captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasan: on this edition for saturday, june 1ra pressure onmounts after tanker explosions. a look at the legacy of the reverend theodore hesburgh and a preview of our upcoming series, "the future of food." next on"pbs newshour weekend >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. sue and edgar wachenheim iii. seton melv. the cheryl and philip milstein family. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individua

and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: anby the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivas. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. multiple news reports cited a senior u.s. official claiming that iran fired a surface-to-air missile at an american drone today. this, as the united states continues to blame iran forrs attacks on tann the gulf of oman thursday. the two tankers were hit after passing through the strait of hormuz. iran has denied being involved in the attack. the 23 crew members from the norwegn tanker were flown to dubai today after being held for two days in iran. a dutch ship and the u.s. navy srescued the 21 crew memb aboard the japanese tanker.

the u.s.ilitary central command released video on thursday which they say shows iranians removg evidence from one of the tankers. and they released this photo, which shs the damage to the japanese-owned tanker on the left side and what the u.s military says is "likely" an unexploded limpet mine on the right. at a conference in tajikistan today, iranian president hassan rouhani did not mention the attacks but said iran would scale back its comiance with the 2015 nuclear agreement, unless other signatories show" positive signals." >> ( translated ): obviously, iran cannot stick to this agreement unilaterally. it is necessary that all the sides of this agreement contribute to restoring it.: >> sreenivas will have more on this story coming up after the news summary.rn hong kong's gont is suspending-- but not withdrawing-- legislation that would allow extritions to inland china. the territory's chief executive, carrie lam, announced the decision this morning after roys of massivests against the bill. >> ( translated ): as a

sponsible government, we have to maintain law and order on the one hand and evaluate a sin for the greatest interests of hong kong, including restoring calmness in society, as soon as possible an avoiding any mjuries to w enforcement officers a citizens. >> no evil law! carrie lamtep down! >> sreenivasan: opposion legislators reject s the indefinipension and demanded lam step down. inaders of the massive street protests that coued throughout the past week said they will go ahead with another march tomorrow to demand the bill be withdrawn. they called toy's announcement" too little, too late." the united states'op diplomat to africa is calling for a" independent and credible" investigation into a violent government attack on protestors in sudan earlier this month. on a two-day visit to khartoum, tibor nagy, the u.s. assistantof secretary tate for african affairs, met with sudan's military leaders and with protestors who are demandi a

civilian government. s sudan's governays it is conducting its own investigation of the security forces' dispersal of a protest camp where dozens were killed. slovakia inaugurated its new president today-- zuzana caputova became the oluntry's fifth president and the first woman tothe largely ceremonial job. in her inaugural address, caputova-- formerly an environmental activist and a lawyer said "i'm not here to rule, i'm here to serve" and said she will continue to be a firm sporter of slovakia's membership in the european union and nato. slovakia became an independent country in 1993 after the break up of the former czechoslovakia. the notre dame cathedral held itfirst mass today since a fire in april seriously damaged the legeary building. ♪ ♪ attendance at today's service was limid and only included the archbishop of paris, priests, canons, and a few chur employees, all of whom were required to wear hard hats.

the cathedraremains closed to the public and according to officials it is in a "fragile state." french president emmanuel macron has set an ambitious goal to rebuild the cathedral in five years. auto workers at a volkswagen plant in chattanooga, tennessee voted against unionizing their factory last night. preliminy results showed 833 votes against unionizing and 776 in favor. the vote is a setback to the united auto workers' efforts to organize in foreign auto facilities in the south. the u.a.w. also narrowly lost a 2014 vote at the chattanooga plant. final results will not be official until certification by the national labor relations board. we asked educators for a summer- break student reading listir in by the novel "to kill a mockingbird." read their picks at pbs.org/newshour. her more on the confrontation between iran andnited states we turn to barbara slavin, director of the future of iran inatiative at the

ntic council in washington d.c. thanks so much for joini m us. >> sure pleasure. >> sreenivasan: so, first, let me start out with there's kind of two levels here. there's rhetoric and there's action, and thesy both m to be esk laict. >> yindeed. i think the aion is th part that concerns me the most. we've had 40 years of exchanging insults between iran and the united states. but this action is particularly worrisome. the events in the persianulf seem to be heating up. fortunately there's been no loss of life. but, of course, something like this could always spiral out of control. >> sreenivasan: you know, the tankers thawe saw that were in the news in the past couple of days, that overshadowed the news that prime minister abe of japan was there trying to have kind of a diplomatic solution to this, trying to be a bridge between the united states and ira >> well, you know, one can still hope that some messages were passed. i think the iranians probably told prime minister abe that if the united states really wants

new negotiations it's going to have to make some conssns to iran. it cannot continue an embargo on all sales, all eports of iranian oil. it's going to have to promiseso concession, i think, and i'm not sure the truadmp nistration is prepared to do that, especially not after these incidents in the persian gulf gl. >> sreenivasan: now we see the irans are saying we're ramping up our ability to make nuclear weapons. >> first of all, the iranians t deny that heir intention. >> sreenivasan: right. >> what they are doing is they are slowly beginning to increase the aims of low-enriched yoorm, which they have. and at some int, yes, they may go above the limits that were set by the 2015 clear deal. but let's remember that the united states pulled out of that deal a yea ir ago whian was in full exwiens and has now put st stringent sanctions on iran in the history of the islamic republic of iran. w sould say what iran is doing, least in terms of itsam

nuclear prois much more calibrated in a way than what we're seeing in the persian gulf. >> sreenivasan: after the u.s. withdrawal from the agreement with iran, what have its other signatories been doing in the past year? >> the others that participated in the negotiaons have been trying to encourage iran to stay in the agreement. but, unfortunately-- particularly in the case of the europeans -- they have not been able to find a way to connue to trade with iran, even on non-sanctioned goods, like food and medicine, that has not been threatened by u.s. sanctions. so the iranians are very frustr understandably so that they at least, up until now, had been observing this agreement and they're getting no economican benefitsi think we're going to beginning to seehis frustration boil over and unfortunately in ways that are rather wreckles wreckless and d. >> sreenivasan: how does the iranian public see all of this? >> i think the iian public is just miserable. there were great hopes aftgr thiseement was reached that

iran's economy would really revive. they were exeriencing economic growth. businessmen were coming from all over the world looking into various ventures in iran. people had great hopes. and then,pr firstident trump was elected with all the things he had to say about this agreement-- he didn't like ic very m and then after, you know, threats and more threats, finally, he pulled out and reimposed sanctions. so in some ways, people are mor unhappy nan they've ever been because their expectations had been raised for a better life and she those expectivation now been taken away. >> sreenivasan: barbara slavin, director of the future of in initiative at the atlantic council in washington, d.c., thanks so much for joining . >> thanks for having me. >> sreenivasan: in 2017, a u.s. postage stamp was dedicated to father theodore hesburgh, the longtime president of the university of notre dame. the postal service citation

called him one of the mostpo ant civic and educational leaders of the 20th century. in our century, his story is somewhat less well-known, but a new documentary film has set out to change that. newshour weekend's christopher booker has more. >> reporter: it was b father ted hesburgh didn't take erhaps best illustrates the reverence in which he was held. >> there was a point in time where he was actually asked to run nasa. he turned it down. t didn't think that that was maybe a great fifor him. >> he advises presidents. >> he was a mythic fige. >> he confers with the pope. s >> we heard these storieaboutl this, thend. >> he is chairman of the rockafeller foundation. >> my god, how many lives did this man live? >> he is father theore martin hesburgh, president of the university of notre dame. >> reporter: in the late 20th century, very few people held as much behind the scenes power and exercised as much influence as father ted hesburgh. he served on 16 different presidential commissions, helping author and champion some of the most transformative legislation in amecan history.

>> we call him the "forrest gump of... of america in the... in the later half of the 20th century." >> reporter: patrick creadon is the director of the doary "hesburgh." >> he was this person who sort of somehow popped up all over the place in our society. and everywhere he... everywhere he showed up, he was able to nert of get the tough jobs done that needed to be he was never a president. he was never a u.s. senator. w never a prominent news figure or anchorman or anchorwoman. he was the guy behind the guy. >> reporter: now, you, attended notre dame... >> yeah, we actually kind of crossed paths for about a year there. i never met him,onut i'd see him ampus. and i... i certainly knew his t reputation, and i knew t was a major figure on the american landscape but being a documentary slmmaker, i... i... i alw have a little bit of a skeptical eye, and i really wanted to sort of see for myselif his work really lived up to his

reputation. and it did. >> reporter: hesburgh's urney started as a young college president hoping to transform his university, an ethat required money, which father hesburgh was particularly adept at securing through donations. throughout the early '50s, his network grew ever larger, and soon the president of notre dame would meet the president of the united stes. what would start with an appointment to the national science board in 195d lead to an appointment to one of the most consequential commissions in u.s. history: the u.s. commission on civil rights, a group tasked by the president to research civil and racial inequality in the segregated south. >> we are trying to create one nation.y it could vssibly be that we are verging through our institutions towards two societies-- one black and one white. and that wouldn't be america, i don't think. h>> reporter: while hesbu championed civil rights, he was also an advocate for free speech and the exchange of ideas, even those ideas clashed with his own. in 1963, a campus group invited alabama governor and segregationist george wallace to speak at notre dame, the very

same george wallace who in 1958 had threatened to throw hesburgh and the other members of the commission on civil rights in majail if they visited ala >> reporter: despite student protes against wallace's visit to notre dame, hesburgh allowed the speech ttake place. but just one year later, the work of the commission on civil rights would be part of a majorr sformation of america. >> my fellow americans, i am about to sign into law the civil rights act of 1964. >> reporter: on july 2, 1964, president lyndon johnson signed the landmark civil rights act, outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. father hesburgh was called the architect of the law. but the coming years would be challenging for father hesburgh as student protests against the vietnam war expanded throughout

the country. >> he wore a lot of different hats, and those... those... those bs that he held were oftentimes in conflict with each other. >> the most natural thing i could do here today is talk about student unrest. but i suspect most of you had it about up to here, and i have to admit that i have had it up to here also. >> reverend theodore hesburgh today announced a "get tough" policy. father hesburgh said demonstrators will be given 15 minutes to halt their protest. if they don't,enhey'll be sud on the spot. if they do not halt within ilother five minutes, they be expelled. t reporter: your film paints a portrait of fath being on the right side of history for nearly everything... >> uh-huh. >> reporter: ...except student protest. >> yeah, there's a real nuance to that. father ted believed that... that a campus was supposed to be a crossroads of differenideas. he wasn't against protesting; he was against violent protesting or the kind of protesting that would impede someone else's

education. and so, back in 1970, he ended up... they ended up expelling five students who had blocked the entrance to job interviews that were taking place. >> reporter: with the c.i.a. and dow chemicals. >> it was the c.i.a. and it was dow chemical, two very unpopular groups during the midd of the vietnam war. >> reporter: but just over a year later, hesburgh would come a very public critic of the war in vietnam after four students were shot and killed by the national guard at kent state university in ohio duringin protests agast president nixon's expansion of the war into cambodia. >> there comes a time in life, in personal life and in national life, when moral righteousness more important than emp victory. ( sirens )>> eporter: his speech became known as the "hesbergh declaration" and was signed by00 15tudents and residents of south bend. ergh sent it to presiden nixon in may of 1970. hesburgh's relationship with

nixon was frayin a few months later, he and the esvil rights commission, against the president's wi published a report that detailed the governments slow implementation of civil rights legislation. >> here is a... the first comple study ever made of the whole federal establishment as regards at least civil rights complice and how we're delivering and what the law says we should do. this says the performance is pretty poor. it always has been. >> they were concerned about the timing, and we didn't share their concern as to the political importance of the report. >> reporter: nixon fired hesburgh from the civil rights commission in 1972. >> i think president nixon had no idea that father ted was going to become one of his... one of his most hard-hitting adversaries. and i think, as history went on, i think father ted actually kiat of wore s a badge of honor. he lost his job, but he kept his, you know... he... he kept his conscience. >> reporter: as a viewer, i did find myself waiting for, are we going to get to ththolic

church sex scandal? >> yeah. no, that's a great question. it's worth noting that father ted retired in 1987. so, in some ways, the story of the... of the scandal within the church really kind of missed father ted. he just simply wasn't a part of that conversation. teat's one of the great regrets i have for fathes story, is that i wish that he wast engaged in tnversation and in that problem. >> reporter: but father shesburgh's retirement ye weren't silent. he was still consulted and called upon by presidents. president bill clinton awarded him the congreional gold medal, one of the highest civilian honors in the country. and in 2009, when otest otupted before president barack obama's visit to n dame, it was father hesburgh who reassured the school's administration that hosting a pro-choice presidentt catholic university was the right thing to do. >> differences of cultur and religion, and conviction can coexist with friendship,

civility, hospitality, and especially love. >> reporter: father hesburgh died in 2015 at the age of 82. >> sreenivasan: we've been working with former "new york times" food writer and lling author mark bittma on a new series of reports about a world he knows well and all of us need to understand. rewe're calling it "the fuf food." mark will be hosting the series, and is going to tell you more about it. reporting for this series is supported by the pulitzer center reporter: i'm mark bittman and this is pbs newshour weekend's "future of food" series. w by 2050, tld's population will reach nearly ten billion. c and although orent food system can produce enough food, it will difficult to do so sustainably and ethically.

the issues are complicated, but they include an industrial food system that pruces food that can lead to chronic illness, barriers to small-scale farming, pollution and the mistreatment of animals. industrial agriculture is also a major contributor to climate change. take meat production. globally, more people are eating more meat than ever before and demand is projected to double in the next 30 years. but there are serious concerns about the conditions manyar animalraised in. and there isn't enough land or water to increase producon using current methods. with meat consuming two, three, even- in the case of beef- ten times as many resources as pnt foods, we need more creative solutions. fish are a promising protein alternative.n but more t% of fish are caught at or beyond their sustainable limits. d with many fish farms struggling with issues of pollut alternative is far from ideal.th

way we raise crops carry risks to human health and the. environment, t modern farming practices like indiscriminate tilling, heavy fertilizer use, and pesticides-- used on more than 90 america's main crops-- are damaging soil, contaminating water and ultimately drainingob our resources. and while the world's farmers already producmore than enough food to feed everyone on earth, morehan 800 million people don't have enough to eat. a that's largely function of poverty. but we also waste a tremendous amount of food. around one third of the food w produce is damaged in transit, spoiled or just plain toed in the trash. how do we eate a food system that can provide us all with nutritious and affordable food while doing so in a way that's both green and fair? over the coming months, the pbs newshour weekend "future of

food" series will report on work being done around the world by people who believe they have solutions. some of it sounds too good to be true. we take you to california, where scientists are growing real meat in laboratories. no slaughtering of animals involved. you didn't tell me this was raised in a lab, i would have no idea.e >> s it is controversial. we will take you to canada, to see the first genetically dified animal approved for human consumption: a faster-. growing salm >> same age, twice the size. >> same age,tienetically idl except for one single gene. so this opens up a whole new opportunity for globmon production. >> but not everyone is happy about it. >> when you mess with mother nature, so to speak, i have concerns with that >> some of it is about returning to time-tested techniques. we'll travel to wa and india, where farmers are using a combination of old and new methods that are better for the soil and water,we use resources, support

small scale farms and may even improve the quality of the crops. and as for h food gets to those who need it most, we'll take you to lebanon and jordan, where aid workers are using new technologies to better provide food to hundreds of thousands of syrian refugees. >> insad of paying with cash or with a card, everyone pays with their eyes. and you can never forget your card. it's biometrics, it is the future. we see it more and more. lastly, we'll travel to franceto ook at a one-of-a-kind , tional program that's cracking down on food wasile also helping feed people in need. >> reporter: so this is stuff that is no longer proper to sell? >> yes, but proper to eat. f it's shocking to think that this is the kinding that otherwise would have been thrown away. >> reporter: tune into your local pbs station and online for the pbs newshour weekend series "the future of food."th

>> is "pbs newshour weekend," sunday. >> sreenivasan: new five-part online docu-series examines an onn'oing crisis in the natios largest public housing authority." a dream deferred: the broken promise of new york city public housing" premieres this week, it's part of the continuing series "chasing the dream: poverty and oprtunity in america." >> the conditions that i've seen here at n.y.c.h.a. are some of the worst i have seen ywhere. and the shame is n.y.c.h.a. at one time was the model of pb housin it was the best. it's gone from the best to the worst! you have children living with asthma in units with mold. this is new york city! it's not ah tird-world country! you are 400,000 people.t

you want to e attention of the politicians? you say 400,000. you want toet people to support you? expose the nditions and the truth. there is no one who will se what saw and allow it to continue >> my name is sylvia harrington. i'veoeen cmplaining for years. it fas on def ears. so we decided to work together, a few other people in the community, and bring the place back to the wayt was when i move here. i spent money buyingse trees and every kind of flower out there. i've had people tell me, "the reason we come this way to go to rk is to admire your flowers." it's just my idea of the w i want to live.

>> sreenivasan: italian director franco zeffirelli, whose productions included films, operas, stage plays and even live broadcasts from the vatican, died today in rome. in the u.s., zeffirelli is best known for his films includg a 1968 veron of romeo and juliet and for the made-for-television mini series "jesus of nazareth" released in 1977. franco zefirelli was 96-years- old. that's all for this edition of" pbs newshour weekend." i'm hari sreenivasan. thanks for watching. have a good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbhss acgbh.org >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by:

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