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After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, world leaders vowed that such mass atrocities could never be allowed to happen again. In 2005, the U.N. adopted the Responsibility to Protect, a set of principles to guide the response of the international community if a government fails to protect its population.

The National Transportation Safety Board wants states to pass tough new laws banning the use of electronic devices behind the wheel. Some state lawmakers and transportation experts say such a ban could be difficult to enforce and that there's no real evidence yet that existing laws have reduced accident rates.

Airs Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 at 9 p.m. & Sunday, Dec. 25 at 12:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

Airs Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 12 p.m. on KPBS TV - Cancelled

Novelist Anne Enright manages to turn her narrator's troubled, life-changing affair into an extended metaphor for Ireland's spectacular recent boom and bust. The Forgotten Waltz is about the uncontrollable forces that drive us into mayhem, bursting both our familial and economic bubbles.

Melissa Block speaks with David Rennie, political editor of The Economist, about the monarchy — and proposed changes to the royal succession reform law.

After months of financial instability, Greece is at the tipping point of potential default. If it does, the repercussions are likely to ripple through the eurozone and across the Atlantic to the United States.

Carie Lemack, who lost her mother on Sept. 11, says she will never quit trying to prevent that kind of tragedy from happening again. Ten years later, Lemack is still on that mission — and she's not only founded two nonprofits, she's also made an Oscar-nominated documentary and is on a first-name basis with Sen. John Kerry.

You might find yourself in a new council district without even leaving the house. Today the city redistricting commission will finally vote on the new map. We'll have details on the changes and the politics.

London has nearly tripled the number of police on the streets in an attempt to quell a wave of looting and violence, the worst the country has seen since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s. Unrest that began in London has now spread to other British cities.