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 testifying remotely. We appreciat
Authorities for approval. Im aaron tilton welcome to the program we begin with breaking news at this hour armenia has ordered an end to the fighting with azerbaijan over the disputed nagornokarabakh region armenias Prime Minister said its an extremely painful decision by john has called it a capitulation the longstanding conflict for control of the territory erupted again in september with azerbaijan steadily advancing into areas controlled by Ethnic Armenians thousands have died in the fighting in moscow mediated the peace deal and says it has already deployed peacekeepers to the region. During 6 weeks of fighting Azerbaijani Forces had been making steady inroads in nagornokarabakh they claimed they had taken many settlements but armenia disputes that the region had been in armenian hands since it won a war with azerbaijan in 1994 the territory is also mainly inhabited by armenians azerbaijan claims it has always been an integrity part of its country. And then on monday a Russian Mili
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American tilton welcome to the program protests have erupted in armenia after its Prime Minister signed a peace deal with azerbaijan the agreement ends the fighting in the disputed region of nagorno and allows azerbaijan to keep its territorial gains more than a 1000 people have been killed since the longstanding conflict erupted again in september russia mediated the cease fire and says it will enable a permanent end to the bloodshed. Thousands of armenians demonstrated outside government headquarters in the capital yerevan to show their displeasure over the countrys peace deal with azerbaijan that also includes russia as a peacekeeper hundreds of the protesters actually needed inside the government building where they were also able to ransack some of the offices. Just earlier armenian Prime Minister nicole on had released a statement on social media saying that he had signed a declaration with the president s of russia and azerbaijan to end the war he also called the decision incred
Now kind of buck is liberated a nation is liberated thank you for today god bless you will i 70 words in my heart that i dont know i want to set you. Free ceasefire is the new going to have filed since fighting erupted in september and he hopes this deal will finally bring peace to a troubled region. Well lets get more from Moscow Bureau chief yuri recessed so welcome. Russia stood by and allowed this conflict to happen for weeks so can you now really assist in bringing a lasting peace. Well our show is traditionally feel seen as of the protect of armenia and Peter Bischoff brest secretary of the russian president Vladimir Putin said today earlier that to work on the agreement to end the war in nagornokarabakh began long before the incidental with a russian Helicopter Shot down by his or by johns a debut fool which killed 2 people and sparked the rumors about of the timing for this Peace Agreement some people might to doubt what the pissed off sat as russia indeed for a long time refus