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Transcripts For KQED PBS NewsHour Weekend 20160711

By mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by 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 at Lincoln Center in new york, lisa desjardins. Desjardins hello and thanks for joining us. The police chief in dallas is convinced that mass shooter Micah Johnson was plotting additional attacks. Chief david brown today pointed to weapons, explosive materials, and a journal found at johnsons home as well as letters the gunman wrote in his own blood on the walls of the parking garage where officers cornered and killed him early friday. In Downtown Dallas, a makeshift memorial outside Police Headquarters continues to grow, as people leave flowers, balloons, and stuffed animals in remembrance of the five officers johnson killed on thursday. He also wounded seven officers and two civilians. Johnson ambushed officers at a protest over two Fatal Police Shootings in other cities last week, and this weekend, those cities saw large protests of their own. In st. Paul, last night police used smoke and pepper spray to disperse some 200 people who were blocking a section of interstate 94. St. Pauls police chief says two dozen officers were injured by rocks and bottles thrown during the demonstration. In baton rouge, last night, Police Arrested more than 100 demonstrators including a prominent black lives matter activist. In spain today, president obama condemned any violence against police. Whenever those of us who are concerned about fairness in the criminal Justice System attack Police Officers, you are doing a disservice to the cause. Desjardins the president will visit dallas tuesday and speak at an interfaith memorial service. Our own Hari Sreenivasan is in dallas and has more on the mood of the city. Hari . Its far from business as usual in Downtown Dallas with several city blocks still closed off near the site of the shootings. But its not just the businesses and tourists that are waiting to gek get back to normal. It is the rest of the city as even in this week of terrible grief, pastor michael waters tried to deliver the good news to his congregation at Joy Tabernacle a. M. E. Church in south dallas today, including a prayer for Dallas Police. Strengthened him arms to provide strength and support particularly to the Dallas Police waters was one of those protesters who gathered in the streets of Downtown Dallas on thursday in the wake of two smartphone videos that shined a light, again, on the use of lethal police force. Then, the pastor heard the gunshots. A man was firing over and over into the night, murdering five Law Enforcement officers and wounding seven others. To see lives taken so carelessly and brutally i think it still has broken our hearts. Sreenivasan the violence perpetrated by a lone, African American gunman quickly put a focus on race. We are a nation that began to proclaim itself as postracial, and recent years have shown us to be all but postracial. Sreenivasan the Dallas Police department has received praise for its Community Policing approach, which has reduced the number of arrests and officer involved shootings and has decreased complaints about excessive use of force. But the pastor believes the city has a lot more work to do, especially to address poverty. Id say mainly the concern is do you see beyond all of the buildings and shiny things we have in our city, that theres a large subset in fact i would say at least half of the city that struggling day in and day out to make ends meet. Sreenivasan dallas observer columnist jim schutze has been chronicling and critiquing the citys rising poverty rate, which has risen by 40 since the year 2000. Dallas has huge unresolved issues. We have the highest Child Poverty rate of any major city in the country. Were very, very segregated. You dont have to scratch too deep beneath the surface to find that. Sreenivasan we met schutze at dealey plaza, where president john f. Kennedy was assassinated 53 years ago. Were standing here in a place that for better and for worse is part of dallas identity. What happened from here, how did this city change . Dallas was crazy before it happened, and the assassination empowered legitimacy to more moderate elements. I think dallas achieved a lot of self control and grew up a lot after the assassination, and one hopes that this horrible event will have that same kind of cathartic effect. Sreenivasan a gadfly to city government, schutze says the violent situation downtown last week could have been worse. The forces of anger and injustice and resentment are out there, and they could ignite and this could have ignited it, and we were just lucky that it didnt. And i mean lucky again, that we have a smart police chief and an effective mayor, but still lucky. Sreenivasan mayor mike rawlings, whose Police Department has set a National Example for reforms, knows police must do more to improve community relations, as evidenced by the gruesome video from st. Paul, minnesota. That helped spark the dallas protests. The video from just a couple of days ago, the woman reached out to social media to anyone that would listen, cause she didnt feel like the police were the ones she should call considering what was happening to her. Those are very real fears, but if you just brand everybody with police, you fall guilty to the tyranny of the average versus looking at the bell curve of success and failure and work on those failures and really laud the successful. Weve got to be able to support our Police Officers and protect civil rights at the same. Sreenivasan thats the same idea pastor waters hears in the phrase black lives matter. Saying black lives matter surely does not mean that blue lives dont matter. We value our police, and were grateful for those who serve or community and give their lives daily on behalf of freedom and justice. But we must say and we must know, that there is something wrong in society where a black man is killed in a Police Interaction every 28 hours, and its for that cause that were working to bring about a more peaceable future for us all. These things will not change overnight. In fact, they didnt get this way overnight but if were committed and if each and every day we do our work, i believe well get closer to a solution than we were the day before. Desjardins Hari Sreenivasan reporting from dallas. Thank you. President obama wrapped up his abbreviated visit to spain by meeting American Military personnel stationed there. The president toured the u. S. Naval station in rota, on the atlantic coast, where four u. S. Navy ships that carry guided missiles are based in support of the nato alliance. Earlier, in madrid, the president met with Spains King Felipe at the royal palace. Obama is the First American president to visit spain in 15 years. In southern california, 2,000 people who fled their homes due to a brushfire are being allowed to return. A few hundred firefighters have fought the blaze in the foothills near Santa Clarita north of los angeles. High winds spread the flames across a square mile, consuming tinder and dry brush parched by the fiveyear drought. The fire is 20 contained and no longer threatening residences. Its cause has not been determined. Japans Prime Minister shinzo abe has won a resounding victory in todays parliamentary elections. Early results and exit polls showed abes Ruling Coalition capturing the twothirds majority in the upper house needed to change japans constitution. Abe wants to amend it to permit the Japanese Military to engage in combat operations overseas. The postworld war ii constitution limits the military to selfdefense and humanitarian roles. The controversial change also requires approval by japans lower house and a majority of voters. To keep up with the events in dallas and the reaction across the country. Follow our coverage online at pbs. Org newshour, and on snapchat at pbsnews. Desjardins for many parts of great britain, two weeks after the nations june 23rd referendum, the cost of exiting the European Union is coming into clearer view. Although britain sends more money to the e. U. Than it receives in return, about 9. 5 billion more a year, economically depressed areas of the u. K. Have benefited financially from e. U. Membership. A prime example is cornwall, a fishing and agricultural region on the southwest coast of england. In tonights signature segment, newshour special correspondent amy guttman went there to report on the realization of what brexit might really mean. Reporter in spring and summer, tourists come to cornwall to visit the pretty ports that line this part of the southwest coast of england. Its a fivehour journey by car or train from london, and attracts people for the sea, the surf, and the food from fishi n chips to the world famous clotted cream with scones and cornish pasties, a meat and potatostuffed pastry. 500,000 people live in newlyn and the other towns that make up the county of cornwall. 56. 5 of them voted last month to leave the European Union. Which was a bit surprising, considering this scenic way of life has recently been sustained by e. U. Subsidies. Cornwall relies on fishing, farming and tourism, all of them seasonal industries, at the mercy of the temperamental english weather. Thats partly why the region has, for decades, been dependent on government support. Because cornwalls economic output per capita is less than 75 of the e. U. Average, it receives millions of dollars in e. U. Aid every year. Cornwall has received around 90 million a year from the e. U. With another 660 million pledged through 2020. Those funds are now in jeopardy. This is the bidding for todays catch in newlyn. All the hake, sole, haddock and other fish is sold in an hour, to be trucked to london and across the channel. Fish wholesaler Matthew Stevens supplies top local and london restaurants. Five generations of his family have fished off cornwall. His father established their fish merchant business in the 1930s. I love doing it. Im not a sailor, mind. This is quite an exceptional trip for me to be on a boat. Reporter thank you. Were very grateful. Stevens relies on a mostly Eastern European staff, rather than cornish people, to filet and pack his fish. Thats one reason he voted to remain in the e. U. Id love to employ 80 cornishmen, you know, but come on guys, where are you . You know, come to me. Weve got work here. Reporter besides skilled workers, the e. U. Has provided stevens money to help grow his business through a matchfunding grant which gave him 45 of the money, about 460,000, needed to equip his factory and buy new machinery. In return, stevens was tasked with increasing revenue and the number of people he employed. Ive been able to develop my business from a staff of five to almost 90 staff, multimulti Million Pound turnover business but ive been able to do that with the support of brussels, or the e. U. Reporter while stevens, now 70 years old, has prospered, many fishermen in cornwall are struggling. Most voted to leave the e. U. Saying its conservation quotas limit what they can catch and sell and are based on out of date scientific data. The quotas also require them to observe a discard ban, which forces them to toss back into the ocean any fish they catch above their quotas or else risk fines. Weve got a really small share of the quota. Reporter 23yearold fisherman Bracken Pearce says the quotas unfairly favor the french over the british, limiting the british fishermen to a lower percentage of the regulated fish. Now we got 200 kilos of haddock per month. I could take my boat out in the first tow and in 4. 5 hours i could catch that, and if we was abiding to the discard ban, i would have to bring my boat straight in and tie it up until the next months boat was allocated and that would put the whole port out of business. Reporter once the u. K. Exits the e. U. , pearce is counting on continuing to sell his fish to wholesalers in europe. They bought our fish before the European Union and theyll buy it afterwards. We all want whats best for our fishing industry, because its what puts food on our table. Reporter as with its fishing community, there is division among cornwalls farmers, too. 38yearold paul george is a Third Generation dairy farmer who voted to leave the e. U. I believe that our government will look after cornwall just as well as the e. U. Has been looking after it. Reporter george sells all his milk to a European Cooperative called arla, which pays george 20 below the price of his production costs because global milk prices have been depressed for years. Ironically, an e. U. Subsidy helps him stay afloat. Its called the single farm payment, which is paid to a farmer based on how much land he owns. George says the one size fits all approach isnt fair and that the subsidy should be based instead on how much farmers produce. I dont value the basic Payment Scheme in my business as highly as some other people. However, every little does count at the moment, and no, i wouldnt want to be without a support package. I think its supporting the less efficient farmers more so than the more efficient farmers. Reporter rather than a handout, george is hoping milk prices may rise. The e. U. Money is welcomed in any form, of course its welcomed. Im just saying to you now that i think the uk are going to survive outside the e. U. Farmer James Hosking wishes the u. K. Did not vote to leave. Tunnels like this were put up with funding from the e. U. Reporter his great grandfather set up fentongollan farm in 1893, where today he raises sheep and grows daffodils, broccoli, and other vegetables. Just like fish wholesaler Matthew Stevens, hosking took advantage of an e. U. Matching Grant Program to build and extend plant nurseries and upgrade equipment. After investing more than 200,000 of his own money, hosking received matching funds from the e. U. On the condition that he increase production and create five full time jobs. For several years, the amount of money we could afford to grow our business was actually being match funded by europe, so we were growing at twice the speed we would have been able to grow at without it. Reporter he created twenty new jobs, and increased plant production five times over. Without e. U. Money, hosking says his farm would be half the size. Just as important as the grant for him has been the free migration of workers across borders. Today, there are probably about 30 people working here. There are sort of 15 of our local, if you like, cornish people here and then probably 15 or 20 Eastern Europeans here are the moment. I voted in. A lot of people here, now said well actually, i was doing it really as a protest. That we were not happy. All of us know the European Union isnt perfect and needs reform. Reporter figuring out what comes next is part of sarah newtons job. Shes a conservative member of parliament from cornwall who voted to remain in the e. U. Beyond subsidies for the farmers and fisherman, e. U. Money paid for new roads and rail line and high Speed Broadband internet service. In newtons constituency, the towns of truro and falmouth deviated from the rest of the county and voted to remain. There, e. U. Funds helped create a yacht production facility, a performing arts center, and converted an old fishing wharf into an outpost for creative and technology businesses. Were seeing investment and growth in the digital economy. Businesses coming here because they can be based from here and work with people all over the world. Reporter shortly after cornish voters decided to leave the e. U. , the county council sought assurances that e. U. Funding would continue. So, what happens now with many of these e. U. Funded businesses and projects . The money thats already been committed, people will receive. The big challenge now, is for me to make sure that the British Government actually replace that money. Reporter do you think its more than a little hypocritical that this region voted overwhelmingly to leave and the very next day there was an outcry from the cornish peoples, saying, ioh, but can we keep te money . the whole idea of sovereignty was really important and that was more important than the money that cornwall receives. I personally felt rather disappointed with the leadership of cornwall council. Reporter despite being on the losing end of last months brexit vote, newton doesnt believe there should be a second referendum. Now, the most important thing is to stabilize the british economy and negotiate the best possible relationship we can have with the European Union. Reporter the frayed relationship worries garry barter, a 27 year old entrepreneur who returned to cornwall two years ago. He obtained a business degree in a program paid for by the e. U. At falmouth university, where many grad

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