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rubenstein studio at weta in washington, home of the pbs news hour weeknights on pbs.: one in 10 women of reproductive age around the world suffer from a condition known as endometriosis. it's an illness where tissue similar to the uterine lining grows outside of that organ, in places it's not supposed to be. it can lead to infertility, debilitating pain and financial hardship. for our series, unequal treatment, i recently spoke with dr. laura homewood a gynecologic surgeon at uva health about how the medical community is working with patients to learn more about this disease. dr., thank you for joining us. we mentioned sometimes it takes years to get a diagnosis. it is the average patient's time to get a diagnosis and why does it take so long? dr. homewood: the statistic around endometriosis, it can take an average of seven years and seeing seven different doctors before a woman can get her definitive diagnosis of endometriosis. despite it being a very common diagnosis it is difficult to diagnose because you actually have to have surgery to get a tissue diagnosis. the

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the current chairman is financier and philanthropist david rubenstein, also a donor to pbs.me on the “newshour” -- jonathan capehart and matthew continetti weigh in on the week's political headlines. ahead of the super bowl, the boom in legal sports betting. and long-time chef lawrence chu gives his brief but spectacular take on treating every day like a grand opening. ♪ >> this is the pbs news hour from the david rubenstein studio at weta in washington, d.c. and from the west at the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. geoff: president trump said today that he's in no rush to do anything in gaza. earlier this week he talked about the need for palestinians to leave gaza, calling it a demolition zone, and for the us to take over the area and develop it. amna: meanwhile hamas is accusing israel of delaying aid deliveries that were agreed to in the cease fire deal. an accusation israel denies. stephanie sy has this report with the latest. stephanie: half a million families streaming back to their homes in gaza on foot, on piggyback, children in tow.

for the pbs newshour i'm john yang.eff: and there are many more questions about the safety of the u.s. aviation system and whether other changes might be needed. for a pilot's perspective we're joined by les abend. he's a contributing editor to flying magazine. thank you for being was. >> glad to be here. geoff: the altitude is coming under scrutiny. the "new york times" is reporting today that the helicopter that collided with the passenger jet appears to have been flying too high and outside of its approved flight path at the time of the crash. add to that president trump posted on social media the helicopter was flying too high by a lot. as we await the findings of this investigation based on your experience and your review of the new videos of the crash, what's your best assessment of what transpired? >> well, listen, everything is pure speculation at this point. none of us should be making conjectures or anything of that nature with referenced to what happened. the altitude that is this helicopter might have been f

independent us journalism and programing of npr and pbs. that's a better way to do it than 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-est

for the pbs news hour, lower burrell lopez. geoff: we start the day's other headlines with college sports. the ncaa updating his transgender policy to limit women's competition to athletes who were assigned as female at birth. the change comes a day after president trump signed an executive order aimed at banning transgender athletes from from girls and women sports. the policy is effective immediately and applies to all 500,000 ncaa athletes across the organization's 1200 schools. prior to the change, eligibility was based on rules set by each sports national or international governing body. president trump signed an executive order this afternoon sanctioning the international criminal court. the measure includes freezing assets of employees who work on icc investigations of the u.s. citizens, or allies such as israel. it also block them from traveling to the u.s. the move comes as the israeli prime minister is visiting washington. last year, the icc issued arrest warrants for the prime minister and his former defense minister

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collects this is the pbs news hour -- >> this is the pbs news hour. >> from the potential impact of tradefs to the confirmation votes for president trump's cabinet, let's take a look at the political stakes now with amy walter of “the cook political report with amy walter” who is in new orleans tonight and tamara keith of npr. let's start with you because we saw confusion at usaid as elon musk threatened to shut down the agency. concerns about firings at the fbi and doj. is all of this what trump supporters voted for? >> it depends on which trump supporters you are talking about, because some people voted for donald trump because they were concerned about the price of eggs and everything else. there are others who voted for trump because they were frustrated with president biden refusing to step aside and having harris come in in this way. there were people upset about what was happening in gaza. there were people who wanted to shake things up and felt like government was not working for them and they are looking at this and saying they are shaking things up. this is a hostile takeover an

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for the pbs news hour, i am stephanie sy.eoff: one of the agencies overseeing the provision of aid into gaza is the united nations office for the coordination of humanitarian it fails that humanitarian affairs. i spoke with its leader, tom fletcher, who joined us from jerusalem. you were in gaza. what did you witness, especially in areas that were harder to reach? tom: i came in through the north, which was the area most affected by the conflict in the last 14 to 15 months. it's been pummeled. you cannot tell what was a house, what was a school and what was a hospital. you see civilians picking through the wreckage and it takes time to even find where the homes were because everything has been flattened so it is grim and desolate but they are heading home and trying to rebuild. >> parts of northern gaza were on the brink of famine. what is the situation now? tom: when we got the cease-fire in place, we were worried about starvation levels and famine. we now have 2.5 weeks worth of trucks and convoys. so we have made progress

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pull their license. >> guy going to pbs and pb are, publicly funded getting your news.th is to straighten his. for example the hunter biden laptop story. you have to shoot that straightr you may not believe it and youot can say that in presenting it buyout you cannot omit it a q completely because we know it is true. here's a quote from npr, "we don't want to waste he wr time n stories that are not really stories. we don't want to waste the atlisteners and readers time on stories that are pureexam distractions." it is a great example ife go publicly funded, you have to send it out there. >> i completely agree with that. i don't agree with pulling the license for cbs. >> that was extreme. >> we code through a perilous path down that path and we will see you for billions of dollars pon sh2 i think you can shame tm and put them side-by-side to say you can't trust these people. you can withhold access to the administration as some sort of punishment. but theryoe are other ways of going after them. t speak of those things are happening. >> that aren't nuclear. when it comes

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new fcc chair brendan carr and pbs on notice.sked fcc bureau to open an investigation regarding npr and pbs programming across your broadcast member stations. carr says it is now a new era at the fcc. >> we want to get to the core mission and reigning in big tech and it'll be take ago look at media and making sure they live up to public interest obli obligation. >> president trump reacted on truth social and going for a level never seen before and cbs should lose its license and cheaters at 60 minutes should all be thrown out and this disreputable news terminated and the 60 minutes broadcast was not doctored or deceitful. stuart: mike, thank you very much indeed. president trump met with gavin newsom at the white house and newsom wants more federal aid to rebuild after the la fires. listen to what president trump said this morning about sending water to california. >> i opened the flood gate as few days ago and water comes down from the northwestern parts of canada and the pacific northwest, and it comes down by millions and mill

>> npr and pbs are different.ars i think the fcc has been absent on enforcing the public interest obligation. one of the things i've said from the get go i hold broadcasters accountable to operate in the public interest. with these two in particular get taxpayer funding and not allowed to run commercials. they are non-commercial entities and some potential evidence they've been running commercials. we'll look at that and where the investigation goes from there will be led by the facts. it could expand beyond that narrow issue. >> dana: brendan carr, fcc chairman. thank you for being with us today. bret. >> bret: interesting stuff. israeli prime minister netanyahu visiting our nations capitol today and be the first foreign leader to meet with president trump since he has taken office. their plans to redraw the middle east will be talked about. plus no illegal immigration and zero americans dying from fentanyl. that's the only way president trump says china, mexico and canada can avoid new tariffs. his executive ord

in other words, he's going to prolong the pain for pbs.r cbs by keeping this an ongoing issue. and this is not just a matter of cbs. brendan carr is probing. pbs is looking into npr. he's investigating a radio station in california. he sent a letter to disney right before christmas. he is trying to advance trump's anti-media agenda on a number of different fronts. >> as i was mentioning, viewers might not know that outlets, both on television and in print, they oftentimes edit down interviews for clarity or length. is transparency, though the lesson here, obviously no one endeavors to, nor should distort a statement to benefit anyone. it should be simply the reliance of information, even if it is edited down for the length of it. is the new game in town essentially going to be that transparency? having that raw footage, has this changed fundamentally how outlets might deal? >> well, i think number one, cbs should have been transparent from the get go. but even transparency is not always the answer, because transparency can also be used aga

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[000:00:00;00] the library got down reviewers watching on pbs in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome just a day after you, as president trump suggested that the us it should take over the gods and strip israel says it is already preparing for large numbers. of palestinians to leave the territory for today, members of the trump administration of trying to walk back some of the president's shocking proposal. a proposal that is drawing condemnation from around the world with the head of the united nations warning against ethnic cleansing via us president donald trump's proposal to clear goals of rivets, civilians is strongly rejected by goals and themselves. we want to make it clear, it's a trump onto globally, does a lot of the palestinian people are rooted in that alone we ever said that the roots of all the trees that we will never give power. london golf. uh no, but we have bundled now along in the west bank. you mean, or of dine here is better. it is better than going anywhere else. no. because you have nothing after losing your land in the country and home. a lo

i used to support pbs, i used to send them money. i don't watch them much anymore. what a lot of the stations are doing. i turned you off. it's a shame. i only have two stations i can watch the don't do what you are doing now. they have these little pop up things in the corner of the screen that are completely unnecessary on what's coming up next. i think it's silly, i can read them because i have a small screen tv. host: it helps inform viewers about what's coming up on our various networks. caller: you've got a remote control. and you can push the thing on the bottom here at 8:00 you've got to end a paid i can see that. host: that's fine but it's a means of advertising what we're are doing on our network. >> i can see on the bottom of my screen and i can push the button and see what's coming up. it's an unnecessary distraction. host: ok, let's go to van in ohio, independent line, you are next. van in paris, ohio. let's hear from annie in florida , a democrats line hello. caller: hello and good morning. happy birthday to the gentleman who called and to the lady who