hello and welcome. joe biden has begun his time in office by reversing key trump era policies just hours after being sworn in as the 46th president of the united states. mr biden said there was no time to waste . he has signed executive orders tackling coronavirus, climate change and racial injustice. the us is to rejoin the world health organization and paris climate accord, and the keystone oil pipeline is being scrapped. the bbc s nomia iqbal is in washington. welcome to you. a busy first few hours in the oval office for president biden. he is doing his best to try and dismantle president trump s legacy full up at a faster rate than probably any president has done. certainly mr trump did the same when he took office in 2016 from barack obama. as you mentioned there there were some key executive orders, about 15 and all he needs to do is sign them with a pen and they will be reversed. the climate change, he will return america to the paris climate deal. there is also re
public. bottoms way up. in our rising costs series we take you from barley farms to bars to find out why alcohol prices have drinkers o over a barrel. all of this for a penny of beer? a penny of beer. it s tuesday, february 18th, 2019. here s today s eye opener. boy scouts of america is facing mounting legal costs from defending itself agaist lawsuits alleging sexual abuse. the boy scouts of america files for bankruptcy. we know there are thousands of perpetrators in scouts. the enormity of the problem is finally coming to light. [ cheers ] michael bloomberg will appear on tomorrow s debate stage in nevada. he s just been doing events and avoiding the press. tomorrow night s going to be exciting now. reporter: it will be another two weeks of fear for more than 300 quarantined americans possibly infected with coronavirus. we have had no food this morning. we re starting to get cranky. reporter: mississippi flooding forced hundreds of people to flee th
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. i am pleased to be joined by diane rav itch, a former assistant the education secretary under bush 41. ten years ago, she published a scathing critique of the standardized testing system she once supported in programs like no child left behind. since then, she s become a defender of public schools. i am honored to have diane ravitch on this program. how are you holding up so far? i m glad to be with you. how are you holding up so far? i went paragliding the other day, i m holding up really well. you re paragliding, obama is water surfing, how can you be so calm at a moment like this? i m not calm, i hate what s going on. i there s a full scale frontal attack on our public school system. it s an outrage, close to 90% of the children in this country go to public education and public education is the bedrock of our democracy, doors open to all. taking in kids who are english language learners, kids wit
and by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. thank you. please welcome eric braden back to this program. he has for nearly 40 years played victor neumann on america s dnumber one daytime drama the young & the restless. it s called i ll be damned. eric braden, i ve known you for some years now, i consider you a friend, there are things i learned about you in this book i had no idea about. like the river rafting and how that got you to l.a. that s how i came to l.a. i was at the university of montana, on a track scholarship. to make money i worked in the lumber mill at night, from 6:00 to 2:00 in the morning. and slept an average of about 4 to 5 hours a night. the first lecture 8:00 in the morning, track and field practice at 1:00, back to work. a fellow student came up and said, do you want to do a river trip on the river of no return in idaho. i said what is that? he said, well it s the river of no return. it s the salmon river and we may not return.
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. i am pleased to be joined by diane rav itch, a former assistant the education secretary under bush 41. ten years ago, she published a scathing critique of the standardized testing system she once supported in programs like no child left behind. since then, she s become a defender of public schools. i am honored to have diane ravitch on this program. how are you holding up so far? i m glad to be with you. how are you holding up so far? i went paragliding the other day, i m holding up really well. you re paragliding, obama is water surfing, how can you be so calm at a moment like this? i m not calm, i hate what s going on. i there s a full scale frontal attack on our public school system. it s an outrage, close to 90% of the children in this country go to public education and public education is the bedrock of our democracy, doors open to all. taking in kids who are english language learners, kids wit