Generations and the epa coming in and telling us what we can and cant do doesnt settled well with a lot of us. Wyoming can file 100 lawsuits a month if they want. And its not gonna change a thing. Woodruff and its friday mark shields and david brooks are here, to analyze the weeks news. 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. 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 contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff we begin with one of the two major stories that dominated this day europe on edge. Law enforcement agencies across the continent targeted terror suspects in raids and arrests across at least four countries. The crackdown was spawned in part by the paris violence of a week ago. Woodruff from belgium, to germany, and again in france heavily armed police were out in force. In verviers, belgium, authorities said latenight raids that killed two suspects had disrupted a plot to attack police. They said they found a well organized, wellequipped cell. During the house search in verviers, several weapons were found including four military weapons of the ak47 kalashnikov type, several handguns, ammunition and explosives. Several Police Uniforms were also retrieved, and also mobile phones, fake documents and a significant amount of money. Woodruff German Authorities raided 11 homes in berlin and netted two turkish suspects. Theyre suspected of recruiting fighters for the Islamic State group in syria. The dragnet also reached to bulgaria, where a French National appeared in court over alleged ties to one of the gunmen in last weeks attacks in paris. Watching the days events, the head of the European Police agency, europol, warned the continent now has up to 5,000 muslim radicals. The scale of the problem, the way, the diffuse nature of the network, the scale of the people involved makes this extremely difficult for even very well functioning counterterrorist agencies such as we have in france to stop every attack. I think that is really very, very difficult. Woodruff the heightened tensions across europe had jewish schools in belgium and the netherlands closing their doors, as a precaution. And back in paris more funerals today, hundreds gathered to say farewell to the editor of charlie hebdo, one of 12 people slain in last weeks killings. Secretary of state john kerry paid his own tribute at a makeshift memorial outside the magazines offices. Meanwhile, french president Francois Hollande insisted again that his government will not back down in the face of islamist terror. translated we are at war against it. It is not a war against a religion. It is a war against hatred. The attacks committed in paris are an insult to islam. And in the world, it is the muslims, i keep repeating this who are the first victims of terrorism. Woodruff hollande drew support from washington, where president obama and british Prime MinisterDavid Cameron formed a united front. I know david joins me when i say well do everything in power to help france seek the justice that is needed, all countries working seamlessly to prevent attacks and defeat these terrorist networks. We know what were up against and we know how we will win. We face a poisonous and fanatical ideology that wants to pervert one of the worlds major religions, islam, and create conflict, terror and death. With our allies well confront it wherever it appears. Woodruff across the muslim world, though, there were more marches and angry protests against Charlie Hebdos decision to print another cartoon of the prophet mohammed. In the days other major story, the United StatesSupreme Court agreed to decide whether gay and lesbian couples have a constitutional right to marry. It sets the stage for a potentially historymaking decision later this year. Well explore whats at stake, after the news summary. President obama issued a stern new warning to Congress Today not to impose new sanctions against iran, over its nuclear program. He said the odds of reaching a deal with iran to curb the program are already less than 5050, and he warned lawmakers that their actions could end all hope. The likelihood of the entire negotiations collapsing is very high. Congress should be aware that if this diplomatic solution fails then the risks and likelihood that this ends up being at some point a military confrontation is heightened and congress will have to own that as well. Woodruff the u. S. And five other world powers are trying to get a framework deal with iran by march. They missed two previous deadlines. In a bid to push the process along, secretary of state kerry met with irans foreign minister in paris today, for the third time this week. Britain and the u. S. Are beefing up cooperation on preventing cyberattacks. The two nations announced plans today for joint cybersecurity war games. Theyre also forming a socalled cyber cell to share intelligence on hacking. The u. S. Military will deploy more than 400 troops to train syrian rebels, so they can fight Islamic State militants. Hundreds of support personnel will also be sent, to locations outside syria. The pentagon spokesman, rear admiral john kirby, said today it will take some time to get the troops battleready. If the training is able to start in march, you could be looking at some opposition groups getting back into syria and into the fight before the end of the year. I think thats certainly a possibility, but weve got a lot of work to do before were there. Woodruff the goal is to train 5,400 rebels in the first year. President obama already authorized more than 3,000 troops to train iraqi soldiers in the fight against Islamic State forces. The International Criminal court will make an initial examination of possible war crimes in palestinian territories. That could include actions by israel and the militant group hamas during last summers war in gaza. The Palestinian Authority accepted the courts jurisdiction last month. Israel condemned that move, and todays announcement. Fighting escalated in Eastern Ukraine today, dimming any prospects for new peace talks. Government forces and russian backed rebels stepped up their battle for the airport at donetsk, a city held by the rebels. So far, two ceasefires have failed to stop the violence. European space scientists had some good news today an unmanned british spacecraft that disappeared over mars long ago, has been found. Beagle two was spotted on the martian surface by a nasa craft orbiting high overhead. We have a report from alok jha of independent television news. Reporter lost on another planet for 11 years. This audacious piece of British Engineering has now been found, in the barren wilderness of mars. Beagle twos mission was to look for signs of life on mars. It separated from the European Space agencys Mars Express Mission on Christmas Day in 2003. What we know now is that beagle two seems to have reached the surface of mars in one piece and two of its solar panels even deployed but then it never got back in touch with home, frustratingly it seems to have been recording data on its descent and even recorded on the surface of mars too but well probably never know what it found out. Christmas day in 2003 was devastating, not least for beagle two project leader colin pillinger. He died last year without knowing what had happened to the lander. Woodruff beagle two was named for the ship that carried Charles Darwin on his voyage of discovery in the 1830s. Back in this country, medicare and medicaid chief Marilyn Tavenner unexpectedly stepped down today. She presided over the troubled rollout of healthcare. Gov under the president S Health Care law. And later, she overstated the number of people enrolled for coverage by 400,000. Tavenner told staffers today she is leaving with sadness and mixed emotions. Penn State University and the n. C. A. A. Have reached an agreement that restores more than 100 football wins to the school. Theyd been officially erased by a 2012 consent decree, in the Child Molesting scandal involving a former coach. Alumni and fans challenged that decree in court, and news of a settlement came today. It means the late joe paterno will regain his status as the winningest coach in Major College football history. And wall street went into the weekend on a high note. Stocks rallied after oil prices surged back above 48 a barrel. The Dow Jones Industrial average gained nearly 191 points to close at 17,511. The nasdaq rose 63 points, to 4634. And the sandp 500 added 26, to finish at 2019. But for the week, all three indexes lost between 1 and 1. 5 percent. Still to come on the newshour samesex marriage at the Supreme Court; why 2014 was the warmest year ever recorded on earth; how wyoming is at loggerheads with the e. P. A. Over Energy Production in the state; the Justice Department makes a major shift on assets seized by local police; plus, mark shields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. Woodruff while aspects of samesex marriage have been debated at the u. S. Supreme court. Today, the nine justices agreed to hear arguments at the heart of the debate. Should gay couples be allowed to marry nationwide . They will consider cases stemming from four states. The arguments will be heard in april and a decision announced in june. For more on the courts move, newshour contributor, marcia coyle of the national law journal. Marcia, a big day absolutely. Woodruff so we know gay marriage is now legal in 36 states. Whats the significance of the court taking up cases from michigan, ohio, kentucky and tennessee. Tennessee. As you probably remember, last october the court had seven cases and declined to review those cases. The big difference between october and today is the fact that, in november, a lower federal Appellate Court broke with the trend across the lower federal Appellate Courts and upheld state bans on marriage by gay and lesbian couples as well as bans on the recognition of legal outofstate samesex marriages. So that created a circuit split, which is one of the key criteria for granting review by the Supreme Court. Woodruff so that was a couple of months ago. Other than the fact it is a split, any sense of why the court would jump on this and say, all right, were now ready to look at this . I think they were waiting for the right cases to get to them, but i really do think the circuit split was something very important for them because the Supreme Court wants to ensure uniformity of federal law, uniform application of the federal constitution, and here you had the sixth circuit saying in four states these bans were okay, but you had all these other circuits saying theyre not okay. Woodruff so what is the main question theyre going to be wrestling . The justices fashioned two questions. Even though they took four cases, theyre not going to hear four separate argument. They con doll dated those cases, and there will be a decision on two questions that they told the lawyers in the cases to brief and be prepared to argue. First theres the 14th amendment require states to license marriages by samesex couples and does the 14th amendment require states to recognize samesex couples married out of state. Does this tell you how theyre likely to go on the next question . Hard to say. In 2013 the court took up the definition of marriage and the federal sense of marriage act and that definition said marriage was between one man and one woman, and the court, in a 54 decision, struck the definition as it is applied to legallymarried, samesex couples. So the court was divided there. But the majority had two strands, equal protection and federalism, that marriage had always been the province of the states to regulate. So its going to be very interesting what the courts dealing with today are state laws, not the federal law and well wait to see how they view the rule of the states today in this type of issue. Woodruff always dangerous to speculate, but i was reading today the sense is that its clear how some of the justices will go one way or another but not at all clear how some in the middle will go. Who are you watching . I think i will be watching Justice Kennedy as always although he wrote the 2013 majority opinion in the federal defense of marriage act and hes been very strong in prior cases involving gay rights under the constitution. But im also going to watch, i think, the chief justice to see what he does. His dissent in the 2013 days focused on the federalism aspects. But im not sure, you know where he really stands here1and whats going to go through his mind in terms of the fact that this is one of the most important social civil rights issues of our time and i think hes going to be very conscious of that, conscious of the fact that 36 states now allow samesex marriages and conscious of the court of its standing in institution and society as well as he has a lot of integrity in terms of how he views the constitution. So i think hes going to be a very interesting figure to watch in this. I think justices scalia, thomas and ali allito are leaning toward samesex marriages based on what they wrote in the 2013 case. Woodruff i know you will be at the court and watching. It raises the stakes, and they already had a potentially major case on the docket, the challenge to the Affordable Care act. Woodruff this is the second big one. Second really big one this year. Woodruff marcia coyle, see you in airplane but certainly before that. Thanks. My pleasure, judy. Woodruff scientists report 2014 was the hottest year in recorded history for the planet, and that dates back to 1880. This was announced today by both nasa and noaa, the oceanic and atmospheric agency. Five months last year set temperature records. The Ocean Surface was unusually warm around the world except for antartica. In the u. S. , the western part of the country baked under extreme heat shown here in yellow, although the eastern half of the country saw belowaverage temperatures as seen in blue. And there were temperature records set in several european countries. We get further insight and information on all of this from one of the lead scientists involved with the report. Gavin schmidt studies Climate Change at nasas Godard Institute for space studies. Gavin schmidt, we welcome you to the program. Thank you very much for having me. Woodruff so spell this out more for us. How did 2014 differ from other years . Well, 2014 was only a little bit different from previous years, but what were seeing is a longterm trend that is producing record warm year after record warm year. The previous record was in 2010, before that 2005, before that 1998. So this year is part of a longterm trend that is just going to continue. Woodruff but when you say its only a little different, i mean by a fraction of a fraction, is that right in. Right. Each year makes a record. Its like people running a marathon, they only beat the record by a few seconds each time, but times are getting faster, the globe is warming up. Woodruff am i right . I believe i read today that the ten hottest years on record have all occurred since 1997 . Yep, thats right. Nine have occurred in the last ten years. 1998 was a real standout year, and thats still in the top five. But weve warmed about 1. 5 degrees fahrenheit since the questionbeginning of the 20th century and we can view those changes due to Greenhouse Gases, placial Carbon Dioxide, we have been putting into the atmosphere. Woodruff to be clear, the western part of the country very hot but the eastern part of the United States cooler. But you still had, overall this record. Thats right. In any one year, there is a lot of variability. Sometimes you have an el nino event in the tropical pacific, that could make a difference. You also have weather and various natural variability going on so youll always see some place that are warmer and some places that are cooler. But the average over all of those things to get a sense of what the whole globe is seeing on a longterm scale. Woodruff so what do you and other scientists believe is going on here . Well, so, year to year theres a lot of noise a little chaos in the climate system, but the underlying trend the trends weve seen since the 1970s, particularly, thats being driven, pushed and pushed mainly by Carbon Dioxide increases in the atmosphere which are adding to the greenhouse effect which is making the planet warmer. Woodruff Carbon Dioxide meaning manmade emissions . Yes, mainly from the burning of fossil fuels coal oil, natural gas and deforestation, mainly in the tropics. Woodruff so to the skeptics who are out there vocally, when a report like this comes out saying wait a minute, theres no proof there is connection to what humans do, you say what . You know, science works by putting all the bits of evidence together. Weve looked for, also, different fingerprints of change. Weve looked to see whether the warming is caused by oscillations in the ocean, whether its caused by changes in the sun or volcanoes or all sorts of different things, but what we fi