For a u. S. District court judge in ohio. It is also the first opportunity for members to speak on the floor sense election day. Watch live Senate Coverage on cspan2 and the house on cspan. Amtrak president and ceo William Flynn was on capitol hill to testify on how the coronavirus affects the Passenger Rail system and what amtrak is doing in response. The Senate Commerce of science and Transportation Committee also heard from representatives of the freight Rail Industry and about the challenges they are facing as a result of the pandemic. This hearing is just over two and half hours. Order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network
Melissa chan. Welcome to g. W. News asia. Thank you for joining us. Afghanistan faces a greater threat than the taliban with an increase in the number of tax claimed by Islamic State. Its capital, kabul especially, has experienced more violence. Earlier this month, gunmen stormed kabul university, killing 32. 00 people. Most of them students as g. W. Reports, theres little confidence that the government can in short, civilian safety. And there is even less hope when it comes to seeing the government negotiate a deal to end years of fighting still finds it hard to go anywhere near the university of. He was taking part in a seminar when the attackers came for the 1st time since the attack. The only topic of conversation is how to survive that day when they heard the shots, they knew something terrible was happening. Everyone was screaming, but suddenly it was quiet and we heard someone saying a prayer behind the door that was the suicide bomber right before he blew himself up. Its only t
Hes heading towards being that china is condemning the mass resignation of prodemocracy indoor makers in hong kong as a political fast. And a blatant challenge. 15 opposition. Legislator stepped down after 4 of their colleagues were expelled and the new powers to remove members of the territories parliament were deemed to be disloyal to china. A radical change for hong kongs legislature. The seats are usually occupied by hong kongs democratic parliamentarians, but now theyre empty. As the session got underway a day after the mass walkout, one of the lawmakers resigning in solidarity protested he rolled out a banner in the foyer, criticizing city leaders carry lands decision to disqualify the legislative council. Not long afterwards, the lawmakers took part in their last act, formally handing in their resignation, letters they cues beijing of trying to remove the citys autonomy and shrines in hong kongs basic law. We all know that the Central Government in government can always say they
Democracy, and say, the president should be focusing on the pandemic. Instead. Im burnt. Coffee, its good to have you with us tonight. New infections. Corona, virus infections here in europe continue to increase despite the partial walked owns imposed in many countries. Frances Prime Minister saying that the number of coronavirus patients in hospitals is now higher than it was last spring. With another person admitted every 30 seconds, france has made the pandemic, the focus of this years virtual paris peace for president emanuel microns stressed today, there must be fair access to vaccines and treatments across the globe all across europe. Tonight, hospitals are under strain including in italy, europes ground 0 in the pandemic. This time its not just the rich north thats at the for the 2nd wave is also stretching resources in naples and the poor self. 2 2 hundreds of coronavirus patients wait for hours outside the emergency ward at the continue clinic to get treatment. Relatives have
Whether authorities have to treat them. And maybe increase them as well in the next few days. There are Big Questions as to whether this is being effective in particular, because germany continues to record very high numbers of new cases over 20000, for example, in the last 24 hours. And that is something that is obviously concerning for thors at the same time. There is a big concern among german hospitals. Many saying that the situation is even worse now than what it was in april, for example, during the 1st wave of the pandemic. So yes, there may be some positive signs, but the situation remains very serious and thats something the German Authorities have been very clear when they talk to the president of these kinds of things. Christmas is only 6 weeks away and no government wants to go down in history as the one that canceled it, untold millions of people. They can go home and see their families. So tougher measures on the cards. I very much doubt that they will console christmas,