Jan 07 U.S. Ambassador to Haiti: The Emergency Is Not Over Yet By Jeffrey Brown The emergency response phase in Haiti is not yet over, but the process of reconstruction is moving forward, Ambassador Kenneth Merten told Jeffrey Brown this week in Port-au-Prince. "We are at the one year point now, and things have been… Continue reading
Jan 07 Q&A: South Sudan’s Independence Vote By Larisa Epatko Residents of southern Sudan vote Sunday in a long-awaited referendum on whether to split from the north and form their own country. Analysts expect the oil-rich south will choose independence in the Jan. 9 referendum, which lasts a week, possibly… Continue reading
Jan 07 Unemployment Rate Falls to 9.4%, U.S. Warns People Named in Cable Leaks The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Friday that unemployment had fallen by 0.4 percent to 9.4 percent in December. Though employers added 103,000 jobs, the figures are lower than forecasted, indicating a a slower-than-expected recovery. Throughout 2010,… Continue reading
Jan 07 Watch In Haiti, Hardships Plentiful as Earthquake Anniversary Nears Jeffrey Brown begins a week of reports from Haiti, one year after a major earthquake devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince, and other parts of the country. Many residents remain in tent camps, where they are still struggling to rebuild their lives… Continue watching
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