♪ amna: good evening, i am amna nawaz. judy woodruff is a chaos in iraq. the president and protesters reject the -- the nominee for prime minister linkiran. long recovery. fema's disaster relief in u.s. territories like puerto rico lagged behind the mainland. d, unconventional wisdom. two nob prize-winning economist question the impact o immigrants on competition in the workplace. >> there is more evidence that the influx of large numbers of outsiders [indiscernible] amna: all that and more on tonight's "pbs newshour ."

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♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for publicroadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. stephanie: good evening, i am stephanie sy atewshour west. we will return to amna nawaz and the fullgr p after these headlines. in israel, official results of that country's primary. netanyahu won by a landslide for the likud party witde72%. saar got only 22%. netanyahu prevailed this bite corruptionted of charges. if he wins in the march general election, he will hane the third in the year to form a government. businesses and parts of hong ko brought to a standstill as antigovernment protesters

ta aeted shopping malls for third day in a row. riot police stepped up their presence, confronting clouds into --or crowds and escng several out of the building. it is in the semiautonomous chinese territory. at least 20 people dead after a werful typhoon barrel through the philippines, bringing misery to christmas celebrations. it made several land lls across t country's central region with high winds and poundingains that forced thousands to flee their homes. residents woke up to inundated villagesnd waded through flooded streets and debris. services held across indonesia and thailand today to mark the 15th anniversary of a desk --na devastating t in the indian ocean. it claimed the lives of some 230,000 people. many participated in mass prayers.

in thailand survivors visited morials to lay read this and flowers for loved ones. to this day, thousands of people are believed to still be unaccounted for. back in this country, 200 foot tall redwood tree fell in california's muirods on christmas a woman was also hospitalizju for es. the tree fell following a series wter storms which a park spokesman said may have loosened the ground around the roots. pennsylvania's roman catholic diocese paid nearly $84 million victims of sexual abuse by clergy. most of the' st's diocese launched victim compensation funds after a pennsylvania grand jury report on the abuse and the 'chu's efforts to cover it up. wall street extended its year

end rally, tnks to a boost from retail and technology companies p the dow jones gained 106 points. the nasdaq rose 69 points to cross the 9000 point mark for the rst time. the s&p 500 added 16. still to come, civil unrest continues in the president reject the nominee for prime minister. -tfema's lom disaster funding lags behind money for the mainland. zimbabwe faces famine after decades of financial and agricultural decline. and much more. >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and in the west from our waltercr kite bureau of journalism at arizona state university. amna: in iraq, month-long

protest in major cities led to the resignation of one prime b ministering to demands from reform, but political leaders have been in -- unable to name a replacement, leaving protesters as animated as ever. lisa desjardins takes a closer lookte how protest led to currt political unrest. lisa: basra tonight live by the smell of burning tires. sharply rejecting the latest choice for the job. currently a regional governor, but protesters see another entrenched politician. >> what did he offer? did he fight corruption? it is still there. there are no services. whever you do, you will not gain the prime minister position. lisa: protesters have a pivotal ally, the iraqisi pnt who

refused to nominate, saying it would cause more bloodshed. that may violate the constitution and president sali offeredsign over the issue. clear in this uprising have been protests inze b -- basra a baghdad. the map shows another issue, the influence of neighboring iran which black -- which bac militias in iraq. rejection of iran's influence andraqi corruption sparked protests in october. that led to the resignation of the last prime minister, adil abdul-mahdi, last month. more than 450 protesters have largely after security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition at them. demanding a politically independent leader. >> we do not want to prime

minister for these political parties. we want to topple the regime and change the constit:ion. theore fuel comes from economy, anemic with high unemployment among the young. concern from those with jobs that their wages fall short. >> my will -- my mother passed away at the hospital because there is noin medice. i could not afford her treatment. lisa: tonight, iraq a country without a leader and a protest with no sign of backing down. amna: for more, the author of reclaiming iraq, the 1920 revolution in the founding of the doctor -- the state. thank you. this is the third time in a month iraq has been unable tori name a minister. why is this so difficult and how

s?far out of the norm is t >> there are so many candidates rod all come from the same pool objected bysters. they are n a government or a party or a bloc, but the eire political body in charge from 1993 until now. problems have been acculating, 15, 16 years of failures. people are fed up with everyone involved. they are asking for faces not own to have been involved in any stage of the past 15 years, people whose hands have not been polluted by iraqi moy or blood, or the dignity of the iraqi people. it is hard to convince the parties to bring in an outsider. amna: that leads to another question. the protesters are generally young. 24 years old or younger.

they know what they do not want, but do these protesters know what they do want? is anything going tooe acceptablehem? >> that is the problem. they t have been practiciir veto power. the m oia is floatiames. they're saying, no, we do not want this person. th do not have an organizing committee that willooinate every activity. they are dispersed all over the south and central iraq. it is very hard also to find a spokesperson or entity tha t wil speak ir behalf. it is very hard to see them presenting what they want. it is easier to see they will wait for the political elite and theross to bring up an action thats automatic.

even though the last couple days we have seen signs they might be entertaining names that have been floating around, like an mp, a member of parliament. that is in his favor because most being blamed are traditional parties. he is a new slant. amna: do most iraqis side with the protesters? >> protesters are speaking on behalf of iraqis. this is very hard. we do not see any counter demonstrations or voices discrediting them from the other side. the only way t know what the

silent majority of 40 million iraqis wants, that is what we hope, that the next government will prepare for general election. amna: who could benefit from instability in iraq? >> a lon list, of course. certainly the neighboring countries come to mind first because they are benefiting. the weaker iraq gets, the more they can advance their in saudi arabia, turkey. also tourists. there are -- terrorists. eey are trying and and practice their malicious activities. also the iraqioliticians are

interested because rule of law is hurting them and curbing their ability to practice corruption. amna: how doe iraqis see u.s.? do they think the u.s. has anything to do with the state of their nation? >> the u.s. is the midwife that brought this change. everything we have is based on the activity of the united states from 2003 to 2011. a lot of the dysfunctionrnity of the gont is on the iraqis themselves because they cannot t their act together. ra is not just the united states area the average, numbers we presented, iraqis, over 80% view americans in a favorable way. 20%e view government.

there is that dichotomy. amna: thank you for joining us. ♪ amna:ar w just days away from the start of a new year. yet, in u.s. territories of the they are still dealing with a w response by fem when it comes to recovering from hurricanes maria and irma. those hurrices which flooded and leveled parts of puerto rico and the virgin islands more than two years ago in 2017. journalist have spent time on those islands and found thousands of recovery projects have yet to get the full number money from fema that they need.

sethe homelanrity correspondent has been covering this and he joins me from boston. thank you to the "newshour." your reporting was based on documents fro o freed information act request. what do those documents show about the pace of recovery funds? >> when my colleague mark walker and i were filing thesees re, we went in with this question -- we know puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands virgin islands are sthuggling since two hurricanes devasted them, but is the recovery process slower for them,ather than states in the mainland of the country? we wanted to know that specifically when it came to federal funds whether or not there was a system in placerdhat made it for the territories to receive that money so that they could expedite their repair. weocused on critical infrastructure projects, schools

and hospitals, roads, things you need for your home. what we found is the system for those projects wasrs cume andomplex and resulted in a debate between l fema anal government over how much fema wouldh over and how mcal govement would cover. in regards to the exact results of our reporng, we found out of thousands of requests made, just a fraction have been approved. a small amount of the money allocated for the territories made it downo people on the ground, which is not the case for other states by hurricanes. amna: how big of a diskirity are we t about? heaid the process is cumbersome when it comes to the u.s. territories. is it vastly different when u it

comes . mainland states? >> yes, in texas 3000 critical infrastructures were approved. puerto rico,90 you can see the disparity what does that mean on the ground? st. croix, where there regularly is only one hospital for people to go to, it means there is still a hole in their roof and an entire floor has been shut down due to mold still spreading through the hospital. nurses are still working. as a result, have rashes. they are fighting through that to provide care. at one point they had no working operating rooms, due to the damage that still exists. that was this fall. this is still the state of this place. the way fema works, it is a reimbursement system when you talk to government aloffi they might say it is

on the local government to front the money, then we repay them. when you talk to people in these mmunities they say we are already at a disadvantage. financially we do not receive the same grants. the medicare system is different. we are already at a disadvantage. you add on top of that that fema funding for these territoriess also different. up until earlier this year, people on rritories needed to prove a certain percentage of these critical infrastructures, a percentage of t damage, was caused by the hurricane. it was not predisaster damage. congressas acknowledged that leading to delays and allowed fema to waive that requirement, but it still took months to coma toagreement with local government aec de if they

would partially repair or completely rebuild facilities. the hospital i was referencing, they - weren' they have not even moved into their temporary facility. that is scheduled for spring of 2020. actually, it might be summer 2020. they will be in the thick of their sumr hurricane season. amna:here was conversation about logistical hurdles to surmount when you talk about gettingid to puerto rico a place like puerto rico or the u.s. virgin islands. it is easier to put it on a s tok to texas than it islands. do any of that feed a cumbersome process for residents there? >> of course course. transportation for one. that is a challenge to provid resources to places not part of

the mainland. we have to acknowledge these two hurricanes hitting backo back, damage was unprecedented. ate the t fema was dealing with a lot of other natural disasters, wildfires in california and flooding. when you talk to certain officials in the territori they would say, some things we did not know. also we have to provide paperwork, some which got damaged. and to some employees were forced to flee as a resulthof hurricane. amna: it is an incredible of reporting. i encourage youo read it on the new york times website. another today, this focusing on prevacid -- president trump's bordertr wall. yoel to the area, much of which is on a at land. private landowners that the government would need to declare

via eminent domain. what did those folks on the ground tell you? >> youre right. in south texas most of the path for the border wall goes through private land. thus far the administration built 93 miles, most on federal land. they onlyhe obtained three of 144 miles on private lan those individuals they said choice. will they voluntarily give up their land to the government for the exchange of money, or do they risk being ten to the court, where the government can assert eminent domain and get the land anyway? ey have a range of views. i talked to landowners who vocally support president trump and believe what he is saying with regard to border security, but they want to remind people, the border wall is not being built on the border. it is being dealtth one mile the united states, meaning they would lose easy access as they describe it, to

much of their land. for oneua indiv more than half of the acres he uses for farming. thats the real-world consequence for them. they do not have many options when it comes to the ability of the government to use eminent domain. na: the homeland security correspondent from the new york times, thank you. ♪ amna: stay with us. coming up on the "newshour," two nobel prize-winning economist challenge the orthodoxy on trade animpact of immigrant orders. author sarah broom discusses her award-winning book "the yellow house." and rare watercolors by british artist jmw turner. the u.n. sounding the alarm of

the growing food crisis in zimbabwe. 60% of the population does not have access to adequate food. we will talk to people with deep understanding of the situation, but first we have this report. >> in what used to be called southerns africa' breadbasket, today zimbabweans are desperate for food. more than half of the populati is food insecure. fthe worldd program is sounding the alarm. >> we are facing the worst hunger crisis in more than a decade. the situation is nothi short of tragic. there is no other way of putting it: report zimbabwe is in duriro its worstht in decades. for rural farmers, erratic rain paerns have proven catastrophic. herds of elephants died from

drought-related starvation this year. the crisis is largely management -- man-made. >> shortage of currency, runouay inflation,ing unemployment, lack of fuel, prolonged power outages. they afflict the urban population and rural villages. reporter: zimbabwe's inflation rate is the world's highest at 300%. many blame economic turmoil on the former president mugabe. the anti-colonial icon was at the front of their independence in980, but held power 30 years, presiding over nee decline off the most -- one of the continent's most prosperous countries. there were hopes his -- hopes his successor could f it are

growing thin. shielding zimbabweans from rising food costs. amna: for more we turn to two men who know zimbabwe well. the spokesman for the u.n. world food progr, the lead agency working to alleviate tood crisis in zimbabwe. he was just there last week. harry thomas junior, american diplomat and serveas the u.s. ambassador to zimbabwe 2016 to 2018. welcome to you both. jerry, 60% of the country' 14 million do not have the food to meet their basic needs. tell me what you saw and heard from families on the ground. lamity.s a national people do not have enough food. larders are dry, the harvest comes in once a year in april.

stocks from thaare largely exhausted. they are looking forward to the next harvest in april. the rainy season has arrived two months late. there are patches of gen, but the lack of rain is causing problems. seeds put into the ground have not germinated.ng replanill have to be done. in the meantime people are strugglingo get by in a major way, taking kids out of school,o sellin precious belongings, cattle. lots of people hurting. amna: give me a specific example of the kinds of things people are telling you. what is an average family subsisting on, day-to-day? >>hey are eating less, skipping meals. little bit of maize meal.

the price has skyrocketed. . loaf of bread is 20 times what it was a month a maize,, the staple fos increased multiple times. it is a huge struggle to get by. amna: ambassa trmas, you mentioned the drought and the broader climate crisis in the region. th is not just due to drought, is it? f no. the peoplembabwe deserve better. this is beuse of massive corruption for many years. the government and leaders of zimbabwe are only interested in power accumulation and wealth maintenance. it is unfortunate, man-made despite the drought. we are very pleased the u.s. has stepped up and has put $170 million toward food security. anthe british and euronion have as well. people of zimbabwe deserve better. amna: that mismanagement,

alarming to know how a country can go from being the continent's breadbasket to this doward spiral where people are struggling for basic needs. ckhow did that happen so q? >> it happens when leaders take all the money they earn through selling minerals, as they should -- gold, plutonium. they are a very wealthy country, and put it in their pockets. they have over 130 dams no longer maintained. wells are no longer maintained. people are digging more holes to get water. they keep digging deeper and deeper. there is less war, exacerbated by drought and climate change. amna: yo people on the ground or having to make. we are focused on the food crisis because that is one of the most visible, but zbabwe ans are dealing with more.

what are theipple effects you are worried about? >> we are very focused on scaling up. we were going to double within the next few weeks the number of zimbabweans we are suppoing. those in crisis and emergency leve of food insecurity. we are going from 2 million people to over 4 million. we would be doing that rough the peak of the season january through march, ahead of the next harvest in april. a major scale recalling all hands to the pump and a significant amount of money. amna: i w reading the previous world food assistance going into zimbabwe. tell me what is happening now. >> with hyperinflation and limited availality of local currency, we are having to do a wholesale switch from cash

assistance to income food assistance. because much of the rest of africa has also suffered from drought and flooding, we are having to source food much further afield. latin america, asia. it ia massive, old-fashioned logistical operation. shipping food into south aica, mozambique, and getting it to landlocked zimbabwe. amna: you mentioned all the u.s. money going into zimbabwe, and corruption is part of the problem that got them there today. is there any concern continuing corruption could mean the people of zimbabwe do not get that assistance? >> yes, that is. that is our concern, the ntgover's concern. we need to hold the government accountable.

tefor example, they imp wheat from tanzania. the world$ price is150 a ton. they charged $600. they inflated the price o the wealthy and cronies can buy it and sell it at a price over double the worldwide price. they are trying to import some from mozambique, but theyid want to be n hard currency. another african nation saying, u pay me in hard currency. the people will suffer. these are a brilliant people. i was there for three years. they had six rhodes scholars. i or sure they will have to see people not send their kids to school, to have to walk to work,ve to not he ability to get secondary education. amna: we have less than 30

seconds left and i have to ask a big question. with all this aid is there hope things will get better for the people of zimbabwe? >> i have confidence in the u.s. gornment, our european p lleagues, u.n. agencies, stepping up to he people of zimbabwe. we need the government of zimbabwe to be transparent. they have grains in their storage. tell us how much so we can help. amna:e transparent and accountable. >> yes. amna: thanks to both of you. ♪ amna: as reported rently, esther duflo a abhijit banerjee won nobel prizes on poverty. they wanted to see wrkt actually

and what does not, to improve the lives of the poor. the married couple also cast their critical eyes on the economicorld in their new book "good economics for hard times." paul zeros in on it for our series, making sense. >> there was a lot to teach us about the portant issues people are fighting about today. >> important issues say esther duflo and abhijit banerjee, like immigration which so many economist get wayng. >> theyh well, it is supp and demand. supply goes up, price goes down. >> if more people are willing to work cheaply, wages go down. >> exactly, there is no evidence for it. sothere are many such es of this study. there is no evidence the influx of large numbers of outsideg

does anythinto the wages. paul: instead he says the influx of workers stimulates the economy. abhijit: they buy stuff other low income workers sell. paul: we saw this within nd immigrant frn new york. a refugee in the 1990's. >> at the time w [indiscernible] paul:mm butrants result -- revived the city by working and spending. >> to have an economy you have to have workers and consumers. paul: she teaches at co.ate universi >> the influx os f refug utica allowed us to retain smaller industries looking for highly motivated labor. paul: moreover, the work the immigrants do doesthot compete wiative wkers who for the most part will not take this

same jobs. look at union construction workers. theysed to make more than they do now. due to, it seems, the influx of immigrants. abhijit: that is a good example of something which has not been commented on. high skilled laborers lose with of the influx of other comparable people. the political conversation has it backwards. high slled immigrants do havet an imp. low skilled do not. paul: another chapter, pains from trade. playing off a truism, gains from trade. esth: economists repeat until they are blue in t face that trade is good for you and the country, but it ise based on very strong assumption. paul: the assumption that people who lose jobs to foreign competition will simply up and move to get a new one. abhijit: except in the last 40 years there is an enormous

in mobility 7% of the people used to move from county to county in the now it is 4%. ago. people have stopped moving. esther: itna is the emot investment in the community, your identity as someone working in a factory many years. maybe you have become manager or something like that. paul: in factories i visited, workers develop specific skills that are nontransferable. the milliken textilein mill south carolina -- >> you go throughin the tg program and then need nine to 10 months of practical experience before you g competent and know what you are doing to make it perform correctly. paul: same story at this factory in alabama, which revisited when debate over trade with mexico

was raged. technicay this was unskilled labor, but it took me eight minutes to do what the average worker does in e. >> i am hitting myself in the index finger. paul: back then it took a year or so to master this s useless anywhere else. when we returned, the job was so mechanized. >> if you can screw in a lightbulb, you can do it. paul: real expertise rend obsolete. yes we have adjustments to teach new skis, buthen you bother to cruncthe numbers, theywh show at laid-off workers lose in wagealone is far greater then what is spent to reimburse and retrain them. a third and last example of where economics have led us astray is taxes. theng republican mahe classic argument a few years ago. >> if you raise tax res you collec more dollar, but then

you have economic effects. seifou rax rates you reduce incentives for a people o ivity and you get lower income. paul: arthur told me he moved from california to tennessee beuse there was a lower tax rate. abhijit: it wou s be real if he did not move. the nice thi about, economics a lot of data sets. there is no clear evidence if you raise taxes the rates stop working. paul:th nor ie evidence that benefits keep the bore -- poor from working. is there n the welfare queen or king stereotype? esther: there is no evidence for in the u.s. or otherdo countries e see that when people are given health packages they become lazy. paul: evidence upending conventional wisdom in

economics, when applied to poverty alleviaon, earned esther duflo and abhijit banerjee there nobel prize. ♪ amna: jeffrey brown has another title further "newshour" bookshelf. author sarah broom's memoir "the yellowoo house," w thero award for nonfiction. owjeff began by asking about the r of the yellow house, her mother, ivory mae. sarah: she raised me and m i11 siblinthis house. it is my mother's place, gnificant emotionally for all of us. personal memoir you have written. but you did not show up until about page 100. you are telling a larger story of your family and this area of the city. sarah: that is true.

it felt nash -- natural. i tried beginni the story with ackedut something felt it contex i really wanted to make this world that existed in context. i wanted to talk about my grandmother and how she made houses, how she was obsessed. w she passed that quality on to my mother, and tell my mother passed it to me. when this house is ge, what we feel is so much more intense. a it is not ju house, or you really understand at made this place. mother, ivory mae, boughsethe yellow h in 1961 when she os 19 years old. it was her first ay house. within its walls my mother made her world. i really wanted to think about

what it means,ot just for the person who does not know new orleans, but for the person who really knows a place, to get really up cse to something and tell that story, but also tnk about and figure in what distance does, what it means if the story of new orleans becomes for someone onlyna kat, and they only see that story or images from 200 mile away, how thatelhanges theirionship to a place. i wanted to go very high up and present that view but also say, look what you are missing. ldthis 19-yearho bought the house, my brother who goes there every day after his job withnasa. -- wh nasa. and to think about the innate boo of being the baby ofdr 12

ch telling the story. that felt painful to do, and it is something i had to reckon with the entire tias writing. how dare i tell this story? it is not my story to tell and i am telling too much. jeff: you figured your way into tell it throug memories, archival? there is a lot of research, but you interviewed family members as far back as you could? sarah: i did. the foundation was a year, 2011, when i moved to new orleans and moved to the french quarter. on the busiest corner and a of w orleans. i interviewed every single on. of my siblin i gained hundreds of hours of audio ierviews which i then transcribed. those make the basis.

layered on top of the -- that, driving to various louisiana towns, cemeteries to get archives. intervwing people, reang everything i can because there were no books about new orleans eaot. it is justhat sexy ncompared to the rest ofew orleans. jeff: did you feel compelledat o correct katrina plays a role i because ended up destroying the yellow house. katrina got so much attention. sarah: i felt moved and buoyed by the idea i could write something that does not exist. there is a little girl right now still living at the short end of the street where i grew up.

i wrote it for her so there could be some history. one of the striking things abo new orleans east is the way in which it does not always appear on a map of new orleans. i wanted to literally put new orleans east on the map. jeff: looking back, didn't make sense? did you see for yourself? sarah: i grew up with a feeling of being bifurcated as part of e way i thought about the world. i thought about how our street was cut off, how new orleans east was cut off by an industrial canal from the rest ofhe city. ntit grew mea person who noticed bifurcations, disp about the ways in which

injuste was baked into the soil of a place. one thing that intrigued me as a kid was how soft the ground wass child playing hide and go seek i did not understand the ground was subsiding. i just knew it was soft ground. when it rains the water pools for one otwo weeks. to have been bn out of this place where we were really thinking about environntal issues even then, but not knowing what to call them, so much of my composion anhow i write and how i think as a human, is based on having come from that ecific place. jeff:id who you come to feel you are writing this book for? sarah: nhews and nieces. the entire moment, now that the

book exists in the-- momenn the world, is really for them. 90 never heard of the national book award. to get the text from them, screenshots of tm watching the natial bookward is profnd for me. it is a step toward making them better readers even and that makes me hugely proud. jeff: the book is "the yellow house," by sarah broom. ♪ na: british painter j.m.w. turner was prolific and wide-ranging in his work. he traveled england and europe with a small watercolor case at his side. a rare show of watercolors

turner made throughout his career is on view at the mystic taport museumn connecti through february. it is the only nort american stop t make.agile works will jerrod bowen has our reports part of our ongoing arts and culture series, canvas. >> j.m.w. turner moved from cathedrals to coast, from the right of data the dark of night, from the towns of england to the luminescent glow of venice, italy. for the famed painter, they were wonders and watercolor. >> some of his most original and expressive and experimental, groundbreaking work was in watercolor on paper. >> that medium was where his ideas formed with a fervor, starting with the first he painted of this gorge at 7. -- age he painted more than 30,000 in his fetime. >> drawing and paintinasin

watercolorlmost a compulsion, a nervoustic. -- nervous tic. >> he is aenior curator with tate,io colle of tens of thousands of works including these watercolors that wen to the museum after his1 death in851. >> he certainly had a high opinion of himself. he was not a modest man. he realized he was a great artist and wanted to leave a legacy to the british nation. reporter:y ow that leg getting international burnishing. the watercolors, susceptible to light damage, only be shown once in a generation. after stops in italy and argentina it is making its only north america stop at connecticut's mystic seaport museum. >> this is the most significant

exhibition we have had in our 90 year reporter: when they were building this facility its president steve white told architectural team -- >> the conditions for the gpace have to d enough for turner, because that for us would be the most defining exhibition. reporter: this is a dream come true to mary -- marry turner's vision with the mystic river outside. >> because of his expression of the sea, of landscapes, he s brings the spirit of tace alive in a different way. >> do we have a sense howin he s wowith movement or do you think about color? >> it is about movement as well because color has to move. this is a coastline, there is a storm approaching. dscl are moving fast and the waves are crashing on the beach.

reporter: five years ago the movie painted the artist as a frenzied storm of creativity. >> [laughter] thatilm was a movie, is what i would say. reporter:n i truth turner was likely more methodical. >> he must have worked with great care and precision some images are extraordinarily finally worked, minely details. instead of broad sweeps of --nt, therere tiny dotss dots. reporter: while many of turner's anworks appear etherea idealized, he was fond of litte r, the little figures and animals and stuff that dot his

foreground. >> the real world is untidy. he wanted to root things in reality. reporter: his workhanged as often as his landscapes did, especially in venice. the work he produced in his final sit in 1830 led one critic to describe him as a magician. >> the real thrill of vene was the fact it has this extraordinary light. for anrtt putting light into pictures, the effect the has and how it merges sea and sky made an enormous impression on him. reporter:ed bowen, wgbh, mystic, connecticut. ♪

amna: tonight's brief but spectacular features singer-songwriter mike, one of the founding members of the beach boys. o -- they won over fans with their unique sounds. >> for many it is nostalgic when we sing wouldn't it be nice. when someone is in gradechool and listens to the beach boys and here's it for the first time, it totally relates to them at that stage of life. >> ♪ wouldn'e t itce if we were older ♪ >> the beach boys emphasized harmony. what brought us together was the love of harmonizing. christmas parties, thanksgiving. arliest memories of my cousin brian singing danny boy.

what an amazing voice he had. i enjoyed the base part -- bass part. the specialness is one of the e various parts cgether and blending. that is the secret sauce, the blend as well as the harmonies. i rember the first time we ever heard our record on the radio in 1961. >>♪ surfing is the only life >> it was played on her radio station which played four or five new singles by various groups. the one that got the most call in request would become the record of the week the following week. siwe had c, uncles and aunts phoning in an easily won. the problem started with my uncle marie noteing very

ethical and he sol our publishing for a minuscule amount compared to what it is worth. that was a tough thing to do. he also did not credit me with writg so many of the songs i created all the words four. unfortunately because of the i had to go into si lawsuit ation to establish my authorship to read these are unfortunate things that happened. if you focusn that you lose sight of the positivity our music has meant,ce traed boundaries and borders and ethnics. gro to go out on stage and sing these songs, is a precious miracle. myame is mike love and this is my brief but spectacular take on my life is a beach boy. amna: you can watch additional

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♪ ♪ - if you're like me, you're probably sick and tired of the same old two or three pasta sauces you make over and over again. so, today on milk street, we're going to give you three new recipes. we're starting with a pesto alla genovese with basil, but it's made entirely differently u than the way ed to make it. then we traveled to syracuse in sicily to find out how to mak a fro wi coarsely chopped pistachios. na and y, here in the states, we go down to al forno in providence, rhode island, for a great recipe. it's a pasta with fresh corn, tomatoes, and basil.