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PBS News Special Report: The President Addresses the Nation

Special coverage begins at 4:00 p.m. President Biden's address will livestream at 6:00 p.m. 

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver a rare Oval Office address Thursday night as he makes his case for providing billions of dollars in military assistance to Israel and Ukraine, deepening American involvement in two very different, unpredictable and bloody foreign conflicts.

The event is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. MDT. Watch in the player above.

The speech will be an opportunity for Biden to argue that the United States has an obligation to help in both places, and a chance for him to publicly lobby lawmakers for the money to do so.

The funding request, expected to be formally unveiled on Friday, is likely to be around $100 billion over the next year, according to people directly familiar with the proposal who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. The total figure includes some money for Taiwan’s defense and for managing the flow of migrants at the southern border with Mexico.

Biden hopes that combining all of these issues into one piece of legislation will create the necessary political coalition for congressional approval. His speech comes the day after his high-stakes trip to Israel, where he showed solidarity with the country in its battle against Hamas and pushed for more humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

PBS NewsHour's full evening streaming coverage begins at 4:00 p.m. MDT, followed by special coverage at 5:00 p.m. MDT. Biden's address will begin at 6 p.m. MDT, and will be followed by reporting and analysis from the PBS NewsHour's Lisa Desjardins, Nick Schifrin and Laura Barrón-López. Watch in the video player above.
 

PBS NewsHour: War erupts as Israel retaliates after surprise Hamas attack

The following clip aired on Tuesday, October 10.

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War in the Holy Land: A PBS News Special Report

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Co-anchored by PBS NewsHour‘s Amna Nawaz from Israel and Geoff Bennett from our nation’s capital, the one-hour primetime special will wrap the historic, devastating week of violence in Israel and Gaza with reports from the region, interviews and analysis on the path forward for the Middle East and rest of the world.

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Amanpour and Company

The following episode aired on Tuesday, October 10.

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak on the war with Hamas. Abbey Onn, an American Israeli, reports that five members of her family were kidnapped. Gaza doctor Khamis Elessi condemns the death of civilians on both sides. Imran Ahmed on how misinformation about the war is being amplified by social media. John Kirby on Israel's right to defend itself -- and what role the U.S. is playing.

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1913: Seeds of Conflict

Explore an overlooked moment in pre-WWI Palestine, when people’s identities overlap. Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities intermingle freely, yet few can contemplate the conflict that would engulf their region for the next century. The film opens with an Israeli film archivist sharing formerly lost footage from 1913, showing Jewish life in Palestine.

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