♪ geoff: good evening. i'm geoff bennett. tonight on pbs news weekend, the toll of war. following shocking images of civilians killed in the streets outside kyiv, volodymyr zelenskyy because the attacks genocide. then we analyze the latest revelations from the january 6 committee and look ahead as democrats look to wrap up judge ketanji brown jackson's supreme court confirmation this week. our weekend spotlight with music icon darrell hall. he is back on tour and showing no signs of slowing down. >> when you are on the stage for whatever time you are on there, that is when it gets good. geoff: all that and more on tonight's pbs news weekend.

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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. geoff: ukrainian prosecutors investigating possible russian war crimes say they found 410 bodies in the towns surrounding kyiv. moscow continues to deny its military is targeting civilians but as russian troops pull back from those areas, correspondent ali rogin reports they are scorching the earth behind them. >> in the wake of russia's withdrawal, a trail of death. in the town of bucha, hundreds of bodies la in mass graves. on the roads, what ukrainian

officials say is evidence of war crimes. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy was explicit. >> indeed, this is genocide. >> secretary of state antony blinken would not go as far. do you see this as genocide? >> we will look hard and document everything we see. put it all together. >> as they return to towns deserted but destroyed by russia, ukraine forces received a warm welcome. >> we prayed. we asked god to give our warriors, our defenders health and god's protection. >> ukrainian and western officials say russia is shifting its forces and focus from the north and capital region to the south and east. >> we think this is redeployment . they are changing the tactics w. >> in the port city of odessa today, residents woke up to a russian attack on an oil facity. >> this is not a good morning for odessa.

we woke up to powerful explosions near our home. the impact was huge. it was terrifying. >> further along the coast, the city of mariupol remains under seizure. on sunday, the red cross tried for the third day in a row to bring aid in and get civilians out the russians have not honored their pledge to allow for safe passage. geoff:or more on the devastating situation, i am joined by simon ostrovsky. give us a sense of what you have seen today. >> the devastation in bucha is really difficult to set -- to describe. the russian troops pulled out a few days ago and what they lt behind has really exposed the horrors that the civilians living in bucha lived through during the russian occupation that lasted more than a month. what we saw were civilians bodies littering roads.

some killed with shrapnel or from explosions. disturbingly, many of the people we saw who had just been left in the streets to rot had seemingly been executed because they had gunshot wounds to the head. we witnessed a scene of a group of volunteers behind a building clearing a number of bodies. eight or nine bodies of men who had all seemingly been executed. several of them have their hands tied behind their backs. they were discarded behind this building with other waste the russian troops left behind like food ration packets that came from russia. and so we spoke with the heaof a funeral service in bucha who told us over the last several days they have collected and found around 300 civilians so

far who were killed and they're finding 30 or 40 every day and i think the death toll going to continue to grow as the ukrainian forces continue to move north into the areas that the russians have retreated from. geoff: it is a horrifying account. appreciate your joining us. and a note, our coverage of ukraine is supported in part by the pulitzer center. ♪ in today's headlines come six people are dead and at least 12 others are injured. some critically following a mass shooting earlier this morning in downtown sacramento. police say social media video appears to show an altercation preceding the shooting no suspects are in custody and police are searching for at least one shooter.

family members of the victims arrived at the scene. >> i have a child laying out there and i want some answers. i just want some answers from somebody. geoff: authorities say a motive is still unclear as the shooting is under investigation. in pakistan, the prime minister has dissolved the country's parliament and called for new elections in an effort to block attempts to remove himrom office. the prime minister has accused his political opponents of working with the u.s. to oust him. earlier today, pakistani opposition lawmakers took a vote of no-confidence against the prime minister he throughout the vote the opposition party scheduled a hearing with that country's supreme court tomorrow to challenge the move. in hungary, polls have closed in the country's national election. voters are choosing between new opposition parties oa fourth term for victor or bun. early partial results show him

with a lead. the were any ukraine has cast a shadow over the campaign drawing attention to his close ties with vladimir putin. in the decades long career of duke coach mike krzyzewski came to a bittersweet end last night as duke lost its rival north carolina a the final four. earth carolina fans built into the streets of chapel hill to celebrate. the eighth-seeded tar heels will face the top-seeded kansas jayhawks in monday's national championship tonight, the south carolina gamecocks and the uconn huskies face-off in the women's national game. still to come, democrats pushed to confirm a new supreme court justice and the latest on the house committee's investigation of the january 6 capal attack. and a musical legend ready to take the stage once again. >> this is pbs news weekend from w eta studios in washington,

home of the pbs newshour, weeknights on pbs. geoff: a series of revelations about the involvement of president trump's allies in the days leading up to january 6 is providing fresh evidence to the committee charged with investigating the attk as it gears up for public hearings. and the u.s. senate is advancing this a prima court nomination of judge ketanji brown jackson with the goal of getting her confirmed by the end of the week. we are discussing that and more on our sunday briefing. joining me is an associate professor at santa clara university school of law. kyle cheney is a senior affairs reporter for politico. and a former u.s. attorney and fbi official. kyle, we will start with you because there have been a slew of developments in the past week connected to january 6. you have republican congressman mo brooks peered he revealed donald trump pressured him to

intervene and unwind the election results appred there is a federal judge who found it was more likely than not donald trump correctly attempted -- donald trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the election. whether or not the cup -- the call logs were complete. how to all of these developments affect the committee's instigative work? >> it all adds more granularity to the picture the committee is painting that more and more likelyooks like there were crimes committed. not just whatever donald trump was doing with some unethical attempt to overturn the election and the final weeks of his presidency but may have violated the law. the judge's ruling is the clearest example of that. a federal judge in california says are likely than not the president entered a criminal conspiracy with allies like attorney john eastman to overturn the results, to violate the law to do that. every piece you just mentioned

fits in that narrative and fits in that picture the committee is putting together and it helps them move their case forward. geoff: there is unrelenting pressure from democrats to hold donald trump and his allies accountable for the vlence that unfolded at the capitol. is there any indication federal prosecutors are to close to charging the former president if it is in fact warranted and what with the burden of proof be they would have to meet in a criminal case? >> let me take the second question first. kyle just described a ruling by a federal judge in los angeles on an evidentiary matter funny it was more likely than not trump had entered into a criminal conspiracy. that is fine for that case but to your question, to hold anyone accountable in criminal case you would have to find proof beyond a reasonable doubt and you would need a unanimous jury. very different standard. i think house explanation of

what that jaded -- that judge did is good and important but it is not evidence and certainly not sufficient to convict anyone of anything. as to indications of what the department of justice is doing and how fast they are doing it, hard to know. grand jury investigations have to be secret. the rules of evidence require they be secret. and so i am not surprised we don't have a lot of visibility into what the department of justice is doing. congress is running an investigation and they will make a report public one day. the department of justice has a very different mission, which is to hold people criminally accountable if the evidence and the law waants it. they need to take their time. they need to do it right and the need to meet a much higher burden of prf. i am glad they are doing it quietly and secretly. geoff: president biden has been clear he wanted to restore what he calls the integrity, the independence of the doj following what transpired during the trump era.

what you make of the argument from some democrats the justice department under attorney general garland might be over correcting, that they areoo cautious? >> as democrats are starting to say things like do your job so we can do ours. like the previous speaker, i would caution any notion that merrick garland should be listening to them in terms of what he should be doing. it is a very different thing to say do your job. and to say you are not doing the job because you are not doing what i want you to do. the urse correction s been very important because the previous administrations justice department made a charade, really made a mess in terms of using, attempting to use the justice deptment as a partisan

political tool. i think in this case i would give merrick garland a little more time before assuming he is not doing his job. geoff: want to shift our focus to the supreme court because tes from ginni thomas to former trump chief of staff mark meadows surfaced showing how the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas urged the white house to find a way to keep forward president trump in office judge justice calmest -- in office. justice thomas has not recused himself. unlike all other federal judges, the justices of the supreme court are not subject to a code of ethical conduct. why not and should that change? >> they are not technically subject to a code but they do abide ethical norms and ethic rules and justices when necessary recused themselves from cases. the typical recusal situation would be if a family member is involved in litigation or you

have a direct financial interest in litigation. you raise a really interesting question about whether or not justice thomas needs to step aside from cases coming down the turnpike because of what his wife wrote to white house chief of staff mark meadows. the answer is maybe yes. even though there is no technil code of ethics that directly applies to supreme court justices not the written rule, supreme court justices do follow the same seof rules and whether or not we ought to have a written code that memorializes that, sure. why not? our justices tend to follow those rules to carefully. >> i went to come to you and ask about senate democrats. their goal of wrapping up the confirmation of dge ketanji brown jackson this week, she is on track for a narrow confirmation. her hearings really lustrated

an ongoing disintegratn of the overall supreme court confirmation process. i've heard from senators democratic and republican who fear it will only get worse. what is your view? >> it seems very likely that it will get worse and here is why. the senate constitutionally is empowered to make its own rules. they can change confirmation hearings if they wanted. some proposals have been to shorten the time period, tighten it up. i think the worst offenders are those who use their platform to ask questions that are not germane, that are hectoring and that ultimately do not reveal anything about the nominee. geoff: give us a sense of the week ahead. in the senate judiciary committee is going to have a hearing tomorrow and then where do things lead? >> looks like we could get a confirmation by the end of the week, maybe by friday. will probably be a narrow confirmation.

a couple of key holdouts on the republican side who may be interesting like that romney and lisa murkowski have not said what they are going to do. we make it a semblance more of bipartisanship. we already have susan collins supporting the nomination. if others join her, it will not look quite as divisive as other recent nominees. it does sort of cap a disheartening process about the entire nomination. geoff: my thanks to the three of you for joining us on our first sunday briefing here at pbs news weekend. >> thank you. ♪ geoff: ahead of tonight's grammy awards, i sat down with a giant of the music industry who at 75 years old is still trying to make his fans dreams come true. ♪

legendary singer-songwriter daryl hall is back on stage preparing for a new tour. ♪ best known for being one half of the iconic rock and soul duo paula notes, his -- hall and oates, his new album is the first collection of his solo work. material found on five albums from 1980's sacred songs to 20 elevenths laughing down crying. it also includes highlights from his long-running online series live from daryl's house where he has collaborated with a range of artists including sammy hagar, sharon jones, smokey robinson and cee lo green. ♪ we spoke with daryl hall in

upste new york. you are about to get back on the road. what have you missed the most about live performance? >> the actual performance. everything else is terrible. it is just travel. it is very military. hurry up and wait. when you are on stage for whatever time you are, that is when it gets good. you never know what is going to happen. geoff: how did you maintain your creative process during the pandemic? >> i hibernated. i did not fight it. i did not even play my instruments. i did not read any songs. i stayed in one place, which is totally weird because i've been traveling since i was a teenager. geoff: where did the idea come from to do before after? >> part of that was that time of reflection. i think a lot of people -- you reevaluate things. i whole life changed her to life changed. if not now, when? it is trying -- it is time to

show the world. i have been showing my alternative side and alternative career basically. i played a lot of those songs over the years on the show that i never really released any compilation or paid that much attention to the recorded versions of these albums i've made over the years. i thought now is the time to it and to show that is what i do. i do stuff with john oates. i do stuff with other people. it's put it all out there. geoff: paul got his start in the philadelphia music scene as part of the group cald the temp tones while steadily at temple university. >> a street corner group. that was popular back then. i made my first record with kenny gable and romeos. a four track studio on north broad street. i was involved in that whole world. it was the beginning of what people know as the sound of philadelphia and i was part of that.

geoff: after college is when you met john oates. >> he was sewed of -- he was sort of play guitar in the temp tones but we decided to do somethinfor real after we got out of school. gef: daryl hall and john o it's released their first album in 1972. eventually becoming the most successful duo in pop history. th have earned all kinds of accolades. rock and roll hall of fame museum inductees, a star on the hollywood walk of fame. all for their enduring hits such as samara -- such as sara smile. ♪ private i -- private eyes. ♪ rich girl. ♪

you make my dreams. ♪ they topped billboards hot 100 half a dozen times. these days there music is simple by rappers and they continue to find new young fans online like youtube stars timnd fred williams famous for their reaction videos. ♪ >> they got that little jazz. >> that little blues that make you one of -- -- state -- that make you want to geoff: hall says despite the success or becse of it, at find he found it hard to branch out creatively. sinc his solo work is more adventurous and less commercial thanhat he recorded with john oates. >> it is a really hard thing to do. i did not always succeed with it. there is a lot of frustration involved because the businesof music has a different agenda than the creation of music.

in my particular situation, i was sort of a vtim of success where i had to compete with myself. the record company was looking at the cash cow. they were looking at what was going to make them the most money. that was daryl hall and john oates. the other stuff i was doing even though i was having success with it, when you balance it out, are they going to do? they're going to push to the other side. geoff: rca rused to put out one of your solo album so you licked it to music journalists -- so you leaked it to music journalists. >> they said it was so crazy. it was really a groundbreaking album. that was not rich girl jr.. geoff: how do you write songs that are timeless and enduring? what is your process? >> it comes in many different ways. sometimes it will be a drum groove. sometimes it will be a cord

progression. sometimes it will be just a phrase that runs in my head. any combination of that can make a saw. i do not really have a formula. geoff: did you know so many of your hits would be hits when you wrote them? >> no. i never think -- i don't think of songs as i'm going to write a hit. occasionally i will think this could be a hit but you never know. sometimes a song i think is going to be a hit is not a hit. geoff: to what do you attribute your longevity in this business? >> it is hard for me to say. i think i write songs that -- obviously they cross generations, which is fantastic. i love that. . it is so fulfilling. some timeless quality. some universal thing that i know how to touch on. it has to do with my personal experiences that i guess everybody else shares. it is the best way i can put it. geoff: timeless songs sustaining

daryl hall towering 50 year career. ♪ and that is pbs news weekend for tonight on the pbs newshour tomorrow with judy woodruff,e will get the latest from othe ground in ukraine. i'm geoff bennett. join us online and again here tomorrow evening. foof uat pbs news weekend, thanks for spending part of your sunday with us. >> major funding for pbs news weekend has been provided by -- and with the ongoing supportf the individuals and institutions.

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- hi. i'm rick steves. today, we're heading off on a very special adventure-- to the holy land. i'm known for my shows about european travel. this one's something different. exploring israel and palestine, i enjoyed one of the most rewarding travel experiences of my life. we produced this special because i was concerned that smart and caring people-- people like you and me-- hear a lot about this region, but we really understand very little about it. i've always believed that the best way to learn about a place is to go there and meet the people. in the case the holy land, i wanted to hear both narratives-- the israeli and the palestinian. i learned a lot, and m eager to share what i learned with you. to truly appreciate the challenges both palestinians and israelis face, it's important to understand the backstory-- the cultural and historic context. our goal is not to give answers but to give context, to provide a kind of holy land 101 primer,