fifth american to die there this year, almost 17 years after the united states entafghan stand, nick schifrin is back now with the authois nick schifriack now with the author of a new book that looks at this war, the war in iraq, and some of those who have fought them on the front lines. >> schifrin: more than three million men and women have foug in afghanistan and iraq n e country asked them to overthrow the talid saddam hussein, rebuild shattered countries wracked by terrorism and sectarian war, and prop up vernments that sometimes actively undermined their efforts. no matter what you may think about the war's policies, these men and women are america's sons and daughters, wives and husbands, brothers and sisters. and their stories are told intimately, with understanding, and with empathy in a new book called "the fighters: americans in combat in afghanistanewnd iraq," by ork times" reporter and marine veteran, chris chivers. is my here.e to welcome you >> thank you for having me. >> why is it porn to write a book ft about the purpose of operations but about the utperience of execg those o

investigate an attempt to hack its voter database.br let'k all of this down, starting with our own nick schifrin. so, nick, the d.n.c. hack, what do we know? the database had tens f millions of people in it. the attempted hack was by on unknown third matter and unsuccessful. the d.n.c. used the attempted hack to point out it wanted more security help from the trumpra adminion. that's two points. one the d.n.c. and othersed critiche administration for not providing enough security during the midterm ections and two the hacking intelligence operations, some of which we saw in 2016 have not stopped. >> and when we the talk about them, we talk abouthem in relation to russian efforts, but facebook last night shut down hundreds of fake accountsom originating from iran. >> some from iran, some from russia, and the ones from rusia are the same actors we saw in 2016 connected to russian military intelligenc and they were trying to influence operations in syria andukraine two countries russia has interfered with militarily. but iran was the big one. 652 pages and accounts posing add news and civil society

. >> ns captioning spoed by newshour productions, llc >> schifrin: good evening, i'm nick schifrin. judy woodruff is on vacation. on the newshour tight, engulfed in flames -- the largest fire in califogeia's history on, and more than 14,000 firefighters are trying to contain it. then, following the money. rick gates testifies how former trump campaign chairman, paul manafort avoided taxes and sought to pay back a banker with a top job in the administantion. using red flags to prevent violence: how police and mmilies are fighting for laws to treatental illness before it's too late. >> iffi there are sent war gning signs, we can now a gun violence restraining order. we don't have to wait for another crime to occur. >> schifrin: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

for the pbs news hour, i'm nick schifrin. >> woodruff: a personal side we don't often see. and we'll be back shortly with a look at an effort that aims to and we'll be back shortly with a look at an effort thatims to duce single-use take out containers. but first, take a moment to hear o >>uff: finally tonight, what started as one woman' crusade against styrofoam take-e out cont quickly became a community cleanup effort involving volunteers from all walks of life. the newshour's teresa carey went to durham, north carolina toet he entrepreneurs behind "green to go." >> reporter: crystal dreisbach d fed up with trash produ from throwaway food containers. at there's all this existing research evidence tyrofoam and other plastics are bad for our health for the envnt for the people who manufacture ngem. why are we still uhem? >> reporter: styrofoam is a form of plastic that contains the chemical, styrene, which can cause impaired memory, vision and hearing loss, and cancer. after cities like san francisco and portland banned business from using styrofoam containers, dreisbach dr

greatest military buildup ever and it is not a mobilization byf any stretcthe imagination. >> nick schifrin, thanks very much. >> thank you. >> and >> woodruff: nick will be backk later with a l the men and women who have served in iran and afghanistan. >> woodruff: "a racist, a bigot those are just some of the explosive claims made against prestrump by his long-time associate and former white house advisor omarosa manigult newma ip her new book, "unhinged." her relationith the fiesident began in 2003 as a contestant on tht season of the reality tv show "the apprentice." she joined the trump cn in 2016 as director of african- american outreach and went on to become the highest ranking african-american woman in the west wing until she was fired and omarosa manigult newman joins us now. nick thank you for joining o . >> so glade here with you, judy. >> woodruff: you have gotten the president's attention todays and yeterday. he has come out with a string of comments calling you low-life, i'm quotingwacky, thathe rarely saw you. he heard were you nasty to people, tha youconstantly missed work.

our nick schifrin was at the pentagon this morning, and joins me now to discuss all this. nick, welcome. so let's start with yemen. secretary mattis did talk about the u.s. backing of this saudi-led coalition, hing after thuthi rebels in yemen. how did he talk about that and what hid he s about the criticism that saudis arei killinnocent people? >> there is a lot of criticism, and he was in part responding to e u.n. report that came out today that accuses the saudi-led coalitn of abusing international human rights, humanitarian and even international s.iminal law the report accses the u.. led coalition of targeting civilian targets. with all that criticismer which is echoed by some people here on capitol hill and even inside dod, there's a lot of questions about what the u.s. is doing to help the saudi-led coalition. what u.s. officials tell me is that they are refueling saudi ts that go from saudi into yemen, and they're alsoig providing intece on what not to hit. don't hit this building because it's a hospital, don't hit this building because it's the u.n. secretary matti

nick schifrin reports on what these family ties might mean for u.s. relations with the north. >> schifrin: this man has made the same walk for 60 years, stepping slowly over seoul's sidewalks and into the offices of the korean red cross, hoping to find a brother he hasn't seen since 1950. that's when north korea swept into the south, killing thousands of south korean soldiers and kidnapping others back to the north. park's brother was a south korean soldier. to this day, park doesn't know his brother's fate. he starts the describe how much time he's spent, how many places he's gone looking for his brother. for so many in korea, 68-year-old wounds haven't healed. but today some wounds are being patched. across town, kim ho also lost track of his brother in 1950 and assumed he was dead, but then the south korean government this year told him his brother was alive living in the north. he packs for a reunion 68 years in the making, a government reunification handbook, a photo so he can show off his wife. >> i was very surprised and happy. but i was even m

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here's foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin. >> reporter: ifront of a faithful, flag-waving crowd, sint tod delived dece. recep tayy erdogan said turkey was at war, and the fight would be waged by every turk. >> ( translated ): if there's anyone that has dolls, euros or gold under your pillows, they should go to our banks and chge them into turkish lir this is a national struggle. this will be my people's response to those wan economic war against us. >> reporter: erdogan's populist appeal paints the u.s. as the reason for turkey's economic misery. today, the turkish lira tumbled as much as 20% to a record low. it's fallen 40% this year, making daily life difficult for many turks, like ali uzun, who has to choose between paying rent, and eating. >> ( translated ): if i pay rent with my pension, what will i eat or drink? it's impossible to cope with this. one must work, and if you can't find extra work, you have spend some days hungry or thirsty. ra reporter: turkey doesn't actually that much steel or aluminum with the u.s., but the president's tweeripped through turkey like a shoc

foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin begins his story in gaza city, on a tense rning. (explosion) schifrin: in one of the densest places on the planet, an israeli airstrike hits a single building. on a busy gaza citstreet, massive bombs dropped by u.s.-e made jets shakthe ground. since yesterday,chsrael's launed more than 150 strikes on gaza. as hamas militants release video of rockets they fire from gaza to israel. hamas has fired more than 18of the often crude rockets aimed toward nearby israeli towns. it's been four years, e last gaza war, since the area has been this tense. in israel, the sound of those rockets, andhe israelis firing back, can be terrifying. fearful families wedge themselves behind dumpsters, and try to reassure frightened children. in sderot, one of the israeli towns closest to the gaza border, a city worker cleans up a sidewalk hit by a hamas rocket. another left pockmarks on the wall of this apartment complex. more than 25 israelis have been injure some gazans have launched incindiary kites over the border, burning nearby fields, including alon,

historic all for the pbs newshour, i'm nick schifrin. ne >> brangham:ear ago this weekend, hundreds of white supremacists gathered in focharlottesville, virginia rally to protest the removal of confederate monuments. by the end of the day, a counter-protestor an police officers would be dead. it was one of the darkest achapters in recent memor lead to a firestorm of controversy that encompassed the city, the nation, and th presidency. the newshour's p.j. tobia reminds us what happened that day. >> reporter: the weekend began with a friday night, torchlight march on the historic grounds of the university of virginia's campus. >> you will not replace us. jews will not replace us. >> reporter: the white supremacists had arrived in charlottesville. the next morning, one large group gathered in a park, around a statue of robert e. lee. earlier that summer, localgr oups demanded the statue's removal. the racists were armed with sticks and heavy shields. one had a handgun. on the street, a much larger group of counter-protestors gathed, some of

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i'm nick schifrin. judyoodruff is on vacation. on the "newshour" tonight, the u.s. set to restore sanctions on iran, the first major economic punishment, since pulling out of the nuclear deal. we talk with president trump's national security advisor, john bolton.th , we travel to iran for an inside look at the economic and political fallout. plus, a key witness takes the stand in thetrial of president trump's former campaign manager new questions emerge about the 2016 meeting at trump tower between trump campaign aides and kremlin-coalected lawyer. that and more on tonight's "pbs newshour."

>>oodruff: as the ongoing civil war in yemen is leaving more andore civilians dead, nick schifrin looks at the united states' role in the conflict. >> schifrin: since early 2015, a saudi-led coalition s been fighting iranian-aligned houthi rebels in yemen. u.sterday, the houthis andhe n. blamed the coalition for an attack in yemen's west that reportedly killed 30 pple, including women, and many children. the coalition disputes tt claim. earlier this month, the u.n. says a coalition airstrike hit a school bus, killing at least 51 people, including 40 children. the u.s. provides support to the coalition, and now congress is calling for thpentagon and white house to better describe that support. some on capitol hill want the u.s. to cease its involvement all together. for more on this, we are joined from beirut by kristine beckerle, the yemen researcher at human rights watch, and the lead author of a report released today, "hiding behind the coalition: failure to credibly investigate and provide redress for unlawful attacks in yemen." kris very much for joining us. the u.s. says it only pr

as foreign affairespondent nick schifrin reports, the u.n. report calls for top my generals to be investigated and prosecuted for crimes against hunity. >> schifrin: one year ago, along the mymar-bangladesh border, the myanmar military unleashed horror. the u.n. saysoldiers torched rohingya villages and, in the aftermath, tortured men, killed indiscriminately, and carried out systematic sexual olence, creating an untold number of victims of gang rape. u.n. says for years, the rohingya have suffered "institutionalized oppression from birth to death." in the past they've been beaten and targeted by myanmar authorities, but never on this scale. newly released satellite images show a rohingya village full of houses last may... and then today, cleared of life. myanmar's army was responding to attacks by the arakan rohingya salvation army, or aa. one year ago, militants assaulted 30 myanmar police posts. but today's u.n. report calls the subsequent crackdown wildly disproportionate, said u.n. fact-finding mission member radhika omaraswamy. >> the s

as nick schifrin reports, advocates for that muslim minority say uighurs are now being rounded up bydreds of thousands >> in china's provie, to be a uighur muslim is to be accused taof having a conous disease. muslimfrom shin jong to beijing, say chinese repression is stronger than evr. where chairman mao looms over the city, chinese police arecu d of creating the world's most extensive surveillance. uighurs are navies. a>> the chinese government systematically assimilates thegh people while we're struggling for freedom and human rights. it's a life or death struggle. >> the urn isays the strus1h happening to l uighurs seen in caps on satellite images. the camps are expanding thanks to ablog at the chinese law stent. he didn't believe the uighurs at first. m y say they are fake news because it's impossible to contain so manyeople. >> but the project begs for whae chin call reunification camps. >> so i look at the location with the satellite images and i found that some very large detention camps. >> he found a construction boom and could even identify which structures were teaching b

as nick schifrin reports, itsfu a regee crisis that the united nations warns could soon equal that caused by the war in syria. >> schifrin: for millions of t venezuelans, line between starvation and survival is the border with peru. refugees bring only what they can carry, along with their entire families, fleeing from their homeland. on the ecuadoran border, refugees take over a highway. they have been walking for hundreds of miles, and hope to escape a life that has become unbearable. and on the brazilian border, little girls carry what's most valuable. families at the border wait for their turn, wait for what they hope is a better life. >> ( translated ): i've come to i came here to work and help my family. because you can't, back there. >> schifrin: venezuela president nicolÁs maduro has overseen an economic catastrophe. inflation is predicted to be one million percent, pulverizing incomes, spreading hunger, and crumbling health services. sktv recently filmed in a hospital in an area held by the opposition. patients sleep behind ftaircases, in dark corridors. most doctors have ue to l

nick schifrin has that story. s ifrin: the horror of syria's war has felt endless.alf a million dead. millionsisplaced. but the battlefield has shifted dramatically.at take a loohis map. september 30, 2015, the day russia intervene the syrian government, in red, controlled pockets across the west. isis controlled a spiderweb in the nter and east. and this is today. the syrian government, in red, has made dmatic progress. isis, in black, reduced to a small area. anti-government bels, in green, only have a few pockets. the most important is idlib. that is the likely last, major battle of the syrian war the yellow is kurdish controlled. take a look at these photos from the kurdish area: a syrian ther named batool with her baby, and batool with gayle tzemach lemmon, who just returned from the kurdish- controlled areas, and joins us w. she is an adjunct senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. and also joining me is paul salem, president of the middle east institute, and the author, most recently, of "from chaos to cooperation: toward regional order in the midd

itas nick schifrin reports comes amid a bloody week there. >> schifrin: in a country fighting for its future, the bombs today found the children who were learning to build it. gurney, after gurney, after gurney of shia teenagers whody were sg for college entrance exams, killed by a boys and girls who dreamed big, none of whom will ever see their 20th birthday. family members were in shock and had to say goodbye. >> ( translated ): my brother was studying at the education centre and he was killed in th blast. i am here to receive his body. >> schifri classroom, where hundreds studied. the whiteboards where they learned, the benches where they sat, and t books from which they read, all stained by their blood. ere was no claim of responsibility, but attacks on shia are usually by the sunni extremists of isis. the group has targeted lightly guarded schools, mosques, and cultural centers, bter being wey u.s. and afghan forces. 70 miles to the south, the strategically important city of ghazni lies on the country's primary highway, and today residents picked up e pieces after a five-day sieg

nick schifrin recently sat down with t author of a new book on what happened to all that hope. >> schifrin: is been five years since the largest state- sponsored massacre since tiananmen square, and possibly onrger than tiananmen. ugust the 14th, 2013, egyptian security forces opened bare on a protest tent city in the square area of cairo. at least 800 were killed. what led to that day was an extraordinary tumultuous fewin yeargypt: the arab spring. the coming to power of a muslim brotherhood esident, a coup, athe emergence of a new soldier strongmaul fatah al sisi, who clamped down on all aspects of egyptian society. what "new york times" reporter david kirkpatrick has called, "into the hands of the soldiers." that is the name of his new book, and we are pleased to have david with us here today. >> pleasure to be here. >> schifrin: thanks for much. you spent five years in egypt. you arrived just before the revolution. you got caugbi up a little in the revolution. do you think the u.s. got caught up in the revolution a ttle bit and failed to understand some of the long-term consequences? i

nick schifrin has the story. schifrin: when former veterans affairs secretary david shulken closed the stock exchange last november, he had an unusual helper. that's shulken in the middle. on the right, captain america, a character in the marvel iverse. and it just so happens that shulken's most powerful and most informal advisor was this man, ike perlmutter, the chairman ofe marvelntertainment and a longtime friend of president trump. perlmutter became the leader of what the investigative news-site pro-publica calls the v.a.'s shadow rulers. perlmutter, bruce moskowitz, a doctor, and marc sherman, a lawyer none of the three have served in tht,u.s. military or governm but they have outsize influence over all v.adecisions, cording to the story written us propublica reporter isaac arnsdorf, who joinn the studio. also here, melissa bryant, a former army intellence officer and the chief policy officer of the iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. thank you to your both. >> thank you. i >> schifriaac, let me start