Clearing explosives is a slow and dangerous business. This area has been mined since the 1980s. Mine clearance organizations have been able to get rid of about 80 of the old ordnance left in afghanistan. But new fighting means they still have a lot of work ahead of them. Brangham all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Babbel. A language app that teaches reallife conversations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and more. Babbels 1015 minute lessons are available as an app, or online. More information on babbel. Com. 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. Brangham in ir
And dangerous business. This area has been mined since the 1980s. Mine clearance organizations have been able to get rid of about 80 of the old ordnance left in afghanistan. But new fighting means they still have a lot of work ahead of them. Brangham all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Babbel. A language app that teaches reallife conversations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and more. Babbels 1015 minute lessons are available as an app, or online. More information on babbel. Com. 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. Brangham in iran tonight, leaders of the Isl
Plus connecting south and north American Culture the inca exhibition underway in the u. S. Capital. So within the past hour, Afghanistans Parliament has rejected one of president ghanis nominees. Crossing over to Jennifer Glasse who is joining us from kabul. Now that there has been no nomination for the defense post, Jennifer Glasse away does this mean for what does this mean or the position . Its back to the drawing board for president ashraf ghani and his defense minister abdalla abdalla. Only got 84 votes far fewer than 107 he needed for confirmation. It is back to the drawing board for the afghan president and his chief executive. This all comes at a very difficult time for forces, theres been heavy fighting at least 18 members of the Security Forces have been killed in the last four days in fighting with the taliban. So the Defense Ministry a very key post for president and they have to now try to find a candidate that will work. With a number of key vacant posts jennifer, what ha
Electionrelated violence. Hamas is calling for the release of dozens of its members and supporters detained overnight on thursday saying more than 100 people were picked up in raids on the west bank by forces. Ata spokesmen said hamas members planned to create chaos. Hamas said the raids are politically motivated. There was a Large Campaign carried out in the palestinian authority, of members and supporters. They arrested hundreds of people the majority academics people they are part of the security coordination between israel and the palestinian authority. Crossing over to gaza and bringing in imtiaz tyab to tell us what this means for a strained relationship between hamas and others. Very strained and this will not do anything to improve the ties. We were at a press conference a small demonstration held by hamas officials, where they reiterated their call for all of these people that have been arrested to be released. In fact we spoke to a senior hamas official who said to us that th
Baseball, we will tell you about a new Community Project in chicago. Developing news out of afghanistan today, taliban claiming responsibility for a suicide bombing attacking the convoy in the capitol kabul. As we look at the first pictures coming through we will get Jennifer Glasse in kabul to tell us a little bit more about what happened today, jennifer. Reporter kamal, it happened in the area just before noon here in the east part of kabul. The target of the attack a nato convow an Armored Vehicle where a couple of members of Parliament Live and nato tells us there has been no nato deaths and eyewitnesses at the scene told us there were at least three afghan casualties with the bomb. And plumes of smoke could be seen across the city and windows were blown out of many buildings in the area. It seems familiar jennifer in the sense of a recent attack i mean in the past week itself in kabul, similar sort of stuff. Thats right it was just a week ago on the airport road that a taliban car