judy: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on "the newshour" tonight, face to face -- president biden meets china's president xi in person for the first time since taking office, amid heightened tensions between the world's two most powerful nations. pres. biden: we're going to compete vigorously, but i'm not looking for conflict. i'm looking to manage this competition responsibly. judy: then. counting the votes -- control of the u.s. house of representatives still hangs in the balance as more ballots are tallied in tightly contested races. and, celebration in the streets -- ukraine's prident visitshe liberated city of kherson, decling its recapture the beginning of the end of the war. all that and more on tonight's "pbs newshour."

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>> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. vanessa: we will return to the full program after the latest headlines. two universities are grieving the tragic loss of students tonight. in moscow, idaho, four university of idaho students were found dead in a home near campus sunday. and in charlottesville, virginia, three university of virginia students were shot and killed last night. john yang has our report. chief longo: pardon me.

john: university of virginia police chief tim longo was in the middle of briefing reporters this morning when he got the word he'd been hoping for. chief longo: we've just received information that the suspect is in custody. john: an emotional moment for longo and for students like junior emmy smith, who had sheltered in place overnight. emmy: it's partially a relief that this is over. but it's just, how do we move forward in a time like this? john: move forward from about 10:30 sunday night, when a shooting left three students dead and two others wounded after a bus trip to washington, d.c. to see a play as part of a class. 911 call: i have two people shot. john: officials said the dead were members of the football team -- starting wide-receiver lavel davis jr. from ridgeville, south carolina, in his third year; sophomore devin chandler, also a wide receiver, from huntersville, north carolina; and linebacker d'sean perry, a senior from miami. a former football player,

christopher darnell jones jr., has been charged with three counts of second-degree murder and use of a handgun. longo said jones had come to school officials' attention in september after reports he had said he d a gun. chief longo: the comment about mr. jones owning a gun was not made in conjunction with any threats. john: in a 2018 interview with the "richmond times-dispatch," jones spoke of multiple suspensions from school for fighting while growing up in a richmond housing project, a much different environment from uva's picturesque campus designed by thomas jefferson. for emmy smith, the shooting was a shocking event. emmy: i was just in my room with my friend watching movies on a sunday night, and i faintly heard gunshots go off. we were instantly bolting the doors, closing all the windows, lights off, moved to the floor, away from any and all windows. john: overnight, students were

urged to shelter in place during an intense manhunt. some slept in libraries. across the cntry, at the university of idaho in moscow, idaho, another shelter in place order sunday after four students were found shot to death in a home near campus. officials are releasing little information in that ca. but both events are a grim reminder of the nation's epidemic of gun violence. for "the pbs newshour," i'm john yang. vanessa: a clarification, our story said the four people killed in idaho were shot to death, but police have not released to the cause of the death, saying only that the crime was being investigated as a homicide. president biden promised there will be no -- quote -- new cold war, after holding a three-hour meeting with china's president xi jinping today in bali, indonesia. they spoke on the sidelines of the group of 20 mmit, in their first face-to-face meeting of their presidencies. according to spokespeople, the leaders discussed tensions in

taiwan, north korea, and ukraine, among other things. we'll have more on this after the news summary. ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy took an unannounced victory lap around the newly liberated southern city of kherson today. he celebrated in the streets and awarded medals to soldiers who helped recapture the city from russian control. pres. zelenskyy: this is the beginning of the end of the war. of course, you see our strong army. we are step by step coming to our country, to all the temporarily occupied territories. vanessa: meanwhile, u.s. cia director william burns met with his russian intelligence counterpart in ankara, turkey today, to convey the consequences if moscow were to deploy a nuclear weapon in ukraine. it was the highest-ranking in-person meeting between the u.s. and russian officials since before the invasion. separately in turkey, police have arrested a syrian woman

suspected of carrying out sunday's bombing in istanbul that killed six people and wounded dozens more. turkish officials said the woman had links to kurdish militant groups, which the kurds deny. funerals for the victims began today. mourners prayed and laid flowers for the dead at the site of the blast. the family of a prominent political prisoner in egypt says he is now drinking water again, after he escalated his hunger strike this month. the announcement came in a letter from alaa abdel-fattah. it was the first they'd heard from him in more than a week. abdel-fattah began refusing water to call attention to his case and others at the start of the un's cop27 climate conference in sharm-el sheikh. back in this country, the u.s. supreme court will allow the congressional panel investigating the january 6thof arizona's republican party. kelli ward had made an emergency

request to halt the turnover while a lawsuit proceeds. ward posed as a fake presidential elector for donald trump in order to try to overturn arizona's 2020 election results. google has agreed to a $392 million settlement with 40 states for its role in tracking users locations. in 2018, an associated press investigation found the tech giant still tracked and stored data, even if a user opted out of the service. this marks the largest multi-state privacy settlement ever in the u.s. still to come on the newshour, tamra keith and amy walter weigh in on what happened in the midterm elections. the united kingdom and france agreed crackdown on migrant crossings in the english channel. a digital database documents the vital but often unrecognized infrastructure created by the new deal. plus much more.

>> 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. judy: the first in-person meeting today between presidents biden and xi jinping, in their capacities as leaders of their governments, came as the u.s. and china are increasingly confronting each other over technology, taiwan and human rights. as nick schifrin reports, the two sides did not agree to step back from their respective positions, but did commit to managing tensions. nick: the u.s. calls china its greatest competitor. but today in a handshake, president biden suggested historic tensions could begin to thaw. pres. biden: i absolutely believe there need not be a new cold war. nick: biden, xi jinping and their teams met for 3 hours. both sides suggested the goal was preventing competition from becoming conflict. pres. xi: the current state of china-u.s. relations is what we are both concerned about.

but such a state does not conform to the fundamental interests of our two countries and peoples. nick: the two sides agreed to restart cabinet-level communication. secretary of state antony blinken will travel to beijing, likely early next year. and special presidential envoy for climate john kerry will coordinate with his counterpart at the ongoing cop27 climate summit. but today did not solve any disagreements. especially over taiwan, months after beijing launched unprecedented drills that surrounded the island. today's chinese readout said xi jinping told president biden the taiwan question is the first red line that must not be crossed, and cross-strait peace and stability d "taiwan independence" are as irreconcilable as water and fire. president biden today reiterated the u.s. opposed unilateral changes to the status quo by either side. pres. biden: our o china

policy has not changed. i do not think there's an imminent attempt on the part of china to invade taiwan. nick: in its written statement, the white house said president biden also raised concerns about practices in xinjiang, tibet and hong kong, and human rights more broadly. the u.s. has accused beijing of genocide, and detaining more than 1 million ethnic uyghurs. but beijing rejected any human rights criticism. just as the united states has america-style democracy, its statement said, china has chinese-style democracy. the u.s. is also confronting beijing over technology. the u.s. recently imposed its strongest ever export controls, to try and choke off beijing's access to advanced chips. and there's also public division over ukraine. last night, a senior u.s. official said beijing was "embarrassed" by the conduct of russian military operations. and today's white house statement said president biden and president xi underscored their opposition to the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons in ukraine.

but beijing's statement said only president xi pointed out that china is highly concerned about the current situation in ukraine. xi jinping is china's strongest leader in half a century. some u.s. officials have worried his recent consolidation of control would lead him to become even more confrontational. but today president biden emphasized they could work together. pres. biden: i found him the way he has always been -- direct and straight forward. do i think he's willing to compromise on various issues? yes. nick: for more on the significance of today's meeting between presidents biden and xi we get two views. bonnie glaser is the director of the asia program at the german marshall fund, an organization that promotes u.s.-europe relations. and yun sun is a senior fellow and director of the china program at the stimson center, an organization that focuses on international security. thank you very much and welcome you both act to the newshour. do you expect to see any

improvement to the u.s.-china relationship based on the meetings? bonnie: the opportunity certainly exists, the door has been opened the past year and a half. the biden administration has consistently pursued an effort to engage china in a conversation about how to manage competition between our two countries. beijing has been reluctant to engage, and at times it has sought to extract concessions in return for any progress in the relationship. it appears that situation may have changed, perhaps because xi jinping is facing domestic challenges, especially an economic slowdown, but it remains to be seen whether any concrete progress can really be achieved. the chinese tend to go with these issues from the top down, they want to talk about and -- about principles of the relationship. the united states tends to want

to talk about confidence building measures. there is a bit of a mismatch on the approach but there might be some shared interest in putting a floor under the relationship and stopping the deterioration. nick: is that how you see it, and an open door that hasn't been opened the last year and a half? yun: i agree with that assessment. the problem with the approach is while this is not the first time they've had similar conversations. they've had five coersations the pastlmost two years and none of those really transpired to a reversal or slowdown to the deterioration of relations. this timaround, we will see how they deliver concrete actions. i remain skeptical as for the concrete result. nick: do you share that skepticism, given the u.s. is not promising to change any behaviors that irk beijing

and china doesn't seem willing to change any behaviors that the u.s. objects to? bonnie: i share the skepticism. the structural competition in the relationship is what is important. china is the rising power and the u.s. is threatened by chinese, particularly xi jinping's aspirations to become a leading power if not the leading power in the world. it is difficult to be overly optimistic about what can be achieved but it is a good thing that the leaders are talking. many countries around the world are looking to the u.s. and china to engage in more serious dialogue and to find ways to cooperate on issues like climate change and global health and macro economic policy because their failure to do so is detrimental to other countries in the world. nick: both sides have said other countries were looking to them

to try and emphasize diplomacy over conflict. how much of that plays a part into at least what seems to be a public, mutual desire to avoid confrontation? yun: i think there are many reasons the u.s. and china want to avoid confrontation. i think by default, the two countries want to avoid a war. they might compete with each other but the war and the consequences of war in today's world is unthinkable. for them to try to put a floor and prevent a military conflict is a responsible thing to do. nick: and yet, do you see tensions over taiwan, the single core issue the two sides disagree over? do you see those tensions at all decreasing because of this meeting? bonnie: it's going to be very difficult, i think, to dial down the tensions over taiwan. in the aftermath of speaker of the house nancy pelosi's visit to taiwan, china's military

activity has been significantly increased. president biden raised strong objections to xi jinping about china's coercion and increasingly aggressive actions against taiwan. the chinese military is essentially changing the status quo in the taiwan strait in its favor and obliterated the centerline of the strait which it used to at least tacitly recognize. i am doubtful china will be willing to rollback those gains. nick: if china is not willing to rollback those gains, it seems like tsion over taiwan will only increase. yun: that what i expect and also most of my colleagues in the policy community expect. there are factors that might not be under their control. for example, taiwan will have a local election later this month. these type of developments,

especially the democratic result in the taiwanese domestic policies, will make the chinese want to take more actions to coerce taiwan and force the u.s. to react. nick: there is certainly a difference in war in ukraine. the white house said biden and xi underscored their opposition to the use or threat of use to nuclear weapons but the chinese statement does not go that f. do's that signify a genuine difference? bonnie: china has a clearly set in the use of nuclear weapons or the threat of the use of nuclear weapons. most recently, xi jinping said that to german chancellor sholtz when he visited beijing. maybe the chinese did not want to include that in the readout because xi jinping does not want to appear to be cozying up to the united states in a way that might harits relationship with moscow. and particularly xi jinping's relationship with putin.

nick: if xi jinping was willing to say something to the german chancellor he'not willing to say in public about the u.s., what does that say about the u.s.-china relatnship going forward? yun: the is a pivot in china's foreign policy toward europe because they see that as an alternativsource in excess to things they can no longer get from the united states. nick: thank you very much both. ♪ judy: lawmakers return to capitol hill this week after a drawn out midterm battle for power in congress. democrats have retained control of the upper chamber but a georgia runoff will determine if they gain a seat or return to a split-down-the-middle 50/50 senate. the balance of power in the lower chamber is pending as several house races are still

being counted. the election outcomes and the lack of final results have put several key leadership issues in flux for republicans. lisa desjardins has more on all this. hello to you, lisa. you are at the capitol. let's talk about the house balance of power. we don't have all the results in. where do things stand and what are you watching? lisa: what a plot line in congress. let's look at where the races are for the house of representatives. the balance of power as we know it as called by the associated press. the number, 204 democrats, 212 republicans. as we've been repeatin kevin mccarthy's republicans need 218 votes and they don't have that yet in this chamber. let's look at some of the races that are still close. california's 13th congressional district. you have the pistachio and almond farmer ahead of adam

gray, whose family is in the dairy business, by just 84 votes. 61% of the expected votes and. democrats could come back and take the seat or it could be republicans. the account in california takes a long time and we don't know when we will have the results but let me give a summary of where we are overall. in the race for the house of representatives, we have 19 uncalled races across the country. those are nearly split between republicans and democrats, republicans have just one more they are leading in. overall we are waiting mostly for the west. california with a large number of seats and arizona has two seats left. i just came from a house republican meeting, they are holding speeches tonight to determine who their leaders will be in the next session, and of course kevin mccarthy has a spoken and says he wants to be speaker.

judy: as you say, you came from the meeting. what did the numbers mean for republicans right now? lisa: kevin mccarthy does not have the 218 votes to be speaker right now. but it does appear he has a majority of support from h conference. he did not speak to reporters as he went in, smiled simply. he wanted no one to speak against him. however, we are tracking some who may oppose him. representative andy biggs from arizona from the freedom caucus has said he may challenge mccarthy. if the republicans have just a slight four seat majority, that means kevin mccarthy needs every republican to vote for him except for four or five. that's talk about some who have indicated openly they are not on board with kevin mccarthy. that includes republicans like matt gaetz, chip roy, thomas massie, who i spoke with tonight, would not commieither way. kevin mccarthy has no margin for

error. he may come out of tonight's meeting as the nominee, so to speak, for speaker, but it is not clear he has the votes to actually become speaker in january. he has a great deal of work to do to figure that out and get those votes. the conservative freedom caucus is asking for concessions, including different parliamentary procedures that would tie his hands and ve more power to conservatives and the freedom caucus. they are not the only ones asking for concessions. the entire house republican conference realizes if you have four seats determining majority, everyone has power and everyone is asking for concessions. it is a complicated and potentially chaotic process that house republicans are just beginning to enter. judy: it reads like a suspense novel. finally, what about the senate? we know the democrats did manage to hang on to the majority. what do the numbers mean for what they will be able to get done? lisa: it really is not even two

days since we knew that senate democrats would retain majority, and already the senate majority leader chuck schumer is making moves. he h announced this week at the senate will be having a vote on legislation to codify same-sex marriage in some ways. essentially that legislation, which is bipartisan, would mean any same-sex marriage certified by one state would be recognized by all states. that is something we know some moderate republicans are on board, we don't know how many. i think it is not an accident that is after senate democrats got the majority. they are saying we have more to do and we will get started. as for republicans, lots of finger pointing, as you would expect. unhappy republicans in the senate. however, a few, including rick scott, who ran the republican senate, pointing fingers at leader mitch mcconnellnd saying we need to delay leadership elections, we don't think mcconnell is the one to do

it. but they are in the minority. mitch mcconnell is going ahead with elections and i have no reason to doubt he will continue to be the republican leader in the senate. judy: a lot of suspense in the senate too. lisa: drama. judy: thank you, lisa. as we have been hearing, nearly a week after election day, we are getting a clearer picture of the winners and losers, and more important, how the candidates who falsely insisted the last presidential election was stolen are farinin this one. amna nawaz has more. amna: that's right, judy. in the battleground states where trump tried to overturn the 2020 election results, each of his favored candidates for key statewide contests lost their races. while in some states, votes are still being counted. for some takeaways, we turn to tammy patrick of the

non-partisan democracy fund. she previously served as an election official in maricopa county, arizona, for more than a decade. welcome back to the newshour and thank you for being with us. as you know, these midterms were sort of the first big test for election denialism. a number of those candidates, many of those election deniers lost in their races, although many in the house ended up winning. when you take a step back, what does this say to you about the power of the election denial message? tammy: it truly has been an important turning point i think in our nations history. we know that for many americans for many who turned out to vote last week, they did not buy this message that the 2020 election was stolen, that they should lack confidence in our democracy and electoral process. we know in many instances, that resonated and they have instead chosen the path of pro-democracy, pro-democratic,

pro-free and fair elections in the way they have cast their ballot. this whole time i've been saying we need to member and remind voters they are still in the driver's seat in the united states of america. there are examples across the country where we will still have work to do to make sure people's beliefs and rights are upheld and we have some continuity across the country so we don't have a patchwork of different interpretations of what federal laws mean. amna: even in that patchwork as it exists now, a lot of concerns going in this election cycle that should a lot of those candidates win, it would pose a major threat to demoacy. some of those did win, does that mean the threat is gone or is it there? tammy: i think we need to remain vigilant but we can take at least one sigh of relief. anotr big signal i am seeing in the last week or so and this started even on election night,

was the return to the democratic norm of conceding an election. we know that candidates on both sides of the aisles, some incumbents, some new to this political sphere, took it upon themselves to do what was right, whats civil, and concede a race where they fell short. that might seem like a small thing, but we know after the 2020 election how important it is for voters and for the public to hear that message so that we can start to heal and move forward together. amna: i want to ask about arizona, where there is still a major race for governor that has not been called. the accounting does continue in the race between katie hobbs, and kari lake. tied at 5050 and the counting continues.

about 93% of the expected vote in so far. we know kari lake has fueled doubts and denied the results of the 2020 election and we have seen former president trump coming out and starting to ignite concerns about the election results, saying kari lake is being slowly and systematically having the election taken from her, he says it is an american disaster. are you worried kari lake may not concede if she does end up losing? tammy: it's important for viewers to understand the concession has no legal meaning, but what it does is it means a lot to the voters and the public to hear their candidate acknowledge they lost fair and square. it's also important to know there are still ballots being counted in almost every state in the country and this is not an anomaly in any way, shape or form for there to be postelection processing and counting of ballots across the country. when the campus of the election is complete and we have official results, there will be instances where the candidates will not concede. if ms. lake does not concede, some will see that as a call to

action. i think some will, even if she would concede, would not believe her, would think the election was in some way illegitimate. but it is so important for everyone to understand that in arizona, you can watch the tabulation process online 24 hours a day, seven days a week from the point when they start counting ballots until the last ballot is counted. it has been that wayor decades. they have a hand count audit to make sure the machines are counting accurately. it has bn that way for decades. they test the equipment before and after the election. it has been that way for decades. all of the best practices around how we conduct elections so we can have confidence in them and believe in the outcome are the type of efforts happening when i startein maricopa county in 2003, and the sort of things they continue to do today. amna: i'm so glad you mentioned that, and we should shout out to the election workers that continue to count the ballots carefully.

tammy patrick joining us tonight, thank you for your time. tammy: thank you and think you for thinking election officials because it takes tens of thousands of our fellow citizens to conduct an election and many of them are still hard at work. ♪ judy: while some of the votes from last week's election are still being counted, there is a potential 2024 presidential announcement on the horizon, ensuring this will be another busy week in politics. here to consider it all are our regular politics monday duo -- amy walter of the cook political report with amy walter, and tamara keith of npr. hello to both of you. i hate to remind you of this, but last monday when we were

together, there was a sense in the atmosphere that republicans were going to do really well in the election last week. what happened? tamara: for most of the year we have been talking about the fact there were a lot of crosscurrents. that there are patterns and normal patterns and of the normal pattern would have a wave and there were crosscurrents we did not know what to do with. those crosscurrents caused waves not to happen. that's what happened. and there are a lot of things underlying that but for instance, independents traditionally in a midterm would go against the party in power and they didn't. there were just a lot of things th happened that ultimately are pretty surprising. the fact we are sitting here today and we don't know with 100% certainty which party will control the use is quite surprising. we knew it would take a long time to count ballots, we knew there would be races that were not decided in california and oregon.

what we did not know is we would still be waiting for them to know the balance of power in the house. judy: democrats did a lot better than people expected. amy: the closest contests in the country, democrats won 75% of those races. republicans had a couple of challenges. the first is there were not that many "easy seats" to pick up. most of the seats they one in 2020 is where trump won. they needed to win in districts that biden carried by a significant margin, in some cases by six or 10 points and they were not able to do very well among that group of voters. in fact, they really underperformed even relative to the last four midterm elections. among that one group of voters.

you and i have talked about this, the other day. what is remarkable about this election is how much it looks like the 2020 election. literally, the vote share in the senate races, house races, is all most identical to what biden and trump got in those districts in 2020. the only senate seat republicans held onto that biden carried is wisconsin. in every other case, it was a democrat holding seats that biden won and republicans holding seats that trump won. judy: except the calendar has advanced forward. tamra, you watch the hill. republicans appear to be about to take control but only by a very small margin. what will that mean for what can and cannot get done? tamara: first there is the leadership election lisa was talking about that is more

dramatic than expected and will likely be more dramatic than expected. in a very real question of how any person will be able to lead a republican conference that is narrowly divided when there are big contentions of the conference who already heck no party, who will not want to do things like vote for bills to fund the government and may not want their leaders to allow republicans to vote for those bills. it will be interesting to see how that plays out. one question i have is whether they will even be able to do some of the message bills we were expecting. if you8 d nasto21 ps a pure republicans who have won in districts that will be competitive again two years from now, they may not want to be on the record voting for a total ban on abortion or some of these other possible message bills. judy: these are bills where the party is saying this is where we are on this issue. tamara: yeah, this is what we

believe and, this is what we would do if we controlled everything and there was no chance of a veto. these are like generally bills you can pass without any real risk of it becoming law. which is why it is a message bill. judy: what do you see in terms of what we can expect to get done in the house? or just in general? amy: i think for democrats, holding the senate was key for keeping on pace, the white house keeping on pace for federal judgeships. at this point, the biden white house tied with the trump white house in terms of the number of judges they have already been able to appoint. they could surpass that keeping the senate in democratic hands. there's also the question of what does the white house when they don't control all three branches? there is a lot of talk right now about the president focusing on

the things he has already passed, the things that have already been signed into law and touting those paid remember we have a prescription drug in a fit that kicks in year. they talked about it a lot on the campaign trail but people will not see it in reality until next year. still a lot of projects going on with the infrastructure bill. judy: speaking of the president, a lot of people are saying he is in somewhat better shape and he seems to suggest so in his news conference the other day. conversely, there is a sense that former president trump does not seem to be in better shape as a result of this. what does that look like? tamara: there have been many moments last six years where president trump has been against the ropes and in an incredible moment of weakness and wise people in his party have been saying he is an albatross and trouble. and yet, and yet someone like bill barr, for instance, his

former attorney general, who has had nothing nice to say about him the last two years, also said if you were the nominee, he would vote for him. out interviewing voters, that is a lot of what you get, voters who say he is divisive or maybe he can't win, maybe we need somebody else, but if he is the nominee, i would support him. similarly with biden. a lot of voters i talked to say gosh, he doesn't get a fair shake, it is not fair, the media are not fair to him. i asked should he run again? the long pause is so excruciatingly long because they don't think he should run again by and large, but if you were the nominee, they would vote for him because the polarization is very real. judy: and a lot of speculation about whether former president trump will announce tomorrow night. amy: he needs to change the narrative because everything right now is being dumped onto

him. all of the losses and the lack of hitting expectations dumped on trump. he needs to change the conversation and of course he will be able to do that, we will see for how long and what he actually says. judy: a lot of people think this will be the announcement tomorrow night. tamara: but if he doesn't announce it, it would be a sign of weakness, because of he doesn't, he has to admit the midterms were horrible for him. judy: my head is exploding. i think i understand what you just said. i know i did. amy walter, tamera keith, thank you. ♪ judy: as we reported, ukraine's president made a surprise visit to kherson, the largest city retaken to date from russia. there was jubilation in the streets that has been almost nonstop since the russians fled

late last week. but after almost eight months of occupation, accounts of russian brutality mirror the experiences of many other ukrainians freed from russian control. special correspondenjack hews and videographer ed ram report, from kherson. jack: free play again. russia's loss is an embarrassment to putin, but for these children, a cause for joy. residents out in force and a surprise guest at their party. keen to cash in on the strategic victory, president zelensk had bullish words for his people. president zelenskyy: we are ready for peace, but peace for our country is all of our country, all of our territories. we respect the law. jack: hundreds of people have

turned out in the central square for the surprise visit of president zelenskyy. he is a symbol of defiance for them and he had defit words, but you can tell from the distant sound of shelling the war is far from over. the u.s. estimates ukrainian military losses are over 100,000 men, but kherson's liberation habuoyed spirits. >> we feel at home again. we hid this spirit and now we are immensely happy. we have been waiting for this day all nine months. jack: smiles but trauma simmers beneath. the jubilation underwritten by relief. allegations of russian abuses abound -- arbitrary detention, abduction, torture.

for 22-year-old igor, it was brutal, he endured two days of hell in russian lockup. igor: i was electrocuted and kicked with arms, legs and sticks. my back did not heal up after the injuries. they are inhumane, that is all i can say. they don't feel compassion, they don't have any feelings for people at all. they treat us like animals. they tortured us. those screams from the basements? it was painful just to hear how they torture our people. jack: for others here and in the region, the torture has been separation from loved ones. friends and families now being reunited in newly liberated villages. sergey has not been back to his home for six months. he greets loved ones, friends and then he spots his grandmother. the person he has come back for. sergey: i am overwhelmed with

joy. jack: reunions like this are happening across the province, morale built with every embrace. >> i want to tell everyone you should never be afraid, especially when someone comes to your house. you should protect it, protect your rights, defend your honor and dignity. the most i want to say is not to be afraid of anyone. this russia is worth nothing. jack: with winter coming, people are desperate for aid. to feed themselves, and most of all to heat their homes. for all the suffering of war, there is no appetite to back down. in kherson city, most everyone says they could -- should fight to take all their territory. international pressure may force them to negotiate, but for now, they believe ukraine can win.

for the pbs newshour i am jack hewson in ukraine. ♪ judy: britain will pay france at least $75 million a year in a deal designed to reduce illegal migration across the english channel. a record 40,000 asylum seekers have crossed so far this year. as part of the deal signed today, the french will step up efforts to stop people smugglers and british officers will be stationed in french immigration control centers. special correspondent malcolm brabant reports. malcolm: sunrise on saturday near dover, 25 miles across the channel from france. after weeks of bad weather, the wind had dropped, the sea was flat, creating near perfect

conditions for the inflatables used by traffickers to transport the poor and the desperate. patrol vessels were out early. the british knew it was going to be hectic. and it wasn't long before the first arrivals were brought ashore at dover. almost a thousand irregular migrants were registered in 24 hours. it was one of the busiest days this year, and pushed the numbers over the 40,000 mark. sec. braverman: it is completely unacceptable. malcolm: britain's home secretary suella braverman adopted a restrained tone after signing the new deal in paris. when dealing with the issue of migration in the bear pit of britain's parliament, she frequently uses more strident language. >> the british people deserve to know which party is serious about stopping the invasion on our southern coast.

malcolm: previous deals between britain and france have failed to stop the tide of illicit migration, but prime minister rishi sunak is up need about this one because -- upbeat about this one because he believes relations have improved since he took office. arriving in indonesia for the g20 summit, he refused to agree that the new french deal would lead to a fall in migrant numbers. >> i want to be honest it isn't a single thing that will magically solve this, we cannot do it overnight. people should be reassured this is a top priority for me. malcolm: the deal was condemned by amnesty international, which accused the government of perpetuating dreadful human suffering by recycling the same failed response. it is estimated 12,000 young men from peaceful albania have reached britain this year. officials fear many are forced to pay for their trips by working in criminal enterprises

run by the ruthless albanian mafia in the u.k.. >> whatever you can think of, criminal gangsters are dominating. drug smuggling, human trafficking, guns, prostitution. malcolm: there has been a backlash against what some see as the demonization of albanian asylum seekers. >> to talk about gangsters doesn't sound like something that is very british. it sounds more like screams from a madhouse. malcolm: british officials think the influx could top 50,000 by years end. for the pbs newshour, i'm malcolm

brabant on england's south coast. ♪ judy: it is a hidden history right in front of our eyes -- the buildings, art works and so much more created all over the country during the new deal of the 1930's and 40's. to bring that hidden history to light, there's an online archive documenting those sites across the country. jeffrey brown has more for our arts and culture series, canvas. >> this was one of the great bridges of his time and it still is. jeffrey: the bay bridge, an 8 mile long connector between san francisco and oakland, first completed in 1936, these days carrying an average of some 3.5 million vehicles a month. to gray brechin, a hisrical geographer, it's also a symbol of a big idea. gray: what this bridge represents to me is actually what could be done, 80 years ago, during thdepths of the great depression to get out of

it. jeffrey: big projects like treasure island built into the san francisco bay, laguardia airport, the hoover dam, parts of yellowstone national park, and smaller ones -- libraries, courthouses, even sidewalks and gutters. all around the country, hundreds of thousands of works dating from the height of the great depression from the many federal programs, such as the works progress administration or wpa, and public works administration or pwa that were part of franklin roosevelt's new deal. in 2005, brechin created what he called the living new deal, an online archive documenting projects throughout the country. gray: what we're trying to do as geographers is to teach people a kind of landscape literacy. we're trying to reveal an invisible landscape that's all around us and absolutely indispensable that was created by my parents' generation. but we don't see it. jeffrey: one better-known meal

deal -- new deal legacy -- artworks, including thousands of murals, like those at rincon annex post office in downtown san francisco, started in 1941 by the russian born painter anton refregier. 27 panels in all, one artist's version of the history of california from the spanish conquest through world war ii. they have faced various threats over the years, including real estate development in one of the most expensive cities in the world. rincon annex was put on the nation register of historic places in 1979 and has been preserved ever since. gray: i'm interested in the ethics behind it. jeffrey: what do you mean by the ethics? gray: well, the ethics were collective. they were about creating a real civilization, a society in which everybody played a role. you know, that's what democracy is all about. ffrey: the living new deal, run by small staff and volunteers, has created a

digital database documenting more than 17,000 sites to date, including more than 100 in each state. dick: there's no record official record of what the new deal agencies did. and so we're the first ones doing that. jeffrey: richard walker, also a geographer, was grayrechin's professor at uc berkeley and is now director of the living new deal. richard -- jeffrey: you can drive around and see signs of the new deal everywhere? richard: that's right. so many of the buildings were built for the long term. there'almost always a high school, a city, city hall, some structure that's recognizable from that era. jeffrey: one local example, berkeley high school, with its sculptures and community theater that date to the 1940's. richard: california, because there had been a long beach earthquake in 1933, put a huge emphasis on rebuilding california schools or expanding them, making them earthquake

safe and so on. they hired local architects. it was very much an interaction between the federal government and local government, state vernments. jeffrey: always emphasize, work for those in need. the seven acre montclair park in oakland was and is a place for people to bring their children d be outdoors. but it also served another purpose. richard: the idea of the new deal was always to put people to work, that they thought that gave them dignity, self-worth, anit did. people who wanted that, who were unemployed. and here is such a great example, because you have this beautiful stonework, which was done probably by unemployed italian american stonemasons who were still around at that time. jeffrey: it's a vision of the role of government seemingly out of step with divided american politics today. last year's $1 trillion

infrastructure investment and jobs act did finally pass, but after months of infighting. and given the much larger size of the economy now, it's expected to have a much smaller overall impact than the programs of the 1930's. in that sense, the living new deal involves advocacy as well as education, and richard walker hopes if more people understood the history of their communities, another era of public works investment could come. richard: our job at the living new deal is to educate americans what the new deal did, not just as a historical nicety, but because it's relevant today. we can only educate and do a little bit of proselytizing about, look what's possible. look at this hidden civilization, this lost civilization that's right under your nose and think, what can we do now? what would i like to see my town do? jeffrey: a lost civilization that the living new deal aims to uncover.

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