Summary

Over the weekend, Russian troops arrived in Kazakhstan amid the largest unrest there in 30 years as the president cracks down on protesters; NASA's $10 billion Webb space telescope opened its huge, gold-plated "eye" (see video here ); and a documentary takes us inside an immigration detention facility at the height of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic (see video here ).

Five Facts

Directions: Choose one or more of the stories to record the Five Facts questions as well as the focus and media literacy questions below.

• Who are some of the individuals or groups of people mentioned in the news summary?


• What stories are covered?


• Where do some of the stories take place?


• When did those stories occur?


• Why did the event(s) take place?

*Bonus: How do you think the NewsHour’s producers decided which stories made it into the news summary?

Focus Questions

Throughout history, authoritarian governments have sought to control other lands and people. Why do you think this is the case? Media literacy : If you were just learning about the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R. — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), and why problems continued in that region after its breakup in 1991, where would you start?

For More

Watch this one-minute news summary from Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022, starting at 2m:03s through 3m:30s (skip ads in first two minutes):