April 8, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navaz's on assignment. |
| 0:07.0 | On the news hour tonight, confusion and tension are growing around the strait of four moves, |
| 0:13.0 | hours into a fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, a truce complicated by Israel's |
| 0:19.0 | ongoing strikes in Lebanon. |
| 0:28.1 | We speak with the partner of a man detained by immigration authorities on his way to see his premature baby in the hospital. |
| 0:35.2 | And Portland, Oregon's first of its kind climate fund faces growing debate over how the money should be spent. |
| 0:42.4 | Our frontline communities, those that face the greatest and worst impacts of climate change should be at the center of creating those solutions. |
| 0:57.8 | Welcome to the News Hour. |
| 1:06.2 | For the first time in more than five weeks, the U.S. did not launch widespread attacks on Iran today, and Iran did not strike U.S. targets. |
| 1:14.1 | Even as the ceasefire between the two nations largely held, it's being tested by what appears to be Iran's ongoing chokehold of the Strait of Hormuz, as well as Israel's war in Lebanon. |
| 1:17.7 | Nick Schifrin reports on the many factors that could determine |
| 1:21.2 | if the temporary truce can become a long-term peace. |
| 1:25.2 | John, John, Capitol's in. Today, in two capitals, two declarations of victory. |
| 1:31.3 | In Tehran, immediately after the ceasefire, government supporters filled the streets, |
| 1:36.3 | desecrating what the regime has for decades called the big and little Satan. |
| 1:42.3 | Meanwhile, at the White House, This is a victory for the United States of America. |
| 1:47.7 | And the Pentagon. |
| 1:49.1 | Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory on the battlefield. |
| 1:56.0 | A capital V military victory. |
| 1:59.6 | The U.S. declared its own goals met. |
| 2:04.6 | But this is what the Vice President admitted was a fragile truce. |
| 2:08.6 | In the hours after the ceasefire, Iran attacked Israel, intercepted by air defense. |
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