Entire program - March 27, 2008

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with the BBC's Paul Wood, who is in Basra following the Iraqi government's offensive against Shiite militias. Today, Iraq's prime minister vowed to fight the militias "to the end."

The World's Katy Clark reports on what the showdown in Basra says about the abilities of Iraq's armed forces, and what that may mean for U.S. forces in Iraq down the road.

Some Iranian women have launched a campaign. They're petitioning their government to make women equal under Iranian law. The World's Quil Lawrence reports on the "Million Signatures Campaign."

Iranian equal rights activist Raheleh Asakri Reza

Europe issued a ban on leaving dead livestock in the fields to prevent the spread of mad cow and related diseases. But that measure has caused some unintended problems for Spain's vultures. They're starving, so they've begun attacking live animals. The World's Gerry Hadden has the story.

France's President Nicholas Sarkozy and his new wife Carla Bruni made their first visit as a married couple to Britain this week. Anchor Marco Werman discusses the media frenzy surrounding their visit with Benedicte Paviot, is the UK correspondent for the French television news channel France 24.

Chinese officials invited a group of foreign journalists to a Buddhist monastery in Lhasa today, in an attempt to show the situation in the Tibetan capital had normalized. But things didn't go as planned. Anchor Marco Werman hears what happened from one of the reporters there, Callum MacLeod of USA Today.

Miami has been hit hard by the housing crisis. But as The World's Jason Margolis reports, the city has been actively wooing foreign buyers to ease its real estate woes.

Housing prices have skyrocketed in South Korea in the past five years. Good news for sellers, but bad news for young Koreans trying to buy their first home. Jason Strother reports from the capital Seoul.

For today's Geo Quiz, we're looking for a Moroccan port city on the North African coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar.

The answer to today's Geo Quiz is the Moroccan port city of Tangier. Correspondent Ursula Lindsey sends us this audio postcard.

Lonny Shavelson reports on one man's efforts to bring a cultural tradition from rural India alive in California. Devendra Sharma helps Indian professionals working in the San Francisco Bay area perform an Indian folk opera known as Nautanki.