August 23, 2023 - PBS NewsHour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, I'm Jeff Bennett, and I'm Amna Navas on the News Hour tonight. |
| 0:10.2 | Republican presidential candidates looking to unseat Donald Trump as the GOP frontrunner |
| 0:15.8 | prepared to debate for the first time this election cycle. |
| 0:19.3 | An airplane crashes in Russia, killing everyone on board. |
| 0:23.0 | On the passenger list, the leader of the Russian mercenary group responsible for an attempted |
| 0:28.0 | coup. |
| 0:29.0 | And India becomes the latest nation to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon, visiting previously |
| 0:35.5 | untouched terrain. |
| 0:37.6 | The more we know about what the situation is there for water at the South Pole, the |
| 0:42.9 | more scientists get interested in this place. |
| 0:57.1 | Welcome to the News Hour. |
| 0:58.3 | To begin with two major stories tonight, you have Gennie Pregozion. |
| 1:02.1 | The head of the Wagner mercenary group was on board a plane that crashed in Russia today, |
| 1:07.2 | leaving no survivors. |
| 1:08.7 | That's according to Russia's aviation agency. |
| 1:11.5 | The crash comes two months after Pregozion's attempted coup against the Kremlin. |
| 1:16.2 | We'll have more on this shortly. |
| 1:17.8 | But first, Republicans are set to hold the first presidential debate of the 2024 election |
| 1:23.1 | season tonight. |
| 1:24.1 | A field of eight challengers is gathered in Milwaukee for this first face-off, as the |
| 1:29.4 | current frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, is notably absent. |
| 1:33.6 | Our own Lisa Desjardins is at the debate and joins us now for a preview of what's to come. |
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