December 27, 2025 - PBS News Weekend full episode
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4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on PBS News Weekend, a deadly wave of Russian strikes on Ukraine's capital city, |
| 0:11.0 | Kiev, as Volody Mayor Zelensky heads to Florida for talks with President Trump. |
| 0:17.0 | Then, the connection between a company in Landlock, Nebraska, and efforts to combat plastic pollution in oceans. |
| 0:23.6 | And how scientists in Yellowstone National Park are using AI to try to decode the language of wolves. |
| 0:31.6 | No. |
| 0:33.6 | Not only can we hear them here and record their howling 24-7, 365 days a year, but we often can link behaviors of wolves by observing them when they are vocalizing. |
| 0:44.3 | What is the cause and effect of howling? Good evening. I'm John Yang. |
| 1:01.0 | Russia attacked Ukraine's capital city Kiev overnight with a barrage of ballistic missiles and drones. |
| 1:06.6 | It came just a day before President Trump and Ukrainian leader, Volody Mersol Zelensky are to meet in Florida to talk about prospects for peace. |
| 1:15.0 | On his way to the U.S., Zelensky met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Halifax. |
| 1:19.8 | He said Russia's attack was revealing. |
| 1:22.7 | This attack is, again, Russia's answer on our peace efforts. |
| 1:29.3 | And it's really the show that Putin doesn't want peace and we want peace. |
| 1:35.3 | In Kyiv, residents and first responders assess the damage from the attacks. |
| 1:39.3 | Several apartment buildings and key energy infrastructure facilities were hit. At least one person was killed and nearly 30 others were injured. |
| 1:48.0 | A quick moving winter storm swept across the Great Lakes and Northeast overnight, |
| 1:52.0 | dumping snow and ice that snarled post-Christmas travel in the air and on the roads. |
| 1:57.0 | More than 1,500 flights have been canceled since last night, and thousands more delayed. |
| 2:02.5 | The National Weather Service warned people to stay off the roads. |
| 2:06.1 | The storm had largely wound down by this afternoon. |
| 2:10.2 | California has dropped its lawsuit against the Trump administration over the cancellation of more than $4 billion in federal grants for a high-speed rail project. |
| 2:20.3 | Plans for a high-speed rail train between San Francisco and Los Angeles have been in the works for |
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