World Mar 31 Cape Town drought is a global harbinger, says NASA scientist Factors like population growth, income inequality and climate change have exacerbated water related issues around the world. Abuse and depletion of the natural resource has led to instability and violence in places like Iran, Syria and Bangladesh as well as…
World Mar 31 Funerals held for Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza In an area near the Israel-Gaza border where violence erupted a day earlier, large crowds attended funerals Saturday for the 16 Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers. Thousands of Palestinians had marched to the border at the start of a demonstration…
Episode Mar 30 PBS NewsHour full episode March 30, 2018 Friday on the NewsHour, the latest on Russia's diplomatic retaliation against the West and the fallout from the deadly mall fire. Also: The large-scale cyberattack against Atlanta, the government command center that fends off hackers, Shields and Brooks analyze the…
World Mar 30 News Wrap: Syrian roadside bomb kills U.S., UK soldiers In our news wrap Friday, an American soldier and a British soldier were killed in Northern Syria in the military campaign against Islamic State fighters. Also, Palestinian protesters confronted Israeli troops along the Gaza border in the bloodiest day there…
World Mar 30 Feud with the West bolsters Putin's image, as tragic Siberian fire shows limits of his control American diplomats packed up at the U.S. consulate in St. Petersburg on Friday, another escalation in the current diplomatic crisis making Russia-U.S. relations more cloudy and dangerous than any point since the Cold War. But while international tensions may strengthen…
Nation Mar 30 Why ransomware attacks target local governments like Atlanta Nine days ago, a cyberattack brought Atlanta to a virtual standstill. Now the city says it is slowly making progress restoring its computer network. Officials have not said whether they paid a $51,000 ransom to a group known as SamSam,…
Politics Mar 30 Shields and Brooks on Veterans Affairs ouster, census citizenship question Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including the firing of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, questions about EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s Washington living arrangements, the Trump administration’s…
Arts Mar 30 'Exit West' author Mohsin Hamid answers your questions Mohsin Hamid says he has been migrating his whole life, his own experience playing a part of the inspiration for his newest novel. Hamid, author of our March pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club Now Read This, joins…
World Mar 30 A chimp's cuddly plane trip went viral. The pilot wishes it never had to happen In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, a viral video of a rescued chimpanzee's flight to a wildlife sanctuary has spread like wildfire. The NewsHour's Julia Griffin tracks down the video's pilot to ask about his mission to save…
Episode Mar 29 PBS NewsHour full episode March 29, 2018 Thursday on the NewsHour, outgoing VA Secretary David Shulkin discusses what led to his departure and where the department goes from here. Also: Unrest in Sacramento after a controversial police shooting, New Orleans' mayor confronts the South's confederate past, big…