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additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the american people. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thank you for joining us. search and rescue efforts continued today following the collapse of a condo building in surfside, florida, but no additional survivors were found as of late this afternoon. more than 150 peop are still unaccounted for, and at least four deaths are confirmed. firefighters and rescue teams are carefully digging through piles of debris, but a fire deep beneath the rubble is slowing their work. >> we are using infrared chnology. we are using foam. we're using water, and all tactics to contain the fire and minimize the smoke spread. >> sreenivasan: overnight, the city of surfside released documents, including an neer's report from 2018 that pointed to evidence of“ major structural damage” to the slab below the pool deck and entrance drive. for more on the search and the engineering reports, i spoke with npr correspondent brian

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and the only outlet being targeted in april, the producer of the cities public broadcast was convicted after making documentary critical of the police. his hand leave a mob attack against protesters while will get reaction from a german working the city. but 1st had this report from adrian brown in hong kong. the office of hong kong is most popular newspaper, one small a crime scene. in an operation involving up to 500 police journalists will order to leave the newsroom while their computers were examined. fight executives were arrested, including the papers editor in chief ryan law. all were taken by police from their homes during early morning rates. there suspected of being involved in the publication of articles that encouraged foreign countries to impose sanctions in hong kong. the suspects have been arrested on strong evidence that they are conspiring to in danger. national security. the action is taken against the criminals who make use of journalistic work as a tool to further their criminal activities. the newspapers own jimmy lie was arrested and charged under a new national

cyr of louisiana public broadcasting takes a look at the vaccination fort in one area of the bayou statedrea rushing wasn't afraid to get the vaccine. in fact it was something she'd been waiting for. >> it's important for everyone. >> reporter: but she was hesitant for one of two reasons: first she wasn't sure where to go to get it. and reason number two: was all of this. >> it's a lot of damage. a lot of heartache for a lot of >> reporter: rushing's family house is located in regionive, it's in southwest louisiana which is home to some of the state's most rural parishes. it's also a place picking up the pieces of four major weather events that devastated the population in less than a year: two hurricanes, a historical ice storm, and major flooding. the mayor nic hunter says the people are trying their best to recover. >> this community received several punches in the gut over the last fourteen months. >> reporter: t destruction is sad, heartbreaking even, for people that lost their homes once, twice or maybe even three times, but dr. lacey cavanaugh with the office of public health says

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourtation from viewers like you. thank you. judy: president biden kicked off his week of international diplomacy and with britain's prime minister boris johnson in southwest england. the first meeting between the leaders, just ahead of the beginning of the g7 summit mr. biden also announced a significant step that he said would supercharge the global fight against covid-19. pres. biden: the united states will purchase billion doses of pfizer's covid-19 vaccine to donate to nearly 100 s that are in need in fight against this pandemic. this is a monumental commitment by the american peop said, we are a nation full of people who step up at times of need to help our fellow human beings both at home and abroad. but we step up. judy: traveling with the president is our yamiche hello to you, 500 million doses that is a lot, what more do we know about the president's plan to contribute this money to countries that are struggling to get people vaccinated? yamiche: president biden and the white hou

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourtation from viewers like you. thank you. vanessa: we will return to judy woodruff and the full program after these headlines. israel's longest-serving prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been swept from office tonight after two years of political turmoil. opposition groups agreed on a new government with potentially far-reaching implications for israel and all the middle east. much more after the news summary. president biden rolled out new enticements today to get more americans vaccinated against covid-19. they range from free beer to cash giveaways. the president promised today that better days lie ahead if 70% of u.s. adults have a least one shot in the next month. >> americans can do anything when we do it together. so please do your part. give it your all through july 4. let's reach our 70% bowl. -- goal. let's go into the summer freer and safer. let's celebrate a truly historic independence day. [trt :20] vanessa: 63% of u.s. adults are at least partially immunized. there's wo

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the video which is reported by the oregon public broadcasts is posted on youtube saying it was streamed 2020. the 78-minute video shows him talking to an uninformed audience about steps to take to set up operation hall pass. it is not clear in the video if he knows that he is being recorded. he was eventually charged with misconduct and trespassing. he hasn't yet entered a plea in those charges and the attorney did not have a comment. >> to be clear showing two clips of video. speaking about it appearing to say here's how to get in and then video show him opening the door? correct? >> right. two competing videos. that is the cctv video and the accusation is he is leaving the building and that's when the protesters were able to run in there and had an altercation with law enforcement and the new video is giving a phone number and cnn shows is his phone number and what i think he thinks is linguistic gymnastics saying, well, if i would give you a phone number it would be this phone number and then the video again 78 minutes being reported by the oregon public broadcasts and will see how i

. ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributis tostation from viewers like you. thank you. judy: the first congressional report detailing what went wrong on january 6 was released this morning. the 128-page bipartisan senate document recounts significant intelligence and security failures leading up to an on the day of the attack, as well as a list of recommendations. we will talk with one of the key senators behind the report. but first, lisa desjardins is here with me now to walk us through it. lisa, this report is representing views from both political parties, we know. give us the gist of what it says. lisa: that's important. let's get right to it. this focuses on the security failures of the day. one of the things that it found was that capitol police did have the intelligence they had seen numerous postings online about potential violence including bring a gun, for example. but the police did not share that widely and did not make the correct assessment. also something that i had not seen before, that the pentagon from intervie

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to yourtion from viewers like you. thank you. judy: it's been another long day of watching and waiting, just outside miami beach, where a residential building collapsed early thursday. officials have now confirmed four are dead with 159 still unaccounted for -- leaving families clinging to hope. stephanie sy has our report. stephanie: it's been over 24 hours since part of the 12-story champlain towers condominium llapsed in surfside, florida. search and rescue crews spent last night and all day today methodically combing through concrete and twisted metal, eyes and ears alert for potential survivors. miami dade county mayor daniella levine cava says it's risky work. >> we are going to work as hard as we can to continue our search and rescue effort. that is our priority. that is where we're focused and protecting our first responders who are on the scene. stephanie: the crews started in the flooded basement parking garage of the building -- trying to tunnel upward, into the wreckage. the disas

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourbs station from viewers like you. thank you. judy: president biden landed in the united kingdom this afternoon, the first stop on his three nation european trip. he will begin by meeting british prime minister boris johnson tomorrow. then, the three day g7 summit that begins friday in southwest england. mr. biden spoke a short time ago to american forces at raf mildenhall. it's a british air force installation. pres. biden: the united states is back and democracies of the world are standing together to tackle the toughest challenges and of the issues that matter most to our future. we are committed to leading with strength, defending our values, and delivering for our people. democracy does not happen by accident. we have to defend it and we have to strengthen it. renew it. i know that the american people are up to this job. judy: our yamiche alcindor is traveling with the president, and joins me now from plymouth. hello to you, and safe travels. first of all, tell us what the presiden

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions tostation from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ judy: president biden is in brussels tonight, trying to reassure nato allies about u.s. support and rally them against russia and china. white house correspondent yamiche alcindor reports from brussels. >> we will now take the founding photo. yamiche: today at the nato summit, president biden got a warm welcome. the overwhelming feeling in the air -- relief. p.m. rutte: i think with joe biden, it's more natal again. p.m. bettel: we know that with the american president now, we have someone who believes in multilateralism. yamiche: after former president donald trump, nato leaders are anxious for stronger relations with the u.s. trump constantly threatened the alliance, initially declaring it "obsolete." pres. biden: i just want all of europe to know that the united states is there. yamiche: this morning, during a meetinwith nato secretary general jens stoltenberg, president biden tried to put to bed any uneasy feelings. pres. biden: i want to

. ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and i contributionsur pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: the confirmed death toll from that tragic condo building collapse in surfside, florida, has now risen to 10 people, but more than 150 others are still missing. it's dangerous work, and rescue crews maneuver on top of a precarious pile of crumbled concrete and twisted steel, desperately searching for signs of life. in surfside, florida today, officials pled for patience. >> it's going to take time. it's not going to happen overnight. it is a 12 story buding. it will take time. amna: day five of relentless rescue work and an agonizing wait for families of the missing. >> we're going to continue and work ceaselessly to exhaust every possible option in our search. i repeat, the search-and-rescue operation continues. amna: no survivors have been found since the hours after the building collapsed last aided by teams from israel and thursday. mexico, rescuers continued combing through the rubble with cranes and by hand. miami-dade fire re

joining us now is jonathan levenson who covers policing for oregon public broadcasting.ng me. >> what's it been like in portland over the last year? in a number of cities the protests flared up, died down, there might have been more after the verdict in the derek chauvin murder trial, but portland seems to have been a lot more kinetic shall we say in the last year. >> yeah, i mean, i think last year you saw sustained protests for many months but it is also important to clarify that what we're seeing right now is not last june or july, you know, august when there was thousands of people in the streets at times. this isn't even last november when there was sustained hundred, 200 people going out. what we see right now is 20 to 30 antifascist protesters going out on occasion. it is by no means as frequent as last year. they are vandalizing buildings. they're breaking windows. portland also has a very rich history of protests and there are other groups that are going out and demonstrating for social justice and racial justice that are not engaging in the same sort of vandali

in april, hong kong's public broadcaster began deleting all its archives dating to before 2020. >> seei am on the youtube page for the show hong kong connection. all reports related to the 2019 protest have been wiped. >> long admired for its editorial independence, rt hk is under new managementppointed by the government, actively reversing its journalists' work. hundreds of journalists are archiving content before it is of the 2019 protests alive.ments >> i have archived a total of 20 documentaries, 10 hours of content. i think it was important to archived them because they are historical evidence. i do not think anybody should be allowed to delete the truth. >> among the content deleted is this documentary that recounts the slow reaction of the hong kong police what an armed mob with suspected triad links attack pro-democracy protesters and bystanders in july, 2019. the producer of the report was arrested for her role in the production. she was found guilty. it was the fir conviion of its kind in hong kong. the report has won her best documentary in hong kong's press freedom awards,

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.nd by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: president biden kicked off his week of international diplomacy in a meeting with britain's prime minister boris johnson in southwest england. it was the first meeting between the leaders, just ahead of the beginning of the g-7 summit tomorrow. mr. biden also announced a significant step that he said would "supercharge" the global fight against covid-19. >> the united states will purchase a half a billion doses of pfir's covid-19 vaccine to donate to nearly 100 nations that are in dire need in the fight against this pandemic. this is a monumental commitment by the american people. as i said, we're a nation full of people who step up at times of need to help our fellow human beings, both at home and abroad. we're not perfect, but we step up. >> woodruff: traveling with the president is our yamiche alcindor, and she joins me now from plymouth. hello to you, yamiche. it is evening the. 500 million doses,

ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made poible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: president biden landed in the united kingdom this afternoon, the first stop on his three-nation european trip. he will begin by meeting british prime minister boris johnson tomorrow, then the three-day g-7 summit that begins friday in southwest england. mr. biden spoke a short time ago to american forces at r.a.f. mildenhall, a british air force installation. >> the united states is back, and the democracies of the world are standing together to tackle the toughest challenges, and the issues that matter most to our future. that we're committed to leading with strength, defending our values, and delivering for our people. democracy doesn't happen by accident. we have to defend it, we have to strengthen it, renew it. and i know that the american people are up to this job. >> woodruff: our yamiche alcindor is traveling with the president, and joins me now from plymouth. so hello to yamiche, to you, a

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: president biden has spent this day in tulsa, oklahoma, recalling the racial massacre in 1921 that left hundreds of black citizens dead. he met with survivors and touted plans for a racial reckoning. we'll have the story, after the news summary. the u.s. supreme court today refused to hear johnson & johnson's appeal of a $2 billion verdict over its talc products. 22 cancer victims alleged the company's baby powder and other products contain asbestos that cause ovarian cancer. a jury in missouri agreed. johnson & johnson faces more than 21,000 similar lawsuits. florida is now the largest state yet to ban transgender athletes from girls and women's sports teams in public schools and universities. the new law enables athletes to sue, if they lose to transgender competitors. republican governor ron desantis signed the bill in jacksonville today, and argued it's about equity, not discrimination. >> it's

ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: parts of washington state, oregon, and idaho spent another day baking in sweltering temperatures. rolling blackouts continue in spokane, washington, which hit a record 109 degrees yesterday. president biden lamented the brutal heat during a virtual meeting with the governors of western states. >> the extreme heat we're seeing in the west is not only a risk amplifier for wildfires. it's a threat in and of itself. people are hurting. it's more dangerous for kids to play outside. roads are buckling under the heat. again, i need not tell all of you. >> woodruff: meantime a dangerous heat wave in canada is slowly starting to ease. it scorched the pacific coast province of british columbia, with temperatures 30 to 40 degrees fahrenheit hotter than normal; one city recorded a reading of 122. the plains of alberta and manitoba provinces have also been blasted. at least 233 people died in british columbia

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the u.s. food and drug administration today approved the first new drug to treat alzheimer's disease in nearly two decades. federal heal officials said it may help slow the brain- destroying disease's progression. but the approval goes against the agency's independent advisers who said the treatment wasn't effective in clinical trials. we'll have more on this after the news summary. the justice department has now recovered a majority of the cryptocurrency payment given to hackers after last month's "colonial pipeline" ransomware attack. the bitcoin ransom-- which is currently valued at $2.3 million-- was seized from the russia-based hacker group "dark side." deputy attorney general lisa monaco made the announcement this afternoon. >> by going after the entire ecosystem that fuelsansomware and digital extortion attacks, including criminal proceeds in the form of digital currency, we will continue to

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.y contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the pace of hiring in the u.s. picked up last month as many states began easing coronavirus restrictions. the labor department reported employers added 559,000 jobs in may. that was double the amount in april. and the unemployment rate fell to 5.8%. in delaware, president biden hailed the report as proof his economic plans are working. >> no other major economy in the world is growing as fast as ours. no other major economy is gaining jobs as quickly as ours. none of this success is an accident. it isn't luck. >> woodruff: we'll take a closer look at the jobs report after the news summary. the centers for disease control and prevention today urged teens to get their covid-19 vaccinations, to avert a spike a new c.d.c. study found hospitalizations of young people were up in march and april, and nearly a third of those patients were admitted to an intensive care unit. researchers said it may be due to more

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the united states will donate 75% of its unused covid-19 vaccine doses to nations in need. the white house has announced plans to ship 80 million doses by month's end. president biden had come under growing pressure to send vaccine overseas. today, his national security adviser, jake sullivan, called it "the right thing to do." >> thanks to the ingenuity of american scientists, and resilience and commitment of the american people, we're in a position to help others, so we will help others. and as the president has said, the united states will not use its vaccines to secure favors from other countries. >> woodruff: meanwhile, the world health organization reported vaccine shipments in africa have all but stopped as infections spike. we'll return to all of this, after the news summary. the u.s. justice department is investigating postmaster general louis dejoy. it's alleged that he pressured employee

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: a major battle over election reform is underway in the u.s. senate. this comes as republicans in some states push to enact more restrictive voting laws, while democrats in the senate aim to override those efforts at the federal level. lisa desjardins is following tonight's senate vote on capitol hill. she and yamiche alcindor join me now. lyssa, the voting is under way. tell us where everything stands. >> this is a procedural vote, a vote to even start the debate on the idea of election and voting rights reform. the truth is we expect this vote to fail. it needs 60 votes, but it only has 50. it is important it does have 50 because this issue, judy, i can't stress enough, is one that both sides believe is critical to our democracy itself, the future of voting rights in this country. who can vote and who decides who can vote. in fact, vice-president kamala harris is in the chair right now for this vo

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: crews in surfside, florida have spent another long day, delicately digging into a collapsed condo tower, hoping to find survivors. so far, 11 people are confirmed dead, with 150 still missing. officials pledged today to keep at it, in the face of thunderstorms and dangerous debris that's falling off the building. >> the west side of the pile had to be cordoned off a little bit because it was becoming excessively dangerous to work there. what is happenin as i understand it, the work still continues from the sides and underneath. nobody's giving up hope here. nobody's stopping. the work goes on, full force. we are dedicated to getting everyone out of that pile of rubble. >> woodruff: meanwhile, "the wall street journal" and others reported the head of the condo board warned in april that damage to concrete supports had gotten significantly worse. and, thehite house announced that president biden will

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tomorrow anthony journalist with german public broadcaster a r d, got a rare peak behind the curtain of china's high tech system of social control. this is where the data is gathered. at the surveillance center, in a district of shanghai staff keep a watchful eye on more than 290000 cameras. every thing is captured from on attempted drivers to crowd gatherings. nothing escapes the districts so called brain. even those who disperse of their garbage incorrectly can be reported. gen dunden is one of the systems developers. she doesn't like talking about surveillance. hannah and she says that people here feel safe things here seem an orderly with all the algorithms process, all the data that is gathered. this is a map of the cities construction sites, the red dots worn of irregularities. here the artificial intelligence has identified a worker not wearing a helmet for months. now, the city of shanghai with 24000000 people has reported no cases of covert 19 in the fight against the pandemic. old data protection was eliminated the surveillance since that even monitors all suspected colbert

anthony journalist with german public broadcaster a r d, got a rare peak behind the curtain of china's high tech system of social control. this is where the data is gathered. at this surveillance center in a district of shanghai staff keep a watchful eye on more than 290000 cameras. everything is captured from on attentive drivers to crowd gatherings. nothing escapes the district so called brain. even those who dispose of the garbage incorrectly can be reported. jen don don is one of the systems developers. she doesn't like talking about surveillance, tunnel woman tissues as the people here feel safe. things have seen an order legal with all the algorithms process, all the data that is gathered. this is a map of the city's construction sites, the red dots worn of irregularities. here, the artificial intelligence has identified a worker not wearing a helmet for months. now, the city of shanghai with 24000000 people has reported no cases of covert 19 in the fight against the pandemic. old data protection was eliminated the surveillance since that even monitors all suspected cova 19 cases