. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions topbs station from viewers like you. thank you. john: good evening, i'm john yang. there's been another fatal plane crash, this one in philadelphia, even as investigators piece together evidence from wednesday's deadly mid-air collision in washington, d.c. last night, a small jet transporting a pediatric patient home to mexico crashed in northeast philadelphia shortly after takeoff read at least seven people died including the six mexican citizens on board. on the ground homes were set , ablaze and at least 19 people were injured. it came as investigators continue their search for answers in the collision of a passenger jet and an army helicopter near washington's airport. that accident claimed 67 lives, the worst u.s. air crash in at least 15 years. randy babbitt is a former administrator of the federal aviation administration and he is also a commercial airline pilot. the faa took its first action yesterday to close off the area around washington reagan national to low altitude, most l

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. ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributionsyour pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ali: good evening, i'm ali rogin. john yang is away. israel pulled its forces from a key gaza corridor today, which it used as a military zone during the war, cutting off the north of the gaza strip from the south. the withdrawal is part of a fragile ceasefire deal with hamas. drone footage revealed the scale of destruction at the netzarim corridor. people can be seen sifting through debris, carrying bodies and making their way home. meanwhile, on israel's northern front inside lebanon, its forces there have already missed a deadline to withdraw and concerns are mounting they may stay past february 18, a second deadline to pull out. simona foltyn is on the ground at the lebanese border. simona: this is one of several lebanese border villages still under israeli control. >> we are at the east side, thee on this side and we have a few standing houses. i guess they want to destroy them before they leave. simona: every day he and other vil

. ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributionsur pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. john: good evening. i'm john yang. president trump said today that americans may feel some pain as a result of the north american trade war that's emerging after he imposed sweeping tariffs on mexico and canada. but, mr. trump added, it would be worth the price. retaliatory tariffs were quickly announced by mexico, canada and china, which the president also targeted with import duties. last night, canadian prime minister justin trudeau had a stern warning for americans. >> this is a choice that, yes, will harm canadians, but beyond that, it will have real consequences for you, the american people. john: today, senate minority leader chuck schumer urged mr. trump to reverse course before the tariffs take effect at 12:01 tuesday morning. >> you campaigned on lowering prices. you campaigned on this wallet. but your tariffs will have more money come out of this wallet for so many goods and services. john: the public reaction in canada has be

the corporation for public broadcasting only gives the taxpayer money to three of them. 147 get nothing. now, i probably wouldn't object to this if the corporation for public broadcasting and npr and national public radio is -- is what i'm referring to, of course, and pbs had been consistent with its original mission, which is to report factually the news to the american people. the government doesn't need to subsidize the media anymore because the world's changed. 97% of the people in america have the internet, but i still probably wouldn't object that much if the reporting by these entities was fair and it was balanced, but it is not. no fair-minded person in america can look at this programming and believe that it's unbiassed. it is decidedly prejudiced in favor of one point of view. that's just not my opinion. i think most americans would agree with that because most americans see the headlines that are produced by these three entities. i talked some last week. this is what america's taxpayer money is going to do -- to provide. here's just some headlines from npr. i

. ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributionsur pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ali: good evening. i'm ali rogin. john yang is away. as the munich security conference wrapped up today, american officials prepared to begin talks with russia over ending the war in ukraine. those discussions are expected to begin in the coming days in saudi arabia. meanwhile, europe's leaders are preparing to convene an emergency meeting in paris on monday in response to being shut out of early negotiations. there's also no clear indication yet that kyiv will be involved at those talks either. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy told nbc's meet the press today that his country would never accept a deal struck just between moscow and washington. he also said surrendering any ukrainian land is off the table. pres. zelenskyy: we will never do it. it's not about it's not about any negotiations. we will never speak about it. >> even crimea? you seem to have acknowledged pres. zelenskyy: even crimea. we will never recognize it. because i

the public broadcasting station, we call it pbs and national public radio, npr. now, here's how it works. every year congress gives the corporation for public broadcasting $500 million, and the corporation for public broadcasting takes that money and gives it to a lot of the local tv and radio stations. and a lot of those local and radio stations are encouraged to, and indeed do, buy programming if they're radio stations from npr or if they're television stations, they buy a prerecorded, predeveloped programming from pbs. congress established this system and established the corporation for public broadcasting in 1967. what? over 50 years ago. at the time congress tasked cpb -- and i'm not saying it didn't make sense then, it probably did make sense then -- but congress tasked the cpb with the mission to ensure that the american people had -- and i want to be quote here -- to quote here -- had universal access to universal, high-quality content and telecommunication services. and indeed cpb boosts on its website that 99% of americans have access to public media. hell, they ought to. we're spending half a billion dollars of your taxpay

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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. anchor: good evening. two courts have set back the trump administration's plans to shrink the federal workforce and reshape the u.s. government. this morning, a federal judge temporarily blocked doge from accessing sensitive treasury department records, including social security numbers and bank accounts of millions of americans. this came after another judge paused the plan to place more than 2000 employees at usaid on paid leave. it is a setback in trump's efforts to dismantle the global humanitarian agency. one of the two federal employee organizations that suit to solve the plan is the american foreign service association, whose members primarily work abroad. thank you so much for being here. we know that all employees at usaid got a email saying you should be able to access the system again. sources i have spoken with sadie so cannot log into the system and they have no access. where do things stand as you are aware and are the people runni

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 news hour. tonight, major tariffs against mexico and canada have been put on hold for one month, but others against china are set to go into effect tomorrow. amna: this all comes as president donald trump pushes new boundaries, taking steps to shutter an entire government agency, and giving his close adviser, elon musk, unprecedented leeway to cut costs in washington and beyond. our report tonight from laura barron lopez. laura: tonight, major tariffs against mexico and canada are on pause. just hours before they were set to go into effect at the stroke of midnight tonight. president trump and mexican president claudia sheinbaum, after speaking by phone today, "agreed to immediately pause the anticipated tariffs for a one month period." mexico pledging to put 10,000 of its troops along the u.s. southern border to help combat the flow of drugs. and prime minister justin trudeau says the same delay will be given to canada.

institutions. ♪ >> and friends of the news hour -- ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcastingr pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> >>> hello, everyone, and welcome to amanpour and company. here is what is coming up. putin's talking points from >> umpire:. what do russians make of all of this? i asked diplomat and turned kremlin critic boris bondarev. >>> then back on here in america, what will congressman

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting big contributions from viewers like you. thank you. amna: welcome to the news hour. courts and congress are struggling to keep up with the pace set by the trump administration as it reshapes the american government, national politics in the international order. geoff: president trump promised more cuts and more political payback even as the courts stepped in to at least temporarily stand in the way of big changes he put in motion days ago. lisa starts her coverage. lisa: standing next to the prime minister of japan, a question about how president trump uses power. he was asked will he fire every fbi agent investigating the january 6 assault. he later seemed to clarified he wanted to fire corrupt agents. this as agents involved saw a win. the department of justice agreed not to release the list of agents who worked on january 6 cases without two days notice. a court case will continue in the meanwhile. that came as trump welcomed to the japanese prime minister, the second foreign leader to visit the white house sinc

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcast and by contributions to your pbstation from viewers like you. thank you. >> i'm vanessa ruiz in for stephanie sy. here are the latest headlines. president trump levy new shots against zelensky today. he first he told a radio interviewer that he didn't think it was very important that zelensky attend meeting aimed to bringing the two an end. and then president trump stepped up his criticism while speaking to a group of governors at the white house. president trump: i've had good talks with putin. i've ha not good talks with ukraine. we're not going to let this continue. this war is terrible. vanessa: these latest comments follow a week of escalating comments between trump and zelensky which has seen the president refer to zelensky as a dictator and falsely claims that ukraine started the war. s.q. brown was fired. he was a strong supporter of diversity and equity among the ranks. the president wrote, he is nominating air force lieutenant general john case to replace brown. brown was the second black general to have se

." >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributionso your pbs news station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: welcome to the "newshour." the black box from the army helicopter that collided with a passenger jet near washington's reagan national airport has been recovered. >> investigators hope to gather valuable data as they try to understand what led to the dea deadly midair crash. as john yang reports, families were briefed and met with the medical examiner. >> police boats were back on the potomac river as diverse search for the remaining bodies of the 67 who died in a collision. and the first major change since the crash. the f.a.a. shut down most low altitude flights near the washington national airport one of the most congested air spaces shared by commercial jets and government helicopters. meanwhile ntsb began to analyze the cockpit data recorder, the so box black boxes. defense secretary pete hegseth said they're trying to find out if they were using night goggles. >> it could have been used. you have a lot of ambient lig

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting added by contributions to youron from viewers like you. thank you. amna: welcome to the "news hour." courts and congress are struggling to keep up with the break-neck pace set by the trump administration, as it dramatically reshapes the american government, national politics, and the international order. geoff: today, president trump promised more cuts and more political payback, even as the courts stepped in to -- at least temporarily -- stand in the way of big changes he put in motion days ago. lisa desjardins begins our coverage. correspondent: standing next to the prime minister of japan, a question about how president trump used his power. he was as will he fire every fbi agent to investigated the january 6 the salt? pres. trump: no, but i will fire some of them. correspondent: he clarified he wanted to fire corrupt agents and that could be those involved in january 6 as fbi agent's involved saw a win. the department of justice agreed not to release the list of agents who worked on the case without two days no

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourtation from viewers like you. thank you. amna: welcome to the “news hour.” today, european leaders pushed back against what they describe as concessions and shifts by the trump administration on ukraine. geoff: yesterday president trump started ceasefire negotiations, while his defense secretary doubted ukraine's future in nato. today, ukrainian and european officials demanded continued support for ukraine, and a seat at the negotiating table. nick schifrin is in munich for us tonight. nick: at nato headquarters today, the traditional class photo was all smiles. but behind the show of unity, tension over ukraine. from britain. >> there can be no negotiation about ukraine without ukraine, and ukraine's voice must be at the heart of any talks. nick: lithuania. >> whether we decide to fall under the illusion that mr. trump and mr. putin are going to find a solution for all of us, and that would be a deadly trap. nick: germany. >> it is regrettable, and i say this myself, but it is part of

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. ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the news hour. it has been perhaps the most significant day of court action for the second trump administration so far. amna: multiple judges have temporarily blocked efforts by president trump to dramatically gut the federal government and more lawsuits are yet to come. laura burrell lopez has this to report. laura: a federal judge paused a takeover by billionaire elon musk and his team. blocking access for now from a sensitive treasury department payment system. that system holds personal information on millions of americans. from social security numbers to bank account details. a group of unions are you the -- argued the agency was illegally sharing information with elon musk's team, known as the department of government efficiency. also today, an effort to purge the government of federal workers has been paused until monday by a federal judge in massachusetts. in an unprecedented move, his team directly emailed 2 mill

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions tos station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: welcome to the news hour. two of president trump's most embattled cabinet nominees cleared major procedural hurdles today on their paths to confirmation. geoff: the senate finance committee voted along party lines to send to the full senate robert f. kennedy jr.'s nomination to lead the department of health and human services. and the senate intelligence committee advanced former congresswoman tulsi gabbard's nomination to serve as director of national intelligence. our congressional correspondent lisa desjardins is following the cabinet confirmation process and joins us now. lisa, let's start with hhs first, since it is one of the largest federal agencies. what is the committee's vote mean? lisa: unless something changes, rfk junior will become the next hhs secretary. there are enough votes on the floor for him. he is a 71-year-old, of course, who does not have a history or expertise in health care. he spent years researching and writi

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions topbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> welcome to the news hour. a wave resignations shaping up the u.s. justice department after the trump administration gave orders to drop the corruption case against new york city mayor eric adams. so far at least seven officials have quit and adams is facing increasingly loud calls to step down. >> the exodus began yesterday with one of new york's top prosecutors and is already being dubbed the thursday afternoon massacre, recalling the famous saturday night massacre during the watergate scandal. william brangham begins our coverage. >> through this entire ordeal -- >> new york city mayor eric adams was playing defense. >> i had to endure for something i did not do wrong. >> including a pr blitz on fox news. all the while, the u.s. to part and of justice is in up people over the fate of the corruption case brought against the mayor. yesterday, six doj officials resigned after refusing an order from the department in washington to dismiss

. ♪ announcer: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributionsyour pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: welcome to the news hour. president trump has been on the job one month. and the pace of his administration has been unrelenting. a federal judge this afternoon ruled the administration can continue firing federal workers by the thousands. geoff: that's as a new trump higher became official today. the senate confirmed one of the president's most polarizing nominees to lead the fbi. lisa desjardins has the latest. lisa: a matter of fact conclusion to a controversial nomination as the senate confirmed kash patel to run the fbi installing a staunch trump , loyalist to the top of the bureau. patel, a former federal public defender and counterterrorism prosecutor, has consistently blasted the fbi and department of justice as the so-called deep state weaponized, he says, against president trump and conservatives. republicans call him a reformer. >> i look forward to working with mr. patel to restore the integrity of the fbi, and get it

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. john is away. the war in ukraine has taken center stage at the munich security conference as the trump administration's lead ukraine envoy said today there are no plans for europeans to be included in any talks to end the war. on the sidelines of the conference the republican chairman of the house foreign affairs committee said that national security advisor mike waltz, secretary of state marco rubio, and middle east enjoy steve whit kov will travel to saudi arabia in the coming days to begin the negotiations with ukrainian and russian if i recalls. ukraine's president suggested that the days of the u.s. defending europe may be over. our foreign affairs and defense correspondent spoke with chief of staff and asked him what message he has for europe and the united states? >> first of all, i think that president zelenskyy brings hope. the hope that just the new reality europe has to be united, europe has to be strong. >> is

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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. amna: welcome to the newshour. today, top russian and u.s. officials met in person for the first time since russia invaded ukraine more than 1,000 days ago. the goal they said was to chart a path towards peace. geoff: and there was more -- the u.s. and russia raised the possibility of lifting the sanctions they've aimed at each other. they also agreed to work toward restoring staffing at their embassies. but there was one glaring omission. ukrainian officials were not in the room. >> it was a face-to-face not seen in almost three years. u.s. officials led by secretary of state marco rubio, meeting with their russian counterparts in saudi arabia to discuss an end to the war in ukraine and chart a path toward improving bilateral relations. after more than four hours behind closed doors, the u.s. delegation said it saw hints of progress. >> we could not have imagined a better result after this session. it was very solid. >> i came awaited away -- c

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this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting, by contributions to your pbstion from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the newshour. in a major u.s. foreign policy shift, president trump announced today that he and russian president vladimir putin have agreed to immediately start talks to end the war in ukraine; the president also said he believed the two leaders would meet soon. amna: earlier in the day, defense secretary pete hegseth outlined further policy changes, saying kyiv should not expect to recapture all territory occupied by russia; and that its bid for nato membership is unrealistic at this time. nick schifrin begins our coverage. >> at the headquarters of what u.s. officials consider the world's most important alliance, today, pete hegseth put the alliance on notice. >> we are here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the united states of america from being primarily focused on the security of europe. nick: for decades, the u.s. deployed tens of thousands of troops to europe to help guara

. ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributionsur pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ geoff: welcome to the newshour. today a federal judge said that president donald trump violated his order that lifted a blanket freeze on federal spending and again directed the administration to release the funds. amna: the funds. that as top prosecutors in nearly half the country just won a temporary legal victory, restoring medical research funding stripped late last week. white house correspondent laura barron lopez joins us for more. we are three weeks into the trump administration. you are seeing a growing number of federal judges described the president's actions as overreach. what more do federal judges say about mr. trump's attempts to freeze those federal funds? laura: on that sweeping freeze of federal funding, a district judge said in a ruling today that the trump administration's continued freeze of those funds "violate the plain text of an order he previously issued, saying they needed to stop, and they needed to release

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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. geoff: welcome to the "newshour," a wave of resignations is shaking up the u.s. justice department as president trump gave orders to drop the case. seven officials have quit and adams is facing calls to step down. amna: one of new york's top federal prosecutors and already being dubbed the thursday afternoon massacre recalling the saturday night massacre during the watergate scandal. >> throughout this entire -- >> today, mayor adams was playing defense. >> i didn't do anything wrong. >> including a p.r. blitz on fox news. all the while, the u.s. department of justice is in upheaval over the corruption case. yesterday, six d.o.j. officials resigned after refusing an order from washington to dismiss the case. acting u.s. attorney danielle sassoon, a republican clerk who clerked for justice. mr. scalise: lya. writing to pam bondi, sassoon accused adams what amounted to a quid pro quo. and adams would aid trump's immigration enforcement if th

we give half a billion dollars to the corporation for public broadcasting where npr gets their money. doing this? we don't need to be funding npr. i'll take the car. rachel: disney is going to change content warnings before old movies. did you know they had warnings before pea peter pan and dumbo. they're going to take the warning levels off the beautiful films. lisa: d.c. has come under attack for being woke in recent years. disney plus lost 700,000 subscriberses in q1. rachel: i was one of them. lisa: they were going after florida's parental rights bill. they dabblet in politics, reqgowoke, go broke. rachel: peter pan doesn't need a warning label. lisa: i wonder what the warning label was, probably something stupid. rachel: cobra kai and karate kid star ralph macchio said staying out of hollywood was the key to his 30 year marriage. >> stay out of hollywood. i always kept one foot in, one foot o out. a lot of this comes from my wife who grounds and elevates me and my kids as well. rachel: his daughter looks just like him. lisa: wax on, wax off. rachel: it's good advice, right? lisa:

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourewers like you. thank you. >>> hello, everyone, and welcome to "amanpour and company." here is what is coming up. a shock proposal from trump to clear out and take over gaza. we get reaction from palestinian

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just threatening to cut off the fraction of their funds that come technically from the corporation for public broadcasting and taxpayer money. so that's another. you might also have seen headlines about the move at the defense department to take away office space used at the pentagon by correspondents from the new york times and nbc news and other major news organizations. now, it does not mean that these news outlets are banned from covering the pentagon. it just means they can't cover the pentagon as well as they do now. i mean, they'll be allowed to attend briefings and, you know, get emails or whatever, make phone calls, but they are no longer allowed to be based there at the pentagon. so they can be there all around the clock while decisions are being made and things are happening. they can't do that anymore. that office space has been there for pentagon correspondents for decades. but in the trump administration, they're pulling it from well-established, competent, independent news organizations that they don't like and that they would like to hurt. all of these stories are the same story, right? th

committee counsel on capitol hill in the early 80s, ronald reagan had gone after the corporation for public broadcastingor, tim wirth, rallied congress to override the reagan veto. the only override of the entire first term of the reagan administration was on public broadcasting, and we did it off the strength of big bird. we brought big bird to capitol hill, took him office to office, let congressmen, republicans and democrats take pictures with them, send them home to the local newspapers, and we're able to do that. but of course, since then, the whole media landscape has changed drastically. first with dozens of cable channels, then streaming all kinds of cultural, public affairs, documentary programing that is out there in the private sector. but the real, politically salient issue has always been educational programing for kids, and that still looked like a strong hand. then a few years ago, hbo started funding sesame street and look like private sector could pick that up now. hbo recently dropped funding for sesame street, though netflix has recently picked up miss rachel. and so the whole questio

billion cut from disability programs, zeroing out entire federal programs including the corporation for public broadcastinge legal services corporation, community development block grants, and community services block grants, all to pave the way for trump to double down on his tax breaks for billionaires. at his center for renewing america think tank, mr. vought drafted a 2023 budget plan entitled "a commitment to end woke and weaponized government." this is the playbook that trump and musk are already running to freeze federal funding, dismantle and dismember federal agencies, and seize the power of the purse from congress, where the constitution put it. that plan called for extending trump's tax cuts for the wealthy by slashing medicaid by $2.1 trillion, snap by $400 billion, eliminating the afford care tax credits that help folks afford health care comp. mr. vought shahs also openly admitted his intention to challenge the impoundment control act of 1974, which enforces congress's constitutional power of the purse. during his confirmation hearing last month, mr. vought says he believes the president can