Jun 24 Watch 52:55 Tuesday, June 24, 2014 By PBS News Hour Tuesday on the NewsHour, Secretary of State John Kerry urges Iraq’s Kurds to help prevent the country from splintering and to support political reform. Also: Congress scrutinizes the IRS for emails gone missing, how the “freedom summer” of ’64 changed… Continue watching
Jun 24 Watch Kurdish leader: ‘We are facing a new reality and a new Iraq’ By PBS News Hour Secretary of State John Kerry made an emergency visit to the Kurdish region of Iraq to meet with President Massoud Barzani, urging him to support political reform in Baghdad in the face of the military onslaught by ISIL. But Barzani… Continue watching
Jun 24 Watch How ISIL capitalized on vulnerabilities of Iraq’s security forces By PBS News Hour The United Nations estimates that, at minimum, 1,000 people have been killed in two weeks of fighting in Iraq. Judy Woodruff talks to two former U.S. Army officers who served in Iraq -- retired Lt. Col. Douglas Ollivant and retired… Continue watching
Jun 24 Watch News Wrap: Homeland Security sends agents to address child migrant crisis By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, 115 Homeland Security agents were deployed to the Rio Grande Valley to handle a surge of thousands of undocumented children at the U.S. border. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said another 150 agents may… Continue watching
Jun 24 60 girls and women abducted in Nigeria, reports claim By News Desk A local official confirmed to the Associated Press that 60 girls and women and 31 boys were abducted by extremists in weekend attacks on villages in northeast Nigeria. The news agency reports that Nigerian security forces have denied the abductions… Continue reading
Jun 24 Kurdish leader cites ‘new reality’ in Iraq By Lara Jakes, Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The president of Iraq's ethnic Kurdish region declared Tuesday that "we are facing a new reality and a new Iraq" as the country considers new leadership for its Shiite-led government as an immediate step to curb… Continue reading
Jun 23 Watch 51:39 Monday, June 23, 2014 By PBS News Hour Monday on the NewsHour, Secretary of State John Kerry visits Iraq to urge political reform. Also: Three Al Jazeera journalists are convicted on terrorism charges in Egypt, previewing Tuesday’s slate of congressional primaries, teaching young adults the skills to get… Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch Crackdown on Al Jazeera journalists helps government control Egypt’s narrative By Ariel Min The controversial convictions of three Al Jazeera journalists in Egypt are among the most high-profile cases in a general crackdown on dissent. Jeffrey Brown talks to Michele Dunne of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Michael Hanna of the… Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch Egypt’s conviction of Al Jazeera journalists sparks international outcry By PBS News Hour The Egyptian court where Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed were convicted on terrorism charges broke into pandemonium when their jail sentences were announced. Jeffrey Brown reports the trial was widely dismissed by Western officials… Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch Can U.S. break away from World Cup ‘group of death’? By PBS News Hour U.S. soccer fans watched Portugal extinguish an American victory with less than a minute left. The match ended in a tie of 2-2, but a win by the U.S. would have carried the team to the next round of the… Continue watching