Brilliant street photographer finally gets her moment to shine. We begin tonight with the president s choice to replace attorney general eric holder. If confirmed, Loretta Lynch would be the first African American woman to hold that job. Lets go to the white house and senior washington reporter Mike Viqueria for this, mike. Her name leaked out in news records this morning. The president wasnt planning to name a new attorney general nominee, until after he returns from asia, but tomorrow at 11 00 a. M. , the president will appear with lore lorett Loretta Lynch. She has deep experience in corporate fraud prosecutions. Her bu biographical is informat. 55 years old, a greensboro North Carolina native, first nominated as a prosecutor in 1999 by bill clinton. Left the Prosecutors Office for a while and reinstalled by president obama in 2010. Now you talk about the civil rights experience for ms. Lynch. She was involved in the prosecution of new York City Police officers who were involved in
Yachi, met with Chinese State counselor yang jiechi. Japanese officials want to hold the summit without any conditions. But their chinese counterpart said japan should first recognize there is an issue of sovereignty over islands in the east china sea. Japan controls the Senkaku Islands. China and taiwan claim them. The japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of japans territory. It says there is no issue of sovereignty to be resolved. China also said it wants abe to state clearly that he wont make any more visits to yasukuni shrine. The shrine in tokyo honors japans war dead. Those remembered include leaders convicted of war crimes after world war ii. Prime minister abe will fly on sunday to join other World Leaders at the apec meeting in beijing. Japanese Officials Say they have been engaged in quiet negotiations with their chinese counterparts on how to improve bilateral ties. They released the document that lays out their fourpoint agreement. It says that bot
Japanese officials want to hold the summit without any conditions. But their chinese counterpart said japan should first recognize there is an issue of sovereignty over islands in the east china sea. Japan controls the Senkaku Islands. China and taiwan claim them. The japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of japans territory. It says there is no issue of sovereignty to be resolved. China also said it wants abe to state clearly that he wont make any more visits to yasukuni shrine. The shrine in tokyo honors japans war dead. Those remembered include leaders convicted of war crimes after world war ii. Prime minister abe will fly on sunday to join other World Leaders at the apec meeting in beijing. Japanese Officials Say they have been engaged in quiet negotiations with their chinese counterparts on how to improve bilateral ties. They released the document that lays out their fourpoint agreement. It says that both governments have affirmed they will uphold principl
Forest. What is at stake is so grave and so serious, if we dont act now, we are lost. Also in the program, aarons here talking about that big finance ministers gathering in brussels today. Theyve got a lot on their plate, as usual. One key area, eurozone growth, or the lack of it. Weve seen further signs that europes powerhouse germany, its economic engines continue to slow. So were going to go live to find out what is needed to get europe back up off its knees. Hello. Thanks for joining us. Its midday here in london, and 7 00 a. M. In new york, where there are reports that president obama has secretly written to irans Supreme Leader, ayatollah ali khamenei. The wall street journal says mr. Obama sent the letter last month, and in it, it says he referred to a shared interest in fighting i. S. In iraq and syria. The white house refused to comment on the report. Lets get the latest now from gary odonahue. Reporter its not the first time irans spiritual leader, ie ayatollah khamenei, has
Possible by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, this is pbs newshour weekend. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. Ukraine today accused russia and prorussian separatists of destroying evidence that could offer clues about the downing of that Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 298 people. The plane went down thursday in an area of Eastern Ukraine where the separatists have been battling Ukrainian Government forces. For more about all of this, we are joined now via skype from ukraine by paul sonne. He is the moscow correspondent for the wall street journal. Earlier today, he visited the disaster scene and posted these pictures on twitter. Is the site secure and who is in control of it . The rebels are in control of the site. It is in a territory about an hour and a half east of northeast of the city of dnesk in possession of the separ