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PBS News Hour - Full Show

August 9, 2025 – PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Saturday on PBS News Weekend, a new study highlights the growing health dangers of plastic pollution. As megafires become more common, an anthropologist gives a firsthand account of a historic season with the elite Los Padres Hotshots. History is made as a woman umpires a regular-season MLB game for the first time. Plus, scientists in South Africa make rhino horns radioactive to fight poaching. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Tonight on PBS News Weekend, Ukrainian President Volota Mer Zelenskyy says he won't give up any territory to Russia after President Trump suggests a land swap to end the war.

0:17.0

Then history is made as a woman umpires a regular season game for the first time in Major League Baseball's nearly 150 year history.

0:26.9

And scientists in South Africa are making endangered rhinos horns radioactive to save them from poaching.

0:34.2

You can't take that horn anywhere. It is radioactive.

0:38.8

You can't take it through any airport, any harbour, any customs office.

0:43.1

I'm telling you this could be tonight in Ukraine where President Volota

1:04.8

Mazzolensky has flatly rejected President Trump's suggestion that a peace deal between Ukraine

1:10.5

and Russia might include

1:11.6

the two nations swapping territory. In advance of Mr. Trump's summit with Russian President

1:16.6

Vladimir Putin in Alaska next week, Zelensky said he wouldn't agree to anything that comes

1:21.5

out of any meeting that leaves his nation on the sidelines. He accused Russia of stalling.

1:33.3

Russia started it and is dragging it out, ignoring all deadlines, and that is the problem, not something else. The answer to the Ukrainian territorial question already is in the

1:38.3

Constitution of Ukraine. No one will deviate from this, and no one will be able to.

1:43.3

Ukrainians will not gift their land to the occupier.

1:47.0

Mr. Trump had set a Friday deadline for Russia to end the war or face additional sanctions,

1:51.9

but that deadline came and went without any new penalties.

1:55.9

And the war in Gaza, growing outrage over Israel's plan to take control of Gaza City,

2:02.3

including among Israelis.

2:06.5

Thousands rallied outside the Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv.

2:12.0

Family members of hostages, as well as anti-government protesters, demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu make a deal with Hamas to release all of the hostages still in Gaza.

2:17.7

This, as attempts to provide aid in Gaza, are increasingly troubled,

2:21.7

a pallet of aid airdropped into central Gaza today, struck and killed a 15-year-old.

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