margaret warner has been in moscow all week and filed this report. >> warner: vladimir putin is out on the stump making a pitch to get back his old job, president of russia. as the month-long official campaign season here closes in on sunday's election, the prime minister is favored to win, and big enough to avoid a run-off. term limits forced him to cede the presidency four years ago to dmitri medvedev. but now, he's back in full presidential wannabe mode on state tv non-stop as he criss- crosses the country. and he's everywhere here, too-- on the banners of an opposition movement that's sprouted in a few short months. thousands formed a human chain in central moscow last sunday to call for "russia without putin" >> i believe 12 years of mr. putin is too much for russia. >> warner: opposition stars mustered alongside ordinary citizens young and old in a defiant yet jubilant display unthinkable just a few years ago. environmental activist evgenia chirikova has blossomed into an opposition leader. >> ( translated ): it's a clear cue for mr. putin that a crook and a thief has no place in

margaret warner has been covering the story for us from moscow. >> warner: putin strode into his campaign headquarters after midnight buoyed by winning a third term as president and six more years as russia's preeminent leader. putin took a victory lap by satellite with managers and workers at a euro mountains met ats factory. amid thanks for their support he took shots at the protest movement that broke out after december's disputed parliamentary election. >> you put in our place those who dare to insult the working people. you showed what a real russian working man is. you showed that you are... they are good for nothing chatter boxes and it became the biggest present for me. >> warner: that present was celebrated tonight at a jubilant pro putin concert outside the kremlin gates. while a half mile away, passed a riot-ready contingent of police and military, the opposition gathered at pushkin square to denounce putin's election. >> putin's victory is unfair. he could have won in a fairer fashion but he preferred to use fraud. that's why we do not accept his victory. >> warner: election a

margaret warner has that story. >> warner: the 30-minute video was posted on youtube monday and quicklyral. the work of the non-profit group invisible children, it purports to document atrocities committed by militant joseph kony and his lord's resistance army in uganda and central africa, beginning in the 1980s. >> for 26 years, kony has been kidnapping children into his rebel group the l.r.a., turning the girls into sex slaves and the boys into child soldiers. he makes them mutilate people's faces and he forces them to kill their own parents. and this is not just a few children, it's been over 30,000 of them. >> warner: more than 38 million people had viewed the video on various web sites. it features invisible children co-founder jason russell explaining kony's actions to his son, gavin. >> he has an army and what he does is take children from his parents and gives them a gun to shoot and what he does is make them shoot and kill other people. >> but they're not going to do what he says because they're nice guys right? >> yeah, they don't want do what he says but he forces them to do

. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the "newshour" tonight, we get two on-the-ground reports from i.t.n.'s jonathon rugman in toulouse and steven erlanger of the "new york times" in paris. >> brown: then, at the supreme court today: high-impact decision plus arguments over a confrontation with then-vice president dick cheney. we talk with marcia coyle of the "national law journal." >> warner: for our american graduate series, betty ann bowser reports on a boston school, where early intervention for students with learning disabilities is producing lower drop-out rates. >> if we want kids to graduate from high school, that having a and for kids with significant learning disabilities, providing accommodations for reading a writing are critical. >> brown: ray suarez examines new studies showing a daily dose of aspirin may prevent and even treat cancer. >> warner: and gwen ifill talks with two senate veterans-- new mexico's jeff bingaman and maine's olympia snowe about their decisions to quit. >> brown: that's all ahead o

margaret warner is in moscow and spoke with one of russia's leading activists. thousands of russians took to the streets protesting what they charge was fraud in weekend parliamentary elections. among the leaders, 35-year-old lawyer and anticorruption blogger alexei navalny. he coined the now popular description of prime minister have had a here putin's united russia party as the party of crooks and thieves. navalny and others were arrested on the first day of those demonstrations, but by christmas eve he was out and speaking to an even bigger anti-putin rally. all this has brought white-hot focus on this coming sunday's presidential election as putin seeks to reclaim the top office. though polls show navalny is the most popular of the opposition figures, he's not on the ballot, but he stayed active with a campaign branding putin as a corrupt autocrat with his widely red live-journal blog of government corruption exposeeÉs and with a new project to enlist volunteers to monitor polling places this sunday. i spoke with alexei navalny at his office in moscow. thank

margaret warner has more. >> warner: now 71 years old, the former vice president has a long history of heart troubles. he's had five heart attacks since the age of 37, and has received virtually every kind of medical intervention available, from stents to bypass surgery to, most recently, an artificial heart pump. he waited 20 months for the new heart he got saturday, somewhat longer than the average. and he's older than most transplant recipients. a cheney family spokeswoman said he is awake and talking and doctors are pleased with his recovery so far. some 3,100 people are currently on the waiting list for a heart transplant. about 2,000 can expect to receive them each year. for more on all this, we turn to dr. allen anderson, a transplant cardiologist and director of the heart transplant center at university of chicago department of medicine. and dr. anderson, welcome. let's start first of all with.... >> thank you. >> warner:... how unusual is it for a 71-year-old with mr. cheney's heart history to get a transplant? >> i don't think it's that unusual anymore. it used to be unheard

margaret warner has that story. >> warner: one year after the syrian uprising began, violence continueso rage. this amateur video today in homs showed four men digging through rubble amid heavy gunfire and explosions. elsewhere, rebels ambushed an army truck, killing two soldiers, north of hama and in aleppo, syria's largest city, gunmen killed two army colonels in a downtown traffic circle. earlier this week, the northern town of saraqeb fell to the military, leaving destroyed buildings and vehicles-- the latest in a series of rebel defeats. global post reporter james foley witnessed the fighting there on saturday. he spoke todayy phone from turkey. >> the city was attacked, strongly on the first day. the attack basically pushed the free syrian army out of the city. they came back in early morning but syrian army tanks were much more and had a much stronger presence around the city. so again the free syrian army escaped and by the third day almost everyone was out of the city and we heard reports that the army was going house to house checking to see who was on their wanted list. >> wa

margaret warner has the story. >> warner: the updated guidelines allow the national counter-terrorism center to keep any information gathered about americans or u.s. residents much longer, even for those without suspected ties to terror. the nctc, as it's called, was founded in 2004 as a clearinghouse for intelligence agencies to help "connect the dots" among the massive amounts of information collected by the nsa, cia, fbi, the pentagon, and other agencies. the director of national intelligence, james clapper, and attorney general eric holder announced the changes in a statement released yesterday. the revisions permit the nctc to retain and continually assess data for a period of up to five years. the previous limit on storing, before ultimately destroying, such information had been 180 days. obama administration officials say the new longer timeframe will expand the center's ability to analyze data and identify terrorist threats. the announcement said changes do not give the government any new powers for collecting information. left unclear is the kinds of information on americans

margaret warner has the story. >> warner: much of the new information coming from pakistani interrogations of bin laden's youngest wife, a 30-year-old yemeni who sustained a gunshot wound to her leg the night bin laden was killed. the interrogation report first disclosed by the pakistani newspaper "dawn" shows bin laden ask his three wives were living in pakistani cities and towns for nearly all the time the americans were hunting him after the november 2001 invasion of afghanistan. amal ahmed abdul far,et told interrogators from 2002 to 2010, bin laden moved among five houses and fathers four children in the northwest city of peshawar near the afghanistan border. the small town of haripor in the same region and from 2005 on, in abotabad. fatah and the two older saudi widows of bin laden are under house arrest at the capitol. for more we turn to dexter walsh in islam, and "washington post" columnist david ignatius who has written widely on pakistan and has had access to some of the documents found in bin laden's last house. welcome to you both. deckland, beginning with you, the picture tha

which is more than what time warner was before the merger. and then the next couple of years after that on the third or so, that is not a success. [laughter] >> what happens when you're in a company that happens, that causes tremendous -- think of all the pressures and strains on the good and bad behavior in a political organization like the company. you throw that into it, and really tests everybodys personality had relationships and confidence, and so from the management wondering who in the hell was responsible for this, up to the board, which came from both the original company's come to put a strain on everybody it's been interesting. >> as to the difficulty of running the company are their role models you tried to follow, people that you really admire that have run the companies and have done well? >> i didn't know many of them personally. succumbing yeah, i've had -- the way i think of that life had so many mentors throughout my time at time warner, and i think, i'm not acquit to name names on this but even some of the people that ran

if you were concerned because aol was valued equal to time warner, time warner had companies making $7 billion or $8 billion. the question was, will these internet stocks justify those valuations? will they grow into the always harder to tell internet future? aol or a yahoo and put it with a content company, what is that going to do? what is the point of that? what became clear at aol and yahoo and msn is that it is not that easy to rationally connect an internet service with somebody new makes movies, tv shows, magazines. it is not clear what that connection is. >> that deal is behind you. you are still a major magazine publisher. what is the future of magazines in the era of technology? why are you still in the magazine business? >> you hopefully read these every day. that is the content business. it is some entertainment. think of style and celebrity magazines. we have news at time to people with celebrity. all of those are strong with readership. magazine readership is holding up. it is migrating to the web. it is migrating to your tablet. if you pick up in the tablet in you canm a