Nation Aug 03 Upwardly mobile: Paraclimbers overcome perceived limitations of disability Last month in Atlanta, 39 competitors took part in the first ever National Paraclimbing Championships sponsored by USA Climbing, the governing body of competitive climbing in the United States. NewsHour Weekend visited with some of the athletes in Brooklyn as…
Episode Aug 02 PBS NewsHour Weekend | Full Episode | Saturday, August 2, 2014 On tonight’s program, new efforts are underway in Egypt to try to end the fighting between Israel and Hamas. Later, what will happen to the thousands of children in this country illegally now that Congress has recessed without funding a…
Nation Aug 02 Senate committee to release declassified report on CIA interrogation The Senate Intelligence Committee will soon release a declassified version of a 6,000-page report examining the CIA's rendition, detention and interrogation program. For more on this Siobhan Gorman of the Wall Street Journal joins Hari Sreenivasan from Washington.
Nation Aug 02 Viewers respond to a ban on commercial fishing in Kiribati Previous signature stories about a ban on commercial fishing by the president of the Pacific island nation of Kiribati and a profile of Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" prompted both positive and negative feedback from viewers around the country.
World Aug 02 'Aggressive assault' in Gaza muddles long-term resolution between Israel and Hamas After a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas broke down after only hours on Friday, it was unclear Saturday if or when a longer resolution might play out -- especially as violence on the ground intensified during one of the most…
Health Aug 02 CDC plans to send 'surge' of staff to Africa as two Ebola-infected Americans return for treatment Two American aid workers infected with Ebola in Liberia will be sent back for care at Emory University hospital in Atlanta -- the first time any Ebola patient has been transferred to the U.S. for treatment. Hari Sreenivasan talks to…
Episode Aug 01 PBS NewsHour | Full Episode | Friday, August 1, 2014 Tonight on the program, we take a look at the failed cease-fire between Israel and Hamas after fighting broke shortly after implementation. Also: two Americans infected with Ebola return to the U.S. for treatment, July's jobs report shows good and…