PBS News Hour

January 14, 2024 - PBS News Weekend full episode

Sunday on PBS News Weekend, candidates make their final pitch in bitterly cold Iowa on the eve of the first contest of the 2024 presidential election. Then, the growing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, two and a half years after the Taliban’s return to power. Plus, why American farmers have some of the highest suicide rates of any occupation, and what some rural communities are doing to help.

What Iowa voters are thinking on frigid eve of 2024 caucuses

5m 43s

On the eve of the 2024 presidential election’s first contest, GOP candidates are making last-minute appeals in a bitterly cold Iowa. The National Weather Service warns of wind chills as low as 45 below zero Monday night, when Iowa Republicans are gathering for caucuses. Lisa Desjardins reports from Indianola, Iowa, with the latest updates.

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  • Inside Afghanistan’s worsening humanitarian disaster: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Inside Afghanistan’s worsening humanitarian disaster

    S2024 E14 - 6m 36s

    Since the Taliban reclaimed control of Afghanistan in 2021, the country has plummeted further into political and economic instability. Frequent natural disasters and shortfalls in donor funding make the dire situation one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Dayne Curry, the Afghanistan country director for Mercy Corps, joins Ali Rogin to discuss.

  • How communities are tackling a suicide crisis among farmers: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    How communities are tackling a suicide crisis among farmers

    S2024 E14 - 9m 9s

    More than 50,000 Americans took their own lives in 2023, the nation’s highest yearly rate of suicide on record. Farmers are 3.5 times more likely to die by suicide than the general population, according to the National Rural Health Association. Special correspondent Megan Thompson reports from Wisconsin on the burden farmers often deal with and what’s being done to help them.

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