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NPR's Trevor Rowe reports that UN and Iraqi negotiators are moving closer to allowing Iraq to sell $4 billion in annual oil exports, so that the country can buy limited amounts of food. The two sides have outlined the remaining obstacles, and now it's up to Saddam Hussein to decide how to proceed.

and after a visit to the site of yesterday's attack on a U-N base in southern Lebanon.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the seemingly bizarre possibility that Libya could chair the U.N. Human Rights Commission.

More than 100 people were injured today and at least three killed in continuing violence between Israelis and Palestinians. Yesterday the U.N. General Assembly condemned Israel's excessive use of force against Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with NPR's Mike Shuster in Jerusalem

Robert talks with Tim Worth-- president of the United Nation Foundation about Ted Turner's $34 million donation to the United Nations. Turner made the offer to make up for the deficit to the UN budget caused by the United States cut in payments.

The British proposal advanced Friday at the United Nations favors giving Iraq a deadline of a few days in which to prove there are no more banned weapons, or else face war. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Jeremy Greenstock, Britain's permanent representative to the U.N.

NPR's Ivan Watson reports that Sierra Leone's civil war seems to be ending and rebel commanders are turning over hundreds of child soldiers to the United Nations. The UN estimates that some 5,000 child soldiers saw combat during the 10-year civil war.

NPR's Jacki Lyden talks to Constance Stelzenmueller of the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit and Hisham Melhem of the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir about public and press reaction in Europe and the Middle East to the bombing of U.N. offices in Baghdad this past week.

Martha Raddatz reports from Bosnia on her visit with Colonel Gregory Fontenot (FONT-un-no), Commander of the U.S. Army's First Brigade, on the day-to-day experience of leading NATO troops as they seek to implement the peace accords.

Aid workers have abandoned northeastern Zaire where they were caring for some 150 thousand refugees. The UN has decided foreign relief staff are not safe even in Kisingani as rebel forces advance on the Zairean military stronghold. NPR's Michael Skoler has been following the events from Nairobi. He speaks with Korva Coleman.