captioning sed by wnet ns >> sreenivasan: on this edition for sunday, january 12: the adminiration defends u.s. drone attacks. house democrats prepare to esliver impeachment articl this week. and in our signature segment: the sounds of singer ca buika. next on "pbs newshour weekend." >> wshour weekend is made possible by: .bernard and irene schwar sue and edgar wachenheim iii. the cheryl and philip milstein family. rosalind p. walter. nbarbara hope zuckerberg. charles rose we try to live in the moment, to not miss what's right in front of us.

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morning, both the secretary of defense and the national security advisor said they shared the president's view that there could have been multiple embassies targeted. neher official gave specific evidence. on cbs, defense secretary markif esper was askehe specific threat about four u.s. embassies being taeted was also shared with congress. >> well, the president didn't say there was a tangible-- he didn't cite a specific piece of evidence. what he said is he probably-- he believedd have been-- >> are you saying there wasn't one? >> i didn't see one with regard to four embassies. what i'm saying is i share the president's view that probably-- my expectation was they were going to go after our embassies. the embassies are the most prominent display of american presence in a country. >r > sreenivasan: both and national security adviser robert oal'briend the intelligence of an imminent threat "exquisite". >di> it's alwayicult, even with the exquisite intelligence that we have, to know exactly what the targets are. but it's certainly consistent with the intelligence to assume that they would hit embassies in at least four countries. >> sreenivasan: speaker of the house nancy pelosi said today

she does not think the trump administration has been" straigh the congress of the united states" about the reasons for killing soleimani. pelosi would not elaboraton the intelligence briefings since the drone attack, but did say she believes the so-cled "gang ofeight," leaders in the house and senate, should have been briefed in advance. on abc this morning pelosi announced that s will hold a closed-door democratic caucus meeting on tuesday morning to tidecide when to send the es of impeachment to the senate. the speaker dended her decision to delay the delivery of the articles to the senate for morth three weeks after the house impeached president trump in december. >> what we diwant, though, and we think we accomplished in the past few weeks, is that we wanted the public to see the need for witnesses, witness with firsthand knowledge of what happened, documentation which e p fresident has preventm coming to the congress as we review this. >> bus t, au know, leader mcconnell didn't budge on witnesses at all. he's not promising up front to have witsses. >> well, he has-- he will-- i think that he will be accountable to the american

people for that. >> sreenivasan: joining us now fntor more on the impeach that's coming in the 2020 campaign is special correspondent jeff greenfield, o wh in santa barbara. so, here we are, finally. nancy pelosi took some time. she said that she wouldn't do is until she was ready. she says now she's ready to hand it over to the senate. what do we know? what do we not know about whatnd changed her >> well, we know what changed her mind is a certain amound of pressure e threat that the senate might just scrap the whole idea. but it's whatwe don't know that i ink is the dominant issue. we do not know rely what the impeachment will look like. we do not know whether or not witnesses will be called, whether or not if mcconnell says no wite nesses, there willur republican senators to defect and insistt witnesses come and that documents be provided. we do not know if the senate votes that whether the white house will invoke executive privilege on some key potential witnesses, like former national security adviser bolton or chief of staff mulvaney. we do not know what would happen if the senators try to override

a ruling by the chief justice who presides over the center on issues like admitting witnesses. don't know about how thisngs we impeachment will play out. >> sreenivasan: what is the white house, i guess, and its allies, do with the possibility of any of these senators who defect from the party line? >> first thing they do is what we've already seen this week. ere'enormous pressure on republicans in the house and senate to stay with the presidonenverything. when senator mike lee of utah, very ce,onservatbjected to the kind of briefings that they were getting after the strike in president's champions, called the senator a "benedict arnold." so that's the first thing. put enormous political pressure, whether you can put political pressure on senators like susan collins and cory gardner, who arupor reelection in swing states, that's an interesting question. mentioned, was they can try to invoke executive privilege and telanl people like john bolto

mulvaney, you can't testify. and we don't know whether bolton in particular would defy the white house. it's gonna be an interesting couple of weeks. >> sreenivasan: yeah. so, here we are finally. january of 2020.eks are now in we've got iowa and new hampshire just around the corner. and it see that wherever i look, there's new polling data. oh, this person's up by two. this person is up by six. is this worth paying attention to? >> you know, i've often said that polling is the crack cocaine of political j.ournalis i mean, you look at the headlines, you know. "sanders surging!" and then you look and you realize the first four candidates in iowa are separated by five points, with only 40% of iowans saying they've made up their mind. and i haven't even mentioned the fact that two billionaires out thre, steyer and bloomberg, are spending like crazy. steyd er's pic some support in south carolina and nevada. bloomberg ispending $200illion, most of it in states that don't have primaries for a month or more. so it's a completely un- analyzable situation if you're trying to fire out, where do

we go from here. >> sreenivasan: if there are peopgle like mr. bloomb contesting something further down the line, what does this do to how important those early states were or are? >> it has the potential to completely undermine the enormo over-coverage of those early states. and i'm sure for some of those politicians in those stes, they're worried heout breaking rice bowl, as they say in china. bloomberg, and i steyer, demonstrates that you can skip those early states and withn infusion of huge amounts of money change the dynamiof thew hole campaign, i think in future years, those states may lose some of their clout. >> sreenivasan: all right. jeff greenfield joining us from santa barbara, thanks so much. >> okay. >> sreenivasan: for more on the 2020 presidential racethe latest on the impeachment inquiry, vis pbs.org/newshour. >> sreenivasan: there are three strains of the crippling and sometimes deadly polio virus. the world health orgization

has declared two of them eradicated. and the this on the run. newshour weekend special correspondent benedict moran and video journalist jorgen samso have our story from nigeria. bu reporter: in this town on the outskirts of a, the capital of nigeria, community health workers are searching for children. >> fine boy! >> reporter: they're looking for anyone under five who hasn't yet been vaccinated against the wild polio virus. that means going street-by-street, and house-by-house, until every child gets the oral polio vaccine. >> we are combing the border. we are ensuring that every child, eligible zeroo 59 months, is vaccinated. d>> reporter: unvaccinate children are immediately given two drops orally, and their finger is marked to show that they've been immunized. polio is a highly infectious disease that mainly affects children. it can cause pmanent paralysis, even death. it can onlycure,

be prevented by immunization. >> there's one good thing abt the people here: they are operative. when they see us, they are sure that they will bring out their children. we are known faces here. >> reporter: but vaccinators have not always been known and trusted here. a generation ago, nigeria had the second highest caseload of polio in the world, and the highest in africa. many, like 42-year-old dangana musa, were infected. as a young child, he lost the ability to walk. >> ( translated ): i remember when i used to play with children they would run around i would not be able to. i would just sit and cry and >> reporter: musa now works for the polio campaign. his job is to teach his neighbors about the importance of getting immunized. >> ( d translated ): i was t was important for me to tell my brothers and sisters to go with me to the hospital so that we can end thease so thato one else gets it after us. >> reporter: musa mahave reason to celebrate.

after three years with no wild polio cases, nigeria is set to be certified polio-free. the world health organization etwill make the decision se this year after reviewing nigeria's epidemiological data. if it can confirm the data and make the certification, it would mean that the entire continent of africa would be cleaof wild polio. how the continent got that way is a long story that began when the first polio vaccine was introduced in the united states ithe 1950's. the virus was last seen in america in 1979, but it remained devastating in much of the world, paralyzing more than 350,000 people every year in 125 countries as recently as 1988. in nigeria, most cases of polio infection used to come from the north. education here is lower than in the rest of the country. and misinformation about vaccines still exists here. ust like in the united states, where you have

vaccine-resistant groups, there people that their religion would say, "i don't want to access healthcare services vaccinations."t believe in there's a small group like that. there's another group that ltally they don't believe in western medicine, they don't elieve in immunization then there's a group that is just not aware. >> reporter: another group working to thwart the vaccine ef ifoboko haram, the extremist militant group trying to overthrow nigeria's government and establish an ispolamic state. d to anything that smacks of western educaon and values, keko haram militants attac and killed two women in 2013 who were vaccinating children. that was when boko haram was active in half of nigeria's states. after years of fhting, the nigerian government says they are now confined to remote areas of northeast nigeria. but the region is still sometimes too dangerous for health workers. so, vaccinators have wwith the nigerian military, to train soldiers to vaccinate children.

they've also turned to radio and tv ads to counter vaccine resistance and eourage new parents to vaccinate children. another strategy: health workers have trained0,000 women who, because they knew the local language and customs, became vaccine ambassadors. training women was crucial, because northern nigeria is conservative, and male health workers unrelated to family members often cannot access a household.but women health work, and they've been able to gain the trust of community members. polio workers have also brought the pro-vaccination messages directly to traditional leaders and mosques, where some imams, instead of becoming obstacles, have become educators. , on the outskirts of th northern city of kano,mam yahaya bello abubukar is training a group of young women. in turn, they will educate their villages about diseases including polio.

>> ( translated ): we all have to put in efforts, we have to be involved to help aeate awareneut the dangers of this disease. we are putting a lot of energy into it. toth we will eradicate the disease. >> reporter: three years of being polio-free is a milestone nigerian workers are proud of. kabiru rabiu has worked on nearly three decades.se here for >> from all the signs we have been seeing, we are othe rge of getting out polio from nieria. i will be extremely happy. i will be euphoric. because this is one of the longest public health interventions, compared to the eradication of smallpox. >> reporter: dangana musa too would d celebrate the the wild virus in africa. >): we will take it with gladness of heart because what we have worked for has now been achieved.

>> srnivasan: we like to lump our murusic andusicians into categories-- this one is rock, this one is r&b, this one is classa.ical, et cet but there are some artists who defy genres. one isly concha buika, or si "buika" as she calls herself from singing in tzz clubs as a teen to taking the stage last year as lead vocalist in the band ntana, she's carved a path all her own. buika joined newshour weekend's tom casciato to discu musical style that appears to comrye from eere at once. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: in a small studio in smiami suburb, buika list back to a vocal for an upcoming album. ♪ ♪ >> it's a beautiful, beautiful song that talks about when you lost someone and you don't realize it and you don't want to, you know, you don't want to talk to yourself and say to yourself, "hey that's over," you know? >> reporter: yeah. >> when you keep going and ep going in your mind with a...

like an obsession in your mind. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: her obsession at this moment is getting her vocal part exactly right. she tries another take. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the only obsession i have in this world is music. and methe person that to love you have to realize that, that you already have your first love, which is the music, you know?t, >> reporter: that can't be easy for the other person who loves you... > i understand, i understand, but, you know, it's a realityn. when you, i m i work for the humanity. ♪ ♪'s a big, big thing.

> h> reporter: describi vocal style is difficult, because she fuses flamenco wi jazz, soul, blues, spanish folk styles it's no wonder she's been called "a singer from everywhere clearly that's a notion she embraces. >> i love all the countries of the world, because i'm from them. i'm from nigeria, i'm italian, mm-hmm, i'm cuban. i'm colombian, too. i love columbia, i'm colombian, of course i'm colombian, yeah! yeah, i'm brazilian, i'm from brazil, too. >> reporter: she's actually from spain, the daughter of political refugees who fled the dictatorship in their home of equ>orial guinea. > my mama and my papa, they, theleft africa. they ca to palma de mallorca in spain, which is an amazing, beautiful island. >> reporter: for most of a r youth, bus raised by her single mother. >> you know my father left when

.was nine-years-old we were, like, nine, ten people at home. and my father wasn't there. and my mama uses the music as a resource, as a weapon against sadness at home, because the situation was not sy. and she didn't recognize between the different pop tribes, you know, like rock, blues, opera music, whatever. to my mom, all the music was the eme. she used to danrything, youic know, a style, even if it was pavarotti! >> reporter: that makes a lot of sense to me, because your music includes so many musics in it. ♪ ♪ i was listening to your song "deadbeat," one of your recent releases. and i was trying to descre it to a friend. and i said, "itc kind of uh hno, prog., reggae, with some new orleans trombone."

( laughs ) >> yeah. >> reporter: but music didn't make her childhood easy. she was raised in virtually the only black family in her community. what was that like for you? >> well, sometimes good, sometimes strange, sometimes at that time, to grow in a place where you are the unique in something, obviously you're gonna have a lot of trouble everybody around you make you feel like, you know, that you not gonna be able to be someone, you know, in your life, because you were born that way. it wa black girl, just because you are a black girl, you probably won't be able to absolutely othing. i felt that it was a bad luck, my li, you know? and i, i didn't feel comrtable with it. and i was angry. i was just angry. ♪ ♪

but th, life taught t that's not true. no matter if you are white in country where everybody is chinese. can reach the moon.gs right, you ♪ ♪ >> w reporter: bui intent on doing her music right. she first began to perform in public as a teenager. >> i was singing everywhere: in weddings, in clubs, and everywhere i was singing all types of music. >> reporter: and how o were wh you knew you were an ar stist? >>ll don't know, because i'm know?orkin' on it, you ♪ ♪ >> reporter: her voice got her into the music biness, but its unediqueness went unrecognt

first. at one point, you made your way to las veg. >> uh-huh. >> reporter: and i understand that in las vegas you were a turner impersonator? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: what was that like? >> cool. >> reporter: yeah, but did you eir say to yourself, "damn have this great voice. why am i impersonating another great snger when i'm a gat singer?" >> well, because when you sing for someone, doesn't matter if you are in a big stage, in a nall stage, in a wedding, your home singing for your family, or singing for someone who's ill because you wanna make him feel good. that is a big stage. >> reporter: she was already i her 30's when she released the first album creditedolely to her. with her third in 2008 she was nominated for a latin grammy. that's an award she would win in 201for her collaboration with the legenda cuban pianist and composer chucho valdes. ♪ ♪

and soon the former wedding swainger playing a wedding singer in a film by osorr-winning spanish direct pedro almodovar. buika is also an acmplished songwriter. i want to ask you about one of your songs. your most recent single, which basicly says over and over again, "i love you. go away." >> yes, sir. "vete gue te quiero," which means "get the he out of here because i love you, you know?" sentence is a littlbit- contradictory. but it is not. you sometimes know that this someone that you are falling in love wi is not good for you. love is beautiful and is, you know, love is the best. but love sometimes can also be a bitch. >> reporter: today, the woman who was told as a kid she

wouldn't amount to anything has become one of the most accomplished singeraround. do you think there will ever be a buika impersonator inas gas? >> i don't think so. >> reporter: why not? it could happen. >> no, no. >> : reportat-- what advice would you give to her if there was a buika impersonator in las vega ts future? >> marry to a lawyer! ( laughs ) ♪ ♪ we have to celebrate life all the time. i celebrate-- life all the time, in my s home, with , with my lover, with my mama, wian my brothersisters, and with all the ople that i know. and i gonna do it 'til my last day, because this life's been a gift. i'm not scared to show who i am. ♪ ♪

>> this is pbs newshoureekend, sunday. >> sreenivasan: in the italian ps, at a ski resort that thrives on the snow and icof a vast presena glacier, imate ange is not music to any one's ears. since 1993, the glacier has lost more than a third of its volume. but noan american ice sculptor is using his talents to turn ice into musical instruments for a series of chilly concerts with a message. ♪ ♪ the ice music festival presents artistic and physical challenges to musicians and audiences alike. winter gear is required in temperatures that hover around 32 degrees the concert hall is an igloo built with ten tons of snow. >> we have blow up balloons and start throwing snow at the balloons and water and you slowly grow the mountain of snow over the top of your balloons d en you come inside with chain-saws and a lot of strong

men and you sculpture the entire inside of the space that you have here. >> rtsreenivasan: tim lin first made ice sculptures in his native new mexico, where he had t ihe idea to make an violin. it shattered when he over t ♪ ♪ed the strings. sincehen he's managed to make a wide range of instruments. >> it is difficult to build the different instruments for different reasons. each instrument has its own difficulty, either maybit is sneo nd delicate and easy to break, or hard to get inside the small places, or it big a heavy it is hard to pick up and move around. >> sreenivasan: there will be 54 c foncerts in the iglm the beginning of january through the end of march. orthganizers hopunusual sounds of ice music will draw at glacier and to climate change. >> ( transled ): our business >>f ( translated ):e climate changes we will not be able to live this kind of experience.

seso our message we want t out is for us all to look after our environment and climate. >> sreenivasan: newshour will have complete coverage of the seventh democratic debate on tuesday in des moines, iowa, and the latest news from congress on the votes that will move the impeachment of president trump fr house to trial in the senate. that's all for this edition of" pbs newshour weend." i'm hari sreenivasan. thanks for watching. have a good night. io cang sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> pbs newshoureekend is made possible by: bernard and irene scartz.

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