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As we hear more about the brutal realities on the ground in Ukraine, the voices of the approximately 2.7 million Ukrainians with disabilities are conspicuously absent.

In 2008, a flight nurse was grounded in her third trimester. Then her colleagues were killed in mid-air.

NPR's Eric Westervelt is at the Parade Grounds in Baghdad with units of the 3rd Infantry Division. They're securing and consolidating their hold on Baghdad. Resistance today was moderate. Nonetheless, one officer says this is the longest and most tense warfare the U.S. Army has seen since Vietnam.

U.S. forces are fighting a two-front war with Sunni and Shiite Muslim insurgents and the death toll continues to rise. But there is an increasingly sharp contrast between the official Pentagon take on security and reconstruction efforts in Iraq and the reality on the ground. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.

Some 10,000 people have died in South Sudan since the fighting began there last month. David Greene talks to Elke Leidel, the South Sudan country director for Concern Worldwide about the view on the ground in South Sudan.

Sandy Tolan reports from Quito on the controversy in Ecuador over the building of a new pipeline that will carry crude oil from the Amazon to the Pacific Coast. The pipeline will enable Ecuador to double its oil production. Eighty percent of Ecuadorians support the project on the grounds that it will provide much needed economic relief. Opponents say the pipeline will damage an ecosystem that's known for its biodiversity.

NPR's John Burnett reports on Houston's air pollution problem. Though Houston has the worst ground-level ozone in the country, business leaders have remained reluctant to tighten their emissions standards. But now these leaders are becoming more open to change, as they realize that Houston's reputation for poor air quality is making it harder to attract new businesses and talented employees.

NPR's Martin Kaste describes the events of the last 24 hours. Four passenger planes were hijacked yesterday morning. Two destroyed the World Trade Center in New York, another destroyed a section of the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and one crashed into the ground in a rural part of Pennsylvania.

It's time for an end-of-summer poetry treat: NPR's Tom Cole reads "Blackberry Picking," from Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, found in Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996.

Deborah talks with Rob Satloff, the Executive Director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, about the latest concerns for the future of the Middle East peace process. After historic gains in the last ten years, much ground has been lost in the last twelve months. They discuss why relations have been so strained, and what lies ahead for the principals in the conflict.