captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasan: this edition for sunday, september 16: the death toll rises as floodwaters from florence force moretyvacuations. oon mangkhut hits mainland china. o and signature segment, a short lived victory in iraq as isis militants resurface. next on "pbs newshour weekend." >> pbs newshour weekend imade possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. sue and edgar wachenheim iii. the cheryl and philip milstein family. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. z barbara hokerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company.

additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for yublic broadcasting, and by contributions r pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at ncoln center in new york hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. the death toll is rising and more disastrous flooding islo looming asnce, now a tropical depression, continues to cross the carolinas. rain from the slow mg storm continued, leaving homes and not far from the coast, the town of jacksonville, north carolina never-- like i said earlier man, you only see this in tv. i never thought i'd see this. >> sreenivasan: sunday afternoon the city of wion was completely cut off by rising waters.in further inlandumberton, u.s. coast guard members helped

search for stranded residentas thousands of others remained in shelters. new evacuation orders included part of the city of fayetteville exd anyone living within a mile of several rivercted to crest at record-setting levels. the department of defense says more than 13,000 military personnel are assigned to the region in preparation for major flooding. at least fourteen people were reported killed in the storm as of sunday afternoon. the head of fema, the federal emergency management agency, brock long, said this morning that rescue and recorory in the nas will be "ugly, but we'll get through it." long also denied a report thathe s being asked to resign after allegations that he misused government vehicles commuting from washing.c. to his home in north carolina. long said he is cooperating with an internal investigation. >> we comply everyday; we'll make meaningful changes. you know, i have ner made-- i would never intentionally violate any rules, you know,

that i was there-- aware of. typhoon mangkhut made landfall r mainland china today af striking hong kong and the island of macau. itn reporter ronke philips has more on the deadly storm that has already killed dozens of people in the phfoippines and is ing hundreds of thousands to evacuate in china. >> the world's most powerful storm this year wrecking havoc on the seaside village on the southern koa of coast of china washing cars and boats into homes. giant waves and storm surgesla ed the coastline. e thoses brinough to venture outside were no contest for the fierce winds. which reached speeds of more 1 00 miles an hour. windows were smashed and the high wnds torf parts of

buildings and roofs. nearly half a million people across northern chaina have already been evacuated. many rescued by emergency crews using inflatable dinagiesing through waste-high water. in the philippines where typhoon mangkhut first hit the reality of the devastation cost is only w becoming clear. dozens are known to have died but the fulimpact on rural areas is not yet known. in the north of the country, a rescue operation is currently under way to free 40 gold mine errs trapped by a landslide and for those who followed adviceth and watche deadly typhoon pass from the safety of their ho hs, it was clear theyad made a wise decision. ronke philips, i tv news. >> read more about the call to free two "reuters" journalists imprisoned in myanmar on our website: pbs.org newshour.

>> sreenivasan: this afternoon, christine blasey ford, a research psychologist and professor at palo alto university, came forward as the author of a previously anonymous letter that alleges that supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh sexually assaulted her, when they were high school students in suburban maryland. inn exclusive interview wi the "washington post," ford says that in the early 1980s, during a gathering of teenagers at a house in montgomery county maryland "kavanaugh pinned her o to a bher back and groped her over her clothes." ford says she was able to run away. jo,ing us now from washingt d.c. is "newshour" correspondent lisa desjardins. the what does she say happened? >> this woman now coming forward alleges that kavanaugh and hi, frieman by the name of mark judge is the one she is accusing here, coralled her into a back bedroomment that is where she says kavanaugh attacked her she sath of them were falling down drunk at the time. she said she dy d protest. she said no one outside the room heard here ys she was able to get away when the other person, she

says was in the room, mark judge fell on both of them and there was a tumble and she ran into a bathroom, lookederself into it. vaw judge kavanaugh, judge brett ugh has said unequivocally and cat gorically deny thiev happened. his friend mark judge has said he has no memory of it he saysis llegation is nuts and of course the white house has responded by sending ou letters from women who knew kavanaugh in high school. lot of questions raised here but this woman is now coming forward with some serious allegations. >> so lisa, why di this woman come forward now. >> she said she did not speal of it a for decades and that she only spoke specifically about this incident in 2012 when she was in couples therapy with her husband. her husband has corroborated that to the "the washington pose etails a story that she told him in therapy that is exactly what she has told the washington post. he says te t this cam twice, at least twice in their couples.

ther she said she did not want to talk about it until that point, that she realized it had affected her and was affecting her relationship. why is she comingut now? "the washington post" says that she feels details of he stry had been put out without her. and that some details were erroneous. she felt like it was going to be out there regardless and that she had to come forward. >>heienlly here we are on eve of this nomination. there are already responses from senators on both sides of the aisle. >> right, i'm looking at my email now, withinetwo hours saw a lot of responses. maybe the most important one is about e process. we now have the democratic leader in the senate chuck schumer is asking for a delay in the hearing. but the man who controls that timing, chuck grassley the chairman of the judiciary committee put out a lengthy statement mostly questioning the timing of this. he sayarthese uncorroboratedded accusations from 35 years ago. why didn'temocrats bring this into the daylight before. and then of course senator nfeinstein who is the perhat knew about these allegations in

july says she did not bring them out because the woman requested anonymity watch. we don't know, hari s if this will lead to a delay in his vote which is scheduled right now for thursday. we dnt knoif this will actually mean anotherring hearing or this woman testifi before congress. will the fbi open an investigation which it said >> sreen isis follows an extremist version of sunni islam. and though it has always drawn some support from within the sunni community, many times sunnis are also its victims. now on the rise again in iraq, isis has a portion of the sunni opulation in its grip, creating an atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion, as "newshoukend special correspondent simona foltyn reports from iraq.

this is part of a two-part report. tiit was produced in coope with the investigative fund at the nation institute. a warning: some images in this report are disturbing. >> reporter: isis is making a comeback in iraq, and far the government has failed to stop it. in my last report, i accompanied iraqi securitytrorces as they d to clear remote, mountainous areas where isis militants have regrouped. these clean up operations were larly ineffective. but the government troops known as the emergency response divion were used to fighting a conventional war against isis. they struggled to adilt to isis' gu tactics. despite days of security forces searching, the militants remained elusive. but ju because the government can't find them doesn't mean that isis isn't there. nt find out just how much control the militahave managed to assert over unvilians, i travel rural areas near the sni town of hawija. hawija was an isis stronghold for three years, and was one of

the last towns security forces freed in october 2017. soon after, the government declared victory over isis in iraq. much of hawija was destroyed in the fighting, and is still abandoned. but people around here say is was never defeated. like many other civilians, this family spoke on e condition of anonymity. >> the liberation was superficial. security forces passed quickly through the villages. when the army entered, isis fled towards the mountains and the nks.r >> reporter: now, less than a year after hawija was retaken by e iraqi government, isis has regrouped and is terrorizing the jupulation. >> they don' come at night, even daytime we are in danger of being kidnapped, killed, slaughtered, robbed. isis can do anything. we are under their control. >> reporter: near this village, isis knapped and killed several people, including community leaders who were known

to oppose them. the group posted these pictures on social media, showing the executions. >> if someone tries to speak or fa anything against isis, your wholly will be in danger, whether it's during the day or night, they have no problem. >> reporter: to protect themselves and their familien local tribesve organized their own defense groups. thisamily's 25-year-old son was one of them. his parents say he was kwhled in mae trying to repel an isis attack on his village. they are angry at the government and say it's not doing enough to protect the area. >> whe's the security? if they are so close to the village, if isis can come to this place >> reporter: like many others we meet, this family claims that the federal police, one of the government security forces operating in the area, often don't respond to calls for help, especially at night. they say the police only show up to conduct weapons searches of the families themselves. >> when they find any weapon

tthat hasn't been licensey confiscate it. but on the other hand, they say that the villagers must protect themselves with their own weapons. >> reporter: civilians say counters with isis have become a near daily occurrence in this area, but many are reluctant to speak openly about them for fear of being targeted by i as sunnis, they also fear the shia-dominated security forces, whom they blame for failing to secure t area. just four days earlier, during la h evenirs, this farmer says a group of six to eight armed men detained him and four others while ey were watering their crops. >>ihey had surrounded me, id not realize because i was bending down to the ground, then i heard the sound of a gun cocking. i wasurrounded. "lift your hands," they said, so i lifted my hands. "old man, respect yourself. respect your age. do not force us to mistreat you." so i didn't say anything. i was a prisoner. >> reporter: the farmer suspects that the militants were isis. he says they asked if he or y

the other captives belonged to local security forces. eventually, he and all but one of the detainees managed to escape after fellow villagers intervened. he says the government forces never showed up. >> the security forces never came. it was only the villagers who helped us. at reporter: to contain any insurgency, coopon from civilians is paramount. but mistrust runs deep here. s whini civilians accuse the shiinled government of not do enough to protect them, the government forces, in turn, accuse the civilians of supporting isis. >> it's very difficult to gather intelligence. the reason is the nature of this area. people have close family relations with isis, so that's why it's not easy to get information from em. >> reporter: the federal police say that many isis fighters managed to flee the battlefields last year. commanedder mohalayeh al beidani takes us to what he says is a former isis hideout his forces raided in earl.

>> this is a shed where people normally keep their sheep. what raised suspicion was the a existence of t cooler and clean water. you know that in such a place, you shouldn'tee this kind of uff. this made us skeptical and we expected that there may be someone hiding there. >> reporter: the commander says four alleged isis militants were killed during the raid. the police also accused the residents of this house, located just behind the hideout, of aiding isis. >> they were arrested and transferred to the relevant authorities. yes, because they were cooperating with isis. >> reeporter: the federal pol don't allow us to get closer to the house or film it. from a distance, it appears that the house was burned down in a find. civiliansribal leaders say that security forces systematically destroy houses of suspected isis families and collaborators. when isis ruled this area from

2014 to 2017, some civilians did support the terror group, while those who opposed its rule or the group's strict etation of the quran wer often executed in public. trying to tell innocent civilians from isis supporters is no easy process, and one that has further divided iraqi ociety. muntaha fouad's son and sband joined isis. they surrendered when iraqi forces liberated the area, and are currently imprisoned. self, and the rest of her family, were accused of being isis collaborators by association, and were transferred to this camp an hour east of hawija. but she insists that she has nothing to do with isis. >> what is our guilt? i know nothing about my son, i know nothing about my husband. my son made mistakes and paid the price for that. he went and handed himself in to the authorities. what about us as women? it's not fair to be treated like this. >> reporter: the iraqi government forces families of

isis suspects to stay in these closely guarded camps, claiming that aeieturn to villages would help isis to spread again. but camps or no camps for its alleged supporters, isis is re- establishing itself.d ny civilians say that with no real protection from the government, they fee have little choice but to comply with the terrorists' demands. we meet another farmer who says ma has interacted with isi times since their official defeat in 2017. first, he says, a militant, whom he recognized as a neighbor, began calling him on his phone. he says he reported thelcalls to an igence officer at the federal police, who instructed hieem tospeaking to the militant and record the phone conversations to help the police ligather intnce. then, he says, one day, the militant and six other isis members showed up in the farmer's backyard. e in the place where we agreed.

>> are you close? >> yes, can you come? >> are you behind the river? >> yes >> what should i bring with me, what do you need? >> bring us cold water and let's meet. >> reporter: the farmer says he immediately called his contact at the federal police. >> i knew that they were in my farm behind the river hiding, so i called the security forces, the intelligence, it was before sunrise. i told them isis are in my farm and they asked me for food. >> reporter: he says the nstructeence officer him to cooperate with the militants until security could ar he gave the militants food and water, he says, but to his e surprise, deral police turned on him when they arrived, accusing him of being an isis supporter and jailing him for a week. >> they hurt me, they beat me, n.they put me in pri >> reporter: such incidents have led people in hawija to believe that isis has infiltrated the serity forces. the farmer now lives in fear of

both. >> i go back to my original home during the day just to feed the sheep, in order to take care of the farm. at night, i stay at another house, but still i feel afraid. i fear for mfamily. i put my family in danger because i cooperated with the iraqi r:my. >> repormany civilians around hawija have resigned themselves to once again living under isis. they no longer have faith in their own government or the united states to protect them >> we have lost confidence in the international coalition. before the liberation of hawija begas, we dreamed that our ar would be liberated from isis. but when we returned from displacement and saw the situation with our own eyes, we weno sure that they wer serious about liberation. >> sreenivasan: mexico has become one of the most dangeroul places in the for journalists. since last year, at least nine have been murdered, and more

than a dozen are missing, as dr cartels, organized crime, and government corruption pose dangerous threats for journalists who inveigate and report on these issues. emmanuel guillen lozano is a documentary photographer who fled mexico and noitlives in the states. his work is part of a photo exhibition in new york, highlighting attacks on the anshour weekend"'s ivette felirecently sat down with him to discuss his work and the dangers he escaped. guil much for joining us.so back in mexico you covered disappearances, you even shortly embedded with he infamous cartell, do you remember the photographs that begato put your life at risk? >> do you know, i spent over a year getting threats from cart members from different parts of mexico and i was kind of cool with it, just because you know that as long as you didn't mess with them, as long as you didn't go to their territories, again,

it's going to be fine for you in most cases. maybe not always but in most of them. >> as long as you didn't go back. >> yeah, exactly. so a certain point after working in the case of the first three students who disappeared, it started to get some atention outside mexico. and i think that was the motivation of why the target started to changeemhe nature of >> what is the public perception of the work that you do. is it here the press has been called an enemy of the people, is it just the car tells who want to harm you or is the xican government resentful? >> i will say that the journalistic community in mexico is more afraid of the government than the ca tell-- cartels themselves. >> why is that? h> because, you know, in most of the casese cartels and the government are deeply deeply connect. d sometimes they are even like

the same. there are members of the governnt that are involved in narcotrafficing d those kind of things. >> especially f the journalists who work for local newspapers, of local media, for me they are the ones who are more vulnerable because we-- peopllike me have the option to go to these places just for a few days or maybe for a couple of weeks andu then yo can go back home and be safer. but thos who leave the place are iren uller in-- live right in the place are in more vulnerable situations because they are targeted way easier than us. >> is the mexican government doing anything to protect journalists like yourselves. >> they are pretending to. there is a lot to protect teurnalists but it is-- you could imagine, ally 99% of the cases are not being solved or even investigated because

most of the times there is some part of e government in a hertain level, from the municipal level toe federal lovely who is involved show, almost in all of the cases. >> why do you and youron colleaguesnue to put your lives on the line for this workn >> my y has been suffering such a long period of violence at we all want to tell this story about in order to, you know, maybe if we publish the right thing, if we take the right pictureweif ay the right words, maybe something mit t happenme point. also for our own clective memory, and i think all of my colleagues have the intention to contribute, to solve the problem by documenting it. >> emmanuel guillen lozano, thank you so much for join us. >> thank you so mh for having

me. >> this is "pbs newshr weekend," sunday. >> sreenivasan: residents in three towns north returned home for the first time today. after a series of gas explosions killed one tnager and set f homes on fire there. investigators believe natural gas leaks from over-pressurized lines were the cause of the blasts in andover, north andover, and lawrence last thursday. >> sreenivasan: peaceful protesto of yangon in myanmar today to support two "reuters" journalists sentenced to seven years in jail. about 50 people chanted and held signs with names of the two men, wa lone and kyaw soe oo, both r'nvicted of breaking myan official secrets act while reporting on a massacre of rohingya muslims. major news organizations, human rights groups, and the united nations have called for the journalists' release. >> sreenivasan: in france, it was a car-free day on the streets of pari cee fourth annual event is designed to redu pollution and according to organizers "make the city more peaceful and pleasant." roadsr were closed to caaffic

for ju seven hours today. but not everyone was pleased with the planning. >> it's scandalous how it was organized. we can make policies, but this is a stupid policy, that's all. honestly, what does this entail? parisians pannot go home, sians cannot get out of their houses. >> sreenivasan: and there was a new world record set today in germany. olympic champion eliud kipchoge won the berlin marathon in two hours, one minute, and thirty- nine seconds-- more than a ter than the previous world record. the 33-year-old kenyan is considered to be the best marathon runner of the modern era. after crossing the finish line at t thanked the spectators for helping him throughout the race. >> i want to say actually thank you to allhe spectators from the first kilometer to the last kilometer, they really pushee me, it was lving music in my ears.

>> sreenivasan: wevel have more ge of the catastrophic flooding in the carolinas, the typhoon in china, and the allegations facing supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh on "newshour" this week. that's all for this edition of "pbs newshour weekend." i'm hari sreenivasan. thanks for watchingig have a good. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz.

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