nick schifrin is back, with this look at the detnd the stakes. >> schifrin: along the banks ofo the kabuley, after decades of war, there is a rare and preciousommodity available in the mar t: hope. >> (anslated ): we are happy and hopeful that the killing of the afghanwill end. mothers will no longer lose their children, and god willing, a lasting peace agreement will be signed. and afghans will start a comfortable life. >> schifrin: for sevenays, kabul has been quiet enough for the u.s. and afghan top military officials to take a stroll. general scott miller and actinga defense ministdullah khalid say they have held their fire, and the taliban have proven a willingness ality to significantly reduce violence.e' >> seeing what we would call a downward trend in violence, which is great for the afghan people. it's great for the country ofn. afghanis >> ( translated ): the sacrifices of our hard-working afghan forces and patience of our great nation caused this reduction in violence. we hope, inshallahthis results in a ceasefire and enduring peace. >> schifrin: now that theuc "ron in violence

you want to change like the whole world. >> schifrin: and then waad gets pregnant. she says sama represented hope even before she was born. >> so many times when i was getting out to film some people or some stories outside when the destruction happened, or any shelling happened, and i can feel sama.ik you knowthat feeling of the life that i have inside my body, which you know stood against every feeling, every bad feeling we've seenround. >> schifrin: but the rusan air force, and the syrian bombardment on aleo were relentless. their hospital is purposely bombed, killing 53 of their coworkers and friends. waad says at one point, in aleppo, there was no time to grieve. the children are not all right. waad films as children play in b bombed o. >> she was like four years old when i asked her about the bus she was painting, like whato happenedis bus. >> ( translated ): do you know what his this bus? >> ( translated ): a cluster bomb. >> she would say clustbs. and she's four years old, you know. it was cluster bombs. they understand whappeninged how how they adasi to tha

re>> schifrin: if you wo concerned, why not pick up the phone? not resign in >> i was ready to resign. i did pick up the phone and talked to his immediate confidante. >> schifrin: you have no doubt that the secretary got the message? >> i have no doubt. >> scethifrin: sey pompeo went to kyev. were you told he could not be seen?a >> new york i not told that. i was told thatt would be a good idea to hand over my responsibilities on the 2nd of january to my deputy, and she became the charge d'affaires. >> schifrin: secretary pompeo said he privately resisted rudy giuliani and president trump's desire to fire your pdecessor, ambassador marie yovanovitch, and when he couldn't resist ymore, he turned to you, bill taylor, thinking that you, ambassador taylor, would continue te policy thathey had going. do you believe pompeo did enough >> we no know because of someof tape lev parnas -- >> schifrin: an associate of rudy giuliani. >> an associate of rudy giuliani, that the president had made it clear d year half ago, so the spring of 2018.n >> schifrin:ct,

now, more than one million t people are goibe exterminated. >> schifrin: the u.s. supports turkey's military presence in b, and has called russia involvement unacceptable. but last week national securityo adrobert o'brien ruled out any intervention. >> the idea that america must do something, i just find that to be-- i don't even see that bng a real argument. what are we supposed to do to stop that? we're supposed to parachute inpo as a globaceman, and hold up a stop sign and say stop this turkey, stop this russia? ia schifrin: so all that s like abdullah mohammad can do, is to try to protect their children. he teaches his daughter that when she hears air strikes, she laughs. she's supposed to laugh. he's lieto her-- that they're only toy planes. but the planes aren't toys, and the air strikes are inching closer. >> the syrian people being exterminated, being killed, being bombarded, every single day their schools, their hous, their hospitals, the infrastructure is completely destroyed, and nobody is doing anything. >> schifrin: for the pbs newshour, i'm nick schif

>> schifrin: that language apparently got qiushi detained. he hasn't been seen since.n's mother took to social >> (atranslatedr): i have not been able to get in touch with him. i'm here pleading that all netizens, especially those in wuhan, please help me find my son. help me find out what happened to him. >> schifrin: qius is only one of the critics arrested in the last two months, in a battle authorities detained lawyer and human rights activist xu zhiyong after he accused chi president xi jinping of trying to cover up the coronavirus oureak. a wuhan resident told pbs newshour residents critical of the government's response, suddenly disappeared. but activists continued their work, posting videos of overcrowded wuhan hospitals, ts lying unattended on t corrider floor. >> the chinese government is not only trying to contain the virus, they're also trying to contain the coverage of this entire story. >> schifrin: xiao qiang is the heeditor in chief of.s. based china digital times, a news site that focuses on recontent supped by china's state censors. he says the chines

to gain power in afghanistan without foreign assistance is almost worthless because of the >> schifrine step in this peace deal is talks between the taliban and the afghan government tentatively scheduled for oslo perhaps march 10th. one of the steps is thefghan government needing to release taliban prisoners. could that issue derail those interafghan talks before theyen begin? >> it could certainly delay them because the u.s. negotiators agreed to the release of tho prisoners, which the u.s. does not control, in discussions with the taliban, and nsat meahe afghan government now has considerable leverage to extract some further concessions, whih it would be crazy not to use. so i would actually expect that there will be some delay, in addition to which it simply islo noistically possible to process the relea of,000 prisoners in ten days. so at most the proceswill get started. but i think the afghan government will probably make certain demands before it carries out its part of that agreement. i only have a few seconds left. president ghani claimed victoryi main rival, abdullah abdullah

for the pbs newshour, i'm nick schifrin. woodruff: hosni mubarak was 91 years old. back in thisountry, an investigation of opera star placido domingo has found extensive allegations of sexual harassment. more than two dozen people told a union for opera performers that they witnessed or fell victim to the misconduct while domingo led the washington and los angeles operas. he apologized in a statement today. the drug-maker mallinckrodt is the latest to announce a major settlement involving opioids. the english company said today it will settle hundreds of u.s. lawsuits for $1.6 billion. it is also filing for bankruptcy protection. mallinckrodt is one of the highest-volume producers of opioids sold in the u.s. 39 states opened an investigation into e-cigarette maker juul labs today. the effort will examine whether juul targeted young people and made misleading claims about nicotine content. the company is already facing a battery of lawsuits. and, thousands of revelers filled new orleans today for mardi gras. itame after two people had been killed by floats in earlier

foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin reports his passing came almost a de after he was ousted from power in the arab spring uprising. 11 schifrin: in january 20 the edifice of hosni mubarak's egypt crumbled. he'd been called a mh.ern-day phar but the millions who filledar cairo's tahrire exposed a country weakened by decades of his corruption and cronyism. and the following month, many l yptians celebrated his f the bih of democracy. >> ( translated ): everyone in egypt is so happy now, a new change, freem and democracy. that this country is really ours. >> schifrin: butike much of the arab spring, elation preceded oppression. a democratically elected president was overthrown in a coup by former army chief and today's president, abdel fattah el-sisi. mubarak outlived the revolution that overthrew him, buwas only seen in court. and while he was humbled, to the end he was defiant. force and became vpresident to anwar sadat, taking over after sadat's 1981 assassination. rehe was initially considea charismatic reformer, an fashioned himself the only guarantor of egypt's and the mi

foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin has our report. on the border that separates turkey from syria, the two countries' militaries are hammering each other. turkey launched multiple attacks against syrian government forces in retaliation for syrian airstrikes that killed turkish soldiers. over 200 syrian regime targets were struck by unmanned aerial aircraft and land-based resources attack.g this heinous inside syria, the turkish against the syrian president and his allied russia. nearby, the turkish military has deoyed outposts near the border. syrian civilians were forc into refugee camps where children have little to defend against a new adversary. these displaced families have spent years fleeing violence. they are hoping to escape to turkey. >> if a the syrian regi its allies are in charge, we have no option but to go to turkey and from turkey to europe. nick in turkey, syrian refugees who have spent months or years sheltering are trying to enter greece after turkey hinted at op some migrants boarding dinghies rito make the us jour

happened which took her out of contention for holders when kids are on top of the stone ranking schifrin was taking a break from skiing since the death of her father to go still leads the overall world cup standing next. own favorite sergio has won the 3rd edition of the tour of colombia the 22 year old came 2nd on the 6th and final stage behind compassionate daniel martinez none the last agree to seal the victory after leading from the 4 stage this is the 3rd time the tour has been part of the u.c.i. calendar. are puerto alessandro rempe yet he has more from alto del of their oil. well i think that we can say that it's the least becoming the premier arranged in the latin america together with the more traditional who are of sound choir in argentina and what's of interest here to so many professional cyclists there is the fact that it's an opportunity for them to compete the but also to train at high altitude to active beginning of the season and that's why every year in these 1st 3 years we've seen an increasing number of received top cyclists participating in this case this year. so de

i'm nick schifrin. udy: weur turn to lisa desjardins and yamiche alcindor.a, withol in now 51 against witnesses and 49 for, tell us about those swing senators we were watching and their decisn to swinggainst this. what went into their thinking? >> in the end, the two decisive volts for the president were those of senators lisa murkowski and lamar alexander and if you dig deeper into the statement, nick posted some good pamplets those. you'll see that they had very serious problems with the house process. lisa murkowski wrote -- the whouls house chose to sends articles of impeachment that are rushed and flawe it has also been colleen clear that some of my colagues intend to further politicize this congress and drive the supreme court into the fray while taxicabbing the chief justice. hat seems to be a reference of senator warren who asked a question of the two participants involved t that chief justice was apt the heart of. her question was if chief justice himself was compromise and would whether the confidence the supreme court was undermined by him presidi

nick: for the pbs newshour, nick schifrin. judy: what a powerful story.r sama" was badcast on pbs frontline and is streaming for free on pbs.org/frontline and the pbs video app. ♪ her name is christina koch. she returned to earth today after setting the record for the longest single female mission in space and set m othestones along the way. amna nawaz has the story. man: christina koch, you're a record-holder. she is out, thumbs up, and a huge smile. amna nawaz: after spending the international space station, or 328 days, to be precise, christina koch, with her two crewmates, parachuted into kazakstan aboard a soviet soyuz capsule early today. she returns to earth as a record-holder, the se longest stay in space by a woman. scott kelly hos the overall record for the single longest stay. that's 342 days in space. wh and peggson holds the record for cumulative time in space, 665 days. koch was asked about this milestone moment while still ont the spacion two days ago. christina koch: i think some people draw inspiration from milestones and from thhat they

reporter: for the "pbs newshour," i'm nick schifrin.udy: officials with the boy scouts of america say theirg bankruptcy filrly today is the only way they can deal with a growing number of sexual abuse lawsuits and still maintain scoung programs for curren members. but as john yang reports, it's a bitter pill for former members who were abused as young scouts. reporter: growing up in floridae juan carlos loved being a boy scout. >> i started to, you know, just learn everything about scouting, hecamping, doingerit badges. whatever scouting entailed, i was all over it because i liked it. it was fun. reporter: by the time he was a young teen, he was a life scout -- the second-highest rank -- and was taking aan lessons from ssistant to the scoutmaster. >> and then one day he summoned me to go upstairs in the house to a bedroom. and that's whenncident took place. that's when everything changed. porter: rivera says that was the day he lost interest in scouting and quit. for 20 yea, he never told anyone why. he had been molested. now he's suing

nick schifrin has more on ther battle o information between the chinese people and their government.eporter: when qiushchen traveled to wuhan to expose what risks were medpoal and tical.n >>ont of me is the virus and behind me is the legal and administrative power of china, but as long as i live in this city, i will continue to report. reporter: for two weeks, he documented hospitals that were overwhelmed. a pool of vomit on the waiting room floor, patients on stretchers unattended. in another video, he criticizeda th at a makeshift hospital set up at a convention center. >> putting everyone into a space like this one where patients aren't completely separated, there will definitely be the possibility of cross infections. this temporary hospital looks a lot like a military fiel hospital or an emergency shelter set up in response to an earthquake or a flood, but it's not great for housing patients with infectious disease. reporter: the world health organization says the disease'sp ad in china has stabilized. and today, some other regions have begun to normalize. but chen documented th

this happened which took her out of contention was when kids are on top of the following ranking schifrin who is taking a break from skiing since the death of her father 2 weeks ago still leads the overall world. all this year's edition of the tour of colombia is coming to an end on sunday it's the 3rd year running of the event has been on the u.c.i. calendar and it comes as colombia is emerging as a major force in road cycling south american country has become a hotbed for talent and last year had its 1st ever tour de france winner. our correspondent allison he joins me now live from all to hell on that this is only the 3rd year this race is taking place is it establishing itself as an important global race do you think. well i think that we can say that it's at least becoming the premier arranged in the last you know america to gather with the more traditional who are of sound in argentina and then serve the interests here through so many professional cyclists is the fact that it's an opportunity for them to compete the but also to train at. the beginning of the season and that's why ev

our foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin joins us from munich, germany, where senior administrationls made the annouement. hello, nick. so, tell us, what you have learned about whatems in this agt? >> it's important to say this agreement is seven days. the clock hasn't started. ane u.s. wilunce when the clock starts, but there are a lot of details in this agreement. what has to happen in te seven days? a couple of details, one, it covers all the country, the taliban are not to launch any attacks across the cou intry. tw's violence against both afghans d americans, and it covers in writingll types of violence, roadside imoms, suicide attacks and rockets, and both sides acknowledge that some violence in afghanistan is not entirely directed by the taliban, so, in order to deal with that, they've cated a way so that the taliban and the u.s. military in kabul can spak to each other, a kind of dispute mechanism whereby if there's some violence, the u.military can pick up the phone and call the taliban and ask, hey, was this you, and the u.s. is fearful that there are ciminalrs groups and

happened which took her out of contention for holders when kids are on top of the stone ranking schifrin who is taking a break from skiing since the death of her father 2 weeks ago still leads the overall world cup standings. and that's all your sport for now more later. thank you for that far and we are back in just a couple of minutes time another full bulldozing of news here on al-jazeera the latest on those that u.s. citizens have left japan coronavirus back in a moment. and also hala mentary election that will intensify rival ways within its political establishment but dr escalating tensions with the u.s. i continue focused on the results point to a new direction for next year's presidential elections join us for coverage from the fall as they will vote on al jazeera. life begin. babies every year in the united states. also and on the same day. the baby is african-american. this is twice as likely to happen why. rewind america's infant mortality on al-jazeera. illustratively f.b.i. is a wise thing about china's growing influence on university campuses. one o one east investigates ho

rica really of its early one the women's world cup super g. 8 close the gap arrival late in the car schifrin the american 3 time champion a skipped this weekend's it's an hawking's cycle battle of alberta lived out for its reputation in chaos erupting here is the edmonton oilers baby calgary flames as the main focus of the violence was a matchup between the 2 goalies russia switched teams last year. ok more a build up ahead of that super bowl coming up but that is it for me and thanks so much and the that's it for this news hour out here in london will be back in a moment all of us in the news so stay with us. it's a tough time for the afghan security forces taliban attacks have increased their suffering heavy casualties and the prospect of a withdrawal of u.s. forces hangs over them yet young men are still joining up some for pacioretty reasons for others is the only way to get a job despite the risks midway's curry b. was an army bomb disposal engineer in helmand province he knew the risks he was blinded in both eyes the last leg when a roadside device exploded as. trying to diffuse it i w

federica bring only italy won the women's world cup sujit to close the gap on overall leader mikhail schifrin the american 3 time champion a skips this weekend's of its. own hockey so-called battle of alberta lived up to its reputation chaos erupting here during the game between the edmonton oilers and calgary flames the main focus of the violence a matchup between the 2 goalies who actually switched teams last year. the onus to go on so when this gang ates the raid. ok that is how useful it says looking for something thanks so much and they will that say for this news but i'll be back in a couple of minutes with another full both what's new so do stay with us. we know what's happening in our region we know how to get to places that others and all i was just you know you dear god by the parties on purpose i did see iraq has that time and its programming to go on to go live to work another story that may not be mainstream have but the fires are still on going to. be by. the way to tell the story is one can make a difference. or explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how libel reign

happened which took her out of contention for holders when kids are on top of the stone rankings schifrin was taking a break from skiing since the death of her father 2 weeks ago still leads the overall world cup standings. and that's all your sport for now more later for thank you so much for that coming up but only 300 hours g.m.t. 6 am here in doha that's my love for today down jordan with you in just a few moments to. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we've heard this region better than anyone else would be flirtatious units that it turns to leave it in the butt to be because you have a lot of people that are deployed their own political issues. with the people we live to tell the real story so i'll just mended used to do the work indeterminism we don't feel inferior we're good audience across the globe. to illustrate earlier views a boy isn't about china's growing influence on university campuses. when i want to east investigates how beijing is good incredible o