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>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: storm clouds settled over the capitol, as lawmakers continued to hunker down in their positions with the government shutdown entering its seventh day. good evening. i'm judy woodruff. gwen ifill is off tonight. also ahead this monday, a key al-qaeda operative captured in libya is being interrogated by the u.s. after twin raids against terrorists in north africa over the weekend. and from pakistan, a story of setbacks and even bloodshed in the push to wipe polio off the map. >> the polio campaign began to stall thanks to epic floods. >> political turmoil and religious extremists who thought the

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>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: storm clouds settled over the capitol, as lawmakers continued to hunker down in their positions with the government shutdown entering its seventh day. good evening. i'm judy woodruff. gwen ifill is off tonight. also ahead this monday, a key al-qaeda operative captured in libya is being interrogated by the u.s. after twin raids against terrorists in north africa over the weekend. and from pakistan, a story of setbacks and even bloodshed in the push to wipe polio off the map. >> the polio campaign began to stall thanks to epic floods. >> political turmoil and religious extremists who thought the polio-- fought the polio campaign with guns and rumors. >> woodruff: those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and

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>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: two major human rights groups reported today dozens of civilians have been killed by u.s. drone strikes abroad, contradicting obama administration claims such deaths are rare. good evening. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. also ahead this tuesday, the latest jobs numbers, delayed weeks by the shutdown, paint a lackluster employment picture. there's just no evidence that we're going recover the way we were before the wall street implosion and ensuing recession. >> ifill: plus, a traditional ally puts the u.s. on notice, as saudi arabia criticizes the obama administration for fang

>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. >>> back to "newsline." i'm yuko aotani in tokyo. here are the stories we're following this hour. americans and tourists feel the impact of the u.s. government shutdown as lawmakers remain divided over a bill to keep funds flowing to national agencies. >>> the asian development bank slashes its forecast for growth in the asia pacific. citing slowdowns in china and india and concerns about the u.s. monetary easing. >>> and a professional diver who spent years teaching people how to swim with their clothes on is finding a new purpose for his techniques after the 3/11 tsunami th tsunami disaster. >>> lawmakers in the united states are digging in their heels in a budget battle that partially shut down the federal government. republicans are standing by the decision to make an agreement with democrats contingent on delaying president barack obama's health care reforms. obama saying they're denying a ransom for just doing their job. >> they shut down the government over an ideological crusade to deny affordable he

>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> hold me accountable for the debacle. i'm responsible. >> woodruff: secretary of health and human services kathleen sebelius faced 3.5 hours of questioning on capitol hill today about the troubled affordable care act. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. also ahead this wednesday, an exclusive interview with senate republican leader, mitch mcconnell on the challenges facing his party, and on various political firestorms, including whether sebelius should resign over the botched health care rollout. >> i don't think albert einstein could make it work. it can't work, it won't work, and i feel sorry for her to have to be put in a position where she's trying to make something work out that won't. >> woodruff: and worries about pint-d

>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: president obama said there was "no excuse" for the problems plaguing the new health care web site, but defended the broader law. good evening. i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. also ahead this monday, a report from detroit on the battle back from bankruptcy, an effort to breathe life into blighted neighborhoods and struggling businesses. we're going to to be the neighborhood and be positive. >> on in china with pollutions levels 40 times the acceptable limit shut down a city of 11 million people. >> people walked out of their houses today, and thought that there was a

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>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. >>> welcome back to "newsline." i'm yuko aotani in tokyo. here are some of the stories we're following this hour. chinese authorities have launched an investigation into what was behind a deadly car crash in tiananmen square. >>> u.s. officials say they are conducting a review of intelligence gathering methods as new abuses come to light. >>> chinese university graduates are learning a hard lesson, all their hard work may not pay off. >>> police in beijing are trying to figure out what was behind an incident in one of china's most politically sensitive sites. a jeep plowed through a crowd on monday in tiananmen square. the driver, the two passengers and two passersby were killed. the jeep veered off a road, beside the square, crossed over barriers and crashed into a crowd. then it caught fire. microbloggers posted pictures online but soon after the pictures were taken down. authorities wiped the crash site clean of any trace of the incident. police keep tiananmen square under tight security. it's close to key politi

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>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: house republicans spent the day trying to derail a senate plan to reopen government and avoid default, but there's no deal yet. good evening. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. also ahead, the supreme court weighs whether voters can ban affirmative action programs. >> ifill: and jim lehrer is back to discuss his new novel about the kennedy assassination. kennedy. >> what if they had left, and would john f. kennedy have died on november 22nd. >> ifill: those are just some of the stories we're coveringn

>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> sreenivasan: congress ramps up a new fight, amid mounting criticism of the problems plaguing healthcare.gov, the website for the federal insurance marketplace. good evening. i'm hari sreenivasan. gwen ifill and judy woodruff are off. also ahead this wednesday, as the bankruptcy trial begins in detroit. jeffrey brown continues his travels with poet laureate natasha trethewey. >> poetry lives on your doorstep, like a baby in a basket waiting for a new family. >> sreenivasan: and visits a motor city school where poetry lives. >> this poetry really gets them truly motivated and excited. and i'm talking about my football players, my athletes, my basketball players want poetry. >> sreenivasan: and from the pacific northwest, a report on how climate change could be making the local shellfish toxic.

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>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: president obama today tapped former pentagon official jeh johnson-- a key architect of counter-terrorism policy-- to be the next secretary of homeland security. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. also ahead, a closer look at a skull-- nearly two million years old-- that could up-end what we know about the evolution of the human species. >> woodruff: and it's friday. mark shields and david brooks >> the first exploration outside of africa. and that's pretty mind blowing. >> woodruff: and it's friday. mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze a very full week of news. those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's "pbs newshour." >> major funding for the pbs ne

>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. >>> hello and welcome back to nhk world "newsline." i'm raja pradhan with the news from tokyo. >>> officials at japan's meteorological agency say they lifted the tsunami advisory for the east coast. it was issued a few hours ago after a 7.1 earthquake struck off fukushima prefecture. they issued a tsunami for five prefectures saying it reached some cities just before 3:00 a.m. japan time. a 40 centimeter wave reached a port in iwaki prefecture and one in kuji port. another reached ishinomaki in miyagi. officials say they lifted the tsunami advisory because sea level fluctuations became smaller. the power company observed a 55 centimeter tsunami just after 3:00 a.m. japan time at a port near the plant in miyagi prefectu prefecture. >> translator: the tsunami advisory has been lifted. we think slight fluctuations in sea level will continue for about half a day. we want people on or near the coast to exercise caution. >>> officials have lifted a tsunami advisory for the country's east coast of the they issued that a few hoursmagnitud1 s

>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. >>> hello and welcome to nhk "newsline." i'm ross mihara in tokyo. >>> government ministers from countries around the pacific have gathered to talk about the challenges their countries face and ways to cooperate. they're representing the 21 member states of the asia-pacific economic cooperation forum. they began by discussing trade and information technology products and how to eliminate tariffs. the ministers spoke about ways to comply with the world trade organization's information technology agreement. signatories are trying to eliminate their tariffs on i.t. products. chinese leaders are reluctant to abolish their country's tariffs on dvd players and video cameras. so ministers at the apec meeting said they'd work hard to find solutions and honor the terms of the agreement. >> translator: i think it's important for japan and u.s. to work together in taking initiative to scrap tariffs on i.t. products. representatives are also having one-to-one meetings. so we're moving in the right direction. >> ministers will continue t

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>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: national parks and monuments are closed, and hundreds of thousands of workers affected on this first day of a federal government shutdown. good evening. i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. there were few signs of a solution to the stalemate on capitol hill, but there was a flood of traffic to the government's new healthcare site. >> woodruff: on day one of the insurance exchanges, paul solman reports from massachusetts, which has had years of experience with them. >> it's the model for the state exchanges being set up under the affordable care act. some quarter of a million people now get insurance from nine private companies. >

>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: national parks and monuments are closed, and hundreds of thousands of workers affected on this first day of a federal government shutdown. good evening. i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. there were few signs of a solution to the stalemate on capitol hill, but there was a flood of traffic to the government's new healthcare site. >> woodruff: on day one of the insurance exchanges, paul solman reports from massachusetts, which has had years of experience with them. >> it's the model for the state exchanges being set up under the affordable care act. some quarter of a million people now get insurance from nine private companies. >> ifill: plus, ray suarez sits down with entertainment legend rita moreno as she looks back at the challenge of her first days as a performer. >> i wore too much makeup, and i did all of that "conchita lolita" stuff. you know, i wore very tight dresses and then would be offended when..

>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> i want to apologize to you that the web site has not worked as well as it should. >> ifill: under grilling by a house committee, a top government official concedes the problems plaguing healthcare.gov have crippled its launch. good evening. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. also ahead this tuesday, top intelligence officials before a separate house panel faced a barrage of questions about n.s.a. surveillance of u.s. allies. >> ifill: and one year after superstorm sandy, what american cities can learn from the netherlands, as they prepare for the next big storm. >> test test test for newshour. testing testing. >> you are quite surprised t

>> abc world news was invented by kcet los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: a dramatic car chase this afternoon started at the white house and ended at the capitol with reports of gun shots being fired. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. also tonight, the shooting came on day three of the government shutdown with negotiations at a standstill and a new, even more bitter fight brewing over the nation's debt limit. >> woodruff: and a troubling story about the pain of war, u.s. forces returning from iraq and afghanistan, only to battle addiction here at home. >> i thought the painkillers were okay because the doctors were prescribing them to me. if the doctors are giving it to me, i'm going to take it. >> woodruff: those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's "pbs newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supp

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>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions frustration is mounting in frustration is mounting in washington ... and around the nation on day four of the federal government shutdown... but there's no end in sight. good evening... i'm judy woodruff. also tonight... paul solman on a new high-tech alternative to the trusted greenback... a virtual currency used around the world to buy real things ... >> bitcoins are generated, or mined, by computers // but what makes this strictly computerized currency // worth anything at all? >> woodruff: and it's friday... david brooks and e.j. dionne are here to analyze the week's news... those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided

"abc world news" was presented by kcet captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: the leaders of france and germany demanded talks with the u.s. to resolve a dispute over the wide reach of n.s.a. spying. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. also ahead on the program, paul solman treks into the woods, with new yorkers who weathered superstorm sandy a year ago, determined to survive if an even bigger disaster were to strike. >> it made you step back and look at everything and say, "wow, i need to be prepared." >> woodruff: and it's friday. mark shields and david brooks are here, to analyze the week's news. those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's "pbs newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by:

>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: attention zeroed in on the senate today as the top democrat and republican signaled progress in reaching a deal to end the shutdown and avoid a default. good evening. i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. also ahead this monday, a dispatch from pakistan on one group's mission to improve access to education. >> many children don't attend school in pakistan and on average girls are half as lookly as boys to be enrolled. >> woodruff: and we remember the late author oscar hijuelos, the first latino ever to win a pulitzer prize for fiction. >> i never thought i would be a writer growing up, i certainly never thought that as a kismted and even when a lot of peop

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>> abc world news was invented by kcet los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: a dramatic car chase this afternoon started at the white house and ended at the capitol with reports of gun shots being fired. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. also tonight, the shooting came on day three of the government shutdown with negotiations at a standstill and a new, even more bitter fight brewing over the nation's debt limit. >> woodruff: and a troubling story about the pain of war, u.s. forces returning from iraq and afghanistan, only to battle addiction here at home. >> i thought the painkillers were okay because the doctors were prescribing them to me. if the doctors are giving it to me, i'm going to take it. >> woodruff: those are just some of s

>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. i'm worried that this kind of leakage may occur again. >> he said he wants tepco to send personnel from other power plants to assist with the work at the fukushima plant. >> i'm terribly sorry for the mistakes we have made. we mishandled the leaking wastewater, and that is affecting the environment. >> he said tepco had recently changed its system for managing contaminated wastewater and that workers had not yet learned to use it. he said he would deploy every possible resource to deal with the problem. tepco had found they had pumped too much water into a tank causing it to overflow. hundreds of tons of tainted water build up at the factory every day. the decontamination system they're hoping to use has suffered another set back. >>> plant managers say an alarm went off on friday morning saying something was wrong with the alps system. they're trying to figure out ha happened. they resumed the system last friday but it has been shut down on monday. a rubber mat was clogging the drain

>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: house republicans made an offer today to push back the debt-limit deadline, without ending the government shutdown. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. gwen ifill is off. also ahead this thursday, a closer look at the winner of this year's nobel prize for literature. alice munro-- the master of the contemporary short story. and in bosnia, disputes over a census in a society still scarred from a brutal ethnic war decades ago. >> losing numbers is perceived as a threat and a possibility for being dominated by other ethnic groups. >> woodruff: those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's "pbs newshour." >> major fundg

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>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. >>> welcome to "newsline." here are some of the stories we're following this hour. >> workers at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant are work ing to to make storage tanks for more rainwater. >>> drivers have raced across australia. their only fuel -- energy from the sun. >>> a powerful storm is sending workers at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant into a race against time. they need to make space to collect rainwater tainted with radiation. the storage they have is already full from recent heavy rains. a typhoon hit the compound last week. and forecasters say another could hit japan's pacific coast this weekend. regulators have given their approval to move the rainwater to three underground pools. the pools can store up to 9,000 tons of water. workers with tokyo electric power company discovered earlier this year that some pools of the same kind have given up leaks. sense then they've been pumping contaminated rainwater into hundreds of tanks above ground, heading to the basement of a turbine building. but man

>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: the supreme court heard arguments over campaign finance today, in the biggest case involving political donations since "citizens united" three years ago. good evening. i'm judy woodruff. gwen ifill is off tonight. also ahead, an exclusive interview with white house counterterrorism adviser lisa monaco, on the heels of the weekend raids in libya and somalia. and from new york city: >> i want to make the new facebook, and that's what i'm going to do. >> woodruff: a profile of a program training today's high school students to become tomorrow's tech entrepreneurs. those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour.

>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: talks today between the white house and republicans showed small signs of progress. mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze efforts to end the shutdown and avoid a government default. good evening. i'm judy woodruff. gwen ifill is off. also ahead on the program, this year's nobel peace prize went to a little-known chemical weapons watchdog hard at work eliminating syria's stockpiles. and margaret warner sits down with malala yousafzai-- the 16- year-old pakistani shot by the taliban on her way to school, now an international voice for education. >> god has given me this new life for the cause of

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>> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. >>> it's time now for "newsline." i'm keiko kitagawa in tokyo. here are the headlines. >>> workers at the fukushima daiichi plant are seeing more and more effects from a leak of contaminated water. >>> china's economy has powered ahead, accelerating for the first time in three quarters. >>> and foreign residents in japan are helping tourists get a deeper experience of the country and its way of life. >>> the people in charge of the feek shoe ma daiichi nuclear plant have another challenge on their hands. tokyo electric power company officials say the leaks of the water are expanding. they detected a sharp rise of radioactivity in groundwater in a monitoring well. >> reporter: workers at fukushima daiichi seem to have a new challenge on their hands every day. more than 300 tons of contaminated water leaked out of a storage tank in august. and they've been dealing with the effects ever since. some of the water may have flowed out through a ditch and into the pacific ocean. workers dug a well about0 meters from the tank