additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributionso your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tish wnet studios at lincoln. >>> authorities in turkey today detained 25 people including a number of mining company executives in connection with the fine fire that killed 301 people. three of those taken into custody were later arrested. most of those died by carbon monoxide poisoning. support beams were made of wood, not metal. and the mine had too few carbon monoxide sensors. the last of the victims was pulled from the accident today. >>> in libya's capital city, armed gunmen stormed the parliament building today. smoke billowed over the capital after fight others attacked the building with anti-aircraft weapons and grenades. there were no reported casuual y casualti casualties, but a number are being held. the troops are led to a libyan general. he has accused islamist lawmakers of supporting extremists. >>> in bosnia, at least 30 people have died and tens of thousands of others have been evacuated after the region's w

additional support is provided by -- and by the corporation for public broadcasting.nd by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york. >> good evening. thanks for joining us. western and african leaders met in paris today to devise a strategy to fight boko haram, the islamic extremists group responsible for the abduction of hundreds of nigerian schoolgirls. even as they met, they were responsible for additional terror attacks in africa. ten chinese workers were seized at a camp inside cameroon. and a similar number of people were killed on the other side of the border in nigeria. for more, we have a report by paris by simon israel. >> reporter: unable to travel to meet the captive girls' families in his own country, the nigerian president managed to make it to paris today. he was one of five west african heads of states to attend. the dangers posed to the region of boko haram have finally brought them together. >> translator: we have identified the threat of boko haram. we have understoo

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newshour weekend is made possible by -- additional support is provided by -- and by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions from viewers like you. thank you. >>> from the studios in lincoln center, new york, hari sreenivasan. >> good evening. thanks for joining us. president obama is spending part of midmidweekend in afghanistan. he was greeted at the bagram air base. the trip was not announced ahead of time. during the brief surprise visit he met with u.s. troops and conferred with military commanders. the white house sought to quell speculation that the visit in in response to the v.a. scandal. new details emerged with the 22-year-old man accused of carrying out the deadly rampage in california. police say elliott rodgers fatally stabbed three men in his apartment then prowled the streets wounding 13 and killing 3 others before shooting himself in the head. police found three semiautomatic handguns in his vehicle all purchased legally. in a series of youtube videos and in a 140-page manifesto, rodgers ioutlined his isolation and the women who rejected him. police visited his apartment l

for all of us. >> corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by prudential, brigham & women's hospital. additional funding is provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to pbs stations from viewers like you. thank you. steves: while neighboring croatia is famous for its coastline, slovenia enjoys its own 29-mile stretch of adriatic seafront. that's about one inch per resident. its best stop -- the town of piran. many adriatic towns are overwhelmed by tourists and concrete, but piran has kept itself charming and in remarkably good repair while holding the tourist sprawl at bay. crowded onto the tip of its peninsula, piran can't grow. the main square was once a protected harbor until it began to stink so badly they had to fill it in. a colorful mix of work and pleasure boats fill today's harbor. these days, piran's walls are inviting, rather than defensive, and the town is simply an enjoyable place in which to relax. explore the evocative back lanes. hike up to the cathedral. scale the venetian-style bell tower. on top, catch your breath by enjoying views of piran and nearly the entire slovenian coastline. the traffic-free harbor

for all of us. >> additional corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by prudential. brigham and women's hospital. additional funding is provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to pbs stations from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. americans like to talk about the weather. to watch stories about the weather, to express shock and amazement at pictures of landslides, wildfires, snowstorms and floods. but do they think it has anything to do with climate change? polls show not so much. so the white house stepped up its game this week, enlisting a panel of scientists to release a sober new report linking the warming planet to human activity. today the president was in california making the case that climate change is about more than just bad weather. >> it's affecting every sector of our economy and our society. more severe floods, more violent wildfires. it's already costing cities and states and families and businesses money. here in california, you've seen the effects firsthand. gwen: so, coral, how different was this report that came out this week than what we've know

corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by prudential, brigham & women's hospital. additional funding is also provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. it's a perfect storm. allegations of government malfeasance, coverup, the possibility of lives lost and betrayal of our nation's heroes all culminating in multiple demands that heads roll. the growing scandal engulfing the department of veterans' affairs health programs is now the subject of several investigations. >> our veterans deserve to know the facts, their families deserve to know the facts. once we know the facts, i assure you, if there is misconduct it will be punished. gwen: at the center of it all, mild mannered v.a. secretary eric shinseki, who for now, at least, still has his job, but demands for accountability are coming from both sides of the aisle. >> this is awful stuff and somebody ought to be held accountable for it. >> i have not called for general shinseki to resign although i have to admit i am getting a little closer.

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for all of us. >> corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by prudential. brigham and women's hospital. additional funding is provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to pbs stations from viewers like you. thank you. >> >>> next, the drought plus an early heat wave for a hot fire season. >>> coming back with wes moore, a glimpse of the veterans returning home from the front lines. >> we know the bullets will stop flying, but the wars that many of us are facing as we come back home will not. >>> a look at some key local races in the upcoming june primary.

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. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> wooduff: there's word today that islamist militants in nigeria have abducted more girls. police and witnesses said it happened in the northeast, where men went door-to-door taking girls, ages 12 to 15. the militants are already holding some 270 girls they abducted last month. jonathan miller of independent television news reports on the day's developments. >> reporter: twenty-two days of terror, kidnapped, held captive and incommunicado by blood insurgents and still no word the rising fury of the nigerian public, a government with no idea where they are. there's now been time to fully translate yesterday's crazed 57- minute-long rant of the supposed leader of boko haram, the al- qaeda linked militants who claim they're the ones who kidnapped the girls in a midnight raid on their school. >> ( translated ): allah should separate us from the unbelievers of the world for we must follow allah. leave western educa

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: the u.s. military has stepped up the search for more than 270 school girls kidnapped in nigeria. president obama told congress today that 80 troops are being deployed to neighboring chad. they'll help with intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance flights over northern nigeria. the islamist group boko haram abducted the girls last month, and today, its fighters killed 48 people in three northern villages. yesterday, bombings in central nigeria killed 118 people. >> woodruff: there was heavy new fighting in libya today, amid fears of growing chaos. the combat came near a main camp and military barracks outside tripoli. this morning, fires were still burning from midnight rocket attacks that killed two people. about 200 people were evacuated from the area. it was unclear who was involved in the fighting, but a renegade general, khalifa hifter, has launched a campaign against islamist influence in libya.

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ç >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.ibutions to your pbs stat[on from viewers like you. thank you. >> sreenivasan: house democrats were divided today on whether to join republicans in investigating the benghazi attacks. it will be the eighth probe of the september 2012 attack that killed four americans in libya. at a briefing today, minority leader nancy pelosi called this latest investigation a political stunt, but she said her members are still considering what to do. >> our caucus is clearly among those whohsaid don't have anything to do with it, it's a kangaroo court, it's been identified as such. i don't dignify what they are doing. they say just send one person so we can seeç what they're doingo the witnesses and have access to that testimony, and the third option is let's see what they come back with in terms of engagement. >> sreenivasan: pelosi's office is negotiating with house speaker john boehner's office on just how the investigation will be run. south sudan's president salva kiir rebel leader riek machar

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. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the government of ukraine launched a major military operation today against pro-russian separatists in the east. their target was slovyansk, and ukraine's president reported many insurgents were killed or wounded-- but not without cost. james mates of independent television news is there, and filed this report. >> reporter: helicopters in the dawn sky above the city of slovyansk, the start of the british-ukrainian offensive. crisis again. it was a bad start. the flash, one of their aircraft being hit. the camera tracked it until it crashed. pro-russian fighters cheered as they watched it fall. the ease with which they hit two helicopters and this, indicated sophisticated weapon riis used possibly supplied from across the border. ukrainian offensive appears to have stalled on the outskirts. troops took up positions on the outskirts of slovyansk with no sign they're about to move further. this is par

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: the worst flooding in decades literally drowned parts of the florida panhandle and coastal alabama today. the deluge was triggered by the same front that's spawned tornadoes and killed at least 37 people this week. >> ifill: streets turned into rivers, and cars into islands, as it started pouring yesterday, from gulf shores, alabama to pensacola, florida, and didn't stop. >> i came down about 6:00 this morning to check on everything. and the water was probably up to the sidewalk over here next door. and that was the first time in 29 years, i've never seen it get this deep before. the water was waist-high in some places, and still rising. >> we've had up to 22 inches of rain in the panhandle. >> ifill: that's roughly a third of pensacola's average rainfall for the whole year. and florida governor rick scott told today of urgent appeals for help. >> we've had flash flooding. we've had about 300 requests

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. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: the chair of the federal reserve offered a hopeful assessment of the economy today, coupled with words of warning. speaking at a congressional hearing, janet yellen said things are picking up after a long, hard winter. >> many suggest that rebound in spending and production is already underway put knowledge the overall economy on track for solid growth growth in the current quarter. when cautionary nortena readings on housing activity a sec tore that has been recovering since 2011 have remained disappointing so far this year and will bear watching. >> ifill: yellen also said the job market remains "far from satisfactory", and told lawmakers the fed has no intention of raising short-term interest rates any time soon. on wall street, the dow jones industrial average gained 117 points to close at 16,518. the nasdaq was down 13 to close at 4,067, as internet stocks fell for a second day. and the s-and-p 500 a

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: european banking giant "credit suisse a.g." admitted today it illegally helped wealthy americans dodge taxes. the bank entered a federal plea deal and agreed to pay $2.6 billion in penalties. it's part of a crackdown on foreign banks allegedly hiding u.s. taxpayer assets offshore. a.t.&.t. pledged today to "redefine the video entertainment industry" if it's allowed to buy satellite t.v. provider directv. the deal, valued at $48.5 billion, would create the nation's second largest pay t.v. operator. comcast and time warner cable would be the largest, under a merger proposed in february. both deals are subject to federal approval. british drug maker astrazeneca has rejected a final $119 billion takeover offer from american rival, pfizer. the move ends pfizer's long battle to form the world's largest drug company. astrazeneca says the bid did not reflect its true value. the balkans struggled today with th

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: gusty winds in southern california died down today, and that gave firefighters a window of opportunity to bring nine wildfires under better control. the fires started tuesday and burned through more than 9;000 acres in san diego county. the fast-moving flames burned several dozen homes, forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate, and closed schools. fire officials said the dry conditions are the worst they've seen this early in the year. >> you can tell it's extremely hot, it's dry, we're early in may, we have a long fire season ahead of us, but know that we still have a lot of work to do here, days of work ahead of us, not only on this fire and the fires that occurred in the past several days, but the potential new fires that could start in the next several days to come. >> ifill: also in california, 10,000 gallons of crude oil sprayed into the streets of los angeles last night after a pipe burst.

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: the death toll kept rising today in the coal mine disaster in turkey, and so did the anger. at least 274 miners were confirmed dead, with up to 150 others possibly trapped, after yesterday's explosion and fire. dan rivers of independent television news filed this report from the scene. >> reporter: grief is slowly replacing hope in soma. each emerging stretcher bears a miner and the faith of a family, for more than 24 hours this harrowing scene has played out, wives straining to see the face of each man, some recoiling in horror at what it means. the brothers and friends of those missing scream in frustration, their anger barely contained. this pitiful suffering has gone on for more than 36 hours and still the number of missing, dead and injured is unclear. inside the mine shows the thick smoke, created after a power transformer exploded halting the lifts and starting a fire from which few have escaped. t

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: fresh fighting erupted in ukraine today, in a key city seized by separatists who want to join russia. that followed a weekend of violent confrontations. we have a report from james mates of independent television news. >> the picture is unclear. the battlefield spread across the suburbs of the separatistist sub hold of sloviansk. >> they are believed to be returning from an am bush against ukrainian solliers that left four soldiers dead and 30 wounded. the separatists themselves suffer casualties, this man lying wounded the. ukrainian claims they killed 20 but no prospect of confirming these numbers. the biggest blow to the ukrainian forces is there is another one of their helicopters has been shot down. this is said to be video today of a military helicopter coming under gunfire. smoke in the distance is said to be from the crash. though we can't confirm this. in the south of ukraine the city of odes

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.ributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: thailand's military seized power, dissolved the government and suspended the constitution today. the coup followed months of political violence and deadlock. jonathan miller of independent television news reports. >> reporter: thailand, tonight, as soldiers cleared streets, bangkok's residents rushed home before 10:00 p.m. curfew, panic buying in 7/11s. it's been bloodless, but it was a coup. earlier, at the army club compound in bangkok, it was obvious something was up. two days after the military declared martial law, the army had summoned the country's political leaders to a meeting. general prayuth chan-ocha, army commander. he had failed to mediate compromise in the political deadlock, so he promptly detained thailand's political leaders. across the nation, all tv stations went off air. "stand-by," the slate says, "for an important announcement." then thailand's coup-leader announced that for the good of the

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: firefighters wrangled five of the ten wildfires burning around san diego, california today thanks to cooler temperatures and calmer winds. but at the marine corp's camp pendleton base, two fires flared up overnight. one grew from 600 to 8,000 acres. elsewhere, evacuees were permitted to return home to survey the damage. officials are still investigating the possibility of arson. all told, 120,000 people were under evacuation orders at some point this week. the u.s. department of transportation slapped a maximum $35-million fine on general motors today for mishandling its ignition switch defects. the problem affected some 2.6 million cars and, according to g.m., resulted in at least 13 deaths. it took the nation's largest automaker nearly a decade to order recalls after engineers discovered the defect. transportation secretary anthony foxx said that's unacceptable. >> we know no one is perfect. but what

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: another 2.4 million cars and trucks are headed back to general motors. the four new recalls today involve seat belts, transmissions, air bags and risks of fire. more than half the affected models are buick, chevrolet and g.m.c. cross-overs from 2009 through 2014. older model chevy and pontiac sedans account for nearly all the remaining vehicles. just last week, g.m. agreed to pay a $35 million federal fine for concealing ignition switch problems. >> ifill: a major new attack hit nigeria today, a double car bombing that killed at least 118 people. the first blast struck a bus terminal in the central city of jos. a second bomb exploded there 30 minutes later, after rescue workers arrived. the bombings bore the hallmarks of "boko haram", the islamist group that's holding more than 270 school girls captive. the military in thailand has intervened in that country's ongoing political crisis. john sparks,

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: an explosion and fire tore through a coal mine in turkey today. the country's disaster agency reported 70 miners were killed. the local mayor reported 157 were dead. an undetermined number were still trapped in the mine. firefighters and rescue workers rushed to the scene after an underground power unit blew up during a shift change. it happened about 150 miles south of istanbul. as word broke, relatives and friends of the miners swarmed a nearby hospital, hoping to find their loved ones among the injured. and in this country, two coal miners were killed in west virginia last night when the mine floor collapsed. >> ifill: fresh violence broke out today in eastern ukraine, as seven government soldiers were killed by pro-russian gunmen. the defense ministry said it happened when an armored column was ambushed near kramatorsk, in donetsk region. separatists declared that region independent after a ref

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: americans paused today to remember the men and women who gave their lives in service to the country. president obama marked the day with a visit to arlington national cemetery and the tomb of the unknowns, where he laid a wreath. memorial day falls in the midst of a widening scandal about the care of military veterans at v.a. hospitals. president obama said the u.s. owes its veterans the care they need. >> as we've been reminded in recent days we must do more to keep faith with our veterans and their families and ensure that they get the care and benefits and opportunities that they've earned and that they deserve. these americans have done their duty, they ask nothing more than that our country does ours. now and for decades to come. >> woodruff: we'll have more on memorial day celebrations around the country, as well as a closer look at one part of arlington cemetery, at the close of the program

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: a huge underground bomb in syria blasted a hotel into ruins today, killing up to 100 people. it happened in the key northern city of aleppo, where a syrian government militia had been using the hotel as its base. john sparks of independent television news has this report. >> reporter: some say they're fighting a losing battle. today, however, rebel fighters in syria showed they are still a force to be reckoned with. in the heart of historic aleppo a prestigious hotel was destroyed in a massive explosion. the opposition group, islamic front, took credit for the blast and these pictures. the attack like so many other moments in this conflict has been well documented. in february, rebel combatants showed off a new construction, a 250-foot long tunnel leading to the carlton hotel. we're putting the last touches on it, he says, and we're 100% sure of the target. here's what left of the carlton, they used 23 ton

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.by contributions to your pbs thank you. >> ifill: parts of the west spent this day after mother's day digging out from a late winter snowstorm. the system dropped wet, slushy snow across wyoming and colorado on sunday, and continued into early today. accumulations of nearly three feet forced much of interstate 80 in southern wyoming to shut down. the storm also spawned minor tornadoes in nebraska and forced flash flood watches in oklahoma and arkansas. >> woodruff: the taliban launched a spring offensive in afghanistan today, as promised, killing at least 21 people. attacks were scattered from jalalabad, where taliban fighters stormed a governmentç building to a checkpoint in helmand province, where gunmen killed nine policemen. and to kabul itself, where rockets landed inside the perimeter of the international airport.ç the violence comes as fewer than 30,000 u.s. troops remain in the country, the lowest number since the 2001 invasion. >> ifill: new tragedy has struck migrants tryin

" >> frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from: and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major support for frontliis provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from john and jo ann hagler and additional support from chris and lisa kaneb and bill and cile hicks. >> narrator: hong kong, may 2013. nsa contractor edward snowden was holed up deep inside the crowded kowloon district. he chose hong kong, he would say later, because he trusted the chinese would not betray him to u.s. authorities. before leaving his home in hawaii, he had downloaded a huge store of top secret files from the nsa's internal networks, and he had sent many of them through encrypted channels to a few journalists he trusted. two of them, glenn greenwald of the guardian and documen