captioning sponsored by wnet >> stewart: on this edition for sunday june 7. protests and politics as the world's g7 leaders meet in germany. the high-stakes election that could trigger unprecedented change in turkey. and in our signature segment, the battle over the use of traffic cameras >> it's all about revenue. and that's not what law enforcement is supposed to be about. >> do we have less folks trying to beat the yellow and running lights? and the answer to that is absolutely. >> stewart: next on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by:

corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, allison stewart. >> stewart: good evening and thanks for joining us. i'm alison stewart in for hari sreenivasan. at the very start of the g7 summit, president obama and german chancellor angela merkel announced they're united in standing up to russian aggression in ukraine. the leaders agreed to continue sanctions against russia even

though the e.u. sanctions expire at the end of july. russian president vladimir putin was not invited to the two-day summit in the bavarian alps. leaders of britain, france italy, canada and japan are attending. outside the summit, thousands of protesters marched in a nearby town, touching off isolated clashes with police. so far, the protests have been far less violent than in past years. 17,000 police officers are assigned to crowd control. so what can we expect the g-7 to accomplish in just two-day's time? i'm joined via skype by wall street journal reporter anton troianovski who is covering the summit in germany. >> one of the two biggest issues being discussed at the g7? >> well, there's a lot of different things on the agenda but the issue looming over all of them are greece and russia. greece as you know is locked into this kind of showdown type negotiation with its international creditors, they is desperately need billions of euros and bailout funds but the negotiations between the creditors and greece remain very

tense. and on russia, president obama landed here this morning with the goal of making sure that the europeans are united behind maintaining sanctions against russia. as long as the violence in ukraine continues. and from there it appears that that is going to happen. >> what has been the impact of a putin-less summit? what has his absence meant? >> it shows this new division that we're seeing in the world this issue that a lot of people are referring to as a new cold war. chancellor angela merkel in germany who is hosting this summit has come under a lot of criticism that putin is secluded. they are saying how can you solve international issues without putin at the table? her response is that the group of 7 is not just an economic group or political group but it's also a group of democracies

with shared values. >> angela merkel chancellor merkel is a fairly welcoming personality to president obama. how would you accessory that relationship now? >> the references today was very oblique as the thing usually is with angela merkel. she did mention basically that despite some differences of opinion between germany and the united states, the alliance stayed strong. the u.s. and berlin have maintained a united front by and large in confronting moscow over ukraine. merkel has led the european sanctions push against russia. the european diplomatic push with russia, that appears to be working and you could certainly tell when obama met merkel today on this town square, near the

resort where they're meeting she really went all out to say that the way he put it, the u.s. german alliance was one of the strongest the world has ever seen. >> we should mention of course there have been thousands of protesters at this g7 summit. what is it that they are protesting, what is the most important thing to the activists? >> it is probably the transatlantic trade agreement that the u.s. and the pacific partners are negotiating now. lowering protections in germany, bringing american cowboy capitalism in europe. there is a fair amount of opposition to that this year trade is to be discussed at g7,

ptip is one of the main economic goals that merkel has over the next couple of years climate policy is also an issue ahead of the climate conference in paris later on this year. it's been quite peaceful compared to some of the past gefnl g-8 conferences -- g7,. >> officials suspect chinese hackers accessed the be records of current and federal employees, hoping to find and potentially locate spies within the u.s. government. >> >> nothing should be telegraphed in advance, nothing should be given as far as notice but i think these countries or these

terrorist groups should know that there will be consequences when they act this way. >> stewart: senator and republican presidential candidate lindsey graham told cnn's "state of the union" that we could be facing a serious threat unless the government beefs up cyber security. >> you gotta have more money. you got to set-aside these budget cuts for defense and non- defense replenish our military; up our game on the intel side. >> stewart: in the mediterranean, crews have launched a new wave of rescue missions to save hundreds of migrants still stranded at sea. authorities say as many as ten different boats called for help this morning. more than 80,000 people have either been rescued or sailed to safety this year. most are paying smugglers to board wooden or rubber boats in a desperate attempt to flee persecution and violence in libya and sub-saharan africa. while british, swedish, spanish and italian ships are racing to save the stranded migrants, the e.u. is still debating how to handle to influx of refugees once they come ashore. an interesting turn of events in turkey's parliamentary election: the ruling party was favored to

win big, but early results show it could end up losing its majority altogether. president recep tayyip erdogan asked the country's 53 million eligible voters to give his party 400 parliamentary seats. that would have created a super majority that could rewrite the constitution and give the presidency unprecedented new powers. the election's created real tension in the streets. bombs exploded at a rally for a rival party friday, killing two and wounding at least 200. joining me to help analyze these early results is steven cook, senior fellow for middle eastern studies at the council on foreign relations. is-k for, steven before we go into the weeds on the results i want to step back and set the the scene for people. why was selection so important? why was the world watching? >> well, this was an important election because one, president erdogan who had been prime minister for the previous 12 years had wanted to change the political system from a hybrid presidential parliamentary

system to a purely presidential system. which means all the power in the political system would flow to him. at the moment it's the prime minister who is the primary actor in the system. under the presidential system he would have all the executive power. the second reason it was so power is a kurdish political party was poised and has in fact turkey's very high threshold for getting into the parliament. they have now gotten about 11% of the popular vote which means for first time a kurdish based party will be a major factor in turkish politics. >> and what impact will that have on the way turkey's governed going forward? >> up to this point going back to 2002 when the party first came to power they have not had to share, they have ruled essentially alone with very few checks and balances i might add. now they will have to go into

coalition with another party. it looks like there will likely -- at least initial discussions between the justice and development party and the national movement party, a part with which the justice and development party has shared a constituency and they have worked together. that would be the most likely coalition going forward. >> obviously its cloaks location, share no borders with syria and iraq. tell us who the players are who will be sharing the results? >> the syrian opposition, the iraqi government the egyptian government, the israeli government and all of the governments in the persian gulf. >> i be everybody is what you're telling me. >> the entire region. it goes oshow how strategically important turkey is to virtually

every conflict in the region in the moment. there has been a significant disconnect between washington and ankara the way i.t. approaches the conflict in iraq with i.s.i.s. and how to deal with the syrian civil war. the turkish position has been the best way to deal with the so-called islamic state is to bring down the turkish regime. it 98 put a void on the effort on the part of the turks to fund and coordinate different extremist groups to take on the assad regime. there may be changes in the approach but overall i think turkish foreign policy will remain largely the same. >> in reading the wires and twitter it seems this potential outcome was unexpected. >> well, there were a lot of

different expectations going forward. i should say there were a lot of different expectations in the last few weeks. no one can really trust the polling that was done ahead of the elections. everyone certainly expected the justice and development party to do quite well and they have done quite well by any standards other than their own past success, having 40% of the popular vote is a very successful flil party. but the -- political party. but kurdish party getting less more thans 11% of the popular vote, it will have less power than since i hat gotten since 2002. but there are certain ruling in

a thuggish way over the course of the last four or five years, and many turks resent that kind of arrogance of power. >> steven cook from the council of foreign relations thanks for walking us through the turkish relations. new details >> stewart: new details tonight on alleged corruption at fifa, the b.b.c. reports it has traced a $10 million bribe from the association to an official. the money was reportedly sent from fifa on behalf of south africa to fund a caribbean soccer program. but the b.b.c. reports the cash actually appeared in accounts controlled by fifa's then-vice president, jack warner. warner is one of 14 people u.s. prosecutors have charged with corruption at fifa. warner denies all claims of wrongdoing. the defense department is awarding two-million dollars to a south korean robotics team in the "darpa robotics challenge" which took place in california this weekend. the d.o.d. challenged inventors to create a robot able to aid

humans in a disaster. the competition was launched after a tsunami struck japan in 2011. the winning bot accomplished eight tasks in fewer than 45 minutes, including driving a vehicle, cutting a hole in a wall, walking over rubble, and climbing stairs. and now to our signature segment and the nationwide debate about the use of traffic cameras. nearly 500 communities across the country use them in an effort to slow down drivers and save lives. but at least eight states have banned their use, believing the technology violates drivers' rights and is being used primarily to raise revenue. the battle is now playing out in ohio. newshour special correspondent rick karr updates our story which originally aired last year. lights kill nearly seven hundred >> reporter: drivers who run red lights kill nearly seven hundred people every year nationwide. sue and paul oberhauser refuse to call those crashes" accidents." >> most of those are intentionally people think they

gonna get away with it and they run the red light. they never think they're gonna kill a person. >> reporter: their daughter sarah was killed by a driver who ran a red light in 2002. she was thirty-one years old and a mother of two, a high-school chemistry teacher and basketball coach in oxford, ohio. she was on her way to a teacher- training workshop on a saturday morning when her light turned green. >> there was a young man who was 21 years old. and he ran the red light going 55 miles an hour. and he t-boned her car and sarah was killed instantly. >> reporter: the oberhausers believe there's a way to prevent crashes like the one that killed their daughter: automated cameras that keep an eye on intersections 24-7. so even when police aren't there, drivers think twice before running a light. and the proof that they work according to the oberhausers, is a forty-minute drive from their farmhouse in ohio's state capital. the city of columbus installed its first red-light camera at this intersection in 2006.

since then, it's put cameras at more than three dozen other intersections. and at locations with cameras right-angle crashes fell 74% between 2005 and 2008. >> we have significantly altered driver behavior for the good here in columbus, ohio. >> reporter: george speaks is the city's public safety director, and a red-light camera evangelist. >> do we have less folks trying to beat the yellow and running lights? and the answer to that is, absolutely. we have over 70% less citations than we used to. >> reporter: columbus drivers haven't turned into angels. but when one does run a red light at an intersection with cameras, it's captured in a twelve-second video clip. >> you'll note that the red light has been red for a number of seconds, prior to the car coming into the intersection. it's been red now for what, 3,000, 4,000 and the driver jeopardizing everyone >> reporter: the cameras send those videos, and high-

resolution photos of the vehicles from behind, to a private contractor. it identifies who owns the car and sends that information back to the columbus police department. there, cops like lieutenant brent mull review the evidence. >> is he safe? right there. i'm going to say he made a safe turn. he did look, he was in control of his vehicle, there was no pedestrians, and no other cross vehicular traffic. i'm going to reject that. this is for safety. it's not about revenue for me. >> reporter: the private contractor mails citations to drivers who can pay the ninety five dollar fine or request a hearing. the contractor processes the fines, and gets to keep about 30%. >> for a government entity, it is zero dollars to set up. the company up-fronts all the money. in exchange, they receive a percentage. it allows us as a division of police to concentrate, quite frankly, on more violent crime. >> reporter: studies of red-

light cameras effect on crashes aren't conclusive. most evidence shows that they cut down on right angle crashes, which tend to be severe. but some research shows that they may lead to more crashes overall, because drivers who slam on the brakes to avoid running lights may be getting into more rear-end collisions. either way, a lot of motorists just don't like traffic cameras. >> this is probably the most controversial subject matter i've ever dealt with in my 20- plus years of experience in government. >> reporter: but automated cameras don't just watch out for red-light runners, they're also used to nab speeders. >> communities, some communities, have quite frankly used these as speed traps. >> reporter: speed cameras need to be calibrated regularly and the video they capture just show cars driving away, which isn't as convincing as an image of a light that's red. columbus has only used speed cameras in school zones, when a cop is present. but other ohio municipalities have deployed them more

aggressively. like elmwood place, just outside cincinnati. there's one main drag through the town and the police chief has said drivers used to fly through here. but he didn't have the officers to issue tickets, so after a couple accidents, the town decided to install some automated speed enforcement cameras. within a few months, that had led to thousands of citations and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. motorists filed a class action lawsuit, arguing that those fines violated their due-process rights. >> reporter: michael allen is a former prosecutor and municipal judge in cincinnati and the lawyer who represented those drivers. >> you know, when somebody challenges a speeding citation, which rarely happens, but if it does, that police officer has to raise his right arm and testify that the device he used, the laser radar was properly calibrated, that he is properly trained, that he is certain that the person that is charged is

the person that was driving that vehicle. you don't have these in the speed camera cases. >> reporter: a county judge agreed, he called the cameras "a high-tech game of three card monty, a scam that the motorists can't win" and ordered elmwood place to remove the cameras. and pay back the fines. and generating income from those fines was why the village installed cameras in the first place, according to allen. >> it's all about revenue. you're seeing a trend in this country towards policing for profit. and that's not what law enforcement is supposed to be about. >> reporter: we sat down with the oberhausers. their daughter was killed in a side-on collision. could you look at them and make a due process argument to people who are grieved that their adult daughter was killed? >> i think i could. i would do it very respectfully, though, you see so many times in the criminal justice system where you have the families, of people that have suffered horrible tragedies, and legislators will rush to change

laws because of that. and at the end of the day, those laws actually are counter- productive and contrary to due process. >> reporter: in december, allen watched governor john kasich sign a law that effectively bans automatic enforcement cameras. it requires a law enforcement officer to be "present at the location of the device at all times during the operation of the device." municipalities said that defeats the purpose of the cameras and makes them too expensive to use. columbus officials argued that complying with the law would cost the city more than twelve million dollars a year. it's one of at least five municipalities that have filed lawsuits arguing that the camera law violates ohio's state constitution and should be overturned. judges in several counties issued stays that allowed cities, like dayton, to keep using their traffic cameras. but they've been turned off in much of the state, including columbus. camera advocates paul and sue

oberhauser say they're sad and disappointed the bill passed and hope ohio courts overturn it. they've continued their fight in other states considering legislation that would curtail automatic enforcement cameras. >> i'm paul oberhauser and actually i'm here with my wife sue. >> reporter: they're co-chairs of a pro-camera group that's partially funded by camera companies. but they argue that support hasn't changed their message one bit. >> we're not rich. we can't go out and fund our message. and, what being with the coalition has done is it's given us the ability to access data from all over the country. >> you know, last year we killed almost 700 people running red lights, innocent people one at a time and nobody wants to do anything about it. >> reporter: the fate of automatic enforcement cameras in ohio is likely to be decided by the state's supreme court.

right now listen to our spot phi play list, featuring some of the nominees in tonight's tony wards. visit pbs.org/newshour. to recap, the g7 meeting continues in germany and early elections show turkey has lost its majority in parliament. thanks for joining us. good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. additional support is provided by:

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