captioning sponsored by wnet >> stewart: on this editn for saturday, november 30: the latest on the londone terrorist attack; and in our signate segment, reviving an endangered language one student at a tim xt on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. suand edgar wachenheim iii. pthe cheryl and philstein family. rosalind p. walter, in memory of george o'neil. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by ml of america, designing

customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by theorporation for public broadcastin a private american peoplnded by the anby contributions to your pbs station from viewers like yoyou. than hlincoln center in new yo, alison swart. >> stewart: good evening, and thank you for joining us. investigators in the united kingdom are searching for clues about how a convicted teorist was able to plan and carry out a stabbing attack yesterday. n killed two people and wounded the other london bridge. london's counterterrorism officials named e suspect as 28-year-old usman khan. charges in 2012 for a plot to blow up the london stock exchange.

last year, he was released early from his 16-year sentence and ordered to wear an ankle monitor and ipate in a rehabilitation program. police said thattack began at an event for prisoner rehabilitation, which the suspect was attending near london bdge. before police arrived, bystanders tackled the suspect. video on twitter showed people chase attacker using a fire extinguisher and an ornamental five-foot narwhal tusk pulled from the building where the attack began. police shot and killed the suspect when they saw he was wearing what appeared to be a suicide vest. it was a fake. loanndon's mayor, sadiq praised the bystanders. advice that they'rn--ed all the which is to run away from danger, to look after your own sardety-- aninstead ran to danger to make sure others were safe. and i'm just so incredibly proud as the mayor. i think all of us should be eroud of what our fellow citizens did yey, including the police. >> stewart: today, police said e of the victims was 25-year- old jack merritt, who was

involved with coordinating the rehabilitation event. prime minister boris johnson f thed for a review country's automatic early release policy. >> it does not make sense for us as a society to be putting terror pt.ple convicted of terrorist offenses, of serious violent offensesleout on early e. and we argue that people should serve the tariff, serve the term of which their sentenced. >> stewart: just a few hou after the london attack, three teenagers in the netherlands were injured in a separate shopping street in the hague. all the victims have now been and released from the hospital. in a statement, police said they aorre still searching male suspect and said the suspect's motive is "unclear." hundreds of older act, many retirees, joined young agontrnment protesters in hong kong today for a peaceful unity rally. participang "glory to hong kong," an unofficial anthem of the demonstratns, and held signs urging citizento continfight for freedom

and democracy. organizers said that the older generation wanted the government to know that the young protestors will note abandoned. hong kong has been relatively calm since local elections last weekesulted in victories for many pro-democracy candidates. iraq's cabinet approved the resignation of prime minister adel abdul-mahdi today, one day after he promised to step down. parliament must now accept tmahdi's resignation for o be valid and could decide the matter tomorrow. despite the prime minister's vow to step down, dntonstrations nued today. four protestersere killed and at least 26 others were wounded. thoio anti-government protests began in early october and more than 400 people ha died. and in malta, prime minister joseph muscat is expected to resign over a scandal involvinga the 20assination of a journalist and corruption allegations. daphne caruana galizia had been investigatg corruption before hedeath in a car bombing.

three men have been arrested for carrying out the bombing but no close aides to muscat have allegedly been linked to the killing. even if he regns, muscat may remain as prime minister until ldnuary, when malta's labour party its leadership election. on the busiest travel weekend of the year, the weather is not making things merry and bright. a thorm system moving acros midwest and into the northeast will bring snow, rand high .inds airlines have already canceled hundreds of flights, and there were thousands of flight days today. the midwest saw heavy snow, and up to four inches of snow mixed with rain is expected in new york city starting tomorrow. another weather system bring heavy rain and snow to the west coast this weekende while holiday shopping and celebrating season gets under way in the u.s.his weekend, in austria, it was time for something completely different. ( loud music ) the annual krampus run in a tow in southern austria brought people dressed as the mythical half-goat, half-demon creare

into the streets. in case yoe mystified, krampus is kind of santa claus' evil twin. in europe, he is believed to tag along with santa-- a.k.a. saint nick-- to punish naughty children. gives new meaning to the phras"" he's going to find out who's naughty or nice." for more news from around the iday's terror attacks in london, visit pbs.org/newshour. stewart: november is national nave american heritage month. aslo it comes to a, we have an intimate look at new york's mohawk tribe and its fight to store and maintain its language and culture for the next generation and beyond. newshour weekend special correspondent jenna flanagan has our story. >> the language gives us our identity. it teaches us the culture. it teaches us how to be. it t us how to be grateful. and without that, who are we? >> reporter: that's elvera sargent, an elder member othe akwesane mohawk nation, which

the northern border of new york state. the mohawk are working hard to not only maintain their language but ensure it has a future with its language immersion school. the akwesasne freedom school was founded in 1979 after decades of mohawk children being forcibly removed from their families and native lands to attend boarding schools run by priests where d english was mandatory e mohawk language forbidden, effectively putting up a barrier beeen the people and their culture. freedom school level four teacher tehonwenhnirasethe-- or, as he's known by his english name, levi herne-- explains the long-term cultural effect. >> most of the families in this community aren't traditional because of what haened with boarding schools and different types of assimation with, like, the jesuits, even in the 1600-1700s. >> reporr: elvera says she remembers her family members struggling with the sepasttion. >> my actually went to a

residential school, my uncle. and they would be there all year, come home once a year. but what i know with that is that they were not allowedo spealanguage. they were punished. my sister doesn't know the culture at all. she still knows the language. sh stuck. so, it has had a lasting impact. maybe people my age and maybe a little older, we didn't have that nurturing, nurturing from our parents because they didn't ow how to nurture usr show us love. we knew or they lod us but. oh, god, oh... itbuas hard for them to show

us. >> reporter: the boarding school separations left aasting impact on the family. houowever, elvera was too to be taken to boarding school, so she learned to speak mohawk at >> that's all i heard growing up. but then, eventually, even that part got lost. >>t' reporter: andthat same "natural way" that guides the freedom school. >> we actually start at the age of one where they can go into our language nest because, a long time ago, this was their first language. not all parents can speak the language, so they're not hearing it until they enter school. >> reporter: and the focus is on skdeveloping conversationals over compulsory. >> i think they really should try to learn with anotherh speaker, w elder. i'm afraid, with it being in a classroom all the time, that it's going to become a classroom languageand i don't want to see that happen. >> reporter: it's just before 8:00 a.m. at the akwesasne freedom school, and the kids are

already getting dropped f for the day. the school encompasses a small campus of three buildings, but it's not structured likan american public school. the kids aren't regulated by grade but rather their mohawk language ability level. necessarily a second grader but rather a kid who's conveiorsl skills are still developing. and thagat child can be an >> my name is kansennakohe. can you say it? >> repanorter:nnakohe? >> yep, kansennakohe. >> reporter: clearly, i am a newcomer to the language. but kahsennakohe is not only oficient, she's the level eight language teacher and breaks down mohawk pronciation in a way my english-only brain can process it. >> "her," and this is... comes from the word "kahsenna," which means "a name." and this, "kohe," is a journey,

"she who retrieves names." >> reporter: that is so amazing that that's your name, given what you teach for a living. and that's one of the tenets of the mohawk way or culture-- every individual has their own name, just one, that's unique to themselves.he asontinues explaining the phonetics to me, she shares how modern-day sanakers make the ent language work in present day. descriptive.anguage is so, the way we've adapted to all these new words is just to describe what is going on. >> reporter: how would you then describe what a journalist does? like, if i were to describe myself in the mohawk languagld how w. what would... how would call myself? >> mm-hmm. i'm intrying to th maybe "iekaratons"? t "sheells... she tells stories"? >> reporter: oh, i love that! >> yeah. >> reporte wait, how do i spell that? >> lekaradons. i could spell it for youon the board. >> reporter: oh, please do. >> this "ie" is pronoun for

"her." and this "tons" is e... the "telling of," and this is "habitual." so, "she is a teller," "she is a storyteller." >> reporter: i absolutely love that! ( laughter ) working with longhouse traditions, the akwesasne freed school has its n set of standards and requirements for ters. l they arenking for traditional american certificates t degrees but r a membership within the nation, fluency in the mohawk culture anlanguage, and, above all, a passion for imparting thotse traditions onto the n generation. throughout the school, the kids are encouraged to help one another in their nguage development, and, in some classrooms, absotely no english is spoken at all. so, to further my meag mohawk language skills, i turned to some of the school's most enthusstic teachers, the seven- and eight-year-olds in level two. >> sekon! >> reporter: sekon?

what does that mean? >> hi! >> reporter: hi! "sekon," is that how you say it? >> ó:nen! >> reporter: ó:nen? kanerahtens-- or, as she's known by her english name, tara skitrs-- is the school's she handles admissions, budgeting, hiring and ensuring the school meets its overall mission. and part of that is creating a lial atmosphere for the kids. >> so, it's a very small percentage opeople that come here the families that want their kids here, a lot of them are traditional, who, you know, follow the longhouse and the longhouse traditions. i thk our overall, like, values are more of the concentration-- respect a taking care of the earth and being kind to one another. >> reporter: even though the freedom school has less than 100 kids enrolled, the akwesasne mohatywk com is 16,000-strong, and the reservation overlaps the u.s./canadian border. kids who live on the new york side also have friends and family in the ontario and qbec

provinces. the freedom school has students from both sides of the border, but, teacher tehonwenhnirasethe, that's our border, not theirs. >> when they're here, they talk about being in the american or canadian side becau we ourselves don't feel as we're a part of the american or canadian government. we feel that we're a sovereign nation still. >> reporter: tara says one of the biggt worries that parents have is if all this mohawk mersion will limit their child's ability to learn english and matriculate into one of the nearby public high schools. >> the ality is, english is everywhere. they're going to learn it. but once they leave here, where are they going to learn the mohawk language? >> repollrter: in atara says, the mission of the akwesasne survival of the mcultureure the and language. >> you know, people think that indian is a certain way or that we all are the same, and we're not. there's so mtiy different s, different clothes, different cultures, different

songs. everything is different. and, you know, we have to work really hard to maintain those things. there's so little of us, you know, like compared to other populations.t e're here, we're dng it, we're going to keep doing it. we're not going nowre. aughs we have kids who are learning all this stuff, and they're and that's... we't doing our thing. >> stewart: in public schools across the state of illinois, se of "isolated timeout" was allowed if studen allegedly posed a threat to themselves or others. rooms."re detained in "iet but a yearlong investigation by propublica illinois and thehi go tribune" found that this practice was regularly used for minor school incidents, sometimes on children as young a five years old. for context, incidents included

not doing homework or spilling milk. di cohen is a reporter for pro publica illinois and is one of the repd orters be"the quiet rooms" investigation. she recently spoke with hari sreenivasan about her findings. >> sreenivasan: so, jodi, what is the practice of seclusion? and what happens in illinois? >> so, in illinois andn other places around the country, there are schools where students are tan to isolated spaces, seusion rooms. metimes they're called "quiet rooms" or "reflection rooms" "resetooms." staff put them there and they shut the door.re >>nivasan: some parents are going to say what's so wrong about a time-out when somebody is misbehaving and they're gog to disrupt whole class? isn't it good to get somebody out of that envirment? >> so just to be clear, this is not a time-out where a parent would go and say, "you need a time-oute isolated tut, as it's called in illinois, is in the law. it's a technique that used if a student is a danger to

themselves, another student, a staff member. but what we found in illinois was that isolated time-out was being used for reasons that d not have to do with safety, that students were being put in tclusion when they were disruptive, why were not following rules, when they were not complying. >> sreenivasan: was this happening in some places morean thers? >> well, we found it was happening all around the state. we ultimately documented more than 20,000 incidents of seclusion in a school year, plus a little bit moreheext school year, all over illinois, traditional school districts and specia ceducatiperatives. >> sreenasan: okay, in some of those special education cooperatives, yohave several differt stories of what some of these children do to u talk abouan autistic boy named jace. tell me what happened there? >> we saw jace was repeatedly school.the quiet rooms at his sometimes it was because he didn't want to do his math work and he would cry. the classroom.

he would urinate, he would defecate. they would leave him in the room. we show one incident where he was,ou know, crying in that neom and he was saying, "i'm crying a and he was in there for hours. >> sreenivasan: and thu was all dmented how? >> so, in illinois, when chilen were put in isolated time-out, staff members had to cument what w happening during that seclusion, what led to the seclusion, how long the student was put in seclusion, and what happened inside. so you would see jace's incident, for example, it would say,an "1053,d it would quote him, "i'm crying alone." 10: 55, "would go minute by minute and we have the records from all acrs.oss illin >> senivasan: did the parents that trusted their cildren to these institutions know what was happ the hools were required to

notify parents in 24 hours, some kind of written notice. we found notifications were often put in the mail, and in rural parts of illinois,ti sos they would get there a week later and they wouldn't have the full iident report i was just describe. instead they would get a chorm that had a checkmart-- your child was put in-- check-- isolated time-out" on this day i and that was it.sa >> sree when you showed jace's mom what jace went through, what happened? >> so jace diedlast year. he died in his sleep. had epilepsy as well as autism. we showed her the reports, and she just cried and cried. she said, "i had no ia they wrote all of this down," and she just said, "w? why didn't i know any of this >> sreenivasan: so the concern here is that a lot of these places are using this as kind of a default response instead of as a last resort. >> yes. so forome schools this became, like the only tool in their

toolbox, instead of a last resort, this was the result. >> sreenivasan: and you actually have diagrams of what thees spaces look like. you were age to see some of this. is there anything consistent about them? it seems like some of the room are padded and some of them are not. their head against the wall in some cases? >> some of them had blue padding.others were really cemet blocks, cinder blocks, tiles. they're very starmospaces. bu of them are very, very small, barren spac. >> sreenivasan: another so at's happened since your reporting? >> so we published the story on tuesday. on wednesday, governor governor, called ractice appallg and ordered an immediate end to it. so the illinois stat board of education wrote emergencyules that went into effect immediately on wednesday that banned all types of isolated seclusion, meaning that a child n never be in a room by him or

herself. a trained adult has to be in the space. and it can never be locked. what else happened this week is part of the emergency rules is now within 48 hours of a time-out, that has to be reported to thetate. and the state has also ordered all school districts to sendin rmation from this current school year and the two prior that thete can have data and see where this practice was being used the most and then take a look. the governor's office also filed compevints foy child named in the investigation that we did.and they are taking complais from families now. is and they say they're going te igate all of them. >> sreenivasan: this is great work in illinois. what aut the rest of the country? how do the other states deal with this idea of secluding kids? >> so there are 19 states that ban some or all form of seclusn. other stat allow it, like the same way illinois does.

there has been federal legislation introduced for many of the past sessions that would ban seclusion across the count country. it's called thekeeping all students safe" actanere t reintroduce it. in the current congress. >> sreenivan: all right,goes jodi cohen of propublica joining us from chicago. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> stewa: finally tonight, our colleague, megan thompson,dd welcomed a newion to the newshour weekend family this week, just in time for thanksgiving. theo thompson perez was born wednesday morning, weighing in at six pounds, 15 ounces. congratulations, megan, jonathan and big brother elliot. that's all for this edition of pbs newshour weekend. ison stewart. thanks for watching. have a good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh

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