captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasan: on this edition for saturday, july 8: international leaders wrap up their group of 20 summit in hamburg, germany. and in our signature segment, seattle police retraining to reduce their use of lethal force. next, on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. the cheryl and philip milstein family. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. the anderson family fund. rosalind p. walter, in memory of abby m. o'neill. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company.

additional support has been 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 at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. global security and trade dominated the two-day summit of leaders from 20 nations that concluded in germany today. the g20 meeting in hamburg drew large crowds of protesters, as these gatherings always do. but that did not disrupt the business inside. newshour weekend special correspondent ryan chilcote is there with more. >> reporter: today, president trump met with key asian allies to discuss the ongoing threat posed by north korea and its long range missile program. japanese prime minister shinzo abe called the situation "increasingly severe." in a separate meeting with chinese president xi jinping, president trump said of north korea's continuing weapons tests, "something has to be done

about it." the leaders also discussed trade deals and the $30 billion-a- month u.s. trade deficit with china. >> many things have happened that have led to trade imbalances, and we're going to turn that around. >> reporter: meeting with british prime minister theresa may, mister trump said the u.s. and u.k. were also working on what he called a "very powerful" trade deal, as the u.k. plans its exit from the european union. >> prime minister may and i have developed a very special relationship, and i think trade will be a very big factor between our two countries, so i want to thank you very much. >> reporter: in the summit's final communique, 19 of the 20 nations-- all but the united states-- vowed to implement quickly and without exceptions the paris climate accord to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming. german chancellor angela merkel said the u.s. position is "regrettable." >> ( translated ): therefore, there is the position of the

united states on the one hand, but i am very happy that all other g20 heads of states and government have agreed that the paris agreement is irreversible. >> reporter: merkel played down the moment when first daughter ivanka trump sat in for the president during a meeting about migration and health in africa. the president said the u.s. would give $50 million to a a world bank fund for women entrepreneurs in developing countries. following yesterday's marathon meeting between president trump and russian president vladimir putin, today i asked mr. putin if he felt mister trump had agreed with his face-to-face assertion that russia had not intervened in the u.s. election last year. >> ( translated ): he was really interested in the details. i replied as detailed as i could. i think he was satisfied with my answers. our position is known. there are no grounds for saying russia interfered in the u.s. election. >> sreenivasan: our special

correspondent ryan chillcote joins me now. why don't we start with that meeting between vladimir putin and president donald trump. who controlled the narrative afterwards on what exactly happened there. >> reporter: what we can say is that at least from the russian side, there was more of a narrative. if you think about it, almost immediately following president trump and president putin's meeting, the russian foreign minister gave a press conference that was broadcast live on russian tv. on the u.s. side, u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson a while later addressed u.s. reporters but it was audio only. then if you think about today, president putin gave a press conference as he was leaving. he answer the a question from me. he too said that president trump by the way, it was his impression agreed that russia hadn't intervened in the election. while as the u.s. delegation, president trump simply laughed. they didn't have a press conference at all.

so the russians have certainly been talking about the meeting a lot more. and i think you know, that's given them an opportunity to shape how people characterize it. >> sreenivasan: one of the story lines we've also been being are images of protests that happening in hamburg. how significant have they been. >> i think it's fair to say that the protests here, and i've been to many many g20's, g7's have really engulfed this city. it's a big city. this is germany's second largest city. it's really quite large and these protests were everywhere. everyone said before this summit began that it was a gamble on angela merkel, the german chancellor's part to have this, to have the summit here in this city as opposed as they often do on some remote island where it's difficult for protesters to do. but apparently she want to send a message to president erdo-wan

and others that they want to go ahead. this is the reason they didn't crack down as much as they could on some of these protesters. >> sreenivasan: is there a way to judge the standing of the united states given this is now the president's one of his first major international forays. >> let's a real qualitative difference between what we've seen at this summit when it comes to u.s. leadership and how everyone has sort of perceived and received the u.s. from the other summits. this summit has been mostly about other g20 leaders trying to convince the trump administration to find some middle ground with them on issues like trade and particularly on the issue of climate change. so it's a real stark change from what we scene in the past. >> sreenivasan: ryan chillcote joining us tonight from hamburg, germany. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> sreenivasan: in addition to president trump's meetings with asian leaders, the u.s. military gave north korea a show of force today, by participating in

military drills in south korea. a pair of b-1 bombers conducted a simulated attack on an "enemy" missile launcher at a test-range in south korea. the bombers, based on the island of guam, were escorted by other u.s. force planes, as well as south korean and japanese fighter planes that conducted their own simulated attacks. the show of force comes four days after north korea test- launched a type of intercontinental ballistic missile that some experts believe could reach alaska and hawaii. the g20 summit has yielded another superpower-brokered plan for a ceasefire in syria's six- year-old civil war. due to take effect tomorrow at noon damascus time, this ceasefire includes the first joint peacekeeping effort by the u.s. and russia. russian armed forces have backed syrian president bashar al- assad, while the u.s. military has supported rebels trying to oust him. both countries, and assad, say they're trying to crush isis militants inside syria, too. in hamburg, secretary of state

rex tillerson said the ceasefire covers the region of southwest syria bordering jordan, which also had a role in brokering the deal. in iraq, government military commanders say the u.s.-backed offensive to recapture iraq's second-largest city, mosul, from isis militants is only hours away from succeeding. iraqi army soldiers celebrated and raised a flag atop a recaptured building in mosul's old city today. the remaining isis militants vowed a fight to the death, and fewer than 300 of them are believed to be holding out in a tiny slice of west mosul. since the offensive began nine months ago, aid groups say, the fighting has displaced almost one million civilians. >> sreenivasan: the u.s. justice department is currently overseeing reforms of 14 local police departments across the country, including baltimore, cleveland, chicago, and ferguson, missouri, as well as

albuquerque, new mexico and portland, oregon. these departments came under scrutiny because of high profile, fatal police-involved shootings, as well as complaints of racially-biased policing. one city that's pursued reforms for the past five years is seattle, washington. newshour weekend special correspondent joanne jennings went there to see how the reforms are working, and the ongoing challenges in the wake of the most recent shooting. a warning: some viewers may find images in this story disturbing. >> reporter: the retraining of seattle's police department was sparked by this fatal police-involved shooting in 2010. john t. williams, a native american woodcarver, seen in this patrol car video crossing the street, was ordered to drop a knife he was carrying for his craft. police officer ian birk gave williams, who was hard of hearing, just four seconds warning before opening fire. >> put the knife down! ( gunshots )

>> reporter: it was the eighth fatal police-involved shooting by seattle police in five years, and the 25th in a decade. birk resigned from the force but was not prosecuted. the u.s. justice department launched an investigation. it found that seattle police had engaged in a "pattern or practice of using unnecessary or excessive force," and raised "serious concerns about biased policing." in 2012, the city of seattle settled the probe with a consent decree, agreeing to court- monitored reforms to minimize use-of-force incidents, not only with guns but with tasers and batons. for the past five years, seattle police officers have retrained how to approach someone in crisis or showing signs of mental illness. in this scenario, they're trying to stop a man from running through traffic. >> sir, officer stevens, seattle police department. what's your name? >> reporter: at times, it sounds more like a psychology class. >> this is just too much. >> hey, brother, it sounds like

you're incredibly overwhelmed. i think job loss is tough for all of us. >> reporter: the goal here is to de-escalate the situation. >> you got to analyze it from both sides. >> reporter: trainer andrew marvel says slowing things down reduces the chances of a violent encounter. >> if we have situations that potentially could go bad and could potentially result in some type of lethal force being used, if our officers can recognize that ahead of time, those situations, use good tactics, use good verbal skills, and incorporate some teamwork in there, we end up reducing those situations. >> reporter: all seattle police officers are required to take this four-hour crisis intervention training once a year. that's on top of an eight-hour course now mandated for all rookie officers in washington state. some seattle officers volunteer for an extra 40-hour course to join special crisis intervention teams dispatched in these types of situations. >> you guys don't even know what's going on. >> i'll feel more comfortable if we can talk without you holding the knife, because it is a little scary.

>> here, we typically display information about units that are on patrol, what's happening... >> reporter: the seattle police department's chief operating officer, brian maxey, says better data collection about police encounters shows the training is working. >> what we're finding out is that, with the 10,000 contacts we have with people in severe crisis every year, officers are only using force 1.6% of the time. that is remarkably low because this is the most volatile population that officers engage with. of that 1.6%, only about half of that is any kind of serious use of force. >> reporter: this april, the court-appointed monitor overseeing seattle's consent decree found a 60% reduction in use of force by police between 2014 and 2016. just a week before that report, attorney general jeff sessions ordered a review of all obama administration consent decrees, which he says vilify police and reduce their morale. >> for seattle, sessions' threat is an empty threat.

>> reporter: seattle's democratic mayor, ed murray, says federal oversight has been essential. >> the idea that the justice department would step back from being a... basically an honest broker between communities of color and police departments in cities has the potential to be explosive. this is a role that they've played since the 1960s, and i think that our police department today is a better police department because the justice department came in, because the federal monitor was appointed. >> so, if other commissioners could come tomorrow morning... >> reporter: seattle's consent decree also created a community police commission to advise the court on progress implementing reforms. the trust seattle police have been trying to build was shaken last month by the death of charleena lyles. according to her family, the 30-year-old black single mother had a history of mental health issues. on sunday morning, june 18, lyles called 911 to report a burglary. when two white seattle police

officers arrived at her apartment, the conversation at first was calm, as you can hear in this police recording. >> someone broke into my house and took my things. >> reporter: the situation deteriorated rapidly when lyles allegedly brandished two kitchen knives. >> hey, get back. >> taze her. >> i don't have a taser. >> we need help. we've got a woman with two knives. >> hey, get back. >> get back. >> get back. ( gunshots ) >> reporter: with three of her four children in the next room, both officers fired their guns, hitting lyles seven times. the police department says neither had a taser, but they were carrying either a baton or pepper spray, and both had undergone crisis intervention training. >> charleena! >> what's her name? >> charleena! >> what's her name? >> reporter: though the investigation into lyles' death has just begun, the outrage has been immediate. >> we will stand up, one and united, to pressure this city to change its behavior in policing.

>> reporter: for community activist andre taylor, this protest was all too familiar. last year, seattle police shot and killed his brother, che, whom they had suspected of illegally possessing a firearm. police dash cam video shows three white officers approaching his vehicle. che was facing the open passenger door. the officers ordered him to put his hands up, then they shot him. >> hands up! ( gunshots ) shots fired. shots fired. >> reporter: 18 months later, the shock of the incident has not lessened for andre taylor as he showed us around the south seattle neighborhood where he grew up. >> it wasn't even a matter of seconds before they killed him. it was... it was... it was devastating, as some of the other shootings i've seen. >> reporter: taylor says despite reforms, distrust of police remains endemic in the city's african-american community.

he introduced us to a group gathered at a community center, commiserating over their interactions with police. 17-year-old jahila moody says she often gets stopped by the police. >> you don't even have to have any type of altercation with the police. you could just be walking down the street, and they'll pull up on you, and they'll be like, "what are you doing?" a lot of the time, police feel threatened by us because they are scared, not because we are scared. >> reporter: taylor says another frustration is the leniency the law affords police officers involved in fatal shootings like his brother's. dan satterberg is the prosecuting attorney who decided not to file charges against those officers. that's because police who reasonably believe their lives are in danger cannot be convicted. that's the legal standard across the country. but in washington state, prosecutors must also prove an officer showed malice. >> "malice" is not a word we use

a lot in conversation, but it means an evil intent, a dark heart. when you look at that tape, that videotape, when you talk to the officers, look into the investigation, certainly questions arise. could they have done something different? could they have made a... a decision strategically, tactically, to intercept mr. taylor somewhere other than right at the door of the car? i think that was originally their plan to do so. and then, when he didn't walk away from the car, they felt they were already committed. so, was this perfect? no. could it have been done better? yes. is there malice? there's no malice in there. >> it turned out che taylor was not holding a gun, though police say they later found this 45-caliber pistol under the vehicle's passenger seat. >> it's hard to imagine a set of facts that would meet the malice standard; you'd almost have to have a personal animosity between the officer and the civilian that pre-existed the moment. but even then, we still have to prove that self-defense was not

a motivating factor and that the officer lacked all good faith to believe that that force was necessary. >> reporter: a "seattle times" investigation found, of 213 police-involved killings in washington state between 2005 and 2015, not one officer has been convicted of wrongdoing. seattle police crisis intervention trainer andrew marvel says the high legal standard is justified. >> officers do have a higher threshold for prosecution than the average citizen, and that's because we have officers being asked to make very difficult decisions in a very short amount of time. nobody wins if we get it wrong, so that's why we train as much as we do, and that's why we get the level of protection that we do. >> reporter: andre taylor is now leading an effort to pass a ballot initiative next year called "de-escalate washington." it would amend state law to remove the malice threshold when trying to hold officers accountable if they kill a citizen in the line of duty. >> we demand that, as each and every person has a job and has

somebody to look to, to be accountable to, that officers must also have someone to be accountable to. in 30 years in this state, they haven't been accountable to nobody. that's a problem. >> sreenivasan: an officer who was shot during a protest in baton rouge last year is suing black lives matter and its leaders, claiming they are responsible. read more at www.pbs.org/newshour. this summer, and throughout this year, migrants and refugees have continued to flee wars and persecution in the middle east and north africa, attempting to get to europe. in the first half of this year, 73,000 reached italy by crossing the mediterranean sea. that's a 14% increase from last year, according to a new report from amnesty international. the report calls attention to the estimated 2,000 people who have drowned trying to make the crossing this year, and shortcomings of european governments coming to their rescue.

amnesty international's naureen shah joins me from washington to discuss this. it's interesting because for the past couple years, there's been different levels of attention being paid to this. but you're pointing out that there are still more people coming even though the condition have gotten worse. >> that's right, hari. 2017 is actually on pace to be the deadliest year for the world and migration route. we see more and more people drown and at the same time european governments honey said of stepping up are taking a step backwards and trying to see responsibility for what's happening to local libyan authorities and actually woefully dysfunctional. >> sreenivasan: what's creating this. it seemed there were some sort of agreement european countries would step in and stem this. it seems like search and rescue is the priority. >> we saw european governments actually do more to fund search and rescue operations and we see a decrease in the number of people drowning at sea. unfortunately what's happening since then is european

governments have shifted to a different strategy, they call it a deterrent strategy. they want people to be leaving. the reality is people are still leaving and drowning at sea because there are not enough search and rescue operations currently going on. >> sreenivasan: we've seen pictures of some of these boats being destroyed by some of these different european countries. what's the reignal effect that these people are coming on less than 30 boats. >> they're taking to the sea and more and more unsea worthy vessels. people getting on boats without water or food to last for the journey. they are fleeing more violence, extreme poverty. they are seeking what we would seek if we were in their shoes just trying to rebuild there lives and find safety. >> sreenivasan: what is the situation in libya which has become a launching point. >> the situation in libya is disastrous for these people. are black african. they face racism, they are put into sexual exploitation, put in the situations where they're at risk being kidnapped, killed.

people who are interkept by the libyan coast guard and sent back to libya are put at detention sites with rape and torture. they talked to one man who said they had seen three people tortured. they were using toilet war as drinking water. these conditions are unspeakably horrific. >> sreenivasan: have the europeans responded or changed their priorities. >> from the european leaders who met was actually a doubling down on this policy. they're going to continue to try to fund libyan coast guard to conduct interception search and rescue operations but they're not actually doing oversight of lib yawn coast guard. we know libyan coast guard in some cases are actually cooperating with smugglers. they are corrupt. they've taken actually gunshots at rescue boats that are operated by non-governmental organizations. so they do not have the best interests of the people who are fleeing at hard. in some cases we're actually seeing people at a much greater risk because of a coast guard.

>> maureen shah from liberty international. thank you so much. >> this is pbs newshour weekend, saturday. >> sreenivasan: president trump's lawyers are calling for the dismissal of a lawsuit filed against the president, dating back to his time hosting the reality television show, "the apprentice." in court papers filed last night, mr. trump's attorneys argue, a sitting president cannot be sued in a state court. the suit was filed in january in by summer zervos, a former "apprentice" contestant. she alleges mr. trump sexually harassed her in 2007, a year after she appeared on the show, and then defamed her during last year's campaign in tweets and public statements, saying her story was false. the supreme court ruled in 1997 that a president can be sued for private conduct while in office-- that was regarding the federal lawsuit against president bill clinton brought by paula jones which led to his impeachment. canada's far-western province of british columbia is battling hundreds of wildfires and has

declared its first state of emergency in 14 years. 3,000 residents have been told to evacuate their homes. some have been destroyed, but no deaths are reported. almost 140 new fires broke out yesterday, fanned by strong winds and high temperatures expected to continue through the weekend. in kenya, police say suspected islamic militants from neighboring somalia beheaded nine men in an attack on a village overnight. villagers say the attackers went house to house looking for non- muslim men. militants of the al-shabab group have carried out frequent cross- border raids since 2011, when kenya sent troops to somalia to fight the al-qaeda linked group. on pbs newshour weekend sunday: amid shortages of food and medical services, venezuelans are fleeing to neighboring colombia. >> dr. galvis says with dire hospital conditions in venezuela, many expecting mothers flock to colombia to give birth. his maternity ward traffic is up 100% this year.

>> sreenivasan: tomorrow. >> sreenivasan: finally, the legend of an alien encounter known as "the roswell incident" was born 70 years ago today, in a remote area of the new mexico desert. on july 8, 1947, the "roswell daily record" had this shocking headline: "roswell army air field captures flying saucer on ranch in roswell region." the next day, military officials retracted the claim, saying the debris found on the ranch was from a high altitude weather balloon. in the 1990s, the pentagon revealed in a 1,000-page report, that it had launched the balloon as a secret experiment to detect changes in the atmosphere caused by soviet nuclear tests. that's all for this edition of pbs newshour weekend. i'm hari sreenivasan. thanks for watching. captioning sponsored by wnet

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