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PBS News Hour - Full Show

February 4, 2024 - PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

Daily News, News

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Sunday on PBS News Weekend, the U.S. promises further retaliation for the killing of American troops in Jordan. How upcoming elections in Pakistan and other South Asian countries are testing democracy in the region. After the release of the Epstein files, we examine the challenges in policing sex trafficking. Plus, a new category at the Grammy Awards highlights the global appeal of African music. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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Tonight on PBS

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news weekend, the United States promises further retaliation for

0:11.0

last week's killing of American troops in Jordan, how upcoming

0:15.0

elections in Pakistan and other South Asian nations are testing democracy in

0:19.8

the region. And a new category at tonight's Grammy Awards highlights the continent whose music has taken the world

0:26.9

by storm.

0:27.9

Everyone's like, so what's popping in Ghana right now?

0:30.5

What's popping in Nigeria?

0:31.7

It's so weird to see it, but I mean it's great to finally see it. Good evening. I'm John Yang. Top Biden administration officials said today they are not done yet

0:54.8

with the dual military efforts to both retaliate for the killing of three

0:58.7

US troops in Jordan a week ago and to try to stop ongoing threats to commercial shipping in the Red Sea.

1:05.0

For the last three days, U.S. planes have struck sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iran-backed

1:10.0

militia groups and in joint operations with British forces at least three dozen targets

1:15.4

across six provinces in Yemen that Iran backed Huthy rebels use to launch attacks on the

1:20.6

Red Sea shipping.

1:21.8

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on

1:23.9

CBS and Space the Nation. What happened on Friday was the beginning not the end of our

1:28.6

response and that there will be more steps, some seen, some perhaps unseen. We will respond and we will

1:34.4

respond forcefully and we will respond in a sustained way. I would not describe it as

1:38.8

some open-ended military campaign. In a separate appearance, Sullivan would not rule out strikes inside Iran.

1:46.0

And in Israel's war in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu detailed what constitutes his goal of eliminating Hamas,

1:53.8

destroying the group's battalions,

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