Most acclaimed singers, the grammywinner Angelique Kidjo we transform africa, completely, by educating more women. Because we need new leadership. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. And friends of the newshour. 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 the sear for the missing malaysian airliner may be getting warmer nearly three weeks after the plane disappeared. The australian Maritime Safety authority, amsa, shifted its focus almost 700 miles to the northeast today, and planes quickly radioed in new discoveries. John sparks of independent television news, reports from perth, australia. Reporter the search for any sign of the missing malaysian aerials mh370 has been lifted 11 kilometers to the
Frances government now says that talks on a ceasefire to end the crisis in Eastern Ukraine will begin in a few days this is afternoon the first facetoface meeting between the russia president Vladimir Putin and the new ukrainian leader petro pair shiancoe. The two met in france where leaders from around the world are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the dday landings Barnaby Phillips was there and sent us this report. Reporter he was a significant outsideing in the gathering the mainly western regions, Vladimir Putin whose country did more than anyone to defeat the nazis but is now in a bitter dispute with the west over events in ukraine. In fact he met briefly you cranes president elect Petro Poroshenko and even discusses a ceasefire. It will take much more than this to resolve the crisis in ukraine, but any contact between these two men must count as good news. It was the german chancellor Angela Merkel who has been working hard to bring russia and ukraine together. Germing anys
This is real money. Hit me up on facebook. Com ali velshi. Its all about location. We usually bring you new national job numbers, that the government puts out every month. But the Labor Department also compiles figures at the state and local levels and this week we got new job figures for 372 metropolitan areas, all across america, for april. While we reported earlier this month that the National Unemployment rate, were going to make that real small because we think this is not as revolt t relevantto the conversation, fell, which ever number you use, 5. 9 or 6. 3, jobs are coming back, unemployments going down but where youre looking for a job matters. Take a look at these metro areas marked in red. These are locations where local jobless rates were larger. Big urban centers in the northeast. Chicago, new york it will places like that. The great lakes and southern california, had local rates that came in higher than the others. Los angeles metro had a local jobless rate of 7 compared t
Russia pull out of ukraine or face more sanctions. President putin must recognise the legitimate election of petero poroshenko. We suspended russia from the g8 making it the first g7 held without russia in seven years. The decision to release the jeopardy. We had a prisoner of war, we saw an opportunity and we seized it. I make no apology for that. These five were the crown jew else. I would say these five are not the worst of the worst. Its a make Climate Change is 100 of peoples tory a diplomatic dance was underway in paris on thursday following a g7 meeting in brussels, it used to be the g8. Russias leader was not invited for the first time in two decades. Vladimir putin as not invited to dipper with president obama and Francis Hollande. Because of the International Tensions francis hollandate twice. Sitting for dinner with putin, after a meal with president obama. Earlier in the day russias bullying of ukraine was a big issue of the g7. President obama warned moscow it had a month
Hello, im ray suarez. The country has recaptured all the jobs lost during the recession. More than 138 Million People are working. But the population is grown and so has the workforce. A smaller share is at work than before the recession. To get back to the workforce participation we used to have we would need to create 7 million more jobs than we have now. Even with modest job growth it has continued to grow since 2010. Getting back to that overall recession number took some doing, better grab that legendary glass for a closer look. There are a lot of ways to figure out whether its half empty or half full. So heres the good news, 217,000 more americans were added to the workforce in may. Its the fourth straight month of over 200,000 new jobs. The private sector led the way with professional and Business Services with 55,000 jobs. The healthcare jobs with 34,000 jobs, twice its average monthly increase in the last year. The u. S. Lost a tremendous number of jobs during the recession. H