Experiences from the great arc of life. You know, what do people remember from their childhood . What do they go through when theyre in, you know, adolescence, or middle age, or you know, late age . Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill a new tide of migrants surged across the balkans today as the weather worsened. They resumed their desperate journey after a twoday stoppage. Malcolm brabant has been tracking the story. Hes in denmark tonight, where he filed this report on the days developments. Reporter it was the desperate plea of some 2,000 migrants trapped for most of the day at a rainsoaked Border Crossing between croatia and slovenia. Just one thing one thing. Please, open the door. Because we are dying if we stay here. Reporter their journey ground to a halt after hungary closed its border with croatia, sending a human wave west toward slovenia. The slovenians in turn, declared they would accept only 2,500 people a day from croatia. And they condemned their neighbors to the east for not slowing the flow. translated croatia asked us to process 5,000 migrants per day and, of course, on the other hand we have a request from which says they cannot possibly accept more than 1,500. We cannot accept a number of migrants larger than the number of those who will continue their journey. Reporter croatias Prime Minister shot back today that his country had no choice but to let the migrants pass through. translated obviously, yesterday we kept 5,0006,000 from coming in on the other side, in serbia. But, its apparent that this is no solution. Reporter it was all too much for the thousands waiting at that official Border Crossing. The government there, and the government there no humanity. No humanity. Reporter for a time, the Ripple Effect also extended farther east, keeping more than 10,000 migrants stranded in serbia. In turn, the serbs said they would consider restrictions on their border with macedonia. Then, late today, slovenia reopened its official crossing, and the flow resumed. By then, several thousand people had already found their own paths across the frontier. The majority of those migrants began their journey in turkey, hoping to get to germany. German chancellor Angela Merkel was in turkey over the weekend with hopes of addressing the issue at its source. She arrived with prospects of a European Union aid package of more than 3 billion, if turkey will do more to stop the human exodus. But today, turkish Prime MinisterAhmet Davutoglu said that was not enough. translated we would never accept a deal that assumes we gave this money to turkey so the refugees should stay there. and i told this to merkel. Nobody should expect turkey to become a country housing all migrants, like a concentration camp. Reporter in northern europe, the two countries which have been most hospitable towards refugees are struggling to cope with the influx, amid growing opposition from those opposed to mass immigration. In sweden, which expects to take in about 150,000 refugees this year, there have been three separate arson attacks in the past week on centers that were supposed to house newcomers. In the Northern City of umea, which is close to the arctic circle, the authorities are so concerned about the potential for trouble, that they are refusing to say whereabouts they are going to accommodate 150 new refugees. In germany, the police union is warning about trouble between rival factions in refugee camps. And its urging the government to erect a fence along the border with austria. In the meantime, merkels poll numbers are falling, and the flow of migrants continues unabated. The greek coast guard rescued nearly 2,600 people from the aegean sea this weekend alone. For the pbs newshour, im Malcolm Brabant in copenahgen. Woodruff in the days other news, a week of United Nations talks on Climate Change opened in germany, leading up to a december summit in paris, and the draft accord immediately faced criticism. The talks convened in bonn, with african states complaining their demands were ignored. South africa called it apartheid against developing nations. But the u. N. s climate chief played down the disagreement they realize the urgency of this. They realize that we have been working on this for a long time, necessarily so because this is the most profound transformation of the Global Economy that we have seen in recent times. So its understandable that this is complex. Woodruff meanwhile, in washington, president obama met with Corporate Leaders who have committed to the u. S. Pledge on reducing carbon emissions. In all, 81 companies have agreed to support it. Ifill theres word that chinas agreement not to hack u. S. Corporate computers has already been violated repeatedly. President obama and chinese president xi reached that agreement last month, in washington. Now, the Security Firm crowdstrike says fresh attacks started the very next day. It says the hackers are linked to the chinese government. Woodruff u. S. Government officials moved today to begin cracking down on unsafe flying by drone aircraft. A task force will come up with rules to mandate that heavier, higherflying drones be registered. Officials said the decision follows a growing number of close calls, involving near accidents with passenger planes and interference with Fire Fighting operations. We can take enforcement action as necessary to protect the airspace for everyone. If Unmanned Aircraft operators break the rules clearly, there should be consequences but in fact there can be no accountability if the person breaking the rules cant be identified. Woodruff theres no official count of how many drones are already in private hands in the u. S. , but the industry projects 700,000 will be sold this holiday season. Ifill in syria, United Nations officials now say a government ground offensive has 35,000 people on the run. Theyve fled areas near aleppo. The syrian army and its allies are attacking there, supported by russian air strikes. Woodruff the toll from the hajj islamic holy day stampede in saudi arabia last month has grown to more than 2,100. That Associated Press tally is based on news media reports and official comments from dozens of countries. The official saudi government figure remains 769. Ifill the story of a hospital bombed by u. S. Forces in afghanistan took a new turn today. The october 3rd attack in kunduz killed 22 people and wounded many more. Now, the acting defense minister says taliban wounded and other fighters were there, along with a taliban flag on one wall. That was a place where they wanted to use it as a kind of a safe base, because Everybody Knows that we, the security forces, the International Security forces, were very careful not to do anything with the hospital. Ifill Doctors Without Borders has insisted there were no insurgents in the hospital. In another development, the u. S. Military acknowledged today that an Armored Vehicle crashed into the hospital compound last week. The troops went in to examine the bombing damage, and believed, mistakenly, no one was there. Woodruff canadians headed to the polls today in a parliamentary election that could result in their first new leader in a decade. Conservative Prime MinisterStephen Harper trailed liberal Party Leader Justin trudeau in recent opinion polls. Harper has clashed with president obama over the Iran Nuclear Deal and the keystone pipeline. Ifill back in this country, problems obtaining drugs for lethal injections. The delay affects more than two dozen planned executions. Ifill First Lady Michelle Obama opened a new front in her campaign to educate more teens beyond high school. A new website bettermakeroom. Org will let students swap information about exams, Financial Aid and college applications. Mrs. Obama announced the effort at the white house, as part of her reach higher initiative. Its about valuing success in the classroom instead of just on the big screen or on the basketball court. And its about turning the culture of celebrity upside down so that we dont just have kids worshipping celebrities, but we also have celebrities honoring kids who are working hard and achieving their goals. Ifill the first lady takes her campaign to the university of akron this week, where shell be joined by n. B. A. Star lebron james. Woodruff and, wall street had a muted monday after china reported its thirdquarter growth was the lowest since early 2009. The Dow Jones Industrial average gained just 14 points to close at 17,230. The nasdaq rose 18 points, and the s p 500 added half a point. Ifill still to come on the newshour a call for peace after another violent attack shakes the middle east. V. W. Customers left in limbo. Life lessons from a master cellist. And much more. Woodruff we return now to the recent wave of attacks in the middle east. Earlier today, the Islamic State group posted a video calling on palestinians to attack Israeli Soldiers and civilians. Meanwhile on the ground, tensions remain high after a weekend of more deaths. Special correspondent Martin Seemungal reports from jerusalem. A warning this story contains graphic images. Reporter israelis woke up this morning to another barrage of violence in the news. A terror attack the night beforethis time at a bus station in the southern town of beersheba. An israeli arab bedouin armed with a pistol shot and killed an israeli soldier, then grabbed his Assault Rifle and opened fire, injuring several people in the station, before being shot and killed himself. We have six people that were injured, four of them being Police Officers injured inside the central bus station. Reporter a Security Guard at the station also shot this man, thinking he was a terrorist. An angry mob attacked him while he was on the ground. He turned out to be innocent, an eritrean asylum seeker, 29year old haftom zarhum. In east jerusalem, the epicenter of the recent wave of Terror Police and army continued to escalate their security presencesetting up roadblocks at the exit points of several arab areas. Jabal mukabir is an extreme example of israels determination to fight this recent wave of terror. There are Army Checkpoints all around and they are in the process of building a wall to separate the arab village from the jewish neighborhoods on the other side. The palestinians view the operation as a form of collective punishment. Thaer oraga says it only makes people here angry. All the people make attack from Jabal Mukabir . I am guilty. I am guilty of the attacks . No. I dont think this will prevent attacks. This leads to extremism i think. It doesnt lead to peace. Reporter the jewish town is called armon hanatziv. David dahan says the wall and the extra security is necessary. Its not optimal to live when you are checked every day but if its good for security they should do so. Reporter the fiery attack recently on josephs tomb near nablus also inflamed tensions. Some of the young palestinians who carried out the attack were arrested by Palestinian Security forces. But nabil shaath, a Senior Member of the ruling fathah party in the west bank, says it is becoming increasingly difficult to control young palestinians there. What can you do if the occupier does not take the first step there is no way you can stop i i am telling you this, with alarm. With grief. Reporter palestinian anger is fuelled by a belief that Israel Intends to change the status quo involving the al aqsa mosquelocated in the area. Muslims call the noble sanctuary. Jews call it the temple mount. Jews can visit the temple mount, but by agreement cannot pray there. Reported attempts by right wing jews to pray have triggered clashes. Israels Prime Minister has asked jewish leaders not to visit while tensions are high. Dore gold is the director general of Israels Foreign Ministry with close ties to israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. We are not taking measures against the al aqsa mosque. That is a total lie that is extremely dangerous. Reporter the gulf between the Palestinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas and netanyahus government grows wider every day. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry is now stepping in. You have to sit down and talk to each other in order to explore those kinds of possibilities. So i dont enter discussion with a specific expectation except to try to understand better for all of us. Reporter kerry is expected to meet netanyahu in germany thursday, and abbas in jordan over the weekend. Reporting from jerusalem, im Martin Seemungal for the pbs newshour. Ifill its the week of will he or wont he . Will Vice President joe biden run . To discuss all that and more, we turn to politics monday tamara keith of n. P. R. And amy walter of the cook political report. Im going to put it all in front of you here. Joe biden, what do we know . I dont think that anybody knows anything, an thats the reality. Okay. If i could just boil it down to the way im looking at both of these, is one i think is much more quengsal than the other. And that is paul ryans decision, a go or no go. What i am hearing more and more of is a pes mism of rep kants they dont think he will do this job. St a thankless job and they dont think he will be able to get the entire republican conference around him to support him. What does this mean . This means the republican conference is now officially ungovernable, that there is a risk now that may not ever be able to be fixed. That we have two big deadlines coming up very soon. The debt ceiling, highway transportation bill, real stuff, real big, con is he quengs stuff way republican conference in the house that nobody can lead. Interesting enough in the hillry camp that you cover, tamara, there have been more anmore of those joe biden has to make up his mind. He should make up his mind. Are they nervous or are they just assuming that they know the answer and they just want him to get on with it . Last i checked, i dont think they think they know the answer either. This is just one of those things where, this has been dragging on for months now. Weve had hieltenned heightened joe biden awareness back in august. Now were in this new flurry of leaks and nonleaks and people close to joe biden say yes. And people close to joe biden say no. And off off the record people sy its all wrong. Sth is just, i think a lot of people, including people in the Clinton Campaign would just like the wondering to be done. Ifill one way or the other. It is the hardest thing i think for her is that it is probably having an impact on fundraising. There are a bunch of people sitting on their check books saying im not going to write a check until i know what biden is actually doing. Ifill lets talk about othe. Were expecting on thursday for Hillary Clinton to finally testify in front of the benghazi committee. There has been quite a dustup in the days leading up to it between the committee chairman, the democrat, about what the purpose of this. Is and Hillary Clinton is happy to jump on board. For the first time in a long time Hillary Clinton is on the offense. When this first came up we thought okay, this is going to be a very tough day for Hillary Clinton. Well talk a lot about email. She will be put on the defensive. Republicans now are going to be able to get at her in a way that they havent before. And now its been turned completely around. That its republicans now on the defensive. Ifill one of the things inoe minute video today in which she touted her time as secretary of state, one what the best of secretary of state she was. Is that part of the offense too, tamara . I think she goes in there and she acts like secretary of state. She is the stateswoman. She has to be very careful in that hearing not to come off as dismissive. Even though she thinks that it is a partisan witchhunt. She has to come in there and take it very seriously. And the challenge for her is this could be six or eight hours long. You think that Republican Debate of three hours was a long time . Try a daylong hearing, multiple rounds of questioning, on a whole range of areas, not just the benghazi attack. It is going its going to be a marathon. And by the end of the day, she like any other human being is likely to be tired. And the pressure is still going t