>>scott: what about the national railways projects to connect aqaba to syria and beyond. how far have you gotwith that? >>fakhoury: it's proceeding quite well actually. jordan is also within its mega projects mix is looking at deepening its position as an important regional, logistical hub. that it's a trade gateway that sits atthe heart of the levant region, connecting the gcc with the levant and beyond that to the european side as well as to central asia through turkey. our programme calls for building a thousand kilometres of rail. the syrian programme is now about 100 kilometres away from our border. the saudis arealso very close to our border. so jordan is a critical building block in creating this new trade corridor. >>scott: going back to the hub idea, how much better placed is syria than you are to be a hub in the region? >>fakhoury: actually, on the contrary, i think we all complement each other. syria's access to the gcc has to go through jordan. and our access to turkey and beyond has to go through syria so in essence we are all complementary building blocks he

>>scott: what about the national railways projects to connect aqaba to syria and beyond. how far have you gotwith that? >>fakhoury: it's proceeding quite well actually. jordan is also within its mega projects mix is looking at deepening its position as an important regional, logistical hub. that it's a trade gateway that sits atthe heart of the levant region, connecting the gcc with the levant and beyond that to the european side as well as to central asia through turkey. our programme calls for building a thousand kilometres of rail. the syrian programme is now about 100 kilometres away from our border. the saudis arealso very close to our border. so jordan is a critical building block in creating this new trade corridor. >>scott: going back to the hub idea, how much better placed is syria than you are to be a hub in the region? >>fakhoury: actually, on the contrary, i think we all complement each other. syria's access to the gcc has to go through jordan. and our access to turkey and beyond has to go through syria so in essence we are all complementary building blocks he

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program, first and foremost, is aimed at support national economic development, providing farmers with agricultural weather predictions, providing railway ministry with maps of where to build things but the chinese are also interested in maintaining access to space in the event of conflict. >> how does it campaign to the united states from the point of view of military defense? during -- i'm told during the gulf war one, and the second gulf war, and during the kosovo, when we were in that theater, that our communications was 80% -- 80% dependant on satellites. and the russians, the russian involvement, similar involvements, depends about 70% on satellites. >> uh-huh. >> does this -- of course that means a great deal to a military planner. >> yes. >> the integration of the military grid with this unusual capability and would have been very helpful in the instance of katrina, by the way. >> uh-huh, uh-huh. >> and people are now saying, you know, why, why isn't it in existence, et cetera, et cetera. >> uh-huh. >> but as a diagnostic, satellites and their utility, aside from more extreme uses, like launching from a satellite, which is techn

hello and welcome to the business bulletin russian railways is looking for a foreign partner to build a national high speed rail way network across russia several companies are showing interest in the project but investors are seeking government guarantees seen as a method of reports. faster journeys with greater confidence and service that's the aim of russian real ways project to build high speed transport across the country added there has turned to the leaders in the sector for promoting project among future partners spain is one of the leaders in europe with its network to become the largest already in december of this year high speed rail or transport contributes to point by percent of the country's g.d.p. with the sector better ging to go fifty percent even in trouble to two thousand and nine six hundred sixty kilometers in two and a half hours the target said but added today and it will want to cover more than ten thousand kilometers with high speed rails in a twenty year programme it's the responsibility of russian state to create the conditions moreover we think that they're based on t

program, first and foremost, is aimed at support national economic development, providing farmers with agricultural weather predictions, providing railway ministry with maps of where to build things but the chinese are also interested in maintaining access to space in the event of conflict. >> how does it campaign to the united states from the point of view of military defense? during -- i'm told during the gulf war one, and the second gulf war, and during the kosovo, when we were in that theater, that our communications was 80% -- 80% dependant on satellites. and the russians, the russian about 70%t, similar on satellites. >> uh-huh. >> does this -- of course that means a great deal to a military planner. >> yes. >> the integration of the military grid with this unusual capability and would have been very helpful in the instance of katrina, by the way. >> uh-huh, uh-huh. >> and people are now saying, you know, why, why isn't it in existence, et cetera, et cetera. >> uh-huh. >> but as a diagnostic, satellites and their utility, aside from more extreme uses, like launching from a satellite, which is technically possible, i think, isn't i

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railway come off nigeria. you said seven people were taken? >> seven people were taking to, to americans. is the dean of the nationalities of the others? >> i will defer to other governments who may want to confirm their citizens have been affected >> were there when the door injured any of the two? >> i think there were some injuries of those who were left behind, but again, we can't sing at this point that when of the state of those who have been kidnapped, but their condition is pete >> i thought there was an american injured in this. i felt there was one in addition to the two kidnapped, i thought there was one american injured in this estimate yes. there were two others the were left behind, and one of those wounded was an american citizen. he is undergoing treatment as we speak. >> on the talks? >> yeah. >> do you notice that there is a pattern here concerning the truth, yosef's announcement on building the -- of the new buildings and so on coincide with the vice presidential speech in new orleans? it seems that every time there is a visitor, a high caliber visitor, be it an american visitor to israel or an israeli visitor to the