gets the latest on the ongoing bloody power struggle in the african nation of ivory coast. >> brown: newshour education correspondent john merrow examines a program that targets the very young before they risk falling behind in school. >> the most important time for us to intervene is really in the first 1,000 days of life, a time when interactions with adults matter so much to children's developing sense of who they are and their language development. >> woodruff: and margaret warner gets perspective on the global reverberations flowing from the arab uprisings. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> okay, listen. somebody has got to get serious. >> i think... >> we need renewable energy. >> ...renewable energy is vital to our planet. >> you hear about alternatives, right? wind, solar, algae. >> i think it's got to work on a big scale. and i think it's got to be affordable. >> so, where are they? >> it has to work in the...