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stion from viewers like you. thank you. judy: the u.s. economy is showing pockets of strength today although there are a number of signs that still point to a broader slowdown. the commerce department reported the economy grew at 2.6% annual rate from july through september after having shrunk in the first half of the year. exports accounted for much of the growth. president biden hailed the progress. >> the price of inflation is down and real incomes are up, the price of gas is down. the american people are seeing the benefits of an economy that works for them. families have more net worth than they did before the pandemic. judy: but the outlook is not all rosy. the economy is still grappling with the housing market slump and a decline in retail sales. wall street today, a

better-than-expected gdp report gave the dow jones industrial average a boost. it again 194 points to close at 32,033. technology stocks pulled the nasdaq lower. the s&p 500 also slipped 23. in other economic news, u.s. jobless claims inched a little higher last week. the labor department today reported applications for an of limited benefits rose to 217,000. that is 3000 more than the previous week. overall jobless claims remain historically low. the european central bank raised interest rates by .75% today to help curb rampant inflation. it matches a racket increase last month and marks the fastest pace of rate hikes. the move mirrors similar efforts to tackle soaring prices here.

ukraine's national energy agency says the main network of the power grid has been damaged after intense russian strikes. that has led to a 30% reduction in power generation capacity. oil and power cuts have left the capital in the dark and residents say they understand the need to conserve energy. >> when there is war going on in the country, it's not a big deal if one has to go home early or walk in darkness to save power. >> if it can in any way help ukrainian defense forces, i'm all for it. >> vladimir putin gave his annual speech at a conference of international policy experts and blame the west for russian escalations on the war in ukraine claimed russia is open to dialogue. >> world domination is what the so-called west that on.

it is dangerous, bloody, and filthy. i always believed in the power of common sense so i'm convinced the west will have to start a conversation on equal terms about our climate future. judy: and moscow has no intention of using nuclear weapons in ukraine. a tennessee man was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for his role in the january 6 riot. they dragged a capitol police officer into the mob and restrained him while others beat and tased him. the officer suffered a heart attack and brain injuries, the second longest sentence given to a writer so far. the u.s. department of agriculture intra-doused grants and loans to help are communities access high-speed internet. the money will be divided up among 24 states as part of a larger push for high-speed

conductivity. still to come, russia's nuclear threats and false claims about ukrainian bombs hang over ongoing war. scientific imaging allows experts to determine authenticity art. two stroke survivors give their brief but spectacular take on living with aphasia. plus, much more. >> this is the pbs newshour. judy: all lingering lies about the 2020 election are posing new threats of political violence and voter intimidation in this year's midterms. joining us to discuss this is the director of the institute for constitutional advocacy and protection.

she's also a former justice department prosecutor and has been advising local officials about how to protect their residence and the vote. tell us what you are seeing. you have been watching this in recent months. you have watched it build as we get close to the election. how does this have seeds and what happened in 2020? >> it is the same disinformation about election fraud that was fuel for the violence, the same disinformation today that is threatening political violence related to elections. and i don't just mean physical violence. voter intimidation, threats and harassment against election workers, aggressive recruitment of poll watchers from groups like the proud boys and oath keepers to be a force for intimidation at the polls and other types of anti-democratic

processes that are being driven by the same disinformation and lies about the 2020 election. judy: what are the specifics of what you could worry about happening on election day? >> where worried about voters being intimidated from coming. you have probably seen this, you know people are setting up cameras to tape people as they drop off their ballots. we have some going in military kits and with arms and we've heard of people questioning voters or suggesting that what they are doing by voting is illegal if they are depositing a ballot of an elderly family member or friend. contrary to the disinformation, it is not a violation of federal law and it's not a violation of state laws.

the idea is to intimidate people so they don't show up. there are organizations recruiting for it nationwide but there is no single puppetmaster so it is harder to combat because it is at this localized level. judy: and organized at the grassroots level? and how widespread is it? do y have a handle on how many places this is happening? >> i get new information about a new example including instances in one county in pennsylvania were even law enforcement deputy sheriffs are asking people about their qualifications to vote. i'm seeing it more in swing states than others and that makes sense because those seeking to really impact the selection are focused on the swing states and that's where they are recruiting aggressive poll watchers and people to come

out to ballot drop boxes. judy: is there a pattern to whom they are targeting? >> we have seen the targeting of voters and sometimes these are just misleading signs suggesting that this ballot boxes under surveillance or harvesting ballots is unlawful even though it's not even a term under law. we are also seeing targets against election workers which is why you have seen a lot of them get physical security around their offices. and we are worried that while ballots are being tabulated that there may be intimidation and harassment like we saw in 2020. but i don't want voters to feel intimidated going because getting the word out there about

this and how illegal it is. it is not protected by the first amendment or the second amendment, hopefully this will deter some of the bad actors from continuing to do what they are doing. judy: how our local officials pushing back? >> i spoke with police chief chuck ramsey and one of the things we are suggesting is me meeting right now, the mayors and police chief, voting rights groups, party representatives and election officials make a plan for what is best in your community. in some places it might be law enforcement and in some places law enforcement at the polls might be more intimidating. just think about what your relationship is like with elected officials and it's important coming out with that planning for elected officials

at all levels to be making strong statements that voter intimidation will not be tolerated. it is criminal and in violation of federal law and state law. and prosecutions may occur because what we found in 2020 is that sort of risk of prosecution , the groups that have been planning activities on election day play -- changed those plans. judy: what about individuals? is there something people should be aware of? >> to the extent that they are seeing at first whether it is signage or people following voters to their cars are taking pictures of their license plates, report that activity to your local election officials or your district attorney. whoever you feel comfortable reporting it to. >> thank you for having me.

judy: when hurricane ian hit the u.s. it was merely a category five storm and one of the strongest to ever make landfall in this country. in the aftermath, housing is an urgent problem and hundreds of thousands of households have applied for federal assistance, but there are big challenges around rebuilding and questions about the wisdom of doing so along parts of the coast. we have the report from fort myers beach, florida. >> one month after hurricane ian ripped through southwest florida, communities here face wildly different realities. some streets and homes appear mostly untouched.

others are unrecognizable. mangled roadways and entire blocks filled with debris. homes ripped to pieces inside and out. the terrifying hours of ian's landfall are still fresh on the minds of many. >> you jumped out the window and you are swimming? >> yeah. >> they live in the hard-hit low income mostly hispanic area of harlem heights outside of fort myers. their family initially tried to write out the storm. then it began to rise to their ankles, their knees, and to the waist. >> we started to swim all the way to the park and the backyard. >> you were swimming across your own yard? >> yeah. >> in the morning when they came home, everything was ruined.

>> all of your belongings are gone. >> yeah. >> they don't have insurance. the restaurant was destroyed. the family is staying with friends for now and another friend is helping with -- helping with home repairs. >> may be sleeping in the park. >> i'm really sorry. >> no good. i'm sorry. this is a big problem. and i don't know about my house. >> ian exacerbated what was an already dire housing crisis. daniel cruises with florida rural legal services.

>> there is not affordable housing available. we are not just talking about individuals in public housing, i'm talking about affordable housing for a working-class individual. what would have been a difficult situation is becoming a catastrophe. >> the official death toll stands at over 100. hundreds of people remain in shelters and thousands are still without power. total damage estimates are in the tens of billions of dollars. on fort myers beach which is near ground zero of the storm, the calm waters of the gulf stand in stark contrast to the apocalyptic scenes on shore. this island community suffered a devastating blow from ian. at least 14 people were on fort myers beach.

even the larger modern structures took a punch. but many smaller older homes were pulverized. so your house stoodere and here. and where is it now? >> i found a little section overall. mostly down the block. portions of it are two blocks down, almost in the bay. i imagine some of it is in the water. >> the water was this high? >> over our head by a few feet. >> bill lost almost his entire 90-year-old house. he and his wife have lived here for more than a decade. >> a lot of people are very upset. personally being involved in it, i'm amazed at how fast things are working but i think that now is a very difficult time for people emotionally because this

is where people are coming to the realization of what is next. >> further inland, while the destruction isn't quite as severe, residents are struggling with an uncertain future. >> what is our next step here? >> charles manson lives in north fort myers mobile home village. he has made countless phone calls to his insurance company but still hasn't had an adjuster visit. it looks like the whole skin of your house came off. >> the surface of his roof was shorn off by ian's wind. >> i don't know what the costs are going to be. i would just like to get started so that i can contact some contractors or get some repairs made.

>> there's the physical loss but charles lost something far more dear right before ian made landfall. >> about three or four days before the hurricane, my wife passed away. she was sick for a while. basically was taking care of her for about 15 months. so not a good time. >> because of the storm he spent more than a week not knowing what happened to his wife's remains. >> are you doing ok? >> he is visited a few times a week by a meals on wheels volunteer for the fort myers nonprofit community cooperative. kathy says charles is one of many floridians whose lives were damaged, shaken, or lost by the storm.

people who are now left trying to pick up the pieces. >> all of those people our lives and families and coworkers and friends. and it is sad. but we will get through this. and there's a lot of people here to help, but it won't be one and done because i've never seen anything like this in my life. >> the official death toll sits at 118 lives lost, but many people believe that that number will go much higher. in direct deaths or people who died subsequent to the storm like when the power was out and their oxygen monitor went down or someone has a heart attack cleaning up debris. people think once that number is truly known, the death toll here could go easily into the thousands.

>> william, we saw in your piece the elderly man struggling with his insurance company. that has to be an enormous headache for so many homeowners. >> it is a huge problem and even though there is an army of insurance adjusters across the state, the demand is so high that people are frustrated like we saw from that gentleman. the bigger issue is the issue of cost. the insurance rates in florida are as expensive as they are anywhere in the country and not just because of the storms that keep coming through here but because of fraud and abuse in the system. the issue with insurance, there is a larger more existential question here, how do you ensure people when you never know when the next storm is going to come? climate change is going to keep coming. how do you equitably ensure people? the private insurance industry

has looked at this market and said thanks, but no thanks. that leaves largely the federal government or the state government running their own insurance programs. but those programs are either in serious financial jeopardy or heading for a financial cliff. so it is a very thorny public policy issue. >> it raises another question, given the price hikes you just described, the inevitability of big storms in the future, is anybody talking about leaving florida? >> we have asked everyone we have talked to that question. and to a person, nobody is leaving. people who love florida love florida. that is what is keeping them around here. the bigger question is, does it make sense for the government to be encouraging people and signaling to people that it is

ok to stay here? every time these roads are cleaned and new power lines are strung up and sewer systems put in, the government is saying it is ok to live here and rebuild. as climate change intensifies, there is a potential steady parade of monster storms coming from the gulf right over there. how do you allow that process to go forward? i asked the local councilman and he said better building codes is the solution. there are houses that took a direct hit. the problem is, to build your house up high and build it like a fortress costs a lot of money. the wealthy can afford to do that and can come here and build whereas the poor residents of the community cannot. so that kind of progress fundamentally changes a community and many researchers

who study the process of how we build or not build in vulnerable areas say that this process which is seemingly favoring wealthy people is not a smart way to go about it. that we have to find a better way to figure out how and where we allow people to live in vulnerable places. it by no means will be a settled issue. judy: tough decisions to be made in the months and years to come. thank you, william. today, russia's president claimed that he had no plans to use nuclear weapons in ukraine. despite previous threats to do so and warnings about the possible detonation of a radiological device in ukraine. the comments came as the u.s.

department of defense released a set of major strategy documents that describe china as the u.s. most comprehensive challenger. but russia as an acute threat. >> the leader with the world's largest nuclear arsenal warned of a turning point. >> we stand at a historical frontier. ahead is probably the most dangerous, unpredictable, and important decade since the end of world war ii. >> president vladimir putin spoke as russia launched its annual exercises. he accused ukraine of planning a dirty bomb attack on its own territory but insisted russia poses no nuclear threat. >> we don't need a nuclear strike on ukraine. there is no point either military or political. >> we are certainly concerned about escalation. >> lloyd austin said any attack

on ukraine that is nuclear would trigger consequences. >> we have been clear from the beginning that you would see a very significant response from the international community. >> the national defense strategy and the nuclear posture review and the missile-defense review. the strategy calls russia and acute threat but china the most comprehensive and serious challenge to u.s. national security. they reiterate support for the multitrillion dollar modernization of the u.s. nuclear triad, the ability to strike from the air or land with intercontinental ballistic missiles and by c. but it canceled a nuclear armed c launch cruise missile and rejects a promise made by candidate biden. >> we should be pushing. >> for years he believed that

the u.s. should pledge not to use nuclear weapons first. but a nuclear posture review says it would've created an unacceptable level of risk. the review egg knowledge is russia's battlefield nuclear weapons and warns russia could use these forces to try to win a war on its periphery or avoid defeat if it was in danger of losing a conventional war. and joining me now is the department of defense top policy official under secretary of defense for policy. welcome back to the newshour. to these russian nuclear threats change how the u.s. thanks of its nuclear policy and its defense not only of the u.s., but other partners? >> i think a lot of the veiled and not so veiled threats is a

reminder for many adversaries that the salience of nuclear weapons is going up, not going down. the nuclear posture review which we released today as part of a series of reviews over the national defense strategy makes clear that nuclear weapons remain an essential aspect of u.s. national security and play a unique role in determining the types of threats we are hearing about. >> the review says the u.s. would only consider in extreme circumstances to defend the vital interest of the u.s., allies, and partners. does that mean the u.s. would consider nuclear weapons if deterrence fails and putin does launch a nuclear device of some sort? >> i'm not going to go into hypotheticals of if this then that that i will say as a practical matter we have stood by ukraine and provided than more than $18 billion in security assistance.

we will continue to do that. >> as we noted before he became president, mr. biden said he believed in no first use. that policy says it would produce unacceptable risk. why were you unable to convince allies? >> the president still aspires for us to move to a place where conditions are set that the purpose is solely to determine nuclear attack as opposed to a narrow range of other strategic attacks. we are just not in that world yet. the presidenagrees with that assessment. but i think it can fall under the u.s. nuclear umbrella, worry about a whole host of strategic threats.

and they see the u.s. nuclear commitment as fundamental to the commitment we made. they were also nervous about a move at this juncture at a time when the salience of nuclear weapons appears to be going up. they were particularly concerned about a move to soul purpose. we consulted our allies and we landed where we landed. >> your ending the nuclear c launch cruise missile program started by the trump administration. secretary austen said there was enough capability but wouldn't that have been another weapon that u.s. allies wanted for reassurance and provide the capacity to deter? >> the folks that emphasized the c launch cruise missile really emphasized the need for a low yield nuclear weapon so that you could have various response

options up the escalatory letter. it was the judgment that we already have sufficient low yield capabilities. keep in mind that the c launch cruise missile would not deliver capability until 2035 and cost tens of billions of dollars. we just believe the bang is not worth the buck. >> russia is in the middle of military exercises. last time they had exercises, they were cover for the invasion of ukraine. there is no sign that these exercises are cover but do you have the confidence that you actually know? >> there is nothing our intelligence community spends more time looking at than the prospect that an adversary might use nuclear weapons against the united states or our allies and partners. we watch this like a hawk. we believe that any effort to

mask nuclear use inside a nuclear exercise is something we would pick up. we don't have any indications the russians are planning that. we don't expect them to do that. it would be a grave mistake. >> president zelenskyy is clear that he's not in the mood for any kind of talks with vladimir putin. the foreign minister says the best discussion table is the battlefield. 90% of ukrainians are calling for the re-seizure of crimea as well as the re-seizure of all the territory lost this year. is the u.s. preparing for this war to extend past the one year mark? and what are the implications of that? >> in all likelihood, this conflict will go on in one form or another. i think part of vladimir putin's theory of victory is that he can wait us all out. but one of the things we have

made clear is that he will not be able to wait us out. >> do you believe the u.s. can maintain the political support we have had in the past and have enough military on the shelf for the long run? it seems like it will go on for a long time. >> i think there is considerable bipartisan support for ukraine and you periodically hear comments in one direction or the other but frankly i think there is considerable support and i think the american people support the effort. despite high energy costs and a cold winter, we will keep the alliance unified. i think we can and will continue to support ukraine. >> thank you very much.

>> this weekend, millions of brazilians will go to the polls to vote in the final round of the presidential election. which pits right wing incumbent against former two-time president luis da silva. that election could have huge consequences for the amazon rain forest and the indigenous people who live there. jane ferguson traveled into the amazon for this story. produced in partnership with the pulitzer center. >> it is an indigenous version of the olympics complete with opening ceremony. here, every four years, 13 different indigenous communities gather as young people compete, age-old traditions of swimming and tug-of-war. above all, these games are an

effort to keep their countries alive at a time when the cultures are under fierce attacks says the local community leader. >> our culture is being assassinated by white culture. they games really come to the rescue so it is the utmost important because the younger generation can begin to understand themselves. it serves as a kind of appreciation for our culture >> we were traveled to a tip of land where the rivers nearly meat. in an indigenous community known as bella franco. communities like this are fighting to stay on their land. >> we are at war with the brazilian government. >> she has been struggling with the rights of her community for years and never as hard as during the year the president took office in 2019.

>> when he was campaigning in the last elections, he said he would not preserve even a centimeter or millimeter of indigenous land and territories that are already being threatened. >> the territory is meant to be protected from industries such as mining or forest clearing to go crops like soy or cattle. the right-wing populist president counts those businesses as his loyalists. to get elected he campaigned to develop untouched land in the amazon and continues to do so. one of his first acts was taking federal bodies in charge of indigenous rights and forest conservation and moving them from the justice ministry to the agricultural ministry. >> we don't sell our land because it is like our mother. our territory is our body and if we don't sell our body and we don't sell her mother.

>> it has expanded a lot. >> in a runoff for reelection, the amazon rain forest and its people have become part of a wider political battle. humanity's professor since it stokes fears. >> the economy in brazil is broken because of international support. and he appeals to that. because indigenous people will

extract the rich of the nation. >> a british journalist and conservation activist were murdered in the amazon investigating illegal fishing. the president's response was unsympathetic. >> two people on a boat in a completely wild region is an adventure that is not recommended to do. anything can happen. it could be an accident or it could be that they were executed. >> environmentalists has seen an uptick in brutal murders in recent years. activists blamed the government for not cracking down on the violence and it worst, condoning it. >> there is a war against the environment and against indigenous people. at least the brazilian states allows that to be made or very often some policeman doing the

killing as a freelance job, for exampl we meet with alexandra who coinues to fight businesses encroaching on her people's land. she showed us what her community is up against, growing industrial development. it is a hub for much of the soy grown upward and areas cleared deeper in the forest. that soy passes through here on route such faraway states. >> that is a newport there. >> so they are just expanding all the way down. >> it is a government project and who gets in the way a lot. they say these indigenous have to move. they are not to be here and there isfor us. >> they don't feel safe to stay for more than a short time. she is known here and abroad for

her indigenous activism. >> some of the men standing on the port started filming us filming them and making calls, so we will move a little bit further up the river. >> all along the banks, signs of development. it is a logistics hub to transport grains out of the areas already cleared inside the rain forest. even the mayor seems to be doing well given the current circumstances. since he came to power, illegal mining, logging, and development has boomed inside the amazon under a culture of impunity and looking the other way. >> we saw companies trying to enter indigenous lands and ming going further inside the territory and very strong fires. land grabbing and threats. we started seeing the rivers

dirtier and dirtier. >> he has defended his policies, arguing that indigenous people have a right to prosper from the development of the amazon. >> some people both inside and outside brazil supported by ngo's have stubbornly insisted on treat -- treating and keeping our indians as if they are real cavemen. the indigenous people don't want to be landholders sitting on rich lands. >> with so much money at stake, members of the community have cooperated with developers, selling land and working within mining and agricultural businesses. >> unfortunately among our people and other people, there is always a rotten apple, somebody who wants things only for themselves. some who live in the city thought they could speak for our people. the children need to speak.

the women, the chiefs, the warriors. >> two indigenous women in sao paulo state. but the party won the highest number of congressional seats. their work ahead will be difficult. >> these two women have always been from the movement. they have always been women who listen to us and suddenly these women are there, sitting with people who are against us. it will be a challenge for them but we will be there to always give them strength. >> she will need plenty of strength herself. she does not advertise her movements and tends to travel last minute but there is no dying she is completely exposed out here. >> i will continue this life and i will continue to defend my territory, my people, my children.

i will not stop now, even if they kill me. >> you have two sons and you have children. when you picture their future, what do you see? what do you hope for? >> if today i am in this fight and today there are these attacks, it's because i'm defending what is best for you. your future is the territory. the river. the forest. >> brazil's immediate political future will be decided when millions vote for their next president. that moment in political history and the impact it has will reach deep into the amazon and to the people fighting for both its future and there's. for the pbs newshour, i'm jane ferguson.

judy: there is big news in the art world. a painting thought to be by vermeer is not so after all. even take one away and it's a big deal. new technology allowing experts to see art and a different way and help make these judgments. jeffrey brown visited the national gallery of art and washington, d.c. for the arts and culture series canvas. >> the painting is called girl with the flu and though there have been questions about it in the past, it is one of the museums works by johannes premier. girl with the flute is something else. >> there are so many headlines. it's not fake.

>> if it is not a vermeer, is it diminished? is it a lesser painting? >> i think we are closer to vermeer than ever when we look at this. >> there were just around 35 paintings definitively credited to vermeer. a small number for such a renowned artist. he was the focus of a major forgery scandal. the exhibition shows two paintings that once held in the -- hung in the gallery as authentic. a large group of the real ones as a national gallery did is a big event in the art world. she points to the painting woman holding a ballast. >> an extraordinary sense of stillness and tranquility. and when you look at a painting like this, you know the sun is coming in through this window,

but he hides it and it allows this light to fall so gently on her face. >> it now offers a different kind of portrait of the artist below the surface at the underpainting. sometimes multiple layers of sketches, brushstrokes, and the paint itself. and how more refined cameras like those tha do remote sensing of the earth and space can appear underneath without damaging the paintings and find hidden images. however angle was suddenly shifted to change the overall effect. or an unknown man studying the images and chemical components to allow scientists to create a map to offer clues to how an artist works. >> we're are looking at the fingerprint and you can see the paint strokes. >> the senior imaging scientist came to this work in 2007 from the aerospace industry and now

he builds cameras to look at art. >> in the lab, he and colleague catherine dooley demonstrated on a painting by another well-known dutch artist, rembrandt. this can capture the work beneath the face we see on the canvas. >> especially in the shadow area, the one side of his face goes over here. but a lot of these are not at the surface level. >> the side-by-side images show the handling of paint and materials. >> it's a very different way of looking at a painting. >> it is much more abstract. >> some people say the images we make are very abstract. but the texture of the paint is the process. >> one key thing they want to

knows how girl with the flute compared to the other paintings and it's the differences that emerged in these digital maps and images that led to the determination it is by a different artist. >> it's the layering, the handling on the surface. and we also see it low and in the preparation of the paint. >> it is all interpretive. >> they are confident it is not by vermeer but it is close. perhaps by someone who learned some of the masters techniques but not all. he was thought to work alone and his findings could begin to change that. >> and who could have done this? >> would that i know. i hope is that museums will look at the imitators, especially the

ones that they know are 17th-century because maybe we can really start to understand how maybe vermeer was teaching or who this artist may have been. there are more out there. i feel it. >> imaging expert john delaney says the scientist to leave following and more museums are using it. >> wait five more years and people will know a lot more about these artists. >> a pretty exciting time. >> we are on exhibition through january 8. jeffrey brown at the national gallery of art. >> earlier today in the hague and the netherlands, climate activists targeted girl with a pearl in her ring with the glue and liquid, the latest in a

series of recent attacks. this video showed one man pouring a can of red substance over another protester who appeared to attempt to glue his head to the glass protected painting. officials say the painting was not damaged. after having life-changing strokes, kate kennedy and allen oliver found themselves diagnosed with aphasia. a disorder marked by a patient' inability to communicate clearly. they have had to relearn how to write, read, and speak alongside other aphasia patients -- patients. here they share their brief but spectacular take on how language is your life. >> the thing about having a stroke is i thought that i was

strong. i was fit. and then all of a sudden in the blink of an eye, a stroke. just like that. and you can't go back. >> when it was a stroke, i was 30. i'm a mom. i was full-time working because my career with specialty with strokes. what do you mean? i help people and now i am a patient. >> i woke up with a splitting headache and we went to the hospital and they said yeah, you just had a stroke. your thinking, i had a stroke, so what does that mean? all of a sudden i could not find the words. and i knew there were words somewhere in the ether

somewhere. >> i was like a baby to language . to say yes, no, what is your name? >> it is the ability of not being able to communicate well. >> it is very frustrating becauseour language -- honestly, it's gone. you know what it is in your brain. but putting it out. >> what happens with these people that have aphasia, they became a community. >> you're like, it's ok. it will mess up reay bad and it doesn't matter. >> a group of peoplehat we

know to turn to. >> i want to tell everybody what is aphasia, and just me. i have two kids. and they know why. my words are not perfect. but i understand and they understand me. >> i can't go back to be who i am, but i am here. i am alive. >> my name is kate kennedy. >> this is our brief but spectacular take on how -- >> language is your life. >> thank you for sharing all of that with us. and you can watch more brief but spectacular videos online. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online and tomorrow

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> hello, everyone, welcome to "amanpour and company." here is what is coming up. >> russia is not going to use nukes. it's out of the question. >> a firm denier. >> then, the climate crisis still looms largest as the issue that will change light. >> a code red for human health as global temperatures keep ri rising. john kerry joins me ahead of the cop 27 summit in egypt. >> that was the only choice left. i had to go to jail so i left. >> the other view