from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening thanks for joining us. in philadelphia, pope francis is in the final hours of his first ever visit to the united states. at a seminary this morning, the pope met privately with five survivors of sexual abuse by priests and others. francis apologized to victims, saying, in part, "i am profoundly sorry that your innocence was violated by those who you trusted. for those who were abused by a member of the clergy, i am deeply sorry for the times when you or your family spoke out, to report the abuse, but you were not heard or believed." the pope later told 300 bishops he was "overwhelmed with shame" for how some priests had behaved, and he pledged "zealous vigilance" to protect children. >> ( translated ): crimes of sexual abuse of children cannot be maintained in secret for longer, and i commit to a zealous oversight from the church to ensure that youth are protected and that all those responsible will be held accountable. >> sreenivasan: newshour's stephen fee is covering the pope's wee

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. the united states is calling on russia to discuss a political settlement to the four-and-half- year-old syrian civil war. the u.s. wants syrian president bashar al-assad to be replaced, but russia supports assad, recently began re-arming his troops, and deploying fighter jets and helicopters to a syrian base yesterday. in london today, after conferring with britain's foreign minister, secretary of state john kerry called on russia and iran and any other countries with influence over syria to push for negotiations. >> we're prepared to negotiate, is assad prepared to negotiate? really negotiate? is russia prepared to bring him to the table and actually find the solution to this violence? >> sreenivasan: because the u.s. also has a military presence in the region, the u.s. and russian defense secretaries have begun talking to avoid a direct conflict between u.s. and russian forces. for a year, the u.s. has launched airstrikes on islamic state, or isis, militants

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from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening thanks for joining us. european leaders are trying to unite behind a plan to cope with their ongoing surge of migrants and refugees arriving mainly from the middle east and africa. more than 430,000 migrants have crossed the mediterranean sea for europe this year, most pushing toward northern and western europe. on monday, the 28-nation european union will hold an emergency summit in brussels, belgium, to try to agree on how many asylum seekers each country will accept. the newshour's william brangham has been reporting all week from hungary, he is now in vienna, austria and i spoke to him earlier today. william, among the european countries, hungary has been the most critical of europe's broader response to the refugees' arrival. you've been there in hungary all week. so what are the hungarians arguing ought to be done with the thousands of people coming to their door? >> reporter: well, hungary is trying to do everything it possibly can to shut that door. the prime minister has been

i'm alison stewart, in for hari sreenivasan. pope francis is calling on every catholic parish in europe to shelter at least one family of migrants or refugees pouring into the continent. today, during mass at saint peter's square, the pope announced the vatican itself will house two families who, he said, are "fleeing death by war and by hunger." >> ( translated ): the gospel calls us to be neighbors to the smallest and most abandoned to give them concrete hope. >> stewart: francis also criticized hungary's plan to complete a 108-mile fence along its southern border with serbia, where many are crossing from macedonia, which neighbors greece, the busiest entry point into europe, by boat. in greece today, the government ferried 1,700 more people held at the island of lesbos, to athens. greece has transported 13,000 migrants and refugees to the mainland this week. so far this year, an estimated 300,000 people fleeing war-torn syria, libya, iraq, and afghanistan have arrived in europe, including 100,000 in the past month. this weeke

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i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight: three stories from the front lines of the migrant crisis. malcolm brabant is there as more refugees land in greece. and william brangham follows up with two families now in germany. one finding refuge, the other more uncertainty. >> reporter: it is here, in this social-hall-turned-refugee camp where they'll likely stay for months as they wait for their asylum applications to be approved. >> sreenivasan: also ahead: creating a new arts capital in the middle of the city of angels. jeffrey brown looks inside the new $140 million museum that is the centerpiece. >> brown: it features 30 galleries filled with big names in modern and contemporary art. andy warhol. keith haring. kara walker. jeff koons. and many others-- including jasper johns. >> sreenivasan: and it's friday. mark shields and david brooks are with us to analyze the week's news. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our econ

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. the united states plans to open its doors a bit wider to refugees, including some who are flooding into europe. the obama administration is pushing to raise the cap on refugees admitted to the u.s. from around the world from 70,000 a year to 85,000 next year, and to 100,000 in two years. the goal of admitting 15,000 more refugees next year is higher than previously announced by the administration. congress needs to approve and fund the resettlement plan. background checks alone can take 18-to-24 months. the u.s. has granted asylum to 1,600 syrian refugees since that country's civil war began in 2011, but not all of the additional refugees to the u.s. will be syrian. secretary of state john kerry made the announcement today after conferring with officials in germany, the nation that has welcomed the most migrants now seeking asylum in europe. >> this step is in keeping with the america's best tradition as a land of second chances and a beacon of hope. >> sree

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. on the eve of a european union summit to deal with the unabated flow of migrants and refugees into europe, germany is now limiting its welcome of arrivals. today, germany blocked migrant- packed trains coming from austria and announced new border checks. the move came after germany had accepted 16,000 refugees this weekend. 8,500 migrants crossed from europe's busiest arrival point, greece, into neighboring macedonia, a one-day record according to the united nations. but 28 migrants died trying to reach greece today, drowning when their wooden boat carrying 130 people capsized in the aegean sea. more than 2,700 people have died this year during sea crossings, though more than 430,000-- many refugees seeking asylum-- have made it. over the past week, our pbs newshour team of william brangham, jon gerberg, and saskia de melker has been in europe covering the massive migration of refugees from the middle east, africa, and afghanistan. the new arrivals struggle

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> sreenivasan: good evening, i'm hari sreenivasan.woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight: a nation reflects: from new york, where the towers fell, to the pentagon and a field in pennsylvania. remembering those lost 14 years ago. then, the faces of this great, desperate migration. our own william brangham gets up close with some of the families on their journey, hop-scotching their way through europe. >> sreenivasan: plus, mark shields and david brooks are here, to analyze the week's news. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by:

hari sreenivasan has more from our new york studios. >> sreenivasan: coke is the world's largest producersugary beverages, so you might not think the american academy of pediatrics would partner with the company. but that had indeed been the case until this week. it was a main sponsor of the academy's website, healthychildren.org, and a past sponsor of the group's national conference. it's provided over $100 million in financial support to other professional medical and health groups. the academy is now ending its relationship with coke. and it comes after a recent story in the new york times laid out how the company has paid for scientific research that plays down the role of soda in obesity. anahad o'connor has been working on these stories and joins me now. i guess the first story or the most recent story first, what's the connection between coke and the academy of pediatrics? >> so the first story i did was looking at coke, the money they were paying, a lot of researchers and institutions to do research that, you know, is downplaying the role of sugary drinks and obesity, and the resp

i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away.n the newshour tonight: three stories from the front lines of the migrant crisis. malcolm brabant is there as more refugees land in greece. and william brangham follows up with two families now in germany. one finding refuge, the other more uncertainty. >> reporter: it is here, in this social-hall-turned-refugee camp where they'll likely stay for months as they wait for their asylum applications to be approved. >> sreenivasan: also ahead: creating a new arts capital in the middle of the city of angels. jeffrey brown looks inside the new $140 million museum that is the centerpiece. >> brown: it features 30 galleries filled with big names in modern and contemporary art. andy warhol. keith haring. kara walker.

for the pbs newshour, i'm hari sreenivasan in new york. judy? >> woodruff: thanks, hari. explore all our coverage of pope francis' visit online at pbs.org/newshour. you can also download our new app for iphone or android. stay with us. coming up on the newshour: a unique mentorship to make beautiful music, plus the analysis of mark shields and david brooks. but first, climate change was also a top priority at the white house today when president obama and chinese president xi jinping found common ground. but important issues still divide them. ♪ >> woodruff: it was president xi's first state visit to washington, and it began with all the pageantry the white house can muster. >> on behalf of the american people, welcome to the united states. >> woodruff: the leaders of the world's two largest economies headlined cooperation on climate change. >> today, i want to commend china for announcing that it will begin a national market- based cap and trade system to limit emissions from some of its largest sectors. >> woodruff: there was also formal agreement to clamp down on cyber

i'm alison stewart, in for hari sreenivasan. by bus, by train and on foot, thousands of migrants and refugees are on the move across europe. after days being held back, at least 6,500 migrants crossed from hungary into neighboring austria today, with several thousand continuing west, hoping to reach munich, germany. hundreds more who did not board the hungarian buses and trains began walking the 100 miles from budapest toward vienna. german chancellor angela merkel said today every asylum seeker arriving in her country will get a fair hearing, and there is no cap on the number germany will accept. the journey over land comes after people typically leaving from war-torn syria, libya, iraq and afghanistan arrive on the continent by boat. 2,500 migrants who made it this week to greece were ferried today from a refugee station on the island of lesbos to athens. >> it's difficult. there is shortage in water. we have kids, we have small babies. we have a shortage in all kinds of service. >> stewart: the desired destinations for the mi

hari sreenivasan has the story from our new york studios. >> sreenivasan: the formal announcement from u.s. attorney preet bharara in new york followed years of recalls, lawsuits and congressional hearings. g.m. agreed to pay $900 million dollars over faulty ignition switches that shut off engines and disable safety systems. the company now admits it hid the deadly defect for more than a decade. >> they didn't tell the truth in the best way that they should have to the regulator and to the public about a serious safety issue that risked life and limb. >> sreenivasan: an independent monitor will check g.m.'s compliance, and pending criminal charges could be dropped after three years. but the deal does have its critics. in a statement today, democratic senators ed markey and richard blumenthal said: >> the 124 families who lost loved ones deserved individual criminal accountability. it is shameful that they will not be held fully accountable >> sreenivasan: back in new york, prosecutor bharara defended the agreement. >> we're not done and it remains possible that we'll charge an individu

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hari sreenivasan was one of those outside and i spoke to him a short time ago. hari, i see you're front and center there in from the of st. patrick's cathedral. tell me, what's the security like in the city, the city that shuts down when anybody comes to town, but with the pope, it must be something. >> that's right. imagine a super bowl. multiply that by four and put it in downtown manhattan for a period of two and a half days or some this area up and down fifth avenue, if anybody has been to new york, they've probably been to rockefeller center, there is no traffic here. they've closed it for several blocks in either direction from st. patrick's. there's a place where he's going to rest overnight. that has security. central park is preparing. and tomorrow he has four different places he's going to in the city as soon as he wakes up. it's kind of a non-stop schedule for him. everywhere he goes, there has to be this level of security that goes ahead of him. >> ifill: we saw a little bit of this here in washington, but it's not like what you'll see there. give us

hari sreenivasan in our new york studio gets some analysis. >> sreenivasan: between the latest jobs numberslatility of the markets and worries over sluggish wage growth, there are questions over just how strong, or not, the economy is performing, and what it means for most households. diane swonk studies the jobs data and joins me now. she's with mesirow financial in chicago. this is only one piece of data heading into next week's fed meeting but it's the last piece of data and, frankly, looking at it, it maybe would have been different three weeks ago before all of this churn in the market. >> well, you know, and the fed is data dependent so every piece gets minced to the ninth degree and this data is notoriously bad. the first time they announce it, they don't get the full count and tend to underestimate quite a bit. we knew it was going to come in low and looks like we have the bias again. for many on the the fed, they say it's enough. they say the labor market is doing as good as it can do. it's better than it was, but this is not good enough for a lot of people. but the uncertainty is

hari sreenivasan, in our new york studio, has that. >> sreenivasan: the fires in recent days have ledthe evacuation of 20,000 people and left some towns looking like charred ruins. despite the progress, conditions remain unsafe in many areas. and it comes as the west is facing a potentially record- breaking fire season. in california alone, more than 650,000 acres have been burned by more than 7,000 wildfires. newshour science correspondent miles o'brien joins me from california. miles, the focus that's been on fires over the past few days videos that we see, but really the drought is affecting pretty much everything around there. >> it affects every aspect of life there. los angeles came in yesterday, all abuzz over a little rainfall they've had. actually had rain in july which caught them by surprise, that doesn't happen here often. there are indications of a strong el niÑo season ahead this we wanter, pretty strong indications. everyone is thinking el niÑo is going to save them but really won't. it might make a down payment but there is a double-edged sword component. a lot of el n

hari sreenivasan has the story. ♪ >> sreenivasan: a soft rain fell on the gathered crowd as officialsamily members dedicated the flight 93 national memorial outside shanksville, pennsylvania. >> you, as family members, have shared lives richly lived in the photos that you've provided of really everyday citizens who came face to face with evil, but through their courage and their selflessness saved untold lives and protected another sacred and symbolic american site, the u.s. capitol building. this site is their final resting place, but it is also a place for us to honor what they have given to all of us. >> sreenivasan: 14 years ago tomorrow, united flight 93 crashed in what was then a quiet field. it was one of four hijacked flights rerouted by al qaeda terrorists. the others struck the world trade center and the pentagon, but the 40 passengers and crew on flight 93 stopped their plane from reaching its target. >> they chose to act. they... they fought back. they breached the cockpit and fought for control of that flight. and in doing so, they lost their lives, but, in the process, t

hari sreenivasan narrates our report, produced in partnership with the pulitzer center on crisis reporting. >> sreenivasan: near a remote village in the eastern philippines, at a small camp in the forest. a man bites down on a plastic tube, adjusts his mask and disappears into water as opaque as chocolate milk. descending as deep as 40 feet, he breathes from a small diesel- powered air compressor on the surface, while blindly digging into the sides of a narrow tunnel. for hours at a time he fills bags with mud and rock that a partner hauls to the surface, where the sediment is broken down and, using mercury, panned for gold. according to thomson reuters, in 2012 the philippines was the 18th largest producer of gold worldwide. large companies are responsible for much of that, but there are also many unofficial, small- scale mines like these. many lie in the poor coastal province of camarines norte, about 200 miles southeast of manila. where some of the country's highest concentrations of the precious mineral can be found. but much of it is trapped in ore underwater. so-called "compressor mi

haris sreenavasan has more. >> sreenivasan: those tense discussions have centered on how many refugeesbe re-settled across the 28 countries of the european union, and who will pay for them. but as ministers talked in brussels, the arrivals of refugees and migrants continued in athens, which is where special correspondent malcolm brabant is tonight. >> reporter: dawn on a typical day on the migrant trail: the arrival at athens' main port of a ferry from lesbos, the island where most asylum seekers enter greece. just one ship disgorges some 2,000 people. sometimes there are three ferries a day-- a fraction of the problem being discussed by european leaders who met in brussels this evening. many have not eaten during the 15-hour voyage, so they storm a feeding station set up by a group of muslims from northern england. this crisis is undermining the two-decade experiment of a united europe, as prime ministers and presidents fight over how to respond to the influx. meanwhile, ordinary citizens are doing what they can-- in this case, trying to provide more than 1,000 meals a day. >> obvious