World Aug 29 U.S. faces changing alliances and rifts in Middle East as it seeks to form coalition Relationships in the Middle East have changed drastically since the U.S. occupation in Iraq. Now, as Secretary of State John Kerry attempts to bridge gaps between potential allies against the Islamic State, new tensions have arisen. Jeffrey Brown speaks with…
World Aug 29 Kerry tasked with unifying Mideast allies against Islamic State Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to the Mideast to work on building a coalition of allies to oppose the Islamic State group. But the regional conflicts that cross nations and factions are likely to complicate the effort. Hari…
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.