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Promoting the wellbeing of humanity around the world bye building resilience and inclusive economies. More at rockefellerfoundation. Org 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. Om thank you. Yo woodruff the questions are swirling in the president ial campaign this evening how much do voters know about thekn candidates health, and how much should they know . The issue leaped to the fore in the last 24 hours. She was diagnosed with 9pneumonia on friday. Woodruff the cable news o banners told the story Hillary Clintons health, front and center, after she appeared to stumble when she abruptly left sundays 9 11 ceremony in new york city. Hours later, her doctor said the 68yearold democratic nominee had been diagnosed with pneumonia last friday. The Clinton Campaign pledged today that more information on her health is forthcoming were gonna be releasing that to further put to rest anyto lingering concerns about what you saw yesterday. It really is the case that there is no other undisclosed condition. Woodruff clinton scrapped a california trip, and instead planned to phone in to a Sanan Francisco fundraiser tonight. And late today, she tweeted, im feeling fine and getting better. That left running mate tim kaine to take up the issue, in dayton, ohio. Ive just been on the campaign since july 22. Shes been on the trail for 18 months. Her energy staggers me, i have a hard time keeping up with her. Woodruff meanwhile, Republican Donald Trump was restrained in his reaction i just hope that she gets well, and gets back on thewe trail. Woodruff trump has released little about his own health, but promised today hell be putting out more information as well. Ti this last week, i took a physical. And ill be releasing when the numbers come in hopefully, theyre going to be good, iod think theyre going to be good,d i feel great but when the numbers come in, ill be releasing very, very specific numbers. Woodruff trumps main focus today was a different issue t clintons friday night comments about his supporters. Its fodder for a new Trump Campaign ad you could put half of trumps supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables. The racists, sexists, homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it. People like you, you, and you. Deplorable. Woodruff and it was fodders for trump himself, on the campaign trail today during aai speech in baltimore i we have the support of cops, and soldiers, carpenters, and welders, the young and the old, and millions of working classan families. These were among the countless americans that Hillary Clinton called deplorable, irredeemable, and unamerican. D woodruff trumps next stop one of the battleground states, north carolina, this evening. Well examine the issue of president ial candidates health more fully after the news summary. Ifill in the days other news a ceasefire in syria negotiated by the u. S. And b russia is now officially in force. It took effect at sunset, although government attacks continued in the city of aleppoe meanwhile, syrian president Bashar Alassad appeared in a recaptured damascus suburb, and insisted he means to control thi whole country again. translated the syrian state is determined to recover every area from the terrorists, to restore safety and security, to rebuild, to rebuild theto infrastructure, to rebuild whatever is destroyed by all means. We call upon all syrians to move towards reconciliation. Ifill a number of rebel groups expressed misgivings about the agreement includingu over how it would be enforced. Later, secretary of state john kerry defended the deal. He even talked of approving syrian strikes against alqaeda militants once known as the alnusra front. Assad is not supposed to be bombing the opposition because there is a ceasefire. Now he is allowed and will be to target nusra, but that would be on strikes that are agreed upon with russia and the united states. Ifill that would mark the first u. S. Cooperation with thec Assad Government since the Syrian Civil War began. Within hours, the state department walked it back, saying there is no such provision in the agreement. Woodruff china today rejected u. S. Calls that it do. S more to stop north Koreas Nuclear program. It came days after the north conducted a fifth nuclear test. In beijing, the Foreign Ministry said washington stoked the tensions, and should bear the brunt of dealing with it. translated the nub of the north Korean Nuclear issue is not in china, but in the united states. The u. S. Should earnestly work on a tangible and effective solution. There is an old saying in chinai whoever started the trouble should end it, thus the u. S. Should take on its due responsibility. Woodruff the chinese spokesman also voiced doubts about u. S. Calls for new sanctions against the north. Meanwhile, south korea warned that the north is ready to set off another Nuclear Blast at any time. Ifill north korea is reeling from disastrous flooding after a typhoon hit late last month. A u. N. Report says the storm killed at least 130 people and destroyed thousands of homes. North korean state tv today showed footage of recovery efforts. Workers cleared debris and worked to repair railway lines. Woodruff in the philippines outspoken president Rodrigo Duterte is now demanding the n u. S. Withdraw all troops from his countrys south. S the u. S. Has advisors there working with philippine troops against proal qaeda fighters. Today, in manila, duterte blamei the american presence for inflaming islamist groups. Mi translated there are a lot of americans white people there and they have to go. O. The conflict there will only get worse if they see american soldiers, and there will be mors bloodshed. Woodruff duterte said the bad blood goes back to u. S. Ac efforts to stamp out muslim rebellions in the early 1900s, when the philippines was a u. S. Colony. Ifill back in this country newly discovered documents show the sugar industry began Funding Research decades ago to dismissm links between sugar and heart disease. The journal jama internal medicine today published an analysis of correspondence between the industry and harvarh researchers. It said the resulting studies successfully cast doubt about the hazards of sucrose whilele promoting fat as the culprit. Woodruff and, soccer injuries are soaring amongmo american children. A study in the journal pediatrics finds the number treated in Emergency Rooms jumped 78 between 1990 and 2014. It was fueled, in part, by concussions. Researchers at the nationwideat Childrens Hospital in columbus, ohio say its also due to soccers growing popularity. Ifill wall street recovered some today from fridays big losses. The Dow Jones Industrial average gained 239 points to close atoi 18,325. The nasdaq rose nearly 86 points and the s p 500 added 31. Woodruff still to come on the newshour the debate over the publics right to know about president ial nominees health, lifelong republicans rethinking their loyalty in ther traditionally swing state of colorado, calling out southso sudanese leaders for gettingne rich off the countrys troubles, and much more. Woodruff now, a closer looks at just how much the public has a right to know about the health of the american president or a president ial candidate, and whan earlier president s have and have not disclosed about their personal health histories. For that, we turn to dr. Howard markel. Rk hes director of the center for the history of medicine at the university of michigan, and author of a number of books onmb health and infectious diseases. Dr. Markel, welcome. Hillary Clintons Campaign says her pneumonia is not severe. Just how serious can pneumonia be . Well, pneumonia can be quite serious. People can die of it. They used to call it the old mans friend in the years before antibiotics. But now with taking antibiotics, taking care of yourself and resting, it is quite an easy thing to treat. Woodruff i guess it was just reported this afternoon on politico that Hillary Clintons staff says she doesnt prefer to drink water often. Could that have contributed to what happened yesterday . Absolutely. Think about it youre tired, sick, out in the sun which dehydrates us all, whether were aware of it or not, and that could very well have been what caused that wobbly step that everyone has seen and talked about today. Ab reporter well, let me ask you, both the campaigns, both trump and clinton are now saying, in the next few days, they are going to be releasing fuller medical histories, were going to know more about their medical story. St what do the American Voters have a right to know . What should people know in order to know whether these two individuals are healthy or not . Well, i think its very important and i think American Voters do have the right to know about the health of the people who are running for the most powerful job in the world. It is very easy to present ones Health History and, yet, its become very tangled and diffuse, just like peoples tax returns. But i think both these pieces of information are valid for people to ask about. Ou woodruff and, so, what are some aspects of their health that you think should be disclosed when they do put these histories out . Well, i think just the basic toptobottom physical examination, Mental Health examination, a recording of ther medications they may or may not take, past illnesses, illnesses that may run in their family, a general medical history. Remember, this hasnt reallyl been done all that much since 1992, and it was paul songus who did not tell the American People precisely about his nonhodgkins lymphoma. He said he was curet cured. He was not. Had he won the rest of the campaign and run for president , he probably would have beenav quite ill during his presidency. So these things do matter and i think its one more piece of information that we as voters have a right to know about. T. Woodruff and there are other example as well. People think of john f. Kennedy, addisons disease se thats right. Woodruff and at number of other president s. And really back to kennedy, roosevelt or even Woodrow Wilsons health, these were an era where medicine could not do all that much for these serious diseases. Today, more and more people are living full and healthy lives with chronic illnesses. Having turned 50 myself quite a few years ago, the warranty on your body runs out at that point, and we all have problems with our bodies. So mrs. Clintons pneumonia is communityacquired. Its very easy thing to contract especially when youre shaking hands, working a grueling campaign, flying on airlines and stuff. I think most doctors would say take a break for a day or so and rest like any human being whose body gets sick. Woodruff Hillary Clinton is 68, donald trump is 70. How much is age a factor in this, as you describe, grueling job they both want to take on . Well, its hard to say with each 70yearold. One 70yearold might be quite fatigued by this type of schedule. Other people, and it seems mr. Trump and mrs. Clinton are those types, are energized by it. So it isd a casebycase situation. But, you know, most people over 65 should get a pneumonia shot and also should get a flu shot every year. Ar so thats something you can do. But its hard to say. These sounds like extremely energetic people, they sound like very healthy people. Im a little puzzled why they just dont tell us whats going on. Woodruff as we prepare to see whatever these campaigns release, how will we know were getting a full story . That is difficult, and we dont know. Particularly the brief of the report is there may be stuffu youre not seeing, or you may get a data dump like john mccain did a few years back when he released thousands of pages of his medical history and gave journalists three or four hours to review them. Im a medical professor and i couldnt do it in that time. So there are different ways people can be somewhat shifty or less than transparent with their health data. I think itshe high time in this modern era of great Health Prevention that the president ial candidates tell us what is going on in their bodies and we can make the decisions one way or the ortho. Woodruff dr. Howardr markel, we thank you. Ma thank you. Woodruff and on our website, you can find a guide to pneumonia what causes it andpn what makes it a potentially dangerous illness. Thats at pbs. Org newshour. Ifill for more on how Health Issues are dogging Hillary Clinton and raising questions of candidates, its time for transparency for both candidates, its time foren politics monday with tamara keith of npr and susan page Washington Bureau chief for u. S. A. Today. Tam, we just heard dr. Markel say the warranty runs out after age 50 and he doesnt understand why people dont tell us what their issues are. How did Health Become central to this campaign . Th Hillary Clinton had a coughing fit about a week ago on the campaign trail that interrupted a press conference and earlier a rally where she was speaking. There was already a lot circulating about her healthr that was completely unsubstantiated, a lot of rumors, conspiracy theories, ana donald trump talking about her stamina. So this was floating in the the ether when, yesterday, at the 9 11 commemoration, she fallterred when she was leaving. Her knees buckled and had trouble getting in the van. She took off in the vafnlt the press was not allowed to follow. 90 minutes later, the Campaign Said shes at Chelsea Clintons house, feeling better and she was overheated. Ifill hours later . Hours later. Ur ifill seems like a long time for those of us covering it. It was the end ofin the day when her doctor released a statement saying she was overheated, dehi dratted and, oh by the way, on friday, three days earlier, was diagnosed with pneumonia and they hadnt toldl anyone about that before. Ifill thats the point is. Our concern really about her health or about the fact of the failure to disclose in a timely fashion . I think both things rish shoes. I think shell need to come out shes healthy and vigorous and has stamina. S the fact she was diagnosed with pneumonia, we didnt know about it and this instant caught on a video has legitimized some of the critiques trump and Rudy Giuliani have been making about her health. He ifill donald trump has not released his own Health Records. Ifill wanted to make that point. Yes. But this goes to is she straightforward to the American People whose votes she wants to get. Ifill and is there a higher standard. They say they will remete the release the higher standard. They say theyve released more Health Records and tax records than donald trump and release more Health Records to prove this pneumonia isnt part of something larger. Rg but there was a tweet today from david axlerod, the advisor toto president obama back when he was running for president , that really sums up what susan is talking about. He says, antibiotics can take care of pneumonia. Whats the cure for an unhealth ey penchant for privacy that repeatedly creates unnecessary problems. Ifill thats privacy. Friday night, she gave a speech at a fundraiser given for her by a gay and Lesbian Group and she said this. Sa to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump Supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables. laughter right . cheers and applause the racists, sexist, homophobing, xenophobing, islam phobic, you name it. Ifill and she said the other basket, and i know this because i see friends from all over america here, florida, georgia, south carolina, texas as well you know new york and california she is basically b going on to say im sorry, i didnt finish reading it. But that other basket of people are people who feel that the government let them down, nobody caress about hem or worries about what happens to their lives and futures and are desperate for change. A lot ofat attention, susan, gie ton what she said about the half of Trump Supporters who are deplorables, but not a lot given to what she said about the other half. If a candidate is starting a sentence with lets be grossly generalistic, you do not want to finish the sentence. She was trying to make a more complicated point as barackra obama eight years ago when he was talking about some clinging to guns and religion. He was talking about the angst voters felt. But what came across was an elitist statement at a fancy fundraiser talking aboutal millions of americans who support her opponent, americansa shes seeking to represent. Ifill is what she said or the way she said it the problem . She said half of the donald Trump Supporters believe muslims should be banned, blacks are lazy, half say they believe many of the more offensive things he has said from the stump, is what she said wrong . What she said about what she said, she released a statement thats described as walking it back, she said, i shouldnt have said half and i shouldnt have been so grossly generalistic. But the real challenge is when you start a conversation with people by labeling them and instead she could easily talk about the behavior, she couldh talk about donald trump retweeting White Nationalist means or things like that, she can do the thing shes done many times before without targeting the voters and without creating a sound byte that middle east shows up in a donald trump ad. Ifill eshes given him the ammunition to accuse her of intolerance. Thats been one of the strongest issues shes had against him including voters who traditionally vote republican and are uneasy about him. I think there are a few donald Trump Supporters who are deplorable. David duke is deplorable. Others may have views that are deplorable but they are not deplorable. Theyre looking at the election trying to make the right decision for them and their families and the candidates need to acknowledge that. Ifill ato great piece of reporting in the washington post, david farronthal said donald trump raises other peoples money and dolls it out under the name trump charities. Remarkable. And trump gets credit for it but he hasnt put his own money in for several years. This reporting is solid. Th this is the kind of reporting we should aspire to where you go through the records, youre methodical, hes been calling hundreds of these charities trying to find out which donations were given and from what pots of money, very impressive. Ifill and in one case broke the law but using some of that money to buy a six foot tall painting of himself at auction or melania did. Id how does that compare to the Clinton Foundation questions that have been raised . Whats remarkable is this is a devastating story thats solidly backed by public records, not a leak the from an anonymous source, but seems to have less impact than the Clinton Foundation stories have toward Hillary Clinton and im not 100 why. Ifill tamera keith of npr and susan page of usa today. Thank you both. Ifill and sticking with politics, colorado is a stateng typically considered a crucial battleground in president ial elections. But this year, Hillary Clinton is polling wellahead of rival donald trump. This has caused no small amounto of concern for Republican Voters in the reddest part of the state. I spent the weekend talking toen them. Put your hands together. Ifill a crisp, sunnyll football afternoon at the u. S. Air force academy. Football is easy. Air force crushed georgia state. But politics is more complicated especially this year, in the heart of one of thr most conservative counties in colorado. Eli bremer, a former local party chairman, supports nominee donald trump now, but only after his first and second choices marco rubio and jeb bush flamed out. You ended up because hes the nominee or because he was your thirdbest choice . Ive always found him an interesting candidate. Interesting can be good;ca interesting can be bad. When he became the nominee, i said, i can support this candidate. I dont have to like everything about him, but i like a number of things about him. Youve got evangelicals and religious voters whove always consistently been on the conservative side; in this election theres questions willc they show up for trump. Ifill the questions in colorado, a state in the habit of picking the winner, go broadt and deep. There are loyal, republicans like dan and tami scase military retirees who feel r its their duty to vote. This year, they are stuck. The choices are dismal, i think, its just kind of a weird time, weird election. Sort of sad in a sense, i guess. Tragic, but mostly its just weird. Thats what i think. Ifill what do you think,yo tami . I think its goofy, because we have no choice. We have maybe the libertarians are coming up. I wouldnt be surprised if this is a really close election. Ifill because you would vote for a third choice rather than Hillary Clinton or donald trump. I would. Ifill the scases are memberl of a big club made up of some of the most conflicted republicans in the country. You would think that in a place with five separate military installations that went slam dunk for mitt romney four years ago, donald trump would be overwhelmingly popular. But here in deep red el paso county, his support appears far softer than expected. I was an active precinctn leader. Ifill Karon Mccormick is part of the reason why. In 2012, she was devoted to mitt romney, assembling 3,500 yardas signs in her back yard shed. This year . Ive been a lifetime republican and have switched to independent because mr. Trump is just too embarrassing for me to support. He doesnt represent the party of lincoln. And i dont want to lower myo standards to dirt level to support him, just to beatm, Hillary Clinton. So i will be supporting her. Ifill but do your republican friends look at you and think that youve lost your mind . Lo yes. Ive been called every name in the book, a traitor andin everything else. But i think he would be dangerous as a president. Ifill colorado may not be a toss up this year. Im calling on behalf of the donald trump and mike pence campaign. Ifill but trump, who campaigned in Colorado Springs this summer, sees an opportunity. I just want to tell you im going to be in colorado a lot, because because theres no wa we shouldnt win this state. t these are great people, heavy military, tremendous respect for their police and law and order, thats me. Ifill tom cronin, who teaches Political Science atcr colorado college, has a term for the republicans who dont want to vote for trump homeless. So in this area, where we are, which is a reliably conservative area at the state, evangelically and military population, does he have to do very well here in order to offset that . Correct. El paso county and some nearby counties, as well as ruralas colorado, is decidedly republican, and he will do welln but he probably wont do well enough to offset denver, boulder, and the suburbs of denver. Ifill that matches up with recent col shows clinton with a comfortable lead. David flaherty runs the magellan poll. Our latest poll Shows Hillary up by five points, 41 of 36 p right now. Honestly whats going in iss were getting about 13 goinge for the libertarian, gary johnson, unlike here in 2012 where if you were not thrilled with mitt romney you kind of had nowhere to go. But with gary johnson gaining g traction in our latest survey, hes getting almost one quarterg of the unaffiliated voters heree so i feel that those voters that perhaps would normally go into hillarys column, or lean into her column, they actually have a viable option at this time in gary johnson. Ifill among that 13 hardcore republicans like r Intelligence Analyst and father of three, jason calhoun, who knows he will vote for neither trump nor clinton. Um i cant think of a perfect candidate at this point. So, you essentially have three options you have three people that are going to be on the ballot in all 50 states, and you really have to decide between one of them. On and i think that its im not saying that the twoparty system is rigged, and corrupt, and broken, or anything, i just think its time for a thirdr voice in there. And i think that governor johnson offers that best opportunity for us to start hearing each other again. Ifill that is not to say trump will lose el paso county. God has a plan for your lifed you need to understand. Ifill staunch trump supporter mark cowart, pastor of the church of all nations a megachurch with five locationsw feels politics should return to the pulpit. We can pray, lord save america, but wed better open our mouths. Ifill but cowart alsoo acknowledges that many in his own congregation are uneasy. There is a lot of confusion and conflict in this election. Ive never seen anything quite like it. You know its interesting, ive heard a lot of things, ill telr you some of the things ive heard. I dont like him, so the way i respond to that is since when do we have to like our candidate to elect a candidate . At so sometimes the lord will choose candidates that may not fit everybodys criteria, but theyre capable candidates, and i like to remind people were not electing a pastor in chief, this is a commander in chief. Ifill Karon Mccormick the romney turned clinton supporter got three trump fundraising pitches in her mail in one dayin last week, a sign that no one is writing this state off. Not yet. Woodruff stay with us. Coming up on the newshour a struggling urban college rethinks its mission and putsts its students to work, plus, rebuilding an iconic afghan palace brought to ruin by yearst of war. But first, south sudan is the worlds newest country, gaining independence from sudan in 2011. But two years later, civil war broke out in the small, east african nation. Though a Peace Agreement was signed in 2015, sporadic fighting continues millions have been displaced, while rival leaders fight for power and thei countrys oil and mineral wealth. A two year long investigation into those leaders and theirse allies, reveals billions have been looted from the country. Newshour producer p. J. Tobia hao our story, and a warning, some viewers may find some of the imagery disturbing. Reporter small, poor and dangerous. The u. N. Has called south sudans one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world. Fighters loyal to the president , salva kiir, have been engaged in a brutal war with the forces of former Vice President riek mashar for most of the last four years. Caught in the crossfire are sudans impoverished civilians. More than two million south sudanese have been displaced by the fighting. Tens of thousands have beente killed. The u. N. Found that in just six months last year, 1,300 womenn. Were raped by fighters in onewe south sudanese state. A report released today by the sentry, a rights group in washington accuses the leaders whove orchestrated this brutality of making billions off the conflict. E Actor George Clooney wrote the foreword to the report. Hotel rwanda star don cheadles also works with the sentry, both were at the National Press club this morning to talk about the m investigation. This is pretty explosive stuff. Were talking about the president , and the ousted v. P. , along with all of theiron generals. That were able to prove without any question that not only are they committing these crimes which theyve already been accused of but that theyre profiting off it. Reporter the report outlines how sudans political leaders,da generals and their families have used the chaos of war to generate vast sums of wealth. Theyve built mansions across the world from uganda and kenya, to australia. That young woman flashing the peace sign from the sunroof of a mercedes . Shes the daughter of a formerf general. A former general whose state salary was never more than 45,000 u. S. Dollars. This man is the stepson of another south sudanese general. He calls himself the young tycoon. His facebook photos show a life of privilege unimaginable to most south sudanese. Here he narrates a tour of a president ial suite at a luxury hotel in las vegas. So its like a mafia in some ways. A mafia has taken over the state. Reporter Jon Prendergast is the director of the enough project, a rights group that oversees the sentry group. The mafia we see in the movies, its shooting a few people. Pe in south sudan, tens of thousands of people have died in this war with horrific atrocities, mass rape, child soldier recruitment. All the worst of the worst of the human rights abuses that we hear about globally, and this is how they stay in power. Reporter prendergast says much of the corruption happens through government contractsh granted to the family members of political and military leaders. They put their family members as share owners of the companies, and then they gets, contracts from the state to allow those companies to operate. Its a backdoor way out of the a National Treasury to privately enrich yourself and your familyo reporter meanwhile, the war helps the rich get richer. If you control the governmeni institutions, well, you have access to the army, you have access to the state budget, youe can buy weapons. You can steal as much as youca want, you can issue contracts to your own companies that youve set up. Its in the context of war, a Certain Group of people become fabulously wealthy, while the rest of the country is immiserated. Un reporter as a result . Two bitter enemies president kiir and his rival reik machar, own luxury villas just a short distance from one another in the exclusive lavington neighborhood of nairobi, kenya. All made possible by international enablers, says prendergast. Bankers, and businessmen, arms dealers, all kinds of different lawyers, shipping agents, there are a number of different professions that are gladly at the service of dictators and war criminals bcdi they pay an extra premium, reporter prendergast, cheadle and clooney came to the white house this afternoon for a meeting with president obama. Et they want an executive order targeting the International Assets of south sudans leaders. It would prevent them from accessing the International Banking system, move cash, buy property and do business across borders. If we were able to create that standard over time, whereo real consequences would accrueon to people who would be willing to kill by the thousands to stat in power or to gain power. It would have i believe ae Chilling Effect on mass atrocities being committed ines the future. Reporter south sudans leaders keep their money offshore. That makes them vulnerable. Because they have this vulnerability of offshoring their assets, we can use existing policy tools to go after that money. Reporter its a strategy thats been used to target terrorists, post911. We got to raise the cost of t doing business with war criminals. Reporter corrupt leaders of wartorn countries are nothing new. But applying this strategy to isolate them is new. It might be a way to begin holding these mass killers responsible for their actions. P. J. Tobia for newshour in washington. Ifill now, we begin afi special weeklong look at the ways that some schools, educators and leaders are trying to transform higher education. The goal to prepare students for the modern workforce. The series is called rethinkin college, part of pbss spotlight education initiative, which features specialpe programming examining todays challenges. Tonight, Hari Sreenivasan visits dallas, where an Innovative College president is growing apr new kind of student. O reporter at a texas college, a football field that was turned into a farm. We need to harvest about tenw pounds of radishes. Reporter the tigers of Paul Quinn College lost more Football Games than they won on this field. So nine years ago, when the historically black college on the south side of dallas was in financial crisis and had a 1 graduation rate, a new president turned everything over including the field. So did you envision this when you first saw the footballyo field . No, no. Reporter michael sorrell, had no experience running ad college. He had been a lawyer and white house special assistant, but he knew paul quinn couldnt afford a football program. Theres more than one field of dreams. Why should we tie everyones future to athletic success . Reporter he turned the t football field into an organic farm that generates more than 20,000 pounds of organic vegetables a year. Veggies that make it into high end restaurants and into the Dallas Cowboys stadium. I think its saved our t school it saved it because it changed the narrative of the institution. Reporter the farm has become a symbol for a remade Paul Quinn College. Were the first urban work college in the country. So our students learn what it means to be effective, and to have job skills and work skills. The app that records my work hours is called you attend. S reporter students are assigned jobs from day one. So when i punch in, the dean of work college should be ablesh to track that i punched in so now its recorded that imde punched into work. Every student here has to work 150 hours to fulfill their worko tuition. Our goal is for them to be around nickel to quarter size. Reporter james hunter is the farm manager. Most of the students that work on the farm, theyre not going to be farmers, and i dont want them to be farmers, i want them to pursue whatever theyre interested in. Reporter vincent owonseni is a Business Management major. One basic principle about the farm is supply and demand. So lets say if a plant is going to be in demand around thanksgiving time, around november, were going to plant that in late summertime. It helps you to understand the Bigger Picture of the farm. Knowing about the customer, knowing about the economy of thu farm. So vincent, for instance, how do you write an annual plan, how do you read financials, how do you doing okay . Yes, sir. Reporter unless students are on the farm, they wear businessn attire or face a steep fine. At you want to go get your dress shoes so you can not get fined . O reporter whats the fine . Two ways to handle the fine you can either do 400 prayth squats or pay 200. Reporter 400 prayer squats, for being out of dress code . Better than paying the fine. 83 of our students are pell grant eligible. Which means by and large that their families have a dysfunctional relationship with wealth and with work. So if youve never been in an environment where youve come to understand the expectations of a career, because all youve ever seen is people being underemployed or unemployed, then how are you going to learn that . Good morning everyone, my name is jennifer moreno, im a freshman, im from texas. , reporter for their first two years, paul quinn students are assigned oncampus jobs oftenn ones that require contact with the public. Ic the idea is to improve communication and problem solving skills. Our students are getting two forms of education theyre getting a rigor liberal arts training, and theyre also getting real world work experience. Reporter but students are not directly paid for their work. Ly instead, earnings go to the college to pay down their tuition. This is where all your classes will be held. Reporter freshman Jennifer Moran is a first generationn student whose parents are from mexico. With the work program, they give you 5,000 toward your tuition. Coming from a lowincome family, this was a great option. The students might spend last two years theyre working off campus in companies or other businesses that are related to their career aspirations. Reporter senior destiny modeste is interning at slingshot, an Advertising Agency in downtown dallas. Her employer pays Paul Quinn College 7,500 per school year for destinys work. Having the opportunity to work and help pay your tuition at the same time to actually work at an agency and see what they do on a daily basis, and then maybe at the end get a job. Its very important to me. There is no Employment Training program that will cost as little as 15,000. This is an investment in improving the talent pool of your company and your office. A reporter so whats the incentive for an employer to keep that student around . Dont keep them around if they arent good enough, right. Our responsibility to them is provide a quality product. Reporter chris hawthorne, who runs the Intern Program at slingshot, says the partnership with an historically black college is important. We have, as an industry, in advertising, struggled to attract minorities to the fieldo of advertising, so we started this relationship with paul quinn, we met destiny, and she was fantastic. Reporter but as important as career and college are toer sorrells vision, he also pushes his students to engage in community service. We believe that colleges have a fundamental responsibility, ie youre located in an urban area, to turn outward and address the needs of the community you serve. We are in a food desert. Theres no Grocery Store for four miles. Thats real. People dont have access toop healthy food, affordable, fresh and healthy produce. We decided we have the abilitybi to solve the problem, and were going to go solve the problem. Reporter is that why they i came to college . Someones going to figure out the urban issues, why shouldnt it be the people who came from those urban communities thatn have a vested interest in those neighborhoods. Reporter in keeping with that mission, the college donates 10 of the produce from the farm named weoverme to the surrounding underserved community. If you look at the need around you, and you look at youu resource, you can, say, hey, i can use this space right here t grow what my community needs. Where someone else sees hopelessness, you see opportunity. Reporter in dallas, for the pbs newshour, im Hari Sreenivasan. Ifill tomorrow, haris series continues with the particular financial and cultural challenges latino males face when it comes to earning a degree. And online while students have asked colleges and universities to do better in hiring more professors of color, institutions have struggled to live up to their pledges. Our partners at the Hechinger Report explore why. Woodruff finally tonight, we return to our coverage of the 15th anniversary of the september 11th attacks, and the aftermath. A decadeandahalf after the u. S. Invasion, afghanistan is still rebuilding and heavily dependent on International Aid relying on other countries for i 70 of its government budget. Still, afghanistan is takingng steps to stand on its own. One project on the outskirts of kabul is both a symbol of the effort to rebuild the country, and a potent reminder of National Pride. Special correspondent jennifernn glasse reports. Reporter Mohammad Kabir has lived in the shadow of the darulaman palace all his life. Through years of peace and decades of war. King Amanulah Khan commissionedn the building of the neoclassical palace in the early 1920s a symbol of a modern, progressive, independent afghanistan. It took just over two years to build and the king lived hereng about as long before he was driven into exile in 1929 by a popular uprising. Kabir who says hes about 100 used to play with the kings children, then tended the palace garden for most of his adult life until the mujahedeen war that followed the 1989 soviet retreat drove him away. He returned four years ago, and says its a lot different than when it stood in its glory. translated back then, the garden was full of fruitga trees and covered with grass. Families came to picnic, listen to music, to camp overnight. Reporter a corner of the gardens has been partially restored, and there are grand plans for it and the rest of the palace. In 2010, a professor and former World Bank Official named ashraf ghani wrote that darulaman was a palace of abandoned dreams. Now, he is president , and trying to make it the stuff of dreams with an allafghan project to restore it. For three months, hundreds of laborers have been taking down ceilings, carting out rubble to make the building safe. That process could take until the end of the year. Architect suleimankhail is one of the one hundred strong Technical Team thats mapping out the reconstruction. Theres been a lot of research. The bricks used to build the palace had the mark on them. Reporter the mark of thef king, he says. He is proud that the workers here and the funds to pay for it are all afghan. He says this project is a source of National Pride that showsof afghans can work on their own. Reporter the building also points to an ambitious past like the grand room built by the king to house the newe parliament. He wanted the darulaman palace which means abode of peace to be the center of a new city. He was deposed before he could b make that happen. President ghani is using rebuilding process to reflect his own view of what afghanistac should be. So a quarter of the technical staff are women like structurali engineer sofia roshan. Its her first job out of college. Co reporter theyre hoping to complete this in three to five years at an estimated cost right now of around 30 million. Though planners say costs could go 10 higher or more dependingn on how much structural damage is discovered. This isnt the first time that afghans have tried to restore this palace. About four years ago, the mayor of kabul launched a campaign and called on afghans to donate whatever they could from 20 cents to hundreds of dollars. And thousands of afghans donated, but nobody knows where those funds went. Lack of accountability has fueled corruption for years here transparencyre International Rates afghanistan one of worlds worst corruption offenders. The head of kabuls Exchange Market says it is as big as threat as the taliban. translated inside the government we have some criminals and warlords who areds always fighting to keep their influence on the nation and government. Me and they use illegal ways to stay in power. They only care about their own profits not what benefits theit people or the government. Reporter afghanistans finance minister says the government is aware of the problem and doing what it can. I have identified at least 2 very corrupt individuals within my ministry. So i just fired them. Unfortunately, i regret now why i fired them, i should have put them in a jail or in a Detention Center to recover the stolen public money, but i regret up to now we dont have this kind of system. Reporter he hopes a new anticorruption justice centerti will fill that gap. The Afghan Government is trying to support fruit and vegetable sales and export. 80 of the population is involved in agriculture, but feo make more than a subsistence living. Its the same problem about 1000 miles north of the capital in the panjshir valley lots of promise, but not much support realizing it. G deep inside a hillside, these miners are hoping to strike it rich theyre looking for emeralds. Its a basic operation, pretty much everything is done by hand except for the blasts that help carve out the tunnels. The dangers are considerable, but so are the rewards one group recently found an emeraldm that sold for 80,000. Panjshir isnt the only place in afghanistan with possibilitiessi for mining. There are metals, minerals and gems all over the country thatms could bring the government billions of dollars. But in many cases, they dont have the resources to get themrc out of the ground or the infrastructure to take them to market. Last wednesday in western afghanistan, afghan and iranian officials came together to inaugurate a key step in building that infrastructure. The first link in a railway that eventually will connect the iranian sea port of chabahar, to landlocked afghanistan. This project has already been delayed by seven years. Afghans will be watching cloself to see whether this train line to connect afghanistan with thee wider world, and reduce its dependency on exporting through pakistan will really be built. Il back at the palace, theres no doubt that this project will be completed. They say the president is keeping close track of it. Of and they cant wait for it to bh finished. Reporter if that day does come, then a new afghan leader will have renewed the dream of f king who a century ago, wanted to show the world a modern independent afghanistan. For the pbs newshour, im Jennifer Glasse in kabul. Woodruff on charlie rose tonight former president bill clinton weighs in on the clintoc foundation and questions about his wifes health. The former president said she stumbled because she was dehydrated and it was knot morgue serious. She says it happened before when shes become dehydrated and he says he doesnt think he can keep her from campaigning for more than another day. And thats the newshour for tonight. On tuesday, correspondent john yang checks in with the first oy two reports from the crucial battleground state of ohio. Im judy woodruff. Ifill and im gwen ifill. Join us online and again here tomorrow evening. For all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and goodyo night. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial is committedia to helping you take charge of your future. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology,. And improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Supported by the john d. 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