police officers in haiti have tried to storm the official residence of the prime minister and have over run the main air port. they were protesting against the number of their colleagues killed by the many armed gangs that operate with relative impunity in the caribbean nation. fourteen have been killed so far this year, six of them in a shoot out at the police headquarters, in the northern town of lian court on wednesday. disability activists in south korea are being sued by seoul s subway authority for causing major disruption during the morning rush hour. solidarity against disability discrimination say they want all stations to be wheelchair accessible and more funding allocated to disability provisions in the national budget. but the authorities hardline response has led to a bitter feud and clashes between demonstrators and security forces. nick marsh s report from the south korean capital seoul contains scenes some viewers may find distressing. in sole, there is a battle
CAIRO: Egypt’s government has announced that it would raise train and metro fares by up to 25 percent by the end of August to reduce the debt of the Railway and Subway Authority, according to local reports. In televised statements, Kamel Al-Wazir, Egypt’s minister of transport, said the increase would cover the loans taken out to develop the rail system, and to offset rising
i don t understand. how can you hate law enforcement? there are people who need to be, you know, dealt with. there are people in every corporation, every business i need to be dealt with, but you can t live in a society without law and order. you don t want to be there. people are leaving other countries to come here to get away from that sort of thing. tomi: exactly. defund the police, and what is happening here in new york city, the subway authority is going out and saying let s hire private security. we have defunded the police, so let s get private security to stand in as police officers. emily: and i think it is interesting, we talk about the mayoral race. i somehow got that out and interestingly, some of the democratic candidates are doubling down. we have some who are calling for restoring funding to the police, and we have still some calling for only community policing.
you think about how deep these subway lines go beneath the street. it could be 50, maybe a hundred feet deep in certain areas. david lee miller about a half hour ago told us that he saw with his own eyes 50 feet of water in one of these locations, one of these subway stations in lower manhattan. you think about all the electric lines that run beneath the streets, you know, what happens when they make contact with water? how do you get the water out? how long does it take to dry? when do you put the electric and the power back on and how do you do it in a way where you don t blow the lines completely out, or is it already lost because the lines have made contact with the water. that s what we are trying to figure out whether or not new york city is operating in days or possibly weeks from now. that from the subway authority here in new york city. wow. martha: and this fox news alert for you right now as the reality of sandy s destruction, as we were just talking about really