Jan 06 Watch Pakistan Still Grappling with Flooding Fallout Months After Deluge Five months after floodwaters washed away homes and villages in Pakistan, some parts of the country are still underwater. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the slow process of recovery from Sindh Province. Continue watching
Jan 06 Photographer Offers a Portrait of Myanmar’s ‘First Lady of Freedom’ Aung San Suu Kyi; photo by Platon for Time Over the last two decades, many of the world's famous and powerful have found themselves in front of Platon's camera. The renowned portrait photographer dropped his last name early… Continue reading
Jan 06 Video Dispatch: Battling Cholera in Rural Haiti By Jeffrey Brown Jeffrey Brown is in Haiti this week reporting on reconstruction efforts after last year's earthquake. He's also following up on the country's ongoing cholera outbreak, which has killed more than 3,300 Haitians. He filed this dispatch on the… Continue reading
Jan 05 Watch Assassination, Political Turbulence Compound Pakistan’s Woes As Pakistan mourns the killing of a provincial governor and its governing coalition threatens to splinter, Afghanistan's neighbor faces a fresh set of political worries. Gwen Ifill talks to Moeed Yusuf of the U.S. Institute of Peace and Robert Grenier,… Continue watching
Jan 05 Watch Turmoil in Pakistan After Key Governor’s Assassination Gwen Ifill examines political turmoil in Pakistan after the assassination of Salmaan Taseer, the governor of Pakistan's Punjab Province, who was shot by one of his bodyguards who said he did it because Taseer criticized the country's blasphemy law. Continue watching
Jan 05 Korea Dispatch: In South Korea, Business Trumps Threat of Conflict By Margaret Warner One of the many camera counters at I-Park mall in Seoul. Photo by Larisa Epatko SEOUL, South Korea | In search of a memory card for our camera, we stumbled into the I-Park mall, a dazzling cornucopia of electronic… Continue reading
Jan 05 Four Months Later, Pakistan Still Reeling From Floods By Fred de Sam Lazaro Pakistani children in flooded town of Khairpur Nathanshah (Photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images) It is hard not to sympathize just a bit with Pakistani officials who, amid widespread accusations of a feeble, uncoordinated response to last summer's floods, argue… Continue reading
Jan 04 Watch In Ivory Coast, Steps Toward Mediation Not Quelling Fears of Violence Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News reports on the escalating political tensions in the West African nation of Ivory Coast as incumbent Laurent Gbagbo -- who controls the country's armed forces -- brushes off international pressure to step down after… Continue watching
Jan 04 NewsHour Travels to South Korea Amid Military Tensions By Larisa Epatko With Korean peninsula tensions at an all-time high, senior correspondent Margaret Warner and a PBS NewsHour team head to South Korea this month to report on military and social issues. Continue reading
Jan 04 Pakistani Governor Assassinated, U.S. Offers Aid to Flood-plagued Australia Pakistani policemen cordon off the site of a fatal attack on Salman Taseer, the governor of Pakistan's Punjab state, by his bodyguard in Islamabad on Jan. 4, 2011. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images) The governor of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous state,… Continue reading