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For some people attending the UN's COP26 conference in Scotland, climate change is not a future threat — they are seeing its impact on their homelands now.

Now that the deadly bird flu virus has spread to poultry in northern Nigeria, experts say it is almost certain to spread further in Africa. Nigeria's poultry population is estimated at 140 million birds, and the nation appears ill-equipped to stamp out the virus.

Nawar Sahili is a member of Hezbollah who also sits on the Lebanese Parliament. He shares his views on the U.N. resolution that calls for disarmament of his organization in the south of the country, the potential source of funds for rebuilding after the war, and Israel's right to exist.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is arrested trying to cross the Nigerian border into Cameroon. He vanished after authorities in Nigeria agreed to transfer him to a U.N. war crimes tribunal. He is now in Sierra Leone and will stand trial for war-crimes charges. Los Angeles Times writer, Hans Nichols, talks with Melissa Block.

While Secretary Rice and other diplomats pushed forward with their draft U.N. resolution for a cease-fire, fighting was particularly fierce on both sides of the border. Israeli bombs killed at least 19 people in Lebanon. And Hezbollah fired its deadliest barrage of rockets yet at Israeli targets, claiming 15 lives. NPR's Eric Westervelt joins us from northern Israel.

NPR's Leila Fadel asks David M. Crane, founding prosecutor for the U.N. special court for Sierra Leone, to define genocide in legal terms.

Nuclear and biological weapons are covered under arms control pacts. But no such agreement exists for cyberweapons. The reason, experts say, is that some countries see "cyber disarmament" as a way to quash pro-democracy activists.

North Korea has fired artillery shells near South Korea and dropped the goal of reunification. Ayesha Rascoe talks with Edward Howell, a lecturer at the University of Oxford, about what this means.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Jung Pak of the Brookings Institution about how the trade spat between the U.S. and China benefits North Korea.

NPR's Michel Martin asks Jenny Town of the Stimson Center, a nonprofit foreign affairs think tank, about how to interpret Kim Jong Un's rhetoric.