Nov 22 Watch PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Nov. 22, 2014 By News Desk On this edition for Saturday, Nov. 22, President Obama clears the way for American troops to fight in Afghanistan beyond the end of 2014. Later, a Republican-led congressional committee says the Obama administration was not guilty of wrongdoing in Benghazi. Continue watching
Nov 22 Obama quietly broadens U.S. mission in Afghanistan By Julie Pace, Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press President Barack Obama has quietly approved guidelines in recent weeks to allow the Pentagon to target Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, broadening previous plans that had limited the military to counterterrorism missions against al-Qaida after this year, U.S. officials said late… Continue reading
Nov 21 Watch Slim chances for a full Iran nuclear deal by the deadline? By PBS News Hour With the deadline for a deal on Tehran's nuclear program just days away, talks are on between U.S and Iranian negotiators in Vienna. How likely is it that they can bridge the gap between their demands by Monday? Hari Sreenivasan… Continue watching
Nov 21 Watch Syrian cleric who led funeral prayers for Peter Kassig speaks out against Islamic State, Assad By PBS News Hour Sheikh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi, a prominent Syrian Sunni cleric and vocal critic of the Islamic State, led prayers at the funeral of American beheading victim Peter Kassig. Chief foreign correspondent Margaret Warner interviews al-Yaqoubi, exiled from his country, about atrocities committed… Continue watching
Nov 20 Watch PBS NewsHour full episode Nov. 20, 2014 By PBS News Hour Thursday on the NewsHour, President Obama announces an executive action to halt deportation for some undocumented immigrants. Also: Congress grills airbag company Takata, the U.N. sounds the alarm on world’s refugee ‘mega-crisis’, Uber comes under fire for cut-throat business tactics,… Continue watching
Nov 20 Watch 7:34 U.S. veteran leads clean-up of Vietnam War’s lethal remnants By PBS NewsHour There are still ongoing lethal consequences of the Vietnam War that ended in 1975. Undetonated "bomblets," dropped by the U.S. military during the conflict, are killing and maiming people who discover them by accident. To help close a painful chapter… Continue watching
Nov 20 Watch Faced with ‘mega-crisis,’ UN warns of refugee suffering and security threats By PBS News Hour For the first time since World War II, there are more than 51 million people worldwide who are refugees or displaced; more than a quarter have been driven from their homes by the conflicts in Syria and Iraq. Chief foreign… Continue watching
Nov 20 Watch Woman blinded in one eye by airbag accident testifies at Takata hearing By PBS News Hour Exploding airbags manufactured by the Japanese company Takata were the focus of a Senate committee hearing. One in about 8 million cars in the U.S. have been recalled for the problem, which occurs when the inflators fire too much force,… Continue watching
Nov 20 Watch News Wrap: Last month was hottest October on record By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, the world experienced its hottest month of October since recording began -- the fifth month this year to set new highs. Also, as State Secretary John Kerry arrives in Vienna for a new round of… Continue watching
Nov 20 25 percent of people worldwide still get fecally contaminated water By Laura Santhanam Out of the world's population of 7.3 billion people, about one-quarter of them drink water from sources polluted with fecal matter, and one billion people practice open defacation. That number is especially high in rural parts of the world, where… Continue reading