she's new york bureau chief r the italian ne agency ansa.ank you very much for coming the program. >> thank you for havingme. >> alessandra, will this attack mean that italiansill begin to view vry differently now? >> it has already happened in the last pasthour. there has beenalls for rapid thdrawal of the oops, not just by the left partie but insi the maority, inside the governmentcoalition,he nohern league which is one of thstrongblocks of the government coalition cald for troops back home by christmas and prime ministerberlusconi never said that. >> what about itian cizens? how ofn does the subjectf the war comep in italy's restrants and afes? is this something ty feel very strongly about compared tohe aq war? >>heraq war was very much present in eryday life of the itians. afghanista is more remote and s not been much discussion on the reet vel. although now when you haveive bodies comg back, it's going to be huge. morrow's newspapers will be full with stories like six, seven pages, just devoted to afghanistan. >>ight. and president obam

gwen: that'what the 40,000 troops would be r. >> that's rit, they would be part of that.that's one end of the spectrum. the other is counrterrorism. at's a much more lited approa. that calls f using drones and other itelligent-gatheri apparatuto monitor the situation. the idea being there thathe united states can on do so much, that maybee shouldn't be in the busess of nation building. it's considered a moreimited approach, but also deands far less toops and is less stly. both imptant factors given the poll numbers swing the american public is not eager about th war and the economic reities that the nation is facing. anso what is happening in washington nowis the debate out where the administratio wants to fall that spectrum. six nths ago, they indicate they were movingloser to counterinsurgenc the general, t commander there went to afghanistan with that expectation. i think you're starting to s a shift towards conterterrorism. the e biden camp, if you will, who sort of leaning in the white house and he geneal petraeus camp er here who is pushing for more forces. >> so, t

but i will just take credit for being sensitiveo what resonates with m and then i go r that. exist successfully that becae you are dng something that means something to yo tavis: what can you tell me about where we a going to find you and the show in season three? >> the sh is very much a balancing t. it is not really about anything. it is about this guy's character. tavis:that is a great concept r a show, three seasons aut nothing. > that was the original ship -- thatas the original ke about seinfeld. are about nothing and is not abouthe jokes, either. we e really doing it with smoke and mirrs. this year, myharacter's loved mother isin it n., ande're trying to ke it work in aay that we d it in the show,hich is insane. but i am also a singldad with my daughterand i have run out of money, so i take a job at a local southern californ at university. that is not a good place for an anti-authoritaan cracter and for somebody who i tempted like is to be amongstthe young eds. tavis: guarding the chien coop. i am still marining on this point, that it is a show abo nothing. obviously,

now is the season r action. >the president announced three basic goals for his health care reform package. >> it will provideore security and stability for thoswho ha alth insurance. it will provi insurance r the who don't. and itill slow the growth of health-care costs for our familiesbusinesses, and our government. >> noblgoals. i am sure we a agree. the question is how weet there and how we pay for it. colby, you havbeen saying week after week that this game is far from over. it is a mistake to count the president out toearly. wh did you think of th speech? >> i thi he achieved a couple of goals e, he got the democratic party to understanthat it is really their ge to play and they are the ones thagoing to have to carryhis. he went yond the congress and talked to the american people about what hhad in his plan. the fact i early polls show there was a favoble respse to what had to say. it alsrevealsome shortcomings, fo emple, detail >>harles? >> i thoughtt was one ofhe mo elegantly delivered, smoothly argued sa

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. >>> as we reported a few minutes ago, toys "r" us -- well, blockbuster is closing, but toys "r" us are expanding. the company is hoping for a big holiday season ahead. jackie bensen has the story. >> reporter: for the nation's most well known seller, it's locations are us. 80 toys "r" us holiday express stores will open in september. locally the temporary toy stores will be found in virginia at tyson's corner center and manassas mall and a few others. why are they expanding? the company says it's entergize by opportunity this season. they are hoping people will spend more in the upcoming holiday season. >> i will spend less than i did last year, just preparing for savings in the future, just in case another time this happens, we want to be prepared. >> i feel people will spend about the same amount of money as they did last year in the stores. >> probly the same or a little less. i think we will be more careful this year. >> toys "r" us says it will also open holiday toy centers in existing babies are us stores, including in maryland and virginia. >>> the temporary toy stores will

many of the women are thought end up working r prostitution rings. >>with president obama'sig healthcare speech the political debate here america has shted back to healthcare. so all thiweek we'll be looking at how health care works at other countries ound the world. tonight we any to china where the governmtrecently did away with universal healthcare i far of a syst that relies largy on publicpayments. as melissa chanwith al jazeera english reports from ijing, th has left a lot of people hopinghey don't fall ill. >> reporter: every morning these resints practice tai chi in the park. the exeiseslphemaintain healthndlongevit for their age they are in excellent health, but thr age group also sees theost hospal visits, smething they caill afford. if youon't have money, you dot have any choice. if you don have money, you don't go see the docr. i haven't,e haven't hadto spend ns ofthousands of doars. >> but that just what you need in china te of thousandsof dollars when things g ong. china once had univerl health care, but the changes that create a market

. >> all ght,r. jessica justman, tnk you very much for joining us on therogram. >> my pleasure thanyou. >>> that bngs us to our qution of the day. if anids vacce were availabl would you take it? we wouldike to hear ur oughts. tell us at you think by going to the "how y see it" section of our website at worldfocus.org. and a bit lar in the program, we are going to return to thailand in our signatu story to rvisit one man's crusade against aids in that count. >>> theunited nations security council has aroved a strong the spreaof nuear weapons.i thmeeting was chaired president obama, the first american presidento preside ov a security counl summit. on goal of the resolution said the preside was to loc down l vulnerable nucar weapons within four yea and make it haer for countriesike iran and nortkorea to export them. the vote was unanimous and is aimed a gning full compliance with nuclear arms agreemts. >> let me be clear. thiss not about singlg out individu nations. its about standing up r the rights of

. >> in new york, they gaered in the morng rain at the place r the towers felt tremember those lost.he presidt chose to speak at e pentagon, the oher side th al qaeda attack, and t place wher muchf the response from 9/11 has eanated. >> we renew our resolve against those who perpetrated this barbaric act and sill plot against us. in defense of our nation, we ll never wer in theursuit of al qaeda and its extremist allies. >> it haseen eight years since al qaeda carrieout its most audacious attac killing 3000. some believe its capaty for terroray haveiminished. >> one thing that has improved enormously is the capability of the people reonsible for such things to monitor al qaeda activityand undermine it. >> osamainaden may nohave been caught, but t leadership of al qaeda has been put und pressure recentl cia strikes have killed many of the second tier of leaders an made it harder for ose lt to communicate and orgize. there are so sis that the appeal of e al qaeda idlogy may be diminisng, limiting the ow of recruits. moderate and some extremist muslims are disasciating themselv from its

>> well, tat wasn't part r mandate. we looke into the question as to whether violatio, war cres, violations of human rights law were commitd. it would be up to a criminal investigator, a osecutor, hopefully in israel, hopefuy in e gaza to look into the question of indivial guilt. that wasn't on our agenda. >> ifill: butou have recommeed reparationsbe paid to people who suffer. >> tt's correct. >> ifill: why is that? and who would p it if there's one to point the finger at. >> ll it's a question of government responsibility. and possibly the inteational communit thateparations for victims would be rel advantag even without... relent even without establishing the glt of any particular indivial. >> ifi: what happens to this now? does it go to the u.n. curity council, to the war crimes trinal and what if israe chooses not to cperate in the next step? >> you know,e've done o work. we've established to thebest of r ability and i would suest in an even-hand maer. we'veestablished the facts o some the facts that a relevant. we

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you sat in the myland legislature r 12 years.period, d you see the bichicken companies steadily resist relation on manureunoff? >> absolutely. big chickecompanies were a presence jim perdue, the son of frank perdue, was a constant psence, whethehe was sitting in my chairman's offe or holding a reception in the ening or whater, the chicken lobby was well represented. they hired the top gs in the lobbying community in annapos, d they made every effort to prevent usrom enting tough regutions on agriculture. >> smith: some people have sd to us that you'd clean up th whole situation mu faster if the integrators, the pltry processors, we responsible. yogot to clean it up, and you all arresponsible. >> well, we n only do what we can do. the farmer certain is... you know, is hiswn businessman out there on the farm, and i thi it works better if is a cooperative effort. >>mith: so perdue pioneered a process to recycle pt of the chicken growers' excess manu to sp across the country. anperdue launched a voluntary program toeach its growers b

but a pacific-wide tnami warning issued r the whole region has now been canceed.reater new zealand has quoted local residents in arican samoa as saying five wav came ashore,inundating some llages and sweeping away homes an cars. david dolphin is the high commissioner to the capitaof samoa anis repoing at least five people killed. pacific tsuna warning sent waves ameter and a half high which were recorde the earthquake hit 190 kimeters southwest of samoa at a depth, is thought, of 33 kilometers. she expeenced thearthquake hersel her radio station is bng used to gui people on what do and where to go. she told "bbc world news" what listeners have told her about the tsunam >> wgot reports fr the southeastern side of our island, the main island, whe houses have been coletely flattened, vehicles being swept out toea. there have ben three vehies reportedo have bn swept out. boders that have fallen off th mountains ong the cstal areas, butainly a lot of the houses in the villages in the coastal are have been reatened by the waves. so it's a pretty sca thing at the moment.

seno so r sendo oía conocer laevas cs.afectados los hispanos. las más recientes cifras del seno so, reflejan que aumentó a un millón s que el año pasado. los hispanos, siguen teniendo índice más alto de no aseguras entre los grupos étnicos o raciales. en el 2008 casi 1 de cad3 hispanos, 30. 7 porcino tenía cobertura médica comparado con casi 1 en cada 9. 10. 8% de blancos no hispanos. >>> lo que más agudiza esta situación es la cantidad de personas que han perdido sus trabajos, cortesía de la crisis económica. >>> william meléndez es un buen ejemplo, se quedó sin seguro médico. >>> yo tomo varias medicinas, por mi salud. tomo el... tomo varias medicinas y las medicina están sumamente caras y al no tener seguro, al no tener empleo, lo que me dan me alcanza para pagar mis gasto@ inmediatos, no me da para pagar medicinas. >>> el censo refleja un aumento de nivel de pobreza 13. 2 a 12. 5 en el 2007. los hispanos bastant mal parados en cuanto a la cifra. >>> cuando vemos a la comunidad latina, es peor, alrededor de un 23% de lo

wee had rockets falling on r heads as a resultf that. so when you say the palestinians are building the civ socty, they're building institutions of governance. >> charlie: you'rsaying that's the same thing. >> that's very iortant because it will decidehat ki of peace we can have. but in the long n, in the foseeable future israel will need to have or must hav the ability toefend itself because of the possility of change, undesirable changend e territories adjacent tus. do you kw wh adjacent to us mes sitting in the heart of new york city. skip jfk airpo. at laguardiairport you already have the other side ofsrael so it's a tiny country so we have to make sure -- >> charlie: that's the burden to live with b you live wi that burden but yo also live withhe burden of history. an that cuts both ways. that you he an opportuty to take risks tt m possibly create palestinian state thas able to live and move the fear th citizens have lived with since 48. you ve thepossibility. >> wl charlie, let me tell you, it's my fondest dream and i think it requ

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>>ehrer: there's more reacti to the president's speech on r web site: newshour.pbs.o.there are links to local corage from our pbs collgues, a rundown on how bloggers have acted. and you can t some historical perspective neomfrwsho " rs regular chard norton smith. next tonight: ngerous reporting and the afteath of a britisrescue attempt of two journalists held by the talin infghanistan. we begin wh this report from andrew thos of independent television new >>eporter: initially it seemed hero and necessary but questions are being out about the way they werit was wis and whether e journalists were recklessor putting them in danger in the fit place. this is what they itially had come to see: the site a nato tack on a fuel tanker which had beenijacked by the taliban. overnight stephen farrl had written anccount of his ordeal in which he defends the desion to make the trip. on the "new york times" wesite he admits that whehe and afghanournalist sultan munadi first got near the site of t na attack, sultan began talkg to the police and gleaned at it was not safe to go off the

can you forge a comprome with r in the. withembers of the house of rresentatives find a responsibl action? maybe you ca combine the idea i just put forward on wher states where a governorants to trigger a public plan in that ate combined with a naonal plan. i dot know exactly where the final product going to lie. it's going t ke further me gauche unitenations between e white house, the house, d e senate. but io believe she operating ifhe n good faith and people needs to take her seriously. >> rose: swhat happens to nancy pelosi, the spker of the hous who said unless there's public option,his billill not pass in the house? >> well, i'm fairly certa therwill be a strong public option that do emergand passes the house but then they need tgo to conferencend work out their differences. so if the ansr is that that's the only bill th could finally pass as a conference positn, you know, i thk that we'll have to wait and see but then you've got to ha enough vos in t senate to be abl to pass that same bill through the sete. so, again

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and if wal-mart can negiate r low prices for its customers why shouldn't we do the same thing r our customers, meaning taxpayers. at's what this argument is abt. on the side ptecting the insurae company should notbe with where the democratic par is a that's not where we are. unfortunately it is whe a lot of people in ngress on the republican sidof the aisle ar >> rose: i haveto leave it there. thank you very much. thank yovery much. thank you, conessman, good to have allf you here. i goo new york, w, joe califano. joe, y have been involved in this issue for a long, long time. you listen to the president tonight, you've just listened to reactionrom threeembers of congress. how do you s it? >> well, i me, as far as the president tonight, mean, i thinhe made a ver eloquent spee. i thinhe rubber ll hit the road when th go to confence with t house and the sete. but i think th reality... all thisonversation about controlling costs is only one way to control costs an that's to keep peoe out of t sick care system. the onlyhings in templ of sick care that wl help control costs are if we have a sittion

it's rated r. and then sisters try to cover up a prank gone wrong. "sorority row" is rated r.he character teaches a lesson by sending off kids to their aunt who is a singer. >>> and the scare on the potomac river where the coast guard was conducting training while the services were being held. >>> and then the brain stimulater that is changing those peoples' lives. for that story and the rest of the day's stories join us right at 4:00 on news4. >>> the rain tapered off and ended in washington. we have a batch of moderate to heavy rain advancing to the west, and that may be moving into frederick county and perhaps parts of northern montgomery county. and light rain in washington in silver spring and moving off to the west there as well. temperatures are certainly cool. only in the low 60s. the average high is around 80. we will not be anywhere near that as the area of low pressure is spinning away to the north and will be moving away to the area as the day progresses. a chance of a passing shower this afternoon with the highs in the upper 60s. and then cloudy, and just a small

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. >> it is hard r to accept that at face value. >>> u.s. official also have a chance to question iran this thursday when leaders will meet with representatives of six major power, it will be iran's first direct negotiations with the u.s. in 30 years. >>> if we don't get the answer that is we are expecting and the changes in behavior we are looking for then we will work with our partners to move toward sanctions. >>> the u.s. will need cooperation to enforce tougher sanctions, u.s. military also maintain the best approach would be diplomacy rather than military action. >> the rei can't believe the i is there is no -- reality is there no is no military option that does anything more than buy time. >> >> reporter: time of the essence to reach a compromise, u.s. officials estimate iran is only one to five years away from having nuclear weapons capability. in washington, whit johnson, wjz. >> the federal government has released survey yans following the oklahoma city bombing. the fbi released several videos under the freedom of information act.

kerry is so very. [ light laughter ] k-e-r-i? >> k-e-r-r-y. >> jimmy: k-e-r-r-y.question for me. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i'm assuming you're under 21? >> yes. >> jimmy: okay. [ laughter ] just made me feel creepy on my own show. i wasn't hitting on you or anything. >> questlove: sodas. >> jimmy: i just -- when you are of age, what do you think you'll like? >> pina coladas. >> jimmy: yeah. [ laughter ] that sounds like the one. pina coladas, when you are of age. okay. and, finally, where was the last place you traveled to on a road trip? >> middletown, new york. >> jimmy: and what would make one go to middletown, new york on a road trip? >> my cousin's wedding. >> jimmy: oh. what is your cousin's name? >> sharon. >> jimmy: sharon. congratulations, sharon. i hope you had a great wedding. [ laughter ] all right, roots, this is it. we have our pal kerry here. she's not yet 21 years old. but, one day, she'll be guzzling pina coladas while someone else is driving to middletown, new york, to visit her happily married friend -- cousin. roots, for this last one, please hit

susie: and i'm susie gharib this is "nightlyusiness report" r thursday, september 10th. "nightly business report" is made possib by: this program was made ssible byontributions to your pbs station fromiewers like you. thank you. 7//& >> sus: good evening, eryone. "we're sorry and we're fixg the problem." th was the response today from the securities andxchange coission over how it bungled five separe investigations into bernie madoff's masve ponzi scheme. contrite rulators were called on the carpet by coness today, afr a scathing report said the agency was incompent. addi fuel to the fire: masshusetts state regulators released a tape of ahone call madoff made, bgging about how easyt was to scam the s.e.c. stephanie dhue reports >> reporter: madoff knewow to work the surities and exchange commission. in a phone call from decemr 2005, madoff coaed the chief risk officer of the irfield greenwich nd about how to handle the.e.c. before an terview with agency examiner >> we run throh this all the ti, these guys come in to do a books and records examinatn and they ask zillion d

time for "r & r." rick and roland.land martin is our cnn political analyst, and he's donning a very nice debonair head apparel on this day. >> you wanted to talk about texas. i said bring it on, rick. >> all right. look, with that hat or without that hat i want to know what you have to say because i know you know texas politics. >> i'll take it off for you, rick. here's the deal, rick. >> let me -- listen to this question. is the governor partly responsible for some of this crazy talk? >> okay. first of all, you're going to have this conversation regardless of whether the governor made the comment or not, but here's what you have. you have a governor who is now embroiled in a very difficult race. he's facing senator kay bailey hutchison. he's going to portray her as being this liberal who democrats are going to love in the statehouse. he is trying to appeal to these hard core conservatives because he knows if he can knock her out in the primary, the bottom line is no democrat holds any statewide office in texas. he is

the agency in chargef banks may ask r a big loan after 94 bank failures soar this year. >> paul: the bulk of tse failur have been small, community banks. many are suggling with unemployme and bad loans, just like t communities they serve. susie: tonight's "market monitor" believes thmarket has a lot rther to go to the upside. he's robermorrow, editor of the institutional advisory service. >> paul: i'm paul kang. >> susie: and m susie gharib. this i"nightly business report" for friday, ptember 18. "nightly business repo" is made poible by: this program was made ssible by contributionso your pbs station om viewers like you. thank you. ptioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening, everyone. an important devopment tonight for millions of ericans who invest imoney market mutual funds. after today, t funds will not havehe backing of the government. the u.s. treasury created th guarantee a yeargo to reassure instors their money was safe after the sharesf one of the tion's largest funds broke t buck, falling below e sacred one doll level. erika miller takes a look how the expiration of

this is "nightlyusiness report" r wednesday, september 23. "nightly business rert" is made ssible by: this program was made possib by contribions to your pbs station fromiewers like you. thank you. 7//& >> suzanne: good eveng everyone. the federal serve is upbeat abouthe economy but policymakers todayept interest rates at htorically low levels again. at t close of its 2-day meeting, the fed said conomic activityas picked up". but it went on to y that activitys likely to remain ak for sometime. on inflation polymakers don't seem worried. on rates, look for tse to stay w for an extended period. the fed also streted the timetable for s debt buying progms, including mortgage backedecurities. it wilnow remain in that markethrough march of next year. joing us now to help read today's fed tea-leaves is michelle girard, senoir onomist at rbs and mike holland of holla and company. welcome to t program. >> gooto be here, thanks. >> what is your assessment of e f's state tay? it seems to be the mos optimistic that they've been about the economy some tim

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>>rown: good training r polics or whatever. >>ight. but he's always en in love with language.also beenn extremely generous friend. you know, you never had ask bill safire for help. if you had a book comi out and you were a member of the washington bureaor a friend of his, he wouldn't y ything but you'd open up ain... again, you'd open up his lumn one day or the word column in e magazine. there would be a referce to your book. >> brown: well that'great. rty tollchin on the life and times of william safire. thk you so much. >> good be here. again, the major developmes of the day. iranest-fired its most thmove showed an ability to strikes far away as europe, and it increas tensions over ir's nuclear program. and wall street recouped se of last week's sses. the dow jones instrial average gaed 124 points. on newshour.pbs.or an online- only featu tonight: a look at the victorby chancellor merkel in t german elections, and what her new centeright coalition means for e u.s. d again, to our honor roll o americanervice personnel killed in the iraq a afghanistan confcts. we add tm as the

or you'll see a new water system, or a new school,r a new crop buildup. but there's noing linking all ose things together. that's what's missing. so, it very piecemeal. soit's sort of like a mirage of a big pool of water ithe ddle of the desert. you know, you see and then it sort of disappears, because doesn't have any real lo term impact >> moyers:ou're reporting depicts a ve dismal picture there. so does ery other bit of reporting i've seen, inclung the cor story a couple of wes ago of "the economist", which reaches a grim cclusion about the state ofhings there. but is there... i'm not lookg foa silver lining,ut for a reporter's assesent, is there any good news there? >> yeah, the good newss that the unit states is committed to it. the good news is thathe world thinks that this ia priority. the good news is tt there's now a newed effort and that thbest minds are on this and tryi to come up with a solution. and that.. >> moyers: the best and e brightest? >> i don't want to s... maybe. but to me, i think the queion at this point becomes eith the united st

>> well, i have no doubt th the speaker is sincere in r concern. want americans to be involved in these debates. we want them involved in our democracy. we would he their involvement would civil because these are important sues. and when peopleet t loud, they get too hateful, it... you can't haveuch of a conversation. and today we oht to be encouragg americans to be involving themselves ithis debate but theyught to d in the a civil tone. >> porter: right, butas the leer of yourparty, as one of the leaders, ho do you see your own ler responsibility. for examp, perha dissociating yourself fr extremes or taing down som of that rhetoric. what's your role? >> i think... you've heard me er the last severalmonths make it clear that want americans to iolve themselves in tsiscussion but it oug to be civil. and and largelmost all of it is. there's going be someone now d then o's going toet out of controlor yell. but we are in the middle of a dern day political rbellion in ameria. >> rerter: rellion? >> reblion. i've ner seen ything like this. i've been aroun