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charged with espionage. the u.s. has yet to confirm reports. it has been 25 years since the good friday agreement. we hear from the generation born after thatandmark deal about life in northern ireland now. welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. we start in israel where the prime minister benjamin netanyahu ordered the mobilization of police and army reserves following a car ramming attack in tel aviv. one person was killed and five injured. the assailant was shot dead. this comes amid escalating tensions between israel and palestinian militants following rates.

israel blames the palestinian militant group hamas for the attacks and reiterated overnight -- retaliated overnight with airstrikes on lebanon and gaza. rockets were fired from lebanon into northern israel after the rates. the biggest -- grade the biggest such attack on 17 years. israel responded with airstrikes on the gaza strip in southern lebanon. hours after the airstrikes two israeli sisters that official say were originally from london were killed and their mother injured in a gun attack on a car on the west bank. this report from our middle east correspondent lucy williamson contains some distressing images. to see: today on this quiet road in the marks of another chapter in the conflict. two young british israeli sisters shot and killed as they headed off on holiday. their mother was taken to

hospital and is still fighting for her life. there israeli car was shot through with bullet holes. police are still searching for the attacker. israel's prime minister visiting the scene today framed it as part of a wider conflict here. >> at these moments are forces are operating on the field in hot pursuit of terrorists. it is a matter of time, and not much time, that we will hold them accountable, as we did with all murderers without exception in the last month. >> last night israel carried out airstrikes against targets in gaza, a message to the palestinian military group hamas blamed for dozens of rocket attacks this week. israel also struck what it said were hamas targets in lebanon. the conflict here can be a tripwire for war. the lebanese militant group

hezbollah happened in 2006. actions on both sides now seem calibrated to avoid that by putting palestinian militants, not hezbollah, in the spotlight. israel's military spokesman says the country doesn't want escalation. >> this a multidimensional threat. there is one organization, one enemy here. we don't want to escalate with has below. we were focused on hamas. they were a predominate force here. >> thomas and others inhe region, scenes of israeli police inter-instinct -- entering the al-aqsa mosque and clashing with palestinians in sight. since then palestinian rockets and israeli airstrikes move from gaza to lebanon. the link between retaliation and escalation is not always easy to break. tonight in tel aviv, another attack.

at least one man reported to have died when a car rammed into people in the city center. details are still coming in. the rituals of easter, passover, and ramadan, interrupted by familiar routine of violence and conflict. david: we will have more on that later in the program. now we turn to russia where state media is reporting that investigators have formally charged the wall street journal reporter evan gershkovich with spine for the united states. no evidence to support the charges, so far being forthcoming. evan gershkovich denies the accusations. joining me now is sergei from the bbc's russian service. you know evan gershkovich well. how concerned are you for him now? sergei: was i as concerned as many of other of david's friends and colleagues. these are really difficult

situations. this is disturbing for all people who worked in russia or are covering russia in the russian media. this is the first time since the cold war that a western journalist was put in russian prison for declarations of espionage. in the case of evan gershkovich, he is now facing 20 years in prison with those charges. there were may some hopes before this date that the fsb russian security service would drop the charges or reclassify them. to send evan out of the country out of all of the media outcry and pressure on russian authorities to release the journalists. for now, we see they are going full scale. so they will bring him on trial may be. that will also take a lot of time.

it seems like evan could spend up to 17 months in a russian prison center. david: it is important to make the point that this is unusual. westerners have been detained in russia. most notably, of course, brittney griner. journalists, not since the cold war, i believe. what message does this send to foreign correspondents in moscow? sergei: this is unusual. we know many foreign correspondents were working in moscow before russia started the invasion february 2022. they decided to keep covering russia from inside the country as many other russian journalists with russian passports decided to leave. because it was too risky for them to keep reporting. it was an understanding that may be the gremlin will not go after foreign journalists -- the kremlin will not go after foreign journalis and the

kremlin does not care that much about what image is drawn in western media. it is already quite grim. still, there were cases when they went after foreign journalists before. the worst that could happen before with foreign journalists was just being sent out of the country like happened with our colleague from the bbc whose visa was just revoked. she wasn't forced to leave moscow after covering russia for almost 15 years. now, we start seeing the consequences for foreign journalists that still work in russia and still cover it could be far wse. david: thank you for joining us. turning now to the war in ukraine. russia and turkey failed to reach an agreement on further extending a deal that facilitates ukrainian grain exports via the black sea. the deal was broken by turkiye

and in the united nations last july and allows ukraine to continue exporting grain through black seaports despite a russian buckeye -- blockade in the region the only significant diplomatic rates are between moscow and kyiv since russia invaded ukraine last year. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov traveled to ankara for talks with turkish officials and said afterwards the terms of the current agreement had not been implemented. >> if they do not have the desire to honestly approach what mr. gutierrez proposed and so consistently promod, let them continue to shift relevant products from ukraine by land, river, and rail. they have already created appropriate logistics that work. we will work if necessary outside the framework of this initiative. >> bbc's hugo jacob had been

following the talks from kyiv and told us more. hugo. we are near the expiration date of this deal. russians complained they are facing obstacles to the country's exports of fertilizers and grain. they issued the threats that they will not be extending this deal. this is a key deal. it was a major diplomatic breakthrough when it was signed last year. it has been extended twice. for the ukrainians, it is very important. it gives the count aobviously, s celebrated when it was signed. because, it helped ease a global food crisis. this is a deal that will expire next month. i think there is the expectation that hopefully something can be agreed with the russians. david: officials from russia and

ukraine have been casting doubt over a leak of documents relating to the west's plans to provide aid to ukraine. senior ukrainian officials said the link was part of a ploy to discredit any potential counteroffensive. russia's military bloggers said the material cannot be trusted. the pentagon said it is investigating the matter. again, hugo from kyiv. hugo: the documents in question first appeared as photographs posted on social media. they include charts of dates where weapons were expected to be delivered and numbers about ukrainian military units. the bbc has not been able to verify the pictures and also the authenticity of the documents. what is also intriguing is some of these pictures appeared to have been modified. they overstate estimates of ukrainian military losses.

and, they understate numbers of russian troops killed here in the war. here in kyiv, an advisor to president zelenskyy, said this apparent leakas part of a disinformation effort by moscow. in russia terry bloggers said the apparent leak could have been part of a westn plot to mislead russian commanders. this happens as ukraine is planning a counteroffensive to try to take back territory that is now under occupation. crucially, the allegedly did not have details of when and where that might happen. >> we will take you back to our top story now, the unrest we have been seeing in the middle east. join me -- joining me from jerusalem it's lucy williamson. what do we know about the recent attacks? lucy: the most recent attack has

been the one in tel aviv tonight a few hours ago. details are still coming in. we are told now tha at least one man was killed in the attack. it was a car ramming attack near the beach in tel aviv. at least four, possible -- five, possibly seven other people were injured, we are told. there are reports they are all foreign tourists and we are waiting for the nationalities to be confirmed. the police are telling us one of their officers witnessed the event and shot the attacker had bringing the attack to a halt. we have seen dramatic footage tonight of a car overturned in a park near the beach. lots of emergency vehicles all gathering at the scene. the israeli prime minister said he is calling reserve forces of the border force and also reserve arnie -- armuny its to try to counter terrorist attacks in the country. at the moment --david: at of the

moment the attacks are tit-for-tat but i suppose there was always the danger of potential miscalculation. lucy: right. tit-for-tat attacks have been happening in building for months, particularly in the west bank. over the past few days we saw a different kind of rhythm where israeli police eered the al-aqsa mosque in jerusalem because they said palestinians were trying to barricaded themselves inside the mosque. it triggered a lot of anger amongst palestinians and others in the region. we saw the start of rocket attacks happening from palestinian militants in gaza. we saw israeli airstrikes in retaliation. in that spread to lebanon and we saw the same thing happening. palestinian militants were rock -- launching rockets from lebanon and we saw airstrikes from israel there as well. there are a lot of concerns about the risk of these incidents spiraling.

at the moment many in the region say they are keen to try to avoid wider conflict. david: lucy williamson, many thanks indeed. the world's largest economy is a mass of contradictions these days. today the u.s. government released figures that show wages are rising and unemployment is at a more than 50 year low. yet, the underlying trends, the figures analysts crunch in an attempt to find out what is really going on, continue to show consumer confidence is low, and what is known as business sentiment is that the sort of level that normally proceeds an economic recession. it is time to call on our business correspondent samira hussain. we have had a week of economic data including tod's jobs report. what are the takeaways here? samira: we knew we would see some softening, or hiring would still be strong, but, it would not be as strong as we have seen

in the last few months. the last six months we have seen the u.s. economy has added about 330,000 jobs for month for the last six months. this time we saw 236,000 jobs. it is still a really good jobs report. but it slightly slower and lower in terms of jobs growth then we have seen the la several months. the unemployment rate has gone down to 3.5%. this is really historically low. it translates to a pretty solid labor market in the u.s.. >> whilst unemployment is falling, wages are increasing. the economy is growing. there is still a prevailing sense of glue. why is that? >> everybody is nervous about what will happen next. there isalk of a possible reception -- recession and growth slowing down and consumer

sentiment. you see people are still buying, but started to pull back a little. if you look at big tech companies, we have been hearing from them a lot of layoffs. there is a real sense that possibly something bad will happen around the horizon. we are also dealing with a time in which inflation is really high. it means it has gotten so much more expensive to heat your home , or in this case, air condition your home. or even buy food or basic necessities. a lot of various levels of government have been trying to bring inflation down. it remains high. david: does this point to another rise in interest rates when the federal reserve meets again next month? samira: a lot of market watchers have been reading that he leaves saying we will see the u.s. federal reserve raise interest

rates again. raising interest rates means it gets more expensive to get a mortgage for your home, or even, play -- pay credit card debt. those intest rates are impacted by what the federal reserve does. that all makes it more expensive. it will hopefully make people spend a little less and maybe we will see the economy slow down a little bit. david: a complex picture, samira hussain, thank you foroining us. one of two tennessee lawmakers that were expelled from the state house of representatives last night told the bbc he intends to seek justin jones caught his removal -- called his removal and attack on democracy. republicans voted to expel justin jones and his democratic colleague justin pearson for leading a gucontrol protest in the house chamber a week ago. a third democrat gloria johnson narrowly survived the vote. justin jones has told us about what is happened to him.

>> they shot -- shut off my id badge already. i had to have another former colleague let me in. they shut off my email access and i am a longer legislature. the 78,000 people from district 52 have no representation in tennessee, the most diverse district in tennessee, here in nastro -- nashville. now they are left without a voice because of this ereme republican super majority that is an almost completely white caucus expelling the two youngest black lawmakers because we stood in action against young -- gun violence. they said that democracy does not matter in tennessee. they took a very extreme step. there've only been three explosions in the house in tennessee history all involving crime or unethical behavior. this is the first explosion for a breach of decorum. david: special elections will be held to fill the seats of both expelled members.

justin jones and justin pearson will be ableo run again, and potentially, returned to their seats. american vice president kamala harris announced plans to travel to nashville to meet the expelled lawmakers and learned support for tighter gun control measures. it has been 25 years since the good friday agreement. the deal brought an end to years of violence in northern ireld. though, political tensions and other obstacles remain. what does the generation born since the historic deal make of the era of peace that has followed? our correspondent emma bardi has been finding out. emma: northern ireland's piece generation grew up in a place ungnizable from its past. many people born after the conflict have seen little of the dark times that came before them. we have come to show them some of the tv news archives at the place they call home.

>> it is hard to believe that that is what life was like. >> how did that happen? why did that happen? >> the irish republican my. emma: the sectarian conflict between protestant and catholic communities shaped the lives of previous generations. republican armed groups carried out a bombing campaign to try to force northern ireland to give up its status as part of the u.k.. catholic communities came under attack from loyalists. >> seeing some footage of like the ira men, so bizarre. that is not something i have ever experienced. emma: in 1998 when political enemies assigned the good friday agreement it was a major turning point. >> to me, as a document, the

fact you had so many people willing to put graduates and their own popularity aside. >> many may disagree, but i feel we have came so far in such a short time. >> though the conflict is in the past, some sense of division is passed down. while 25-year-olds today had a vastly different experience growing up in northern arden from their parents it is clear the so-called piece generation still feels old tensions living on. >> you do get inherited trauma. i as a catholic, go to a protestant area. emma: that trigger something in you? >> even though nobody stops me it is what they have always he emma: why do the beliefs exist? >> because the community and family grew up with it. emma: though the conflict has shaped northern ireland today, million people have had little formal education about the recent history. >> i never heard about the troubles in my entire education. i was quite sectarian when i was younger.

emma: how would you rate the success of the good friday agreement? >> it was successful ending the violence. but, our politics is still divided. >> there are no guns going off. >> 71.12%. emma: there is little doubt that those who voted for the agreement in 1998 created a better future for children. today it's power-sharing government set up by the accord often collapses over disputes between the parties. there are growing questions on whether it has become outdated. >> we need to get our government back because they keep passing it to people. >> i appreciate the benefits it has brought, but there are still issues. emma: can your generation make northern ireland better? >> i hope so. there is potential there. for northern ireland to be more

united. emma: when political figures mark the anniversary of the good friday agreement in the coming days, and its legacy, they too will do so in recognition that this is not the end of the story. emma bardi bbc news belfast. david: paul cattermole, one of founding members of british pop group s club 7 died at age 46. because of his death is unknown. there are no suspicious circumstances. the popular group rose to fe in the late 90's selling over 10 million albums worldwide. as part of their crossover success, they start in their own u.s. tv series in miami that became popular among younger viewers. before we go, a bit of music, a bit of diplomacy, and a bit of history. the presidents of china and france enjoyed ausical performance on friday.

it was part of emmanuel macron's visit to the country. the ancient chinese to being played was called high mountains and flowing water, a tale about true friendship. appropriate, perhaps. i am david with us. narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freemafoundation. by judy and pe blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪

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>> good evening. on "the newshour tonight," in an unprecedented move, tennessee republicans expelled democratic lawmakers for violating house rules during gun-control protests. iraq's younger generations find themselves shut out of work and the political process 20 years after the united states invasion. >> the leaders of the american invasion said that a generation of freedom will emerge that is raised on freedom and the pentacles of democracy, but i'm one of this generation, and i find myself fighting for freedom and the will to live. >> and the criminal charges against former president trump