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🗓️ 19 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on PBS News Weekend, the strains on the weak-old ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, as Israel says it launched strikes inside Gaza in response to Hamas attacks on its troops. |
| 0:18.0 | Then how the Department of Education is spurring dramatic change in this country's |
| 0:22.6 | public schools and a rare fleeting burst of color in one of the unlikelyest places on Earth. |
| 0:29.6 | The Atacama Desert is the driest in the world and also one of the territories with the highest solar radiation |
| 0:35.6 | and the fact that a plant can grow in these conditions is quite remarkable. |
| 0:39.3 | Good evening. I'm John Yang. |
| 0:53.3 | Tonight there are major strains on the fragile sea spire between Hamas and Israel, which has only been in place for just a little more than a week. |
| 1:01.5 | Israel said it carried out a series of strikes across Gaza in response to Hamas attacks on troops near Rafah on the border with Egypt. |
| 1:08.9 | In addition, Israel says it's cutting off aid |
| 1:11.9 | shipments into Gaza until further notice. One of the Israeli targets was a seaside coffee shop |
| 1:17.7 | at Diyarbala. In all Gaza health officials say dozens of Palestinians were killed. In Israel, |
| 1:23.9 | it's been a bittersweet day. Celebrations as more freed hostages were returned to their homes and their families. |
| 1:30.3 | And mourning as Uriel Borough was laid to rest. |
| 1:33.4 | He was killed in the October 7th attacks and his body kept in Gaza until now. |
| 1:38.4 | Meanwhile, the remains of two more hostages who died in captivity were returned, |
| 1:42.6 | so they may be given a proper burial. |
| 1:45.5 | Special correspondent Leila Malana Allen is in Tel Aviv tonight. |
| 1:48.9 | Layla, it seems like this ceasefire is running to a lot of problems rather rapidly this weekend. |
| 1:53.7 | What's the latest? |
| 1:55.4 | That's right, John. |
| 1:56.2 | And actually, there were problems right from the very beginning on Monday. |
| 1:59.9 | Just the 20 living hostages were |
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