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." ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributionsur pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ john: good evening. i'm john yang. gaza has been the center of military operations for the last few months. israeli defense minister says in the area where the troops spent the last four months, hamas is no longer what we call a functioning military unit. others caution into reading too much into the future of the w. john kirby acute -- echoed that view. john kirby: it is really just about rest and refit for the troops that have been on the ground for four months and not necessarily indicative of some coming new operations for these troops. john: a top errani military advisor says no military is safe. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says israel is prepared for anything. russia has declared a national emergency as the euro river flooded. officials say the situation is getting worse. russia has launched -- launched a criminal investigation. and a somber ceremony has marked 30 years since an estimated 800,000 people were killed

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this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. john: good evening, i'm john yang. israel says a military operation in gaza has recovered the body of a man taken hostage in the october 7 hamas attack six months ago this weekend. militants had abducted 47-year-old elad katzir from kibbutz nir oz. his mother hannah was also kidnapped. she was released in november during a truce. his father was killed in the attack. at least 36 hostages are confirmed to have died in captivity. prime minister bjamin netanyahu remains under public pressure to get a deal to free the remaining hostages. negotiations are set to resume in the coming days in cairo. hamas is demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire. in ukraine, russian drones and missiles have killed eight people and wounded 12 others in kharkiv, the second-largest city. ukrainian officials said the strikes damaged residential buildings, businesses, and a kindergarten. russia has stepped up attacks on kharkiv as ukrainian air defenses are st

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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 newshour. we begin with some news of our own tonight. robert met neil, cofounder and longtime coanchor of this program passed away earlier today at the age of 93. mcneil -- robert macneil cofounded alongside the late jim lehrer. we will have a conversation about him tonight. but first as he would have insisted, the news. israel and the u.s. away to a possible iranian response to the attack on its consulate last week in damascus. the israeli airstrike killed one of iran's senior military leaders and the republic has vowed vengeance. nick schifrin joins us now. have great is the concern and what are the u.s. and israel bracing for? >> a senior official tells me tonight that concern is very high. u.s. and israeli officials are preparing for strikes by iran and its proxies inside israel. iran has never attacked israel with kinetic weapons before. one u.s. official tells me the attack is likely to be bigger than usual. another

announcer:this program was madee by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourbs station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: welcome to the newshour. today the israeli military dismissed two officers and reprimanded three senior officers it of qatar and egypt. here is nick schifrin. reporter: israel is calling it a grave mistake, three precise hits on vehicles filled with aid workers trying to feed the hungry. unusually swift investigation blamed mistaken identification, and decisions contrary to the standard operating procedures. the idf fired the burglary -- the brigade major and a chief of staff and it represented more -- and it reprimanded more senior officers. the top idf spokesman -- >> this is a tragedy. it was a terrible chain of errors and never should happened. reporter: along the coast the idf says and armed gunmen boarded the convoy and surveillance spotted a second gunman. further south the convoy split and that is when the idf admit that one of its commanders mistakenly assumed that a hamas gunmen remained inside the convoy. >> this misidentifi

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourbs station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the newshour. college campuses in several parts of the country are struggling tonight with just where to draw the line between allowing protests and free speech and preventing antisemitism and intimidation. as the school year nears its end, columbia university announced it would stay on a hybrid schedule until the end of the spring semester next week. and, students were arrested at new york university last night. >> police arrested more than 100 people at nyu, as the term all to other schools. >> it's a really outrageous crackdown by the university. geoff: university officials said protesters breach barricades and behaved in a disruptive and antagonizing manner. some faculty disputed that characterization by the school, coming as a wave of palestinian protests and encampments have spread in the last weeks since a columbia university president testified about anti-semitism on campus. many are students, but not all are from t

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 newshour. it was a charged atmosphere at the supreme court today as the justices heard arguments in a major abortion case out of idaho. the court looked at whether a federal law requiring hospitals to provide medical care in emergency situations would apply to states with strict abortion bans. currently, more than two dozen states ban or severely restrict abortion access but there are six states in particular, including idaho, with no health exceptions. geoff: the case brought protesters on all sides of the abortion issue to the court today for what was the second case on reproductive care before the court in the last month. special correspodent sarah varney joins us. she's spent years covering health care and is closely following the case. thank you for being with us. the arguments were lively and there was a lot of talk about this federal law and how it is applied. sarah: the idaho law you outlined when into effect aft

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions toation from viewers like you. thank you. william: welcome to the newshour. there is an uneasy calm across the middle east after both israeli and iranian officials had muted responses to israel's retaliatory strike in central iran. the region had been on edge since an attack on israel. reporter: it is not every day that something explodes near and iranian bays during a time of intense regional tension but today that is what happened and all sides are trying to downplay it. near the central city of isfahan this morning, iran's air defense targeted small drones but former military and intelligence officials tells pbs newshour this was an israeli strike your a guard to bays nuclear technology center. by day, iranian state tv showed isfahan quiets. >> life is going on according to normal. reporter: and a local iranian military commander says there is not much to see here. a sound heard early in the morning today in esfahan was not an explosion, it was our powerful air defense hiring at a sus

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this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting at a by contributions to your from viewers like you. thank you. william: welcome to the newshour. there is an uneasy calm tonight across the middle east after both israeli and iranian officials had muted responses to israel's apparent retaliatory strike in central iran. the region had been on edge since an unprecedented iranian attack on israel, and israeli vows of revenge. nick schifrin has more -- correspondent: william, it is not everyday that something explodes near anranian military base during a time of intense regional tension. but today, that is exactly what happened, and all sides are trying to downplay it. near the central city of isfahan this morning, iran's air defense targeted what iran called small drones. but former intelligence officials tells pbs newshour this was an israeli strike, near an islamic revolutionary guard base, and iran's nuclear technology center. by day, iranian state tv showed isfahan quiet, and a local iranian military commander said, there's nothing much to see here. >> the sound

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for more than 50 years advancing ideas and supporting instituations to promote a better world. at hewlett.org. and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcastingnd by contributions to your pbs >> the william and flora hewlett foundation, for more than 50 years advancing ideas and supporting instituations to promote a better world. at hewlett.org. and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the anewshour.a a hamas delegation left cairo this evening and is expected to return with a response to the latest ceasefire proposal. that's as fraught negotiations continue nearly seven months into the war in gaza. amna: secretary of state blinken is back in the region today, and pressed not just for a ceasefire and hostage release, but for much more humanitarian aid into gaza. meantime, the israeli bombardment continues in gaza's south, with the city of rafah in their sights. homes in southern gaza today, nothing more than crushed concrete, and twisted bodies. amid th

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. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions tos station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the newshour, arizona will soon be the latest state with a near-total abortion ban after the state supreme court revived a 160-year-old law. the law provides no exceptions for rape or incest. in its 4-2 opinion, the conservative majority wrote: physicians are now on notice that all abortions, except those necessary to save a woman's life, are illegal. amna: doctors who perform abortions could face criminal prosecution and prison time, though the democratic attorney general says she will not prosecute. it's the latest test of the limits on abortion since the supreme court ended federal abortion protections from the decades-old roe v wade decision. and in this election year, there is already an effort underway to get a pro-abortion rights amendment on arizona's ballot in november. arizona's democratic governor katie hobbs responded to today's court decision. >> arizona's 2022 abortion ban is extreme and hurts women and the nea

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 "newshour ." the biden white house is issuing a rule designed to close a gap that allows gun buyers to avoid background checks. officials are touting the move to end the so-called gun show loophole, one of the most significant steps to crackdown on unlicensed dealers in decades. the rule requires background checks on buyers when dealers sell guns at gun shows, flea markets, social media, or other places outside of brick-and-mortar stores. attorney general merrick garland today praised the effort. >> under this regulation, it will not matter if guns are sold on the internet, at a gun show, or at a brick-and-mortar store. if you sell guns predominantly to earn a profit, you must be licensed, and you must conduct background checks. this regulation is a historic step in the justice department's fight against gun violence. it will save lives. geoff: we are joined now by president of the nation's oldest gun violence prevention

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions topbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> welcome to the newshour. israeli prime minister and jim and netanyahu today said he set a date for the invasion of rafah in southern gaza where 1.4 million people have sought shelter. >> that comes as hostage and cease-fire talks between israel and hamas again appeared to be at an impasse tonight as senior leaders meet in cairo. some gazans returned to another southern gaza city, the scene of brutal fighting and destruction. nick schifrin begins our coverage. >> they returned by the thousands. gazans hoping to find their homes. khan yunis is unrecognizable. it is destroyed of debris and former resident devastated. houses are flattened pancakes. apartment blocks are gutted into carcasses. this was once home to half a million people. today it has been left to the scavengers. she tries to salvage anything from the ruins of her house. there is no construction crew. only a stray cat who like her has lost everyone and everything. >> no words c

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourbs station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the newshour. inflation came in higher-than-expected last month, raising concerns once again about its persistence. some experts also worry this rise could delay or prevent a series of interest rates cuts expected from the federal reserve later this year. last month the consumer price index climbed 3.5% year-over-year, pushed up by gas, rent and car insurance. neil kashkari is the president of the federal reserve bank of minneapolis and he joins us now. it is great to have you with us. >> thank you. it is great to be with you. geoff: federal reserve officials initially penciled in three interest rate cuts by the end of 2024. you've raised the possibility we potentially could not have as many or any cuts this report today affect your thinking on this? neil: well, it is a little bit concerning. in the second half of last year we made a lot of progress and bringing inflation down very quickly. not all the way to our 2% target

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions tor pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the newshour. there have been few incidents in 6 months of war in gaza that have created the level of outrage that leaders across three continents expressed today. amna: overnight israel killed 7 members of the charity, the world central kitchen: o palestinian and six foreigners, including one dual american-canadian, as well as an australian, and europeans. the president of the u.s. called the group's founder, the chef jose andres, to express his "heartbreak." israel called the killings unintended, and vows to investigate. nick schifrin begins our coverage. nick: in the words of the world central kitchen, this, was a targeted attack. a direct hit on the group's armored vehicle, incinerating everything and everyone inside. all that was left intact -- a metal plate with the group's logo. they came here from all over the world, to feed the hungry. they leave in the white body bags borne by this war's more than 30,000 victim

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourtation from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the “newshour.” a hamas delegation left cairo this evening and is expected to return with a response to the latest ceasefire proposal. that's as fraught negotiations continue nearly seven months into the war in gaza. amna: secretary of state blinken is back in the region today, and pressed not just for a ceasefire and hostage release, but for much more humanitarian aid into gaza. meantime, the israeli bombardment continues in gaza's south, with the city of rafah in their sights. homes in southern gaza today, nothing more than crushed concrete, and twisted bodies. amid this wreckage, one small survivor, just two months old. >> we took her from under the rubble, thank god. was she holding a rocket or was she standing near tanks? what's her fault? amna: palestinian medics say at least 22 people were killed in israeli airstrikes on rafah last night. as the barrage continues, pressure mounts for hamas and israeli leaders to stop the

this program is made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. amna: welcome to the newshour. ukraine is reeling tonight from the deadliest russian strike in weeks. it comes at a critical point in this more than two-year-old war. first a congressional aid package for ukraine is -- you, israel and taiwan a key step forward today potentially putting the house speaker's job in greater jeopardy. geoff: the senate began and quickly ended the first ever impeachment trial of a sitting cabinet official for homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. lisa desjardins was there for in joins us now. lots to unpack, lots to discuss. take us through what happened in the senate chamber today. >> it was never going to be a surprise how this ended. he was not going to be convicted. that was nothing question here. it was a question of how and hear the senate decided on a party-line vote the articles themselves were unconstitutional. let me take you through this. tender schumer offered at the beginning to have some deba

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions tos station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the newshour. we begin with some news of our own tonight. robert macneil, co-founder and longtime co-anchor of this program, passed away earlier today at the age of 93. macneil, known by friends and colleagues as robin, co-founded the macneil/lehrer report, the predecessor of the pbs newshour alongside the late jim lehrer in 1975. we will have a remembrance and conversation about his life and many contributions later in the program. but first, as we know robin would have insisted: the news. warning signs are flashing red throughout the middle east and beyond tonight, as israel and the u.s. await a possible iranian response to the attack on its consulate last week in damascus, syria. that israeli airstrike killed one of iran's senior military leaders. and the islamic republic has vowed vengeance. following it all is nick schifr, who joins us now. how great is the concern and what are the u.s. and israel bracing for? nick: a s

. ♪ 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 newshour. here in ukraine, as leaders await news on additional u.s. aid, russia's war has entered a new phase, attacking ukraine's energy systems with devastating precision. but first, we start at home where the u.s. supreme court heard oral arguments today in a case about january 6. geoff: this arguments focused on -- those arguments focused on whether part of a federal obstruction law can be used to prosecute some of the rioters involved in the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol. the court's ruling could impact hundreds of criminal cases, even the pending case against former president donald trump, kyle -- donald trump. kyle cheney, politico's senior legal affairs reporter, has been following the january 6 legal fallout, and joins us now. this case was brought by joseph fisher, who was charged with multiple crimes for pushing his way into the u.s. capitol on january 6, 2021. walk us through the arguments the justi

support of these individuals and institutions -- ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcastingy contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to "the newshour." today for the first time, president biden publicly threatened to condition support for israel. his remark came in a phone call with the israeli prime minister. the president said his future policy was dependent on whether israel took multiple steps to ease the civilian suffering from gaza and also reiterated his call for an immediate cease-fire. following all of this is nick schifrin. great to have you here. white house readouts of residential phone calls with foreign leaders are not always illuminating, but we learned a lot today from the summary of the call between president biden and netanyahu. tell us what you learned. nick: the readout and officials i spoke to said president was very direct with the prime minister and the president said that following that killing of the world central kitchen aid workers, the car they were traveling in, they were hit by israeli munitions, biden

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourtion from viewers like you. thank you. amna: welcome to the “newshour”" on the very last day of arguments, the u.s. supreme court heard debate over one of its most consequential cases, whether a former president is immune from prosecution for official actions taken while in office. outside the court this morning, protesters gathered dressed as kangaroos and holding signs reading things like "trump is not immune." inside, arguments were heard on an appeal brought by former president donald trump, who's being prosecuted by special counsel jack smith for attempting to overthrow the results of the 2020 election. john yang joins us now in studio with more. john: amna, it was a big day for former president trump in a number of courts. in addition to the nearly three hours of oral arguments in his immunity case at the supreme court, a grand jury in arizona indicted several of his closest allies for allegedly trying to subvert the 2020 election. following all of this is the newshour's william

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions tor pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. geoff: welcome to the "newshour." there is an escalation of tension in the middle east tonight beginning in damascus, syria. amna: earlier today war planes attacked the consulate and killed some of the most senior members of iran's revolutionary guard corps. tonight there are reports of new attacks on international ships in the red sea and a base in southern israel. nick schifrin has been following this. let's begin with damascus. what do we know about what happened this morning? nick: an official with knowledge of the operation tells me that israel attacked inside damascus killing three senior islamic revolutionary guard corps commanders. including a brigadier general. that is him there. this is the most significant strike against the rotc since the u.s. killed soleimani. you can see him on the left in this suit. zahadi was extremely important to iran's efforts in syria and lebanon. he was the point man with iran backed hezbollah up, who

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 newshour. today, the bodies of foreign aid workers killed in an israeli strike early yesterday morning, have left gaza, and are being flown to their home countries. geoff: they worked for world central kitchen, whose founder today accused israel of targeting his employees deliberately, an accusation israel denies. nick schifrin starts our coverage. nick: he had flown 7800 miles from home to help feed the hungry. today, he began his final journey home, pushed out of a morgue. the american-canadian jacob flickinger was 33 years old and he leaves behind his partner, sandy, and their one-year-old boy. with him as he crossed the egyptian border today, his friends in life and death, an australian, damien sobel from poland, and the british security team, john chapman, james henderson, and james kirby, whose cousin today remembered him as someone who wanted to help. >> he was completely selfless explained why he went to gaza. ni

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 “newshour.” a full jury has been seated in former president trump's criminal trial, but jury selection has had a rocky start, as two previously selected jurors were dismissed. and prosecutors again accused the former president of violating a gag order and asked the judge to hold him in contempt. i'm joined now by former federal prosecutor jessica roth. jessica, great to have you back on the program. a bit of a whiplash with this jury. it was up and then it was down and now there is a full jury seated. two issues came up with regards to these jurors being dismissed. one, a juror was worried that her identity was being revealed in the process. the second was concern over whether another juror was somehow hiding his or her true intentions about they wanted -- about why they wanted to sit on the jury. were those just normal concerns, especially in a case like this? jessica: they raised two distinct concerns. the first juror w

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. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions topbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ john: good evening. i'm john yan. the day after iran used drones and missiles to carry out its first ever direct assault on israel, diplomacy took center stage today. leaders from the white house to capitals around the globe are scrambling tonight to try to keep this unfolding and perilous conflict from spiraling out of control. tonight our coverage tonight , begins with nick schifrin. nick: above the holiest sites in one of the world's holiest cities, rockets lit up the night sky, and israeli air defense blocked an unprecedented iranian attack across all of israel. the israeli defense forces said it thwarted 99% of more than 300 drones and missiles. the majority were launched from iran, but some also came from iranian-backed proxies in iraq, syria, and yemen. american officials say the u.s. shot down at least 75 of them, almost all in jordanian airspace. israel said the only missiles that entered israeli airspace were ballistic, includin

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. this program is made possible for the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions of viewers like you. thank you. jeff: welcome to the news hour. opening statements began in the first criminal trial of former president donald trump. hoskins accused mr. topp and his associates of falsifying business records during his 2016 campaign for president's in an effort to conceal and if your marital affair. but the former president's attorney said he was not involved in the payments which they argued were not illegal and did not commit a crime. william was in court yesterday. we know calvin bragg very much wants this case to be seen as a case about interference in the 2016 election and less about alleged hush money aim is to stormy gang of. how much of that came out in the prosecution's opening statement today? >> it came out an enormous amount. it was one of the first things out of the prosecutor's mouth. he was arguing that democrats engaged in and coordinated a conspiracy to corrupt the 2016 election you are talking about. that is the frame they want