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Woodruff and from guatemala, a look at efforts to save children from malnutrition and its lifelong effects, in a country where many families survive on beans, and little else. Its a staple meal here in the predominantly mayan highlands of guatemala. One containing so few of the vitamins and minerals children need to grow properly that roughly eight in ten of them are stunted in some communities, woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for...

Cases here increased by more than 40 in just the past week. Inundating hospitals nationwide as some icus in states like missouri and virginia worry they will run out of bed space. The United States has not been in a worse position. If current death trends hold, roughly 60,000 more americans will be killed between now and inauguration day. The president elect joe biden campaigned on getting the coronavirus under control. Now we see him taking the first steps to do so. He chose ron clain. He was t...

Asia this afternoon, or House Speaker nancy pelosi is in taiwan. But as foxes Lauren Blanchard reports, chinas government is not backing down from the threats it has made in recent days. Speaker Nancy Pelosis plane touching down in taiwan, the United States standing by her, saying, there is nothing out of the ordinary about the highly anticipated visit. There is no reason that this visit should escalate tensions in any way whatsoever. Ahead of the stop, the Chinese Government continued to ramp u...

And circumstances continue to move and in undesirable direction. I want to tell you it is because the japanese side denied the existence of such an agreement or understanding, which was reached 40 years ago, and certainly this is an acceptable , ashe chinese side, because i said before, this is a historical fact. In spite of this, we are still ready to sit down and have dialogues with the japanese side to find jointly away to control, manage the current situation. But the japanese said to us the...

National captioning institute] reminder the Senate Hearing and most of our programming available on our Video Library at www. Cspan. Org. News that david bidder of louisiana will run for governor of that state in 2015. Ites the next Gubernatorial Election is november 15 one week before his term ends. Should he lose, he could keep his seat and decide whether to seek reelection. They write that if he wins, he would have the right to appoint a successor to serve on the final year of his senate term...

Thousands of people are on the move off the devastating wild was threatened homes across europe in the grid of an extreme summer heat life. Ah, hi there, im can banal, this is how much is there a lot from dull ha, also coming off ukraines president sacks is prosecuted general investigating russian war crimes and the state security chief of accusing their staff of collaborating with the enemy. When it came on the scene talked about this being k on the training suggests that we conduct chaos shoul...

Ah, hello, im mary. Im to mazda, very one. Welcome to the news our life from london. Coming up in the next 60 minutes. Europe seek stream, hes wildfires rage out of control in france in spain, while the u. K. Braces for record temperatures ah despair and defiance in ukraine as more is very one of the was youngest victims. While russia ramps on attacks and frustration boils over in sri lanka where there still isnt enough fuel food or medicine a 100 days after Anti Government protests 1st began in...

City police tried to make a felony stop on a stolen car with two men inside. That car sped off leading officers on a pursuit. Eventually the driver and passenger bailed out of the car in San Francisco and thats when police shot one of the men several times. Killing him. It is unclear if that was the passenger or the driver. Police are not saying at this point whether the man who was shot had a weapon. Can you tell me if the person who was killed was armed . I cant say exactly if that person was ...

Agenda. In a few minutes, president obama is expected to step before the cameras and speak with reporters before heading back to the United States. I want to take you to washington now to world blitzer er wolf blitzer. Thank you very much. As you mentioned, russia clearly a key focus for this twoday summit which addresses issues like Climate Change trade, the fight against isis. Thats a huge issue at this summit. Cnn is covering the global and domestic impact of this meeting from all angles. My ...

Upcoming General Assembly. We have a great Current Events panel. Then, the aftermath of hurricanes irma and harvey. The destruction was widespread, the power and flood levels almost unprecedented. But the white house doesnt want to talk about the role of Climate Change. Is that a mistake . I will talk to two brilliant scientists, climate expert cathl Catherine Hayhoe and Neil Degrasse tyson. I worry we might not be able to recover. Finally, a happy story about a refugee. Really. Aya, whose story...