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But the president and his team are having trouble trying to shift to new topics. John yang has our report. Were not saying its the end of healthcare but were looking to look for a way forward. Yang at the white house today, press Secretary Sean Spicer was the public face of the effort to move beyond the humiliating collapse of President Trumps attempt to repeal the Affordable Care act. And i think what this event on friday did was frankly draw more people into the process to saying okay, lets figure out if we can actually come together with some consensus ideas to get to 218 whether or not they come from one side of the aisle or the other to pass this bill and yang but much of the day was dominated by mounting questions about the House Intelligence Committee chairmans revelation that Trump Transition Communications had been intercepted. Today, nunes acknowledged he got that information during a meeting with a source, not a white house official, in the Old Executive Office building in the white house complex. Today, spicer said he couldnt say with certainty that the white house was not the source of nunes information. What i can tell you through his Public Comments is that he has said that he had multiple sources that he came to a conclusion on. To the degree to which any of those sources weighed on the ultimate outcome of what he came to a decision on i dont know and thats something frankly i dont know he discussed with the president. So its possible as far as. I mean anythings possible. Yang meanwhile, white house officials said the president s close adviser and soninlaw Jared Kushner has volunteered to meet with the senate Intelligence Committee to talk about meetings he arranged with the Russian Ambassador during the transition. The president sought to give the appearance of business as usual, signing four bills into law to rollback regulations put in place by the obama administration. And he joined daughter ivanka and Vice President pence in a meeting with women entrepreneurs. Aides said the president s next major legislative initiative will be an ambitious overhaul of the tax code and this time the white house will be in charge. Obviously, were driving the train on this. Were going to work with congress. Yang for the pbs newshour, im john yang. Woodruff later this afternoon, Senate Democratic leader schumer said devin nunes should be removed as chair of the House Intelligence Committee. In the days other news, wall street fought against fears that the Health Care Bills collapse means trouble for the trump economic agenda. The Dow Jones Industrial average dropped nearly 200 points at the outset, before ending with a loss of 45 points to close near 20,551. The nasdaq rose 11 points, and the s p 500 slipped two. Turkeys citizens who live abroad began voting today on dramatically expanding president recep Tayyip Erdogans powers. More than 2. 5 million turks were eligible to vote across europe. And political divisions were on display, as they turned out in france, germany and other countries. translated this is about turkeys future right now because they are trying to change the republic or democracy into a dictatorship of one man and im against that. translated we are sticking together for turkey and the future of the turkish republic. We have a turkish republic and we will say yes all the way to the end. We are here to support the stability of our country. Woodruff the referendum has strained relations between turkey and several european states that barred turkish officials from campaigning in their territory. Voting inside turkey begins next month. The Major Political parties in Northern Ireland will get several more weeks to reach a new powersharing deal. The British Government extended todays deadline after negotiators failed to get an agreement over the weekend. Northern Irelands Catholic protestant unity government collapsed in january. The alternative would be returning the province to direct rule by london. In australia, a cyclone began blasting its way onshore early tuesday, with winds of 140 milesanhour. The target was the Northeastern State of queensland, where the eye of the storm was due to make landfall within hours. People packed sandbags ahead of the storm. And, up to 30,000 people were urged to evacuate the coastal region. And, historian, journalist and civil rights activist Roger Wilkins died sunday, after suffering dementia. Wilkins held a top civil rights post in the Johnson Administration during the 1960s. He went on to write editorials for the Washington Post during the watergate scandal. And for years, he was a frequent newshour guest. Roger wilkins was 85 years old. Still to come on the newshour protests across russia galvanize putins critics. Claims of up to 200 civilians killed by a u. S. Air strike in iraq. Patients still in limbo without a republican plan to replace obamacare, and much more. Woodruff now, widespread protests broke out in cities across russias eleven time zones yesterday, to denounce government corruption. Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent Margaret Warner begins our coverage. Warner the sentence for kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was handed down this morning in moscow 15 days in jail for resisting police. He was also fined 20,000 rubles, about 350, for organizing yesterdays mass protests against alleged government corruption. translated i think yesterdays events have shown there is a large number of voters in russia who support a candidate who speaks for the fight against corruption. These people demand political representation, and i strive to warner the demonstrations were the biggest show of defiance against president Vladimir Putin since 2012. Tens of thousands rallied in 99 cities, from st. Petersburg and moscow in the west, to chita in siberia, to the far Pacific Coast port of vladivostok. Navalny generated the protests, in part, to demand the resignation of Prime Minister and former president dmitry medvedev. Navalny released a video earlier this month showcasing myriad mansions, yachts and vineyards medvedev allegedly has amassed. Hundreds of protestors were arrested yesterday in moscow and elsewhere. Today, the European Union called for their release. A putin spokesman said the kremlin respects peoples civic stance and their right to voice their position. We cant express the same respect to those who consciously misled people and provoked illegal actions. White house Spokesman Sean Spicer said today the United States will monitor the situation and we call on the government of russia to immediately release all peaceful protesters. Warner for his part, navalny has announced plans to challenge putin for president in 2018. But his eligibility to do so is in question, over previous criminal charges. For the pbs newshour, im Margaret Warner. Woodruff for more on the protests, president putin, and where this goes from here im joined by journalist and author masha gessen. Shes a contributing opinion writer to the new york times, and among her books is a study of the russian president entitled the man without a face the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin. She joins me from new york. Masha gessen, thank you very much for joining us. 99 cities, the biggest demonstrations in five years. Just how significant was this . Its not just the biggest in five years. It is the First Time Since 1993 that russians have come out into the streets without an explicit permission from the government to do so. The main difference between the protests of 2011, 2012 and these protests today is they didnt have permits. These were people who were coming out into the streets, very young people for the most part, who knew they were all risking arrest. Its an extraordinary event. Woodruff you say young people. Who are the people, mainly, who turned out . Judging from the video and photo footage, from eyewitness accounts and arrest records, this is the youngest crowd weve seen. Most are in their 30s and a lot are high school students. They are people who have never lived in russia without putin. Reporter much had to do with this video of medvedev, the Prime Minister. What was it in that that triggered this reaction . Its not just a video. Its a huge investigative project carried out by an anticorruption organization. They put together a story and they put together a film that demonstrated and meticulously documented the scale of corruption on the part of russias Prime Minister. Reporter and what was it about the scale of corruption . We mentioned some of it, the houses. The houses, the 50 pairs of sneakers, or however many he orders every month. Its obscene, and i think that thats a really important aspect of it. Its not just that he has a lot of money, its that he behaves obscenely with that amount of money. It is unimaginable indecency, and it has been made public. Woodruff given the level of repression in russia, masha gessen, what do protesters think they can accomplish . I dont think theyre protesters who have a specific goal in mind as were going to come out into the streets and get this done. I think, again, these are very young people, so they may not be fully aware of the threat that they are facing. The last protest in russia five years ago ended in a massive crackdown and in dozens arrests of peaceful demonstrators who went to prison for years at a time. So i think its likely that the same fate will face these young people. I think they may even need a greater crackdown to put an end to these protests, because these are young people who dont watch television and who wont be quite as afraid of jail just because they are so young. So what i really fear is if these protests continue is the kind of violence in the streets that we havent seen before in russia. Woodruff youve mentioned a couple of times the threat that they face. How real is the threat . What could happen to these people if they continue to come out in the streets . Well, what has happened to protesters in the past was basically the government in 2012 put an end to a series of mass protests by changing laws, by making it possible to arrest anybody for protest, and by making basically a show of imprisoning not just protest leaders and not specifically the protest leaders but activists, rank and file protest participants, then gets across the idea that anybody who joins a protest without being an organizer, without a visible leader risks arrest, and not just arrest but years in a russian jail. Woodruff do you see anything changing about this regime as a result of this level of public distrust of this government . Yes and no. I mean, these protesters came out against corruption, which is a little bit different from coming out against politically against this regime. Importantly, they are not protesting the war in ukraine, they are not protesting the murder of opposition leaders. They are protesting the government, this gives opportunity for anticorruption measures, to find somebody else who can be accused of corruption, to make a show of fighting corruption. But i think these protesters at this point are stop ago little bit short of demanding to the putin regime. Their demands are not explicitly political nature, they are really demanding good government, but that could change. Woodruff masha gessen, journalist and author, we thank you. Thank you. Woodruff now, a bombing in iraq by the americanled coalition leads to scores of dead. John yang has that. Yang the airstrike happened in the aljadida neighborhood of western mosul, amid pitched fighting between isis militants and Iraqi Government forces. The reports from the scene are gruesome more than 100 dead. For more on this, and the brutal battle there, im joined from erbil, in norther iraq, via skype, by Loveday Morris of the Washington Post. Loveday, thanks for joining us. I know its very late there. Its been ten days since this incident took place. The pentagon said air assault took place march 17th. What do we know about what happened . What happened was iraqi forces sent bombs into an i. S. I. S. Held area, one where residents say there were a lot of i. S. I. S. Fighters fighting from the rooftops and they were sheltering in their homes, and as the iraqi forces advanced, there was heavy bombardment on this neighborhood, and there are allegations of actually multiple sites hit by u. S. Airstrikes, but one building they have pulled out more than 100 bodies and thats an alleged site of a track. The iraqis are saying it was booby trapped by i. S. I. S. Thats right. They said they made an initial investigation and this particular building was booby trapped by i. S. I. S. Initially commanders blamed it on an i. S. I. S. Column that collapsed. Several conflicting stories. Iraqi civil defense, the rescue workers pulling the bodies out of the building, the experts say its caused by an airstrikes. The u. S. Coalition said it carried out a strike to have the location of the accusations of mass civilian casualties. Yang President Trump said they wanted give commanders in the field more flexibility. What do we know about the rules covering airstrikes like these i . Have they changed since President Trump came into the office . What we know is no change at all to the rules of engagement at all. The iraqis are saying that as well, no official changes in the rules of engagement. There seems to be a speeding of the process that made the process faster. Its really unclear what exactly causing this. There is been a spike, now, in civilian cawrkts in both iraq and syria. Yang and this is in mosul, some of the most intense urban fighting, street to street, house to house. What is the impact on the civilian population . A huge impact. A huge amount of ordinates. Heavy weaponry and booby traps. Really, you talk to civilians coming out of mosul, they have been in their basements for weeks on end, theyre absolutely terrified. I. S. I. S. Seizing rooftops and makes them keep their front doors open, so theyre very scared of airstrikes. People are coming out. No food and water inside, the area is under siege. Ates terrible situation. Yang are they able to flee . Some are, some arent. They normally cant flee until the Iraqi Security forces get to their area. What has happened in some cases, i. S. I. S. Will send a wave of civilians out and order them to leave their homes. The iraqis will have to hold fire if theres a big wave of civilians coming out, it really slows them down. So sometimes people come out like that. Other times, i. S. I. S. Keeps them in, keeps them blocked in their neighborhood, use them as human shields. In that case, i mean, anytime people are coming out, theyre always caught in very dangerous crossfire. You have snipers, pore tars. Yeah, its tough for people to get out for sure. Yang Loveday Morris, the Washington Post. Thanks for joining us and be safe. Thank you. Woodruff stay with us, coming up on the newshour turkeys political turmoil breeds Economic Uncertainty for the u. S. Ally. And its politics monday. Amy walter and tamara keith survey the landscape after the collapse of the Health Care Bill. But first, whats next for the future of the Affordable Care act, and the consumers who are using it . After the republican bill was withdrawn friday, House Speaker paul ryan said obamacare remains the law of the land for now. But there are problems that need to be addressed. President obama himself has said so. More than 20 Million People are now getting coverage through the insurance marketplaces and a medicaid expansion. Lisa desjardins looks at the Big Questions ahead. Desjardins one major issue the health of the marketplaces for individuals who get insurance on their own. For them, premiums rose by an average of 25 this year. Whats happening . In part, the exchanges need more younger and healthier adults to enroll. Our team has been fannin