America. Yesterday, a panel of activeduty and retired u. S. Air force officials discussed the importance of maintaining air superiority on the global stage. Posted by the Mitchell Institute for aerospace studies, this is about an hour. Our fellow on panel, which we are fortunate to have with us. Deputy chief of staff for the airports for operations nolan and his partner, lieutenant mison. L dash ja a cat bit of introduction for you all. I think most of the people in this room understand that air superiority is a tenet of National Security operation. We cant succeed unless we have it. However, in terms of quantity of aircraft, the United States air force has been on a down slide for over 25 years now. The air force has 59 fewer fighter squadrons than it had during Operation Desert Storm in 1991, but we had 130 four squadrons at the time. Got 33 fewer people and fewer total aircraft. At the same time, the air force is operating a geriatric force that is becoming more so every day. Bomber
Who would strive to hurt them. May nothing blind them to your truth as you lead them through the night of mortality to the light that never fades. Lord, keep them calm in the quiet center of their lives so that they may find certainty in lifes swirling stresses. And, lord, fill us all with your peace as we strive to understand others as we would wish to be understood. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , january 10, 2018. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i here by appoint the honorable rand paul, a senator from the commonwealth of kent
But i think they can do much better that the truthy. Should not have a green light to invade kurdish area that will undermine what the us have done in syria in terms of fighting isis all because the kurds would be forced to evacuate evacuate other areas and send christmas troops from easter and the stone of syria to the western kurdistan of syria thus creating vacuum that hash the shabby and a lot of shia militia led by iran to come and take that area or isis to come back and take that area so for a united state is an interest in International Community interest so to send a strong message to ankara to stop terrorizing credit people in kurdistan of syria many thanks for your time and your views and i guess that the shared a past president of the Kurdistan National assembly of syria. Ok lets switch over to breaking news coming out of afghanistan where a group of armed men have reportedly attacked a hotel in the Afghan Capital of kabul according to local media there citing the countrys i
Be most closely watched. What will the figure mean for the fed . Index move because it was pentup stability for 18 months . Good morning, everyone and welcome to bloomberg surveillance. That. Im Francine Lacqua in zurich. The this the we will have plenty more. First, lets get straight to anna edwards. Good morning, anna. Oskipping back in the equity you have markets for us. Francine. Morning, Market Reaction 2016 after the first rate hike in december Italian Economic growth, that we 2015 and the fed skipped in need to get to because we have march and they also took a rate the Italian Economy growing at 0. 3 in the fourth quarter, which is below the estimate of move out of the forecast as 0. 4 . Well, so really, they signaled year on year we get a growth they were reacting strongly to rate of 1. 6 . The markets. Again, a little bit shy of the estimate. So, the Italian Economic growth story is slowing ahead of the election, which could be an to assimilate good news slowly and interesting
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