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This month, NPR News will examine the struggle to provide drugs to HIV infected people around the world. In today's report, NPR's Richard Knox takes a look at the influence of health care activists on pharmaceutical companies.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Jonathan Bass, author of Blessed are the Peacemakers. The book examines the 1963 letter that Martin Luther King Jr. wrote while in a Birmingham jail. The message was addressed to eight white religious leaders in Alabama and became a key element of the civil rights movement.

Commentator Susan Parker describes a traumatic event that changed her life and allowed her to see a place she probably would have missed otherwise.

Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times, reviews the new French film The Taste of Others.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports on the outbreak of fighting on the Albania-Macedonia border. The international community is concerned that fighting between Ethnic Albanian guerrillas and Macedonian armed forces will spread into Kosovo.

Host Bob Edwards describes the christening of the new aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Morning Edition sports commentator John Feinstein. They discuss the winding-down of the regular college basketball season, and the wind-UP of the play-offs.

NPR's Brenda Wilson reports from Pretoria, South Africa on the opening day of a lawsuit that pits the global drug industry against the South African government. Over 36 drug companies are challenging a law that allows the government to import the cheapest medicine from the cheapest source. The companies say the law ignores their patent rights. The government says the law is necessary in order to afford desperately needed AIDS drugs.

The Russian Foreign Ministry today lodged a formal protest against the United States in response to the report of the tunnel under the Soviet Embassy. But it was not so many years ago that the United States was protesting the discovery of listening devices in the new American Embassy in Moscow. NPR's Tom Gjelten looks back on a tradition of eavesdropping that seems to have survived the Cold War.

Humanitarian aid worker Kenneth Gluck. He was working with Doctors Without Borders in Chechnya when he was kidnapped and held for 26 days. He was released on February 3rd. Gluck still isnt sure who kidnapped him or who freed him. It could have been Chechen gangs, who have seized other humanitarian workers. Or it could have been Russian authorities who staged the abduction for propoganda purposes. The Russians claimed credit for freeing him.