And Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been 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 at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thank you for joining us. The Trump Administration has lost its first appeal of a federal court order halting its ban on immigration from seven predominantly muslim countries. Early this morning, the ninth Circuit Court of appeals which covers the western United States upheld fridays temporary restraining order by a federal judge in seattle. The courts have halted enforcement of the 90 day ban on citizens from iran, iraq, libya, somalia, syria, and yemen from entering the u. S. The january 27 trump executive order also banned Syrian Refugees from entering the u. S. For 120 days. But the court order by judge james robart, a george w. Bush appointee, app
We offer expertise and tailored solutions for Small Businesses and major corporations. What can we do for you . And now, bbc world news america. This is bbc world news america. Hard enough being a syrian refugee in normal weather. It is miserable in this. The worst winter storm in decades sweeps across the middle east, delaying aid supplies. North korea says it has executed chang songthaek, the once powerful uncle of the leader. The man hired to sign Nelson Mandelas memorial speaks out after sparking a global controversy. Angels. Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and around the globe. Snow was falling in the middle east tonight, and millions of for millions of Syrian Refugees it is deadly. The worst winter storm in decades is sweeping through the region. The United Nations has already delayed one airlifted a into syria and says it is particularly concerned about the risk to children. The valley in eastern lebanon, with 125,000 refugees living in tentes, tens, has b
Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and around the globe. Hundreds of thousands of Syrian Refugees face another night of hard winter weather. Many have little more than tents for weather. They have chastised european leaders for not doing enough, saying they should head hang their heads in shame. We spent the day in lebanon with the refugees. No working taps, no wells, only snow. Collectn in this camp this to melted back into water. No matter how bart how bad it gets, their families have to drink. An extended family of 20 lives in this hot, in the northern valley. They have a small stove, but they dont have much wood, so they were burning pieces of a plastic mat. The area around this was quite warm, but the fumes of burning plastic hung heavily in the air. Child, no place to be a and a much worse place to be a baby. Two mothers, one who is 18 and one who is 19, both have one monthold sons and a tough choice. The stove keeps the babies warm, but they think that the fu
Angels. Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and around the globe. Snow was falling in the middle east tonight, and millions of for millions of Syrian Refugees it is deadly. The worst winter storm in decades is sweeping through the region. The United Nations has already delayed one airlifted a into syria and says it is particularly concerned about the risk to children. The valley in eastern lebanon, with 125,000 refugees living in tentes, tens, has been one of the hardesthit by this storm. Our middle east editor sends this report. Winter came in a hard and fast. More snow is forecast and more war a few miles away in syria, which means more refugees, more people in tents, more cold, more misery. Two week ago it was still warm enough in lebanon to not have to worry about having a jacket. Some syrian children are still virtually barefoot. Turning the camps to mod. The lebanese government does not allow aid agencies to build properlyrun camps. They dont want the syrians t
Pelley good evening. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds unless its saturday. The u. S. Postal service added that qualification to its legendary motto today. The service is broke and it will drop saturday mail delivery in august. The troubles of the Postal Service are as big as the agency itself. The u. S. P. S. Delivers 40 of all of the mail on earth and it has more than 522,000 fulltime workers, which makes it among the top civilian employers in america. But the age of email has turned out to be a much bigger challenge than snow or rain or gloom of night and heres nancy cordes. Reporter saturday mail delivery dates back to the inception of the Postal Service itself in 1863. But today the postmaster general said times have changed and his agency must, too. When you lose the first class volume that weve seen, you cant make ends meet from a financial standpoint. The choice is either change some of the