focusing on their patient s diet to prevent diseases on the rise. if i teach you how to cook, you re going to improve the types of food you eat and ultimately that is what is going to prevent chronic disease for you. woodruff: all that and more on tonight s 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: and individuals. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: in the senate, the attention today was on the investigation into the trump administration s relationship with russia, as senators heard from a man who has been in the spotlight for years, and a woman few had heard of before last fall. lisa desjardins
to prevent diseases on the rise. if i teach you how to cook, you re going to improve the types of food you eat and ultimately that is what is going to prevent chronic disease for you. woodruff: all that and more on tonight s 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: and individuals. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: in the senate, the attention today was on the investigation into the trump administration s relationship with russia, as senators heard from a man who has been in the spotlight for years, and a woman few had heard of before last fall. lisa desjardins reports. desjardins: at the cap
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russia and missile systems to iran. gunter grass. a nobel winning novelist dies. and cyclists almost collide with a high speed train. we begin in yemen where the saudi led coalition has been striking houthis in the southern part of the country. coalition has been hitting targets in shabwa. the south of the country is especially important how close it is to the red sea and the gulf of aden. key shipping ports for oil. saudi arabia says it s turning up the pressure on the houthi rebels. the amounts of air attacks were 120 yesterday and increasing. all the fronts are busy, we are confronting all the centers of the houthis. saudis forces have been pounding houthis inside yemen as well, after intelligence that houthi fighters were aiming to move towards the border, liddy dutt has administer on the fight for yemen. reporter: on the ground fighting between houthis and tribes men continues in the port city of aden and in the air saudis target positions including the presi
mubarak. but in any one year the american president and security adviser, secretary of state, have a finite number of problems that it is possible to deal with, and to stir up the middle east when you don t know what the outcome will be, and when the outcome may be not at all a democratic it s happened after tahrir square, which we did support. this is a question one should reflect upon. that doesn t say that every decision was correct, but when simultaneously the united states should not be involved every, but to say, however, they should overthrow the democratic antidemocratic governments, i understand what you are saying. i m not saying that america has always acted consistently. i ve laid out what i think the basic principle should be. but i ve seen enough of it to know that the in the operation of about the security and survival of the united states, one has to make some allowance for the contingency and for circumstance. someone on this side? yes, sir. i do re