Health Aug 29 Ebola outbreak started with funeral in Guinea, report finds The Ebola virus has now reached a fifth country. Officials announced a Guinean student in Senegal was confirmed to have the disease. Meanwhile, a new report traces the deadly outbreak to a funeral in Guinea near the Sierra Leone border.
World Aug 29 News Wrap: Separatists in Ukraine seize port town Novoazovsk In our news wrap Friday, rebels in Ukraine consolidated control at the border crossing between Russia and the Ukrainian port town of Novoazovsk. Russia’s foreign minister rejected NATO’s claim that satellite images show Russia has sent 1,000 soldiers and heavy…
Episode Aug 28 PBS NewsHour full episode Aug. 28, 2014 Thursday on the NewsHour, Ukraine accuses Russia of making a military advance across the border. Also: Speeding up human trials of a new Ebola vaccine, providing for unaccompanied child migrants, reinventing Chicago’s community colleges and the creative process behind designing…
Arts Aug 28 How a book designer plucks a vision from an author’s pages If you judge a book by its cover, you might want to know what goes into its design. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Peter Mendelsund, author of “What We See When We Read” and “Cover,” about the process of communicating an…
Nation Aug 28 On the front lines of care for undocumented children who cross the border The U.S. Border Patrol has apprehended nearly 63,000 unaccompanied minors at the southwest border in 2014. After relocating to different cities across the country, these children require health care and education. Judy Woodruff visits Mary’s Center, a D.C.-based organization that…
World Aug 28 What’s driving Russia to raise the stakes in Ukraine? As Kiev accuses Russia of an outright invasion, Hari Sreenivasan gets a closer look at rising tensions on the ground from The New York Times’s Andrew Kramer, reporting from Donetsk. Then Jeffrey Brown talks to Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie…
Health Aug 28 Ebola’s spread hastens preparations for vaccine testing An Ebola vaccine may be ready for human testing as early as next week. Though the vaccine is in its first stage of testing with humans, it showed favorable results in an infected monkey. Gwen Ifill learns more from Dr.
World Aug 28 Ukraine accuses Russian forces of invasion Ukraine claims Russian forces are on Ukrainian soil, and are helping rebels open a new front in the southeast. Kiev confirmed the rebels have captured the town of Novoazovsk, leaving the port city of Mariupol vulnerable to attack. At the…
World Aug 28 News Wrap: Islamic State executes captured Syrian fighters In our news wrap Thursday, Islamic State militants reportedly executed more that 150 Syrian soldiers taken during recent fighting. Meanwhile, President Obama tamped down expectations for military action in Syria, saying the U.S. priority is to fight Islamic State in…