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And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. S co woodruff the republican president ial race is suddenly boiling again, over a deal to deny the nomination to the frontrunner. The news came last night that john kasich and ted cruz will give each other a clear path int selected states. The response came today on did you see the news today, did you see where they band together, where they collude . Woodruff donald trump had already blasted his rivals in latenight tweets. Today, he railed against them in rhode island. To if you collude in business or if you collude in the stock market they put you in jail. But in politics because its a rigged system, because its a corrupt enterprise, in politics youre allowed to collude. Ll woodruff the cruzkasich noncompete calls for the texas senator to stop campaigning inxa oregon and new mexico, and for a kasich to stay away from indiana. God bless the great state of indiana woodruff today, in borden, indiana, cruz reveled in the opportunity to go headtoheadop with trump in the may 3 primary. I understand that donald will whine. Ru that is what he does. Donald is a sore loser. Il yes, i get that the Trump Campaign is scared. Theyre scared of indiana. In woodruff kasich campaigned in philadelphia, paintingg the agreement as nothing out of the ordinary. Whats the big deal . Were going to go to a . Convention its going to be an open convention and then the delegates are going to pick than person who can do the best in the fall. Le woodruff all of which had trump stepping up the insults ll he called kasich a stubborn child who eats in a disgusting fashion. P ch e and he dismissed cruz as a basket case. Shsk Democrat Hillary Clinton took her own shots at trump as she c stumped in wilmington, delaware. If you want to be president of the United States, youve got to get familiar with the United States. Dont just fly that big jet inje and land it and go make a big speech and insult everybody you can think of. Woodruff clintons increasingly longshot rival Bernie Sanders campaigned through connecticut andug pennsylvania, insisting hes still viable. In fact, if you look at some of the National Polls in the last couple weeks, guess what . Were winning a few of them. Turns out, in a campaign that turns out that in all the National Polls, in the state polls, we are 15 to 20 ahead of trump. T woodruff both sanders and clinton will appear in towncl halls in philadelphia tonight. Well analyze all of this, later in the program. Sreenivasan in the days other news, cleveland officials announced the city will pay the family of tamir rice 6 milliona to settle a wrongful death lawsuit. The 12yearold was playing with a pellet gun in november 2014, when someone called police. D a white officer shot and killed him, seconds after arriving on the scene. It irregardless of faults or i facts, or anything, that should not have happened. And believe me, if i had my rathers, i wouldnt be standing in front of you today talking about this. Meld if i had my rathers, it wouldy not have happened. But thats not the case is it . At so we deal with things as we have to deal with them. Sreenivasan a grand jury declined to bring charges, but y federal civil rightsar investigation is pending. Woodruff in economic news, new numbers show the plunge in oil prices is costing Oil Exporting Nations in the middle east staggering sums. The International Monetary fund reports they lost 390 billion last year over 2014. The report predicts theyll lose 500 billion this year. Sreenivasan in saudi arabia, the government laid out reform priorities today to steer the kingdom away from its reliance on oil. King salman announced the vision 2030 plan in a short televised address. His son, the deputy crown prince, spelled out the details in a recorded interview. N, translated the plans ambitions will encompass these issues unemployment, housing, and other issues. On our ambition is how we develop and how we can create an attractive and great environment in our country, and to be partnv of development on economic, environmental, cultural, and intellectual levels. Sreenivasan the prince saidd the country has become addicted to oil, and that a small part of the stateowned Oil Giant Aramco will be privatized. Woodruff government and allied forces in yemen today wrested control of the countryu Largest Oil Terminal from al qaeda. They recaptured the facility a day after taking mukalla, along the southwestern coast. Hw alqaeda had established a mini state in that part of yemen, as the country fell into chaos. Sreenivasan the president of afghanistan demanded today that pakistan step up the fight against Taliban Forces operating from within its borders. S. Ashraf ghani addressed his parliament, just a week after a Taliban Attack in kabul killed 64 people and wounded hundreds. translated we dont expect pakistan to bring the taliban into peace talks. We want pakistan to stand by what they pledged in the conduct military operations against taliban bases and leadership, who according to oun intelligence, according to our international allies, and according to pakistani authorities, live in pakistan. Sreenivasan pakistan denies that it covertly supportsco militants who attack afghanistan. Woodruff longrunning violence in mexico, fueled by drug gangs, has claimed another victim. Gunmen killed a journalist today in the countrys southwest, thee latest in a series of such attacks. And on sunday, an independent panel accused the Mexican Government of undermining a probe into the deaths of 43un college students. They disappeared in 2014. Sreenivasan president obama made a final appeal today for a Free Trade Agreement with europe, as he wrapped up a visit to germany. He and chancellor Angela Markel toured the Worlds LargestIndustrial Technology trade fain in hannover, and tested some of the wares. They included Virtual Reality glasses complete with plastic googly eyes. Woodruff wall streets week got off to a sluggish start. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 26 points to close at 17,977. The nasdaq fell 10 points, and the s p 500 slipped three. D sreenivasan and, a federal Appeals Court panel has restored a fourgame suspension for new England Patriots quarterback tom brady. It stems from his use of under inflated footballs in the 2015 conference championship game. A lower court had quashed the penalty. Woodruff still to come on the newshour the president orders 250 more military personnel to syria. Two democrats fight it out for a u. S. Senate seat in maryland, an microcosm of the national intrac party divide. Nepals reconstruction, one yeaa after a devastating earthquake, and much more. Sreenivasan more american troops are heading for syria as the u. S. Looks to press the fight against isis. This comes just days after the secretary of defense announced the deployment of Additional Forces to iraq to take on the militants there. Ive approved the deployment of up to 250 additional us personnel in syria, including special forces, to keep up this momentum. Onme sreenivasan with that, president obama pledged to boost the number of american troopsro inside syria by fivefold. Fi most are special forces, and the president said again, to pbs, and cbs news host, charlie rose, they wont be in a combat role. Although we are not going to be sending Ground Troops in to fight, we are going to try to find out what works and then double down. And one of the things thats worked so far is us putting special forces in for training and advising of local forces but also intelligence gathering. Sreenivasan the first 50 special forces troops deployedl to syria last fall. Theyve helped opposition fighters make gains, and the pentagon says one of the goals now is to capture raqqa, the Islamic States defacto capital. Pt and we think this deployment will certainly help to amp the pressure even higher at a critical time. And speed up the overall timeline when one of these forces can retake raqqa and retake mosul. Sreenivasan turkey has also exchanged artillery fire with isis, along its southern border. Meanwhile, the ceasefire in w syrias other war, between Government Forces and rebel groups, is unraveling. In recent days, fighting hasng erupted around contested aleppo, the countrys largest city. Opposition groups say Government Air strikes killed dozens of people there over the weekend. Th translated warplanes around five people died, i carried two dead, one woman frod this location and a man from nearby. Wo the attacks on aleppo in this latest period have been fierce p and strong. Sreenivasan the resumption in heavy fighting has all but derailed u. N. Efforts at peace talks in geneva. Ig u. N. Mediators met with Syrian Government officials today, but the main Opposition Group backed out of the discussions last week. For more on all this im joined now by Andrew Tabler of the washington institute. Hes in moscow learning more about russias role in syria. And, Nancy Youseff, she is the Senior National security correspondent for the daily beast. Nancy, let me start with you. Whats the purpose of these additional troops . What are they going to be doing on the ground . Wh of 250ofe upwards special forces and support staff, medical staff and otherwise, and their job there is to build a capable, bigger, stronger Syrian Democratic forca that could eventually reclaim raqqa in syria, the islams capital. Their mission is to work with kurds and provide support and since raqqa is an ash city, they believe they need to be reclaim raqqa. Sreenivasan how likely is that to happen . Kurds are strong fighter. They lack depth, particularly demographic depth among the arab populations in raqqa. Thats why nancy said the Syrian Democratic forces is a way to get the arab forces to Work Together with the kurds and hopefully, eventually, thee Islamic State from raqqa. A sreenivasan nancy, is the pentagon concerned about the increased militarybo activityea thats been happening from russia right now in the past few weeks . Some people are and some arent. Theyre having a hard time assessing with certainty whetheh this is an attempt by the russians to really escalatea their presence in syria or a Rotational Movement thats m happening now, that theyre not seeing a full fledged assault. Theyre seeing withdrawal of some assault aircraft. There is been a lot of wait and see in terms of assessing the Russian Movement in syria and what this means. This comes in the backdrop of a cessation hostilities agreement that appears to be in peril. Because of that, its been hard to make, from what i hear in the pentagon, definitive assessments on what the russians are doingan in syria right now. Sreenivasan whats behind some of the moves where the russians seem to be pulling some equipment back and putting other equipment in . There is concern about the negotiations going on in geneva. Theft previously president assat perhaps received too much russian support, was becoming increasingly rigid in hisis negotiating positions. They were disappointed with himn on the battlefield as well. He only gained 5 back of syrian territory over the last few months. But in reality, someone among the opposition has shot down three regime planes in the last two months, and i think thats the reason why weve seen some russian aircraft cycled out of syria and some helicopters with some countermeasures brought in that can make their forces more effective. Sreenivasan nancy, is there concern in the pentagonrn right now that this could draw out into something much longer . O i mean, the phrase usually is Mission Creep or resource creep . Well, the military doesnt really embrace the idea of the term Mission Creep, but you are starting to hear the term resource creep because the reality is theso strategy againt the Islamic State hasnt changed, the goal is to ultimately dpe grade and defeat yieses i. S. I. S. As the president spelled out in 2014. Le the resources keep changing. Thereh is frustration in the pentagon about incrementalism of deployment of troops. Oy some are openingly asking what would haveki happened instead of sending one or two hundred, deploying one or two thousand, if the war would be going quicker. You start to hear resource creep about whether sending in troops incrementally is more for political reasons and whether the calculation is delaying or slowing down terrorist to defeat the Islamic State. T reporter Andrew Tabler,nd the city of aleppo, a large city in syria, seems to be almost poised for a significant onslaught. Thats right, during theng cessation of hostilities which is not a cease fire, there has been fighting and raids around the rei gem to close the ring around aleppo. We think they tend to close and then squeeze which will expel people from the neighboringe areas and create a huge humanitarian disaster. The question is willni the russians go along with it or hold back as negotiations continue in geneva . But since those negotiations arent going well, well have to wait and see what the russians choose in the coming days. It seems the military has a couple of lines of thinking here. Theres the assad regime and the i. S. I. S. Attacks. I. So how do they deploy their military resources effectively enough . What youre sealing is a real focus on the defeat of the Islamic State from a military perspective. You will hear it said repeatedly. The deployment of the forces both in iraq and syria suggest that in iraq youve had more forces moved along the route to mosul which is i. S. I. S. s capital in iraq and in syria these forces are going to be going in the Northeast Corner of syria where Kurdish Forces have been able to move toward raqqa and mill tairlt youre seeing a focus on the defeat of the Islamic State and not the assad regime. That may be russias focus butut there is been an effort by the pentagon to keep the focus onus the defeat of that terror groupe sreenivasan when you talk about the peace talks that arent going well or the cessation that isnt going wellh the tension between the unitedee states and russia now on trying to go on these multiple fronts and get cooperation from the russians. Thats right, its strange, i you know, in syria were negotiating with russia, and also trying the russians desperately want military cooperation in syria as well ate the same time that planes are buzzing our battleships in the baltic sea. Sreenivasan Andrew Tabler from moscow and Nancy Youseff from the daily beast, thank you so much. Thank you. Woodruff tomorrow, voters will go to the polls in five east coast states to choose their partys nominee to be the next president. S but in maryland, its the democratic primary race to replace longtime u. S. Senator Barbara Mikulski that is dominating the headlines, and exposing some of the same s divisions playing out in the National Democratic contest for president. S john yang has our report. Reporter at a rally for Striking Verizon workers, two candidates for the marylandd Democratic Senate nomination appealed to a key constituency organized labor. Donna edwards was elected to congress the same year barack obama was elected the first africanamerican president. I think it is time for risingme expectatives to set aside their 1. 8 billion a month. I cant even conceive of that shes running reporter shes running as a fresh face challenging the establishment. Rten Chris Van Hollen is a seventerm member of congress from a wealthy washington suburb, aur member of his partys leadership in the house. Who do you think is responsible for generating theon profits in you are the tour locked in anhe the two are locked in an unexpectedly close race, one that analysts say mirrors tensions in the residential race between mainstream democrats backing clinton and supportersn of sanders who feel left out of the po