. >> lehrer: and ray suarez interviews robert mccrum about how english has become the first worldwide language. >> if you said in say 800 or 900 b.c. in 2010 people would be discussing a global language, they would have looked at you in disbelief. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newsur has been provided by:

and to ray suarez. >> suarez: the first showdown between the u.s. department of justice and the state of arizona over the state's high-profile immigration law went before a federal judge in phoenix today. protestors gathered outside the court house as justice department lawyers argued for an injunction to prevent the new law from taking effect next thursday. the law makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally. and requires local law enforcement officials to check the immigration status of anyone they encounter while enforcing other laws, where reasonable suspicion exists that they are illegal immigrants. in all, seven federal suits have been filed against arizona governor jan brewer since she signed the legislation in april. now two different legal views. kris koback of the university of missouri-cac-40 kansas city school of law helped to author the bill and steven gonzalez of the phoenix school of law. and professor gonzalez, let me start with you. on what dow base your contention that the law is unconstitutional? >> well, good evening fr

ray suarez has returned to the heavily damaged capital port-au-prince. here is the first of his week- long series of reports on the situation in haiti, six months after the quake. >> suarez: in port-au-prince, deacon instruction comes before reconstruction. hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of rubble have been cleared from building lots and streets , yet shattered buildings still stand in every direction. when the tremors stopped, this metropolitan area had been shaken to pieces. an estimated 300,000 lives ended. tens of thousands of buildings destroyed. untold numbers injured. 060,000 people fled to the rest of the country. more than a million people are homeless in the haitian capital. more than a million. imagine putting the entire population of dallas out on the streets. it's the most visible sign of the work that remains to be done. >> there are clear plans, clear targets now. we need the resources. >> suarez: a uniteded nations deputy special representative in haiti. >> when you think about a million-and-a-half people in camps, while there has b

on the "newshour" tonight, ray suarez reports from the state capitol in phoenix. and we explore the national fallout. >> lehrer: then judy woodruff takes an extended look at pakistan. she talks to pakistan's u.s. ambassador about the airliner crash that killed 152 people, and she examines u.s./pakistani relations after the leak of thousands of secret military documents. >> ifill: we ask environmental engineer nancy kinner to track what's happened to the oil in the water. 100 days after the gulf disaster. >> lehrer: and spencer michels tells the story of a one-man mission to help clean up the oil in louisiana. >> a private individual has taken it upon himself to try to protect the barrier islands in the gulf of mexico. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> this is the engine that zero emission technologies to breathing a little easier, while taking 4.6 million truckloads off the road every year. bnsf, the engine that connects us. and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve

. >> brown: ray suarez updates the surge in drug violence gripping mexico, killing thousands in the last year, including a candidate for governor. >> woodruff: mark shields and david brooks offer their weekly analysis. >> brown: and we close with remembrances of senator robert byrd from the memorial service held today in charleston, west virginia. >> this is a guy who continued to taste and smell and feel the suffering of the people of his state. he tasted it. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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. >> brown: the u.s. economy lost jobs overall last month, even as the jobless rate was declining. the numbers were the latest sign that the recovery may be losing momentum. private employers managed to add 83,000 jobs in june, but it wasn't enough-- the economy still recorded a net loss of 125,000 jobs,

. >> ifill: and ray suarez has another report on haiti six months after the earthquake. >> suarez: in an interview with the newshour, haiti's president preval says his government is embarked on expensive reconstruction work with only a fraction of the money on hand needed to finish it. he's hoping the international community will come to haiti's aid. >> lehrer: that's all ahead n tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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. >> lehrer: president obama countered some down poll numbers today with a trumpet note for his wall street reform plan and the selection of a new budget director. mr. obama hailed the senate's progress on a financial reform bill as a "breakthrough." >> three republican senators have put politics and partisanship aside to support this reform. and i am grateful for their decision, as well as all the democrats who've

. >> lehrer: and ray suarez interviews robert mccrum about how english has become the first worldwide language. >> if you said in say 800 or 900 b.c. in 2010 people would be discussing a global language, they would have looked at you in disbelief. >> lehrer: that's all ahd on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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. >> lehrer: the storm system named bonnie took direct aim today at the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. it lost some strength on the way, but its approach triggered movements at sea and on land. newshour correspondent spencer michels reports from louisiana. >> reporter: bonnie was already urning the waters in the gulf of mexico, with 40-mile-an-hour winds pushing waves to five feet and more. even before the storm crossed south florida this afternoon, watches went up from destin, florida, on the panhandle to morgan cit

ray suarez posed the question to b.p.'s bob dudley at the company's headquarters in houston. he's the president of the gulf coast restoration organization for the company. here's part of that exchange. >> suarez: well, when we put out the call for questions, you might have guessed, we got us thats of responses . there's a lot of curiosity about the state of play in the gulf. we got video, we got text. and a lot of people just came to the site to bolster certain questions that they wanted to be sure would be asked. and i'm selecting one that's sort of representative from the gulf. let's go first to kirk from houma, louisiana. >> mr. dudley, my name is kirk, i'm a member of the united houma nation which is the state's largest indian tribe in the state of louisiana. we have heard that you are going to make everyone whole. we have 6,000 families in the united houma nation that are now out of work because of this spill. today i was on grand isle on the beach and normally on the fourth of july week like this we would have a thousand people in the area that we were. there was not a

ray suarez has our report. >> reporter: as of today, 66 u.s. troops have been killed in afghanistan in july with one more day left to go. the previous high was 60 killed in june. another 20 troopers from other nato countries have also been killed. that's actually down from 42 in june. and as fighting peaks in the sweltering afghan summer, a familiar weapon is posing grave danger to u.s. forces, their international and afghan partners and civilians. this american soldier had stepped on an improvised explosive device or i.e.d. for short. whatever it's called, the makeshift, roadside bombs now cause a 60% of coalition deaths in afghanistan, and kill large specialist bradly parrish gave a sense of the threat he and others face. >> scary. it's... you never know when it's coming. i mean, like when we go on patrols and we're walking because they use the pressure plates out here and any step could potentially be your last and you just kind of have to accept it. >> reporter: the i.e.d. first became a killer in iraq as insurgents there made use of iraqi

. >> brown: ray suarez reports on what's next in arizona, after a federal judge blocked key parts of the state's immigration law. >> lehrer: then two stories on the mexican drug violence. yone grillo of "global post" talks to residents of ciudad juarez, mexico, about a city under attack. >> we are getting the kidnappings, the carjacking, especially the extortions. i mean, it has killed the city. >> brown: judy woodruff gets an update from reporter angela kocherga on the spread of violence from northern mexico. >> lehrer: and, fred de sam lazaro explores hands-on healing with physician and author abraham verghese. >> i'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a cat scan scanning the belly but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot, and not at this spot. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. an

tonight, ray suarez looks at the road ahead for the many amputees. >> thousands of haitians lost limbs in january's earthquake. international charities are bringing pros thesees, mobility and hope. >> lehrer: and margaret warner updates the charges against six new orleans police officers in the killing and cover-up of unarmed citizens after hurricane katrina. >> what appears to me is that the officers based upon the admitted statements immediately decided to not tell the truth. that's just disgusting. >> 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 zero emission technologies to breathing a little easier, while taking 4.6 million truckloads off the road every year. bnsf, the engine that connects us. and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions t

. >> suarez: i'm ray suarez. on the newshour tonight, choppy seas prevented officials from determining whether a giant oil-skimmer called "the a whale" will be effective. we get the latest on the disaster and the containment efforts. >> woodruff: then we update the political deadlock in iraq as vice president biden visited baghdad this weekend. >> suarez: jeffrey brown wraps up key decisions from the just-ended supreme court terms. >> woodruff: we have an encore report from spencer mikeest on health care for san francisco's uninsured. a program the supreme court let stand . >> we're a public plan. we're that public option. and i don't think you noticed anything but the american flag on city hall when you came here. we didn't replace it with the canadian flag. the sky didn't fall in. the world didn't come to an end. >> suarez: and fred de sam lazaro tells the story of one man's attempt to bridge the digital divide in one of johannesburg's poorest neighborhoods. one phone call at a time. >> woodruff: that's all ahe

. >> lehrer: ray suarez has the last of his stories from haiti six months after the earthquake. tonight: mental health problems of survivors. >> brown: and we attempt to unravel the mystery of the iranian nuclear scientist who returned to tehran today. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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. >> lehrer: after 85 days, oil stopped spilling into the gulf of mexico today. "newshour" correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. >> reporter: it happened shortly after mid-afternoon in the gulf- - video from the seabed showed no signs of oil and gas spewing from the fractured wellhead-- a sight that hasn't been seen since april. president obama wel

and ray suarez has a preview of his upcoming reports from haiti still struggling six months after the earthquake. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. gwen? >> ifill: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm gwen ifill. >> lehrer: and i'm jim lehrer. we'll see you on-line and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org vo:geico, committed to providing service to its auto insurance customers for over 70 years. more information on auto insurance at geico.com or 1-800-947-auto any time of the day or night.