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additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york this is pbs newshour weekend. >> stewart: good evening. thanks for joining us. about 1,500 people have been killed in nepal after a powerful earthquake registering 7.8 on the richter scale struck earlier today. ellen barry, the south asia bureau chief of the "new york times," has been following the story from her post in neighboring india and joins us now via skype. ellen, can you give us some of the details, fill us in on some of the details, for example what area was hardest hit? >> reporter: sure. i mean the part of katmandu that was most seriously devastated was the old historic part of town where there is sort of densely located heritage landmark buildings, temples and palaces. a number of those were simply pancaked in some cases with a the lot of people inside them. >> stewart: ellen, for those that did survive this quake and are trapped in the rubble and are being res

the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington sitting in for gwen ifill this week, gloria borger of cnn. gloria: good evening. there's no doubt that tensions are high between the white house and capitol hill over any number of issues. executive power, the nomination of loretta lynch to be attorney general and, of course, the recent negotiations over iran's nuclear program. congress has made it clear it wants to review any deal with iran, especially when it comes to sanction. senator corker: i believe congress should play a role in ensuring all the details that need to be in place are there. gloria: that's the message from republicans. how do democrats see it? senator cardin: i think this is the right way for congress to take up this issue. i think it's congressional prerogative and we have to oppose the sanctions and take it up. gloria: with bipartisan agreement, congress will get the review authority on any deal with iran and somewhat surprisingly, the president seems to be going alon

additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, alison stewart. >> stewart: good evening, thanks for joining for us. the death toll is mounting in he aftermath of the massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake that has devastated a huge swath of nepal. emergency workers are desperately searching for survivors combing through mountains of shifting debris. authorities say as many as 2,400 people are confirmed dead. hundreds are missing and as many as 6,000 may have been injured. >> most of them are suffering from head injuries, spine injuries, abdominal injuries. >> ( translated ): my father got injured, i lost my daughter, i broke my leg, it is very difficult now and i have nothing with me. >> stewart: a dozen aftershocks have made the search even more treacherous across the kathmandu valley, which is home to some 2.5 million people. the capital city itself is just 50 miles southeast of the quake's epicenter. thousands of displaced

additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. isis is being blamed for a terror attack in another part of the world today, afghanistan. the president of that country says the extremist group was responsible for a suicide bombing that left at least 33 people dead and an estimated 100 wounded. the attack occurred outside a bank in the eastern city of jalalabad. the victims had gathered there to collect their paychecks. a spokesman for the taliban, which has been at war with the western-backed government in afghanistan, also condemned today's attack. we'll have more after the news summary. a suspected terror plot in australia has been foiled. authorities in melbourne arrested five teens said to have been planning an attack on police during a world war i commemoration next week. the five teens, all 18 or 19 years old, are all described as isis sympathiz

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additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. hillary clinton made it official today, she's running for president. she made the announcement in a video posted online this afternoon. it featured people from traditionally democrat-leaning groups, including hispanics, african americans, women, and gays, all talking about how they're getting ready for the future. >> i'm getting ready for something too. i'm running for president. americans have fought their way back from tough economic times but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top. everyday americans need a champion and i want to be that champion. so you can do more than just get by. you can get ahead and stay ahead. because when families are strong, america is strong. >> sreenivasan: hours before her announcement, one of the republican front runners, former florida governor jeb bush,

additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. it was a day of celebration reflection and remembrance in kenya today as millions of christians there observed easter just days after al shabab islamic extremists targeted christian students at a university and killed more than 140 of them. the newshour's william brangham has more. >> this was the scene outside churches in the capital city of nairobi today, as worshippers gathered to attend easter sunday mass. and this was in the scene at churches in garissa. a city of 120,000 people closer to the border of somalia, where masked gunmen from the al-qaeda affiliated terror group gunned down christian students and spared muslims. the catholic bishop there said today everyone is still shaken by the attacks, but one of his parishioners in this overwhelmingly christian country said she relied on her faith to ea

additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight in kenya, where authorities today took five suspects into custody for their alleged role in thursday's university terror attack. at least 148 people were killed. authorities said three of the five were captured as they tried to enter neighboring somalia. that's the base of al-shabab, the islamist terror organization, aligned with al qaeda, which claimed responsibility for the attack targeting christian students. today, in a statement, the group warned kenyans that "no amount of precaution will prevent another bloodbath from occurring." our report is from itv's richard pallot. >> reporter: for two days, this woman has held out hope. no more. like so many others this morning the realization that their relatives were victims in kenya's worst terrorist attack in almost two decades. the stori

additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. >> president obama met with rule, the first meeting of its kind in more than 50 years and the latest in a series of developments pointing towards a normalization of relations between the two countries this after a widely photographed handshake last night and a phone call between the two men earlier in the week. the newshour's william brangham has more. >> reporter: at the summit of the americas meeting today in panama, both president obama and cuban president raul castro hailed the recent improvements in relations between their two long-estranged nations. >> this shift in u.s. policy represents a turning point for our entire region. the fact that president castro and i are both sitting here today marks an historic occasion. and i firmly believe that if we can continue to move forward and seize this momen

additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. this is pbs newshour weekend. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. members of italy's coast guard are searching for survivors after a fishing boat crowded with migrants overturned today. as many as 700 people are feared dead. the accident happened in the mediterranean, off the coast of libya. the victims were trying to get from there to italy. late today, italy's cabinet met in emergency session. since the beginning of the year an estimated 1,500 people have died making the crossing to italy. in libya today, another atrocity linked to isis. the muslim extremist group released a video online showing the beheading of 15 ethiopian christians and the shooting of 15 others it had captured. isis called the victims" crusaders." mixed signals from iran today. that country's supreme leader, ayatollah ali khamenei said the united states had created a

the newshour's april brown reports for our american graduate series, a public media initiative funded by the corporation for public broadcastingeporter: for roughly 40 years, nancie atwell has thought of herself first and foremost - as a teacher. but recently in dubai, she got a major title bump. >> and the global teacher prize goes to nancie atwell. >> reporter: today, many are calling her "the world's best teacher," after winning what's been dubbed "education's nobel prize." along with that honor she was awarded $1 million from the varkey foundation, a non-profit that aims to improve educational outcomes for underprivileged children across the globe. >> i was delighted, shocked, you know gob smacked and so proud to you know to represent my profession. >> the goal is excellence always. >> reporter: atwell was among ten finalists-- competing against nominees from countries including afghanistan, india haiti and kenya. >> this is going to work if you can play it out slowly. >> reporter: she won in large part because of the small, independent k through eight school she started in 1990 in edgecomb, maine, with the goal of teachin

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. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.y contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: president obama hosted italy's prime minister matteo renzi at the white house today, and at a joint news conference, addressed a list of sticky issues, starting with the way g.o.p. leaders on capitol hill are handling one of his main cabinet appointments. >> this is embarrassing, a process like this. >> woodruff: the president blasted senate republicans for delaying the confirmation of loretta lynch, whose nomination to be attorney general has sat idle since february. >> there are times where the dysfunction in the senate just goes too far. this is an example of it. it's gone too far. enough. enough. call loretta lynch for a vote. get her confirmed. put her in place. let her do her job. , a say oa final nuclear deal with iran, calling it a reasonable compromise. but mr. obama stressed the importance of appearing credible in the remaining negotiations. >> if it is perceived that we walk away from a fair d

. >> 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: there were new demands for change today after the videotaped killing of a black man by a white policeman in south carolina. north charleston officer michael slager fired eight times at walter scott, as he ran away. slager is now charged with murder, and the n.a.a.c.p. called today for a federal investigation of the entire police force. >> when an officer at 9:30 in the morning on a saturday, feels comfortable enough in open space to fire and execute another citizen, and then boldly tamper with the evidence, that tells you there's a culture here that it's all right. nobody prior to me has ever been charged, so i probably won't be either. >> woodruff: later, authorities released slager's dashboard camera video. it showed walter scott getting out of his car after a traffic stop, and running away. slager was cleared of excessive use of force in a 2013 incident. a police spokesman says that case will be

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. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. ibutions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the death toll in nepal's earthquake zone topped 4,000 today, with more than 6,500 injured, and the situation for survivors grew increasingly dire. thousands of people fled the ravaged capital, katmandu, as food and water ran out, and aftershocks continued. many others remained behind, looking for those still alive. we begin, with this report from mark austin of independent television news. >> reporter: it is, or rather was, a place of ancient beauty. a place of tourists, tea shops and wonderous temples. but today, it is a place where they dig for family and neighbors with their bare hands. shia laxmi dug out her daughter alive soon after the earthquake. but says there are dozens more bodies buried here. nearby, 24-year-old sanjiv shows me what's left of his house, two of his family are missing. >> it's my brothers. it's my younger brother. and my brother's wife. my elder brother's wife. >> reporter: and they'r

. >> 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: baltimore was a city in crisis today. soldiers and police were out in force, determined to prevent a second night of rioting. monday's violence erupted after the funeral for freddie gray who died in police custody with a severe spinal injury. today, the fires were doused and a tense calm prevailed. >> this is baltimore. we're winners. we don't lay down. >> ifill: volunteers were up at first light in baltimore, to start cleaning up the mess. >> it's going to take people getting involved, getting in the trenches not just behind a lectern or when camera's on, or whatever, you got to get down with the people. this is where the people are. this is where they're hurting. >> ifill: the hurting started in west baltimore and spread overnight, leaving shop owners to watch as their livelihoods burned. in all, 15 buildings and 144 vehicles were set on fire by hundreds of youthful rioters. more than 200 people wer

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: police in italy today arrested ten pakistani and afghan nationals with links to al qaeda. they're suspected of plotting attacks on the vatican and in their home countries. the men, including the group's spiritual leader, were taken into custody during early morning raids. eight others were being sought. two of the suspects are said to be former bodyguards for osama bin laden. in sicily two survivors of a migrant smuggling disaster had their first urt appearance. one allegedly captained the boat that capsized, leading up to 900 deaths. the other is accused of being a crew member. the men are tunisian and syrian. prosecutors said the captain rammed an overloaded trawler into a rescue vessel, touching off the disaster. but defense lawyers said they've got the wrong men. >> ( translated ): at the moment, according to the questions made so far, we only have indications on the height, the skin color and that's i

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.ributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: the white house stepped up efforts today to win over congress on the iran nuclear deal, as lawmakers returned from their holiday recess. secretary of state john kerry briefed house members this afternoon, and plans to brief senators tomorrow. he's trying to head off a bill that could bar president obama from lifting some of the u.s. sanctions on iran. >> we hope congress will listen carefully and ask the question that it wants, but also give us the space and the time to be able to complete a very difficult task which has high stakes for our country. it involves major national security, major issues of potential conflict versus peaceful resolution. >> ifill: meanwhile, russia announced it's clearing the way to send missile defense systems to iran. foreign minister sergei lavrov said the framework nuclear agreement means there's no reason to withhold the weapons. fighting in ukraine between government troops and ru

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.ntributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: president obama and cuba's president raul castro will meet tomorrow, a historic encounter en route to restoring diplomatic ties. that word came from white house officials today, at the summit of the americas being held in panama. leaders of the two countries have not held any substantive, face-to-face discussions in decades. >> woodruff: federal authorities have charged a topeka man with plotting a suicide car bomb attack at fort riley, kansas. john t. booker allegedly planned a strikein support of the "islamic state" group. he was arrested today near manhattan, kansas. the f.b.i. said security at the base was never breached. >> woodruff: tiny towns in northern illinois picked up the pieces today, after a tornado struck late thursday, killing two people. at least one twister cut a path through fairdale and rochelle, some 80 miles northwest of chicago. 70 or more homes were destroyed and fire officials report

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. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: the justice department announced today, that for the first time since the 1980 abscam scandal, it is indicting a sitting u.s. senator on federal bribery charges. for more on the action against new jersey democrat robert menendez, we turn to matt apuzzo of the new york times, who's been covering the story. matt, eight counts of bribery 22 cocounts in call. tell us a little bit about what you know from the indictment about what they're charging. >> it's a really big indictment, gwen. i'm actually about two-thirds the way through it and we all knew this was coming but it's a lot broader and a lot deep doper than i think a lot of us who have been following this closely expected. it basically describes senator menendez turning his capitol hill office into a criminal enterprise, basically using his offices and using his staff to go out and solicit gifts, find out what his political patron wanted in return and make

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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. >> ifill: a sudden revelation today, three months after a u.s. attack killed two al-qaeda captives. the victims were humanitarian aid workers: american warren weinstein of maryland and giovanni lo porto of italy. >> ifill: presidential confirmation came this morning in the white house briefing room. >> it is a cruel and bitter truth that in the fog of war generally and our fight against terrorists specifically, mistakes, sometimes deadly mistakes, can occur. >> ifill: u.s. officials say the two hostages died in mid- january, when a drone fired missiles at a terrorist site inside pakistan. >> we do believe that the >> we believed that this was an al qaida compound, that no civilians were present and that capturing these terrorists was not possible. we do believe that the operation did take out dangerous members of al qaida. what we did not know, tragically, is that al qaida was hiding the presence of warren and

. >> 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: baltimore police today finished their investigation into the death of freddie gray, the case that has roiled the city for days. officers arrested the 25-year- old gray on april 12 and hauled him into a police van. he died a week later after suffering severe spinal injuries. police commissioner anthony batts would not discuss the findings today. he said they've been turned over to prosecutors, and that the inquiry is not over. >> if new evidence is found, we will follow it. if new direction is given by the state's attorney we will obey it and we will follow through with the investigation. know that getting to the right answer is more important than speed, making sure we look and overturn every rock is more important than just coming forth and giving a document. >> ifill: police did reveal that the van made four stops en route to a police station. that's one more stop than was previously known. they had

. >> 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: from lausanne, switzerland today, news of a nuclear deal. the united states and five other nations say they've achieved a political framework for a final agreement with iran. after a year and a half of negotiations and all nighters this week, it came down to an afternoon of announcements starting with e.u. foreign policy chief federica mogherini. mogherini. >> we gather here to find solutions to reaching comprehensive resolution that will ensure exclusively peaceful nature of iranian nuclear program and lifting all sanctions. today we have taken a decisive step. >> woodruff: among the main points of the deal announced today: iran's uranium enrichment capacity will be limited for 15 years, and the number of centrifuges it operates will be reduced from 19,000 to 6,100. enrichment will be allowed to continue only at the natanz nuclear facility. at the arak facility, the reactor creating weapons-grade

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.ributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: kenya's military launched a second day of air strikes against al-shabaab militants in somalia today. the air strikes targeted camps in the gedo region of somalia just across the border. it was retaliation for the militants' attack on a kenyan university that killed 148 people. at the same time today, muslim political leaders in kenya denounced al-shabaab. >> we want to disassociate ourselves and our islamic faith from the actions of these demented monsters. they are not muslims and do not represent us. we will do everything in our power to expose and eliminate them from our midst. >> ifill: in nairobi, hundreds of people turned up at a hospital to donate blood for the surviving victims of the university attack. and in nigeria, islamist militants allied with boko haram disguised themselves as and killed at least 24 people in an attack on a mosque. in syria, about 18,000 people were trapped today in a palestinian r

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.y contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the european union came under intense pressure today to address the migrant crisis in the mediterranean. estimates of the dead ranged from 700 to more than 900 in a single sinking over the weekend. e.u. leaders now plan an emergency summit on thursday. we'll have a full report, after the news summary. >> ifill: six minnesota men will face trial for allegedly trying to join the islamic state group. they were arrested yesterday on terror charges in minneapolis and san diego. in st. paul today, the u.s. attorney for minnesota, andrew luger, said the six were of somali backgrounds, and had been conspiring for 10 months. >> nothing stopped these defendants from pursuing their goal. they never stopped plotting another way to get to syria to join isil. they were not confused young men, they were not easily influenced. these are focused men, who are intent on joining a terrorist organization, by any means possib

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the european union charged google today with violating anti-monopoly laws. it's the latest move in a five- year legal battle and could lead to billions of dollars in fines. the e.u.'s competition commissioner said google uses its dominance over internet searches to promote its own services. >> our investigation so far has shown that when a consumer enters a shopping-related query in google's search engine, google's comparison shopping product is systematically displayed prominent at the top of the search results. >> woodruff: the e.u. also opened a separate probe into google's android mobile system. >> ifill: the u.s. capitol had a brief security scare today when a gyro-copter landed on the west lawn. the single-seat helicopter buzzed the national mall and settled about half a city block from the capitol building. police quickly cordoned it off, and a bomb disposal unit found nothing hazardous. the website

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.ributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: after a day and half of deliberations, a federal jury convicted dzhokar tsarnaev on all 30 counts he was facing for the boston marathon bombing. a jury of seven women and five men convicted him on multiple charges that could be punishable by death, including deadly use of a weapon of mass destruction. the next phase of the trial will decide whether tsarnaev should be sentenced to death. the bombs that dzhokar then 19, set off with his now-dead older brother, tamerlan, killed three people and wounded more than 260 others nearly two years ago. after the verdict, karen brassard who was hurt in the attacks along with her family spoke for a group of survivors and family members. >> it's not something that will ever be over. you'll feel it forever. there will always be something that brings it to the forefront. but we're all going to move on with our lives and we're all going to get back to some sense of normalcy. hope

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> sreenivasan: a year-long streak of solid u.s. job growth has ended. the labor department reported today that in march, employers added a net of just 126,000 jobs. that's the smallest number of new positions created since december of 2013. it also breaks a string of 12 straight months with gains of more than 200,000 jobs. president obama reacted to the numbers, during a visit to utah. >> parts of the globe have seen their economies weaken. europe has had a weaker economy. asia has been slowing down. we have had the strongest economy, but we're impacted by what happens around the world. >> sreenivasan: the unemployment rate for march remained at 5.5%. u.s. stock markets will have the weekend to absorb the news. they were closed today in observance of good friday. but we'll look more closely at the numbers, after the news summary. a man who spent nearly 30 years on alabama's death row walked out today a free ma

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.y contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: baltimore was a portrait of contrasts today, 48 hours after riots catapulted the city into crisis. in some places, people returned to normal routines, while elsewhere, there were scenes that bordered on the bizarre. hari sreenivasan begins our coverage. >> sreenivasan: the presence of 3,000 police and national guardsmen, plus an overnight curfew, appeared to stabilize baltimore. by and large, crowds who gathered last night demonstrated without incident. >> i'm here to say that we can be peaceful, we still are upset, but we can be peaceful. >> go home tonight, that's all we're asking. >> sreenivasan: that's not to say the night was trouble-free. brief scuffles broke out when the 10:00 pm curfew rolled around, and police arrested 35 people. >> this is where we live. they can't tell us to be in the house at ten. we live down the street. no. >> sreenivasan: but maryland governor larry hogan said today the ci