Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions woodruff president obama and afghan president karzai nounced today that u. S. Troops in afghanistan would shift away from a combat role this spring. Good evening. Im judy woodruff. Brown and im jeffrey brown. On the newshour tonight, we look at the changing u. S. Afghanistan relationship after 11 years of war against al qaeda and the taliban with an endgame in sight. Woodruff then, Margaret Warner looks into the faas decision to review boeings troubled 787 dreamliner. Brown ray suarez talks with Washington Post reporter cecilia kang, who walks us through the hightech offerings at this years Consumer Electronics show. Samsung came up with a very interesting 5. 5 inch flexible screen that kind of makes you imagine all kinds of possibilities woodruff plus mark shields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. Thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by bnsf railway. Support also come
Military role in afghanistan was front and center today as president obama met with afghan leader hamid karzai. They reported progress in their talks, and said the pace of the security transition will be expedited. At their first facetoface meeting since may, the leaders announced theyre accelerating the handoff from u. S. And Coalition Forces to afghan troops. Let me say it as plainly as i can starting this spring, our troops will have a different mission training, advising, assisting Afghan Forces. It will be an historic moment and another step toward full afghan sovereignty. In spring this year, the Afghan Forces will be fully responsible for providing security to the Afghan People. And that the international forces, the american forces, will be no longer present in afghan villages. Woodruff afghanistan President Hamid karzai has sharply complained that fighting in afghan villages is causing too many civilian casualties. And thereve been other strains from koran burnings by american
Front and center today as president obama met with afghan leader hamid karzai. They reported progress in their talks, and said the pace of the security transition will be expedited. At their first facetoface meeting since may, the leaders announced theyre accelerating the handoff from u. S. And Coalition Forces to afghan troops. Let me say it as plainly as i can starting this spring, our troops will have a different mission training, advising, assisting Afghan Forces. It will be an historic moment and another step toward full afghan sovereignty. In spring this year, the Afghan Forces will be fully responsible for providing security to the Afghan People. And that the international forces, the american forces, will be no longer present in afghan villages. Woodruff afghanistan President Hamid karzai has sharply complained that fighting in afghan villages is causing too many civilian casualties. And thereve been other strains from koran burnings by american soldiers to deadly insider attac
In egypt, the crackdown of pro morsi growing. A key leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was also arrested last night. More on the developments later in todays show. Tuesday, august 20, 5 20 p. M. Bradley manning is less than 20 hours from finding out how much time youll spend behind bars after they found him guilty of stealing and sharing government secrets. The judge will make her final sentencing decision on wednesday. Manning could face up to 90 years in prison. We have the latest from fort meade. The judge is now deliberating Bradley Mannings sentence. The judge announced that she would be beginning to deliberate. The sentences tomorrow morning and the importance to the judge in this case, facing a maximum of 90 years after he was found guilty of most of the charges against him including espionage. The Closing Argument of the sentencing hearing yesterday, the prosecution requested manning spend no less than 60 years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to the ant
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