The disruption caused alarm in the wake of last month's acts of sabotage that ruptured the two main natural gas pipelines running from Russia to Germany underneath the Baltic Sea, an incident that spurred NATO and the European Union to stress the need to better protect critical infrastructure. California where almost 13 million votes have been counted has reported just 66 of its total so far. In total, more than 145 million votes have been cast in the 2020 presidential election, the most ever and climbing. While the motive for the incident was unclear, it came a day before a state election in the German state of Lower Saxony where German chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party is on track to retain power and the Green party is seen as doubling its share of the vote. Both candidates have now surpassed the previous record of 69.5 million for Barack Obama in 2008. "The investigation will have to yield that." Newshour BBC World Service News 4.4 759 Ratings Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global. "We can't say anything today either about the background to this act or the perpetrators," Wissing said. Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events. Transport Minister Volker Wissing said the affected cables are "essential for handling railway traffic safely." He said Germany's federal police were investigating the incident.įederal police said the crime scenes were in a Berlin suburb and in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, German news agency dpa reported. German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said cables vital for the country's rail network were intentionally cut in two places, causing a sudden halt to all rail traffic, both passenger and cargo, in the northern part of the country. Productivity is down 4.1 on an annualized basis, the biggest decline since the government started keeping track of the number back in 1948. BERLIN - German authorities say a malicious and targeted act of sabotage caused a three-hour halt to all rail traffic in northern Germany on Saturday morning.
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