And its expected. Hell serve quite some time in the role as chief of staff, something that will be a real contrast to the trump white house, where weve had 4 in the last 4 years. Be wrong claim that will be organizing calls with world leaders. Those calls that weve seen joe biden make just in the last few hours. Hes spoken to the leaders in japan, in south korea, and are still, you know, so those 3 leaders have acknowledged that joe biden is the president elect in the united states. 15 of hong kongs prodemocracy politicians are expected to formally resign after chinas highest Decision Making body disqualified 4 of their colleagues. The government accuses them of being a threat to National Security. The u. S. Has warned china of further sanctions after the move. The current a virus continues to mount in europe. The u. K. Has reported 595 deaths in 24 hours, while 623 new fatalities were recorded in italy. Restrictions are being reimposed in several states across the u. S. Army as parlia
Chancery, including town of our groom to shoot out of and also claimed a day or 2 earlier that they have taken control of the airport. Its quite difficult to confirm how much truth there is in these claims because of tort Reform Network on the internet network. Then down into kerry the World Health Organization is warning europe not to lift covert 19 restrictions too quickly. It comes as governments across europe is struggling to contain a rapidly spreading. 2nd wave ukraines president has been hospitalized after becoming the latest lead it to contract the virus. The u. S. Has threatened more sanctions against chinese and hong kong officials over a new law that disqualified for prodemocracy politicians. The group was dismissed from hong kong, such as a legislative council. After china gave new powers to local authorities, libyas rival factions have agreed to hold elections within the next 18 months. During talks in tunisia, both sides also agreed on a plan to unite libyan institutions.
Thats after another 595 fatalities were confirmed over the past 24 hours. Thats the countrys highest daily death toll. Since may, were very much hoping that 2 things will start to come to our aid. Number one, the mass testing the kind i just described, the rapid turnaround testing. Then the other thing is now the prospect, the realistic prospect of a vaccine say you have a kind of, as it were to boxing gloves, to the disease in that, in the weeks and months that followed. But ive got to stress that were not out of the woods yet. Well, corona virus restrictions are being reimposed in several states across the u. S. As infections that shatter more records there. According to the covert tracking project, more than 130000, new cases were confirmed on tuesday, and texas has become the 1st state to record more than a 1000000 cases. More people are hospitalized with the virus than ever before. At least 85 people are now confirmed to have died in the violence surrounding ivory coasts disputed
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Providing transportation in rural areas and Railroad Safety. Well also learn about the department of transportations priorities for the coming year. Live coverage on cspan3. We have some wonderful, luxurious, very nice seatingrow. Id like to encourage everybody tole to closer. Were going to have a very nice discussion. Id like to encourage everybody closer. Make the setting a little bit more cozy and familial. We very much enjoy that. We like having a nice conversation about one of our favorite Public Policy issues. Yeah. Right along there. Thanks so much. Well, great. I want to welcome everyone to this panel. Again, thank you, all, very much for joining. My name is lawrence smith. Deputy assistant secretary for policy at the u. S. Department of transportation. It will be three years this month that ive been at the department. Incredibly honored to be part of a great team. Doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts