the remainder of the budget or air force blue budget is the focus for today's brief. in the bracketed area you'll see air force blue budget for fy 2016 is $122.2 billion or roughly 20% of dod's 2016 budget. of the $2.2 billion air force blue budge $77 billion or 63% represent day-to-day operations. military and civilian pay, which make up approximately 52% of day to day operating costs. flying hours weapons system sustainment, approximately 40%. facility requirements and installation support represent remaining 8% of the total operating cost. the gray boxes at the bottom highlight our top procurement and largest rte programs. these programs total approximate 6% of our investment accounts. so hopefully you can see the largest portions of our budget are in people, readiness and future capability. when forced to take large and sharp budget reductions, we simply can't avoid impacts in these areas. now we'll look at each appropriation starting with military personnel. next slide. the military personnel budget is 24% of our request and supports a total end strength of 492 ai

i major general jim martin air force director of budget and is my pleasure to brief you on the air force 2016 presidents budget budget. over the next 25 minutes this is what we will cover today. we will start with the air force strategic framework in the guiding principles we use to build our budget. we will recap the impacts of sequestration and operate at reduced budget level since 2012. we will look at the details of the fy2016 budget to include our request for oh funding. simply put our fy16 budget was built to support the defense strategy in the most urgent combatant commander requirements. it's a request based on necessity what we need for today's readiness and a long-term strategic framework. the capabilities we will need in the future. it allows us to begin recovery from three years of operating a reduced funding levels. the strategic framework is contained in the three documents you see on the slide. these documents define who we are as airman, what we do and where we intend to go on the next 30 years. the strategic framework along with the secretary's top three priorities offer

the air force is loyal to tobruk one of libya's two rival governments. forces also attacked i.s.i.l. linked groups in several towns after the group released a video showing the killing of 21 egyptian coptic christians. >>> the u.n. security council reached a resolution calling houthi rebels to give up immediately. the resolution does not authorise the use of force. anti-coup leaders say they are disappointed. >>> a new video emerged of the first shooting in denmark's capital. they shot and killed the 20-year-old suspect. links to the two attacks in copenhagen occurred on the weekend. the gunman had an extensive criminal record. >> to ukraine, where four ukranian soldiers have been killed. european leaders say the truce a holding up. monitors say that they have been denied access to areas. the flashpoint town has seen sporadic shelling. separatist fighters guard their positions close to the line. the fighting has been intense here in recent weeks. the situation may be calmer in other areas of the region, since the ceasefire was called but the shelling cont

the 2015 list. to begin norwegian air force colonel john olson ignores the -- tell the lives of 12 men who shaped the history of their contract in air commanders. next on the list is no place to hide, the story of retired air force neurosurgeon w. lee warren this the 120 days working in a tent hospital in iraq. insiderssecurity and cyberwar p.w. singer and alan friedman trace the development and future implications of cyberwar verbage the executive director of the institute for the analysis of global security examines how culture can impact relations between western military sand non-western allies in the year bacon and bullets. in the 2015 air force reading list is team of rivals by doris kerns goodwin which explores president lincoln's relationships with members of his cabinet. in the boys in the boat, daniel brown tells the story of the university of washington rowing crew that won a gold medal in the 1936 berlin olympics. wrapping up the list is a collection of books on the importance of professionalism, the need for focus and workplace leadership strategies. that is a look at the air force chief

earlier this week the air force announced it's carried out 56 air strikes in iraq and syria, targettingraining camps and weapons houses. >> in three days the air force killed around 7,000 fighters. u.s. central command says 24 targets hit were in syria, and a large number were in i.s.i.l.'s assumed headquarters. raqqa. it comes after some of jordan's top military men called for an earth-shattering response to moaz al-kasasbeh's execution by i.s.i.l. in september moaz al-kasasbeh's plane suffered a mechanical failure and he was captured. jordan was involved in negotiation for the pilot's release for months. king abdullah was angered by the gruesome killing of moaz al-kasasbeh: jordan's military is part of a larger coalition. according to the military its fighter jets participated in under a fifth of the coalition's bombing runs and make up 17% of air power. u.s. central command has been intelligence gathering. >> a week after the news of the pilot's execution. the coalition faced a setback. 26-year-old kayla mueller is dead. she was an aide worker from arizona, held hostage since the sum

the air force is fully engaged. all the excess capability is gone and now more than ever we need a capable fully ready air force. we system reply don't have a bench to go to and cannot continue to cut structure to pay the cost of readiness and modern zation or we will risk being too small to succeed. the real impact of these choices on current u.s. military operations would be significant. in the i.s.r. mission area alone, 50% of the high altitude missions being flown today would no longer be available. commanders would lose 30% of their ability to collect intelligence and targeting data against moving vehicles on the battlefield, and we would lose i.s.r. force, the size of the one doing such great work in iraq and syria todays. the air force will be smaller and less able to do the things we are routinely expected to do. i would like to say that smaller air force would be more ready than its ever been, but that's not the case. 24 years of combat operations have taken its toll. we used the short-term funding relief fr

the air. progressively, they get lower and lower and it becomes more clear they are not going to make it to the air force base. this is the emergency equipment inside the aircraft on the starboard and port side. when they go to abandon the air craft, the kids, and they are kids, the oldest of them is jerry grigsby at 34. the officers are in their 20's. several are on their first fleet tour. reenlisted -- the enlisted crew in the back of the airplane are in their teens, some of them. when they congregate, on the port side their responsibility is to take out the life raft. they will not succeed in detaching the liferaft. from the storage straps. they will not succeed in launching it over the side. on the starboard side, both the seven and 12-man rafts will be successfully launched out the hatch. nothing else. not the water bottles, not the communication equipment not the first-aid kits, nothing. so when the aircraft settles and they start to evacuate, they will take with them a seven-man raft and a 12-man raft out the starboard side of the aircraft. courts -- >> elmendorf, this is alfa foxtrot. our positio

we are now the smallest air force -- >> we are now the most air force we've ever been chairman. hen we deployed the operation desert storm in 1990 the air force at 188 fighter squadrons. today we have 54 and we're headed to 49 at the next couple of years. in 1990 there were 511,000 active duty airmen alone. today we have 200,000 fewer than that. as those numbers came down to the operational tempo went up. your air force is fully engaged. all the excess capacity is gone and now more than ever we need a capable, fully ready force. we simply don't have a bench to go to the we can't continue to cut force structure as we've been doing the last two years to pay the cost of readiness and modernization. we will risk being too small to succeed in the task we've already been given. b.c. a little funny will force us to do exactly that. we will have to consider divestiture of things like the kc conflict them the kc conflict, the u2 fleet, the global hawk 40 fleet and portions of her airborne command-and-control fleet. we would also to consider reducing our into nine fleet by up to 10 orbits.

the at menstruation neededs mo money to mernize the force and to counter chinese and russianan advances. y programs include a new fighter for the air force and navy a new air force bomber, anand better missile defenses. the dod has asked congress to p military pay raises at 1.3% and reduce basic housing for military members. joining us to discuss the budget and the chance that congress will pass it is mike mccord, the pentagon's comptroller. why does the department need more money and what is different about this budget? >> this budget is consistent with the past we have laid out, the path we have told congress and the public we would be pursuing for this year. it is certainly more than we have for the past three years. our leadership is united in saying that was not enough, that we have been taking risk in underfunding modernization that can't continue. this increase gets us back to the levels we were at during the first couple of years of this ration before we got run over by the budget control act and sequester train. >> lawmakers are skeptical and a lot of the republican leadership has not made national security or leadership d

check it out. >> reporter: in the shadow of the super bowl stands luke air force base, home of the 56thwing the largest fighter wing in the world. when the air force needs fighter pilots, they come here. >> what is it specifically that makes an f-16 so well suited to do a flyover? >> i personally think, and i'm a little biased. i think the f-16 is the sexiest airplane we have in the air force. >> a orientation was needed before i could satisfy my need for speed. >> those are cute. >> very fashionable. >> reporter: over a dozen men and women helped me prepare mentally. >> i have questions like why am i doing this, but those aren't questions you can answer. >> reporter: and physically. >> this is what's going to hold you in the harness if you were to be eject friday the aircraft. >> you're happy and excited. it should be fun. >> reporter: all right. let's do it.Ñc7-ñ oh, baby. this is not training. we are actually doing this. >> don't let him get too crazy. >> we're going to do what we call an unrestricted climb to about 18,000 feet. we're going to go and do a low level down around 500 fe

. >>> now to the fight against isis and the air assault targeting the group in recent days. the jordanian air force claims it has inflicted heavy casualties on isis basis. tonight, it warns there's more to come. we have more tonight from jordan. >> reporter: jordan's air force says the bombing campaign is inflicting heavy losses on isis. in a military video released today, showing an area was hit. in another raid, the pilot saw smoke as high as the aircraft. isis fighters have been destroyed. the air force commander told me -- >> we exceeded damage of overall objectives of the war. >> reporter: they are flying 20 missions a day, he says. he rejects isis claims that a bomb from jordanian planes killed an american hostage, kayla mueller. >> we did not actually target any target within the vicinity where they claim kayla was held hostage. we are miles away from where kayla is. >> reporter: u.s. forces including these two american f-22 fighters are providing support. and in beirut, $25 million of american equipment, including artillery and humvees, were delivered today for the lebanese army. >> it's wh

so then to the airport he actually came by using the air force officials at the air force government air force, he's claimed he was met in the air force by the president, was given rank of the region and from all seven years he spent in prison, he was named hero and now he is -- let's kill every single armenian. this is from speeches i give you here and speeches from official statements on the ministry, ministry of foreign affairs and government, and the psychological mood in society. and represented by the country, experienced the society. and as a nation. so the release was the projection and insult and connected to that. his release was connected to the symbol of the victory over armenia. armenian reaction was in egypt, and created one more identity so thinking about this release and turnaround by the entire society. armenian representative of armenia in different countries even the united states some armenians in the hungarian embassy. the president of armenia, please don't do it. nobody did anything at the other embassy. everyone is the same so nothing new. nothing new by the gro

war room part political icon the new air force one will fill many roles. >> air force one cleared forr: on the surface, the requirements are simple must be a wide body four engine commercial aircraft but then things get complicated. >> the biggest misconception about air force one is the idea that it is some sort of a plush comfortable luxury jet, that only is used for executive travel. when in fact it has a military mission. it is a flying headquarters for the commander in chief. >> reporter: will it have an escape pod like in the movie air force one? no that's fiction. but it does have defensive capabilities shields against electromagnetic pulse of a nuclear attack and anti-missile systems too. the plane must be able to travel anywhere in the world, landing at big and small airports and, of course there are many secrets. at the reagan library, an earlier model, modified boeing 707, is a major draw. >> we all want to know what is on this plane. there is such a mystique. it is america. it is our presidency. and i remember the first time i walked through it you get chills. >> reporter:

the veteran of the air force needing a new home. it is all "happening now". breaking news in the war begans isis. egypt retailiates for another a strosity shocking the civilized world. i am jon scott. >> and i am jenna lee. evipt pounding isis targets. hours after the terrorist released the video showing the beheading of 21 egyptian coptic christians. one intelligence official saying it is propaganda. and the battlefield may be growing as egypt calls on the u.s. led operation to expand in to libya. catherine, has the latest. >> reporter: this morning egyptian officials confirming a second wave of a strikes on a grouch onshar- sharia. that is the same group that killed four americans including an american embassy. a week before the execution video was released a counter terrorism contact tells fox news that isis declared libya a safe haven for operations as the group followed through on the execution of 21 eastern christians. the it is a challenge to western way of life and values. fox news are told that they are targeting the lone wolf assaults and military po

some of the approved air show maneuvers we had, it was just an amazing thing to see. >> since its debut in the 1950s, boeing's b-52 airplane has been the powerhouse of the united states air force. >> it's the most versatile weapons delivery system the air force has. high altitude, low altitude. it can deliver missiles. short range, long range. >> the pilots' friends and family members are also watching. >> what the animals look like. yeah. we've got the gang up here. >> among them is teenager pat mcgeehan. his father, lieutenant colonel mark mcgeehan is in the pilot's seat. >> my mother and i, along with my younger brother, brendan, were watching from our front yard. i was waving at the plane thinking maybe my father might be able to see us down there. >> lieutenant colonel arthur "bud" holland is the lead pilot. holland is skilled and experienced with thousands of hours in the b-52. but he's known to take risks in violation of air force safety regulations. >> bud having a reputation of knowing the aircraft very well. i think that that's kind of how he saw the boundaries was if he could, you know, make it do something, it had a new boundary. >> the air show flight plan calls f

her brother joined the air force , and he became very important to the air force and had top securityarance. he was eventually able to get all of his family back. joanna, his mother became a citizen. must be a student -- >> the father. >> he died of a heart attack. eventually, these people made it back, which says something about america and the town of freedom -- tug of freedom. no matter how betrayed they were by their government by holding those kids, they still were somehow able to put that behind them and build and transform themselves from child internees in an internment camp for loyal american citizens who raise their family and have lived exemplary lives. >> here is some video from 2013. it was done by the texas country reporter. it's about a reunion in crystal city texas. one gentleman is working hard to bring up the memories of all this. >> more than six decades after the war ended, former detainees and families gather at a camp for the dedication of this historic site. >> here is where you are moved first. then he were moved up to hear. all through the years, everything wa

i attended fayetteville college teachers college in north carolina and that i wanted to the air force but i want to say i think you are doing a wonderful job and i respect you and i would like to ask you -- you could like to ask a question about the college please feel free to do so and god bless you. >> guest: thank you. >> host: gladys is up next and oxen hill maryland. gladys go ahead. >> caller: good morning good morning dr. blanchard i believe. i am so proud of your school that i attended. >> guest: thank you. >> caller: i have always heard of it as a child. i'm 79 years old now but i think i missed hampton university. my grandfather was a -- for general armstrong and he went to that school at the age of 11. at that time it was a high school and you should see the letters that my grandfather wrote or at one letter at least when he was 11 years old and how proud he was of hampton. i will never ever be able to repay general armstrong. my mother attended a school and one of my sisters. i just wanted to say that but it's really about xavier university today. >> host: thank you caller

comparing the two planes, air force un with the air force one. force one is 231 feet this isd+l#ktñomvoóçwfmç a soviet plane, we have a boeing 747 -- 200. their plane can reach top speeds of 561, we are 63 miles-per-hour, and it actually would -- 631 miles-per-hour. the price tag is 100,000 and air force one the price is classified but a new passenger jet would cost $300 million. >> hughhugh how do you get that for $100,000? >> the air force one will be upgraded to the boeing 747. >> it's nice our plane can 0 go faster thans >> always a plus. >> drones are coming now. the feds releasing new rules for how businesses can use remote controlled unmanned flying machines. this is going to be awesome. the drones cannot weigh more than 55-pounds. they cannot fly faster than 100 miles-per-hour. they cannot fly higher than 500 feet. right now the feds banned most businesses from using drones. so who gets too use drones now? i talked repeatedly about how our executive producer kim who is on vacation not related to kim jong-un. >> good. >> kim wants us to ha

1953 this aircraft and eastern airlines flight 8610 ended up in the same air path in new york city. >> the plane ended up at the air forcee where history was lost and sold at auction to a man named mel chrysler who needed planes for crop dusting. 10 years later in 1980 the smithsonian called him to tell him the plane's history. >> he decided to restore it p and worked with another gentlemen for 10 years they flew it around in the early 90's. the men tried to sell it iteneded up here where coon hopes to store it if money is ef found to fund it. >> i hope some day someone goes you know what let's go get that thing. that would be a plus. >> that was alicia akun yo reporting. >>> the staff says the dwight d. eisenhower presidential library and museum say they are actively per pursueing that plane. >>> the time now 25 after the top of the hour. balance the budget or don't get paid. good idea? why congress could soon see a pay cut if they don't compromise. >> pack your bags and head to key west. the american city that is giving up on winter's wrath. >> it is wednesday february 18th. a fox news alert. in the immigration show do

it was supposed to shake faith particularly in the air force and jshedian armed forces. that didn't happen. jordanians reacted in a sense normally. asked, demanded revenge. the king ordered the execution of two prisoners who were already on death row, al qaeda prisoners, and then carried out a series of air strikes. gwen: ok michael, let's go to ukraine where there were also efforts under way to change u.s. policy, in this case get the u.s. more directly involved in providing lethal aid to prop up the ukrainian government as the incursions in the eastern part of the country continue and actually build. >> yes, in fact things are worse. so we're about a year into this conflict. first you athe annexation of crimea which was bloodless and basically peaceful. some low-level violence. now what we have is a low intensity conflict, some would call it an outright war n. eastern europe, in eastern ukraine. 5,000 dead now. hundreds of thousands of people ds placed and there is a debate in the obama administration to the effect of we have applieded all of these sanctions, u.s. sanct

private owners are hoping that the public comes to appreciate the first plane to be called air force plane from the eisenhower era through at least one crisis. >> reporter: it was an incident on this aircraft that prompted all- american presidents to fly under the call sign "air force one." the plane now sits in a field at the airport outside of tucson. >> that is say very significant number right, there 8610, that changed the whole course of presidential air transport history. >> it carried president dwight eisenhower for a year and in 1953 the aircraft was involved in a frightening incident with the president on board. >> for air-traffic control purposes flight 8610, in 1953, this aircraft and eastern airlines flight 8610 ended up in the same airspace ovnew york city and the call sign air force one was born. the plane was eventually replaced and ended up at this air force base where its history was lost and sold at auction to a man named mel chrysler who needed planes for crop-dusting, ten years later in 1980 the smithsonian called him to tell him the history. >> he decided to resto

goldwater rose to become a major general in the air force reserve. wait before dawn and fail over arizona. the land of -- and sail over arizona. perhaps it was the splendid of being in the air or the perspective from looking down on every part of the world. that says a lot about this man of the west. born in the arizona territory, barry was the son of pioneers. a woman who it come to arizona with tuberculosis with three weeks to leave -- to live and the power to endure many decades further. the other, son of a jewish immigrant. barry was raised with freedom stretching in every direction. he thrived on the discipline of the military. barry came of age in an era of new deal dominance. he ran for office as a republican. in many ways, this thinker and tinkerer, the guy who would dissect platonic to see what made them take was both straightforward and complex. as dick durbin said, running for president was like trying to stand up and hammock. but he did it anyway. he joined the senate a few years later. by the time he retired, barry's idea of the free mar

air force one? >> in this video, a couple of guys essentially, climb a fence, elude the secret service, run up to air force one and put a gra fee team tag on air force one while this is all being videotaped. >> you're like, wait a minute. are they doing something to air force one? what is going on here? this is crazy. >> did someone really break into andrews air force base and spray paint or tag the president's plane? >> i think people really want to believe it's true. >> the video hit the internet in 2006. and quickly became a sensation. >> the first reaction is, always, is this real? and if this is real, how can this be real and what does this mean for the security of our country, maybe, if this video is real? >> so did it really happen? was the video real or fake? >> it just doesn't pass the sniper test. is what it would be. if i went to run up to the air force one in all black with a backpack, i don't think the i would survive that run. if i went and did that i would be either arrested or shot or shot and then arrested. >> i think what we were trying to accomplish was a pop culture moment. >> mar

you talk about the air force being relatively small although capable. >> that's right. i think what everyone understands in the next few days you will see additional air strikes. you'll see them taking on larger role in the coalition. jordan putting on the table to the other arab partners step up. this is not about islam. this is about terrorists. jordanian officials very much making the point from washington today that there needed to be islamic participation from the arab world from the region in this campaign. just to be clear, the u.s. flew along the jordanians today. there were u.s. aircraft in the air. this is how the coalition works now. no matter what country is flying everybody flies together. everyone takes on a piece of the pie. today it was jordan's turn. >> thank you very much. anger building in jordan tonight. it's coming from everywhere including the king himself who also has a very specific military background. >> reporter: just the beginning. that's what jordan is calling these images. the aftermath of air strikes inside syria. jordan's king abdullah mak

we're going to be followed today i believe by the army, navy, air force. the missile defense agency. just to take an example of something that is not on the slide, there is probably a story on some of the vehicle modernizations. something that doesn't get as much attention. some of these programs have a pretty healthy increase over last year's level. many more things that you can delve into as we go through all of the parts of the department's rollout today. in addition, i think the deputy alluded to the fact that we had a good back and forth inside the administration over the fall of some issues that were important to all of us. many of you are quite familiar with it, which is not necessarily only about money. i would say there are over 100 recommendations of that review and only 20% of them involve money. this is an example. i'll touch on this a little later, things that are priorities of the secretary, priorities of the department are not necessarily the biggest budget things in all cases. space is something that is significant funding as well. there is

the service for the air force pilot took place in his hometown in central jordan. the king met kasasbeh's relatives for the first time since the murder. the monarch expressed his condolences and said the pilot's name will be proudly inscribed to the hearts of all jordanians. >>> officials with the u.s. defense department are trying to improve their ability to rescue pilots shot down during air strikes. they've redeployed search and rescue units to northern iraq. u.s. media report that such units were previously deployed in situate. the move is seen in part as an effort to build confidence among countries participating in the u.s.-led strikes. officials in the united arab emirates reportedly suspended their involvement out of concerns for the safety of their pilots. they reportedly wanted u.s. forces to improve their search and rescue capabilities in iraq before resuming air strikes. >>> two key european leaders are pushing a new peace plan for ukraine. german chancellor angela merkel and french president francois hollande are taking their proposal to moscow for a me

, the syrian air force is in the air. there haven't been incidents between the two. no shot seems to have been traded. no planes shot down. that suggests to me surely -- >> that's correct. again, there's no direct cooperation. >> direct. is it by iraq? that's what some said? >> third party. more than one party. sometimes they contain a message. nothing tactical. >> you can see the full interview with president assad here on bbc at 16:30. i'll talk to a member of the syrian opposition in ten minutes as well. stay with us for that. >>> the former head of the international monetary fund started to give evidence at a trial in france. he faces charges of aggravated pimping. he's holding women for sex parties for a prostitution ring. he can't admit he attended the parties, but did know the women were being paid. he's among 13 people accused. we are at the trial. >> reporter: yes, this is a packed room at the courthouse. dominique strauss-khan has taken the stand briefly. he answered a few questions in a low voice, a solemn pres

they know what has been done to the member of the royal jordanian air force. ey are talking about revenge. >> i believe all arab countries had to take a strong stand against the group. it has become an epidemic. >> it is this woman who they say should die first. if failed suicide bomber. jordan offered to release her in exchange for the lieutenant. islamic state had other ideas and offered to release a japanese journalist. they killed him. the pilot may have been dead for weeks. >> whatever ideology they are operating off of is bankrupt. we are talking about how to make people healthier and make their lives better. this organization appears interested in death and destruction. katty: obama in that report. i spoke to the minister of jordan. what do you think the reaction is going to be after the horrific killing? >> the country is in a state of shock and anger and i expect the country to be united, in the same way it was united 10 years ago, if you remember that. it brought all of the jordanians against isis. katty: you expect some kind of revenge-inspired retal

he committed suicide and was in the air force. host: i'm so sorry. caller: i am too. s suicide was directly militarily related. he was stationed on a place called johnson island, where they did all the aboveground nuclear testing in 1959 before the test ban treaty was signed in 1961. he was exposed to radiation and had a goiter in his thyroid. he was there for two years. the point i'm making is, young people listen up. when you sign up for the military, your government property. like a -- my brother was exposed to chemicals that the first bush administration went over and insular -- and incinerated. i think we need to bring it back home. i think we need to implement the marshall plan. we to shore up the americas, north and south and pull out of the middle east, the situation with -- i'm not tried to be a big it but they have been fighting for thousands of years. i call them rag heads and i think it is a shame that we continue to waste our youth fortune and empire on this. host: how many missions did your brother fight in? caller: my brother was in the air force in the

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army captain and graduate fellow at the university of texas, an air force veteran who has written on this topic, and is skeptical about the cause for alarm. and susan's husband is in active military duty in the air force. welcome to all of you. debra is the middle class way of life that people associate the military having provided for decades on its way out? >> i don't know that it is on its way out, but we see a big differential between those who join the military as enlisted service members and those who join as officers. so your base salary for an e-1, for somebody who is just joining is about $20,000, and you see an officer coming in at about $40,000. so there is this big pay differential so you can imagine somebody who is making $20,000 and has 2.5 children, that doesn't go very far. to you can see that -- that there's some struggles there. >> yeah indeed. you know susan, the numbers that we reference getting into the show are incomplete at best because that's all that is available, but they certainly indicate that more military families could be hovering around the poverty line

previous attacks have been blamed on the armed group boko haram. >> meanwhile a task force is set to start a ground and air offensive against boko haram next month. niger, chad and cameroon are joining forces to stop the armed group. initiative has been processed by the french foreign minister. while on a tour of west african countries he said that they have the complete support of france. >>> members of the al qaeda linked group al-shabab called for attacks on shopping mauls in the united states -- shopping malls in the united states canada and europe. the somali based group called on muslims to attack the west including the fifth largest mall the mall of america, minnesota, and the largest in london. in september 2013 members of the group attacked the west gate mall in the kenyan capital of nairobi. more than 60 people were killed. >>> still to come on the programme. the final countdown to the oscars. live in los angeles for hollywood's biggest night. and players run for cover in the greek super league in one of the most dangerous derby matches in europe. details later in sport. >>> welcome back. you're

force is antiquated. they need an upgrade. they bout the f-16s, but they sit on the apron of the andrews air force base. the men's are betting more involved in iraq. they don't want them involved as a ground force. they say give us the equipment you promised us. we are not acting for more but give us the equipment that we bought and paid for. >> i.s.i.s. overran northern iraq in part. you are reporting neglect in the south where the government control has a more solid footing, iraq is right for more erosion and greater inroads. >> the protests we saw was unusual for the south. these were government employees. being a government employee in iraq is a good job, a slave job, you get a pension, a job that everybody would like. however, buns that erodes it's a -- once that erodes it's a problem. when the government employees are out on strike it means the government's writ is under mined. if the protests get bigger it's a problem for iraqis. it wouldn't be a problem if oil prices remained at $170 a barrel. it's now $50 or $60 making a dent in the budget. paying the public sector struggling to pay them you are

the head of the air force said he was determined to destroy the group. jordan stepped up air strikes in syria and iraq since it learned i.s.i.l. burnt a jordanian pilot to death. >>> it's sunday night and time for "the week ahead". it is black history month and al jazeera is marking the occasion with a series on race in america. we look at how the country is divided along racial lines and what it means to be a black american. to help frame the discussion here is jacob ward. . >> we are segregated. we do not live together. the darker the blue - on average, 61 will be distinct ethnic and racial backgrounds, and in cities it's more astounding. let's look at houston, texas, the blue representing diversity. population 2.2 million. suburbs are diverse. let's look at the ethnic identity of the various parts of the city. in houston, african-americans denoted in red. his panics put together by ethnic background. let's look at the southern-most portion of town. we see na median household income in the light colours is below $39,000 a year and below 24,000. let's mo

march i would still stand by. >> you would agree certainly that thea 10 is our best life form. >> the air force does an incredible job. they are not doing that with a 10's today. i appreciate them supplying me with the best they have. the air force picks the platform to do that. >> let me ask you about no contracting with the enemy. that is legislation senator brown and i had pushed before the committee and now it has been expanded to authorities beyond the department of defense , state departments. how has that worked in afghanistan? we had money going to your enemy, going to people who were misusing our funds to work against our interest. how is that on the task force been working? >> probably about 780 plus different contractors since 2010 we have taken a look at, embedded those in 100. and has denied insurgents $9.8 billion. that has been a game tender. we continue to work that -- game changer. we can reach back quickly with that. based on that success, nato has already adopted that methodology. >> thank you. >> senator. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for meeting make -- with me yest

the service for the air force pilot took place in his hometown in central jordan. the king met his relatives for the first time since his murder became apparent. the monarch expressed it's condolences and said the pilot's name will be inscribed in the hearts of all jordanians. he pledged retaliation to protect his country's religion homeland, and people. the u.s. president has called islamic state a brutal vicious death cult. it carries out unspeakable names in the name of religion. >> we have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those that process to stand up for faith. their faith. profess to stand up for islam but, in fact are portraying it. >> obama was speaking at a meeting of leaders in washington. they're terrorizing religion my noir tirs and raping women and claims it has religious authority for such actions. >> lawmakers in japan are taking action after the militants said they killed two japanese hostages. members unanimously adopted an antiterror resolution condemning the killings. they condemned the killings by apparent islamic state militants. they de

>>> jordan's king abdullah promises to step up the fight against isil after the brutal killing of an air force pilot. ♪ ♪ >>> you are watching al jazerra live from dough doha: also on the program, rescuers are still searching for the missing after a plane crashed in to a river in taiwan their one people are dead. >>> under siege a report from the frontline in eastern ukraine as the battle for a key town intensifies. and back home al jazerra journalist peter greste thanks his supporters and appeals for the lease of his colleagues still in jail in egypt. ♪ ♪ >>> jordan's king has vowed to step up the assault against the islamic state of iraq and the levant after isil murdered an air force pilot it was holding hostage, king abdullah has been meeting senior military and security officials in the capital of amman on wednesday jordan executed two iraqi convicts in retaliation for the pilot's murder. here is the latest. >> reporter: king abdullah of jordan vowed a relentless war against the islamic state on their own territory. king who had cut short his visit to the u.s. and returned to jordan met w

march i would still stand by. >> you would agree certainly that thea 10 is our best life form. >> the air forcedoes an incredible job. they are not doing that with a 10's today. i appreciate them supplying me with the best they have. the air force picks the platform to do that. >> let me ask you about no contracting with the enemy. that is legislation senator brown and i had pushed before the committee and now it has been expanded to authorities beyond the department of defense , state departments. how has that worked in afghanistan? we had money going to your enemy, going to people who were misusing our funds to work against our interest. how is that on the task force been working? >> probably about 780 plus different contractors since 2010 we have taken a look at embedded those in 100. and has denied insurgents $9.8 billion. that has been a game changer. we can reach back quickly with that based on that success nato has already adopted that methodology. >> thank you. >> senator. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for meeting with me yesterday, general. i believe there is more flexibility n