have been irreconcilable. there is never been any real dialogue. how did this confrontation begin? how great is the danger that it will spread the long war? he's real, iran usa starts june 15th on d. w. with as of today's, saudi arabia is a major player in the world of golf. the new live golf invitational series teed off in london today with some of the best players eyeing multi $1000000.00 pay days. never seen in the history of the game, but there is a price today, the world's oldest golf tour, the pga suspended members taking part in the new tournament. and there are uncomfortable questions about salty mode. it is the kingdom using golf to sports wash. it's dirty record on human rights. i'm burned golf in berlin. this is the day

. ah, where the schools people play, you know, you can always, you know, try back to the money sort of thing. at my age, receiving those take it obviously this time is still it's hard to speak on what the consequences will be that we try to cheer, you know, geopolitical situations, every country in the world. we play golf and we wouldn't play golf. i don't condone human rights violations at all. i'm certainly aware of what has happened with you all to show he and it's, i think it's terrible. you know, i come to love to play, you know, from that is my job at the end of the day. also

coming up in the us, the gun control bill that struggled to make it through the house and is now likely to get stuck in the senate. democrats are calling on republicans to do it for the children are children are as president. kennedy said, our greatest resource and our best help for the future. they are our precious treasure. and everything we do is for the children were to our viewers watching on p b. s in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with a question. how did the genteel sport of golf and the problematic sold the crown prince end up in the same rough. when today the world's newest golfing tour got under way in london, the name the live golf invitational. it's financial backer, the kingdom of saudi arabia. some of the biggest names in the sport are

participating and they are guaranteed the biggest prize awards golf has ever seen $25000000.00 for the series winter. but this unprecedented windfall of cash will it may not be easy money. they are uncomfortable questions for the players about where they stand on saudi arabia's horrible human rights record. and if saudi arabia using the sport and it's big of stars to accelerate a geopolitical image, make over the saudi crown, prince is suspected of orchestrating the murder of journalists, jamal could show good. now the accusation has made him and his kingdom, a pariah to sell human rights groups, a q saudi arabia, of using golf to rehabilitate its tarnished image. but they call sports washing. all you have to do was think of the 1036 olympic games here in berlin or russia, hosting the 2018 soccer world cup or this year to tar, hosting the world cup. later in the season,

all of these issues colliding when reporters ask players tough questions. take alice. i said, you know, as independent contractors eat, we can come basically play along with anyone the wealthy wouldn't play. if i had put in had a tournaments with the player. speculation call knowing that a comment on speculation just sort of in the generality is any way you wouldn't plan on a moral basis if the money was right is any way you wouldn't play had any question. sorry at any to answer that question, lee, you know, that would mean would you played in the price of africa for example leaders asking us to answer hypothetical questionnaire which and so my answer question golf pros, right? they're not wanting to answer those uncomfortable questions, but many now have questions of their own when it comes to their futures in the

sport. as we said, the pga, the world's oldest golf tour, had threatened all along to ban any one who took part in this rebel series to day just half an hour after the inaugural tea off. the pga followed through with a memo to its members. the tor commissioner informing players that any one playing in the live event without releases is suspended and ineligible to compete in pga sanctioned competition. live. gov slammed this move as being victim and divisive. it's unclear just how long the suspensions will last and it's now possible. the dispute could be headed for the courts. the 17 players banned by the pga to day have certainly been aware of the jeopardy, but many clearly think it's worth it to play in the richest tournament in golf history. ah, well,

the u. s. house of representatives has passed a raft of gun control measures in response to recent mass shootings in buffalo, new york, and you've all the texas. the bill would raise the minimum age for buying certain weapons from $18.00 to $21.00. and it would band the cell of high capacity ammunition magazines. the vote came after lawmakers or heard testimony from recent shooting victims and family members, which we covered here yesterday. one of them, and 11 year old girl who covered herself with a dead classmates blood to avoid being shot inside that you've all the texas elementary school. the democrat draft faced stiff opposition from republican lawmakers. the vote went largely along party lines. now that it's past the house, the draft has to go to the senate where it is unlikely to get the approval that it needs to become wall. rise for a moment of silence and remember and said, the victim said the recent shootings at rob elementary school in evaluate texas.

so to those who i moment of silence is good enough because you don't have the courage to take a vote to protect the children. i would say your political survival is totally insignificant to the survival of a compared to the survival of our children. but the answer is not to destroy the 2nd and then. but that is exactly where the democrats want to go. what this bill does is take away 2nd amendment rights, god given rights who will be able to tell their constituents the that they stood with them and not with the gun lobby. americans are watching. they are begging us to protect them and their loved ones from gun violence. who among us will answer

their co. it doesn't end. they want to continue taking away guns from law abiding citizens. and there is no end to their thirst to do that. i my next gift tonight's research is fire on laws and gun policies and please to welcome to the date, drew stevenson. he's a professor at the south texas college of law in houston, texas. true, it's good to have you on the program. let's if we can, could it be here, put aside the issue of whether these new gun control measures are going to make it through this senate? would these measures, would they be enough to stop a repeat of what happened 2 weeks ago in you've all the texas they could, they could, you know, we've had, we have a unfortunately, a lot of these mass shootings in the united states or rampaged, shootings and each one is a little bit different and so there's no one rule that will address everything until there's no guns. right?

but the last 2 were perpetrated by people that were would have had a hard time acquiring assault rifles. if this law had been in effect, they would have had to buy them a legally or a secondary or black market. and that's not everyone can do that. right? it's not the same as just going to a gun store and buying a gun legally, which they could do. now, we seem to have discussions like this almost every time that there is a math shooting in the united states, but of course it is happening now on the daily basis practically. so obviously the discussions that have dwindled in their numbers. what do you think it's going to take there to break the deadlock into bring both sides of the political i'll together to bring sensible, reasonable gun reform. and that's, you know, i, it's hard to say, i certainly want that. i, i will say that we have more serious negotiations taking place in congress and in

the senate than we have had in probably 10 years. and so it's still too soon to say for sure what's going to happen in the senate. a, to be honest, the senate is a most likely, if they pass anything to pass their own package, which has different provisions than what the house did. but the, it's a little too soon to say people are listening to their constituents and also listening to their party. so we're closer than ever. um if, if there's a chance that we could get some change or some reforms this time, but whatever we get will be incremental because it will have to be quite a compromise will is you know, raising the age, for example, from 18 to 21 in order to buy automatic fire arms, that seems to be something that most people would agree on. and yet we just saw senators right there,

saying that this is and this is against our 2nd right of 2nd amendment rights. so it right. and if i could just correct one little one, you said this is really about semi automatically miles, not the full you. right? you can't buy a fully automatic machine gun, a new at the store anymore in the united states, but you can get the semi automatic. so it basically will fire as fast as you can pull the trigger, and that's what this law pertains to i listen to those comments from the people in the house and senate, and they're actually not saying that this law and does the 2nd amendment. they're saying that this, it's basically a slippery slope argument, that this is just one step and it will never stop until the 2nd amendment is gone. and that's a to me logically, that's kind of a weak argument. of the fact is that this doesn't affect the vast majority of done owners. it doesn't even affect the vast majority of the millions of people who already have assault rifles. it affects

a very small group of people in the 18 to 21 age banned by the way, we already have a federal law that those people cannot buy a handgun. and so this would really, this particular provision would really just be bringing symmetry to the, the laws we already have on the books about hand guns search that there's a federal law that prohibits anyone under $21.00 from buying a hand gun. but if you're going a hand gun from a dealer from a license dealer, you can receive one as a gift or as a trade, or if you have a friend who wants to. so you want to informally something like that right under $21.00. you can get a hand gun, but if you go to a gun store, you cannot buy a hand gun if you're under 21. but you can buy an assault rifle and that's kind of a contradiction. and so this would merely be leveling out the same age across different types of guns. let me ask you, in terms of presidential power, could president biden? could he declare a national emergency on gun violence and pushed through maybe an executive order?

if law makers failed to enact anything there, there are some things that bite and could do by executive order. you know, at some point though that there's a political cost, right? we don't want presidents just declaring a national state of emergency or martial law or something. every time they don't get their way in congress, but there are some, some things, not raising the age, but there are, if this doesn't go through congress, there are some steps that modest things that bite and could do it by executive order. basically directing different federal agencies to work together better to improve the background check system and so forth. so not really media changes, but there are some changes around the edges. it could happen by executive order. what would you, if you were advising the you as president right now? i mean, if we just look at the statistics right now since the started this year, if you take the numbers of mass shootings in the us, it comes out to about $1.00,

mass shootings every day. does that not constant tetra, national emergency? oh, it's certainly a crisis. i mean it's, it's heartbreaking. and that's part of why i've devoted my research to this issue that, um, it's a, it is very upsetting that the problem is that it's become an entrenched party position between our 2 parties and part of the political gridlock we have is that most of the gun owners in this country, most of the guns are owned by rural voters. most of the gun violence is concentrated and high, densely populated areas like cities. and the way our election systems work. it. this is over simplifying, but basically rural voters of their boats count more than people in the cities. and so they have the guns and they're less effective. the rural voters who have the guns are less affected by the violence. and so that's part of our political problem

with this issue in the states. yeah, that's but it's, it's good that you explained that because i think it helps our viewers understand a little bit more why we have this political log jim all the time through see written professor from south texas college of war. we appreciate your time in your insights. to night, thank you. you bet. bye bye. ah, when democracy is under assault around the world, let us unite again and renew our conviction that democracy is not only the defining feature of american histories, but the essential ingredient to america surgery. that was you as president joe biden's message as he opened the summit of the americas in los angeles on wednesday . his message also explains perhaps why he excluded leaders from countries such as cuba and ben. it's whaler, but there has been blow back for that. the president of mexico, for example, is not attending the summit because he wants to show protest, but around

a dozen leaders did come to california to talk about pressing issues for the region . president biden and his team have rolled out the red carpet hoping to underline a renewed u. s. commitment whiten has called for bold ideas and ambitious actions, and that includes a new plan for economic cooperation with latin america to counter rising chinese influence in the region. president biden is also expected to deliver a summit declaration on migration which he has described as ground breaking. the decoration represents a mutual commitment russian regional solution that enhanced stability. and khrushchev return is for shape an orderly migration through the origin and cracked down on criminal on human trafficking, who prey on desperate people i want to pull in our very own carlindo troy. she's covering the summit force in los angeles. good to see you,

carolina. so we're into this summit now past the 1st day, had they been able to put the, the non invitation list, squabble behind them? yeah, they did. now it's about at content. brent. the leaders here are we united. they are talking about a financial help for the region about climate policies, with a special focus on renewable energy in that memory can the caribbean countries and also about the very important issue. especially important for the united states, the migration crisis. what more do we know about this migration declaration that we're expecting that migration declaration is expected to be signed to ad. 1 tomorrow tomorrow is the last day of this i'm it, it's going to have the nameless angela's declaration on migration. and it has

a 3 main points, or the 1st point is, am increasing financial help for the region, and in order to help them cope with the increasing migrant flux that they are having. for example, in columbia and ecuador, there are a lot of people arriving from venezuela, but of course, also mexico. and a lot of people from the northern triangle, meaning from central america, arrive in to mexico with the hope to get into the united states. and the 3rd point is an increasing corporation with the private sector, brenda they want to have, sir, and to facilitate the investments in a central america in south america and in the caribbean, in order to create jobs and to talk of the root causes of migration. curly labinski belt shyness influence in central america. tell us what has beijing been offering the americas that washington has not. and what is the u. s. strategy to counter

this? china offer is money, money and money brand to that is the main thing they offer. they help the region in their infrastructure projects, for example, putting ports or airports m a, a. m. also give out a loans and am in a different way than the western countries would do that. they don't put in conditions like for example, you have to respect human rights in order for us to give you a loan or a you have to respect the freedom of press in order to get this project financed by us. that is what china dies and more and more countries are strengthening of their ties. a with tie. and i also because of that, let's not forget that president donald trump, also in a way, forgot about the region. and he didn't really have a friendly dialogue with him. and that is also the part on the face where a lot of countries, especially in central america, started looking towards china towards russia and even towards turkey. d. w is

colina, john boy, reporting from los angeles. tonight is the summit of the americas carolina. thank you. ah, it is a battle urban warfare that could decide the future of practically all of eastern ukraine. the fight over the city of several don't ask ukrainian troops facing russian forces there. see, the battle is be waged from house to house amid ongoing russian bombardment, ukraine's president vladimir zalinski says the outcome of this fight could determine the fate of that critical. don't bass reach. the shelling is relentless. in the dawn bass ukrainian soldiers assess the damage available. it was an air bomb skin. the russians dropped an air bomb. you cleans industrial hot land is the current focus of russia onslaught. it's defense,

a heavy responsibility for these soldiers to lucia. first look up. it is a very dreadful and difficult fighting mama to haps is one of the most difficult battles during this war. even yet i am thankful to each and every one who is defending this region from one up. to a great extent, the fate of our dunbar is being decided. they are now naturally done by us. some soldiers do are frustrated by the presence of the civilians who refuse to leave the english. we are to be able to do our job as fighters, michael, but instead we're having to make sure civilians don't get killed. that's how we lose battles. as i said, leaving though is not easy in this city, in the net, including the residents, are tired of spending most of their days in basement shelters. but they say they don't have an option. but mean as they do, they read for me, tell me,

how should i leave my 85 year old mother who do i leave her with? she would not move out of pure norville. anyway. i know you're visiting. we live here that we were born here. i've just been to see my garden and my home, and then is it going to end my live sugar? this are good with russia, brutal onslaught showing no signs of abating? that is a difficult question to answer. ah, but we turned out to a country where the interest in guns and knowing how to shoot them is on the right . talking about taiwan. a country which because of the war in you grained, is re examining how to defend itself against a possible chinese invasion. fi ones, government is now thinking of improving training for it's nearly 2000000 reserve force, and they're finding a new willingness to learn combat skills. ah,

yes, they are taiwanese civilians with a new purpose beyond their day jobs. they are regulars at a combat skills training academy. oh, the weaponry looks and feels authentic. what the hardware in a country with strict gun ownership laws, fires 6 millimeter rounds made of non lethal hard plastic as the war. and ukraine has spurred debate about how taiwan should bolster its defences, including compulsory military service. people like suit chun want to get out front . so chun is a tattoo artist by trade. he keeps a replica gun and a bullet proof vest in his office. and figures should war come to taiwan as it has in ukraine? people like him will be called up and handed real guns at some point. and those her

prepared people who aren't prepared and also those who are panicking. i think all those types will be there. i'm sure most people don't want to go to war. i also don't want to go to war, but in the unfortunate event it really happens. i'll be mentally prepared. housings of wear suit chun is now that's where travel guide chang woo wants to be. he's in an advanced beginner class, learning more about gripping a gun and moving with a weapon. they say it's only because of the ukraine more that i more urgently started feeling that threat from china. so i decided to gain some deeper knowledge about these defensive weapons. in the past before the war started, i was mostly interested in 1st aid. sushi, the but i do you. this has already been a trend in the last 2 years since chinese fighter jets started flying close to taiwan. there's been an increase. after the ukraine war started,

the numbers of tripled or quadrupled more and more people are coming to take part. the so called air soft guns are used for competition, sport, and taiwan assimilation of real combat. the preference of course is that these students use their new skills only in future simulations even games. but they're gaining confidence that they'll be ready, should the games to real of the day's almost done. the conversation continues on why and you'll find us on twitter at dw news, or you can follow me on twitter at rent. gov tv. remember whatever happens between now and then, tomorrow is another day. we'll see you did it with

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