for the pbs newshour, i'm william brangham. dr >> wf: stay with us, coming up on the newshour: making are reinvesting in their own stocks. and renewed attentio minority casting in hollywood sparked byhe blockbuster hit "crazy rich asians." but first, today saw another esslation in president trum trade war with china, with the united states imposing 25% tariffs on nearly 300 more chinese goods; beijing responded immediately. many of the u.s. tarif target china's hi-tech industries, part of the "made in china 2025" initiative, which aims to transform china from theorld's factory into a global innovation leader. as special correspondent katrina yu reports, the plan's critics say it harms american companies and the international market. >> reporter: an army of robots, dancing to coded choography. these automated entertainers are on display in beijing at an expo showcasing the latest in chinese consumer technology. a.i.: artificial intelligence, medical devices, transport; these are just some of the ten sectors that make up the country's technology master plan, "made in chiit 2025," an int

is for the pbs newshour, i'm william brangham at angola prison. >> woodruff: as we reported earlier, lawmakers gathered in the nation's capitol today to honor arizona senator john mcin. leaders from both parties spoke fondly of their colleague but few in washington were closer to him than his longtime aide, mark salter, who is also known as mark salter, welcome. we're so sorry for your loss. >> thank you. >> woodruff: you were also known as his altergo. >> yeah. >> woodruff: incredible outpouring for the senator this week, mark salter, from one end of the wasn't to the other. were you surprised b that? >> yeah, a little bit, and the b family'n very moved by it. maybe an hour after his death was announced, we left sedona for phoenix. the roads were lined, already. ethere was a h crowd at the top of the hill. people alongside of the interstate, overpazs, signs, flags,ands o their hearts, very touching. it's that way, every time t motorcade moved through phoenix, the streets were lined with people. they stood in line to pay their respects in the state capitol in the rotunda for hours an

as william brangham reports, mollie tibbetts' case has now been seized upon by the president and his party. >> brangham: mollie tibbets was a 20-year-old college student from the university of iowa who, back in july, went out for her usual evening run. she never came home. for five weeks, her family and local authorities seared everywhere. they setup a website for tips; police c interviews.reds of but then, on tuesday morning, authorities discovered tibbett's body in a co field covered with leaves. the man who'd taken police to the spot, 24 year old christian rivera, is now charged with r murder.ev rivera is belied to have entered the u.s.llegally from mexico. he lived in a neighboring town and worked at a local dairy for esral years. while rivera's arrbrought some sense of closure to the tibbett's family, the tragedy o her deatis also being used as a rallying cry against illegal immigration. hours after the ws broke, president trump brought up tibbett's murder at a rally in weginia: >> you heard about today, with the illegal alien coming in from, very sadly, from mexico.wh and you s

william brangham was in the courtroom. >> brangham: paul manafort is the first of the defendants charged by special coul robert mueller to go to trial. ruile mueller's investigation focuses mostly oia's attempts to meddle in the presidential election, and whether the trump campaign colluded in that effort, this trial against manafort will largely focus on alleged financial imes that happened before the election. manafort is accused of working as an unregistered lobbyist for several pro-russian politicians in ukraine, people like former ukrainian president viktor yanukovych. prosecutors allege manafort laundered the income from that work, some $30 million, using shl companies and offshore bank accounts in cyprus, the seychelles, and st. vincent and the grenadines to hide the fact that he was bringing that money into the u.s. to fund his own .avish lifestyle and when that income stream slowed, prosecutors allege that manafort lied to banks, get access to millions of dollars more in loans.ai he's up t five counts of filing false tax returns, four igunts of not reporting fo financial account

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> brangham: good evening, i'm william brangham. judy woodruff is on vacation.ew on the nour tonight, huge fires continue in california as crews work around the clock ande evacuated resints seek shelter. then, after weeks of violent escalation along the israel-gaza border, egypt attempts to broken as the u.s. gets older, a look at the effort to provide better training for home health care workers. >> if they could do more they would be more productive, that would justify better compensation for them whichd woulan that more people would enter into the market and we will be able to avoid the shortages that we will inevitably fe as the baby boom ages.ra >> bngham: all that and moreon tonight's pbs newshour >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> babbel. a language app that teaches real-life conversations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and more. babbel's 10-15 minute lessons are available as an app, or online. more information on babbel.com. oa>> and by the alfred p. foundation. supporti

our william brangham has been ih court foe key moments, along with today's closing j arguments and ns me now. how are you doing, willi >> great. all right, let's talk about the prosecution first here. this is the sday toift together two weeks of testimony and evidence. what's the heart of their case here? >> ist just as you say, complicated series of crimes ort purposed man traitd and they try to boil it down to basically two things, lions andade mil millions of dollars while he was a political consultant in ukraine, he stashed that money in overseas bank accounts and hidn't want to pay taxes on it, so he hid it frome government. then when that income in about 2014 dried up, the prosecution alleges that he went to a bch of u.s. banks, lied to them to get more money to keengp fun what they argued was this very lavish lifestyle. so that's the essence of the gument. the key phrase today was the erosecutor said he lied to keep more money, he d to get more liney. manafort's money itered with lies. >> so what about the defense? they rested the whole case without clling a single witness. how

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i'm william brangham. judy woodruff is on vacation. on the newshour tonight: a new chapter for sofi. the story of a little girl reunited with her family afterek of separation. plus, beyond charlottesville. one year aft the deadly protests, we step back and as followed that white nationalist rally. and,t's friday. david brooks and ruth marcus break down a packed week of political news. all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by:

captioning sponsored by newshour pductions, llc >> brangham: good evening, i'm william brangham. judy woodruff is on vacation. on the newshour tonight, huge fires continue in california as crews work around the clock and evacuated residents ek shelter. then, after weeks of violentti esca along the israel-gaza border, egypt attempts to broke and,e u.s. gets older, a look at the effort to provide better training for home health care workers. >> if they could do more they would be more productive, that would justify better compensation for them which would mean that more peopled woter into the market and we will be able to a the shortages that we will inevitably face as t. baby boom ag >> brangham: all that and moreht on tonig's pbs newshour

captioning sponsor newshour productions, llc >> brangham: good evening, i'm william brangham.udy woodrf is on vacation. t onhe newshour tonight, in ohio and kansas, it's too close toca ll in two closely-watched races. we breakdown what the latest election results reveal about what's to come in november. then, an exclusive club-- a new report sheds light on how members at mar-a-lago are influencing how president trump runs the dartment of veterans affairs. and, an inside look at a new earthquake warning system and what it could mean for people living in high-risk areas. >> we believe we can prevent half the injuries. we can reduce nksses. we tt's a great cost- effective measure. >> brangham: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour

. >> woodruff: william, pick up on that. >> brangham: judy, as you were saying, it is correct, and the president has long said mr. manafort's case was not about russia, but in some ways it is absolutely about russia. none of these charges had to do with his time working on the campaign. the belief is that robert mueller thinks paul manafort has some information he wants for his larger investigation, and by prosecuting paul manafort and getting these guilty pleas, he might be able to turn him or extract that information out. now, it's important to say, we have no idea whether paul manafort has any relevant information. we know he was on the campaign during the early stages. he was there at that infamous trump tower meeting. but we just don't know what information is there. but that's the $64,000 question. what does he have? and is this an attempt to squeeze him to get that information out. >> woodruff: and, in fact, he's facing, william, another trial coming up in the next couple months on another set of charges that do have a closer relationship to the mueller investigation. >> yes, th

in a moment, william brangham will talk wi a reporter from zimbabwe, but first we get the latest from the capital, harare, from jonathan miller of independent televisionews. >> reporter: "if you sell out," they chant "yowill see that we are very dangerous." it's a threat, directed at the head of zimbabwe's electorate atmmission whose promised the will of the people will not s subverted. they think that'lie. well you can see what's happening here. there's a lot of anger on the streets and the result of the presidential election hasn't even been called. so far, with the parliamentary results coming it, it looks like a zanu pf landslide. if these people are denied what they consider their victory, itl e chaos. should you not wait until you have an actual result? >> no, no we are not going to wait for that. >> reporter: the movement for democratic change already smells a rat. mugabe stole elections. they are not going to let that happenhis time and are convinced the results are rigged. we moved with the surging crowdo s were thrown into the compound of the ruling zanu pf party and this wa

former federal prosecutor jessica roth roth, now a professor at shiva university, and william brangham, who has been covering the manafort trial.bo thank yo. >> you're welcome. >> thank you. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, the trump administration veiled its plan to reverse president obama's coal pollution rules. the environmental protection agency's new proposal would weak restrictions on carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants andive states more control over regulations. we'll have more on the impact of the e.p.a.'s rollback right after the summary. microsoft said it had iled the latest attempt by russian hackers to infiltrate u.s. politics ahead of november's midterm elections. the tech giant announced that it had removed fake versions of the websites of the u.s. senate and two conservative think-tanks, a so-called "spear phishing" campaign it said was mounted by the same russian group responsible for meddling in the 2016 election. kremlin spokesman dmitry peskov denied that russia was behind the attack. >> ( translated ): we do notck know what s are talking about. we do

but as william brangham reports, francis is now facing an accusation that he, himself, turned a blind eye to a case of misconduct involving a prominent cardinal. >> brangham: the accusation comes from carlo maria vigano-- the former senior vatican diplomat to the u.s. in an 11-page letter released this weekend, vigano claims pope francis knew several years ago-- and ignored-- allegations against the former washington d.c. archbishop, cardinal theodore mccarrick. mccarricwas accused of sexually harassing and abusing young adult seminarians, as well as sexlly abusing two boys decades ago. mccarrick resigned last month. in his letter, which offered no evidence for the accusationab t the pontiff, vigano urged pope francis to step down. cisterday, in response, fr told reporters to read the document carefully and judge it for themselves. joining me now is dennis coday, an editor for the "national catholic reporter." is, thank you for being here. this is a very serious allegation made by the former ambassador by the vatican. how seriously should we take this>> ell, i think the pope is t corr

newshour's william brangham was in court today and has that. >> esbrangham: that star wi was rick gates, a long-time associate of paul manafort's, who also worked on the trump campaign. gates is now cooperating with special counsel robert mueller's team and, yesterday and today, offered detailed testimony about manafort's alleged financial crimes, which involve hiding foreign income and bank fraud. the defense today sought to portray gates as an unreliable witness, highlighting how he too allegedly hid income, lied to prosecutors and even carried on a secret, extra-marital affair. i'm joined now by seth b. waxman, he's currently a criminal defense lawyer in e practice and previousl worked as a federal prosecutor at the u.s. attorney's office in washington. welcome to the newshour. >> thank you. >> brangham: so rick gates testified yesterday and again today, laying out really the arc of the prosecution's case, all these alleged financial crimesrt that paul manaallegedly carried out-- bank fraud, hiding income, trying to avoipaying taxes. thus far, what do you make of the prosecution'case

as william brangham reports, this election-- and the process byhich the votes have been counted-- have sparked protests and violence.ra >>ham: even before officials began announcing election results-- ...both sides were claimingvi ory in the presidential race. and, both sides were bracing for more violence. people are in fear, too much about what happened yesterday. because what the army did, i think it's bad, i think it's bad. ( gunfire ) >> brangham: soldiers opened fire yterday on crowds in the streets of harare, the capital,a killing at l six people. they were protesting the official announcement that the long-time ruling party, known as "zanu-p.-f.," had won a majority in parliament. supporters of the "movement for democratic change" chanted, burned tires and hurled rocks. they claimed "zanu-p.-f." was ying to steal victory. >> they tried to forge it. th tried to do their own things. so the people have come to fight s.r their rig >> brangham: police first fid tear gas aater cannons. then, the army appeared on the streets for the first time since long-time president robert mugbabe

but as william brangham reports, these extreme conditions are prehrvalentghout the american west and, in much of northern and western europe; now are causing many to point the finger squarely at the impact of climate change. >> brangham: firefighters in california were already stretched to the limit by the carr fire near the town of redding, but then this weekend, 150 miles south, the mendocino complex fire exploded in size, burning now over a quarter of a million acres. it's become the second-biggest fire in california history. >> in this particular location, its burning somen our favor, but in other areas, it is not in our favor whatsoever. >> brangham: it's been devastating fire season for california -- and n r other westates, where roughly 85 large fires are burning simultaneously-- allrbated by a widespread years-long drought that's created prime, dry fuel for these blazes. at least eight people have died, including two firefighters. thousands have bn evacuated across california, washington, arizona, colorado, and utah. >> i'm waitiprobably break down in a minute here. pretty ov

as william brangham explains, this comes amid report the trump administration has also tried to get white house staffla to sign siagreements. >> brangham: these non- disclosure agreements arely increasiommon in the corporate world, but far less so in government. tthe trump campaign allegt manigault-newman is violating the agreement with her recent accusations that the president is a racist and is suffering a ment decline. mark zaid is an attorney who specializes in national security and these kinds of contracts. welcome back to the show. >> thank you. ngham: for people who are not familiar with what these n.d.a.s are, generally speaking, what are they for? >> sure. an n.d.a. is a non-disclosure agreement. it's a confidentiality agreemeen red into by two or more parties to set terms as to what can be discussed going forward. and it may have a set term in life or it could be as actually this document says in perpetuity. that omarosa, if she signed it, and apparently she did, that she is not allowed to disparage trump, his family, his businesses during the service of the campaign and then th

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