>> good evening. tonight on pbs news weekend. the sports worldn morning. shock and disbelief after grant wall died friday while reporting from a world cup match. holiday inflation. how rising prices are changing the ways many americans are navigating this holiday season. art of the climate protest. why activists are targeting famous works of art in their fight against climate change. >> we are going to be noisy, disruptive, unignorable, we will be a pain in the -- until you listen to us. >> those stories and today's headlines on pbs news weekend. ♪

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by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> good evening, good to be with you. we begin with the sudden death of prominent american sports journalist grant wall. he was in qatar covering the world cup when he suffered acute distress and collapsed in the press box. the incident happened inside the stadium during the waning minutes of the worldds. cupa fellow journalist was sitg nearby. >> the medics were there quickly. they worked with him for 20, 30 minutes before he was taken on a stretcher. >> he was transported to a nearby hospital, wre he was declared dead. usa soccer released a statement saying grant made soccer his life's work, and we are

devastated he and his brilliant writing wl no longer be with us. as the new spread, the outpouring ofrief was immediate on social media. postgame news conference in philadelphia, lebron james talk about his interactions with wall many years ago for a sports illustrated cover story on the then rising star. >> a tragic loss. unfortunate to lose someone as great as he was. >> while the circumstances of his death remain unclear, wall set on his podcast two days ago he had not been feeling well. >> i had a case of bronchitis, i went to a medical clinic at the media center twice, including today. >> he posted a selfie wearing a rainbow t-shirt and said he had been detained for 25 minutes by authorities for his show of support for the lgbtq community. wall was instrumental helping grow the sport of soccer in the u.s. through his coverage of the game.

grant wall was 48 years old. >> we will hear more about grant wall's contributions to the sports world later in the program. more than a dozen drone strikes knocked out energy infrastructu across southern ukraine. russia is to blame for the attacks in odessa, kherson, they were iranian made and 10 of them were shot down before they hit their targets. it marks the latest in russia's unrelenting assault on the country's energy grid and civilian housing. millions are without heat, light, and clean water. there is a major storm system moving inland from the pacific coast and will slowly move cross-country over the next few days, threatening severe weather in the south, and blizzard conditions in the north. in western sierra nevada, meteorologists reporting two to five feet of snowfall in the upper elevations. there is a high risk of

avalanche. kari lake, the arizona republican and prominent election denier who lost her race for governor, asked a court she out alleged in her lawsuit hundreds of thousands of ballots were cast illegally or improperly in arizona's largest county. there is no evidence support her allegations. the state certified election results days ago. she centered her campaign on false claims of the 2020 presidential election stolen from donald trump, who endorsed her. still to come, how inflation is changing the way some american celebrate the holidays. why activists are targeting famous art to protest climate change. >> this is pbs news weekend. from weta studios in washington, home of the pbs newshour,

weeknights on pbs. >> he made history today in qatar, becoming the first african nation and first arab nation to reach a world cup semifinal. since the first world cup, only european and south american teams have made the finals, leading to questions about whether the tournament is making strides toward its goal of global inclusivity. a contributor for espn joins us now. it is great to have you here. morocco is not the strongest african team coming into the world cup, but have grown with every game. what do you see as the significance of the historic win? >> the significance is they won with players who were a progeny of colonization, their occupiers. in this case, spain. along with friends that occupied morocco for many decades.

i thought that really jumped out to me. as i watched the world cup over the years and called being in france for the final back in 1998, it is the number of foreign players who wind up starring for european teams and carrying them to glory. this particular time, it is the other way around. we have the foren-born players deciding to play for their ancestral home and finally bringing them to some ory. you have morocco breaking through with people who are moroccan who could have played for other countries. decided to play for their motherland. for the first time, we have an african side that will be in the final four for the world cup. >> the first world cup held in the middle east. how has it changed the dynamic of the competition? >> one of the things it has done

is given the rest of the world a chance to stand on this stage. i rember when qatar got this bid back in 2010, 2011. i wrote this was a good thing when everyone else was promoting the fact that would be in the middle of engli commuter ship season and other european seasons that would be in a climate that no one was accustomed to playing in, that it would be in a land that did not necessarily embrace soccer like the rest of the world. but if you are going to be the world cup, celebrate what you have said is the globe's favorite sport, you need to take it to the rest of the world. that is finally what fifa is doing, what the olympics are doing. we had the world cup in 2002 that was in asia for the first time between south korea and

japan. it is fantastic for the rest of the world to be involved in staging this global event. >> help us understand, why have south american and european teams traditionally been so dominant? >> they created the game, or at least modified the game from some ancient games elsewhere around the planet. they are the ones who put all of the money, time, and resources into it. as they begin to enjoy it, they export it to thei colonies, to their protectorates, other lands across the world they occupy. in my reading of what people have had to say, particularly talking about european sport, it has been exported not necessarila as eno causebl, but a way to instill european sensibilities and european ideas

elsewhere around the planet. in doing so, in teaching people who hadn't played the game traditnally how to play it, they began to harvest that talent and bring it back to the european leagues. now you are finally starting to see the reverse. that talent is starting to go back and play for the ancestral lands. >> as we wrap up our conversation, i wonder if we might be able to share a thought or reflection about grant wall, who died suddenly last night. >> grant wall was the primary voice, the written word for soccer in this country for a couple of decades. i did not know him, but we crossed paths in several world cups. he was very fortunate. the game of soccer was very fortunate that he was able to dedicate his career to writing about this game.

a lot of people know about this game in this country. not just from broadcast, but also being able to read what grant wall has had to say about it for so many years. it is a tragic loss for journalism, sports journalism, and in particular, soccer urlism. >> tragic loss indeed. kevin, thank you for your insights. ♪ >> the holiday season in full swing. for americans whose paychecks have not kept pace with inflation, it leaves little money for extras like entertainment, travel, or shopping. >> tis the season for giftgiving and sheer. as the holidays approach,

inflation for many americans is altering how they celebrate. in a recent survey, nearly 70% of americans was a concern. they worried they would be able to buy as much this year compared to last. increases in prices have had little impact on their finances. for others, inflation is making the holidays harder. >> we are buying things now, six month a year down the road. they are going to get cheaper later on. >> i really have to be conscious about the food prices, what we are buying, where we are going, how much gas we are using. the increase in prices, oil, gas, food, medical care. normally we would go out more often, travel a little bit. but right now, we tried to limit it a little bit to save on gas costs, anything with traveling a lot. >> it is not just food prices, gas prices, utilities, it is

everything all at once. >> i have friends that are tradespeople. in good times, they were spending $100 a week on gas. now they are spending 150. >> it makes me think about what do i want to save money for, what do i want to do in the future? how will i help mitigate the impact of inflation? >> christmas came so fast, it is like what are we going to -- you want this, you need this. it is a lot. it is overwhelming at times. s alack cloud overhead. you are afraid of what is going to happen. and the change of spending, what will happen down the line, it will get worse instead of better. >> i'm joined by neil irwin, chief economic correspondent at axios. we heard from a number of people

concerned about high prices. is there some data showing we may see a moderation in inflation? are things getting better? >> good news and bad news. inflation seems to be starting to slow. good reasons to think it will around 2023. still high, so has not come down. wholese prices up 7.4%. that was 8.1%. 7.4% inflation is really high. it is not great news for americans. >> i want to get into all of that. let's take a few steps back and remind us how we got into this situation. inflation we have not seen in a generation. >> a lotf things converging at once. the biggest the pandemic really threw the economy for a loop. comebacks during the pandemic,

massive stimulus out of the u.s. government and other world governments, the federal reserve keeping interest rates low for a very long time, even as the economy took off. it greeted too much demand and little supply. a shortage of things, workers, goods, shipping capacity, gasoline, on the others, you have demand stimulated and through the roof. a combination of too much supply and demand, higher prices. >> some of the supply chain issues when it comes to that one factor are starting to be ironed out. inflation is still high, the fed is worried about that. i want to take cyber monday and black friday sales and look at that. we saw historic sales of those days. does it make sense to you, the type of consumer behavior in the face of what we are looking at?

>> what we have seen from consumers is yes, inflation, more groceries and gasoline than a year ago. they are dealing with it by using the savings they accumulated during the pandemic. and supply chains have gotten better. store shelves and inventories look stronger than a year ago. there are shelves if you want to go buy, and people are taking advantage of the pensive savings and the stimulus checks to make it happen. >> the other factor, you and your colleagues have written a lot about this, this tight labor market. we have very low unemployment. the fed has to grapple with it. giving you have still high inflation, a tight job market, and wages that have increased, taking that into account, what is the macroeconomic picture? what is the greater impact of

inflation on the economy? >> what has been happening over the last year or so, unemployment is low, people are getting raises. but inflation is higher. if you got a 5% raise, that is great. when it is 8%, it does not go quite as far. that is the weird thing about the labor market. a lot of jobs out there. real wages actually decling. how does it change in 2023? will it become less hot? will we see inflation come down so people have greater purchasing power? that is the open question for next year. >> you also have the fed meeting next week. speculation about whether they will raise interest rates. i'm sure you're watching that. what specific ramifications will we see if we see another interest rate rise? >> it looks likely what the fed will do on wednesday is raise eir target interest rate

another .5%. we are getting into the mid to high fours, higher than in many years. that means money is more expensive, borrowing money is more expensive, it is slowing the economy, slowing growth, lowering asset prices. the stock market has had a rough year. the goal is to slow the economy and bring inflation down. the first part is starting to have been, the second part, inflation coming down is not as clear. >> that is related to the talk about the big r, the potential for recession in 2024. how are you viewing that to the fed's decision next week? >> the odds of recession are definitely higher than usual. we can find ourselves in a recession. hard to argue we are in one right now, job growth is very strong, but the idea we find ourselves in recession, where there is higher unemployment

rate, seems more likely than not next year. the question is how severe it is, how widespread the pain is, whether it is recession or not is not the question. does it affect the ordinary american in painful ways, or can we get out of this inflationary situation in a more measured way that doesn't hurt so bad? >> everyone hopes for the latter . everyone has the word you used when it comes to the economic picture, weird. thank you so much for joining us. >> finally tonight, activis turning to a new form of protest to call attention to the climate crisis. climate protesters have targeted prices works of art, making for viral moments that grab tention, but is the message getting through?

we look at how the polarizing protests can be helping and hurting the fight against climate change. visitors at the national gallery in london stood stunned as two activists glued themselves beneath vincent van gogh's sunflowers. >> what is worth more, art or life? is it worth more than food, worth more than justice? >> the protest went viral, making international headlines. the environmental activists demand no new oil or gas licenses from the british government. emme brown, a spokesperson for the group responsible, says the shk factor is intentional. >> there is a moment one goes security, and that kind of outrage people feel is justified. it is shocking what we're doing. if we take action people can ignore, we stood in a park somewhere.

people did not know about it, they did not even hear about it. that would be completely ineffective form of protest. >> these prosters are not alone. in the australian capital, activists were blue marker across an andy warhol painting. >> we are in a climate emergency. >> outside berlin, they flashed mashed potatoes across the work of claude monet. and in paris, one of the most famous artworks, the mona lisa smeared with cake. each time bystanders were left in disbelief. and headlines followed. in the media coverage, most protests were reduced to acts of vandalism. >> it is interesting because the artwork was not vandalized, it had a sheet of glass. but everyone was outraged about was the bit of soup thrown on a piece of glass. there is no pain of glass protecting the life-support

systems we need to survive. there is no pain of glass protecting the flooding, there is no glass protecting the 146 million people in africa suffering, drought related starvation. >> bill mckibben is an author and environmental acvist who founded the third act in 350.org. he says the previous protests have been. he understands the message in these new demonstrations. >> we live in an incredibly beautiful world. filled with almost unbelievable treasures. we are desecrating and destroying the treasures every hour, every day. it doesn't seem in that context quite so shocking. people decide to throw a can of soup on the painting. i think it is a way to try and

get people to understand that much larger desecration that is underway. one kind of protest and figure out another. left to its own devices, inertia invested interest, will win this existential fight. >> millions of people are dying. >> others question the effectiveness of the recent protests. >> who was the target? van gogh? what did he do to create a crisis? >> he's a climate scientist who studies the effectiveness of climate communicion. >> there just wasn't a sensible connection. the headline would say protesters throw soup on van gogh's sunflowers. only if you've got toaragraph six did you learn the painting wasn't actually damaged. >> in two recent surveys, the protests setback public suppor for climate causes across the

board. >> it played poorly with independents, a key swing vote winning over for support for more aggressive climate action. it played bad with democrats. even people who are generally overwhelmingly on board with climate action. it turned them off, even if they knew the painting was preserved. >> some scholars say disruptive nonviolent protest has in some instances, spurred dialogue and change. shannon gibson reachers -- researches social movement and climate governance at the university of southern california. >> tons of examples in history and civil disobedience like this. we are drawing on predecessors. i think in some cases, they are justified. 30 years of climate negotiations and fairly little progress. now it is time to be loud and

rowdy. >> we will be noisy and disruptive, we will be unigrable, we will be a pain in the -- until you listen to us. >> it would be tragic of the protes are instead driving people to the other side. let's make sure that the public is getting the right message. >> as advocates debate the merits of targeting great works of art to spur action on climate change. ♪ >> that is our program for tonight. i'm geoff bennett. for all of us, thanks for spending part of your saturday with us. see you back here tomorrow night. >> major funding for pbs news week and has been provided by. and with the ongoing support of

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