PNR revives Naga-Legazpi City railway route

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PNR revives Naga-Legazpi City railway route;  Sec. of State Tony Blinken heads to Mexico City to seek Mexican President's help in stemming latest illegal immigrant surges at the U.S. border

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00:00 Nightly greetings one and all. William Thieau here, homegrown and happy to bring you the

00:04 major events breaking of late all over the planet in the last 24-hour news cycle.

00:11 After all, it was a critical commuter service serving the constituents of two provinces

00:16 and bailiwicks of the opposition that did not vote for him in 2022 or even his predecessor

00:23 in the 2016 polls. Still, it ranked high among governments to-do list of projects that made

00:29 its debut back into service after seven years of sitting in idle. Six years after it was

00:36 intentionally and indefinitely shut down due to a dearth in locomotion engines and train

00:42 coaches, the Philippine National Railways is making a comeback beginning with the Naga-Legaspi

00:48 train route was decommissioned or put out of service on April 2017. The PNR's ultimate

00:54 goal, Relief said, is to connect the old line from Legaspi City-Naga-Calamba-Manila railway

01:01 line. Meanwhile, POTUS Joe Biden is sending his emissary and top diplomat across the border

01:08 to meet with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to discuss ways to stem the

01:14 tide of the latest migrant surges of tens of thousands showing up at the border towns

01:19 and cities of Texas and Arizona any given day. Blinken has Homeland Security Chief Alejandro

01:26 Mallorcas and White House Migration Officer Liz Sherwood in tow and hopes to get Mexico

01:31 to beef up reinforcement and hold the nearly tens of thousands in migrants in caravan batches

01:37 in check from crossing into the United States. Immigration has rocketed to the top of Biden's

01:43 headaches with his bid to replenish Ukraine and put on indefinite hold if he doesn't follow

01:50 through on concessions and stopgap measures to address the U.S. border problem. And at

01:58 this juncture, our colleagues in PTV's Pine City Studios has the latest word on developments

02:03 unfolding in the Cordilleras. Dante?

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