amy walter and nia malika- henderson on the week ahead in politics. those are some of the stories we're covering 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. >> lincoln financial-- committed to helping you take charge of your life and become you're own chief life officer. >> and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: iraqi security forces have launched a new offensive against tikrit, now held by islamic state fighters. it's their latest attempt to reclaim saddam hussein's hometown, before they try to retake mosul, to the north. ground troops opened the assault on tikrit with a rocket and artillery bombardment. they were backed by shiite sunni and iranian fighters, an

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the nia is one of a few medical centers outfitting an isolation unit.he patient got the virus while volunteering at a treatment center. this will be the 10th person with ebola to be treated in the u.s. today brings a milestone in the battle against ebola. the world health organisation announcing that 10,000 people have been killed by the disease. while a massive international response slowed the rate of ebola from proceeding. w.h.o. says it is far from over. >> in terms of the risks, the single biggest one probably at this point is the risk that the world stops looking at the disease, stops looking at the country. sierra leone and guinea remain entrenched in the fight with dozens of cases being reported. the world needs to keep paying attention and give more. the w.h.o. says 400 million is needed to continue the mission, fighting the disease. in liberia, 12,000 people have been infected the tide is turning. the last ebola case walked out of a hospital days ago. the country will be declared ebola free after no cases emerge after 42 days. >> it goes witho

all five are from chets nia or parts of the caucus region. russian officials have not released details of their alleged involvement. nemtsov was shot near the kremlin ten days ago. >>> inand a key moment in the civil rights movement in alabama is being remembered this morning. a march from selma to montgomery will retrace the historic journey from 1965. that's when police beat and teargassed peaceful demonstrators at the edmund pettus bridge. cbs's bill plante was there 50 years ago, and he is back this morning. ♪ when the saints go marching in ♪ >> reporter: thousands jammed the edmund pettus bridge marching and singing to remember a turning point in the struggle for voting rights. monique davis wanted her four children to know how things have changed. >> they've got to realize if they didn't do what they did years ago, obama would not be where he's at today. >> reporter: 50 years ago on what became known as bloody sunday police beat back an unresisting group of demonstrators with clubs and tear gas. two weeks later under federal protection

nia twain. shania twain. >>> well target has announced planks to slash thousands of jobs over the next two years. layoffs are a part of a cost-cutting plan aimed at saving $2 billion. most of the affected jobs from the company's minneapolis headquarters where they employ 13,000 workers. >>> settlement this morning of the first set of lawsuits stemming from the deadly acian airline flight. they reached a deal over personal injuries claims. boeing and the company that made the slides but the terms of the agreement were not disclosed. dozen of additional cases still pending. >>> it's the end of an era for oprah winfrey shutting down her studio after 26 years. harpo studios will close by the end of the year as she transitions her oprah winfrey network headquarters to los angeles leaving 200 staffers without a job. the presence of harpo transformed downtrodden area into one of the city's hottest neighborhoods. >>> will et me take you fellows back to your childhood. look at this. a big tonka truck, a

if they were wearing significant nia, or came from a particular group we might have something to speculate on. but it could have been a police uniform or anything. maybe these people saw themselves as soldiers but outside of that it's impossible to say how it can be perceived. >> okay. robin thank you so much for joining us there live from london. let me bring in martin raredon here in doha once again. martin just to wrap things -- i mean, we have unite a bit of information on the death toll but not on the identity of the gunmen and what group they might be linked to. how do you think tunisia is going to deal with this now? how do you think the situation is going to develop? >> the most important thing right now is identify who those shooters are. once they do that they can start -- if they have phones with them they can start looking at the numbers, find out recent contacts and who else was involved. if they are saying there could have been two or three accomplices early on maybe those witnesses saw them leave with a car or something like that. so start to put this picture together identi

and the 6'2" tu knee -- tu nia sha player [ inaudible ] it looks like they are the favorite here tonighteason's final list athletico madrid also face a fight. they do have home advantage. but lost 1-0 against the german side. athletico is not in the best of form either with just one win in their last six games. >> translator: in life as well as in football you have moments. some aren't as good as others but then you have the moments where you score. we just have to believe in what we're doing and keep a cool head. >> reporter: the dutch manager has taken on the job of trying to save sunderland from relegation. he has won titles but never managed in england before. the team is just one point and one match away from the drop side. >>> now a team is set to play a historic game against the cuban national team. the announcement comes at a time when the two countries are attempting to restart diplomatic relations after more than 50 years. >>> it's an announcement for a sporting event unimaginable for most of the past 50 years. the new york cosmos of the north american soccer league play the cu

he has been dating caruchi and now nia comes in there sometime. >> the the baby is nine months.for nine months. that is a year and a half. >> are you think a visit. >> i mean, i mean. >> when i woke up and saw that i said wait what. >> yes. >> he just went on the radio last week. i was just talking about this. he is on the radio in new york. the reason he had all these girls that are loyal and this person party drink party, then you go home. you went home with one of them. >> unless maybe he was on a break, that is all i can think of. he was with caruchi. >> a break from what. >> from girls. >> from one of the girls. >> it happened with gabriel union, they went on a break, he had a baby. >> but they are still together. >> yes. >> i wondering if that can happen. >> i wand fur his girl friend will stand by him. she broke up with him. but he is going back to rehand a cheating. and so wow. >> you keep this all straight. >> it is hard to. >> in the word of madonna it is a beautiful mess. >> a beautiful mess. >> justin timberlake isn't shy about his feelings for his expectant wife. >>

tu nia, although it doesn't have experience with these kinds of situations, they have had experience with attacks carried out on their police stations. they have been fighting on the libyan border. >> right. >> but they do not have experience of this kind of hostage situation. and it's unclear, really from this photograph whether these people have been told by security to stay put or whether someone is keeping them in the room. >> exactly. we don't know what this picture depicts really. there has been a military operation earlier this month by the tunisian military. what was that about? who was the target during that military operation? >> there are groups -- armed groups, as i mentioned which are linked to al-qaeda and also to al-sharia, and possibly after mill lated to isil in libya as well. which are using tunisia as almost like a weapons depot, or a training ground. and the military and the police have been attacked not only in the mountains on the nigerian border but also further inland. there have been a number of deaths. the tunisia ans recently say they arrested 32 people. th

. >> sue and i were talking about this when nia came along 18 years old. >> almost 18. >> yes. >> it is true your relationship toss change. >> people say you have to get married for quite sometime before you have kid to really enjoy. >> it was five years that we were before jack was born and we always look back on those five years. >> with fondness. >> back in the day. >> remember, we will always have belize, not paris, belize good what happened in belize. >> what happened in belize stays in belize. >> we will let it stay there. >> we will talk about marriage. how about this new campaign that end that love has no labels. a celebrity fashion stylist from philadelphia, who has been on our show several times. >> um-hmm. >> is part of this psa. let's check this out. >> love is love. >> our family noise less than any other family. >> this is something, i have watched this all the way through, yesterday and you see people, they come up and theye this x-ray, skeleton people hugging and showing signs of emotion and love and then they come out and you see so many different forms of love. >> y

. >> so nia has clean socks for school today? >> oh, we're all set. bus stop buddy all set too with gloves, hat warm winter coat, here we go again. another cold start to the day. and then your weather by the number giving awe another six out of ten. here's the deal. starting off with 29 degrees, not much wind out there this morning, sunrise time 6:57. rain is on the way. >> yes, can't rule out shower later this afternoon, should get up to high of 48 degrees, 8 degrees warmer than yesterday. so we will take every did he agree we can get still feels like winter out there. sunset time 7:18. there is your wednesday, from the weather authority. seven day forecast, just ahead, lots of ups ands down in that. and already some problems this morning, bob kelly. >> yes, we had little crazy accident on i-95, good news, is that that has cleared out of the way. so that tractor-trailer mess, up on 95, in newtown, bucks county, you are good to go. double five's, up and down 476, from myfoxphilly.com at sainted david's villanova. for the gang coming in from south jers

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in an unexpected twist, the pro-kremlin leader of chet nia has issued a statement praising the primet who served in the chechen security sources. a true russian patriot he posted on social media. everyone who knows him knows he's a deeply religious man and he was shocked by the actions of charlie and comments in support of printing the cartoon. but those close to boris nemtsov say it's hard to believe he was killed for religious, not political reasons, especially in a country where they say those who oppose the kremlin are increasingly seen as enemies of the state. >> mat thu chance is joining us live now. most of the accounts we're getting about the arrests are coming from russian police. a lot of people are questioning the credibility of the information. what are you hearing over there this. >> reporter: exactly that. there's a lot of opposition figures here that have no face in the willingness of the authorities to really get to the bottom of the case and find who really was responsible for the kill of boris nechl sof. a great deal of concern that this is a means that the kem lynn

and the baby mama nia. they go and get on the tour bus. with chris. >> talk about a mood killer on the tour bus. party on the tour bus. >> wa-wa! >> here we go, chris. >> scott disick is in rehab right now. he's

the baby momma a girl by the name of nia she has been friends with chris bound's girl friend.cessarily true. they're not like super duper friends but they were partying in the same place and they open took a photograph together in the same spot. now, people are saying chris brown this girl during the period of time him and his girlfriend were taking a break. he made a song these girls ain't loyal. apparently neither are contraceptives. >> oh, man. all right head crack. thanks for dropping the notch. we appreciate the insight as always. after fox 29 news at 10:00 we've got two hours of news and infotainment. tmz and inside edition followed by dish nation and chasing news at 12:30. >> drama rescue during a calfly apartment fire and a firefighter's body camera caught it all. it happened on valentine's day. look at this rescue right here. a woman throws her dog from a second story window into a dumpster below. now, she did this twice both dogs they are fine. then firefighters put up two ladders they climbed up grabbed the woman and they brought her on down. she is okay as well. in

party which is run by bar sanny and the patriotic union of kurdistan which has its space in suggest ma nia. that balance has schefted over time -- shifted over time partly as a by-product of the civil war that you talked about, but also the arab spring also was contagious among kurds. and a new party emerged called goran which means "change" in kurdish. and they fared very well in kurdish elections. so there is political pluralism in iraqi kurdistan. there is power sharing. but there are also still these divisions and systems of nepotism. two sets of security forces, two groups of peshmerga. so kurdistan's democratization is still a work in progress. the fact that the kdp has essentially consolidated governance under its control, under its umbrella has been a positive contributor to stability in iraq and kurdistan. but there's an ongoing process underway for kurds to articulate their desires for rights, for power sharing and for those to be reflected in the laws of iraqi kurdistan and in the quality of their political leadership. a lot of progress so far, but more work to be done. >> okay.

it's a busy day "inside politics," inside crazy washington nia malika henderson of the "washington postn of the "washington times." hillary clinton and her use of a private email account when she was secretary of state. she had full kistdy of this, this was down on a server in her home which makes it harder public information, congressional committees the white house threw her under the bus, said the president made it clear from day one, saying he expected his executive cabinet to use government accounts not private accounts. hillary made a speech last night and came to the point. >> don't you love seeing nancy pelosi stand up against efforts to play politics with our security. it's because of you that kirsten gillibrand can lead the fight against sexual assault in the military. it's because of you that elizabeth warren can work to hold wall street accountable. >> okay. nice words about elizabeth warren and nancy pelosi. nothing about this. i'm sort of torn on this. you know she's about to launch a presidential campaign. this is a big story about her transparency. she's skirting at leas

corruption particularly among the oligarchs, among the wealthy russians and looking into excesses in check niawhere under putins the russians fought a brutal war to suppress an uprising. he was one of the early journalists to fall. and there have been many many since then. but the fact that he was an american citizen, shows that his killer's didn't really care and to date nobody har fingers been fingered for being responsible. some chechens have been blamed but no one knows, 11 years later. >> let's fast-forward to 2006 we'll speaking of anna politkoskaya she was shot and killed in the street ironically enough on putin's birthday. >> one of russia's finest journalist she worked for a newspaper that six journalists in that paper have been killed. she had been a fierce critic of putin. she, too had looked into the excesses in chechnya horrible human rights abuses gunned down in the streets. five chechens were blamed, but no one got to the bottom of it. no one knows who, even the russian administration know one know who is ordered the hit on her. >> it's not necessarily that the putin administrat

and here with the scoop is "entertainment weekly's" nia. >> let's talk about that royal visit to "downtonit is really exciting. kate spent her morning over at the studio in london where she visited the set of "downton abbey." a large part of the show is filmed out in the countryside in england, but a lot of it is filmed here. she went to actually go visit like their set room and she played with some of the props. i'm kind of jealous of her. while we don't know a lot about the royal viewing habits, i wonder if she is a really big fan of the show. was like, hey, to her staff, i want to go to "downton abbey." like that would be really fun. it's such an historic place. it is actually the oldest continuously run production studio in the world. and knot and notting hill was actually filmed there. >> cool. let's move on to more star power. lady gaga has a pretty famous friend lined up to be her wedding singer. >> the most incredible wedding singer has been taken. tony bennett is actually going to sing at lady gaga's wedding. he told the "new york post" that lady gaga literally just called him up