captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening, i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, power anges hands-- a new israeli government coalition of unlikely political partners moves to oust long-time prime minister benjamin netanyahu. then, help wanted-- the debate over the efficacy of unployment benefits intensifies as the u.s. economy recovers and businesses re-open. and, haiti in crisis-- countrywide calls for the president to step down go unheeded amid rampant violence and corruption. >> he destroyed the police, he is wking with the gangs, so the insecurity of the people of haiti as is it today, it is an insecurity driven by the state. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

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>> woodruff: israel's longes serving prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has been swept from office tonight, after two years of political turmoil. opposition groups agreed on a new government, with potentially far-reaching implications for israel and all of the middle east. we'll have much more, after the news summary. president biden rolled out new enticements today to get more americans vaccinated against covid-19. they range from free beer to cash giveaways. the president promised today that better days lie ahead, if 70% of u.s. adults have at least one shot, in the next month. >> americans can do anything when we do it together. so please, do your part. give it your all through july 4th. let's reach our 70% goal. let' go into the summer freer and safer. let's celebrate a truly historic independence day.

>> woodruff: so far, nearly 63% of u.s. adults are at least partially immunized. there's word that a ring of venezuelans stole u.s. pandemic stimulus checks totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. the "miami herald" and others report a federal indictment in miami names at least five suspects. they live in south florida and mexico. iran has been hit by twin disasters, on land and at sea. early today, the country's largest warship sank in the gulf of oman after erupting in flames. thick, black smoke could be seen rising from the re-supply and training vessel. iran said 33 sairs were hurt. hours later, smoke billowed over tehran, where an oil refinery caught fire. there was no word on the cause of the incidents. the white house today announced an expedited review of cyberattacks that demand

ransoms. it follows attacks on a critical u.s. pipeline and a major meat processor. former u.s. cybersecurity director, christopher krebs, said today the problem is urgent. >> they went after our gas and they went after our hot dogs. no one is out of bounds here. everyone is in play. and every single corporate executive needs to be convening their cyber security teams and their business resilience teams today to understand what their continuity plans are. >> woodruff: gangs linked to russia are blamed for the recent attacks. white house officials say president biden will raise that with russian president vladimir putin at their summit this month. the meat processing giant that was targeted this week, jbs, was restoring operations today in north america and australia. the company said a vast majority of its plants have returned to work. jbs is the second-leadin producer of beef, chicken and

pork in the u.s. democrats in the u.s. house of representatives have added to their narrow majority with a special election win in new mexico. melanie stansbury easily took tuesday's vote. she'll succeed deb haaland, who was named interior secretary. the national football league pledged today to stop using race-norming to make a billion dollars in pay-outs for brain injuries. the medical practice adjusts for race in testing for dementia. retired black players say it assumes they started with lower cognitive functioning than whites, and that makes it harder to win compensation. and, on wall street, the dow jones industrial average gained 25 points to close at 34,600. the nasdaq rose about 20 points. the s&p 500 added six. still to come on the newshour: the debate over unemployment benefits intensifies as the u.s. economy recovers.

a state of emergency in colorado for teens mental health. how storm damage and skepticism complicate efforts to vaccinate rural louisianans. end of an era-- the winningest coach in college basketball announces his exit. plus much more. >> woodruff: tonight in israel, eight parties that call themselves the change coalition have cobbled together a new government. foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin reports. >> schifrin: it's the unlikeliest of coalitions: the next prime minister, right-wing naftali bennett, who vows there will never be a palestinian state. the next foreign minister, centrist yair lapid, former tv host who believes in the two-

state solution. and mansour abbas, leader of an islamist party, who's demanded improved rights for israel's arab minority. along with others they formed the “change coalition,” united only in their opposition to one man. benjamin netanyahu is the country's longest running prime minster, one of israel's most consequential politicians, and today, one of its most divisive. the change coalition's strange bedfellows needed to come together to oust him because of the knesset, or parliament math. a government coalition needs 61 of 120 seats. in the last election, netanyahu's likud got the most-- 30 seats. but he couldn't create a coalition. lapid's yesh atid party came in second with 17, so he tried next. the change coalition adds: the centrist blue and white party's eight seats. bennett's right-wing yamina party's seven seats. progressive labor's seven seats. nationalist immigrant party yisrael beiteinu's sevem seats center-right party new hope's six seats,the green party meretz's six seats.

and abbas' islamist ra'a party's four seats. eight parties, 62 seats, one coalition. the power sharing agreement allows bennett to become prime minister for two years. and lapid to take over after that. bennett will replace the man who was once his mentor. bennett has called for israel to annex the west bank, which would be illegal under intertional law. >> ( translated ): the new right party is right-wing, period. no but, and not roughly. in favor of greater israel, without compmises. against a palestinian state, period. >> schifrin: his ascension, is the end of an era. netanyahu has led the likud party since 1993. he won for the first time in 1996, in part by opposing the oslo accords and their nascent steps toward peace. >> instead of taking care of security, there is gross insecurity, and irresponsibility of the prime minister. >> schifrin: that prime minister was yitzak rabin, assassinated just months before the 1996 election.

netanyahu won again in 2009. over the last 12 years, he has overseen a rightward shift in israeli politics. strongly opposed the iran nuclear deal. >> it doesn't block iran's path to the bomb; it paves iran's path to the bomb. >> schifrin: and more recently, become the first sitting prime minister to go on trial for corruption. the last few months have been one of the country's most tumultuous periods. and a record number of rockets indiscriminately fired into israeli cities. and in the last two years, inconclusive election,fter inconclusive election. today's announcement avoids a fifth election. and the change leaders, describe it as a way to save the country. >> ( translated ): we can move to a fifth, sixth, tenth election, to dismantle the walls of the country brick by brick until our house will collapse on us. and it's possible to stop the madness and take responsibility. >> schifrin: joining us now to

discuss all of this is carmiel arbit, she's a nonresident programs at the atlantic council. and jonathan schanzer, senior the foundation for defense of democracies. welcome both to the "newshour". carmiel arbit, let me start with you. this still has to be ratified by the parliament, by the knesset. is this a done deal? >> it ain't over till it's over when it comes to bibi netanyahu. i would wait and sort of hold excitement untile next week when the new government will be sworn in. it's always possible that members will defect so much so that the coalition could fall apart. however, i and so many others who are watching this and in israel and in the united states are really very optimistic that, given the breadth to have the coalition that they have -- breadth of of the coalition they have brought in including arab parties into the government, that this will in fact hold. but it ain't over until it was over. >> reporter: jonathan

schanzer, the breadth includes two leaders that differ dramatically when it comes to the palestinians, but the coalition says it will focus on domestic issues. will it work? >> i think it obviously remains to be seen. let's say israeli politics are not for the faint of heart. i don't think any of the leang members of this coalition are going to hold back when they differ from one another. but if they want this to last, they're going to have to reach compromise. i think that will be a good thing. that said, you know, i can it's going to be very very difficult for this government to only focus on domestic issuesch you've got the iran nuclear deal coming up very quickly. this is something that the bulk of israelis opposed left, right and center, so we will have to see exactly how they move forward in opposition to this deal without their most vo siff vociferous voice, which has been netanyahu since the deal was announced in 2015. >> reporter: carmiel arbit, do you think that they can work together, including with what is

the first independent arab party, an islamist arab party that will join in the coalition since the 1950s, let alone a right-left coalition? >> as jonathan said, i think there's a real opportunity here to focus on domestic issues, things like passing a budget, which the israeli government hasn't been able to do now for several years, econoc reform, legal, possibly even judicial reform. i think anything that goes beyond that narrow scope, as jonathan said, will be very difficult. the arab parties in this cotext are making very narrow demands relative to what we might have seen, things like economic issues or improved policing. so i think on those concerns, it will be quite easy for the israeli government in this new confuration to make concessions, but anything bigger than that, for example onthe palestinian issue, will be very difficult and something i expect they will avoid. i will stop there. >> reporter: jont schanzer --

jonathan schanzer, as you pointed out before, they won't be able to avoid iran. the biden administration is trying to make a deal or reenter the iran nuclear deal, despite the differences on the palestinians, is there unanimity about how to handle the biden administration especially when it comes to the iran nuclear deal? >> there isn't. i think there is opposition across the board. i think what we've seen out of the netanyahu government is a very aggressive opposition to the biden administration and, actually, really to iran. we've seen something that is widely recognized, it's called the war between wars, and this is activities that israel has undertaken, sabotage of iranian vessels, in fact israel could have been responsible for the one reported today. so these are things that israel has been doing in the past to try to erode the iranian military and their capabilities and, of course, they have been strident in their opposition to the biden administration. it's unclear what the policy

will be with this new unity government. >> reporter: carmiel arbit, we've got a couple minutes left, and i want to bring up bibi netanyahu. he vows to stay in the opposition, so perhaps it's a little early to describe the epitaph, but i want to give you the chance. what do you think netanyahu's legacy will be? >> i think, as you said, netanyahu will say in the opposition and will continue to try to roil the government, to try to cause instability and sow divisions within this new governing coalition. bibi netanyahu has been the longest serving prime minister in israel, one who can make claim to some to making israel a safer place and, on the other hand, has failed to pursue any long-term strategy for israel as it relates to both palestinians in the region. so i think his legacy will be a very mixed one and will be likely book-ended by the legal

troubles that he finds himself in. one to have the main reasons netanyahu was eager to stay in government because for him as a choin between the prime minister's office and potentially jail, and that may very well be the end of the story of netanyahu as we hear it. >> reporter: jonathan shanser, d legacy whose book-end is a corruption trial. what do you think? >> i think when you look around the world, leaders are judged on how they handled the corona crisis and how they guided the country economically after the corona crisis. both those fronts, netanyahu ex excelled, he's been at the forefront of leadership on the world stage, i think he'll get a lot of credit for that. he'll get credit last year for the four peace deals he made. he helped israel become a leader in cyber and high-tech. i think there's a lot of good we see in retrospect as historians write the history of netanyahu.

but in israel people have a lot of opinions and his legacy will be debated for a long time. >> reporter: carmiel arbit, do you think historians will judge netanyahu kindly. >> probably not as kindly as jonathan thinks they will. i think that the failure to make progress on the israeli-palestinian front will certainly tarnish his international legacy, although many israelis may view it differently. i think, again, the corruption, the failure to cultivate future leadership, the incursion into institutions within israel that the new government will now have an opportunity to start to rebuild, i think historyay not be as kind to netanyahu as jonathan suggests. >> reporter: jonathan schanzer, 20 seconds, your response. >> all i can say is netanyahu was dealt a top hand as every israeli leader has over the years. peace has not been made with any of the previous prime ministers, i wouldn't saddle him with that.

i think he's led israel through tumultuous times and i think for that reason israelis will appreciate him even as perhaps he exits the political scene. >> reporter: carmiel arbit, jonathan schanzer, thank you very much to you both. >> woodruff: the recery from the worst of the pandemic continues. but the strength of it is not fully clear. and me businesses are having trouble hiring enough workers to reopen fully. in response, many states are ending pandemic unemployment programs to encourage people to get back to work. over the next six weeks, half of states will end the extra $300 in weekly unemployment benefits that were set to run through labor day. we talked to unemployed workers

and business owners across the country about their economic concerns. >> my name is bill eastwood. i currently reside in columbia, south carolina. i relocated hereour years ago for a job. >> my name's roberta monteleone. i'm the managing partner of milan catering and event design. >> i am david jones. i'm the managing partner of blue ridge restaurant group. >> i'm lisa smallwood. i was contractor for u.s.d.a., then in september, no august, they decide that they are going to renew like the top three accountants >> my name's jason webb from huntington, west virginia. and my business is g.d. ritzy's. >> when june 12 come, guess what, you won't get anything unemployment at all. so it's like, ok, now what disaster is going to hit now? >> the unemployment is in florida is $275 a week, that doesn't cover much in the way of bills. >> it's all politics. and i'm so sick and tired of it. everybody's trying to make a point.

but guess what? they are actually playing with people's livelihood. >> $300 is, you know, $1200 a month. it makes a difference, i had to establish a financial runway back in the first quarter of 2020. and it extends that runway by, you know, 25, 30%. >> we do see that light at the end of the tunnel. and that was a good feeling to have. and then we ran into this hurdle of employees, trying to find employees. we couldn't get anybody. we're like, i couldn't get cousins or nephews or anybody to come in for a job. >> we've tripled the hourly rates. we were we that everybody every restaurant's doing signing bonuses. we're doing all of those things. and we are probably 70, 80 employees short right now. we would hire them all right now, if they showed up on our doorstep. >> i don't have a labor shortage. but i'm also willing to pay people a fair wage and make sure

that they're safe and make sure that they know that. >> the biggest thing is going to be the unemployment benefits that they were receiving. it's hard to compete with larger wages. as a small business owner, that would be a quite a challenge for me to pay much more than we do. >> you have so many people say, oh my gosh, so many people make so much more money, you know, being off than they are in their regular jobs. and i said, yeah, and so many people that what they're giving them every week is still not enough. it's like telling me, well, you know, forget your degree. you just go work somewhere. really? >> we have specific employees that have told us that we just don't i don't have anybody else to watch my child during the day. we've heard that, well, i can make as much on unemployment as i can on working as a server. >> we've supplemented it with much higher hourly rates to make them make them where they used to be. we don't want we don't want compensation to be an issue for them not coming back to work.

>> if someone's raising their hand and saying a labor shortage, my answer is, are you paying them a fair wage? are you giving them employee health care and benefits? are you taking care of people? i think the models are different now. people don't just show up and work. you need to make sure that you're invested in them. >> financially i really need to find a job this year, you know, for the money not to start getting critical, so this isn't about losing my home today. it could be down the road, being unemployed is a is a very nerve racking place to be. >> i call it character building. i have built so much character because it's like the trials that you go through and everything. you just build nothing but character, it builds something in you to overcome something that's next. that's how i look at it. i told somebody this morning, you know, i have to be willing to be uncomfortable just to be comfortable. >> woodruff: let's look closer at some of those concerns we

just heard about government aid and relief, and where we are in the economic recovery. ben casselman writes about economics and business for the "new york times" and joins me now. so, ben casselman, you heard a variety of points of view, but it's clear that these unemployment benefits are making a difference for some, but there's still a dispute about that. what is your reporting telling you about the difference these additional unemployment benefits are making right now? >> well, so, i think the first thing to say is it's very clear that unemployment benefits and these enhanced unemployment benefits the federal government provided made a tremendous difference last year in the lives of millions and millions of people who lost their jobs, and also played a really important role in supporting the overall economy. so last year, i think there was sort of very little debate about it by and large. we're now at a very different moment, right. we're in a moment where we are

starting to open back up the economy, where people are vaccinated and are able to go back out and we're clearly seeing a ton of people who want to go out, eat in restaurants, fly in planes, go in hotels again, and we're hearing consistently from employers that it's difficult to find work,ers, and i think that part is real. the question is it unemployment benefits that are doing that? i think what we heard from some of those voices is it is probably a factor for some people, but there are a lot of other factors, and these all kind of play off each other in a variety of pretty complicated ways. >> woodruff: well, it's become a debate and i think what we're trying to understand is how much of a factor is it because, as you say, clearly affecting the thinking of some people as they decide whether it's better to go back to work or not, and for others maybe it's childcare or maybe it's worry about the virus still. >> yeah, and i think what's important to understand is that

these things are not all together mutually exclusive, right. you can imagine somebody who has kids at home and has some childcare challenges, who has some lingering concerns about the health consequences of going to work in a pandemic, and who, were it not for unemployment benefits, might just have to find a way to make it work, but because of those benefits has a little bit more flexibility. >> woodruff: and we did hear employers say i've raised wages, one employer saying i've tripled the hourly wage for my employees. tell us what the larger economic picture, though, looks like, ben casselman. we've seen growth, certainly, in the last month or so. what does it look like now and going forward? >> i think it'sa strange moment for the economy, in a lot of ways. you know, by some measures, we still have a long way to■ go to get back to economic health. you know, we still have something like 8 million fewer jobs than we did before the pandemic began. the unemployment rate is still

elevated and particularly elevated for some groups. at the same time, we're hearing these concerns about labor shortages, we're seeing prices increase and shortages of goods, which are problems we usually associate with a moment of strong economy, not a moment of economic weakness. so i think it's a strange moment. what most economists will say right now, certainly with the federal reserve, will say what the white house will say is that this is a moment of transition, that this is temporary, and as we get through the the summer months, as schools we open, as people are able to get their kids back into childcare and get back to work, as companies are able to restock their shelves, sort of this period will pass and we can get back to aeriod of economic health. but that's uncertain and, you know, we don't have much in the way of historiprecedent for the moment that were living through right now. >> woodruff: and finally and quickly, the increasing talk,

worries about inflation, what what do you see on that front? >> we're seeing price increases. there's no question that inflation is up, but it's mostly concentrated now in sectors that are directly related to the sort of reopening story. we're seeing hotel, renting car and airfares rise. the concern among economists could not spread more widely. we have not seen mu evidence of that yet, but it's something that we're all going to be watching extremely closely. >> woodruff: ben casselman, who writes about economics for the "new york times," thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> woodruff: it's been a difficult year for everyone, not least of all kids who saw their lives turned upside down by the pandemic. according to one large hospital system in colorado, the emotional toll on kids has

become a "state of emergency," with adolescents experiencing high rates of anxiety, depression, and self-harm. william brangham talks with one of the heads of that hospital. >> brangham: judy, the number of kids arriving at children's hospital colorado in mental health distress has reached levels officials say they've never seen before. behavioral health visits were up 90% in april compared to last year. it is the top reason for emergency room visits, and suicide is now the leading cause of death for children over the age of 10 in the state. dr. brumbaugh, this has obviously got to be terrible news for all of you in the hospital system. can you give me a sense of when you started to see this uptick and what were you specifically seeing? >> thank you, william. really, towards the end of the winter, in february, we started

to see an increase number of kids presenting to our emergency rooms with acute presentations of behavioral health problems, suicidal ideation being the most concerning, and then, in march and april, we saw spikes, as you mentioned, that were much higher than we've seen in years previous., so much so that our about the provide the in-patient behavioral health resources that they needed were quickly overwhelmed, and we had kids, dozens, awaiting in the emergency department for admission to an acute behavioral health unit. >> reporter: i mean, obviously, each child and their circumstances are unique, but do you have a sense, generally, of what is driving this? >> well, i think this has been a long haul for our kids, and they have been, in many ways, the most dutiful citizens during this pandemic -- wearing maz masks, following rules -- but

they have been disrupted from normal activity -- schools, peer networks, sports and other activities -- and i think that's taken a toll over time and i thinketh been a low-level trauma over this last 15 month. i think that the surprising piece of this is that this spike in acute presentations is occurring at a time point when we're starting to see some hope and, you know, rays of sunshine on the horizon with this pandemic, but it could be that we're exiting survival mode, and, so, we're seeing kids experience really deterioration of their mental health at a time they're exiting the trauma and back reentering into normal life. >> reporter: so it's your sense kids have been in some way almost clenched for this entire pandemic and now that normal life, whatever that may be, is starting to emerge, that that is a big driver of anxiety for them? >> that is our best explanation thus far, and what we are

seeing, william, are kids who are experiencing normal childhood adverse at this, disappointments, not making a sports team, maybe some difficulties in school who, instead of really tapping into their resilience resources, are instead contemplating ending their lives. >> reporter: i mean, you touched on this, that your own hospital system is struggling to provide beds or appropriate care for them. what about broader psychiatric care? i mean, we've heard anecdotal report around the country that people have a very hard time finding good psychiatric care that they can afford and get into. is that the same issue in colorado? >> very much so. here in the state of colorado, we're actually n the bottom ten states in terms of funding for behavioral health services for children, soe were an already stretched system before this pandemic and before this spike of cases, and it's certainly reflected in our inability to care for these very, very sick,

acute presentations. but as you mentioned, even for kids that need more primary care behavioral health for treatment of depression, anxiety and other problems, very difficult to access those resources. for our kids on public insurance, such as medicaid, they can wait weeks to month for an initial appointment, and even for folks that ve commercial insurance, it can be a real struggle to get an appointment with the behavioral health provider, and many don't take insurance and just require cash payments. so this is an overstretched system, and we're seeing it break in the face of this pandemic. >> reporter: in just the last few seconds we have, for kids who are in distress and for parents of those kids, what would you counsel them to do. >> so the most important thing, william, is to have a conversation with your kids, especially your teenagers, i think, who have been the most disrupted in terms of their ability to have school and peer

networks, have a conversation with your son or daughter about how they're doing, ask them how they're doing. then over the next few weeks and months, really encourage them to get back into their peer network, spend some time with a friend, find ways to make that haen as a parent. our kids have been disrupted for that. it may take some encouragement for them to get back into it, but i really think that interpersonal connection is what's been missing over the last year and what is fundamentally going to be the way we get out of this current crisis. >> reporter: all right, dr. david brumbaugh of children's hospital colorado, thank you very much for being being here. >> um william, i appreciate our time together and your >> brangham: for more on this important topic, our own student reporting labs has just put a podcast specially about the mental health challenges facing teens today: it's called "on our minds" with noah and zion, and you can find it wherever you find podcasts.

>> woodruff: as president biden pushes for 70% of americans to receive at least one vaccine dose by independence day, some parts of the country have further to go to meet that goal than others. kara st. cyr of louisiana public broadcasting takes a look at the vaccination fort in one area of the bayou state. >> reporter: d'adrea rushing wasn't afraid to get the vaccine. in fact it was something she'd been waiting for. >> it's important for everyone. >> reporter: but she was hesitant for one of two reasons: first she wasn't sure where to go to get it. and reason number two: was all of this. >> it's a lot of damage. a lot of heartache for a lot of >> reporter: rushing's family house is located in regionive, it's in southwest louisiana which is home to some of the state's most rural parishes. it's also a place picking up the

pieces of four major weather events that devastated the population in less than a year: two hurricanes, a historical ice storm, and major flooding. the mayor nic hunter says the people are trying their best to recover. >> this community received several punches in the gut over the last fourteen months. >> reporter: t destruction is sad, heartbreaking even, for people that lost their homes once, twice or maybe even three times, but dr. lacey cavanaugh with the office of public health says the weather also devastated the vaccination effort before it even started. >> people are just very tired here and have neglected their health in general here because of these disasters. of course the covid vaccine is included in that. but even our mental health numbers our folks that are following up on wellness visits. all of those have likely been impacted. >> reporter: region 5 where lake charles is located is underperforming when it comes to getting people vaccinated. only about 21% of the population is fully protected against the

virus, which is the lowest percentage statewide. there are several factors beyond the catastrophic weather events that are keeping those numbers down. >> i know that a lot of people are scared of it. >> reporter: rushing is right. a lot of people are scared to get the vaccine, especially in louisiana's rural communities. in lake charles, lacey cavanaugh with the louisiana office of public health says her staff debunks myths at almost every vaccination event. >> women want to know if there are any proven effects on fertility. there are no studies that say that it impacts fertility. that's one of those myths that you hear commonly. of course people want to know about safety and effectiveness. a lot of questions about the process. so if i come here to get my first vaccine where do i go to get my second. they want those instructions. >> reporter: in early april the louisiana public health institute put out a survey showing that about 70% of people who were hesitant, were afraid of the vaccines side effects and whether it's safe. the third most popular concern was whether the vaccine even

works. >> we have hesitancy here the same as everywhere else across the state and in the country really. they're waiting to see how their friends and family do. >> reporter: jackie white, with the louisiana department o health, says that meeting people where they are is the state's best strategy to change those numbers. >> i think it's just making it more personable and it's just putting faces to a flyer or just an advertisement. it's true people that are getting out there. they're also able to answer questions. >> reporter: going to church events and small neiborhood organizations seem to be showing some improvement here, but going door to door and talking face to face is what really helps. that approach helped d'idra rushing. she got her vaccine by chance when she heard a nurse yell that the vaccine was available in a wal-mart she was shopping at. >> i got laid off and then this pandemic, we had two storms, the ice storm and the flood but you know you still need to get out

there and get your vaccination. >> reporter: for the pbs newshour, i'm kara st. cyr. >> woodruff: last week, the biden administration announced it was allowing haitians in the united states to renew their temporary protected status for eighteen months. the new policy reverses the trump administration's efforts to end those protections. but as yamiche alcindor reports, haitians are also worried about political upheaval at home - and about the biden administration's response. >> alcindor: for months, the streets of port-au-prince, haiti, have been filled with protests. people gather often to demand that president jovenel moise step down. they say he is increasingly acting like a dictator. these men chant: moise is a thief.

his critics say he took office under bad circumstances, but made them much, much worse. >> ( translated ): jovnel doesn't have any respect for the constitution. you are a thief jovnel moise. you don't have respect for the constitution. >> alcindor: gangs have become more powerful. kidnappings have skyrocketed and become brazen-- like this one caught on a church live stream. civilian deaths are on the rise. people all over the island nation are terrified. they say even for a country that has long struggled, these past few months have felt like a new rock bottom. even a notorious gang leader, jimmy chereizier, known as“ barbecue,” walks the streets freely in s neighborhood, hailed as a hero. critics argue president moise is turning a blind eye to gangs at best, and, at worst, colluding with them. >> ( translated ): he destroyed

the police, he is working with the gangs, so the insecurity of the people of haiti as it is today, it is an insecurity driven by the state. >> alcindor: pierre esperance is the executive director of the national human rights defense network. he says the fear sweeping through haiti today is unlike anything he has experienced. >> ( translated ): what we are living through in haiti, we have never experienced it before, even when there was political instability, it was never like this. >> gang members develop strong ties with officials. and you cannot even attack those gangs because if they get in prison, they will be released because of strong connection they have to power. >> alcindor: emmanuela douyon is a leader of the youth protest group nou pap domi, which mean“" we will not sleep.” the group wants a transitional government to replace moise and organize the next elections. >> we're not going to have zero

corruption like tomorrow, but at least we can make sure that those who are involved in corruption really pay for what they are doing. >> alcindor: moise was elected in 2016, but didn't take office until the following year. he says his five-year term expires in 2022. others, including civil leaders and clergy members, y he should have stepped down in february based on the haitian constitution. >> ( translated ): we are here to tell the president that he has to admit that he cannot continue to run the country and that his mandate is finished. >> alcindor: earlier this year, moise dissolved parliament saying most lawmakers' terms had ended. but he rejects the idea that he is on the same electoral timetable as parliament. moise also forced three supreme court judges into early retirement, an act criticized intentionally as illegal. the president claimed that the judges were becoming too political. one of them was seens a potential opposition candidate

to replace him. meanwhile, moise also wants to change the constitution by referendum, a move even members of his own party reject. the changes would give the esident more power. the new constitution would abolish the prime minister role, seen as a check on presidential power. it would also temporarily protect the sitting president from impeachment or prosecution. and, it would shrink the legislature. moise insists he will not run for a second term next year. >> there is, in my opinion, an assault on democracy right now in haiti. >> alcindor: haitian native catherine buteau says her family members were victims of moise's power grab. she says her parents, a surgeon and a career bureaucrat, are politically outspoken, but not formally part of the opposition. but in the middle of the night on february 7, presidential palace guards dragged them from their beds. along with catherine's aunt and 14 others, they were accused of plotting a coup. >> they genuinely thought that they were going to die that day. >> alcindor: when the newshour

spoke to buteau, her parents had been in prison for six weeks. >> my parents, who whose only crime, i guess, is to just be concerned citizens, are in prison and people who have conducted massacres, who have conducted killings are freely or are, you know, sort of living freely in haiti with no arrest, nothing. >> alcindor: buteau's relatives were released on march 26th. but she said their arrest was a sign of moise's growing authoritarianism. >> the fact that this happens only sort of reflects the sort of dictatorship that is growing. >> alcindor: moise's opponents say his actions recall the repression of haiti's past. the nation was ruled by francois duvalier, known as papa doc, and then his son jean-claude, or baby doc, for almost 30 years. it was a period of human rights abuses and corruption. esperance says the situation under moise is actually worse. >> ( translated ): what's the difference between jovnel's regime and the regimes thacame before him?

what's different is the fact that under jovnel's regime, he has destroyed all of the institutions. >> alcindor: the u.s. says it believes the peaceful transfer of power helps strengthen democratic institutions and has sided with moise. but moise's opponents say biden is breaking campaign promises he made to haitian americans when he was courting their votes last year. >> there's clearly no quit in the haitian community. there is none. and i promise you, there will be no quit on my part as your president. >> alcindor: these protesters were calling for closer alignment with russia, brandishing the russian flag. one was questioned about biden's promises. >> ( translated ): what promise? i'm going to tell you something: as long as the american government has gone up, made changes, gone down, they have always made haiti dozens of promises yet none have ever been executed. >> the people of haiti and the haitian community in the united states are very disappointed by the biden administration's politics. >> alcindor: it's an opinion shared by younger haitians like emmanuela douoyon.

>> we are afraid that the same thing that happened under the duvalier might happen now, that the u.s. will close their eyes and let jovenel moise do whatever he want. and years later, they will recognize that they could have acted better in the in haiti, but it will be too late. >> alcindor: for the haitian government's perspective, i spoke with haitian ambassador to the u.s. bocchit edmond. what do you say to critics who say that the insecurity in haiti is a direct failure of the haitian government? >> i don't think so. it's not a direct fairly. those are sults of many years of evidence. unfortunately, to administration today has inherited that but he has to deal with it. >> reporter: you say president moiïse inherited this insecurit, but when i talk to people they say never in their lives has the situation in haiti been this bad. you have gangs controlling large swaths of the country.

what do you make of critics who say this government is allowing gangs to act with impunity and maybe even aligning with some gangs. >> yeah, but that would be an opinion because everybody knows, in haiti, the gangs are, most of them, they are patrons. they, are you know, people behind them. it's not government issues. it's also a private sector because some private sector members have control some gangs as well. >> reporter: the biggest criticism of president moiïse is he's heat leading haiti toward a dictatorship. >> there is no dictatorship in haiti and those people don't know what a dictatorship means and they are not under a kick dictatorship. when there was a dictatorship in haiti even the fact to question or to mention dictatorship would have been a violation.

>> reporter: many moiïse declared that the mandates of the lower houses and senators had ended but his term would go five years day to day. i bondish why some critics would say the he's counting his days differently than some -- >> let me clarify that for you. president moiïse did not in parliament. the parliament terms expired. it is clear in the constitution p president of haiti's term is five years. and it started on february 7. >> reporter: the arrest on february 7, people say they're political prisoners and they're accused of planning a coup d'eétat. >> they're not political prisoners, they're not. the second thing is those people, they were involved in a lot. >> reporter: why do you think that elections are possible, especially with all this

insecurity? there are people who say gangs controlling large swaths of the country are going to make it impossible for the government or candidates to campaign. >> we cannot put the country on hold saying that the conditions are not met, we cannot have elections, and, while the government has a responsibility to hold those elections and to make sure elected officials are being replaced by elected officials because we need to stop this cycle of transition. >> reporter: do you think it will hurt the democracy of hater if after the elections a large number of people including civil society do not see the elections as credible. >> listen, this is unfortunately what we've seen the last 25 years since we have been -- even more that, since we started to enter a democratic process. elections in haiti are always contested. you always have people who get

1% of the vote and they say they stole their votes. >> woodruff: a college basketball legend is retiring. duke coach mike krzyzewski, often called "coach k," will end his four-decade-plus coaching career after next season. he is the winner of five national titles anthe winningest coach in division one men's basketball history. he's won olympic gold medals for usa basketball. and has been to the n.c.a.a. tournament and the final four more than any other coach. some perspective now from a sportswriter who has interviewed him and covered him for years, john feinstein. he's written multiple books on college hoops and profiled him in his book, "the legends club." john feinstein, welcome back to

the "newshour". so what does it mean that mike krzyzewski is going to step back after this next season? >> well, to say that it's the end of an era, judy, is a vast understatement. as you said, at the end of next year, he will have coached at duke for 42 years. he's won more games than any division one college coach in history. but he's so much more than that. he's always stood for the right things about the sport. there's so much that's not right about big-time college athletics, as we've discussed often in the past, but mike krzyzewski stood for the right things. he's an incredibly loyal person. i speak firsthand on that subject. and the thing that many people won't remember is that, after three years at duke, when he was 38 and 47, most duke alumni and boosters wanted him fired, and tom butters, the athletic director who hired him, stood by him, gave him a contract

extension next year and literally the rest is history. i will be very candid, this is one of the stories i can't process to be fair or objective about because i went to duke university and am certainly a fan of him and duke basketball. but what else it about coach coach k, john? what made him the successful coach that he's been? >> well, there's several things, judy. first of all, he was all sort of ahead of the curve in terms of figuring out ways to have close relationships with his players. early on in his years as duke, when a recruit would visit campus, mic would get -- mike would get on the plane and fly back home with him because he wanted to be one on one with him after his visit and understand how he felt about duke and also understand how his players felt about the recruit. the naacp -- the ncaa changed the rules so as to not allow that after a while, but mike, again, was ahead of the curve

there. the other thing is that i don't think i ever met anyone in spts who learned better from his mistakes than mike krzyzewski did. remember, he went to west point. when you're a plebe at west point, you're only allowed three answers when an upper classman speaks to you -- yes, sir, no, sir, and no excuse, sir. no one used no excuse, sir, more than mike krzyzewski did. when his teams failed, it was on him, it was never on anybody else. when duke lost to unlv in the 19950 national championship game by 30 points, the largest margin in history, a year later they came back and beat that same team to go to national championship. he was always looking at failure to lead to success. i'm not sure many people do that. jay billis, the starting center on mike's great team in 1986 went on to be an assistant coach

for hike when he was in law school. he said when he sat in the room and listened to him talk to his coaches, planning, paper, all that, it occurred to him that tall the wins weren't an accident, that this guy was the smartest guy in the room. heever had the need to tell you he was the smartest guy in the room, but he was the smartest guy in the room. >> woodruff: as mike krzyzewski steps away after this next season, what is it that college basketball doesn't have anymore? >> they don't have the go-to guy when it comes to answering questions on important issues, when it comes to guidance for the sport. i'm not talking about winning games, i'm talking about how can we fix college basketball which needs fixing. mike has made a lot of suggestions over the last ten years, some have been listened to, others hasn't -- others haven't been. but he's the first guy people turn to. that's why they call him

coach k. that's why i like to say i knew him when he was just mike. but there will be a vacuum there, regardless of who becomes the next coach or how much he wins, there will be a vacuum. there's only one mike krzyzewski. unique is an overused word in sports but it fits him. >> woodruff: john feinstein on a man who's truly a legend, coach krzyzewski stepping down. thank you, john. >> thank you, judy. it's an emotional issue for me, too. i know how you feel. >> woodruff: thank you. tough day for all of us duke and that's the newshour for tonight. m judy woodruff. thank you, please stay safe, and we'll see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: to learn more, go to consumercellular.tv

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