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News Wrap: UN calls for full inquiry after U.S. citizen killed in West Bank protest

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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In our news wrap Saturday, the UN called for an investigation into the death of a Turkish American protester in the West Bank, Ukraine's Zelenskyy met with European leaders in Italy, Harris and Trump campaigned in swing states, the CDC said the risk from bird flu remains low despite a new case in Missouri, Boeing's Starliner capsule returned to Earth, and the U.S. won 15 medals at the Paralympics. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Good evening. I'm John Yang. The United Nations is calling for a full investigation

0:05.5

into the death of a young Turkish-American protest around the West Bank. Witnesses say

0:10.4

Aishanner Esgiagi was shot in the head during a demonstration against expanding Israeli settlements.

0:16.2

And in Gaza Israeli airstrikes are blamed for the deaths of more than a dozen people who were taking shelter at a school and at a refugee camp.

0:23.7

Israel says it was targeting a Hamas command center.

0:27.0

Outside the combat zone, pauses in fighting in central and southern Gaza

0:31.3

have allowed eight workers to administer polio vaccines to

0:34.5

354,000 children. That's more than half the UN's goal. In Ukraine, Russian drone

0:40.6

attacks are getting dangerously close to the country's capital.

0:43.6

Ukraine's Air Force said that across the country overnight it shot down nearly 60 long-range

0:48.6

drones.

0:49.6

De Brie and Trappnell fell onto streets and kee key some of it narrowly missing the country's

0:53.6

parliament building. President Volodem Herzelinski is in Italy today. He's meeting with

0:58.0

European leaders to try to shore up support and ask for more aid. Both presidential candidates were in crucial swing states today.

1:05.0

Vice President Kamala Harris took a break from debate prep in Pittsburgh

1:09.0

to talk with photos at small businesses,

1:12.0

and former President Donald Trump was in Wisconsin addressing with is on Tuesday. The CDC says the risk from bird flu remains low despite a new case in

1:26.1

Missouri. The 14th person infected this year is the first with no known exposure

1:31.2

to farm animals that can carry the virus.

1:34.6

The patients recovered after being treated with antiviral medications in a hospital.

1:39.4

Boeing's troubled Starliner capsule is back from space without its two test pilots.

1:44.0

Overnight, the fully automated craft parachuted into the New Mexico desert.

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