now karen walker joins us from atlanta in georgia she is a republican strategist and also the founder of black conservatives for truth a grassroots organization dedicated to minority engagement karen thanks for being with us i want to start by asking you as an african-american woman yourself are you concerned that this new package of law as well as as many as we've been hearing there argue will it disenfranchise black bush is. absolutely not this is a very very good deal as in many of the items that the democrats said that the bill would not have this bill is now a law that the governor signed it into law yesterday. we have no absentee ballot boating i mean no excuse absentee ballot voting so you don't have to have an excuse to grow we still have ever drop boxes extend a voting to our you know send a voting saturday voting this is a very good feel the reason that the democrats are complaining is because it works towards their narrative a republican voter suppression again you know against black and brown people but it's just not true karen i was having a look at some of the numbers so

anchor: karen walker joining us from georgia. really great to get you here on al jazeera.ing with us. >> thank you. anchor: 2 trains have collided in central egypt, killing at least 32 people and injuring 165 others. the railway authority says someone triggered the emergency brakes on one of those drains and the other one crashed into it from behind. the president is promising to punish those responsible. >> more than 1000 train accidents annually in egypt according to the government statistical authority. i have a hard time believing that is the problem of incompetence of the problem of low level employees. what we have is an infrastructure problem, a government problem. anchor: at least watchmen people have been killed by police in bangladesh in protest against visits from india's prime minister. dozens more were injured. the protesters were part of an islamist group which accuses prime minister modi of alienating muslims. we have more. reporter: there have been a protest for the last one week by the leftist party as well as by the right wing religious parties. the criti

karen in winterhaven. the d.c. national guard had a hearing on capitol hill, featuring major gelatin -- major general william walker, the commanding general of the d.c. national guard, saying his hands were tied by the pentagon for more than three hours after he received a call from capitol police, requesting a backup. delaying the arrival of military forces as lawmakers evacuated or barricaded themselves in offices during one of the biggest national security failures since 9/11. the request by lawmakers to understand the failings that led to the january 6 insurrection took on special urgency during that hearing us capitol police on wednesday warned that -- of that possible plot to breach the capital on march the fourth. another karen from oregon, independent line. go ahead. caller: i want to say i agree with the previous caller. if they could manage to be able to call and get the national guard alerted right away, they probably would not need to have all of these fences and the national guard they are every day. -- there every day. i cannot blame them for wanting to shut down today, at midst a threat of insurrecti