NewsTalk discusses internet censorship in Iran and freedom of the press with Babak Yektafer, Editor-in-Chief, Washington Prism, Shayan Samii, chairman of the Iranian-American Republican Council and Reza Moeini, Reporters without Borders.
News & Views reports on President Bush's 9:50 am ET press conference announcing his new diplomatic, intelligence and military personnel shakeup. President Bush meets with German President Angela Merkel. Correspondent Siamak Deghanpour live from Capitol on the first 100 hours of the 110th Congress. Top Iranian envoy Ali Larijani visits China to discuss Iran's nuclear program.
Roundtable hosts Bennington College professor Mansour Farhang on the 110th Congress, what we can expect, and how the new Congress may impact U.S.-Iranian relations.
Late Edition leads with a VOA package on the U.S. Army's training program to prepare soldiers shipping off to Iraq to train Iraqi soldiers. The program is called "train the trainers" and it is conducted at Ft. Riley, Kansas.