nick schifrin reports.is the day the al salaima family had been waiting for. 14 year old ahmed al-salaima is home in east jerusalem after three months of israeli incarceration. he's back in the protective embrace and watchful gaze of his father, nawaf salaima, who told us this moment is bittersweet. >> we feel happiness because our child is free. but this happiness is not complete, because the price to get freedom for our kids was very expensive. and the price was our people's blood in the gaza strip. nick: as one of israel's youngest prisoners. he was released last week at the same time as his 15 year old cousins, mohammad and mutaz. of the 240 palestinians released during the pause in gaza, three -- nearly half were children. did the conditions of your detention change from before october 7th to after october 7th? >> before october 7th, they treated us well. for example, they'd say hello and good night. they were respectful. but after october 7th, they started hitting female prisoners. and they started to

nick schifrin begins our coverage. night israeli flares light up the gaza sky, and israel's iron dome above tel aviv intercepts rockets fired from gaza, as war has re-erupted. israel vows to continue its military mission. benny: the state of israel is committed to winning the campaign and this victory includes both a supreme effort to return the abductees, and also the removal of the threat of hamas. nick: israel and the u.s. said hamas failed to produce another list of hostages to be released today, and before the cease-fire expired, began firing rockets from gaza into israel. by the end of the day, israel said hamas had fired more than 50 rockets into israel. israel immediately resumed its air campaign. in the al-maghazi refugee camp in the center of gaza, crowds of men lift the dead out what gazans say used to be an apartment complex. residents told us at least 15 were killed in their sleep. abu: there was no warning at 7:00 a.m., it happened right after the so-called truce ended. it was full of innocent children and

nick schifrin has some of their stories. after the kidnapping, after seven weeks of captivity, after the release and after the flight back home, there is reunion. two mothers hug their daughters after 50 days without contact. this mother ties a buddhist bracelet on her daughter and her partner after they were held hostage by hamas. this woman embraces her daughter, grateful to be home surrounded by family. >> it's like dying and being reborn. nick: this doctor had lived in israel for four years, working in israeli agriculture. when on october 7, hamas and other militants rampaged through communities across southern israel, including in their communities. they were kidnapped together. >> we kept encouraging each other saying we had to survive, that agencies would help us. all we could do was sit and wait, lying, waiting and giving each other strength. nick: in total, 32 thai workers were kidnapped. so far 23 of them have been released in a separate hostage deal mediated by qatar, iran and other nations. >> i want to know why h

and as nick schifrin and producer sarah cutler report, for soldiers from siberia and russia's far eastme , to many ethnic minorities, the price has been overwhelming. nick: in russia's far east, the funerals of two common. the widows so distraught they have to be carried by an honor guard. and the cemeteries are filled with soldiers, many graves freshly dug. since russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine, men from this part of russia, remote, poor and home to many minority groups, have borne the brunt of the war and died disproportionately. >> a lot of people have been sent there. it looks like russia is trying to eliminate our ethnic groups. nick: 31-year-old alex, who asked we hide his identity, is from an area the size of india, many of whose one million residents are ethnically turkish. >> it seems they are only mobilizing our ethnic people, as if they were trying to kill some people. nick: his social media for the invasion shows a normal life, a new job, spending time with loved ones. his world was lost when he was suddenly conscripted last september during a wave of mobilization i

nick schifrin and eric o'connor report from ukraine. >> it was the winter of ukraine's disconnect.paign targeted ukraine's critical infrastructure, and left this power plant burned out and gutted. russia hoped to engineer a humanitarian crisis, and sap ukraine's will to fight. it failed. but attacks on this plant alone, left more than 18,000 people without power or heat. and they almost killed shift manager oleksandr. >> we heard the sound of a missile. i only managed to shout to my partner, "get down!" before we heard the first explosion. the windows blew out and parts of the ceiling fell. then, we started hearing more explosions. >> his dedication to the plant goes back decades. his father was an engineer here in the 80s and 90s. last winter russian missiles and suicide drones hit the plant three times. they caused catastrophic damage, including to the units that create power, and distribute it. attacks like this caused $10 billion of damage, and affected 12 million ukrainians. and u.s. and ukrainian officials believe winter is coming, again. >> we are preparing physically, we ar

laura is with us and studio and nick schifrin is at the white house. e at that press conference at the white house. president zelenskyy made a passionate, powerful case for continued support. what is the context we need to understand for that message he is delivering? nick: it is a bit of a hail mary, because as lisa reported, without significant border concessions, congress is not going to pass the tens of billions of dollars that ukraine needs, at least not right now. ukraine is concerned that hungary is on the verge of blocking tens of billions of dollars of european eight. ukraine says both of those packages are the difference between victory and defeat. what does that mean? ukraine thanks without that money it will run out of air defense that prevents russian jets from flying all over the country. it is concerned that it won't ever get a love -- get enough long-range missiles to threaten crimea, which zelenskyy said today was one of the ways ukraine could win the war. ukraine is concerned it won't be able to pay its bills. its government needs $4 b

here's nick schifrin. e biden administration is struggling to get congressional approval for a $60 billion aid package for ukraine, half of which would be for weapons sent to ukraine, and to replenish u.s. stockpiles. but long term, both washington and kyiv want ukraine to produce their own weapons, as president zelensky's chief of staff andriy yermak, and secretary of defense austin, said this week at a washington summit. >> ukraine cannot and will not depend on foreign providers of military aid. we must take care of our own defense capability. we have our own weapons to be proud of. >> that will mean strengthening ukraine's defense industrial base. both to maintain ukraine's current war effort and to bolster ukraine's national strength and deterrence long into the future. nick: the ukrainian minister in charge of ukraine's domestic arms production effort is alexander kimyshin and he joins me now. thank you very much. a pleasure to have you on the "newshour." as i started by saying there is an effort right

nick schifrin sat down with saudi arabia's foreign minister to discuss that war in the kingdom's rolee region. >> mr. foreign minister, welcome to the newshour. you are calling for a cease-fire. the u.s. is not. what is your message today? >> our message is that too many civilians have already died on october 7 and since. we have now seen a level of carnage that is unprecedented and unjustifiable under any pretext of self-defense. we need to find a path out of this conflict and therefore we think there should be a cease-fire that can allow us to address the dire humanitarian situation. we are not just seeing people dying from israeli bombs but of diseases such as cholera because of the broken down sanitary system. we need to focus on protecting the lives of the civilians of gaza. >> the u.s. is vetoing the security council resolution. >> unfortunately we are seeing a position that cease-fire is a dirty word. usually what we see when there is a conflict in the international scene, we all always looking for a way to end the fighting. we are very disappointed the security council hasn't

for the pbs newshour, i'm nick schifrin. ♪ >> elon musk, the owner of x formerly known as twitter, isessure on his own company even more. after cursing advertisers who pause dads on the social media platforms. the advertising frees from major companies like disney and apple came after mosque endorsed an anti-semitic conspiracy theory on at earlier this month. in an interview yesterday, he denied the accusation of anti-semitism and told companies not to advertise. he even called out the ceo of disney bob iger who was at the event. >> you don't want them to advertise? >> no. >> what do you mean? >> if somebody will try to blackmail me with advertising and money, go [beep] yourself. >> but -- >> go[beep] yourself. is that clear? hey bob. >> the mpr tech reporter joins us now. there's no possible business benefit that i can think of to elon musk sitting on stage, cursing out the advertisers whom he needs to buy ads on x to keep that company afloat. it raises the question, what does elon musk want with x right now? is he intentionally trying to take this company? >> it seems like it. this

nick schifrin sat down earlier today with saudi arabia's foreign minister, prince faisal bin farhan althat war, and the kingdom's role in the region. nick: mr. foreign minister, welcome to the newshour. you are here in washington. you are calling for a cease-fire. the u.s. is not. what is your message? >> our message is that too many civilians have already died on october 7, and since. we have now seen a level of garbage that is unprecedented, that is unjustifiable under any pretext of self-defense. so we need to find a path out of this conflict, and therefore we think there should be a cease-fire that can allow us to address the dire humanitarian situation. we are not just seeing people dying from israeli bombs were from the fighting on the ground, we are seeing people dying know of the leases -- dying now of diseases such as cholera. we have to protect civilians. nick: the u.s. is vetoing the security council resolution. does that mean they are not on the same team? >> unfortunately we are seeing cease-fires as somehow a dirty word. i honestly can't understand that . usually when the

and as nick schifrin reports, he insisted that he would continue to wage war in ukraine, until all his were met. nick: across four stage-managed hours, in front of an audience of 600, russian president vladimir putin said he had no intention of ending the war in ukraine anytime soon. >> there will be peace when we achieve our goals. they have not changed. the denazification of ukraine, its demilitarization, and its neutral status. nick: and even though a new u.s. assessment says 315,000 russian troops have been killed or wounded, putin expressed confidence russia was winning. >> almost along the entire line of contact, our armed forces, to put it modestly, are improving their position. almost everyone is active, throughout the entire frontline. nick: that includes strikes on ukrainian critical infrastructure. ukraine says russia attacked odesa overnight with more than 40 drones. ukraine's air defense worked, but the debris of a shot-down drone gutted an apartment complex, and left inna and her three-year-old homeless. >> i cannot even describe it with words. there was a big fire, smoke

amna: nick schifrin at the white house, lisa desjardins on capitol hill, and laura barron-lopez ino.ou all. ♪ stephanie: i'm stephanie sy with newshour west. here are the latest headlines. the united nations general assembly has overwhelmingly approved a measure calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in gaza. the u.s. was one of ten nations to vote against the non-binding resolution. before today's vote, president joe biden said israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu needs to change his hardline government, adding that israel is losing global support due to what he called its "indiscriminate bombing" in gaza. geoff bennett reports. >> president biden's off-camera remarks to democratic donors in washington today are the latest sign of increasing u.s. concern about israel's bombing in gaza, which has killed thousands of palestinian civilians. "bibi's got a tough decision to make," the president said of israel's prime minister. "this is the most conservative government in israel's history," said mr biden, adding that the netanyahu-led coalition "doesn't want a two-state solution," wash