Nov 19 Watch 5:48 News Wrap: Four EU countries to turn away economic migrants By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, Serbia, Macedonia, Croatia and Slovenia announced they will turn back migrants fleeing their countries for economic reasons, accepting only war refugees to enter their territories. Also, violence between Israelis and Palestinians claimed five more lives,… Continue watching
Nov 19 Watch 8:00 Confirming death, France laments lack of intelligence sharing over Paris suspect's movements By PBS News Hour The so-called mastermind of the Paris attacks was killed in a battle with police in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on Wednesday, confirmed authorities. While the French Assembly voted to extend a national state of emergency for three months, Belgian… Continue watching
Nov 19 4 innovative toilet designs to talk about on World Toilet Day By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins In honor of World Toilet Day, we have compiled a list of a few innovative toilet designs that show promise in helping to solve sanitation and ecological problems. Continue reading
Nov 19 Podcast: The women of the Islamic State By P. J. Tobia Women make up 10 to 15 percent of foreigners that have traveled to the so-called Islamic State. And these women play a critical role in building the state. For this week's Shortwave podcast, P.J. Tobia interviews Audrey Alexander, a researcher… Continue reading
Nov 18 Watch 7:54 Terror attacks bring greater urgency to finding migrant crisis solutions By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 18 Watch 3:04 Why is France a target? Look to its alienated Muslim youth By Vanessa Dennis Friday’s tragedy was just one of a number of terrorist attacks suffered by Paris across the past decade. Former New York Times Paris bureau chief Elaine Sciolino offers her take on why France has been a target. Continue watching
Nov 18 Watch 2:45 Parisians fight terror with a simple act: returning to cafes By PBS News Hour Their country is in a state of emergency, but Parisians are back at their neighborhood cafes, taking solace in normal life and even showing a little defiance toward the attackers who killed so many people. Hari Sreenivasan reports from Paris. Continue watching
Nov 18 Watch Paris terror and the migrant crisis tear at Europe's open borders By PBS News Hour How to deal with hundreds of thousands of migrants, many fleeing from Syria? It's a question that was already tearing at the fabric of Europe before the attacks in Paris, with different countries taking very different stances. But after Friday… Continue watching
Nov 18 Watch 9:16 Mayhem in a Paris suburb as police search for mastermind By PBS News Hour French police made an early morning raid on an apartment in a suburb of Paris to disrupt another conspiracy for an imminent terrorist attack. Seven were arrested and two died, but the target was Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged ringleader of… Continue watching