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- The United States is frantically trying to arrange a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PLO leader Yasir Arafat after four days of fierce fighting in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem. Danny speaks with Terje Larsen, the Special U.N. Coordinator in the West Bank and Gaza about the dangers facing the peace process. Then NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem on the communal tensions that still grip the area.

Health officials begin to speak of AIDS as a possible security risk. Some nations are so devastated that they may have trouble planting crops or fielding armies. On World AIDS Day, NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with the Bush Administration's Jack Chow and the U.N.'s Stephen Lewis.

The Bush administration seeks to avert a nuclear crisis as North Korea proceeds with plans to restart a nuclear plant mothballed since 1994 by removing U.N. monitoring equipment. Secretary of State Colin Powell confers with Japan while the White House demands the equipment be restored. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.

North Korea's announcement that it is disabling U.N. monitoring devices at a plutonium plant raises new fears about the nation's nuclear arms intentions. But South Korea's newly elected president vows to persist in efforts to improve relations with the North. NPR's Rob Gifford reports.

Iraq gives the United Nations a list of more than 500 names of scientists associated with its nuclear and chemical weapons programs. Now U.N. officials must decide what to do with the list. Most of the scientists are not expected to speak freely unless they're allowed to leave. NPR News reports.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Manoddje Mounoubai, spokesman for the UN Mission in Congo. Mounoubai talks about the situation in Congo, where Pygmies who have fled fighting in the jungle have accused rebel groups of cannibalism. The United Nations is currently investigating the reports of cannibalism as well as other human rights abuses.

In a speech to the United Nations Tuesday, President Bush defended his decision to launch the war in Iraq, and asked for help with reconstruction there. Sen. John Kerry says the president has snubbed the U.N. too many times and lacks the international credibility needed to rally other nations to the cause. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

Russian officials insist they did not abuse Iraq's Oil for Food program, set up by the United Nations. The CIA has accused Russia's officials of helping Saddam Hussein subvert U.N. sanctions for money or oil deals. NPR's Lawrence Sheets reports.

Former U.N. weapons inspector David Kay's report on the search for banned Iraqi arms is receiving varying interpretations. Pointing to Kay's findings that Iraq intended to build chemical and biological weapons, President Bush finds support for claims that Saddam Hussein was a danger to the world. But congressional Democrats stress that no weapons have been found so far. Hear NPR's Andrea Seabrook and NPR's Don Gonyea.

Britain names Jeremy Greenstock, its U.N. ambassador, as its special representative to Iraq. The appointment of Greenstock, a fluent Arabic speaker, comes as peacemaking and reconstruction efforts in Iraq encounter difficulties. In Basra, Iraqi officials say oil exports are on target to resume this month, but that post-war looting and sabotage of oil plants are hurting oil production. Hear NPR's Guy Raz and NPR's Nick Spicer.