The top U.S. general in Afghanistan is apologizing for comments he made in a new Rolling Stone profile, and he has been summoned to Washington to meet with President Obama. In the article, McChrystal and some of his aides are quoted criticizing top administration officials. Washington Post reporter Ernesto Londono, who has seen a copy of the Rolling Stone story, joins us from Kabul.

Amid record home repossessions nationwide, a privately-funded program is being touted by the Federal Reserve as a national model to help neighborhoods blighted by foreclosures. The $50 million Stabilizing Urban Neighborhoods (SUN) Initiative, launched by the nonprofit Boston Community Capital, aims to keep more than 2,000 foreclosed homeowners in their properties.  Their strategy is to buy the homes after foreclosure and sell them back to the owners with an affordable, fixed-rate mortgage. We meet one of the SUN Initiative’s first clients and speak with Elyse Cherry, CEO of Boston Community Capital.

BP is facing one crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, where its well is spewing oil out of control, and another in the arena of public opinion. Anyone with a blog, Facebook account or Twitter feed, can sound off on BP any time they want. And then there's the 24-hour video feed of oil gushing into the gulf, not to mention Congressional hearings and presidential dressing-downs. So what's a multi-national corporation to do? BP has hired an army of high powered Washington insiders to help them massage their image and weather the crisis. Kristin Jensen of Bloomberg Businessweek tells us about the company's public relations offensive.

The new documentary from the controversial American director Oliver Stone focuses on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and other Latin American leaders.  "South Of The Border" is Stone's attempt to reverse what he believes is the US media's "demonization" of Chavez. The BBC's Stephen Sackur attended the film's recent premiere in Caracas, Venezuela.

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