hardline approach to issues like migration and they change the language so we can tell that this is definitely one of the big motivations to not give too much ground to the f.t. in the regional elections all right you know hostile reporting thank you so very much and staying with the migration crisis austria has held i catch in military exercises on his border with slovenia police soldiers an assault helicopters practiced a response to a mass arrival of migrants under the watchful gaze of the country s far right interior minister the maneuvers have drawn criticism as they re taking place at what should be an open border between two members of the shin area. this is the scenario refugees pushing through the slovenian allstream border as in the fall of two thousand and fifteen when tens of thousands crossed the border a nightmare for all seen interior minister how about kicking off the right being
element in assault helicopters. shown here in blackhawks. some povment and probably the follow up and security element in ospreys, vertical take off and landing go fast carry a lot of stuff. like any military on oh radiation you start at the end and work backwards. here s the objective. and here is where you start. how are you going to get there? make sure you do a vertical envelopment. land on the objective. a vertical envelopment? land right on top. so you don t lose the element of surprise. and go at night. we have the benefit of having night vision scopes and so forth. so we have the advantage over the enemy especially in the middle of the night. you are not going to fly from here to there easily. if something happens you re in a pickle. so you have effectively a forward operating base. you stage the troops there probably using ospreys.
should be punished? a lot of you weighed in. here the scoreboard where it happened 76% said no, he should not be punished. 24% said yes. that s pretty much stayed the same in the past hour or so. and let s look at age breakdown. voters between the age of 35 and 54 they ve strongly believed the pilot should not be punished. our oldest voters over 55 tend to fluctuate in their opinion. and if you just cast your vote around this time here as it moves down you can see a lot of you saying no he should not be punished for that. thomas? frances, thank you very much. i was just logging on to cast my own vote because i think you know how i feel about this. i do. whether or not he should be punished or not. michael kaye spent 20 years flying assault helicopters in the royal air force. let s get down into this. first, before you give us the background about gyrocopters and they re cool machines. but the white house press secretary, josh earnest, got on the record moments ago talking abo
panetta says the u.s. will not send ground troops to the western african nation of mali but it will provide intelligence and logistical support as france reports they are battling islamists who have seized part of the country. al qaeda doesn t pose a immediate threat to the u.s. but add that is their ultimate objective. to give you an idea what we re talking about, al qaeda militant groups control an area in mali, larger than the state of texas. reporter: greg palkot following the developments from london. greg. reporter: secretary panetta is in europe, portugal and spain. he is he will ising out more what the u.s. role will be with france dealing with islamists in africa. on the ground in mali here are the latest figures. 800 french ground troops going up to 2500 we re told today. they re running regular airstrikes with fighter jets and assault helicopters. the u.s. transport planes could be iced to get french troops down from france to africa. u.s. tanker planes could be
there are terrifying moments for a politician and his family. leonard boswell is a decorated vietnam veteran. he attempted to disarm the man himself. his grandson eventually scaring the attacker away by grabbing a nearby shotgun. reporter: congressman boswell has known as a tough guy. he was a decorated war hero and he flew assault helicopters during street a number. he was at his farm in ramona, iowa, he was with his wife, his daughter cindy as well as grandson mitchell. at 10:45 at night he was in a different parts of the house. the intruder stormed in the front door. he heard his daughter screaming. he ran to the fronts room and the intruder assaulted his daughter cindy holding her at gun points looking for money. congressman boswell went over and tried to disarm the