April 24, 2021 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode

India’s health system is collapsing amid a tsunami of COVID-19 cases—the highest in the world. As patients struggle to find hospital beds, doctors are sounding the alarm on dwindling medical supplies, including oxygen, on Twitter. Meanwhile, the Modi govt., which expanded vaccination criteria, is facing the heat for its response to the crisis. NPR Correspondent Lauren Frayer joins from Mumbai.

Amsterdam is the first city in the world to adopt a radical economic theory that suggests economic growth shouldn’t be the ultimate measure of success. Instead, “doughnut economics” focuses on protecting the environment while meeting citizens’ basic needs. Special Correspondent Megan Thompson reports as part of our ongoing series “Peril & Promise: The Challenge of Climate Change.”

On this edition for Saturday, April 24, COVID-19 cases in India skyrocket as a devastating second wave overwhelms hospitals, President Biden breaks with predecessors as the first US president to name the 1915 killings of over 1.5 million Armenians a genocide, and in our signature segment, a radical new experiment in Amsterdam aimed at economic and environmental recovery. Hari Sreenivasan anchors.