Before you travel abroad, do you ever check out the State Department's website listing the countries currently considered dangerous? Ever wonder how those determinations are made? Yeah, we're curious too. More on that in a minute.
First, though, an update on a country that's currently on that State Department list of dangerous spots -- Ukraine. Fighting between pro-Russian separatists and the Ukrainian military continue to the eastern part of the country. Olexiy Solubenkho of the BBC's Ukrainian service has just been back home to check out the situation. He joins us from our London studios.
We'll also be looking at the legacy of former Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze, who has passed away at the age of 86. How do Georgians view the man who saw the country's transition from Communism to democracy?
Plus, the musical stylings of a Jamaican blues man named Brushy One-String. Guess how many strings he has on his guitar? Go on, guess.
And back to those travel warnings. We wanted to know how the State Department decides which countries are "safe" and which are "dangerous." So, we called up Michelle Bernier-Toth, the Managing Director for Overseas Citizen Services at the State Department. She deals with the day-to-day ins and outs of those travel warnings.