Ive always been criticized for talking in school, but year up was like, no, no, use that as a strength, you have to really sell yourself. You have that ability to speak to people and some people dont have those skills ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afraid to question the path theyre on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started schwab with those people. People who want to take ownership of their investments, like they do in every other aspect of their lives. When i was pregnant, i got more advice than i knew what to do with. What i needed was information i could trust, on how to take care of me and my baby. 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Ifill syria handed over the last of its declared chemical weapons today. The head of the International Agency overseeing the effort said the stockpile included mustard gas and the raw ingredients for sarin nerve gas. It was loaded onto danish and norwegian ships and is set to be destroyed in the coming weeks never before has an entire arsenal of a category of weapons of mass destruction been removed from a country experiencing a state of internal armed conflict. And this has been accomplished within very demanding and tight time frames. Ifill the agency acknowledged its entirely possible that syria still has chemical weapons that it never declared and chlorine gas that is still being used in barrel bombs. Woodruff israeli warplanes struck inside syria today. They targeted nine army positions, including a headquarters facility and launching posts. The Syrian Government reported four killed. The air strikes followed sundays crossborder attack that killed an arabisraeli teenager in the golan heights. Back in this country, the Obama Administration made public a secret memo that justifies using unmanned drones to kill americans overseas. It says the government may attack u. S. Citizens working with enemy groups like alqaeda. A federal Appeals Court ordered the memos release in response to a lawsuit. Ifill the Supreme Court today upheld the governments basic authority to regulate Greenhouse Gas emissions from coalfired plants. But the court also found the e. P. A. Went too far in expanding its regulatory reach without congressional approval. The upshot is that industrial sites may still need permits for greenhouse emissions, if they also need permits for other pollutants. Woodruff a nationwide f. B. I. Operation over the past week has recovered 168 victims of child sex trafficking. F. B. I. Director james comey announced results today of an operation spanning more than 100 cities. The children are americans and many had never been reported missing. Comey also said 281 alleged pimps are in custody. Theres a risk people will imagine these folks as some tv characters. They are not. They are people who are killing the souls of our children, who by their actions are snuffing the light out of the most vulnerable and most promising of our people. The lesson of operation Cross Country is that our children are not for sale. Woodruff this is the eighth operation of its kind since 2003. Overall, almost 3,600 children have been recovered from the streets. Ifill a muchanticipated report today found former penn state football coach Jerry Sandusky should have been charged with molesting children long before 2011. The report was commissioned by Democratic State attorney general kathleen kane. It faulted police and prosecutors for lapses of at least three years in the investigation. Kane said a search of sanduskys home, and other steps, should have occurred sooner. This factual report indicates that there were long periods of time where nothing happened. There were long periods of delays that we cant explain. This report also indicates factually that key investigative steps were not taken early on, for example the search warrant, and because of that the case took longer than it could have or should have. Ifill the report cleared republican governor tom corbett of stalling the case for political reasons when he was attorney general. Sandusky is serving a 30 to 60 year sentence for molesting ten boys over a 15 year period woodruff president obama today publicly advocated for american women having access to paid Maternity Leave from their jobs. At a white house summit on families, he said the u. S. Is the only industrialized country without such a law. No new legislation was announced, but the president also encouraged employers to offer more Flexible Work schedules. Ifill honda and six other automakers are recalling almost three million more cars worldwide because their airbags can explode in hot weather. The focus is on oldermodel, driverside airbags, made by takata corporation. The problem has led to recalls of 10. 5 million vehicles over five years. Thereve been several reports of injuries. Woodruff wall street mostly lost ground for the first time in seven trading days. The Dow Jones Industrial average slid nearly 10 points to close at 16,937. The sandp 500 was down a fraction, at 1,962. But the nasdaq rose a fraction to close at 4,368. Ifill a wellknown middle east scholar, fouad ajami, has died. He passed away sunday after a lengthy bout with cancer. Ajami was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and advised the Bush Administration in the buildup to the iraq war. Over the years, he was also a frequent guest on the newshour. Fouad ajami was 68 years old. Woodruff still to come on the newshour the u. S. Puts pressure on iraqs embattled Prime Minister; controversial convictions for three al jazeera journalists in egypt; a preview of tomorrows slate of congressional primaries; teaching young adults the skills to get ahead in the job search; the ecstasy and heartbreak so far at the world cup; plus, one documentarys look at the high cost of an American College education. Ifill secretary of state john kerry arrived in iraq today to deliver the Obama Administrations message of political reform to Prime Minister nourilmaliki face to face. This is a critical moment for iraqs future. Ifill secretary of state john kerry stayed only a few hours in baghdad, but it was long enough to deliver a stern warning to the shiiteled government, battling isil, the Islamic State of iraq and the levant. The very future of iraq depends on choices that will be made in the next days and weeks. And the future of iraq depends primarily on the ability of iraqs leaders to come together and take a stand united against isil. Not next week, not next month but now. Ifill kerry urged Prime MinisterNouri Almaliki and others to form a more inclusive government. But, he suggested president obama might not wait for that event before launching air strikes. The president will not be hampered if he deems it necessary if the formation is not complete. Ifill the visit came as isil and other sunni fighters extended their grip over the weekend. They have now captured 20 towns and cities in a drive across northern and western iraq. Government forces have also lost control of the entire frontier with syria and jordan. Today, witnesses reported troops abandoned posts along the border with jordan, turning busy trade routes into ghost towns. translated the army is retreating from the border, the border point is not stable, the situation is unstable. Only the police remain at the border. When we came here yesterday the iraqi police were the ones who stamped my passport. Ifill sunni tribal leaders near the jordanian border were negotiating to give isil control of a key crossing. That prompted jordan to send its own military reinforcements to the region. Insurgents also took over additional towns across iraqs anbar province, and amateur video showed armed men patrolling the streets. The scene was similar to the north in mosul. Isil fighters seized control there two weeks ago. Today, they directed traffic and passed out copies of the koran to drivers. Elsewhere, iraqi troops were still putting up a fight at baqouba, less than 40 miles outside baghdad. And, as the battles raged ever closer to the capital, more iraqi shia lined up at military Recruitment Centers across baghdad. translated i came to defend my country to fight against terrorism that came from outside the country and not against our brothers the sunnis, the turkmen, the kurds. We came to cut the heads of those who came from outside to destroy our country. Ifill thousands of others are choosing to flee the violence. The United Nations reports more than half a million iraqis have been driven from their homes in the last week alone. Woodruff elsewhere in the middle east three aljazeera journalists learned their fate in a cairo courtroom today, sparking an international outcry. Jeffrey brown has the story. Brown tanks were deployed and tight security in place for the reading of the verdicts, after a fivemonth trial that was widelydenounced outside egypt as a sham. translated seven years of maximum jail time. Brown the sentences for mohamed fadelfahmy, a canadian egyptian; australian correspondent peter greste; and egyptian baher mohamed, who received ten years, led to pandemonium at the court. 17 codefendants were also sentenced. Fahmy, a former c. N. N. Producer, was heard yelling they will pay for this as he and the others were taken away. His brother, adel fadelfahmy this is clear cut corruption; it is a corrupt and politicized case and everything is wrong in this case. Brown fahmys family vowed to appeal, as did peter grestes brother, mike. Wrong verdict. I do not know how the judge came to that decision, id be very interested to hear his reasons for giving that verdict. It does not make any sense. Brown the three journalists were arrested last december and accused of aiding the Muslim Brotherhood by reporting on civil strife in egypt. The brotherhood had been banned as a terrorist group. At the time, the journalists were working under cover because the government had accused al jazeera of probrotherhood bias. Last week, the Company Terminated its operations in egypt. Al jazeera is owned by the government of qatar; the gulf emirate is a political supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, but the Network Denies any charges of bias. Today was a really grim day for journalists and journalism. Brown its managing director spoke in doha. People who respect freedom of expression, people who respect basic freedoms should say, no, enough is enough. Governments who deal with egypt should recognize the injustice of what took place in cairo today. Brown official denunciations also poured in from around the world. This was secretary of state kerry, from baghdad. Its obviously a chilling and draconian sentence and, you know, its deeply disturbing to see in the midst of egypts transition. Brown egypts foreign brown just a day earlier, secretary kerry visited egypt, with word the u. S. Is releasing 575 million in assistance that had been on hold, and that egypt will be getting Apache Helicopter gunships to fight insurgents in the sinai region. The secretary met with president abdel fattah alsisi, among others. Last year, the former army leader ousted egypts first democraticallyelected president , Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, and last month, he was elected president himself. All the while, a crackdown on political opponents has intensified. Alaa abdelfattah, a leader of the january 2011 revolution, was sentenced last week to 15 years for violating a ban on protests. And on saturday, mohammed badie, the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, had his death sentence upheld along with nearly 200 supporters. Brown we invited egypts ambassador to washington to appear on tonights program. The embassy declined our request. Joining me now to discuss what todays ruling means is Michele Dunne, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for peace and michael hanna, a senior fellow at the century foundation. So michaela, how much gow see this as part of a general crackdown on journalists an how much is aimed specifically at al jazeera . Well, this is clearly part of a broader pattern which descent and protes protest dissent and protest have been targeted and that is a big part of the story. This is the most high profile case of the whole series of cases. Some of which have targeted protest leaders, activists, egyptian journalists. So this is part of a broader wave of oppressive actions that have been taken since the ouster of morsi last summer. I think geo politics is part of this story as well. Al jazeera arabic coverage has been quite biased but of course has not risen to any kind of criminality. But that does explain why all jazeera english was targeted by in it has also made it much more difficult to unwind the case, to try to negotiate some sort of resolution to the imprisonment of these journalists. Michele dunne, how do you see what has happened to these journalists. I agree with what michael said. I think another aspect of the case is the attempt by egyptian officials lead by president sisi to control the narrative of what is going on whether it is inside egypt or for the audience abroad. So inside egypt this trial and this prosecution which started in january with a company was accompanied by a Demonization Campaign and the journalists were accused of either being members of the brotherhood or spying for the brotherhood. And in terms of the audience abroad, its also intended to be a signal to other foreign journalists. Egyptian observations had really objected to the negative stories that had been coming out about the human right as buses in egypt as part of this very broad crackdown thats been going on for years now. Let me ask you this. How much does it, if anything, tell us about the still developing egypt and the power of president sisi. Is he the one controlling the verdict like this or is this done by the judiciary or others . Well, we really dont know whether there are any instructions to judges and so forth on how to rule in these case. But we can say a couple of thintions. One of them is that these cases come out of the Egyptian Government it came out of egyptian intelligence, the interior ministry and so forth. And they played a very active role. Back at the beginning of this case of the al jazeera journalists they released a individual yof their arrest set to kind of scary music and so forth. And put it out, in order to demonize al jazz eerza. And basically convince egyptians not to listen to what al jazeera was saying. The other thing is that whether or not there is any direct involvement or instructions by sisi or others in the go shape Egyptian Government, certainly all the signals that president sisi has sent, everything he says is in line with this. Very, very harsh, antidescent, antibrotherhood, that the brotherhood terrorists and so forth. So you know, the judges it if theyre looking for political signals on how to rule in these cases, i think it would be clear. Michael hanna, what do you think this tells us about the present state of affairs in egypt . Well, since the overthrow of mubarak i think weve seen a state that has fractured. Lots of autonomy has been invested within individual institutions and its created a somewhat chaotic scene in which red lines is have been crossed and pot percent of certain institutions are somewhat unclear. I agree with michelle that the military backed political order has created and an enabling environment in which oppression has flourished and i do think that its very difficult to pars out how things happen and why. I do know that there was a severe disagreements within the Egyptian Government, at fairly high levels when the Al Jazeera English journalists were arrested. Of course to try to unwind this kind of case requires the expenditure of a lot of political capitol and a very big political fight that no players have as of yet taken up the challenge to accomplish. An Michele Dunne youre saying the condemnation that came really loud and strong, within the country they dont care or they just, this is still a kind of powerfixing within the country . Well, look, certainly there are egyptians who care about this. And im sure are horrified by it. But in terms of