i'm hari sreenivasan. pbs "news hour weekend." i'm hari sreenivasan. thanks for watching. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com pbs "news hour weekend" is made possible by -- steves: venice's sleek and graceful gondolas are a symbol of the city. from the start, boats were the way to get around among the island communities of the lagoon. to navigate over shifting sandbars, the boats were flat-bottomed, and the captains stood up to see. today's boats still come with gondoliers standing up and no rudder or keel. they're built with a slight curve so that a single oar on the side propels them in a straight line. the art of the gondola survives in the quiet back canals. in this shop, the workmen, who needed to be good with wood, were traditionally from italy's mountains. that's why they maintain a refreshing alpine feel in this delightful little corner of venice. nearby, in an artisan's workshop, visitors are welcome to observe as he provides for the city's 400 gondoliers. working with traditional tools, graceful oars are carefully planed to be true and prop

>> well, hari, not like an american campaign. you don't see russian soldiers in uniform here. they have this military unit and local self-defense forces and the russian troops are out encircling ukrainian bases but, still, it is not a free atmosphere. secondly there's no real debate. for instance, you haven't had televised debates. most to have the tv is blatantly pro-russian. there are a couple of ukrainian channels. third, there is this intimidation going on, some tartars in a nearby city report having xs put on their doors by thugs, that's exactly how the stalin forces marked the doors of tartars who were going to get deported. and you've had prominent activist leaders on the pro-ukrainian side, non-tartar, who have gone missing and no one knows where they are. >> sreenivasan: what does this mean for ordinary crimeans caught in the middle of this? >> reporter: the ordinary crimeans say it's disheartening. one woman said all my friends have been so optimistic about the future but they're not and their lives have been put on hold. shelves ukrainian. it's been an independent c

>> it could happen quite quickly, hari.onight the official results are supposed to been announced at this celebratory conference. tomorrow morning at 10:00, the crimean parliament will meet to evaluate the results, but they have already said if the public affirms the idea they are ready to vote. in fact they have voted to ask russia to join. of course, there is a group here, ethnic ukrainancianukrain feel very alienated, we spoke to a group that said they did not vote, they feel ostracized, and they didn't want to participate in something that seemed legitimate to them. so it's not a wholesale endorsement of this, but i think it's going to move very fast, at least on the crimean side. >> are they ready for this kind of move? it's a big deal. >> it's a huge step. we don't know whether the russians will actually complete this circle, but the prime minister here, aksenov, he's already made -- and today the largest commercial bank put a side on its doors saying at 4:30, dao you to the conversion from the local currency to ruble

hari sreenivasan looks at the u.s. role in the crisis, right after the news summary. the president also made ready today to order beefed-up overtime protection for millions of american workers. it's aimed at salaried workers, such as fast food supervisors and store managers, who now work more than 40 hours a week without getting overtime. betsey stevenson is with the president's council of economic advisers. >> without overtime and minimum wage protections there are many people who aren't able to get that basic promise which is that when you work hard you get a fair wage. and what he's going to do is to make sure that we modernize this rule so that people are able to get treated fairly in the labor force and that people are rewarded for a hard day's work with fair pay. also today, the white house issued a report aimed at the gender wage gap. it said women who work full-time still earn just 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. that's even though women have surpassed men in earning college degrees, and made inroads into male-dominated occupations. snow and bitter co

>> i'm just as incredulous as you are, hari. this is an investigation that's very opaque, difficult to draw concrete conclusions, but the fact is it shouldn't have taken uppardz of 20 days to draw this conclusion. i think part of the problems is the malaysians were late to organize the investigation in a multi-national way and i think there is some national rivalries that are involved here and the fact that the information being shared is, in fact, based on military radar systems. so there is a reluctance to share this information. you throw that all together in one pot and you have data that has been analyzed probably a little later in the game than it should have been, and that's a shame because the weather is terrible there, the conditions are awful, and it's only going to get worse. very soon, it will be winter and they'll have to suspend all searching. >> sreenivasan: best case scenario, let's say the objects they're seeing today are parts of the plane. it's still going to be hard to find it under water. >> yes, 20 days of

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from the studios at lynn con center hari sreenivasan. >>> kerry reportedly presented lavrov with a planor disarming regular forces places monitors in the region and initiating diplomatic talks. tens of thousands of troops have been deployed along the border of ukraine. during a call with president obama on friday, vladimir putin asurted that ukraineian extremists are intimidating russians in the ukraine. traveling in the region today, victor yal yullen expressed concern about the military build up. >> we are concerned that they have spoken about this, about the large number of russian forces bringing the ukrainian borders as well. we're all concerned about that, but it is because of this concern that we have maintained a case of diplomacy. >> she also met with officials today to offer the united states full support in maintaining that country's sovereignty. they say that they're playing further expansion. mainly russian speaking region where russian troops are already stationed. >> certainly i expect the tensions here will come up in this conversation and the united states will, as it a

hari sreenivasan begins our coverage. >> sreenivasan: at midday, the president discussed the visa restrictions and financial sanctions announced early this morning on russians behind the ukraine invasion. >> this morning i signed an executive order that authorizes sanctions on individuals and entities responsible for violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine for stealing the assets of the ukrainian people. >> sreenivasan: the president also voiced strong opposition to the crimean parliament's vote to leave ukraine. it announced a march 16th referendum to let its citizens decide on whether to join russia or remain part of ukraine. >> the proposed referendum on the future of crimea would violate the ukrainian constitution and violate international law. any discussion about the future of ukraine must include the legitimate government of ukraine. in 2014, we are well beyond the days when borders can be redrawn over the heads of democratic leaders. >> sreenivasan: that sentiment was echoed in brussels, as european leaders met to impose the e.u.'s own set of visa bans, and a sus

hari sreenivasan has the story. >> sreenivasan: for the president, it's a new attempt to address pay equity without going through congress, where his economic agenda is largely stalled. he's directing the labor department to update overtime pay rules for an estimated five million workers. >> today, i'm going to use my pen to give more americans the chance to earn the overtime pay that they deserve. now overtime's a pretty simple idea. if you have to work more, you should get paid more. >> sreenivasan: the focus is on salaried workers, including shift leaders and managers at fast food restaurants and stores who are designated as supervisory and make at least $455 a week. the president wants to raise that salary threshold and change the definition of supervisor. >> it doesn't make sense that in some cases, this rule actually makes it possible for salaried workers to be paid less than the minimum wage. it's not right when business owners who treat their employees fairly can be undercut by competitors who aren't treating their employees right. if you're working hard, you're barely making

>> you know, hari, we feel the same level of shock that you experience. i cannot understand how we see thousands of children suspended at three and four years old from pre-school. i can't conceive of a situation that would actually justify a pre-school suspension. i am offended as chief license enforcer at the department of education and as a mom of two little girls. i think that informaon is shocking and something that you categorically need to end for all of our children in all of our schools. >> reporter: so does this contribute to the school to prison pipeline? >> it absolutely does and pre-school suspensions also send unmistakable message that the children who are suspended are not welcome in school, are not kids you want to see in school and schools aren't prepared for them, so we're teaching them an app palling lesson at the very beginning of their educational experience about their worth in life an the school's preparedness for them. >> reporter: besides punishment, it reveals a pattern of students of collar and their teachers. african-american an

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from the tisch studios linc center in new york hari sreenivasan. >> thank you for joining us. international crisis surrounding ukraine benefitsified with many experts describing the situation as the greatest threat to east-west relations since the cold war. russian troops invade territory of crimea in the last hours today surrounded ukrainian mirlts. the prime minister of ukraine said that action brought the neighboring companies within what he described as a few inches of war. >> this is the red alert. this is not the threat, this is the actually the declaration of war to my country. >> after putting his troops on lie aler to stand by. secretary kerry described the russian invasion as a violation of international law and warned that the united states and its allies would punish russia economically if it does not reverse course. >> every single one of them are prepared to go to the hilt in order to isolate russia whereas to this invasion. they are prepared to put sanctions in place. they are prepared to isolate russia economically. >> in brussels, belgium, at an emergency meet

hari reid will certainly want to keep amendments very limited, if any. so i think there's still some struggles in the senate. and then to say nothing of the house, in which the house speaker, john boehner, said repeatedly this package, which is a compromise of a compromise of a compromise, still is not something he can support. he questions whether it's workable, whether it's enforceable. he has some reservations about the offsets, some views that the focus should be on creating jobs rather than extending unemployment insurance. so, i think it's likely to pass the senate next week but faces a very tough hurdle in the house going forward. >> one item that the house and senate have to work together on, this is the bill that passed the house, the payments for medicare doctors. it passed the house on a voice vote. they're facing a deadline on monday. >> they are. the senate is likely to approve it on monday. it was a little controversial where they voice-voted it on the house side and kicked it over to the senate, and the majority leader, hari reid, said he

captains the hari on my child was in charge of the play. the fifty three year old was born in penang state in malaysia. he studied at penang free school before joining malaysia airlines in nineteen ninety one. he has more than eighteen thousand hours of flying experience. he was certified by malaysia's department of civil aviation has an exam or not to conduct pot of tests. images posted on what spice filled page show a keen interest in it cost. he and several planes including a life quite plain the twin engine helicopter and an amphibious aircraft please say they're considering hijack sabotage them because snow and psychological studies of crew and passengers as pete possibilities behind the course of the disappearance the alliance is friday and saw it fall from the captain had no abnormal psychological state. this research continues patience is wearing thin among relatives of chinese passengers many of whom now staying at a hotel in beijing right now malaysia airlines is holding the latest elle with regular briefings with relatives and fo

nicholas bishop walk unless i was in such a hari in poor communities that all thoughts that i wanted to give it to reside in proficiency to the russians want to make crimea. then he wanted the same thing but no full of stuff in ukraine in the west ukrainian. the same resistance is the only way the nipple dorothy would it be we will never give her a narrow way. i'm proud of the army there in the ukraine government in this critical analysts say the crimean parliament's move is illegal there is a clear risk of substance. which russia is manipulating. it's not so legal thing to my mates the ukrainian constitution hammock on incomes station in me. for weston ukrainians once again had little choice but to turn to the eu and us to apply pressure on russia well as a stand up and coming and rags on its overshadowing what should be a salvatore events. the sochi paralympics it kick off today in the game's opening will be short of foreign dignitaries this in the wake of russia's incursion of german delegation. they will be in attendance. the us uk and friends all opting to stay away. but as fran

the captain, his name is the hari om and shaw.is facebook and youtube show a aviation ased with well as handy with repairs. they're looking for any possible clues. >> they spoke to family members of the pilot and are examining the pilot's flight simulator. police have visited the home of the copilot. copilot did not ask to fly together on the flight. >> at this point, malaysia has enlisted 25 agents trying to surge from australia to india. it is almost hard to fathom. at the size, the sheer scale of what they are having to contend with. posix don in the north all the way to the waters of australia in the south. this total area, now cordoned -- now according to the u.k. doing the math, 28,000 square miles. that is more than doubled the size of the african continent. needle in a haystack comes springing to mind. countries, 20 of six now involved. you've got russia helping, and france in particular helping. it is very important because of the french experience in 2009 with air france flight 447. it took two years to find that flight.

long as you are talking about staying near populated area to either commit suicide or some sort of hari kari, or to fly off to the north-west to hostile territory, so to speak, in order to hide the plan and use it for later use. to go to the south - there's nothing down there. then one has to take into account that maybe there was mechanical failure, that perhaps the autopilot did this, and everyone was dead on board. >> so the autopilot could have taken it that far? >> absolutely. the reports have come out that the pilots inputted a short route that took them to the west of their originally planned route, but it didn't go anywhere except to a few points - from what i've heard. so at the end of that route, the autopilot will just hold the latest heading, the last heading that it had and will continue to fly the airplane until the fuel runs out. >> we are talking about the sonar buoys that they have tossed into the indian ocean, trying to hear the pings and get a location on the black boxes. if the sonar buoys find the black boxes, then what next? >> well, they have made arrangements to

an encore report by hari sreenivasan on a push to make new york city more livable for its elderly citizens. >> sreenivasan: it's 9:30 in the morning in east harlem, new york city, and the thomas jefferson pool is springing to life. several dozen seniors have come to take the plunge, and take part in the pools senior swim hours. 72-year old maria pacheco, who takes attendance, comes three times a week. >> people socialize, being around people their own age i should say you are not self- conscious of who's looking. here, nobody's comparing you to anyone else, so you can relax. >> sreenivasan: the jefferson pool was the first to offer the senior swim hours. now, there are 15, with more than 1,000 seniors participating. >> i don't want to get old. they now account for roughly one out of every six new yorkers. >> the employs to take the next critical step in making new york even more friendly to people of all ages. >> sreenivasan: age friendly new york city was launched in 2009 with $4 million provided by the mayor's office, the new york city council and the new york academy of medicine, along

hari sreenivasan has our report on the day's diplomatic developments. >> sreenivasan: a day after crimea voted to secede from ukraine and join russia, president obama went before white house cameras with the toughest sanctions against russia since the end of the cold war. >> today i'm announcing a series of measures that will continue to increase the cost on russia and on those responsible for what is happening in ukraine. >> sreenivasan: the cost means freezing assets and imposing travel bans on seven russian officials, including some close to president vladimir putin. and on four ukranians, including former president viktor yanukovych. mr. obama said he stands ready to ratchet the costs higher, but still holds out hope for another solution. >> i believe there's still a path to resolve this situation diplomatically in a way that addresses the interests of both russia and ukraine. that includes russia pulling its forces in crimea back to their bases, supporting the deployment of additional international monitors in ukraine and engaging in dialogue with the ukrainian government. >> sreeni

hari sreenivasan has our report on one effort in northern arkansas. >> sreenivasan: tori moon alwaysher own would look different than this. at 20, she lives in a budget motel in harrison, arkansas. eats donated food when its available and is now several months pregnant. without much family in the area and a fianceÉ who works long hours, she spends much of her time feeling alone. >> it was really hard for me to make friends being pregnant because we live in the bible belt, and a lot of people around here don't believe in being pregnant before marriage. >> sreenivasan: but moon can count on at least one person dropping by regularly. >> sreenivasan: every other week, deena tougaw sits down with moon to discuss ways of staying healthy during pregnancy. and talk about how that can translate into long-term benefits for her child. tougaw runs the circle of life program in northern arkansas. its one of many home visiting projects throughout the nation that received a big financial boost under the affordable care act to bring basic preventive services directly to low-income families. and quit

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the story goes that in 1938, hari goulding, known as mike, drove to hollywood with a portfolio of photographsures convinced him to make "stage coach" in monument valley where the gouldings ran a trading post. >> this was his potato cellar. just a rough structure they built to store food. ford thought why build a set for john wayne's office, just use this. and there are several scenes where he comes charging out of the front door walks down there to start his day. >> well, care reon. >> to make a film here, john ford had to haul in an entire tent city to accommodate cast and crew. he hired the navajo who lived around monument valley to play apaches and famously paid this tribal medicine man to intervene with the gods to order up whatever weather ford wanted for his shoot. ♪ lar reholiday is the great, great grandson of that medicine man. movie buffs may call monument valley ford country or god's studio. but for the navajo it is a sacred place. >> monument valley is like heaven on earth. that's the way i feel. >> what is the word for monument valley in navajo? [ speaking navajo] >> the sand tha

hari sreenivasan has more. >> sreenivasan: if this all sounds familiar, that's because controversial voter identification laws have been popping up all over the country and were a big part of the 2012 presidential election. in all, a total of 34 states have passed laws calling for voters to show some form of i.d. at the polls. so, what about the specifics of this case and what such laws mean for voters and the voting process? we explore those questions with: kris kobach, the secretary of state in kansas, who has been called the architect of the citizenship requirement; and jenny rose flanagan, the director of voting and elections for common cause, and an opponent of the law. let me start with you, you sell bratted this ruling as something that will pave the way for more-- why is a rule like this requiring more proof of citizenship necessary? well, it is i rule requiring proof of citizenship period. in most of the states in the union, you simply just fill out the registration card, check a box saying i'm a u.s. citizen, sign it and you're done. but four states including kansas and ari

hari sreenivasan has the story. >> sreenivasan: mount gox c.e.o. mark karpeles issued his "mea culpa" before news cameras in tokyo today. >> there was a weak area in the system and as a result we lost bitcoins. i am deeply sorry that i have caused trouble to everyone. >> sreenivasan: his website had been one of the largest on-line exchanges for the digital crypto-currency known as bitcoins. bitcoins are generated, or mined, by computers, solving math problems that become ever more complex and time-consuming. the site, that acted as an exchange, went off-line tuesday, amid allegations of major theft, and karpeles acknowledged today he can't account for 850,000 bitcoins, that almost 4% of all the bitcoins available today, valued at about $425 million. the catastrophic losses prompted picketing this week outside the company's tokyo offices... >> i had 311 bitcoins in there, which at the time before this started was worth around $300,000. so it looks like that has disappeared. >> sreenivasan: bitcoins were created in 2009 to enable cross- border transa

. >> ifill: we pick up the story from >> woodruff: hari sreenivasan is in our new york studio, and picks up the story from there. >> sreenivasan: vindu goel covers both big and small players in the tech industry for the new york times and he joins me now from san francisco. >> we are joined from san francisco. why does facebook want to make thin investment? >> facebook is trying to follow the evolution of the social platform. initially we swapped information on the internet, now we use our mobile phones and they're trying to think about what is the next big platform that we're going to use to share with each other and it's a futuristic vision but they think that one possibility is we will interact with each other in a virtual world so you and i could speak and seem like we were in the same room during this interview right now. you could go climb the great wall of china and show your family back home what the experience is like. maybe wearing the headsets and they're right there with you. >> reporter: virtual reality has been the stuff of sci-fi and the next big thing for the last 15 to 2

hari sreenivasan has our report. >> sreenivasan: it's known as one of the most exclusive places on earth, the home of the rich and spectacularly rich. ♪ california here we come >> sreenivasan: orange county, california's reputation only grew when the t.v. crews started rolling in several years ago. but the real housewives of orange county and the teens of laguna beach failed to mention a major piece of the o.c. drama. the county is also among the top ten in the u.s. for childhood food insecurity. the term means that along with the yacht clubs and average home prices of nearly $2 million in some spots, orange county also has more than 150,000 children who don't know where their next meal is coming from. paul leone is the president of the illumination foundation, a group that helps struggling families find housing and stability. >> the area that we're standing in right now which is newport beach, the richest think in the nation. and then 17 miles away we have one of the most densely populated and poorest cities in the nation. >> sreenivasan: among the poor are thousands of low income worke

that was a day president hari truman sign add bill ending the federal tax on margarine.ench scientist in 1869 margarine was an all too cheap alternative to butter. the american dairy industry went all out to stop it. in 1886, congress impose add two cent per pound tax on margarine. later raised it to a dime. one point just 26 of the states he'll loud the seal of margarine colored with the yellow dye that september it from looking like lard. however, butter racking during ward war ii got many people used to eating margarine and lobbying led to repeal of the federal tax. >> i wonder if you realize -- next turned to television to make their case. >> gold most people never dreamed of eating margarine. times have changed. nowadays -- >> with former first lady, eleanor roosevelt leading the charge. >> that's what i've spread on my toast. i thoroughly enjoy it. >> osgood: states dropped their restrictions, the dairy state of wisconsin only lifting its total ban in 1967. >> everybody in wisconsin is a criminal. >> shamed by the news making across the border toe illinois in searc

flags, target ignored warning signs that hari can -- hackers were baptist of credit card informationers. this is a bloomberg businessweek exclusive investigation. >> what did general motors know and when is the big question. we're talking about the deadly ignition switch defect, knowing it almost a decade before the recall. >> obama goes viral. to those appearances really get the president's message out? apparently so. you are watching "market makers." i'm erik schatzker. >> i'm stephanie ruhle.

flags, target ignored warning signs that hari can -- hackers were baptist of credit card information from millions of shoppers. this is a bloomberg businessweek exclusive investigation. >> what did general motors know and when is the big question. we're talking about the deadly ignition switch defect, knowing it almost a decade before the recall. >> obama goes viral. to those appearances really get the president's message out? apparently so. you are watching "market makers." i'm erik schatzker. >> i'm stephanie ruhle. did you watch him? it was really funny. >> i think zach galifianakis to a little funnier than the president. of the first time and said, they're so funny. i watched it again, and zach was so funny. serious news. is one steptric closer to getting out of the consumer lending business. the company is registered to file for an ipo of its north american finance unit. they plan to complete the ipo later this year. callediness will be synchrony financial. the biggest investment bank may be taking a hit in the first quarter. according to jp morgan, revenue from trading them und

strategy and decentralization of implementation so it would absolutely be a shock if we found also while hari directed operations on the ground in syria. one final thing i will note, where reid came to see the guy is coming from the broader al qaeda -- al qaeda network that kind of tensions that currently exist where baraka shamus kicked out. subsequent to the assassination of an al qaeda figure zawahiri one of the groups chaboti al-nusra plan to attack ices. you had a number of al qaeda affiliated clerics come out and condemn the ultimatum. after which chaboti al-nusra did that. when an organization at to try to get to an outcome in a certain way it does make an impact. again that's not to say that their micromanaging tactics but you can see the influence of strategic guidance. >> and a nutshell i've agree with everything being said but i would at this. you're announcing in choosing situation were isis is arguably the most capable as most extreme on the ground that is broken without qaeda and one al qaeda core it will be interesting to see if this leads to the downgrading of ices or f. al qa