macarthur foundation -- committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation -- dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america -- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. if i told you that sovereign powers were about to put a toll booth on the street that leads from your house to the nearest interstate, allowing your richest neighbors to buy their way to the open road while you were sent to the slow lane, you would no doubt be outraged. well, prepare to scream bloody murder, because something like that could be happening to the internet. yes, the internet. your internet. our internet. the electronic public square that ostensibly allows everyone an equal chance to be heard. this democratic highway to cyberspace has thrived on the idea of "net neutrality" that the internet should be available to all without preferential tre

macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. when david suzuki was born, his japanese-canadian father worried that his son's diminutive size would put him at a disadvantage in the world. so he named him after little david of the old testament, the young warrior who slew the mighty philistine giant goliath and became the king of israel. suzuki's father would live long enough to realize with pride that his son had lived up to his name. david suzuki has become famous around the world for using science to fight the predatory giants who ravage the earth for profit. >> i can tell you everybody who looks at that knows in the pit of your stomach this is wrong. you do not treat mother earth this way. >> now he's

committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. >> narrator: over the past three monthfrontline's james jones has been traveling to ukraine. he's found himself on both sides of the conflict, witnessing the resurgence of hatreds dating back decades between fellow ukrainians. >> (chanting): russia! russia! >> narrator: watching as the former soviet country veers to the brink of civil war. it's provoked one of the biggest confrontations between russia and the united states since the cold war. >> jones: it was late february when i came to the capital, kiev, to independence square, where protesters were demanding the ouster of president viktor yanukovych. widely criticized as a corrupt leader, he had rejected a trade deal with the european union in favor of one with hi

val vista park is one of two verdant parks with purple irrigation system. reshaped water. >> it's a fabulous way the kids play on a beautiful lawn and it helps us save water. the fields just the beginning. water strapped pleasanton revealed plans. to be sustainable we have to use the water we have. in four weeks they finalize plans for a expansion of recycling. initially to irrigate next year. but possibly the year after for homes. drinking reclaimed waste water. it would go in the ground water and you could drink it in the regular system. >> technology is here, when you get over the yuck factor, all of our water is recycled. >> i'm hoping the drought will get rid of the yuck factor people have. >> pleasanton shares the treatment plant disposing millions of the gallons in the bay. >> to make the water safe for human consumption and irrigation. >> now to be using recycled water for my drinking water, that scares me. the state is expected to change rules in two years to allow treated sewage for drinking, if it started it last year pleasanton may not have mand

macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the wyncote foundation. and by tfrontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler, and a grant from scott nathan and laura debonis. major funding for this program is provided by the kendeda fund. >> narrator: this is the story of three seemingly disconnected events beginning at the same time. what they each have in common is a type of infection that is becoming impossible to treat... a type of infection that has triggered deadly outbreaks, even at one of our most prestigious hospitals. it is a crisis that is spreading alarmingly fast, threatening everyone, even the healthy. (siren blaring) our first story starts in tucson, arizona, in may 2011. >> when i think about that time, i think about spring... and just, you know, how busy it was and how beautiful she was. she was 11 and a half years old and jus

macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from john and jo ann hagler and additional support from chris and lisa kaneb and bill and cile hicks. >> narrator: hong kong, may 2013. nsa contractor edward snowden was holed up deep inside the crowded kowloon district. he chose hong kong, he would say later, because he trusted the chinese would not betray him to u.s. authorities. before leaving his home in hawaii, he had downloaded a huge store of top secret files from the nsa's internal networks, and he had sent many of them through encrypted channels to a few journalists he trusted. two of them, glenn greenwald of the guardian and documentary filmmaker laura poitras, came to the mira hotel to meet him. greenwald and poitras wanted to be sure snowden's story was rock solid. and they needed t

macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. last week, the scientist david suzuki was here to tell us what he thinks should happen to politicians who ignore or deny evidence that the earth is heating up. >> our politicians should be thrown in the slammer for willful blindness. if we are in a position of being able to act, and we see something going on and we refuse to acknowledge the threat or act on it, we can be taken to court for willful blindness. i think that we are being willfully blind to the consequences for our children and grandchildren. it's an intergenerational crime. >> the problem is, if that should happen, if politicians were to be convicted of willful blindness to the fate of the earth

macarthur foundation -- committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at

macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from john and jo ann hagler and a grant from millicent bell, through the millicent and eugene bell foundation. >> narrator: the biggest leak of government secrets ever began in december of 2012 with a single email delivered to an ip address in rio de janeiro. >> glenn greenwald, one of the world's busiest journalists, is sitting in his home in rio, and he sees an email from someone he doesn't know-- it's not a friend, it's not his mom-- and it just says, "i've got some stuff you might be interested in." >> he didn't use his name, and he said very cryptically and very vaguely that he had information that he wanted to discuss with me, but could only do so if i were to install encryption. >> narrator: guardian newspaper columnist and blogger glenn

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committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world.e information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: the u.s. military has stepped up the search for more than 270 school girls kidnapped in nigeria. president obama told congress today that 80 troops are being deployed to neighboring chad. they'll help with intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance flights over northern nigeria. the islamist group boko haram abducted the girls last month, and today, its fighters killed 48 people in three northern villages. yesterday, bombings in central nigeria killed 118 people. >> woodruff: there was heavy new fighting in libya today, amid fears of growing chaos. the combat came near a main camp and military barracks outside tripoli. this morning, fires were still burning from midnight rocket attacks that killed two people. about 200 people were ev

committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world.ation at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: ukraine's military suffered a blow today when pro- russian rebels shot down a helicopter, killing at least 12 people, including a general. a plume of smoke could be seen rising above the wreckage near slovyansk. ukrainian officials said rebels used a portable anti-aircraft rocket to bring down the helicopter. meanwhile, russia demanded again that ukraine's government call off its military campaign. >> ifill: it's back to square one in the hunt for a malaysian airliner that vanished march 8th, with 239 people on board. officials announced today they've finished searching 330 square miles of the indian ocean seabed off western australia, and there's no sign of the wreckage. and, it turns out, they've been looking in the wrong

committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world.e information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: the chair of the federal reserve offered a hopeful assessment of the economy today, coupled with words of warning. speaking at a congressional hearing, janet yellen said things are picking up after a long, hard winter. >> many suggest that rebound in spending and production is already underway put knowledge the overall economy on track for solid growth growth in the current quarter. when cautionary nortena readings on housing activity a sec tore that has been recovering since 2011 have remained disappointing so far this year and will bear watching. >> ifill: yellen also said the job market remains "far from satisfactory", and told lawmakers the fed has no intention of raising short-term interest rates any time soon. on

committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: americans paused today to remember the men and women who gave their lives in service to the country. president obama marked the day with a visit to arlington national cemetery and the tomb of the unknowns, where he laid a wreath. memorial day falls in the midst of a widening scandal about the care of military veterans at v.a. hospitals. president obama said the u.s. owes its veterans the care they need. >> as we've been reminded in recent days we must do more to keep faith with our veterans and their families and ensure that they get the care and benefits and opportunities that they've earned and that they deserve. these americans have done their duty, they ask nothing more than that our country does ours. now and for decades to

committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world.e information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: the death toll kept rising today in the coal mine disaster in turkey, and so did the anger. at least 274 miners were confirmed dead, with up to 150 others possibly trapped, after yesterday's explosion and fire. dan rivers of independent television news filed this report from the scene. >> reporter: grief is slowly replacing hope in soma. each emerging stretcher bears a miner and the faith of a family, for more than 24 hours this harrowing scene has played out, wives straining to see the face of each man, some recoiling in horror at what it means. the brothers and friends of those missing scream in frustration, their anger barely contained. this pitiful suffering has gone on for more than 36 hours and still the number of

committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: european banking giant "credit suisse a.g." admitted today it illegally helped wealthy americans dodge taxes. the bank entered a federal plea deal and agreed to pay $2.6 billion in penalties. it's part of a crackdown on foreign banks allegedly hiding u.s. taxpayer assets offshore. a.t.&.t. pledged today to "redefine the video entertainment industry" if it's allowed to buy satellite t.v. provider directv. the deal, valued at $48.5 billion, would create the nation's second largest pay t.v. operator. comcast and time warner cable would be the largest, under a merger proposed in february. both deals are subject to federal approval. british drug maker astrazeneca has rejected a final $119 billion takeover offer from amer

committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world.e information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing supportç of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs thank you. >> ifill: parts of the west spent this day after mother's day digging out from a late winter snowstorm. the system dropped wet, slushy snow across wyoming and colorado on sunday, and continued into early today. accumulations of nearly three feet forced much of interstate 80 in southern wyoming to shut down. the storm also spawned minor tornadoes in nebraska and forced flash flood watches in oklahoma and arkansas. >> woodruff: the taliban launched a spring offensive in afghanistan today, as promised, killing at least 21 people. attacks were scattered from jalalabad, where taliban fighters stormed a governmentç building to a checkpoint in helmand province, where gunmen killed nine policemen. and to kabul itself, where rockets landed inside the perimeter of the

committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: fresh fighting erupted in ukraine today, in a key city seized by separatists who want to join russia. that followed a weekend of violent confrontations. we have a report from james mates of independent television news. >> the picture is unclear. the battlefield spread across the suburbs of the separatistist sub hold of sloviansk. >> they are believed to be returning from an am bush against ukrainian solliers that left four soldiers dead and 30 wounded. the separatists themselves suffer casualties, this man lying wounded the. ukrainian claims they killed 20 but no prospect of confirming these numbers. the biggest blow to the ukrainian forces is there is another one of their helicopters has been shot down. this is sai

see, but we were showing pictures of separatist troop formations that are walking through some very verdantuburban landscapes. the situation is getting much worse on the ground. a differentin it is story. ukraine and russia seem to be inching towards a deal on gas. what more can you tell us about that? is very promising. the russians that together with berlinans yesterday in for talks mediated by the european union. they drafted a tentative deal that still has to be approved by their respective governments by tomorrow evening. it ukrainians would agree to give the russians $2 billion by the end of this week and another half billion dollars by the end of next week. 2.5 billion dollars in all of the $3.5 billion debt for russian gas. if they do that, the russians have said they -- there would not be any supply cut. of course, june the third is the deadline of ukraine's pay up, otherwise russians said they will turn up the supply. the sticking point, and there still is a sticking point, is that ukrainians are saying we want to negotiate the future price that we will buy gas from russia before