And ceo of the association of american railroads. Jim cb, commissioner of the southwest chief and Front Range Passenger Rail commission, and jennifer homendy, Member National Transportation Safety board. I continue to be a strong supporter of our real industry both freight and passenger. Rail service is safe and efficient. It also reduces congestion on our highways and spurs economic growth. In mississippi, for example, we have 26 Freight Railroads, 2,400 miles of track, five of the seven class ones, two longdistance amtrak routes, 10 stations, and more than 100,000 annual riders. Rail is vital to mississippi. I have been a tireless advocate for the restoration of the gulf coast Passenger Service, which was suspended in 2005 after hurricane katrina. With funding support from dot, amtrak, and the states, i am pleased to report that mississippi, louisiana, and alabama are likely once again to have this amtrak route and that will give mississippi a third amtrak route. Restoration of this
To amend an article of the Civil Service management law that deals with changing the days of the week and reducing the working hours of related departments were included in the agenda of the meeting, which was postponed to the next Public Session of the parliament. Beginning of vaccination of children against pneumococcal disease and rotavirus in 7 provinces. The implementation of this vaccination prevents the death of 1500 children per year. These two vaccines cause immunity against respiratory and digestive Tract Infections in children, the most common of which is sinus disease. The plan of the country is that in seven provinces this vaccine will be used by injection in children aged two months, four months and 12 months. And in relation to rota vaccine it is oral, like the polio vaccine, which is given orally to children at two, four, and six months of age. We are fortunate that by completing this chain of vaccinations in the country, we will be able to prevent many childrens diseas
Aus north korea as a brutal regime after a us student that was imprisoned there guys. Stay hydrated, as the uk heatwave continues. Imprisoned there guys. Imprisoned there has died. Good morning. Its tuesday 20th june. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The Serious Fraud office has charged barclays and four former executives including former chief Executivejohn Varley with fraud over the banks dealings with qatar at the height of the financial crisis. Barclays raised Emergency Funding from qatar in 2008 to avoid a government bail out. Now barclays has become the first bank to Face Criminal Charges for actions during the financial crisis. With me is ben thompson. The first Senior Executives to face charges over alleged activities in that period of the financial crisis. Tell us more period of the financial crisis. Tell us more about what the charges are. You have two turn the clock back to 2008, the height of the crisis. Three of the biggest banks said they we re three of th
Our new soccer team. Good morning thank you for joining us. It is 7 am, i hope you are having a great start to your day. In case you didnt know, if youre heading out to get a snack, grab a bag of pistachios. It is National Pistachio day. [laughter] what a great day. There is National Route your day, National Root beer day, and National Pistachio day. Today shouldve been nacho cheese day. Go to a couple different weather will be great. We had some warm temperatures on the way, once again later today. Yesterday we saw the upper 60s. You are going for the upper 60s once again today. And by tomorrow, we could see the lower 70s. But the breeze will be picking up. Today, not so much on the wind. 6 to 7 southlake, and 54 in alcoa, mostly sunny to partly cloudy. Otherwise, its mainly quiet. For your friday, you will see the breezes pick up a little bit. 20s and 30s for our temperatures across the area going from 50s and 60s as we head into those afternoon hours. And again, i mentioned, we coul
Aver arrests in connection. Police begin to identify the suicide attackers. Talks overshadowed by the isil attacks. The u. S. And russia agree a timetable for new elections in syria. Mass graves of men and women killed by isil. In doha, we will have all of the sport including football pays tribute to those who died in the paris attack with a minute silence at all of saturdays games. A full roundup coming up. Hello. A warm welcome to this how of news. Police in france say they have identified two of the 7men involved in fridays gun and bomb attacks in paris. At least. 129 people were killed and 352 were injured this those attacks. Police in belgium have arrested several men linked to two cars that were thought to have been used in the attacks. The Islamic State in iraq. Saying it was revenge for fighters in syria and iraq. Lets take you through what happened. The paris prosecutor said three teams appeared to have carried out the attacks in six key locations. The night of violence began