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PBS News Hour - Full Show

February 3, 2024 - PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

Daily News, News

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Saturday on PBS News Weekend, the latest developments as the U.S. launches retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed militias in the Middle East. Then, after deepfake explicit images of Taylor Swift surfaced on social media, pressure grows on Congress to take action. Plus, as coral reefs around the world disappear, conservationists take drastic measures to preserve what remains. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Tonight on PBS

0:05.0

PBS news weekend,

0:07.0

U.S. retaliatory strikes on Iran-backed militias in the Middle East.

0:11.0

How much more will there be? After deep fake

0:15.4

explicit images of Taylor Swift surfaced on social media last week, pressure

0:20.0

grows on Congress to take action against the phenomenon.

0:24.2

And as coral reefs around the world disappear, the drastic measures conservationists are taking

0:29.8

to preserve the remaining underwater beauties.

0:33.1

It was definitely an emotional feeling to see these corals that we've worked with for the past

0:38.9

years that are supposed to be in the ocean.

0:41.2

That's their home sitting in these raceways for no other reason

0:45.7

than the fact that they had to be there or they die. Good evening. I'm John Yang. As we come on the air tonight, the United States is

1:05.4

carrying out a second wave of airstrikes against dozens of Iran-backed

1:09.5

hooty targets in Yemen. The two-day assault is in response to last weekend's drone strike in Jordan

1:15.3

that killed three U.S. troops and injured dozens more.

1:18.8

Last night's air assault struck sights in Iraq and Syria used by Iran-backed militias.

1:24.3

Pentagon officials said it took just 30 minutes Friday night for B-1 bombers and other U.S.

1:29.3

aircraft to hit more than 85 targets. Iraq and Syria said the attacks killed at least 34 people, both members of Iranian-backed

1:37.2

militant groups and civilians.

1:39.4

Joe Bichino is a retired US Army Colonel.

1:42.8

He was the top spokesman at Central Command.

1:45.4

Joe, talk about how you design an event like this,

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