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News Wrap: U.S. boat strike backlash continues as lawmakers weigh in

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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41K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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In our news wrap Sunday, lawmakers shared different interpretations of the contentious second U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean after Hegseth defended the action, Russia bombarded Ukraine with overnight attacks as negotiators seek to the end the war, and a massive fire at a popular nightclub in India killed at least 25 people. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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Good evening. I'm John Yang. The shockwaves from the contentious second strike and an alleged drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean in September are still reverberating some three months later. That second attack came about a half hour after a first strike appeared to have destroyed most of the boat. Today, lawmakers who were shown video of the attacks offered starkly different

0:22.0

interpretations of what they saw. The boat was adrift. It was going where the current was going

0:27.2

to take it. And these two were trying to figure out how to survive. They were not incapacitated.

0:33.4

They were not in the water, surviving only because they had a life jacket or hanging to a plank of wood.

0:39.3

They were sitting on that boat. They were clearly moving around on it.

0:42.3

At a defense forum in California Saturday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the action.

0:49.3

Fully support that strike.

0:51.3

I would have made the same call myself. Those who were involved in 20 years

0:56.0

of conflict, Iraq and Afghanistan or elsewhere know that reattacks and re-strikes of combatants on the

1:01.1

battlefield happen often. Hegseth wouldn't say if the video would be made public, saying the question

1:08.1

is under review. Even as negotiators seek to end the war in Ukraine,

1:13.5

Russia bombarded the country with overnight attacks. At least four people were killed and nearly

1:18.6

a dozen others injured. In Florida, White House Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff and Ukrainian national

1:24.0

security officials were at three days of talks this weekend about President

1:27.7

Trump's peace plan. After the attack, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky called for more air

1:33.6

defense systems, a request he's likely to repeat tomorrow when he meets with European leaders.

1:39.9

A massive fire at a popular nightclub in India has killed at least 25 people, including tourists.

1:46.8

It was in North Goa, a popular area for tourists and nightlife.

1:51.0

Local police say it was touched off when a gas cylinder exploded.

1:54.8

Officials said some of the 100 people on the dance floor rushed into the kitchen and got trapped along with staff.

2:01.5

Authorities said the club violated fire safety regulations and that action would be taking

2:06.0

against club management and officials who allowed it to operate.

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