If you get caught with covid 19, the closest hospital is probably one hour away for most people here. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. 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 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 this has been a day for honoring americas military veterans, of peace and war, amid the political war over the president ial race. President trump still shows no sign of conceding to president elect biden, or
If you get caught with covid 19, the closest hospital is probably one hour away for most people here. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. 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 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 this has been a day for honoring americas military veterans, of peace and war, amid the political war over the president ial race. President trump still shows no sign of conceding to president elect biden, or
A high rise apartment in north and south korea where live from seoul. We begin in mali where a kid not a politician and a french aid have landed in the capital bamako after being released as part of a major Prisoner Exchange the deal was announced by the countrys new Transitional Government on choose day the hostages had been held by an alliance of groups linked to Al Qaida Nicholas Haq as the story of. The end of their ordeal. Wrapped in a white scarf is french aid worker Sophie Pickler not free at last after spending almost 4 year hostage in the hands of al qaeda affiliate fighters in northern mali as desert. Shelter 51 year old son sebastian. Before. He had lost hope of ever seeing her life something. That says to her son they held me for almost 4 years you were there with me i could hear you say hold on dont give up here among those released are also italian missionaries Somalian Army soldiers and opposition leaders who say all were held by armed groups affiliated to al qaeda. I wa
Theyre the worst affected the middle east country has reported another 230 deaths new infections or about 4000 for the 3rd day in a row and so restrictions are being tightened mosques will become mandatory outdoors in teheran from saturday still with iran and the us has tightened sanctions on the countrys Financial Sector measures against 18 banks that were already under american sanctions have now been ramped up over jordan in washington. Perhaps the biggest criticism of the trumpet ministrations sanctions regime against iran is that the culminating impact is that this is hurting the iranian people certainly we have seen that criticism coming not just from e. U. Nations but also from a wide range of humanitarian organizations around the world now the Treasury Department went in announced this latest round of sanctions against these 18 iranian banks said that these banks would still have exemptions so that they could bring in funds to facilitate the purchase of emergency food and medic
Stocks way down. This morning, down some more. Look at this. The dow is going to be off over 250 points at the open. The s p, 26. The nasdaq, 64, 65. Now, treasury secretary mnuchin says we can get those jobs back by going back to work. The president is very forceful on this. This is what he told maria on opening up the economy soon. Watch this. I want them to open when they can, when they want, the governors are opening them. Most of them are either opened or opening or considering it. I think that we have to get back to work. We have to get our country back. We have to take it back. It was artificially closed. We did the right thing and now we got to get back. We got to bring our country back and its going to happen and its going to happen fast. I call it a transition to greatness. Stuart hes going to pennsylvania where six counties are defying the governors Strict Lockdown rules. The president will likely address that issue today. Meanwhile, a successful Court Challenge to a governo