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and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, this is hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. prime minister benjamin netanyahu said today that israel has accolished many of its goals during its nearly four- week-long conflict with hamas. and israeli troops and tanks began to pull back from parts of gaza. netanyahu signaled that a wider pullback could be coming after the last of the hamas tunnels leading into israel from gaza are destroyed. >> ( translated ): the military will prepare for continuing

action in according to our security needs and only according to our security needs. >> sreenivasan: an estimated 1,650 palestinians and 66 israelis have been killed during the fighting. meanwhile, the egyptian leader, abdel fattah al-sisi, is hosting a meeting in cairo with palestinian officials to try to broker a new, more lasting cease fire between israel and hamas. an earlier cease fire arranged by egypt broke down after only hours yesterday. earlier today, we spoke via skype from jerusalem with jodi rudoren of the "new york times." what do we know about the planned negotiations in egypt? >> well two, things. i mean, first of all, these negotiations are part of a plan that secretary of state john kerry and head of the united nations arranged, a cease-fire during which, the more substantive agreement to stop the fighting. that fell apart as you mentioned yesterday when israel renewed

the attack after being confronted by militants who came out of a tunnel, they killed two soldiers and seemed to have captured an officer, so several things, that whole thing fell apart, the palestinians going to cairo but the israelis says they are not, they have not definitively said they a not going but it appears they are not. but longer term, if there is going to be any resolution beyond just them -- it is going to happen in talks in cairo. >> all right. has the intensity on the ground, or the israeli response changed after this missing soldier? >> yes, significantly in the southern border town of rafah which is where the tunnel was, very aggressive assault, maybe the most aggressive of the whole campaign. >> my colleague was on the ground today in the western side of town, which is the kind of opposite side of town from where the action was, all sorts of people have evacuated there, the hospital in the east side of town had been hit, there was no

hospital functioning in rafah, people were getted treated at clinics, he said there were a lot of bodies that were being preserved in -- by kitchen type freezers because there was no room a and he said it was a very desperate situation there, and there are days they have been under intense air and artillery shelling, and i think in through the summer, i think quieter during the daylight. across gaza the operations seemed to have slowed down some, the military informs us in the northern town of rafah they could go back to their homes and be safe, they are done operating in the north, so you saw a picture of increase. >> there seems to be some back and forth on who has been killed, israel came out today and said 47 percent of those killed in gaza may be terrorists or would be terrorists, gazans human rights group say 80 percent of those killed are civilians. >> yes. i think it is not definitive and certainly it is hard to tell in the middle of a battle. i am not sure we will ever know

for sure partly because of the definition of what a militant is in gaza is a little bit fluid, not like you enlist and in the military and get a uniform and a badge number. they do have, you know, military training and uniforms and ranks and things like that but a lot of people who the israel lis may consider part of the military and they may not. >> all right. jodi rudoren of "the new york times" joining us via skype in jerusalem. >> thank you. >> >> sreenivasan: from north korea tonight, a plea for help to the u.s. government from two american tourists being held there. 56-year-old jeffrey edward fowle and 24-year-old matthew todd miller told the associated press they are being well-treated but expect to be put on trial soon for "anti-state crimes." fowle is suspected of leaving a bible in a nightclub. a third american, kenneth bay, has been held there for nearly 21 months. back in this country, kent brantly, a 33-year-old american doctor who contracted ebola after going to west africa to treat it, was flown to a

military base near atlanta today on a specially equipped chartered airplane. he was then transported by ambulance to emory university hospital. he needed assistance but was able to walk out of the vehicle. brantley will be treated in an isolation ward. the head of the isolation unit there said-- quoting now-- "no one is in any way at risk." it's the first time anyone infected with ebola has been brought to the united states. the outbreak in africa has killed more than 700 people. the fate of tens of thousands of people, many of them children, who entered the united states illegally, remains unresolved tonight. before adjourning late last night, the republican-led house of representatives passed a measure that would speed deportations. but the democrat-led senate did not take up the bill before leaving for the summer recess and the house measure has little chance of success there. what comes next? for more, we are joined tonight from washington by christina bellantoni. she is the editor in chief at "roll call." >> what happens next? for the next five weeks, as congress is in recess, do all of these

people in the detention centers now just stay there? >> no. there is not limbo. the president d a news conference yesterday where he said he would be forced to take matters into his own hands even though congress has been critical of him doing so on other matters, including immigration so the white house told me this morning and the administration official said they are going to take $405 million, that is much, much less than the house approved and less than the president had initially asked for and they wanted to transfer that down to help ease either deportation proceedings or have facilities down at the border for housing these child migrants or ways they can speed up some of the processes they are making a little more smoothly but that money is coming from other places. they are taking the majority of it, $270 million from federal emergency management funds that would deal with any sort of disaster relief, and you may recall that when the president first asked congress for this emergency spending, more than a month ago he actually included a lot of money for wildfire relief

and so in addition to not having that funding put in place, they are taking money from other disasters. >> so this becomes a source of contention for states that might be say, for example, in hurricane alley, saying some of our funds are diverted to the border states in the south. >> sure or tornadoes or drought which is a big issue in texas so it allows for some money to go down to help texas national guard to alleviate some of the issues. it is also important to point out some of the numbers that we are seeing coming across the border, we get a bit of delay in that reporting and the crossing crossings by child migrants is down because it is the hot summer months and seeing fewer and fewer come across the border, the numbers are still up far from previous years but down over recent months but it doesn't mean the problem is going to go away and when the congress comes back in september, the senate probably will dispatch the house's bill we don't know for sure how that will play up. they may come up with some

compromise middle ground and the president will already have transferred that money so they could end up funding it closer to the level than he initially asked for. >> and how much of this plays into the reelection campaigns of some of these members of congress that are heading back, just to get this particular piece of legislation through where it is now? >> that is a central question that our, we are looking into, and talking to members back home in their district, what are they hearing from their constituents are they paying attention to this issue? do they care. gentleman a lot of foreign policy crises that are also generating a lot of attention and concern among americans, will es than 100 days from the midterm elections. but the other element that is playing out here is immigration advocates are really stepping up pressure on the white house, urging them to take even broader action when it comes to deferred action for so-called dreamers, and so the president has helped the meetings, these immigration advocates said it sounds as though he may be willing to expand what he did in 2012 through executive action, so those issues are playing out at the exact same time. >> all right, i didn't city naah

bellantoni from roll call joining us from roll call, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> >> >> sreenivasan: and an estimated 400,000 people in and around toledo, ohio, are having to rely on bottled water after toxins-- possibly from algae on lake erie-- polluted the city's water supply. officials said boiling the water might only make the problem worse. governor john kasich declared a state emergency and said water is being shipped to toledo from other parts of the state. california state prison officials have issued new policies limiting the use of force on mentally ill prisoners. this after graphic images emerged of inmates, some described as screaming and delirious, being pepper sprayed in their cells. in one instance, a mentally ill inmate was found dead in his cell last year after being pepper sprayed. the state estimates that 33,000 prisoners there are mentally ill. here in new york city, the medical examiner said a 43- year-old man who appeared to have been placed in a chokehold by police was the victim of a homicide. the officers had arrested eric garner for allegedly selling bootleg cigarettes on the street. an autopsy found that garner's poor overall health contributed to his death but was not the

primary cause. the officer involved was stripped of his gun and taken off of street duty but has not been criminally charged. >> sreenivasan: in the coming days, the senate intelligence committee will release a declassified version of a 6,000- page report examining the c.i.a.'s rendition, detention and interrogation program. yesterday, anticipating the report, the president said, quoting now: "we tortured some folks. we did some things that were contrary to our values." for more, we are joined tonight from washington by siobhan gorman. she is the intelligence correspondent for the "wall street journal." so what is likely to be in this report that the president is trying to prepare country for? >> well, we reported on the broad outlines of it over the past few months and it sounds like it is going to be certainly highly critical of the cia's

execution of the program and well among other things say that the agency misled both the justice department and congress and i guess by extension the public about the effectiveness of the program. so considering that everything is going to be compiled into this one large report, is it likely to highlight the mismanagement of the agency that led to all of these problems? >> i think we will see that as one of the key findings of this report. we are told that the cia counter-terrorism centers management of the program was at times reallyin correct and inappropriate, and that is something that law make versus said is an issue that still needs to be looked at at the cia so that may produce sort of follow-up proposals for reform. >> any other idea of any of the other key findings in here? >> well, i think that one of the big takes away, at least as i have spoken with people who have read the report is, that people may not appreciate how these techniques were used in

conjunction with each other. it is one thing to think the detainees were being deprived of sleep, being exposed to live music, being thrown against walls, a whole assortment of things in addition to, a few of detainees also water boarded but if you think about a lot of those being used sort of back-to-back over an exteed period of time, the impact is somewhat more significant than what people may have already thought. >> so how many people have endured some of these different practices by the cia? >> well, my recollection is that it is somewhere around 100 or something less than that. >> and how this report was generated also made news in week with the revelations that cia was spying on some of the members of the senate committee who were investigating this report. >> yes. in sort of a final stages of reviewing the report and sort of the cia's response to it, the cia, i guess, came to suspect that the senate may have

inappropriately obtained an internal document and the cia took it upon itself to try to figure out by monitoring senate networks whether or not they had been -- you know, whether or not there was network vulnerability or whether the document had been stolen from the cia, and from the cia director john brennan brought this issue to the heads of the senate intelligence committee in january, it created a huge kind of an internal firestorm within the committee and then it still got into the public in the spring and the other day, the inspector general of the cia finally weighed in with his sort of verdict on it, and he found that indeed the cia had inappropriate limon ford senate networks to include doing key word searches of staff e-mails and in some cases reviewing e-mails. >> all right, siobhan gorman, intelligence correspondence for wall street journal, thank you so much. >> thank you.

>> >> sreenivasan: and now to our signature segment, our original in-depth reports from around the nation and around the world. tonight, we look at changing definitions of gender. earlier this year, facebook offered its users dozens of addional ways to identify themselves other than male or female. the company said it wants people, quoting now, "to fe comfortable being your true, authentic self." and germany and australia now offer their citizens a third box to check on their passports other than male or female. of course, some members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community say they don't want to have to fit into any box at all. and now, the fashion industry is responding to them in a way that's never occurred before. the newshour's ivette feliciano reports. >> my gender identity is really based in both my experiences as

a woman, and also it's just deeply rooted in the fact that i'm masculine. >> reporter: rachel tutera says it wasn't until she started wearing boy's clothes as a pre- teen, that she started to feel like the most authentic version of herself. yet, the 29-year-old says shopping for clothes in the men's department left her feeling insecure and self- conscious. nothing ever fit her proportions. so she was resigned to thinking that's just the way it was. >> i got used to wearing clothes that hid me. i thought i would just end up being someone who would prefer to be overlooked, or not worth sort of a second glance. >> typically, you show a little bit of cuff. >> reporter: after years of frustration shopping off the rack, tutera decided to purchase her first tailored men's suit and she says the way she felt when she tried it on changed her life. >> having something custom-made for my body, basically, re- introduced me to my body, and i have felt, like, incredibly visible in a way that's not just causing people to take a second

look at me, but i think people see me in a way that may actually be aligned with how i see myself. and that has been the most, like, powerful, mind-blowing thing. >> reporter: the experience made tutera want to pass that feeling along to others. so she approached the new york based made-to-order-men's suit company, bindle and keep convincing the owner that he was overlooking an under-served market. not only masculine women, but also transgender men and other gender non-conforming people who want well-fitting, men's suits. she soon became the company's l.g.b.t.q. liaison, serving hundreds of people all over the country who sometimes spend up to $1,500 for their custom made suit. >> this is not just a need that is being recognized in progressive cities. >> reporter: has it been emotional for any of your clients? >> yes, it has been emotional, for sure. shopping or wearing clothes seems like a really mundane thing, but actually it's, like, incredibly meaningful, and

incredibly powerful, and it can really, like, make or break an identity. >> there are so many different ways to be gender nonconforming. and there's an explosion of new vocabularies to talk about it. >> reporter: ann pellegrini is the director of the center for gender and sexuality at new york university. >> many gender non-conforming people don't experience themselves as having been born into the wrong body. but they might find themselves deeply uncomfortable with the kinds of straightjackets of gender. the ways in which, you know, you're supposed to sort of present, again, this very narrow notion of femininity if you have a female body, a very narrow notion of masculinity if you have a male body. >> reporter: she says recently there's been an explosion of gender non-conforming people in mainstream media, challenging conventional gender roles. >> this is the first time an openly transgender person has appeared on the cover of time magazine, why now do you think, laverne? >> because of the internet and because of social media trans people we our voices now, and we are letting our voice be heard.

>> i think that we are born and we're assigned a sex at birth. that is a matter none of us have control over, but we do have control over our destinies and over our identities and we should be respected. >> reporter: professor ann pellegrini believes that the growing visibility of gender- non-conforming people and the legalization of same-sex marriage in 19 states, has forced the fashion world to acknowledge the presence and buying power of the l.g.b.t.q. community. >> the really short answer would be capitalism. at the end of the day, it's about seeing that there's a market. >> i've met a lot of people who say things like they've been putting off getting married for ten years because they couldn't fathom what they would wear. >> reporter: pew research estimates that there have been more than 70,000 same-sex marriages since 2004, when massachusetts became the first u.s. state to legalize them. >> so it's our first full collection where we did shirts blazers pants, bathing suits, we did it all.

>> reporter: and that has meant new clients for start-up companies like marimacho, a brooklyn-based clothing line that designs classic menswear for the unconventionally masculine. >> i think there's a stereotype of masculine women existing outside of fashion. it, sort of, takes them as, you know, perpetual teenagers that are always gonna be awkward and dressed in ill-fitting clothing. >> reporter: owners ivette and crystal gonzalez-ale, who are married, say investors laughed at their business idea at entrepreneurial mixers back in 2010. yet, the overwhelming support from their l.g.b.t.q. community allowed them to fund their project entirely without investors. >> from the moment we put up our website, folks have been pouring in emails about how important it is for them to have clothing that's appropriate for their gender. >> reporter: and now many mainstream labels are following suit. in 2012, ford models chose female olympic swimmer and new york artist, casey legler, as

its newest menswear model. in the same year, yves saint laurent chose a female model as the face of its spring/summer menswear collection. and just this year, luxury retaile barneys new york featured 17 transgender models in its spring campaign. >> none of these designers would be sort of trying to produce clothes that would appeal to masculine women if they didn't think there were people who could walk in with a wallet and pull out a credit card. >> reporter: though mainstream designers are starting to cater to the needs of the l.g.b.t.q. community, some shoppers say that sort of acceptance hasn't trickled down to their stores. >> most of our customers have tried department stores where the dressing rooms are typically gendered, and that is a really violent experience to be removed from a dressing room or to be told that you don't belong there because of your perceived gender.

>> reporter: what wasurprising to you when just trying to shop at a store and going into a fitting room? >> there's a weird tendency in people to panic when they can't tell if you're a man or a woman, or how you may identify. >> reporter: rachel tutera says discrimination and judgment directed at people like her is often inetable. that's why two years ago she started a fashion blog called "the handsome butch." the site hopes to empower readers with a simple message, which is that they too have the right to be handsome. >> it was almost like a meditation i had for myself when i was first shopping. it was, i have the right to be here. i think i just had to say over and over to myself, "you have the right to be handsome. you have the right to be handsome." until it actually felt like a right instead of, like, a meditation i was trying to convince myself was true. >> reporter: tutera's work will be featured in an upcoming documentary produced by lena dunham of the hit hbo series "girls." she says the one thing she won't be tailoring in the coming

months is her message. >> sreenivasan: and now to" viewers like you." your response to some of our recent work. we got a good deal of feedback about last sunday's interview with president tong of kiribati about his plan to ban commercial tuna fishing in the waters off his pacific island nation. some viewers wondered, how feasible the idea is? joel shipp wrote us on facebook: they will simply fish outside those areas. tunas move long distances every single day. they don't stay in one place. and david cramer wondered: how do we keep the chinese fishing fleets out? but most viewers praised president tong for trying. robert cuer wrote us on our website: extraordinary interview. president tong is so perceptive, dignified, and tuned into the environmental challenges we face. other short-sided political leaders and an industry motivated by greed, not just

survival, could learn a great deal from him. jesse bustamante wrote us on facebook: a five year moratorium on commercial fishing would replenish the oceans. one man. one boat. 10/6 added this: ever been off the coast of new jersey and seen the commercial fishing industry at work? it was enough for me to want to ban commercial fishing altogether, worldwide. dirty, filthy, polluting jerks. we also heard from many of you about jeffrey brown's profile of garrison keillor about the 40th anniversary of "a prairie home companion." monya hanson shenkenberg wrote: one of my favorite shows. always makes me smile and sometimes laugh out loud. and sandra luster-harper responded to keillor's suggestion to live for today. my mom left me the same philosophy the day before she passed. she never got to tomorrow. so i try to live in the moment. as always, let us know what you think of our stories, on twitter, facebook or at newshour.pbs.org

some late news before we leave you tonight, a second american infected with ebola in liberia is expected to be flown to the united states in the next 72 hours, earlier today a special charter carrying the other stricken american landed at a military base. he is now hospitalized in an isolation ward in atlanta. both were in liberia to treat those suffering from the disease and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu warned hamas it would pay an intolerable price if it continues rocket fire on israel, this as israeli troops pulled back from some posions in gaza, join us online tomorrow, i am hari sreenivasan, good night. >> captioning sponsored by wnet

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