Oct 12 Watch Sizing up the scale of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa By PBS News Hour In West Africa, more than four thousand people have died of Ebola. Drew Hinshaw of the Wall Street Journal joins Hari Sreenivasan to report on the status of the global response to the health crisis facing the countries in Africa… Continue watching
Oct 12 Watch PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Oct. 12, 2014 By PBS News Hour On this edition of PBS NewsHour Weekend for Sunday, Oct. 12, a Dallas nurse is diagnosed with Ebola after treating the Liberian man who died of the disease, Turkey's on the fence about getting involved in the war against ISIS,… Continue watching
Oct 12 Watch Why is Turkey hesitant to enter the fight against ISIS? By PBS News Hour Geoff Dyer of the Financial Times joins Hari Sreenivasan from Washington to talk about Turkey’s reluctance to fight ISIS, as the NATO partner pushes for a broader fight that includes combating Assad’s regime. Continue watching
Oct 12 Watch From stutterer to star: How James Earl Jones found his voice By PBS News Hour James Earl Jones, the 83-year-old acting legend who recently made his return to Broadway in the play "You Can't Take It With You," discusses the highs and lows of his six-decade-long career, from his modest beginnings suffering from a stutter… Continue watching
Oct 11 UN highlights gender inequality on International Day of the Girl By Carey Reed World leaders and the United Nations spotlighted the problem of violence against women around the world during the U.N.'s third International Day of the Girl on Saturday. Continue reading
Oct 11 Watch PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Oct. 11, 2014 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Oct. 11, new screening procedures at major American airports as officials try to contain Ebola. The nation's top infectious disease expert joins us for more. Later, what's behind the stock market's sudden turmoil? And, from… Continue watching
Oct 11 Watch What’s behind the stock market’s sudden turmoil? By PBS News Hour After a long climb, the stock market suffered its biggest losses this past week in two and a half years. To help us understand the forces behind the sudden drop, Roben Farzad joins Hari Sreenivasan via Skype from Richmond, Virginia. Continue watching
Oct 11 Watch Can airport screenings curb the spread of Ebola? By PBS News Hour Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, joins Hari Sreenivasan from Washington, D.C. to discuss how Ebola airport screenings at point of departure and arrival work in tandem to ensure a low likelihood… Continue watching
Oct 11 Watch Street art inspires redesign of accessibility icon By PBS News Hour The Department of Transportation in New York City is in the middle of updating the accessibility icon, which advocates say better reflects those with disabilities. NewsHour Weekend's Hari Sreenivasan reports. Continue watching
Oct 11 Watch ‘Guts to reach for that unknown’: Meet the last of a generation of Antarctic scientists By PBS News Hour Continue watching