Woodruff its friday, david brooks and ruth marcus are here, to analyze the weeks news. Plus woodruff musicians experiment with eclectic sounds challenging audiences to listen with big ears and rethink the bounds of genres. It gets you out of your comfort zone and makes you just go okay i am going to consider something from a completely different point of view. And i just think thats really important. You cant make art by thinking this isnt going to fit. You just do what seems right. Woodruff those are some of the stories were covering 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. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible b
To analyze the weeks news. Plus woodruff musicians experiment with eclectic sounds challenging audiences to listen with big ears and rethink the bounds of genres. It gets you out of your comfort zone and makes you just go okay i am going to consider something from a completely different point of view. And i just think thats really important. You cant make art by thinking this isnt going to fit. You just do what seems right. Woodruff those are some of the stories were covering 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. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributi
Behind them. Including a record breaking football star as he becomes the all time leading goal scorer in barcelona. So do you want your country to be russia or ukraine . Thats the question that the voters are answering today. Take a look at the live scene and the people right there are awaiting to hear the results of the first exit polls, the celebrations as you are seeing have started. Jackie is joining us from there as we are reporting, jackie, exit polls are meant to be announced any minute now. Yes, the voting ended just a few minutes ago. We are expecting initial exit polls in the next ten minutes or so. I will give you details about the turnout figures, it is about 75 . The Referendum Commission is saying more than threequarters of the registered voters participated. The council of the Minority Ethnic Community here, a community that is largely boycotting the referendum claim that the turnout is 30 . That injects an element of doubt there. From our experience, particularly at the
Hello, im ray suarez. After months of behind the scenes diplomatic pressure and more public calls for their release worldwide three journalists covering egypt for al jazeera have been sentenced to long prison terms. After the fall of the Muslim Brotherhoodled government, mohammed morsi, the new military government declared the brotherhood a terrorist organization. Interviewing the Muslim Brotherhood in the course of a few weeks had been transformed from interviewing the countrys leaders into a crime. Now despite pressure from around the world three of our colleagues are being sent to prison. Egypts new bosses seem to want the Muslim Brotherhood, the power of egypt after mohamed morsi. Our colleagues are still part of the story. Covering is what reporters do, but the Egyptian Government made reporting a crime. In december right after the Muslim Brotherhood was deemed a banned terrorist organization in egypt, i spoke to peter greste on our program. Does the designation by the Egyptian Go
Sentencing. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry is having talks with leaders of the kurdish region and we will be there live. Ill have the latest world cup news including. Brazils fans celebrated their team reaches the world cup knockout stage. We begin with breaking news out of nigeria and we are getting reports that 60 more girls and 31 boys have been abducted from villages in the northeast and follows the abduction of 200 school girls on april 15. Andrew is on the line in Northern Nigeria and andrew first how likely is it that its boko haram and can you give us some more details . Reporter first of all, we just have been speaking to a vigilante common commander and the police are not confirming this, the government isnt either, but a vigilante commander in the town here has confirmed that three villages have been attacked by insurgents and that total of 90 people and most are young people and the information now is they were not all children. There were around 60 females and at leas