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PBS News Hour - Full Show

October 25, 2025 – PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Saturday on PBS News Weekend, Trump makes his first trip to Asia of his second term as he seeks a trade deal with Chinese President Xi. China’s government launches the most widespread crackdown on the country’s Christians in years. An experimental treatment offers hope to millions struggling with chronic pain. Plus, we meet a nurse in Uganda who climbs a 1,000-foot ladder to save lives. 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

Tonight on PBS News weekend, President Trump makes his first trip to Asia of his second

0:09.6

term as he seeks a trade deal for Chinese President Xi Jinping.

0:14.2

Inside China, the government launches the most widespread crackdown on the country's Christians

0:19.3

in years, and the experimental treatment

0:22.5

offering hope to the millions of Americans who struggle with chronic pain.

0:27.2

Even today, like, I've had a seven-hour-time migraine all day today.

0:31.0

I still got up.

0:31.7

I still did my errands.

0:33.1

And it's something that people living in chronic pain are just forced to do.

0:49.1

Thank you. And it's something that people living in chronic pain are just forced to do. Good evening. I'm Nick Schifrin. John Yang is away.

0:52.1

Tonight, President Donald Trump is predicting he and Chinese

0:54.9

President Xi Jinping will sign a, quote, comprehensive trade deal during Mr. Trump's first visit to Asia

1:00.5

since returning to the White House. The high-stakes trip comes as the president faces a constellation of

1:06.2

international challenges from the relationship between the world's two largest economies

1:10.1

to trying to end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

1:13.8

On his way to Asia, President Trump made a pit stop in Doha to greet Qatari leaders who helped broker the Gaza ceasefire.

1:20.8

And you have a safe Middle East right now. And you're going to keep it that way for all time.

1:24.9

But what lies ahead is perhaps the single most important meeting of his new term

1:29.8

with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

1:32.3

President Trump says he's looking to make a trade deal to avoid threaten 157 percent

1:37.3

tariffs.

1:38.3

The U.S. wants Beijing to buy more American soybeans.

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