May 11, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. |
| 0:05.4 | And I'm Jeff Bennett on the news hour tonight. President Trump says the ceasefire with Iran |
| 0:10.1 | is on life support after he rejects Iran's latest peace proposal. |
| 0:14.7 | Passengers who were on the cruise ship hit with haunt of virus arrive back in the U.S. |
| 0:19.7 | facing strict quarantine. |
| 0:21.7 | And scientists in Jamaica use innovative sound technology to help revive coral reefs devastated |
| 0:28.1 | by climate change. |
| 0:30.0 | If a reef is alive with sound, it's most likely to stay alive, right, and repopulate. |
| 0:35.4 | And when reefs degrades they grow silent |
| 0:38.3 | welcome to the news and Iran are at an impasse once again in the talks to end more than two months of war. |
| 0:57.4 | President Trump says the ceasefire is, in his words, on life support after Tehran's latest offer did not include nuclear concessions. |
| 1:04.7 | This afternoon, the administration announced a new round of sanctions against Iran, and Mr. Trump said he would meet with his top |
| 1:11.6 | military commanders today to discuss next steps. All of this comes just days ahead of a critical |
| 1:17.3 | meeting with China, one of Iran's closest allies. Our White House correspondent, Liz Landers, |
| 1:22.4 | begins our coverage. On Iranian state television today, messages of defiance. |
| 1:30.3 | Broadcasters claim to show shipping in the street of Hormuz still at a grinding halt, |
| 1:34.3 | while talks to end the war between the United States and Iran have also once again come to a standstill. |
| 1:41.3 | After waiting almost a week for Iran to respond to the U.S.'s demands, President Trump |
| 1:46.4 | said he rejected their latest offer outright and said today that his patience was wearing thin. |
| 1:52.1 | I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support. It's unbelievably weak. I would say I would |
| 1:59.7 | go it the weakest right now. |
| 2:02.6 | After reading that piece of garbage they sent us, I didn't even finish reading it. |
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