And in our second story tonight, the war has claimed more than 10,000 children. But for kids living with snipers and rubble all around them, this is their own story in their own words. Through breathtaking photojournalism, a dramatic portrait of the children of aleppo. singing explosion these two stories, tonight on frontline. Frontlineis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening publice awareness of critical issues. The wyncote foundation. And by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. Narrator reporter muhammad ali is crossing into syria as a violent new phase of
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Glor good evening, everyone. Scotts on assignment. Im jeff glor. This is our western edition. The last u. S. Forces left iraq in december 2011. President obama may now send some back. Islamic militants grabbed more land today and the president returned from a weekend in california to consider options. They include sending special forces. We have a series of reports tonight including a team of correspondents in the region, but we begin with breaking news from david martin at the pentagon. David . Reporter good evening. One of the options being presented to the president calls for sending teams of special forces back into iraq. They would not go into the field to fight alongside iraqi troops, but would train and advise them in an effort to recapture some of the territory lost to insurgents. A small flotilla of ships led by the u. S. S. Bush is in the persian gulf ready to carry out strikes designed to break the momentum of sunni militias su
Contains a stockpile of old weapons. In fact, you are looking at pictures. We went into the cnn vault today. This is back from a cnn crew shot this back in 2002. Also the state department quick to shoot down the threat of these chemical weapons, saying it would be, quote, very difficult if not impossible to safely move the materials. But we did a little digging today. So according to this 2007 cia report, this facility is anything but safe. Let me just read part of this report for you. Quote, the most dangerous chemical munitions have been declared to the u. N. And are sealed in bunkers. Although declared, the bunkers contents have yet to be confirmed. These areas of the compound pose a hazard to civilians and potential black marketers. Among the chemical agents once produced in this sprawling complex, you have mustard gas, sarin and vx. This is a nerve agent. Bigger picture, arwa damon, let me bring you in. Senior International Correspondent and Lieutenant General mark hurtling rejoin
Slammed to the ground, handcuffed, mistaken for a suspect. Good evening. Tonight from hungary. Where we come to you from outside an overflowing refugee camp. You can see the tents behind me. Inside them, Syrian Refugees escaping war. Europes biggest refugee emergency since world war ii. Some leaders saying europe has an historic duty to help right now. Here in hungary, we saw the workers putting razor wire on the fence growing along their border. The battle lines are drawn over what to do. We flew a drone above the tracks, part of the dangerous route. Just before so many step into the european union. And the perilous path hundreds of thousands are now taking. Boats to greece, then by foot and train. Two different routes. Trying to get to germany and austria. And tonight, new action from the white house. America will now take in thousands of refugees. Opinions already deeply divided. And we explain why so many refugees are just now making the dangerous journey. A route not everyone surv
Coast. Good to have you with us. Fair to say, this will be a very busy week ahead for the u. S. President , donald trump. Mr. Trump speaks before a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. This will mark his first address as president. The white house is set to roll out a revised executive order. There is an event in april the president is declining. Without explanation, i will not be attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner this year. Please wish everyone well and have a great evening. After losing big to the president in november, the democrats now are regroups under new leadership. On saturday, Democratic Party officials meeting in atlanta, georgia, elected former u. S. Labor secretary, tom perez, as chairman of the democratic committee. Ryan nobles has more. Reporter democratics have a new chairman. Perez fell one vote short on the first ballot but gathered enough support to win on the second. There was still a major part of the party, the progressive part, that