i am john yang.s afternoon the republican-controlled texas state senate voted largely along party lines not to remove embattled state attorney general kent paxton from office. the texas house had overwhelmingly voted to impeach him earlier this year. theenate sat as a jury in the trial on charges, the house had brought that had been deliberating since friday. the senate acquitted paxton on 16 separate articles of impeachment, including bribery, obstruction of justice, conspiracy, and abuse of the public trust. the charger center on his relationship with a wealthy donor. afterward, the lieutenant governor dan patrick said it was all just politics. >> this vote will be the vote you are remembered for most. our members already knew that. and have known that for the last three months. if only the house members who voted for impeachment would've followed that instruction in the house, we may not have been here. in the house the vote to send the articles of impeachment to the senate happened in only a few

i'm john yang.unleashed a barrage of drone attacks today on a ukrainian port critical to the grain trade, on the eve of a new diplomatic effort to get russia to rejoin the deal that allowed ukranian grain safe passage through the black sea. two people were reported injured in the attack on the port along the danube river, which is now the main route for grain shipments since the black sea deal fell apart in july. tomorrow, turkish president recep tayyip erdogan is to meet russian president vladimir putin in the resort city of sochi to press russia to rejoin the deal. meanwhile, late today, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy said he is replacing his defense minister. in a statement, he said, after "more than 550 days of full-scale war," he believed the ministry needed "new approaches." a judge has thrown out a redistricting plan pushed by ron desantis saying it dilutes the voting power of black residents. at issue is the fifth congressional district. the redrawn map moved black voters into white

i'm john yang.dent biden and the first lady got a firsthand look today at the damage hurricane idalia left behind in northern florida. they surveyed the devastation by helicopter, toured hard-hit ve oak, florida, on and were briefed by federal and local officials on recovery efforts. the bidens were joined by florida republican senator rick scott, but governor ron desantis was notably absent. an aide to desantis, who's running for the republican presidential nomination, said that the logistics of a meeting with the president would interrupt recovery operations. a week after landing the first spacecraft near the moon's south pole, india is setting its sights on the sun. this morning, india launched a spacecraft that's to travel nearly 1-million miles over 125 days to a point in space that willive it a clear view of the sun. there, it's to study the sun's upper atmosphere and other phenomena like solar winds. and two passings of note. politician and diplomat bill richardson died last night. he was a 2

. ♪ john: good evening, i'm john yang.ion and automaker negotiatiors talking but making little progress, the head of the united auto workers union threatened today to widen the strike beyond the three plants that have beendle since friday. talks were set to resume today with g-m and monday with ford and stellantis, which used to be called cry. -- chrysler. on cbs face the nation, uaw president shawn fain compared the automakers' wage offers with the salaries of their ceos. >> in the last four years alone, co pay went up 40%. they're already millionaires. you know, it's shameful that, you know, one of the, one of the leaders of one of the corporations is sitting in his second home in acapulco while we're bargaining, rather than being at the bargaining table. >> so 21% is a no-go for you? fain: it's definitely a no-go, and we've made that very clear to the companies. john: this is the first time the union has gone on strike against all three automakers at once, rather than targeting just one of them. south korean president y

i'm john yang.ight, as the make-or-break week for avoiding a government shutdown begins, house republicans are still looking for a way out of their spending stalemate. house speaker kevin mccarthy wants to pass a 45-day spending bill to fund the government beyond next saturday, but hardline republicans are insisting on full-year bills with big cuts. this morning on fox news, one of the hardliners, matt gaetz of florida, blasted the speaker's strategy. rep. gaetz: we knew september 30 was coming all year. and kevin mccarthy has been dilatory. he's been fiddling like nero as rome burns. >> as we understand it -- as we understand it, they're doing this, this upcoming week. so, we will be watching that. rep.gaetz:ight, because we are making them. they are doing it with a political gun to their head. and you are welcome, america. john: this week, mccarthy will try to pass four of the bill needed to fund the government for a full year as well as a short-term stop gap measure for the rest of the government

i'm john yang.y that fall officially begins, a tropical storm is producing a large area of rain as it moves up the atlantic coast, triggering flood watches and warnings along the way. ophelia came ashore this morning in north carolina and is forecast to reach southeastern virginia by this evening and be over water off the mid-atlantic coast by monday. with its winds already considerably diminished, the national hurricane center says the main threat is flooding from heavy rain -- more than a half foot of rain is forecast to fall in some areas. along the coast, storm surge warnings are up as far north as the chesapeake bay. tens of thousands of people have already lost power from north carolina to pennsylvania. north carolina, virginia and maryland are all under states of emergency. the family of a 17-year-old black high school student in texas who's been suspended for his hairstyle is suing governor greg abbott and attorney general ken paxton. darryl george's family says abbott and paxton have failed

john yang and moscow have both previously denied that north korea is providing russia with supplies for its war and ukraine. west and officials say both moscow and kids are burning through huge amounts of munition as the war interest. it's 19 month us earlier, i talked to the washington correspondent janelle dom alone who is following the story for us. here's what she told us. well, this meeting between vladimir putin and kimmy young and reportedly revolves around russia buying or tillery shells, an anti tank missiles from north korea, north korea for it's part, reportedly wants technology for satellites and nuclear powered submarines from russia. it also reportedly wants food aid. now the new york times is saying that the north korean leader will likely travel by arm or train to the eastern coastal city of lottie vos stock, where the eastern economic forum is taking place and also perhaps to moscow. but that is not yet certain. although it is important to highlight at this point about, we don't know exactly what will happen. and if this meeting might push through, or if the, if it is c

the south korean military reported friday that john yang fired several cruise missiles into the yellow sea protesters, and guatemala, have riley to support president elect fernando arevalo, who is being blocked from taking office. his party has been suspended and is being investigated for forgery. critics accused the political elite of a crew attend, arvalo won run off elections last month. the mayor of madrid has advised residents to stay in their homes as torrential, rain and storms approach. the extreme weather has already caused flash flooding in several parts of spain. any flights were cancelled or delayed rescue workers had to free to people who were trapped in their car for us or not have left the international space station for their journey back to earth in a space extra dragon castle. their departure was delayed by 3 days due to hurricane in volume. the journey from earth orbit to splash down off the florida coast will take around 17 hours, which allows to drag into how frances has urged all religions to live in harmony and sean ideological fundamental ism, the message has sp

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i'm john yang. amna nawaz and geoff bennett are away. on the newshour tonight, today's jobs report shows hiring is slowing, but so is inflation. what the latest economic data signals for american workers. as a texas law banning gender-affirming care for transgender children takes effect, families grapple with the potential consequences. and districts seek new ways to deal with pandemic learning loss. one potential solution? lengthening the school year. >> in this once in a century moment, we need once in a century responses. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by -- >> the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. and friends of the newshour, including -- >> consumer cellular, this is sam, how may i help you? >this is a pocket dial. well, i thought it would let you know that with consumers are you look, you can get nationwide coverage with no contract. that is kind of our thing. have a nice day. >> the john s and james all night foundation, fostering an informed and engaged communities. more at kf.org. >>

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john yang is away.been more than 120 years since moroccans have suffered an earthquake this strong. the 6.8 magnitude quake has killed more than 1000 people and injured 1200 others, according ptho rise. damage was widespread, from the atlas untains to the old city of marrakech. the quake hit just after 11:00 friday night, sending people scrambling into the streets of marrakech, away from buildings, as fast as their feet could carry them. the city is home to 800,000 people. closer to the quake's epicenter, in the smaller towns and villages in the high atlas mountains southwest of marrakech, there were pleas for help. >> houses collapsed on people. people are suffering here very much. we are in dire need of ambulances. william: many spent the night outdoors, fearful of aftershocks and unstable buildings, many of which were not made to withstand tremors this strong. in the light of day, the scale of destruction became clearer, especially in those small towns nearest the epicenter, like amizmiz. as stunned

john yang has the details. endation is part of a review president biden ordered last year. hhs says marijuana should no longer be a schedule one controlled substance like heroin and lsd, which the law defines as having no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. instead, hhs says the drug enforcement administration should classify marijuana as a schedule three substance, defined as having a lower potential for abuse. other class iii substances include anabolic steroids and painkillers with small amounts of codeine. dea, part of the justice department, will have the final say on this. natalie fertig covers federal cannabis policy for politico. i want to underscore, they are not recommending decriminalization, right? >> correct. it would not remove the federal prohibition on cannabis. john: some restrictions would remain? >> yes. a schedule three drug is still overseen by the dea. john: what would be the biggest practical effects of this? >> the cannabis industry has been hard-hit in the last few years

john yang has more. ation transparency project at the loyola university law school says there's been a 50% jump in deaths from 2019 to 2021. and what's more, there's been a significant spike in deaths due to drugs, suicide and violence all reaching new highs. , roby chavez is a communities correspondent for us based in new orleans. roby, as i understand it, there have been 1,100 deaths behind bars since 2015. this report analyzes that. what are the big findings? roby: well, john, the numbers show a big surge since the start of covid. and prison reform advocates say that this report points to what they call dehumanizing and deadly problems at these prisons and jails, but they say it's a completely solvable problem. until now, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the deaths at louisiana prisons and jails until loyola university law school started to collect the data through public records request. here's some of the things that they found. one in four people killed in louisiana jails had not been tri

john yang has more on his legacy and his successor.r seven decades he has some bold and unmatched global media empire. newspapers, television and movies in the u.s., britain and australia. it includes a fox sports, the wall street journal and the new york post. the 92-year-old murdoch has yielded -- they have also led to some self-inflicted wounds most notably fox news's settlement with dominion voting systems for defamation over the 2020 election. npr's media correspondent is also the author of murdoch's world. when rupert murdoch steps down in november he will hand out the reins over to his elder son, who is 52. will anything change about the approach, the tone, the political slant of particularly fox news? reporter: i don't. i think the sun if anything is slightly more conservative than his father and less politically engaged. and less ceaselessly ambitious then his father to keep expanding and maneuvering. he has been focusing his maneuvering on getting on top of his family empire. the father and son have been trying to figure out

john yang has more on his legacy and successor. f, over his seven-decade career, rupert murdoch presided over arguably the biggest global media empire ever in the english-speaking world newspapers, television and movies in the united states, britain and australia. the wall street journal and the new york post. he's used them to promote u.s. -- his settlement with dominion voting systems. david folkenflik, npr media correspondent and author of the book murdoch's world: the last of the old media empires david, when rupert murdoch steps down in november, he's going to hand the reins over to his elder son, lachlan, who's 52. do you think anything's going to change then about the approach the tone the political slant of particularly fox news and the other fox news outlets, newspapers? >> i don't. i think that lachlan is, if anything slightly more conservative than his father, a little less politically engaged to be sure, and little less corporately engaged, unless sort of ceaselessly ambitious than his father to keep expanding and maneuv

welcome john yang. john: that afternoon. i am the president and executive director.t is an honor to be a cosponsor with leaders and individuals. 60 years ago. the martin luther had a dream to end oppression for all black immunities. although the moral arc bends toward justice, we know there are those who want to return us to the status quo. i am here to say that will not happen. asian americans know we cannot achieve equality without being alongside the black community. the seeds of racism has many strands. we know we are in the fight one and the same. walking in your neighborhood because of covid and the anti-china sentiment has caused violence with the asian-american community. asian immigrants are seen as potential foreigners that are somehow disloyal to this country for which we contribute or we can't own land or hold a job we seek. they use the model minority myth to suggest asian americans don't suffer this termination and that racism somehow doesn't exist. they tried to exploit us us against black and brown communities. we all know that us as marginalized comm

john about full on unconditional support to russia. north korea's leda households and present vladimir putin as a russian space launch facility on wednesday. going yang once the russian expertise race satellite program, while most go once more weapons for as well. and ukraine came, john is late to expected to visit the red cross country and to go and see the russian navies at pacific fleet. now those are the headlines, the news continues, hey, i know just are off the stream. you can catch us up on i would is there a dot com with loud west struggle gives us to true passion where faith trusts where humanity defies. expectations with freedom is 12 untold stories from across asia and the pacific one o one each on outages era, the high are welcome to the stream. i'm josh rushing, emitted climate emergency. the u. s. has approved a massive plan to drill from their foil in gas and alaska. that's called the willow project. in this $8000000000.00 development teams to extract at least $600000000.00 barrels of oil, from alaska's north slope, over the next 30 years. listen to what some alaskan natives had to say about the project earlier this month. at a protest

the yang clave is internationally recognized as part of as or by john, but large parts were controlled by epic. armenians with close links to the armenian government to wars if and fold over in the corner car box, the pool, the soviet union, glass full scale conflict in 2020. so as or by john, make sizable gains. you know, mean yes, the latest, the spark protests many say ethnic, our meetings in the corner car box were abandoned. they want prime minister nickel passenger to stand down pushing and says the army in the military wasn't involved in the latest fighting or the seats bar process. the main question i think was we hope the military escalation will not continue because stability is very important for future projects. thousands of russian peacekeepers failed to stop the fighting . they helped evacuate around $10000.00 ethnic armenian civilians. now build balls or isn't use the spire as, as or by john seeks to re integrate the region and it's people bins, mullin for inside story. the alright, from war on all this, i'm joined by our guests and assemble is as marriage of her over bo

jesus loved yang, the only male disciple who was present at the crucifixion, and jesus' last words begged his mother to treat his love for john his partner, as a son-in-law in christian art, there are many stories about how the ocean, jesus physically close hugging lying on top of each other. friend. who said if there is no god, everything is allowed, and we we see in the world. and what is most striking is the slavic region. what satanism i am satan, what death cult? what is the possibility of mockery of life and death, as they mocked the unfortunate russian citizen who was torn to pieces by sharks or mockery, and the lvov meat processing plant over a family that died during why are completely different countries of the civilized west so? unanimously united against the slavic world. what were they afraid of? they were afraid of the competition. why amazing culture economy industry? all yes, everything is as any person wants, but there is something that is incomprehensible and insurmountable for those for whom only what can be touched has true value, when i filmed oblomov, in principle, it was a dispute between two talented p

john is willing to take part in the construction f. it's a c, g, t, n correspondent, yang of changing ripples to put into some experts at our top 2 days. believe that a service visit this time will extend the middle east reputation towards china. his concept of seeking regional, peaceful development in some practical cooperation on trends engagement is here is reconstruction, is expected to be put on its own east agenda. so it is expected that a search would touch on a particular cooperation with meeting with chinese theaters including, you know, in the resumption or previous projects such as the construction of reservoirs of fuels and other infrastructure projects. as well as discussing some new potential areas, cooperation and the the present visit comes at a time and that's don't forget that it comes at a time with serious checking. and you balanced and comprehensive diplomacy. and the new east are compared in china is undoubtedly a very is going to play a very important part of the area. we spoke to a journalist on political analyst, steve, so we knew who said the stre

north korean leader kim john loan has arrived in russia ahead of amazing the president that i'm approved in. the us believes killing yang is ready to supply weapons to moscow is the war and ukraine and the us, the speaker of the house of representatives is cooling for an impeachment, inquiry and to president joe biden. kevin mccarthy is accusing biden, using his roles to help us some hum to what his business dealings tech john apple has just released the place as iphone and apple watches. it tries to reverse a slump in sales. it's also moving away from its proprietory charging cables to the u. s. b c, because of european regulations. well, those are the headlines on challenges there. they're stay with us. the stream is coming up next. thank you for watching. it's time for the west to we think the best option for the ukraine rush award and what, what those options look like. what is us strategy when it comes to iran for almost 200 years, americans have generally been stuck with 2 political choices, but cannot ever change because it comes with us politics developed and like the welcome to the stream. i'm josh rushing. tim

john, you got his reaction on this story called right to see you today. what do you think? i mean, washington is open and looking to impose sanctions against young yang, as far as i can tell them, present any proof that that might be or that has been any weapons deliveries to russia. the washington seems to be acting pretty quickly on this. what, what do you, what do you make of that? what, what sanctions does that have left uh, they already sanctioned north korea. uh for north korea is one of the most sanctioned country in the world. and this applies to countries. lot also liked the wrong, which also cooperate with russia in developing a jones. so you was, is throwing sanctions to like weapon but now is reaching. a said it's rich and diminishing returns, because uh, you know, once you have already fully sanctioned a country, there's not really much you can do other than what the national security advisor jake solomon says we will be watching intensely because there's not much else us can, can do at this point. well, i mean, you know, when it comes to, i mean, i've seen, i've seen the media reports in the west and mainstream media, you know, pretty p

secretary of defense minister rather travelling to young yang in recent weeks to discuss the potential arms deal. getting this invitation apparently to kim john own . d and then also north korea, sending a delegation to russia to in a scouting mission, if you will, for a potential visit of the north korean leader himself. what would they to get out of this? well, kim, joan potentially could get food aid from russia, as well as advanced technology in satellite development, nuclear powered subs the north korea once. and then of course, russia, what it most wants from north korea is we're artillery and also raw materials to sure of its defense industry and its continued war in ukraine. so what would be the usa, the administration's take on this, and is there anything they can do to stop it as well? the us does not want this to happen, obviously, but right. but other than harsh words and threats and more sanctions, there's little that us officials can really do to just stop this altogether. the white house spokesperson had pointed out that just on the 16th of last month, they were more sanctions coming toward individuals who were trying to facili