Last week’s Foreign Exchange with Daljit Dhaliwal featured an in-depth interview with the Pakistan ambassador to the U.S., Husain Haqqani. He speaks about Pakistan’s relationship with India, the Mumbai attacks, and much more.
One of Eartha Kitt’s last interviews was conducted by Washington Week’s Gwen Ifill for the Historymakers program “An Evening With Eartha Kitt” (airs on Thirteen in March 2009). You can listen to an mp3 of the interview at Newshour, or see a video excerpt. Ms. Kitt passed away on Christmas, 2008.
This week, a former managing director at Standard & Poor’s speaks out on U.S. television for the first time about how he was pressured to compromise standards in a push for profits. Surprising new revelations about the economic debacle, watch NOW. (Originally aired: 12/26/2008)
Daljit Dhaliwal fills in for anchor Martin Savidge.
* Pakistan moves troops to Indian border
* UK’s economy
* Indonesian 4th anniversary of tsunami
* Saving gorillas in Africa
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NBR’s Jeff Yastine finds out how recycling methane gas produced by landfills impacts the environment and the bottom line. Watch report now. (Originally aired 12/26/08)
The City Concealed is a new online video series exploring the unseen corners of New York. In our first installment, we take a trip 3.5 miles inland on this rarely-seen waterway that separates Brooklyn from Queens. Watch.
See an interview from 2001 with Pinter, who passed away last week, where he discusses his life’s work and his battle with cancer. Also, Rose interviewed Pinter in 2007, where he talks about Lincoln Center Festival’s 2007 Pinter retrospective. Watch now.
Many poor families in Nepal have been forced to sell their daughters, some as young as six, to work far from home as bonded servants in private homes. See one innovative program in Nepal that is helping to free these young girls that live as modern-day slaves.Watch. (Originally aired: 12/19/2008).
Pastor Rick Warren has been chosen to give Obama’s inauguration invocation. It’s a controversial choice based on some statements Warren has made about gays, others. Read more about Warren from Religion and Ethics’ coverage of Warren’s activities.











