we will see that he wrote and intinues -- if that he wrote osion continues. his approval ratings for president from our 89%, 90% against republican voters? he remains enormous lee populars -- enormously popular with the republican base. host: tina from milwaukee. caller: thank you for taking my call. i want to congratulate julie for taking all of the calls that she has taken on this morning. i am a black female and an elderly woman, and i know racism when i see it. i know sexism when i see it. some people are calling in and saying they are black and going through the republicans. i don't know how many of those people are really who they say they are. doesn't matter to me, because if they are making that kind of statement, they need to go back and take a look at, in the mirror. they get so much, you are a brave young woman. -- thank you so much, you are a brave young woman. and this does not affect just the women, this also affects the men in our country also. we do not need to lose focus on what is affecting all of us, and it is not good. thank you for coming

people like shafiqulh, a tailor, injured by an osion while on his way home from work, find their homest line of this intractable war. with presidential elections coming up, the violence, already horrific, is intensifying. >> you know taliban are not all looking to make peace. there are certain elements within that may want to make looking to continue fight under other banners. they may not be under taliban but perhaps under isis or rename and rebrand themselves in other ways and continue. >> reporter: forenost wars to communities often have to choose peace over justice. until there is an end to this conflict, afghanistan's people will get neither. for the pbs newshour, i'm jane ferguson in kabul, afghanistan. >> woodruff: beginning tomorrow, we will launch a 10-part series exploring today's china and its relationship with the us foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin, special correspondent katrina yu, and producers aroue rld conducted more than 70 on-camera interviews in eight chinese cities and across seven countries. why have we dedicated many resources to reporting on china? ni

people,osion killed 11 spilled millions of barrels of oil, and left to bp facing billions of dollarsre are the stocks we are watching. softbank falling to the lowest level since february. that would be a level we have not seen since before they announced those buybacks. 112 million shares over the next 11 months. this was a five and a half billion dollars stock buyback. levels before. also plunging the most on record. this is after the all cymer's trial missed the endpoint. they announced -- alzheimer's trial missed its endpoint. stocksseeing these plunging at the moment in tokyo. take a look at what markets are doing at the moment in asia. we are seeing the nikkei falling a 0.4%. this is the second consecutive session of losses coming out a time when we saw u.s. markets also lead the declines and at one point, the s&p 500 falling to the lowest 50 day moving average -- two below its 50 day moving average. unchanged at the moment. we are gearing up for that rba as rates inn australia hold steady at that 1% record low. let us check in on our futures trading at the moment. by 0.25%.p hi

we will see that he wrote and intinues -- if that he wrote osion continues.roval ratings for president from our 89%, 90% against republican voters? he remains enormous lee populars -- enormously popular with the republican base. host: tina from milwaukee. caller: thank you for taking my call. i want to congratulate julie for taking all of the calls that she has taken on this morning. i am a black female and an elderly woman, and i know racism when i see it. i know sexism when i see it. some people are calling in and saying they are black and going through the republicans. i don't know how many of those people are really who they say they are. doesn't matter to me, because if they are making that kind of statement, they need to go back and take a look at, in the mirror. they get so much, you are a brave young woman. -- thank you so much, you are a brave young woman. and this does not affect just the women, this also affects the men in our country also. we do not need to lose focus on what is affecting all of us, and it is not good. thank you for coming on and