♪ >> good evening. i'm amna navaz. tonight, crucial technology. amid a global chip shortage, boosting production in the u.s. we discuss what comes next the secretary of commerce. >> we need to make more of these on our shores in the united states so that we cannot only create jobs, but also protect our people. amna: then, america addicted. new data reveals a dramatic spike in overdose deaths among people of color during the first year of the pandemic. and after roe. doctors in red states worry that abortion laws could hinder their abilities to treat patients in life or death situations. all that and more on tonight's

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announcer: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. stephanie: we'll return to the full program after the latest headline. today was the hottest day ever recorded in britain. the country baked under super heated their sparked fires and buckled train tracks. it is part of a wider weather emergency in europe that's lasted for days.

a scorching heat wave continues to engulf europe smashing high temperature records in the uk tuesday, the mercury hit 104.5 degrees beating a record set in 2019. as the heat wave moved north to germany residents sought ways to stay cool. >> up until the early afternoon, the pool is quite pleasant. once it gets too hot, we're going home. stephanie: but most homes in europe don't have air-conditioning which makes the heat more dangerous. officials have tallied 1,000 heat-related deaths in portugal alone. flames a grass fire consumed homes in a suburb of london. in france 39,000 people have been forced to evacuation wait as firefighters struggle to put out wildfires in shifting winds. in spain, wildfires have spread close to railways. this video was captured by a

passenger. europe has been experiencing more excessive heat waves in recent years, evidence experts say of climate change. the high temperatures are coupled with a lack of water. the river a key artery for shipping in europe is at its lowest level in 15 years in italy the dry heat has turned marshes into dry, cracked land. these unprecedented temperatures should be a wake-up call for government action. >> in the future, these kind of heat waves are going to be normal and -- and we will see even stronger extremes. stephanie: for now, the heat will not be subsiding until the middle of next week. in the u.s. heat alerts will affect 1/3 of the nation through tomorrow. a fire broke out at hoover dam

on the nevada, arizona border after a transformer burst into flames. the fire was extinguished quickly. the bureau is investigating the cause of the fire and said there is not a ricks to the power grid. forces kept up a fear some barrage targeting cities in the east and killing scores of civilians. moscow declared that peace would come only on its terms. and in the port city of odessa, firefighters doused flames by shelling overnight. ukrainian officials says russia's long distance assault has escalated as the ground has stalled. president putin arrived in iran. he wants to buy military drones to use in ukraine. putin met with iran's president ayatollah ham nay. state tv quoted ham nay as a warning toward the western deception. putin met with turkey's

president also in teheran. the world health organization has a warning. cases in europe have tripled in the past six weeks and hospitalization rates have doubled in belgium today the w.h.o.'s european director said the new outbreaks will get worse in the fall and winter. >> the virus has never gone away. people sometimes ask is the virus back. it's never gone away. it's still there. it is spreading and mutating. and unfortunately, it's still taking a lot of lives last week alone 3,000 people sadly past away. >> also today, the u.s. centers for disease control recommend add covid-19 vaccine from nova vax for everyone the age of 1. this is fourth vaccine approved for use in the united states. a federal jury in washington heard opening statements in

steve bannon's trial. prosecutors said he decided es he is above the law. he has plead innocent to two misdemeanor counts. the secret service is to investigation deletion of january 6th erased messages. the secret service acknowledged deleting the texts despite being asked to be preserved. it says the data was lost during a long planned update of mobile devices. the u.s. house of representatives approved federal protections for same sex and interracial marriages. advocates have raised concern that the supreme court's overturning over roe v. wade could affect other rights. 47 republicans joined all democrats in the respect for marriage act. the debate focused on whether

any legislative action is needed. today the democrats bring forward a bill that is completely unais necessary. why are the democrats going down this path? because frankly they have nothing else. >> to mr. jordan's suggestion that this is not necessary. tell it to the millions of lgbtq families that are worried about the supreme court's intention to rip away more freedom. >> the house plans to vote later this week on safeguarding access to contraception. all of the bills face uncertain prospects in the evenly divided senate. the biden administration faces criticism for not advocateing more for my han rights abroad. and some surprising new details on isis. a more inclusive future in a male-dominated world of jazz and much more.

announcer: this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> senate today moved forward on legislation that aims to boost semiconductor production here in the u.s. it comes as chip shortages impacting the every day lives of americans. lisa desjardins has that story. lisa: refrig ray, to micro waves, computers, mobile phones, cars, military grade weapons are all things that require semiconductors or chips to function. the bill make its way through congress includes $52 billion in grants an incentives to design and manufacture chips and 25% tax credit to help build high-tech facilities. the size of the bill could grow in the next day this. solution a scaled down version of a larger bill aimed at boosting u.s. competitiveness with china. i'm joined by secretary of

commerce gina raymundo. thank you for joining us. there's a fascinating story with this. i know you've been up and back on the hill many times to get this to this point. let me ask you the big question. why is this an important bill? why is in the priority? >> thank you, lisa. well, as you just said, every piece of modern medical equipment, every piece of military equipment, everything that needs a computer or that is digital runs on chips. and the reality is, we don't make very many chips in the united states of america. in fact, alarmingly, for the most sophisticated chips, we buy almost all of them from taiwan. we're incredibly dependent on asia and asian countries for our supply of chips including those that are necessary in all of our military equipment. and so the united states is at a risk and we need to make more of these on our shores in the united states so that we cannot

only create jobs but protect our people. >> i haven't heard anyone disagree that with this idea that there's a need. but some folks say there are other needs. $50 billion upwards of that, that's money that could go to perhaps freezing student loans or things for pandemic and other needs. why is this important? >> i agree with president biden that we ought to be able to do all of that. but -- so i'm not sure it's an either/or. but hearsay what i would say about this. this is a core national security imperative. right now, as i said before, we buy all of these chips of a certain kind from taiwan. we are heavy dependent on china and taiwan. we don't make this stuff in america. and yet sit what we need in military equipment, in pacemakers and the hospital, and

in cars -- you saw in lansing. i think g.m. had to close facility for a week and put people out of work because they ran out of chips. we just can't do that. we can want allow ourselves to be overly reliant on these countries in asia to defend our country. so this is a core national security objective, which will create -- by the way hundreds of thousands of good high paying manufacturing jobs the united states of america. so it has to happen. it has to happen now. it's just common sense. it is just common sense that we make this investment so we make chips in america, create jobs and secure our national security. >> i want to give you a chance to respond to some criticism that came from "the wall street journal." we know that the u.s. has been less of a world supplier of these chips that's what you're trying to create. but the washington journal says there are other statistics not mentioned is that the u.s. leads in chip design already, more

than 50% -- 52% of the world supply on that chip-making equipment and that seven of the world's 10semi conduct or companies are based in the u.s. so given that and given that some democrats say they see this as a corporate giveaway. you mention the urgency. why is it so urgent at this moment? >> it's so urgent that the moment because these companies have a choice. and sit true. many of them are american companies. but american companies operate al over the world. and they have a choice as to where to operate. and if we -- and every other country recently germany, france, singapore, japan are offering incentives to those companies to expand in those countries. and so there is no question that these companies will expand and will add jobs and production. the only question is whether they are do it in the united states of america on american soil which is what we need for a national security or whether

they will do it in another country. and so this is about having these jobs in this secure supply in our country so that when we need it, we have it. >> some in the manufacturing community, thesemi conduct or community is saying that too much of this bill would help one company, intel. how do you respond to that that? >> absolutely not. absolutely not true. it remains to be seen who gets the incentives. and it's really any company willing to make a big commitment to invest in the united states to produce chips is eligible for the incentives and it will be an open, competitive and clear process. everyone will qualify. >> now you're having to deal with congress. congress doesn't operate well on deadlines. when you say this is needed now,

you mean the the next few weeks >> these companies making decisions about where to give jobs? can you help explain that? >> i literally mean in the next couple of weeks. you know, intel which is a big semiconductor company is entertaining offers from italy and spain and germany. they have to make the decision this summer because they have to star the expansion now. other companies, the same thing. there's an explosion of demand for chips. and these companies are under a lot of pressure from their customers to hurry up and expand so they can fulfill the orders. i would say tonight, perhaps while we're talking, the senate is poised to take the first of several votes to take action on this. and i think it's time for congress to act and get this to the president's desk in the next couple of weeks. >> you know, i'm a national debt nerd. so one thing i've noticed about this bill is it isn't paired for. it will be adding to our deficit

why should we do this in order boost our competitiveness? >> this is about national security. we can't put a price on our national security. right now, the united states is denying semiconductors to russia. and as a result, their satellites and military equipment are lit ally falling ott of the sky because they don't have semiconductors. that could be us. if china decided not to supply the united states chips that would be us. we wouldn't be able to defend ourselves. so i i think $52 billion is -- is really a drop in the bucket so we can, you know, have piece of mind and national secure. >> obviously, this is a big concern on capitol hill. how do you answer someone on the hill who is asking you, this administration didn't get right on inflation it's worst than we thought it was. why should we trust you in other

areas like this? >> inflation is a global problem. we were chatting before we came on about europe. europe is seeing much higher inflation in certain countries. it's double digit. this is a global problem driven largely by the pandemic by putin's war. and the fed has taken strong action in our administration, the president's administration is doing everything we know how to do to bring down inflation. so i think this is apples and organizations. what we're talk about is getting blind a partisan bill to increase our technology to secure our future. separately, inflation, we are going to get that under control. >> commerce secretary, gina raymundo. thank you for talking to us about it. >> thank you. ♪

>> a new report from the senators for disease controlle finds u.s. overdose deaths rose significantly for people of color between 2019 and 2020. as john yang reports. the synthetic opioid fentanyl is largely to blame along with other treatment during the pandemic. >> amna, while overall overdose deaths spiked by 30% during that period, among black americans, the increase was 44%. among native americans and alaska natives, 39%. that's compared with a 22% increase among white americans floor the rates among asian-americans and pacific islanders and hispanics. dr. ed win chapman specializes in treating addiction. dr. chapman thanks for being was. we heard the aggregate numbers. how does that track with what you see in your clinic? >> very close to what we're

seeing here in washington, d.c. we've actually seen a -- we saw a 40% increase in overdose deaths between 2019 and 2020. and then we saw another four or five percent increase between 20 and 21. so our overall increase has been about 50% in the district of columbia. so those numbers are very close. >> in your practice what,'s driving those numbers, what's driving that infleece >> so we've known for some time that our population which is 95% african american even though in terms of overdose deaths, even though in the district of columbia, we account for only 46% of the population. but the difference is that our epidemic started with street drugs, 40, 50, 60 years ago with

heroin. but in 2014, that heroin transitioned to fentanyl. so we we saw a 20% fentanyl in 2015. nd it gradually increased over the next five years, to now we're seeing 95% in fentanyl in our street drugs and feint still in 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. >> drug users are seeking out fentanyl or feint still in mix into the street drugs? >> well, it goes -- it goes both ways. initially, it was mixed in, and -- and subsequently there were those who did seek out the more potent form. but unfortunately, with fentanyl being so much stronger than -- than heroin or the typical pills that people were overclosing and dying some of we're actually

seeing a darwinian evolution so to speak. those who are able to tolerate higher doses of -- of drugs just by their genetics and by luck are surviving. and those are the one that is we're seeing and treating. >> dr. chapman, have you seen any other changes in the patients that you're seeing is the age, for instance, of your patient changeing? >> absolutely. so five years ago we did a survey and the average age of our patients was about 52. 70% male. 30% female. we actually because it's an older population, 10% to 12% were testing positive for h.i.v. and about 50% were testing positive for hepatitis c. so since that time, the age has increaseed to an average age of about 60 at the present time.

>> what effect does that have on -- on -- on overdose deaths and treatment? >> so again, you're now talking about people who have other chronic diseases, diabetes, hypertension, as well mixed in with their opioid use and of course, some of their mental health issues. >> is will in this sort of racial disparity in the increase, does -- does the access to treatment play a role in this? >> oh, absolutely. just by structure african-american physician are only 5%. and then when you look at psychologists only 4%. psychiatrist 2%. so we're dealing with those structural issues and on top of those structural issues, we values some public policy issue that is have to be addssed. >> and has the -- the december

party, the widening inequality that we've seen during pandemic, has that had an effect? >> yes, so all of this is really -- when we look at it as a whole, we can say this, the pandemic is really acting as a barometer for our overall health care system. we can see these structural and public policy issue that is have gone for centuries. in fact, coming to -- to the forefront. and they're exacerbated by housing issues, transportation issues. so our patient population because they've been involved in drug use for so many years are disenfranchised from the community, disenfranchised from family. so we have a very high homeless population. >> what are the changes you would like to see that would help you treat your patients? >> so our approach has been really to -- a team-based

approach. and we realize that 80% of the outcomes are related to things outside of the doctor's office, outside of the hospital. so we really need to have this community education. we need to have advocacy in the community. legal support to oversea, to make sure that paetschs are getting the type of treatment that they need, and of course, we need to integrate substance abooks mental health and primary care services because these patience have the same issues as everyone else. the fact is that they've had so many difficulties including their involvement with the criminal justice system that have to be reverse. >> addiction special list dr. edwin chapman, thank you very much. >> thank you.

amna: today, the family of khashoggi, the journalist murdered in theiness tan bull consulate asked president biden to intervene. the united arab emirates sentenced the lawyer to three years in prison the same day that president biden met with that country's president. it raises the question of what he got during that trip and of the human rights and pragmatic foreign policy. nick shiffrin delves into that debate. nick: accuseed of murdering his opposition and arbitrarily arrests and tortures detainees. greetings with a 36 year-old who helps control oil land be a

regional power broker for decades, and the conversation with the president helping integrate the region with israel. the debate between an idealist and realistic foreign policy is not new. >> i know it's late but thank you for being here. it's one president biden faced head-on saying he could juggle both. the u.s. and saudi arabia talked about a half dozen topics and president biden said he confronted their president about the u.s. intelligence conclusion that salman proved the murder of khashoggi in theist istanbul consulate. >> he basically said that he -- he was not personally responsible for it. i indicate i thought he was. this trip was about positioning america in this region for the future. >> i'm very disappointed honestly in this trip. >> the egyptian filmmaker and activist and her brother is one of the most prominent political

prisoners. senaz has been arrested since the military seized power. >> why did president biden grant they handshake without conditioning any human rights concessions even forcing to pretend to care about human right rights? >> how is your brother dieing? >> he's slowly dying. he has managed to oppress the society in all sectors like human rights defenders are in prison. just norman females make tiktok videos wearing some revealing clothes are in prison. political opposition people are in prison. and this is -- this is just a plain authoritarian regime. >> the president said that dealing with their president he does bring up human rights. what policy would you rather see

president biden pursue? >> bringing up human rights confidentially, secretly is something and being vocal about human rights is another thing. the egyptian regime understands very well that when -- when western governments are only bringing up human rights in private diplomacy that they don't have to interpret this seriously. >> it was important for the president to travel to the gulf to really reset the relationships, turn the page if you will -- >> general firestein is the former ambassador to yemen and a fellow at at the middle east institute. >> we continue to look to the region as a prime source of -- of energy and that's going to continue for many years into the future. >> why is it important for president bide ton meet with saudi leaders and also president cici of egypt? >> if his objective to travel to

the region was to expand the scope of regional defense and security integration, to include israel and the architecture, then having egypt participate in those conversations having jordan participate in in those conversations is also going to be important. >> president biden vowed to put human rights at the center of his foreign policy. has he gone against his vow by fist bumping or shaking hands with regional leaders who have bad records on human rights? >> i think that the president was very clear that it's going continue to be aspect of foreign policy it can't be the only thing that the united states base its policies on. we don't have the -- the opportunity or the luxury of only looking at -- at our foreign relations through that

single capture. >> the administration simultaneously blocked $130 million in military aid to egypt over human right concern. but approved $2 billion worth of military cargo planes and radars. the policy debate is not either or. >> the issue between the u.s. is so strong that if at the aesthetic level the administration raises human rights it will have a positive effect without undermining the relationship. >> the debate will continue. asked whether he regrets the crown prince fist bump -- >> why don't you guys talk about something that matters. >> he calls these countries and leaders allies an partners. for the pbs newshour, i'm nick shiffrin.

amna: protestors once again demonstrated in front of the u.s. supreme court over abortion three weeks after the justice overturned roe v. wade. 17 members of congress were among those arrested during the protest this afternoon after u.s. capitol police said they blocked traffic outside the court. since the court's ruling last month, doctors and inn states with abortion bans have struggled to figure out how to take care of patients with high risks. new guidance next week saying any state ban is preempted by federal law ptecting abortions ass part of emergency care. but medical providers are concerned they could be prosecuted for such procedures. joining me now is dr. hackney. welcome to "the newshour." the last few vehicles made clear there are a number of doctor who are confused or scared about

what they can or can't do in this new reality we are when they're care for pregnant patients. that federal guidance i just laid out is that clear to you? do you have a clear understanding of what you can and cannot do? >> it does help and we certainly appreciate everything that the department is doing in that regards. however, it doesn't solve many of the problem that is we have which are specific to this date that we're in now. unfortunately, some things are very clear in the state of ohio. we cannot perform abortions for fee -- fetal anomalies even though that we know the child will not survive. we cannot perform abortions even though the pregnancy was conceived by rape. that's very, very tragicle the other category in which we get involved in abortion care is to save the mother mother's life or

on behalf of the mother's help. this is where there's still a lot of things which are not clear in ohio, the law does call out some specific cases so if there's previable, premature membranes breaking the bag of water or the mom has pre- eclampsia. and there is fear from the obgn whether we can proceed or not. >> if you detect a lethal ano, ma'amly, what do you say to your patient? what kind of care do you provide? >> what i try to do first is talk to them as if the law hasn't changed and try to come up with them with what would work the best with them. there are patients who are dying with lethal birth defects. what my own approach has been is

just try to talk to the patient. i say pretend that the laws didn't change. let's figure out first what would work best for you. unfortunately, for most patients in the setting of a lethal birth defect they choose not to move forward. i have to tell the patient that they cannot receive an abortion in this state. you are still allowed to speak freely, allowed to refer out of states. we will start to try to -- to do that. but there is is potential for a patient with a lethal birth defect that will not be able to live the state of ohio and to be able to term against their will, which i cannot make a nightmare that would be >> what's the rigs risk for a patient in a situation like that? >> even if the patient is completely healthy, so sometimes we have aies all of the concerns are futile. mom is in totally good hale. just a completely normal

pregnancy always carries risks. the risk of the pregnancy that is starting to turn is greater than the risk of an abortion procedure in the first trimester even the second two. we see completely healthy patients where everything is going well and then they go to deliver and there's hemorrhage oar blood clot in the lung. and we know that things along those lines can occur. i can't imagine that there was a patient who had a lethal fetal disorder was forced to continue the pregnancy to term againster that will. and then something terrible happened when they went to deliver that would just be a it's tragedy with no bets at all. >> let me ask you about this. it's clear that there are legal voices watching. we've seen attorney general weigh in in indiana threat tong go after a doctor who provided a

legal abortion service in one case. what does it feel like to do your glob what are you feeling and experiences and what other doctors are telling you they're word about? >> i myself was on call the very first night that the law changed. i got a text from friends on a friday night saying that it had gone into effect. and i do high risk obstetricians. i was going to be rounding in the hospital saturday and sunday. and i didn't know what to do. what if i came sad and there was a paetsch who was bleeding or someone who does was going into heart failure. and there's still a lot of gray zones where we're not exactly surehat's the best thing document >> it sounds like there are a lot of things that you don't know. we're in a new legal landscape and one you have argued against what is it that you want to see that you third thy would help you to better care for and protect protect your patients? >> well, the biggest thing i would want to see is for the

ohio state supreme court to stop this law, to stop s.b.u.-17. we're talking about raped children, pregnancies where there's lethal birth defect and the woman is tragically going to be forced to continue against her will. the ohio supreme court has the potential power to stop this law. it's very, very unclear. the attorney general should say clearly, you know, which children who have been raped can provide abortion care and which one we cannot. i mean, it's such a horrible topic. you know, i don't believe to some extent we're having to think about this. and they should haven't to come from me, you know, as the chair of the ob/gyn for state, i'm getting a lot of calls, questions, i'm trying to figure this out i'm looking over over the search and data when you have physical damage to the body of a raped child.

this whole scenario, i have to say it's unfair. >> that is dr.le david hackney a maternal foe fetal medical specialist joining us tonight. dr. hackney, thank you for your time. >> thank you. ♪ amna: well, fire years ago this month the iraqis declared victory over isis in the battle for the city of mosul that mark add major turning point in the war against isis militants in the earlier war, the u.s. committed large numbers of ground force and did the bulk of the fight. but in the war against the islamic state, the iraqi forces led the way with the united states providing military support and advising. nick shiffrin is back with a conversation of a new book that looks at the u.s. role in battling extremism in iraq.

>> when the obama administration withdraw forces in iraq it declared it was turning the tied tide of war. but the group that called itself of islamic state seized territory across iraq in an area the size of belgium. but the u.s. went to work using proxy force. a small number of u.s. trainers and vast amount of air power. that's the inside story of the war against the islamic state from barack obama to donald trump. the author is "wall street journal" reporter michael gordon. thanks for joining me now. >> thank you. >> this is a window into the future because it will reveal the methods that the u.s. will use again. why is that? >> well, i i think after several% that the middle east, afghanistan, there's not much appetite to send tens of

thousands of troops back into the middle east. they're focusing on china, on russia. those are the main threats driving pentagon strategy. but the threats aren't going to go away. so the concept of use ago small number of advisers coupling them with the proxy force partners ton ground and -- and accessing air power and reconnaissance is likely to be a template that the u.s. is going to use again in the middle east on governed space and in great power scenarios like we're seeing in ukraine. >> before that template was created, you write that the obama administration in the early days of the emergence misunderstood the islamic state. president obama called it the j.v. team. what was the effect? >> tilliest the u.s. unprepared. the month that president obama

called it the j.v. team was the same month that the head of the delta force and the senior special operations commander for the middle east went to iraq. so iraq's counterterrorism service and action and reported up their chain that it was overmatched. that it was having a hard time coping with this isis which was really an evolution from an aboutl-qaeda group. >> one soldier described it as a valley forge scenario, the revolutionary army at the lowest point. why had the iraqi army deteriorated to that point? >> in 2010, there was very well understood on the part of the iraqi generals and the american general that is there was a continuing need for a small american presence to mentor, train, enable iraqi forces.

but the politics in baghdad and the politics in washington were such that american forces left at the end of 2011. they were unable to reach a diplomatic agreement that would allow them to stay as a consequence of that, the u.s. was not monitoring the deterioration of the iraqi forces and also they weren't able to really the word sectarian impulses of the iraqi mississippi minister who not only put in his sort of cronies but took action that is alienate ed the sunnies in his country and provide fertile ground for isis to get a old in the countryside. >> by the time the isis gain add hold in 2014 and the plan the u.s. created september 2014, uses local forces to take the lead. how important looki back is choosing the right partner in that fight? and in general, how different

was that approach to what it proceeded it? >> what was extraordinary about this particular campaign and i was in most of it in syria and saw a lot of it firsthand is that there is no one partner. there are a multitude of partners. there were partners didn't get along with each other and would haven't even dealt with each other if the u.s. hadn't been there as kind of a glue to hold iting to. and what president obama was determined to do was he didn't want to send american troops back into ground combat. there were some instance where in ground combat, i have them in the book. but in the main it was local force who is were in ground combat. but they were to be advised by small teams of americans. >> one of the force fight on the same side against isis were iranian force. and they en countered soul man

late does their meeting in iraq say about the fight against i.c.e. isis? >> in the first year of the war, americans and iranians were not fighting each other or trying to kill each other. they were basically trying to stay out of each other's way. what happened in that instant was extraordinary. an iraqi general led soul manny into a command post which is across the street from the american embassy. and the general who is the marine general then was rather surprised to come face-to-face with the cuds force commander. they had a discussion. it wasn't about corporation, it was about the situation and where the forces were because they were in a deconfliction mode. but over time as it was clear that the u.s. was going to win this war, which it did win, the ian rannians -- iranians were

critical to american and he was killed at the baghdad international airport. your reveal for the first time the u.s. has been reviewing in advance israeli air strikes in syria that have been going on for years. there have been 4000 of those strikes since 2017. where is that review and why is that important? >> syria is a very crowded place. it's sort of this strategic equivalent of the star wars bar. you have turkey threat tong interviewer seen. you have the russians very active in there and actually quite successful. and -- and intervening at that country at minimal cost to themselvesle you have the ianians in there. you have shiite militias -- shiite militias. and you have the israelis take taking action in the form of air strikes against the iranians and

arm shipments the iranians were trying to send to hezbollah. so it's all mixed up. and in this environment israel has a deconfliction arrangement with the russians. they tell them they're coming. but they have a much more formal process with u.s. central command. it's intended to let the americans know if they're going into eastern syria, this is going to happen and they may to suffer the consequences in form of iranian retaliation. the americans have vetoed a few of those strikes bum in the main -- they don't interfere -- >> michael gordon, the book is " degrade and destroy." michael gordon, thank you very much. >> thank you

amna: few paces of women and nonbinary musician come to mind butt a new program is working change that jeffery brown taken a look at a pipeline being involved to pump talent on to clubs and on to stage across the country and around the world. it's part of our arts and culture series, cal canvas. >> a recent jazz performance at the kennedy center's millennium stage in washington, d.c. , 28 year-old pianist anastasia said she dime love jazz in kazakhstan when she heard a teacher play a ba lad from bill evans. >> i decided to myself i want to have a piece of that freedom. >> freedom? what does that mean? >> he didn't have any music in front of him.

he was playing out of his head and i couldn't believe that this is possible. >> 30 year-old ivana questa gonzalez grew up throng music with her near the dominican republic. then she came across the drum set in church. >> i saw the drums and i said i can do it they paid for two classes. i learned the first rhythm and that's it. ♪ >> years later for these early to mid career professionals, the love is still there. but while ton road to make ago life in jazz is hard for anyone, some face lingering cultural and other barriers. >> i approached the stage. and a male musician said are you going to get on stage? if i don't have someone introducing me to the house band

there,'s no way i could join a session. >> p 31 year-old swedish-born loki identifies as a trans man r. some people say can you really? like they question you. and -- >> can you really play? >> yes. and in a way you would question someone who is the gender male. and that's sort of put it in -- in my head that i can really? and that's the worst thing i think you should have in your mind when you go up to play your concert or a jam session >> these musicians are now par of a new program focused on women and nonbinary jazz artists started by veteran drill, carrie lynn carrington. >> your average musician or actually i would like to say

your marginal mill musicians will be spurned have work opportunities more than a woman that actually excelled because of -- of the culture and all of the stereotypes that she has to face before she even play as note. >> carrington who was performing with her band social science in one of the main neaters that night is a three-time grammy wing drummer, come come -- composer and legend who played with her bi-hancock and a long list of others. she comes from a musical family. her father, matt carrington, a saxophone player in boston i introduced his youngs daughter to the artform and many of the leading practitioners. she played her first gig at age 8 and hasn't stopped. she's unnoted educator teach ago the berkleyle college of music in boston.

she said she used to advise young women to put their heads down and push past the barriers. but no more. >> because everybody doesn't have the same permit. personality. >> everybody doesn't have the same access that i had. >> at beck hurricanes carrington heads the institute of jazz and gender justice and has created >> what i try to do is think about what helped me to develop as a musician. what were the most important things, and it was really the musicians that gave made shot even before i was ready. and i think that those opportunities more are far and few between for women than they are for men. >> one statistic in a 2019m.p.r.

crickets jazz list of top 50 albums, almost 50% had no women at all in the lineup of instrumentalist. a similar proportion of all jazz albums had no women musicians atle. a >> we know there were some fantastic female vocalists who have become very famous and very success nfl jazz. but there's a -- successful in jazz. but there's a particular problem with improvisors, you know, that's the backbone of that community >> it was corp launched by advocacy group new music u.s.a. headed by vanessa reid. >> it's about ensuring that and nonbinary can see that they have role models that they can follow. but also it's about building alliances with men because if we don't work with the people who currently have the most power in jazz, then we're never going to affect change >> the emphasis here is on apprenticeship. bandleaders offering yearlong, hands on work and mentorships.

>> i found myself holding it like -- like this signifying the freedom. >> in which participants seven in the first cohort marched with more experienced musicians. here talia vandevier worked in a new york city park. >> you're going to do your thing as well. >> they received guidance on the business end of the jazz industry and a $10,000 stipend. some top talent is signedn to help. ivana questa gonzalez is working with esperanza spalding one woman who has broke through for years and she will be working with wayne shorter a long established giant in the field. >> i mean, this is kind of a dream for me being both. >> and what -- what sit you hope to get from them? >> for me it's like to see how authentical they are. i actually want to be like they are. don't be afraid of my own ideas

and like try to put it there. and if people had said that is fine, if not, it's fine too. so i think both in a way they have been doing that in their own generation. >> the world of jazz is changing, terry lynn carrington says just not fast enough this. program, she hopes will help individuals, but also impact the sound of jazz itself. >> i never looked at well, i'm a woman, what does that mean in this music? what does that sound strike is does visit a sound? i never looked at that because i was always trying to imitate men playing the music because that's all i've ever heard. we've yet to see that happen because there's not enough of us yet that people are trying to imitate. >> stay tuned then for that next jazz too. for the pbs newshour i'm jeffery brown at the berkley college of music in boston.

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