Announced their 1st album, including new music is 18 years. And it was noisy affair, the village welcome to the program. Africas 1st Climate Summit has wrapped up with a call for rich countries to do more to help the content develop Green Economy leaders meeting. And i wrote, we secure a 23000000000. 00 and Green Energy Commitments from governments, banks, and private entities. So it gets also want Extensive Global financial reforms. So how to adapt to increasingly extreme weather can serve natural resources. And so the funding needed to do so. Those were the key themes of the 3 day africa Climate Summit in kenya. It ended with african lead to signing the so called and i wrote the declaration. Its sent south a common crime it action agenda for the continent and will form the basis of africas negotiating position at the cop 28. 00 summit in november in it asked which in need is demanding no less than a social economic see change with them on a fair, plain ground for our countries to acc
Change. And 63 seconds of applause for Phillip Hughes. Tributes to the batsman. Hello. Its been the subject of much debate, controversy, and even an oscarwinning movie, and yet there is still more to be told about the cias Interrogation Program in the aftermath of 9 11. A report by the u. S. Senate into the agencys techniques, which critics call torture, is due to be released later and america is bringsi i bracing itself for the backlash. The report is the result of years of research by the Senate Intelligence panel. And it is 6,000 pages long, but only a 480page summary of the report is due to be made public. Its expected to document harsh methods, including waterboarding, slapping, sleep deprivation, and exposure to the cold. Its also expected to say how valuable the information proved to be or not to be for the nations security. And just how much the white house knew about the cias methods. Heres richard forest with a background to the cias interrogations program. Reporter the after
Screeria nigeria. Environmental officials from california, indiana, wyoming, wisconsin and new york testified on the hill this week on the challenges and successes with the epas Greenhouse Gas emissions rule for power plants. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee convened the hearing. Senator jim inhofe chairs the committee while senator Barbara Boxer serves as Ranking Member. This is just shy of two hours. Good morning. Before we begin let me get clarification Senate Armed Services committee embraced by everyone but well use it that is when we hit the gavel whoever is here well go by the early bird well go by seniority. Then those who come in after the gavel well get to them after everyone is already taken care of. So with that ill make note of who is here. If you would do that. Well bring this meeting to order. Great to have the panel. Had a chance to meet each one of you. I really do think the most important thing when we get into these rules and regulations is the state
North america. Will county is crossed by six class 1 railroads, five interstate highways, several commercial water ports on our nations largest inland waterway. Last year we processed over 3 million containers containing 65 billion worth of goods that are grown, manufactured, assembled, and delivered throughout the United States and the world. Our first and last mile Infrastructure Requirements today total 3. 6 billion of new investment just in our county, and that does not include bringing our existing road infrastructure up to a state of good repair. Our needs extend far beyond roads. Increased utilization of freight by rail as weve heard is resulting in more at grade rail crossings and its impacting commerce from public safety. We need at the very local level more grade separation structures and first and last mile interstate connectors to accommodate the freight of the future. The growth of freight has been stated we believe by 2045 that increase will be about 45 putting more press
Research tract faculty. There are jobs in industry, journalist, many where needed and we want to be sure people find the right match for themselves. We have started new programs, an early independence award which im excited about which allows a talented phd to skip the post doc and go to an independent position. I go to the presentations each year and its the most exciting day of the year because of their vision and their ideas. Similarly we have this new award where you cant apply if youve previously had a grant and your valentines day has to be out of the box, a little wacky for you to be allowed to apply for that proposal mechanism. And when we look at the output it has been truly impressive. All that is great but of course it doesnt solve the main problem we have which is this loss in purchasing power for research. We can try to balance things as best we can, protect those young investigators. We can only go so far. I appreciate that. And resources are obviously key to this as well