Sep 06 Watch 54:28 PBS NewsHour full episode Sept. 6, 2016 By PBS News Hour Tuesday on the NewsHour, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine discusses national security and Hillary Clinton’s strategy to win voters’ trust. Also: President Obama pledges to help clear unexploded bombs left in Laos, the Filipino president’s controversial drug crackdown, Fox… Continue watching
Sep 06 Watch 9:07 Decades on, millions of unexploded American bombs left behind still kill and maim in Laos By PBS NewsHour Continue watching
Sep 06 Watch 3:25 Duterte lashes out at critics of drug war killings in the Philippines By PBS News Hour More than 2,000 people have been killed in the Philippines as part of a sweeping drug crackdown whipped up by President Rodrigo Duterte. Both the United States and the United Nations have expressed criticism, and back in his own country,… Continue watching
Sep 06 Watch 5:28 News Wrap: Congress returns from recess to tackle funding, Zika By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, Congress came back from its summer recess with a full plate. It has less than a month to pass a funding bill and is under pressure to deliver a package to fight Florida’s homegrown Zika… Continue watching
Sep 06 Obama vows to work to tighten sanctions on North Korea By Josh Lederman, Associated Press VIENTIANE, Laos — In the wake of another missile launch, President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to work with the United Nations to tighten sanctions against North Korea, but added that the U.S. was still open to dialogue if the government… Continue reading
Sep 05 Watch 5:41 What Israelis and Palestinians really think about the conflict By PBS News Hour Corey Gil-Shuster covers the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a new way. He asks the world what it wants to know from and about Israelis and Palestinians, goes to the streets of Israel and the West Bank to get the answers and… Continue watching
Sep 05 Watch 3:09 News Wrap: U.S.-Russia deal on Syria cease-fire fails By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to reach a deal on a cease-fire in Syria, amid an onslaught of Islamic State attacks. Also, the Taliban carried out twin attacks near the defense ministry… Continue watching
Sep 05 Watch 10:42 Successes and shortfalls from this year's G20 summit By PBS News Hour It was President Obama’s final official visit to China: a G20 summit with other world leaders in Hangzhou. When it was over, they had made some commitments on climate change, but on issues like China’s steel production or Syria, there… Continue watching
Sep 05 Obama pledges U.S. help for Laos to clear 80 million unexploded bombs By Josh Lederman and Kathleen Hennessey, Associated Press Declaring a "moral obligation" to heal the wounds of a secret war, President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged help to clear away the 80 million unexploded bombs the U.S. dropped on Laos a generation ago. Continue reading
Sep 05 Obama in Laos for first U.S. presidential visit By Kathleen Hennessey and Josh Lederman, Associated Press VIENTIANE, Laos — President Barack Obama on Monday became the first sitting U.S. president to step foot in the isolated Southeast Asian nation of Laos, opening a three-day visit meant to rebuild trust and close a dark chapter in the… Continue reading