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WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Good evening. I'm William  Brangham. Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz are away.

On the "NewsHour" tonight: The  Supreme Court considers the Biden  

administration's plan to reduce  pollution drifting between states.

Then: A key informant in the  investigation of Hunter Biden  

is accused of lying and having ties to Russia.

And the future of the United Nations'  humanitarian aid agency in Palestine  

hangs in the balance after allegations some  employees helped with Hamas October 7 attack.

MATTHIAS SCHMALE, Former UNRWA Operations  Director, Gaza: Allegations that UNRWA is  

controlled by Hamas need to  be substantiated. Otherwise,  

they are allegations for which  there is no proper proof.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Welcome to the "NewsHour."

A top Israeli official is offering  new hope tonight for a deal to  

free the hostages in Gaza and pause the  fighting there. Benny Gantz is a member  

of the Israeli war cabinet. And he spoke  today at a news conference in Tel Aviv.

BENNY GANTZ, Israeli War Cabinet Minister  (through translator): There are ongoing  

attempts to promote a new hostage deal, and there  are promising early signs of possible progress. We  

will not stop looking for a way, and we will not  miss any opportunity to bring our people home.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Gantz also  warns that, if there is no deal,  

fighting will continue into Ramadan, the  Muslim holy month that begins in March.

In Gaza, Israeli airstrikes rained down again  overnight, and hospital officials reported at  

least 67 Palestinians were killed. Palestinians  said bombs crushed family homes in Rafah,  

where more than a million Gazans have fled.  One man condemned the world's response,  

including Tuesday's U.S. veto  of a U.N. cease-fire resolution.

AHMED JUMA, Gaza Strip Resident  (through translator): This veto  

was not a surprise. The whole world  has made the decision of committing  

a genocide against the Palestinian  people. If all the images across than  

140 days did not push the world to take  action, then what are they waiting for?

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: The Hamas-run Gazan  Health Ministry reported the overall  

death toll in the territory  now exceeds 29,300 people.

Israeli lawmakers today rejected international  pressure for a unilateral declaration of a  

Palestinian state. The Knesset sided  overwhelmingly with Prime Minister  

Benjamin Netanyahu, who said the statehood issue  must be part of overall peace negotiations.

A related question is now before the  world court at The Hague. U.S. State  

Department lawyers argued today  that Israel should not be asked  

to immediately withdraw from all the all  Palestinian lands that were captured in  

1967 during the Six-Day War. The U.N. court  will eventually issue a nonbinding opinion.

In Russia, Alexei Navalny's mother filed  suit against prison officials who've  

refused to release her son's remains.  The opposition leader reportedly died  

last week at a high-security Arctic  prison. Russian authorities have said  

they will hold Navalny's body for two weeks  while they investigate his cause of death.

Russia's capture of a city in Eastern Ukraine  has touched off a new exodus in the region.  

People are now fleeing areas near Avdiivka  in the Donetsk region after it was taken  

by the Russians over the weekend. Many of  the evacuees are elderly and cannot leave  

without assistance. Some say they worry  their towns will be blasted into ruins.

VALENTYNA KITUSH, Ukrainian Evacuee (through  translator): It's unbearable to endure what  

is happening. They are bombarding  and destroying everything. Shall  

I wait until they destroy us? I'm leaving  everything behind, home, flat, everything.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Meanwhile, there are signs  that the fall of Avdiivka was a bigger blow to  

Ukraine's military than first believed. New  reports indicate that up to 1,000 Ukrainian  

troops are missing, including hundreds who  may have been captured by the Russians.

A hearing has wrapped up in London, on  whether to green-light the extradition  

of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to  the U.S. Supporters today demanded his  

release. They and his defense team maintain  he shouldn't be punished for leaking troves  

of documents that exposed U.S. misdeeds in Iraq  and Afghanistan. The U.S. argues Assange put the  

lives of intelligence sources at risk. A ruling  isn't expected until March, at the earliest.

Farmer protests turn violent in India today.  One protester was killed after farmers fought  

with police, who fired tear gas. The  farmers are marching toward New Delhi  

to demand higher prices for their crops.  And in Spain, farmers drove hundreds of  

tractors into Madrid to denounce European Union  policies. It was their largest demonstration yet.

Back in this country, the gap in campaign cash  between President Biden and former President  

Trump is getting wider. The Trump campaign reports  it ended January with $30 million on hand after  

spending more than it took in. Biden's reelection  campaign jumped to a surplus of $56 million.

And on Wall Street, tech stocks drifted  lower again, while the rest of the market  

managed fractional gains. The Dow  Jones industrial average added 48  

points to close at 38612. The Nasdaq fell  50 points. The S&P 500 was up six points.

Still to come on the "NewsHour": Alabama's Supreme  Court rules that frozen embryos are children;  

a new app aims to make traffic stops in  Minnesota safer; the potentially scary  

implications of an A.I. tool that creates  extremely realistic video; plus much more.

The Supreme Court heard arguments today in  a major environmental case over a rule that  

requires states to stop their air pollution  from drifting over to neighboring states.

Three states, led by Ohio, are  claiming the rule is too costly,  

and they're asking the court to block  the so-called good neighbor plan.

Coral Davenport is following all  this closely. She covers energy  

and environmental policy at The New York Times.

Coral, great to have you back on the program.

So, the good neighbor plan, as I mentioned,  says that states have to do everything they  

can to stop their pollution from  sullying their neighbors' air.  

The states that are protesting this rule,  what is it that they don't like about it?

CORAL DAVENPORT, The New York Times: So  this rule is the Biden administration  

strengthening a rule that was already on  the books from the Obama administration.

The Obama rule said that power plants had  to control their pollution that goes over  

state lines and pollutes in other states. The  law actually says that governments have to go  

back and strengthen this rule every number  of years. The Trump administration did not  

do that. The Biden administration went  back, they expanded the rule and said,  

we're also going to apply this to a lot of  other industrial pollution, steel mills,  

factories, cement plants, so a really  significant expansion of these controls.

And this is what the industrial states say,  

this is too much. This is going to cost  millions, if not billions of dollars.  

It's a burden. It's a tremendous economic  imposition on the engines of our state.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: And what is the argument  for it? I mean, I guess broadly speaking,  

we could say air pollution is bad. But the  argument for stopping this pollution is what?

the Clean Air Act specifically stipulates  that the federal government has to do this.

It says that there's -- and this is sort of  interesting because it has to do with the  

way the winds blow. You have heard the phrase  the westerly winds that blow across the United  

States. That's real. So when you have a lot of  air pollution, smog in the middle of the country,  

it is very well-documented that winds actually  blow that to the eastern part of the country.

So when you have a lot of smog in states  like Ohio and Indiana, it ends up in the  

air of Delaware and Connecticut. The  senator from Delaware recently said,  

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