October 9, 2020 - PBS NewsHour full episode

In our news wrap Friday, Russia called the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan to Moscow in an attempt to halt nearly two weeks of fighting. The flare-up over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region is the worst in 25 years. Also, New York Yankees pitching great and Hall of Famer Whitey Ford has died at age 91. He had the best winning percentage of any pitcher in the 20th century.

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to the United Nations’ World Food Programme for its efforts to fight global hunger, especially during the pandemic, which has brought millions more people to the brink of starvation. The organization’s executive director, David Beasley, joins Amna Nawaz to discuss what the honor means and why he hopes wealthy individuals will step up to help the hungry.

More than two years have passed since the death of Arizona Sen. John McCain, but his legacy and influence are being felt during this election year. McCain’s widow, Cindy, recently endorsed Joe Biden for president. Mark Salter was a longtime aide and confidant of Sen. McCain, whose life he examines in Salter’s new book, “The Luckiest Man.” Salter joins Judy Woodruff to discuss.

It's been two years since the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents at the Kingdom’s Istanbul consulate. At the end of his life, Khashoggi was among Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s highest-profile critics. The new Showtime film “Kingdom of Silence” charts Khashoggi’s personal evolution, as his allies relaunch his pro-democracy organization. Nick Schifrin reports.

As President Trump seeks to highlight his apparent recovery from coronavirus, cases are once again surging in several U.S. states – just weeks before the election. One of them is Wisconsin, a battleground Trump won in 2016 but where he is now trailing former Vice President Joe Biden by 5 percentage points, according to polls. Yamiche Alcindor explores how the virus is affecting the campaign there.

As we do each Friday during this pandemic, the NewsHour remembers five special people who lost their lives to COVID-19. Judy Woodruff shares their stories.

Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including how the pandemic is influencing voters in battleground Wisconsin, President Trump’s response to his own coronavirus diagnosis, the vice presidential debate and Senate races in the spotlight.