captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> ifill: good evening. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: we bring you the newshour tonight: from the wells fargo center in philadelphia, site of the democratic national convention. >> woodruff: discord and controversy loom over this first night: the d.n.c. chair resigns over damning leaked e-mails, as the f.b.i. investigates the hack, and bernie sanders supporters still make noise. >> ifill: she's been in the public eye for decades-- from first lady of a small southern state to today, on the cusp of being the first woman ever nominated by a major party for president. tonight, we begin our series delving into the life of hillary rodham clinton. >> there was no clear cut path for a woman to just walk into

politics on her own coming out of law school. and part of what hillary clinton now says about that is it just didn't really occur to her. or seemed like something that made sense. >> sreenivasan: and i'm hari sreenivasan in washington: we'll have all the non- convention news of the day, including the final and heartbreaking report from a rescue boat off the libyan coast-- where another desperate journey ends in tragedy. >> we are not dealing with numbers. we are talking about human beings, people like you, like me, and everybody has their own story. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪

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of bernie sanders. correspondent john yang begins our coverage here in philadelphia. >> reporter: the divisions were on display right from the start, when baltimore mayor stephanie rawlings-blake gaveled the convention into session. it was to have been democratic national committee chair florida representative debbie wasserman schultz. but a firestorm erupted among sanders supporters after wikileaks posted d.n.c. e-mails that showed party officials criticizing and even mocking the sanders campaign during the primaries. >> you don't care about half the party. >> you stole the election. >> reporter: the florida congresswoman got a tumultuous welcome from her own home delegation's breakfast this morning. >> we have so much to do and we have to make sure that we move forward in a unified way. we know that the voices in this room that are standing up and being disruptive, we know that is not the florida we know.

>> reporter: wasserman schultz had already announced her resignation as party chairman at the end of the convention. some sanders supporters say it's not enough. >> we want to actually unite the party! all we are asking for is for the person who resigned in disgrace to leave the room! >> i'm very upset because i think that bernie, if not has tied, may have actually won this election if he had been treated fairly. >> reporter: the embattled congresswoman is already facing a tough primary challenge from law professor tim canova, who's being backed by sanders. addressing supporters, sanders urged party unity, and got booed himself. >> we have got to defeat donald trump. [applause] and we have got to elect hillary clinton and tim kaine. [booing] >> reporter: in the streets of philadelphia, thousands of

sanders supporters braved the blistering heat in philadelphia to vent their displeasure. >> i'm not a republican, but i have to agree with ted cruz we have to vote our conscience, we can't vote the way we're told. >> reporter: as this convention's business gets >> the d.n.c. issued a deep and sincere policy to sanders and his supporters. sanders will be the featured speaker here tonight, appearing after michelle obama and senator elizabeth warren. clinton campaign officials say they hope the uproar will be long forgotten by this weekend and they will live up to the theme united together. meanwhile, the f.b.i. is now investigating just how the thousands of d.n.c. e-mails found their way to wikileaks. clinton's campaign manager robby mook is suggesting it's the work of russian hackers hoping to give republican donald trump a boost. trump calls that claim a "joke". he stumped today in roanoke, virginia.

>> hillary clinton knew what was going on. she knew everything that was going on. she knew it's a rigged system that bernie sanders never had a chance. okay, he never had a chance and if you look at it, look what's going on, a lot of people marching. a lot of those people are gonna vote for us, i'm telling you >> reporter: today hillary clinton also got the endorsement of retired u.s. marine general john allen, once the top u.s. commander in afghanistan. his statement said, in part: clinton picked up that theme at the veterans of foreign wars' annual convention . >> you will never hear me say i only listen to myself on national security. i will be ready to get to work on day one. i take nothing more seriously than our security. >> reporter: trump is to address the same gathering tomorrow.

in philadelphia, the 5,000 delegates have gathered under tight security along with an estimated 45,000 journalists, activists and observers. for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang in philadelphia. >> ifill: later this afternoon, senator sanders sent out e-mails and text messages, urging supporters not to boo or stage walkouts. we head down to the convention floor now with npr's "weekend edition sunday" host rachel martin, who joins us tonight and every night this week as part of our joint pbs newshour and npr's convention coverage. rachel, it doesn't seem like sanders' plea worked. rachel, stedsents seem like bernie sanders plea worked. >> that's right. you heard it in john's piece. there is real discord in the democratic party now. after the republican national convention, hillary clinton and her campaign had to deal with all the personal attacks on her. they were hoping this would be a

moment when the democratic family would come together and wrap her up in love and support. this is not the case at least on day one of the convention. there has been all kind of booing. every time someone takes the stage and says it's time to come together for all of us to get behind the candidacy of hillary clinton, there is audible booing in this auditorium, even when bernie supporters come up and say that. >> the head of the naacp, strong bernie sanders supporter, when he got up, he got booed, bernie sanders was booed as a breakfast earlier today. this will be the challenge of people who come to the podium today to try to deliver a message that makes the bernie sanders voters feel enfranchised, feel they are a part ofo this party and that their issues are being considered really at the heart of the democratic platform. we'll hear from bernie sanders himself tonight, also elizabeth warren, a key leader in the progressive wing of the democratic party, and then michelle obama, the first lady,

who has sty high favorable ratings, they're hoping she can bring everyone together in this moment. back to you, gwen and judy. >> woodruff: rachel down at the podium. thanks. we dig into the details of the d.n.c. hack and the motivation behind it. hari sreenivasan is in d.c. with that story. >> sreenivasan: and for that i spoke earlier this evening with former u.s. ambassador to russia michael mcfaul. he's now a professor at stanford university. and thomas rid, who joined us via skype from austria, he is a professor at king's college, london. he has written extensively about cyber attacks and digital security, most recently in his book "the rise of the machines." gentlemen, thanks for joining us. >> hi. great to be here. >> reporter >> sreenivasan: thomas, i want to start with you. first, lay out the evidence for us. we've heard this was the russian government. how do we know this is a sophisticated act that might take a state actor? >> two bits of evidence, the first is two hacked the

democratic convention and the second is who gave the e-mails to the wikileaks. who hacked the democratic convention, imagine a burglary and you find the fingerprints in a house and the same in another house and you know who breeched one house and not the other, that's the situation we're having here. we have i.p. addresses, server infrastructure, we have certificates. so quite strong evidence to say the democratic convention was actually hacked by groups associated with russia. >> sreenivasan: michael mcfaul, are you convinced this was russia? is this the way they operate? >> first, more generally, russia has tremendous capability in this domain. i worked in the government for five years. i witnessed it. i saw it. we should all just say that first. second, the reports that we have, just like thomas just said, are very suggestive that it was two different russian entities. the organization, the company

that investigated it, crowd strike, was rather definitive in their analysis they published a month ago, not just a few days ago, and now today we have many senior u.s. government officials confirming they have strong suspicions it was these russian entities. >> sreenivasan: mr. rid, i want to ask, is this consistent with previous hacks that the russian government may have orq orchestrated? does this fall within their definition of what is is allowed within how they carry out cyberwarfare? >> the russian government and intelligence community have been hacking and breeching adversary computer networks for a very long time, literally 20 years this year. this is the first time they breeched a system and didn't just take out data, but then started putting those files into the public domain in order to affect, in this case, a democratic election campaign.

that's new. that's a game changer, i think. stealing, yes. dumping into the public domain, that we haven't seen before. can i just add a bit of international perspective here. we have the same entity that was caught in the democratic d.n.c.k was caught in may 2015. the same was caught in a french tv station and interrupted their programming around the same time. it was caught in other european military networks and the german government came out publicly and pointed the finger at russian military intelligence. >> sreenivasan: why would russia want to do this, mile mile? what are their interests in publicizing the information? >> two different arguments, one is the policy argument. there's no question in my mind that the kremlin, president putin and others have said this rather clearly in my vie that they prefer trump to

clinton, in terms of his policies. he said things that they like. but there is another element that i don't think has gotten as much attention, and that is that this is also personal. if you go back and you look at what vladimir putin and others said back during their last electoral round, they criticized secretary clinton personally for what they alleged was her meddling in their internal affairs. she criticized a parliamentary election in december 2011. she said it was not free or fair, or had problems, i don't remember the exact statement, and then putin then said she incited -- i think the word he used -- gave the protesters a signal to come out and protest against him. so putin's a guy that remembers these things. maybe that's another explanation for why they're seeking this tit for tat now. >> sreenivasan: something you said earlier, this sort of

intelligence trade craft happens all the time, that we are probably participating in it in some country somewhere. is the difference that it's happening to the united states? >> i would put it somewhat differently. let's be candid here -- do we really believe the d.n.c. is the only organization in the united states the russians have hacked? no, i don't believe that. they have an active operation here where they're constantly seeking to gather intelligence. what's unique about this is they were caught and exposed and, number two, the data dump, i mean, that's the thing that is really striking to me, and that it was released on the day before the opening of the democratic national convention, that's not just coincidence. >> sreenivasan: thomas rid. i think it's time for the united states government and the intelligence community in the u.s. to pull its weight and also draw a line here because, indeed, as mile mil -- as michal

mcfaul said, this is a very significant incident. a lot of countries in europe are looking at this and saying, if they get away with doing this to the americans, what will they do to us? >> sreenivasan: all right, michael mcfaul and thomas rid, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> ifill: thanks, hari for that conversation. back to philadelphia now, where the divisions within the democratic party are on full display here in the wells fargo arena. to discuss, we are joined by two minnesota lawmakers with differing perspectives. congressman keith ellison was an early bernie sanders supporter, but threw his endorsement to hillary clinton earlier this month, and senator amy klobuchar, a longtime clinton backer. welcome to you both. >> thank you for having us. >> ifill: congressman ellison, later tonight you will be introducing bernie sanders, and you have been in the room with us tonight and heard the booing which has been at every mention of hillary clinton's name.

bernie sanders said to his people, calm down, and it hasn't worked. >> well, you know, people's passions are running high. a lot of folks campaigned hard for bernie and put all they had into it, but, you know, bernie has said that we have fought the good fight, we have made the platform as progressive as it ever has been, we've made real progress, and we've really started a grassroots movement here and it's time to make sure that we come behind hillary clinton to defeat donald trump, and i personally will say to you that hillary clinton has done progressive things and has a record to stand on. state children's health insurance programs, she helped get 8 million kids health insurance that didn't have it. she started her legal career out at the children's defense fund i why are they booing, then? >> because they're adjusting, because they're coming around. they have their own, you know, strong feelings about it and they've invested their heart and soul into bernie's campaign, but i believe that, with time, we

will be very, very tight. we already have substantial unity, already. >> woodruff: senator klobuchar, do you think senator sanders should have moved earlier to tamp down some of these feelings among supporters? and how much is it hurting secretary to have the spectacle? >> well, i've said from the beginning i don't think it's time. it's more important in what he said. he gave an emphatic endorsement of her a few weeks ago and also, as keith noted, is going to come on tonight. keith will be introducing him. i can't think of a better person to introduce him than keith ellison. when you look at today, it was a wild day, that's true, but look at the facts here -- the sanders people were very concerned about debbie wasserman schultz. she stepped down as chair. she didn't gavel the convention even. you have bernie making his speech tonight. i think given everything that happened, she took responsibility. she got us through the 2012 election, did an incredible job

as chair, but given everything that's happened, she decided to take responsibility for what happened. but to move on, you've got bernie speaking tonight, you have elizabeth warren, you have michelle obama. really, the convention starts tonight. it takes more than speakers to have a con vehicles. we spent a week where the theme was lack of unity. how do you prevent that from being the same thing in philadelphia? >> because i know everybody who supported bernie sanders supported him because they believed that college debt is too high. they believed the minimum-wage needs to be increased. they believe we have to take on climate action. so how can a real bernie sanders supporter ever do something to help donald trump who is opposed to all of those things? now, people, you can't always just turn on a dime. i mean, if you put everything, your heart and soul into a

campaign, it might take you a while to come around to the realization that, you know, another person has won, but the fact is i have faith in these folks. they are going to come around. >> and ted cruz, think of that speech, how did he end up? he ended up without even endorsing a candidate for president. that's not happening tonight with bernie sanders, and along with the point keith made, think about it, climate change, what does donald trump say? he says it's made up by the chinese. what does donald trump say about the housing crisis? he says he wants to bet on it. what does he say about free college? a bernie sanders key platform item? he says he wants to do donald trump university. that's a vast difference. but we're here in philadelphia where we're still seeing disagreement along the two sides. bernie sanders supporters have strong expectations that are not going to be the priority for secretary clinton, when it comes to how far they want to go on the minimum wage, what they want to do on the environment. >> well, there i have to say, you know, the platform is one of

the most progressive platforms we've ever seen and it wouldn't be without the cooperation and endorsement of hillary clinton. i mean, $15 federal minimum wage is in the platform. debt-free college is in the platform. >> woodruff: do you expect she'll make it a priority? >> i think she'll make ate big deal. that's what people are saying. hillary clinton has been fighting for these things her whole life. when has hillary clinton been about anything other than having working people have a better lifestyle? that's what her whole senate and prior career were about. i was a bernie supporter and proud to be that. i'm now proud to support hillary clinton because i believe we have shared values, and the evidence of it is the platform. the platform is the most progressive we've ever seen. >> ifill: i'm old enough to remember when the secret of the sauce for democrats was supposed to be moving toward the middle, moving and becoming more moderate. i believe it may have been

hillary clinton's husband who spearheaded this idea. so now are we looking at this what the pressure, the most positionive platform as keith ellison puts it, are we now -- are you now a democratic party moving more and more to the left? >> i think what keith is talking about with his platform is times change, and right now what people need is they need to be able to send their kids to college, to buy a house, and the platform simply reflects where we are as a country, and the fact that we've seen this enormous income inequality that both of our candidates have been talking about from the beginning that you don't hear from the republican side, where all you hear from them is divide, divide, divide. bernie sanders speech, you compare it to ted cruz's at the end of the day and you won't even see the same points or ending. >> woodruff: but to come back to the point we were discussing a few minutes ago, isn't there an impatience, not only among the bernie sanders supporters, but among other americans to see change, andeth hard for them to see that with secretary

cliftonen, who's been on the american political scene for two or three decades? >> sometimes this is what democracy looks like. people's passions run strong. they're dealing with really tough things all across america. you're dealing with low wages, can't send their kids to school. of course they're going to come in and demand change and they're not going to sit quiet as their economic situation at home is not making the improvements at the pace that they need them to. so i'm not really too worried about the level of enthusiasm and passion that we seto see --e on the house floor. >> the house floor -- (laughter) you're forgiven. >> i spend a lot of time there. but i think we'll see passion. this is what democracy looks like, what people do in america. they get out, demonstrate and let their voices with heard. but we'll be together. >> ifill: final thoughts? ndependent voters, i know a lot of people in our state, we elected jesse ventura.

they don't want a candidate who feels temperamentally unsure, they don't want to have someone who bring them into a war zone again. there is a lot of things that bring independent voters to hillary clinton and sour job this week without a doubt is to tell that story, the personal stories about her and her vision for america, because we didn't hear about that last week, all we heard was negativity. >> we have four nights to go, just getting started. >> you get to watch us announce the delegates together. >> woodruff: two lawmakers from minnesota, senator amy klobuchar, congressman keith ellison, thank you both. >> thank you. >> woodruff: and now, from a conservative goldwater-girl, to the presumptive democratic nominee for president. tonight, we begin our series exploring hillary clinton's life, starting with her entrance into politics. >> it may be hard to see tonight, but we are all standing under a glass ceiling right now.

>> woodruff: almost half a century before hillary clinton became the first american woman to head up a major party's presidential ticket, hillary rodham was making history as the first ever student to deliver a commencement address at wellesley college in 1969. >> we feel that for too long our leaders have viewed politics as the art of the possible. and the challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. >> buried in it is the blueprint for so much of what would come in the future for hillary clinton that i think still resonates today when she's on the verge of perhaps becoming the first woman president. >> woodruff: author rebecca traister describes clinton's college years as a political transformation from her roots in

this conservative chicago suburb. >> my father put everything he had into a small fabric printing shop in chicago. my mother was out on her own working as a housemaid at the age of 14. i grew up respecting the dignity of hard work. >> woodruff: growing up, rodham's politics mirrored those of her father, a staunch republican. as a college freshman, she served as president of the young republicans club, but graduated as a liberal democrat who would eventually work on george mcgovern's 1972 presidential campaign. >> she became a young adult in this era in which the great social movements of the 20th century were totally reshaping the nation-- the civil rights movement, the women's movement, the gay rights movement-- all of that was fomenting as she was coming to political consciousness. >> woodruff: after college came yale law school, and work with the children's defense fund, where she knocked on doors, collecting data about poor children. it was the start of a long

string of public service work, work that political reporter indira lakshmanan says motivates clinton to this day. >> she is driven by certain things that are important to her. the welfare of women and children, healthcare for all americans, income inequality. >> woodruff: as hillary was forming her ideas about public service, a fellow law student named bill entered the picture. >> he was from arkansas, and he wanted to go back and start his political career. and so in the early '70s, hillary rodham had this choice: does she embark on her own career, or does she go to arkansas, where she doesn't know anybody except for her boyfriend? and begin a career on her own as a lawyer, but really as a secondary figure to this man who is going to embark on what she thinks is destined to be a very serious and successful career in politics. and of course we know she chooses to do the latter.

>> woodruff: in october, 1975, hillary rodham married bill clinton at their home in fayetteville, arkansas. while bill followed his political ambitions-- getting elected arkansas' attorney general-- hillary supported the family by joining a little rock law firm, where she became their first female partner. >> there was no clear cut path for a woman to just walk into politics on her own coming out of law school. and part of what hillary clinton now says about that is it just didn't really occur to her, or seem like something that made sense-- that she wanted to participate in making policy not as a headliner and not as a candidate herself, but as an advocate and kind of as a policy wonk. >> woodruff: when bill was elected governor in 1979, hillary took on an unofficial but active role, says former white house aide david gergen. >> for a long, long time even before she got to the white house, when the clintons were in arkansas and she was asked by her husband to take the lead on

some various initiatives there and she bravely went out and did that. >> woodruff: indeed, clinton appointed his wife to head up the arkansas education standards committee, where she worked to reform the state's public schools, at a time when arkansas was one of the lowest performing states in the country. >> we're going to give them every chance we can to develop their minds so they can play a role in this state, this country to make it the kind of place it needs to be! >> woodruff: by the end of his time as governor, bill clinton was praised for his education reforms, many of which came out of that committee, and public school performance had improved markedly. >> the clintons' argument has always been, even if unspoken, this sort of idea that you get a two for one deal with them. you get two people who are incredibly smart and well educated and, again whether you agree with their policies or not, are committed to certain policies and have been trying to work on those all their lives.

>> woodruff: it was a theme bill clinton carried over to his run for the white house. >> if we want a president that brings out the best in us, than i think the choice is clear. it's the next president of the united states bill clinton! >> woodruff: but that working relationship, says gergen, would take a toll on their marriage. >> my sense was that they'd been so deeply involved in their public lives, and there was so much going on, they really never settled what the rules of the road were when they came the white house. and it was volatile. it was a volatile relationship. >> woodruff: how volatile, was not visible to the outside world. >> ifill: with that we turn to syndicated columnist mark shields, "new york times" columnist david brooks and amy walter of the cook political report for a special convention edition of politics monday. amy, i guess i'll start with

you. we sat here a week ago in cleveland and talked about the chaos on the floor of the republican convention the first day, and seems like we have the democratic version of that. >> don't we. the unity, the theme that we were going to see from the moment this convention started, not surprisingly, they are starting off the very first day with elizabeth warren, bernie sanders to try to quell or at least satisfy this crowd here, but it's clear there is a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for bernie sanders. what i'm struck by was in cleveland it was the establishment that stayed home and wasn't there, but the floor was pretty united. there were some dissidents. here the establishment is completely united for hillary clinton, but the delegates are the ones who are not unified. >> woodruff: mark shields as someone who's watched a lot of democratic conventions, what do you make of all this? >> aim in put her finger on it. this is a convention didn't

expect to begin with a political headline termed "e-mails" which is one the democrats would like to avoid from now till november especially with russia in the second paragraph. so i think that in itself is a little disturbing and unsettling. the bernie followers, not surprisingly, don't follow. they are committed and his endorsement will find out if he can deliver and he and elizabeth warren together are enough to make the case that it's time to get in line and support hillary clinton. >> ifill: david brooks, what does it tell you the bernie sanders supporters followers don't follow and he can say to his people please don't lead a protest on the floor, and that clearly has continued on. what does it tell us about that movement? >> on the one hand, revolutions always devour their own, the french revolutionaries learned this the hard way. social media is replacing

political organizations and people are whipped up by social media and people who have a spontaneous grassroots organization who has their own momentum, rules and rhetorical rhetoric, and the people are have ultimate loyalty to the party. the people with sanders are passionate and they are loyal to the cause and not the party. >> woodruff: how does hillary clinton put this together? we haven't begun the first tight in terms of the big speakers. what's the formula for her? >> one part is to get the people, the folks in this hall who they believe speak for them, elizabeth warren and bernie sanders, to come out right out the bat. the d.n.c. e-mails, this is controversial the d.n.c. was putting a hand on the scale for

hillary clinton and, yet, the party apparatus is really pretty worthless. bernie sanders was able to raise money without the party. he didn't need access to the donors. he didn't need them to give access to the media. he didn't need them to give access to voter files. he was able to do that all on his own. reince priebus from the r.n.c., debbie wasserman schultz from the d.n.c. both finding out the party in and of itself as an apparatus, i'm not going to say it's dead, but it certainly has not as much life in it that it once did. >> ifill: since last we were around the table we have a vice presidential pick from hillary clinton, mark shields, so what can you tell us about his campaign? his presence on the ticket seems to have upset bernie supporters as well. >> the hardest assignment over the weekend was to find a republican to say something negative about tim kaine. when you have lamar alexander, bill boling former lieutenant governor of virginia, john

mccain, saying he's a great tonight, pat toomey who hasn't endorsed, these are people who haven't endorsed donald trump, saying what a wonderful bern tim kaine is. i haven't seen hillary clinton look as comfortable in any public setting as saturday when she announced tim kaine. she has a partner in tim kaine with which she can be comfortable, he's dependable, unflamboyant, he's got her back and he won't embarrass her. i think in that sense it's a choice for the long run, not the short run. it's not just to win an election. i could see them as a partner if, in fact, she does win in november. >> so, david brooks, how does tim kaine change anything in this very explosive contest between hillary clinton and donald trump? >> yeah, i think he might be a key to some sort of actual electoral majority, or at least a step in that direction. listen, since we last met, we've seen some of the polls out of the republican convention. the polls are obviously volatile at this time of the year, but

nonetheless there was a bump and a significant bump. so it should send a little source of concern, not panic in democratic ranks, p but definitely concern because there was a much bigger bang than i certainly exiblghtd. >> ifill: there was a poll that said there was a bounce -- >> a couple are showing some sort of bounce. anyway, something seems to be working, and the one thing i think the place this election will be settled is in suburban service worker office parks. people who are part of the global economy. people who are not upset by necessarily trade or immigration or things like that. if your party comes out and looking like you're hostile to the global economy, i think you're going to have trouble with those people. tim kaine is very acceptable to your basic moderate independent who may be put off by trumpism and sanderrers-ism. >> ifill: tim kaine managed to change his mind about the t.p.p.

just in time to get the election. >> there are a lot of anti-t.p.p. signs waived on the floor. at this moment,times does not excite the base as he placates the voters. mike pence was a short-term pick to fix donald trump's convention and republican problem. hillary clinton has a longer-term look which is i need to get the suburb b women, the college-educated white voters who right now are very skeptical about donald trump who, 's going to win those over? they think tim kaine is the reason. >> in a year, quite frankly, it's been bizarre, where you have two candidates with negative favorable/unfavorable ratings, you have bernie sanders, ted cruz, you have all

the republicans, tim kaine in the phrase of warren harding is a return to normalcy. he is so relentlessly normal, i think there was a sense of relief in the country. >> woodruff: all right, well, we can't wait to spend more time talking to you all tonight and for the rest of this week, mark shields, david brooks, amy walter, thank you all. tune in tonight starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern. for our special npr pbs newshour coverage of the democratic national convention in philadelphia. now let's go back to hari in washington. >> sreenivasan: thanks, judy. in the day's other news: reports out of japan say a man with a knife has killed at least 15 people and wounded 45. police say it happened at a facility for the disabled in a town outside tokyo. national broadcaster nhk reports the man was a former employee at the facility, and turned himself in after the attack. the islamic state group claimed responsibility for sunday's suicide bombing in germany that wounded 15 people. it was the latest in a series of

attacks across the country. fatima manji of independent television news reports from bavaria. >> reporter: once again a german city is on high alert after a violent attack. the fourth in what bavaria's interior minister called the country's days of terror. last night a syrian man blew himself up outside a wine bar. just yards away from a music festival where he was refused entry. >> ( translated ): suddenly there was an extremely loud bang more like a loud rattle. definitely the sound of an explosion. i was shaken i didn't know what it was. i went back away from there. >> reporter: the bavarian interior ministry say a video in arabic was on the bomber's phone showing him pledging allegiance to leader of the so called islamic state group. in it the bomber announced a revenge attack against germany. >> i think this video shows unquestionably that the attack was a terror attack with an

islamist background. that the perpetrator had an islamist conviction. >> reporter: police say he had a bomb in his backpack with many metal parts that could've killed and injured many more people. had he been allowed into the crowded event this could've been worse. the bomber lived in this shelter with other migrants and refugees. officials say his application for asylum in germany had been rejected because he was a registered refugee in bulgaria and he was due to be deported there. the incident comes at the end of a violent week in germany. on friday a german teenager of iranian descent shot dead nine people at a shopping center in munich. the shooter had a history of mental illness and may have been inspired by the far right. on sunday, a 21-year-old syrian man wielding a machete killed a woman in what police believe was a domestic dispute. all this after an attack in which a 17-year-old asylum seeker armed with an axe injured five people on a train in bavaria. he was shot dead after the attack, which was claimed by the islamic state group.

>> sreenivasan: the attacks are fueling renewed debate over germany's acceptance of one million migrants and refugees last year. in iraq, at least 14 people were killed and dozens were wounded, when a suicide bomber rammed a checkpoint. it happened at a busy entrance to a shi-ite town, some 50 miles north of baghdad. the sunni-dominated islamic state group claimed responsibility. meanwhile a string of bombings inside baghdad killed nine more people. back in this country, police in fort myers, florida tried to piece together what triggered a shooting attack overnight at a night club. it left two teenagers dead and 17 wounded. the club had been hosting a swimsuit party for teens. police detained three people, and are looking for others, but they do not think it was an act of terror. the shooting came just over a month after the orlando nightclub shooting that killed 49 people. basketball legend michael jordan today pledged $2 million today to help mend relations between police and black communities. half will go to the institute for community-police relations, a program set up by the international association of chiefs of police, and half to

the n.a.a.c.p. legal defense fund. the n.b.a. hall of famer said he can no longer stay silent after recent police-involved shootings and the ambush killings of officers. a wildfire north of los angeles has now forced the evacuation of some 10,000 homes. the blaze broke out friday, and has already burned more than 50 square miles, and killed one person. flames driven by winds are sweeping through rugged, uphill terrain. nearly 3,000 firefighters are on the lines, but they say progress is slow. >> this has been topography driven. wind picks up and it moves it from south to north at about 7,000 acres a day. so when the winds surface we have those wind speeds that's going to move it across the landscape. >> sreenivasan: making matters worse: triple-digit heat in recent days, and years of severe drought. verizon made it official today: it's buying internet pioneer yahoo! for just over $4.8 billion. the telecom giant bought a.o.l. last year, and hopes the two

acquisitions bring new revenue streams from mobile video and advertising. yahoo! was once valued at $130 billion, but suffered a severe loss of advertising in recent years, and laid off thousands of employees. wall street's week opened on a down note, after a four-week rally. the dow jones industrial average lost 77 points to close at 18,493. the nasdaq fell two points and the s&p 500 slipped six. and, new zealand is embarking on an all-out campaign to rid itself of rats by the year 2050. it's an effort to save native birds from rodents that eat their eggs and compete for other food. rats are not native to new zealand. instead, they arrived with the first ships carrying explorers and colonists. finally tonight, our desperate journey series continues. they died horrible deaths. the identities of all but one of

them are unknown. and 21 of the 22 will be buried in unmarked graves. they are the victims of a disaster off the libyan coast last week, when yet another unseaworthy boat, overcrowded with migrants, became a sad statistic to the unscrupulous and cheap traffickers who set them afloat. the immediate aftermath was witnessed and recorded by newshour special correspondent malcolm brabant, who filmed images in this report that, we should warn, some viewers will find upsetting. malcolm spent two weeks on board a rescue ship that is jointly operated by doctors without borders-- known as m.s.f.-- and s.o.s mediterannee. here's his third and final report from aboard the ship "aquarius". >> french, arabic, english? >> reporter: after two weeks at sea, this is the third rescue for the "aquarius." multilingual amani tekle assures them deliverance is at hand.

>> reporter: as the rescuers draw close, initial reports of fatalities are confirmed. bodies are bobbing backwards and forwards in the half flooded dinghy. the stench of fuel is overwhelming. the fumes could cause the survivors to collapse and drown. the priority is to get them off as quickly as possible. a second dinghy is nearby. it's also overcrowded. boat number one takes 18 people in relays back to the mother ship. boat number two, on which i'm filming, remains on station to prevent more casualties. in their haste to get to safety, the survivors are stepping on

the corpses of people who were alive just an hour or so earlier. eventually, the last man scrambles on to the rescue craft. and frenchman bertrand thiebault, of s.o.s. mediterranee tries to assess just how many people have died. during a lull, rescuing people from the second stranded dinghy he tells me what he knows.

>> reporter: this is a new experience for amani tekle, a former refugee from eritrea. >> reporter: for about half an hour the raft floats free like a ghost ship, before the rescuers attach lines and bring it alongside the aquarius, where the teams update the death toll. 22 victims. all women, aged between 16 and 30. so how did this disaster come to pass? david, from nigeria described how the decking on which women were sitting cracked. shards of wood punctured the

thin rubber, and the women were crushed in the panic. >> reporter: eric felice, from

nigeria is separated from the rest of the men, to give him some privacy to mourn his 28-year-old wife texie. >> reporter: what happened to her? >> reporter: in the small clinic next door to the sanctuary, dr. erna rijnielse prepares 22 death certificates, which she will give to the italian authorities. >> people have inhaled fumes, maybe people have fainted, they went under the other ones, they

asphyxiated. they died a horrible death, really, really bad. the other thing is in terms of identification these people don't come from places where there are perfect dental records or other things, so it's going to be very difficult to give them a name and an identity. so we have one person that we know. the other ones, we don't and i don't think we'll ever find out. >> reporter: there is an organization which has got the personnel, the technology and the wherewithal to be able to help in this situation. and that's the international commission for missing persons, which is based in the bosnian capital sarajevo. and it did a fantastic job in identifying the victims of the srebrenica massacre. now the i.c.m.p. as it's called has offered to help the italian authorities to try to identify missing migrants to try to provide some resolution for families who've lost relatives along the migrant trail.

but i.c.m.p. doesn't have the money and will find fundraising difficult. 36 hours after leaving the accident site, the "aquarius" is not far from her base at trapani in north west sicily. the migrants, who've been subdued for much of the journey now liven up at their first sight of europe for which they have invested and risked so much. the reception committee includes the red cross, doctors, psychologists and undertakers. >> reporter: the passengers are anxious to get their feet on dry land. but there's a delay. there's a dispute between m.s.f. and the italian authorities about how to proceed. m.s.f.'s dutch coordinator ferry schippers is fuming.

>> we just heard that the judge here in trapani wants the dead bodies off first, which is very insensitive. i mean, they are definitely not thinking. we have people on board who have relatives that died on that rubber boat that day. and they will see the body bags passing by. i don't understand this. believe me, i'm very angry. >> reporter: but after some robust negotiations, m.s.f. wins the argument and the living are allowed to disembark before the dead. one of the first to go: newly widowed eric felice. the survivors are given a cursory health check by the italians before going ashore. and then, as sensitively as possible, the 22 victims are carried from the temporary mortuary on the ship's front deck. they left africa with heady dreams of prosperity in europe.

but the sea condemned them to an unmarked grave and a single red rose. >> we're going to throw this flower in the water out of respect for the people. with these flowers, we sent them goodbye. and let's hope it will stop. >> we are not dealing with numbers. we are talking about human beings, people like you, like me, and everybody has their own story.

and in my humble experience, no one runs away from home, leaves everything they know behind, because it's such a good place to be. >> reporter: the "aquarius" is due to return to sea tomorrow. for the pbs newshour, i'm malcolm brabant in sicily. >> sreenivasan: you can watch all of malcolm brabant's reports from the mediterranean, plus more stories in our "desperate journey" series on our website: pbs.org/newshour. also online right now: our coverage of all things convention related continues. stream our special prime-time coverage and follow along on our live blog, and check out our columnists today who discuss what and who the democratic party should represent. find all that and more on our web site: pbs.org/newshour. and that's it from washington. i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: and from here in philadelphia, that's the newshour for now. but stay with us. we'll be right back here at 8:00 p.m. eastern for live special coverage of the democratic national convention. i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. for all of us at the pbs

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