Aug 30 Watch PBS NewsHour full episode Aug. 30, 2014 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Aug. 30, a promising new treatment for heart failure. The European Union weighs additional sanctions against Russia for its actions in Ukraine. And, a look at how the Islamic State is using social media to… Continue watching
Aug 30 Watch Sanctions 'only pressure point the West has' in Ukraine-Russia crisis By PBS News Hour For more perspective about what options the United States and its Western allies have to deal with the Russian military intervention in Ukraine, Nicholas Burns joins Hari Sreenivasan via Skype from Massachusetts. Burns is a former Under Secretary of State… Continue watching
Aug 30 Watch Ukraine military facing 'overwhelming odds' as incursions continue By PBS News Hour For the latest on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, Alan Cullison of the Wall Street Journal joins Hari Sreenivasan via Skype from Kiev. Continue watching
Aug 30 Watch The duality and mission of ISIS on social media By PBS News Hour The Islamic State has entered into the global consciousness for multiple reasons. Partly for the savagery it is willing to commit and also because of the savvy the group displays in spreading its message. For more analysis, Hari Sreenivasan speaks… Continue watching
Aug 30 On Day of the Disappeared, world remembers those who've gone missing By Carey Reed There are millions of reported cases of missing persons from armed conflict and human rights abuses, according to the International Commission on Missing Persons. Every year, thousands of people go missing due to disasters, human trafficking, organized crime and other… Continue reading
Aug 29 Watch Shields and Brooks on Islamic State as 'cancer,' Crist's campaign By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the week’s top news, including the threat of the Islamic State, the struggle to unify allies in the Mideast, the prospects of immigration reform… Continue watching
Aug 29 Watch Oxfam: Syrian neighbors can't absorb growing refugee crisis alone By PBS News Hour Over 3 million Syrians have fled the country as refugees since the conflict began in March 2011, going to Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq. And, according to aid workers, it’s getting worse. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Paul O’Brien of Oxfam… Continue watching
Aug 29 Watch 8:37 U.S. faces changing alliances and rifts in Middle East as it seeks to form coalition By PBS News Hour Relationships in the Middle East have changed drastically since the U.S. occupation in Iraq. Now, as Secretary of State John Kerry attempts to bridge gaps between potential allies against the Islamic State, new tensions have arisen. Jeffrey Brown speaks with… Continue watching
Aug 29 Watch Kerry tasked with unifying Mideast allies against Islamic State By PBS News Hour Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to the Mideast to work on building a coalition of allies to oppose the Islamic State group. But the regional conflicts that cross nations and factions are likely to complicate the effort. Hari… Continue watching
Aug 29 Watch Ebola outbreak started with funeral in Guinea, report finds By PBS News Hour The Ebola virus has now reached a fifth country. Officials announced a Guinean student in Senegal was confirmed to have the disease. Meanwhile, a new report traces the deadly outbreak to a funeral in Guinea near the Sierra Leone border. Continue watching