If you are unemployed or furloughed, 202 7488000. If you visited a food bank, 202 7488001 is the number. If you are behind on a housing payment, 202 7488002. All others this morning, 202 7488003. That is also the number you can send us a text this morning. Send a text, include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media. On facebook, it is facebook. Com cspan. You can start calling in and this first section of the washington journal. In in this first section of the wafted in journal. This week is said to be a crucial one. Now,rn to eric watson congressional reporter for bloomberg. Good morning to you. What is the status of negotiations . Did anything change over the weekend . Guest good morning, john. Yes, over the weekend, this gang of eight senators, for democrats and four republicans four democrats and four republicans, had a series of meetings to develop a text on their bipartisan proposal. A week ago, an at least in outline. At least an outline. T
Relief legislation. Why did try to move quickly because next vote. Or may have to be on the floor. But were waiting for senator duckworth and here she is. Lady of the hour. Okay, good afternoon everyone and i want to thank the senator skated duckworth joining me. Now i know this is a moment of Great National challenge. Covid19 is surging and people are dying and more people are getting sick than ever before. Families are struggling and businesses are shuttering. Peoples jobs. It is awful. Everywhere you go in this country. It is awful. So the elections over and the country is ready and eager to move to get us to move so that we can begin healing the process. The country wants us to know you got together get something done to deal with this covid19 crisis. But the Senate Republicans have continued denying the Election Results in their running america back, its a classic example was the chairman of the Judiciary Committee today. Crawling around to the states to try to intervene with the
Of land with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited these sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, well feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin outside of cleveland. Well learn how the canal plays a major role in western expansion. The ohio canal is part of a twocanal system that was put in place in the early years of america, built between 1825 and 1832. And basically its a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river which is part of a large idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated along the atlantic seaboard. And our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we needed that country to expand westward. However, there was a big obstacle. The appalachian mountains. Our first president , george washington, happened to be a canal engineer, had an idea. That idea was to create a transcontinental water
Life changing exam during the life or turning pandemic thousands of south korean students take the National University entrance exams of the shadow of the coronavirus crisis. Im british manager welcome to news asia glad you could join us for the 1st time in 19 yeahs the taliban and the Afghan Government have come to a written agreement just 3 pages long it is a document that lays out the rules of procedures for negotiations between the 2 sides aimed at ending nearly 2 decades of wall the Development Ends and impasse after nearly 3 months of talks in doha nato is one of a number of organizations to welcome the move saying theres no one ton of 2 such talks. Im not underestimating the difficulties on the risks for setbacks on disappointments on to move forward but im absolutely certain that the only way is. Going into the afghan negotiations and therefore we support them and knowing that it will be difficult from john but that is the only option for all of those who want peace in afghanis
Lines but why do so many Young Africans still risk their lives for it. I. Welcome to the program the journalism industry has been hit tod cuticle with 19 pandemic across the continent loss of revenue from advertising has led some media houses to lay off journalists some publications ive even had to shut down but still struggling to survive and i even make in more dishes moves to south africa your Digital News Media outlet is now branching into print publication against all odds. Investigative critical journalism thats the trademark of the Daily Maverick it started in 2009 as a digital only publication and has been at the forefront in exposing corruption and government failures in south africa in september they decided to swim against the current and publish to print publication for the 1st time most media houses around the world have struggled with with this process of moving from a print publication into the Digital World and then having to digitally transform their operations weve be