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and individuals. >> this program was made porible by the corporation public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> yang: president trump is headed home tonight with no apologies after a weekend at the summit. he defended his policies and tactics today and played down tensions with the world's other economic powers. white house correspondent yamiche alcindor reports from in biarritz, france. >> alcindor: at the g7, a public show of harmony, paperinover deep divisions. presidents trump and macron

ended the conference with the same kind of affection they displayed all weekend. >> if there was any word for this particular meeting of seven very important countries, it was mpunity. i think most important of all we got along great. >> alcindor: but the takeaways from the gathering itself were meager. the seven nations only agreed to a set of statements that filled a single sheet of paper. on many of the mospressing issues he discussed with the other leaders, president trump pointedldisagreed. on iran, macron extended a las minute invitation to iranian foreign minister javad zarif. macron told trump about the invitation only hours before zariff arrived. macron urged iran to return to the nuclear negotiating table with the united states, as the 2015 "deal", whichll mr. trump out of last year, hangs in the balance >> ( translated ): there will have to be a meeting between the iranian and american presidents and i would wish that in the coming weeks, such a meeting

would take place. i want this meeting to happen ani want there to be an agreement between the united states and iran. >> alcindor: president trump sa he was open to a meeting but only under the right conditions. >> if the circumstances were correct or right, i would certainly agree to that, but in good players.they have to be you understand what that means. and they can't do what they're saying they're going to do because if they dohat, they're going to be met with really very violent force. we have no choice. >> alcindor: the president also defended his trade war with china. he said increasing tariffs would encourage beijing to make a new trade al. he also claimed that top chinese officials were eager to negotiate. >> i do. i alink they want to make a very badly. maybe they want to, maybe they don't, but i think they want to. i don't think they have a choice. >> alcindor: sunday was filled osth confusion and communications cft the president said he had second thoughts about his strategy with china.

>> mr. preside, any second thoughts on escalating the trade war with china? >> yeah, sure. why not? >> you have second thoughts about escalating the war with china? >> i have second thoughts about everything. >> alcindor: but his aides later said he was only reflecting on whether he should be even tougher on china.he his controversial o haveended russia, again attend the annual meeting, returning this summit mmto the g8. >> a lot of people say having russia, which is a power, havin them inse room is better than having them outside the room. by the way, there were numerous people in the g7 that felt that way. and we didn't take a vote on anything, but wemyid discuss it. nclination is to say yes, they should be in. his incorrect claim that russia was kicked out of the group because russia "outsmarted" former president barama. he claimed an angry obama engineered the ouster because of

russia's 2014 annexation of crimea. >> he was outsmarted by putin. president putin outsmarted president obama. i can understand how president obama would feel, and he wasn't happy, and they're not in for that reason. >> why do you keep using the misleading statement that russie outsmarted pre obama? >> well, he did. >> when other countries have said that e reason why russia was kicked out was very clearly because they annexed crimea. why keep repeating what some people would see as a clear lie? >> well, it was annexed during presidt obama's-- i know you like president obama-- but it was annexed during president obama's term. if it was annexed ring my term i'd say sorry folks i made a mistake, sorry folks. it could have been stopped. could have been stopped. president obama was unable to stop it, and it's too bad. >> alcindor: russia's foreign minister said it has not discussed returning to the g7. meanwhile, president trump was thonly g7 leader to skip a meeting on climate change. though in his absee, leaders agreed on a $20 million aid package to help stop the wildfires in the amazon. on climate change, the president sacrifice economic progress in the name of the envis nment.'m

>>ot going to lose that wealth, i'm not going to lose id ams, on windmills, which, frankly, aren't working too well.go i'm nog to lose it. >> alcindor: with the end of this summit, president macron passed hosting responsibility to president trump. and he wants to host the 2020 g7 at his resort in miami. we have a series of magnificent buildings, we call them bungalows, they each hold from 50 to 70 very luxurious rooms with magnificent views. we have incredible conference rooms, incredible restaurants, ait's like, it's like suc natural. >> alcindor: since 2015, trump d ral's operating income has reportedly declimost 70%. but president trump dismissed quesp ons about the ethics of profiting from his presidency. >> i'm not going to make any money. in my opinion, i'm not going to make any money. >> it's still unclen money.

president trump will make his final decision on where to hold the g7 in 202but certainly many people will be watching, yawn. >> yamiche, we he saw you in that news conference and pressed the presidep about his version of events why russian was kuked oue of with a used to be g8. why does he stick with that story the version of e haven't. >> president trump isnginsis russia outsmart his predecessor esident i don' obama and he he s to stick with that. he wants to blame president i don't know when he is flus fraitd. helamedim for child separation and for not being tough enough on china. what is clear is democrats ar already very trust fraitd with prident trump. chuck schumer put out a statement saying it's appalling that president trump wants tos add a back into the g7. he also said it would makeid

prt trump look weak. >> tl us more about the frnch president's he was to mediate between iran and the uted states. >> it's clear french president emanuel mron wants to be the middle man. he said today iran needs some sort of economic one sent tough in order to come back to thee negotiating tad get something better than the 2015 iran nuclear deal. but presidege trump heda little. he he says he doesn't want to government iran any sort ofmannary compensation but something could be worked out with some sort of oil credit or some sort of letters giving iran some sort of monetary incentive. so it will be interesting to see how that plays oubut macron definitely wants ig play a roll in that. >> you also reported that se' losing money as president. what do the watchdog groups say about that? >> the president says by the tomb he's done being psident, will have lost between three and

$5 million. he he hasn't offered any proof of that and most wdog groups say he and his family are making millions of dollars ofum being president. washingtons by th post says he made at least $1. million from his properties because he's been visiting them in florida andje newsey. i spoke to a watchdog group citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington. their spokesperson said that they are actually looking at whether or not there's any legal action they can take that will prevent president trump from holding the g7 apt his perty so we have to look out to see what watchdog groups might do on that issue. >> yamiche alcindor. safe travel, yamiche. >> thanks, john. >> yang: in the day's other news, a state judge in oklahoma issued a potentially landmark ruling: that johnson & johnson helped fuel an epidemic of opioid addiction. he ordered the company to y

$570 million.d the state ked for up to $17 billion.dg that balkman found johnson & johnson played up the benefits of opioid painkillers and played .own the risks. >> those actions compromised the health and safety of thousands of oklahomans. ically, defendants cause an opioid crisis that isd eviden increased rates of addiction, overdose deaths, and neonatal abstinence syndrome in okhoma. ome opioid crisis has ravaged the state of okl it must be abated immediately. >> yang: johnson & joh immediately announced plans toim appeal. some 2,000 other state and local lawsuits are pending against opioid makers nationwit . we'll lookl of this after the news summary. nineteen statesued today to block any rollback olimits on detaining migrant children. the 1997 fres agreement generally limits that period to 20 days. last week, the administration

announced new rules to hold entire families for longer. california attorney general xavier becerra announced the legal challenge in sacramento. >> the trump administration made the changes called for in this rule without regard to the well- being of these children and without regard to the rule of law.ti ever we go to court, for the most part, we win. we're proving that this administration is trying trodo things the way, by breaking the rules. >> yang: california also asked a federal judge today to block the administration's "public charge" rule. would deny green card legal immigrants who draw public benefits, such as medicaid and food stamps. fallen movie producer harveyn weinhas pleaded "not guilty" to revis charges of sexually assaulting two women. he was back in a new york court today to face the new indictme. it would allow a third woman to testify that weinstein raped her in 1993. trial to early nex.elayed the

officials in hong kong warned today that violent protests are pushing the chinese teory to the brink of great danger. new violence erupted over the weekend, as protesters threw bricks and smash toll booths. aot police fired back wit water cannon and tear gas. >> these attacks are intentional and planned and organized. not only do their acts put everyone on site in extreme danger, but they also threaten the everyday life of ordinary citizens. >> yang: police arrested more than 80 activists over the weekend, some as you12. 21 officers were injured. tensions between israel and iran and its allies are hirting upss ache middle east. in lebanon today, prime minister saad hariri accused israel of violating his country's sovereignty in a series of air strikes. the first came sunday, when two drones crashed into beirut hezbollah militants allied with

iran held funerals today for two thghters killed in the raid. they marched, anr leader vowed revenge. israel did not confirm any attacks in lebanon. it did ackwledge striking at iranian forces in syria over the weekend. and claims of israeli air raids in iraq are prompting calls for u.s. troops to withdraw immediately. iraqi officials say israeli drones attacked anian-backed paramilitaries on sunday, killing one fighter. shiite muslims, including lawmakers, marched through baghdad in auneral procession today. they said e united states bears the blame. >> ( translated ): the aggression was carried out by israel and by the powers which support it. it took place in broadaylight with the presence of the international coalition flight american air crafts. neis means these crimes are under the cover of america and colonialism. >> yang: u.s. officials did not comment on sunday's attack in iraq, but they have said that

israel attacked iranian forces there in july. the eastern caribbean tonight, bearing down on barbados and its neighbors. the islands braced for the storm's arrival early tuesda from there, its projected path takes it toward puerto rico. even a weak hurricane could be a problem for puerto rico, which is still recovering from the two years ago. hurricane maria back in this country, republican congressman sean duffy of wisconsin announced he's resigning his seat next month. the four term wmaker said he s to spend more time wit his family. his wife is expecting inoc ber, and tests show the child has a heart condition. duffy becomes th14th house republican not seeking reelection in 2020. he representbla strongly rean district. and, on wall street, stor s rallied afesident trump suggested china wants to talk seriously about a trade deal.ab the dow jones industrial average gained nearly 270 points to

close at 25,893. the nasdaq rose almost 102 points, and the s&p-500 add 31. still to come on the newshour: i a major decisia case against a drug maker. will this be a bellwether trial e opioid epidemic? amy walter and tamara keith break down the 2020 candidat ' fundraising scramble. a new book highlights the difficult realities for female journalists in the middle east. and much more. t >> yanay's $572 million judgement against johnson & johnson is the first major legal decision against a drug maker for its role in the opioid crisis. as william brangham reports, the trial has been closely watched by thousands of litigants in other states and jurisdictions. >> braham: that's right, john.

while this was a clear victory for oklahoma, the state had been seeking far more-- over $12 billion-- from the drug maker. during the seven week trial in oklahoma, lawyers for the state called johnson & johnson drug "kingpin," arguing its sales force downplayed their painkillers addictive qualities, which th helped lead to thousands of deathin the state here's attorney general mike hunter after the judge's ruling this afternoon: >> today, judge backman has affirmed our position that johnson & johnson, motivated by greed and avarice is responsible for the opioid epidemic in our state. johnson & johnson will finally be held accotable for thousands of deaths and addiction caused by their activities. companies knew just could not stop making money from it and

that is why they are responsible. >> brangham: for its part, johnson & johnson argued its drugs accounted for less than 1% of the u.s. opioid market, and were similarly a tiny fraction of prescriptions in oklahoma. it also denied any deceptive sales practice for the record, johnson & joson is a funder of the newshour. jackie fortier has been reporting on all this for npr and was in the courtroom today. you very much for being here. obviously, this is an enormous r the state and reall the first loss for one of the opioid manufacturers that we'ven hus far. everything else has been settlements. e judge today was particularly ruling, wasn't he?ny in its >> yeah. judgment that the $572 billion that he he ordered the company to pay immediately waso remediate the public nuisance.

he he even brought up things that were, hen't brought up parts that were talked about during the trial saying thatth e was a problem with churn in the sate who are born with opioids in thir system. the judge really highlighted a lot of the main arguments that e state made during the case. >> can you tell us a little bit about more about what the state alleged? i mention that the state said that johnson & johnson basically hid the fact that they knew that these drugs re highly addict tough. what else did the state allege johnson & johnson did wrong here? >> yeah. well i mean, the big thing that the torn genera attorney generar alleged and he said it multiple times day at the press conference that johnson & johnson was the con public of the opioid -- kingpin of the

opioid crises. when he says that he's referring to the former ownership of two developed a highlyw and hypothesissent oppitoid poppy. and that -- opi.oid pop that company then sold that base ion greed -- ingredient to other companies like purdue pharma which produced oxy cotton with it. during the course of the trial, the state argued that johnson & johnson knew even if it wasn't their opioids that were being told, their deceptive marketing campaign rulted in more sales of opioids and more sales for their bottom line. something to remember, johnson & johnson ld those two companies in 2016. >> you mentioned initially that the state used a somewhat novel legal strategy to go after the company. they used what's called a public nuisance law.

can you explain what that legal strategy argued? >> yeah. public nuisance is a h a very bd law n oak. in own . obama to help out comes. it's been successfully litigated in regard to lead paint, things along those lines. usually has to do with properties which is why today's decision is very interesting. west virginia, for example,er filed ay similar lawsuit against johnson & johnson cit l public nuisan last week. so now that we've seen at least in one court case that it works, we may see more attorneys general decide to take up this public nuisance clapuim and seef they can get money fheor ir own state. 2000 or so other companies that are all gathered under one federal judge in ohihoo and tse

ane against other manufacturers, distributors andufacturers of these drugs. everyone there has gotve to been watching what was going on in oklahoma today to see whether not this was a bellweather. what do you think is the likely impact on that much larger he pool of cas w? l public nuisance is one of the claims that's being made in the consolidated ohio case. i mean, it really just gives more leverage really to the side of the communities who are suing whether that be tribes or other municipalities. they might be able to bring other drugs, companies or distributors to the table and say hey it works here, maybe t you're willi settle with us now rather than going for a because as of right now, johnson & johnson now has to pay over $500 million. we saw before, purdue pharma settled with the state for 270

million. teva makes generic oppositoids they were initially both parties to this litigation but this settles before it began. so johnson & johnson could be on the hook for this whole this five hundred sum odd 7dr0 millin dollars. some other companies will look at that and say maybe it's worth it to settle. >> absent an appeal which johnson & johnson said they are going to do, what is oklahoma going to do with this 500 something million dollars. >> there was an abateme plan put forward during the trial. the state initially asked by the way for $17.5 million to fund so they got a fraction what they really asked for. at the press conference earlier today terry white who is theis cooner for substance abuse in oklahoma says they will bell able to rstart funding

projects aeatments. it's really an open company of how that's going to wor there's al he so a law that was passed after the pursue settlement in oklahoma. so the legislator may be able to allocate these funds. whether onot they g allocated for opioid treatment foreprevention is really a -- for prevention is really a question mark. >> jacky fortier, thank you very stretch. >muh. >> i'm happy to, thanks. >> yang: the crowded race for the democratic presidential nomination has started to winnow, and this week we'll learn which of the remaining 21 candidates will be othe debate stage next month. it's likely just half of the field will meet the polling and donor requirements. lisa desjardins reports that the 2020 hopefuls are competing for

attention and dollars. >> please go to joebiden.com and sign up and join our campaign. we need your help. >> desjardins: as the 2020 democric candidates debate policy-- at the het of the crowded race is a fight for money. the race's top five candidates in the polls are also the top five fundraisers. >> i hope i can look to you to continue helping us grs movement. - south bend mayor petethe pack- buttigieg. he raised nearly $25 million from april to june of this year, according financial filings.n billowed with $22 million. m in thirdsachusetts senator elizabeth warren with $19 million. then vermont senator bernie m sanders with $lion. in fifth, california senator kamala harris with $11.8 million. >> one dollar, f $10, whatever they can to make sure that we are able to get our message out there. >> desjardins: after that-- a

stark gap in the field, in both money raised and polling, and a brutal fight for funds among the reining candidates. >> it's been a real og trying to come out of the crowd the >> desjardins:leichelle yee he covers money in politics for "the washington post."or more and more that the five do better the gap just continues to grow u >> desjardinble to make up the distance, massachusetts congressman seth moulton and washington governor jay inslee dropped out of the race last ofek. both had yet to meet fundraising or polling qualifications for ie third democratic debat september. >> people pitching in a dollar, five dolla0, $20. and that's the spirit i'm going to move forward in, in this campaign. last week became only the 10th candidate to qualify for the debates. ar, that leaves 11 other off next month's stage. >> desjardins: but even the top five fundraisers have been struggling to pulln steady funds among the crowded field. and, how they're going areut it variesly.

>> you see joe biden really coming out of the gate with a fundraiser, a private, fundraisld at the comcast executive's home.s and he is thisnd of like old school >> at the other end of the spectrum is elizabeth warren who has jected that type of fundraising overall completely.u from grassroots donors and she's doing really well. >> i stand before yoto officially launch my campaignco for a se term as president of the united states.es >> djardins: and then there is the president's re-election ofmpaign, which he kicked right after his inauguration in 2017. mr. trump's re-election effort has so far out-raised e democratic candidates and the democratic national committee combined, by about $100 million- - with a mix of small donors and multi-million-dollar closed fundraisers. that's giving his campaign a decide voters.ge at targeting

>> he's been able to shape theli message , and on tv-run ads really get to know the voter base very well, and know how to reach these people so that they could turn out on election day for him. >> desjardins: democratic donors on the other hand, especially the high-dollar ones, are largely still untapp many donors are still waiting for the race to narrow before making their contributions, while smalr donors are spreading their money acvess l different candidates. >> they know the money is out there. the question is whether thes money spigoting to really open up in time for the presidential nominee to be able to catch up to the lead th president trump has. >> please givet least a dollar so i can get those donations up. >> desjardins: candidates who don't makehe third debate stage in less than three weeks will likely need to re-evaluate whether they have the cash or support to ultimaty stay in the race. and that's good news for anxious democratic donors-- who say a final democratic nomin can't come soon enough.

>> we have in our studio back together again the great amy walter of the political report and of course tamarkeith of npr, also of npr litics podcast. thank you both. let's start with the dollar race. tamara, i'll ask you first. we'll talk about fund raising every single selection. is it any different this presidential cycle. >> on the democratic side, there has been a decoupling of don and divorce. what i mean by -- and voter. traditionally they go out and try to raise money, whneen som writes them a check, sends them a dollar, sends them $50, they can mark them down not just as a supporter but as a voter and this time it's not monogamous. you havs,e votemocrats giving money to five candidates, ten candidates.

every time there's please give me a dollar so i cn stand on the stand have my voice heard. sure i'll give awe dollar. wh it comes time to buckle down and get voters out theyan go to their don file and say i can assume those people will beo caucusinme or voting for me in new hampshire or south carolina or caucusing in nevada. instead they will have to figure out whch of their donors are actually their voters. >> the other big difference when you look bachus specially thinking about the -- back, especially about the republicans, they've had the most are can't era, 2012 and 2016. the big thing this thoseca jeb bush probably mostcks. famous. he probably didn't raise as much money bu they are spuuer pacs because they are different.

you can raise tons of money. states for candidates like mitt democrats, they han moving away from taking money from super pacs or other super pacs involved in this. all the democratic candidates they are staying away from corporate pacs money they are staying away from the traditional, old school fund raising of going to these big high dollar. we used to boast about that about, they had bundlers and people would come and lislea wod go ask 20 of her friends towr e $20 checks and you would get lauded by the campaign for being that big fund raiser. they are not doing that now.

it means it's t not juse waywa the money that's being raised is aboutent but if you think these early states who are going se have influence in the races. it's going to look a lot different than it has in he are cent years. >> one reason ofe for all a these small donor numbers going up is the tracks are forcing th is democrats are forcing the issue. you need small donors to make the next debat so far i think we have 12 qualified. e 2 candidates. my question is when do we see this field really cut down. is it going to be after this nextity bait? what do you think. >> in the last iek i thnk there have been three fewer candidates. sohere is a winnowing awewi get towards these fall debates. there are a few candidates saying that they won't make it for e september debate but they could make it for the oak debate so they are hang --d octobeate so they are hanging on to that. i think we will see a winnowingl thisbut it's still going to be a he have big field. a historically large field..

>> it it gets harder and harder. it gets harder to raise money if you're not publicly having a presence whether it's on the for interviews.etting invited i think you will see more winnowing. i think voters want to see this and i want to seeh tis as an analyst is to see the top candidates on thesome stage. there are only threeandidates consistently pulled in the double digits. joe biden, elizatharren and bernie sanders. kamala harris setimes touches up there. if you get into the low sungales duhat's about it. nobody after these two other debates we've already had, weuc haven't seen h movement exisn't really among the top three or four candites.ge getting on stn the debate i know it may help candidates ego but others not necessarily helping the poll standing.

>> someone whoaould likny stage i think is joe walsh who is the conservative former member of congress radio talk show host replican announced that he's running against donald trump as aan republnd he's doing it in an interesting way. he's issng a may yeah cull pa saying his remarks may have been racist. he says the president is not appropriate for our children to watch. he's going after the president on moral grounds. is he a serious challenger are? he's challenging the president for his conservative base. >> what my reporting has shown over time is thathe president has consolidated the republican party both if you look in polling and support for the president there's not a lot of ngakness among republicans. but in terms of the actual party apparatus, the tru campaign and the republican party are one on the same. the republican party the gop, the rnc is not going to allow a

robust and competitive primary because theth president o united states is their candidate and coy. >coy -- >> and he's a republican. >> andepe's a republican and they will box any serious challenge tohe president in the primary. >> it's hard to know whether to take joe wal's apology seriously to say he was a fire brand is puticng it ely the things he has said on twitter that he said during his mpaign, that he has been known to tet about.ty prut there, all right. >> in some cases calling for violence. >> he's apologized for at, that's right. one of his most famous sayingi obama ieed a muslim, you should believe this. so that's one piectwe have o deal with. the second piece is who are these folks who are fruthstrated onald trump, the republican party. we think of the never tmpers, right. these folks once concerned themselves as republicans either

they are consivive or moderate they don't find a place with donald trump. remember where joe walsh is om my home district, suburban chicago, the district that traditionally voted for mitt romney, voted for republican for congresses for many years. is last year, voted overwhelmingly for a democrat,o voted for hierarch hillary clinn 2016.although he's personally nt like that. where he's from is canresentative of a repub base in the suburbs that once supported every replican candidate but in the era ofy' trump, t moved away from)!i5qle. he in the psst wa not that kind of candidate but the district he used to represent. >> i'll end on you amy, ands we'vn ups and downs on wall street the last couple weeks as an important metric we know for president trump. this president is essionou think proof if we have a he are reces. >> we could witndhsn

economic crises or sex but the question is whether or not just having a slowing down is enough. rthink fo trump we've already seen the fact his approval ratings on the economy have been separate from otherwise overall the gap is pretty significant. people for a long time at least until now they said)káy approve of the job he's doing on the economy, don't approve of the b he's doing as president. that gap is pretty big. >> all right. we'll have to end it there. so good to see both you tamara ith and amy walter. thank you. >> yang: stay with us. coming up on the newshour: walking away: a quarterback's decision to leave the n.f.l. in the prime of his career rather than risk another injury. and, from dutch masters to jazz music: painter on the inspiration behind his work.oo on ourhelf tonight, a new

look at female reporters in the middle east. amna nawaz spoke to two women changing the conversation byf sharing someose reporters' unique stories. >> nawaz: for decades stories out life and war in the middle d have beenab wo filtered through the eyes of predominantly male journalists. somemes those narratives can obscure the powerful work being done by female journalists, manf iddle eastern descent. but a new book called "our womek on the ground" seeks to change the conversation by spotlighting 20 arab female journalists, each writing from her own unique perspective. here to discuss their new book is zahra hankir the editor and npr correspondent hanna alam who wrote one of the chapters. welcomto you both. >> thank you. >> nawaz: congratulations on the book. it is out now. zahra, i want to start with you because the idea of this book started with a google right? compiling a list ojournalists that you wanted to follow. tell me that story. >> yeah, i was working as a reporter in dubai for "bloomberg arab spring from tnomicg the

iase, or perspective, a also asked to monitor regional and local media to help bloomberg follow up on what was going on around the region from people who were on the ground. and i realized at that point that there were so many incredible arawomen who were doing incredible work and realle risking their at the front lines. it wasn't always people who are on the front linesit might have been women who were writing different sorts of stories. and i felt at the time that they were not really heard of, a lot of them were not really heard of, at least in the international media landscape. and i felt that their voices needed to be amplified. but it was also a little bit selfish. lt that i wanted to lear the stories behind that coverage nawaz: well you've got a lot of voices in there. tanna is one of them of course. and, you know, w about western voices and voices from the region. you have, like many people, sort ofliual identitile right? multdentities. tell me about how where you gree up and how youup me you want to cover the iraq war which is the essay that you write

about in here. >> sure. i'm an egyptian american and i grew up inampartly in oklahoma but also in the middle east, in saudi arabia and abu dhabi. and so this was a region that's dear to my heart, the people the culture, the food, the language everything was, you know, just part and parcel of my childhood and my upbringing. and i think that, um, that it's useful as a as a barrier breaker. rmean, there were so many trust issues when you'orting on people in conflict when they're seeing their lives change around them, they're seeing death. knocking on the door sayingger "tell me all about it." if that stranger looks like you, if they know the cultural cuou, ifre sensitive with their story and you consider them, you you think about, what if this was your relative that was being

interviewed and you know to handle it sensitively like that. >> nawaz: and zahra, you udntioned this too, with all the women who are in in this book, many of them are covering thn holands, right? and they're often working in patriarchal societies, right, where men control the public spaces.w d that inform like what kind of common threads did you find in the essays they were contributing along those ideas. and many of the women, particularly in egypt and in yemen, also in sudan, have to contend with dply patriarchal societies in which their movement is limited, what they wear on a daily basis is constrained, theay that their families respond to their careed ambitions. it's all part of their suggles on a daily basis and all of that filters into how they approach journalism. there is one particular contributor, zaina erhaim, she writes about when, when the uprising started in syria and increasingly the country descended into utter chaos, she

wafaced with a situation in which she was told repeatedly to cover her hair. she wasn't able to move from one place to another unless she had a male chaperone. that's also a common theme in several of the essays.fe and sh that one way to navigate this was to actually embre the fact that she coul enter spaces which were inaccessible to anyone who was not a local and who was not a woman. >> nawaz: in other words, sheul have unique access that other pequle would not. >> so she was going into a syrian gynecological clinic and she was taking the cameras in there with her. you couldn't story being told by someone else. >> nawaz: and hannah you touch on this too in your essay about "t woman question," right? the idea being that when you are covering war zones or conflict zones or places where there iser conflict of some kind, when you start touching on things that are under the label ofn's issues" they're seen as illegitimate in some way or not worthy of our attention.ou tell me that. >> that's right. i think that, you know, if the day, and you kou'rettle of not on the front lt es or you're vering what's sometimes called the "bang bang" of war

correspondents, of war journali, then you know, you're somehow, you're soft. it'somot, you know, the meat of the war. and i think that's completely inaccurate. and in order to fully and thoroughly and accurately cover a conflict like iraq for example, you cannot leave outio half the popul and in fact more than ha a, in the case of iraq. and, and even if-- it's just all these assumptions that come inta that question:s it like to be a woman there? i mean the assumption is you can't do anything, it's verys restrictive, iry oppressive. and there is some truth to that depending on where you are in the region. but it's also true that power oks different. there is a quiet power sometimes there is a behind the enes power sometimes. you can't be 60% of theaq population in nd not have some kind of power in your, in your family in your household that might be exercised in diffent ways or look different, differently.

and so my as my essay i really saw it as a love letter, almost like a valentine, to to iraqi women ve me a glimpse of their lives who allowed me to see to their country and so much of it and who frankly on occasion kept me alive. >> nawaz: the iraq war is certainly one of the biggestth stories, one obiggest conflicts of our times are the women in this book cover a lot of these stories, right? the rian refugee crisis, conflict in other countries. you said y wanted to amplify them by including them in this book. what is it that you think is unique about the way that theyes tell their stond the stories that they choose to tell? >> i tend to say, actually, they're just women covering what's happening in their in eir countries. and you know, the stakes are that high where i feel that whatever they say is going to be intimate, it's going gonna be on a different level why're reflecting on that coverage. and it's those little raw details. for example we go on a trip with a sudanese journalt who, because she'thought of as non-

threatening because she's a woman, they allow her to go and interview the head of a militia the janj hilal.t the time, musa and she goes and she interviews him and she writes this bombshell story. and no one expected that from her. >> nawaz: we have more women, more women from the , more women with ties to the region covering some of these big stories of our time. do you think that plays a role >> i definitely dose i, i? do think that the global media been commanded by westerners.as i do think that there is a special place for women like hanna who have had one foot in the west and one foot in the arab world or the middle east and north africa who have that special insight and who are well positioned to do that.ee and there have improvements. i do think that more and more women in this space are being heard, but i think more needs to se done, and i think that the locals need and e more protections and should be treated on the same level as their western counterparts. >> nawaz: their stories ar being heard in your book, "it's our women on the ground." hankir and hannah alla thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you so much.

>> yang: the physical and mental toll of the nation's most- watched sport has been highlighted by the surprise retirement of the n.f.l.'s andrew luck. the 29-year-old quarrback of the indianapolis colts called it quits just two weeks before the season begins. >> the last four years i've been in ts cycle of injury-pain- rehab, injury-pain-rehab. it's been unceasing and unrelenting, both in season an off season, and i've felt stuck in it, and the only way i see out is to no longer play football. it's taken my joy of this game away. yang: in seven years in the league, the former first round draft chois had a lacerated kidney, injured ribs, at least one concussion, torn cartile in his throwingrt shoulder and, most recently, and calfnkle injury. sportswriter john feinsteinre

profiled aluck in his book "quarterback: inside the most important position in professional sports." the paperback edition comes t tomoow. clapper.>> thanks for joining u. you spent a lot of time with an true luck. did you sense or did you see ane ofoll of that cycle he talked about injury, pain, recovery. >> very much so. and emotional sense than a physical sense. every football player understands that itts to play the game. it's a brutal gam even those who aren't injured are hurt by the end of the season because of the pounding they take. when he missed the entire 27 season with the shoulder injury you mentioned it tore himp emotionally. he felt like he fail his teammates because he couldn't be on the field. the quarterbacks trying to he are place him were shadows of him. he went 12 and 4 without him. he felt 2k3w50e89 a depressed. he went away to you're to get

away from everything when are you coming back, when are you coming back. rehabbed over there for two mohs. he tald about uerstanding the finite nature of playing football. enthe difference betndrew luck and 99% of the athletes i ever known he loved the sport. loved it since he was a kid but he doesn't need it. he's so bright and heht so talented in other areas he can go on in his life wiout reaching out and hold on to football forever. >> you used aboea when you lve the sport. he got booed saturday night. what would you say to those fans. you because andrew luck gavend lurlly heart soul and body to that franchien for sev play off team.ed keep the they were a play off team for the sick years he wasealthy. that's -- six years he was healthy. that's number one. but number two, you don't

understand.le i don't think you play football at the highest level, you can understand what every football player goes through. i spent an entire season watching games from the sideline. john, i'm telling youif watched a routine play you would say huh oes anybody get up from the collisions that takes place. these are bi strong men colliding with each other playl aftery. several commentators who didn't play football crioticized luck after retirement. two of them were friends of mine. i would say to them you can't understand because you were basketball players. it doesn't hurt to play basketball unless you miss a lot of shots buttball hurts. andrew luck wi all the injuries he's been through he said the joy was gone for him and all he could think about the recurring cycle of injury rehab, injury rehab feling like he let his teen mates down. i understandompletely why he felt the way he did and most of wose he people i suspect did not. re hearing more and or

about retired players, their health proems. ishere a sense that more players, current players are weighing this balce of their careers and their long term wel being. >> i don't think there'siny doubt abou first of all cte scares people as it should. and we are finding out important and more that plyers who have couksz during the curse -- concussions during the course of their careers will have cte as they get older. with more players donating their brain when they pass away we' feunlding manfinding many ave c. you do get so beat up. because the players eve a making more money now they dot have to hang on and let their bodies get beat up. what's significant with all these scares. the number of plers playing high school football has gone down significant in the last fer what's changed is when i was a play fotball.dn't want me to now i think dads and moms aren't very eager to he see their sons play footb

they say play another support. >> john feinstein. the book is quarterback inside the most important position of professional sports.mo out ow. john, thanks so much. >> yang: the work rican artist oliver e jackson plores themes of music in american and african culture it is currently on view at the nationalallery of art in washington. ith 84, lee collaborates musicians and some of the music in this piece was written for him. we asked jackson which artist has influenced his work. he took us to the old masters wing of the national gallery, to see "girl with thred hat" painted in the netherlands byhr johann vermeee and a half centuries ago. this story is part of "canvas," our ongoing arts and culture series.

>> he's a maker. he's supposed to take you into a dream world.ha that'sit does. my name is olr ackson. there ain't no light in the but you believe iht's out here it's not art.asual stuff. this is making. this is not a three dimensional world this is a flat pla so ouu have to make a world. how do do it. you get somethige to happen that these focuses anolks and other e feeling. thsomething about joy that creates an interior intimacy ying to express that trby duplicating again and again intimate relationships and images everywhere. these colors infer stop shog themselves -- never stop

showing themselves clearly. the t aint throughesn'tgh shut so the harmonies is never lessened by the play of the lights. this o is very ery physical. it's vry specific. there's thickness here and there evokes feelings in you. as you move across this visually you can't help with the inside shift. when it's happening in you it' a kind of sym fe sum foet symphs it. he's forcing you to feel space. fools you.t it's not the red hat, it's the red. there ain't no hat in there. that's an excuse for the red. this big splash red against thes cool and tertiary re against the light is to pull thatoff to make a punch, just a punch.n

you get ito somebody's face. there's a punch and the subject i chi show gestures that tells everything i want to say. in this whole world everything seems to be connected to everything else. through ts and thie in tace this closed. it's all closed in. they don't shut outside. that means this is an area in which these forms interact. i understand these marx. there are relationships. they never stop untils complete. my aesthetics puts it together. >> yang: and on the newshour online, nearly 60,000 wildfires have bned through the brazilian amazon so far this year.

we take a look at some of the numbers to help us understand why these natural disasters are capturing international attention. all that and more is on our web site, www.pbs.org/newshour. >> yang: and that's the newsho m for tonight. hn yang. join us online and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> babbel. a language learning app that uses speech cognition technology and teaches real-life conversations. daily 10-15 minute lessons are voiced by nativee peakers and babbel. babbel.com. >> kevin. >> finanal services firm ymond james. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century.

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