Mar 17 Watch Order, Resilience Mark Japanese Response to Compound Crises The response to the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crises has been marked by resilience and order among Japanese citizens. Jeffrey Brown talks with the Stimson Center's Yuki Tatsumi about how Japanese culture has factored into the disaster aftermath. Continue watching
Mar 17 Watch News Wrap: Police in Yemen Raid Protesters’ Camps, Injuring 80 In other news Thursday, police in Yemen attacked protesters' camps and injured more than 80. In Bahrain, police arrested six leading activists in the opposition movement. In the U.S., the Senate approved a spending bill that includes $6 billion in… Continue watching
Mar 17 Watch Spent Fuel Pools: Assessing the Threat at Damaged Nuclear Plant American and Japanese officials have offered sharply different assessments of the situation at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. Judy Woodruff weighs the threat of the spend fuel pools with the University of Southern California's Najmedin Meshkati and the Institute… Continue watching
Mar 17 Watch More Uncertainty at Hobbled Japan Nuclear Plant Despite Reassurances Japan Struggles to Bring Reactors Under Control… Continue watching
Mar 17 Gadhafi Warns ‘No Mercy’ Against Rebels in Benghazi; U.N. Security Council OKs No-Fly Zone 6:46 p.m. ET | The United Nations Security Council voted early Thursday evening to OK a no-fly zone over Libya and "all necessary measures" -- code for military action -- to protect Libyans from leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces. Ten of… Continue reading
Mar 17 Get to Know Tepco: Japan’s Biggest Power Company By News Desk As Japan's nuclear crisis continues to unfold, you've probably heard mention of Tokyo Electric Power Company, the energy giant who owns the troubled Fukushima plant. Known as Tepco, the company was founded in 1951 as Japan looked to rebuild its… Continue reading
Mar 17 Cooling Efforts Continue, IAEA Official Says Situation Serious But Stable 5:45 p.m. ET | Engineers at the Fukushima Dai-ich plant have successfully connected a power cable to the facility, providing a way to restore the pumps that operate the reactors' cooling systems. Backup generators had proven insufficient after Friday's… Continue reading
Mar 17 Photographer Reflects on ‘Epic’ Libya Battles, Revolution in the Arab World By Mike Fritz // Photographer John Moore is no stranger to combat. As a member of an Associated Press team in 2005, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of the war in Iraq and he's done extended… Continue reading
Mar 17 View From Tokyo: Japanese Try to Go on With Daily Life ‘as Best They Can’ By Larisa Epatko In Japan, foreign governments are evacuating their citizens from the area of the Fukushima nuclear plant, as the Japanese military works to douse the facility with tons of water to prevent a nuclear reactor meltdown. Continue reading
Mar 17 China Health Minister on Japan Crisis: ‘Uncertainties’ Loom on Radiation Risk The PBS NewsHour has a reporting team in China this week, working on health, economy and other stories for a series you'll see in coming weeks. But given the events in Japan, they are also monitoring the Chinese reaction to… Continue reading