captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening, i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, the trump administraon reverses obama-era guidelines on college admissions, in a move to discourage schools from aiming for racial diversity. then, behind rebel lines in yemen: the united states' role in the war against the iranian-e alhouthi rebels. >> ( translated ): the planes, n at kill erican made. the tanks, ameride >> woodruff: and, world cup fever-- with 16 teams a look at the compwoition for the d soccer championship. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

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president trump today interviewed three more candidates for the u.s. supreme court. the white house says that's in addition to four he met with yesterday. in addition, republican senator mike lee of utah says president trump interviewed him over the phone yesterday. the white house confirms they spoke, but isn't calling it afo al interview. in northern thailand, 12 boys and their soccer coach remainin stuc flooded cave tonight.un they were yesterday, but it's not clear when they'll get out, as we hear from john irvine of independent television news. >> reporter: pumped from the bowels of the mountain. geing rid of this water maintains the scant living space in which the boys are now enduring and 11th night. smiling thai rescue teams spent the day getting fo and company to the trapped 13. seven divers, including a doctor and nurse, are by their side. above ground, thr relatives e willing them on.

the aunt of the team coach said she missed him very much. how many seconds have ticked by these 10 days. "i miss him every second," she said. >> how many of you? >> 13. >> 13? brilliant. >> reporter: when they were found by british cave drivers last night, one of the boys askewhen they would get out. he was told. >> not today not today. you have to dive. >> reporter: giving them breathing gear and guiding them ue options of two re and seems more likely than the second which is to wait out the hemaining four months of t rainy season. as the thai authorities try to make contingencies for every eventuality, the big barrier is the weather. it was flash flooding that trapped the boys in the cave in the first place, and if torrential rains come again they forced to put on the scuba gear quickly to get out of there.

some of the boys can't even im. but as their strength is being restored, their also being tutod by scuba teams. the weather forecast is bad, so they are being ready for the dive of their live >> woodruff: that report from john irvine of independent television news. president trump is insisting again that north korea's nuclear threat is receding. he tweeted that there've been "many good conversations with north korea", and he went on to say: "if not for me, we would now be at war." it's been widely reported in recent days that satellite photos show north korea ramping up production of materials used for nuclear weapons. torman chancellor angela merkel faced new questiony, about a last-minute compromise on w immigratioh her conservative coalition partners. late mday, the chancellor agreed to build transit centers ts the austrian border, and to turn away any migrlready registered in other european

countries. >> ( translated ): we will deport migrants to the countries they come from with the agreement of those countries. that's how we keep the spirit of partnership within the european union and at the same time we navigate and organize secondary migration.er >> woodruff:l's other coalition partners the center- left social democrats, said the deal is worthless unless other e.u. states agree to take migrants back. and, austria warned it will act to protect its borders iac germany stoppting migrants. the former prime minister of malaysia, najib razak, has been arrested and charged wath looting a investment fund. a government-led task force says it's tied to a transfer of $10.6 million into najib's bank account. he was voted out of office in may. back in this country, republican congressman jim jordan denied knowing about alleged sexual w abuse stlers at ohio state neiversity.

it allegedly hapdecades ago, when he was assistant coach. two former wrestlers tell nbc news that they believe jordan knew the team doctor was molesting athletes, and did nothing. jordan's office says he never heard any such allegations. and on wall street, a late sell- off hit tech and bank stocks, and wiped out early gains. the dow jones industrial average st 132 points to close at 24,174. the nasdaq fell 65 points, and the s&p 500 slipped 13. still to come on the newshour: the trumreadministration rses an obama-era racialmi diversity ions policy immigrant families still in limbo weeks after an executive order halted separations. a'hind rebel lines: americ role in yemen's civil war, and muchore.

>> woodruff: now to the latest guidelines from the trump administration on race andts role in college admissions. the obama administration had encouraged schools to take at' studrace into account to increase diversity. but under president trump, the administration is nourging colleges and universities to adopt standards that are blind to the role of race. ar comes after other case went and it comes as ha university is facing a lawsuit over its admission practices for allegedly excluding some asian- american applicants to make room for students of other races.th for a look a, i'm joined by nick anderson, who covers this for the "washington post." and marcia coyle, who e vers the suprurt for the "national law journal." we welcome both of you to theog

m. nick schifrin, i'm going to start with you. the trump administration is saying the obama adinistratio went too far. they are now rescinding what are so-called seven policy guidances what were enacted previously. what does at mean? >> well, what it means is that the federal government's pronouncements on the supreme court's pronouncements have now changed. so you have go back to the supreme court here, over a series of rulings over many years, the supreme courtas grappled with race in admissions and race in schools, and then, after ey issue a ruling from time to time, the federal government will sift throughr that andy to advise school systis and colleges on what means for them. so the a obaministration did that over a period of yearrsom 2011 to 2016, issued some statements, and, today, theni trump adration said,

basically, we're getting rid of those statements, they're not operable anymore. >> woodruff: andwhick schifrin does that mean for these schools? >> well, that's interesting. if you'reea college and you s an incoming change of administration from obama to trump, you probably already knew that there was a change afoot in the way the federal government viewed these things. but we haven't had a supreme court ruling on this for a couple of years now, so the folks i've talked to in higher education today suggest that we're not going to see anct immediate eff colleges rushing to change their policies, but this action could give some colleges pause as they monsider the issue. it could say to se colleges, hey, wait a minute, you might get challenged on ths. remember, i think you've alluded to this, already, there's a court challenge to harvard's admission policy in federal

court right now in boston. >> woodruff: right. so that's, i think -- this action by the trump administration adds a dimension to that debate on affirmative action that colleges are going to have to reckon with.f: >> woodrou raised several points i want to come back to. marcia, let's back up fthr still and look at what if the sorts said, what has the supreme court said over time about taking race into consideration? >> okay, the supreme court said, terms of affirmative action, that there areatwo interests ustify the use of race. one, to remedy the present effects of past discrimination sity two, to achieve div in education, particularly higher education. now, the curt sai that when a university uses race, it has tot the constitution's toughest review -- what we call strict scrutiny. one, it has o show there is

that compelling interest to achieve diversity or remedy past discrimination, and the use of racehas to be narrowly tailored to achieve that interest, it can't go any farther than necessary. finally, the court has said that has to show that there are no race-new central altveerna available. the court also has said quota are illegal, unconstitutional. if you're going to use race, itb has one of many factors, part of a holistic review of a student's application. >>maoodruff: so what the o administration did in interpreting that was leaning in the direction of incorporating race into deions and now how the trump administration iste reting it is different. they're saying we don't think race should be taken intoio consideras much. >> i haven't seen yet in writing what the trump administration io goin issue to universities and school systems, but it's

obvious that the obama administration pro ably would tabroad a view as it could of the supreme court's rulin whereas the trump administration, being a conservative administration, is going to take a narrower view of what it thinks e supreme court said. but the supreme court has been clear, these decisions have been byarrow majorities. the last ruling was in 2016, is 4-3 decision. we all know there are nine justices, but it came when justice scalia's seat was still vacant. justice kagan had to recuse because she had been involved in that catese froxas when she was in government, so it was 4-3, an it was justice kennedy who wrote the opinion, and it was really the first time he had >>held an affirmative action program. oodruff: of course we're at a moment where justice kennedy is leaving >> very fragile majority. >> woodruff: another importantmo nt. so, nick schifrin, just to come

back to this question of how are schools to interpret this, youi said aute ago they're likely not to jump and do somethiy immediatt to take their time and, what see, what more the trump administration says? >> yeah, it's worth poiing out that the trump administration's yanguage on this today was ver restrained. they did not come out and say that they want to end affirmative action. the statements from cretary of education betsy devos and attorney general jeff sesons were fairly limited. they were trying to say that the l government, in its previous administration, had overstepped slightly or in a significant way in its interpretation of the supreme court rulings, and they were trying to sayt, tha hey, let's just stay with what the judges have said and ruled, but they did not then take the next step, which is issue a prescription for what it thinks should

happen. so i think cleges and universities and school systems as well, because they're part of this, will probably be looking for further actions and words from the trump administration on what it actually wan, and course, everybody's eyes are on the supreme court nomination to come. >> woodruff: no question. marcia, quickly back to thear hacase that has been working its way up through the courts where the challenges thav d has bent over backwards to not -- in other words, it hasn't done enough about race, those of different races beyond ose who are asian. >> the charges they haveag discriminateainst asian-americans in admissions policy, and it's not just wharvard, there's a lasuit as well against the university of north carolina, and i think i's interesting to note that the man in his organization that brought those two lawsuits is the same one who brought the university

of texas chaenge to the supreme court in 2016. those two cases are at very early stages, they're in federal district court, thre prably will be a trial, they've had months of discovery, and it will take a while beforey get to the u.s. supreme court. >> it's also wntrth poig out, if i can jump in here, that the harvard case is likely to draw significant publicity because it's harvard, and also just to te harvard strongly denies these allegations. >> woo ndruff:ick schifrin, marcia coyle, we thank you both. >> pleasure, judy. thank you. >> woodruff: two weeks ago, we first introduced you to sofi, a three-year-old girl who made the journey with her grandmotherug throh mexico, fleeing violence, to seek asylum here in the united states. our newshour team first met them

at a shelter ijuarez, before they crossed the u.s. border. >> nawaz: her family, angelica says, was targeted by mexican cartels, already killing her husband son, daughteaw, and three grandchildren. getting out of mexico, she says, is a matter of life or death. ( >> translated ): i'm worried for her. my granddaughter's lived through s.ny very ugly thi >> nawaz: children are separated from their parents or guardians. are you worried about that? >> ( translated ): yes, it makes me afraid that they will separate mgrfrom my ddaughter. and i pray that they won't separate me from her.uf >> wf: they were in fact separated, despite making ay, legal entrn asylum claim, and carrying guardianship documents. this was two days after president trump's executive order ending family separation. in the days since, we've stcontinued to report theiy, to follow sofi's family as they naviga the reunification process, like hundreds of other families in similar situations. amna nawaz joins us now with the

latest. amna, what more ha we learned about sofi and her family since they were separated? the family, the reunification process as a whole, it's very lengthy and complicated and looks like it's beng made more nngthy and complicated i some cases. if you just look at sofi's timee li in this instance, this is what her moether has ben movigating. heer is the one in contact with the government agencies. she entered gally with a younger sibling, has an asylum case pending and in the u.s. this is the time line. she got a call saying her daughter has been taken into custody. for four days after that, no word on her daughter. five days after the separation, she was allowed one phone ca with sofi. it was 15 minutes. her mother said sofi cried throughout the whole thing and couldn't be comforted. kept asking to see hmplet ten days after being separated, she

was allowed another call. said sofi cried again and the call was cut short because her daughter was so upset. the mother has been navigating the reunification process, it costs a lot of time and money. the officials want to make sure ren intoreleasing chi safe custody when they do so, and there's part of it, though, we found out the administration could speed up if they wanted. fingerprints not just for the people requesting custody but also every the home, those have been waved before theya could be ain. and the actual reunification. sofi's mom has the pay not just' for softransport for the family but also a round trip ticket for th the escort and thy are hundreds of miles away fro each other. >> woodruff: we heard a number of officials say if families are crossing the border and making an application for legal asylum,

they will not be separated. clearly, that is not what happened here. so do we know if this is a isolated situation? >> part of the problem in reporting this is we don't knowh we know abou stories we hear about, we know about other reports. in sofi's case, this wasn't true. "the los angeles times" published a piece, a number of cases were similar to this. a guatemalan mom who had her sn separated, a honduran mon with her 18-month-old son separated. these are all people making asylum claims, most cases crossing legally.e partment of homeland security is the agency overseeing whether to separate or not. they havsome criteria. they're on the front lines, trying to prevent smugglers and trafficking, and says those decisions are made in consultation with people. transparency is the problem. when we askio que, we won't get answers because of privacy reasons, but in this case, they

say the documenttation is missing. the department of homeland security says it's a myth anyone entering legally and claiming asyl will be separated and we know that's not true. >> woodruff: some cildre tame came with families, others unaccompanied,ut know they are subjected to a federal judge's ruling that the administration immediately worked to reunite families and children and there's an amount of time depending on the airnlings 14 days quickly for children under 5, 30 days for children 5 and over. how does that play into all of this? >> we don't know entirely. the white house responded soon after the judge's ruling said that complicates the enforcement of immigration laws and basically shows the need for congress the act soon to change immigration rules and we don't know if they will comply with thatudge's order or not.

reported secretary azar of health and human service which is oversees the care and custody of these children has put togeer a task force specifically looking at reunifeation, but we don't h any details or how it will change the process. we know h.h.s. tells us they have 11,800 minors in their care and custody, the vast majority arrived unaccompanied, largely older children who came the last several years into the past administration as well.2, abou0 of those were children who were separated from ludes parents, and that inc sofi, the girl we started talking about in this conversation. judy, we should also disclose we have been in regular contact with h.h.s. and secretary azar's office specifically. they asked for information about sofi's y. in consultation with their family and an advocate, we went ck to secretary azar's office and gave them the full spelling of sofi's name which we haven't even reported publicly. they needed it to completely

answer more questions. that was a week ago we gave them the information. t today we got a response that tells us she is in their ce and custody and they are in touch with her mother. today marks 11 days this 3-year-old has been in the care and custody of the u.s. government and we don't know when she will be bck with her family. >> woodruff: so important to follow the case, it gives us some sense to have the entire process. amna nawaz, thank yo. >> thanks, judy. >> woodruff: next, we continue our excluse series from behind rebel lines in yemen. last night we rerted on the acute, man-made hunger crisis amid the ongoing war bween houthi rebels and a saudi-led coalition. tonight, we look at the united states' support for that coalition, and the effect arms sales and otsir american ance has on the conflict.

to see what is happening on the ground, special correspondent jane ferguson smuggled herself across the frontlines report this series. and, as she reports, the effects are profound, and dead. >> reporter: inside rebel territory in yemen, the war rains down from the sky. on the ground, front lines have not moved much in the past three years of conflict. instead, an aerial bombing campaign by the saudd and american-backed coalition hammers much of the country's north, leaving scenes like this dotted across the capital city sana'a and beyond. a few weeks before i arrived, this gas station was hit. security guard abdul al badwi was in auilding next door when it happened. he says six civilians were killed. why did they target this? >> ( translated ): we don't know

the reason. >> reporter: can't explain why they would have targeted something like this. elsewhere in the city, a governmet office building was recently hit. another pile of rubble, another monument to the civilian deaths of this war. when this building was filled withsffice workers when it wa hit by an air strike. you can still see the blood smeared on the walls from those who were evacuated after it hite in 2014 ye rebels called houthis seized the capital and much of the rest of the country. the houthis are supported by sunni saudi arabia's arch rival, eaiite iran, so the next y the saudis mobilized a coalition of arab militaries to defeat the group. the aerial bombing campaign has not managed to dislodge the s.bels, but has hit weddings, hospitals and ho the u.s. military supports the saudi coalition with logistics and intelligence.

the united states it also sellth saudis and coalition partners many of the bombs it drops on yemen. in the mountains outside the capital, we gained exclusive t accethe site where the houthis store unexploded american-made bombs. like this 2000 pound mark 84 bomb made in garland, texas. it landed in the middle of the street in sana'a, we are told. one ofhe men here shows me the >> ( translated ): it landedbr near the sedaqge next to the central bank of yemen and it didn't explode," he said. >> reporter: one of the men here shows me the fin of a mark 82 bomb. it's used to guide ageomb to it's t back in the city, the houthis also let us see a storage site with the remains of american made cluster bombs. cluster bombs are amongst theiv most deadly toians, filled with baseball sized smaller bombs that scatter over a larger

area. any that don't explode stay where they fell, primed to explode, and often wounding civilians like land mines. yemen'sed deep in countryside to find out more about how the bombing campaign is affecting peoples' lis there. this is what i found: a doctors thout borders cholera treatment center, completely destroyed by an air strike thebe dare. it was just about to open its doors to patients. yemen is home to the worst cholera epidemic in modern history and centers like this are rare. cholera is a seasonal disease here in yemen and that's why the aid organizations have been getting ready for this comg season. this facility which was meant to treat patients was brand new. no one was killed here, but the

loss of the precious medical facility filled with lifesaving equipment is devastating.ha t's quite clearly a contravention of humanitarian law, there is no question of that. >> reporter: the united nations warns the saudi coalition on the location of thousands of humanitarian facilities across e country, requesting they don't bomb them. lise grande is the u.n. development program coordinator in yemen >> so if you look at the total number of requests that we have in and the total num violations there have been few violations compad to the requests. but when those violations occur they are serious indeed. >> reporter: in a refugee camp closer to fighting along the saudi border, people told me they were attacked by war planes in the last camp they lived in. in 2015 mazraq refugee camp was bombed by coalition jets. radiyah hussein lost a grandson in the attack and walked forda ys to get here.

>> ( translated ): they attacked the camp with three missiles ine one day, andwe ran away. >> reporter: on the road to the refugee camp, several bridges had been bombed. anger towards america is growing in rebel held areas of yemen. most people here, whether they support the houthis or not, know that many of the bombs being dropped are american. it provides a strong propaganda , ol for the houthi rebelso go by the slogan "death to america." dr ali al motaa is a college professor. he did his doctorate in the u.s., but is a strong houthi supporter. >> the missiles that kill us, american made. the planes that kill us, american made. the tanks, american made. you are saying to me, "where is america?" america is the whole thing.

>> reporter: despite desperate efforts to end the fighting in yemen, the violence is gettingrs woe. the saudi-led coalition launched an attack on houthi controlled hodeidah city last month. the city is home to hundreds of thousands of yemenis and aid organizations warned that the attack could kill many. as the bombs began to fall, these people fled to the capital sana'a. >> ( translated ): my house is a traditional house and when the bomb landed the gate was blown off and the roof was gone.or >> rr: dura issa's house was hit. her family got out alive, but she is now homeless, trying to care for her severely disabled son. >> ( translated ): i don't know where to stay tonight. we don't have the money for a t.tel. we cannot afford we left in a hurry, scared, we left everything. >> reporter: ahead of the battle the coalition warned civilians to leave.

>> ( translated ): the coalition announced on the tv that we have to leave. didn't tell us anything, they just told us to go out. the houthis maderenches. my house is next to the sea and ofe battles are there. >> reporter: milli yemenis are just like him, living in fear of the battle raging near their homes, or an air strike killing them and their families. both the houthis and the saudi- led coalition have disregarded innocent civilian life in this war. every bomb that falls on a hospital, officeuilding or home causes more unease aboutey where ome from. for the pbs newshour, i'm jane ferguson, in sana'a, yemen. >> woodruff: jane's final story airs later this week; you can watch all of her reporting and read her reporter's notebook from her journey behind rebel lines on our website, pbs.org/newshour.

>> woodruff: now, john yang looks at new reporting into one leveof exposure we might be agreeing to when we click those "i accept" buttons on our email apps. >> yang: judy, if you use e- mail, chances are it's google's g-mail. it has about 1.4 billion users-- that's two-thirds of all active e-mail users worldwide.a ar ago, g-mail said it stopped its practice of scannino users inboxeersonalize ads. but the wall street journal reports that it still allowsp outside velopers scan inboxes. "wall street journal" tech reporter douglas macmillian broke that story and is with us from san francisco. , thanks for joining us. quickly give us an idea what kind of apps we're talking about and why do they want accesto the email -- to our e-mails? >> yeah, thanks, john.

so google says gmail apps make your email moruseful. a few yearlings the company started opening up email and data inside it to third-party softwa devopers that make apps to third' party utility tools for you to use later, travel apps, shopping apps. there's an array of ways to let you sup power your email. the more you're allowing developers to access your email, the more you're risking theat personal in your email to fall into the wrong hands. >> are these computers or real people reading the e-mails? >> that's the surprising thing i we fou our reporting for mhis story is that, in most cases, these are cputers scanning these messages automatically. we talked to a company called return path that is hooked up ta more tn 2 million users and actively scanning theires mess mostly that's computer scanning them, but in some cases wer

found, in or train the computers, they need to be human beings step in and manually review those messages, and in the case of this return path company, they were having employees manually step in and say this messag a commercial message and this message is a personal message. that process needs to be donre y a peson in order to make sure the computer can do it automatically later on.nd >>hat protections are there against the people who are doing this using some of the information? >> yeah, so the protections here are the privacy polies and the terms of service for the companies who are doing this. i mean, fir and foremost, that's google and the privacy policy they keep with their developers. now, we talk to a lot of developers who say even though google prohibits developers from doing things like storing your data and sharing with third parties, that google doesn't do much to audit the developers. c th run checks and see if

there are extreme bad actors in the system, but they aren' actually visiting each of the companies obtaining the data. in many cases these are small startupsho don't have rigorous privacy practices in place like you would see b a tech company like google. so there's questions around re these privacies being followed and questions around who are the companies getting the data at the end of the day. >> and what did google say when you went to them? >> google's general response is it's up to users ann d wheu click a button and say i give my permission for this developer to access my inbox, then you are signing your inbox over to them. but i think that that answer is probably not going to carry weight. there's more and more attention on issues of privacy and more awareness of how tech giants have a real responsibility to users to help them make icenford chabout their data and, in this case, i feel like many of the users i talked to and many of the instances which we reported in this story today aro

exampl how users in some cases are not making informed oices and companies lie embogle could be doing more to help them. >> how does this compare to amfacebook andidge a cambridge analytica? >> it's similar in the sense that both companies over the past decade have tried to do what's called in silicon valley creating a platform. microsoft windows is a great example back in the '90s of building a softwareblatt form for other developers to buildft re on and when you get all the apps going, you get a lot oi users to you and build ultimately more valuable product. apple iphone is more successful in dog is at the app store. facebook recently had stumblest in opening up solveware to outside developers. like you mentioned with the cambridge analytica example, ghu're seeing google is going to have second th about the strategy of turning gmail into a platform theyeople are starting to question whether or not email data is something than

should be lethe bounds and the containers of the gmaile. servic >> douglas macmillian of the "wall street journal," thanks for explaining this to us. >> thanks, john. >> woodruff: the men's world cup is in full swing in russia and the field of 32 nations has now been whittled down to eight. the early rounds produced penalty shoot-outs and late-gam dramile underdogs have eliminated some of the tournament's favorites.ll m brangham has more on the action from soccer's biggest stage. >> brangham: that's right judy. it has been an incredibly exciting world cup tr, and today sweden beat switzerland, and england knocked off colombia to solidify the final eight in the quarteinals. to take a quick look at this point in the tournament, i'm joined by sebastian abbot. he's the author of "the away game: the epic search for soccer's next superstars," which

isndll about talent scouting development of young players in africa . sebastian abbot, thanks for being here. this has been such an exciting world cup so far.at tands out to you? >> it's bun one of the best n remembes i ca there have been so many last-minute goals, so many big upsets, germany outi in the frst round, you know, spain beaten by russia, the lowtet rankeam in the tournament. so it's been exciting, and i think everyone who's watching has been on the edge of their seat. >> y mentioned germany getting knocked out. a lot of the heavy favorites have been taking it on the chin. of the favorites who are left, who is consired the likelyiest to make it to the snend. >>ink brazil is considered the favorite witthe most expensive player in the world. behind them france, which also has a really sta but they're both on the same side of the bracket so only one

will make it to the final. >> we saw two of the really most talented playersn the eire game get knocked out. great players often don't make it to the world cup, but how dol you n those two weren't able to carry their teams thee way ople expected? >> i think it shows how much soccer is a team sport, both christopher and lionel are amazing and con nsiderede conversations of the best players to play the game but they're just one of eleven players. if you don't have the support around you, you won't be able to make it through such a long iournament like the world cup. >> your book de the search for young stars across the continenof africa, and it's hard to not notice that no african nation made it to today. how doou explain tt? >> i think one of the things africa lacks, it definitely doesn't lack passion for the sport, it doesn't pack populaon, there's a billion people on the continent of

africa, but it lacks the kind infrastructure to train and develop young players like you have in eure and increasingly in the u.s. so that's one of the things that held africa bacu' seeing a bit more now but they haven't been able to trainm their young taute the same way european teams have. it's important for nationalif teams to ideyour players at a very young age, train them from a very young age.yo have a lot of the best african players who are going on and plang in europe. >> as i mentioned, your book is about the search for young stars. weeeing some of them emerge in this world cup. who has stood out to you? >> i think probably the biggest yoar who's emerged in the world cup is killian embope, for trance. only 19 years old, scored a few goals and impressed everyone.ss what's impe about him, even though the african teams ha not made it the world

cup, you have a lot of tea o africa -- players of african descent. so a lot of thm have become stars for their newer european countries. >> so we have quarter finals and oemifinals, what's the one match you would point toay if you're skeptical about the excitement about this game, watch this match and get a taste of what world cup soccer is all about, what would you tell them to watch? >> i think in the next round, brazil-belgium is going to be a very, very good match. both of those teams have a chance of winning the whole thing, both have just an array s rs that play for the top clubs in the world, so that would be good. in the next phase, i would say, if france and brazil both maker it tgh, they're going to be matched up in the semifinals, and that's a game of absolute heav so for me i hope that happens because it would probably be one of the mostin excgames of

the tournament. >> any other paticularly sto lines that emedged for you in the last weeks. >> russia was an interestingon nobody thought they'd do very much at all in the world cup. they're thet- lownked team at the tournament, and they managed to knock off spain who won the world cup in 2010 and one of the top-ranked teams in the world, and, so you know, that may be upsetting for some american fans because, obviously, there's been a lot of consternation over russia for ae lieunt of reasons in the u.s., but it's caused a lot of joy in russia where theme tont is being held, so it would be interesting to see if they could keethe cinderella story running. one of the disappointing things is the u.s. didn't make the world cup. the u.s. should qualify given te growth of soccer e united states and the group the u.s. qualifies from and definitely the audience of americans watching, he world cup wn about half from the 2014 tournaments sin u.s. was in it.

i would encourage american fans to tune in becse it has been one of the most entertaining wops in recent history and will continue to be. >> the book is "the away game: the epic search for soccer's next superstars." you soian abbot, than much. >> thanks for having me. >> woodruff: next, "new yorker" magazine poetry editor kevin young has just published "brown," his own latest book of verse. young is also a father and runs a research branch of the new york public library. pbs newshour correspondent jeffrey brown recently caught up with young to learn the many ways he is engaged with the world. >> lately i've been thinking a lot about bringing the sons d daughters of harlem home. >> brown: as writer, editor and archivist, kevin young is a poet actively engaged with thworld.

author of books of poetry, criticism and anthologies,toe's also dirof harlem's schomburg center for research in black culture, part of the new york public library. >> and langston hughes's ashes are buried u>>er the center. rown: so he's buried here. >> yes, yes, he's interred heree and his spiritivens the place. >> brown: in his new collection, titled "brown," young draws heavily on his boyhood in topeka, kansas, tying it in large and small ways to the wider world. >> i started to realize that therwere these themes emerging, of history, and public history, and private history and how they intertwine.th an's really when the book came a book it in and of itself. you know, it like became one long poem in a certain way.ic >> brown: hist figures enter the poems, including flesh and blood abolitionist john brown, the singer james brown, and linda browof topeka, who as a chil was at the heart of the "brown v. board of education" case that

helped desegregate america schools. >> brown: so there's all these browns throughout history and then there is you as a brown boy, a brown young man. >> yeah. i wanted it all filtered through ppose my experience of brownness. i ended up also writing about my son and thinking about my boyhood helped me think about his, or maybe it's the other way around: his boyhood helped me think about mine. i think also i was trying to understand the ways that i started to understand race which weren't always obvious to me, but slowly became so, and you don't really have a kind of time to get used to it. suddenly, you have to confront these questions. >> brown: in the poem, "shirts and skins," young explos the ways an almost casual bigotry crept into his own life. here's an excerpt. >> winners talk losers walk how i hoped to outrun those arms to leapfrog all tacklers the way madness skips a generation. kids i sat by for yearske

or wback from school with since we were 10 w now down te hall of high school would call minority, go home i never did ask where's that? their words a strong hot wind at my back. >> brown: "kids i'd sat by for years?" >> oh yeah. no, it's strange to about those times and how what it was like to know someo for a long time or even have you kn spent the night at their house or been at a party you know and sudden ey're saying things that almost sort of out of a can, you know. that was the oddest thing, i think. >> brown: you obviously felt t something at te, some kind of awareness. >> sure. >> brown: what are we reading here? is it you, the child? or you, looking back? >> well necessarily it's me looking back. you know, a good poem to me doesn't just describe a feeling, it enacts it. it ects an experience. and for the moment of the poem

you are that "i," you know, you are transformed and transported. and i think of poems as this quisite form of transpor we were black then, not yetca afamerican, so we danced every chance we could get.ay thurnd saturday we'd chant the roof! the roof! the roof is on fire! we don't need no water and folks' perms began to turn. >> brown: throughout young's poems: musicians, athletes, references to pop culture. you've got r.c. cola, you've got ari, you know. leadbelly and prince, arthur ashe... >> yeah, well, those are the things of the world and i think it's hard to write poems that aren't of the world. it'd be strange to not write about what it was like to hear prince for the first time, or listen to p hop so much that you want to make poems that are as good as hip h. i think poetry should be part of popular culture at the sense th poetry should be something

we reach to. >> brown: there are also poems about darker moments in american life, from emmett till to trayvon martin, again, sifted through young's own experience. >> i was writing the poems, many of them, during this moment whev race and ourion seemed to have resurfaced or at least to be on the news daily. someone's getting thut of a starbucks, or shot, you know, being unarmed. when you're writing about your childhood it's hd not to think about those things too. >> brown: the days kevin young has another very public perch, as poetry editor of the "new yorker" magazine. >> i get to be like a public fan. >> brown: a public fan of poetry? >> yeah, i get to think about what's exciting about the "new " is also what's excitin about poetry right now, it's extremely diverse. it's really coming from a lot of different voices. >> brown: for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown from the schomburg center for research in black culture in harlem.

>> woodruff: we've all heard of racial profiling. what about "accent" profiling? hernan diaz is the associate director of the hispanic sistitute at columbia univ and his first novel was just nominated for a pulitzer prize. those are obvious accomplishments, yet he possesses something else that sets him apart. at's tonight's in my humble opinion. w >>k at a university in new york with a large population of international students. walking around campus e other day, i was perplexed to see flyers advertising accent reduction or even accent elimination. having been born in argentina, grown up in sweden, and spent mo of my life in the unite states, i have, to some degree, a foreign cent in every language i speak. something in my spanish makes

taxi dvers in buenos aires ask me where i'm from. in swedish, my accent is very slight, but i have the vocabulary of a twelve-yeaold. in my early 20s, i lived in london for a couple of years,ft which ts mark. but the fact is i got englishs almostgift, through swedish, and there is still a scandinavian lilt in there. does my accent need correcting? i don't think so. to sound like who, exactly? a native speaker? what would that even mean? looking at accent-reduction classes online, the third hit i got was not aimed at eastern european or south american immigrants. it actually read: "want to get rid of your new york accent?" an accent can be a stigma, even ethin native speakers of same language. these variations-determined by geography, class, and race-a always identified with stereotypes, and fleeing from

one means embracing another., in englarussian writer may adopt an oxbridge accent; in california, a texan actor may aspire to a san fernando valley cadence. even though everybody has an uccent, there certainly is a thing as accent discrimination. most ous have either suffered or witnessed it at some point. i can easily tell when i'm not being understood or when someone is underscoring a difference in pronunciation just to show me my place. because accent discriminationis in the end, all about place. who belongs and who doesn't. an accent is the echo of one language or tone in another. i, for one, enjoy these ghostly presences of something strange in a familiar environment. they are a reminder of the fact that language doesn't belong to anyone. not even to its native speakers.

language is shared. it is, in principle, a space where everyone is welcome and cooperates toward mutual comprehension. and the very fact that there are ce-thes in the first p fact that we can still understand each other through all the differences is t most conclusive proof of the hospitality at the heart of every language. >> woodruff: finally to our newshour shares, something interesting that caught our eye. humpback whales have fascinated scientists for years but as the newshour's julia griffin reports, new, high-fl ng technology is helping researchers better understand the behavior of these elusive predats.di >> reporter: g above icebergs in antarctica, this drone footage looks like something out of a blockbuster nature doctary. but for marine ecologist dave johnston, the drone itself is a cutting edge tool for ocean science.

>> drones are a chnology at's really changing how we study a lot of things in marinei nments. >> reporter: johnston leads duke university's marine robotics and remote sensi lab. the group uses fixed-wing and multi-rotor dronal to study anehavior and populations r om above. it's a safer, chead more precise method than the helicopters and planes tritionally used for aeria surveys. >> if wee out here and we're cruising along on our ship and we see a group of whales, we can launch the small boat, we can be there within minutes to be ablet e advantage of that. and that's totally revolutionary for our work. >> reporter: the boats johnston has been on lately have been floating near e western antarctic peninsula. in the southern hemisphere summer, it's a great place for observing "bubble net feeding": the unique way humpback whales feed on patches of krill. the gentle giants work together to surround the tiny crustaceans with an ever tightening spiral of air bubbles. their prey concentrated, the

whales lunge upward with open mouths. >> imagine if your mout y from know your chin all the way to your belly button that's pretty much the way it is for the whales. they engulf this very huge volume of water, squeeze the water out and the baleen that's in their mouth keeps the krill inside like a kind of like a filter >> reporter: the team's work marks the first time drones have ble neted to capture b feeding for research purposes. the technology not oy captures the feeding itself in ultra hd but allows scientists to quantify the temperature and size of the humpback whales. >> in fact it hasn't been since commercial whaling that we've really been able to measure them and estimate their mass. so drones are a really incredible non-invasive way to collect data that's really important. >> reporter: that data will help scientists understand the role of humpback whales in the antarctic ecosystem as it reacts to climate change. for the pbs newshour, i'm julia griffin.

>> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonig. on wednesday, it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, preview of the mr. roger's documentary. i'm judy woodruff. join us online and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbsk newshour, thu and see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> babbel. a language app that teaches real-life conversations in a new language, like spaniench, >> the ford foundati v. working wiionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. >> carnegie corporation of new york. supporting innovations in educatioga democratic ment, and the advancement of international peace and security.

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