captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasan: on this edition for saturd, may 12: iraqis go to the polls for the first time since the defeat of isis. in our signature segment, mothers raising their babies, while doing time in prison. and, what's behind the decision of music streaming services to stop "hate content"? 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. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. the anderson family fund. rosalind p. walter. barbara pe zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided

-by mutual of ameri designing customized individual nand group retireroducts. that's why we're your retirement company. >> additional suprt has been ovided by: and by the cporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewe like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, ha sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. with the u.s.-north korea summit now set for june 12 in singapore, north korea says it will destroy an unrground nuclear test site less than two weeks from now, and will invite urnalists as witnesses. north korea's foreign ministry said tunnels at the site will be blown up some time between may 23 and 25, depending on weatr conditions. research facilities will also be destroyed. noteh korea said it would in and escort journalists from five countries-- the united states,ko souta, china, russia and britain-- to cover the event. llowings no mention of

weapons inspectors or nuclear experts at the site. president trump's lawyer rudy giuliani is walking back his statement that the president," denied the merger" of at&t and epme warner. this morning cnnted that giuliani now says that the president "didn't interfere" in the proposed $85-billion merger in an intervsterday with "the huffington post" that focused on payments the president's long-time personal lawyer michael cohen received om corporations including at&t giuliani said, "the president denied the merger. they didn't get the result they want." cohen received $600-thousand from at&t for advice, a payment at&t's c.e.o. called a "big mistake." oklahoma governor mary fallin--n a republ vetoed a controversial gun rights bill late lasnight, and signed another on faith-based adoption services. fallin vetoed a bill that woul have allowed adults to carry firearms whout a permit or aining, angering the national rifle association, but pleasing the state bureau of investigation.

the governor signed a law that protects faith-based organizations that refuse to place children in l.g.b.t.q. homes. freedom oklahoma, an l.g.b.t.q. rights group, is threatening to sue the state over there. the kilauea volcano on hawaii's big island is still erupting, d now there are new concerns about what comes next. scientists are warning that lava levels inside the volcano may drop below the water table, which could create a volcanic steam-driven eruption.il hawaii cefense officials say that could send boulders as large as refrigerators half a mile into the air along with 20,000-foot ash plumes. the hawaii national guard says it is prepared to resce 2,000 people by convoy, troop vehicles, or helicopter. >> sreenivasan: iraq held a national election today, the rst since prime minister haider al-abadi declared victory

over the islamic states n july. resue expected within the next two days, but it will likely be monthsmiefore a prime ster is chosen and a new government is formed. i'm joined via skype from baghdad by "nework times" bureau chief margaret coker. thanks for joining us. the good news is we haven't seen any widespread violence or attacks, something the country was concerned about fo today. >> right. 's pretty amazing, actually. in 2014, the a third of the nation had brun oveby islamic state. people were talking about the end of iraq, and now we've had a national election, almost no violence, a few irregularities, but people were fpretee to come and vote as they chose. >> sreenivasan: what did you or your reporters see at the polling stationed today? >> i was in baghdad. i went to different polling stations in different parts of the city, an turnout was very low. you know, there is a general mood here of just utter exhaustion. there was enormous amount of

battle, a lot sacrifice, a lot of lives lost over the last three and a half years. people are exhausted. and security is soood now that everyone is concerned again with quality-of-life issues-- a lang of infrastructure, a lack ofsc ols, a lack of jobs. and so you have all of these routine problems that appear overwhelming, but, also, there's a lack of trust in the political adership about how these things can get solved. so the mood on the street is-- is pretty subdued. >> sreenivasan: let's talk a little bit about kind of the bigger picture, things that aren happeninhe background here. what is the role of perhaps iran in the influence that iran wields in iraq right now, or how long the united states will stay inaraq and in kind of w capacity? >> yeah, so, one of the amazing things about last fall and into the winter when iraq declared victory over islamic state, there is this tremeous surge of patriotism and nationalism. people are proud again to beth

iraqis, ane's quite a lot of breathing space right now for aqi nationalists to come to the fore. people who either pulled one way towards iran or pulled one way towards america 10 years ago are now trying to reposition themselves politically as bei nationalists first, and in the middle of the political spectrum. and there's a very, very strong sense among th iraqi population, that sectarianism-- which they blame a lot for allh of bloodshed that has befallen iraq over the last decade-- they say the air of sectarianism is over. so what that means in a coded fashion is that politicalie pathat look too close to iran or too close to any of the other nogional powers thaert going to do well in these polls. >> sreenivasan: all right, margaret coker, "new york times" bureau chief joiningus live via skype from baghdad tonight. thanyou very much. you're welcome.

>> sreenivasan: when a pregnant woman goes to prison, most often she has to give up her baby to a relative or another caregiver until she finishes serving her sentence. tonight, in the first of a two-b part report children whose parents are incarcerated, newshour weekend's megan thompson has the story of an innovative prison program that allows mother and child to stay together behind bars >> reporter: brenda singer is serving two years at the indiana women's prison in indianapolis for opioid possessn and failing to show up at a work release program. when she arrived here in january, she was almost nine months pregnant. it meant she'd give birth behind bars and possibly be separated from her baby just hours later. >> i was scared. i was really worried. i would have had a little under 24 hours with her. but that's... that would have been just, like, having her and t'shing her away. >> reporter: but tnot what happened. two weeks after getting here,bi singer gavh to her

daughter, doris. little doris now lives here in the prison with her mother, in a special unit called the "wee ones' nursery." >> she's amazing. first smile breaks your heart. ( laughs ) just melt, you know? y >> reporter: a got to see it. >> yeah. thanks to wee ones. >> so, todaydoris has an appointment at 9:00 a.m. >> okay. i just want to go over everything. >> reporter: leah hession is the nursery's director. >> wee ones was started in april of 2008 as a way for pregnant low-level offenders to be able to keep their children after.. after delivery while the mother's still incarcerated. >> reporter: the united states puts more males in prison than any other country d the world, e majority of incarcerated women are mothers. but prison nurseries are rare; there are only eight in the country. for some people watching this, it might be a little bit surprising to see babies in a prison. is it good for a baby to be living in a prison? >> i think so. these are fants.

these are babies who are months old, who just want to be held and nursed and loved by their mothers. and... and that's what widre able to prin a safe environment. >> reporter: the nursery is have a bunk bed, so it'll be two offenders to a room. with our mother's room, we only have one bed and room for the crib, so it gives the mother and child time to bond. >> reporter: when we visited, there were four babies in the nursery. there's room for up to. pregnant prisoners can live here, too. >> over here, this is also a nursery. th nursery does have a i televisiit. it's got two of the electric swings, so it's a little more... little more popular. t this here is our suppl closet. >> reporter: officials say theer wee ones' nuis funded entirely by private donations and grants, including all the tsapers and wipes. >> we have two clo we have a boys' closet and a girls' closet. t>> reporter: same goes f baby clothes.

most of them are donated and then reused. >> the mothers are able to come and exchange clothes every other roweek just as their child so much in the first year. >> lunch! >> reporter: to live here, women must be low-level offenders with zero history of viol and their sentences must be relatively short so they'll be released bthe time their child turns two. >> i got some women who need to ke... >> reporter: the sare high. if they break the rules, they could get kicked out. >> we have expectations from room inspections to classes and things like that that she must complete. she's going to have a positive attitude and a willingness to change her life. >> i hate being on drugs. i hate that life. but i can't let it hold on to me because i'm ready to move fo i'm ready to be a better person. .'m ready to be a better mom more than anythi what is that? >> reporter: 28-year-old jamie beam has battled addiction since she was 14 years old. she says her drug of choice isam methamphe. she was convicted last year of burglary and of illegal possession of a firearm. when she was locked up last summer, she was about five months pregnant. >> i didn't know where we would .

i didn't know what would happen, who... who she'd be with. i didn't have any answers, and i was very scared. there you go. all better now. >> reporter: khloe was born inmb de. >> she is such a happy baby. she's full of smes. atst very happy. and i'm so glad didn't have to miss out on that. >> reporter: beam has raised two other young daughters who are now living with theiin michigan. >> it's okay.) ( laughs >> reporter: in here, sober, beam feels she's able to focus more on khloe than she was with her other children. >> oh, i do, bunny, bunny, bunny. i notice a lot more parenting, beu know, things than i did with my other girls jususe being on the... the outside, there's distractions. there's coming and going, you know, versus me and khloe where it's just, like, one on one, all the time, every day. you know, to be able to show her she's got a mom who loves her and is going to take care of her

and be there for her. i... i don't know if later in the future, u know, if we didn't have this bond, where our relationship would be. because i feel like that's... that bond is going to be how her whole life might tur sounds crazy, but, yeah. >> reporter: angela tomlin says that's not crazy at all. a she's a psychond expert in early childhood development at the indiana university school of medicine. >> it's really importa kids to have that early attachment to th>>r parents. eporter: tomlin notes that the brains of infants are still developing, and babies need social experiences to help their brains form. >> and that social experience that is most important is that relationship with the parent. so, we need, over an tover again, dday, moment-by- moment experiences of having the parent see the b understand the baby's need and fulfill it over time. and what we understand that happens through that process is that the child comes t in, like, a real way that they are psychologically and physically safe.

and that sense of safety or urust is what we think of when we think of as a s attachment. that secure attachment has so many benefits down the road-- doing well in school, getting along with other people and really growing up to be sensitive parent themselves. >> reporter: researchers at columbia university compared babies who lived in prison nurseries to those raised by mothers outside with similar risk factors like drug addiction. they found that a largumber of the prison-nursery babies developed secure attachments. another columbia study found these children were le anxious and less depressed once they got to preschool compared to babies who'd been separated from their incarcerated moms. and most children are separated. all the moms in the wee ones' nursery and of most the other inmas here have older kids they had to leave behind. >> any time a child is separated hafrom their parent, that the potential to be experienced as a trauma. >> reporter: tomlin says it can be especially traumatic for chilen when a mother goes to prison because she's usually the primary caregiver.

>> so, if dad goes to prison, mom often is still there for the child. when mom goes to prison, a lot of times it's not the dad who's available to take care of the child. it may be another family member. the child may be in a foster care situation. >> reporter: while kids can develop secure atthments to other caregivers, like grandparents, regular visits to their mothers in prison can help, to >> every time he comes down here, that's what he wants, is the dinours. >> reporter: the indiana women's prison "family preservation program" has a huge play area where visiting kids can run free. >> i personally pretty much just pretend like it's home. >> reporter: jessica inholt didn't qualify for the wee ones' nursery because her sentenceor dealing heroin was too long. but her mom faithfully brings her two-year-old son, tripp, to visit every weekend. t you know, i set snacks for him and make sure he's not going to hurt himself playing around. being a first-time mom and being in prison, i just try and do the hst that i can to learn how to

be a mom while ie, so... >> reporter: play rooms like this one go a long way towards helping moms develop andat maintain rnships with their children, says angela tomlin, especially compared to typical prison visiting rooms where prisoners often can't hold their childr or even might be sitting behind glass. >> the child needs to see the parent as a caregiver. sorewe need an environment w the child can behave in api l way, and the parent can have opportunity to respond to the child in a typical way. >> hi, baby!r: >> reporack in the wee ones' nursery brenda singer stays in tch with her five her children with phone calls. most of them live in ohio, too ar away for regular visits. >> aw, you got a bche? >> reporter: singer, who's been incarcerated at least four times before, tries to call every day. >> i hope you feel better. i do worry about them having trust with me. my oldest daughter i had quite a bit of confrontation wh them

because they just felt like, you know, "we're tired, mom. so, either get it right this time or, you know, like, you know, .. you're not going to be my mom," pretty much is how i got it. so, it hurts them. you know, not only do we do the time, but they do. so, we let them down. i let them down, i should say. >> reporter: doing t the nursery is supposed to give moms the chance to turn thingsou , and proponents of this program say it can helpt make tppen. a 2013 study by the university of indianapolis follened women who time in the wee ones' nursery. compared to women separated from their babies, they were about half as likely to return to prison within their first year of release. to make sure the new moms can go rapy and classes, there' childcare provided by other,ve low-leoffenders who live on the unit, too. dsile her baby's looked after, jamie beam atten cocaine anonymous group, a 12-step program and culinary arts classes. nathe prison also offers pl,

postnatal and parenting classes. >> because i feel like if i weren't to be with her, i'd probably not be able to work on myself as quick as i have been, just because i feel like i would be missing a very important time of khloe's life. >> reporter: brenda singer is going through a rehabilitation program here, too. you've been incarcated before. >> right. >> reporter: is there something about this time, this ple, this stay that means you're going to turn it around? >> oh, yeah. i missed a lot. i'm going to miss my grandson's birth, andhat tears me up. but i made those choices. so, if this wasn't a smack i the face, i don't know what would be. >> reporter: when doris is older, when she's grown up, what are you going to tell her abouts hapter of her life? >> that mom... mom learned a lot just by having her with me. she's my coach.l as i cr, she's my boss right now. and it's... it's great because i

need that. i need that mentally, to be fixated on what's important. and it's not about the drugs. it's not about pillsou know, rolling the next blunt or drinking mitnext drink. about doris at the end of the day and all day. it's about her. so, i think that's mentallyt, making me ou know, for... for the outside. >> sreenivasan: this week the music streaming serve spotify removed r&b singer r. kelly from it's playlistswhich means fewer listeners will discover or hear his music. why r. kelly? in part because of the online campaign #muterkelly. there are demands for investigations into allegations he abused women of color over the past 20 years. kelly performed nocaronala iigsthtt

the singer is rrently charged with any crimes. lis juifion,ndits new "hate other streaming services have also removed r. kelly from playlists, ahough his music is still available on all platforms. joining me now is joan solsman, senior reporter for "cnet" whowi is fol this issue. this isn't necessarily a conversation about r. kelly, t, really, about the step that spotify has taken. what makes bthis such aig deal? >> well, for one, spotify is the biggest reaming music service. at a time when music streaming is becoming thest popular, most common way that people ares take in the ground, a very definive step tht it will make editorial judgments about t only the ctent of music, but the conduct of the artist itself. and those judgmts can have real repercussions on artists' livelihood. >> sreenivasan: there's a part of their policy that i want to pull out. it says, what abote utfuhaist?"

that's a portion ohis conduct policy that they changed. that seems well and good, but what is the theshold for wh it's determined that someone actually did something if he hasn't been convictf, "well, theiy y ouncryou did thi" this isn't that. at exactly. why it's interesting. r. kelly hasn't had a criminal conviction. he's not charged with anything right now. veo saat t stimthert they a're rot ing to be promoting. he hasn't been convicted of any crime, either. so what it does, even though it makes a firm stake in the gro that spotify isdi exe

of water of what that judgment is and how there app >> sreenivasan: what revenue are we taly'king about? the ayersts complain they're not getting vch money from reenue, if you're not r. kelly and still touring, how much does spotify end up helping your music? >> spotify is not critical, but it's a crucial element to an ayerst's livelihood, especially as consumption of music migrates over to streaming rather than tting an itunes download or sying a cd. touring, of cours giant element to how artists maky.e mo but that recurring revenue comes from, more often,treaming. and in the case of spotify, it's the biggest streaming subscription service. and its subscriptions pay a lot beer than if you were to stream an r. kelly song on youtube and just watch the video-- "watch the video"-- but listen to the song. than what a lot les you would get paid as an artist if a subscriber listens to your

music. >> sreenivasan: there's a long list of artists whose behavior have either tolerated or set aside to enj their mic, right? so what is the-- kid of how far back do they go? is spotify willing to put all of these different artives and all that music ofof their playlists, if that's the step they're willing to take? >> the popular playlists can make or break ayerst.f so spotify is going to use conduct as a decision-making tool, and whether or not they want to promote an artist, then it raises questions about will the artists that become hugbe different? will we have different art because of these decisions. >> sreenivasan: all right. i these are alportant questions. jo solsman from cnet, thanks so much for joining us. >> sreenivasan: for a longer conversation on music streaming content"and "ha visit our facebook page at facebook.com/newshour.

r>> this is "pbs newsh weekend," saturday. re >>ivasan: a british-based human rights group says the israeli air strikes on military targets syria this week killed 42 people-- including 19 iranians. a israel said acked suspected iranian military n syria in response to what they say was a barrage of iranian rockets launched into israeli-occupied golan heights the day before. german chancellor angela merkel visited the basilica of st. francis in assisi italy today where she received theer franciscan o "lamp of peace" for her work protecting syrian war refugees. chancellor merkel called the civil war in syria, "one of the greatest humanitarian crises of our time," and called on the international community to help end the war. she said president trump's decision to pull out of the iran nuclear deal makes the middle east situation "even more difficult." in yemen officials say at least 115 people were killed over two days of fighting this ek in

the western part of the country. at least five civilians were killed by missile strikes in the northwestern city of saada on thursday. is came a day after the houthis, who control much of western yemen, including the nation's capital, claimed responsibility for launching missiles at saudi arabia's capital of riyadh. the iran-allied houthis are fighting a u.s.-backed saudi-led military coalition thaorts the government of yemen's exiled president. a gun and machete attathe east african nation of burundi has left 26 people dead and ven others wounded. the attack happened late last night in small village and comes less than a week before a scheduled referendum on a ntnstitutional amendment that would extend presil terms from five to seven years. officials are not ruling out voter intimidation ilast night's assault. when burundi's president piee nkurunziza ran for a third term in 2015 his victory was met with olent opposition. a "yes" vote would allow nkurunziza to run for two more consecutive terms, possibly extending his rule to the year

2034. >> sreenivasan: and a reminder to join us on pbs newshour weekend sunday for part two of megan thompson's report from indiana on incarcerated parents and their children. tomorrow: mentoring the kids left behind when parents go to prison. >> josh, he works. he goes to school. and that-- that is being the influence that he needs. >> would it make you feel better if i told you i had to do homework on spring break too? >> yeah. >> sreenivasan: that's all for this edition of "pbs newshour weekend." i'm hari sreenivasan. thanks for watching. have a good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>ma pbs newshour weekend i possible by:

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