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captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> lehrer: good evening. i'm jim lehrer. troops across the country received their deployment orders for afghanistan. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the pbs newshour tonight, 1,500 marines were told they'll ship out before christmas. >> lehrer: the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mike mullen, briefed soldiers and marines today. we'll talk to him about what he said. >> ifill: also tonight, as the climate change conference opened in copenhagen, new rules were announced in washington declaring greenhouse gases dangerous to public health. we get details from administrator lisa jackson at the environmental protection agency. >> lehrer: then, ray suarez begins a weeklong cross-country series about the u.s. economy. patchwork nation, tonight from philadelphia. >> they were too big to fail, i would say that cities are too important to fail. >> ifill: and jeffrey brown reports on new york's latest cultural struggle. >>> how can they survive and thrive, here at the metropolitan in new york we'll talk to the man in char

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: good evening. i'm gwen ifill. the latest on the investigation into the failed bombing of a u.s. plane from authorities here and overseas. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, dutch officials called the preparation of the plot "fairly professional, "but its execution, "amateurish." >> ifill: why didn't anyone connect the dots and can anything be done to foil future attacks? we'll explore that with members of the 9-11 commission. >> brown: and we'll get the views of two representatives on what congress did and did not do in the past and should do now to prevent more terrorist incidents. >> ifill: also tonight, from san francisco, spencer michels reports on a battle about putting literature online. >> google is in the process of digitizing 40 million brookes. not everyone believes one company should control that much knowledge. >> brown: and margaret warner talks to author kati marton about her parents-- hungarian journalists targeted by the secret police in the 1950s. >> i think it's really im

caioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> lehrer: good ening. i'm m lehrer. secretary of state clion tried to jumpstart the stall climate talks today in copenhage >> woodruff: and i'm jud woruff. on the "newshour" night, we t the latest from ray suarez on the diplomatic maneuvergs at the summit. >> srez: as heads of state arriven copenhagen, the pressu and the attention of the rest of the world is focussed on two giants: t u.s. and china. i'll have a report. >>ehrer: then white house aide david axelrod's taken copenhagen and the pusin the senate forealth care reform. >> wdruff: a report from india aboumoves to combat one of the country's in sources of pollution. >> lehre our special corrpondent for education john merrow rorts from arizona on a spial way to help troubled publ schools. >> i was shocked. it really took mback. >> to... >> to st see what was ssible. you know, i just kinof had to pause and sa you know, what a differencehis makes. >> woodruff: andn inside view ofhe mexican army's war on drugs. >> lehrer:hat's all ahead on tonight's bs newshour." maj

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: good evening. i'm gwen ifill. president obama said today he's getting 95% of what he wanted on health care, as the u.s. senate prepares to vote. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight, jim lehrer's full interview with the president, conducted at the white house this afternoon. >> this notion that somehow the health care bill that is emerging should be grudgingly accepted by democrats as half a loaf is simply incorrect. this is 9-tenths of a loaf. >> ifill: also tonight, public outrage in mexico, where criminal gangs murdered four members of a soldier's family-- payback for his role in a drug raid. >> woodruff: then to somalia and its ongoing crisis: we get an inside look, reported by john lee anderson of "the new yorker." >> ifill: and, he wasn't just a great composer. ♪ it turns out handel was a smart investor too. >> this was the route to becoming rich quickly and handel was young, he was an eager beaver. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's "pbs newshour." major funding for the pbs n

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions want a key test vote on heal care reform toda >> ifill: i'm gw ifill. on the nshour tonight, the stage is set for a critical christmas eve vote >> brown: we'll lk to senators sherr brown and lindsey graham aut the bill's components, cpromises and polics. >> ifill: th thousands of iranns turn a funeral for a dissident clic into a full- scale street protest. rgaret warner looks at what's next for the oppotion inran and their supporters here. >> brown: what hapned in copenhagen andhat now. >> now it's to people to come together because we need a deal that iseal. >> brown: ray suarez jt back from the climate summit plains. >> ifill: and wel take a second look atohn merrow's reports on an attempto overhaul aajor urban school syem, whatever it takes. >> compassion . i think that when u're doing the kind of rk that i'm doinin public education where the lives and th futures children hang in the balae, you cannot ..you can't pl with that. >> bro: that's all ahead on tonight'pbs newshour. >> major funding for t pbs newshour majofunding for the pbs

captioning sponsed by macneil/lehrer proctions >> lehrer: good evening. i'm jim lehrer. a deadlock at the climattalks in copenhagen. >>rown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, hundredsf protesters tried to disrupt the conference. >> lehrer: we'll get theatest from ray suarez at the summi suarez: another day of netiations here have still fail to produce a text world aders can embrace here, but the u.n.ecretary general told the "newshour,he still believesgreement is possible. i'll have a report. >> bro: there were some steps forward today, includingledges to prote rainforests. 'll see how that could play out in themazon. >> lehrer: then, a perfoance review for federal reserve chairman b bernanke. economisjames galbraith and formered vice chair alice rivlin date his record. >> brown: and the levance in our time of hn maynard keynes: "newshour" ecomics correspondent paul solman haa someat off-beat explanation. ♪ my general theory made quite a impression i transformed e econ profsion, you know me, modesty say it loud and say itlear, we're l keynesians now. >>

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productns >> lehrer:ood evening. i'm jilehrer. president obama shovedenate mocrats toward a final vote for health care reform. >> brown: and i'm jeffy brown. onhe newshour tonight, a deal would set e stage for congressionapassage by christmas. >> lehrer: we'll talk to t journalists who e on the deal- mang story. >> brown: then, terror spects from guantanamo bay in cuba ll be med to a prison in rural illinois. margaret wner reports. >> lrer: a showdown in copeagen between china and the u.s. ofighting global warming. ray suarez is at the cmate talks. >> bro: plus, a very unusual look aclimate change, seen from inse one of mount everest's aciers. >> lehrer: and paul solmanalks to economist a statesman george schultzwho believes no financial instition should ever bconsidered "too big to fail." >> there's an underlying principle here that has golost sight of, anthat's the importance of skin in the ga. when you have some of ur own money involved, yopay a lot more attention. lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "pbs newshour." jor fundi

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> lehrer: good evening, i'm jim lehrer. deadly bombings in baghdad killed more than 100 people. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the pbs newshour tonight, the coordinated attacks targeted government sites. we get the latest from the iraqi capital. >> lehrer: also tonight, on afghanistan the u.s. commander and the top diplomat told congress the boost in troops will halt the taliban within a year. >> woodruff: meantime, britain marked its 100th combat death in afghanistan this year. the newshour's margaret warner is in london. >> warner: prime minister gordon brown has pledged to send an additional 500 troops to afghanistan. but the war is increasingly unpopular here. i'll have a special report from britain. >> lehrer: president obama outlined new stimulus and jobs proposals and he called on americans to spend their way out of recession. we'll have a debate about his proposals. >> woodruff: and ray suarez continues our series on the nation's economy. tonight, how ann arbor, michigan, is being helped by a cockroach. >> s

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> lehrer: good evening, i'm jim lehrer. the global climate talks ended with what u.s. officials called a "meaningful and historic" agreement. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we'll have full analysis of what world leaders did and did not agree to. >> what we have achieved in copenhagen will not be the end, but rather the beginning. the beginning of a new era of international action. >> lehrer: and then judy woodruff leads a discussion about the climate deal. >> brown: an update on dna testing, as an innocent man who's spent the longest time behind bars is set free. >> lehrer: paul solman has a conversation about the connection between human health and biodiversity. >> the only -- anywhere in the world that raise their young -- are now extinct and the compounds that these make to keep themselves -- that information is gone forever. >> brown: and the weekly analysis of mark shields and david brooks. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour is provided b

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> lehrer: good evening. i'm jim lehrer. president obama went after top u.s. bankers today to help the economic recovery by lending more money. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, full coverage of that white house meeting, plus the perspectives of the administration and the financial industry. >> lehrer: newshour correspondent tom bearden focuses on the impact of the credit crunch on small businesses. test entrepreneurs say a credit clock is ticking and their very existence is in jeopardy. i'll have a report from denver. >> woodruff: then ray suarez has an update from copenhagen where developing world nations ended a boycott of the climate change summit. >> lehrer: we'll have a report on how green technology is helping and hurting china. >> woodruff: and we'll remember nobel prize-winning economist paul samuelson. who died yesterday, at 94. people like me who live through the great depression are in great demand because the other people don't have a clue as to what this kind of situation is. >> lehre

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: good evening, i'm judy woodruff. president obama met with community bankers today. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight: the president called for increased lending to small businesses, and sound financial regulation. >> woodruff: we'll examine the troubles facing small bankers across the country. >> brown: then, big bill, big money: the lobbying behind the health care reform effort. >> woodruff: an encore look at another of john merrow's reports chronicling the challenges facing the public schools in the nation's capital. tonight, the plans to close schools and fire office workers. >> what we have here is a takeover. it is not reform. it is dictatorship. >> that's right. >> brown: the threat of cyber crime, and what can be done to defend against it. >> woodruff: and the story of picture perfect gifts for military families this holiday season. >> this is a minor thing i'm doing for these people who are doing a huge amount for us. >> brown: that's all ahead, on tonight's pbs newshour. major funding

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. millions this day celebrated the holiday even as blizzards disrupted travel in the midwest. >> warner: i'm margaret warner. the latest on the storm that brought snow to the midwest including the latest on last night's attack on pope benedict xvi at the vatican. >> brown: one of chine's leading dissidents was sentenced to jail. >> warner: the controversy over the future of pensions for retired state workers in california. spencer michels will have a report. >> people -- beneficiaries would not be at risk because we're on the hook for those payments regardless how well and how poorly pension funds do. >> mark shields and david brooks look forward on health care and back on the decade. >> warner: efforts to reform washington, d.c.'s public schools. then tells us what's ahead. >> we have been totally disrespected. we have been treated like we don't matter. >> reporter: that's all coming on tonight's "pbs newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: monsanto. producing mor

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> lehrer: good evening, i'm jim lehrer. president obama accepted the nobel peace prize today. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, a report on the ceremony and speech where the president said, wars are sometimes necessary and justified. >> clear eyed, we can understand that there will be war and still strive for peace . we can do that, for that is the story of human progress. >> lehrer: we'll get reaction and perspective from presidential historian michael beschloss, the reverend james forbes and editor joseph bottum. >> brown: then, the arrests of five american muslims in pakistan: we look at who they are and how they were captured. >> lehrer: the top u.s. military commander in afghanistan talked about security and fighting corruption, we have excerpts from his conversation with our pbs colleague, charlie rose. >> brown: new claims for unemployment benefits rose faster than expected after thanksgiving. tonight, economics correspondent paul solman talks to older americans looking for work. >> it doesn't

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. after months of wrangling, the united states senate has passed the health care overhaul bill. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, the vote sets the stage for tough negotiations with the house. >> woodruff: we examine the politics it took to get to this democratic win, what still lies ahead, and what the changes mean for americans and their health care system. >> brown: also tonight: after copenhagen, ray suarez looks at the debate over global warming's impact on public health. >> this for us is more than an environmental issue, it's more than a debate about targets or about how much it is going to cost. it is a debate about basically saving people's lives. >> woodruff: then, an update on yemen, where air strikes hit al qaeda militants today, including a radical cleric linked to the fort hood shootings. >> brown: and another look at one of john merrow's reports chronicling plans to reform public schools in washington, d.c. tonight, the debate over how to improve t

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> lehrer: good evening. i'm jim lehrer. senate democrats reached a compromise on health care reform. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the "newshour" tonight: will the public insurance option be a casualty of that deal? >> lehrer: we assess the agreement and look at the political battles ahead. >> ifill: then, what's at stake for the u.s. and the world at the climate talks in copenhagen. judy woodruff reports. >> lehrer: alleged terrorist david coleman headley was arraigned in federal court in chicago. we'll go to sebastian rotella of the "los angeles times" for the details. >> ifill: our series on the nation's economy continues-- ray suarez reports on some of the challenges facing tractor country. >> i thought i could weather the storm but i've had enough, you know. i've done enough bleeding that i want to quit before i'm bled out. >> ifill: that's "patchwork nation," tonight from sioux city, iowa. >> lehrer: and pianist richard glazier: keeping the gershwins' music alive. >> to the younger generation, they're discovering s

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: good evening. i'm gwen ifill. president obama made his first public statement about the failed plot to blow up an airplane, and said the u.s. would keep up the pressure on terrorists. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the newshour tonight, the president outlined stepped-up security measures for air passengers. >> ifill: how did the bomber get through security? and what can be done to prevent another attack? we'll sort it out. >> warner: then, authorities in iran arrested key opposition figures after weekend protests that killed at least eight. >> ifill: a different angle on the health care debate. ray suarez has the story from south of the u.s. border. >> thousands of americans that can't afford the health care they need, are heading abroad to search for it, i'll have a report from mexico. >> ance end of the year conversation about the financial collapse with >> warner: and an end-of-the- year conversation about the financial collapse with writers andrew ross sorkin and john cassidy. >> it seems to be alive a

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> lehrer: good evening, i'm jim lehrer. there was congressional and administration action today aimed at reforming the ways of financial regulation and corporate salaries. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, a report on the proposed regulations for wall street. plus an interview with kenneth feinberg, the government's pay czar. >> lehrer: ray suarez wraps our series on the recession, from a small tourist town in the pacific northwest. >> the speculators are in the town like the romans, you know. >> lehrer: that's patchwork nation: tonight, in lincoln city, oregon. >> woodruff: then, from europe, margaret warner's latest dispatch on attitudes toward afghanistan. >> germany has the third largest contingent ofo troops in afghanistan but so far has resisted on sending more. i will explore way in a special report from berlin. >> lehrer: and mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. that's coming, on tonight's pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: monsanto. producin

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