Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Andrew Bacevich about the significance of the vote in Iraq this past weekend. Bacevich is a Professor of International Relations at Boston University. His son, an army lieutenant, was killed in Iraq in 2007.

The World's Matthew Bell reports on a new government review of wartime spending. The review is focusing attention on how factors like poor planning and corruption have hampered U.S. reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Today on The World: The impact of poor planning and corruption on US spending in Iraq and Afghanistan; What other countries can teach the US when it comes to universal health care; and a look at how Londoners are faring with Britain's biggest snowfall in 18 years.

One company that's not gloomy at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland is Google. We have an assessment. Also, the governor of Texas wants ordinary people to stake-out the border with Mexico from the comfort of their own homes, via webcams. Then, we take a test drive in a new kind of electric car. Will it catch on? We follow that with a look at what life is like, without any electricity at all, in Nepal. We also dip into the old email bag.

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America has a new President, and he likes his Blackberry. And apparently, the press corps wants to know all about it. Also, an online petition stirs up trouble in China. We also hear about some cool technology to help detect cardiac problems. And we end with a piece about the problem of electronic waste in Ghana. Scots Wha Hae. We hope you have a nice Burns Supper this weekend.

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This tech podcast comes on location from Raleigh, North Carolina, site of the ScienceOnline09 blogging unconference. We bring you a number of different angles and views on how technology is shaping the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. We also have a brief OLPC update, and shhh...a secret airborne extra segment.

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