amna: good evening. geoff: on the newshour tonight, the political impact of former president trump's arraignment becomes clearer as republicans in one early voting stay react to his legal troubles. >> they were very clear that the indictments made them want to support trump more. amna: and millions face hard financial questions as the resumption of student loan payments approaches. geoff: conflict and instability still gripped sudan is multiple militias attacked a city in west dart f. -- darfur. ♪ >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by --

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the central bank decided not to raise rates for the first time in 15 months, but they also indicated it may still hike by another half a percentage point to slow growth and curb inflation. chairman jerome powell said that is because the latest economic data is stronger than expected. >> growth estimates moved up, inflation estimates moved up a bit. all three of those point in the same direction. more restraint will be necessary then we had thought. stephanie: the fed's goal is to bring inflation down to a 2% annual level. it is running at twice that number nearly 80 people drowned off the coast of greece in one of the worst migrant disasters this year. they had sailed from libya on a fishing boat when the vessel sank. as many as 500 may have been aboard. survivors were taken to a

warehouse in the greek port city of kalamata. >> it is indeed a tragic situation, a very difficult situation with a very large number of shipwrecked people, and number we have not faced in such an extent and volume. amna: more than 17,000 people have died or disappeared trying to cross the central mediterranean since 2014. officials in northern nigeria have confirmed at least 160 people died after their overcrowded boat capsized early monday. the boat was carrying up to 300 people back from a wedding when it overturned after hitting a login the river. at least 140 forward rescued. in ukraine, russia stepped up aerial attacks trying to blunt to counteroffensive i ukrainian forces. new shelling in odessa destroyed buildings and littered streets with shattered glass. in the east, rescuers pulled

people from wreckage left by missile strikes. six people were killed and all. italy's former prime minister was honored with a national day of mourning and a state funeral. a somber procession took lace in milan. in his eulogy, the city's archbishop acknowledged sharp divisions over berlusconi's legacy. >> when a man is a character, he is always on stage. he has fans and detractors. he was a man with a desire for life. stephanie: outside, tens of thousands chanted his name and waved flags for the football club he once owned. berlusconi died monday at the age of 86. china announced a strategic partnership with the palestinian authority expanding its influence in the middle east. president xi jinping welcomed

the palestinian president to beijing, they signed an agreement to strengthen economic ties and promote an economic -- independent palestinian state. lawmakers are working to set broad rules on artificial intelligence. the european parliament banned such types of ai such as facial wrecking nation in public surveillance and chatgpt and similar services must disclose all iai generated content. >> we are going to need constant, clear boundaries and limits to artificial intelligence. we will not compromise on it. geoff: separately, european union regulators in a bid to foster more competition. the company said it will oppose the move.

president biden vetoed a bill that would block new rules on heavy duty truck pollution. the rules will make trucks too expensive for small businesses. the mandates will reduce harmful air pollution and lead to fewer premature deaths. a manhattan grand jury has indicted a man who put a new york city subway rider in a fatal chokehold in may. prosecutors charged daniel penny with manslaughter after he pinned a black man for more than three minutes. penny claimed he was asking in defense after nearly started shouting at passengers. hey jerry and oregon says electric utility must pay punitive damages in the weaken fires of 2020 that destroyed more than 5000 buildings and killed more than nine people. downed power lines sparks the flames. today's verdict plus an earlier

finding could run into the billions of dollars. the miami mayor entered the race for the republican presidential nomination. he did so a day after president trump did so. he joins a crowded republican field and is buying to be the first sitting mayor to be president. the man who discovered whales could sing has died. in 1967, he realized the haunting sounds were whales communicating through song and even produced an album that galvanized global distinction. the exiting white house covid sponse coordinator on preparing for the next pandemic. killer whales -- a non-prophet

gives a brief but spectacular take on sustainable fashion. >> this is the pbs newshour from w eta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. amna: the news of former president trump's federal indictment comes as the primary field is taking shape and its impact on republican voters remains unclear. judy woodruff was in des moines for her america at a crossroads reporting project. since it was the day of the trump arraignment she made that the focus of the first of two reports on what iowa republicans are thinking. this was produced with our

friends at iowa pbs. how many of you know donald trump was indicted last week? how many of you have heard president trump was indicted for a second time recently. from the 16 republican voters we gathered, there were strong reactions to the second indictment. >> i think he is being set up. it is just too arranged. when the fbi raided his property at mar-a-lago, how do we know what they did and what they didn't do. we had asked polster sarah longwell to assemble two panels of gop voters in the studio of pbs. she asked how they are thinking about politics, policy, and

current events at this moment when candidates are depending upon their state. >> it is baloney. why isn't biden indicted? just be cave them back at an appropriate time? [laughter] >> we have a current president sicking the doj on a potential candidate. >> afterward, longwell helped guide me through the discussion. most struck you in these two conversations with these iowa voters? >> i was struck by how they sound by every other focus

group. they were very clear that the indictments made them want to support trump more, which is really consistent. we have been asking people for several months. doesn't make you want to support him more, suppt him last. 26 of them said it makes them want to support donald trump more. there are little bit mixed on whether trump is exactly the right person to be the person who comes back. still after january 6, still a lot of support for donald trump. >> how many of you distrust the f vi? >> the three letter agencies. the best of intent was to put some of these organizations or governing bodies in place, but how they are being manipulated and weaponized is concerning.

>> it seems like we are going all out on president trump and the wheels of justice are going very slow on the other side. it doesn't seem like an equal amount of resources looking into hunter biden's laptop. >> and what about hillary clinton? she was never indicted. >> you have the doj you have the fbi, why wouldn't you want to take out your toughest political opponent. nc like we have never seen before. >> how many of you wanted to be hillary and clinton to be indicted? >> yes. >> trump said shehould go to

jail for mishandling classified information. do you think he should be held to the same standard or do you think it should be different? >> when you understand his personality, he said that in just. he is just trying to paint a word picture, but should she have gotten some sort of punishment, yes, i think so. >> he is entitled to declassify whatever he wants to declassified. they were not treated the same way as donald trump is being treated. it is a two-tiered justice system in this country for sure. >> the biggest thing is they don't have a lot of faith or trust in the nbi or the department of justice to prosecute this fairly. you hear this from republican elected officials.

they say they are out to get trump. >> bringing up the hillary clinton server. the classified documents. >> joe biden, there has been a lot of classified documents they have found on his property. for voters, they don't understand, these elected officials keep taking classified documents some. that deep-seated distressed descended to the 2020 election results. how many believe joe biden was legitimately elected president of the united states? how many of you believe the

election was stolen or rigged in some way? >> how many people about january 6? >> set up. you look at the videos showing the capitol police walking these people through the capital, talking, no problems whatsoever and then they turn around and say, you attacked us in essence. the video show a whole different story than what they are saying happened. >> he did not say anything to me that he is telling them to storm the capital. i personally did not feel like what he said was so inflammatory that he was trying to tear the country apart. >> they are still arresting

people two years since it happened. >> i can't believe he would want to cause people to fight like that. >>'s words are not what you call polished. >> do pple want to vote for a republican candidate committed to partnering those with january 6. >> it seems very little of what comes next will sway this group. >> let's see if he is found guilty, doesn't make you support him more? ? does it make you support him last?

>> i've read the indictment and it is plain as day that he broke the law knowingly. whether the doj came after him, which i think is very plausible and why they are ignoring hunter biden's laptop, which i think is a separate issue. i think it is time for him to go away. i appreciated what he did for the country during his four years and i think he is part of the problem. >> trump is the nominee versus biden? what would you do? i think it is that significant. >> given that and the fact that there are potentially more indictments to come against former president trump, where

are we headed? >> whether it is his two impeachments or his second indictment, there is this thing called t rally around trump effect. when they feel like he is being attacked, they tend to support him even more, so it creates an energy. it allows them to suck up all the oxygen. it does tend to help them. we continue to talk about trump all the time and it is difficult for some of these other challengers to make an affirmative case for themselves. they don't like when people attack trump. >> with so much yet to unfold and more than six months before the iowa caucuses, these focus groups suggest president trump despite his troubles or because of them holds onto his lead in a crowded republican field.

for the pbs newshour, i'm judy woodruff in des moines, iowa. amna: judy will hear more about what a path forward looks like. she will hear from panels of democratic voters as well. geoff: in just a matter of days, the u.s. will rule on so the cream court. it comes at a major moment for borrowers who may have to restart loan payments this fall. william brangham gets perspective about those concerns and what our wars ma need to think about? before the plan was put on hold, over 60 million people were approved for the forgiveness and

that could cost the government as much as $400 billion. while that has been playing out for three years since the start of the endemic, interest and principal payments have been paused, but they are set to resume in just a few months. all of this has left a lot of borrows worrying about what is ahead. none of these people are just out of school. they work in education and local government agencies. >> i'm a fourth generation oregonian. >> i'm located in wilmington, delaware. if they strike down the biden forgiveness program, it is going to prolong the thing some looking forward to really again life, being able to retire, helping my son be able to go to

college. >> it's going to be a lot of recalculating. living more paycheck-to-paycheck. having that burden come back and not having any kind of relief would be almost catastrophic as costs are going up, as the cost of education has even gone up over the years. >>an over $400 a month for the next 12, 13 years is a lot of money. >> i think that my payments will be $400 a month. finance would definitely type. it would be a bill you instantly and a lot of money that for me personally is a lot of money.

>> i do see the benefits of going to college. however, it needs to be a financially stable way to do things. >> having stability in my life i feel like i had to take out that that. went i went to undergrad, my undergrad cost me. even with the $20,000 that is in front of the supreme court right now, i would still have about $30,000 left in that. >> that policy has allowed me to put in the other places. the rising cost of rent, food, everything.

and incorporate a payment of $300 back into my budget every month would be almost the same as another car. >> we elected president biden with this promise of the student loan forgiveness. and i don't know one he promised that if he fully knew. there are a lot of people significantly depending on that forgiveness and to have that rug pulled out from under them is not going to be a good look. >> as we were hearing, these

federal student loan payments were suspended at the start of the pandemic and then they begin getting renewed and renewed and renewed and renewed. is there any chance they could get renewed again? >> president biden said payments will renew in the summer. it is almost impossible that we would see another delay. august 30 is when payments are set to resume. >> how many people are we talking about that we are going to suddenly see these payments come due? >> millions. fewer than two percent of borrowers to make payments on their student loan during the payment policy on interest accrual. everyone else took a pause as an opportunity to get their financial lives in order for a break in interest.

so some 30 million people are going to see accounts receivable as of august. >> broadly speaking, what did people do with the savings? did people save any of that? >> i talked to a lot is saved it. stock up that emergency fund ihf borrowers who said it just disappeared. they saw the grocery bill higher. that money that they had intentionally earmarked was in day-to-day expenses.

>> can you remind us what president biden wanted to do? >> the original plan was $10,000 to borrowers under student loans. if you were a pell grant recipient. qualified borrowers would see their balances lowered as a result of this plan. >> i know you are not a financial advisor and don't even play one on tv, but you talk to one on your job. what should people be doing who might have payments reappearing on their balance sheets. what should we be doing in advance of this? >> hope for the best, plan for the worst. these financial advisors are

saying to plan. should forgiveness be ruled unconstitutional, you won't be taken by surprise. looking at your cash flow and seeing where you could cut or move money or reallocate or free up room is a best case scenario. if the plan's ruled constitutional and you receive forgiveness, you plan for the worst. >> do you think this touches back on the financial literacy issue? you think borrowers get enough advice and education to understand what people are signing up for when they sign up? >> i ask them to go back to when they were eight teen. without exception, every single

person said they would have had greater education as to that. >> the point of going into debt is to go to college and then you get a better job and a better income. do we generally know as a society how that has panned out for people. has it been a wise investment? >> we know that people with college degrees attain higher incomes, but what we don't know about how student incomes affect over time. if you accrue debt as a result of attending some college, those are often the people hurting the most. >> the critics of student loan forgiveness argue you knew what you were signing up for to some extent. it is not the governments job to bail you out if you got over your skis.

what two advocates of forgiveness say in response to that? >> i see a lot of borrowers who say interest is the enemy here. that there have not been able to keep up. and they would love nothing more to pay down their loans. you for helping us wade through this? >> thank you for having me. >> a pro-democracy regional governor was assassinated as fighting intensifies. hundreds of civilians have been killed during two months of fighting.

hundreds of thousands of people have escaped to neighboring countries. u.s. and saudi led talks have so far failed. nearly half of sudan's remaining population is in dire humanitarian need. >> these are the sounds and sights of civil war. khartoum is a city burning with thick plumes of smoke everywhere. a power struggle between sudan's armed forces and its rival faction. it has turned residential streets into war zones. not even the children are spared. last month, the state run orphanage said nearly 70 children had died of fever and starvation, including two dozen

babies. >> our message to the war, evacuate the orphan to a safe city. nearly 300 were rescued by a team from the international committee of the red cross, but 14 million people remain trapped and an urge of lifesaving support. the warring factions loot aid warehouses, further quibbling essential infrastructure. more than 70% and khartoum have shut down. >> it was terrible, terrifying.

all the sounds of muscles in gunshots and screaming, crying. >> she escaped in a harrowing weeklong journey and then to saudi arabia. >> if you did not roll down the car window real fast, they may kill you, shoot you. all i had was my little girl. i can fight until they get killed. but what about her, what can happen if i die and she is on their hands. it has been impossible to shield . she sleeps all night here

another mother until i fled for survival. >> she is now refugee herself. she fled with her son in south sudan. >> sudan is facing starvation. the power struggle very shelters have been burned to the ground.

in 2003 into her ethnic violence was readily crushed by the violent militia leaving 300,000 civilians dead. it gave birth to the rss, which is behind the recent and ongoing slaughter of civilians in darfur for. the newshour received videos from local human rights activists from the worst hit city of algia nina late last month before widespread power outages and communication blackouts isolated darfur. there are great human rights violations the man who shot this video says. satellite images confirmntire villages have been reduced to ashes. crucial civilian infrastructure,

government buildings courts, and markets all destroyed. the governor of westar for was killed by the rss. this video shows the moment he was taken. he had accused to the group of genocide. nearly 1000 civilians have been killed and are for. getting information has been challenging, but the newshour has been able to obtain pictures and audio messages from people trapped there. >> we are not able to find water to drink or food. those who are injured. >> the latest reports warn of sexual violence and an acute health care crisis. >> we couldn't even find a

midwife to deliver my pregnant sister. >> 17 people are dead and 37 are injured. we are all confined to one area of less than a mile. the biggest crisis is that there is no food or medicine. all surgeries have stopped for four days. >> it is an sos call. >> we have tried to send you photos and videos. the health situation is the worst. we are in dire need of help. there is blood and filth and dead animals on the street. >> with international humanitarian organizations having no access, they have

crossed on horseback to chad. with the rainy season approaching and services strained in crowded camps, it is far from a sanctuary. for the pbs newshour, i'm stephanie sy. amna: in the earliest days of the pandemic, one doctor emerged as an authoritative and trusted voice on public health and other controversial issues. he's the white house covid-19 response coordinator, but with the public health emergency officially over, he's leaving the biden administration and returning to the dean of brown university's public school of health. he joins us here now first. the public health and for

urgency -- emergency is officially over. should people take this to mean they no longer have to worry about covid? >> people should take this that we are in a much better place with covid. we have widespread availability of vaccines and treatments. we can manage this virus. it can still take unexpected turns. if that happens, we will be ready for that. >> over 750 people dying per day. is that our new normal? >> it is about 100 a day. i think that is too high. i think we can continue to drive the number lower. we know what to do.

90% of the deaths that are still happening, people are not up-to-date on their vaccines. amna: the virus has shown the ability to mutate. 17% of americans have gotten the updated divalent booster. how worried are you about another spike. >> it is hard to predict. it is hard to predict what will happen with the virus. we have to keep educating the american people. >> the numbers remain low for boosters.

at this stage, how do you convince people to get that shot? not as many people got as vaccinated as i hoped, as everybody hoped. people had gotten a lot of covid vaccines in the months leading up to it. people fel like, i've gotten my two shots or three shots. there has been a tremendous amount about information about these vaccines. that has made it much harder to break through. people in the public health community have tried. my hope is moving forward that we are likely to have a new vaccine this fall. the fda will make a decision. they sees this as a routine part

of care. it is the annual flu shot. >> is that the kind of thing that states should start to require. flu shots are not required by many folks. my hospital requires a flu shot every year. some local districts might decide to do that.

>> there are some studies that have said something like 16 million americans have some version of long covid. what kind of resources and support should be made available considering the potential health care impact. >> that's a great question. long covid is a real phenomenon. we know people have substantial symptoms that can be quite debilitating for the long run. we know that if you are up to date on your vaccines, that may reduce your risk of long covid. there are still many americans who have it. we need a lot more research and nih is driving the research. it is multiple conditions. we are going to see trials.

then support. all of that is focused on the president. the administration is working on it. >> are we better prepared today than we were 14 months ago when you took office? for the better pandemic question -- for the next pandemic? >> undoubtedly. it is fashionable to say we are worse off, but that is not true. we have built up over the last 2.5 years in national wastewater surveillance system that allows us to have a much better understanding of what viruses are spreading and what communities. our testing infrastructure is better. we can quickly develop a new vaccine. we have made substantial investments.

are we fully prepared? no, we need resources to do a lot of that work. we are undoubtedly better than where we were. >> when you look back at what we have lived through, ove6 million americans have been hospitalized due to covid. over one million americans died. in some parts of the country, it is almost like it never happened to some degree. >> my reflections are has been it has been an enormous toll. their family, their friends, it has effect did tens of million americans very directly. i think we are starting to see some people try to do a little revisionism of it was never that bad, we should not have done things to protect people and i

remind them that we had refridgerated truck's outside hospitals because the morgues were full. we have to learn the lessons to make sure. >> thank you so much. >> thank you for having me here. >> a small group of or because this causing a large group of damage, raising questions about why the orca's are doing it. stephanie sy has this report. >> in the middle of the night last october, sailing miles off the coast of all trickle to deliver to a client.

it is a journey he has taken many times before. i went down, i started taking my nap, and 30 minutes later, boom. >> he found the boat surrounded by a pot of or because. >> then mess around and then they went to a boat farther away from me. the pod returned three times, the visits spanning over several hours. >> until i see the orca is and i see their movements and how gentle they were when i stopped the boats. hundreds of boat and orca interactions have been reported off the coast of portugal, spain, and morocco.

there were 207 reported interactions. the meetings are not always ntle. the pod rammed the boat continuously for over an hour, managing to remove the water. the experience crew for issued a made a call and were towed to shore unharmed. three or because struck a yacht.

to better track these events, they started these outfits to log orca encounters connecting a network of sailors. sightings and attacks along the portuguese coast. >> if you spread a word about something that happens in the area, people will avoid it. there are many orca's. >> orca's are as some population and a critically endangered one. and orca suffered a traumatic

injury from a boat and may be teaching other orca's how to attack other vessels. that kind of activity would be uncharacteristic of the animal she studies. play is a more likely explanation she says. >> they are the top predator in the ocean. they are capable of killing all kinds of species around them, but they have never targeted that predator-like behavior toward humans. >> despite the killer whale nickname, they are the largest species in the dolphin family and no humans have yet to report major injuries. for the pbs newshour, i'm stephanie sy.

>> camille tego is the cofounder and creative director of a textile recycling nonprofit. textiles generate 21 million pounds of waste that goes into landfills every year and fab scrap works to divert that waste by giving the fabric new life. she shares her brief but spectacular take on sustainability. >> i think i was always mesmerized by dresses and gowns and the beautiful, elaborate fashion pieces i would see go down the runway. i was fortunate to have made it down the runway. having my designs featured in major retailers, but when i was seeing all the waste that was accumulating from the design process and how much personally

i was adding to the waste, it made me ask myself, what is my contribution to society? commercial textile waste is a huge issue that is normally not really seen or known about. it is estimated that commercial textile waste is 40 times greater than residential waste. for me personally, it was a tough decision to walk away from essentially a dream job, a career i had worked my entire career and life, but moving away to work in sustainability is something i have never regretted. >> i started this with my cofounder, when we met we realized that with each of our backgrounds, we would essentially accomplice maximum diversion from the landfill.

she really understood collection and recycling. my background was in fashion design, so i understood the importance of the material. we sort fabric by hand. this is how we decide if a fabric is down cycled and sue installation or if it can continue life and reuse. if it is large enough to be reused, we put it toward our thrift store and the prices are discounted. consumers have a lot of power. when supports brands who are doing more sustainable unethical work with their dollar, when shopping for an item thinking about the longevity of that piece. the more we can extend the life

of a fabric or anything or we use or consume on a day-to-day. this is my brief but spectacular take. >> you can watch more of our brief but spectacular series on our website, pbs.org/newshour/brief. and join us again here tomorrow night when the u.n. under sarah tecra terry general for humanitarian affairs will discuss the war in ukraine and that is the newshour for tonight. >> thanks for joining us and have a great evening. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. and friends of the newshour. >> q not is a proud supporter of

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