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thank you. >> pbs. >> be more, pbs. >> pbs. >> be more, pbs. >> billy collins taught college english in the bronx for 30 years before he became a bestselling poet-- one of the few whose books have sold over 200,000 copies, thanks to poems such as this one. >> the other day i was ricocheting slowly off the blue walls of this room, bouncing from typewriter to piano, from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor, i found myself in the l section of the dictionary where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard. no cookie nibbled by a french novelist could send one more suddenly into the past-- a past where i sat at a workbench at a camp by a deep adirondack lake learning how to braid thin plastic strips into a lanyard, a gift for my mother. i had never seen anyone use a lanyard or wear one, if that's what you did with them, but that did not keep me from crossing strand over strand again and again until i had made a boxy red and white lanyard for my mother. she gave me life and milk from her breasts, and i gave her a lanyard. she nursed me in many a sick room, lifted teaspoons of medicine to

the production airs on pbs on april 28. later this year he'll take on the leading road inpowerment th ♪ nationwide is on your side ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: delighted to have patrick stewart on this program. he's enjoyed success in a wide variety of roles, including, of course, "star trek: the next generation" and the "x-men" series. beginning april 28 right here on pbs, you can catch him in the production of "hamlet." so now, here a sneak preview of "hamlet." thou art stubborn and heart with strings of steel. be soft the sinnews of a newborn babe. >> now i'll do it! [laughter] >> tune in next week. [laughter] tavis: i was just thinking on the way in here, what makes this stuff relevant hundreds of years later? why are we still turned on and fascinated by this stuff? >> it's the only question, and it's the big question, because there's never been a talent on this scale. certainly not in the world of dramatic lit

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welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast on pbs around america and around the globe. the president of sedan is a question. the bodies of another dictator raise questions after exhumation. it was the scene of intense fighting six years ago, a and a new survey shows increases in cancer and infant mortality. they say that carrying out a clinical investigation is extremely difficult. johnson's in went in briefly to get this report. >> it was only possible to say a few hours, but in that time we found large numbers of children -- many of the children had tumors on their spines and there was plenty of evidence of brain damage. some of the cases were too dreadful to show. a report has been published that details the results of a survey of 4800 people in fallujah. cancer and other problems are significantly higher than those of the people suffering in japan in 1945. child mortality is 84,000. by contrast, neighboring jordan is 17 per thousand. egypt, just under 20. the report says that there has been a twelvefold increase in childhood cancer compared with the average in fallu

and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: the storm system named bonnie took direct aim today at the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. it lost some strength on the way, but its approach triggered movements at sea and on land. newshour correspondent spencer michels reports from louisiana. >> reporter: bonnie was already churning the waters in the gulf of mexico, with 40-mile-an-hour winds pushing waves to five feet and more. even before the storm crossed south florida this afternoon, watches went up from destin, florida, on the panhandle to morgan city, louisiana. bonnie was expected to gain strength and reach the oil spill site by sunday as it continued toward louisiana. in the gulf, dozens of vessels began moving away from where the "deepwater horizon" rig once stood, after evacuation orders were issued last night. but in new orleans, retired coast guard admiral thad allen-- overseeing the spill response for the government-- said he does not expect the flotilla to be gone very long. >> the intention righ

. >> welcome -- welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america, also around the globe. my name is mike embley. coming up later for you -- you have heard a lot of talk about sanctions against iran. taking a closer look at whether they work and whether it -- what their longtime ally, china, really thinks. winston churchill -- >> dentures are credited with -- winston churchill -- >> dentures are credited with winning the second world war. hello to you. an airliner in pakistan has crashed near the capital, killing all 152 on board. it was operated by the company air blue. it was on a domestic flight from karachi. it was operating in poor weather. it crashed in the heavily- forested hills north of islamabad. authorities are examining the flight data recovery. we have this. >> rescuers worked frantically on at the mountainside. the aircraft flying in smoldering pieces, only minutes from the airport. passengers would have been preparing to land. the plane smashed into the forests of the hills. it was difficult for emergency workers to access the crash site. they wer

welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america, also around the globe. coming up later for you -- this sanctions squeeze. europe agrees a tough on iran to curb its uranium enrichment program. and the spanish man who underwent the first full face transplants faces the cameras after surgery. hello to you. it is the biggest leak in american military history and it may fuel growing doubts about current strategy in afghanistan. more than 90,000 documents, 50 telling the actions of western forces, have been disclosed by b wikileaks site. there are far more afghan civilian deaths and then officially acknowledged and include allegations that intelligence in pakistan has been collaborating with the taliban. this from our north america editor mark mark doyle. >> this is less of leak, and more a hemorrhage. anyone can read it some of the supposedly-secret documents. it speaks of unreliable allies, where prospects are bleak. the white house documents detail the situation before president obama ordered as bridget a change of strategy. >> it poses a real and potential

broadcast viewers on pbs in america and around the globe, coming up later, the sanction squeeze, europe adopts a tough on iran to curb its uranium enrichment program. a spanish man who has undergone the world's first full face phrase -- faced transplant faces the camera as four months after surgery. it is the biggest leak in american military history and it might fuel growing doubts about current strategy in afghanistan. more than 90,000 documents detailing the actions of western forces disclosed on the internet. suggesting far more afghan civilian deaths denn have been officially acknowledged, suggesting that pakistani intelligence has been corresponding with the taliban. >> on authorized, unprecedented, embarrassing, it has been called the biggest ever leak of classified military documents since the vietnam war. well placed by an anonymous source, washington has not denied them. just how damaging are these leaks? new details of civilian casualties show them to be higher than previously reported. most were killed by the taliban, but here is a report from october of 2007 reading that on

forecast to our viewers on pbs in america. there has been much talk about sanctions in iran. we are taking a closer look at whether or not the work -- they work. why could these teeth be about to fetch tens of thousands of dollars in auction? did they really win the second world war? hello. a pakistani airliner has crashed near islamabad, killing all 152 on board. operated by air blue, trying to land in bad weather. it was on a domestic flight. rescuers have recovered bodies from the charred wreckage north of islamabad. we have the report. >> rescuers worked frantically on the mountainside for hours. the aircraft, lying in smoldering pieces, minutes from the airport. passengers would have been preparing to land. bad visibility and driving rain caused of the airplane to smash into the forest hills. the rain made it hard for emergency workers access the site. rumors that there were survivors dissipated. all of those on board the aircraft are known to have died. over the last hour, one ambulance after another has been arriving. many of those relatives have been waiting for loved

welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america, also around the globe. my name is mike embley. coming up later for you -- how hard will it be to reform benefits in britain when dependence crosses generations? and paintings of a 7-year-old are selling for thousands of dollars. hello to you. at least 300 dead, hundreds of thousands forced from their homes, many trapped by rising flood waters or buried under mud slides. the heavy monsoon across northwest pakistan and across the border in afghanistan is creating some of the worst flooding in the region's history. and the rain looks set to keep on falling. lyse doucet traveled to the worst hit areas. she sent this report. >> of landscape of destruction and sorrow. entire villages have disappeared under water. houses have been swept away in rushing torrance. even children were carried away by natures of brute force. the pakistan army is in action, trying to move people to hire and safer ground. provincial authorities are asking for help in the rescue operations. there is not enough to save everyone. the bigges

welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america, also around the globe. my name is mike embley. coming up later for you -- a special report from jerusalem. how is really activists are offering large sums of money -- israeli activists are offering large sums of money to -- take that is reforming and this time robbie williams is with them. hello to you. bp has declared the flow of oil into the gulf of mexico has been stopped. 85 days since the first news back in april of an explosion on the deepwater horizon rig. eight workers died, and the leak is now widely seen as the worst american environmental disaster began. bp hopes to fix the problem properly within weeks. we have this from washington. >> this is the view of the destroyed the oil well, moments after bp says the flow of oil stopped. it is murky and hard to make out. but potentially, this is an important moment, the first time oil has stopped flowing since the explosion in april. >> i think it is a positive sign. we are still in the testing phase. >> the cap was installed monday. testing began earlie

welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america, also around the globe. coming up later for you -- the race is on to find the so- called god particle. researchers at the had run collider present their latest findings. -- researchers at the hadron collider present their latest findings. desmond tutu says it is almost time to start slowing down. the authorities and in united states are to reopen one-third of the fishing grounds in the gulf of mexico which enclosed since the bp oil spill, and meanwhile a tropical storm is threatening to hamper efforts to seal the leaking well for good. ships waiting in the cleanup had been ordered back to louisiana. -- have been ordered back. from louisiana, we have this. >> here at the fleet of boats ordered to skim -- here to skim the surface ordered back to port. everything hinges on the weather. the work under water is so intricate that rough conditions could make it dangerous. tonight, all eyes are on the swirl of clouds out near the bow him as -- a hamas and projected to reach this area within a few days. -- a hamas --

. >> welcome to "bbc world news" broadcast on pbs in america and also around the globe. coming up later for you -- a french woman admits killing eight of her newborn babies, trying to hide the births from her husband. and the new starlet of indian cinema with a famous father talks about turning jane austen and to a bollywood blockbuster. >> in the first afghan government reaction to the wikileaks investigation, he said at the week's show the enemy is and pakistan. in one of his strongest evidence against pakistan, he has appealed for action against those training terrorists and its borders. he says leak that afghan informants in danger. >> u.s. forces depend daily on information from afghan civilians as they try to defeat the taliban in afghanistan. some might give information openly. some more secretly espy's. but none expected their names to be published on the internet where the dossier expose this week includes names, addresses, and fathers names, in direct contradiction to claims by wikileaks publishers saying they withheld documents that might risk lives. the afgha

pbs. >> garrison keillor: toi derricotte grew up outside detroit.ith the poet cornelius eady, she cofounded cave canem, an organization committed to cultivating and supporting the work of african american poets. she says, "truth telling in my art is also a way to separate myself from what i have been taught to believe about myself-- the degrading stereotypes about black women." >> blackbottom. when relatives came from out of town, we would drive down to blackbottom. drive slowly down the congested main streets-- beaubien and hastings-- trapped in the mesh of saturday night. we were freshly escaped, black middle class. we snickered and were proud; the louder the streets, the prouder. we laughed at the bright clothes of a prostitute; a man sitting on a curb with a bottle in his hand. we smelled barbecue cooking in dented washtubs and our mouths watered. as much as we wanted it, we couldn't take the chance. rhythm and blues came from the windows, the throaty voice of a woman lost in the bass, in the drums, in the dirty down and out-- the grind. ♪"i lov

welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america, also around the globe. coming up later for you -- why was it george clooney in court today? nothing to do with movies. and remembering that moco the dolphin. loved by many, and in millions to some. -- and and millions to some. -- an annoyance to some. hello. president obama has welcomed the bp's success in stopping the flow of gold from its -- flow of oil from its leaking well in the gulf of mexico. he says it is undoubtedly progress. experts are testing the pressure to see if it can be shut down completely. >> is this the moment that the stain of bp's oil spill starts to vanish from the waters of the gulf of mexico? 1 mile down, this is how it looked last night. the leak we are all used to seeing gradually being turned off until the flow was cut to just a wisp of oil. good news, the president obama warned americans to be cautious. >> one of the problems with having the camera down there is plenty of oil stocks gushing everybody feels like we are done. -- when the oil stopped gushing, everybody feels like w

welcome -- welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america, also around the globe. my name is mike embley. coming up later for you -- a guided tour around the disputed land. our correspondent gets are rare glimpse inside tibet. the chinese government is never far away. in this special report from the tropical mountain forests of kenya and the fight to protect this east african paradise. hello to you. the u.s. government has ordered bp to proceed with a key pressure test on its blown out well in the gulf of mexico. the point is to establish whether they should press ahead and sealed the well completely. officials held the work up for 24 hours until bp could answer the question if this could do more harm than good. it could not be another 48 before it is clear whether the new cap doesn't work as planned -- does work as planned. our correspondent is on in washington. what is the latest? >> the latest is commander thad allen is given bp the go-ahead tool and test the new cap. what bp wanted to do was slowly shut off the valve to see if this is no cap could handle the p

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welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america, also around the globe. coming up later for you -- fears for the future of an unfinished church in it be a center of barcelona. and its ability to a plane -- pull in crowds despite the way it smells. europe's biggest banks have been subjected to a battery of stress tests. seven have failed to make the grade. that is a small fraction of the 91 banks that were scrutinized, however. of the seven have failed, five are in spain, one is in germany, and one is in greece. according to regulators, the stress tests are very stringent. we should be reassured. the were the tests stressful enough to restore the credibility of european banking? we have this report. >> it felt like exam results time for europe's thanks, and these were the teachers marking the books. -- europe's banks, and these were the teachers marking the books. >> we have seven banks that would now, if the stress materialized, would be under the 6% threshold that we used as a benchmark. the capital shortfall to reach the sec's% set -- 6% would be 3.5 bi

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. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: always pleased to have venus williams on the program. she is out with a new book about the intersection between sports and that success even for everyday people. the book is called "come to win,"and features essays from bill clinton, billie jean king, and so many more. venus is always welcome on this set because she designed the set. if you look closely every night in the credits, you will see a company called the star -- you will see v starr listed in the credits. she and her company designed a whole thing. seven years later, it is holding up. >> it is holding up. thank you for not changing at. tavis: i cannot afford to change it. >> it was your vision. tavis: you still enjoy designing? >> i love design. one of my favorite projects, if you look on the website, whatever we do, it is always right there, tavis smiley. this is near and dear to me. we're doing residential design and commercial design, hotels, all kinds of things.