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bernard and irene schwartz. rosalind p. walter. corporate funding provided by mutual of america. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support provided by -- and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. from the studios at lynn con center hari sreenivasan. kerry reportedly presented lavrov with a plan for disarming regular forces places monitors in the region and initiating diplomatic talks. tens of thousands of troops have been deployed along the border

of ukraine. during a call with president obama on friday, vladimir putin asurted that ukraineian extremists are intimidating russians in the ukraine. traveling in the region today, victor yal yullen expressed concern about the military build up. >> we are concerned that they have spoken about this, about the large number of russian forces bringing the ukrainian borders as well. we're all concerned about that, but it is because of this concern that we have maintained a case of diplomacy. >> she also met with officials today to offer the united states full support in maintaining that country's sovereignty. they say that they're playing further expansion.

mainly russian speaking region where russian troops are already stationed. >> certainly i expect the tensions here will come up in this conversation and the united states will, as it always does, make clear our strong support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity for settling these issues by diplomatic means. >> in ukraine, thousands of protestors carried flags in odessa to tell moscow they don't want to the be annexed like crimea. they also met to remember protestors killed in demonstrations. for the first time a united nation's panel is warning that climate change will lead to greater conflict around the world. an international panel of scientists say it's will trigger

conflicts over water and energy and contribute to the refugee problem around the world. earlier this month the u.s. defense department called it a threat multiplier. there was local elections throughout france today, and the socialist parties suffered significant losses. the conservative opposition apparently made major gains. and a trade pack with neighboring china. they say it will give china too much influence in taiwanese affairs. chooi these authorities reportedly seized more than $14 billion in assets from the family and associates of the former domestic security chief. the man at the center of the scandal has been under what's described as virtual house

arrest for several months. the decision to take action against the former chief is seen as a sign that china is intensifying it's efforts to combat corruption. in washington state, they continue their search for the victim's of last week's mud slide northeast of seattle. officials have sharply lowers the number thought to be missing from 90 to 30. a number of general motors vehicles have been added to the recall list including some of the best selling suvs and trucks. they have now recalled nearly five million in the last few months. the ceo is scheduled to testify before congress about the recall this week. more than 100 aftershocks in california after friday night's earthquake. the quake and the after shocks

in an area near los angeles did minor damage to homes and stores. tomorrow is the last day to sign up for obama care without incuring penalties. those in the midst of applying but whose applications have not been approved will not be penalized as long as they complete it by mid april. the washington post is launching a special series it today call add legacy of pain and pride. it is a look through stories and polls in conjunction with the kaizer family. greg, let me throw up a couple numbers have have you explain them. when soldiers are asked if you did anything in the wars that

made you feel prouder, 87% say yes. but when you ask them if the cost versus the benefit was worth it, less than half think it was worth fighting. how does this make sense together? >> i think it goes to the tremendous pride that soldiers, marines, the people that serve, as being part of this 1% that serve. they're part of an elite group that volunteered. that's one explanation. even if the mission ended up not being worth it in their minds, and in many cases it didn't, they still feel pride. there is sentiment that hey, we did our jobs, but others failed their jobs whether it is the iraq/afghan government. there has been a great deal of focus an an increased amount of attention spent on post-traumatic stress disorder.

i have two questions i want you to answer, tell me how many of the following you have experienced following your service. outbursts of anger and relationship problems with your spouse or parter in. 45% said yes they do. these can be signs of ptsd, how do they square up with the numbers of the veteran's administration. >> they're much higher than what they found in their surveyed. of course these, you can have outbursts of anger and relationship problems and not have ptsd, but it goes to show that some of the mental legacy is more than ptsd. you have symptoms, trying to overcome things from combat mentally and emotionally, and may not have, you know,

diagnosisable ptsd. >> and you spend a long time diagnosing the effects of them coming home. what did you find? >> they're not doing so bad. the unemployment is not much higher. they look like most americans for debt and the same financial struggles. >> do they feel like they should be given a special chance if they're up for a job? >> yeah, they do fell a sense of entitlement, i think is one word for it. which is sounder intuitive to some of the notions of service we have. more than 60% feel like they should be given special consideration when applying for jobs. on the whole, 80% feel like they should be given special consideration. so i think they feel a greater sense of debt to them.

>> two questions i want to show the audience. when you ask for each, tell me how often if at all you have experienced the following with feeling disconnected from civilian life. 55% say often or sometimes spp and feeling the average american didn't understand your experience, that number was really shocking, 69% say often or sometimes. what are the soldiers telling you? >> i think a lot of this is combat, which i think is fundamentally dislocating and some of it is the way we fought these wars. this is the longest stretch in american history, and it's really the longest with an all volunteer force. that is a different way of going to war than we have done in the past. these guys are coming home and not to large numbers of people in their neighbors and communities that served with them. they are going home to people that tuned out the war and are going on with their lives.

that really adds to the normal dislocation and connection that one feels coming home from combat. i think it is even more acute because they're such a small population. >> thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. and now toll our signature segment. tonight, we return to africa, to kenya where a problem is being profited and dealt with to deal with e-waste being dumped. a busy stretch of road running right past an unremarkable looking building. excement there is no other building like this in east africa. that truck is hauling e-waste,

tons of it. coming here for processing at a plant built especially to deal with e-waste. >> amina abullah sedes the special environment committee. >> we want to be ahead of the situation before it is poisoning our people. >> used electronics are one of the fastest growing sources of waste globally. in africa two countries feature as dumping hot zones. nigeria and gana. kenya is one, and it is urgently trying to enact legislation to target disposal of used electronics. it's estimates that 15,000 tons of used computers and mobile phones are shipped to kenya every year, flooding in from the

west, especially the u.s., adding to the e-waste generated by the new electronic goods that kenians are already buying. the first electronics recycling hub is funded by kenian investors, the german development bank hp, and a private businessman with a lot of experience in the field. some lap stops contain a tube in the back which contains mercury so that needs to be removed carefully. >> the importance of this is -- it goes far beyond kenya. this is about proving a concept, an economic, social, and environmental concept that works and it is really envisaged that this model can be rep apply cased in similar countries in africa.

>> the plant is staffed entirely by kenians, most had never heard about e-waste before they started working here. and there is plenty to keep them busy. no shortage of packed containers arriving. it all has to be separated, broken down, plastics from internal components, which are then told to international buyer who is deal with this kind of waste. processing e-waste, helping the environment, is a big part of what's going on here. that's not the only thing. the idea is to get people to think about e-waste as a resource. waste has always been seen as waste. >> the word waste is fast disappearing and it's being replaced with another word, resource. >> it begins with the collectors, private individuals hunting for discarded electronic products. in mukuru slum, a group of women

work alt it every day. it's not easy, long hours, scorching sun, and lately they are finding that they're not the only ones looking for e-waste. it can take days to gather one load. they carry it to mukuru's collection point where it is sorted and weighed, but they get the cash right away. >> yoyc, nyawira says she makes 5,000 shillings a month, nearly $60. more than most in the slums and enough to support her three children. >> this container in mukuru and this one in mombasa are sponsored by dell. dell worked with the government and wrote the legislation aimed at electronic waste. >> the regulation that we're producing deals with the fact that if you're bringing to the

country, if you're a producer of an electronic gadget and you sell it to kenya, you will need to have the responsibility of dealing with it once it becomes obsolete. >> this is high resource materials. >> so dell, or any of the big computer corporations will be responsible for disposal in kenya if they have an office here. if they don't, they'll have to ensureutdistributers comply with the law. >> a lot of old electron incompetent products and new electronic products actually is in africa and other developing countries. >> across the border in u began da, there is intense interest in

what's happening in kenya because a few years back u began da enacting strict laws bans the importation of used and secondhand products. especially computers. which, is not fair. >> kampala like nairobi is turning into a major tech hub here in uganda. developments in kenya may lead to change. this is the largest waste dump in u began da, it serves the capital city in kampala, but only a fraction of the waste that comes here is e-waste. >> dumps are not prepare todd deal with all of the obsolete electronics, and that, it seems, is what people are waiting for. >> if people knew how they can

benefit, or the final point for where the e-waste can go. >> no surprise then that the ugandans are talking to the kenians about e-waste and the ability of profiting from it. >> we could either send to the refurbishment facilities in kenya or rep apply case what our brothers in kenya are doing within u began da. >> i we have a lot of cross country rivers and lakes so if they dispose badly we may still be effected by the products and they have disposed wrongly. >> and that fits with the broader vision about how e-waste is dealt with in this part of the world. >> it's our wish to create an east african common approach. ideally we harmonize legislation, ease of moving

waste between boundaries within africa. >> the model for managing e-waist in africa, and making money doing it, busy day and night, proving that with a lot of hard work, it can be done. for another glimpse of change under way in africa, visit newshour.org. see hour mobile phones are spurring innovation. there is a growing change in anti-biotics for livestock. this week they agreed to stop labelling drugs important for treating human infections as acceptable anti-biotics to spur animal growth. we're joining by npr's food and agriculture correspondant, dan,

what are the drugs we're talking about here? >> there is disease prevention use, which is you think an animal is under stress with, might get sick, exposed to sickness, you want to head that off, or there is treating a sick animal, but there is a lot used, and many of them overlap with anti-biotics used in human health. >> so when they say they will not use them to spur growth, does that mean they can't use them to treat diseases? >> no, they can use it to treat diseases, there is talk about how much it is used for growth, the industry says it's maybe 15%. there's some statistics in pigs that indicate maybe 20%.

some critics in the past say it's much more than that. they're now saying the drugs cannot be used routinely in field to promote growth, but they can be used to prevent disease. and that's a judgment call. when is it needed, when is it not, and that's where there will be a lot of attention. >> in a way, it won't affect the meet very much at all. it's useful to remember that we're not really talking about risks of residues on the meat. we're talking about creating bacteria on the animal that's will be resistant to the anti-biotics. how much will this affect activities on the farm? will it really reduce the risk

of antibiotics. and that will talk about disease prevention. how much is necessary, and how much will it be get rid of without compromising the health of the animals. >> so why the voluntary approach, why not regulate these drugs? >> well, the fda's argument was if you put a formal regulatory proposal out there, and you have a comment period and potential for lawsuits, it could take much longer and many much more expensive and accomplish less in the end than if you basically work with industry and say look, these uses without be justified, so just work with us here. and they went with it. >> thank you for joining us.

>> my pleasure. this is pbs "newshour weekend sunday." there is a connection that says that those that don't know history are doomed to repeat it. the russian navy agreed to pull out on march 30th, not this march 30th, but 158 years ago today. to the 1850s, russia fought forces from britain, france, and the kingdom of sardinia for control of the crimean peninsula. >> i think it was always up in one way or another russian territory. >> back then, russia's rationale was to protect the local population. sound familiar?

>> i think there is a pattern in history in general where certain states say two great empires. >> the fighting was so intense that hundreds of thousands of men lost their conflict. they wrote about the charge of the light brigade fighting in that very conflict. quoting there is not a reason why, but a reason to do or die. in his sketches, he described how a russian soldier coped with the pain after an amputation saying if you don't think, it's not much, it all comes from thinking. so if you don't mind, it doesn't matter. the world is watching whether the europeans mind what is happening. and what happens at the negotiates table may determine what lessons were learned or if

they will be repeated once more. join us tomorrow on air and online on "the newshour." we will bring you the latest on the crisis in ukraine. that's it for this "newshour the crisis in ukraine. that's it for this "newshour weekend." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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