Aug 29 Watch Shields and Brooks on Islamic State as ‘cancer,’ Crist’s campaign By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the week’s top news, including the threat of the Islamic State, the struggle to unify allies in the Mideast, the prospects of immigration reform… Continue watching
Aug 28 Watch What’s driving Russia to raise the stakes in Ukraine? By PBS News Hour As Kiev accuses Russia of an outright invasion, Hari Sreenivasan gets a closer look at rising tensions on the ground from The New York Times’s Andrew Kramer, reporting from Donetsk. Then Jeffrey Brown talks to Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie… Continue watching
Aug 28 Watch Ukraine accuses Russian forces of invasion By PBS News Hour Ukraine claims Russian forces are on Ukrainian soil, and are helping rebels open a new front in the southeast. Kiev confirmed the rebels have captured the town of Novoazovsk, leaving the port city of Mariupol vulnerable to attack. At the… Continue watching
Aug 28 Obama condemns Russia for Ukraine violence; rules out U.S. military involvement By Bradley Klapper, Associated Press Ukrainian officials say two Russian military columns have rolled into the southeastern part of Ukraine after missiles were fired at a border post. Continue reading
Aug 26 Watch News Wrap: Fighting in Ukraine intensifies as Putin and Poroshenko meet one-on-one By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 23 Watch What will shape the upcoming meeting between Poroshenko and Putin? By PBS News Hour On Tuesday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet for the first time since June. Steve Sestanovich, a senior fellow from the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., joins Hari Sreenivasan to provide input on… Continue watching
Aug 22 Watch News Wrap: Russian convoy rolls into Ukraine without Kiev’s consent By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 07 Watch Russian food import ban doesn’t shake E.U. resolve on sanctions By PBS News Hour Chief foreign correspondent Margaret Warner talks to Gwen Ifill about the U.S. response to Russia’s new ban against most Western food imports, the E.U.’s growing resolve to stand with the U.S. and the growing potential for Russian troops to invade… Continue watching
Aug 07 Watch Moscow answers U.S., European sanctions with ban on food imports for a year By PBS News Hour Russia imposed a year-long ban on most Western food imports in retaliation for American and European sanctions leveled in response to Russia’s support of rebels in eastern Ukraine. President Obama replied that the Kremlin is hurting its own people. Meanwhile,… Continue watching
Aug 01 Obama phones Putin to talk Ukraine, missiles and sanctions By Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press In an Obama-initiated phone call Friday, the U.S. president also raised concerns that Russia violated a key Cold War era nuclear weapons treaty, the White House said. In a letter this week from Obama to Putin and in an administration… Continue reading