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thank you. >> welcome to the newshour. the u.s. has moved closer to retaliating for a drone attack take your -- that killed three american troops in jordan. president biden says he has decided how to respond. he said iran shares the plane because u.s. officials believe in iran act much of a loss to the attack but he stopped short of saying tehran is now a target. >> i don't even think we need this, that is not what i'm looking for. request the iraqi militia blamed for the attack announced it is to spending strikes against u.s. forces in the region. the pentagon responded saying that actions speak louder than words. in the occupied west bank, surveillance video showed israeli commandos inside hospital disguised as civilian women.

three palestinian militants were killed. in southern gaza, fighting rage again while benjamin netanyahu ruled out any military withdrawal. >> i hear things about all sorts of deals. i want to make it clear. we will not end this war without achieving all of our goals. we will not allow the idf from the gaza strip. >> the leader of hamas as he will meet with mediators in cairo to review the latest cease-fire proposal. let's start with the attack that killed those three u.s. soldiers. >> the challenge is to reestablish deterrence against these iranian backed groups without going to war with iran itself. look at that look like? but i am going to describe other broad categories of targets.

iranian back groups in iraq and syria. these are iraqis and syrians who fight for these groups, whose weapons and financing often comes from iran. the second category is iranian assets in iraq and syria. what is the difference? there are iranians that run in these places that run weapons sites in these places. these are beastly iranians running these places. some of them are in damascus and baghdad. there are also more royal targets. the third category would be event itself. i am talking everything from the headquarters in downtown tehran and then iranian naval ships including the ship at the former military ship is helping in yemen. those are the broad categories. we don't know what the final

target will be. today, the national security council said the response would be tiered, multiple actions over time. they are also looking at that statement. they targeted the troops in jordan this weekend saying we are not going to fire on u.s. troops. this is a sign some regional officials believe iran doesn't want to escalate but i think the administration official tells me they are much the statement but they take it as is value. >> as we mentioned, they will go to cairo to engage in those hostage talks. what does that signal? request the mediators hope that hamas is taking it seriously. these details have been provided to me by an official brief on the talks.

the hostage releases would occur over three phases. older women and children would be the first phase, men and younger women would be the second phase and dead bodies would be the third phase. the first phase would last six weeks. that means the war would actually stop. the pause in the fighting would carry on phase two and three. request that meeting is absolutely key. they will decide whether this deal goes forward. the spokesman for the ministry of foreign affairs began by asking how significant it is. >> we are at a good moment now. we are at the point where things have eluded us for a couple of

months now. all after being circulated. hamas announcing they have received the drugs and are discussing it. now we have a general understanding for the next phase of what the pause will be and how that will play out. i was in this is very significant. as long as the process is ongoing like this, we can be sure that there is light at the end of the tunnel. >> as you said, he said they will discuss this with hamas's military. they have reiterated that they want a permanent cease-fire as part of this deal and that until that is in the deal, they will reject it. this deal does not have the words permanent cease-fire so how do you get -- how do you

convince them to go over the concern they had? you will hear a lot of statements. the important thing is that the mediation has always been key to the process. we are listening to everything from both sides. this builds upon the proposal i came from the past couple of months. >> is hamas still insisting on a cease-fire? >> it depends on the size of that aspect going to come back but i am quiet sure. >> we heard from the other side this week. benjamin netanyahu reiterating his goals of eliminating hamas.

he said the israeli military will not withdraw from the gaza strip. >> i think it is very important not to take everything set to cameras at face value. there is a lot of propaganda. just trying to adhere to one on the legality of the situation. >> president biden said today he has decided how to spot to the subject that we saw. that killed three u.s. service members. the prime ministers speaking here in washington. he urged de-escalation. what is your message to the biden administration today as they are about to launch this? >> i can tell you this attack came -- we all understand how dangerous it is and we are members in the coalition against

isis. quick these u.s. soldiers that were in jordan are actually counter isis mission. >> exactly. we can't take this lightly. we have to understand the bigger picture here. all of this is a byproduct of what is happening right now. it is a cliche to say the middle east capture the fall of the crisis in the world. request they can't take anymore security challenges. they can't take, wars. what is happening in the region is failure. it is very important for us to make sure that we de-escalate. any escalation could result in open war right now. united states has to reestablish the deterrence. we're also talking to our partners in the administration.

any response could be measured and for us to be able to talk about this and get the messages across. >> many u.s. officials doubly this is about gaza, this is about iran pushing these or supplying the information, the intelligence, the weaponry to these iranian backed proxies in iraq and syria and the hoodies and yemen to be able to launch these attacks. iran has been helping these groups, the u.s. is about to hit these groups. perhaps iran itself. what is the offramp encounters via -- in qatar's view? >> the important thing is a measured response and not to antagonize all the sites in the region for open war. >> i fully understand there is a lot of emotion points to this, we have to understand this is

when escalation started. unless we diffuse a crisis here on gaza, a lot of escalation will utilize that. to conduct such a thing. >> finally, i will ask you about comments by benjamin netanyahu recently. this was a group of family members of hostages being held in gaza. he said you don't hear me thinking qatar, they have leverage because they financed hamas. there are critics of yours who say you are both are thick -- arsonist and firefighter, you are trying to media today. in the sense that you are supporting hamas. what is your response? >> all the fun that went into it with the complete coronation of israel, we want to make sure that we have enough that we can work on mediation.

this is what we have been doing since 2006. i can say that we hear these words coming from -- the only thing we can see is the polymerization of this. he has made such statements about this and he doubled down on the statements. while he is engaged in the, if he is sincere about what he is saying, there is a question of why he worked with the eight programs -- aid programs. this town was engaged in mediation between hamas that is totally acceptable. >> thank you very much.

>> i am stephanie sy. here are the latest headlines. former president trump will remain on the illinois primary ballot. state election were declined to remove him on the grounds that his conduct surrounding the january 6's direction is qualified him under the u.s. constitution. the eight board members, democrats, publicans alike said the court must decide the constitutional question. >> the republicans believe there was an insurrection january 6. there is no doubt in my mind that he manipulated come instigated, aided and abetted an insurrection on january 6. however, having said that, it is not my place to rule on that today. >> the u.s. supreme court will hear arguments next week on whether trump is ineligible for the ballot in the state of colorado. cori bush has confirmed that she

is under investigation for the justice department, involves allegations that the st. louis democrat this used campaign funds to pay for her personal security against firefighter tax. bush denied wrongdoing today and said she is cooperating fully. organ leaders declared the state of emergency in downtown portland today, citing a fence and all fueled public health and safety crisis. the 90 day plan establishes a new command center where fentanyl users are brought by first responders and connected to drug treatment resources. fentanyl overdose deaths increased by over 530% from 2018 to 2022. a court in pakistan convicted the leaking of state secrets. ossicular said he broke the law when he waved a confidential document at a political rally.

the verdict brought sharply different reactions. >> look at the decision. they must have made it within the scope of our constitution. the punishment could have been more extreme. the decision was made with some thought behind it. >> we all know who was on a scale. this is our last hope. the whole system is trying to aluminate him. >> the french government announced new controls on foreign food products today in response to farmer protests. they have been demonstrating for more than two weeks, demanding higher incomes, lower costs and less red tape. they have used their trackers and trucks to encircle paris with barricades and they vowed to keep up the pressure. >> i am an organic farmer. today it is not working anymore. i am selling the organic beef meat at the price of the conventional want.

it is an economy that does not function anymore. >> this year's gershwin prize for popular song goes to cigna and great elton john and his longtime lyricist bernie topham. the library of congress announced this today saying that your song, tiny dancer and rocket man will be honored at a concert in washington on march 20. the famed broadway dancer, singer and actress chita rivera died in new york. she garnered 10 tony nominations. one twice and blazed the trail for letting artists. she was anita in the original west side story. she recalled that experience from american masters in pbs in 2006. >> being inside of the piece was constant motion. that is what the emotion of the gangs was all about. that is what the youth of the time was all about. movement, keep on moving.

that is why it was great to dance it and sing it. just to sing it would have not been enough. but she was 91 years old. still on the news hour. the near and dear michigan on his meeting with the biden campaign and his city's calls for a cease-fire in gaza. major car manufacturers respond to recent challenges by slowing production of electric vehicles. and author elizabeth locke on telling three women's stories of using violence to fight abuse. >> the u.s. house of representatives is on the cusp of impeaching a cabinet secretary for the first time in over a century. republicans are looking to advance articles of impeachment against al andrew mayorkas.

lisa, house republicans have signaled this was coming. what are the specific charges against them? >> let's look at the articles of impeachment. there are two. the first one is willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law. that basically accuses the secretary of allowing thousands of migrants not to be detained and then secondly, breach of public trust. republicans say that mayorkas lied to them. he said the board is under operational control. there have really only been a couple of hearings. the chairman of the committee mark green says it is serious. >> we cannot allow this border crisis to continue. we cannot allow fentanyl to flit across our border or criminal so often undeterred. we cannot allow a cabinet secretary with no regard for the separation of powers to remain in office. that is why we present this committee with the articles of

impeachment. >> mayor chris and summer publicans all say this is political and unprecedented, impatient a cabinet secretary for what they say is really a policy difference. mayorkas wrote to the committee that the problems with the immigration system are not new. you have claimed we have failed to enforce immigration laws and that is false. he says he needs more detention capacity. the question is not really how do you fix the problem, it is who do you blame? >> they are accusing him of refusing to uphold the law and bridging the public's trust. on what grounds? >> let's look at one of the contention points here. i want to play one of the soundbites at the center of that.

this is in the stands that happened in 2022. >> do we have operational control? yes or no? >> yes we do. >> the trip operational control means all entries including entries by terrorists, interests -- other contraband. do you stand by that we have operational control in light of this customer >> i think secretary of a would have said the same thing in 2020. >> that is the definition of 2006 law. as the secretary say, no one could cross the border. no one has ever met that standard in united states history. they are saying there is a different issue here in donald trump. some in the trump university that he does want to camping on the board. he does not necessarily want a solution right now.

when you hear from democrats today, they point back to trump. because this was never about securing the border, this was never about protecting our country. just like the baseless impeachments in everything else that modern republican temperament -- i pretended care about, it has always been about helping donald trump become a president again. quick there is a real issue at the board. they really think there is a dereliction of duty. as they are impeaching the secretary, that same secretary is trying to negotiate with other republicans for a potential ordeal on the senate side. >> what do we know about the level of legal immigration under secretary mayorkas? >> let mpresent from mayorkas's side. this is such a massive search at the border. let's look at 2019 during the trump presidency. 1.1 miion encounters that year is what they just reported.

let's look at the last fiscal year. 3.2 million. mayorkas is saying we had a tripling of the amount people are seeing at the border but they say the apprehension rate has been 78%. they say we are catching up with the past despite his record numbers. republican say they are not detaining as many. there is a bigger search into this country. currently we have about 30,600. january of 2019, it was 86 500. the higher number. dhss covid is a factor. there is a lot to unpack here. the numbers at the border are really the issue. they are impeaching him for it. >> thank you as always for the great reporting.

as hamas weighs a new proposal for a temporary truce in gaza, protesters in the u.s. call for a cease-fire have disrupted everything from commutes in new york city to a parade in los angeles. and in cities across the country, groups have now taken their flights to city hall where in some cases, the topic is overtaking other priorities. >> with the israeli counteroffensive to the october 7 hotel -- october 7 hamas terror attack, the plight of palestinians in the occupied west bank has taken on new urgency to activists like janine nasser. the cleveland president with strong ties to palestine. >> we are struggling every day. i wake up every morning and think of my dad.

i just want to say i want to make sure you're still alive. we are watching these horrific stories unfolding. quick she has channeled her grief into protest and lately, those protests have found their way to an unlikely venue, cleveland city hall. >> if you see my humanity, may be the genocide of people that look like me, the family members of 20 -- 25,000 palestinians in the greater cleveland area will be worthy of this cities empathy. >> the weekly public comment time usually a formed event about local issues has been dominated by talk of war on the other side of the world. >> i would say approximately nine out of 10 almost every week for the last four to six weeks have been people to speak on that. the citizens are almost all calling for the same thing. >> the city council can, should and must pass a resolution calling for a cease-fire.

>> a call for a cease-fire. >> over a dozen city councils and cities across the country have passed cease-fire resolutions which range from condemnation of both sides of the war to calling for an end to u.s. military aid to israel. daniel hopkins says it is all part of a growing trend. city councilmembers, school board members whose training in this is very much focused on their local communities being forced oftentimes to weigh in on hot button national issues on which they don't have a lot of experience. >> i can't speak for all of my colleagues but most of us never signed up to be henry kissinger. >> griffin says the protests are interfering with other city priorities.

>> i have a bank that is possibly going to be leaving the community. there are community members that want to come by and petition the government for that. there are people that want to talk about very critical issues. i think the important part is that people have been drowned out. >> one of those who has not felt welcome lately is park action of the jewish federation cleveland. watch as he speaks to rows of activist and two of them walk out. >> held hostage in gaza by terrorists. >> the feeling of hostility in that world was -- that room was very palpable. because there is no justification. >> we are seeing the anti-jewish language. not just language about the state of israel. >> because of the tenor of the crowd, he says he knowledge or encourages his community to attend city council meetings.

his organization wrote a letter to the council against the cease-fire resolution. >> we all want to see a cease-fire but we want to see a cease-fire that leads to peace and anyone that does not release the hostages and does not remove hamas from power will only bring us back to this in the future. >> their opinion aligns with the biden administration policy. powerless to change that, activists calling for israel to stop its campaign have interrupted city council meetings in cities across the country. >> you are now disrupting this meeting. your disrupted -- disrupting the meeting. >> in some cases like this meeting in oakland, california, spreading misinformation and baseless conspiracies. because israel murdered their own people on october 7. christine preston of san

francisco, the city supervisor said what he had seen at city hall has been orderly. >> i have been in office, never seen anything like it in terms of people coming in. these are entirely peaceful gatherings. they can't go meet with joe biden. they can't get two minutes in front of them. they can to their local city council and that is why they are doing it. >> preston introduced a resolution calling for a cease-fire in gaza and the release of israeli hostages. the democratic mayor returns the resolution without signature and issued a statement saying it made the city angrier, more divided and less safe. supervisor preston, also a democrat and the son of a holocaust survivor says the work is directly impacting san franciscans. >> just this morning, i heard

from a palestinian-american friend here in san francisco. i quote -- seven were members of my family have been killed overnight. >> this is not just something happening dozens of miles away. frankly, when elected officials don't speak to this trauma folks feel ignored and that their pain is not being recognized. >> the resolutions have no legal authority. >> it is not the case that any of our allies look to san francisco we've learned to learn what u.s. foreign policy is going to be but i do think they could potentially have an impact in the democratic party and that they can signal the extent of discontent and the sources of discontent around u.s.

foreign-policy set by the biden administration. >> whether or not president biden or even the cleveland city council responds, surely nasser has no plans to stop speaking out. >> go through this grief i felt such an urgency to be in my community and do this work alongside the community, calling for a cease-fire because i think about the kind of world i want to leave for my kids. and so we are going to keep showing up. we are going to go until city council says we will engage back with you. >> an impasse with no clear and in america city halls and in the middle east. for the pbs newshour, i am stephanie sy. request a cease-fire calls from city halls in cleveland and oakland to the mayor's office in dearborn shaken, we have more. >> dearborn michigan is home to one of the largest muslim and

arab-american populations in the united states. since the israel hamas war began, the city's residents, many of whom have a personal connection to the region have urged president biden to endorse the cease-fire in gaza. the nucera has learned the president is planning a trip to michigan on thursday to rally with united auto workers after they endorsed his reelection bid. this comes after dearborn's mayor was one of several arab-american leaders who turned down a meeting with president bynes campaign last week and he joined me now. thank you so much for joining the newshour. bynes campaign manager visited michigan recently and met with leaders of various constituencies across the state. why did you choose to decline the invitation. >> i don't think this is a moment that because for house -- for partisan politics. for us, this is a moment for our concerns to be heard. and for us to draft a new course

together in terms of changing the direction of what is happening overseas. those are conversations that could be had with senior policy members, not campaign staff. this is the first delegation to this committee, when you send them, that sends a message that this is purely a political problem that you see. >> has the presence campaign reached out to you about this upcoming visit? would you meet with him if they did? >> at this point in time, i have not heard from any individual from the biden administration. i am on the firmly believes community engagement can be powerful. when you come together to talk about policies that can save lives. if they want me to talk about charting a new course together, to fundamentally change the direction that they are currently on, to call for a cease-fire, to end the slaughter of innocent men, women and children, that is a conversation we are willing to have. >> there is no indication from the white house or from the president that he is going to

change his position on gaza and on israel. barring a call for a cease-fire, do you think you and the voters that you represent can support him come november? >> we like to categorize this issue strictly as it pertains to the upcoming election because it dehumanizes us. all that matters are poles and outcomes. for us, more than anything, we understand the stance we have taken where we are demanding a cease-fire -- frankly, this is the majority feeling for most of americans across this country. over 60% support a cease-fire. we think this is the right path forward. for any and all individuals seeking this. >> i understand you say this is about more than elections but i want to ask you about donald trump who appears headed for the gop nomination for president. he made his stance on the were abundantly clear.

>> we will cut off every penny of money that we sent to the palestinians, the terrorists. >> faced with the choice of president biden or former president donald trump based on policies like what you just heard, who do you believe would best represent your constituents? >> we survived the truck presidency four years ago and i am not blind to what is being said by trump and other candidates at the podium but as it pertains to the decisions being made overseas, it seems like there is no real difference between former president from entering president biden. i have a value statement. i believe no innocent men, women or child should be killed. i am looking for a president that does not believe that statement has a qualifier. >> i know you said you think there is no real difference. former president trump has also floated religious test for immigrants. he said he would reject gazan refugees. something the current president

has not said. >> i think there is no difference. truck is not a candidate that i back. this is something that needs to be put back on the president. what will he do to earn the trust and respect of the consistency in that white house? i don't look at the voters and say you are at fault. as a candidate, i look in the mirror, i listen to the concerns of the majority of americans at this point in time. 50% of which also believe that what is unfolding is a genocide. how would you change the course? >> what you think your party is

not understanding or needs to fully understand about muslim and arab americans in michigan right now? >> we don't have to think about what it is like today. we don't have to think about what it is like and many arab countries have bombs being dropped on them on a daily basis. any of my residents have had to dig up photos from under the rubble. they had to bury love once. -- loved ones. whose father, grandfather and great-grandfather were the groundskeepers of the -- for us, we have lived through apartheid, through occupation, through being staged and bombarded, for us, it is extremely personal. what we are asking is for the presence of come to this community, listen to our stories because we have first-hand accounts of what it is like living under these conditions and looks the -- let's put the

pen in both of our hands. let's construct this policy together about how we can usher a new foreign policy era for us as a nation. the days of wars in the middle east have to close. we thought we closed that chapter. it is not what is unfolding today. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> last year was a record year for electric vehicles in the u.s.. more than 1.2 million sold. it was 50% higher than in 2022. and yet, there are signs that demand for ev's appears to be slowing. it may not be white as intense as automakers or the biden administration has expected. to help us understand where things are, we are joined by jessica caldwell of edmunds.com. it feels like the general perception of electric vehicles

in some ways fueled by your reports is that the demand is low in the market is slowing heading into this new year. is that narrative true? >> it is true. the thing is that ev's are still growing in sales. it is just maybe not as steep as we thought two years ago. getting swept up in new technology was very exciting. sales were exhilarating. it doesn't work that way anymore with technology. you start losing some of those early adopters that wanted to get in early and the mass market starts to buy the vehicle and most people epicure with their money and ask her clever questions and have a lot of concerns. it is not a surprise. it is good to remember they are still growing. >> during an earnings call today, the pace of sales has spent called slowed. gm and ford said they would cut

back some of the production of new electric vehicles. why? what accounts for that? help us understand market dynamics. >> if you look at ev's, they are more expensive. we are in an era where prices are high for these vehicles, just rates are high. that is not the case now. that definitely adds cost to it. he is getting a bit skeptical about infrastructure. some of the charging networks. as you look around, you may not think it is as easy to to own at ev as maybe you had thought. i think some of the more practical concerns are what are slowing these vehicles down. we know this is the goal long term. >> there was this other indicator last month where hurts announced they would tell about a third of their global electric vehicle fleet and use some of

the proceeds to buy gas powered cars. what is the deal with that? is that about demand or other factors like upkeep costs? >> that was an interesting deal. when you think about the short-term rental, it is a bit challenging because you are asking people to have a different relationship with their vehicles. you may not know where to charge it. you may not be able to set up and charge all the time where you live. i think that could be some issues as well. i think a part of it is going to new technology. not everyone is feeling comfortable. we are hearing the vehicles are just being scrapped. it is like you are also hearing that batteries are causing fires. maybe you just don't want to take that risk. request the biden administration says they will invest 325

million more dollars in programs that would advance ev technologies. they repaired some chargers and they would cut battery costs overall. how far will that go toward making ev is more affordable, more accessible? question needs to be a lot of investment in this. investment in different areas. it is not about battery spending all that money to get that going. it is also about infrastructure and better charging and fixing current infrastructure. it is typically not simple, easy, straightforward. the needs to be automakers working in concert to get this whole thing moving along. it is not just asking people to commit to buying a new vehicle. now everything is necessarily auctioning. it is always what we are hearing from consumers. they are worried about range and their battery and freedom to go wherever you want to go.

that may be limited. that is what scares people. even if it is not something they would do once a year. i think the idea is very american of us. the idea that you could go somewhere is preventing you from buying this vehicle. quick thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. in greek and roman mythology, the theories are three goddesses would punish the wicked, delivering vengeance to an unfair, unlawful world. talking with the author of a new book that paint a portrait of three modern-day women who similarly used violence when they had no other option. >> in alabama, brittany smith shot a man who she said had just raped and nearly killed her and was her brother. in india, a lower caste woman

unfairly evicted from her home rises to become the leader of a gang of women who punish those who hurt other women. in syria, this teenager joined an all-female militia is pretty a violent campaign against the islamic state group which is terrorizing their country. how this violence changes each of these women and has lasting implications on them and their broader communities is the subject of a new book called women, vengeance and justice. it is written by journalist elizabeth locke. can you just tell us a little bit more about these women and why their stories jumped out at you? they populate so many of our movies and songs and books and mythology. i really want to understand why that was.

i think we are obsessed with these stories because we wish we could be them. i think when we see these depictions on the screen and pop culture, we wish we could be those women fighting back. my next question was are there real versions of these women who fought back. i spent five years going around the world looking for the women who had fought back against violence with violence of their own. request that last point seems to be part of it. these women he's felt that no one else is looking for me in this given circumstance so they had to take the most drastic step.

>> right. in all those instances, i found the institutions failed them in some way. whether it was the police or the court system where the state itself, they had not protected women or responded to their place of domestic or sexual violence. so the women ultimately took it upon themselves to defend themselves and their communities and felt they had no other option. >> it is a condemnation of our society. request this book is not an argument in favor of violence but it is asking the question what would you do if you are in a scenario where you are facing domestic or sexual violence and no one was responded to your complaints. would you take up arms yourself? i think that was a question i had as a journalist throughout this project and trying to understand brittany smith shot a man who said -- was said -- who/

-- who she said had raped her. that was after police had failed to respond to complaints of domestic violence for years. they were fighting isis after the total failure of the state. she felt like there was no other option as well. >> one of the things that is so striking about your book is you refuse to romanticize these women. you portray them as heroic and at times inspiring but you also show the flipside of that. there violence has implications. corruption can come with power. that seems to be a real central focus of this. that it is not a rosy image. >> even as a journalist, i did feel like i had some rose-colored glasses on about these women. fighting domestic abusers, how interesting.

, the all-female militia -- the western media has glamorized them quit a bit. an sexualized them and the longer i worked on this, the more complicated i found all of these women. britney struggled with drug addiction. corey was really investigated in her own power. she was for the test with the ideology of the kurdish leaders and i think it was really important to show. you are trying to push back past the two-dimensional depictions of these kinds of women. this is the story of women doing extra ordinary things but it is also the story of the convocations of that and i hoped the reader would wrestle with that. is this ok? is it not ok? or do they cross the line with their violence? what would i do? >> you were saying before you

have been hearing from other women who had kindred kinds of experiences. can you explain? >> yes. so many women have come up to me and said i faced some kind of sexual or domestic abuse or even something as small as sexual harassment or something really violent and not like they did not know what to do, that they look back and wish they had fought back, that they understood what this book was about, that they felt some kind of rage or violence. a lot of people said the word relatable. i think unfortunately it is still such a silent epidemic. domestic and sexual violence. i think there is a reason these stories were wrong. >> in the epilogue of your book you say the women's actions both helped and hurt them. no one gets a happy ending in this book as you report but you

say it is partly because they live in a damaging culture of honor. what do you mean by that? >> all of the women were punished for fighting back. it is kind of a double thing that is happening. first they are not protected and then they fight back and they are punished for it. britney was arrested and charged with murder. there is ptsd from fighting in a war and grievous injuries. her whole stomach is open, her arms and legs, she was hit by drone strikes. this story is incredible. i think part of the reason is i found all of these three women and i did not choose these locations. these locations chose me. i realized that all of them whether it was rural alabama or north india or northeast syria -- all of them had these cultures of honor where honor

was such an important concept for the men that lived there. i think that is what led to a lot of the things that took place. as a result, these women were punished for fighting back. >> the book is the furies, women, vengeance and justice. good to see you. but this is a long owner of the scarlet dance studio in albuquerque, new mexico. despite facing a range of challenges, she says she says she keeps the studio alive for the generations of dancers who keep coming back. tonight, she shares her brief but spectacular take on the art of dance. >> these are students that we have had over the years. these are our children. i never had any so these are my children. i have lots of kids.

5678. >> old age is quaint x-ray. i will tell you. it is just my body sang time to rest. right now i teach cap. i teach advanced ballet. ballet is my favorite. my oldest student at this point in time is 82. a lot of them dreamed of doing dance growing up. now they are old and retired and they want to try it. teachers started with me when there were little kids. they would not have that if i did not keep this going. to me, dance is an art. when you're dancing, doing jazz, it is from your heart. it is like i love you, audience. i love you.

these are all she from students of mine who moved out of albuquerque. katie danced here. i was very shy. i was a timid person and so my mom decided to put me in dancing because she took tap dancing when she was young. that is how i got started when i was six. by the time i was in high school, i was on the dance team. it was fun dancing in front of an audience. i was not afraid. from there i started teaching here. that is when i was at college. in this north valley, this is the only dance studio forever. i just got all of my joy out of the dance studio. i want everybody to have a chance to experience dance. it is not just saying locale i can get my leg, it is your heart and your soul. in the studio, i am working on third and fourth generation

students. everybody is helping each other. it is just very intertwined. my hope is that this will remain here and that my students who have grown up and are now teaching for me will have a venue and a place to go. i hope they continued -- continue the hard part of it. this is my brief but spectacular take on the art form of dance. it is from the heart. >> such an inspiration. you can watch my brief but spectacular videos online on pbs.org/nucera/brief. that is the newshour for tonight. i am geoff bennett. thank you for spending part of your evening with us. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> this is a pocket dial. somebody's pocket. thought i would let you know. you have nationwide coverage with no contract. that is kind of everything.

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