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PBS News Hour - Full Show

August 5, 2023 - PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Saturday on PBS News Weekend, the FDA approves the first pill to treat postpartum depression. Twelve years after a tsunami sent Fukushima's nuclear plant into a meltdown, Japan plans to release over a million tons of treated wastewater from the facility. Plus, a look at privacy issues around reproductive health data in a post-Roe America. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Tonight on PBS Newsweekend, the FDA approves the first pill to treat postpartum depression.

0:13.2

And 12 years after a tsunami sent Fukushima's nuclear power plant in the meltdown, Japan

0:18.3

plans to release more than a million tons of wastewater from the damage facility.

0:24.6

When they release the wastewater, I think we won't be able to sell our fish at the

0:29.6

main market again.

0:31.4

What happens to us then?

0:33.4

Then I'll look at the privacy issues around reproductive health data in post-Roe America.

0:39.6

Good evening, I'm John Yang.

0:54.3

In a major victory for abortion rights supporters, a Texas judge has ruled that the state's

0:58.8

law banning abortions is too restrictive and violates the state constitution.

1:04.0

The judge says that there must be a clearly stated exemption for women whose health or

1:08.5

lives are in danger or whose fetuses have little likelihood of survival.

1:13.0

But the Texas Attorney General's Office said the ruling is on hold while the Texas Supreme

1:17.4

Court considers an appeal.

1:19.4

The cases believed to have been the first brought by women who had been denied abortions.

1:24.1

Past legal challenges to abortion laws have been brought by abortion rights groups or doctors

1:28.4

or clinics who provide the procedure.

1:30.8

All abortion clinics in Texas closed last year after state law banned virtually all procedures

1:36.1

after six weeks of pregnancy.

1:38.7

The Justice Department wants a federal judge to bar former President Donald Trump from

1:42.5

publicly discussing the evidence against him or the witnesses expected to testify against

1:47.3

him.

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