A new force in israeli politics and we meet the new alliance to play a key role in this weeks election. International negotiations are resuming in switzerland to reach a dial on Iran Nuclear Program and hopes some progress can be made and deadlines to reach a framework deal expires at the end of this month and a resent u. S. Secretary of state john kerry an attending the discussions and diplomatic editor james is there too and the talks are at a crucial stage and need agreement by the end of the month and there are big gaps remaining between the two sides, arent there . Big gaps and the deadline is coming very close, this is the crunch period in many ways and we dont have a running commentary of exactly what is going on in these negotiations but i think some clues being discussed around the table in their meeting right now is some of the participants of the talked and not just secretary kerry and moonez the and the secretary of the United States around that table discussing some of the
For reduced price lunches. A little more than a million nationwide. Today on inside story well look at that finding with the studies author, talk to teachers about what it means to work with a student body burdened with poverty does it change how you teach and run a school. And later well be joined by jacob ward, taking ugs inside the kids heads. How does prolonged poverty affect the brain of a youngster. We have a new time, and as you can see a new home. Poverty, its the inside story. The burden of poverty on states, students, School Systems doesnt land everywhere pt same way. Take a look at this map from the Southern Education foundations findings. There are 21 states shown in red where the percentage of Public Schoolchildren in poverty is above 50 . The numbers come from the National Centre for education statistics. They came up with the numbers by tracking which students were eligible for free or reduced fried school lunches. Well dig into that later in the programme. As you can se
Of i. S. I. L. Healing relations Narendra Modi visits jaffna to meet the displaced from sri lankas long civil war. First, iraqi forces battling i. S. I. L. Say the city of tikrit will be freed within 72 hours. Control of tikrit which is the home town of former president Saddam Hussein is seen as crucial in the fight against the armed group. People, at least 13 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have been killed in i. S. I. L. s shelling. This incident took place south of the oilrich city of kirkuk. Lets talk to our correspondent jane arraf, in the iraqi capital. First of all, tikrit how credible is the optimism from the iraqi forces that they could liberate this important town within three days. Well liberate is a sweeping word. What they are saying is they believe that they are confident in eradicating the i. S. I. L. Preps in tikrit. The major pockets of i. S. I. L. I. S. I. L. Holds half the city. Its not a huge number of fighters. The reason this is taking so long, and the offensive starte
About what it means to work with a student body burdened with poverty does it change how you teach and run a school. And later well be joined by jacob ward, taking ugs inside the kids heads. How does prolonged poverty affect the brain of a youngster. We have a new time, and as you can see a new home. Poverty, its the inside story. The burden of poverty on states, students, School Systems doesnt land everywhere pt same way. Take a look at this map from the Southern Education foundations findings. There are 21 states shown in red where the percentage of Public Schoolchildren in poverty is above 50 . The numbers come from the National Centre for education statistics. They came up with the numbers by tracking which students were eligible for free or reduced fried school lunches. Well dig into that later in the programme. As you can see, 13 out of 21 states are in the south. Mississippi has the highest level of Public Schoolchildren living in poverty 71 . 6 of the 21 states are in the west.
Us back to the 1950s. Today we spend the hour with Robert Redford, acclaimed oscar winning director, actor and longtime environmentalist. I think it should stay in the ground. I think were so close to polluting the planet the on anything sustainable. Robert redford is the founder of the Sundance Film Festival, now in its 31st year. We talk with him about diversity and independence on both sides of the camera. And his latest film, a walk in the woods, which is about getting older. It is about walking the appellation trail and getting older. It has to do with what time you have left. He just going to sit and one thing you dont want to do is be the guy sitting in a bathrobe on a stoop somewhere and go, i wish i would have, should have. You dont want to have that. So you make the most of your life. Robert redford. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from park city, utah. Former soviet lead