Sreenivasan and its friday, david brooks and ruth marcus are here to analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by charles schwab, proud supporter of the pbs newshour. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan after months of leaks and growing criticism, president obama laid out surveillance reforms today. He said the National Security agency must no longer be the storehouse for phone metadata that it collects. And, he promised an end to spying on allied leaders. We will hear some of what the president said, and have reaction, right after the news summary. Later the president signed a spending bill that puts an end to the budget wars for now, he held a ceremony
Here to analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by charles schwab, proud supporter of the pbs newshour. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan after months of leaks and growing criticism, president obama laid out surveillance reforms today. He said the National Security agency must no longer be the storehouse for phone metadata that it collects. And, he promised an end to spying on allied leaders. We will hear some of what the president said, and have reaction, right after the news summary. Later the president signed a spending bill that puts an end to the budget wars for now, he held a ceremony, the bill funds Government Operations through the rest of th
Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com were following the breaking news including the worsening plight of tens of thousands of iraqi refugees stranded by isis forces. The United Nations has declared the the situation the highest level of emergency calling it a humanitarian catastrophe and now the United States is considering mounting a massive rescue operation and that would mean more u. S. Troops on the ground in iraq under the most dangerous conditions. Were also getting word of u. S. Airstrikes against isil militants. We have complete coverage with all of our breaking news with our correspondents and special guests here in washington and around the world. Lets begin with the pentagon correspondent barbara starr. What are you finding out, barbara, first of all, about a possible u. S. Led rescue mission . Well, wolf, and, you know, that is unfolding at this hour. Let me bring everybody quickly uptodate. There has been another u. S. Airstrike and another u. S. Drone struck an isis position