this is a christmas story, holiday story.illie davis, who has been the recipient of many of those meals, took her to storycorps. she told him how she began feeding the homeless men and women of charlotte. me, we werend driving and it was raining and really cold. we saw a guy with a sign asking for some help. i just gave him five dollars. my daughter said, mommy, why don't we take him to dinner? i said, ok, let's make a u-turn. but he was not there. we were thinking, we have to do something. you remember the first dinner together? >> yes, i do. >> it was christmas 2010. >> the church van came and picked some of us up from the men's shelter. i'm like, why is this lady coming to the roughest place in charlotte and do this for us? something must be fishy about this. but i said, i'm going to go. when i got out of the van, i saw you, a smile on your face and he made everybody feel welcome and comfortable. when you cook it was like my mom used to cook. i haven't had that kind of feeling in a long time. i really needed that. >> that

and so it goes, the story of humanity, our story begins. god created a man and a woman.gave them a perfect place to live, a garden called eden. >> the garden is depicted as an orchard. god gives them this wonderful orchard, tells them they can eat all the fruit they want. >> and they live in peace with the animals and with one another. it's an image of peace. completion, wholeness. >> when we imagine the garden of eden, most of us think of a paradise like this, the ultimate shangri-la, better than anything we could ever find on earth. but what does the bible actually say about where it all began? >> the biblical description is actually very short, it says there were four rivers. tigris and euphrates are two of them. and then, the other two are actually kind of unknown. that's the problem. if you can figure out where all the four rivers are, then you've got the location. >> and it's fueled the never ending search for the garden of eden. for centuries people have looked everywhere from the depths of the persian gulf to rural missouri. and even, the planet mars. >> i have a

and so it goes, the story of humanity, our story begins. god created a man and a woman. gave them a perfect place to live, a garden called eden. >> the garden is depicted as an orchard. god gives them this wonderful orchard, tells them they can eat all the fruit they want. >> and they live in peace with the animals and with one another. it's an image of peace. completion, wholeness. >> when we imagine the garden of eden, most of us think of a paradise like this, the ultimate shangri-la, better than anything we could ever find on earth. but what does the bible actually say about where it all began? >> the biblical description is actually very short, it says there were four rivers. tigris and euphrates are two of them. and then, the other two are actually kind of unknown. that's the problem. if you can figure out where all the four rivers are, then you've got the location. >> and it's the never ending search for the garden of eden. for centuries people have looked everywhere from the depths of the persian gulf to rural missouri. and even, the planet mars. >> i have a probl

one of fourteen stories is that scandal stories of always been with a celebrity stories have been here since the beginning of reporting people think it's some new invention and one of the things that's really intriguing here is this suit that o.j. simpson moore in court on the day he was acquitted in one nine hundred ninety five this of course was the story of the decade how did you get that suit we were able to work with i think one of the attorneys who had it and it's a gift from them and this was a custom tailored two thousand dollars suit that was chosen carefully by jury consultants on his side to make the best impression in court orders brought me to los angeles and i was in that office would do. g. you go right by invitation so we cover the bad and the good you do and that's important for folks to know here that there's extraordinary things that happen because of journalism and there's also a few mistakes that have been made along the way. look at these kind of weird when you've interviewed people and. since going back to nine hundred fifty seven. so this is fifty six years so a

of the story teller.a, a south america. so as far as they were concerned, it was the whole world. >> scientists disagree with the details of the flood but ball lard is confident that he's on the right track. >> i feel lucky, don't you, dwight? >> and they have been finding things. >> something here, what's this? is that? >> that's it, baby. come on in. >> like ancient pottery. >> big one, big one. >> and even more. >> so what -- >> you're looking at what you shouldn't be looking at that. that shouldn't be there. that is a perfectly preserved ancient ship wreck and it's wood. looks like a lumberyard. >> this ship wreck dating back to 5,000 b.c. was in surprisingly good condition, preserved because the black sea has almost no oxygen and that slows down the process of decay. they found an ancient mariner. >> if you look closely, you'll see the femur bone. >> you find human remains from 5,000 years ago? >> correct, and we've just begun. what's waiting for us? >> he thinks he will find remains from an chant si

like we want it to be a gripping story to unfold. >> what is "an american story", how do you describe it? >> that's an interesting question. we don't think of the questions as american stories, the name of the show "the american life," should we have named it that because it seemed it made the thing feel big and big. but we don't think about whether it's an american story. we happen to be american. for the stories to work, they have to be universal, something that anybody can relate to. >> in other words stories about love or hardship, affection or loss. >> exactly. >> do you have a favourite that you have done over the last couple of months or years. >> i have a lot of favourites. there's a guy we had on, and he's in a long-term relationship with somebody we met. he got about in his first week of college. they were like a couple among friends. they were like the big couple who would nurse the other couples when people were feeling bad and things were going great. they had been together for 12-13 years and he says, "how come you're not getting married. he would be 30. we never talked

now, there are other stories.onian destruction of the city in 536 b.c., that maybe somebody spirited the ark out of the city just ahead of the destruction. >> reporter: many believe these underground tunnels were used to secretly transport the ark out of jerusalem when the city was under siege. and when the babylonian invaders took detailed inventory of the treasures they plundered, something was missing. >> the babylonians took all the treasures from jerusalem, it was not in the list anymore. >> the ark? >> yes. the ark was not in the list. >> there are all kinds of possibilities as to where it ended up. >> reporter: so we went in search of it. one famous story suggests the ark was taken from jerusalem to egypt, hundreds of years before the babylonian siege began. >> that's where indiana jones goes and looks for it. we're told that sheshaq of the bible, an egyptian pharaoh, that he may have attacked jerusalem just after the time of solomon. >> yes. around about 980 b.c. >> and there is one theory that he took awa

and so it goes the story of humanity, our story begins. god created a man and a woman.erfect place to live, a garden called edepp. >> well, the garden is depicted as an orchard. god gives them a wonderful orchard. tells them they can eat all the fruit they want. >> they live in peace with animals and it's an image of completion, wholeness. >> when we imagine the garden of eden, most of us think of a paradise like this, the ultimate shangri-la. better than anything we can find on earth. but what does the bible actually say about where it all began? >> the biblical descriptions is actually very short. there are four river, tigris and euphrates are two of them. then the other two are actually kind of unknown. that's the problem. if you can figure out where all four rivers are, then you've got the location. >> and it is the tantalizing mention of these two remaining rivers that has fueled a never ending search for the garden of eden. for centuries, people have looked everywhere from the depths of the persian gulf to rural missouri and even the planet mars. >> i have a probl

and through her i got really interested in the entire story in the movement and so the broad story including [inaudible] >> can you tell me what inspired you to get involved in the movement in 1963? >> guice been involved since 1960 but what brought me to the movement is going to sunday school and singing about the children and and memorizing of of verses and do unto others as they would do unto you. then in high school we had the declaration of independence and we hold these truths to be self evident. we had to memorize that whole thing. and i felt that we were a bunch of hypocrites. but as a white southerner i felt that when i had the chance to do something to make the south the best that it could be it can with the movement. >> how old were you when you were participating? >> de team, a college freshman. >> did you have to join the group to be trained to join or did you just walk in? >> they told us that a group of students from north carolina college who were doing of the said ins were going to come to the next meeting and explain what was all about to us and they did. and then they invi

and so it goes, the story of humanity, our story begins. god created a man and a woman. and gave them a perfect place to live. a garden called eden. >> the garden is depicted as an orchard, god gives them this wonderful orchard, tells them they can eat all the fruit they want. >> and they live in peace with the animals and with one another. >> when we imagine the garden of eden, most of us think of a paradise like this, the ultimate >> the biblical description is actually very short, it says there were four rivers, tigris and euphrates are two of them. and the roars are unknown. ive use can figure out where all four rivers are, then you've got the location. >> and it's the and lizing -- never ending search for the garden of eden. for centuries people have looked everywhere from the depths of the persian gulf to rural missouri. >> how are you going to know when you've found it? there's no sound post to it because writing hasn't been invented yet. >> which brings us back to the bible story and the two rivers that we can locate today, the tigris and the euphrates in souther

a lot of what you do to cover the stories is to concentrate on telling the story as effectively as possible. there is so much invested and to waste that opportunity by merely making aesthetically pleasing pictures would possibly defeat the purpose. there is a strong tendency to focus on the guts of this story to new communicate that and it is very mission driven in the common factor for those who go to cover wars are extraordinarily focused and driven they believe their work has value. it is debatable the power of photography people will debate it can influence others will say it is utile and a waste of time but i do think this is a value that in the sense without it we don't know what is going on and off to make the notion of imputed me that much more powerful and by bearing witness where nobody else wants to be, we stripped the excuse of impunity away from people who do these terrible things whether politicians are general's or whatever it is. to you have anything to add? >> yes. with the coverage of conflict as an important factor, a vietnam was a unique set u.s. government did not get a

and then we have the story of judges. the story of a gradual infiltration into the sparsely populated hill country. do we want the blitzkrieg model or the gradual settlement model? >> the question is what do we believe? what do we think happened? >> the archaeology lends some support to the less dramatic and gentler account. >> of all the years when jericho was inhabited, the one period where we wanted it to be inhabited so joshua can attack it, there's nobody living there. it's empty. there's no wall for joshua to knock down. >> to put it bluntly, the book of joshua is almost all fictitious. >> yes, there's some battles. yes, there's some killing. but overall they're coming in and they're living side by side with some of the canaanites. >> this sounds radical, but when i talk to most people, they are relieved. the genocide that is god's will never happened. >> for some, the story told in the book of joshua presents a troubling picture of a violent god. but others draw a sense of mission from the very same story. a few da

we love this is alaushs story.'t think it was sexist to note the prime minister is an attractive woman and it seemed she and the president had a familiar and affectionate relationship. >> i'm not familiar with the danish prime minister, but she's actually back home sort of on her political campaigns cultivated image kind of a style icon back home. >> the gucci prime minister and the expression on michelle obama's face, she could have been reacting to anything. >> the photographer said she had been participating in the conversation only two minutes earlier. >> the photo surfaced. >> what we needed was not a photo but a video so we could fast forward and rewind and understand the context of the situation. >> people complain that we focus so much attention on this in the media when it's the anniversary of the newtown massacre or there are other important stories. >> or knellsan manmandela. >> this didn't take away from the service whatsoever. there are thousands of people attending that event. just a moment of mellow

i think it is a fantastic story in and the story that a lot of people have forgotten again we take chinaas a capitalist country so for granted now. we seemed to have forgotten that it was a wrenching and very difficult and very unlikely change. >> host: was that north korea? >> guest: it was exactly like north korea except with a billion people making a transformation, transforming itself into something completely different. at the time, it started rather small so the chinese certainly understood the something was brewing but a lot of people in the outside world didn't. one of the things i enjoyed very much about this was people at the time did not compare china's economic forums to the united states or western europe the idea of capitalist china entering the world trade organization would have got me sent to an insane asylum. people bear. the economic reforms to hungary or yugoslavia or east germany which seemed like the most economically -- so that goes to underline how surprising these changes were when that happened. and as i tell in the book, a great way to tell the story in china i

but that story comes to mind, because in that story, i find my voice. i find my truth. i started asking myself, instead of all the stockers, what's wrong with me him and how can you help me? no one could, so i started to ask myself, and i started to get answers. to me, it was a very hopeful time in a very dark place. so that's one of the stories. tavis: is it your hope or your expectation that people will be able to situate themselves in your narrative? start ofvery writer wants that. >> sure, i think that is why every artist does what they do, to connect. that connection is everything. that's the whole purpose. tavis: >> the book is called loco emotional memoirs and short stories." a wonderful collection. i think you will be able to situate yourself in the narrative. , congratulations, and i suspect we may see yourself in the future with another one of these. tell her we said hello. .hat's our show for tonight thanks for watching, and as always, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me

but stories like this came at a price. latest figures from the paris based reporters without borders, more and more star journalists are turning down assignments in syria allowing freelancers to accept the jobs. >> comparing freelancers to garment workers in bangladesh. there is a demand for sneakers and there are garment workers who are willing to be paid very little money to meet the demand. the reporters are doing the work but not happening in a safe way. >> in syria if you call the regime side or the rebel side, it is the same. you are strictly a foreigner. you have nobody to rely on if something happens. >> francesca bo she wrote a scathing critique on how the mainstream media treats freelancers. who are second class journalists who get paid meager wages. >> get paid a lot more money and i think there are examples of free lancers being sent into situations conflicts where they are not either adequately trained or particularly well insured. it is finances are so stretched, people going into conflict zones, in syria in

>> the syria story, you liked that story. >> i do. i think the most under reported story was syria and the devastation and tragedy going on there, the millions of people who have been displaced. it looks bashir will probably survive all of this but i think the mideast is in a position -- we're very close to seeing things explode to the extent that i still think there is a possibility that the terrorists will take over the suez canal and that will send the world's economic order into disorder. >> so i think you gave some good answers. bob, we'll let you stay. [ laughter ] >> thank you very much. >> he's so happy because i have some more obamacare thoughts. just to tant ill ize him. >>> so dana, let's talk about this. there is a gallop poll out talking before obama, clinton, most admired in 2013, did these numbers surprise you in terms of popularity and admiration given the tumultuous year obama had. >> president obama and secretary clinton are known the most, the one in the news the most. i would imagine that democrats find it hard to

the story is trying to connect him to the entire arc of the region. >> it's a story shared by about half the world. abraham's path will eventually wind through ten countries. our next stop is in the biblical land of canaan, which is now israel in the west bank. my guide on this part of abraham's path is abner goran and his archaeologist. >> if somebody is thinking of getting back to roots, coming back to be in touch with god, this is always the place. >> it's always kind of shocking to me that these immense stories, more than two, three billion people believe in, christian, jew, moslem. there's not a rock that connects them. you're an archaeologist. doesn't that trouble you? >> because i would love to hear more concrete about abraham. but i think that i can cope with the fact that archaeologists pool here. >> on the path, we met a young shepherd. as it so happened -- >> what's his name? >> abraham. >> ibrahim. abraham. the name of the biblical patriarch remains popular with all three faiths today. >> we have so much in common believing in the same father and being from the same family. a

24 story project. as you are well aware there is a fairly narrow standard for granting a rehearing request. by her own admission at the podium, miss hesser acknowledged there is no new information. she was just simply pointing to the discussion that you had at the last hearing discussion that she did not agree with as the reason to bring a new hearing. i don't think that holds any water under the applicable legal standard. i will say that, if we were in court, and miss hesser was to bring an appeal to without botherer to bring an address to what was delaying us taking up your time to be sanctioned because this was the board of appeals, we have no recourse, we have to accept delay after delay. i think it really undermines the integrity of the public process that complaints like this come before you and there is nothing that can be done to throw them out. it's not the way things should work. i hope you will vote to deny this request. thank you very much. >> thank you. i'm sorry, the people on that side o

more revelations edward snowden is not guiding the stories he handed over. a number of documents to me into other reporters six months ago he told us he hoped that we would use their own judgment has not tried and would not succeed in telling us what to publish what not to publish. and i'm going to keep at it for a while that's about all i think i want to say in washington d.c. same sucks. believe it or not we are now at the end of two thousand and thirteen it's been a monumental year to say the least this year we saw huge advancements on the plate for same sex marriage and the aftermath of a chemical gas attack we saw president obama threaten a u.s. strike on syria and most recently we saw the death of former south african president and international icon nelson mandela but while it's important to reflect on the events that have defined that this past year in history it's equally important to look forward so to talk about what we can expect next year and twenty fourteen artie's on a stasia churkin i sat down with gerald cilento he's the publisher of the tre

we take our biggest stories, our stories that we think have the most potential for impact and try placehem with other news organization every that can give them visibility to the rearedship that can cause the -- greatest impacts. impact. >> in october 2010, propublica partnered with five outlets, including national public radio and boston globe, and in 2011 the investigative outfit worked with the washington post for a story on the aftermath of the bp oil spill in the gulf coast and how people were profiteering through cleanup in the gulf coast. pro-publica has made its form work. welcome in a u.s. media landscape dominated by corporate media. the question is, will these organization is become parts of the corporate media them sestles? >> a company like amazon is going to have so many different items of business in front of lawmakers in any given year, they spend a huge number of years lobbying lawmakers, to have bezos help out amazon's interests will be enormous and something that will be watched incredibly closely. >> of course if you put billions of dollars into a new organization, y

and three stories here that is three and a half stories and then, add another story for this, for the back side. and then, on utah street, across the street, that is five and a half stories, and you actually have the six story building that is taller than the tallest building that is on the top of the hill. and, we just feel that this street cannot... sorry, this street... is what we are talking about. that is mariposa gardens and this is the former building that was there. okay. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, my name is michael hunter and i live across the street from this building project. one of my main problems with it is just because it is permanent, is it appropriate? >> and i think that the size is completely out of line with anything on the entire street of potrero except for general hospital which is the only other building that size on the street and the other thing is that the construction project of this size and type, could be at least a year. and, ambulances use the street every day, all day long for emergency routes, and a construction site can only load in on th

the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5pm et / 2pm pt only on al jazeera americavo) al jazeera america we understand that every news story begins and ends with people. >> the efforts are focused on rescuing stranded residents. (vo) we pursue that story beyond the headline, past the spokesperson, to the streets. >> thousands of riot police deployed across the capitol. (vo) we put all of our global resources behind every story. >> it is a scene of utter devastation. (vo) and follow it no matter where it leads, all the way to you. al jazeera america. take a new look at news. the anger all one sided? i hear rumblings from the people who cover the heat that the heat are not in love with players in the payer side, there is real hate here. >> there better be. they can really mess it up for them. when they dislike there, yeah, i think there is dislike but they've got the bravado. they got their chests out. it's still their game. but that's where the home court advantage is important, this game is important because miami used game seven to advance to the championship. they

it is an emotional story.all the things this person went through and then he can't enter the promised land. so my son starts to get weepy. >> how'd you comfort him? >> i said we're here to tell the story. that's the comfort, actually. there's certain stories in story telling like greek myths that capture our imagination over time. it's hard to imagine a future in which they're not told. >> indeed, the story of moses at mount nebo echoes even in our own time. it is the story of a leader who's taken his people as far as he's able to go and who leaves him with the only thing that will sustain them. faith and the justice of their cause. >> i see god working in the 20th century. >> martin luther king who's been called the american moses gave this speech the night before he was assassinated. >> like anybody i would like to live a long life. >> martin luther king saying that just before he died as if it was a premonition. i mean, you must have thought of that a lot. >> of course i've thought of that a lot. i thought

now, there are other stories.are related to the babb lonian destruction of the city in 536 b.c., that maybe somebody spirited the ark out of the city just ahead of the destruction. >> reporter: many believe these underground tunnels were used to secretly transport the ark out of jerusalem when the city was under siege. and when the babylonian invaders took detailed inventory of the treasures they plundered something was missing. >> the babylonians took all the treasures from jerusalem, it was not in the list anymore. >> the ark? >> yes. the ark was not in the list. >> there are all kinds of possibilities as to where it ended up. >> reporter: so we went in search of it. one famous story suggests the ark was taken from jerusalem to egypt, hundreds of years before the babylonian siege began. >> that's where indiana jones goes and looks for it. we're told that sheshaq of the bible, an egyptian pharaoh, that he may have attacked jerusalem just after the time of solomon. >> yes. around about 980 b.c. >> and there is one

winkler said if we run the story we'll be kicked out of china. the story still hasn't run.it's an example of the self-censorship that news organizations tolerate to stay in china. even that is at risk for bloomberg and the "times." i turn to jim sciutto serving as chief of staff to former ambassador to china gary locke. thank you for joining me. >> good to be here. >> this is a tense time for any journalist who lives in china, isn't it? >> visas are issues for a year. people are renewing in december and for a number of years it's been a tense time because some journalists have been rejected. not a new issue this year but it's gotten worse. there's an impression among journalists there that it's a pressure tactic. if coverage isn't to pleasing of the government, they may not get their visa and that's proven true for some journalists who are rejected but are invited into the government office for a sit down and talk to say perhaps in the future these might not be the kinds of things you want to cover. this has been going on for a long time and it causes some real tension ther

ub wanted to share this on this woman's story you will get to one side of the story of these big one is of the field guide does that mean they can try to depict a dvd that the locus of data showing me up off the atrocities on them and holding the color from the can hold a fork. well was dry but since i didn't mean to be in good shape though it seems like home. she is a victim of one of the ummah states that happen in the negation that kind of ohio did you know you better look ahead to wednesday's you know those of eating too much and i must say this but suspected flow in the film is awful moments alone with the movie is actually you know it's it's a different kind of a screen. it's our one story then. oh and as the most of my sentiments new zealand's to them. and i was on ovals and it's kind of feel like you said that kindness is so shoot was to go on one side of this salsa is in the villages. then there was something happening with the students something happening with intellectuals and something happening with that now i must go of. in the entire movie is your basic sore eyes. what

so i'm able to weave her story in to a much broader story including, unfortunately, the assassination of medgar evers which was also part of the project. >> host: mrs. mulholland, what inspired you to get involved in the civil rights movement in 1963? >> guest: well, i've been involved since 1960, but what really brought me to the movement was going to sunday school and singing about jesus loves the little children, red and yellow, black and white and memorizing those bible verses, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and judge not that you be not judged. and then in high school we had the declaration of independence, we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. we had to memorize the whole thing. and i felt like we were a bunch of hypocrites. but as a white southerner, i felt that when i haded the chance to do something to make the south the best it could be, i should seize the moment, and it came with the student movement in the '60s. >> host: and how old were you when you were participating in the sit-ins? >> guest: 18. college freshman. >>

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you won't hear the story. so yes, i want to hear that story. right? i mean, i'm busy dealing with abraham lincoln's gayness. i'd love to hear the story. [applause] >> it's an amazing story, one of the best is a lot of parts of the family insists that he -- that he escaped and one of the aliases he took on was john wilkes. now if your name is john wilkes booth and your alias is john b. wilks, you're the worst alias maker of all time. there is one point where the american public is paying real money they mummified the body, it said. people go to the carnival and pay money to see this mummified body of him. it is said mummy and john wilkes booth and the play, i love this. so i have been lucky enough to see these stories and investigative stories and what we did was we did this book, "history decoded: the 10 greatest conspiracies of all time." i need a volunteer from the audience. does anyone have a copy? this is a test for you. this is a test to see your love for me. the best part is my relatives are in this audience and their they're like, please don't

bill weir, i love that story.sh him luck wherever he lands. >>> now we take a quick break here but i have something you definitely want to see when you come back. you know america has a weight problem? what you may not know is what cnn is doing to fight it with apparently our own resident brit here, piers morgan sweating it out in a studio just next to me. don't miss this. to help communities recover and rebuild. for companies going from garage to global. on the ground, in the air, even into space. we repaid every dollar america lent us. and gave america back a profit. we're here to keep our promises. to help you realize a better tomorrow. from the families of aig, happy holidays. and our giant idaho potato truck is still missing. so my dog and i we're going to go find it. it's out there somewhere spreading the good word about idaho potatoes and raising money for meals on wheels. but we'd really like our truck back, so if you see it, let us know, would you? thanks. what? where their electricity comes from. they fl

tribute, the story of apartheid on "inside story." >> hello, i'm ray suarez.he world said goodbye and thank you to nelson mandela in an emotional memorial service in a stadium in johannesburg. southern africa, home to some of the most important mineral deposits were racked by civil war pitting sides against each other. murdering political opponents at home and in exile. what south africa follow angola and mozambique in civil war with its large population and decades of bitterness, it created the potential of being the most dangerous of all. on this edition of "inside story" we'll be discussing nelson mandela and the process of negotiation that kept south africa from tearing each other apart. dignitaries, family, friends, and south africans of all color, thousands of mourner poured into the soccer stadium to celebrate the life of nelson mandela. >> to the people of south africa, people of every race and every walk of life, the world thanks you for sharing nelson mandela with us. his struggle was your struggle. his triumph was your try you triumph. in through sp

stay where it's not story. but if this guy like you would smear that guy's stead of working for the people most issues in the mainstream media we're pretty much on the bridegroom's vision. of the drug. incarceration nation where the law does jailers in the world is it working when i start practicing thirty years ago a ten or twenty year sentence was a big deal now you can win in court and you get ten twenty thirty years people are given sixteen years for less than unifying factor folks so we're locking up and in this country is beyond race beyond anything is that we're locking up an alarming number of poor black folks a large number of poor latino four and a white folk or locking up a poor to twenty one people make money in the system every time someone is arrested there's money being made off of the blood sweat of people who don't belong in prison plus we have to humanize the people that we're locking up in this country if they just become numbers and just become race groups and just become for folks we forget

over the centuries, other c stories were written about jesus.nown as the y apocryphal gospels. and surprising to many there is another book that tells about jesus. >> the story of jesus and his virgin birth. >> reporter: amir hussein, professor of religious studies, california state university. >> and muslims believe, just y like christians do, that jesus was born to mary, who is a virgin. and mary, interestingly enough, is the only woman who's o mentioned by name is the koran. actually is mentioned more by name in the corinthian in the new testament. >> of the four new testament gospels only two feature the nativity story. the gospeluk according to luke tells of the roman emperor augustus caesar's census and thu journey from nazareth to bethlehem and jesus' birth where he's wrapped in swaddling clothes, laid in a manger because there's no room in the inn. but in the gospel according to matthew there is no mention of a seine susz, a journey, an inn or a manger.ef joseph and mary are already living in bethlehem. and some details in matthew, the s

but others draw a sense of mission from the very same story. a few days after we visited jericho, our team was invited to the graduation ceremony for jonathan fredeland and his cadets. >> just like joshua and his troops came to israel and had their battles here and were able to live here, i'm just continuing it just like my brother did it and my father did it and my grandfather did it. it goes back all the way to the bible days. >> they had marched 175 kilometers overnight. a journey that ended here in the disputed golan heights along the syrian border. the cadets' families joined them for the final stretch. >> joshua used a sword to conquer from jericho. nobody picked up their bags and said, dear, joshua, god promised you. here it is. >> historians trying to piece together the truth think the meaning of the story is less clear cut. >> one of the problems we've got is that it's very difficult to tell an israelite from a kanenite. >> they think dna testing will show that they might go back to the same ancient. >> they are one of the same. not on

story of the year. i think that the health care act has its quirks and it has its problems, but it is an effort to improve the country and the country's health care system. but the nsa surveillance and what it means to all americans is overwhelming. i don't know how they will ever get a hold of it. it is like there is an underground government that has been operating without any oversight and we have seen the tip of the iceberg and i don't know how we can take care goal iceberg. that is the top different perspective on our society story of the year as far as i am concerned. susan fromthat is sarasota, florida. independent caller saying that it is edward snowden and the leaks of an essay surveillance program as the story of the year. ryan in new orleans, democratic caller. what do you think, ryan? caller: i think that president obama is the story of the year .ecause he came with obamacare i think he is the story of the isr and i think the south the worst of the year. the people of the south are the worst

cards they really tell the story of somebody who risked his life and paid the price for this story or you know reporters have a role to play in coverage like this of communicating to frighten and terrified nation is you know from that your reporting that day how chaotic it was and how hard it was to report. any person who comes to washington must come here. you know i think it's a really you know we tell the biggest stories of our lives here at the newseum as reported by the journalists who are on the front lines of history. tearing down. this is rather. this is the berlin wall. it is the side that faced freedom these are real pieces of the berlin wall and behind it guard tower that stood there checkpoint charlie the guards had to pull themselves up by ladders they didn't have it to for security reasons so there is a system of ladders that they would use to get up to the top so this whole thing was filled with. trenches and razor wire and you know this wall was the only wall ever built to keep people in not to keep people out and the story right on this side of the because it faced th

in a way they feel like they are part of the story, impacting the story, that has been a big drive foraving source material like game of thrones that is telling a great story. it helps with that immensely. >> did you get response from potential customers who want to interact not only with the story, but want to learn about the plans for the future, that demand the story go in a certain direction? ,> part of what we do is really, we focus on the way you experience the story. like any good story, it is going to go a lot of directions. major plot points happen. we allow players to experience the narrative in a way that people want to experience. they are investing in the characters they are meeting by choosing how they behave around them, what they say to them, what actions they take towards them. the characters in the remembering that. and they are coming back to the users. and now they have the relationship with that character. if i said something nasty to a character in the first episode, when they show up in episode two, they may not give me the rope when i fall off the cliff. the use

then came the media side of the story. at least 51 journalists, local and international, accused of beating them, and not a single arrest charge let a loan a conviction. >> that amount of journalists who suffered and beaten had never happened in the ukraine and nobody was ever punished. >> as the victims said the cruelty of riot police representatives increased when press representatives said please to not beat us. we are from the press. and their rivals said, i will show you the freedom of speech. >> it is difficult for me to say whether they were specifically targeting journalists put the police had a specific task to do that. those who intentionally put themselves in danger and were down in the rallies, the police didn't differentiate between them and the protestors. they were beating absolutely everyone. >> the reporting of the story on ukraine's state owned channel, persi nationalne, few ukrainians watch that channel. like corporate media in the west they are owned by oligarchs. and divided in their coverage. ukrainia