have been blessed to have that work produced in new york, going on to the edinburgh festival, the warsaw theater festival. to me, those are great things when you can watch artists who think there is nowhere else that might be interested in you being a woman of color and telling your story and then getting excited about it. that is our biggest accomplishment. having artists have become better artists. what is. sheri coming back to brava, here you have this establish, amazing writer who has won a clue -- slew of awards. now she gets to director and work. even though she is this amazing, established writer, the truth is, she is being nurtured as a director and is being given some space to direct. >> the play is described as ceremony and -- where ceremony and theater me. in the indigenous tradition, when you turn 52, it is like the completion of an important era. the importance of the ceremony is to say, you are 52. whenever you have been caring for the first 52 years, it is time to let it go. really, here, they have given me carte blanche to do this. i think it is nice for me, in the sense

and look to the north, things are cold still, berlin with 3, warsaw at 2. that is a look at your world weather, here is a look at your extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour, i'm gene otani, from all of us here at "newsline," thank you for joining us.

check out what's happening in warsaw. double figures. moscow around the freezing point but that's a big improvement and just in the space of 24 hours. should be feeling the benefits of that. i'll leave you now with your extended forecast. >> north korean military leaders are raising the stakes in their ongoing show of defiance against south korea and the u.s. they are vowing to scrap the >>> british police have gotten some help from a comic super hero. a man dressed as batman handed over a criminal suspect then vanished without revealing his identity. police say the man showed up in the wee hours of the morning last week at a police station in the central city of bradford. he brought in a man suspected of theft and fraud. the super hero is a bit chubbier than the batman of legend. police say the caped crusader told them i've caught this one for you and then disappeared into the darkness. >>> we're back in 30 minutes with more of the latest. i'm gene otani in tokyo.

. >> o'brien: bob fontana invited us to come to one of aspen's showcase offices in warsaw, indiana. here we met dentist kurt losier, who owns the practice at this aspen-run office. >> so, ted, you're saying you're having a pretty significant toothache on the bottom left. when's the last time you saw a dentist? >> about ten years ago. >> okay. >> o'brien: ted collins is a typical patient-- a truck driver with no dental insurance. he came in because of intense pain in two teeth. but dr. losier tells ted that he has problems with almost all of his teeth. >> let me take a look at them real quickly now, okay? and, buddy, they are loose. i would advise that what we would do is, we'll do an upper denture. there's just not much of a way around it at this point. >> o'brien: aspen specializes in dentures and makes them right in the office. >> here we go. here we actually make a number of different types of dentures, which is really complicated. we organize them based on a warranty that we give them. and my manager will run you through the details on them. from my perspective, my goal would be

the official anchor of bricks the way the soviet union really was the official inker of the of the warsaw pact and comic-con it is the dominant economic force china has a problem because and i agree with in the asia pivot means that a greater and greater part of the u.s. navy is a long china sure's the korean peninsula is a tinderbox because of course in the west they say it's because of north korean provocations but the u.s. and south korea is really provoking the situation with endless war games china is in a very precarious position as the united states also cements its relationship military relationship with japan so brics will be seen by china as another avenue as an alternative possibly as a shield against sort of a unilateral focus by the united states against its own development you know so do you think more countries will join this group i think potentially we will see more countries joining this group i think for the time being the brics will probably take a pause and will try to structure and crystallize the process of integration in the next several years but then potentially

. >> this is cardinal nitche of warsaw.s pretty clear fairly soon in the general congregation what was called a consensus of esteem was building around cardinal ratzinger and the first vote in which he got repeatedly almost an absolute majority sealed the deal, if you will, made it clear which way this was going. >> do you think there's some unity, though, in the direction that they all want to go in terms of the type of quality that they feel the church needs most at this point in its history? >> i think there's a consensus that a pastor with some charisma is what is needed put a face on the catholic church. this is cardinal thomas collins of toronto will be the next man to swear the oath. there's also real concern that the vatican machinery needs to be fixed. >> george, we're just going to pause here for a moment to allow other stations to join our coverage. you're watching coverage of the papal conclave about to start on nbc. >> lester holt in rome. you're watching nbc live coverage of the election of the pope. these are