Open more details at half past. Alina has all the weather. Is that the last of the snow . Maybe the last day for a while that i talk about snow, things turning milder but also wetter and windier. All the details later. Thank you very much. Also coming up. What could be better than one Royal Wedding in one year, well, two, of course. Buckingham palace announces prince andrews daughter Princess Eugenie is getting married. Hello everyone, this is afternoon live. Pressure is continuing to mount on the ukip leader henry bolton after a string of resignations of senior members this morning. The partys assistant deputy leader, and its immigration, trade, education, and local government spokesmen have all quit, joining the deputy leader margot parker, who resigned last night. Theyve all stood down in protest at henry boltons refusal to quit as leader following a string of revelations about his private life even though the Party Executive backed a vote of no confidence in him. Our Political Corr
Year 2018 budget requests. We welcome secretary mattis for the first time before our committee. We welcome chairman dunford ba back. The question today, as it is each year for this hearing is, how well the administrations proposal meets the security needs of the nation. Factoring both the external threats on the current state of our military. This committee has repeatedly heard testimony over the last two years that our country faces more serious complex pretty challenges now than we have ever faced before. The hearings and briefings we held on the current state of our military have been disturbing. The ministration budget request of 306 billion for base requirements a 6 above the 17 an active level and 3 above the last obama proposal. Its also 37 billion below what this committee assess last fall was needed and about 58 million below the fy 12 gates budget which was independently validated by the bipartisan National Defense panel. The issue is not about numbers. Its about what those n
And tell shirley after world war ii when the Commission Consolidated graves of the Pacific Theater to hawaii and in manila. There were 1600 american troops period. We except the awful truth some americans would have to lay down their lives to beat fashions a better reasonable one is why guadalcanal . This was an island nobody had heard of. , committed and die in places like course a cup. Corsica. The United States had 14 million men and women in uniform but they were sent to some places and not others the way they transformed American Society that is wrapped up to the personalities of half a dozen people to make Big Decisions. So tonight story is militarybacked words isolation country became the of local superpower within five years in a handful of men engineered that transformation. But to go back before pearl harbor and let back to the third days in the 40s to see the glove as roosevelt sought it. Remember fdr was elected 1932 with a mandate to put americans back to work to stabilize
War veterans in the United States of america and find out way they are getting extra attention at the oscars this sunday. Thanks for being with us greece asked european creditors to extend the bail out loan for six months while it negotiates a new deal but germany rejected it and negotiations will resume on friday morning and john reports from athens. On the eve of a crucial meeting of an euro finance ministers greek Prime Minister sounded as defiant as effort and addressing the chinese he effectively told the European Partners what stance greece would take in fridays talks. China fought for independence greece is fighting for the national sovereignty. Reporter greece was in a war of words with headline on germany worried about the left wing Government Spending promises. Translator the greek proposal is the first step but we have to say this offer is not sufficient because its lacking concrete measures that need to be taken in greece and one thing is not acceptable, we cant ease things
It to the victims of fighting last week between Security Forces and opposition protesters. The list of worst violence since the offences hit the streets in november frankly the yeti convinced turned his back on a trade agreement with the European Union in favor of closer ties with russia. Annika of the champion on saturday in the city of contrasts his support base in eastern ukraine. He told local television station that he has no intention of resigning or leaving the country russian president invited to attend and german chancellor Angela Merkel discuss the situation over the phone they agreed that ukraine must remain intact. Getting info and boss the chief Catherine Ashton will visit tn. Later on monday. Shes scheduled to meet with officials that to discuss support for a lasting solution to the crisis and measures to stabilize the economy. Protesters in bangkok are refusing to leave the streets even after another speaker of the violence. A grenade went off on sunday near where they w