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NPR's Dan Charles reports on the status of a government decision about whether to reprocess plutonium. Arms control advocates oppose the reprocessing to limit the amount of material available for weapons.

Tamil Tiger rebels are believed to have exploded a truck bomb in Colombo, Ski Lanka. Robert talks to Vijita Yapa of the London Times about the explosion and the governments efforts to deal with the rebel group.

Lynn Terry reports on the visit by French President Jacques Chirac to the United States, where he will try to raise France's profile on matters of international defense.... and boost his prestige at home.

certify Colombia's efforts to stop the production and distribution of illegal drugs. The deadline for deciding is March 1st. The decision is complicated by allegations that Colombian President Ernesto Samper took millions of dollars in campaign donations from the Cali drug cartel.

Linda talks to Ellen Forch (FORSH) - A Research Scientist for the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand. She talks about the caputre of one of the world's most elusive creatures. A giant squid. This one was 24 feet long and weighed one ton.

We talk with All Thing's Considered's favorite French Chef- Chef Guillame about this tasty squid discovery. He offers a perfect recipe for this a large gathering.

Some House Republicans are considering sending President Clinton a welfare reform bill he once endorsed, but now considers inadequate. Last year, Mr Clinton vetoed a measure formed from House and Senate bills, but he said he could sign the Senate version. Now, the president says the Senate bill is just a basis for reform. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Leda (LEE-dah) Hartman of New Hampshire Public Radio reports on New Hampshire, the only state not to honor Martin Luther King with a day of his own. This year it gets a bit uglier, as a white supremacist group from Mississippi stages a demonstration at the statehouse.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports from Sarajevo that the commander of NATO forces in Bosnia reported today that the former-warring parties had separated their forces by a Friday deadline, as required by the Dayton peace accord. However, that same deadline called for a full exchange of prisoners of war, which has not taken place.

NPR's John McChesney reports that Visa and Mastercard have agreed on a single technical standard that they say will allow for secure purchases over the Internet. The two credit card giants had been pursuing different systems with conflicting security specifications. Today's announcement means banks and consumers will not have to worry about choosing one system over the other.