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for the first time, russian has reported an ink -- ukrainian incursion into its territory.

ukrainian officials have not confirmed the attack. fierce battles continue in major population centers and new attempts at mass evacuations of citizens failed again. a special correspondent gives our coverage. >> a massive early-morning explosion this time inside russia. an oil dip a went up in a fireball. video emerged on social media. ukraine's foreign minister would nocomment. >> i can other confirm or reject the claim that ukraine was

involved in this. >> the kremlin spokesperson said he can install progress for peace plan. >> of course this is not something that can be perceived as continuing peace talks. parks sides resumed talks after following up on in person negotiations earlier in the week. no signs of a breakthrough. ukrainians were exposed to significant levels of radiation. the head of the iaea said he had no confirmation and radiation levels were under control. >> the general situation is

quite normal. there was relatively higher level of localized radiation because of the movement of heavy vehicles of the plant. on the battlefield, they continue to put up strong sistance. this was notormal. we did not go to another territory. i am obliged to protect my home. >> today, ukraine we took two territories in the north. u.s. defense officials tell pbs news hour 20 to 25% of u.s. forces have repositioned away from the capital but vladimir zelinski said that was always part of moscow's plant.

>> to concentrate on other important directions were will be very difficult for us. >> president zelinski said they are planning to carry out more attacks and in the northeast. the once bustling metropolis is now unrecognizable largely deserted. a general sense is one of defiance, pride, a general stoicism. there is also anxiety about how long this is going to last, what is going to happen next. >> further south, residents waited for relief. today a peerless operation got underway. to evacuate those trapped for rge-ale evacuaon failed.

their effort has been made even more difficult by the rootless warfare as russian soldiers keep fighting for control othe city. earliethis week, local residents filmed the chaos. as the desperation mounts, so the casualties of this war. in the northwestern city, mourners grieve for a service meant killed by shelling. >> there cannot be any peace with russians. i will never forve them for the death of my father. >> his father one who paid the ultimate sacrifice. >> the u.s. unemployment rate is

now at its lowest level since the pandemic again. the labor department reported that employers added 431,000 jobs in march. that pushed the unemployment rate 3.6% down from 3.8% in february. wages rose from a year earlier. that wasn't enough to keep up with inflation. we will take aloser look after the news summary. the cdc confirmed it will end up pandemic policy that turned away most asylum seeking migrants at the border. the rule took effect two years ago under president trump. today's announcement said that it will end on may 23. the biden administration is making plans to try to accommodate an expected influx of migrants. pope francis apologized to indigenous peoples in canada for abuses in residential schools.

more than 150,000 native children in a campaign of forced assimilation. members of indigenous communities attended today's vatican audience. i el shame. >> canadian officials have committed rampant abuse and hundreds of unmarked graves were discovered. the pope said he hopes to visit canada in july to apologize in person to survivors. rebels backed by iran have

agreed to a two-month truce. you went on voice says it will begin tomorrow and allow for shipments of fuel and some flights into yemen. the war began in 2014 but past attempts at cease-fires have failed to hold. sri lanka was rocked overnight by mass protests amid its worst crisis in memory. hundreds stormed barricades near the president's home and set fire to a bus. police fired tear gas and a water cannon. dozens of people were hurt and dozens more arrested. the nation has staggered under huge debt and fuel shortages. the taliban have released to detainees -- two detainees in afghanistan. the state department said today they are in qatar awaiting travel home. the release came as a taliban have been pressing for outside humanitarian aid and economic assistance.

back in this country, there is word that jen saki will leave this spring to work for msnbc cable news. she declined to confirm reports of her plans today but she faced questions overrepresented the white house. >> there are a range of stringent ethical and legal requirements that are imposed on everybody in this administration and many past about any conversation you're having with future employers. thats true of any industry you're working in and i have abided by those and tried to take steps to go beyond that as well. >> she took the job january 2021 and said she wanted to stay just one year. the u.s. transportation department is re-imposing tougher fuel economy standards for new vehicles. they will have to average at least 40 miles per year -- per gallon by 2026.

ford and general motors say they will recall some 1-point-4 million vehicles. g-m says 2014 and 2015 "chevrolet equinox" and "g-m-c terrains" may have faulty windshield wipers. ford's recall covers possible oil leaks in the 2020 to 2022 "escape" and "bronco sport". it also includes pickup and s-u-v models with trailer brakes that may fail. workers aan amazon facility have voted to unionize. amazon workers in alabama appeared to reject a union, but that outcome is subject to a review of more than 400 disputed ballots. on wall street, the week was

finished with modest gains. the nasdaq rose 41 points. the s&p added 15. still to come, another strong jobs report shows the american economy gaining steam. british singer-songwriter blend of many genres turns heads in nashville. plus much more. unemployment numbers are back to pre-pandemic levels.

....with me here is geoff bennett >> the country's labor market is bouncing back, adding another 431-thousand jobs in march and bringing the unemployment rate to a new pandemic-era low of 3.6 percent, according to the latest jobs report from the labor department. even though the job gains were lower than what many economists had expected, they still made for a strong first quarter for the u-s labor market with an average monthly gain of more than half a million jobs. for more, we turn to deputy director of the white house national economic council, bharat ramamurti. this jobs report is one that any white house would welcome. the economy is more than 1.6 million jobs short of february 2020 before the pandemic hit. when this when you look at this report, what do you see as the bright spots and where do you see areas of improvement?

>> well, there's a lot of news, good news coming out of the jobs report today as you said another very strong month for job gains over all over 400,000 new jobs the unemployment rate dropping to 3.6% which by historical standards is one of the lowest on record. other good news under the hood though, for example, labor force participation, which is the percentage of workers who are looking for work or fight or who or who have a job has gone up significantly among prime age folks. that's folks between the ages of 25 and 54, which means people are being attracted back into the labor market. the labor force participation for women went up significantly as well. the black and hispanic unemployment rates continue to fall. so a lot of good news in today's report both at the headline level and under the hood. >> that said though the white house is grappling with this disconnect you have this undoubtedly positive jobs rert. and but there is this this perception about the way many americans really you know, experience the strength of the economy, given everyday concerns about the cost of gas, the cost of groceries, how was the

white house trying to close that gap between the jobs report on paper and the way that it's being felt across the country? >> well, look, the president has been clear that he grew up in a family where when the cost of gas went up when the cost of the grocery bill went up, he felt it so he understands that families are feeling that pinch. and for months now he has been laser focused on doing what he can to bring those down. now look at a starting level. we should note that inflation is a global phenomenon. countries across the world are dealing with record high levels of inflation. and on top of that, now we have the inflationary impact of putin's war in ukraine. but just this week, we've sn a lot of progress. the senate, for example, passed a bill just this week, that would reduce the costs of ocean shipping to all those goods that come from abroad to the united states. the costs of those will go down as shippi costs go down. we saw the senate passed a bill that would nufacture more semiconductors, more cps here in the united states, which

would help reduce the cost of cars and other electronic items. and we've seen progress on agriculture, to bring more compition to those industries to help bring down the cost of meat and otherroducts at the grocery store. so we're chipping away at this problems. sure, as shortly and steadily and it's the president's number one focus >> when asked you about wage growth because looking at this latest jobs report, it looks like the wage growth has been experienced for the most part among white collar workers, people who have office jobs, people who for the most part, were able to save some money during the pandemic because they didn't have to commute as far or as much, but it's people at the lor end of the economic spectrum who are still struggling president biden, as you well know he laid out a host a whole domestic agenda aimed at helping he says, working class americans, but that agenda has stalled on capitol hill. so what's the backup plan? what's the plan b that the administration is going to pursue to help working class americans? >> well, first, the data

suggests that folks at the lower end of the income spectrum i' actually seen by far the largest wage gains so far, folks who work in leisure and hospitality, manufacturing, working at warehouses and so on. they've seen the largest wage gains since the pandemic began and since this president took office, and we're glad to see that those are folks who have are long overdue for a race. second of all, the president's economic plan has focused on delivering relief to those at the middle of the income spectrum in the lower end of the income spectrum. the checks that he provided, the tax cuts he provided for families with young children all of that was targeted at folks with middle income and low income. so if you look at the the net effect of all of that, folks in the middle, middle class families united states have more income than they did going into the pandemic and we're glad to see that. that said the president's push is for congress to act on a number of areas where costs are squeezing families, prescription drugs, united states is one of

the few countries where we don't negotiate the cost of prescription drugs and that's raising costs for families across the income spectrum. childcare is a huge cost for many families, the cost of college, the cost of housing, those are all issues that the president is trying to tackle, and he's urging congress to act. >> in the minute we have left, i want to ask you about what has many folks on wall street concerne some analysts say that there are flashing signs of a recession th're pointing to the yield curve inversions. we don't have to go into that. but from where you sit, do you share those concerns of a potential recession on the horizon? >> look, the data shows that the economy right now is extraordinarily strong 3.6% unemployment or coming off the year with the highest economic growth that we've had in 40 years and the science for the first quarter of this of this year are also very, very strong. of course, we are looking at every data point very, very carefully, and making sure that there are no warning signs that we're getting out ahead. that any problems and of course, the

issues the the war in ukraine is creating additional headwinds for the economy across the globe and we're carefully monitoring that. but the bottom line is that the economy is in a very, very strong position. and it's a credit to the president's bottom up middle out economic recovery plan >> raj rama murthy is deputy director of the white house national economic council. we appreciate your time this evening. thank you. >> thank u for that report geoff and u are about to launch pbs news weekend >> it's a great team. i am excited to be part of this team to retool this badcast. it will be a mix of hard news, features and we will hear from cheryl lee ralph, then daryl hall >> very cool, we are so excited that the news continues on the

weekend. as we reported, the city of shanghai is under lock down today as covid cases continue to search in china's financial capital. it is the most severe measure by the chinese government to isolate and track infections since it shut down the city after the virus broke out in 2020.

today begins the second phase in a two-part lockdown across shanghai, after a wave of new infections erupted likely driven by the highly contagious subvariant of omicron, known as ba.2 summer wen is an interpreter who lives in west shanghai. >> we are not allowed to get out, and i have to get my test today, this afternoon. and so far for me, of course it is inconvenient, but still i fell it is dealable. >> the first phase of the shutdown began sunday, centering on the financial district and surrounding areas. in the past week, many communities have seen these yellow and blue plastic barriers go up around housing complexes. residents are required to submit to multiple covid tests, and workers in hazmat suits man various checkpoints. almost no one is allowed to leave their zone not for work, not for medical re, nothing police in shanghai flew drones outfittewith speakers, delivering airborne warnings to those below to wear masks and maintain social distancing. in anticipation of the lockdown, last weekend there was panic buying at grocery stores some residents said they were hopeful the lockdowns wouldn't go on too long.

>> with one adjective, i think we should be calm, and face this with a positive attitude, and then allow this epidemic to pass over as soon as possible. >> others like p-h-d student marek narozniak, who's from poland, said the measures were chaotic and launched with little notice. >> i just woke up and my compound was surrounded with the fence, and that's it. there was no announcement, there was no warning, no information, nothing. i think this whole operation is causing a lot of harm to many people and a lot of suffering and i don't really believe it is necessary or appropriate. >> shanghai reported 4,500 new infections today, which is still relatively low compared to the surges in other countries. these tight restrictions stem from president xi jinping and the chinese communist party's “zero-covid” strategy which

aims not to just manage the virus, but to eliminate it with lockdowns, masve testing, and forced quarantines. across china, these official shutdowns have been picking up in recent months, especially in factory cities like shenzhen. but the clampdown in shanghai is by far the biggest since the pandemic first began, when government locked down the city of wuhan home to 11 million people for 76 days. with 26 million residents, shanghai is china's largest city, and analysts worry these closures will deliver an economic blow to china's and the world's financial engine. yanzhong huang is a senior fellow for global health at the council on foreign relations. >> china was very successful by using the zero covid strategin containing the spread of the virus, shielding the chinese population from the virus. but it was precisely the success of

that strategy only a very small percentage of the population actually exposed to the virus. but now, when you have a variant that is so highly transmissible with short incubation period and also you recover relatively quickly. right? so, you know, pretty much that makes it almost impossible to not just detect all the cases, but also to track and trace those contacts, >> starting today in phase 2, residents west of the huangpu river will not be able to leave home for five days, and deliveries will be left at checkpoints. nonessential business and public transportation will also be shut down. earlier in the week, the government converted shanghai's convention centeinto a makeshift hospital to house patients, with 6,000 available beds. nationwide, china's uptick in cases had been driven by an outbreak in jilin province. local officials there have also instituted travel bans and partial lockdowns in several cities. back in shanghai, empty streets.

people locked away in their homes, as china's war against the coronavirus continues. for the p-b-s newshour, i'm william brangham. the biden administration has decided to end a controversial immigration policy implemented by the trump administration. >> the biden administration announced it will be phasing out title 42. the administration has been under fountain pressure from democrats and immigrant advocates to add title 42. the policy will officially come to an end on may 23 but there are concerns this could overwhelm the system already

seeing record high crossings. you have been following this story and the president is under pressure to end the program. what do we know about why they decided on may 23? >> it's the convergence of a couple of factors. the white house has been under a lot of pressure. they have been paring back other restrictions. therefore making it increasingly difficult to justify these restrictions on asylum at the southern border. by setting a may 23 date which is almost two months from now, it is nearly the same as another 60 day extension. it gives them time to get capacity in place. to get extra personnel to the border

then it also buys them timeo see what happens with the variant. we should remind people this is a cdc decision. childrenave been allowed in, many families -- it's single adults they have been expelling at the border. what are authorities preparing for? >> they are preparing for numbers.

they are seeing record numbers of people being taken into custody last year and again this year we are on pace to exceed last year's totals. you asked about single adults. you are right, the title 42 expulsion policy has only been applied in recent months to about a quarter of family groups crossing. it still has been applied to the majority of the adults that they take into custody. i think we can expect they will begin to phase out the policy as their ability to process people under normal proceedings ramps up by adding more agents, infrastructure, and more immigration judges to hear asylum claims. >> you mentioned significantly higher numbers. what are they expected and can the system handle it? >> officials held a briefing for reporters this weekend told us

they are anticipating as many as 18,000 people crossing per day. that would be more than double the roughly 7000 they are taking into custody now. at that level, at the current existing levels they are already overwhelmed in several sectors. if they were to go to some of those projections, they would be in a situation where there would be forced to quickly release many of the people coming across the border because they don't have anywhere to hold them. they cannot process them fast enough and they cannot turn them to their home countries. >> what about the politics of all of this? immigration is a hot button political issue. we have seen republicans come out to speak about it. do we expect to hear more? >> you can definitely expect we will hear a lot about it. this is going to be the subject of many campaign ads.

there's a great deal of digital peril and liability for the democratic party as well as the president. that's one of the reasons why we saw some of the democrats come out strongly warning the white house not to do this asking to keep the restrictions in place. to keep an eye on arizona in particular where senator mark kelly is likely to face a tough race. he is one of the voices out there telling joe biden not to make this move. >> thank you so much. >> my pleasure. >> what you were just hearing about, president biden's trite attempt to reduce pain at the pump and the january 6 investigation all heating up to

discuss another busy week, we turn to brooks and capehart. so good to see both of you. there's a lot to talk about. the biden administration rescinding this rule that was handed down under president trump. that covid, we are in a different place, this is the humane thing to do is. is it the right thing to do? >> there seems to be a bipartisan agreement saying it was put in place for covid reasons. there are 2 million times the

officials are accounting immigrants trying to get in and it's flooding the system. there is a system in place if they not get rid of 42 that they will be able to have the hearings and do all the stuff we normally do with asylum-seekers. as we just heard, it is a gigantic political issue. the 21% of americans say immigration is the highest. inflation is number one, immigration is number two, education and crime are number three and four. these are nightmare issues for democrats. republicans put up this large fact sheet. you see the ads writing themselves. the republicans are going to go to town on this. >> even some democrats are saying they think it's the wrong thing.

>> what it points to is the lack of a comprehensive overhaul.

here's our proposal. i had yet to hear what the republican puzzle is other than fear mongering. >> build a wall. >> it's a complicated moral problem. people are coming here not because their lives are great back home. they are coming because situations are deteriorating. some of them are genuinely in horrific circumstances and one leaps out to them. yet they are coming in such large numbers, it's hard for us to absorb all the people who want to come. they want to comfort economic opportunity and we don't blame them. it takes a morally complicated government or policy or collective mind to say we're going to help the people we are capable of helping, how my are

we capable of helping and how do we help them humanely and how do we say sorry but do it humanely? that kind of moral nuance is not something we have seen a lot of. >> is made more complicated because the party opposite the president instead of lending a hand is hurling bats and not part of the solution. the only would we get to this nirvana is if the republican party wanted to be a true negotiating partner wanted to get something done. >> another hot issue that surfaced this week, something the president announced yesterday, yes the job numbers are looking good but the administration is still very worried about inflation. roy about the price of gas. he announced he is going to

release barrels from the strategic petroleum reserve to try to get gas prices down a little bit. is this a good move at this moment? >> it's hard to know. presidents always release from the reserve and it never works. joe biden to his credit this release is bigger than any president has done. they are trying to dump stuff on the market and they are saying it may produce 10% to 20% gain per gallon at the pump. that wou have some effect. that is far from certain. when we released from the reserve, the markets think they are releasing now but they have to put it back so the markets can think long term and tnk that's not going to reduce demand. second, opec could say we want to keep prices up. we will limit our supply for a little while. there are plenty of other actors who have the chance to mess with

our plans. i remain i guess guardedly skeptical. that this is going to do much for the people who are paying to pay -- to fill up their tank. >> the key thing you said is markets think long term but presidents think -- they try to -- when presidents go to the strategic reserve, this is short-term thinking. there is short-term pain that the president has to deal with. the reports i saw showed that this release could lead to $.10 per gallon up to $.35 per gallon for consumers. when you are a consumer and you are saving $.10, that adds up. gas prices, they are the one thing that consumers feel immediately. if you are the white house

looking at tough economic news and the people are angry about inflation and everything, if can give them something where they are saving in the short term, you ll go with it. the market does think long term. it thinks they are releasing that, but they will have to buy it back. administrations always do this. i think it's the right thing to do for their political calculus. >> they are saying it's for six months. do you think this is going to matter in the elections this year? >> absolutely. you drive down the street, i'm in california it's like whoa. it's going to matter. the better policy, barack obama and paul ryan did a deal where the increased production which republicans wanted lightning

regulations on producers, but in exchange money for green producers. that sounds like a good idea, but it won't help joe biden between now and november. >> do you think it helps democrats at all between now and mid terms? >> what he was just talking about? it's long-term. in the short-term, no it's not meant to help. i think the spr that will hp. >> the january 6 committee, two developments this week. there's a 7.5 hour gap in the phone records from the white house. the committee is still figuring out what that's all about. whether it was deliberate or an accident we ll see. the other is the members of the committee, i ended up talking to two of them this week. they were mo openly critical of the justice department for

not picking this up and running with it. moving toward some kind of prosecution of people like mark does. one said to me yesterday what he did was completely lawless. >> first on the gap, it sparked a lot of conspiracies. is he usg a burner phone secretly? i think cnn seems to have the most plausible explanation which is the record-keeping and the trump administration is not always meticulous which i know is a shocker. apparently, when he went into the oval office, he did use the white house phone system and it wasn't recorded. that could be it, just bad record keepers. it is weird that happened to be at a crucial moment on january 6. to be honest, i trust merrick garland. the political players are political players and they have

no incentive to bealanced. merrick garland has an incentive to be like prosecutor. there have been questionable things that have been done, but the trump administration does us a favor by doing their questionable things out in the open. i haven't seen anything that makes it look like hit gigantic scandal. if that call or message exists, we are in a whole new ballgame. it's easy for people to get excited that got something and get over politicized about it. right now, my trust is in the justice department. >> when it comes to the attorney general, what chairmanship and others, they are upset over the contempt charges, they are valid. they are sitting at doj and no

one knows what's happening in terms of prosecuti. where i agree on the tru of merrick garland is the call from democrats and folks on the left for doj to investigate donald trump. these are two separate things. when it comes to investigating the former president, i was about to say it would be insane if merrick garland telegraphed that this was happening before he had all of the eyes dotted and tees crossed. there lots of prosecutors on television who keep saying the same thing. they trust her garland. at some point, that trust is going to erode. now when it comes to the contempt charges, i say what are you doing? when it comes to the overall issue of should donald trump be investigated, i'm willing to wait because i want doj i want

the attorney general to be as careful as possible to make his case as bulletproof as possible if there is one so it doesn't make things worse by faing apart. >> the focus right now seems to be more does, but we will see. thank you both. the grammys will be handed out sunday night. jeffrey brown went to see why one musician has chosen

nashville as her home. there she was, headlining nashville's historic ryman auditorium singing the title song from her new album, “stand r myself” a kind of musical autobiography that looks back to an earlier, less confident version of 'yola'. >> i sing “a coward in the shadows. no view from above” (in my song, stand for myself), which sounds kind of hard-core on myself. but i was kind of chicken and i wasn't prepared. >> it's hard to imagine, actually, sitting here with you now. yola: i know. i was a very different person. i've done a lot of work like, a lot of work i've come a very, very long way. >> all the way from bristol, england all the way from fronting other

bands and doing the bidding of others. now yola quartey, who goes by first name only, is making a big name for herself, on her own terms with a powerful voice, a sense of personal missio and a mix of musical sounds including r&b, country, soul, and rock that she calls “genre-fluid”. >> it sounds like where i grew up. it sounds like, absorbing everything, absorbing things from caribbean people based in the uk, african people based in the uk, the stuff we import from america, the stuff we import from everywhere else. all smooshed, to see where the connective tissue of humanity is in this. >> most important: she's the one doing the 'smooshing'. >> it's why i speak the way i speak, as plainly as i do, because i'm like: people need to see a person of my hue, of my brand of chocolate, with agency and with a sense of joy d creating things.

>> she traces the start of her rise to a 2016 attention-getting appearce at “the basement” >> this is a tiny place. >> it's not massive. it's, what, 100 cap, right? >> a famed nashville club where musicians come to perform and be seen in her case, seen as “yola” show-chasing for the first time. >> this is the real “i'm here” moment, you know? and wh you make transition from being in service to someone else's dream to, like, daring to ask people to come and support your dream, that's a very big psychological transition. >> soon after, she was working with dan auerbach, guitarist for the rock band, “the black keys”, and a nashville-based producer. together they recorded the 2019 album, “walk through fire”, which got yola four grammy nominations, including 'best new artist'.

“stand for myself”, their latest coaboration, received two more nominations finally, she says, overcoming in-your-faceiases along the way serious business which she, characteristically, describes with humor. >> sometimes people would speak of some imaginary producer that they had in their mind. and i go, “i'm sorry, that's me.” and they'd be like. “oh, oh, oh why? but you're a woman and you're black. why” you know, >> but big names in a wide range of music started noticing her--and including her with them on stage: dolly parton to gary clark jr. to brandi carlile to willie nelson and chris stapleton. nashville is now her adopted home, and she began her recent tour on its most historic stage, the 130 year old ryman auditorium -the original home of the grand ole opry

and for yola, to headline here: from soundcheck to preparing to go on to belting out her song was a statement in itself. nashville's music scene has received plenty of criticism for its lack of embrace of women and artists of color. 'yola' is just one sign of change, both in the versity of musicians and sounds. >> it becomes a really important thing for me to feel as though i'm surrounded by people who understand, who've spent maybe a moment in their life being 'other', having an understanding of what that might feel like. >> she's also soon to reach wider audiences through her acting debut: playing the rock 'n roll progenitor sister rosetta tharpe, popular in the 30s and 40s in director baz luhrmann's upcoming film on elvis presley.

she's eager, she says, to help change music's story of the past and present. and that includes the audience. >> you're talking about changing who's on stage, right? 08:21 do you have to change the audience? >> you inevitably start doing so, but you only start doing so when you're able to make the change up here. black people don't just magically appear, this only works by us telling them that is is happening right now >> yola is touring across the u.s. into the fall. for the pbs newshour, i'm jb at the ryman auditorium in nashville. >> great music. online now you can see recent

profiles of two other artists. that's on her website pbs.org. before we go, we would like to say farewell to one of the great producers retiring. you haven't seen him on the air. she has worked on hundreds of our stories over the years. as a correspondent she has worked with most is paul solman.

rounds up the unusual suspects most recently, lumber yard owner larry berckerle. >> what's your best lumber joke? >> if i told you, you would get board. >> new york-based lee koromvokis joined theewshour in the 1980s her very first feature >> i have become an instrument of my son's own tragedy. >> on admiral elmo zumwalt and his son's agent orange-related cancer, w an emmy. she's added five more and two peabody awards. >> thank you to the university of georgia and the peabody awards. it's a very great honor. the only time you could've seen her on the newshour was in 1994 when she was indignant to try to buy up power ranger for her son. you seen plenty of her quirky visuals. i fronted for her poignant report on utica, self-dubbed “refugee city, though lee was there herself. >> congratulations. your n flag” >> she also produced h correspondent-free day amidst the foreclosures in fort myers, florida.

>> if you come back to this property it's considered trespassing. >> her family from sparta, she led us through greece during its 2010 fancial collapse. a would be doctor, she engineered stories on the dangers of antibiotics resistance. and the joys of kidney transplants. a woman of culture, she orchestrated a story on emily dickinson's garden. an erstwhile musician, she produced our stories on schubert's songs and bach's st. john's passion. throughout the years, lee has been our bach or maybe more aptly, our emily dickinson: private; brilliant; eagle-eye observant; alwayoriginal; and always word perfect. will she be missed after 38 years of hyperexcellence? it's a banality even to ask. for the pbs newshour, and mainly for lee, paul solman.

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. . . ♪ hello, everyone, a welcome to "amanpour & company" from kyiv. here's what's coming up. as russia regroups in the face of a stiff resistance, my report on the ukrainian soldiers who thwarted their initial advance on the capital and now wait in the trenches for another possible assault. plus, i'm joined by two leaders in this region. the prime minister of poland where more than 2 million people have fled. and the president of georgia, which putin invaded 2008. what has she learned about dealing with moscow's aggression? then famed chef jose andres tells me how he is serving more than 100,000 meals day to devastated ukrainian cities. and later michel martin talks to journalist mike giglio about the