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Being on. Lets reset at the top of the hour now. Im anderson cooper. Thank you for joining us. Were following two major breaking stories that the hour. The downing of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 that killed 298 people in ukraine. And im wolf blitzer reporting from jerusalem. The other major story, the breaking story we were following, the crisis in gaza, where israel launched a major ground offensive and it continues. A lot to get you up to date on in this hour. President obama today laying out the priorities and the aftermath of the Airline Crash in the ukraine. The priorities, learning the truth first, he say then acting. There has to be a credible International Investigation into what happened. The u. N. Security council has endorsed this investigation and we will hold all its members, including russi ....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Finnish President Alexander Stubb have signed a security agreement between the two countries. Ukrinform. ....
defenceWeb Written by Guy Martin - 2617 The South African defence budget for 2021/22 is just .86% of GDP, down from .97%, causing experts to caution that the reduction will have far-reaching implications for the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). The 2020/21 defence budget is R54.2 billion, but for 2021/22 it falls to R46.2 billion, representing a 14% decrease. Much of this decrease comes from the shrinkage of the Special Defence Account, which goes from R5.2 billion in 2020/21 to R1.005 billion in 2021/22. Dr Wilhelm Janse van Rensburg, researcher for the Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD), gave a presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) on the analysis of the defence budget on 4 May. He said it was concerning that there is a significant curtailing of ‘sharp-end’ expenditure, with major reductions in the allocation to Infantry, Air Defence Artillery, Air Combat, Maritime combat and Special Operati ....
North korean threat in any satisfactory way. because the military option which we are always told remains on the table would involve perhaps escalatory action by north korea involving its ballistic missile capability, also its conventional artillery capability that would be leveled at the residence of seoul, south korea, and likely cause tens of thousands of casualties. as for right now what the trump administration appears to be doing is focusing, in addition to the military maneuvers, some diplomatic maneuvers. they have requested an emergency open meeting of the u.n. security council that will likely take place in new york tomorrow afternoon and a statement from secretary of state rex tillerson has been released, sang global threats require a global response. in particular, our attention is drawn to the sentence. any country that hosts north korean guestworkers, provides any economic or military benefits, or fails to ....
Escalating tension. it s difficult to know what the intent is. it s a question you should ask the russian ministry of defense. but they are there. they are growing in size week by week and they continue to do nothing more than escalate the tension. the forces providing the weapons and support that you described a minute ago to the separatists sore that process separate from i haven t seen any indication they are actively involved in the provision of support to the separatists. i haven t seen that. but they are continuing to mass along that southern part of the border. two questions. that amassing of forces, does that include air defense artillery systems like the sa-11 that was used in the malaysian? have you seen air defense equipment on the russian side of the border in that build-up? i don t have an inventory of what they ve got with them, but as i said, we assess that these are combined arms units. it s not just infantry troops but they have artillery ....