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this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> good evening, i am john yang. california's deadly storm season seems to keep getting worse. after days of torrential rain, river levy failed in northern california overnight, triggering flooding and water rescues. elsewhere in the state the threat oflooding has thousands under evacuation orders. some roadways have washed away. the heavy rain and melting snow packs have forced officials to open the floodgates to reservoirs for the first time in years and more rain is on the way early next week. three years ago today the world health organization declared the covid-19 outbreak at pandemic. the who is still not ready to say the public health emergency is over even as people around the globe have resumed their normal lives. more than one point one million people in the united states and nearly 7 million people worldwide have died from the virus. globally covid continues to kill nearly 1000 people a day. three american women are missing in m

for 2024 next. >> this is washington week. corporate funding is provided by. the corporation for public broadcasting, and, by contribution to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> good evening and welcome to washington week. i am just bennett. political jockeying of candidates vying to win the 2020 for presidential election began in earnest this week as president biden and high-profile republicans made moves aimed at defining their campaign messages. president biden with house and senate democrats hoping to rally the party as he weighs when to announce his likely reelection bid. on wednesday he touted the economic impact of their legislative victories. >> the deficit. it is fiscally responsible. but, we have more to do. >> for republicans two high-profile gop events this week highlight the parties current divide playing out amongst the announced and expected candidates for the 2024 presidential nominee. the conservative political action conference cpac is underway in maryland now featuring several republicans tied to former president trump including his son don jr.. >> we need a pres

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> good evening. i'm john yang. former president trump took two social media to say he expects to be arrested tuesday in new york. and with echoes of january 6, called on supporters to protest. a spokesman later said trump has no direct knowledge of an impending arrester when it might happen. his attorney -- said the post was based on news reports. new york officials have been discussing security at the manhattan criminal court in case there is an indictment. the manhattan prosecutor has been investigating payments during the 2016 campaign intended to find the silence of several women who claim to have had extramarital sex with trump, including stormy daniels. if indicted, trump would be the first foreign president to be charged with a crime. wyoming has become the first state in the country to categorically outlaw the use of abortion pills. the most common way to end a pregnancy in the u.s. it takes effect in july pending any legal challe

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to yourtation from viewers like you. thank you. john: good evening, i'm john yang. delegates at the united nations have agreed on a historic international treaty to protect biodiversity in the ocean. it's been years in the making and only made it over the finish line after a marathon 36-hour negotiating session that ended late last night. >> even for people who don't live near it, the ocean is central to life on earth. it covers more than 70 percent of the earth's surface, is home to tens of thousands of species of fish, provides oxygen for the planet, and provides the livelihood for billions of people. but only 1.2% of the ocean has any legal protecti, leaving the high seas lawless and ripe for exploitation. overfishing threatens biodiversity. another threat, the ocean's rising temperatures caused in part by climate change. the man-made scourge of plastic pollution poses an ever-growing problem. late last month, as the united nations kicked off a fifth round of negotiations to establish a tr

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. john: good evening, i am john yang. was another day of unsettled weather in the southeast, even as residen and rescue teams in mississippi combed through what's left of flattened homes and buildings. president biden declared a major disaster across the stretch of the mississippi delta that was ravaged by a deadly tornado late friday. that adds federal funds to the rebuilding effort. at least 25 people were killed in mississippi, dozens more were injured and hundreds were displaced as the storm ripped through several towns. overnight in georgia, storms destroyed entire city blocks. severe thunderstorm watches are still in effect in parts of the region. former president trump gave his first public remarks about a possible indictment in a new york case centering on hush money paents to several women. at his first 2024 campaign rally last night in waco, texas, mr. trump said it's all st politics. trump -- mr. trump: the new weapon being used b

the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like youthank you. william: good evening and welcome to washingtonweek. i am william brangham. financial talk -- shock waves rippled across the country this week following two of the biggest failures in u.s. history. silicon valley bank and signature bank were shut down by regulators last weekend. on monday, president biden, trying to prevent more failures, took the unusual step of promising that all depositors at those collapsed banks would be made whole. treasury secretary janet yellen also addressed the banking concerns this week when she testified before congress. >> our banking system is sound. americans can feel confident their deposits will be there when they need them. william: but fears remain. on thursday, some of the nation's biggest lenders gave $30 billion to a small arrival, first republic bank, trying to assure its survival. in washington, lawmakers on both sides of the want to know what went wrong and why bank management and regulators were caught so flat-footed, especially fol

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this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourtation from viewers like you. thank you. >> welcome. the u.s. economy again created more jobs than expected last month. the unemployment rate went up to 3.6%. that came as labor force participation improved. more than 400,000 workers jped back into the workforce. the president made note of that out to the report came out this morning. >> the part that pleased me the most is people who have been staying out of the job market are going back in. jobs are available. people are working. they are becoming more optimistic about their future. >> wage increases slowed down but job growth remained strong overall. she is a former economist for the fedel reserve and a professor at the university of texas-austin. we have a strong jobs report for the month of february. the president said this morning that our economy is moving in the right direction. is that the entire story? >> the report is a little bit of a goldilocks report. very strong job gains. but not a lot of signs of inflation. we did see

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this programas made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: good evening and welcome to the "newshour." the war in ukraine is playing both in the streets of a ruined city and at a high diplomatic gathering and there was a group of 20 nations. amna: the block by block battle in eastern ukraine raged on. forces are hanging on there after round the clock russian shelling. they attacked a russia inside russia. geoff: benjamin netanyahu has announced anarchists where his wife and chanting demonstrators as sarah netanyahu was in a hair salon. it lasted four hours before police escorted her away. >> hundreds of people were going out. it all ended when the police came in with forces. geoff: police used force for the first time to break up protests against netanyahu's push to overhaul courts. crews used to look for bodies in the debris of a passenger train that collided head on. and no word y. a pennsylvania congressman is urging the epa to expand a testing zone around the train derailment site in ea

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. ♪ ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions pbs ation from viewers like you. thank you. vanessa: i'm vanessa ruiz in for stephanie sy with newshour west. here are the latest headlines. for thousands of people in california, the punishing clean-up from back-to-back blizzards goes on tonight. winter in the california mountains has turned out to be more like a natural disaster, especially east of los angeles. william brangham has our report. william: as snow continues to blanket various parts of california, residents are still trying to find ways to get out from under it. patricia derleth lives in a mobile home complex in the san bernardino mountains, where at least 10 feet of snow has fallen. >> this place is a disaster zone. william: many people are just emerging for the first time in days, inching their way throug dug-out paths. some have to trek long distances just to get necessities like food and medicine. >> just hiking back now with the food. i'm actually trying to get to hilltop, that's the only place we can get phone serv

. ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributionsyour pbs station from viewers like you thank you. geoff: welcome to the newshour. the fate of some 40 million americans' promised student debt relief is in the hands of the supreme court. amna: the justices heard arguments today in high stakes cases over the legality of president biden's student loan forgiveness plan. students, teachers and activists gathered outside the court highlighting their struggles and demanding debt relief. >> in order to become those -- the next generation of healthcare workers, the next generation of working in corporate america, basically being in your law enforcement. in order to do that, we must go to school. so how can we give back to our community if we don't have the resources? >> i have upwards of $80,000 of student debt. some of that is public. some of that is private. and i think that student debt cancellation would be a benefit for many, many people. millions. amna: the issue has been embroiled in the courts since the president announced his debt re

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. stephanie: i'm stephanie sy with "newshour west." here are the latest headlines. the war in ukraine is playing out tonight both in the stres of a ruined city and at a high-level diplomatic gathering. it dominated discussions at the group of 20 nations summit. on the fighting front, the block-by-block battle for bakhmut in eastern ukraine raged on. meanwhile, russia says ukrainian fighters attacked the bryansk region inside russia today. ukraine denied the claim. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has denounced protesters as anarchists after a crowd last night staged a mass protest outside the building where his wife was getting her hair done. chanting, jeering demonstrators gathered in e street as sara netanyahu was in a tel aviv hair salon. the chaotic scene lasted four hours before police escorted her away. >> hundreds of people just blocked her from going out. it all ended when the police came in with horses and just made their w

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this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourbs station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: good evening and welcome to the "newshour." the federal reserve has raised interest rates again by another quarter of a percentage point. today's decision came against the backdrop of troubles in the banking industry. amna: the rate hikes are being blamed by some for weakening banks. but fed policy makers stuck to their stance that higher rates are essential for the moment to try bringing inflation under control. >> after announcing the fed's ninth rate hike, chairman jay powell suggested the might be a slow or pause future increases. >> we believe in events in the banking system are likely to result in tighter credit conditions for households and businesses which could affect economic outcomes. it is too soon to determine the extent of the effects. >> the fed has been doing its share of damage control for nearly two weeks in the wake of the second largest bank failure in u.s. history. the collapse of a silicon valley bank followed by

. ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> i'm vanessa brewer's in for stephanie sy with newshour west. it has been a day of dueling diplomacy in russia and ukraine. janice president met with russian president vladimir putin for a second day as the two nations appeared to strengthen ties. the state visit by the chinese leader featured all the ceremony and trappings that moscow could muster. xi and putin attended a lavish ceremony and presented a united front against the west. later, putin talked up china's 12-point peace proposal for ukraine. >> we believe many points of china's peace plan are in sync with russian approaches and could form a basis for a peaceful settlement, when the west and kyiv are ready for it. but so far, we see no such readiness on their side. putin accused western powers of prolonging the war, saying -- quote -- the west intends to fight russia to the last ukrainian. meanwhile, japan's prime minister fumio kishida made a surprise visit to kyiv -- meeting w

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this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: welcome to "the newshour." it is a mystery that has challenged the country's intelligence community for years. geoff: 1500 reports of an unexplained illness known as the havana syndrome, named after the city where u.s. diplomats and intelligence officials first suffered from dizziness, cognitive difficulties, even memory loss. today, the intelligence community has assessed it was likely not the work of a foreign adversary. nick schifrin is here with more. so what does this assessment say? nick: the top line is exactly what you just said. that the members ofhe intelligence community participating in this founded quote, very unlikely a adversary was responsible, very unlikely a weapon or any device purposely or accidentally caused the symptoms. and there is not even a consistent set of physical injuries that could be characterized as havana syndrome. not the entire intelligence community participated in this but this is as emphatic a c

. ♪ ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. stephanie: i'm stephanie sy with newshour west. here are the latest headlines. the u.s. federal reserve is putting congress and the country on notice tonight. more and larger interest rate hikes may be coming and may last longer than expected. at a senate hearing today, fed chair jero powell cited stubbornly high inflation and a robust economy. but democrats -- including elizabeth warren of massachusetts -- complained rate hikes could bring on recession and hurt workers. >> if you could speak directly to the 2 million people hardworking people who have decent jobs today who you're planning to get fired over the next year, what would you say to them? how would you explain your view that they need to lose their jobs? >> i would explain to people more broadly that inflation is extremely high and it's hurting the working people of this country badly, all of them, not just 2 million, are suffering, under high inflation. and we're taking the onl

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: good evening, and welcome to the “newshour.” the u.s. justice department has issued a damning review of the louisville, kentucky police department in the wake of breonna taylor's death. she was shot and killed during a no-knock raid on her apartment nearly three years ago. geoff: findings released today found a pattern of police brutalizing black citizens and routinely violating their rights. u.s. attorney general merrick garland spoke today in louisville. atty. gen. garland: this conduct is unacceptable. it is heartbreaking. it erodes the community trust necessary for effective policing. and it is an affront to the vast majority of officers who put their lives on the line every day to serve louisville with honor. and it is an affront to the people of louisville, who deserve better. amna: garland announced the city will sign a negotiated consent decree to undertake major reforms. louisville mayor craig greenberg said he strongly supp

." ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and bike contributionsbs from viewers like you. thank you. amna: welcome to the "newshour." we are starting tonight with two major stories. first, a tornado has plowed into little rock, arkansas, and nearby towns with reports of , heavy damage and many people injured. amateur video captured the huge funnel cloud on the horizon, and driving, straight-line winds whipped trees and sent sheets of rain into the city. the storm flipped cars, tore away rooftops and knocked out power to thousands. emergency crews rushed out to search for victims and perform rescue operations. it was all part of a massive storm front that affected at least 15 states from the great lakes to the deep south. joining us now by phone is the operations chief for the storm prediction center in norman, oklahoma. welcome and thank you for joining us. what could you tell us about the strength and the scale of the storm that just hit little rock? bill: based on the infmation we have is a tornado touched down across portions of the little rock

. ♪ ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contbutions pbs station from viewe like you. thank you. >> good evening and welcome to the newshour. there is a new flashpoint in the worsening relationship between the u.s. and russia. >> an american drone was harassed on the black sea and bumped by a russian fighter jet forcing it into the waters below. our foreign affairs correspondence has been following this enjoins us here. what more do we know about exactly how this collision occurred? >> u.s. officials say this drone this drone left its position in eastern europe, routine surveillance flight over the black sea. the u.s. sends these drones into the black sea because they can see into crimea and depending on where they are, into russia itself. and reminder mk-9's are big, 35 suite long -- 35 feet long. a military official says that this drone was unarmed, these drones have been harassed intermittently by russia before but never what we saw today. never has a u.s., sorry, russian jet harassed a drone for 30 minutes and -- and dumped fuel on

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. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions tos station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: good evening and welcome to the newshour. the ceo of the fastest growing app on the planet went head to head with members of congress today. geoff: tiktok has more than 150 million monthly users in the us alone, but faces growing calls for it to be banned over fears about china's access to user data. laura barron lopez looks into the potential personal, political, and international fallout should the government ban the platform. correspondent: what started with one viral video is now a full-time career for 27-year-old alex d'alessio. >> i will put it in my ring and hit reco. correspondent: two years ago, he was an engineer working a nine-to-five and new homeowner of a baltimore townhouse. >> i will tile my entire bar and here is how it turned out. correspondent: he began posting his do-it-yourself renovation projects to the social media app tik-tok. building a home, and also an audience. >> the grout perfectly matches the countertops an

. ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and contbutions to yourtion from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: good evening and welcome to the "newshour." there is a new flashpoint today in the ever-worsening relationship between the united states and russia. amna: the u.s. says an amican drone was harrassed in the black sea and then bumped by a russian fighter jet, forcing the drone down into the waters below. foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin has been following all of this. he joins us. good to see you. what more do we's know about how this clision occurred? nick: u.s. officials say this drone left is based in eastern europe which they say was a routine surveillance flight over the black sea. the u.s. sends these drones over the black seat because they can see into russian occupied crimea, and depending where they are, and to pressure themselves. mk-9's are big, 60 feet wide, weigh 5000 pounds. military officials tell me this drone was unarmed. these drones have been harassed intermittently by russia before, but never what we saw today.

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourbs station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: good evening and welcome to the newshour. trouble at a major european bank today has injected fresh turmoil into global financiamarkets. shares in credit suisse plunged here and abroad after its largest shareholder ruled out a rescue. >> that sent key european markets down sharply. on wall street, stocks sold off early, then rallied late. the dow jones industrial average was down 725 points at one point, but ended with a loss of 280 points, less than 1%. the nasdaq ended with a tiny gain of 6 points. the s&p 500 dropped 27. william brangham picks it up from here. william: so does the turmoil in the markets mean that the banking sector hasn't escaped this recent turbulence? for a better understanding, we turn to peter conti-brown. he is co-director of the wharton initiative on financial policy and regulation at the university of pennsylvania. peter, thank you so much for being here. this was a yo-yo of a day on the markets. seemingly pe

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourbs station from viewers like you. >> good evening and welcome to the newshour. former president donald trump has been indicted in a hush money case involving an alleged affair. a lawyer for mr. trump says he's been informed that a grand jury in new york returned the inctment. geoff: it's the first time any ex-president has been charged in a criminal case and it comes as mr. trump is running for president again, in 2024. we turn now to two former federal prosecutors, renato mariotti and jessica roth. thank you both for being with us. i think it is fair to say we were not expecting an indictment today. a grand jury conducts its work in secret, but we knew the manhattan grand jury works on monday and wednesday and there was reporting the jury was planning to take off much of april for a preplanned break. walk us through how this jury would have arrived at an indictment today. >> we don't know if they voted on it today or on another day and it had remained under seal and it still does as w

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourtion from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: good evening and welcome to the "newshour." the former head of starbucks, howard schultz, went head-to-head with democrats on catol hill today in a tense hearing over efforts to unionize at the company he founded. amna: schultz's opposition to unions has long been public. but some lawmakers and labor leaders allege that schultz has made union-busting moves that are illegal. schultz denied it forcefully. as congressional correspondent lisa desjardins reports, the hearing was a key moment in the battle over recent efforts to unionize. lisa: in one of the senate's largest committee rooms, packed with intensity. >> starbucks coffee company did not break the law. lisa: a confrontation over business, workers and american values as former starbucks ceo howard schultz faced a top critic vermont senator bernie , sanders. senator sanders: over the last 18 months, starbucks has waged the most aggressive and illegal union busting campaign in the modern

. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: good evening a welcome to the "newshour." as we come on the air we are tracking developments in different stories. two americans witnessing the horror of another mass shooting, a deadly assault on a school. and israelis witnessing a day unlike any before it. an up people -- upheaval that is paralyzing the country. amna: >> an attack left the shooter and six people dead including three children at a church run school. the police chief was moved to tears by the tragedy. stephanie sy begins our coverage. stephanie: in a scene that has become all too familiar in the country, first responders rushed to respond to reports of an active school shooter this time of the covenant school, a private christian elementary school of about 200 students. tennessee police initially said a female suspect entered the school and killed three children and three staff members before being shot and killed by responding officers. the children were identified, an

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the "newshour." the u.s. economy again created more jobs than expected last month -- 311,000. the unemployment rate also ticked up to 3.6%, but that came as the labor force participation rate improved and more than 400,000 workers jumped back into the work force. president biden made note of that after the report came out this morning. >> the part that pleases me the most about the report, the jobs report, is people who've been staying out of the job market are moving back in, beginning to move back in. jobs are available. people are working again. they're becoming more optimistic about their future. geoff: wage increases slowed down, but job growth remains strong overall. julia coronado is the president and founder of the firm, macorpolicy perspectives. she's a former economist for the federal reserve and a professor at the university of texas, austin. thank you for being with us. julia: my pleasure. geoff: we have a strong

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourr -- to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: good evening and welcome to the "newshour." a whipsaw week for the banking industry has come to an end amid nagging fears and calls for action. president biden asked congress today to authorize tougher penalties for executives of failed banks. geoff: meantime, the parent company of silicon valley bank filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. the sudden collapse of that tech-focused bank last friday touched off the turmoil that's kept markets off balance all week. amna: wall street had rallied on thursday, but the optimism faded today. the dow jones industrial average lost 384 points, 1%, to close below 31,862. the nasdaq also fell .75%. the s&p 500 was down nearly 1.1%. the international criminal court targeted russian president vladimir putin today with an arrest warrant. it alleges he's responsible for illegal deportions of children from ukraine. the kremlin called the warrant "outrageous and unacceptable." russia do

support of these individuals and institutions -- ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcastingcontributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> good evening and welcome. authorities are still searching for a motive in this shooting at a christian elementary school in nashville, tennessee, that left six people dead. >> law enforcement said that shooter bought seven guns legally, three of which were used in the murders. in nashville police released new video of their response. stephanie sy has the latest and a warning,r report includes video that some viewers may find upsetting. >> newly released surveillance video shows the shooter driving up to the covenant school and gaining entry into the building by shooting through a side door. it is 10:10 a.m. the suspect walks through the halls carrying two assault style rifles and a handgun. police receive free sports -- reports of the shooting three minutes after entry. as police officers arrived at the scene, the assailant fires at their vehicles. >> making entry on the front side. >> body camera footage shows offi

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourtion from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the “newshour.” scientists warned today that climate change is warming the planet to the point where it is causing irreversible damage in some parts of the world. amna: the new report from the united nations intergovernmental panel on climate change, or ipcc, found that witn a decade, the world is likely to miss its goal of holding global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius or 2.7 degrees fahrenheit. if or when the planet reaches that level, scientists say earth will pass tipping points that will lead to catastrophic environmental damage, including dangerous sea level rise, entire species going extinct, and even greater suffering in many nations, especially the poorest. u.n. secretary general antonio guterres said the time to act is now. >> humity is on thin ice, and that eyes is melting fast. the rate of temperature rise in the la century is the highest in 2000 years. concentrations of carbon dioxide are at their highest in at least

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