from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. there have been new arrests in this week's berlin christmas market truck attack that killed 12 people and injured 56 others. today, police in tunisia arrested the nephew of accused attacker anis amri and two other suspected militants. tunisia's interior ministry says amri's 18-year-old nephew had contact with amri through an encrypted messaging app. all three are suspected of belonging to the same terrorist cell and having contacts with the accused terrorist. the ministry says amri, who had pledged his allegiance to the islamic state group in a video, was recruiting his nephew to join him in europe. all three are being held in detention pending further investigation. it's unclear whether the suspects assisted amri in fleeing berlin after the attack. amri was killed early friday in a shootout with police in a suburb of milan, italy. in syria this weekend, civilians are returning to neighborhoods in eastern aleppo for the first time in nearly five years. the syri

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i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight: with less than four weeks to inauguration day, we examine donald trump's cabinet and compare his choices to previous presidential picks. also ahead, the fall of aleppo. after fleeing to safety in turkey, syrian refugees face a bleak future. >> if they want to work, they will be beggars. they will live in the street, and have no future. some lost their sons, others daughters and wives. for them there is no meaning to life. it is better to die. >> sreenivasan: plus, the reach of opioids into elementary school classrooms. a west virginia school partners with local law enforcement to find solutions. >> we assume that everything needs to be provided here. so that means, if they need clothes, we're going to give

i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff.join us online and again here tomorrow evening with shields and brooks. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge of your future. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> announcer: this is "nightly business report," with tyler mathisen and sue herera. >>> companies are not going to leave the united states anymore without consequences. it's not going to happen. >> president-elect donald trump draws a line in the sand and sends a warning to u.s. companies. >>> stepping down. the founder, long time chairman, and face of starbucks will no longer be ceo. and the stock tumbles. >>> shot

. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: on the newshour tonight, from trump tower to twitter, the president-elect continues to shake up tradition, by attacking boeing's plans to build a new air force one. >> sreenivasan: also ahead this wednesday, the pentagon hides a study that exposes $125 billion in wasteful spending, fearing congress would cut its defense budget. >> woodruff: plus, a passion for improvisation. two jazz greats open up to jeffrey brown about their new album and staying in the moment. >> it's an emotional, it's an intuitive process. i mean, of course it's happening in the brain, right, but if i'm thinking about responding in that way, then i'm over-thinking it, and i probably won't do it well. >> sreenivasan

. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: on the "newshour" tonight, we're on the ground in berlin where police hunt for a new suspect in the truck attack that killed 12 people. >> sreenivasan: also ahead this wednesday, the political fight intensifies over north carolina's controversial bathroom law restricting transgender people's access to bathrooms. >> woodruff: and, "the atlantic's" ta-nehisi coates talks the legacy president obama leaves behind. >> if having an african-american president was as revolutionary as we claim, it was then there'd probably be some sort of backlash. >> sreenivasan: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: on the newshour tonight, after the attack: we report from berlin as a manhunt continues. >> sreenivasan: then, one outcome of the election: a rise of women seeking long-term contraceptive care, fearing restrictions on birth control coverage in the new political climate. >> woodruff: plus, part two of our bruce springsteen profile. the rock legend opens up about depression and the joy of performing. >> i walk on stage, i play, i perform, i create, i write. that's where sort of that peace comes over me. >> sreenivasan: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: on the newshour tonight, president-elect trumpe moves to set the stage for his administration. what his controversial pick to head the e.p.a. signals for the future of the environment. >> sreenivasan: also ahead this thursday, the populists of wall street: a look at trump's economic team and the future president's promises. >> woodruff: plus, the female frontline-- the first part in our series spotlighting the first generation of women training for the toughest combat positions. >> i want to advance my career and be in a place that feels like family, you know that they have your ba

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> sreenivasan: good evening, i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight... >> the two-state solution is the only way to achieve a just and lasting peace between israelis and palestinians. >> sreenivasan: secretary of state john kerry warns israeli prime minister netanyahu that his continued support of settlements in the west bank undermines peace in the region. also ahead, donald trump's promise to drain the "special interest" swamp of washington. can the president-elect succeed where previous politicians failed? plus, a banner year for television, from a story of young rappers trying to make it in atlanta to louis c.k.'s surprise web series. >> i haven't even heard of some of these shows and it's my job to watel

. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: on the newshour tonight, president-elect trump talks jobs with the nation's biggest tech leaders, as he announces his pick for secretary of energy. >> sreenivasan: also ahead this wednesday, we sit down with white separatist richard spencer to talk about how he's energized white identity politics during this election. >> woodruff: and, technology versus tradition. the battle over building an ambitious telescope on a sacred hawaiian mountain. >> there's certainly an element of native rights issues, which is far bigger than astronomy. so astronomy, i think, right now, is certainly a lightning post for these bigger issues. >> sreenivasan: all that and

. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: on the newshour tonight, from trump tower to twitter, the president-elect continues to shake up tradition, by attacking boeing's plans to build a new air force one. >> sreenivasan: also ahead this wednesday, the pentagon hides a study that exposes $125 billion in wasteful spending, fearing congress would cut its defense budget. >> woodruff: plus, a passion for improvisation. two jazz greats open up to jeffrey brown about their new album and staying in the moment. >> it's an emotional, it's an intuitive process. i mean, of course it's happening in the brain, right, but if i'm thinking about responding in that way, then i'm over-thinking it, and i probably won't do it well. >> sreenivasan: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> xq institute. >> bnsf railway. >> lincoln financial-- committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public br

. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: on the newshour tonight, as president-elect trump expands his team with new picks, how the future commander in chief is redefining the presidential bully pulpit. >> sreenivasan: also ahead this wednesday, rescuers search under the rubble for survivors in indonsia's aceh province after a powerful earthquake kills nearly 100 people. >> woodruff: and, when religion and art collide: a new smithsonian exhibit celebrates the beauty and mastery of the qur'an. >> it really shifted my perception of what these works are, and i'm hoping that it will also shift the perception of the visitors who come to the museum

. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: on the newshour tonight, president-elect trump taps exxon mobil executive rex tillerson for secretary of state, raising concerns even among republicans about the pick's past connections to russia. >> sreenivasan: also ahead this tuesday, a nightmare continues: the syrian government's deadly takeover of the war-ravaged city of aleppo. >> woodruff: and, an artist's take on how to look at art, offering a simple way to enjoy a museum. >> it's a kind of conversation that we're having with each other, so it might sound >> sreenivasan: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour.

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captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> sreenivasan: good evening, i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight... >> the two-state solution is the only way to achieve a just and lasting peace between israelis and palestinians. >> sreenivasan: secretary of state john kerry warns israeli prime minister netanyahu that his continued support of settlements in the west bank undermines peace in the region. also ahead, donald trump's promise to drain the "special interest" swamp of washington. can the president-elect succeed where previous politicians failed? plus, a banner year for television, from a story of young rappers trying to make it in atlanta to louis c.k.'s surprise web series. >> i haven't even heard of some of these shows and it's my job to watch television, that's how much great stuff is out there. it's ridiculous! >> sreenivasan: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> we can like many, but we can love only a precious few, because it is for those precious few that you have

. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: on the newshour tonight, president-elect trump taps exxon mobil executive rex tillerson for secretary of state, raising concerns even among republicans about the pick's past connections to russia. >> sreenivasan: also ahead this tuesday, a nightmare continues: the syrian government's deadly takeover of the war-ravaged city of aleppo. >> woodruff: and, an artist's take on how to look at art, offering a simple way to enjoy a museum. >> it's a kind of conversation that we're having with each other, so it might sound >> sreenivasan: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> xq institute. >> bnsf railway. >> lincoln financial-- committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: another big seat is filled in the trump cabinet-to- be, and it s

. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: on the newshour tonight, as president-elect trump continues to build the future administration, a look at the most pressing questions around the role his children will play and potential conflicts of interest. >> sreenivasan: also ahead this thursday, evacuations begin in war-ravaged aleppo as a cease- fire allows syrians to escape from the battle's bloody end. >> woodruff: and, economists put their money where their mouth is, after grave mistakes in prediction polls, the betting markets feel the loss. >> one of the things that we learn here, and this is a lesson for both the media and for social scientists, is how difficult it is to communicate clearly about probabilities. >> sreenivasan: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> lincoln financial-- committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >>

. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: on the "newshour" tonight, we're on the ground in berlin where police hunt for a new suspect in the truck attack that killed 12 people. >> sreenivasan: also ahead this wednesday, the political fight intensifies over north carolina's controversial bathroom law restricting transgender people's access to bathrooms. >> woodruff: and, "the atlantic's" ta-nehisi coates talks the legacy president obama leaves behind. >> if having an african-american president was as revolutionary as we claim, it was then there'd probably be some sort of backlash. >> sreenivasan: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ love me tender >> we can like many, but we can love only a precious few, because it is for those precious few that you have to be willing to do so very much. you don't have to do it alone. lincoln financial helps you provide for and protect your financial future because this is what you do for people you love. lincoln financial-- you're in charge. >> supporting social entrep

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i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight: with less than four weeks to inauguration day, we examine donald trump's cabinet and compare his choices to previous presidential picks. also ahead, the fall of aleppo. after fleeing to safety in turkey, syrian refugees face a bleak future. >> if they want to work, they will be beggars. they will live in the street, and have no future. some lost their sons, others daughters and wives. for them there is no meaning to life. it is better to die. >> sreenivasan: plus, the reach of opioids into elementary school classrooms. a west virginia school partners with local law enforcement to find solutions. >> we assume that everything needs to be provided here. so that means, if they need clothes, we're going to give them clothes. if they need food, we're going to get them food. you know, if they need love, we're giving them the hug. >> sreenivasan: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> xq institute.

i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away. on tonight's pbs newshour: russian president vladimir putin will not expel american diplomats in response to sanctions imposed by the obama administration. we look at what lies ahead for u.s.-russian relations in a trump presidency. also ahead, the best of 2016 in music. a year of innovation and stunning comebacks, but also, great loss. >> one great thing about when we mourn these singers is that we also always celebrate and archive their work, and we're seeing that. >> sreenivasan: and it's friday. david brooks and david corn 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: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> xq institute. >> lincoln financial-- committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. >> the ford foundation. working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutio

. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: on the newshour tonight, behind the hack: still more evidence that russian military intelligence was behind the email breach at the democratic national committee this year. >> sreenivasan: also ahead this thursday, the public face of the trump presidency: the r.n.c.'s sean spicer is tapped to be press secretary as the president-elect announces his communications team. >> woodruff: plus, what to expect from washington, d.c.,'s new rules for paid family leave. taking on the economic challenges of having a child. >> it's really an impossible choice that families face: do i stay here and hold my baby's hand? do i go to work and keep the roof over our heads? >> sreenivasan: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> lincoln financial-- committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> supported by the rockef

. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: on the newshour tonight, president-elect trump makes more moves to set the stage for his administration. what his controversial pick to head the e.p.a. signals for the future of the environment. >> sreenivasan: also ahead this thursday, the populists of wall street: a look at trump's economic team and the future president's promises. >> woodruff: plus, the female frontline-- the first part in our series spotlighting the first generation of women training for the toughest combat positions. >> i want to advance my career and be in a place that feels like family, you know that they have your back. >> sreenivasan: and we remember john glenn, the first u.s. astronaut to orbit earth, who became a national hero and senator. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> lincoln financial-- committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and fin

. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: on the newshour tonight, president-elect trump talks jobs with the nation's biggest tech leaders, as he announces his pick for secretary of energy. >> sreenivasan: also ahead this wednesday, we sit down with white separatist richard spencer to talk about how he's energized white identity politics during this election. >> woodruff: and, technology versus tradition. the battle over building an ambitious telescope on a sacred hawaiian mountain. >> there's certainly an element of native rights issues, which is far bigger than astronomy. so astronomy, i think, right now, is certainly a lightning post for these bigger issues. >> sreenivasan: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> lincoln financial-- >> ♪ love me tender ♪ love me true we can like many, but we can love only a precious few. because it is for those precious few that you have to be willing to do so very much. but you don't have to do it alone. lincoln financial helps you provide for and protect your financ

hari sreenivasan reports. >> reporter: at a texas college, a football field that was turned into a farmwe need to harvest about ten pounds of radishes. >> reporter: the tigers of paul quinn college lost more football games than they won on this field, so nine years ago, when the historically black college on the south side of dallas was in financial crisis and had a 1% graduation rate, a new president turned everything over, including the football field. so, did you envision this when you first saw the football field and the-- >> no, no. >> reporter: michael sorrell had no experience running a college. he had been a lawyer and white house special assistant, but he knew paul quinn couldn't afford a football program. >> there's more than one field of dreams, all right? why should we tie everyone's future to athletic success? >> reporter: he turned the football field into an organic farm that generates more than 20,000 pounds of organic vegetables every year, veggies that make it into high-end restaurants and into the dallas cowboys' stadium. >> i think this has saved our school. it saved

. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: on the newshour tonight, behind the hack: stillidence that russian military intelligence was behind the email breach at the democratic national committee this year. >> sreenivasan: also ahead this thursday, the public face of the trump presidency: the r.n.c.'s sean spicer is tapped to be press secretary as the president-elect announces his communications team. >> woodruff: plus, what to expect from washington, d.c.,'s new rules for paid family leave. taking on the economic challenges of having a child. >> it's really an impossible choice that families face: do i stay here and hold my baby's hand? do i go to work and keep the roof over our heads? >> sreenivasan: all that and more on tonight's pbs

i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away. on tonight's pbs newshour: russian president vladimir putin will not expel american diplomats in response to sanctions imposed by the obama administration. we look at what lies ahead for u.s.-russian relations in a trump presidency. also ahead, the best of 2016 in music. a year of innovation and stunning comebacks, but also, great loss. >> one great thing about when we mourn these singers is that we also always celebrate and archive their work, and we're seeing that. >> sreenivasan: and it's friday. david brooks and david corn are here, to analyze the week's news. all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour.

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> stewart:: good evening and thanks for joining us. the c.i.a. assessment that russian hackers tried to tilt the u.s. election in favor of donald trump by targeting emails from the democratic party drew fire from the president- elect himself. mr. trump blasted the reports today in an interview on fox news sunday. >> i think it's ridiculous, i think it's just another excuse, i don't believe it. i think the dems are putting it out because they suffered one of the greatest defeats in the history of this country. personally it could be russia i don't really think it is but who knows? >> stewart:: despite the president-elect's skepticism, voices on capitol hill are calling for a congressional investigation. a bipartisan group of four senators, including john mccain and chuck schumer, released a statement this morning saying: >> democrats and republicans must work together, and across the jurisdictional lines of the congress, to examine these recent incidents thoroughly. >> stewart: senator mccain later said that t

and to hari sreenivasan for our update. >> sreenivasan: thousands of protesters celebrated the announcementunday, the u.s. army corps of engineers said it would not grant the final easement to allow the pipeline to be drilled. instead, the corps said it would begin exploring alternative routes. the standing rock sioux tribe and others say the pipeline will destroy sacred lands and are worried an oil leak could threaten the tribe's water supply. north dakota's governor, the company and members of the state's congressional delegation all denounced the decision. william brangham has been covering the story for months and is with us again tonight. william, this doesn't seem to be over. i don't see the protesters breaking camp. i don't see anybody jumping for joy. >> brangham: no, there was some joy, certainly yesterday, and i think, obviously, some spillover in today because, for many people, this was considered an enormous victory. this is what the standing rock tribe and all of its thousands of supporters wanted for months which was to stop the pipeline from going under the missouri river rig

for the pbs newshour, i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: and, to the analysis of shields and brooks.t's syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. welcome, gentlemen. so let's talk about the trump cabinet. we know rudy giuliani's out. took himself out of consideration, they said. but we've got several names, mark, of people who are in at labor, at the e.p.a., h.u.d., small business, and they all seem to be people who don't necessarily agree wit with whate mission of these agencies has been during the obama administration. what are we to make of them? >> they're very personal choices by donald trump. ben carson is a world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, 400 surgeries a year. surgeon general, now housing and urban development, and he's owned several houses, he's lived in a house. i don't know what the other qualifications are. particularly interesting to me was, after he met president-elect with al gore, probably the most prominent environmental voice in the democratic party, he chose oklahoma attorney general scott fender. when you think of the pre

hari sreenivasan-- in our new york studios-- has the story. >> reporter: for the past five years, theernment has reported just under 100 cases of complicated black lung disease, which is also called progressive massive fibrosis. but a new npr investigation found nearly 1,000 cases in nearly the same time from clinic reports in four states-- virginia, west virginia, pennsylvania and ohio. the extent of the problem has stunned a number of researchers and experts who work with miners as well. one of the miners diagnosed with black lung and profiled in the npr stories-- mackie branham-- spoke of just how difficult it is for him to breathe and his ill health. but he said mining was "in his blood." >> takes a lot of pressure in my chest at all times. i've never been scared to death. it don't bother me a bit. it's just i won't see my kids grow up. but if i had it to do over, i would do it again. if that's what it took to provide for my family. >> reporter: howard berkes has been uncovering this in a two- part series that concludes tonight on "all things considered" and he joins me now from s

hari sreenivasan looks at a plan to help bring that conversation to the fore. >> sreenivasan: the planis to commemorate victims of racially- motivated lynchings, with a memorial in montgomery, alabama. the design calls for some 800 columns, which, upon closer viewing, reveal themselves to be suspended from above in a way that mimics a hanging. each will bear the names of lynching vover 4,000 in all, as well as the date and location of their deaths. a companion courtyard will hold duplicate columns which will be moved to the county of the lynchings each commemorates, once that local community accepts it. a recent $10 million dollar donation from sibling philanthropists pat and jon stryker brings the project closer to its planned 2018 opening. for more on all this we turn to bryan stevenson, the founder of the equal justice initiative, which created the concept and is overseeing its completion. bryan, thanks for being with us. first, why do we need a memorial like this? >> well, i think we're still haunted by our history of racial inequality. we are really burdened by this legacy and i d