The World's Jason Margolis reports on the US announcement that it would join Europe in talks with Iran over its nuclear program. It would be the US's first direct diplomatic engagement with Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

For today's Global Hit, correspondent Jonah Eller Isaacs reports on how popular music is the key to making sure that AIDS awareness messages reach young people in Tanzania and Kenya.

The answers to today's Geo Quiz are the three official Swahili-speaking countries in Africa....Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya.

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Host Marco Werman speaks with ecologist Curtis Richardson about efforts to restore the marshlands of southern Iraq. The marshes were drained by Saddam Hussein, but are now making a comeback.

Ben Gilbert reports from Baghdad on a new method used by the US military to better understand the violence in the city. The US Army has been going door-to-door, talking with local residents. But the effort has been hobbled by residents' lack of trust -- in both their neighbors and the American forces.

The 2006 World Cup soccer tournament starts in 10 days in Germany. And British authorities want to make sure the ugly days of English soccer hooliganism will not return. The World's Matthew Bell reports on how the British lawmakers are getting soccer fans to mind their manners.

The World's Aaron Schachter reports on the name given by the Israeli government to its plan for a withdrawal of Jewish settlers from the West Bank. While the plan's name in Hebrew works well, its English translation has been problematic.

Host Marco Werman speaks to Brigadier Mick Slater, the Australian commander of international military forces in East Timor. The international forces are trying to quell a wave of violence in the Southeast Asian country.

The World's Orlando de Guzman chronicles his journey into the heavily earthquake-damaged Bantul region in Java where he went to help a friend affected by the disaster.