Elections. In our signature segment Brittany Maynard, the young woman with terminal brain cancer, has gone to oregon to get the medication she needs to die. Well look at how the assisted suicide law there works. And a boston exhibit celebrating the works of alexander calder. Next on pbs newshour weekend. Pbs newshour weekend is made possible by Corporate Funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is 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 in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. The United Nations warned today that the world must get most of its energy from renewable sources by 2050 or increase the likelihood of what it called severe, pervasive and irreversible damage. A report produced by
Made him one of the lefts most powerful propagandists. I felt the ground shaking beneath my feet, he said. And the shaking was visible in my work. His caricatures of weimar germany reject a society depraved by greed and power. Groszs contempt was shared by wider artistic developments in europe and america. Those developments became known as dada. Dada was like a storm that broke over the world of art. It had many centers from zurich to hanover from cologne to new york and many sorts of artistic expression. Unlike grosz in berlin these dada artists didnt see the exposure of Class Divisions as their central purpose. They attacked the foundations on which nations were built truth, beauty, reason, science. In the wake of the catastrophe all these values were brought into question. In paris and new york, Marcel Duchamp produced his readymades a hat stand, a bottle rack ordinary everyday items promoted to the status of art objects simply because the artist had signed them. And by signing thi
In our signature segment Brittany Maynard, the young woman with terminal brain cancer, has gone to oregon to get the medication she needs to die. Well look at how the assisted suicide law there works. And a boston exhibit celebrating the works of alexander calder. Next on pbs newshour weekend. Pbs newshour weekend is made possible by Corporate Funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is 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 in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. The United Nations warned today that the world must get most of its energy from renewable sources by 2050 or increase the likelihood of what it called severe, pervasive and irreversible damage. A report produced by hundreds of
Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and also around the globe. It has been a tumultuous day for the libyan prime minister. He was abducted in the night from a hotel in trippi of in tripoli by armed men and then released several hours later. Ali zeidan has appeared at a Cabinet Meeting looking shaken but calling for calm. It is still not clear why he was taken. Some libyan militias have been angered by the u. S. Raid. A rude awakening for the man leading this countrys government on shaky ground. Taken from a luxury hotel in tripoli at gunpoint, his shocked face, released by his captors. These lead to the rooms where he has been living since he came to power a year ago. An audacious kidnapping. With a signed, paper from the prosecutor general for the arrest of the prime minister. They were revolutionaries. They entered and captured the prime minister. The ease with which armed men came and snatched him in the early hours of the day really demonstrates the opaque and co
Solutions for Small Businesses and major corporations. What can we do for you . And now, bbc world news america. This is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, i am katty kay. Militia men in libya release the Prime Minister after snatching him from a hotel in the middle of the night. It was in retaliation for the american raid last weekend. The publicans are talking to the white house about a shortterm deal to extend americas debt areing republicans talking to the white house about a shortterm deal to extend americas debt ceiling. The markets are liking the deal. The painting which made such an impression paintings which made such an impression are back on display. Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and also around the globe. It has been a tumultuous day for the libyan Prime Minister. He was abducted in the night from a hotel in trippi of in tripoli by armed men and then released several hours later. Ali zeidan has appeared at a Cabinet Meeting looking s