband is a retired to start, a second

was leaderdor, who of the american squadron that sailed into missouri -- i'm sorry, i am one step ahead of myself -- failed into -- sailed into edo bay. at the time, the flag that flew over his ship was brought by general -- i think it was general nimitz, actually, to the where itp missouri, was put on the masthead looking down on the japanese delegation that came aboard september 2, 1945, to sign the surrender, or the submission, ending the war. i, we interviewed one of the people present for the japanese side, who was a man who had to point out the sign for the japanese delegation on that day. he said one thing that reminded him more than any thing were the glaring american sailors, from the rafters looking down at him. and the flag on the wall. the flag that had flown there 1854 as a53 and reminder of how things had turned out in this venture between america and japan. we are not going to go there now, but let's move a little bit ahead. innk of where japan was 1941. what was the situation for japan? many of us are quite familiar with this, an audience full of people who have looked a

they have a squadron of troops, four tanks of m10 tank destroyers. and the sherman tanks of the sherman fusiliers. that is basically it. they are supposed to go into action with huge artillery support, and as is the allied way of war, you go in with plenty of firepower. they are supposed to have naval gun support as well. but the naval forward observation officer can't get through on the radio because the radio has been so scrambled. he just cannot get through so they do not have that naval support either. so in other words, what you are talking about is a handful of infantry, you know, 800 men, tops. and of course, when you are doing a battalion attack it's them aree all 800 of swarming up in a single direction. you go up in companies and you have one company in reserve and two companies up forward, and then you have, of those companies, two platoons up there and on reserve. one your actual spearhead is comparatively light. they are going up against camp gruber rauck which has to be said, slightly dealing with the and they are also coming up against

number 501 squadron, paul's squadron, they all insisted they had to have their own table.n things could have gone very much the other way. we could have been invaded and what would have been the future of the rest of the world? it was a very important moment in british and world history witnessed from the ground. i suppose the number of dish pilots against german pilots, that was in itself a scale of that, pretty big. if you take the german numbers of fighters, there were considerably more and people like paul on a daily basis were in one of ten or 12 hurricanes or spitfires, perhaps diving into 100 are even 200 german aircraft and you are going for the bombers but you knew that the meshes —— the messerschmitt bf 109 was there, possibly going to be on your tail. what is top cover? top cover, meaning the fighter aircraft flying above the bomb formation to protect them. we were saying in the lead in, those that were pilots of any kind in the battle of britain are very any kind in the battle of britain are very few now. there is only two known survivors of the battle of witto