Dec 10 WATCH: UK’s Theresa May postpones Parliament vote on Brexit By Jill Lawless, Danica Kirka, Lorne Cook, Associated Press British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday postponed Parliament's vote on her Brexit divorce deal with the European Union, acknowledging that lawmakers would have rejected it by a "significant margin."… Continue reading
Dec 09 Watch 4:40 U.S., China tension take center stage at UN climate talks On Monday, diplomats from 200 countries will arrive at a United Nations led meeting in Poland to try to figure out how to implement the Paris Agreement on climate adaptations. But as Somini Sengupta reports for The New York Times,… Continue watching
Dec 09 Watch 8:45 Brexit may divert power from these ocean energy advances By Hari Sreenivasan, Sam Weber, Connie Kargbo As Scotland moves ahead with bringing tidal energy from an emerging technology to a commercial reality, Brexit could shake up the ocean power industry. To end a two-part series on advances in this field, Hari Sreenivasan heads to an ocean… Continue watching
Dec 09 I dig through archives to unearth hidden stories from African-American history By Jane Landers, The Conversation The Slave Societies Digital Archive has documented the lives of approximately 6 million free and enslaved Africans, their descendants, and the indigenous, European and Asian people with whom they interacted. Continue reading
Dec 09 China summons US envoy to protest detention of Huawei exec By Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press China summoned the U.S. ambassador to Beijing on Sunday to protest the detention of an executive of Chinese electronics giant Huawei in Canada at Washington’s behest. Continue reading
Dec 08 Watch 25:01 December 8, 2018 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Dec. 8, President Trump announces that his chief of staff, John Kelly, will leave his post by the end of the year, and tension continues in Paris as police crack down on yellow vest protesters. Continue watching
Dec 08 Watch 3:34 Police crack down as ‘yellow vest’ movement unearths French malaise By PBS News Hour Protests continued for a fourth weekend in Paris as a “yellow vest” movement that started as a protest to a new gas tax continued to tap into growing dissatisfaction across the country. Meanwhile, law enforcement is doubling down, having dispatched… Continue watching
Dec 08 Watch 7:43 British police brace for backlash to Brexit vote By Malcolm Brabant As the British Parliament prepares to vote Tuesday on U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to exit from the European Union, police are taking precautions for what could be a violent backlash. To some, the vote is the biggest decision… Continue watching
Dec 08 Watch 6:31 Scotland is betting on tidal energy By Hari Sreenivasan, Sam Weber, Connie Kargbo As Scotland transitions from fossil fuels to renewable energy, it is investing in an unexpected source: tidal currents. Similar to wind turbines, which sit above ground, tidal turbines are one hundred feet below water and use tides instead of wind… Continue watching
Dec 08 Activists gather for climate march in Poland By Frank Jordans, Associated Press Several thousand people gathered Saturday amid a heavy police presence in southern Poland for a “March for Climate” to encourage negotiators at climate talks to set ambitious goals. Continue reading