Feb 16 Watch News Wrap: Israel Says Iran About to Send Warships to Syria In other news Wednesday, Israel warned that Iran is preparing to send two warships to Syria via the Suez Canal. The Egyptian body that oversees the canal denied the claim. The GOP-led House moved ahead with a bill eliminating $61… Continue watching
Feb 15 Watch As Unrest Shakes Middle East, Will Iran's Opposition Movement Gain Traction? As President Obama urged leaders not to use violence on protesters, hard-line Iranian Parliament members called for anti-government demonstration leaders to be executed. Jeffrey Brown discusses whether protests there will lead to reforms with the New America Foundation's Afshin Molavi… Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch News Wrap: Iran Warns Against Rally in Support of Egypt Protests In other news Wednesday, the government of Iran warned organizers of a rally to support Egyptian protesters that their event is a political act that threatens to divide Iran. In northern Iraq, three car bombings killed at least seven people… Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch Suez Labor Strikes Augment Protests as Unrest Continues Across Egypt For the 16th straight day, protesters gathered across Egypt, ignoring a warning from the vice president that tolerance for protests was wearing thin. Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News reports on the continued unrest and the several deaths during the… Continue watching
Feb 04 Watch Shields and Brooks on Obama's Egypt Stance, Debt-Limit Fight Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks discuss the week's political developments, including the most recent unemployment report, the U.S. response to unrest in Egypt and the brewing fight in Washington over government debt. Continue watching
Jan 31 Watch With Egypt, U.S. Juggles Longtime Alliance, Protesters' Calls for Reform More than 1,200 Americans have left Egypt, with more expected to depart in the coming days. As the U.S. government reacts to the uprising facing its longtime Middle Eastern ally, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have called… Continue watching
Jan 31 Watch Massive Demonstrations Planned as Mubarak OKs Talks With Opposition Jonathan Rugman of Independent Television News reports on the crowds of protesters gathered Monday in Cairo and plans for Tuesday demonstrations that organizers hope will bring more than 1 million people into the streets. Then Lindsey Hilsum of ITN reports… Continue watching
Jan 28 Watch Shields and Brooks on Obama 'Recalibrating' Stance on Egypt, State of the Union Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks speak with Jim Lehrer about the week's top developments, including the Obama administration "recalibrating" the U.S. stance on the growing political unrest in Egypt and the president's messages in… Continue watching
Jan 27 Watch As Protests Continue in Egypt, How Should U.S. Respond? Jeffrey Brown talks to Graeme Bannerman of the Middle East Institute and Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch about how the United States should proceed in light of the unrest in Egypt and whether the anti-government sentiment cropping up in… Continue watching
Jan 26 Watch What Impacts Do Egypt's Protests Have Beyond Its Borders? Judy Woodruff looks at what the protests in Egypt and Tunisia mean for the Muslim world and beyond with Tarek Masoud of Harvard University. Continue watching