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9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Frontline: The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador Investigate the Salvadoran president’s deal with Trump to imprison deportees, and what each stood to gain from it. (R-12/10, 8 p.m., WORLD) WORLD PBS News Hour 10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Pearl Harbor—Into the Arizona

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Road Trip Iowa: Great River Road National Scenic Byway—Central (R-12/13, 9 a.m., Iowa PBS) WORLD POV: Between Goodbyes (See 12/8 at 10:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-12/13, 11 a.m., WORLD) 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Nature: Canada: Surviving the Wild North Explore astonishing wildlife and Thousands of prehistoric footprints in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park are explored. (R-12/16, 6 p.m., WORLD) DVS/TV-PG WORLD Frontline: The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador (See 12/9 at 9 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS NOVA: Hunt for the Oldest DNA Explore the quest to recover DNA that may reveal a lost world before the last Ice Age. (R-12/16, 7 p.m., WORLD) DVS/TV-PG discover how life manages to survive in the Wild North of Canada. (R-12/28, 6:49 p.m., WORLD) DVS/TV-PG 8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS NOVA: Ice Age Footprints

11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders: Dark Autumn, Part 2

(See 12/4 at 9:34 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

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THURSDAY 11

5:00 p.m. WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Hour

An expedition to explore inside the USS Arizona reveals the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack.

WORLD DW The Day 10:30 p.m. WORLD BBC News 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders: Dark Autumn, Part 1

(R-12/11, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD POV: An Act of Worship

Dive into a counter-narrative and the collective memory of the past 30 years of Muslim life in America. TV-14

(See 12/4 at 9:34 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Ingredient: Cabbage (R-12/13, 11:30 a.m., Iowa PBS) 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Father Brown: The Scales of Justice Father Brown races to save Bunty from the hangman’s noose when she is tried for murder. TV-PG 7:30 p.m. WORLD Doc World: The Accused: Damned or Devoted?

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WEDNESDAY 10

5:00 p.m. WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Hour WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD Will to Preach

WORLD PBS News Hour 10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS NOVA: London Super Tunnel

(R-12/10, 9 p.m., WORLD)

Join engineers as they build a massive railway deep beneath the streets of London—the Elizabeth Line. DVS/TV-PG

This film follows the rise of powerful cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who has one mission: to preserve Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. (R-12/14, 8 a.m., WORLD)

This unprecedented look at a pastor moving from scripture to sermon highlights the art of preaching. (R-12/13, 12:30 p.m., WORLD)

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