hari: teaching that will be faculty likeowell matthews.ome profe fors are on tce about the changes, he is up for the challenge. >> being a professor of african descent, having limited opportunities personally to be able to to college, i am actually still paying today for my college degree and experience. so when you talk about equity, it is very personal and real for me because i am still in debt. are we really setting up students for success by allowing them to graduate with debt? hari: matthews and his colleagues hope lower tuition will help alleviate those debts. the school will announce how it plans t get tuition down permanently during the following school year. for the pbs newshour, i am hari sreenivasan. ♪ judy: president trump held press briefing at the white house again tonight. yamiche alcindor was there and sh joins me now. first of all, we understand the president made comments abou this massive explosion in beirut today,ore td,n 70 d thousands injured. yamiche: that isid right, prt trump took questions on that topic. he said i

most of his work is done in the punjab and the neighboring states of hari ana. some rescue work is carried out around may watts in haryana states a predominantly muslim area less than 2 hours drive from delhi. i mean whatever he says that may work as a hub for the trade and brides problem. as marianne. also done. men. once a woman has been sold her status within her new village is defined by the derogatory terms or mulkey meaning a purchased woman. in the villages in fields near may want women are often found to be doing the most punishing of manual labor. but there is a shortage of women in this region sometimes as few a 7 women for every 10 men it creates a ready market for bright. arianna state is one of the hot spots for bride trafficking in the country with women being brought in from the far east of the country thousands of kilometers away and it's no coincidence that haryana state also has one of the largest discrepancies in the ratio between men and women. but the consequences of this can be devastating. in a small hut next to a local mosque a group of w

nasa says an asteroid is headed earth and there is a 4/10ths of 1% chance, i'm not making this up, hari, that it will strike the earth the day fore the election. and if i'm a betting man, i'm going to take those odds given what we've lived thrgh so far. >> sreenivasan: jeff, that sounds like a grtet reason to arly. >> very good point, hari. >> sreenivasan: jeffinreenfield jous from santa barbara, california. thanks so much. >> okay. >> sreenivasan: millions of dollars in international aid has been promised to help assist beirut lebanon in the wake of this month's port explosion which killed nearly 200, maimed thousands andisplaced hundreds of thousands. the country was alady reeling from a collapsing economy, civil unrest and claims of corruption. newshour weekend special correspondent leila molana-allen reports that trust in the government is waning and to help rebuild, some are taking matters into their own hands. >> the government is not here, s not anywhere, is not present. only lebanese people. students, elderly people, youth. we are building the try. >> reporter: the day after the

our share count hari and her twin sister a series get a dozen calls per day the girls have set up a telephone help one in their use it to distribute food and medicine coronavirus pandemic has plunged hundreds of thousands of indians into joblessness and poverty . when the lockdown started there was so many people out there who had lost their jobs even have enough money or resources to get the most basic necessities like food or medicine and we were so dan tweeting. and asking the authorities that. so we thought we'd create this hope line. the twins mother helps finance the initiative as 6 they say that good doing works is important. you know in my religion we always put aside money to spend for charity and one of the most rises over any of our generation the giving my parents. the twins' mother also brings food medicine and masks to delhi's outlying districts. tens of thousands of migrant workers live in this settlement when her daughters got the 1st call for help people here had gone hungry for 5 days straight. their bomb a bomb got there we work in the fields but no one's hiring us anymore

fall in victim to their trade most of his work is done in the punjab and the neighboring states of hari ana. some of the work is carried out around may watts in haryana states a predominantly muslim area less than 2 hours drive from delhi. i mean whatever he says that may work as a hub for the trade and brides problem. as marianne. also done. as. men. once a woman has been sold her status within her new village is defined by the derogatory terms or mulkey meaning a purchased woman. in the villages in fields near may want women are often found to be doing the most punishing of manual labor. bugs there is a shortage of women in this region sometimes as few a 7 women for every 10 men it creates a ready market for bright. arianna state is one of the hot spots for bride trafficking in the country with women being brought in from the far east of the country thousands of kilometers away and it's no coincidence that haryana state also has one of the largest discrepancies in the ratio between men and women. but the consequences of this can be devastating. in a small hut next to a local mosque a

for the pbs newshour, i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: president trump held a press briefing at thewhite house again tonight. yamiche alcindor was there and joins me now. yamiche, first of all, we understand the president made commts about this massive explosion in beirut today, more than 70 dead, thousands injured. >> reporter: that' president trump took questions on that topic and he said it looked like a bomb or some sort of attack happened in that city, but there's no confirmation of of course, there was that massivexplosion, but the president aid it just looks like that and military offaricis still looking into exactly what happened there. >> woodruff: and the otherwa thing to ask you about, yamiche, the president had comments on mail-in voting again. >> reporter: that's right, the president over and over again has come out against the idea of mail-in voting. he said without any sort of evidence that mail-in voting would be fraught with fraud and that people would be trying to game the system, but today hetw ted and again doubled down on this idea during the briefing that flori

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. >> thanks, hari. >> sreenivasan: for more on the latest national and international news, visit www.pbs.org/newsho.ur >> sreenivasan: national and state eviction moratorium phave been a bart of the economic relief for covid-19. but even if evictis are temporarily halted, they can have long term impacts. are there her solutions to america's housing crisis made worse by t pandemic? i spoke with matthew desmond, a professor at princeton univerthty who helped buil first nationwide database on evictions at the university's eviction lab. >> so in a normal month in america, 800,000 people, thas the population of seattle, are threatened with an evtion, ave n eviction filed against them. that's a normal american month. that's a month when unemployment is below 5%. now when we have unempymenat levels we haven't seen sin the millions, by some accounts tens of millions of families, who could ace eviction over the year. >> sreenivasan: and because of the pandemic, there has been some stimulus money, $600 a week, supplemental income to unemploymeh insurance, thaas also expired. how crucial were those $60

ou're welcome, hari. >>as sreen: before the coronavirus pandemic changed everything, the summer of 2020 was goiheng to be the time of traditional days-long national political conventions. but as newsho weekend special rrespondent jeff greenfield reports, the conventions were already faotng from the ght and their historic role years before covid-19. >> the strangest sound you will be hearing this month is the sod silence. there will be no throngs of democrats cheering the nomination of joe biden in milwaukee; no crowds of republicans celebrating presiden nt trumparlotte, north carolina. nor in jacksonville, florida, where the republicans planned to decamp, the better to hold a more traditional convention. the persistence of the covid-19 pandemic has forced both parties to abandon an event that has been a mainstay of american politics for close to two centuries: the nationalna nong convention. but in a larger sense, conventions have been something close to life support for decades. from the first gatherings

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of the prominent opposition figure alexina valmy and honey 1st anniversary of the death of teenager hari u.k. authorities consider a virtual trial for the wife of a u.s. diplomat accused of killing him and then fleeing the country. she was the last person to risk rape.

many depressive symptoms is it the manic hari or the depressive party that has most us act on that decision making. well i think they both can have a fax it depends on. what to what the symptoms of that person actually are and what the decisions are so the manic part will make you creative so for instance franklin roosevelt used to say of winston churchill that he had a sow's an ideas a day 4 of which were good so those 4 good ideas are helpful other depressive part makes you realistic or empathic so many tastes of every him like him for instance you have a great deal of empathy for african-american slaves which other people didn't. and that influences political decision making and that that history also knows me examples of magnetic examples i should say out magic depressives which people are is probably the most prominent and in your book you suggest next you larry if i understood your correctly was essentially stripped down be pretty tacky at powers of his mental illness by the end catchments reach here where it was found on a continuous basis throughout the war does that mean that hitle

to have you need lab the united nations missions in libya is that the best a process that we can to hari this procedure along or is that going to work well there is no alternative to having the u.s. taking the lead in negotiations you're going to have locations for talks from geneva to nest mr burleson or wherever. it needs to be led by the u.n. because any other leader including the united states potentially is going to be seen as tilting toss one way or another. what can work is when the u.n. drives a process then the main. actors that have been vocally cough would all push. the groups that they've been working with in the country courts resolving the problem and there are 3 things that need to happen and it's to be one undergo shooting process not a bunch sponsored by different people because then people pick issues that all falls apart the patrons need to tell their clients you have to deal now now's the time to negotiate but to reach compromise and then there have to be benefits to every region it can't just benefit one location like a national capital benefits have to flow widely f

officially start let's take a look at the impact criticism and historical significance of the biden haris ticket to the big. and joining our ticket to talk about this to do that are activists and professor of american history at george washington university brittany lewis am political analyst dr avis jones the weaver was also a ph d. very good all right thank you both for coming on today. thanks for having thank you so i want to start on how to how does the decision of harris shape the biden campaign going forward most importantly does it does it secure him votes in november that he wasn't actually going to get before britney wanted to start. church you know migrant personal thing you know i got in at night at night a lot of people i'm a clearer head and i have a that i i do believe on what her what she is most strategic i think it should biden's ability to play politics if you will i think that even more miss pressure on him to not only nickel woman but to get a black woman as. i think to not have to black women would have been political suicide since black people specifically black wome

israel says it's in response to rocket attacks and fire bombs by hamas as close to a correspondent hari for cities in west jerusalem for as how why are we seeing this escalation on either side right now. well i think we have to know the economic situation currently is inside gaza we spoke to one economist a couple of days ago and he said it's the worst it has ever been even after 14 years of siege from and located from israel and egypt the people living number of people living under the poverty line and gaza is about 55 percent of the population that and there are so many young unemployed people with no jobs to go to after their education and so hamas has a real problem to deal with and a real concern about that situation and as we've seen in the past during such phases hamas tends to try to turn up the temperature and it seems that's what's happening at the moment there's been a return to the launching of incendiary balloons in kites setting fires in his ready territory close to the gaza border fence and the calculation it seems is that they want to see israel make good on some of the

as the iraqi flag israeli troops have since tightened security in the area while our correspondent hari force that is in west jerusalem with reaction and more on that protest at a mosque. it was an expression of anger and repudiation of the u.s. part in carrying out this deal with israel which obviously is something that goes in contravention of the hill to adhere to at least publicly if not in the background policy of having a resolution in the israeli palestinian conflict known as ation with other arab states there was this protest at the al aqsa mosque compound there was a smaller protest as well and hebron in the south of the occupied west bank but the real pushback even comes from the palestinian leadership itself saying that this is a betrayal this is a stab in the back of palestinians according to some senior officials and they say that the u.s. should not have gone along with this from the u.a.e. perspective what they're saying is that they have acted in a way which has rescued the occupied west bank from the threat of imminent an extension of at least 30 percent of it and that

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lemon, come in here to talk to hari, you were alive for all the presidencies, what is different for trump? why might he be different? >> i know you're joking, i wasn't alive for truman, what do you mean? >> i don't think it's right way to compare it. historical perspective is right but we're in different place than we were in any of those elections. although truman best comp, postwar society trying to figure out where it was, and he made a comeback. but we're not where we are now, cultural cataclysm where we are, president bring us to each other's faces, creating conflict and being agent of conflict. carter and truman never did that. >> but we were divided when bill clinton ran for president and this is first time that polling is similar, correct me if wrong, with bill clinton and george bush. so i think that -- i would not underestimate this president, certainly can't compare george bush -- first george bush and donald trump in the way they conducted themselves. first was a classy man, mostly traditional politician, and didn't demonize people the way this president does, and polarize to

work as hard as you do every day to make this nation better wednesday will see vice presidential pick harisdeliver her speech that role is normally to attack the opposition to hit them and hit them hard and this time will be no different alan fischer al-jazeera washington. the democrats say they'll present head with a bill to prevent changes to the postal service despite assurances that cost cutting plans are being suspended the postmaster general has halted some changes following a public outcry about the potential impact on the presidential election donald trump has suggested that mail in voting will be susceptible to fraud last week a admitted blocking postal service funding that would allow it's to deal with a surge in ballots. there is no evidence of such widespread fraud and when they asked his chief of staff you don't have any evidence of a fraud in the. vote by mail and he said well you don't have any evidence that there isn't room oh really i mean this is how they insult the intelligence of the american people and that's why they know they can't win the election on the level so the

government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and also massing on his ongoing trial for corruption hari force it brings us the latest now from west jerusalem. once again this is another major protest not far from his residence at a square in west jerusalem thousands of gathered again the local reports suggest it's a little bit small the last 2 weekends when the numbers were excess of $10000.00 and the majority of those there are concerned with the coronavirus pandemic response and that and you know who's a corruption trial which is due to start in earnest the evidentiary phase in january but there are others as well those not just from from the through going to zation is there's a group of doctors there there are groups representing self employed people who've been hit very hard by the economic fallout of the pandemic and for all of the of the diplomatic coup that has been trying to push this week in terms of the deal signed with the u.a.e. there are people here saying that that doesn't matter for those who've been hit so hard by what's happened during the pandemic. u.s. secretary of st

a you do every day to make this nation better wednesday will see vice presidential pick kaamelott haris deliver her speech that role is normally to attack the opposition to hit them and hit them hard and this time will be no different alan fischer al-jazeera washington. we're turning out to the crown of our stand there make him the philippines has the highest number of infections in southeast asia a strict lockdown in the capital manila is easing and many are hoping that will help spark an economic recovery. it's. joe we did joyce is checking whether his cash registers still work yeah you know he own scatty eighteen's in one of the most popular districts in manila but the restaurant bar has been empty for almost 4 months because of the corona virus pandemic. virus. before this virus back has been here for 6 years so it's very hard to tell them that. shutting down if nothing happens until december it's a familiar scene all across the philippines businesses are closing at a pace and seen in recent years the philippine government imposed one of the world's strongest strictest lockdowns whi

. >>> joining us now, we have john hari harwood and dr. sanjay gupta. you heard john press the vice president there about the death toll and what they're imaging is going to happen over next months in the fall months, so what did you think of his answer? >> well, he didn't really answer it. obviously he talked more about what they have done and what they're planning on doing, but he didn't really answer that question. john asked him about the -- his comments back in the middle of june saying, you know, basically saying this thing was over. and we have seen just how much has happened since then. both in terms of the number of people who have become infected and also the number of people who have died since that point. you know, it was interesting. he has done this -- i have talked to the vice president in the white house about this. they always come back to this idea that look, we imposed the travel ban. that is the thing that they sort of rest their laurels on in terms of the action they took. it is true, there was a ban that was placed, there was a pre

palestinian territory to meet leaders of hamas and islamic jihad well we can now speak talk correspondent hari force that he is in west jerusalem ari what is driving this escalation here on both sides. well it will began. 10 days or 2 weeks ago with an uptick in the. from guns of the in century believes in kind of the being used to set fires on the israeli side of the fence and since then there's been a very strong response in terms of airstrikes and these punitive measures from israel and so we're seeing the path. towards an escalation that we've seen before there have been rocket fire from gaza strikes which have injured young children inside gaza and indeed what the what they call nighttime disturbances along the fence as well where groups of young palestinian men throw explosive devices and the like and so the heart of it i think is what's been going on in the gazan economy is 55 percent of people below the poverty line the leadership of hamas is concerned that israel has not as far as it is concerned made good on the promises that came from a calming of the escalations last year which ham

up until march hary kretchmer was working in london and commuting by train every day from reading.oing to the office once a week. hello to you. hello. why to make the decision to only go to the office once per week is partly informed by coronavirus but it must be helpful to you that you don't have to pay £3000 per yearfor the season—ticket. £3000 per yearfor the season-ticket. it was even worse than that because it was £3000 every six months. £6,000 per year?! are you joking me?! six months. £6,000 per year?! are youjoking me?! it was six months. £6,000 per year?! are you joking me?! it was a 25 minute journey. 0ne you joking me?! it was a 25 minute journey. one of the reasons we moved to reading was because we thought it would be affordable and reasonable to live here, but when we got the bill and it was more than £3000 every six months. who is the train company? it is great western. what you think about the cost? it was absolutely crippling, to be quite honest, which is why lockdown has been quite helpful for me. honest, which is why lockdown has been quite helpfulfor me. as hone

joining us now from singapore is vandana hari.in terms of impact from these tropical storms hitting the u.s. gulf coast? how long lived will they be? vandana: good morning from singapore, thanks for having me on your show. the two storms in the u.s. gulf of mexico, more so laura, have been impacting oil market sentiment and the prop up in crude prices overnight to fetch five-month highs. there have been some precautionary shut-ins at the gulf of mexico. nearly 1.6 billion barrels a day has been shut in. there have been refinery shut ins in texas and louisiana. three million barrels a day of capacity out of 19 million in the u.s. as i said these are precautionary shut ins. the mark has to wait and watch what effect, especially for any damage to the offshore facilities and refineries. that's a real problem if that happens because that leads to a longer term outages both upstream and downstream. >> how does this affect the level of oversupply we already have in the market? >> one of the reasons, i mean, less than 2% overnight and for

. >> yes, it's a large number, but you can't make heads or tails out of thigestive, but it's hary a breakthrough.t make heads or tails out of this data and it's hardly evidence. it's suggestive but it's hardly a breakthrough and it's >> reporter: now, scott gottliee >> reporter: now, scott gottlieb, th the former fda commissioner said he fundamentally rejects the fa commissioner, defended t idea that officials would impact agency, saying he rejects the idea that officials would the timing of a decision on impt the timing of a decision based on political pressure. this isn't the first time the fda has granted emergency use authorization during this s isn first time the fda has pandemic. grant you might remember remdesivir emergency us was given the same green light during the in may after trial data showed that antiviral drug helped shorten hospital recovery time remdesivir was also given that in may, after that showed it in some patients. >> all right. thank you. we're going to have more on the new treatment including an some. >> thank you we're goin exclusive look inside g to have experimental tr