Feb 01 Watch 25:13 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Feb. 1, 2015 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, Feb. 1, in the aftermath of the beheading of a Japanese hostage, Jordan says it's still ready for a prisoner exchange with ISIS. Later, a new Pew poll shows the huge gap between what scientists… Continue watching
Feb 01 Thousands take part in pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong By Daniel Costa-Roberts Pro-democracy protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday in their first major march since police crackdowns and ebbing public support halted demonstrations in December. Continue reading
Feb 01 Egypt releases jailed Al Jazeera journalist By Elisabeth Ponsot Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste, who had been imprisoned for 400 days on terrorism charges in Egypt, was released from a Cairo jail Sunday and deported back to his native Australia. Continue reading
Jan 31 Watch 25:20 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Jan. 31, 2015 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Jan. 31, ISIS claims to behead another Japanese captive. Later, what's behind China's crackdown on Internet access? And, in our signature segment, a look at the American city that produces enough renewable energy to cover all… Continue watching
Jan 31 Watch 5:34 ISIS videos often signal hostages’ fate may be sealed By PBS News Hour After days of negotiations over a prisoner exchange apparently broke down, the Islamic State on Saturday executed a Japanese journalist it had been holding in Syria. Douglas Ollivant, a senior national security fellow at the New America Foundation and a… Continue watching
Jan 31 Watch 3:42 How extensive is the official crackdown on Chinese internet access? By PBS News Hour Jonathan Landreth, managing editor of ChinaFile, the Asia Society's online magazine, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the Chinese crackdown on the country's access to the Internet this week. Continue watching
Jan 31 Online video purports to show beheading of Japanese hostage By Elisabeth Ponsot Japan's Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Sunday the video posted online showing the apparent execution of hostage Kenji Goto by ISIS militants appears authentic. Continue reading
Jan 30 Watch 5:15 How civilians caught in the Ukraine conflict are coping By PBS News Hour Fierce fighting has resumed between pro-Russian rebels and government forces in Eastern Ukraine, killing civilians on both sides. Meanwhile, scheduled peace talks were abandoned when rebel delegates refused to participate. Judy Woodruff talks to Shaun Walker of The Guardian about… Continue watching
Jan 30 South Africa frees apartheid-era death squad leader ‘Prime Evil’ By Jasmine Wright Eugene de Kock, a former South African police colonel responsible for the torture and deaths of dozens during South Africa's apartheid government, will become a free man after South Africa’s government granted him parole Friday, according to The Associated… Continue reading
Jan 30 Britain pays tribute to Winston Churchill 50 years after his state funeral By Lorna Baldwin When Winston Churchill died 50 years ago at the age of 90, a million people lined the streets of London to watch the funeral cortege pass by. The man who led Britain to victory against Nazi Germany was honored with… Continue reading