no one thought anything when the war was erupts in the balkans in world war i.hat is a significant risk. and the weapons capability of assad, we don't know how dispersed it is. when people think they're going to be controlled through military action we have to pause because we could do something that is even worse. what is needed is a major diplomadiplomatic effort. i heard someone say-- >> i hate to cut you off. middle east expert and associate fellow. thank you so much for joining us this morning. you can stay up-to-date on our website at any time of day at www.aljazeera.com. >>> a suicide-bombing in afghanistan has killed a district governor and four ove r people. that governor was coming out of a mosque during a funeral procession. his two bodyguards and two civilians were killed in an explosion. there was no claim in the responsibility. afghan forces have led forces in the area for more than a year. >>> still to come, the obama administration is loosening federal drug laws making it easier for states who have approved recreational marijuana use. >>> plus a

you also told me you spent some time in the balkans... >> sure. >> ...as well and now you're... thenou went to sunny western united states, northern california, land of optimism, land of solutionism, >> uh-huh. >> the view you take on this technology may well be valid, but i do sense a trace of cultural difference and i think... >> sure. >> ...poor evgeny morozov, slightly pessimistic... >> uh-huh. >> ...quasi russian guy, sitting in the world's most optimistic country, it must be tough on you. >> no, i'm enjoying my sort of outsider status. there is some kind of a pessimism that does come from the time i spent in the balkans and the time i spent in, you know, belarus, whereby i do think that the life improvements that silicon valley wants to bring, even if they do end up working, which i don't doubt that they will, they will just remove the kind of friction and the kind of conflict and the kind of inefficiency that actually make our lives worth living and they make us, you know, strive towards something and if everything is working, i'm just not sure what there is to strive towards

very unstable conditions and unstable across the south of the iberian peninsula and the balkans. heavy rain and thunderstorms and very large hail are possible on thursday. the temperatures are comfortable. 24 in berlin and 23 degrees in warsaw. here's the extended forecast. >> that coconcludes this edition of "newsline." thanks very much for joining us. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: good evening. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: tonight, an exclusive interview with president obama at the white house. >> woodruff: we discuss the potential for military action in syria. >> we do have to make sure is that when countries break international norms on weapons like chemical weapons that could threaten us, that they are held accountable. >> ifill: and we get his take on race relations in america, following his speech at the lincoln memorial today, 50 years after the marc w

throughout the world somewhat similar to bush's and obama's in locations like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the least important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't wasn't office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning as gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. poll. the. it's too late for me i'm all done in the court of posted i'll soon be on soaring for all my sin just to put i was blind and deaf and without hope. this is no life. it's a crappy joke come on priests when to go and you cry for all my needs it was nothing but i still don't you worry about me or about my sins it's good that it's big doll so is it out with him. but if he does exist it's good. this is a man who's ready to bring charges against god himself at the last judgment his name is alexander savor of he lives in a small apartment in moscow suburbs and at two o'clock every thursday afternoon h

similarly unstable across the balkan peninsula. i'll leave you now with the extended forecast. >>> that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks very much for joining us.  >> i'm the executive vice president of the wilson center. i want to welcome all of you today. the wilson center was chartered by the congress as the official memorial to our 28th president. it is the nation's key nonpartisan policy form for tackling global issues through independent research, open

south, especially unstable across the south of the iberian peninsula and the northern areas of the balkansula, storms and hail are possible on thursday. temperatures comfortable, 24 in berlin and 23 degrees in warsaw. here's the extended forecast. >>> and that wraps up this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. stay with us. we'll be back with more at the top of the hour.  >> good afternoon. i'm james harmon, president and ceo ceo of the wilson center. it has occurred to our speaker and me and maybe some of you that today is the second anniversary of zero dark 30. it was on may 2 at 12 :00 a.m. that the takedown of osama bin laden occurred. someone with my left had a lot to do with that. more on that later. a special welcome to the ambassador of

unstable air into northern balka balkans. 65-kilometer-per-hour winds, hail reported in possible seern e southeastern spain. this is going to fizzle. high pressure off to the north staying in place. but this is the next topic at hand. a big game changer. we have a storm system coming in off the atlantic. what this is going to do is first bring showers across the northern portions of the uk, also gusty winds about 65 kilometers per hour. but the temperatures are going to cool off when the front starts to dive in from the north into the early part of next week. london at 24, paris atd 25, even there in berlin, but going into monday and tuesday it looks like the highs are going to be in the low 20s to the high teens and lows into the low teens. and some areas here you could even be getting into the single digits. that's a look at your world weather. here's the extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo. from all of us here at nhk world, thanks for joining us. until next time. ♪ >>> kengo kuma. the architect is recognized worldwide. these days, he's esp

that is bringing the risk of some severe thunderstorms in italy, towards the balkans, some large hail, even the possibility of a tornado or two coming out of this as it pushes off to the east. rome, a high of 27. you want to go somewhere cool, vienna at 20, london at 23 here on tuesday. that's a look at your world weather. here's the extended forecast. >>> one of japan's most prominent orchestras has taken its music to a new audience in the birthplace of mozart. ♪ >> members of the nhk symphony orchestra debuted at the salsburg festival. they premiered the lam menation. it's a eulogy to people who died in japan two and a half years ago in the earthquake and tsunami. festival organizers had it written by japanese composer. the orchestra also performed three other pieces. >> it was amazingly beautiful and moving. and we were both almost in tears at the end of it. >> translator: i had never heard such a wonderful performance by such a passionate orchestra. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo. >>> a town devastated by the great east japan earthquake and tsunami. m

instead of shutting their kids or monitoring them as the balkan, why don't you offer them a job? -- model train them as they walked in, why don't you offer them eight -- monitoring and the them as they walked in, why don't you offer them a job? [applause] >> i will ask the professor to ask some specific questions. and then we will get to your questions in about eight or nine minutes. i will ask you to keep your response is brief. >> ok, you will have to bear with m i am g go off script for 30 seconds. there is a person in the audience, and i meant to mention her during my keynote. it is someone that you all should try to talk to during a break or during lunch because someone like her should be on this panel. one person missing. it is a public defender. this is someone who worked as a public defender for 19 years in los angeles. she is now director of legal services. now i'm going to embarrass her. her name is ellie miller. there she is. [applause] public defenders are legal ministers. you are. you are part of this picture. ok. i will go back to what i was supposed to be doing, fo

upper parts of the iberian peninsula, central europe as well as northern parts of the balkan peninsula. through saturday temperatures still on the hot side. 38 degrees on friday as well and milan 33 on thursday. we'll steadily go up into 30 into the mid-30s into your saturday. so watch out for heat stroke. the reason for the hot weather is this high pressure system covering most of the western continent, central continent as well and also strong southerly winds are flowing into this frontal system coming in from the atlantic, which could cause some quite heavy rain for the northern half of the uk into the next few days. now further towards east asia, a rain band is lying over japan producing lots of rain. we have, of course, about 60 millimeters of rain in just one hour in the prefecture and that's good news because western parts of japan dealt with flooding. now thunderstorms will linger through honshu today. and you'll notice that a circle of purple can be found across the south china sea. this is a tropical storm, the ninth of the typhoon season so far, which could hit the island of

towards the south, some moisture off the mediterranean is triggering thunderstorms for the northern balkans, also italy here and over towards eastern spain, as well. a few could be producing storms, about 65 kilometer per hour winds out of them. then to the north the main topic is this low coming in across the british isles. it's bringing rain showers with it. also we have the cold front. and the cold front is doing what its name implies, making things cooler. london, just 21 here on your friday. that's the look at the world weather. here's the extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour, i'm gene otani in tokyo. from all of us here at nhk world, thanks for joining us. ♪ >>> this time on "design talks," plants. from the microcosm of nature in bonsai to intricate paintings of flowers, the japanese have long surrounded themselves with plant life.

> and a little while after that, president obama spoke at the white house ahead of a meeting with balkaneaders -- pardon me, baltic leaders. he said there's no open-ended commitments being discussed. there's no american boots on the ground in syria. he did not make a decision but he did express that he wished the international community had already acted and lamented the fact that it did not already happen and the incapacity of the u.n. security council to move forward on this issue. we also learn he has consulted with the french president and the british prime minister and with leaders from congress. >> we are confident that we can provide congress all the information and get all the input that they need, and we're very mindful of that. and we can have sirius conversations with our -- serious conversations with our allies and friends around the world about this, but ultimately we don't want the world to be paralyzed and frankly, you know, part of the challenge that we end up with here is that a lot of people think that something should be done but nobody wants to do it. >> and as we hea

northern balkans 85 millimeters reported in the past 24 hours. in spain you could see severe thunderstorms popping up. we do have a few showers into northern portions of the u.k. but this is the topic if you're out there into berlin, 24 for your high, paris at 24 as well. even london at 22. it's expected to cool down into the weekend. here's your extended forecast. >>> and that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo. ♪ >>> from the four winds and the scent of the earth, come the color of the seasons. exploring the four seasons of japan. rising above us, watching over us as we look up from below, towers exert an excitement whenever we see them.

prize winner who spent nearly two decades reporting in central america the middle east africa and the balkans spies prolific resume about standing journalism hedges is precisely the kind of person i could fall subject to and days indefinite detention clause is it chris represents one of many journalists who often have to embed themselves with groups that the government has deemed terrorists to get the full story so take a look at my exclusive interview with journalist chris hedges where he talks about the lawsuit and why every american should care about it. chris thanks so much for sitting down with me you know why why is the government holding this line that the n.b.a. is no different than they were that and that one it's obviously much more broad in its language. well that was the central argument that the government lawyers made in the southern district court of new york that this was essential or not extending the powers of the government but. reinforcing existing powers now you know i've read a you m.-f. several times it's very clear that this is a vast extent extension of government aut

throughout the world somewhat similar to bush's and obama's of locations like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the lead. important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't wasn't office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning as gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. right on the sea. search trick. and i think the trick. on our reporters twitter. instagram. to be in the. lead. welcome to the kaiser report on max ties are texas totally frat. texas is so fracs some towns will soon be running out of water and now the united kingdom wants to create its own fracking mess yes the u.k. blew through its front the north sea oil at all sold it all time lows and now wants to blow through its clean water table just when fresh h two o. is becoming more and more scarce know there's no escaping the sinkholes of stupid opening up around us as governments and the corporations target

isn't obama's in locations like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the least important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't wasn't office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning's gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion.

throughout the world somewhat similar to bush's and obama's in locations like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the least important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't wasn't office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning as gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. ok. dave across it welcome you to take virginia it's a little while in the middle of the chesapeake bay and of virginia. and i come back . around page here all of the chesapeake bay probably is one of the best there is in the focus so for it. this is an old picture of your island before the channel was. way up there. as bill. right here are some of the headstones from the graves that for europe this is a fruits that's what we don't want happen to tangier all and we want to get some protection and make sure that we don't go into the chesapeake bay like albert did in other communities. maybe if you need to

throughout the world somewhat similar to bush's and obama's in locations like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the least important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't wasn't office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning as gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had lunch i got so . i didn't have my hands down as i'm still really messed up. in the old very slow motion with. the. worst we're going through the life out of a. radio guy and four minutes from the. clothes are about to produce never seen anything like this i'm told. what i added martin this is breaking news that so guys monsanto was just granted even more immunity they already had on tuesday obama signed what's been dubbed the month santa protection act so it was a small provision deceitfully di

throughout the world somewhat similar to bush's and obama's in locations like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the least important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't wasn't office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning as gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. talking about languages but i react to situations i have read the reports for. clues to know i'll leave them to the states to comment on you not apply them to secure yes because you're talking. well. they get no more weasel words when you know they had a direct question really prepared for a chase when you throw a punch be ready for a battle freedom of speech and little down to fit into question. oh i hit the didn't it. oh ok. oh hello to you too late for me i'm old.

over here when balkan but this is the site of where an oil and gas company quit drill is doing exploratory drilling you have the police over here trying to stop any possible protesters from getting in to clear the fracking is a divisive a topic over here you've got. residents debating it the issue many of them pointing out to what they see will be the consequences if big companies go in to their neighborhoods to their area and the consequences that impact on climate on their water we spoke with one of those residents and talk to her about what her fears are if fracking doesn't do happen now ministers who many of whom my industry invested who are saying that there is no evidence of contamination and that they can regulate this safely and that this is been going on for decades none of which they are true on the kitchen very the willfully lying or they haven't done the research there is ample evidence of despereaux home that is done the seismic activity is triggered the water is contaminated and the bottom line is this industry this technology is an extreme eco sun technology it cannot be reg

throughout the world somewhat similar to bush's and obama's in locations like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the least important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't was in office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning's gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. coming up on politics with larry king c.n.n. crossfire co-host ben jones and the blazers amy holmes face off plus a great new book on washington naming the town black it's called this town will meet the author of mark leibovit that's all next on politicking with larry king. live them to this week's politicking we start with democrat and former white house environmental adviser and co-host by the way of c.n.n.'s new crossfire show then jones who joins us in washington also joining us is the independent and a host of blazes hot list amy holmes she joins us from new york let's get right to it guys syria's le

throughout the world somewhat similar to bush's and obama's in locations like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the least important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't wasn't office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning as gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. a long welcome to worlds apart hundred million people around the globe. coming here and while politicians and policy makers vocal and unanimous to do something the fruits of that labor have failed to materialise just how much more stability before it gets better all to discover that i'm now joined by the director general of the international labor organisation thank you very much for your time. now your organisation forecasts the global unemployment is set to increase to around two hundred eighty million by two thousand and fifteen and as far as i understand the figure is based on forecast we have been r

throughout the world somewhat similar to bush's and obama's in locations like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the least important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't wasn't office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning as gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. hello and welcome to on the money with the business of russia is business i'm peter lavelle this month we were at the same petersburg international economic forum holding a panel discussion on the crisis of capitalism our panel included academics c.e.o.'s and opinion makers ronnie. goldberg she is the executive vice president and senior policy officer at u.s.c. i would be all go ahead she's deputy prime minister of the russian federation. he is secretary general of the o.e.c.d. flatter me he is rector of the russian presidential academy of national economy and public administration your last he is chairm

throughout the world somewhat similar to bush's and obama's in locations like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the least important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't wasn't office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning as gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. oh and welcome arms says a shevardnadze and today we're away from our usual moscow studio where in a very special setting astonishingly beautiful shetland isles also north coast of scotland where the north sea atlantic you will find the shetland isles and the reason we're here is to talk to the first scottish minister alexander salmond about the defining point of every land it's seventeen it's mr solomon's flagship policy to see scotland become independent from the united kingdom one of the benefits and the drawbacks let's take a little.

one-piece back, and it has extremely deep flames, and it's a very lightweight maple that comes from the balkan peninsula, and that's the first-quality maple for violin making. he also had a very beautiful method of carving the scrolls by hand, and these are done with a series of chisels that correspond to the different curves of the scroll, so he used a different-sized chisel to cut each of the turns of the scroll. now, if we look inside of the violin, we can see the label that says "meyers-halvarson," and it's a very understated label. and he worked in this area of nashville, michigan, i think because the area was very well supported by the auto industry, so there was a lot of money that supported classical music. so, he turned out to be one of the major american makers of the 20th century. because of the violin's quality and because of the relative rarity of these instruments, i would place the value of this violin between $4,000 and $6,000. wow, wow. i like a lot of different quilts and, um, coverlets and things like that. i happened to see this at a thrift store here in washington, d.c., a

throughout the world somewhat similar to bush's and obama's in locations like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the least important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't was an office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning as gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. choose your language. make it with the infidels going to. choose the consensus. choose to get to. choose the stories that if you. choose to excess. her. ticket the. hit home. for all. of. it's too late for me i'm all done in the quarter but i'll soon be on searching for all my sin just to put i was blind and deaf and without hope. this is no life. as a crappy joke come on priests went to god you cry for all my needs it was nothing but shine store don't you worry about me or about my sins good doll so it out with him. but if he does exist if you go. for all of it. this is a man who's ready to bring charge

you have to understand the balkans is a place heaving with conspiracies. you cannot trust anything anyone tells you. no, don't you see there's one thing i'm certain of? by bringing out frau kummer, the baroness has proved that miss froy exists. this has turned into something terribly sinister. look, as much as i would like to believe you, and i would, i have to look at the facts. what facts? only one person out of the whole myriad of witnesses has backed your story. and that one person, mrs. barnes, and her husband, the reverend, positively identified frau kummer as the woman you were with. so you think i'm mad? please be serious. this is the most awful thing that's ever happened to me. well, i am grateful to miss froy for bringing us together. you may be prepared to give up on miss froy, but i am not. man: second seating for the dinner start now. (quietly): i'm not a bad person... i'm not a bad person. i'm not a bad person! (door opens) why did you lie about miss froy? i believe her name is frau kummer. you know as well as i do that she's english. she was

throughout the world somewhat similar to bush's and obama's in locations like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the least important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't wasn't office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning as gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. hello and welcome to crossfire all things are considered i'm peter lavelle setting the middle east further ablaze with little or even no hard evidence surrounding the alleged use of chemical weapons in syria the obama administration appears determined to enter this conflict with no clear purpose or aim obama says the arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice.

throughout the world somewhat similar to bush's and obama's in locations like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the least important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't was an office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning as gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others refuse to notice. faces change rights news. to picture posts. from around the globe. look. don't get me. he. is a. hello and welcome to crossfire all things are considered i'm peter lavelle setting the middle east further ablaze with little or even no hard evidence surrounding the alleged use of chemical weapons in syria the obama administration appears determined to enter this conflict with no clear purpose or aim obama says the arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice but it does not bend on its own is american intervention in syria really a ben

occasions like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the least important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't wasn't office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning as gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. in cuba is not a failure of the cuban people it's a failure of sidel castro to come. when a sunday shows us back to the shows both hostility and suspicion encouraged by the government these operations against cuba were known to the attorney general of the united states the president united states himself the defendants an intelligence arms had to infiltrate to resist. but still a chance freedom fighters terrorists. who is. a real terrorist please stand up on our cheek. hello and welcome to our in the money where the business of russia is business i'm peter all of this month we were at the st petersburg international economic forum holding a panel discussion on

for centuries then went into the ottoman empire into turkey taken by a blood shed and then into the balkansd stopped in vienna but the people were persecuted but we have seen today has long continuity with islamic history. the reason you're not aware of us want dash where does it does not talk any more. lori: why doesn't the western academia is indifferent to the plight of the christians? >> as i was pointing out earlier there was the bias against christians in academia where they are the historic persecutors then those who are persecuting them lefty and right and you realize when you realize it doesn't fit the mainstream paradigm in here from one end to the other not other circumstances. lori: then they enable the persecution and? >> they get the sense of the arabs praying that proves to be a disaster the administration has been supportive of the muslim brotherhood and once they come to power we have seen a nosedive in countries like libya a and egypt and syria. since the al qaeda rebellion takeover several churches have been attacked in tons have a big kick debt of the country in egypt un

throughout the world somewhat similar to bush's and obama's of locations like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the least important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't wasn't office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning as gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck. i mean the town i believe that i'm seeing the same thing really messed up. in the old story so . it's. worse for to live through the white house chief of the. radio guy and put him in a. cloak for a politician because you never seen anything like that i'm told. lots of guys i mean martin and this is breaking the sets when you hear about big bank c.e.o.'s and running away with millions of dollars in taxpayer funds for their bonuses takers wish that you could just arrest these criminals yours

throughout the world somewhat similar to bush's and obama's in locations like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the least important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't was an office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning as gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how bad the less and less. i mean . that i've seen really messed up. in the old story so closely. that's. worse for the food. white house or for the. radio guy and four minutes from a click. away cloak are about to get you never seen anything like this i'm telling . you. what's going on everyone i'm having mine and this is breaking the set so we have a packed show for you guys today i'll be speaking to governor howard dean and economist richard wolffe about everything from health care to drones to reg anomic stick