And that triggers the defense like the state defense, iad and others, but the resources they have, it would be is it necessary, in your view, that these agencies be robustly funded in addition, because without them you could have a military victory and, essentially, just wait around because theyll come back because you havent put the politics and capacity. It is necessary. I had the defense ministers of the Key Coalition contributors here to handle a sort of while ago. We went through as we always do the campaign, their role, including the moves to envelope, which weve now taken. Their biggest concern with campaign, at this point, in iraq is exactly the one you knew, namely, is the political and the economic lagging so far behind the military that theres going to be an issue once moezle once isil is ejected from muzzle. If i may take a Political Part in the stabilization reconstruction part. On the Political Part, this is a question that recurs actually everywhere we go. Everywhere we
I want to thank you gentlemen for being here and your service to our country, and the meeting is called to order. I apologize for bag few minutes late. Forget we changed the time until 9 45 until 10 00 so ben could go to a meeting at 10 30. Can you for accommodating both meetings. Obviously afghanistan continues to be something that is important to our u. S. National interests. We brokered a government, if you will, the United States did in 2014, that create both a president and ceo office that has not been confirmed, if you will, through and continued on. We had concerns about that process taking place, and you wonder about the support that government has realtive to not being confirmed in the way that it normally would. I have a tremendous respect for president began ghann and a warm relationship with abdullah. Theyre have muddled through it together as one might expect with the type of arrangements that have been, quote, create from the outside. I was glad to see president obama com
Had their first president ial eselection the institutions being build in afghanistan are institutions even now nice santa institutions now. I talk about the state of play in the United States when our nation was 14 years old. We had not dreamed of giving women the right to vote and we have Serious Problems with collecting revenue and dealing with debt. Im very close if the work of the mec. Five ministries signed up in an agreement with Evaluation Committee they will examine their own ministries and publicly air what is found in in those examinations examinations publicly address what anied to do. The when we are were working with the hope to help them provide resources to develop the electric grids we identified 56 very specific victories to corruption in utills structure. Now, again, each utility was created in 2009 basically from scratch. The first 0 years required significant federal subsidies from the government of afghan. Its now in the black. They defense all 56 or whatever the s
Africa for his first visit to the continent. Were live in nairobi. Hello, we begin this news hour with the ongoing developments on the downed russian jet by the Turkish Military. Russia says it looks like a planned provocation. The turkish government maintains that the plane violated its air space despite repeated warnings, insisting it has are right to protect its own security. We have heard from the russian pilot who survived the crash, and he said the turkish jets did not issue any warnings. Meanwhile there have been protests at the Turkish Embassy in moscow. Several dozen demonstrators gathered and shouted murders, and threw eggs and tomatoes at the embassys wall. Lets cross over to Rory Challands joining us from moscow and there is some comments, rory that have been made by the surviving pilot according to Russian Media reports. What has he been saying . Yes, you are right, this was the pilot whos fate was unknown for so many hours, but the same pilot who Vladimir Putin put on tv
Logan airport in fact one of the locations making changes. New security measures will focus on flights from foreign countries. Anchor 7 news now turning to that beautiful warm weather. Its been a very mild month so far in the city of boston. We tied a record today and pete, how long are these warm temperatures going to be sticking around . It looks like they will fade as we go through the weekend stepping down a little bit tomorrow, liz, then more so on sunday. Waltham made it to 74. Natick 74. 75 nashua. Boston at 73 degrees. It was almost sun dependent today where we did see more sun. We got right into those mid 70s 70s. We tied the record of 73 and in worcester we tied as well setback in 1978. Now falling back into the 60s and some of the suburbs worcester about five degrees cooler than the high. Boston about three. Very balmy night ahead. At least for the first half. The second half well see front cross and our temperatures will dip. Were talking about this front as it comes throug