The leaders of germany and france are heading to moscow for talks on the crisis in ukraine. Now, its the biggest push yet to resolve the 10month conflict which has killed more than 5,000 people. Talks in moscow are being seen as a lastditch attempt to avoid the u. S. Arming ukraine in its battle against prorussian rebels. Simon mcgregor wood reports. Reporter the sudden tense at this of diplomacy shows just how serious the situation is becoming. First it was secretary of state john kerry meeting president poroshenko and then the prime minister. Pledging u. S. Backing and pointing a finger of blame at moscow. Russia and the separatists are seizing more territory terrorizing more citizens, and refusing to participate in serious negotiations. Let there be no doubt about who is blocking the prospect of peace here. Reporter significantly he said president obama would decide soon whether or not to supply ukraine with lethal weapons. Later francois or ho lande and Angela Merkel came in. The t
25,000 for my sons to go to one school. A school, snow school, that theyve never set foot in for any reason at all. If they were vouchered theyd only be paid once. If it was a scholarship, wed only be paid once. The reason why were in the situation that were in is were trying to keep the other school open so that the grown people can keep their jobs. But what even they neglect to understand is that the number of students doesnt change, its static, meaning if there are thousands of students that need teachers there are thousands of students that need teachers no matter where they are. So if you can halfway teach or at least convince someone for 45 minutes that you can halfway teach, then youre going to have a job as a teacher. We need to make it plain to our community that theyre being played by the system so that the people who dont utilize these urban schools, who send their kids to suburban charter or Catholic Schools, which is always funny, they send their own children to Catholic S
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. Bad weather continues to slow the efforts of divers searching for the wreckage of airasia flight 8501 and for the bodies of most of the 162 people who were on the plane when it went down last sunday. translated some rescuers tried to dive but were hampered by visibility and underwater currents that forced us to suspend operations. Sreenivasan before the operation was suspended, divers recovered four more bodies, bring the number to 34. Officials say they have now identified five large objects at the bottom of the sea thought to be remnants of the plane. This
The battle of columbus took place in 1865. James wilson is a Union Cavalry officer. Their job was to attack the states of alabama and georgia. Their goal was to destroy important targets like columbus because of industrial output. They wanted to disrupt supply lines and communications, anything to further along the collapse of the confederacy. An ironclad like the jackson would be used at a port city. If there was an approaching army, the vessel can move up and down the waterway and fire its big guns at the opposing forces. This is what confederate ironclads did. She is right at completion in april 1865. There is no crew yet. The navy has her on the list as the next ship to the commission to. The war is winding down and the confederacy is collapsing. During the battle of columbus, she said of the navy yard. The navy guys never could come aboard and get her steam up here in there was not enough men available to do that. Its a nice showpiece. The next morning, wilsons men came into the n
Times square, tuesday, december 31st, 2013. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. Im erica hill. Savannah, al and natalie have the morning off. Did you see that sign, happy new year . Its tomorrow. But were getting ready. Good to be prepared. Carson daly getting the iron man award. Hes up early with us today. He will be hosting a big new years eve celebration this morning. Hes already there. Carson . Matt, erica, good morning. On the first im the first journalist out here. My show starts in 17 hours. But i wanted to get a jump on things. This is a tradition over 100 years odd. Times square. Its the calm before the storm. Nearly a million will be here behind us. We have a great show on nbc. Ill tell you more about it in a little bit. Youre right, today is the longest day of my year. You do that show so well, as you do this one. Carson, well check in with you in