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PBS News Hour - Full Show

June 21, 2025 – PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Saturday on PBS News Weekend, Israel and Iran’s deadly conflict enters a second week as Iran warns that U.S. military involvement could trigger retaliation. The impact of the Trump administration’s decision to end specialized suicide prevention services for LGBTQ+ youth. Plus, travel writer Rick Steves talks about his goal of getting more Americans to transform their world view through travel. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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Tonight on PBS News Weekend, the deadly conflict between Israel and Iran enters a second week as Iran warns that U.S. military involvement could trigger retaliation.

0:16.0

Then the impact of the Trump administration's decision to end specialized suicide prevention services

0:22.3

for LGBTQ plus youth.

0:25.5

And travel guru Rick Steve's goal of getting more Americans to choose travel and transform their

0:32.3

worldview.

0:32.9

I want to embrace culture shock as a good and constructive thing, not something to avoid,

0:41.4

but something that is a valuable product of thoughtful travel.

0:46.0

It's the growing pains of a broadening perspective.

0:48.3

Music Good evening. I'm John Yang.

1:02.0

The second week of the Israel-Iran war began with a fresh round of Israeli air strikes on missile sites and a nuclear facility in Iran,

1:10.0

and Iranian counterstrikes,

1:11.8

sending missiles and drones into residential areas of Israel. As B-2 bombers are reportedly being

1:17.6

repositioned, there's a new warning to the United States. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen

1:22.9

said they would attack U.S. vessels in the Red Sea if President Trump joins Israel's military campaign.

1:29.6

And after his talks with European officials were inconclusive, Iran's foreign minister said

1:34.4

there would be no negotiations with the United States as long as Israeli attacks continue.

1:40.0

We have come, unfortunately, to the conclusion that the United States has been in this aggression from the beginning.

1:47.2

They deny, they keep saying that they are not evolving, but we have many indications that they have been involved from day one.

1:57.4

As Israel broadens its targets in Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says,

2:03.0

regime change is not an explicit goal, but could be a result.

2:07.6

Nargis Bajoli is an associate professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

2:13.1

Nargis, Prime Minister Netanyahu seems to be saying that the Israeli attacks have given an opportunity for Iranians who oppose the regime to rise up.

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