Woodruff our america addicted series continues with a look at the devastating rise of one powerful synthetic opioid and how it is driving overdose deaths. If anything can be likened to a weapon of mass destruction and what it does to a community, its fentanyl. Woodruff all that and more, 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. Collette. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. 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 this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by cont
Addicted series continues with a look at the devastating rise of one powerful synthetic opioid and how it is driving overdose deaths. If anything can be likened to a weapon of mass destruction and what it does to a community, its fentanyl. Woodruff all that and more, 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. Collette. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. 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 this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs
Receiving positive response even from those who fought in world war ii. Eagerly awaiting. Countries pushing for a ban on Nuclear Weapons are waiting to hear just what the u. S. President will say. Egyptian search and rescue teams are looking for a passenger plane that has gone missing with 66 people on board. The egyptair flight took off from paris Late Wednesday night local time headed to cairo. The airline says the passengers are mostly egyptian but include french, iraqi and others. The plane disappeared from radar three and a half hours after takeoff. It says it was in egyptian airspace flying at 11,000 meters. The plane is an airbus a320 like the one on the screen. Local media quote officials in cairo as saying the planes last contact was ten minutes before it vanished. One flight information website shows the aircraft suddenly disappearing over the mediterranean sea. Egypt has had other major airplane incidents during the past year. Last october a Russian Airliner went down over t
It has been under siege with a disastrous humanitarian crisis for the past year. Did not stop the fighting. Activists say isil is launching a major offensive close to the border with turkey and captured two villages. Russia media is reporting on plans with the Syrian Government forces to strengthen efforts to retake the stet of alleppo. As we have been reporting over the past few days, the Prime Minister has been speaking to visiting leaders from moscow in the syrian capital, damascus. The turkish Prime Minister as is holding a Cabinet Meeting close to the border with syria. Its home to a large number of sir yavrn refugees. Its the first time a Cabinet Meeting has been held outside of ankara in 13 years. Charles stratford is live for us there in san lufra. The symbolism is not really lost on anyone. Thats right. The Prime Minister giving a speech under the pretext of honoring this city over colonial forces 100 years ago. No one was under any realism, the real power of why he is coming
Construction work in ghazas old city the United Nations envoy to yemen has welcomed a tentative ceasefire that has come into effect. A truce that both the Saudiled Coalition and the Houthi Rebels have promised to honor. Both sides in the early hours of the ceasefire have been accused of violations. These shots are from around the east of the capital. There was sporadic fighting reported from here just before the ceasefire began. The pause in hostilities comes ahead of u. N. Brokered talks with staff on april 18 in kuwait. Our correspondent has more. Reporter this is one of the oldest cities in the world and it has been in houthi rebel hands for more than a year and a half. People here and right across yemen have born the brunt of the civil war and while they may have different allegiances, many in yemen are united in their desire for peace. Translation we support a ceasefire in every day. It is what the yemeni people want. We need commitments that everybody abides by. Translation we wa