People have not been mobile. What is the main lesson, surprise, or discovery that you personally have taken from the experience in the last eight months or so. Ourn we lost about 80 of business in eight weeks, that we had spent about a decade building. That was quite surprising. What may have been even more surprising what is what happened next. What happens next is people, no matter the circumstances, in the midst of the pandemic, still had the desire to travel. They did not want to get on planes, they were not necessarily traveling for business, they did not want to go to a hotel or crowded tourist district, but they did want to get in a car with a tank of gas and go to a community, and often some of them were getting homes with airbnb. So i think there is just a fundamental desire that people have to travel, to connect, the see the world, and i dont think that anything can stop it, let alone a pandemic. Obviously, people have to do it responsibly, but there is still a very strongwil
A surprise announcement from the oval office of. Israels. Fight. Now. Same stuff some for you said tom. I know others call an election nearing for trump and ya. Know i mean the sitting in for richard good and youre watching the listening post working from home here are the media stories were covering this week the Abraham Accords behind all the talk about peace between israel and the gulf states there is a lot of posturing and even more p. R. In the United States an affiliate of the un does either network 80 plus is ordered to the edge as a Foreign Agent. Theyve reported on mounting crises a chronically corrupt government a collapsing state and then came the blast whats it like to be a journalist in lebanon today. And a saudi musician teams up with an israeli one to create one of the many more the videos that have come in the wake of the Abraham Accords. The talk in the middle east these days is of normalization between gulf states and israel just this past week the United Arab Emirate
I represent the committee is on and will come to order. [inaudible] the committee of Homeland Security will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. Again i want to say our thoughts with those americans dealing with devastating natural disasters including the wildfires in the west and hurricane is in itself. As the churning, i remain committed to ensuring they receive the federal health needed to respond, recover and deal back stronger. Today the committee on Homeland Security is meeting for its annual hearing on worldwide threats to the homeland. Our nation recently observed the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001. Nearly two decades later, we continue to mourn the nearly 3,000 lives lost that terrible day and keep their loved ones in our prayers. This committee and the department of Homeland Security were established in the wake of 9 11 to help prevent future attacks on our soi
But i welcome you watching r. T. International where shes going 2 oclock this friday afternoon here in the russian capital now well start with some news just coming in from paris because 3 people have been injured there by a man armed with a machete near the former headquarters of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo these are live pictures were looking at now from the city you police are hunting for the suspect who escaped on the metro authorities are calling on people to stay out of the area which you hope to go live to our correspondent at the scene in the next few minutes. Meanwhile france assess a new daily code red cord with more than 16. As in cases registered in the past 24 hours on wednesday the french government announced new measures to contain the spread of the virus Health Authorities have set up graded danger levels to cover alert reinforced alert and also maximum. Areas with more than 150. 00 cases per 100000 people as shown here read while the worst hit areas with more
Trade war with china. Hello there she is gone 3 oclock in the afternoon here in moscow youre watching r. T. International i will start with that developing story from paris because it least 2 people have been injured by a man armed with a machete the former headquarters of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo authorities are calling on people to stay away from the scene of the incident r. T. Showed it to our reports from the french capital. This is an ongoing operation at the moment what we understand is that there was an attack that took place near the form offices of the satirical magazine shelley after shelley after of course after law into the spotlight back into that if even when there was that deadbeat terrorist attack that killed many people at the offices there and started. Spate of terrorist attacks here in france we understand that one person has been arrested at the police are currently still searching for 2 of the individuals who are said to be at large at the moment so the