, as the New York Times writes, britain is withering away and signs of its decline are everywhere inflation. They have grown to double digits, and the recession is the worst among all the g7 countries the National Health service is on its last legs, public transport is stalling, and the postbrexit labor market is desperately short of 14. 5 million workers. Britons live in poverty; the government desperately needs to plug the £50bn hole in the budget ; the only way to do this is by cutting costs and raising taxes is a brilliant plan. The mayor of london came up with a kindergarten idea on how to replenish the treasury. Hana decided that the driver in old cars, and there are about 700,000 of them , it would be nice to pay about 16 dollars a day for driving around the capital is supposedly aimed at reducing emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere, and for this it is necessary to get rid of old cars and buy new ones, from which nature suffers much less. Recently, our states income has
women are among the dead. casualties were rushed to the al aqsa martyrs hospital, in the nearby town of deir al balah, which has been overwhelmed since the israeli military began a new ground operation against hamas in central gaza this week. our middle east correspondent lucy williamson has the latest. ad a warning, some viewers may find images in her report distressing. torchlight barely reveals the bodies. who they were, why they were here, can take even longer to expose. israel says this strike hit a hamas compound inside a un shelter. but an israeli human rights group said if that were true, the harm to civilians could still make it a war crime. a hamas official said women and children were among the dead. in daylight, survivors mined the rubble for scraps of security. the head of the un agency for palestinian refugees said 6,000 people were sheltering here and that there had been no warning of the strike. ibrahim s cousin, mohammed, was killed. translation: i was sitti
to publicly say it expects full transparency. israel s military said it conducted a precise strike on a hamas compound in the school and that it killed many of the 20 to 30 fighters it but gaza s hamas run government accused israel of carrying out a quote horrific massacre . it said 14 children and nine women are among the dead. casualties were rushed to the al aqsa martyrs hospital, in the nearby town of deir al balah, which has been overwhelmed since the israeli military began a new ground operation against hamas in central gaza this week. our middle east correspondent lucy williamson has the latest, and a warning some viewers may find images in her report distressing. torchlight barely reveals the bodies. who they were, why they were here, can take even longer to expose. israel says this strike hit a hamas compound inside a un shelter. but an israeli human rights group said if that were true, the harm to civilians could still make it a war crime. a hamas official sai
Committee examined executive branch nominations. At a senate hearing, witnesses from the trucking and shipping industry talked about the importance of freight to the u. S. Economy and the infrastructure needs of the u. S. Highways, courts and waterways. Senator and half chairs this environment and public works subcommittee. This is one hour 30 minutes. The meeting will come to order. We are honored to have some great Witnesses Today and i will save the introductions. I know there are a couple introductions that would be made from up here. This morning ill go ahead with Opening Statements were honored to have the chairman of the raking member. Then i understand senator cardin you have an instruction to make also. Will do that. Lets recognize first senator carper because he is going to be coming back and doing his a little bit later. Very briefly, welcome to the support hearing and i want to thank our chair and Ranking Member for putting this all together. I have a statement by the act t
Were honored to have both the chairman and the Ranking Member of the committee here. I understand senator cardin you have an introduction to make. Lets recognize first senator carper because he will come back into his little bit later. Junta thank her chair and Ranking Member for putting this together. I like to ask unanimous consent this appears in the record five a chance to give it life i will do that. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. How to thank you for being here today think my friend and his staff for their help in getting this hearing together. I think the last one is retiring this year, that leaves you and me. I hope thats not a message. We did come in and spend a lot of time together working in a bipartisan way. Looking forward to working with my colleagues on the committee to benefit the economy. Since the president has been in office weve added over 2 million jobs in Consumer Confidence has skyrocketed. However the economy willingly grow infrastructure is maintained. In