. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the "newshour" tonight, we assess what the new deployment of marines and airmen means for the balance of power in the asia pacific region. >> brown: tn, margaret warner looks at the congressional furor over big bonuses for top executives at the federally- backed housing agencies fannie mae and freddie mac. >> suarez: we have the second of two stories about access to dental care, betty ann bowser reports on a modern clinic in rural alaska. >> it's a renote native american village on the edge of the bering sea but there's something going on in the dental world here that has people very excited. >> brown: spencer michels updates the occupy movement, as oakland protesters join forces with students at the university of california berkeley. >> suarez: and we talk with a millionare who is lobbying congress for higher taxes on the rich. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> intelligent computing technology is making

. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the "newshour" tonight, we have reports from cannes, france where the g-20 summit begins tomorrow and from athens where voters may eventually get their say on the bailout. >> brown: then, we look at the bloody civil war in syria as the arab league pushes a peace plan to end the violence. >> suarez: from california, spencer michels reports on a strike by the occupy oakland movement that has shut down businesses, schools and one of the nation's busiest ports. >> brown: we update the herman cain story, as a third female employee said she considered filing a complaint about sexually suggestive behavior in the workplace. >> suarez: margaret warner gets the latest on the arrest of four georgia men charged with plotting a terror attack using a toxic protein called ricin. >> brown: and we talk to nathan wolfe-- a biologist and author who tracks new and deadly pathogens >> these viruses can spread in a day around the world. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding f

. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the "newshour" tonight, from cairo, we get the latest on the fifth day of violence in tahrir square from jonathan rugman of "independent television news." >> brown: then, we look at last night's g.o.p. presidential debate on foreign policy with ari shapiro of npr. >> suarez: and we have a newsmaker interview with one of the candidates-- minnesota representative michele bachmann. >> brown: from our colleagues at wttw chicago, we have the story of a tiny mussel that's invaded the great lakes, threatening the health of the waterways and the livelihoods of fishermen. >> suarez: and margaret warner looks at the crackdown in bahrain after a report found the government tortured and used lethal force against the activists. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> computing surrounds us. sometimes it's obvious and sometimes it's very surprising where you find it. soon, computing intelligence in unexpected places will cha

. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the newshour tonight, we assess the stalemate, the blame game, and what comes next, including the prospect of more than $1 trillion in automatic budget cuts. >> woodruff: then, we talk with charles sennott of globalpost about the mounting tensions between protesters and security forces in cairo's tahrir square after three days of deadly violence. >> suarez: spencer michels reports on the weekend clashes at the university of california davis, where police officers doused student activists with pepper spray. >> reporter: aten campments and campuss around california demonstrators and fact faculty members expressed outrage at the pepper spray incident. >> woodruff: we have another in our american graduate series. tonight, jeffrey brown explores the links between a sagging economy and poor graduation rates in reading, pennsylvania. >> brown: more than 100 years after the heyday of the reading railroad, new census data says this city is the nation's poorest. >> suarez: and margaret warne

. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the newshour tonight, we have excerpts from today's news conference, and we talk with jonathan martin of politico about the latest allegations. >> woodruff: then, margaret warner looks at the child sex abuse scandal involving a former football coach at penn state university. >> suarez: we get a fuller portrait of poverty in the u.s. after new census figures show a record 49 million poor americans. >> woodruff: from peru, special correspondent steve sapienza reports on illegal gold mining in the remote rainforest of the amazon. >> right behind us here is a former mining pit that has been filled in with water. all the nutrients have been taken out of the soil. as far as you can see into the distance, this entire area has been turned into a desert. >> suarez: and jeffrey brown talks to neil macgregor about his new book recounting the history of civilization, told through 100 treasures from the british museum. >> the rosetta stone, nobody ever thought that they would provide the code f

ray suarez has our update. >> suarez: late this morning, the legendary coach, who was penn state in many ways, announced he'd leave after this season, amid the child sex abuse scandal engulfing the university. in a statement, joe paterno said: after 62 years on campus-- 46 as head coach, 409 wins, a major college record and two national titles. all of joe paterno's career stats were overwhelmed by a single number: eight. that's the number of young boys allegedly molested by jerry sandusky, over 15 years, according to initial charges. the former longtime defensive coach who retired in 1999 was once paterno's heir apparent. sandusky is now 67 was arrested saturday on 40 counts of child sexual abuse. from there, the focus quickly fell on what paterno did and did not do, when a graduate assistant told him in 2002 that he'd seen sandusky raping a child in a locker room shower. paterno did not inform police. instead, he told penn state athletic director tim curley. now, curley and a penn state vice president are charged with perjury and failure to report the alleged abuse to authorities. pater

jeff. >> brown: and we turn to the fall of a major securities firm and its well known c.e.o., who ray suarez has the story. >> suarez: mf global holdings is not the kind of financial firm most americans are familiar with. but when the giant trading company filed for bankruptcy yesterday, it became the largest failure by a u.s. securities firm since the collapse of lehman brothers in 2008. and some of the reasons behind its fall may sound familiar from the failures earlier in the financial crisis. mf's chief executive, former new jersey governor and u.s. senator jon corzine, bet heavily on european debt, and the company reportedly put clients' money at risk as its troubles grew. here to fill in the picture for us is joe nocera, "new york times" business columnist and editor of the "executive suites" blog. joe, let's begin by explaining just what mf global was doing that got it the scrutiny, the trouble and eventually bankruptcy. >> well, to start with, you know, it used to be an old- fashioned broker/dealer. all it did was match buyers and sellers who wanteded to buy derivatives or trade deri

ray suarez explores that question. >> suarez: displai to date, the government has demanded financial settlements from some of the major firms, including $550 million from goldman sachs. it also decided this fall to take some of the country's largest banks to court on charges they misled investors about risky mortgages before the housing bubble burst. there have been no prosecutions of high-profile figures involved with the financial crisis. one of the most prominent cases initially pursued by the justice department, angelo mosilo, the former head of the largest mortgage lender, countrywide financial, was ultimately dropped. lynn turner is a former chief as accountant for the securities and change commission and is a manage director's littianommics. he's a former u.s. attorney and issued a bankruptcy report examining the collapse of lehman eve smith is a financial writer chocovers the issues on her blog, naked capitalism and the author of ee-con. mark collab ria is now at the libertarian think tank, the cato institute. you have considerable experience on the prosecution and defense si

ray suarez reports from managua. >> suarez: it's election time in nicaragua. after almost 30 years of democracy, nicaraguans are still passionate about their politics. turnouts remain high, upwards of 90%. daniel ortega is president of nicaragua, again, and a familiar face from the final years of the cold war. he came to power as a leader of the far left sandinista revolution. he was ronald reagan's central american nemesis, fighting off a u.s.-backed army after taking power in 1979. but after losing a bid for re- election in 1990, it took ortega 16 years to win back the presidency in 2006. now, he's using all the tools of incumbency to keep the job, even engineering a change in the constitution to allow a run for a third term. that sparked violent backlash, put down by the president's security forces. opposition candidates, like fabio gadea, have rushed to characterize the constitutional change as ortega's betrayal of the revolution he led to overthrow nicaragua's longtime dictator, anastasio somoza. >> the president has forgotten >> ( translated ): the presi

ray suarez has our story. >> suarez: the international atomic energy agency has been trying for years to monitor the iranian program and to determine if it is trying to develop nuclear weapons. today the agency's latest report became public. and to walk us through it is david albright, a physicist and former u.n. weapons inspector. he is president of the institute for science and international security. david, from this report and the evidence presented by the i.a.e.a., do you conclude that iran's been designing a bomb and may still be working on one? >> it lays out quite a bit of evidence that prior to 2004 iran had put together a well structured nuclear weaponization program. the process of actually building the weapon itself. another, in fact, even more component is making the enriched uranium, the weapon grade uranium. that's not discussed very much in this report at all. but the weaponization program prior to 2004 was quite robust and moving forward. it actually when it ended or was stopped, i should say, it was halted abruptly, they were working on a war head design that was abo

ray suarez has the story. >> suarez: citigroup and the securities and exchange commission had sought court approval for a $285 million settlement. the settlement was reached after the s.e.c. accused citi of failing to disclose to investors that it was betting against a billion-dollar subprime mortgage investment. but today, u.s. district court judge jed rakoff in new york rejected the deal with pointed criticism, saying it was "neither fair, nor reasonable, nor adequate in the public interest." rakoff was also critical since citigroup did not acknowledge fault. the judge wrote that he could not approve it because "the court has not been provided with any proven or admitted facts upon which to exercise a modest degree of independent judgement." the s.e.c. disagreed strongly with his ruling, an order that may have significant implications. we get more on all this with edward wyatt of the "new york times." and jacob frankel, a former federal prosecutor at the s.e.c. who's now in private practice at shulman rogers. edward, let's start with you. explain the machinery here. why did judge r