president biden has for a long time been reluctant to send those fighter jets. yesterday the administration announced he will support american allies in their treatment ukrainian pilots on the advanced aircraft. that could eventually lead to other nations sending f-16s to ukraine. jon kirby on the president s decision when he was asked by the president doing this now who resisted clues from ukraine for more than one year. nothing change what we have been evolving our support for ukraine as the war has evolved. we are talking about fighter aircraft group that is not designed to help us in the immediate future with the counteroffensive. peter doocy s trouble with the presence joining us live. so peter, do you tell what is happening there? you have all the details give it to us a problem with questions after you start. press arthel the plan here is not to just give the ukrainian fighters fighter jets. instead is to train ukrainian pilot summer in europe once they re up to spee
Lose their bid to trademark the fourfinger bar. And Coming Up In Sportsday later in the hour, on bbc news. England cricket could be back on free to air television, as the ecb offer up a new rights package to broadacsters. Good evening, and welcome to the bbc news at six. The liberal democrat Election Manifesto is out today, and at the heart of it is a pledge to offer another referendum on any brexit deal. According to party leader tim farron, it would give voters a chance to say they want to remain in the eu. The lib dems are also offering several new policies aimed at young people, including dropping the voting age to 16 and a rent to own housing scheme. More on that in a moment, but first, heres our Political Correspondent viki young. He says his policies offer young people a brighter future. And tim farron has put brexit at the heart of his campaign. Sun, sun, sun, here it comes. The lib dems hope the promise of a referendum on any brexit deal the government negotiates will persuade
advance and perhaps it won t get to this point were we are in a life and death shortage. another thing is supply chain but we rely on countries like india, china, for a lot of our pharmaceuticals. quite frankly it s cheaper in many cases to get the drugs from them. but we cut the supply chains like just recently we cut a supply of three chemotherapy meds from india due to protocol issues. but we are in secure shortage in patients with cancer suffering. arthel: you mentioned how the u.s. as a farming income importing these drugs from elsewhere they are too expensive here. so in about 40 seconds if you can tell me maybe this is not your lane, the drug companies are saying we have a shortage we cannot produce it. but aren t there prices too high to begin with? well, yes that is true that s why the generic drugs are cheaper it s great for us to purchase the drugs but not great for the companies.
well. have you gotten any relief there? when you start talking trade, there is a trade issues that we are facing. i want to recognize that the administration is a took it upon itself and took the tough road to try to deal some issues that agriculture is facing in relation to trade deals. the first thing that happens is it jumps into a tariff sort of battle. we know farming income across the country is at a low point. we are less than 50% of the end, where we were in 2013. bankruptcy rates are higher than they have been in the last decade. from a specific tart cherry standpoint, in the last fiscal year we lost over 10% of our growers and processors. leland: when you say lost 10%, that means the guys who drive the trucks and low forklifts, the people who work on the refrigeration machine, all out of a job now? that s correct.