And Group Retirement products. Thats why were your 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 at Lincoln Center in new york, alison stewart. Stewart good evening and thanks for joining us. Officials in oakland, california said earlier today that the death toll from this weekends tragic warehouse fire is at least 30 people, and is expected to rise as they find more victims. Several dozen people initially reported missing have been reunited with their families, but officials are asking relatives of the missing to save items that might have dna samples of their loved ones. Emergency responders are working in 12hour shifts to sift through the site where a two story warehouse collapsed after rapidly igniting and burning for five hours late friday night and early saturday morning. Firefighters and other responders have scoured
Football, aka soccer, is life. At least, it is for many people across the globe. There are few things that are universally beloved but this sport comes close. And as teams on nearly every continent prepare for the start of the World Cup, all eyes are on one tiny country at the tip of the desert. Qatar. The first Arab country ever to secure the World Cup bid. But it s been a long and complicated road to get to this moment. Espionage. Embargoes. Covert deals. This is the story of Qatar s decades-long pursuit of the World Cup bid and its role in the nation s transformation into a global power.
What s happening in Iran right now is unprecedented. But the Iranian people s struggle for gender equality began generations before the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, also known by her Kurdish name, Jina Amini. The successes of this struggle, as well as its setbacks and horrors, are well-documented, but often misunderstood. Scholar Arzoo Osanloo argues that women have been at the center of Iran s century-long fight for freedom and self-determination. It s a historical thread that goes all the way back to Iran s Constitutional Revolution in the early 20th century: A complicated story of reform, revolution, and a fundamental questioning of whether Iranian people and people around the Islamic world will accept a government of clerics as the sole arbiters of Islam and the state.
A systemic pattern of misconduct, silence, and retaliation among officers unravels in reporting by journalist Samantha Max, this year's Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize winner.