amna: good evening. i'm amna nawaz. geoff: and i'm geoff bennett. on the newshour tonight, the u.s. grapples with deadly temperatures as a heat wave grips the west and south. amna: the u.s. ambassador to nato discusses the future of the alliance and its potential expansion ahead of a crucial summit. geoff: and, the supreme court's decision on affirmative action sparks concerns over whether it could lead to fewer doctors of color and more racial bias in medicine. >> we see a seven year gap between life expectancy in white americans and black americans. my worry is that that gap is going to widen in this post-affirmative action world. ♪

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>> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ geoff: welcome to "the newshour." from one end of the country to the other, extreme weather is the top story tonight. ferocious heat in the west and drowning rains in the east are making headlines. amna: both the heat and the heavy rains persisted today, and millions of americans were left to cope and clean up. stephanie sy begins our coverage. >> oh my god. stephanie: in the outskirts of new york city, roadways turned into rapids. >> look at the people's doors. stephanie: a weekend of heavy rain flooded neighborhoods in the lower hudson river valley, killing one woman who was swept away in the downpour. in the aftermath, authorities evacuated residents from their homes by boat, cordoned off

destroyed streets, and worked to repair downed power lines. >> my mom, you know, she called me and she said the water was coming in her apartment. had to be pulled out of the apartment complex through the window and rafted to safety. the apartment is completely destroyed, my mother has nowhere to live. all her stuff is, you know, there was two feet of water in there. stephanie: it's the latest extreme weather pattern to ravage the u.s. across new england, residents are bracing for more torrential rain. states in the west are still sweating through a historic heat wave. today, phoenix baked in highs above 110 degrees for the 10th day in a row, with forecasts showing no let up for the rest of the week. a similar heat dome has settled over europe. temperatures there climbed to the triple-digits over the weekend, impacting cities from berlin to madrid, some of the same regions that were afflicted by deadly heat waves last summer.

today, a blockbuster study was released showing that europe's 2022 heat waves killed more than 61,000 people. published in the nature medicine journal, the study suggests europe has not adequately adapted to the realities of climate change. extreme weather has also gripped parts of asia. most of china has endured a more than week-long heat wave. and in new delhi, unprecedented amounts of monsoon rain drenched india's capital city, killing 15 people in 3 days. >> the record of the last 20 years has been broken. as far as our preparations are concerned, we were fully prepared. however, the problem of waterlogging arose because of the record rainfall. stephanie: landslides, floods, fires affecting the world over, and made worse, scientists say, by climate change. here in phoenix, weather experts say it's likely that the city will surpass its 18-day streak

of 110-plus degree days if the heatwave continues through july 18. for more on how the city is handling the heat wave, i'm joined by david hondula. he leads the office of heat response in mitigation in phoenix, which became one of the first cities in the u.s. to create that position last year. it is good to see you. thanks for joining us. we're about a week and a half into this heat wave, what has your office been doing to mitigate the dangerous effects of these extreme temperatures? david: thanks for having us on. we share your concern that this is a serious public health unfolding in phoenix and in communities across the southwest. heat is one of the nation's leading weather-related killers and we need all hands on deck to protect vulnerable members. we have been focusing on direct engagement with some of the most

heat impacted members of our community, sharing supplies and getting the word out about where cooling resources are. giving critical connections to social services are really important to make. stephanie: i was just looking at the latest data and the un-housed still make up more than half of the heat related deaths in phoenix. the city is currently embroiled in lawsuits over what to do with homeless encampments, do the encampments make the unhoused more or less vulnerable to death and illness by heat? david: a great question. we are seeing positive signs in the data although no one is pleased with where we are in terms of heat related deaths but the rate has come down in the past couple of years and we will hopefully keep moving in that direction. as we think about campground shelters, we are looking to

partner with all of the players involved in the recent decision to create a structured campground that will house the unsheltered neighbors for the foreseeable future to try to make property a model of cooling and shade and other amenities that can help protect people. it is difficult to be out on city streets for five or 10 minutes, let alone hours or days but as we transition into this new facility i think there is a great opportunity for partnership. we are looking at private sector partnerships so they can be part of a successful solution story as we continue to work as a city to get more people into shelter and ultimately hounds -- ultimately housed. stephanie: maricopa county, which includes phoenix, found 425 people had heat-associated deaths last summer. that is a record and a 25% increase from the year before. when i interviewed you a year ago, your aim was to reverse

that trend. why has it been so difficult? david: there are many factors. as we dissect that same report we see high risks for people experiencing homelessness, substance users, they are not excuses but they guide our efforts to understand where we need to prioritize. i think we are seeing positive impacts but there is clearly much more work to do as we learn what is most effective to reverse the trend. stephanie: and phoenix is not alone. there's a new report out of europe today with startling numbers from last summer's heat wave, more than 60,000 deaths attributed to excessive heat, what's your reaction to that study? david: there is a lot of work to do in communities across the globe in how we improve the response. we know that heat is among the top weather-related killers.

we are seeing the consequence of a governance gap around heat that has lingered for far too long. heat has not had a clear problem on her other hazards around the world. communities are behind where they would like to be in preventing the serious impacts. comparing the numbers to phoenix, we have not seen numbers like those and we are hopeful that we never do but i think it speaks to some of the preparedness investments are region has made in the past to help us avoid those catastrophic impacts but different availabilities of air conditioning here compared to other locations but we continue to try to engage with communities around the world to share best practices, there is a lot of work to do and we are all in it together. stephanie: on track for another record-breaking summer, david hondula, office of heat response in mitigation in phoenix.

thanks so much for joining us. it david: thank you, stephanie. stay cool, everyone. ♪ geoff: in the day's other headlines, president biden has arrived in vilnius, lithuania to meet with western leaders at a key nato summit on tuesday. earlier today, the president was at windsor castle in britain, and received a ceremonial welcome from king charles. the pair also discussed the challenges of climate change, but neither man spoke publicly. in southern ukraine, officials today blamed a russian-guided bomb for killing seven people on sunday. they had gathered to receive humanitarian aid. government video showed the remnants of the site, a school building, with some people still feared missing. the governor of the zaporizhzhia region called it a war crime. moscow has confirmed that russian mercenary leader yevgeny prigozhin and his top commanders

pledged their loyalty, after staging a rebellion last month a kremlin spokesman said today they met with russian president vladimir putin within days of calling off the mutiny. >> putin listened to the explanations of the commanders. they emphasized that they are staunch supporters and soldiers of the head of state and the supreme commander, and also said that they are ready to continue to fight for their homeland. geoff: also today, official video showed russian military chief general gerasimov, a target of prigozhin's revolt. it was the first time he's been seen since the mutiny. back in this country, there's word that former sports doctor larry nassar has been stabbed multiple times at a federal prison in florida. nassar is serving a decades-long sentence for sexually abusing female athletes, including several olympic gymnasts. news accounts say he was attacked sunday and is in stable condition. on wall street, stocks opened the week with small-scale gains. the dow jones industrial average was up 209 points, to close at 33,944. the nasdaq rose 24 points.

the s&p 500 added 10. and james lewis, the central figure in the 1982 tylenol poisonings, was found dead sunday at his home in massachusetts. he was suspected, but never charged, with 7 deaths in the chicago area that triggered a nationwide scare. instead, he served prison time for trying to extort money from johnson & johnson, the drug's maker. james lewis was 76 years old. still to come on the newshour, tamara keith and amy walter break down the latest political headlines. the cycle of violence and economic turmoil that leads young palestinians to take up arms. an oklahoma judge dismisses a case filed by survivors of the tulsa race massacre. and the creator of the dystopian anthology "black mirror" on the show's impact. ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and the walter cronkite school of

journalism at arizona state university. amna: turkish president recep tayyip erdogan this afternoon, in a surprise announcement, said he would put sweden's bid for nato membership before the turkish parliament. president erdogan had insisted that sweden needed to do more to crack down on kurdish militants, some of whom have sought refuge in scandinavia. sweden and finland announced their intentions last summer to join nato. finland was admitted in april. even this morning, erdogan proposed that swedish membership in nato was a bargaining chip, one that could be traded for turkey's long-dormant application to join the european union. in the meantime, leaders from nato's 31 countries began arriving in vilnius, lithuania, ahead of a two-day summit that begins tomorrow. before all of this, our laura barron-lopez spoke early today with the u.s. ambassador to nato, julianne smith.

laura: thank you so much for joining us. ukrainian foreign minister dmytro kuleba said today that nato's allies have reached a consensus to remove the membership action plan requirements such as military and democratic reforms for ukraine's pathway to nato membership that conceivably would fast-track their membership. so what's stopping ukraine from becoming a full member now? >> first of all on the question , of the membership action plan, that is something that some new members or newly added members have used on their path to membership. it is not always the case that aspirants use that program. finland and sweden are not working through a membership action plan. but we are. we, the united states, we support lifting that particular requirement for ukraine. and i don't want to get ahead of any of the summit deliverables, so'm not going to get into the details of what the actual communique will say. but that is something that allies have been looking at in

terms of what stands between ukraine and membership. obviously, our focus right now is on helping the ukrainians end this war. putin could end it today if he so desired. we continue to get practical support into the hands of the ukrainian military commanders and will be looking at some of the ongoing reforms that the ukrainians have been undertaking to qualify for nato membership. laura: president biden recently said that he doesn't think ukraine is ready for membership in nato right now, that it takes time to meet qualifications, including democratization. but with that map requirement dropped, what qualifications are left, and why not issue a timeline for their membep?rs smith: well, first and foremost, we want, again, the war to end that is currently taking place on ukrainian territory, and that's the priority number one.

but the ukrainians themselves have talked about the need for additional reforms. there are a variety of democratic and security sector reforms that aspirants need to meet. ukraine has traveled quite some distance since the alliance said that they would become a member in 2008. but they will tell you, nato will tell you, that we'll continue to work together, that they finish those list of reforms. laura: is there a problem with the ukrainian democracy that disqualifies them from being a nato member? smith: i don't want to get into any of the specifics here. i will say that broadly, before a country joins the alliance, we do work with those aspirant countries on a variety of reforms to ensure that they will uphold all of the values that this alliance is designed to protect. so we look at things like rule of law, we look at their democratization, we look at things like anti-corruption. that's standard practice for any new member that's coming into the alliance.

laura: the cluster munitions that the administration announced friday that are going to be sent to ukraine, how quickly will they be sent? smith: i don't know the specifics about that. i think we're talking weeks, not months. laura: in terms of long term security commitments that the united states is prepared to make to ukraine, what exactly are the requirements as nato -- as ukraine waits for a full nato membership? smith: we are talking about making a commitment to them that we will support ukraine not just right now in this moment while russia has invaded its territory and continues to conduct the war but that long-term the united states is prepared to make a bilateral commitment to ukraine that it will continue to help

that country meet security needs so that this does not happen again and we expect we will have some news on that later this week here on the margins of the nato summit. laura: can you give any specifics at all about the potential for tangibles there at the end of the summit? smith: yes, this summit actually is going to have a whole list of concrete deliverables. i'll tick through just a couple of them. one, the alliance is going to be rolling out new regional plans that will ensure that the alliance can literally defend every inch of nato's territory. this is a generational change for the alliance. we're also going to be rolling out something called the defense investment pledge, which will follow up on the 2% commitment that allies made to spend 2% of gdp on defense. we're going to have four countries from the indo-pacific, australia, new zealand, japan, and the republic of korea here with us in vilnius to talk about shared security challenges.

and then we'll have this package of deliverables for our friends in ukraine that will showcase our continued unity and resolve to stand shoulder to shoulder with them as they protect their territory. laura: ambassador julie smith, thank you so much for your time. smith: thank you. ♪ geoff: for analysis on the president's trip abroad and presidential campaign politics, we turn now to our politics monday team. that is amy walter of "the cook political report with amy walter" and tamara keith of npr. happy monday, as they say. president biden is in europe attending to alliances, some of which have been tested by russia's invasion of ukraine. what is on the agenda and what is at stake? >> president biden is once again

trying to make the case that america is back and a trusted partner and that this alliance that putin's invasion of ukraine made a stronger is holding tight and there is discussion of sweden being allowed to join nato. it appears there has been a breakthrough in that. president biden had a call with president erdogan of turkey on the flight over. so what is at stake is the shape and size of the alliance but also domestically the perception of the war in ukraine and the u.s. role in it. geoff: there is a chorus on the right, people say the u.s. has given ukraine too much at this point and even on the left there are some progressive voices finding issue with bidens decision to give cluster munitions to ukraine.

distill these politics. >> i think a lot of it is the dividing line is if you identify more as a republican or democrat rather than intraparty fights. there are some bubbling on the presidential side, you have republicans like donald trump and ron desantis being less supportive of more aid to ukraine versus more old-school republicans like nikki haley or mike pence but fundamentally what we saw at the very beginning when the invasion happens, support among democrats and republicans from the u.s. doing more was equal. it took about six months for partisanship to take hold. it's a long time these days. >> this is what is remarkable. if you think back to what could be a unifier for americans at a

time of deep polarization, invasion of a sovereign country by vladimir putin would probably be a unifying events and it truly was, until it became about biden and then it became much less about putin and more about do you really support this president. geoff: president biden has been trying to persuade americans that the economy is better than they think and that he deserves credit for turning it around. but it is tough going when the white house is faced with polls that show a 55% disapproval. how is this effort going? >> i would not say it is yielding results. views of the economy or polarized just like everything else which is to say repubcans say the economy is terrible

because joe biden is president. the same republicans thought the economy was incredible under trump and the reality is aside from the pandemic, the economy, the biden economy has basically recovered to where the trump economy was pretty pandemic but there is a divide -- pre-pandemic but there is a divide where there are americans who think the economy is great and others who say it is terrible. that is the influence polarization. geoff: i remember talking with a democratic poster who said people will be asked how the economy is doing and they will say i'm not crazy about their job and not crazy about their boss which means the economy is doing poorly. >> i spoke with a democratic

strategist who said something similar. he said i do not trust that data to tell us how people really feel about the economy. asking people about the economy or about a lot of other things. at the same time, there is no doubt that inflation is still taking a bite out of people's wallets and that is what a lot of the frustration is. we are not quite back to a place where the fed feels comfortable enough to say we have inflation under control and i think there is a bit of a messenger problem. the other poem number you will see -- pull number -- poll number you will see is what do you think about biden's mental and physical fitness and age and there is a lot of concern about it across the board. as a messenger being able to sell, it also is people having

to see you as an incredible person doing that and those two things you cannot necessarily separate, worries about his age and worries about how he is handling the economy and how he would if reelected. geoff: we only have a couple of minutes left. ron desantis, his poll numbers have slid. he was asked about this on fox news and this is what he said. desantis: [laughter] these are narratives. the media does not want me to be the nominee. this is not something i ever expected to snap fingers and all of a sudden you win seven months before anything happens. you have to earn it. you got to work. and it requires a lot of toil and tears and sweat. and we're going to do that. geoff: he is saying give our

campaign time. that sounds risible. -- reasonable. >> plenty of people who had been written off ended up winning but this is -- this difference is that trump is essentially an a convent. -- incumbent. there is a party that is more trump centric than it was then and he is much more popular among republicans so the way to beat trump, you think about it as a narrow gap, how do you find a way through that, desantis is trying to figure out the way, going to the right of him on cultural issues and other candidates are going to the right of him on security issues. chris christie going right at him on indictments.

none of it seems to penetrate his popularity. geoff: so is this a two-person race between trump and desantis, like desantis says? >> desantis would like it to be. [laughter] desantis said don't look at national polls, look at how i am doing on the early states. we don't know yet because there is not great pulling. a lot of candidates have that same strategy. let's just win iowa. it's iowa. it's new hampshire. geoff: before we go, i have to mention the congressional women's softball game. i hear that you are on the d.c. press corps team. >> we are. pitcher and catcher. geoff: people can donate online. it is a fundraiser. >> it raises money for breast

cancer. we have raised over $3 million since we started this game over 15 years ago. geoff: thank you so much. i will be watching. ♪ amna: doctors, nurses, hospitals, and many others are concerned about how the supre court's ruling, striking down affirmative action in college admissions, could affect the medical profession. currently just 5.7% of doctors in the u.s. are black and nearly 7% are hispanic, while 64% are white. black and latino applicants still make up a small percentage of those who go to medical school. and there's worry about what this ruling could mean for the pipeline of who eventually provides health care. for more on these concerns i'm

joined by dr. utibe essien, an internal medicine physician and assistant professor of medicine at ucla. before we get into the details of the ruling, i have to ask, what was your initial reaction? >> sadly while we were expecting the news it was pretty much a , gut punch. and it was really devastating to see that despite years of proof that affirmative action does improve diversity and -- diversity in undergraduate and medical schools, that the court has decided to let go of this decision, and so that was pretty devastating on thursday, i know a lot of my friends and colleagues were as well. amna: so those numbers we just mentioned in the introduction that was even with affirmative action in place. why are those numbers so low? help us understand. >> so it's really important to appreciate that this is not just at random. a paper that my colleagues and i published led by one of my

friends showed that some of the reasons for the low numbers are related to just the journey towards applying to medical school. so higher rates of medical and premedical school loans and less likelihood to be able to pay for the preparatory materials to be able to get into medical school, even having parents who are less likely to have a college education. some of these are factors. as for what drives black and hispanic and native american lower rates of physicians, much less some of the systemic and structural challenges that we have around education here in the u.s. amna: just to underscore some of those numbers when you look at the 2022 and 2023 school year in terms of first year enrollees in medical school, these are the numbers we have. black students made up just 10% of first year medical students. latino students made up just 12% of medical school students. but a few states had already banned affirmative action at the state level. did you see an impact in terms of that in those states in terms of who ends up going to medical school and diversity of those classes? >> absolutely. we're here in california. they banned affirmative action back in 1996.

and we've seen that here in california the rate of black and hispanic individuals going into undergraduate and medical schools really significantly dropped since that ruling in 1996. we had a paper that came out last year that showed not just here in california but in seven , other states that had affirmative action bans, the number of individuals from minorities groups continues to drop in medical schools. so we have precedents for what is going to happen now that this is federal policy and not national, not just state policy, and it's really devastating for the future of the health of our communities. amna: help us understand that a little better. in medical in the medical field in particular, why is that diversity of doctors so important in terms of providing health care? >> absolutely. i think it's important to realize this is not just a moral imperative the right thing to do, but that diversity really does save lives. we have studies that show that having a doctor who looks like you, it makes you more likely to take preventive screenings such as flu vaccines, or more likely to go for more invasive

procedures like heart catherine isolations -- catheterizations. in a study published back in april, it showed that for every 10% of increase in black primary care doctors within a county there is a 30 day increase in life expectancy for black individuals so again, literally having diverse doctors save lives. and my concern is that this policy this decision is going to take us backwards. amna: so what now? in a post affirmative action america what specific steps can , institutions take to still work towards that same diversity in medical schools and the medical profession? >> that is the question that we are all asking right now. there are three things that my colleagues and i kind of put

forward then last week around this, and the first is really, strengthening holistic review, really focusing on the journey that our patients are our students rather take towards becoming physicians and not wholly focused on the m cat scores. we have to ensure that those who are reviewing applications actually are anti racist and their approach and are able to capture the full breath of our students journeys to go in towards medicine. and lastly, we have to eliminate some of the economic cost. that test that i mentioned earlier cost $320 to take to get into medical school. those costs of medical school itself is exorbitant. i left school with $250,000 worth of loans, and those are some of the steps that we need to take to be able to increase the diversity of our medical school. amna: in the few seconds i have, i have to ask you, what's your greatest concern if this problem isn't addressed? >> as i mentioned, we have a disparities issue in our country. we didn't just see that with covid but over the last year we , see a seven year gap in life expectancy between white americans and black american. my worry is that that gap is going to widen in this post affirmative action world, and i hope that will be able to advocate for the reversal of some of these policies that were

just made. amna: thank you so much for joining us tonight. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. geoff: we are going to shift our focus now to the move by an oklahoma judge to toss out a lawsuit seeking financial restitution for the three remaining survivors of the 1921 tulsa race massacre. judge caroline wall threw out the lawsuit trying to force the city and others to make amends for the destruction of the once-thriving black district known as greenwood. one of the living survivors of the massacre, miss viola fletcher, was just 7 years old on the day of the attack. she's now 109. two years ago, she shared her eyewitness account during emotional testimony before congress. >> i will never forget the violence of the white mob when we left our home. i still see black men being shot, black bodies lying in the street. i still smell smoke and see fire. i still see black businesses being burned.

i still hear airplanes flying overhead. i hear the screams. i have lived through the massacre every day. geoff: we're joined now by oklahoma state rep. regina goodwin, who represents the greenwood district in oklahoma's statehouse. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. geoff: you represent the greenwood district. what is that reaction to this decision to toss out the lawsuit from the three remaining survivors? >> the response is that it is unjust. unfortunately, this is our third go-round. there was a lawsuit in 1922, in the early 2000's, and here we are now and we are getting the same unjust decisions.

it is long and we certainly know that our survivors and descendants deserve better. how can you have a 109-year-old woman like viola fletcher and others not receive their day in court? geoff: the city of tulsa was among the parties pushing for the case to be dismissed. the mayor of tulsa gave us a statement that reads in part, the city remains committed to finding the graves of 1921 race massacre victims, fostering economic investment in the greenwood district, educating future generations about the event, and building a city where every person has an equal opportunity for a great life. the mayor has said he opposes what he called financially penalizing tulsa residents to

effectively pay for what would have been a settlement out of municipal coffers. how does that strike you? >> the notion that somehow the city coffers would pay for the injustice, the city is an institution. it was complicit in 1921 and is complicit today. the suppose it excavations they are trying to do relating to the remains of the deceased, i do not put much into what the mayor is saying. i think the actions say more than his words and unfortunately when you are looking at a city or state that is complicit, that is the way it works. when the city does wrong, it is typically how it happens. the money's gained from all the members help to go to do right so that notion is not new.

reparation has never been done for the japanese, native americans, it is all money we have contributed to so when it comes to black folks it should not be any different. geoff: some historians say as many as 300 black people were killed in that massacre. it was an attack on the city's black population and also one black institutions and black wealth. help us understand how and why the community has not yet fully recovered from the destruction of wealth more than 100 years ago. >> it is the collective will that has not been there to do right by all people. if you come into tulsa today you see a very divided community in terms of wealth and homeownership and education. so the problem is there are policies in place and people in place that refused to do right.

so it's simple. policy and people. i happen to be an elected official at the state capital and for four years i've been trying to have them address the issue of reparations since the judge suggested that this should be handled legislatively. this could be handled in the courts, legislatively, three people doing the right thing. -- through people doing the right thing. geoff: the judge dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled. what happens next in t for restitution? hthe f>> there is an effort to n appeal. when you are dealing with seniors who are 109 years old, quite frankly, they are waiting for them to die. they have demonstrated over the years more integrity, more honor and courage that i have seen

displayed by a lot of other folks. and we have to remember that this is a fight worth having and going back 102 years, if we cannot get it right and other folks have found a way to move forward, why not tulsa? so the bottom line is you continue to see a judge who says she will dismiss it with prejudice. she waited long enough and i guess she felt like she had to do something in the still of the night on friday when she knew there would be no news cycle so there is something to be said for lack of courage and lack of conviction and to do right by all. so we are where we are. it is not good. however, this is not new. we are in oklahoma and i would hope we could get further faster but it has been 102 years. how long would other folks wait for justice? geoff: regina goodwin, thank you

for your time and insight. >> i appreciate you shining a light on this issue. ♪ geoff: a palestinian gunman was shot and killed by israeli troops in the occupied west bank today, as tension there remain high. we have a report now from nablus with a look at young men who have few hopes and less of a future but burning anger.¤w3 -- burning anger.

>> this man is wearing around his neck necklaces of three fighters killed. over the last year, the conflict in the west bank has reignited. an epidemic of violence has engulfed palestinian cities with replacement fighters recruited from the ranks of angry young men as fast as they fall. 130 terror attacks have been carried out in the west bank so far this year. it has conducted 1800 raids. childhood is fleeting in this environment. the morning after the funeral, this man sitting in the graveyard. he comes here every day.

>> i always used to go and see him. reporter: these boys are only 12 but instead of playing in the street they spend their days in a place courted by death, mourning the young men in their society they see killed brutally. surrounded by such violence, parents hearsay it is impossible to protect their children from the impact, no matter how young. [indiscernible] is just five. >> these rates happen constantly . children are watching on tv and social media. it is hard to walk -- it is hard to hide. that is how they get exposed and start wanting to carry a weapon. reporter: he wishes he could give his son a different life. >> i would like to see my kid grow up to be the best kind of

person but the reality on the ground doesn't allow it. reporter: the reality on the ground is unimaginable pressure. israel's government says these areas are a hotbed of terrorism but violence is not the only destructive force at work. with so little opportunity to make a better life, hope is in short supply. young palestinians feel frustrated no one represents them and the palestinian authority has poor leadership and corruption and failure to hold elections for more than a decade. security coordination -- at a ll me what it is like for a young man trying to build a life for himself and his family. the economy is dire and those who can hold down a job can barely make ends meet. >> wages in the west bank are

low. sometimes i have to cut down on food. my income does not cover my expenses. reporter: friends decide whether to fight or not and how to live peacefully in these conditions but here the choice to pursue work over weapons does not guarantee safety. they say they only target militants. islamic jihad regularly claim any man killed as a fighter. many bullets mark this man's body. he fought 20 years ago. he spent years in and out of jail. he decided to lay down his weapons. but now a new generation has taken over. an infamous group of young fighters has sprung up. >> it started simply with young

guys who saved up money to buy weapons and the weapons are nowhere near what he is really scary. they began stopping the israelis and that is how they gained popularity. they are secretive and people don't know much about them. you only hear them when and israelis are in town and then they disappear. reporter: his cousin founded the group. he became israel's most wanted man. he was killed in a raid. he became the poster boy for resistance. now the family home is under constant attack. the walls and furniture are full of bullet holes. supporters say the group only defends the borders of the city when israeli soldiers try to enter but they are accused of multiple planned attacks on soldiers and civilians.

his mother remembers how her son's behavior started to change last year. >> he was going out and getting home late and i was so worried about him. every time i knew he was about to go somewhere or meet someone outside i would always try to stop him from leaving the house. reporter: her efforts were in vain. she saw less and less of him until he was killed. now she has to learn to bear the loss. >> no day passes that i do not think of him. reporter: soon after, her oldest was arrested and his brother ended up in israeli jail. she has gained the status of a martyr's mother. she is supportive emotionally and financially. parents -- many parents here face a similar fate. mothers across the west bank

pray the next fighter or body will not be of their son. geoff: later this week we will be introduced to israel is affected by the violence and uncertainty. amna: "black mirror," a streaming series phenomenon, has just started its sixth and possibly final season. the sci-fi anthology is a social satire playing with society's deepest fears about our increasingly digital lives. special correspondent malcolm brabant caught up with the show's creator, charlie brooker, in london for our arts and culture series, canvas. >> you want to watch the gap? >> can't really do another true

crime. reporter: from humble beginnings as a cult series in britain, creator charlie brooker's unusual world view has become global must-watch tv. a former television critic, brooker identified a gap in the market for his blend of nightmarish drama and dark humor. for those of us who have not seen black mirror, can you give us an idea? >> it is an anthology show. each episode is standalone. it was inspired by shows like the twilight zone. the focus is intended to be technology or modern society. there's a sort of strand of satire running through it. media satire. it's not always about technology, but predominantly that's what it's become sort of known for. reporter: and it's very dark.

>> it's very dark. the show has a reputation for being extremely bleak and like a warning. >> some major breaking news now here on ukn. and in the last few minutes, it's been confirmed that susanna, duchess of beaumont, has been kidnaped. reporter: in this first ever episode, aired in 2011, brooker pushed viewers' tolerance to the limits with the ransom demand. the british prime minister had to perform a very public, obscene act to secure the release of the princess. >> i don't go into these things often with a very like thinking here's the one message i want people to take from this, because i kind of think what people take from it is up to them. and there's something about that hunger or that desire to see people in lofty positions brought down and humiliated. reporter: how important is comedy in highlighting real truths? >> most satire us are often

disappointed optimists who wish the world was better and are trying to point out flaws. reporter: artificial intelligence and deepfake are in the season's opener. the life of an ordinary woman called joan is wrecked by surveillance technology that converts her existence into a tv soap opera. >> what even is this show? >> we are watching it. >> we are not watching "joan is awful." reporter: how concerned are you about artificial intelligence and its potential power? >> i think with things like a.i., i'm a worrier by trade, so i do tend to catastrophize. so i could quite easily picture a world in which, you know, we're essentially in the matrix. reporter: but do you feel that artificial intelligence could perhaps destroy us as a species?

>> it could. but all sorts of things could. the thing that will destroy us as a species is us, like, will destroy ourselves as a species with nuclear weapons or something like that. probably, before maybe artificial intelligence would talk us out of that. ♪ >> the man is lost. >> aaron paul and josh hartnett play two astronauts. they are physically up in space because human survival is a thing that's being tested in this mission. to keep them sane they can , effectively project that consciousness of they spend most of their time on earth in these sort of robotic avatars. this was slightly pandemic inspired because it is partly the ultimate working from home, and it's about isolation and human connection and things like that. terrible things happen in this story. >> how's the new home? >> oh, still settling in, but it is good. we're out of the city, which i

like. >> it's riffing on authentic human connection. loneliness. his wife complains at one point that she misses her husband, even though he's there on some level. >> hey. >> you scared me. >> and then there's a sort of threat of violence throughout it. it's quite deliberate that you see men doing terrible acts of violence throughout it that are being handed on. reporter: many of your shows seem to be rather like individual morality plays. is it that, or is it just entertainment? >> the answer is in a way, both, because certainly when when when trying to think about an episode, what constitutes an episode? i'm looking for a hook that's quite popcorn, which is often quite darkly comic in nature. i'm a great consumer of true crime documentaries. but i'm aware that it's a bit grubby, that what i'm doing is rubbernecking. >> this guy had been abducting people. >> so that's what your documentary's about? >> the details are so awful. it is irresistible.

i love it. >> it's about two young filmmakers who make a film about an incident that happened in the past and get more than they bargained for. and it ends on quite a sort of bitter and sour note. in my head, my concern was that people would see this as a, as a slightly dry and detached media satire. and actually, it's been interesting that people, i thought i was writing a real dark comedy and a lot of people have been like, the reaction is people are horrified, which is maybe something that i lose sight of. reporter: brooker explores the moral maze of celebrity culture in the story of a young actress pursued by paparazzi after she kills a man in a hit and run. >> she got kicked off a movie set two weeks ago, flew home, and no one's seen her since. not home. nowhere. >> so everybody is just cool with leaving her alone then? >> nick's offering 30k for the first photo of her. reporter: do you like society, or do you dislike it? >> do i like society?

reporter: because you're so critical of so many parts of it. >> am i? i mean, i'm in society. there's something to do with comedy. you always have the slight get out of jail free card. you can sort of stand back and go, i was only joking. do i like society? that is an extremely black-and-white question. what choices do we have? are we to have a society where we have absolute chaos and which would probably terrify me more. reporter: society is rapidly catching up with brooker's dystopian predictions, but he says he can raise his game if the series continues for a seventh season. for the pbs newshour, i'm malcolm brabant in london. amna: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm amna nawaz. geoff: and i'm geoff bennett. have a great evening. ♪ >> major funding for the "pbs newshour" has been provided by -- >> architect.

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