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the story of a native american photographer who captured images of her own community. >> this is pbs news weekend, from weta studios in washington, home of the pbs newshour, weeknights on pbs. john: there's a class of toxic chemicals so pervasive that they are found in food, soil, water, and in the blood of most people in america. earlier this month, the epa proposed the first-ever regulatory standard to limit the quantity allowed in drinking water. ali rogin looks at the growing health conceabout these chemicals. ali: pfas, sometimes called forever chemicals, repel fire, water, oil and stains and have been used since the 1940s in a wide variety of everyday products. you can find them in nonstick cookware, fast food wrappers, clothes, and cosmetics. but these man made chemicals don't break down easily, and a number of them have been linked to serious health problems. for more on their impact, we turn to erin bell. she's an environmental epidemiologist at the state university of new york at albany who studies human exposure to these toxins. erin, thank you so much for joining us. just how

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and the boost authors and books are getting from the social media platform tiktok. >> this is "pbs news," from weta studios in washington, home of the "pbs newshour," weeknights on pbs. john: almost from the moment iran freed the u.s. hostages in 1981, just minutes after president ronald reagan took the oath of office, there have been suspicions about a deal between the reagan campaign and iran. the hostage crisis had consumed the last year of the carter presidency, contributing to a perception of weakness. now ben barnes, a prominent democratic politician at the time, tells the new york times he was a witness to republican efforts to prevent the hostages from being freed before election day. gary sick was the iran expert on president carter's national security council. he wrote a 1991 book making th case that there was a deal, sicn barnes said, what was your reaction? gary: my reaction was pretty straightforward. this was the first high-level official of any government that had specifically identified the fact that the reagan administration was trying to make contact with iran a tell t

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for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown at the metropolitan opera in new york. return to the metropolitan opera next yebuyou don't have to wait until then. you can watch it here on pbs' great performances at the met. that premiesarch 17th. check your local listings. ♪ amna: if you've been to the grocery store lately, it's hard to miss. consumers are having to eat the cost of higher food bills. while overall inflation is down after hitting a decas-high last year, grocery prices were compared to the same time iny 2022. to help consumers make the most of their food budget, digital video prucer casey kuhn decided to put together some tips, including a quiz. hi, casey, good to see you. why did you decide to do this? >> so, to be honest, when i saw my husband bringing home brand-name items with the ocery store, in this enomy, i said no. so we've covered inflation and higher food pricesbut how can i actually make some news our viewers can use? my mom taught me the shopping but to some experts to help. amna: this video is for people who hate to go grocery shopping, peopl

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. ♪ john: tonight on pbs news weekend, a historic global deal to protect marine life on the high seas reached in amatic, down-to-the-wire negotiations at the united nations. then, an insurance change for a type of breast reconstruction is leaving patients and doctors concerned about future access. wheaton: we need more people on board about is. this is very, very important because this is going to change people's body images. john: and, our hidden histories series continu with the story of the first hispanic woman in space. ♪ >>

. ♪ john: tonight on "pbs news weekend," with battles in congress looming, we talk with senator johnster on the debt, immigration, and america's political divisions. sen. tester: we have an incredible system of free speech and free religion and second amendment rights. and we've got folks out there that want to destroy that. and i don't think they really think they're destroying it, but in fact, they are. john: then, as russia's crackdown on independent media within its borders continues, our conversation with a journalist living and reporting in exile. and a look back at the life of hollywood screenwrit frances marion, who helped pave the way for women in the industry. ♪

john: tonight on “pbs news weekend,” a massive belt of seaweed in the atlantic ocean threatens the beacheshe united states, mexico, and caribbean. then, a new allegation that ronald reagan's 1980 campaign worked to sabotage president jimmy carter's election-year efforts to free the iran ian hostages. and a look inside the growing world of booktok, the online space where book lovers are sharing recommendations, and driving book sales. >> tiktok can really, really make an author. it can be a new author, it can get off as it's been around for a while, a book that's been around for a long time, a classic, a brand new novel, anything.

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and watch pbs news week and tomoow for a look at efforts to safeguard the 99% of the world's oceans currently without legal protection. and that is the news for tonight. on behalf of the entire newshour team, thank you for joining us. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by. moving our economy for 160 years. the engine that connects us. and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions and friends of the newshour, including kathy and paul anderson and camilla and george smith. the walton family foundation, working for solutions to protect water during climate change so people and nature can thrive together. advancing ideas and supporting institutions to promote a better world at hewlett.org. and friends of the newshour. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>> tonight on kqed newsroom, we dive into a chain reaction as barbara levi's to become the next senator from california , oakland latifah simon announces her bid to fill lee's spot in congress

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program was made possible by t corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs newslike you. thank you. [captioning rformed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy.] ♪ . >>> hello, emveryone and welcom to "amanpour and company." here is what is coming up. russian troops close in on the ukrainian city of bakhmutbakhmu. how will this affect the war? i ask mike martin and how allies will help secure a victory. >>> plus, from cozying up to putin to launching spy balloons over the united states, tensions between beijing and washington reach new highs. my conversation with sue, author of the "kingdom of characters" about better understanding china. >> we had no idea it was a coronavirus but what we did know if it were a coronavirus we had something of help. >> a grim mark

john yang first reported on this phenomenon for "pbs news weekend."g display. >> look, they're everywhere! john: recently, they've put on a dazzling display. >> oh my gosh. john: these time-lapses taken by amateur photographers of the aurora borealis are stunning. from the deck of a cruise ship in norway, to the isle of skye in scotland, to the skies over anchorage, alaska. the dancing shimmer across the night sky originates on the sun, in a solar storm. the colors and patterns come from ions and atoms being energized as they collide with the earth's atmosphere and magnetic force. different altitudes result in different colors. below 60 miles, violet and reds. between 60 and 150 miles, bright green. higher than that, ruby reds. in space, the colors were on display for astronaut josh cassada, who had one of the best seats in the house onboard the international space station. >> whoa! john: for the "pbs newshour," i'm john yang. geoff: seeing that in real life is on my bucket list. amna: mine, too. geoff: that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm geoff ben

for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown at forge project in new york's hudson valley. series on contemporary native arts. you can find the other stories in that series on our website, pbs.org/news our -- pbs.org/news our. geoff: judy heumann, who has been called the mother of the disability rights movement, has died at the age of 75. president biden in a statement noting her passing, called her a trail blazer, a rolling warrior for disability rights in america. heumann, who lost her ability to walk at age 2 after contracting polio, lobbied for legislation that led to the passage of the landmark americans with disabilities act. tonight, we hear her in own her own words as we revisit her "brief but spectacular" take on the disability rights movement. judy: when i was five years old in brooklyn, new york on east 38th street, my mother did what every other parent did when their kid was five. she took me to school to register me. and, uh, this was in the early 1950s. there were no motorized wheelchairs. so she pushed me to school and it wasn't accessible. she pulled me up t

right here on pbs for more analysis of former president trump's mounting legal challenges, and watch pbs newseekends with john yang tomorrow for a look at the barriers stopping people from getting basic medical care. that is the newshour for tonight. on behalf of the entire newshour team, thank you for joining us and have a great weekend. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by. moving our economy for 160 years. and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions and friends of the newshour including kathy and paul anderson and camilla and george smith. the walton family foundation. working for solutions to protect water during climate change. advancing ideas and supporting institutions to promote a better world. and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. and friends of the newshour. this program was made possible by the corporation for broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. chiane: ♪ welcome to "amanpour & co. >>> hello, everyone and welcome to "amanpour & company." here's what's >> >>

and watch pbs news weekend tomorrow for a look at the fda's decision to allow over-the-counter sales"newshour" tonight. i am amna nawaz. thank you for joining us. >> major funding for the pbs "newshour" has been provided by. ♪ >> moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf. the engine that connects us. ♪ >> and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. and friends of the "newshour." the walton family foundation. working for solutions to protect water during climate change so people and nature can thrive together. for more than 50 years, advancing ideas and supporting institutions to promote a better world. ♪ >> and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. ♪ and friends of the "newshour." ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪ christine: hello and welcome to "amanpour and company." here is what is comi up. >> if you are not a climate vulnerable country, you may become one. christine: the clock is ticking to climate catastrophe. i s

to talk about this is capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles and jeff bennett, co-anchor of the pbs newsng so far during this hearing? >> we're really hearing from howard shultz pushing back on the premise that the chair of the senate health education labor and pensions committee has established in that his company is not open to unions and has done everything possible to try to prevent unions from organizing, even to the point of breaking federal labor laws. shultsz rejecting that premise time and time again and even suggesting that he's open to his company negotiating with these unions. take a listen to a portion of what he had to say earlier today. >> while we care deep ily about our partners, we are limited by law in what we can do in environments. we are 100% committed to fulfilling our obligations as an employer under the labor relations act and committed to good faith negotiations on first contracts for each unionized store. >> reporter: shultz has gone into the complications of such a big company that has so many individual stores and how in many stores there maybe only 20 or 25

. >> this is the pbs "news" from washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalismarizona state university. geoff: the manhaan grand jury hearing evidence in a case involving former president trump's alleged hush-money payments to an adult-film actress didn't meet today as regularly scheduled, with no immediate word on why, leaving open the question of whether mr. trump will be indicted. meantime, the former president is said to be invigorated by the possibility of an indictment. the new york times reports that he's told friends he "welcomes the idea of being paraded by the authorities before a throng of reporters and news cameras." all of it raising questions not just about his fate but that of the republican party which has , largely tied its future to donald trump's. republican strategist doug heye is a former communications director to house majority leader eric cantor and the rnc. he joins us now. doug: good to be with you. geoff: donald trump has successfully fund raised off of what he said was an expected indictment. what do you make of the notion he would us

for the pbs newshour, i'm laura barron-lopez in boston. geoff: a newthe state of utah could dramatically limit teenagers' access to social media platforms. the law, which is the first of its kind in the nation, requires anyone under 18 to get parental consent to join social media platforms. it forces platforms to give rents access to the children's posts and messages, and it sets a social media curfew for minors. it's scheduled to go into effect next year. republican utah state senator mike mckell introduced the legislation. thank you for being with us. parent are concerned about the way that social media affects their kids, from the content to which they are exposed to the way it might affect their ability to socialize normally. why was this sweeping set of restrictions necessary? what was the motivation behind it? mike: the concerns you have as a parent are the same concerns i have. social media is having a devastating impact on our kids. we have a mental health america today. it is interesting. this is a very big bipartisan issue. president biden in

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pbs news hour just had a new poll come out this week that actually showed that 76% of republicans would like former president trump to be reelected again, and they don't think that these investigations are fair, even though a majority of america con's actually, we found do think that all of the investigations that are looking into the former president's potential wrongdoing whether it's the one that manhattan the manhattan d a is investigating or the special counsel investigations are fair. so pence right now is trying to show that he's putting up a fight and that he won't be just willingly going in to speak to the grand jury, because if he does, the republican base is not going to be happy about that. and at the center of this potential pence testimony is a heated phone call that pence had with trump on the day of that insurrection, while pence was at the capitol. let's take a quick look. but at some point it started off. as a calmer tone and everything and then became heated. the conversation was was pretty heated. so as i was dropping off the note, um i my memory. i remember hearing

with us is the co-anchor of pbs news hour.are nowhere near on that scale that we were seeing towards the end of last year you have small pockets of protests by defiant young people some people from their windows at 9:00 in the evening chant anti-regime slogans. that violence that the government cracked down on the people with has an affect. there was a terrible report from amnesty international that children were tortured to put them off coming into the street. i can tell you, there's a collective sense of melo meloncy there is this unpredictability as to what the future holds is also very, very hurtful to the people in iran to compound that with an economy that's coming apart and the country being totally isolated, it's a very, very difficult situation for people in iran they are wondering if this situation continues, when is the next flare-up going to be? the government hasn't done anything to address what sparked these protests in fact, they are clamping down harder on that they are threatening to arrest women via surveilla

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let's bring in our round table, political correspondent molly wall, rick klein, pbs news hour white houseespondent laura barron-lopez, and columnist charles lane. good morning toen making that announcement in pennsylvania. that budget basically has no chance of passing, so this really did seem like a preview of 2024. >> martha, this is the 2024 campaign framework in real view. president's budgets never pass, but the president and most of his party is happy to say, look. we can bring you lower prescription drug prices, lower insulin prices and free community college, no cuts to medicare and social security, and yes, higher taxes on the wealthy. they like what this says about the party. i've talked to white house allies who see this as an opportunity. the president will be out west later this week talking specifically about these issues saying, look. this is what we can do, and they particularly like the contrast. they like that they can present something. they know this puts republicans on their heels because these don't have those plans. >> it's baiting republicans for their own plan. >>

for the pbs news hours, i'm ross: in paris. >> the french interior minister reported that 175 policehave been injured and over 200 protesters arrested. there was one sign of relief for parisians -- garbage collector suspended a strike that has left mountains of trash on the streets. ukraine's military may be revving up for a spring offensive. the defense minister said his forces will soon be using modern battle tanks delivered by germy, great britain and others. in washington, u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin told the senate hearing that russia is having to rely on older soviet era tanks. >> the ukrainians have inflicted significant casualties on the russians, and they have depleted their inventory of armored vehicles in a way that no one would have ever imagined. now we see pressure reaching for p-55 tanks because of the level of damage ukrainians have inflicted. >> meanwhile, ukraine's president zelenskyy walked trenches in northern ukraine where russian forces were driven off last april. law makers in scotland confirmed yousaf as first minister. he is the first person of color

joining me now to discuss all of this is laura barron lopez, a pbs news hour. cnn's alana train francesca chambers of usa today and cnn's melanie xernona. so this incredible reporting really just shows the degree to which there is an almost daily level of communication here between the former president and members of congress on capitol hill, who are blocking and tackling for him. they they by day it is there's regular communications happening between donald trump himself directly with a lot of these. members who are on these key committees, as well as his top advisers, and sometimes the chairman and their councils themselves are reporting looks at really the constant communication back and forth, wanting to make sure that the former president is up to date on what they're doing on the pace of substance of these investigations, as well as at times, even in exerting pressure , we know that trump attorney joe tacopina sent a letter to judiciary chairman jim jordan's last month, urging the committee to dig deeper into the manhattan district attorney's investigatio

joining us now is laura barone lopez, cnn political analyst and the white house correspondent for pbs news hour. it's great to see you, laura, i believe we have a clip of the president. he was in waco, texas, for a rally over the weekend. he had a lot to say about this. let's listen to that. prosecutorial misconduct is their new tool, and they are willing to use it at levels never seen before. in our country. we've had it, but we've never had it like this. we must stop them, and we must not allow them. to go through another election, where they have yet another. tool in their tool kit. and of course, the manhattan d. a has pushed back wolf through his office against any allegations of prosecutorial misconduct. but laura, what do you make of trump really leaning into this? he really wants to play the victim here and really rally his supporters around him. yeah this is a pattern by the former president, which is that an attempt by him as well as his allies to discredit efforts by law enforcement to seek accountability, whether it's in the hush money payment case, and district attorney alvin

and former federal prosecutor and also laura barone lopez, who was a white house correspondent for pbs news hour. can you have? alvin bragg, the manhattan d a responding in a blistering way as we were talking about to these house gop chairman saying that what they want his office to do is illegal. or house republicans asking for something illegal here. yes they're completely overstepping their authority here. it's very hypocritical that the party of states' rights is trying to ride roughshod over in new york state's sovereignty here first of all, even if this were a federal criminal investigation, congress really would have no business sticking their nose in it because it's active. it hasn't even been charged. at this point, then when you add in the fact that this is a state criminal investigation, they really just have no basis for that. but the letter is blistering, and it's kind of funny to it will tone of humor there because they're saying well, to extend your asking about federal funds being used here. we'll write you a separate letter to let you know how the federal funds are being us

the tiny data center being used ♪at welcome to world news america in the u.k. on pbsround the globe. we begin tonight with news that an american surveillance drone has crashed and the black sea after an incident involving two russian fighter jets. the u.s. and russia have given different accounts of what happened. here's the u.s. version given by the pentagon press secretary. >> had 7:03 a.m. central european time, one of the russian aircraft struck th propeller, causing u.s. forces to bring the and q nin down in international waters. is incident demonstrates a lack of competence, in addition to being unsafe and unofsional. laura: the u.s. hasaircrad overe not uncommon, but it was the first time one led to a crash. ington some in russia's ambassador to the u.s. for a meeting. russia's defense ministry said the fighter jets did not come into contact with the u.s. drone and the claims the drone crashed because it lost control.ourter t gary o'donoghue joins me. this is pretty serious, isn't it, the russian ambassador being summoned by washington. gary: that isblbaeroony

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