This hearing will come to order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network including over 500 stations. Todays first panel of witnesses will feature mr. William flynn ceo of amtrak and the executive director of the Development Corporation in Montana Development association who will testify remotely. Todays second panel will include mr. Frank Vice President Global Supply chain on behalf of of the council testifying remotely, mr. Randy, the president and ceo of the association, the chairman and National Council testifying remotely in the association of American Railroad and mr. Dennis pierce, president teamsters real conference testify
Joined victims families at the 911 memorial in new york city. In shanksville pennsylvania where one of the hijacked planes crashed. Hundreds of refugees on the greek island of lesbos have staged a protest demanding to leave this follows a massive fire and choose day that destroyed the morea migrant camp leaving more than 12000 people homeless the greek government has been scrambling to build new accommodation. This is from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram. Or visit our website. Thousands of people being held in greece is squalid morea migrant camp and now find that desperate situation is even worse after fires destroyed the camp this week those fires have also rig night at the debate that has plagued a you for 5 years what to do about them and the thousands of migrants being held elsewhere and the others who are still risking their lives to come to europe im phil gale in berlin and this is the day. To call the shots on how you look at me without immigration was. Done conquered
Drilling ship returns to port and after its Research Mission into speech and waters but tension over territory still lingers with its greek neighbor. A shroud of smoke and ash fills the sky complicating efforts to find wildfires across the u. S. West coast. We begin in belarus where more than 400 people have been arrested in the capital following an escalation in violence against protesters hundreds of thousands flooded the center of minsk making their way to one of the president ial compounds activists have been demanding the resignation of the president Alexander Lukashenko following the disputed election result last month. Has the very latest. This. Just how look at shank a strategy to stop the protests plays out on the streets of minsk people heading to a peaceful rally are randomly snatched by moscow policeman driving around at high speed those daken are aggressively thrown into a van or aljazeera cameraman was also grabbed by police shortly after filming an interview luckily they
Cases south africa imposes a curfew add bans all call sales again we look at why the government is returning to such drastic measures. And the Washington Redskins are to change their name on a fresh protests over its racist connotations. Hello im christine want to welcome to the program Germanys Health minister has warned it could be a renewed outbreak of coronavirus if tourists drop their guard while on holiday abroad on told a News Conference in berlin that he was along to buy images of germans flouting social distancing guidelines while partying on the beaches of my old sponsor the danger off a 2nd wave israel and urged tourists to follow the rolls. On my your coast beaches holiday makers enjoy the sun and the fresh breeze but at night all the coronavirus related rules seem forgotten on the partys trip the socalled tourists drinking and dancing with few face masks and little social distancing to be seen. German Health Minister young spawn has expressed concern. Reasons of course in
Been following the protests in hong kong. It does appear that most of the protesters have dispersed across a huge area around where we are which is where the march was meant to go ahead of course why buy into central france between one try a time square and caused by by also Victoria Park now we still have a Huge Police Presence on the streets and much as you can see behind me theyve pretty much cordoned off this whole area almost penina some of these protesters and and doing identification checks and arrests you can also confirm that 7 people have now been arrested under these new National Security laws clearly the police found that they were violating this legislation i want to example was a one man who was arrested he had half a 90 or certainly an item suggesting hong kong independence another person had a flag in a bag so when these people were arrested they were checked and they found these items that those particular people that will incur a large fine as a result of potentially