Dec 05 Watch Refugees Take Shelter Underground in Abandoned Syrian Town Independent Television News' John Irvine reports from a town called Sirjilla in the Idlib region of Syria. Bombed out and virtually abandoned by its residents, the town now provides an underground home for hundreds of refugees. Continue watching
Dec 05 Watch Preventing Syrian Chemical Weapons Threat From Becoming Deadly Reality Preventing Syrian Chemical Weapons Threat From Becoming Deadly Reality… Continue watching
Dec 05 The Internet Takeover That Never Was Delegates to the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications gathered for an opening press conference Dec. 3, 2012. Photo by the International Telecommunications Union. This week and next, representatives from the world's 193 nations are gathered in Dubai… Continue reading
Dec 05 Watch World Watches for Signs of Syria Moving Toward Use of Chemical Weapons As the Syrian civil war moves closer to government-controlled Damascus, fears among the international community have increased that President Assad may resort to chemical warfare. The Syrians' stockpiles are known to be the largest in the world, mostly made up… Continue watching
Dec 05 Watch News Wrap: Typhoon Hits Southern Philippines, Killing Nearly 300 In other news Wednesday, Typhoon Bopha battered much of the Southern Philippines, causing devastating floods, landslides, and many Filipinos without power or shelter. Disaster relief officials reported nearly 300 people dead, with hundreds more still missing. Continue watching
Dec 04 Watch Long After Earthquake, Haiti Still Feels Devastating Effects of Cholera Epidemic Long After Earthquake, Haiti Still Feels Devastating Effects of Cholera Epidemic… Continue watching
Dec 04 Watch Dispirited Egyptian Oppositions Gain Momentum With Palace Protests Dispirited Egyptian Oppositions Gain Momentum With Palace Protests… Continue watching
Dec 04 Watch News Wrap: U.S. Denies Iranian Claim of Seizing American Surveillance Drone News Wrap: U.S. Denies Iranian Claim of Seizing American Surveillance Drone… Continue watching
Dec 04 Watch New Indications Regime Ally Russia May Change Position on Syrian Conflict Reports indicate that Russia, once allied to the Syrian government, may be shifting toward persuading President Assad to step down. Judy Woodruff talks to Dimitri Simes of the Center for the National Interest and U.S. Institute of Peace's Steven Heydemann… Continue watching
Dec 04 Watch Fearing Syria's Chemical Weapons, NATO Sends Anti-Missile Systems to Turkey In Brussels, NATO members approved Turkey's request for anti-missile systems to defend against Syrian shelling and rocket fire landing on the Turkish side of the countries' shared border. Meanwhile, NATO repeated U.S. concerns over a rise in the Syrian government's… Continue watching