captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasan: on this edition for saturday, june 13: president trump addresses west jint's graduating class. demonstrations ftice continue across the globe. and, a surge in nesecoronavirus as cautious reopenings begin. next, on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. sue and edgar wachenheim iii. the cheryl and philip milstein family. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. charles rosenblum. try to live in thmoment to not miss what's right in front of us. mutual of america, we

believe taking care of tomorrow can help you make the most of toy. mutual of america financial ent services and investments. di onal support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, private corporation funded by the american people. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >n:> sreenivaood evening, and thanks for joining us. s protests, marches and rallies continue across the nation calng for racial justice and police reform, president trump addressed the graduating class at the u.s. military academy at west point today. >> west point class of 2020! >> sreenivasan: more than 1,100 cadets assembled at socially- distanced intervals. ♪ god shed his grace on thee! in the commencement address, the president made no specific reinferences to onprotests, or to the coronavirus pandemic. he praised the class of 2020,

the army, and the nation. >> what has historically made america unique is the durability of its institutions against the passns nd prejudices of the moment. when times are turbulent, when the road is rough, what matters most is that which is permanent, president trump gave in tornal. pressure and criticism of his decision to ho a campaign rally in tulsa, oklahoma next iday, june 19-- a hoday known as juneteenth, that honors the end of slavery in the united states. ghst before midnight last the president tweeted the rally would be moved to saturday, nyjune 20, writing, "f my african american friends and supporters have reached out to suggest that we consider changing the date out of respect the president is not changing the location of the rally. tulsa, oklahoma is the site of a massacre of african amerins by white mobs in 1921, one of the country's worst outbreaks of

racist violence. protests over the death of george floyd at the hands of a minneapolis police officer continued into its third weekend, as local and state leaders take action to reform in minneapolis yesterday, the city council voted unanimously for a community-led public safety program to replace the police department. in seattle, hundreds of protesters held a silent march yesterday in rainy weather, carrying signs and umbrellas. protesavtsalso led to the removal of statues of confederate leaders from governms.ent buildi in frankfort, kentucky today, a statue of the former confederate presiden wt jefferson davi was born in the state of was taken down from the state capitol. state commission voted to remove the statue and move it to a historic site wherdavis was born. protests against police brutality and racism sparked by the killing of george floyd also continued today around the

world.on in ln, black lives matter protesters and rival far-ri groups gathered for separate rches. far-right groups converged at s boarded up to prevent vandalism, and clashed with police after somreportedly threw bottles and cans at offi another black lives matter protest in london was called off after organizers said the presence of far-right protestere would be un in paris, thousands gathered to protest the death of george floyd in minnesota, and of adama died after being pinned down by police in a paris burb in 2016. and in perth, austral, thousands of ople attended a lly despite warnings from the government to stay away to prevent the spread of corovirus. to watch president trump's address to the graduating class of the west point military academy, visit pbs.org/newshou >> sreenivasan: e protests set off by the killing of george flnnoyd in minneapolis, ota are being led by a new generation of young activists, many who also want to bring more attention to the stories of police violence against black women. i spoke recently with keisha

blain, an associate professor of history at the ttiversity of urgh and author of "set the world on fire: black natie onalist women and obal struggle for freedom." dr. blain, it seems, as we have this national conversation that's been prompted in part by george floyd's death, that there is something ee that we're missing when it comes to an entire gender that'struggling with the same things. >> yes, i think so. in fact, many activists in the lastew weeks have been pointing out the fact that even before the police killing of george floyd, breonna taylor was killed by the police, an e.m.t. worker in louisville, kentucky. and activists have been insisting that we really p attention to this case. to tryhis ay, the police officers who-- who killed taylor have not been arrested. and i think more and more people

are surely talking abt brianna taylor, but that was just one example of how black women's experiences are often sideled in national narratives about american policing. >> sreenivasan: there was a whole "say her name" campaign that was quitesuccessful in trying to raise awareness of it, but it wasn't something that-- and it still isn't something that creates the same kind of headlines. why do you think that is? >> well, certainly, i think the data reveals to us that the majority of black people th k are-- who aled by police so, in some ways, the focus on black mun is-- is very reflective of what the data tells us. but the truth is thathere's also, i think to a large extent, even, y know, patriarchy,sm and which is to say that the way people write about american

policinndg to focus primarily on the experiences o black men. and even as we recognize that-- that most black men are killed by the police, i think the key hertoe is to tell the whole; that the key here is to make it arehat black women and girls are also vulnerable to stat sanctioned violence. >> sreenivasan: what about the impact of the violence on everybody that's related to or connected to the individual, right, whether they are mothers or sisters or daughters that there is trauma; that it's t just the one person that died, that got hurt, so to speak. >> actly. and we see that clearly with the recent case of eric garner. within days of-- of garner's death, we saw his daughter,ca errising on the national sceisne, pushing the, demanding, you know, changes in american policing. but-- but the key here is that

black women are-- are certainl affected. we can talk about trauma. we can talk about jl t the emotiormoil that they go through. and it's not surpring then that they are often the ones at the forefront of the fight to bring an end to police violce and brutality. >> sreenivasan: and you literally have written the book on this, that being at the forefront of the fight is something thatlack women have been dofoinquite some time. >> absolutely. and my book, you know, "set the world on fire," focuses primarily on working-class black women anlad impoverished women. and i think that's key, too, because many of the women who i talk about did not have much of a form education. many of them did not have many-- did not have much material resources. passion.hey did have was and what they did have were their voices. and what they did have was the ability to just open up and explain what the problemwere in their community, take to the streets and demand changes.

and even when they didn't have access to the vote at a time where black women could not vote in t 20-- early 20th century, these women were still rmined to-- to-- to ma changes, to shape national politics and also go-- global politics. >> sreenivasan: keisha blaine, associate professor,itniversity ofburgh, thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> sreenivasan: as cases of covid-19 rise in many places around the country, some states are continuing to open, as others pull back. ng least 22 states are se increases in the number of confirmed coronavirus infections over the last two weeks, including texas. texases reported its hidaily number of covid-19 infections this week. but, governor greg abbott said thereo 'sed to ratchet back reopenings. restaurants there were allowed to expand indoor dining from 50% ee 75% yesterday.

arizona has alsosharp creases in covid-19 infections, with t daily number of cases more than doubling compared to mid-may, before rdlockdowns were eased. officials in both states say ems have thesy capacity to handle the uptick in cases. but in utah and oregon, officials said they were putting future reopenings on pause to assess upticks in coronavirus cases. >> i am putting all, all pending county reopening applications on hold for seven days. this is essentially a state-wide yellow light. >> sreenivasan: as other parts of the country see rises in covid- e19 cases, soly hotspots like new york city daily number of new virus infections. new york city has now startedof the first phaseopening, allowing anstimated 400,000 ople back to work in industries like construction and manufacturing. but, as christopher booker

reports, areas outside the city that were also hit hard by the pandemic are even further along. >> reporter: nick triscari is happy to welcome customers to his brand new outdoor spa at the wooden spoon, the restaurant he owns in downtown new rochelle, even though he'still putting the finishing touches on the space. are sun umbrellas en't even scheduled to arrive until monday. >> for the last, you know,d- hundmething days, we've been, you know, working out of our comfort zone, really, you know, just not having customers in here, transitioning into a takeourestaurant, which we weren't originally opened to be. but it feels great to actually have customers in here again. >> reporter: as of this past tuesinday, outdoor dining his region just north of new york city is now allowed as part of phase 2 of its reopening. restaurants are required to space tables six feet apart, and workers must wear masks. triscari, who also rks full- t nime as rochelle irefighter, came down with he says he taking everyil. precaution he can for his customers and his family.

>> my mother works out front. my wife helps out here. thhie last i want is any of them to get sick, so-- so we're taking it serious. >> reporter: we were hererly three months ago after new york opeirned its very drive-thru testing facility. new rochelle was one of the early epicrters of the onavirus panmic, and the testing facility is still open. but, for some of the city's businesses, things are looking different than they did during that mid-march weekend. at e.m. barbers, vinny aiezza is cutting hair again. he reedophis past tuesday and allows one client into the shop at a time, scheduled i advance. how busy have you been since tuday? >> i've been pretty much booked since open to close. >> reporter: aiezza applied for the federal protection program but was denied. he says he was able to make ends meet, in part, by collecting unemployment benefits. >> i'd rather just get back to work, and, you know, i don't want to collect nothing. >> reportera few doors down, workers at the north end tavern are putting out tables and chairs, measured exactly six feet apart for social distancing.

jerry dejesus is one of the owners and the executive chef. >> you kw,e've been living off the "to-gos" and deliveries and curbside pick-up and uber eats, and cutting it, to be honest with you. so, it's kind of nice to have tables and have people comanin actually eat. >> reporter: these two businesses are just down the road from the young israel synague, which emerged as a hotspot in early march. this led ta local lockdown with new york governor andrew cuomo mandating a one-mile containment zone, which includec this ston north avenue. just over a week later, onne march 22, theile zone became irrelevant as the entire non-essential retailers andl binesses ordered to close now, nearly three months later, this region is ontrack to enter next phase of reopening in the coming weeks. new covid-19 inctions in this county have fallen by nearly 95% from a peak in late march. that mean dining at least at 50% capacity by july.

wooden spoon owner nick triscari says whether people are sitting outside or inside, he's just happy to have people come to his restaurant again. >>o not dramatic here, but, you know, the fact that we're ophten now-- whereas i tho that really we weren't going to have customers in here till september-- you know, i wouldn't say "borrowed time"-- i know it's probably not an apprriate term, but, you know, successful is just bei opetoand having curs come in here. >> sreenivasan: a new outbreak of coronavirus cases in china has put a district in beijing into what authorities are llg "wartime mode," with new lockdowns in place. a 52-year-old man hospitalized on thursday with coronavirus symptoms had visited a major seafood and produce market in early june. contact tracers are working to test the 10,000 people who work

theinfadi market. so far, they have found 45 new cases. beijing had gone 55 days without a locally-transmitted case of the coronavirus. and in brazil, the country's coronavirus death toll is now the second-highest in the world, surpassing the u.k. with nearly 0042eported deaths. controversy arose there earlier this month when the government stopped publishing some covid-19 data, including the number of coronavirus deaths. days later.rturned the decion i spoke with "new york times" reporter ernesto londono in rioe de o about that and more on the covid-19 crisis in brazil. so, the president decides not to publish the coronavirus numbers. hleow do the peeact? >> people reacted with outrage. ytou know, experts found inconceivable that a country that has now emerged as the epicenter of the epidas playing fast and loose with the nrsumand it was questioning whether the numbers presented an accurate snapshot of the epidemic. you know, with anything,

healthcare experts think that the official tay undercounts the number of virus deaths and cases in brazil. you know, we are at a pointw here more than 40,000 people have died. there have been more than 800,000 confirmed cases. and this is in a country that has had very limited testing and where the trend lines are still tracking upward. the government was forced to reinstate the old way it was counting deaths only after the supreme court weighed in and ordered it to do so. >> feenivasan: now, how much this is politics? because you kind of see brazilfo lowing many of the steps of the united states. our trend lines t e going up, we're also reopening. here are images that i she of ping malls and people going back to life as normal in brazil. >> absolutely. i think politics looms large for all of the elected officials who have a hand in dealing with this pandemic.

and what wene've had eally is a tug of war between the presis dents and governound the country that have tried to promote quarantine. i think what all the elected officials are asking themselves is, wn the economic toll really starts to bite, who is going to be blamed for the steps that we're taking? and i think the president on some level believes that the governors can take the brunt of the political hit, and he can emerge as the leader, you know, that expressed througho this crisis the most concern for people's welfare or jobs, etc. yw,ou ke continues to this day to downplay and-- downplay the severity of the pandemic and to-- and to make claims that are, you know, pretty preposterous in the eyes of many of his critics. n for example,recent n video-live conversatat he had with supporters, he said that people should take to the spital, should sneak int

the hospitals to film what is truly going on, which, you know, doctors obviously think is-- is supremely daerous to encourage people to sneak into hospitals at a time when doctors are trying to contain is pandemic. >> sreenivasan: one of the other stories that you did this week was kind of interesting is that the deforestation crisis that brazil's been facing for quite some time now has actually picked up pace during the pandemic. how? >> i think what has happened now is, with all the eyes of the world and-- and, you know, the politicians being consumed by the health care cris, the state has had a very limited ability to control what's going out in very remote areas. so, illegal loggers and illegal miners have been able to stride rainforest.per into the the government is aware of this, and it-- it's set in motion a military response. but most experts think it's going to be insufficient t truly rein in the driving forces ofic deforestation, is

expected to reach pretty alarming levels this year. experts are predicting that the firseon this year is going to eclipse what we saw last year. >> sreenivasan: all right, ernesto londono from the "new york times," joining us from brazil. anks so much. >> always a pleasure. >> sreenivnean: last year, hour weekend profiled the unique resilience and persistence of dr. jean william pape in haiti. the doctor has been on the frontlines of haiti's ever- changing public health nds and climate disasters, from th early days of the aids epidemic to the devastating earthquake in 2010. now, as haiti confronts a massive uptick in coronavirus cases, dr. pape is using that past experience to fight what is quickly becoming another health crisis in this fragile nation. neorwshour weekendspondent ivette feliciano has more. time we spoke with you last year

in haiti and learned a little you've been on the front lines of the height of the aids epidemic and the earthquake afterma and subsequent cholera tbreak-- you kno how reminiscent is this moment, and w much are you employing that knowghledge now? >> this type of knowledge is cumulative, and it gives you huge experience. for instance, you know, it's been very difficu to convince many people, many haitians that covid is real. s, o, essentialat we had to do is go in-- in any community, a and then ed them to give us people that we could train as community health agents. we train them to sensitize their people, their population of where they live, about the disease and to bring us anybody ovey feel have sudden symptoms associated with. you win that community immediately bause poor people are not stupid.

poor people want to make sure hat what you're telling them is real, and what we are telling them good for them. >> reporter: but over the past few weeks, haiti has seen a rise of more than 600% of covid-19 cases. >> we have a lot of haitians leaving the dominican republic tot return home, ab,000 of them. and as you may know, the do tminican republic h worst epidemic in the entire region. they have passed the bar of 20,000 cases. so haitians comg back, they're the ones now accounting for the diase spreading at the rate of 200 new cases every day. we have-- essentially have 24 more times the infection rate that we had three weeks ago. >> reporter: in addition to community outreach strategies edu hcatitians about

covid-19, dr. pape says large- scale treatment centers are being set up around the country. >> we strongly believe that if we have enough patients who come in on-time, they don't have to wait too long, we can save all of them. the tragedy has been young men in their thirties-- and some even younger-- waited too long, and, at that time, there's not much we could do f them. >> reporter:ut with about 21,000 tests for a population of 11 million, someoctors worry that haiti is not testing enough people. with only a limited number of teu s, ow, how accurate are the official numbers of covid-19 cases in haiti? >>athat we've been doing is is recommended by w.h.o., is essentially to test people wit suen symptoms. nobody tests an entire population. so, if somebody has sudden tomptoms of covid, is goin be tested. >> reporter: so far, the haitian

government has tested less than 11,000 suspected cases. dr. pape says officials also haven't strictly enforced the national lockdown because, for many haitians, a day spent at home is a day without food. >> the government h efforts to provide subsidies to families, but it's not sufficient. so, i am most afraid of the after-covid than the covid itself becausedoven if all lo has been implemented in haiti, businesses have decreased %, and the factories thatd byrom were exporting to the u.s. have slowed down tremendously. we worry also because this year we've had a drought. so, it's going to affect our crop at the-- at the end of this year, creating more hunger. and, at all times, we have 40%

of people who don't eat properly, so imagine that this is going to get worse.ep >>ter: in addition to the economic toll of the health crisis, dr. pape is also concerned about hurricane season, which began just this month. he worries a big storm could make the covid-19 outbreak even rse. >> when it rains badly, people die. houses areouestroyed. ife putting people in some temporary shelter, you cannot have them too close one to another because you'll create an extension of the coviepidemic. reporter: i want to ask, how are you felling personally in this moment? >> well, i-- i think it's the touescrisis i've been through essentially because it'tis coming at the wors for us, at a time when we have five other major problems that would need a chapter on their

n. so, it's the combination of problems that make it a perfect-- perfect storm. >> vasreen: that's all for this edition of pbs newshour weekend. i'm enhari sivas. thanks for watching. stay healthy and have a good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: beard and irene schwartz. sue and edgar wachenheim iii. the cheryl and philip milstein mily. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. charles rosenblum. we try to live in the moment, to not miss what's right in front of us.

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