Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. President obama this afternoon denounced the beheading of another american hostage by islamic extremists as an act of pure evil. This morning, the Islamic State released a video, now confirmed as authentic by the white house, showing the aftermath of the execution of 26yearold peter kassig. The indiana native served in iraq as a u. S. Army ranger before being trained as an emergency medical technician and then becoming an aid worker. Our report, by robert moore of itn, begins with footage of kassig taken in lebanon in 2012 while he was caring for wounded s
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. This is pbs newshour weekend. Captioning sponsored by wnet sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. Officials today urged u. S. Military personnel to be vigilant and to do all they can to Keep Personal Information off this, after isis reportedly posted the names, photos and home addresses of 100 american servicemen and urged its supporters to kill them. The list reportedly includes photographs of marines, sailors and airmen, many of them pilots who have struck isis targets in iraq and syria. The list was published by Group Calling itself the Islamic State hacking division, but a pentagon official
Next on pbs newshour weekend. Pbs newshour weekend is made possible by Corporate Funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york Hari Sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. It was a day of celebration reflection and remembrance in kenya today as millions of christians there observed easter just days after al shabab islamic extremists targeted christian students at a university and killed more than 140 of them. The newshours William Brangham has more. This was the scene outside churches in the capital city of nairobi today, as worshippers gathered to attend Easter Sunday mass. And this was in the scene at churches in garissa. A city of 120,000 people closer
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. President obama met with rule, the first meeting of its kind in more than 50 years and the latest in a series of developments pointing towards a normalization of relations between the two countries this after a widely photographed handshake last night and a phone call between the two men earlier in the week. The newshours William Brangham has more. Reporter at the summit of the americas meeting today in panama, both president obama and cuban president raul castro hailed the recent improvements in relations between their two longestranged nations. This shif
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. This is pbs newshour weekend. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. Members of italys coast guard are searching for survivors after a fishing boat crowded with migrants overturned today. As many as 700 people are feared dead. The accident happened in the mediterranean, off the coast of libya. The victims were trying to get from there to italy. Late today, italys cabinet met in emergency session. Since the beginning of the year an estimated 1,500 people have died making the crossing to italy. In libya today, another atrocity linked to isis. The muslim Extremist Group released a video online sho