Jan 25 Ray Suarez: Haiti's Injured Make Their Way to Cange By Ray Suarez What constitutes good news in the midst of a tragedy like Haiti's? Today the NewsHour team headed out to Haiti's massive central plateau to see an operation that has stretched its modest resources to fit an oversized disaster. The Partners… Continue reading
Jan 25 Conference Looks to Future of Haiti Reconstruction By Talea Miller Haiti's Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive sought international commitments to aid his country in recovery from this month's devastating earthquake, saying it would take at least 5 to 10 years of reconstruction efforts. "Haiti will need massive support in the medium… Continue reading
Jan 25 Chavez's Controversial Moves to Jumpstart Economy By Hari Sreenivasan In recent weeks President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has devalued the currency, which in turn has spurred a rush on shopping for imported goods because retailers will inevitably raise prices. In response, the government has shut down or taken over… Continue reading
Jan 25 Watch News Wrap: 90 Killed in Ethiopian Airlines Crash In other news, 90 people were killed when an Ethiopian airliner crashed just off the coast of Beirut, and Baghdad was hit with a series of bombings. Continue watching
Jan 25 Watch Delivery of Aid Remains the U.N.'s Toughest Job in Haiti Ray Suarez talks to the United Nations' deputy special envoy to Haiti about the obstacles facing aid workers in Port-au-Prince, where thousands require urgent care. Continue watching
Jan 25 Watch Two Weeks Later, Many Haitians Still Waiting for Aid Kwame Holman updates the situation in Haiti, where aid workers continue to struggle to reach quake survivors in urgent need. Continue watching
Jan 25 Watch Experts Ask: How Strong Is Al-Qaida? The first in a series about the evolving nature of al-Qaida, Margaret Warner speaks with a former CIA staffer about the terror group's influence. Continue watching
Jan 24 Ray Suarez: Scenes of Loss and Resilience in Haiti By Ray Suarez _pap_embed_custom('news01s3976qd89',482,304,""); Ray Suarez and a team from the NewsHour are in Port-au-Prince, reporting on the aftermath of an earthquake that has ravaged the Haitian captial and turned the eyes of the world back to the story of Haiti's larger… Continue reading
Jan 23 'Green Shoots' of the Next Haiti Start to Poke Through By Ray Suarez Maybe you've been riveted by the scenes of desperation and heroism from Haiti. Maybe you've seen the bodies stacked for burial by earth- moving equipment before anonymous masses are bulldozed into a pit. The "Haiti Story" isn't just one… Continue reading
Jan 22 The Rundown With Shields and Brooks: Political Shakeups and Helping Haiti By Quinn Bowman New York Times columnist David Brooks and syndicated columnist Mark Shields stopped by the Rundown Friday to talk with Hari Sreenivasan about what this week's political upset in Massachusetts says about independent voters; David's column about what hasn't worked… Continue reading