margaret warner is now in the bahraini capital, manama, reporting for the newshour. margaret, you've been on the ground in bahrain a few days, what can you see? are you aware as you move around that this is a country putting down an uprising? >> warner: absolutely, ray. in the capitol you see tanks by the side of the road. you see riot police and military manning check points around the city. it is not a heavy, heavy security presence here in the financial hub that is the capitol. but you do, you do feel it. the situation is very different when you go out to the shiite villages. and we went to one today to hear the bahraini shiite ayatollah deliver the friday prayers. and there you do see armoured vehicles out on the highway, checkpoints, military convoys cruising around, riot police cruising around. and the, just by happenstance the mosque that we had chosen to visit overnight, we were told, had been vandallized by security forces. the television sets and sound system ripped out. other allegations of other kinds of destruction. now when we got there new tvs had been

margaret warner has that story. >> warner: the protests began last thursday when a few hundred people set out on the march from the resort city south of mexico city. they were led by revered poet javier siclia whose 24-year-old son and six others were slain there in march in an altercation with drug cartel gunmen. >> we are heading to mexico city. to demand that the authorities take a close look at this country. or it is going to go to hell. >> warner: as the crowd marched the 60 miles north to the capital they were joined by thousands more. until tens of thousands swarmed mexico city's main square yesterday. some wore shirts saying, "enough bloodshed." others held signs declaring no more bullets. >> i think the people will react to the march, slowly the people will become conscious of what is going on. and in cities all over the country there will be reaction. >> warner: the protestors were decrying the violence that has claimed more than 34,000 lives since mexican president felipe calderon launched a military offensive against the drug cartels in 2006. the latest shock came two week

. >> lehrer: from bahrain, margaret warner interviews a journalist who was targeted after calling for government reforms. within he was caught up in a crackdown that has detained more than a thousand bahrainies, mostly doctors, teachers, and it has cost thousands more their jobs. >> woodruff: ray suarez looks at the week that was for republican presidential hopefuls. >> lehrer: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> woodruff: and jeffrey brown profiles former poet laureate robert pinsky, looking back at a career of writing about american life. about to write about is culture almost too fancy a word. it's what americans make jokes about, are afraid of,. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> i mean, where would we be without small businesses? >> we need small businesses. >> they're the ones that help drive growth. >> like electricians, mechanics, carpenters. >> they strengthen our communities. >> every year, chevron spends billions with small businesses. that goes right to the heart of local comm

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. >> lehrer: then, judy woodruff reports on president obama's middle east policy address and margaret warner offers reaction from bahrain. >> brown: and we analyze the president's speech hailing the unrest in the arab world and calling for democratic reforms and progress toward middle east peace. >> lehrer: ray suarez talks to howard berkes of npr about a new report on the west virginia mine disaster that killed 29 people last year. >> brown: and "newshour" science correspondent miles o'brien places a really long distance call to put your questions to the space shuttle crew as they orbit the earth. >> as humans i don't think we'll ever stop exploring. and we're all excited to be a part of the great adventure. it's really all starting right here on the international space station. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> i want to know what the universe... >> looks like. >> feels like. >> from deep space. >> to a microbe. >> i can contribute to the world by pursuing my passion for science. >> it really is e key to the fut

and to margaret warner. >> warner: egyptians and their media today were still digesting the news: after months of agitation by protestors, the country's chief prosecutor said yesterday their former president and his sons will be put on trial. the charges against hosni mubarak and his sons alaa and gamal: murder and attempted murder of demonstrators, and abuse of power involving public funds. a spokesman for the prosecutor general said if convicted on the murder charge, mubarak could face the death penalty in the deaths of an estimated 850 people during the 18-day uprising in cairo's tahrir square. since being deposed february 11, mubarak has been either in his seaside home in sharm el sheik, or a hospital nearby. his sons and more than a dozen former associates have been held behind bars. the charges come as the military government is trying to pave the way for parliamentary elections in september, and a transition to civilian rule. the activists have called another major protest friday in tahrir square. for more we turn to michele dunne, senior associate at the carnegie endowment for i

tonight, we have margaret's interview with bahrain's foreign minister. >> warner: mr. minister, thank you for having us. spoob giving a speech on thursday addressed to the middle east and north afternoon a. do you feel you've had u.s. support for the actions you've taken here, both in the immediate crisis of the uprising and then there the crackdown? >> yes, of course, we felt that we had u.s. support in general as we've always had the u.s. support in bahrain and the gulf region. there's no doubt that the u.s. support is a support that we always look for because the u.s. is a major ally. >> warner: now, is the united states urging you to ease some elements of this crackdown? for instance, to open up all the trials to press coverage? or to release some of the hundreds who are still in detention, indefinite detention? >> being an international safety situation, there's no doubt we are in constant contact with the united states regarding the whole spectrum of events of the last two months. the u.s. embassy is now present in the courtroom by a representative diplomat mat t

margaret warner has the yemen story. >> warner: heavy fighting resumed today in yemen's capital, sana'aase- fire broke down between president ali abdullah saleh's government troops and tribal militia. it was the latest bloody twist in a four-month-long standoff between saleh and three different groups trying to bring him down. the militia fighters in sana'a are loyal to the large, powerful hashed tribe, led by a saleh rival, sheikh sadiq al-ahmar. >> ( translated ): we will not allow saleh to lead yemen to civil war. he attacked our houses and we are steadfast. >> warner: elsewhere yesterday, government gunmen in the city of taiz rained fire on another group of saleh opponents-- younger anti-government demonstrators. and in the south, yemen's air force pounded islamist militants who took control of the city of zinjibar last friday. amid all this, the crumbling regime of president saleh lurches onward, despite his repeated pledges to leave office. just five weeks ago, saleh said publicly he'd agreed to abdicate under a deal brokered by the saudi-led gulf cooperation council and backed by

it's not known whether the $19 million reward on offer led to his arrest. >> woodruff: margaret warneres the story from there. >> warner: for more on the significance of today's arrest we turn to stephen rapp, u.s. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues. he previously served as a lead prosecutor in u.n. sponsored war crimes trials for the african nations of rwanda and sierra leone. and emma daly, who covered the wars in the former yugoslavia for the british newspaper, "the independent." she's now communications director at human rights watch. ambassador rapp, you've been to serbia five times in the last 15 months. what new can you add to the circumstances of this capture? >> well, it is the serbian operation. they were maintaining surveillance over the extended family. we've been in touch with them. we've been providing them with advice and assistance with the fbi. they've been meeting with us regularly to inform us on their progression which is important. because our assistance to serbia depends upon that full cooperation. but this was a situation of maintaining surveillance and fi