the peace process today, more than three decades later, is chief foreign affairs correspondent margaret warnerargaret, you haven't been covering washington as long as i have as you just saw but you have watched the middle east. how important were the camp david accords. >> as they just said, really essential, because you took the two most powerful armees and sworn enemies and they cut a separate piece but they cut a piece. and that really prevented the likelihood of any kind of broad israeli-arab war again and nuclear deterrent of israel helped. but it's also remarkable how enduring it was. sadat foreshadows that he was going to be assassinated and was three years later the whole hosni mubarak, the israeli and egyptian military worked closely together. mubarak depenlded on u.s. aid, tried to help in israeli-palestinian talks though they never really bother fraught and when when morsi came n the militaries continued to control that account and they still do. and they are fighting terrorists it in the sinai, it is important, though, to point out and some of your clips illustrate this, what it di

we'll get more from margaret warner, who's just back from ukraine, later in the program. the government of france has resigned after the ruling socialists took a drubbing in municipal elections. sunday's results showed deep dissatisfaction with president francois hollande and his handling of the economy. instead, voters turned to conservative and anti-immigrant parties. this evening, in a televised address, hollande named a new prime minister, and acknowledged public discontent. >> not enough jobs, too much unemployment, social justice needs to be improved. still too much uncertainty over our capacity as a country, despite our many assets. >> woodruff: the socialists held on to >> ifill: the socialists did hold on to city hall in paris, which elected its first woman mayor. former israeli prime minister ehud olmert has been convicted of taking bribes when he was mayor of jerusalem. the announcement came in a tel aviv court. it followed a sweeping corruption probe that forced olmert from the prime minister's office in 2009. and in pakistan, former military ruler pervez mush

chief foreign affairs correspondent margaret warner reports. >> warner: ballots by the truckload were brought to kabul from the far reaches of afghanistan, as the painstaking process of tabulating the saturday vote totals began in earnest. >> ( translated ): the sensitive and non-sensitive material including the results from districts of almost 15 provinces has been delivered to the center of the provinces according the schedule. >> warner: nearly 60% of the 12 million eligible voters headed to the polls amid tight security. long lines formed on a raw, rainy day in kabul. outgoing president hamid karza spoke after filling out his own ballot. >> ( translated ): i cast my vote today as a citizen of this country and i am so glad and proud that i have voted today. i am certain that today's event and our people's participation will take afghanistan towards stability and better lives for the people. >> warner: the pace of deadly taliban strikes had escalated leading up to the balloting. but saturday saw no major attacks, and the high turnout was its own message, said prominent lawmaker shuk

margaret warner reports on what's at stake for the united states following yesterday's voting in afghanistan. >>> that's it for this edition of pbs "news hour weekend." thanks for watching. >>> the following is a co-production of kqed and the center for investigative reporting. >> in california's fields, things are changing. crops are less plentiful. >> we're seeing two-thirds of a reduction in volume out of our southern growing regions. >> insects are more abundant. >> our temperatures have increased by two to three degrees fahrenheit, and that seems to be enough to keep them from being frozen out during the winter. i did end up losing one field -- probably a quarter of a million dollar hit. >> water, already scarce, is now too salty to sustain crops. >> if you don't have enough quality water to farm, then there's limits to what we can do with genetics. >> coming up -- climate change pushes california growers to new limits.

chief foreign affairs correspondent margaret warner has the details. >> diplomacy requires willing partners. >> warner: the talks in geneva began with low expectations, as secretary of state john kerry met with counterparts from ukraine, russia and the european union. but after seven hours of negotiations, they announced the terms of a deal. >> we agreed today that all illegal armed groups must be disarmed, that all illegally seized buildings must be returned to their legitimate owners and all illegally occupied streets, squares and other public places in ukrainian cities and towns must be vacated. >> ifill: for its part, ukraine's government must make good on plans to grant the eastern regions more autonomy as russia has demanded. european monitors are to oversee compliance. kerry acknowledged it won't be easy. >> all of this we are convinced represents a good day's work, but on the other hand, it's produced commitments, principles, words on paper. we're first to understand and agree that words will only mean what actions taken as result produce. >> warner: russian foreign minister sergei

chief foreign affairs correspondent margaret warner reports. >> reporter: late last week, after more than three months of sometimes deadly street protests throughout venezuela, president nicolas maduro met with his political opposition. the six-hour televised session brokered by the vatican and three south american foreign ministers attracted record ratings on venezuelan tv, reflecting the nation's anxiety at the street violence that killed more than 40 and posed the biggest challenge to the government in more than a decade. the alternative to finding an accommodation, said, maduro, is a dark one. >> imagine, it would be the beginning of an armed, violent civil confrontation, bloody, bloody, and no one would win anything. >> reporter: what began in january as demonstrations against rising crime mushroomed in february into massive marchs with hundreds of thousands protesting the scarcity of goods in security and the arrests of demonstrators. today there remains smaller but fervent localized protests in neighborhoods with barricades. the target, president maduro. maduro struggled to ma

but as chief foreign affairs correspondent margaret warner reports, the demonstrators still hold control of government buildings in two key cities. >> warner: riot police surrounded the regional government headquarters in kharkiv today after ukrainian security forces late last night ousted scores of pro-russian separatists. the protesters, who declared the that eastern region's independence yesterday, were taken into custody. ukraine's interior minister was in charge. >> ( translated ): around 70 people were detained, weapons were taken and fire was extinguished. right now the city administration building is under control. >> warner: but armed separatists remain entrenched at the regional government building in donetsk, also in the east. where the governor told us on our visit three weeks ago that he thought he had the situation in hand. >> ( translated ): when i arrived, this building was blocked and the russian flag was flying on the roof. today the situation is quite different. >> warner: but last weekend, pro-russian protesters stormed the building, barricaded it with tires and barbe

chief foreign affairs correspondent margaret warner reports. >> reporter: ukrainian armored personnel carriers, flying the russian tri-colored flag, rolled into the eastern city of slovyansk. the latest move in a slow-motion takeover of ukrainian territory. the country's defense ministry announced "russian sabotage groups" captured the vehicles, and the ukrainian soldiers in them, but one of those soldiers said he'd defected. meanwhile, heavily armed men in military gear patrolled streets in slovyansk, and beat an unidentified man before hauling him away. one of them flashed a ukrainian passport, and said he'd come to the eastern region, known as donbass, from a nearby russian conquest. >> ( translated ): we are coming from peoples' militia of crimea and we are here to help peoples' militia of donbass. >> reporter: to the south, ukrainian jets streaked over kramatorsk, where the government opened an anti-terrorist offensive yesterday and retook a local airfield. but locals, like this priest, sounded dismayed. >> ( translated ): my parish is here, residents of our village, we are again