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So good afternoon and welcome to the fourth public hearing on Selective Service by the National Commission on military national and Public Service. The purpose of this hearing is to address an important question. Should Selective Service registration be expanded to include all americans. In 2016 the commission was created amid a debate over whether the requirement for Selective Service registration should be extended to women after military combat roles were open to women in 2015. Congress charged us to answer two very important questions. First, does our country have a continuing need for a military service Selective Service system and if so, whether the Current System requires modifications. Second, how can we as a nation create an ethos of service and increase participation in military national and Public Service. The first question is the reason that we are here this afternoon. The four hearings that we are holding two yesterday and two today, provide an opportunity to discuss the
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Thousands of hospital workers in hong kong plan to begin five days of strikes from monday, demanding the authorities do more to stop the spread of the new coronavirus. They want the border with Mainland China to be closed. Russia is the latest country to announce entry restrictions on chinese citizens. It has halted their visa free travel and also stopped issuing them work visas. James ra nsley reports. Wuhan and its surrounding cities remain on lockdown. Some are let through if they meet certain criteria, and others have to beg to be let out. Translation im very upset because they are treating patients with coronavirus, but my daughter has leukaemia and she also needs to be treated by a doctor. They are eventually let through, but many residents have been denied passage. And now the United States, where there are confirmed cases of the virus, has stepped up its own efforts to contain the outbreak. The president has signed a president ial proclamation tem
With the coronavirus in china has risen steeply, with nearly 2,000 new cases and 45 more people confirmed to have died. Russia is the latest country to announce entry restrictions on chinese citizens. It has halted their visa free travel and also stopped issuing them work visas. James ra nsley reports. Wuhan and its surrounding cities remain on lockdown. Some are let through if they meet certain criteria, and others have to beg to be let out. Translation im very upset because they are treating patients with coronavirus, but my daughter has leukaemia and she also needs to be treated by a doctor. They are eventually let through, but many residents have been denied passage. And now the United States, where there are confirmed cases of the virus, has stepped up its own efforts to contain the outbreak. The president has signed a president ial proclamation temporarily suspending the entry into the us of foreign nationals who pose a risk of transmitting the 2019 novel coronavirus. China has c
The latest on that. Defiance in parisment the new edition of Charlie Hebdo is on the way. We know whats on the cover. Hacked the u. S. Central command finds its twitter page taken over by jihadist sympathizers at the same time the u. S. Is talking cybersecurity. Okay, well begin now with the latest on the airasia crash. Search Officials Say the fuselage this is very significant the fuselage from the jet that crashed last month has been found. That information just in to cnn in this past hour. Combine it with the fact that searchers have also recovered the cockpit voice recorder and you see there are reasons to be optimistic. Divers pulled the first black box, the flight data recorder from the underwater wreckage monday. We have more from jakarta now. David, if this is indeed the fuselage do official believe that most of the bodies from that flight are indeed in this fuselage . Reporter zain that is certainly the hope. The pieces of the puzzle continuing to come together. We saw the fli