Aug 18 Watch For Pakistani Flood Victims, Is Worst Yet to Come? As the need for aid in Pakistan worsens, new questions are being raised on whether the government can handle a crisis of this magnitude. Gwen Ifill talks to Shuja Nawaz, director of the Southeast Asia Center at the Atlantic Council,… Continue watching
Aug 18 Watch Pakistan 'Can't Cope Alone' With Massive Flooding The Pakistan government is faced with overwhelming troubles due to the widespread floods, including disease, starvation and death. Some question whether it is able of dealing with this crisis. Gwen Ifill speaks with special correspondent Saima Mohsin in Karachi about… Continue watching
Aug 17 Watch News Wrap: 3 U.S. Troops Killed in Afghanistan Three more U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan, bringing the month's death toll to 15. In Pakistan, desperation for aid grew as relief trucks were mobbed by flood victims. Continue watching
Aug 17 Photos: Violence weighs on Iraqis after suicide bombing By Larisa Epatko BAGHDAD, Iraq | Tuesday's suicide bombing at the army headquarters in Baghdad was one of the deadliest attacks in Baghdad in months, killing more than 50 people, and comes as the U.S. military is preparing to turn over full control… Continue reading
Aug 17 Security in Baghdad a Deadly Serious Business By Margaret Warner BAGHDAD, Iraq | The Royal Jordanian flight from Amman no longer has to make a missile-avoiding corkscrew landing on the runway of Baghdad International Airport. And though our security detail had us don 10-pound body armor jackets for the ride… Continue reading
Aug 17 CIA Tapes Found Beneath Desk Show Questioning of 9/11 Plotter The CIA has tapes of Yemeni national Ramzi Binalshibh, one of the 9/11 plotters being held in Guantanamo, being interrogated in a secret Moroccan prison in 2002, The Associated Press has reported. The tapes were discovered by a… Continue reading
Aug 17 Tuesday: Bomber Kills 61 in Iraq; Aid Slow to Reach Pakistanis By Tom LeGro A man receives treatment at a Baghdad hospital after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded army recruitment center in the Iraqi capital. Photo by Khalil al-Murshidi/AFP/Getty Images. A suicide bomber killed 61 people Tuesday at an… Continue reading
Aug 17 Watch 2 Bombings in Iraq Kill, Injure Scores as Security Concerns Persist Baghdad suffered one of its worst attacks in months Tuesday as a man blew himself up in a crowd of 1,000 army recruits. Reporting from Baghdad, Margaret Warner speaks with Gwen Ifill. Continue watching
Aug 16 Watch In Pakistan, Aid Groups Struggle to Help Flood Victims Disease is beginning to spread around refugee camps in flooded Pakistan as rain continues to pour. Jeffrey Brown talks to Michael Young of the International Rescue Committee on the risk of waterborne illness and what measures are being taken to… Continue watching
Aug 16 Watch Flood Victims in Pakistan Protest for Aid Pakistani flood victims protested along a main highway in the southern part of the country for more aid as disease began to spread among refugees in makeshift camps. Special correspondent Saima Moshin reports from Pakistan. Continue watching