Retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening thanks for joining us. European leaders are trying to unite behind a plan to cope with their ongoing surge of migrants and refugees arriving mainly from the middle east and africa. More than 430,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean Sea for europe this year, most pushing toward northern and western europe. On monday, the 28nation European Union will hold an emergency summit in brussels, belgium, to try to agree on how many Asylum Seekers each country will accept. The newshours William Brangham has been reporting all week from hungary, he is now in vienna, austria and i spoke to him earlier today. William, among the european countries, hungary has been the most critical of europes broader response to
And the impossible climb made possible. Two free climbers scale the sheer rock face of el captainitan in oweYosemite National park. Hello. Thanks for joining us. This is an infrared satellite image of the nigerian town of baga. Its been released by Amnesty International to show the scale of destruction after an attack by boko haram militants last week. Well amnesty says that 620 buildings in the town were damaged, a lot of them completely destroyed. I want to give you a clearer picture as to whats happened here. This is the image from the second of january, so ahead of the attacks. Overall, lots of vegetation. You can probably see the buildings in between there. If we now mix through to the scene after the attack the buildings have all gone. Not much vegetation left either. But essentially razed to the ground. The officials in the northeastern border states say that attack killed 150 people. Other reports, though put the death toll as high as 2,000. Its just one attack among a whole ca
Fundamentalism, and intolerance. Two, three, four five. The buildup to the oscars begin today, with the nominations announced shortly. Will boyhood repeat its success at the golden globes. Now the impact of those Lower Oil Prices on the industry itself. And i can tell you, the uk notes the oil industry is getting hammered by those plunging oil prices. It is expensive to get oil out of the north sea. Anything below 60 bucks a barrel, and its just unprofitable. Bp is set to announce job cuts with one leading expert telling us that britains oil industry is close to collapse. Its midday in london 7 00 a. M. In washington and 1 00 in baga, in northern nigeria, the site of what some groups are calling boko harams deadliest act yet. Satellite Images Released by the human rights group, Amnesty International show the scale of widespread destruction that the group has inflicted on the town. Well look at detail in those images in a moment but first, estimates of just how many people died range fr
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