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from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. america's first billionaire president is surrounded by many staffers with a very high net worth. a batch of the financial disclosure forms top white house staffers are legally required to fill out shows 27 administration staffers have assets worth a combined $2.3 billion. among the wealthiest are trump's daughter, ivanka, and her husband, jared kushner, both serving as unpaid west wing advisers. they have assets worth at least $240 million and as much as $740 million, mostly in real estate owned by both families. national economic council director gary cohn, a former president of goldman sachs, has assets worth between $254 million and $600 million. technology adviser reed cordish, a baltimore real estate developer, disclosed assets between $92 million and $798 million. chief political strategist steve bannon, the conservative consultant and media entrepreneur, valued his assets between $10.7 million and $48.6 million. the 180 disclosure forms released by t

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. the nation's capital has seen large demonstrations for civil rights, for and against abortion rights, protesting wars and many more causes. today, the cause was science and defending it from political attacks. on this 47th annual earth day, thousands of scientists and those who support independent, fact-based research on climate change and a range of other policies, took to the streets of washington, across the country and around the world. newshour weekend's christopher booker has more. >> reporter: from sydney to berlin to london, it was a global day of action, in the words of organizers, to" celebrate science and its critical role" in society. the march for science drew scientists, teachers and students in more than 500 cities across the world, calling for more science-based decision making in public policies both local and global. >> today, we have a great many lawmakers, not just here but around the world, deliberately ignoring and actively suppressing

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. president trump's national security adviser h.r. mcmaster calls north korea's latest and failed missile test part of a, quote, "pattern of provocative, destabilizing and threatening" behavior. only hours after yesterday's massive military parade in pyongyang, north korea launched what was believed to be a medium-range missile. u.s. pacific command said it blew up only four or five seconds after launch. south korea said the test" threatened the whole world" and japan called it a "provocation"" shortly after the failed missile test, the pentagon said president trump had been briefed, but mr. trump did not comment. the president attended easter services with his family today at a church in palm beach, florida, where they're spending the holiday weekend. vice president pence was aboard air force two when the missile test occurred. he spoke about it after landing in seoul, south korea, his first stop on a ten day trip abroad that will also take him to japan, ind

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from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. syrian government warplanes today resumed bombing the same town hit by a chemical weapons attack earlier this week. that attack was in violation of international law and prompted an american missile strike in retaliation. at least 87 people have died since syrian president bashar assad unleashed chemical bombs on civilians in the rebel-held town of khan sheikhoun in the country's northern idlib province. today's government air strikes with conventional bombs killed at least two people, according to human rights groups. elsewhere today in syria, near raqaa, the de facto capital of the islamic state group, american warplanes targeting isis militants killed more than 20 people. today in florida, president trump spoke by phone with saudi arabia's king salman. the white house says the king reaffirmed his support for thursday's u.s. military attack on a syrian airfield, calling it "a necessary response." syrian officials have surveyed the damage, and the syrian milit

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. the trump administration's foreign policy team is articulating dual priorities for the united states in syria. today, secretary of state rex tillerson said the ongoing fight against the islamic state group, or isis, which is headquartered in raqqa, syria, remains the primary goal. >> our priority is, first, the defeat of isis-- remove them from access to the caliphate, because that is where the threat to the homeland and so many of our homelands of our coalition partners is emanating from. >> sreenivasan: tillerson added, in his trip to moscow this week, he will press russian leaders to fulfill their 2013 pledge to force syrian president bashar al-assad to surrender his chemical weapons. assad's chemical attack on a rebel-held syrian town prompted president trump to order a u.s. missile counter-strike last week. mr. trump's ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley, said in addition to defeating isis, the u.s. does not see a peaceful resolution in syria

they shot him. >> sreenivasan: it earned demme >> sreenivasan: it earned demme the academy award fort director. >> --to jonathan demme, for "silence of the lambs!" >> sreenivasan: and it remains the only horror film to ever win for best picture. >> hi, mom, and thanks for transferring your love of movies to me, and thanks, dad, for making me think i could actually be part of this industry. and thank you. >> sreenivasan: mike sargent is a film critic for pacifica radio. >> at the time, a thriller and horror were seen to be the same thing. so you have great actors, so he took something that could've been considered pulpy and made it high art. he really elevated the form. >> sreenivasan: but demme did more than crime-thrillers. over his career, he made indie films, dramas, documentaries, comedies and concert movies, too: ♪ i got a girlfriend that's better than that ♪ as we get older and stop making sense >> >> sreenivasan: including 1984's "stop making sense," a stylized look at the band "the talking heads." >> so you were concealing your illness. >> sreenivasan: in 1993 demme directed

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. the process to fill the supreme court vacancy left by the death of justice antonin scalia 14 months ago takes a step forward tomorrow. the nomination of judge neil gorsuch gets a vote in the senate judiciary committee that questioned him last month. the committee is expected to approve the nomination along partisan lines, with republicans having the majority, as they do in the whole senate, with 52 of 100 seats. today, senator joe donnelly of indiana joined heidi heitkamp of south dakota and joe manchin of west virginia as the only democrats to say they'll vote for gorsuch. all three are from states won by mister trump. republican senate majority leader mitch mcconnell predicted the nomination will pass. >> what i'm telling you is that judge gorsuch is going to be confirmed. the way in which that occurs is in the hands of the democratic minority, and i think during the course of the week we will find out exactly how this will end, but it will end with his co

from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. the first round of france's presidential election is over. exit poll projections and early returns indicate controversial nationalist marine le pen will be one of the two candidates advancing to a runoff two weeks from today. the other will be centrist candidate emmanuel macron. it appears macron and le pen will each win about a quarter of the vote in a crowded 11-candidate field. incumbent francois hollande did not seek a second five-year term. >> sreenivasan: turnout was high by american standards. by early evening around 70% of eligible french voters had participated. making his first run for office, macron is a former investment banker who served as france's economy minister for two years. at 39, he was the youngest candidate on the ballot. his plan for reducing france's 10% unemployment rate includes strong ties with the 28-nation european union. by contrast, le pen advocates holding a referendum on leaving the european union, just as great britain vote

hari sreenivasan has the latest in our "race matters" series, from new york. >> sreenivasan: consumerups have long contended that drivers in predominantly minority neighborhoods are charged more for insurance premiums than drivers in predominantly white neighborhoods. insurers had said that was due to a higher risk of accidents in those communities. but a new analysis by propublica and consumers union found the disparities in premiums are higher-- sometimes much higher-- even when the risk of an accident is essentially the same. the team looked at data and more than 100,000 premiums in four states: california, texas, illinois and missouri. julia angwin of the propublica team joins me now. so what did you do? what did you find? >> so what we did was we basically tried to take a predominantly minority neighborhood and nonminority neighborhood and the risk. and we looked at the prices of the premiums in those neighborhoods and said are they the same? and oftentimes what we found is despite the fact that the payouts were the same and we had the same safe driver, that the minority neighbor

hari sreenivasan in our new york studio has the story >> sreenivasan: for president trump, it's all about pointing out that he's done what he said he'd do. he tweeted last night that his administration has kept promises "on the border, on energy, on jobs, on regulations." but he's also made a series of reversals in recent days. in an interview yesterday with "the wall street journal", he said he will not label china as a currency manipulator. that's a stark departure from his posture throughout the presidential campaign, that he'd brand beijing on day one. >> we are going to stand up to china on its massive currency manipulation. because they are beating our companies. >> sreenivasan: and, just 11 days ago, he told the "financial times" that the chinese were the "world champions" of cheapening their currency to boost exports. then came his meeting with chinese president xi jinping. now, mr. trump says xi's government is not currently manipulating its currency, and that claiming otherwise might jeopardize chinese cooperation on north korea. in the same interview, the president said he woul

it's the function of egyptian society sreenivasan va. >> sreenivasan: i want to talk about the imagethe pope embraipsing eyeman there joy --man there in egypt. images like that travel as far and as fast. >> one really hopes so. one thing that's really been remarkable about pope francis is that he really isn't just a pope of the world's catholics, he really seems to be the pope of all peoples, particularly the world downtrodden and disadvantaged. i think one thing that's worth noting is that in his statement the pope called on the egyptian government to do more to respect human rights. he wasn't just talking about the human rights of egypt's christians but talking about the human rights of all egyptians. one homes that those kinds of messages will diffuse throughout the muslim world. >> sreenivasan: tarek masood from harvard school. thank you very much. >> woodruff: stay with us. coming up on the newshour: mark shields and david brooks analyze the first 100 days of the trump administration. preserving culture and history using exact replicas. "self-made" myth-- a millionaire reflects

as you know, president trump... >> sreenivasan: are we in or out? i can't quite tell. >> woodruff: yesterday the president announced he was going to terminate u.s. involvement in nafta, but then a little after that he said he's changed his mind, that he wants the renegotiate it. you have been someone with strong views on nafta. you describe yourself as a free trader. you heard the president go after you and after nafta during the campaign. what do you make of what's going on right now? >> i mean, it's pretty amazing. one minute you say it's over. the next minute it isn't. that's not the way i've seen things work throughout my career, but as i said, it's 23 years old. there's nothing wrong with taking another look at it, but i believe trade is good. i went to the oval office with president obama in the lame duck trying to get the pacific trade agreement passed. i'll tell you why: one, it's good for us economically to be able to work with these fledgling countries. and secondly, it's good strategically, because we look at the pivot to asia. right, so

hari sreenivasan has the story from our new york studios. >> sreenivasan: the associated press foundly 2,000 allegations of abuse and exploitation in the past 12 years. more than 300 of those cases involved children. and since the u.n. cannot punish peacekeepers from other countries, only a fraction of the alleged perpetrators served jail time. the a.p. also spoke with officials in 23 countries who had troops serving as peacekeepers and were accused of these violations. trish wilson is the international investigators editor who oversaw the a.p. story. ms. wilson, thanks for joining us. how did you come upon the investigations that were underway by the u.n.? >> well, earlier last year, there was a lot of reporting out of the congo and the central african republic about allegations against u.n. peacekeepers so we decide to look at the numbers going back to 2004 when the first wave of allegations came out against peacekeepers and that's what got us started. from there, we just counted the number of allegations per year that the u.n. had reported. >> sreenivasan: you've zoomed in on hait

hari sreenivasan has that story, from our new york studios. >> sreenivasan: the report, released lastht, focused on a dozen former teachers at the prestigious boarding school in connecticut, choate rosemary hall. it recounts the experiences of 24 adult alumni who were allegedly abused between 1963 and 2010. investigators said the offenses ranged from kissing to groping to rape. choate hired a law firm with no previous ties to the school to lead the investigation. jonathan saltzman was part of the "boston globe" spotlight team that helped break the story; and, paul mones is an attorney who has represented sexual abuse survivors at private schools and other institutions. he is not involved in any of the choate cases. jonathan, i want to start with you. you and your team launched this series a while back about this happening at elite prep schools in the northeast. what did this report reveal to you? >> well, we had reported on about 110 private schools in new england that had faced allegations of sexual abuse over the past 25 years, and we mentioned choate, but this report was initiated

. >> sreenivasan: among the countries where the u.s.using fighting terrorism are iraq, yemen and somalia. now, the president has approved the pentagon's plan to beef up its targeting of al shabab in somalia, giving the military greater latitude to decide when and where to strike. for more on all of this, we turn to sarah sewall. she served as undersecretary of state for civilian security, democracy and human rights during the obama administration. she's written extensively about military operations and civilian casualties. she's now at johns hopkins university. first, just walk us through what the changes are that the pentagon announced. >> essentially, president obama had created two categories for thinking about the use of force in the context of the war on terror. one was more like targeted killing with more restricted types overtargets that you could both choose and be forced to identify, and it controlled the effects of those uses of force more closely. the other is more like what americans would understand as war, general hostilit

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> sreenivasan: good evening, i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight, paris attacks. a gunman opens fire on police just three days before the french elections. also ahead, exxon seeks a waiver to do business in russia. are the trump administration's business ties impacting their decisions? plus, news divisions-- how a politically divided nation gets its news. >> i guess there was an element of distrust. as citizens we don't know what we don't know. >> sreenivasan: plus, the turbulent business of the airline industry: record profits, expanding routes, and in some cases bad service. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

hari sreenivasan reports on the day's developments. >> reporter: masked police descended this morninga paris suburb, home of the suspect in the deadly attack on the champs-elysees. prosecutors identified him as karim cheurfi, a french citizen, and said he carried a note in support of the islamic state. cheurfi had served time for trying to kill two other officers in 2001. >> ( translated ): i would like >> ( translated ): all the way through his period of imprisonment, which lasted about 14 years, he did not show any signs of radicalization, or signs of conversion. >> reporter: he was detained again in february for threatening police, but later released. >> you have to stay back. >> reporter: then came the attack on the champ-elysees. the famed boulevard was shut down for hours. near the scene today, witnesses described the chaos. >> ( translated ): i can tell you that i was very scared. people started talking and going crazy. there was a wave of panic that came over everything. >> reporter: all of this, just two days before polls open in the presidential election. the prime minister

. ♪ captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasan: on this edition for sunday, april 23: france beginsing to elect a new president. protests in venezuela amid a deepening economic crisis. and in our signature segment: examining america's blue city - red state divide. next on "pbs newshour weekend." >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. judy and josh weston. the cheryl and philip milstein family. the john and helen glessner family trust-- supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual

bad year ♪ a bad year for rock and roll ♪ it's been a bad year captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasansis and political change in syria. colleges defend their high tuition by pointing to graduates' earnings, but is the data reliable? and in our signature segment, immigration crackdown-- some cities cooperate with federal agents, while others don't. next, on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. judy and josh weston. the cheryl and philip milstein family. the john and helen glessner family trust-- supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii.