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>> this program was made possible by the corporation for 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 week the g7 summit. he defended his policies and ctics today and played down tensions with the world's other economic powers.e whuse correspondent yamiche alcindor reports from in biarritz, france. >> alcindor: at the g7, a public show of harmony, papering over deep divisions. presidents trump and macron ended the conference with the displayed all weekend. they

>> if there was any word for then particular meeting of s very important countries, it was unity. i think got along great.all we >> 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 pointedly disagreed. on iran, macron extended a last minute invitation to iranian foreign minister javad. macronold 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", which mr. trump pulled out of st year, hangs in the balance have to be a meeting between the iranian and american presidents and i would wish that in the coming weeks, such aeeting would take place. i want this meeting to happen

and i want there to be an agreement between the united >> alcindor: president trump said he was open to a meeting conditions.der the right >> if the circumstances were correct or right, i would >> if the circumstances were correct or right, i would cenainly agree to that, but the meantime they have to be good players. you understand what that means. ngd they can't do what they're saying they're go do because if they do that, they're going to be met withy'eally very violent force. we have no choice. he said increasing tariffs would encourage beijing to make a new trade deal. he also clmed that top chineseag officials were to negotiate. >> i do. i think they want to make a deal very badly. maybe they want to, maybe they don't, but ihink they want to. i don't think they have a choice. >> alcdor: sunday was filled with confusion andha communications after the president said he had second thoughts about his strategy with china.re

>> mr.dent, any second thoughts on escalating the trade war with china? >> yeah, sure. why not? >> might as well. might as well. >> you have second thoughts about escalating the war with e china? >> i hcond thoughts about everything. >> alcindor: but his aides later said he was only reflecting on whether he should be even tougher on china.en prestrump also defended his controversial push to have russia, again attend the annual meeting, returning this summit to the g8. in>> a lot of people say h russia, which is a power, having them inside the room is better than having them outside the room. by the way, there were numerous way.le in the g7 that felt that anidn't take a vote onid anything, but we did discuss it. my inclinati is to sayes, they should be in. >> alcindor: he also repeated his incorrect claim that russia was kicked out of the group beca former president barack obama. he claimed an angry obama ssia's 2014 annexation ofease of

cr president putin outsmarted president obama. and 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 russia oued president obama? >> well, he did. >> when other countries have said that the reason why russia eds kicked out was very clearly because they annrimea. why keep repeating what some people would see as a clear lie? >> well, it was annexed during president obama's-- i know you if it was annexed during my term i'd say sorry folks i made a mistake, sorry folks.av it couldbeen 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 the only g7 leader to skip a meeting on climate change. though in his absence, leaders dagreed on a $20 million package to help stop the wildfires in the amazon. on climatehange, the president said he did not want to sacrifice economic progress in the name of the environment.me

>> i'm not goi to lose that wealth, i'm not going to lose it on dreams, on windmills, which, ankly, aren't working to well. i'm not going to lose it. we have incredible conference rooms, incredible restaurants,s it's like, ike such a natural. >> alcindor: since 2015, trump doral's operating income has reportedly declinealmost 70%. but president trump dismissed questions about the ethics of profitg from his presidency. >> i'm not going to make any money. in my opinio i'm not going to make any money. i don't want to ma money.

i don't want to make money. >> it's still unclear when president trump willdeake his finasion on where to hold the g7 in 2020 but certainly many people will be watching, yawn. that news conference and pressed the president about his version of events why russian was kuked why does he stick with that story the version of e haven't. >> president tmp is insisting russia outsmarted his predecessor president obama and he wants to stick with that. he wants to blame president i don't know when he is frustrated he blamed his for child separation and for not being tough enough on china. what is clear is democrats are already very frustrated with president trump.hu chuck r put out a statement saying it's appalling that president trump wants to red russia back into the g7. he also said it would ke

president trump look weak. >> tell us more about the french president's efforts to mediate between iran and the united states. >> it's clear french president temanuel macron wants to middle man. he saitoday iran needs some sort of economic one sent tough hein order to come back to negotiating table and get something better thathe 2015 iran nuclear deal. but president trump hedges a little. he says he doesn't want to give iran any sort of monetary compensation but sothing could be worked ou with some sort of oil edit or ort of monetary incentiv so it will be interesting to see how that plays out but macron definitely wants to play a big roll in that. >> you also reported that he's losing mon as president. what do the watchdog groups say about that? >> the president says by the he will have lost between three

and million. he hasn't offered any proof of that and most watchdog groups kiy he and his family are millions of dollars of hum being president. an analysis by the washington post says he made at least $1.6 million from his properties because he's been visiting them in florida and new jersey. and 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 legae action they can takewill prevent president trump from holding the g7 at his property 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 ste e judge in oklahoma issued a potentially ldmark ruling: that johnson & johnson help fuel an epidemic of opioid addiction. he ordered the company to pay

$570 million. the state had asked for up to $17 billion. judge thad balkman found johnson of opioid painkillers and played down the risks. >> those actions compromised the healthnd safety of thousands of oklahomans. specically, defendants cause an opioid crisis that is evidenced by increased ratesf addiction, overdose deaths, and neonatal abstinence syndrome in oklahoma. the opioid crisis haatravaged the of oklahoma. it must be abated mediately. >> yang: johnson & johnsonun immediately and plans to appeal.th some 2,000 state and local lawsuits are pending against opioid makers nationwide. we'll look at all of this after the news summary. block any rollbackmits ony to detaining migrant children. generally limits that period to 20 days.k,

last whe administration announced new rules to hold entire famils for longer. california attorney general xavier becerra announced the legal challenge in sacramento. >> the trumpdministration made the changes called for in this rule without regard tohe well- being of these children and without regard to the rule of law. every time we go to court, for the most part, we win. we're proving that this administration is trying to do things the wrong way, by breaking the rules. >> yang: california so asked ask federal judge today to block the administration's "public charge" rule. that wou deny green cards to legal immigrants who draw public benefits, such as medicaid and food stamps. fallen movie producer harvey weinstein has pleaded "not guilty" to revised charges of sexually assaulting two wome he was back in a new york court today face the new indictment. it would allow a third woman to testify that weinstein her in 1993. the judge has now delayed the

trial to early next year. officials in hong kong warnedat today thiolent protests are pushing the chinese territory t thbrink of great danger.pt new violence e over the weekend, as protesters threw bricks and smashed toll booths. riot police fired back with a 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 moreth 80 activists over the weekend, some as young as 12. 21 officers were injur b. tensioween israel and iran and its allies are heating up across the middle east. in lebanon today, prime minister saad hariri accused israel of violating his country's sovereignty in a series of air strikes. n the first came sunday, wo drones crashed into beirut suburbs.

hezbollah militants lied with iran held funerals today for two fighters killed in the raid. they marched, and their leader vowed revenge. israel did notonfirm any attacks in lebanon. it did acknowledge striking at iranian forces in syria over the weend. and claims of israeli air raids in iraq are prompting calls for u.s. troops to withdraw immediately. iraqi officials say israeli drones attacked iranian-backed paramilitaries on sunday, killing one fightein shiite muslims, including lawmakers, marched through baghdad a funeral procession today. they said the united states bears the blame. >> ( translated ): theas aggressionarried out by israel and by the powers which support it. it took place in broadght with the presence of the international coalition flight american air crafts. e this means these crimes ne under the cover of america and colonialism. >> yg: u.s. officials did no comment on sunday's attack in iraq, but ey have said that

israel attacked iranian forces there in july. troptoal storm dorian moved into the eastern caribbeag tonight, bearwn on barbados and its neighbors. the islands braced for the storm's arrivaearly tuesday. from there, its projected path takes it toward puerto rico. even a weak hurricane could be a problem for puerto rhich is still recovering from the devastation of hurricane maria two yearago. back in this country, republican congressman sean duffy ofwi onsin announced he's resigning his seat next month. the four term lawmaker said m needs to spee time with his family. his wife is expecting october, and tests show the child has a heart condition. duffy becomes the 14th house republican not seeking s reelection in 2020. he represents a stro republican district. and, on wall street, stocks rallied after president trump suggested china wants to talk seriously about a trade deal. 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 added 31. still to come on the newshour: a major decision in a case against a drug maker. will this be a bellwether trial for the opioid epidemic? amy walter and tamara keith break down the 2020 candidates' fundraising scramble. a new book highlights the difficult realities for female journalists in the middle east. and much more. >> yang: today'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 oklahoma trial has been closely watched by thousands ofga lis in other states and jurisdictions. b ngham: 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 a drug "knsgpin," arguing its ses force downplayed their painkillers addictive qualities, which then helped lead to thousands of deaths in the state nce 2000. here's attorney general mike hunter after the judge's rulingr thernoon: mfied our position thats johnson & johnsoivated by greed and avarice is responsible for the opioid epidemic in our state. johnson & johnson will finally be held accountable for thousands of deaths and addiction causedy their activities. there is nquestion these companies knew jt could not stop making money fromt and

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

remediate the public nuisance. he he even brought up things that were, hen't broug parts that were talked about dung the trial saying that there was a problem with churn in the state w are born with opioids in their syste the judge really highlighted a lot of the main arguments that the state made during the case. >> can you tell us a little bit about more about what the state alleged? mention that the state saidio that johnson & johnson basically hid the fact that they knew that dithese drugs were highly tough. what else did the state allege johnson & johnson did wrong here? >> yeah. well i mean, the big thing that mthe torn genera attney generar alleged and he said it multiple times today at the press conference that johnn & 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 companies that grew and developed a highly hypothesissent oppositoid poppy. and that -- opioid poppy. that company then sold that base ion greed -- ingredient to othep companies lidue pharma which produced oxy cotton with of.uc during the courshe trial, the state argued that n & johnson knew even if it wasn't thr opioids that were bein told, their deceptive marketing campaign resulted in more sales of opioids and more sales for their bottom line. something to remember, johnson & johnson sold those 2wo companies 6. >> you mentioned initially thatm the state used a somewhat novel legal strategy to go after the mpany. they used what's called a public nuisance law.

gan you explain what that strategy argued? >> yeah. public nuisance is a h a very bd law in 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, filed a very similar lawsuit against johnson & johnson citing public nuisance law last wee so now that we've seen at leaste inourt case that it works, we may see morraattorneys gedecide to take up this public nuisance claim and see if they can get money for their own state. >> know, there's these 2000 or so other companies that are all gathered under one

osderal judge in ohio and are against other manufacturers, distributorsnd manufacturers of these drugs. everyone there has got to have been watching what was going on in oklahoma today to see whethet or ns was a bellweather. what do you think is the likely impact on that much larger he pool of cases? >> well 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 her maybe you're willing to settle wit us now rather than going for a trial. because as of right now, johnson & johnson now has to pay over we saw before, purdue pharma

settled with the state for 270 million. teva makes generic oppositoidsle sefor $75 million. they were initially both parties to this litigatile but this sebefore it began. so johnson & johnson could be on the hook for this whole this five hundred sum odd 70 million 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, wt is oklahoma going to do with this 500 something million dollars. >> there was an abatement plan put forward during the trial.st the initially ked by the way for $17.5 million to fund their 30-year plan.a so they goaction what they really asked for. at the press confererlier today terry white who is the commissioner for substance abuse in oklahoma says they will be able to really srt funding

projects and treatments. it's really an open company of how that's going to work. there's al he so aaw that was passed after the pursue settlement in oklahoma. so the legislator may be able to allocate these funds. so whether or not they get allocated for opioid treatment foreprevention is really a -- for prevention is real a question mark. >> jacky fortier, thank you very stretch. >much. >> i'm happy to, thanks. >> yang: the crowded race forde thcratic presidential nomination has started to winnow, and this week we'll learn which of t remaining 21 candidates will be on the debate stage next month. heit's likely just half of eeeld will meet the polling and donor requirements. lisa desjardins reports that the 2020 hopefuls are competing for attention and dollars.

>> plee 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 heart 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 grow this movement. >> desjardins: leading the pack- - south bend mayor pete buttigieg. he raised nearly $25 million from april to june of this year, according to financial filings. biden followed with $22 million. in third-- massachusabts senator elh warren with $19 million. then vermont senator bernieer sawith $18 million. infifth, california senator kamala harris with $11.8 million. >> one dollar, five dollars, $10, whatever they can to make re that we are able to get our message out there.rd >> desins: after that-- a

stark gap in the field, in both money raised and polling, and af brut fig funds among the remaining candidates. >> it's been a real slog trying to come out of the crowd the >> desjardins: michelle yee he lee covers money in politics for "the washington post." more and more that the five dobe er the gap just continues to grow. >> desjardins: unable to make up the distance, massachusetts congressman seth moulton and washington governor jay inslee dropped out of the race last week. both had yet to meet fundraising or polling qualificafor the third democratic debates in september. >> people pitching in a dollar, ve dollars, $10, $20. and that's the spirit i'm going to move forward in, in this campaign. >> desjardins: julian castro last week became only the 10th hecandidate to qualify for debates. so far, that leaves 11 others off next month's stage. >> desjardins: but even thfitop fundraisers have been struggling to pull in steady funds among the crowded field. and, how they're going about it varies greatly.

>> you see joe biden reall coming out of the gate with a fundraiser, a private fundraiser, held at the comcast executive's home. and he is this is kind of like old school >> at the other end of the spectrum is elizabeth warren who s rejected that type of fundraising overall completely. and she's only raising money from grassroots donors and she's doing really well. >> i stand before you to officially launch my campaign for a second term as president of the united states. >> desjardins: and then there is the president's re-election campaign, which he kicked off right after his inauguration i 2017. mr. trums re-election effort has so far out-raised all the democratic candidates and the democratic national committee combined, by aut $100 million- - with a mix of small nors and multi-million-dollarlosed fundraisers. that's giving his campaign a decided advantage at targeting voters.

>> he's been able to shape the message online, and on tv-run ads really get to know the voter base very well, and ow 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 untapped. many donors are still waitin for the ce to narrow before making their contributions, while smaller donors arere ing their money across several different candidates. >> they know the money is out there. the queson is whether the money spigot is going to really open up in time for the apresidential nominee to e to catch up to the lead that president trump has. >> please give at least a dollar so i can get those donations up. >> desjardins: candidates who don't make the third debate stage in less than three weeks will likely need to re-evaluate whether theyave the cash or pport to ultimately stay in the race. and that's good news for anxious democratic donors-- who say a final democratic nominee can't come soon enough. i

>> we haour studio back together again the great amy walter of the political report npr, also of npr politicsh of podcast. thank you both. let's start withhe dollar race. tamara, i'll ask you first. we'll talk about funraing every single selection. is it any different this presidential cycle. >> on the democratic side, there has been a decoupling of donor and divorce. what i mean by -- and voter. tritionally they go out an try to raise money, when someone writes them a check, sends them a dollar, sends them $50, they can mark them down not just as a supporter but a voter and this time it's not monogamous. you have voters, democrats dagiving money to five cans, ten candidates.

every time there's please give the stage and have my voiceon heard. sure i'll give awe dollar. when it comes time to buckle down and get voters out they cad go to their donor file and say i can assume those people will be caucusing for me or voting for me in new hampshire or south carolina or caucusing in nevada. instead they will have to figure out which of theironors areir actually toters. >> the other big difference when you look bachus ecially thinking about the -- back, especially about the republicans, they've had the most are can't era, 2012 and 2016. the big thing thca those aigns were the super packs. jeb bush probably the most famous. he probay didn't raise as much money but they are spu super pas because they are different.

y.you can raise tons of mo w in that race in early states for candidates like mitt romney and newt gingrich. democrats, they have been moving away from takingoney from super pacs or other super pacs involved in this. all the democratic candidates say i don't want your money. 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 lisa would go ask 20 of her friends to write $20 checks and you would get lauded by the campor being that big fund raiser. theyre not doing that now.

it means it's not just the way the money at's being raised is different but if you think about these early states who arefloing to have nce in these races. it's going to look a lot dieert than it has in he cent years. >> one reason of course for all these small donor numbers going up is the tracks are forcing the issue -- democrats are forcing the issue.yo need small donors to make the next debate. so far i think we have qualified. we still have 2 candidates. w my question n do we see this field really cut down. is it going to be after this nextitwhbait? do you think. >> in the last week i think candidates.beethree fewer so there is a winnowing as we get towards these fall debates. there are a few candidates saying that they won'take it for the september debate but they could make it for the oak debate so they are hang --de octobete so they are hangg on to that. i think we will see a winnowing this fall but it's still going to be a he have big field. a historically large field. >> it is.

it gets harder and harder. we talked about fund raising. it gets harder to raise money if you're not publicly having a presence whether it's on ther debate statting invited for interviews. i think you will see more winnowing. i think voters want to see this and i want to see this anyst is to see the top candidates on thesome stage.om there aronly three candidates consistently pulled in the double digits. joe biden, elizabeth warren and bernie sanders. kamala harris sometimes touchese up. ngalou get into the low dulges that's about it nobody after these two other debates we've already had, weha n't seen much movement exisn't really among the top three or four candid getting on stage in the debate i know it may help candidates ego but others not necessarily helping the poll standing.

>> someone who would like any stage i think is joe walsh who is the conservative former member of congress radio talk show host republican announced that he's running agnst donald trump as a republican and he's doing it in an interesting way.t he's issuing a may yh cull pa saying his remarks may have been racist. apologized for them. he says the president is not appropriate for our chilen to he's going after the president on moral grounds. is he a serious challeng c are? hellenging the president for his conservative base. r >> what orting has shown over time is that the president has consolidated the republican party both if you look in polling and support e president there's not a lot of weakness among republicans. but in terms of the actual party apparatus, the trump campaign and the republican party are o on the same. the republican party the gop, the rnc is not going to allo abu

and competitive primary because the president of theed untates is their candidate and coy. >coy -- . >> and he's a republican. >> and he's a republican and they will box any serious challenge to the president in the primary. >> it's hard to know whether to take joe walsh's apology seriously to say he was a fire brand is putting it nicely the things he has said on twitter that he said during his campaign, that he has been known to tweet about. pret out there, all right. >> in some cases calling for violence. >> he's apologized for that, that's right. one of his most famous saying obama is indeed a muslim, you e tohat's one piece we h deal with. the second piece is who are these folks who are frustrated with donald trump, the republican party. t nk of the never trumpers, right.ce these folks oncerned therselves as republicans

they are consivive or moderate they don't find a place with dold trump. remember where joe walsh is from my home district, suburban chicago, the district that traditionally voted for mitt romney, voted for reblican for congresses for many years. this last year, votedng overwhel for a democrat,o voted for hierarch hillary clinn 2016. although he's personally not like that.m where he's f representative of a republican base in the suburbs that once supported every republican candidate but in the era o trump, they've moved away from). he in the past was not that kina of candidate but the district he used to represent. >> i'll end on you amy, and we've seenps and downs on wall street the last couple weeks as an important metc we know for president trump. my question to you, do you think this president is ression proof if we have a he are reces. >> we could withstand an

question is whetheot justt the having a slowing down is enough. i think for trump we've already ratings on the economy have been separate from otherwise overall approval rating. 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 job 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 taralt keith and amy . thank you. >> yang: stay with us. coming up on the newshour: walking awaya quarterback's decision to leave the n.f.l. in the prime of his career rather than risk another injury.h and, from dusters to jazz music: a painter on the inspiration behind his work. on our bookshelf tonight, a new look at female reporters in the

middle east. amna nawaz spoke to two women changing the conversation by sharing some of those reporters' unique stories. >> nawaz: for decades stories east and arab world have beendle filtered through the eyes of predominantly male journalists. sometimes those narratives can obscure the powerful work being done by fema journalists, manyts of middle eastern descent. but a new book called "our women on the ground" seeks to change the conversation by spotlighting 20 arab female journalists, each writing from her own unique perspective. re to discuss their new book is zahra hankir the editor and npr correspondent hanna alam who wrote one of the chapters. welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> naw: congratulations on the book. it is out now. zahra, i want start with you because the idea of this book started with a google doc, right? stmpiling a list of journa that you wanted to follow. >> yeah, i was working as a reporter in dubai for "bloomberg news" and i was covering the arab sprinfrom the economic

angle, or perspective, and i was also asked to monitor regional and cal media to help bloomberg follow up on what wad going on aroe region from people who were on the ground. and i realized at that point that there were soany incredible arab women who were doing incredible work skd really g their lives at the front lines. it wasn't always people who ar on the front lines, it 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 t of them were not really heard of, at least ithe international media landscape. and i felt that their voices needed to be amplified.a but it was alsttle bit selfish. i felt that i wanted to learn the stories behind that coverage >> naz: well you've got a lo of voices in there. hanna is one of them of course. and, you know, we talk about western voices and voices from the region. you ha, like many people, sort of dual identities right? multiple identities. tell me about how where yogrew up and how you grew up made you want to cover the iraq war which is the essay that you write abouin here.

>> sure. i'm angyptian american and i grew up in, partly in oklahoma but also in the middle east, in saudi arabia and abu dhabi. and so this was a region that'sa dear to my, the people the culture, the food, the language everyt part and parcel of my childhood and my upbringing. ard i think that, um, that it's useful as a as aer breaker. i mean, there were so many trust issues when you're reporting on people in confli when they're seeing their lives change around them, they're seeing death. and then here comes a stranger knocking on the door saying "tell me all about it." if that stranger looks like you, if they know the cultural cues, if you are sensitive with eir story and you consider them, you you think about, what if this was your relative that was being interviewed and you know to

thandle it sensitively lit. >> nawaz: and zahra, you mentioned this too, with all the women who are included in this book, many of them are covering their own homelands, right? and they're ofpan working in iarchal societies, right, where men control the public spaces. how did that inform like what kind of common threa you find in the essays they were contributing along those ideas.o and many of the women, particularly in egypt and in yemen, ao in sudan, have to contend with deeply patriarchal societies in which their movement is limited, what they wearn a daily basis is constrained, the way that their families respond to their career ambitions. it's all part of their struggles on a daily basis and all of that filters into how theoach journalism. there is one particular contributor, zaina erhaim, she writes about when the uprising started in syria and increasingly the cntry descendeinto utter chaos, she was faced with a situation in

which she was told repeatedly to cover her hair. she wasn't ablto move from one place to another unless she had a male chaperone. that's also a common theme in several of t essays. and she felt that one way to navigate this was to actually embrace the fact that she could enter spaces which were t inaccessibanyone who was not a local and who was not a woman. >> nawaz: in other words, she could have unique access that other people would not. >> so she was going into a syrian gynecological clinic and she was taking the cameras in there with h you couldn't conceive of that story being told by someone else. >> nawaz: and hannah you touch on this too in your about "the woman question," right? the idea being that when you are ouvering war zones or conflict zones or places ere there is conflictf some kind, when you start touching on things that are under the label of "women's issues" they're seen as illegitimate in some way or not worthy of our attentio tell me about that. >> that's right. i think that, you know, ifng you're not dhe battle of the day, and you know, you're not on the front lines or you're not covering what's sometimes called the "bang bang" of war correspondents, of war

journalism, then you know, you're somehow, you're soft. it's not, you know, the meat of the war. and i think that's completelyte inaccu and in oer to fully and thoroughly and accurately coverr a conflict lik for example, you cannot leave out half the popation,n fact more than half, in the case of aq. and, and even if-- it's just all thesassumptions that come in that question: what's it like to be a woman there? i mean the assumption is you can't do anying, it's very restvective, it's very oppressive. and there is some truth to that depending on where you are in the region. but it's also true twer looks different. there is a quietthower sometimes e is a behind the scenes f wer sometimes. you can't be 60%e population in iraq and not have some kind of power in your, in your family in your household that might be exercise different ways or look different, differently.

and so my as my essay i real saw it as a love letter, almlit a valentine, to the iraqi women who gave me a glimpse of their lives who allowed me to come to their country and to see so much of it and who many, many more than one occasion kept me alive. >> nawaz: the iraq war is certainly one of the biggest stories, one of the biggest conflicts of our times are the rimen in this book cov a lot of these storiest? the syrian refugee crisis, conflict in other countries. you said you wanted to amplify them by including them in this book. what is it that you think is unique about the way that theyll heir stories and the stories that they choose to tell? >> i tend to say, actually, they're just women covering i what's happenitheir in their countries. and you know, the stakes are that high where i feel that whatever they say is goingito be intimate going gonna be on a different level when they're reflecting on that coverage. and it's those little raw details. for example go on arip with a sudanese journalist who, because she's thought of as non- threatening because she's a woman, they allow her to go andd

interview the f a militia the janjaweed, at the time, musa hilal. and she goes and she interviews him and she writes this bombshell story. and none expected at from her. >> nawaz: we have more women, more women from the region, more women with ties to the region covering some of these big stories of our time. do you think that plays a rolein in chathe narrative? >> i definitely do because i, i do think that the global media narrative on the arab world has been commanded by westerners. i do think that there is a special place for women like hanna who have had one foot in tho west and one foot in the arab world or the middle east and north africa who have that special insight ansiwho are well oned to do that. and there have been improvements. i do think that more and more women in this space are being heard, but i think more needs to be done, and i think that the locals need and deserve more protections and should be treated on the same level as their western counterparts. >> nawaz: their stories are being heard in your book, ro"it's our women on the gd." zahra hankir and hannah allam. 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 quarterback of the indianapolis colts called it quits st two weeks before the >> the last four years i've been in this cycle of injury-pain- rehab, injury-pain-rehab. it's been unceasinleand uning, both in season and off season, and i've felt stuc 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 choice has had a lacerated kidney, injured ribs, at least one concussion, torn cartilage in his thring shoulder and, most recently, a calf and ankle injury. sportswriter john feinstein

profiled andrew luck in his book important position ine most professional sports." the paperback edition comes out tomorrow. clapper.>> thanks fojoining us. you spent a lot of time with an true luck. did you sense or did you seenyhe ofoll of that cycle he talked about injury, pain, recovery. >> verremuch so. and robably in a mental and emotional sense than a physical sense.la every footballr understands that it hurts to play the game. it's a brutal game. even those who aren't injured are hurt by the end of the season because of the poding they tak when he missed the entire 2017on seith the shoulder injury you mentioned it tore him upyo emotionally. he felt like he fail his teammates becaushe couldn't be on the field. the quarterbacks trying to he are place him were shaws of him. he went 12 and 4 without him he felt 2k3w50e89 and 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 months. he talked about understanding the finite nature of playing football. the dierence between andrew luck and 99% of the athletes i k evwn he loved the sport. loved it since he was a kid but he doesn't need it. he's so bright and he so go on in his life treas he can reaching out and hold on to football forever. >> you used about when you leave the sport. he got booed saturday night. what would you say to those fans. >> first i would say shame on lurlly heart and sd bodygave to that franchise for seven years and helped keep them a play off team. they were play off team for ck years he was healthy. that's -- six years he wasal thy. that's number one. but number two, you don't understand.ta

i don't think unless you play football at the highest level, yocan understand what ever football player goes through. watching games from the sideline. john, i'm tellg you, if you watched a routine play you would say huh does anybody g up from the collisions that takes place. these are big rong men colliding with each other play after play. several commentators who didn't play frstball criticized luck after retirement. mine.f them were friends of 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 sho but football hurts. andrew luck with all theju es he's been through finally got to the point where he said the joy was gone for him and all he could think about the recurring cycle of injury rehab, injury rehab feeling like he his teen mates down. i understand completely why he felt the way he did and most of those he people i suspect did not. >> we're hearing more and or

about retired players, their health problems. is there a sense that moreay s, current players are weighing this balance of their careers and their long term well being. >> i don't think there's any doubt about it. first of all cte scares people as it should. and we are finding out important and more that players who haveth conkuksz durincourse -- concussions during the course of their careers will havas they get older. with more players donating their bren when they pass away we feunlding mane finding many hav. you do get so at up. because the players eve are makg more money now thedot have to hang on and let their bodies get beat up. what's significant with alles scares. the number of players playing gh schoofootball has gone down significant in the last few years. what's changed is when i was a kid my mom didn't want me to play footbalt now i think dads and moms aren't very eager to he see their sons play football.

they say play another support. >> jn feinstein. the book is quarterback inside the most important position of professionalports. out tomorrow. john, thanks so much. >> my plsure. >> yang: the work of american artist oliver lee jackson inlores themes of mus american and african cultures. it is currently on view at the nationalallery of art inwa ington. now 84, lee collaborates with musicoans and some of the music in this piece was writr 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 the red hat"ed dspainted in the netherlan by johann vermeer three and a half centuries ago. this story is part of "canvas," our ongoing arts and culture seri.

>> he's a maker. he's supposed to take you into r m world. that's what it does.am myis oliver jackson. there ain't no light in the painting, the light's out here but you believe it is. this is not casual stuff. it's not art. th is making. this is not a three dimensional world this is a flat plain so you have to make a world. how do you do it. you get something to happen that these focuses an folks and othee feeling. there's something about joy that creates an interior intimacy trying to express that by duplicating again and again intimate relationships and images everywhere. these colors infer stop shog themselves -- never stop

showing themselves clearly. the paint throughout doesn't shut so the harmonies is never lessened by the play of the this one is very vysical. it's very specific. there's thickness here and there evok feelings in you. as you move across this visually you can't lp with the inside shift. when it's happening in you it's a kind of sym fe sum foe symphos it. he's forcing you to feel space.t that iools you. 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 e cool and tertiary re against the light is to pull that off to make a punch, just a punch.

you get into somebody's face. there's a punch and the subject matter is that. i chi show gestures that tells in this whole worleverything seems to be connected tols everything through this and this. in the space this closed. t it's alleylosed in. on't shut outside. that means this is an area ines which forms teract. i understand these marx. marks. therare relationships. they never stop until it's complete. my aesthetics puts it together. hopefully it's >> yang: and on the newshour online, nearly 60,0 wildfires ve burned through the brazilian amazon so far this year.

we take a look at some of the numbers to help us uerstand why these natural disasters are capturg international attention. all that and more is on our web .site, www.pbs.org/newsho >> yang: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm john yang. y join us online and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us 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 recognition technology and teaches real-life conversations. daily 10-15 nute lessons are iced by native speakers and are at babbel. babbel.com. >> kevin. >> financial services rm raymond james. foundation.p. sloan supporting science, technology, and improv economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century.

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