brown: we have another in our economist film project series. tonight, the challenges of prosecuting war-crimes at the international criminal court. woodruff: and we close with the author of a biography of ernest hemingway, who has traced the writer s life story through connections to his beloved boat. brown: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. oil companies make huge profits. last year, chevron made a lot of money. where does it go? every penny and more went into bringing energy to the world. the economy is tough right now, everywhere. we pumped $21 million into local economies, into small businesses, communities, equipment, materials. that money could make a big difference to a lot of people. and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy produc
he had the ability to think out new ways of doing things, not just ways to improve what we have, do a better version of something, but do it in a totally different way, that the world would swing towards. woodruff: margaret warner explores the gap between those who ve served and those who have not, after a decade of war in afghanistan and iraq. on my block, i m the only one with an american flag hanging out front. you know, i remember i got out and talked to other guys my age. they weren t in the military and i was kind of shocked like, what, you never served in the military? brown: we have another in our economist film project series. tonight, the challenges of prosecuting war-crimes at the international criminal court. woodruff: and we close with the author of a biography of ernest hemingway, who has traced the writer s life story through connections to his beloved boat. brown: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has
captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions lehrer: good evening. i m jim lehrer. on the newshour this monday, the lead story: president obama in china, where he talked to students about freedom and censorship. the more information flows, the stronger the society becomes. lehrer: after the other news of the day, we ll have a big picture look at u.s.-china relations, and a sampling of how people in beijing view the american president. then, gwen ifill updates the general motors bankruptcy, as it announces plans to begin paying off its bailout debt to the federal government. elizabeth brackett reports on the debate about oil mined in canada and refined in the u.s. and jeffrey brown talks to author robert edsel about his new book on art that was looted by the nazis in world war ii. major funding for the newshour with jim lehrer is provided by: what the world needs now is energy. the energy to get the economy humming again. the energy to tackle challenges like clim
polarization s though they say that w theoment american democracy died and i think for some young americans who lived there 9/11 they have a similar perspective, that this was the moment when a country tha had been prosperous and on the right track somehow went off the rails so they want to look back to that event it makes sense of it. host: that is also compounded b what we were constantly told after 9/11 and i still find appalling. everything changed with 9/11. we were told that for a long time that many people and many different walks of life and i think that leads to this kind of concerned too if everything changed it couldn t just be th grp of whatever, somewhere between a dozen and a few dozen people who put it together? it couldn t be. that is the notion that kind of makes the conspiracy theories saem a viable. guest: writes, it is used a lot that they could not have done it. .. how is an average person to make the distinction? hw were we to know? is the devin real
captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions lehrer: good evening. i m jim lehrer. on the newshour this tuesday, the lead story is the california wildfires still raging 15 miles north of downtown los angeles, and spreading in all directions. then come the other news of the day: two takes on afghanistan; a debate about whether victory is possible in the war; and a report that a private contractor is doing a poor job protecting the u.s. embassy in kabul; plus the talk in a michigan town about turning the local prison into a new home for guantanamo bay detainees; and a health care reform conversation with an architect of the public plan option. major funding for the newshour with jim lehrer is provided by: what the world needs now is energy. the energy to get the economy humming again. the energy to tackle challenges like climate change. what if that energy came from an energy company? every day, chevron invests $62 million in people, in ideas seeking, teaching, build