Woodruff we zero in on two topics, starting with the spiraling scandal that forced the c. I. A. Director to step down. Ifill and we assess the administrations postelection agenda with senators dick durbin and Kay Bailey Hutchison. Woodruff then, ray suarez gets the latest on the escalating violence in gaza after israeli air strikes killed the military leader of hamas. Ifill plus, there were new calls today for laws to police pharmacies like the one linked to the meningitis outbreak. Betty ann bowsers update includes the story of one familys loss from the disease. I cant really think of one them them without the other. He was such a vibrant person that who lit up the room and theres such a great big hole missing. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights nehour major funng for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by theorporationor public roadsti. And by contributions to your pbs station
Not discussing a transition, and if he thinks hes going to be part of that future. Its not going to happen. The people who are the opponents of this regime will never, ever stop. They will be an insurgency at least and worse potentially even than a civil war if it continues, because they will not stop. Now we also are not out of options with respect to what we may be able to do to increase the pressure and further change the calculation. And i think weve made that clear to the Russian Foreign minister and others. Nor are the other players short of an ability to be yet to have an impact here. So i think they can bolster, they can protest, they can put out distortions. At the bottom line is we are going to geneva to implement jimmy fell one. And if assad doesnt do that he will invite greater response in various ways for various people over a period of time. So im not particularly surprised that hes trying to divert this, hes been doing this for months to make himself the protector agains
Caller these are things i consider and i am concerned about. I want people my age group to get involved. A lot of people dont have a platform to talk about this. I think they have a lot of energy. Id like to really see the youth, and people in churches, and people that have good morals and ideas for the future to step p. It looks like the brookings interests tute discussion is about to start. We have time for one more. You are on cspan. Go ahead. Caller yeah, i was watching the speech and stuff, which i thought was good to a certain extent. The thing i have a problem with is they can say all they want on these speeches, but they are still going to do what they want to do behind closed doors. I was raised to respect the title of the person, whether it be the judge or police officer, ut it boils down to a person that has that title. If you cant respect that person that has that title, then there is no respect at all for law or our government. Im not just thing obama, im saying our congre
Us on facebook or twitter. Finally, send an email. We get to your calls, here is some of the news from overnight. Tom coburn will not serve out the rest of his term. On thursday night that he will not serve the rest to steperm and intends down because of deepening health problems. In his statement, he acknowledged that he is battling a recurrent cancer and will continue to fight for his priorities are in the remainder of his time in office. Both carolyn and i have been touched by the encouragement we have been received, he said. As a citizen, he is convinced that he can best serve his children and grandchildren as shifting his focus elsewhere. He notified aides earlier in the day. Earlier in denied the evening. The decision to resign marks a shift in his plans from an interview earlier this month. He said he had believed he was healthy enough to serve out his term, but acknowledged that circumstances could change. The decision will be made in conjunction with family as to how to best i
And in a speech be he delivered on the 10th of december this year, so a couple of days a he said there is no excuse for 750 billion u. S. Dollars in food waste per year. When we only need 80 billion u. S. Dollars to feed the hungry. And this comes from a businessman, one of the biggest businessmen there is. So he is really sincere. Im very convinced he is. Nevertheless, roughly i onethird of our food is waste, and i think others you will have better figures of that, but lets say in kilograms or pounds or whatever measurements, but onethird lets keep it at onethird. And it gets lost or it gets wasted. This washington causes emissions to the environment, pesticides, fertilizers, methane, and that is 23 times more potent greenhouse effect than co2. Than the food leads to loss of amounts of labor income, water, you know, agriculture uses loads of water. Its the first user of waters which, fresh water we have lack of in the world as well. Fertile soils get lost. In developing countries, of