Chair and directors, yes, i do. So if youre ready, ill begin with this. Meeting of the citizens im sorry, i think there seems to be a lag here. Chair borden its not the same as what youre seeing on tv. Your audio is a little bit labored. I dont know if your internet quality is well. Okay. Okay. See if that helps. If it gets really bad, just let me know and i can just submit my report as a written report. No problem, go ahead. Great. So at the last meeting of the Citizens Advisory Council, we met director lai and welcomed her to the board. Thank you, again, for stopping by. We always appreciate welcoming Board Directors at our meetings. Also at our september meeting, i expressed disappointment and dissatisfaction with the rollout and subsequent rollback of rail service. And i hope that, if nothing else, the problems with rail revealed opportunities to fix and strengthen our system starting with more support at central on that. At our september meeting we heard from operators and members
Present time to change his behavior. This is al jazeera these are the headlines armenia and azerbaijan have rejected International Calls for talks to end fighting over to speak to the region he has every president says armenian troops must leave nagornokarabakh before any negotiations can begin Bernard Smith has more from armenians capital here of. Were told it was quiet overnight but remains tense of course in the go no cairo back however the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry Says that this morning Armenian Forces shelled a train station in the town of. A civilian was killed in the shelling of this town has been previously talkative we have no confirmation of whats happened because of course regarding that from the armenian side. This is now day 5 since fighting broke out on sunday for nagornokarabakh is the most serious really confrontations that there be since 2016 and there are fears that if it isnt contained it could spiral into an all out war thousands of police writes in force in hon
Women died this week after being gang raped in separate incidents both women were from marginalised Dalat Community adding to the anger the family of one of the victims is accused police of committing her body against their wishes police have imposed emergency laws in her village. The European Union is launching legal action against the u. K. Over its brags it plans a bill going through the British Parliament would violate International Law in relation to trade rules in Northern Ireland this morning the commission has decided to send a letter from a notice to the u. K. Government this is the 1st step in an infringement procedure. To let invite the u. K. Government to send its up to relations within a month. And besides this the commission will continue to work hard towards a full and timely implementation of the Withdrawal Agreement we stand by our commitments the organization that manages the United States election debates says it will make changes to bring order to the remaining 2 co
Pandemic overall the region accounts for more than 30 percent of all coronavirus related deaths worldwide and maybe 30 percent of all infections Monica Yannick here has more from Rio De Janeiro everybody is out and about as if nothing were happening thats pretty much the case for example its very hot here in Rio De Janeiro its winter but its been very hot its a very hot season all over brazil and people are out on the no social distancing no masks theyre out in bars and restaurants and the government also doesnt give a good example the president himself isnt one that likes wear masks so people have just been Walking Around as if nothing like this happening. Neighboring peru has the highest death rates per capita in the world doctors and other Health Workers are on strike demanding better equipment. To the United States Largest Airlines are all skin thousands of employees to go and leave as politicians struggle to agree on a new Coronavirus Relief bill united furloughing more than 13000
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