World Nov 02 How the Islamic State group justifies brutality with an apocalyptic vision The Islamic State militant group is taking advantage of chaos and upheaval in the Middle East to recruit fighters by prophesying the end of days, says William McCants, an early Islam historian. McCants joins chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner…
World Nov 02 Do Turkey’s election results signal stability or steps toward autocratic rule? After five months of political instability and uncertainty, Turkey is again under firm control of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party, which regained its majority in a national election Sunday. Supporters say it’s a return to stability, but opponents worry…
World Nov 02 What we know so far about the Metrojet mystery What downed a Russian airliner and killed 224 people on its path from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg? The cause remains far from clear. Gwen Ifill speaks to Alan Diehl, a former National Transportation Safety Board investigator and author of…
Politics Nov 02 Why different GOP candidates have different debate demands The GOP presidential candidates are looking for changes to the primary race debates, but can the campaigns agree on tweaks? Gwen Ifill sits down with Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report and Tamara Keith of NPR to discuss what’s…
World Nov 02 Conflicting claims fuel confusion over Metrojet disaster cause Russian and Egyptian investigators are combing through the mangled wreckage of a Metrojet airliner that broke up over the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, killing everyone on board. While a senior official with the airline dismissed mechanical failure as a cause,…
Nation Nov 02 Supreme Court weighs racial discrimination in jury selection Timothy Foster was tried, convicted and sentenced to death for murdering an elderly woman during a burglary in 1986. But did prosecutors discriminate against African-Americans in jury selection? Special correspondent Tim O’Brien offers background on the case going to the…
World Nov 02 News Wrap: 218,000 migrants reached Europe by sea last month, says UN In our news wrap Monday, the number of people who crossed to Europe by sea in October was roughly equal to the total for all of 2014. Also, communities in Colorado and North Carolina suffered deadly shootings over the weekend.
Episode Nov 01 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Nov. 1, 2015 On this edition for Sunday, November 1, investigators search for answers on what brought down a Russian passenger plane in Egypt, Turkey's ruling party faces critical elections, and in our signature segment, we explore the situation in Greece, a main…
World Nov 01 How was Turkey’s ruling party able to pull ahead in the elections? Turkey's President Erdogan and his AK Party appear to have gotten the majority they needed to regain control of parliament. NewsHour special correspondent Malcolm Brabant joins Hari Sreenivasan via Skype from Turkey with more on Sunday's elections.
World Nov 01 Cash-strapped Greece struggles against overwhelming tide of refugees As the E.U. debates what to do with a steady flow of migrants and war refugees, Greece remains Ground Zero for refugee arrivals, and fears are growing that resistance to migrants in central and northern Europe will lead to refugees…