nick kristoff searched for the cause in his own hometown. his new very personal book "tightrope" next. ok "tightrope" next >>> a new book offers a personal look for what was once the sturdy american middle class. a quarter of the kids kristoff rode the bus with had died young, either of suicide, drugs or alcohol. he uses his hometown to tell the story of working class towns across america, how thousands are being lost to despair. nick kristof joins me now. congratulations on the book. what you take away is that there -- when you say life of despair, that there's just not a lot of opportunity is the root of it. >> you know, right now, we're all very focused on president trump for obvious reasons, but there is this broader social great depression going on that preceded trump, that to some degree trump is a symptom of and, in some ways, it's causing even worse affects than the great depression. at least life expectancy didn't plunge. in the u.s. for the last three years, life expectancy has fallen for three years in a row, first time anyway cen

kristoff they bear says both of the self testing kits sold in germany are reliable or to test me i h. an exacto if the result is positive you should go to the doctor to have it confirmed however if the h.i.v. infection is only recent the test might not detect it. and. if you think you've been infected you need to wait 3 months before doing the test and that's because it takes hiv infected persons up to 3 months to develop antibodies at levels that can be detected by the test. and rico thomas is about to get his result germany's disease prevention and control agency estimates there are over 11000 people in the country who don't know their hiv positive. there is a lot going through my mind that i always had safe sex when was my last test if it's always nerve wracking and what i'm wondering is what would i do if the result is positive and there are various options available. this test is actually recommended by the german hiv aids charity. then a book works for hiv aids helpline advising people online or on the phone but inside it's just easier to just deal with the self test kids people

adam driver everybody. [ cheers and applause he returns as the voice of kristoff in "frozen 2" in theatersmax this friday. jonathan groff is back, you guys [ cheers and applause and we will have music from hozier, so it's a fantastic night tonight. [ cheers and applause before we get to our guest, today might have been the most devastating day of the trump presidency so far. a key witness to the ukraine scheme provided evidence that there was a quid pro quo, and that it was ordered by the president himself. for more on this, it's time for "a closer look." ♪ [ cheers and applause >> seth: today we heard from trump's hand-picked ambassador to the european union, a guy named gordon sondland. sondland's testimony was explosive, shocking, and jaw dropping and if you don't believe me, lets just fast forward to the moment when after democrats finish questioning sondland, the camera cut over to gop congressman devin nunes. >> that concludes our 45 minutes i now recognize mr. nunes. oh, okay um - why don't we take a five or ten-minute break >> thank you >> seth: man, look at his face [ laughter ] h

possible it's challenger the lexus also has an electric motor in a b 6 combustion engine are tester kristoff says power is not the point here i have to confess i'm a lexus fan from the beginning on all this though these cars are not perfect. but i found with all these entertainment systems navigation systems the handling on that is. a 100 drive is not made for german on the back on the other side and lexus all of its you through the feeling of safety this is comp protects you every day every hour on the one example you have that the lower dollar blades amount to know them and a bit of a cost that means it will take this part of the car and that is not going to be muddy all water on the. road that really mean all the time a hybrid drive versus an hour the result is clear. the audi beats will axis no argument right. now normally i should have win because on the but not drive up the talk of the always so huge i had no chance . and so the lexus is the 2nd to leave the arena beaten by pure power. but for all the electro euphoria hybrids like this will still be around for a long time. now it's tim

kristoff from the brook guard or what brigade is on board. where you sleeping tonight. are you going to the base camp ok what's your name. president makarov replied to the mayor's letter but didn't announce any concrete measures. social marclay decided to take matters into his own hands and set up the brick are. now anyone who wants to scale the mountain must reserve a place in the chalet and the brigade make sure that the climbers abide by the rules it's an attempt to prevent the worst. moments the only one of the 7 summits that's not regulated and that's not ok so people flock to buy in drives this is the mountain station at an elevation of almost $2400.00 major didn't complete beginners and to scale your is that highest peak some 4810 meters about seattle did you get the challenge and adventure i've never been mountain climbing before so i'm giving it a try by this new south america as robin said it's a challenge it's completely new for me too i was never too interested not in climbing and it doesn't kill you but it's a chance to test your limits and see what you're

the kristoffer a school in koenig's winter near bonn has had a stream for gifted children for nearly40 years that uses pedagogical strategies involving teamwork interdisciplinary studies acceleration and enrichment to challenge the students this is one of several clubs in which the kids work together on complex projects. many of the students felt like outsiders in their previous school. does understand matter. i was always bored especially in math class. while the others had to go over the material again and again i would get it fairly quickly so i got a bit bored and i. got her to do once i'd done an assignment i'd go on and do some more or do something again even though i could understand it all when i was contact list. this is the robotics club. they design and build their own robots and program them as well. well that's how much of. our robot is practicing kicking the ball into the goal. the ball emits infrared signals. and the sensor in the robot picks them up. that lets it locate the bone which it then kicks. education research is estimate that in germany schools provide only a

this young man has some climbing experience still kristoff from the book god isn't happy with his gear he says no one should scale amount to dress like this. so you don't need exam you're setting a bad example the last guy we got out dead left 3 grieving kids behind. a music video shot. more and more people are literally going to extremes to attract attention a british man carried a rowing machine up the mountain to raise money for war veterans and then simply left it there. you know. there's no law preventing them from doing whatever they want. there's not even a law to prevent a rowing machine they can do anything climb up with humpback whales elephants whatever you see everything imaginable. even the jacuzzi i mean they inflated a jacuzzi up there to take a group photo and say look at me it's crazy where's the respect for the environment the respect for the mountain. in france the basic attitude is everything is allowed unless it's expressly forbidden at mom blog it was long assumed that mountain climbers would be sensible and careful so a system of fines or penalties was never crea

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authors describe devastating stories of violence, poverty and addiction impacting the country from kristoffometown in oregon all the way east to baltimore. they write, we quote, "it has been wrenching to see old friends frustrated and down to children and grandchildren's in our reporting over aboard saw talented chinese, bangladeshees suffering in wars or refugee camps. even more harrowing to see unnecessary suffering among old friends capable of achieving much more for themselves and for the country." joining us now, the aforementioned authors, first married couple, by the way, to win a pulitzer prize together for journalism. again, their book is "tightrope: americans reaching for hope." thank you both for coming in. apologies for the late hour. nick, tell us about your hometown and what compelled you to tell that story, for starters? >> sheryl and i were traveling around the world covering global humanitarian crises and come back regularly to my hometown, my mom still lives on the family farm and saw a humanitarian crisis unfolding there, and i'm still close to many of the families on my

williams, patsy cline singing "crazy," emmy lou, way lan, merle, girl from north country, bravo, kristofferon, bravo. you mentioned roseanne cash, and her masterpiece, seven-year ache. >> yep. >> if you hadn't done pancho and lefty, i would have lost hope. >> our entire seventh episode revolves around pancho and lefty moving through the snake of country music and ending up, you know, starting with towns van zandt and then going through all these permutations. and at the end of our longest episode, which is over two hours and feels like our shortest one, you end up with it being sung again. and the journey that it takes, we have one of the longest sentences we've ever written in our 40 years of making films, which dayton wrote, as beautiful as you can get. peter coyote read, about pancho and lefty. >> if there's a theme that runs through all 16 hours of this new ken burns documentary, it might be that country music is so uniquely american, its origins and history are complicated, and at one point we look up at the screen and see just two words, hard times. so with that as the fusing, tell us

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