captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasan: on this edition for sunday, june 24: thstrump administration iss a plan to reunite separated migranfamilies. violence and protests in nicaragua amid claims of human rights violations. and in our sigture segment, tony hawk at 50... still skating. next on "pbs newshour weekend." >> "pbs newshour weekend" is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. the cheryl and philip milstein mily. 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 hope zuckerberg. ing is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retiment products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> additional support has been provided by: and public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios atr lincoln cen new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. u.s. government officials say they know the location of all of the more than 2,000 children separated from their p or guardians at the border with mexico. and that g working to reunite them with their families. in a report released last night, the department of health and human services states that 17% of the chiren in its custody were placed there as a result of the "zero tolerance" policy. the rest, according to.h.s., re unaccompanied by an adult.

customs and border patrol reported 522 children have been reunited with their parents, and that it expects 16 more children to be reunited today. a detention center near brownsville, texas will now serve as the "primary family reunification and removal center" for families and chilen. protests over the trump administration's immigration policies continued today. il>> free the en! >> sreenivasan: this one at the tent city detention center in tornillo, texas. on twitter, presidt trump uggested that illegal immigrants should be deported without any court hearings, saying, "when somebody comes in, wtee must immed, with no judges or court cases, bring them back from where they came. our system is a mockery to good imgration policy and law a order." mr. trump's former homeland security adviser, tom bossert, defended the presidente" "zero toleraolicy, but admitted the administration was not prepared to hold the migrant families and chis ren. >> tek has been just gripping imagery and terrible dmoptics for theistration.

so part of this was avoit'ble. althoughan understandable and righteous decision to take to prosecute any illegal entrant in the country, almost fro the outset we didn't have the capacity to detain these parents and children, togeth separately. >> sreenivasan: democratic representative luisutierrez accused the president of using anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies for political gain. >> it's wbng to separate ies, to use cruel, inhumane policies in order to gin up your political base. ngd it seems like it's wor george, because 90% of republicans now have a favorable opinion of this president and support him. >> sreenivasan: this week, the images of children forcibly separated from their parents at the border totally dominated the political landscape and forced the presidt to change course, something we have not seen often. newour special corresponden jeff greenfield joins us now from santa barbara. jeff, messaging or consistency issue here? >> reporter: it looks on the surface as t administration is lumping from one position to another. there is no policyer. is what we can change and

now we're changing it. but i would argue there is underneath this a very strong literally message from the time -- the day he announced he was running for president now ree ars ago. to the inaugural address to the travel ban, to hisd tweets an speeches this week. and that isthem" the foreigners are hurting us, americans. they're sending bad people into the country. they're committing crimes.nf they'reting us. that's his word. they're conjuring up trade deals that leave our workers out of work. and what's interesting is spparently, the president has decided that this sage politically is potent enough to make it a key issue in his midterm fight to keep republicans in control. not the economy, which i looking pretty good, but this yissue. and wh look at the way he frames it, just even todayyo sayingknow, when they come into our country, we don't need courts. we don't need up s. ngst kick 'em out. he's doubdown on the idea

that his people will turn out and vote out of a very strong aelief that the president is right in saying we are being -- i will not use the word the might use t we are being tr aduced, that we doing mistreated by people of other lands. >> sreenivasan: how much of this is the emotional power of the agery that we've been seeing over the past week? >> reporter: i don't think there's any question that,hen you see children and parents being forcibly separated, that'e being worth thousand words. that picture's worth probably 10,000 words.ot i doe that the -- that trump supporters are trying to make the aument at least some of them more militant media friends that it's fake. it's a big lie. the pictures are photoshoped. and it's why i think attime magazine picture of that crying young girl who it turns out wasa not sed from her family is going to be a very powerful argument on the part of trump

supporters to say don't believe those pictures tha are making you upset about all those kids. it's really not real. ianhink it was caughter who saidnn those --oulter who said those kids were child actors. you can see how desperate thele trump pere to say don't buy into these pictures because they know that these pictures have the capacity, i think, to change minds and to motivate voters. enivasan: besides the imagery, it seems that trump supporters are actually cohesing around the fact that theirle er is under attack in a way that could affect thi notion of any blue wave or something happening in the midterms. theyoeem more determined now go support their president because they feel he's being unfairly targeted. >> reporter: the president's approval ratings among republicans is ni toung 90%. the only republican president who came close to that was george w. bush in the immediate 11.ermath of and i think you're quite right. it's a theme that you and i have

talked about often, that the president has succeed in convincing his supporters, if you hear something bad about me, it's a lie. double down on your support.en >> sasan: what about the people who are carrying out the administration's policies?ea ier this weekend, there was the incident where sara huckabee sanders, the press secretary used the press secretary account on twitter to talk about how s was asked to leave a specific restaurant in lexington, virginia. >> reporter: thiis one that measures i think, just how emotional our politics is. i've heard people say, well, look, sarah sanders orhe housing secretary are enunciating outrageous policies. they have no right to a peacefur meal at taurant or, for that matter a peaceful -- the problem gth that is whos to decide what policies are so

outrageous that they deprive you of the norm after work habits? in other words supposing a pro-life group says t person is espousing of abortion whichis eading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of unborn children, that person has no right to a peaceful night at home either. when you start assigning to yourself the power to rule positions out-of-bounds to that eaded down, ie think, a very dangerous road. but i'm sure, you know, a lot of people out there are to say, i'm sorry, sarah sanders lies and she's omulgating the idea that separating kids from their parents, what right does she have to a peacef night at home? the question is, as lawyers like to say, what slippery slope you're heading down on. >> sreenivasan: all t, jeff green field, thank you so much. >>reenivasan: president trump's son-in-law and top middle et advisor jared kushner said today that the

administration's peace plan for the region is almost reddy to be unve in an interview with the palestinian newspaper "al-quds," published in arac, kushner bbid he thinks palestinian leader mahmoud aas is refusing to participate in the peace ecause they are scared we will release our peace plan and the palestinian people will actually like it." kushner and other u.s. officials have been meeting with leaders in the region over the past week, including israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. a spokesman for abbas called kushner's trip to the region "a waste of time." abbas has vowed to boycott american-l peace talks since the u.s. recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel last december. there were marches and events around the worldhis weekend, to mark pride month, which celebrates the l.g.b.t.q. community and human rights. in new york city, crowds packed the sidewalks and streets for the annual pride parade. thousands marched in mexico city. in india, participants danced and celebrated in the city of chennai. and in chile, organizers used their parade to demand a new gender equality law. what would an american space l force lookike?

find out on our website: urpbs.org/news in 2020, skateboarding will make its debut at the summer olympics in tokyo. it's a substantial milestone for a sport tt 25 years ago was considered anything but mainstream. and if there is one person who has contributed the mo to ateboarding's meteoric rise as a cultural and social phenomenon, it's tony hawk. and last month, the icon o youth and counterculture turned 50. as "pbs newshour weekend's" christopher booker reports, that ha't slowed him down. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: about twoisonths before 50th birthday, tony hawk set out to revisit 50 of the tricks he has revented or a skateboarder 41 years as everything from the finger flip to the 540 ollie.

but it was just after landing the 49th trick-- the 720-- when he found h pole.flying toward a >> i don't kw how i walked away from that. i really don't. and i do remember distinctly, as i was flying through the air, my first thought was, "i can't eve i'm not gonna finish this video." are you kidding me? how many is that? 49? one more? lets try a new one if i can still move. when you grow up as a skateboarder and you're used to endung-- injuries of some sort, that becomes your mindset. i wasn't so concerned for my health, i was more concerned with finishing the project i had stted. nowadays i really have to work at it, ando if i do get hurt i'm the one doing the icing, and doing and getting-- the mobility

back, and-- and starting low, and starting slow. it's not-- it's not that it-- it-- it's like, so crushing or so debilitating to get hurt at my age; it's just a lot more effort to get back out there. i don't do yoga, i don't work out, but perhaps i should. eporter: to sit down and talk with tony hawk about how someone is able to do this at the half-century mark, is as much a conversation out longevity, as it is a conversati about creativity, motivation, and the resonance of a career that started before he was old enough to drive. >> tony hawk, here he is. let's go! >> i was very lucky that my dad was supportive of me choosing skating when almost evother d iend of mine, their parents dinot want them skating. ueey thought it was a bad innce, they thought it was a waste of time, they thought it was too dangerous. d d i was the youngest of four kids, by the time i came around my parents had lived through the '70s with my older siblings, and it was more like, "just, whatever keeps him busy""

"just let him go." orter: in 1982, at 14, h become a professional for the pcalifornia basedowell-peralta skateboard company. part of a groucalled "the bones brigade," he helped propel inskateboardto the mainstream throughout the reagan years. as skateboarding's popularity grew, so too did the contest circuit. competing from california to toronto, hawk nnminated it, g three national titles by the time he was 18, all the while picking up ever more lucrative endoement deals with shoe and clothing companies, and making tens of thousas of dollars a month in sales of his skateboards. >> it got weird for me when i was consistentlyinning a lot the events, especially in the late '80s. ani didn't have any peers- you know, in terms of people that i really identified with. and suddenly i felt like i was-- i was set apart from my contemporaries. and it was like, "well, we just hope you get second place."

and that is supposed to be a comitpliment, and i toos, like, crushing, because it was like, "no, i just want to be with everyone else. i enjoy skating with everyone." and i sort of-- i stepped away from competition for a while and refocused my energy back to juni lear new tricks, and that gave me that fire again. >> reporter: while he continued to skate, this period coincided with a substantial downturn in stukateboarding's fs. sales of skateboards and etkateboard clothing plu and hawk's royalties virtually evaporated. early '90s were tough, for sure. i had justtarted a family, my income was shrinking by half evy month, and that's when decided to start a skate company, which seems like the most bizarreyou know, risky ea. but at the same time i believed in skating. i believ come back around.ld and so i-- it, i basically toll of the equity in my house and started a skate company, and then move a

much smaller place and had a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and taco bell, a you know, just-- just made it work >> reporter: the early days of his new skatoard company, originally cald "birdhouse projects," were lean. hawk assem skateboarders, and they traveled across the country promoting and selling birdhouse skateboards, clothing, and videos. >> we were skating in parking lots in front of skate shops, and they would just set up unky scrap ramps, and we did it. you know, 100 people would show up and we would gn autographs, and we were living the dream. in hindsight, it seems like a struggle. at the time i was just stoked 'cause i did get to skate, and-- and that was the most fun for me, and i was still doing what i . >> reporter: but his break fromn competitive skg was short lived. in the sr of 1995, espn launched the x-games-- a nationally televisedpetition for what are known as action sports. everything from motocross to b.m.x. to skaty oarding. nea25 years later, the x t-games have becomehe single largest platform for athletes in thection sports world. >> tony hawk ming out of competition retirement le than

two months ago. >> reporter: athe age of 27, tony hawk was one of th-g xames' breakout stars. but it was duri the games of 1999 when tony hawk would become a household name.en that's wh he became the first person ever to land the famed 900-- >> are you kidding me? >> reporter: ...two-and-a-half aerial rotations above the ramp- - a trick he had been trying for tearn yes. by the turn of the century, tony hawk had become not only skateboarding's global ambassador, buone of the world's most recognizable sports figures. his name and image could be found everywhere, from ts to video games, to his own clothing line. he even appeared as himself on "the simpsons." >> are you skateboarding lend tony hawk? >> reporter: and the crowd's tha growing.o see him kept all the while, skateboarding

contvoinued to ee. now, your eldest son is a professional ateboarder as ll. how do you think his career differs now at his age from when you were his age? >>o r him, he doesn't even have to compete because we're in the age of social media, and-- and video, and-- and photos, and-- and people just want to see what you're producing if they're interested in you skills. >> reporter: two years ago, his son, riley, was photographed skateboarding in a drainage ditch outside of san diego. he was skating through the ditch, then jumped up on top of a pipe that sits eight feet above the grouas. ithe same pipe his father was photographed skating under years earlier. >> that still blowse away that-- that he did that. for him to think way outside of the box and-- and actually, like ate up and over it was somethoning thatof us would imagine. >> reporter: but with everything he has done, hawk says the thing he is most proud of is the tony hawk foundation. the founon has helped build nearly 600 skateparks across the country, from inner ty neighborhoods in los angeles and new york, to natamerican reservations in montana and north dakota. an estimated six million people use the parks each yea but there is a photo that hangs in hawk's office that perhaps offers a more thorough portrait of just how far skateboarding has traveled in tony hawk's 50

years. it shows a young boyearning to leap into the air along with his board. it's a skateboarding trick d called the "ollie," 's one of the first moves any skateboarder learns. but this isn't baltimore, or tlse.. it's ethiopia. >> that is one of the coolest skate photos i have ever seen. just the whole thing. he's in rubber boots and you know-- traditional garb, learning to ollie. yes, it's amazing. to me that's one of the most eemxciting ts of the growth of skateboarding, is that it will be-- it will be in places like those, and it's an open canvas to them, they don't-- thedon't have this history, they don't know what the cool trick of the week is. a so they just do it in their own style. and that was me. i mean, you know, i-- i grew up one-- near one of the last remaining skatepark there were only a handful of us thawere skating there, but it gave me everything. >> reporterand even at 50, after all the contests, accolades, and broken bones, he says that feeling is still there. >> i still try new tricks all the time. and the tricks i'm trying-- yes,

i'm 50 and-- and that might se absurd, but i've sort of shifted my style into a way of skating thatk isn't so high-rd so much high impact. but i will never quit skating. maybe even in ten years you'll just find me carving around in my backyard-- maybe camera, but that's where you'll find me. >> sreenivasan: many of the migrants crossing the southern borduner with thed states are fleeing violence in their home countries in central america-- most often honduras, guatemala,nd el salvador. but there is another crisis in the region-- this time in nicaagua, where daniel ortega's government's proposed cuts to pensions and social security in april triggered violent protests. peace talks started, but in the past few weeks government-backed forces began attacking armed groups demanding ortega'

resignation. joining us now from mexico city is elisabeth malkin, a reporter for "the new york times," who usvers central america. she isback from nicaragua, where she witnessed a battle in the town of masaya earlier this week. thanks for joining us. first of all, what are the core issues that people are fighting over or pushing back against? >> reporter: well, daniel ortega n election 11 years ago. and when did he that, he began to te over control of all the branches of government. so basically, daniel ortega control over the supreme court, the legislature, thelectoral tribunal, and people really feel that this is turning into a one-party state. tou have to be loyal to the government in ordeo get basic benefits. you have to join the party in order to get any access to govement jobs. and the proximate cause was the cuts to social security and so

what began as peaceful protest suddenly this changed when the government fired on people. and social media had an enormous attract because what you had were pictures of elderly people being beaten up by crowds loyal toeaniel ortga. and this spread rapidly through social media. and that hea carted outrage -- created outrage and turned into this large opposition that has shown no signs of folding. and they want daniel ortega out. they want him out now. and they won't take anything less. >> sreenasan: what's the atus of any peace talks or any mediating forces here? >> reporter: there's a broad allice called the -- and it includes groups that normanelly woulr talk to each other. what it doesn't include is goliticians, which perhaps is a thing. itt it includes the business comm student groups who

have been very important in there, farmers groups. there media the church which is highly respected in nieragua. and dal ortega himself asked for the church to mediate. but at the same type, the church has been t instrumental ining to stop the violence. so, these lks have been really going on since the end of april. and what the coalition of opposition organization would like is aiscussion on the elections, on human rights, on some kind of trial, justice for what is now ove20 deaths, and reforms that will allow some kind of return to democracy where this one-party, one-man rule is dismantled. >> sreenivasan: all right, elisabeth malkin from "the new york times" joining us by phone from mexico city. thanks so much.

>> reporter: thanks so much for having me. >> this is "pbs newshour ekend," sunday. >> sreenivasan: in zimbabwe, a bomb exploded at an event attended by the country's president, emmerson mnangagwa, arin what he called a "cowy act." state media is calling it an assassination attempt. itn's john ray reports. >> reporter: wearing his trademark scarf in the color ofa the nation l, this was a close escape for president mnangagwa. in the smoking confusion, he was schered to safety, apparently hed. but there were injuries to senior government figures including the wife of his deputy. the president met her and other ialer survivors and on soc media said, we will not allow this cowardly act to get in our way as we move towards elections. the strongest response to violence is peace. angagwa came to power in november when the military moved

the leader since independence. many called it a coup, so a keenly contested election next month is vital to confer legitimacy on a newov grnment. mnangagwa had been addressing al in the second city of llowwayo, a stronghold. some will blame the blast on rogue elements on the old regime. zimbabwe's panel -- path is fraught with danger. >> sreenivasan: in brussels today, european leaders gathered for an emergency summit on migration. thumnations differ over asyl policies and border enforcement. german chancello angela merkel, is facing increasing internal pressure to accept fewer migrants seeking asylum.y italy and hungcently elected leaders who are attempting to decrease the numbers of refugees and illegal immigrants within their countries. in saudi arabia, the world's last ban on women drivers ended today. until now, saudi women needed men to take them even short distances. this comes after years of ests and the arrests of activists.

several women who advocated for the change remain in jail. >> sreenivasan: finally tonight, wofith 80% the vote counted in turkey's election today, president recep tayyip erdogan claimed victory in his bid for another term that will also brdly expanded his powers. turkey's state-run news agency rts erdogan has more tha 50% of the vote, but one of his main opponents is contesting that. if dogan's lead holds, he will avoid a runoff in july. andth onext "newshour," the challenge of taking away guns from the elderlydeho suffer from ntia and other degenerative diseases. that's monday on the "pbs newshour." that's all for this edition ofwe "pbs newshour end." i'm hari sreenivasan. thanks for watching. have a good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh acce.wgbh.org

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