A hero of free speech others say he is a threat to u. S. National security wiki leaks founder Julian Assange prepares to face a court in the u. K. That will decide whether you can be extradited to the United States when he could possibly spend decades in prison and killed thousands of people and caused untold misery colombian drug lords Pablo Escobar is still treated as a hero by many but now the families of his victims have found an unusual way to fight back with. Iraq thank you so much for your Company Everyone where we begin this newscast with a surprise hulet today in turkey where a court has acquitted 9 Civil Society activists accused of seeking to overthrow turkeys government in the 2013 gazey park protests many in the country expected the court to hand down a guilty verdict instead judges ordered the defendants and. Media release and as youre about to see rate here people emerging from court triumphant there were many high profile defendants in this case and they include a busin
A rescue ship and pulling the plug on tesla the electric car builder has plans to build a mega factory near berlin but environmentalist a judge and these treats may get in the way. Im burnt coffee is good to have you with us a turkish philanthropist an activist who earlier on tuesday was acquitted of trying to overthrow the turkish government now faces a new detention order the philanthropist an activist always men kovalchuk had been one of a number of people accused of organizing protests back in 2013 against plans to redevelop an area in central is stamboul now that would have destroyed one of the citys last green spaces at gezi park where the new detention order. That were hearing about tonight it is in connection with kovalchuk alleged role in a coup attempt in turkey 3 years ago later in the summer of 2016 or so weve got a new twist in the story tonight for the latest lets go now to our correspondent green zones hes on the phone in istanbul good evening to you dorian so. Talk abou
Youre asked about your address, your date of birth. Youre not asked health information, so why are we going down this path . Youre trying to scare people so they dont apply. And contractors hired by the administration were grilled for hours today by both House Republicans and democrats on who is to blame for this, quote, disastrous rollout. Did any of you come forth to the administration and say, this thing may not be ready on october 1st, we might want a delay until we can get it right . Any hands up . No. Either you didnt know about these problems or you knew about them and chose not to disclose them. Which one is it . So chairman, from a cgi perspective, our portion of the application worked as designed. The endtoend testing was the responsibility of cms. All of the concerns that we had, which were mostly related to testing and the inability to get as much testing as we would have liked, we expressed all of those concerns and risks to cms. We did not anticipate any sort of problems
With only tree limbs to brace the mine walls, the risk to them is real. Ifill we have the story of the political and ethical dilemmas confronting the governor of virginia. Woodruff and Jeffrey Brown profiles a chinese dissident, who uses poetry to reflect on life under a repressive regime. Ifill thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the proceeding lasted just seven minutes today in boston. That was all the time needed for a federal judge to receive a series of not guilty pleas from the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. Heavily arme
With only tree limbs to brace the mine walls, the risk to them is real. Ifill we have the story of the political and ethical dilemmas confronting the governor of virginia. Woodruff and Jeffrey Brown profiles a chinese dissident, who uses poetry to reflect on life under a repressive regime. Ifill thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the proceeding lasted just seven minutes today in boston. That was all the time needed for a federal judge to receive a series of not guilty pleas from the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. Heavily arme