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'Rail roko' agitation by farmers' organisations had negligible impact on train operations: Railways ANI | Updated: Feb 19, 2021 21:59 IST New Delhi [India], February 19 (ANI): The nationwide 'Rail Roko' agitation called by some farmers' organisations on Thursday had a minimal or negligible impact on train operations, informed the Ministry of Railways on Friday. According to an official release, only 30 mail trains were affected out of the total 12,800 trains run by Indian Railways (including goods and passenger trains). Several other trains were able to m...

Honduras about 1,000 miles, making a guess. two weeks and a lot more to go. here is an interesting scene i want you to see. this is what happens all morning long. the migrants run to jump on willing vehicles that will then take them hopefully north. they want to get to cities about 80, 90-kilometers north of here where traditionally migrants have made these trips. they will get on trains, we are told that mexican officials may be suspending train operations to try sort of dissuade. this as can you see, this is neither a ride. as we have seen civil protection, which is like mexican's version of...

Work/rest periods of the crews of each train as well as the cell phone records of the operators of each train. and that's standard for any transportation accident that we look at. we have a signal specialist that will be looking at the signals that govern train operations. those wayside signals that red lights, green lights, yellow lights, whatever they happen to be, we'll be looking at the signal systems. each of those signals have an event recorder that records data, so we can download and see what those signals were saying. we'll also be looking at the rail swuitches and i'll talk about rai...

If there were issues of employee error. the issues were with the train itself. the black box and certainly they helped determine that. the speed is an issue possibly and the track possibly. defective. there may be wheel defects on the train. these are the issues that certainly will be at the forefront of the ntsb. the black box itself will give all the instrumentation of the train operations including the signals and the brake application and the speed, etc. they will have the basic information they need to make a determination if any of those issues were involved. i think that would be the

David, let me start with you on the niger issue. it seems to me we have gotten confused with these apologies and no and -- the real issue is that we still don't know what american troops were doing in niger. >> we don't, fareed and we also don't know what the strategic direction they're trying to accomplish is. as you say, it's gotten lost in the question of apologies and what the president said and now what his chief of staff has said. but the bigger issue is, we have reportedly 800 troops in niger, we have many others around africa, we're conducting operations mostly advise and train operati...