until next time, auf wiedersehen and bye for now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> cracking down. another powerful chinese politician comes under scrutiny for alleged corruption. >>> preserving hiroshima's history. 69 years since the atomic bombing, a new generation is telling the stories of victims. >>> and flying for less. asian low-cost carriers ex-ened. their horizons but struggle to find enough pilots. thanks for joining us. i'm minor takao. first the week's top stories. the chinese communist party is

until next time, auf wiedersehen and bye for now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> hello, and thank you for joining us on this edition of "newsline." >> iraq leaders are caught in a struggle for power. the president has named a new prime minister. but the man who has held a job there for eight years is refusing to go. the president appointed a man on monday to form a new cabinet. many have been calling for maliki resignation. they believe he's been favoring shia, they say this has caused frustration among sunnis, spurring islamic militants to

until next time, auf wiedersehen and bye for now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- [ crowd clamoring ] [ festive mariachi music plays ] >> [ weeping ] [ gasps ] [ screams ] [ gasps ] [ playing festive music ] [ giggles ] [ chuckles ] [ gasps ] mmm. >> "film school shorts" is made possible by a grant from maurice kanbar, celebrating the vitality and power of the moving image. and by the members of kqed. >>> cracking down. another powerful chinese politician comes under scrutiny for alleged corruption. >>> preserving hiroshima's history. 69 years since the atomic bombing, a new generation is telling the stories of victims. >>> and flying for less. asian low-cost carriers ex-ened. their horizons but struggle to find enough pilots. thanks for joining us. i'm minor takao. first the week's top stories. the chinese communist party is taking aim at a

until next time, auf wiedersehen and bye for now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- gg99Ññwçça7guc [captioning made possible by democracy now!] ♪ >> from pacifica this is democracy now. >> this is a very contentious issue, israel and palestine. surprised it is only a contentious issue in the united states, not even among the population. it is contentious because the u.s. government and the israeli government are blocking a very important consensus,

auf wiedersehen and bye for now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> garrison keillor: the nicaraguan author daisy zamora has written five books of poetry in spanish. during the 1970s, she joined with the revolutionaries who opposed the nicaraguan dictator anastasio somoza. after somoza was ousted, she became vice minister for culture for the new government. her poems, essays, and translations have been published in magazines and literary journals all over the world. >> i do not doubt you would have liked one of those pretty mothers in the ads-- complete with adoring husband and happy children. she's always smiling, and if she cries at all it is absent of lights and camera, makeup washed from her face. but since you were born of my womb, i should tell you ever since i was small like you i wanted to be myself-- and for a woman that's hard. (even my guardian angel refused to watch over me when she heard.) ( laughter ) i cannot tell you that i know the road. often, i lose my way and my l

auf wiedersehen and bye for now.aptioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- steves: i'm meeting my florentine friend tommaso at i fratellini, a venerable hole in the wall much loved among locals for its tasty sandwiches and wine sold by the glass. -grazie. -tommaso: thank you. and when you're done, you leave it on the rack. steves: boy, it's intense in the city. tommaso: yes, it is. well, if you want to leave the tourists, let's cross the river, and let's go to where the real florentines live and work. -steves: what's that? -tommaso: the oltrarno area. steves: there's much more to this town than tourism, as you'll quickly find in the characteristic back lanes of the oltrarno district. artisans busy at work offer a rare opportunity to see traditional craftsmanship in action. you're welcome to just drop in to little shops, but, remember, it's polite to greet the proprietor. your key phrase is, "can i take a look?" -posso guardare? -man: certo. steves: grazie. here in this great city of art, there's

auf wiedersehen and bye for now.aptioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> deadly damage. heavy torrential rain swept through parts of japan causing landslides in hiroshima that wiped out homes. freedom of speech in the balance. strong government helped singapore's economy expand. some citizens say it is time for their rights to grow too. >>> brighter future. everyday items provide alternative illumination in a small village in the philippines. >>> thanks for joining us. i'm minori takao. >>> first, natural disaster

auf wiedersehen and bye for now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> garrison keillor: when marilyn chin came to the united states from hong kong, her father changed her name from mei ling to marilyn because, she says, he was obsessed with marilyn monroe. she's a poet, a translator, a novelist, and codirects the mfa program at sand diego state university. >> the woman wore a floral apron around her neck, that woman from my mother's village with a sharp cleaver in her hand. she said, "what shall we cook tonight? perhaps these six tiny squid lined up so perfectly on the block?" she wiped her hand on the apron, pierced the blade into the first. there was no resistance, no blood, only cartilage soft as child's nose. a last iota of ink made us wince. suddenly, the aroma of ginger and scallion fogged our senses, and we absolved her for that moment's barbarism. then she, an elder of the tribe, without formal headdress, without elegance, deigned to teach the younger about the asian plight. an

until next time, auf wiedersehen and bye for now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> garrison keillor: seamus heaney grew up the eldest of nine children on a 50 acre farm in northern ireland, his father a cattle dealer, his mother's family worked in the linen mills. when he was 12, he won a scholarship to a catholic school, learned latin and gaelic. over the years, his poetry has become enormously popular, especially since he won the nobel prize in literature in 1995. >> blackberry picking. late august, given heavy rain and sun for a full week, the blackberries would ripen. at first, just one-- a glossy purple clot among others, red, green, hard as a knot. you ate that first one, and its flesh was sweet like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for picking. then red ones inked up and that hunger sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots. 'round hayfields, cornfields, and potato-drills we trekked a

auf wiedersehen and bye for now.aptioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- gg99Ññwçça7guc 08/14/14 08/14/14 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] >> from pacifica, this is democracy now! ferguson, missouri looks like a war zone as police fired tear gas, stun grenades, and smoke bombs to break up a fifth night of protests over the police shooting of michael brown, an unarmed african-american teenager killed on saturday.