新闻纵贯线 The Beijing Hour updated 08:00 2017/10/04（在线收听）

The Beijing Hour

Morning Edition

Paul James with you on this Wednesday, October 4, 2017.

Welcome to this holiday edition of the Beijing Hour, coming to you live from the Chinese capital.

Coming up on our program this morning...

Our news focus...

Investigators in Las Vegas still trying to hammer out a motive behind the worst mass shooting ever in the United States.

In other news.

The US has announced its booting a number of Cuban diplomats out of the country in the wake of sonic attacks on US embassy staffers in Havana.

US President Donald Trump is currently touring Hurricane damage in Puerto Rico amid the public controversy surrounding his handling of that situation.

Three US-based researchers have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on understanding the universe.

A new program is underway in Tibet to help deal with issues of desertification.

In the second half of the hour we have a special edition of Horizons...

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