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Many of the world's poorest places are getting even more difficult to live in as climate change fuels an upswing in natural disasters. One group says cash aid can help.

July 4th events for America's milestone birthday are being threatened by a brutal heat wave. And, Russia has struck Ukraine's capital, killing several people in what it calls retaliatory attacks.

Yesterday's primaries provided more insight into what voters in both parties want from their new leaders. And, Trump secretly switched planes in Turkey last month amid a foreign threat

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH FORMER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT McNAMARA ABOUT THE REACTION UNLEASHED BY HIS BOOK "IN RETROSPECT: THE TRAGEDY AND LESSONS OF VIETNAM," PUBLISHED BY TIME BOOKS, A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE.

NPR'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST DANIEL SCHORR TALKS WITH SENATOR ORRIN HATCH (R-UT), AND DR. LAURA D'ANDREA TYSON, CHAIRMAN OF THE WHITE HOUSE COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISORS, ABOUT PRESIDENT CLINTON'S BUDGET AND THE PROSPECTS FOR A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Fred Barnes, White House orrespondent for The New Republic magazine, and Kate Phillips, olitical editor for New York Newsday, about the President's State of he Union address and legislation passed this past week on Capitol ill.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with writer Carolyn See about her ittersweet memoir, DREAMING: HARD LUCK AND GOOD TIME IN AMERICA (Random House ooks). The book takes a personal look at how drinking and other addictions ffected multiple generations of her family and their "American Dream."

Daniel talks with NPR's Pentagon Correspondent Martha Raddatz and Richard Haas, chief Middle East advisor to the White House under former President Bush about the shooting death today of Israeli Prime Minister Rabin. A right-wing group called "IN" has claimed responsibility for the shooting.

NPR's Ann Garrels reports on some labor camps located in Siberia which house North Korean prisoners and are run by North Korean guards. During the Soviet era, the Kremlin didn't mind the arrangement. Now, it does.

Liane Hansen speaks with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dean of he Annenberg School for Communication, about how new Speaker of the House ewt Gingrich is using the media to his advantage, plus a preview of President linton's State of the Union address this Tuesday.