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The case of Russian author and analyst Andrei Piontkovsky underscores concerns over a rollback from democracy in Russia. Currently in Washington, Piontkovsky faces legal troubles in Russia over books he has written and says a law banning extremism is being used to silence dissent.

In September 1943, Hitler hatched a secret plan. Author Dan Kurzman relates the foiled plot in A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius the XII.

Former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim dies of heart failure at his home in Austria. Waldheim hid his Nazi Germany military service to lead the world body, but it was revealed when he ran for president of Austria in 1986.

As an architect of the Iraq war, Paul Wolfowitz has been a lightning rod for critics. Supporters see the embattled World Bank president as a principled defender of democracy. Critics say he's a hawk obsessed with solving the world's ills through military might.

Tom Burke is an environmental adviser to one of the world's largest mining operations and the British government. At heart, he's an environmental activist, but he's pragmatic about what it will take to shift corporate and political thinking on climate change.

Its a rare thing for a public radio show to make the transition to TV. But

Iras Looking Glass

Sir Anthony Hopkins may have just won the Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille Life Achievement Award last month but hes not about to rest on his laurels with any slowing down. This month he can be seen in The Worlds Fastest Indian (opening February 3 at Horton Plaza, Edwards Mira Mesa, and AMC Mission Valley), a film from down under about a retired senior obsessed with speed.

The World's Fastest Indian

Shanghai's planners are resettling 500,000 people in new suburban towns, each built in a foreign style. In the second report on Shanghai's development, we visit Thames Town, which brings an English country town to China.