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>> brown: we look at new evidence of oil floating beneath the surface of the gulf of mexico. >> lehrer: special correspondent stuart cohen previews this weekend's elections in australia to determine the country's prime minister. >> brown: and paul solman finds an author and businessman who argues that, despite current hard times, life is getting better and better. >> when we've let people do what they want, when we've let them get on with their lives socially, politically, economically, then prosperity just kind of happens. people get better off. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonigh...

left iraq this week, but many still remain. >> brown: we look at new evidence of oil floating beneath the surface of the gulf of mexico. >> lehrer: special correspondent stuart cohen previews this weekend's elections in australia to determine the country's prime minister. >> brown: and paul solman finds an author and businessman who argues that, despite current hard times, life is getting better and better. >> when we've let people do what they want, when we've let them get on with their lives socially, politically, economically, then prosperity just kind of happens. people get bette...

hard times, life is getting better and better. >> when we've let people do what they want, when we've let them get on with their lives socially, politically, economically, then prosperity just kind of happens. people get better off. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> this is the engine that connects abundant grain from the american heartland to haran's best selling whole wheat, while keeping 60 billion pounds of carbon out of the atmosphere every year. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the bill a...

>> lehrer: the situation in pakistan grew more desperate today, nearly three weeks after the flooding began. more than 1,500 people have died and millions are homeless. u.n. and u.s. officials today highlighted the enormity of the disaster saying it now tops the 2004 asian tsunami, the 2005 pakistan earthquake, and this year's haiti earthquake combined. flood victims stand in line for hours at a relief camp, waiting for food and water. >> ( translated ): we are receiving food sometimes, but sometimes we miss out. we are poor people and due to we have small kids and we wonder how will...

ago, a mile under water in the gulf of mexico at the site of the bp oil disaster, where a new cap has just been successfully lowered on to the broken oil well. this new and improved cap is a much tighter fit than the old one, apparently. it still has to be tested and monitored for two days to see if it totally works, but if it works the way it's supposed to, bp will soon be able to capture essentially all of the leaking oil from the ruptured well. the millions of gallons that has already leaked out is, of course, still out there, in the gulf, creating environmental ultrahavoc. but, a...