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And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. The escalating war in syria has left 9 Million People in the middle of a conflict that shows no sign of abating and has put a most read Million People on the run, including a number of children. According to officials the u. S. Is using all tools possible to bring an end to the conflict. In the meantime, the humanitarian crisis continues to escalate. Joining us is a senior fellow for the Foreign Relations and Foreign Poli...

Imagine losing the nomination with all the support he has. Its millions of votes ahead of everyone else. I really think that whoever has that kind of an advantage should get it. I think its all right, and this is and as you probably know by now, 1,237 is the magic number. Right now, trump leads his rivals with 739 pledge delegates to gate. A new poll out just days ahead of tuesdays wisconsin primary shows ted cruz with a tenpoint advantage over trump. This is the second poll to show cruz up by t...

Incident as a deliberate attack. Police spokesman telling cnn that the motive and identity of the driver still unknown. Cnns Erin Mclaughlin is following the details for us. What more are you learning . Hi, fredricka. This apparent attack happened at 3 30 p. M. It was a sunny saturday afternoon. When a man driving a delivery van plowed into a restaurant with an open air terrace right in the heart of old city muenster, packed with people, including tourists out enjoying the sunshine and meal acco...

Believe there is no further risk at this point, but they are asking people to stay away from the area where the incident happened. Authorities apparently are looking for explosives in the van that was used to plow into that crowd of people, according to journalists at the scene right now. Authorities say terrorism is a possibility, they, in fact, a sum this might have been an attack. That is a wording they have used in the past, and in the past sometimes the attack turned out not to be a terrori...

I started other businesses in kabul, consultancy, export and import before ijoined the government. then ijoined the government, i was working as a deputy chief officer for admin and working as a deputy chief officer foradmin and finance working as a deputy chief officer for admin and finance for three years and then ijoined the ministry of commerce and the last years and then ijoined the ministry of commerce and the la5tjob was i was acting minister in the ministry of commerce. it was difficult ...

And my family. early in the morning when i heard the news, i left home and came to the airport. it takes a lot of time to get on the plane. it was a tough time. i received a lot of messages from different friends and most of their friends had of messages from different friends and most of theirfriends had left their houses and they sent text is to me, where are you? it was a difficult time for me.— to me, where are you? it was a difficult time for me. you refer to our difficult time for me. yo...

Living out of sewing and dressmaking. your5 living out of sewing and dressmaking. yours is an extraordinary story. you are a very famous afghan woman who has worked in government, you have worked in business. do you think you would not have got out had you not had these contacts outside the country? yes. i reall , contacts outside the country? yes. i really. really — contacts outside the country? yes. i really, really appreciated _ contacts outside the country? yes. i really, really appreciate...

Relations, gail lemmon, thank you. the obama administration is reassessing its role in the year-long effort to broker peace. secretary kerry hinted peace talks are on the verge of clapgs saying both sides have taken steps that are not helpful. >> there is not an open-ended effort. never has been. the president said that from the beginning. i have said that many times, including the in last few days. so its reality check time. we intend to -- evaluate precisely what the next steps will be. >> j...

good morning, everyone. welcome to "weekends with alex witt." heres whats happening. today across afghanistan, the people have been given a voice. voter turnout has been high in what will be the first democratic power shift in the nation. the 12-year presidency of hamid karzai comes to an end. one of the biggest challenges today has been a shortage of ballot papers. while voting has been largely peaceful, there have been isolated security incidents. several votes injured when a bomb we...

Although some german media say that they have identified him as a 49-year-old german national. although, again, cnn has been unable to confirm those details as well. but critically, again, fredricka, looking at motive, what would motivate someone to do something like this. >> erin mclaughlin, thank you. cnn law enforcement analyst josh campbell and cnn national security analyst samantha vinograd and gail lemmon. are you hearing anything in the descriptions of the series of accounts that kind o...