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if people would just sit down and talk. >> schifrin: what u.s. and north korean officials are talking about is north korea providing an inventory of its missile and nuclear program. u.s. officials say that would be a positive step they could compare to their intelligence on what north korea has to know if north korea were lying. in the meantime, north and south korea will work together, but even those thee reunions feel powerful, their participants know they're temporary. >> ( translated ): it's a bittersweet feeling. i'm happy to see my brother, but there is going to be a moment when we have to be separated again. i don't know what i'll do in that moment. >> schifrin: a remind their so far all the progress that's been made is fragile and reversible. 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 that aims to reduce single-use take out containers. but first, take a moment to hear from your

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

nick schifrin has the story. >> schifrin: when former veterans affairs secretary david shulken closed the stock hchange last november, he an unusual helper. that's shulken in the middle. on the right, captain america, a character in the marvel universe. and it just so happens that shulken's most powerful and most informal advisor was this man, ike perlmutter, the chairman of marvel entertainment 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 the u.s. military or government, but they have outsize influencea ov v.a. decisions, according to the story written by propublica reporter isaac arnsdorf, who joins us in the studio. also here, melissa bryant, a former army intelligence officer and the chief policy officer of the iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. thank you to your both. >> thank you. >> schifrin: isaac, let me start with you. what has been the relationship between these th

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

schifrin: one of the fe remaining doctors shows off cabinets supposed to be full of medicine-- today,alempty. this boy needs antibiotics the hospital doesn't have. and in a nearby room, a mother shows cell phone video of her daughter, once a dancer in the orange dress--nearly immobilized by a brain tumor. but there's no cancer medicine in venezuela, so her mother, emyuri fuentes, will try and make the difficult j to colombia. >> ( translated ): because she's my daughter, i have to support her. we've been here for two months. >> schifrin: the conditions have caused an exodus of 2.3 million, and a regional migration crisis, says colombia's migration director, christian kruger. >> ( translated ): we cannot lie to ourselves. we are talking about a nation of nearly 30 million residents that inclearly will continue le their country. e.regional nations must un >> schifrin: to try and fix the economy, the government recently raised salaries by 3,500 percent, and introduced a new currency with five fewer roes. but in a country full of long gas lines, a.t.m. lines, and oceries that can cost tw

we've been here for two months. >> schifrin: the conditions have used an exodus of 2.3 million, and aregional migration crisis, says colombia's migration director, christian kruger. >> ( translated ): we cannot lie to ourselves. we are talking about a nation of nearly 30 million residents that clearly will continue leaving their country. regional nations must unite. >> schifrin: to try and fix the economy, the government recently raised salaries by 3,500 percent, and introduced a new currency-- with five fewer zeroes. but in a country full of long gas lines, a.t.m. lines, and groceries th can cost two weeks of salary, that may be too little, too late, says venezuelan business organization president carlosarrazabal. >> ( translated ): without controlling the hyper-inflation, the impact of these incremental changes withtally counter- productive. >> schifrin: the maduro government says it's preventing chaos and fighting internal and external enemies. maduro himself urges venezuelans to stay home. even if life isn't perfect, he said, leaving is worse. >> ( translated ): some venezuelans w

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

. >> 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.

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,

with me now is foreign affairs and defense correspondent ni schifrin to walk us through some of its many, many provisions. nick, there are a lot, let's stoort big picture, for the last 17 or 18 yers a t of our national security defense spending has been kind of driven by terrorism or anti-terror efforts, is that still true in this bill.i >> it is driven by iraq and afghanistan and defind by ate wars there. what this adminisn has tried to do in its official strategy documents is get away from thaand say we are no longer focused just on iraq an afghanistan and counterterrorism missions throughout the world, we are focused on long-term strategic threats and those are china and russia. so you see tht really seep throughout all parts of this bill. about you also see one more thing espe cially when es to russia. that san expression of congressionalonrn. almost a means of restraint on the president of the united states, the are many concerns that you know from democratic side but also the republican side on the president's policies and rhetoric toward russiweas as south korea and a little on ch

sh schifrin: one year ago, along the myanmar-banglaorder, the myanmar military unleashed horror. chthe u.n. says soldiers t rohingya villages and, in the aftermath, tortured men, killed indiscriminately, and carried out systematic sexual violence, creating an untold number of yectims of gang rape. the u.n. says for ars, the rohingya have suffered "institutionalized oppression from birth to death." in the past they've been beaten rgeted 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 rohingyaio salvatarmy, or arsa. one year ago, militants assaulted 30 myanmar police posts. but today's u.n. report callsra the subsequentdown wildly disproportionate, said u.n. fact-finding mission member radhika coomaraswamy. >> the scale, brutality and syematic nature of rape an violence indicate that they are part of a deliberate strategy to intimidate, terrorize or punish the civilian population. >> schifrin: the terror worked.

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

the taliban arstill around the ty. >> schifrin: the u.s. military in baghlan today, taliban fighters overran an afghan army base and killed 36 soldiers. yesterday, fighters captured an entire company of afghan soldiers in faryab. and in the south in zabul, they attacked a police checkpoint and killed 4 officers. tonight in kabul, outside the school, a small memorial, and a candlelight vigil for the victims, and for another deadly day. for more on the attacks today, and where efforts to both fight, and engage the taliban stand, i'm joined from kabul y sultan faizy, the bureau chf for iha, turkish news agency. and, here in studio with me is civid sedney. he's a senior ase with the center for strategic and international studies, agt wash think tank. he also served in the u.s. embassy in kabul, and was a top pentagon official working on afghanistan and pakistan during the bush and obama administrations. ahank you to you both. sultan, can i srt with you? we've just seen this horrific video from kabul today. f what does el like in the city right

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

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> schifrin: good evening. i'm nick schifrin.dyoodruff is on vacation. on the "newshour" tonight, the u.s. is 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

not changing russian behavior and therefo the russian influence operations will continue. >> nick schifrin, good to talk. thank you. >> nawaz: and speaking of russia, microsoft said yesterday that hackers linked to russian military intelligenc targeting a pair of conservative think tanks in the u.s. that had advocated for tougher policies against russia those russian-affiliated groups, known as fancybear, me apt28, or mes called strontium, created fake websites for the hudsonnstitute and the ternational republican institute, designed to lure in users, then steal th information. microsoft says there's no evidence the hackers were successful. russian authorities denied any involvement with those attacks and i spoke with microsoft president brad smith yesterday. i began by asking him how confident he was of russia's involvement.xt we aremely confident and have no doubt in our minds that these b sites were set up by the group that you mentioned, it is a gro wdely associated with the russian government, it is the same group that hackedto .s. political candidates and campaigns and the democratia

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

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

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 matt

let's break 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 of millions of people in it. the attempck was by on unknown third matter and unsuccessful. the d.n.c. used the attempted hack to point out it wanted mor security help from the trump administration. that's two points. one the d.n.c. and othe critioized the administr for not providing enough security during the midterm elections and two the hacking intelligence operations, some of which we saw in 2016 havot stopped. >> and when we the talk about them, we talk about them in relation to russian efforts, buk faceast night shut down hundreds of fake accounts some originating from iran. >> some from iran, some from russia, and the ones from russia are the same actors we saw in 2016 connected to russian military intelligee and they were trying to influence operations in syria and ukraine two countries russia has interfered with militarily. but iran was the big one. 652 pages and accounts posing add news and civil society orgizations that were fr

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

. >> i'm lois schifrin, i was an interviewee. i'm going to turn my attention to this moment where for those of us who were interviewed and therefore have some trailblazing and leadership role, we're in a very difficult time in our country, both for women and for the rule of law. and i think all of us should take on the obligation of both telling the story of the importance of the rule of law and reiterating the role of women in maintaining the rule of law. and that we all have that obligation. [ applause ] >> that's a wonderful note on which to end. before we break i'd like to state sadly because of other things going on in the center, there will not be a reception today. we invite you to return next week when we will continue this discussion in a sense. elaine weiss will be speaking about her book called "the women's hour: the last furious fight to win the vote." and for those of you who haven't already purchased the books and i do see some on the table, there are more books for purchase outside. so again, thanks to all of you f