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PBS News Hour - Segments

European leaders meet with Iran’s foreign minister as war with Israel rages on

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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41K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

It's now one full week since Israel launched a punishing campaign of airstrikes against Iran and its nuclear infrastructure. Iran has responded with its own missile strikes, but to far lesser effect. President Trump reiterated his desire to negotiate with Iran within a two-week window he set Thursday, as the U.S. marshals its forces in support of the Israeli operations. Geoff Bennett reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Welcome to the News Hour. It's now one full week since Israel launched a punishing campaign of

0:06.3

airstrikes against Iran and its nuclear infrastructure. Iran has responded with its own missile

0:11.7

strikes, but to far lesser effect. President Trump today reiterated his desire to negotiate with Iran

0:18.1

within a two-week window he set yesterday as the U.S. marshals its forces in support of the Israeli operations.

0:26.8

Today in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa an Iranian missile strike.

0:34.1

The moment captured by an eyewitness, leaving residents terrified.

0:41.3

Local authorities say over a dozen people were injured.

0:45.3

In southern Israel's largest city, Bersheba, building shattered by an Iranian missile that struck at dawn, leaving a trail of devastation.

0:59.0

Right now we're in the south, another place that was got hit by a missile, six-building behind me, got hit.

1:01.0

Now, MDA teams are searching each apartment to see if someone got hurt.

1:06.0

Air raid sirens echoed through Tel Aviv as the exchange of attacks between the two countries intensified.

1:12.6

Twelve, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inspected damage to the Whitesman Institute of Science and vowed to continue the war.

1:21.6

As long as it takes, that's the answer.

1:24.6

As long as it takes, because we face an existential danger, a dual existential danger.

1:30.6

In the Iranian capital of Tehran, a burnt Red Crescent ambulance was put on display in a prominent city square.

1:38.2

It was hit by an earlier Israeli attack that killed three paramedics.

1:42.3

And today, thousands took to the streets of Tehran and other

1:45.7

cities after Friday prayers protesting Israel's attacks. Iranian state media showed smoke

1:51.8

billowing near Iran's Arak nuclear facility. Israel has also launched attacks on Iran's nuclear

1:57.8

enrichment facilities in Natanz and Isfahan but needs U.S. bunker buster bombs to target Fordo. Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities in Natanz and Isfahan, but needs U.S. bunker

2:01.8

buster bombs to target Fordo, Iran's enrichment facility that's buried deep within a mountain.

2:08.0

President Trump said he will decide whether to push the U.S. into the conflict within the next two weeks.

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