there went on public broadcasting. were you surprised by the success? oh my goodness. i was very surprised. i mean, this was a process, peter. we we started not knowing. fortunately, my boss, mike collins, the general manager, went along with this idea and so it was a process we didn't know were going developed over these five or six years. then seven years in. of course, i a surprise that it went so well. we we did so well with it. and again, back to the producers, i was able to bring on board that people are committed to doing the program. you know, we went on locations, we did pretty much everything that i laid out in the format. but cecily church and her husband developed the program and went on to doing some very nice things for us. tony bertino if viewers grew up watching reading rainbow, they're probably humming the theme song right now. how did you come up with that note? well, the theme song came through our our friends in new york city, the lancet media team. there was a network of people there, and they pretty much saw it it out. they they, you know, put out

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and my contributions to youron by viewers like you. thank you. >> good evening. the embers of notre dame cathedral were still smoldering in april of 2019 when emmanuel macron vowed to remake the cathedral and do it in five years. that struck some as wildly unrealistic but today, 5.5 years and $9 million later, a promise has been fulfilled. [bells] against the skyline of paris, the notre dame chedral has risen from the ashes. its official reopening marked by the archbishop of paris knocking on the doors. inside, led by emmanuel macron, dignitaries and clergy rose to applaud the hundreds of paris firefighters who fought for hours to dallas the flames -- douse the flames. >> i am here before you before we begin the mass to tell you of the gratitude of the french nation, the gratitude for all of those who saved, helped, and rebuilt our lady of paris. >> for nearly 900 years, it survived revolutions and wars only to be devastated on -- in april of 2019 but a massive fire. the roof went up in flames and the spire toppl

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to yourtion by viewers like you. thank you. anchor: good evening. president biden signed a short-term spending bill this morning that avoids a government shutdown. final congressional approval came just after the midnight deadline. the measure extends current government funding through mid-march and provides billions of dollars in disaster relief to hurricane survivors. lawmakers refused a core demand to raise the nation's debt limit. our congressional correspondent followed every step of this process on capitol hill this week. why did this take so long? why was this so hard? >> such a good question. i think in the end this was an inexperienced speaker who went way too far in making commitments to democrats that he did not know he had the votes for. we know the vote of approval from trump is critical in congress. speaker johnson spent days negotiating with democrats. that bill was much maligned because of its size. but a lot of the things added to that bill were bipartisan policy in nature. t

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions tostation from viewers like you. thank you. >> good evening. what comes next in syria now that the assad regime is history was a topic of a meeting in jordan today with top officials from the region, the european union, and the united states. antony blinken outlined some of what they discussed. >> minorities and women should be respected. humanitarian aid should be able to reach people who need it. syria should not be used a base for terrorist groups or others who threaten people. >> under the assad regime, hundreds of thousands of syrians were swept up by the security apparatus, never to be seen again. we got access to one of the intelligence groups that did that. reporter: the search for the disappeared continues in damascus at the palestine branch of the services. relatives poured over stacks of notebooks. they sift through piles of passports taken by prisoners in hope of finding a trace of their loved ones. they are each looking for their brothers, who have been missing for years. th

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourbs station from viewers like you. thank you. john: good evening. i'm john yang. for more than a half century, syria has been ruled with an iron fist by the assad regime, first hafez al-assad and then his son bashar. it all came to an end this weekend with stunning and lightning speed, as rebels moved into the syrian capital of damascus, took the city, and with it, the country. across syria today, gunfire, chanting, and cheers in celebration of the end of an era. the rebels faced no opposition as they advanced overnight. russian state media said president bashar al-assad fled to moscow where he was granted asylum. at a mosque in the capital city, the leader of the largest insurgent group addressed his fighters. >> this victory, my brothers, is for the islamic nation. this victory is a new history for the region. john: ordinary citizens roam the presidential palace in damascus, taking selfies. across the country, symbols of the assad family's repressive 53 years in power came toppling do

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourbs station from viewers like you. thank you. john: good evening. i'm john yang. rebel forces are spreading further into aleppo today, taking control of landmarks in syria's second-largest city and encountering little resistance from government forces. a war monitoring group said airstrikes late friday killed 20 insurgent fighters. syria's army says dozens of its soldiers have been killed since the surprise offensive was launched on wednesday. rebels celebrated outside the city's historic citadel. >> it is an indescribable feeling. my older brother was martyred here in aleppo 13 years ago. praise to god. praise to god. john: opposition forces hadn't attacked the city since 2016 when president bashar al-assad regained full control. an israeli airstrike on a car in gaza today has killed five people, including charity workers. the world central kitchen, which provides food relief, says they are pausing operations in gaza for the second time this year. in april, seven of its workers were ki

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ali: good evening. i'm ali rogin, john yang is away. we begin with breaking news tonight as we learn that former president jimmy carter has died. the 100-year-old, known for his humble beginnings and unlikely road to the white house, served from january 1977 to january 1981. history shaped carter's one term in office, including an economic recession, the iran hostage crisis, and the camp david accords between israel and egypt. carter was this country's longest-living former president and he died today at his home in plains, georgia, surrounded by family. special correspondent judy woodruff looks back at his towering life. >> in december of 1974, there was a major headline on the editorial page of the atlantic constitution that said, jimmy carter is running for what? judy: he was seemingly the longest of long shots when he jumped into the 1976 presidential race, but jimmy carter wound up celebrating on election night. >> i pray i can live u

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'm john yang. president-elect trump continues stocking his new administration with staunch loyalists. he said this weekend he'll nominate kash patel to be fbi director. patel is an ardent supporter of mr. trump and says the fbi is part of what he calls the deep state conspiracy against the president-elect and his allies. on social media last night, mr. trump said patel played a pivotal role in uncovering the "russia, russia, russi hoax, standing as an advocate for truth, accountability and the constitution. the job requires senate confirmation. ryan reilly covers the justice department and federal law enforcement for nbc news. he's the author of "sedition hunters: how january sixth broke the justice system." ryan, tell us who kash patel is? what is background? what's his relationship to mr. trump? ryan yeah, so he started off as : a staffer with devon nunez, which is really what sort of got him into donald trump's orbi

that means basically the end of the public broadcasting and israel, that means all broadcasting is or will be under commercial offices. and that's a bad thing. the public broadcasting corporation is really the only media out she's in israel that produces diverse concepts. it's committed to reflecting diversity as early as i think it also has great readings and very digital. and it's not even that critical of the government in any way. it's just a form in the side of politicians in the government that don't understand the concept of a public good. that is not directly the least by policy should. it's already got book as always for you. we appreciate getting your insights. uh and so some exactly what is transpiring inside as well. uh, are you go be a good for us? the thank you. thank you. the, to georgia now with demonstrations in the capital to police. so you have continued for a 6 nice police for the point in launch numbers to clear the protest is using tig s and both a cannon. the demonstrates is how angry about a government decision to delay towards on joining the european union. di

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourtation from viewers like you. thank you. ali: good evening. i'm ali rogin. john yang is away. president-elect donald trump has urged the supreme court to block a law that would force the popular social media app tiktok to be sold or shut down. it's set to take effect the day before his inauguration. the app has over a billion monthly active users. tik tok has said more than 150 million are in the u.s. but the biden administration says tiktok poses "grave national security threats" because its china-based parent company bytedance is subject to the will of the chinese communist party. in a legal filing last night, trump told the justices that a delay would allow his administration to "negotiate a resolution to save the platform while addressing national security concerns." bobby allyn is a technology correspondent for npr. thank you so much for being here. let's remind folks, this tiktok lot just past earlier this year. why did proponents of the law want to see had passed? -- to see it p

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions topbs station from viewers like you john:. thank you. john: good evening. i'm john yang. the risks facing u.s. forces targeting iran-backed houthi rebels in yemen came into sharp focus this morning, when, according to central command, a u.s. navy guided-missile cruiser mistakenly shot down an american fighter jet over the red sea. both pilots of the fa-18 ejected, and were recovered alive. one suffered minor injuries. u.s. central command said warships and aircraft had earlier shot down houthi drones and an anti-ship cruise missile. the friendly-fire incident is being investigated. in gaza, airstrikes overnight killed nearly two dozen people, including five children. one strike hit a school that housed displaced people. the israeli military said it targeted the area because hamas militants were also sheltered there. the other strike hit a home in deir al-balah, where relatives scrambled to find several children, who were all sleeping in the living room. despite the violence, israeli auth

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'm john yang. today, a week after life inside syria was upended as rebels toppled president bashar al assad's regime, there were flickering signs of normalcy. syrian christians attended regular sunday services and schools reopened. now, as the country's new leaders begin to chart a path forward, the u.n. envoy to syria says the lightning offensive should be followed by a quick end to the sanctions the west imposed after assad crushed the arab spring anti-government protests more than a decade ago. leila molana allen is in aleppo tonight. leila, you've spent this past week traveling all around syria. what have you been seeing, what have you been hearing? leila: i have, john. in the last few days, i have followed the path backwards that the rebel groups followed through syria. i started in damascus and moved up into the second biggest city in the country, aleppo. today up into what were the rebel held areas in the northw

now, most of the, the use investigative unit teamed up with germany's public broadcasters adf, to investigate this fraud, which began with complex carbon credit, certified in germany, and took us all the way to oil fields in china. the this is shane lee, oil filled in eastern china documents we've acquired, showed that the owner supposedly installed new energy efficient equipment that reduces the oil fields carbon emissions by more than $250000.00 tons per year. this modernization was approved as an environmental protection project in germany in may or is adf colleague and badging travel to the shang lee oil field to find the new equipment. no one didn't go to the new meal which i don't to where your communion, whatever to me mr. saw has been working in this oil field for many years and he frequently travels to nearby oil wells the whole why maybe uh, giovanni. yeah, that's. i'm only if i don't want them again. well, not, not me. oh, we drove to the company that supposedly installed the new equipment, the coordinates at the headquarters. we're also listed in the documents and we found, well,

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: barely a week after president assad fled the country, syrians welcomed the first friday prayers of the new syria today. geoff: there are many unanswered questions but one thing is for certain and syrians are returning their homes from the southern regions to the airchg chent city of aleppo. there is uplayings. and we are in aleppo. you were there. what did you hear from the people you encountered. >> quite astounding to be on the streets and see the level of celebration and the people who are out there who have been and those who have come home. aleppo was the first major city that the rebels took a week ago now and extraordinary fall and the first couple of days were difficult because the russians were bombing here and now there is huge freedom and optimism and friday prayer is important and many of the rebels and vast ma diswrort having been giving thanks and waving flags and wonder around and lifting up children and taking photogr

it's, it's kind of commercial detail, but use investigative unit, teamed up with germany's public broadcasters adf, to investigate this fraud, which began with complex carbon credit, certified in germany, and took us all the way to oil fields and china. the the this is shane lee, oil field in eastern china. documents we've acquired, showed that the owner supposedly installed new energy efficient equipment that reduces the oil fields carbon emissions by more than $250000.00 tons per year. this modernization was approved as an environmental protection project in germany in may r z. do you have colleagues engaging travel to the strongly oil field to find the new equipment? no one didn't go to the new mail which i don't to where your communion was. active traded emails. mister shaw has been working in this oil field for many years and he frequently travels to nearby oil wells. the whole y maybe. uh, giovanni. yeah, that's what we're finding with them. again, we're not in the mail. we drove to the company that supposedly installed the new equipment coordinates at the headquarters for also listed in

going to bring you a breaking line that we are just getting in, and this is that the german public service broadcasteris now saying that the death toll has risen to four, so i should say that the bbc, we have not confirmed this ourselves, but ard, the german public service broadcaster, the equivalent of the bbc in germany, is now saying that the number of people who have died has risen to four. they are also reporting that over 200 people have been injured. that is a significant increase from the earlierfigure of is a significant increase from the earlier figure of over 60. however, we should point out at the moment that we are not yet sure how serious those injuries are. again, iwouldjust sure how serious those injuries are. again, i would just repeat this news that is coming to us from the german state broadcaster ard. they are now reporting that the number of people who have died in this incident and this christmas market in the city of magdeburg has risen to four, and crucially, over 200 people have been injured. that is a lot higher than the earlier figure that we had of 60, but again, we should

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to youron from viewers like you. thank you. jeff: welcome. days of chaos and uncertainty on capitol hill appeared to be winding down. a bill backed by donald trump to keep the government open was rejected by the house last night but this afternoon, a breakthrough on a very similar agreement was announced by mike johnson. >> we will not have a government shutdown and we will meet our obligations for our farmers, disaster victims, and for making sure that military at essential services and to everybody relies on the federal government for a paycheck is paid over the holidays. jeff: the house passed the bill with bipartisan support. now heads to the senate just hours before the midnight deadline. where do things stand right now? reporter: let's take a quick look at the house floor. that vote was just completed. this could very well be the last houseboat of this congress. 366 votes for this spending bill that would kick things down the road. 34 no votes, all republicans. democrats help this get o

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions tos news station by viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the "newshour ." the federal reserve cut its benchmark rate today for the third consecutive time, once again by a quarter of a point. many are hoping the cut will have a clear effect on interest rates, what banks and other lenders charge and what consumers pay. but the fed also suggested there won't be as many interest rate cuts in the year ahead as it once planned. chairman jerome powell told reporters today's cut was not an easy decision because of higher inflation in recent months. >> today was a closer call. we decided it was the right call. we thought it was the best decision to foster achievement of both of our goals, maximum employment and price stability. we see the risks as two-sided, moving too slowly and needlessly undermine economic activity in the labor market or move too quickly and needlessly undermine our progress on inflation. so we're trying to steer between those two risks. and on balance, we decided to

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions topbs station by viewers like you. thank you. amna: welcome to the "newshour." in a highly unusual move, the director of the fbi is stepping down. christopher wray announced today that he intends to leave his position when president-elect donald trump takes office in january. this comes after mr. trump named kash patel as his nominee to run the fbi, despite the fact that trump was the one who appointed wray, and wray was serving a 10-year term that was not set to end until 2027. speaking to fbi employees, wray addressed his decision to resign. director wray: my goal is to keep the focus on our mission, on the indispensable work each of you is doing every single day. in my view, this is the best way to avoid dragging the bureau deeper into the fray, while reinforcing the values and principles that are so important to how we do our work. amna: our white house correspondent laura barron-lopez has been following the developments. what else did chris wray say in those remarks and why did he r

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> house republicans are pushing a new proposal tonight to avoid government shutdown in an effort to meet president elect donald trump's last-minute spending demands after mr. trump rejected the original bill earlier this week with billionaire elon musk leading the charge against it online. lisa, good to see you. what did the republicans change in the last-minute revision? >> it has been another whirlwind day on capitol hill, pivotal both for government function and speaker mike johnson. let me go over that bill speaker johnson and house republicans unveiled just over an hour or so ago. here is what is in it. it would extend government funding another three months. it would add about $100 billion in funding for disasters including recent hurricanes. it would extend the debt ceiling for two additional years. the debt ceiling is likely to hit in the spring of next year in the donald trump administration. it would extend the farm bill one yea

this program is made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. lisa: welcome to the newshour. homelessness in america reached record high numbers earlier this year. a government report out today reveals that last january, the number of people experiencing homelessness shot up by 18% to roughly 770,000 as counted on a single night. the annual survey published by the department of housing and urban development pointed to a list of intensifying economic problems -- rising housing costs and the migrant influx in some cities among them. to understand more about what's behind this rise,i'm joined by shaun donovan, ceo and president of enterprise community partners and former secretary of the u.s. department of housing and urban development. this is an eye-popping report in many ways. it is about where things stood earlier this year and i want to start with one particular dynamic, the role of the migrant crisis. how and where did that affect homelessness in this country? shaun: thank you for having me on. and it

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions tos station from viewers like you. thank you. william: welcome to the "newshour." there are early indications that it was a russian air-defense system that may have brought down the azerbaijan airlines jet that crashed yesterday, a u.s. official tells the "newshour." but moscow has warned against making, "hypotheses before investigators make their verdict." some of that speculation comes from damage to the aircraft's tail section, which shows holes that could've been caused by shrapnel from an exploding air defense missile. stephanie sy begins our coverage. stephanie: eyewitness video shows the moment of impact. azerbaijan airlines flight crash lands in concert stand. a passenger describes the experience. >> two times it tried to land and the third time something exploded. stephanie: the plane is seen descending rapidly. by this point, the pilot was flying without gps and communications jams. video from a passenger on board shows oxygen masks deployed in what looks like a crack on a piec

friends of the news hour -- ♪ announcer: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcastingcontributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: welcome to the news hour. barely a week after president assad fled the country he destroyed, syrians across the nation welcomed the first friday prayers of the new syria today. geoff: there are many unanswered questions but one thing is for certain as syrians return to their homes from the southern cities of the nation to aleppo in the north, there is unfettered jubilation. our special correspondent joins us from aleppo. you were in homes in aleppo today for the first friday prayer since assad fell. what did you hear from the people you encountered? reporter: it was astounding to be on the streets and see the level of celebration. those celebrating are those that have been living in this territory and those that have come home since it fell. aleppo was the first city the rebels took. it was an extraordinary fall. the first few days were difficult because the russians were bombing but that stopped and now there is

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions tor pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: welcome to the news hour. today, for the first time since south korea became a democracy some 40 years ago, a south korean president declared martial law. geoff: but hours later the opposition and members of his own party in parliament rejected the order and it's been rescinded. nick schifrin is here following the story. nick: a senior official tells me the declaration was untenable and urge him to reverse it quickly. the official warns he might not survive the episode and it could threaten the stability of one of the u.s.'s most important allies. tonight they storm the institution they pledged to protect. special forces soldiers acted under martial law and fought with protesters, pushback opposition politicians. inside the only thing that stopped soldiers from the floor was furniture deployed by opposition staffers. that allowed them to vote down -- the parliament to vote down the opposition, the leader live-streamed himself jumpin

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourbs station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: welcome to "the news hour." president-elect donald trump has nominated a key and controversial ally to assist him in his next term. peter navarro, who service trade advisor to the president during his first term, will return in a similar role. he spent four months in prison earlier this year for defying a subpoena from the house january 6 committee. geoff: mr. trump also named cryptocurrency advocate paul atkins to chair the securities and exchange commission and daniel driscoll, an advisor to vice president-elect jd vance, to serve as secretary of the army. amna: one of the president-elect's most embattled nominees, defense secretary designate pete hegseth met with leaders today on capitol hill. where does that nomination stand right now? lisa: it is in a precarious spot. our reporter has said this day and the next day are the critical hours in the nomination. a reminder to our viewers that reports and also a police report have brough

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 days of chaos an uncertainty on capitol hill appear to be winding down. a bill backed by president-elect donald trump to keep the government open was rejected by the house last night. but this afternoon, a break-through on a very similar agreement was announce by house speaker johnson. >> we will not have a government showdown and we will meet our obligation for our farmer's aid, for the disaster victims all over the country and for making sure that the military and essential service and everyone who relies on the federal government is paid over the holidays. geoff: and the house passed pae bill with partisan support. it heads to the senate with just hours until the midnight deadline. lisa desjardins has been track it. lisa, where do things stand right now? lisa: that vote just completed. this could very well be the last house vote of this congress. i want to tell you the vote total. 366 votes for this spending

. ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions tor pbs nation from viewers like you. thank you. william: welcome to the news hour. a highly-anticipated house ethics committee report details a litany of allegations against the former republican representative from florida, matt gaetz. prosecutors previously declined to charge him, but gaetz' former peers found evidence that he paid several young women for sex -- including an underage girl and partook in numerous drug-fueled sex parties. lisa desjardins spent the day combing through this report about the one-time trump nominee for attorney general -- and she joins us now. this is a very explicit report and we should alert our viewers that this, what we are going to talk about in the next few minutes is somewhat graphic. in this report what stood out to you? lisa: this contains very serious allegations and conclusions, direct conclusions, according to the committee that gaetz violated law in a criminal way. they found over the course of nearly four years, gaetz paid tens of thousands of

. ♪ ♪ ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the news hour. at least two people were killed and six others injured at a private school in madison, wisconsin this morning. amna: the suspected shooter was also found dead at the scene. officials say she was a 17-year-old female student at the school. authorities are investigating her motive and another american community is reeling from mass gun violence. in a tragic scene part two familiar to communities in america, police rushed to the scene of reports of a mass shooter. police say a teacher and teenaged students were killed and two other students were in critical condition this evening. addison police chief sean barnes -- >> i'm feeling a little dismayed now. so close to christmas. every child, every person in that building as a victim and will be forever. in these -- and these types of trauma don't go away and we have to figure out and pieced together what happened. right now my heart is heavy for my community. amna: o

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the thing that's most readily available on the american archive of public broadcasting and all of the prospects of mankind episodes are there, and that's the -- from 1959 to 1962. so she's older and less involved than on the earlier series, but if you go to youtube, i think the library has made some of them available like the "what's my line" show. there are a few other interview, but many of these are only in archives. so the paley center in new york city, that's where i did a lot of research. so you can go and watch things like "the sarah churchill show," who knew she had a talk show, but eleanor was the first guest. so, yeah, it's hard to find a lot of it. >> okay. thank you. butter or butter, which created a did she ever to any other. well so she got lots of >> i happened to be listening when i was a kid to her commercials, she did a butter spread. did she do any others? >> she got criticism for that. it was margarine, it wasn't butter. >> you're right. >> lots of criticism. she donated all of the money. i can feed lots of people. so the only other television commercials she did w

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourtation from viewers like you. thank you. william: welcome to the “news hour.” our coverage tonight begins overseas in kazakhstan, where at least 38 people are dead after the crash of an azerbaijani airplane. the passenger jet, carrying 67 people, was en route from baku, the nation's capital, to the russian city of grohzny this morning. the airline said it diverted and tried to make an emergency landing in the kazakh city of awktao. that's where an eyewitness caught this video of the embraer jet rapidly descending. rescuers rushed to the scene of the crash where they found at least 29 survivors, some seen walking away from the wreckage on foot. azerbaijan's president has sent a commission to investigate the cause of the crash. >> the reasons for the crash are not yet known to us. there are various theories, but i believe it is premature to discuss them. the matter must be thoroughly investigated. the azerbaijani public will be regularly informed about the results of the commission's wor

. ♪ >> this corporation was made -- this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: a buried whistleblower report has come to life raising concerns about the fitness of president donald trump's pick to lead the pentagon. amna: ptech seth was on capitol hill today. -- pete hegseth was on capitol hill today. >> ok guys, we are done with questions. amna: he refused to take media questions while meeting with alabama sitter tommy tuberville. the new yorker's jane mayer investigated headset's time leaving two nonprofits for military veterans and uncovered allegations of federal mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct. she joins us now. good to see you. thanks for being with us. you reviewed documents. you also spoke with headsets former colleagues at these groups that he ran. what kind of picture did they painted him as a leader? -- paint of him as a leader? >> it was a future that was increasingly alarming in some ways. it was a picture of a leader pushed out of his leadership

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.” prosecutors in new york have charged the suspect in the killing of united-healthcare's ceo with murder as an act of terrorism, among other charges. geoff: luigi mangione had already been charged with murder in the killing of brian thompson. the terror allegation is new. under new york law, such a charge can be brought when an alleged crime is intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, among other factors manhattan's district attorney alvin bragg said the brazen attack was meant to have a broader impact. >> this was a frightening, well-planned, targeted murder that was intended to cause shock and attention and intimidation. it occurred in one of the most bustling parts of our city, threatened the safety of local residents and tourists alike, commuters and businesspeople just starting out on their day. amna: the killing has sparked a wave of outrage against the healthcare industry at large, with polic

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your station from viewers like you, thank you. >> welcome to the news hour. president-elect donald trump has nominated a key and controversial ally to assist him in his next term. peter navarro will return a straight advisor for he spent four months in prison earlier this year for defying a subpoena from the house january 6 committee. >> trump also named cryptocurrency advocate paul atkins to chair the security and exchange commission and daniel driscoll, an advisor to jd vance to serve as secretary of the army. >> meanwhile one of the president-elect's most embattled nominees, defense secretary designate pete hesgeth met with republican senators. lisa joins us now from the u.s. capitol. where does that hegseth nomination stand right now? >> he is a precarious spot. our reporting is that this day and the next day are the critical hours for hegseth. a reminder to our viewers, that reports and also a police report have brought up a lot of allegations against hesgeth, including a sex assault

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to yourtion from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the news hour. new york police and federal agents tonight say they are gathering more clues on the gunman who fatally shot a healthcare ceo in manhattan this week as the search has now become a nationwide manhunt. new york city's police commissioner said in an interview today that investigators have “reason to believe” the suspect left the city. investigators are attempting to track the gunman using a trail of surveillance videos, a burner phone, and a water bottle believed to have been dropped when he fled the scene. no arrests have been made in the killing of brian thompson, the 50-year-old executive who led unitedhealthcare, one of the country's largest health insurance companies. also in new york, the most serious charge of manslaughter has been dismissed against daniel penny, a man accused of using a fatal chokehold on a mentally ill and unruly subway passenger last year. the jury today became deadlocked on the charge, which

. ♪ >> 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 "news hour.” a buried whistle-blower report has come to light raising fresh concerns about the fitness of president-elect donald trump's pick to lead the pentagon. amna: former fox news host and defense secretary-delegate pete hegseth was on capitol hill today. question: misspent funds, mistreatment of women, intoxicated on the job, do you have any comment about that reporting at all? amna: he refused to answer media questions while meeting with alabama republican senator tommy tuberville ahead of a potential confirmation battle next year. "the new yorker"'s jane mayer investigated hegseth's time leading two nonprofits for military veterans and uncovered allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety and personal misconduct. she joins us now. jane, it's good to see you. thanks for being with us. jane mayer, "the new yorker": thanks for having me. amna: so, you reviewed documents. you also spoke with he

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: welcome to the news hour. after 13 brutal years of war, syrians breathed free today in damascus and most of the nation, after the fall of the autocratic assad dynasity. bashar al-assad and his family -- geoff: bashar al-assad and his family are now in russia, which extended them asylum. the lightning fast seizure of the nation by insurgent forces over the last two weeks rocked the region and the world. but for many syrians today, the task after the fall of assad was to take stock of the catastrophic damage done by over five decades of their rule, and what the future holds. nick schifrin begins our coverage. nick: in free damascus today, the foot soldiers of revolution celebrated the birth of any nation and a new generation that will barely know a ruler named assad. syrians who have known nothing but assad called today victory. and flew the flag of the syrian republic, now the flag of free syria. >> this great and glorious day is the new