Entire program – March 4, 2010

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Today on The World: Preparing for Sunday’s Iraqi elections means also preparing for more violence, Plus, how an informal recycling program in a Senegalese village is poisoning children there, and the young people of Yap island in the Pacific have set out to reclaim the navigational skills of their ancestors.

More violence as Iraqi vote begins

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At least 14 people have been killed in Baghdad on the first day of voting in Iraq’s parliamentary elections. On Wednesday, three suicide bombers attacked police and a hospital in Baquba, killing at least 30 people. Reporter Ben Gilbert accompanied an American embasssy election observer team in Kirkuk. Download MP3 (Photo: Ben Gilbert)

• Ben Gilbert’s photos from Kirkuk
• BBC coverage
• On The World: Suicide attacks in Iraq ahead of vote (Wed)

Where to prosecute terrorism suspects?

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Neither Attorney General Eric Holder nor Congress is backing down in the fight over where to prosecute terrorism suspects. Holder maintains that Federal Courts are the best place to try 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his co-conspirators while a bipartisan group of Senators is trying to force the Administration to prosecute terrorists in military courts. The World’s Katy Clark has more. Download MP3

• Closing Guantanamo
• Katy Clark’s Guantanamo stories

Lead Recycling Exacts High Price for Health

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In the West African nation of Senegal, an informal recycling industry has poisoned children and left a neighborhood severely polluted. Residents caused the contamination by pulling apart car batteries to extract the lead. The government is now cleaning up the site, but many of the children will never be the same. Jori Lewis reports. Download MP3 (Photo: Jori Lewis)

• The Blacksmith Institute
• Jori Lewis on Senegal’s struggling fishery industry (Aug 2009)

The open sailing canoes of Yap

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For centuries, the islanders of Yap were renowned in the Pacific for their navigational skills. They could travel hundreds of miles in open sailing canoes, charting their course by the stars, the winds, and the pattern of the waves. That knowledge became endangered as Yap came under the control first of the Spanish, then of the Japanese, and especially the US after World War II. But in recent years, there’s been a resurgence of interest among young Yapese in learning this ancient skill, and keeping it alive. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad went sailing with some of them. Download MP3 (photo: Mary Kay Magistad)

• Read Mary Kay Magistad’s reporter’s journal
• Listen to Mary Kay Magistad’s story about Yap’s stone money

Syria’s Iraqi refugees ready to vote

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More than a million Iraqis refugees live in Syria and many are heading to the polls to vote in this weekend’s Iraqi elections. The BBC’s Lina Sinjab is in Damascus. She tells anchor Marco Werman that Iraqi politicians are crossing into Syria to campaign for the refugees’ support.

Study shows Afghan mullahs can help promote contraception

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A new study out of Afghanistan indicates that enlisting the help of Afghan mullahs can dramatically increase the use of birth control in rural villages. The World’s Jeb Sharp reports.

Gory crime photos show up on-line

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People in Nigeria are up in arms after pictures of a gruesome crime scene in Nigeria showed up on the Internet. Anchor Marco Werman finds out more from the BBC’s Caroline Duffield who’s in Lagos.

Geo Quiz

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Our daily geography quiz.

Mohawk tribe orders evictions

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Leaders on the Kahnawake Mohawk reservation near Montreal recently asked non-Mohawks living there to move. They were enforcing a law that says only people who are at least 50 percent Mohawk can live on the reservation. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Joe Delaronde, spokesman for the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake.

Geo answer / Global Hit

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The answer to today’s Geo Quiz is a performance art space called the Barbican Center, where the subject of today’s Global Hit, French musician and artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, has mounted his latest exhibit.

Birds rock

An art museum figures in today’s Geo Quiz. It’s not the Hermitage, the Louvre, or the Met. But its one of Europe’s largest performance art museums, home to an eclectic mix of music, theatre, and dance events.