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News Wrap: Trump slashes number of refugees allowed into U.S.

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In our news wrap Thursday, the Trump administration is slashing the number of refugees it allows into the country each year, reports out of Sudan say the RSF paramilitary force killed more than 460 people inside a hospital, Red Cross vehicles escorted the remains of two Israeli hostages out of Gaza and French authorities arrested five more people in connection with the heist at the Louvre. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Also today, the Trump administration is slashing the number of refugees it allows into the country each year to just 7,500, and most of those will be white South Africans.

0:10.7

That is far less than last year's ceiling of 125,000 set by the Biden administration.

0:16.7

A notice posted on the Federal Register says the limit is, quote, justified by humanitarian

0:21.6

concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.

0:25.0

President Trump suspended all refugee admissions in January and started admitting white

0:30.0

South Africans a month later because of claims that they face discrimination at home.

0:34.8

South Africa's government strongly denies that.

0:43.3

The UN Security Council today condemned reports out of Sudan that the paramilitary force, known as the RSF, killed more than 460 people inside the Saudi hospital in Elfasher.

0:49.3

That's the provincial capital of North Darfur that the RSF sees this week.

0:54.6

The group denies carrying out the killings.

0:57.0

At an emergency session at the UN today, officials called for an end to the atrocities.

1:02.5

El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering,

1:07.1

has descended into an even darker hell.

1:10.4

We cannot hear the screams, but as we sit here today, the horror is continuing.

1:18.2

The meantime, RSF troops have been celebrating the takeover of the city.

1:22.9

Two years of civil war in Sudan have created the world's worst humanitarian crisis

1:27.3

with over 14 million

1:29.2

people displaced.

1:31.0

In the Middle East, Red Cross vehicles escorted the remains of two Israeli hostages out of

1:35.9

Gaza today.

1:37.1

It's the latest sign of progress and the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that

1:41.5

began earlier this month.

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