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🗓️ 13 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on PBS News Weekend, President Trump vows retaliation for the killing of two U.S. |
| 0:11.0 | soldiers and an American civilian interpreter ambushed in Syria. |
| 0:16.0 | Then how tariffs on China are making this holiday season less merry for some shoppers. |
| 0:21.6 | And a conversation with Beverly and Derek Joubert about their 40 years captured dazzling images of Africa's wildlife. |
| 0:29.6 | There's always an image. I'm still chasing. I don't quite know what it is because I need to be open. |
| 0:35.6 | But the images definitely need to be preserving and protecting |
| 0:41.4 | wildlife in Africa. |
| 1:03.6 | Good evening. I'm John Yang. President Trump is vowing to avenge the deaths of two U.S. soldiers and an American civilian interpreter in Syria. |
| 1:11.3 | And U.S. officials tell PBS news, the shooter had ties to ISIS and had infiltrated Syrian security forces. |
| 1:16.2 | The Pentagon said the two soldiers, members of the Iowa National Guard and the interpreter, |
| 1:20.2 | were ambushed by a lone gunman in the historic city of Palmyra, |
| 1:23.0 | about 130 miles northeast of Damascus. |
| 1:26.6 | They were taking part in ongoing counterterrorism missions. |
| 1:33.2 | The gunman was killed, and according to the U.S. official, he was already under investigation for his ties to ISIS. |
| 1:39.0 | Mr. Trump paid tribute to the three as he left the White House this afternoon for the Army-Navy football game. |
| 1:40.9 | We mourn the loss. |
| 1:45.3 | These are great, three great people, And it's just a terrible thing. |
| 1:47.9 | We will retaliate. Thank you very much. |
| 1:54.4 | In 2019, during his first term, President Trump said ISIS and Syria had been defeated. |
| 2:00.2 | The U.S. kept about 2,000 troops in eastern Syria to clamp down on sleeper cells. Belarus freed more than 100 prisoners after the United States |
| 2:04.6 | said it would lift sanctions on the close ally of Russia. |
| 2:07.6 | Among those pardoned by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko |
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