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NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow that Russia's state-dominated gas monopoly is asserting control over the country's only nationwide independent television network. The monopoly, Gazprom, replaced NTV's board of directors today in a move the television journalists call a threat to press freedom.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade where Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica said today his government is not making plans to extradite Slobodan Milosevic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague. At a news conference, Kostunica said Milosevic must stand trial at home.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Joe Kunches, acting space weather operations director for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), about unusual solar flares over the past few days. (4:00) www.sec.noaa.gov

NPR's Howard Berkes reports five contenders are vying to replace International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch, who is stepping down after two tumultuous decades at the top.

Prices plunged on Wall Street again today. Now that the stock market is struggling, commentator Andrei Codrescu says the long bull market didn't amount to much more than greed. He thinks the pioneering spirit of the Internet was long ago swallowed up by big corporations.

Robert Siegel talks to Margo Wallstrom, the European Commission's top environmental official, about her visit to Washington today, and her discussion with EPA Administrator Christie Whitman. Wallstrom conveyed strong European concerns about the decision by the Bush administration not to ratify the Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gas emissions.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on complaints by oil producers that they need restrictions on energy exploration lifted from more public lands. They say more gas and oil should be produced in the U.S. and the lack of access to public lands is the chief obstacle.

Robert Siegel talks with Chuck Sudetic, author of Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia, about other indicted Yugoslavian war criminals who have yet to be arrested, where they are and what they're doing. Sudetic suggests the Milosevic arrest may lead some of these accused war criminals to start betraying each other, and that will play into the hands of the Hague tribunal. Sudetic covered the collapse of Yugoslavia and the war in Bosnia for the New York Times from 1990-95. (4:00) Blood and Vengeance is published by Penguin, 1999.

NPR's Rob Gifford in Beijing reports that China has finally allowed U.S. Embassy personnel to meet with the crew of a damaged reconnaissance plane. The embassy reports all 24 are in good health but there's no word on when they or the plane will be released.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Perez and Palestinian cabinet minister Nabil Shaath met privately today in Athens, Greece. Violence has steadily escalated in the West Bank and Gaza in recent weeks.