News Wrap: UN calls for full inquiry after U.S. citizen killed in West Bank protest
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News Wrap: UN calls for full inquiry after U.S. citizen killed in West Bank protest
Good evening, I'm John Yang.
The United Nations is calling for a full investigation
into the death of a young Turkish-American protester
on the West Bank.
Witnesses say Aishaner Ezgiaghi was shot in the head
during a demonstration against expanding Israeli settlements.
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.
Israel says it was targeting a Hamas command center.
Outside the combat zone, pauses in fighting
in central and southern Gaza have allowed aid workers
to administer polio vaccines to 354,000 children.
That's more than half the UN's goal.
In Ukraine, Russian drone attacks are getting dangerously close
to the country's capital.
Ukraine's air force said that across the country overnight,
it shot down nearly 60 long-range drones.
Debris and shrapnel fell onto streets in Kiev,
some of it narrowly missing the country's parliament building.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is in Italy today.
He's meeting with European leaders
to try to shore up support and ask for more aid.
Both presidential candidates were in crucial swing states today.
Vice President Kamala Harris took a break
from debate prep in Pittsburgh
to talk with voters at small businesses.
And former President Donald Trump was in Wisconsin
addressing supporters at an airport tarmac rally
from behind bulletproof glass.
The candidates' first debate is on Tuesday.
The CDC says the risk from bird flu remains low,
despite a new case in Missouri.
The 14th person infected...
...is the first with no known exposure to farm animals
that can carry the virus.
The patients recovered after being treated
with antiviral medications in a hospital.
Boeing's troubled Starliner capsule is back from space
without its two test pilots.
Overnight, the fully automated craft
parachuted into the New Mexico desert.
The capsule malfunctioned on its way
to the International Space Station,
and NASA decided it was too risky
for astronauts Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore
to fly it back to Earth.
They remain...
...on the space station
and on our return home next year.
The Starliner capsule will be transported
to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida
to try to figure out what went wrong.
And the United States picked up 15 medals,
including four golds at the Paralympics in Paris today.
Swimmer Jessica Long won her 31st Paralympic medal
with first-place finish in the 100-meter butterfly.
Fiona Howard and Rebecca Hart
both took gold in paraequestrian.
And Team USA's sitting volleyball team...
...beat China for their third consecutive gold.
Still to come on PBS News Weekend,
how Americans are navigating family planning
and an effort to save muscles in Wisconsin
from the effects of months of drought.
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