Very beginning this is our mass too good to be true the u.s. Capitol is united as the Washington Nationals win the baseball World Series 1st our top stories Hello I m Chris Berrow with the b.b.c. News a fire has swept through a train in Pakistan killing more than 70 people and injuring dozens of other passengers the train was traveling from the southern city of Karachi to Rawalpindi officials say many passengers were heading to a Muslim religious conference local media reported that some died while leaping from the move in train to escape the blaze so can become Money reports video on social media shows at least 3 carriages being engulfed by the flames and railway officials say that the fire began when a gas cylinder that some passengers were using to cook food exploded and they re not an item that are allowed on board trains normally but it s only railways don t have a particularly good safety record but this is one of the worst incidents in recent years Human Rights Watch has issued
In a raft reports the Iranian government is warning pilgrims to postpone trips to the city the Associated Press quotes unnamed security officials as saying masked gunmen opened fire on protesters in Karbala south of Baghdad the Iraqi government denies any protesters were killed there the empty government demonstrations resumed Friday and at least 70 protesters have been killed since then in Baghdad and the south of Iraq in Baghdad most casualties were caused by demonstrators hit in the head by tear gas canisters launched by riot police the protesters say they need jobs services and non-corrupt political leaders promises of government reform have not quelled the demonstrations Jane around n.p.r. News in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on Wall Street the Dow Jones Industrial averages down a fraction of a point at 27090 the Nasdaq is down 26 points at 8299 the s. And p. 500 is up to and this is n.p.r. . A pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong is being barred from running in next month s local
21 The move comes despite President Trump s frequent diatribes against Salvadoran immigrants as murderous him as 13 gang members the tiny Central American republic has recently signed agreements to limit asylum seekers passing through its territory on the way to the u.s. Border another agreement directs u.s. Federal immigration agents to train their Salvadoran counterparts Salvadoran official said their citizens in the u.s. Now have another year to secure a lawful residency or citizenship but the trumpet ministration cautions the agreement is not an indefinite extension rather it s an orderly wind down period John Burnett n.p.r. News you re listening to n.p.r. News. Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the u.s. House will vote Thursday to formalize the impeachment proceedings against President Trump The announcement follows complaints that the impeachment inquiry is unfair and lacks due process one else spokesman Stephanie Grisham says it shows Democrats were conducting an authorized investigati
About 35 to 50 miles an hour with gusts to about 70 miles an hour those massive winds can make a combustible combination with dried out vegetation that acts as fuel a bit of good news the Santa Ana winds that helped spread a fire outside Los Angeles are subsiding but Graeme s cautions that by Monday that northern wind event could begin impacting the south Amy Held n.p.r. News a British truck driver is charged with $39.00 counts of manslaughter and human trafficking after 39 people were found dead in the truck he was driving in southeastern England Wednesday as Vicki Barker reports from London investigators are still trying to determine the victim s identity he s British police initially said the victims appeared to be from China but at least 6 Vietnamese families have come forward to say they lost touch with loved ones who were trying to reach the u.k. Around the time of the tragedy one family shared texts from a 26 year old woman that said I m sorry Mom and Dad my journey abroad hasn
From n.p.r. News in Washington and joyous night or the House is set to resume its impeachment inquiry of President Trump shortly the acting assistant secretary of state for Europe Philip Reeker is scheduled to provide testimony a day after a federal judge validated the impeachment inquiry as she ordered the Justice Department to turn over a dac to grand jury materials from the Moeller report to the House Judiciary Committee N.P.R. s Meg Anderson reports that decision weakens the Republican argument that the impeachment inquiry into President Trump is invalid grand jury investigations are usually kept secret and the Justice Department wanted to keep it that way in the case of the miller investigation but House Democrats argued they re entitled to the materials and chief judge Beryl Howell of the u.s. District Court for d.c. Agreed the White House has also argued that the House needs to vote before investigating the president but in her ruling house said quote House resolution has never