The rising cost of oil is leading to widespread protests in Europe. French fishermen have been blockading ports and ferries for three weeks, calling on the government to increase an aid package to help them meet their rising fuel costs. Spanish fishermen have joined the strike and it could spread throughout Europe by the end of the week. In the UK, convoys of trucks lined up one of the busiest streets in London and brought traffic to a crawl in Wales. Our guest is Peter Carroll, managing director of Seymour Transport.
A new encyclopedia looks at Islam in the United States. Jocelyne Cesari of Harvard University is its editor. We speak to Cesari about the first Muslim immigrants to the US; about the founding of the Nation of Islam; and about how Islam as practiced by American Muslims is changing the faith.
A coalition of mayors and county commissioners is suing the Department of Homeland Security over the government's plan to build a fence along the US-Mexican border in Texas