Plans for Tuesday's programme
We've just had our editorial meeting, and started off talking about the Middle East. The Israeli cabinet is considering its response to yesterday's suicide bombing. We briefly considered asking for your views on what should happen next, but decided it was too vague a topic and would go over much of the same ground as we covered yesterday.
We decided that there was more mileage in the Chinese president's visit to the United States. It's a tale of two Washingtons - first the west coast state, where he's being hosted by Bill Gates; then the other Washington - DC - to meet with President Bush.
With China, its ever-expanding trading reach and political influence go hand in hand, and we decided to ask the question 'Is China too powerful?' as a way of summing up the various concerns that many people have about this emerging superpower. Do you see China as an ally or partner, a strategic rival - as President Bush has called it - an evil empire, or a necessary counter-balance to US influence? Let us know.
We're on air today just as San Francisco begins to mark 100 years since the earthquake of 1906 that ripped the city apart. Inevitably the anniversary is focussing attention on how the city would cope with a similar quake today. We want to hear what it's like living in a city or region where the chance of another earthquake is ever-present, be it in San Franciso, Japan, Turkey, Iran or anywhere else. We'll try and find some people around the world to share their experiences of living with this sort of threat.
And finally we all liked the tale of Mexico's kid bullfighter. He's only nine, looks a good deal younger, and first entered the ring aged only seven. He's very serious about the sport and looks forward to soon being able to kill adult bulls. Whatever your views about the rights or wrongs of bullfighting, it's an amazing story and we hope to hear from Mexicans who've followed his progress.
And if those stories don't work out, we're also keeping an eye on Nepal (we had several people contact us from there yesterday) and the floods in central Europe.
