ali: tonight on pbs news weekend, israeli forces withdraw from a key corridor in gaza while in lebanon they continue to hold territory where they say hezbollah remains a threat. then, why a painful condition affecting millions of women can take years to diagnose. and, we explore how the reliably

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possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ali: good evening, i'm ali rogin. john yang is away. israel pulled its forces from a key gaza corridor today, which it used as a military zone during the war, cutting off the north of the gaza strip from the south. the withdrawal is part of a fragile ceasefire deal with hamas. drone footage revealed the scale of destruction at the netzarim corridor. people can be seen sifting through debris, carrying bodies and making their way home. meanwhile, on israel's northern front inside lebanon, its forces there have already missed a deadline to withdraw and concerns are mounting they may stay past february 18, a second deadline to pull out. simona foltyn is on the ground at the lebanese border. simona: this is one of several

lebanese border villages still under israeli control. >> we are at the east side, thee on this side and we have a few standing houses. i guess they want to destroy them before they leave. simona: every day he and other villages watch as the idf demolishes more homes, some owned by american citizens like shahim. >> they use explosives, they are visible. they put explosives next to the houses and by sunset, they bomb them. they do three, four, sometimes five houses at a time. if you stay later, you will see them yourself. simona: we don't have to wait

long. from afar, we filmed a group of israeli soldiers entering a home. soon after, it is set on fire. it all happens in plain sight of the lebanese army and u.n. peacekeepers. the israeli army is stationed in both houses over there a few meters away. when we pointed our zoom lens at them they fired warning shots in our direction. it is clear they do not want to be filmed. reporter: a third of the inhabitants are christian. the historic church lies in ruins as does his 100-year-old family home. he took this video a few days back when he briefly returned with the lebanese army. the idf says it is still clearing villages of hezbollah's weapons and dismantling tunnel infrastructure they say are embedded in civilian homes. people here see it differently. >> there is nobody there.

they just want to destroy everything. they don't want people to come back and live. simona: how many houses have been destroyed since the cease-fire came into effect? >> since the cease-fire i would say between 200, 250,000 -- 250 houses. simona: between december 1 and february 2 at least 143 houses were destroyed were there also reports that the idf has been uprooting lebanon's precious trees. yaroun was famous for its ancient oak forest. >> the size of it is 600,000 square meters. they took them all out. they took them into israel. they brought heavy machinery, took them all out, loaded them on trucks. simona: the forest is seen here

to the west of the village. satellite images show since january, 71% of the trees, 120 acres, have been removed. and yaroun is no exception. driving onto the border, many villages are destroyed or remain inaccessible. we are on our way to another village. we just spoke to some civilians who told us it is still occupied by the israeli army, and they are not allowing civilians to return to their homes. we arrived at a lebanese army checkpoint. i asked soldiers if it is safe to go on. down the road we come to another roadblock and a warning. the israeli army has killed more than 20 lebanese in the past two weeks as they attempted to return home. despite the risk, some remain undeterred. >> i went to my brothers house to reassure him it is still

standing. what we can do, hopefully soon, his return. simona: amid the delays the anger mounts. >> this is our land, we want to go back. reporter: she blames the international community for not pressuring the israeli army to act in line with the agreed timetable. >> all the countries agreed with them at the expense of the people. they are occupying and talking. the cease-fire was 60 days, then another 18, and then what? we want our houses back and our land, and our dignity. simona: israel says lebanon has not lived up to its side of the deal as the idf gradually pulls back, it is leaving behind a trail of destruction, similar to what we have seen in gaza. this is the main street that is unrecognizable. the town mayor --

>> as you can see, 90% to 95% of the houses in the village have been destroyed and are uninhabitable. simona: the idf left it on january 27, but the death toll keeps rising. in the village at a funeral is underway for a man and his two young daughters. they end another child were killed in an explosion the day before. it occurred here inside the family home. >> it happened within five minutes of him arriving home. he parked his car and entered, then there was an explosion. simona: he had only just begun to rebuild his house. the mayor accuses the idf. >> the way the israeli enemy is infiltrating other areas to kill and bomb, they can easily infiltrate from the southern areas. simona: the idf is due to

withdraw completely on february 18. no matter the destruction, the lebanese displaced on their land have vowed to return. >> at the moment they leave, yaroun people will return. simona: for pbs news weekend, at lebanon's border with israel. ali: we reached out to the idf for their response to this report and they said, in part, they act in strict accordance with international law and make all feasible efforts to mitigate harm to civilians during operational activity. they added, quote it must be emphasized that hezbollah unlawfully embeds its military assets into densely populated civilian areas and cynically exploits civilian infrastructure for terror purposes. as uncertainty grows about the next phase of an israel-hamas ceasefire deal -- arab leaders are preparing to meet to discuss the future of the region. egypt's foreign minister said nearly a dozen countries will gather later this month at the request of palestinian leaders. during the arab summit, leaders

will analyze what they say are the escalating developments in gaza, including recent remarks by president trump about possible plans to, quote take over the gaza strip. tonight, donald trump becomes the first sitting president today to attend a super bowl. mr. trump left his beachside resort in palm beach, florida to fly to new orleans for the big game. ahead of his travels -- he kept a presidential tradition of sitting down for an interview, during which he touted his collaboration with elon musk and government cost cutting. pres. trump: then i'm going to tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check to the department of education. he's going to find the same thing. then i'm going to go to the military. let's check the military. we're going to find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse. and, you know, the people elected me on that. ali: security in the big easy is already tight after last month's deadly bourbon street attack but will be even more so with the

president's attendance. about law enforcement officers 2000 and hundreds of national guard members are on duty for tonight's festivities. workers at one of the country's most well known watchdog agencies -- the consumer financial protection bureau, or cfpb -- have been instructed to stop all work. the announcement came via an email to staff saturday night. the newly installed head of the bureau, russel vought, also said he plans to zero out the agency's funding for the next quarter. the watchdog was created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to enforce financial laws and protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices. elon musk has vowed to quote delete the bureau. dive teams will comb the potomac river this week in search of smaller pieces of wreckage tied to last month's deadly air disaster in washington, d.c. the national transportation safety board said it has now pulled out all the major pieces of the black hawk helicopter involved in the crash. that wreckage will be brought to a nearby ntsb facility for

further analysis. 67 people were killed when the black hawk and an american airlines plane collided. the cause of the crash may not be known for months. still to come on pbs news weekend we look into a painful , condition impacting tens of millions of women around the world and, how the red state of , utah is embracing renewable energy and going green. >> this is pbs news weekend from the david m. rubenstein studio at weta in washington, home of the pbs news hour weeknights on pbs. ali: one in 10 women of reproductive age around the world suffer from a condition known as endometriosis. it's an illness where tissue similar to the uterine lining grows outside of that organ, in places it's not supposed to be. it can lead to infertility, debilitating pain and financial hardship. for our series, unequal treatment, i recently spoke with dr. laura homewood a gynecologic surgeon at uva health about how

the medical community is working with patients to learn more about this disease. dr., thank you for joining us. we mentioned sometimes it takes years to get a diagnosis. it is the average patient's time to get a diagnosis and why does it take so long? dr. homewood: the statistic around endometriosis, it can take an average of seven years and seeing seven different doctors before a woman can get her definitive diagnosis of endometriosis. despite it being a very common diagnosis it is difficult to diagnose because you actually have to have surgery to get a tissue diagnosis. there is no easy blood test or screening, imaging that is found in other diseases. also some providers are not good at catching it. they are very vague symptoms that can mimic other diseases and that can lead to big delays for women, unfortunately.

ali: we spoke to patient one advocate who said she went nearly a decade before she was diagnosed and experienced tremendous uncertainty, high medical bills let's take a in the interim. let's take a listen to what she had to say. >> i was very young when i first started going through this in my young 20s and i didn't have a lot of extra money. as time went on some of the surgeries were not covered by my insurance. so i had to pay out of pocket to have surgery. endometriosis has a huge financial burden and impact on the individual who's suffering and their families. ali: do you see a lot of patients with stories like hers? dr. homewood: absolutely, i hear this type of story almost daily in my clinic. endometriosis has a lot of impacts on a patient's life and you have to consider different costs. not only the financial cost to the patient in the co-pays, in the medication costs, in surgery and all of those personal out-of-pocket costs. there's

also a huge cost to the health system in the increased utilization by these patients. like i mentioned, these patients will see multiple doctors before they're able to get their diagnosis and that really adds up over time would we have data that suggests a typical woman will spend about $4000 to five thousand dollars between their out-of-pocket costs and insurance coverage in a single year. however, patient with endometriosis, they are looking at about $14,000 per year. there was a lot of cost financially. you also have to think about the opportunity cost of having this disease. that is the loss of the potential gain while these patients are left bedridden and in pain for a couple days each month during their menses. they miss work, have to call out, maybe are not promoted at the same scale as other patients

who don't have to miss work. ali: there are also issues with fertility. can you tell us about those? dr. homewood: unfortunately there is an association between infertility and endometriosis. if you are not able to get pregnant, naturally, oftentimes these women have to seek the assistance of infertility specialists and assisted reproductive technologies. for example, in vitro fertilization, a general cycle of that can cost anywhere from $15,000 to $25,000 out of pocket if your insurance isn't covering it. ali: what needs to change in terms of how experts, how doctors, how researchers think about and treat this disease? dr. homewood: like i mentioned earlier there's no great way to , easily diagnose this disease so i think there needs to be more research in the field of endometriosis to get a noninvasive diagnostic tests. the other thing is patient awareness. some women don't know that it's not normal to have such painful periods or it's not normal to

miss school and have to miss work because of a painful period. ali: i'm sure part of this is doctors needing to be more inclined to listen to their patients when they bring up severe period pain. dr. homewood: i hear that all the time, patients say my doctor said, it is just your period, take some ibuprofen, when it is so much more complicated. it is difficult for doctors to have a very intense and long conversation about chronic pain in a 10 or 15 minute video slot with their patients. you need time and effort to get to the bottom of the problem and i think some providers don't have the time or expertise. ali: i want to be sure to ask you also what sort of treatments are available for this? dr. homewood: there are a lot of different treatments come as simple as birth control pills different types of birth control , that exist that manipulate the hormones in your body so that

your endogenous or the hormones that your body naturally makes aren't stimulating the endometriosis, we're actually trying to suppress it with hormones. there are a few new medications that are on the market that help with pain associated with endometriosis. however, they are extremely expensive. in addition to medications and or moans we also have surgery as a management option. so not only is surgery diagnostic, but if you have surgery with a surgeon trained to excise that endometriosis, or to remove it at the time of surgery, that is also therapeutic. ali: dr. laura homewood, gynecologic surgeon at uva health, thank you so much for your insights. dr. homewood: thank you. ♪ ali: earlier this week, president trump suspended a program to expand the country's

network of electric vehicle chargers. it is his latest in a series of efforts to undo biden-era policies encouraging ev adoption. but in some parts of the country, ev's and other low-carbon technologies are becoming more popular not because of government policies, but because they make economic sense. that is what i found when i recently visited utah - a politically red state, where some residents are going green. >> it is usually really beautiful this time of year. ali: he is a father of four and self-described middle-of-the-road conservative. >> i would describe myself as leaning more on the conservative side, but very nuanced as well. ali: born and raised in utah, he has worked in insurance here for more than two decades, but you would be forgiven for thinking he was a professional fiddle player. that is not the only thing about him that is surprising. despite his conservative politics, he is a fan of electric vehicles which studies

show 10 to be more popular with left-leaning consumers. >> we never and a million years thought an ev car is something we would own because every time we would look at an electric car it seemed so expensive. ali: that all changed the day he found a fully electric chevy bolt for the right price. >> we ended up picking the car up for $10,000 with 15,000 miles on it. i was blown away. ali: the cost made an ev far more attractive. an added bonus, easier on the environment. utah already has some of the worst air quality in the nation. >> our family is very into outdoor activities, hiking, biking. we are very conscious of trying to take care of the environment and our surroundings. ali: he is far from alone in solidly republican utah. ev registration in this state slightly exceeded the national

average in the most recent data from 2023. >> folks are intimately aware of the challenges we have with air quality, both in terms of our health and for what it means in terms of the beauty of the state. ali: josh kraft leads affairs for utah clean energy, a nonprofit that advocates for green technology. >> there is a real understanding your vehicle choice matters and if you can move to a zero emissions vehicle, that will help everybody. ali: a mindset shared by republican strategist mike murphy who worked in politics for decades. today he leads the ev politics project which he hopes to close the needless partisan divide over ev's. for years he said the biggest obstacle for many consumers like rob sorensen was high prices, but it is becoming less of a stumbling block. >> with all the ev's coming off lease there was a huge supply of used electric vehicles on the

market, which has depressed prices. ali: as the prices continue to drop, he believes the political divide over this will diminish, too. >> the only thing they fight over is environmental impact. that is important to democrats and is offputting to republicans. now the price tag appeal, especially in the used market, is overcoming some of the dogma. >> we built the house in 1991. ali: for many utahans, environmentally friendly choices are less political and more about lifestyle. they live near the west desert and for years he worked at a coal plant, but when he built his own home he had sustainability in mind. solar panels, double insulated walls and a south facing solarium designed to heat the whole house. this whole house is energy efficient and energy independent. why was that important to you? >> by being energy efficient you use less resources. you make better use of what you have.

i have always felt is -- it is good to be a good steward of the land. if more people did this, that would mean less power plants would have to be built. even though i worked at one. ali: he told us he is not yet sold on ev's. he prefers diesel cars for their fuel efficiency and longevity. >> my vehicle could be sent to the scrap yard and reused. you can't reuse the lithium batteries. you can't reuse some of the materials the car is made with, very little of it. ali: goodrich says like this trump administration, he favors and all of the above approached energy including fossil fuels and renewables. though many experts warn continued use of fossil fuels drive climate change. he believes people will make green choices like he does when it makes sense for them. >> that is the problem i have with these people i call the so-called environmentalists, it

all has to be one way. ali: but across utah we found signs this state is actively getting into the renewable energy business. about an hour outside selleck city, the electron solar farm houses one square mile of solar panels, introduces 80 megawatts of power a day, provides electricity to almost all government buildings in selleck city, park city, two ski resorts and the university. >> it is amazing. i did not understand the scope and scale. ali: her company developed electron. >> the environment is fantastic for green entrepreneurs in utah. ali: she says they have welcomed renewable products to meet industry demand, triggered by construction of a massive data center for metta, then called facebook. >> they want energy for their facilities and that proliferated a lot of solar development in

utah. ali: rob sorensen's family got into the boom, installed solar panels and said the steep investment paid off. their monthly electric bill has been smaller ever since. even though we can tell he likes his instruments unplugged, he has gone electric just about everywhere else. >> our lawnmowers, weed whackers, everything is upgraded to electric. they are not only clean, they are extremely powerful. ali: he thinks back when he was reluctant to dive into the ev market and bought into an incorrect market that they are -- argument that they are so dirty because their batteries are powered by fossil fuels. >> the more i looked into it, i did not understand what i was talking about. how much coal did it take to drive your 250 miles in your ev car? ali: that is a question he believes more and more utah residents may be asking in the years to come.

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