Ifill plus, the sweeping Public Health transformation in rwanda. Where aid groups and Trained Health workers are overcoming a shortage of doctors, while still achieving dramatic results. Reporter the number of children dying before age five has dropped to a quarter of what it was in the year 2,000. The number mothers who die in childbirth is down 66 since 1990. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering 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. Bae systems. Thats inspired work. 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 and foundations. And. 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 ukr
Years ago. Getting your fast food fix may take time, workers wage against their employers. President obama speaks out on syria. The president said there needs to be International Consequences for the alleged use of chemical weapons it in an attack that killed hundreds of people. He dismissed a syrian request to extend chemical weapons exception as a delaying tactic. He has prepared to attack with u. S. Warships in position. Now the world waits for more from the u. N. Reporter on thursday the Obama Administration is expected to give a classified briefing to members of congress detailing what they call evidence and proof that the assad regime used chemical weapons on their own people. Now a declassified version is expected to be released soon after. The administration is trying to turn around Public Opinion. The majority of americans say they do not want to interconvenient with syria, even if chemical weapons were used. Obama if in fact, we can take limited, tailored approaches, not gett
We report from yemen where children under the age of 5 dont have enough food. Barack obama says the u. S. Military has presented him with options for strikes against syria, but hes not yet made a decision. Thats after appeals by United Nations chiefs to hold off carrying out any strike. U. N. Secretarygeneral moon says weapons inspectors will leave syria on saturday, and must be allowed to complete their work. Obama says the aim of any military action would be to deter future chemical weapons attacks. If, in fact, we can take limited, tailored approaches, not getting drawn into a long conflict, not a repetition of, you know, iraq, which i know a lot of people are worried about, but if we were saying in a clear and decisive but very limited way, we send a shot across the bow saying, stop doing this, that can have a positive impact on our National Security over the long term and may have a positive impact in the sense chemical weapons are not used again on innocent civilians. Domestic po
This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Donald trump blasting the father of a fallen Muslim American war hero and refusing to back down. In the midst of that battle, the New York Post that endorsed trump posted racy nude photos of Melania Trump taken in 1995 for a french mens magazine. Donald trump saying, quote, in europe, these are very fashionable and common. This isnt europe. What will the voters think about this . Were going to begin with Hillary Clinton taking the lead over donald trump in the latest cnn poll. Our very own john king does the electoral math for us. John . So, don, 52 43 , a healthy lead for secretary clinton in the head to head matchup against donald trump but most americans will have more choices. Does it hold up in a fourway choice . The answer is yes. 45 for secretary clinton. 37 for donald trump. An eightpoint lead there. Libertarian gary johnson, green party candidate, jill stein getting some support as well. Thats a healthy bounce even in a fourway race for secre
Of david but as he called it a sheriffs badge, explaining he found it under microsoft shapes. He said in a statement the image was lifted from an antihillary twitter user where countless images appear and not sourced from an antisemitic site. But cnn through use of an internet archiving site found the same graphic tweeted by trump appeared ten days earlier on a message board filled with antisemitic conspiracy theories and neonazi ideology. Why is your factfinding department focussing on fiction and how a major president ial campaign can be looking at racist websites or antisemitic sections of other Online Sources and using it to find content to share with the American Public . Reporter trump deleting the tweet on saturday, reposting the graphic, replacing the star in question with the circle. These means float around the internet not every sixsided star is a star of david. Theres no antisemitism in mr. Trumps body, not one ounce, not one cell. As you heard there, Trump Supporters say t