. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the newshour tonight, b.p. unveiled a new plan to capture more oil from its blown-out well. we look at the federal government's authority to compel the company to pay damages. >> woodruff: plus, we get some perspective on what the president can and should do about the disaster from michael beschloss, kathleen hall jamieson, and jonathon capehart. >> suarez: then two stories about minerals. margaret warner looks at the discovery of huge untapped deposits in afghanistan. >> woodruff: and kira kay reports on the hunt for the rare earth metals that are key to green technologies. >> the first step in the supply chain for the green world is the mine. people who have knee-jerk reaction, mining is evil, mining is bad, mining is is dirty, then forget green. your world will be black. >> suarez: and jeffrey brown takes us to a one-man show about the life and legacy of supreme court justice thurgood marshall. >> there was a time in this country in, you know, many states not far from where you and i sit that we could not ha

ray suarez has the story. ( cheers and applause ) >> suarez: it all started today with a joyous celebration. for the next month, teams from 32 countries will battle over what is often described as the most coveted sports prize on the planet. along with the players, fans from around the globe are descending on south africa to support their teams and countries. it's the first time any african country has hosted the games, and south africa's worked hard to get ready for its close-up. >> it is a point of pride and an honor, as well. it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to show the world what we can do, not only as south africa, but as the african continent. >> suarez: at the south african embassy in washington, d.c., spectators were jubilant at the start of the first match. the host country's team took on mexico. more than 80,000 packed the stadium in johannesburg, including bishop desmond tutu. >> unfortunately, there was a tragedy in the mandela family. >> suarez: his country's best known personality, nelson mandela had planned to attend the opening game, but the former president's great-gr

ray suarez recently spoke with her. >> suarez: building an afghan military has been one of the central policies of both the bush and obama administrations. progress has been slow and uneven. a new documentary, camp victory, afghan, chronicles american national guard units and their work with an afghan corps commander and his troops in the western part of the country. flim maker carol dysinger, a professor of graduate film and new media at new york university's film school spent an extensive amount of time in afghanistan between 2005-2008 and joins me now. you got in , well, on recruiting day. to be able to chronicle the life of an army from day one is a pretty amazing experience. >> yes. well, it was an amazing experience. i was very lucky to have the time to be able to sit there . i think the advantage i had and the access i got came from the fact that i could be there for so long and film for so long. sfaurz you make the. >> suarez: you make the point almost from the opening frames of the film that this is more than just getting young men to join the army. this is something starting

ray suarez has our coverage. >> suarez: if you own beachfront property, should you be company said if the government moves the ocean further away? if you text at work, on an office cell phone, do you have a right to privacy for those messages? and how many board members do you need to make a ruling stick at the national labor relations board? the u.s. supreme court is coming to the end of its term, and joining us to explain these rulings, our eyes and ears at the court, marcia coyle of the marcia, let's start in florida where beach front property owners ended up with beach view property when an anti-erosion projected ad a lot more distance to the beach. what were they asking for in court? >> well, they went to court because they felt that what the state was doing here was, in effect, a taking of their private property. and under the constitution, they felt they had a right to be justly compensated for that. ultimately, the florida supreme court ruled against them. it found that they really didn't have a property right in what was happening to the beach here and there had been no takin

tonight ray suarez looks at the growing problem of obesity. >> suarez: china's economy is getting bigger. an amazing 9 to 10 percent a year even during a worldwide recession. china's cities are getting bigger. vast department complexes rise from land cleared for rebuilding. there's a constant hum of construction cranes and motion across the horizon. china's middle class is getting bigger. better educated. better paid. millions of new consumers flock to the new shopping centers, freed from the hard physical habor of their parents and grandparents. all that change has consequences. the chinese are getting bigger too. and fast. the new england journal of medicine reports that 19 million people in china are now obese . while the small percentage of overweight people here still falls well short of america's epidemic, china's rapid rate of increased obesity, 30 to 50% annually, that's six to ten million more each year has alarmed health officials. in the course of just a few decades, china has moved from being a society with a fear of periodic famine to one with a rapidly rising rate of obesit

ray suarez has that. >> suarez: researchers reported progress in the treatment of breast, skin, lung,and ovarian cancers at a major cancer conference this weekend. for a summary of some of the top findings from the annual meeting of the american society of clinical oncology, we turn to the group's president, george sledge. he is a breast cancer specialist and professor of oncology at the indiana university cancer center. he joins us from chicago. dr. sledge let's begin with lung cancer. a big killer. and investigations into the effectiveness of a drug called crsatanid, what do the results show? >> this is a fascinating result. in the past we have treated patients with nonsmall-cell lung cancer with kbijss of chemotherapy and these combinations benefit some patients but not most. now investigators have been able to detect a gene mutation for what's called a fusion gene in a fairly small number of lung cancer patients, about five percent. that when you treat the patients with a drug that blocks this particular gene product, you get stupendous results. somewhere around 70% of patients wi

ray suarez begins our coverage. b.p. managed to install a cap on the damaged wellhead last night, designed to greatly reduce the flow. still, as the hours passed, oil continued to burst from the sea floor a mile below the surface. company officials said the visible leakage was expected. b.p.'s doug suttles: >> but what you're seeing on tv is there are a series of four vents on the top of this cap, which actually let oil out the top, and we'll be successively closing those vents as we bring the production up that. i'm actually pretty confident this is going to work. it probably won't capture all of the flow, but it should capture the vast majority. and i think we'll know that over the course of today. >> woodruff: one early estimate was that 42,000 gallons per day were being collected, but up to 20 times that much oil may be escaping every day from the out- of-control wellhead. by this afternoon, another b.p. executive said it would take "a few days" for the cap to get to "peak efficiency." while that operation continued,

supreme court and the court issued its decision today. >> suarez: and what did it say? >> there were two important parts to this case. the first part of it was that the beach front property owners had argued that a judicial decision could be a taking of private property. this is something that never... the supreme court had never faced before, usually when we think of a taking of private property, we think of a city, a state, a government unit. but what happened a court... what about a court decision? four justices said, yes, a court decision can be a taking. but four other justices-- there were only eight today because justice stevens recused himself-- said "we don't have to decide this issue to decide this particular case." unanimously they decided that there was no taking in this case, that these property owners, they had a right to land that was added gradually and imperceptibly. they didn't have a right to land that was added suddenly. say by a hurricane or, as in this case, by the state dumping sand that had been dredged elsewhere. >> suarez: now, the legal idea o

in our opinion, the wrong one. >> suarez: the u.s. and others dismissed the fuel swap with brazil and turkey because iran would be allowed to keep enough material for a nuclear weapon and continue enriching uraniumed. in washington, president obama spoke after the u.n. vote. he said this day was not inevitable. >> we know the iranian government will not change its behavior overnight, but today's vote demonstrates the growing cost that will come with iranian intransigence. now, i want to be clear-- these sachkzs do not close the door on diplomacy. iran continues to have the opportunity to take a different and better path. >> suarez: the new sanctions would be the fourth set imposed on iran since 2006, but in receipt days, independent upon reporting showed the islamic republic has evaded previous sanctions by using extensive smuggling operations on banking sleight of hand. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad denounced this latest vote as valueless. he had already indicted the u.n. tuesday. >> ( translated ): the security council is th

. >> suarez: we've seen the work that south africa has done. how much is it costing the country? >> it's costing south africa approximately $6 billion in just stadium construction and renovation. it's taken ten stadiums to put this tournament together, and that is just the cost of bringing those up to standard and, in some cases, just building them from scratch. so it's a substantial amount of country with the size of the economy south africa has. >> suarez: in such a poor country with such a tremendous gap between rich and poor, is there a national debate over whether this was worth doing in the first place? >> indeed, and it will go on for a long time. these are things that are debate in much richer countries as well. that is to say, the virtue of holding such events and what they bring to the host country. now, this, of course, is the very first time that such a huge event-- the world's largest sporting event-- is held on the continent of africa and in terms of the intangibles, what it brings to this continent, that is where people see benef

ray suarez has the story. >> suarez: for months the obama administration has been work behind the scenesto persuade the chinese government to adjust its titlely controlled currency the yuan. there had been some hope of movement before a major summit next weekend, but today, positions seemed to harden. white house spokesman bill burton said the global economy would be better off if beijing allowedded the yuan to rise in value. the chinese vice foreign minister responded saying china's currency is not an issue the international community should discuss. to help decipher what's happening and what's at stake we're joined by fred bergsten, the head of peterson institute of international economics. well, the white house didn't release this in some obscure communique. a spokesman said it to the corps on air force one, getting an immediate response from the vice premiere in charge of organization for the g-20. >> president obama sent a letter yesterday to all the heads of the g-20 countries indicating a number of changes in economic policies, including in the chinese currency. the problem is tha

>> suarez: well, i'm not a doctor and i don't even play one on t.v. you can see that people are better fed than they were at an earlier time in chinese history. it was common to see adults who were of larger stature than their own parents who they accompanied on the street. and had children who looked like they were on their way to being larger than they are. china gets a better-than-average diet. better than the one set by the u.n. as the base point for being properly nourished. so you're watching a country that's getting richer and has the chance of getting healthier at the same time. >> suarez: one of your pieces, of course, was about smoking. has there been any connection wean the rise in smoking or the prevalence of smoking and cancer? >> well, yeah. chinese smoke more than they did 20 and 30 years ago. they have more money to smoke. and smoking products are more available. about a million people die of smoking-related disease in china now and public health officials are looking for that doubling and tripling in the decades to come and they're pr

ray suarez talked with her from kabul earlier today. >> suarez: jean mckenzie, welcome. recent action represented the largest nato one-day loss of life since last year. are taliban fighters were active than they've been in previous months? >> i think that would be a pretty accurate assessment. the taliban has declared an offensive called the victory. they have warned that they are going to step up their attacks. i think that that's what we're seeing. there were five nato soldiers killed the day before. at least three were killed today. so we've seen 20 soldiers lose their lives over the past three days. of course, there are more soldiers in afghanistan now than there were because of the u.s. troop surge. this is also contributing to the rise in casualties. we have more boots on the ground in more dangerous places. that, combined with taliban's new aggressiveness is making life very difficult. >> suarez: there was also violence around the peace jirga, the conference of 1500 tribal and political leaders that meant to discuss president karzai's efforts to reach out to the t

>> suarez: well, i'm not a doctor and i don't even play one on t.v. you can see that people are better fed than they were at an earlier time in chinese history. it was common to see adults who were of larger stature than their own parents who they accompanied on the street. and had children who looked like they were on their way to being larger than they are. china gets a better-than-average diet. better than the one set by the u.n. as the base point for being properly nourished. so you're watching a country that's getting richer and has the chance of getting healthier at the same time. >> suarez: one of your pieces, of course, was about smoking. has there been any connection pralenf smokg andsmoking or the ?anc chessmreoke mothey did th havmo moneyo smoke. aning d smokucts areore availablpele df smg-relad dise chinaanpublic hes e okinfo d trlingn the decades co and they're what heart disease? s of heuesy,emnd t disease beusthe eavivery h plud roent in tho placed urban, more affluent, mo going n those . rorted... y ies th hltcareof yrst emsystgring ne

. >> suarez: the u.s. and others dismissed the fuel swap with brazil and turkey because iran would be allowed to keep enough material for a nuclear weapon and continue enriching uraniumed. in washington, president obama spoke after the u.n. vote. he said this day was not inevitable. >> we know the iranian government will not change its behavior overnight, but today's vote demonstrates the growing cost that will come with iranian intransigence. now, i want to be clear-- these

. >> suarez: well, professor, allegation we saw today, the commander of u.s. forces and nato forces in afghanistan serves at the pleasure of the president . but doesn't that person also have many other constituencies? is there repair work that now has to be done with nato, with the countries that were derisively talked of in the "rolling stone" article? >> well, you bet. the nato coalition is frag, and the intemperate remarks about some of our nato partners that were attributed to general mcchrystal's staff certainly aren't helpful. the other question is the one person in the af-pak account that had a decent relationship with president karzai was, in fact, general mcchrystal. and it will be interesting to see what approach general petraeus takes to dealing with karzai. one could argue that karzai's been more of a problem than the solution. and so it seems to me that what we ought to hope for is not a continuation or better implementation of the counter-insurgency strategy but, rather, some fundamental changes. and i think one of them has to do with our relatio

ray suarez visits the 2010 shanghai world expo. >> reporter: it's china's latest big thing. like the olympics, only twice as expensive. 150 nations, 70 million fair-goers, held in the biggest city in the world . it's the expo in shanghai, the latest world's fair. mingzheng shi is the director of new york university in shanghai. >> china wants to show off, show off to the world that china is now in the league of the family of nations because in the past, expo was only held in developed countries. this is the first time that a developing country is doing it. so for the great mission of getting china up there in the world of families, is a big, big deal for china. >> reporter: $4 billion spent directly on the fair. more than $50 billion spent to improve the city's infrastructure. shanghai has bet big on the fair but it's not alone. china's trading partners have built elaborate pavilions, going to great lengths to boost their image in china. ted fishman is an author specializing on the chinese economy. he says by creating expensive exhibits, countries wishing to court china's st

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. >> ifill: tomorrow, ray suarez moderates an exclusive "newshour"/google/youtube conversation with b.p. executive bob dudley. find out how you can submit your questions by visiting our web site, newshour.pbs.org, or you tube's citizen tube page. you'll be able to watch live online on our web site and on you tube at 3:30 p.m. eastern time. and we'll air excerpts on tomorrow's "newshour." >> brown: still to come on the "newshour": ambassador holbrooke on mcchrystal and afghanistan; elena kagan's third and final day of testimony; the oil spill's impact far below the surface and a poet who lives on the u.s./mexico border. but first, with the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan in our newsroom. >> sreenivasan: the u.s. house moved today to approve a compromise bill, reforming financial regulation. it would be the most sweeping rewrite since the great depression. but democrats and republicans were divided on whether the bill would prevent another financial meltdown or simply burden the public. >> the purpose of the wall street accountability bill is very clear. never again should

race relations in the united states with remarks from pbs news our correspondent race juarez -- ray suarez. sunday, agriculture secretary tom vilsack talks about real economic issues and foreign policy. he is interviewed by ellen ferguson of "congressional ferguson watch "news makers" tomorrow on c-span. >> everyone has an agenda. as long as you know what their agenda is, that is the story you can write about. >> of the pastor, brody mullins has written a series on lawmakers overseas trips funded by taxpayers. he is our guest sunday on "q&a". >> next, vatican analyst john allen discusses the future of the catholic church. he spoke about the papacy of benediction xvi, how the church is dealing with sexual abuse cases, and whether the church should involve itself in foreign affairs. from boston college this is one hour 20 minutes. >> good evening. john, thank you for that extraordinarily generous introduction. although i know, particularly being here at boston college in such an extinct -- distinguished academic community, is profoundly committed to the quest for truth. i still obliged to of

. >> public television's ray suarez recently talked about race in america. the correspondent talked about his experiences. from durham, n.c., this is about 55 minutes. [applause] >> for the record, i am not a lawyer. i am not a political scientist. i am not a social lot -- sociologist. as a reporter, i am a member of the craft that is expected to be bits of all of these things and after the fact, usually judged to have died badly. i am flattered to be asked to be at this conference after a career that auks -- are so great period of tremendous change in the united states. i had been given an unusual access to people at their best and there worse. as they talk themselves into being. bounce off of events that they are witnessing or living through and talking to me to make sense of it. it is a privilege and one that is especially handy when trying to understand how race operates as a variable in this country. it is also a peculiar experience to do this all as a reporter who is identified in public as a latino of some sort. when people take me into their confiden