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NPR's Rob Gifford reports China's state controlled media declared today that the United States finally apologized for the surveillance plane accident and, no doubt, most Chinese people believe that. But the young, well educated, well informed elite -- China's future leaders -- know the U.S. letter stopped well short of an apology.

The only video of the Navy crew boarding the plane that took them off Hainan Island last night was on CNN. The video crew sent its pictures using a videophone together with a satellite phone powered by a car battery. Linda Wertheimer talks with Eason Jordan, chief news executive and newsgathering president for CNN in Atlanta.

Linda Wertheimer and Noah Adams read from this week's listener letters. (4:00) To contact All Things Considered, write to "Letters," All Things Considered, 635 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington DC 20001. The e-mail address is atc@npr.org.

NPR's Julie Rovner reports on the Bush administration's adoption of broad regulations that restrict access to medical records -- regulations that were written by the Clinton administration.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews the movie version of Bridget Jones's Diary. The book by Helen Fielding sold five million copies around the world, and Turan says it promises to be quite successful on the big screen as well.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on a human rights trial underway in Guatemala that will test the independence of the country's judiciary system.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on today's announcement that survivors and relatives of victims of the Oklahoma City bombing will be able to watch Timothy McVeigh's execution on closed circuit television.

Travis Hugh Cully's new book is called The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power. It's about his days as a bike messenger in Chicago -- the pressure, pain and sometimes loss of pedaling through a major American city. Noah Adams talks with Culley about maneuvering through the city and the battle between bikes and cars.

NPR's Kate Seelye reports from Damascus on a group of African-American Muslims sent to Syria to study Arabic and Islam for two years. The hope is, when they return, they will be able to teach others what they've learned and build community life within mainstream Islam in the United States.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Skopje, Macedonia, on today's visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell. Meeting with Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski.

19th Century composer and piano virtuoso Franz Liszt (frahnz list) was a deeply religious man who sometimes wrote music inspired by his faith. He wrote two pieces for piano dedicated to St. Francis; we'll hear one of them, Legend: St. Francis Preaching to the Birds, along with a brief explanation of the music by Tom Mastroianni, president of the American Liszt Society.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports from Birmingham, Alabama, where jury selection begins today in the trial of one of the last surviving suspects in the bombing of a black church in 1963. Thomas Blanton Jr., a former Ku Klux Klan member, is accused of helping to plant the bomb that killed four girls and injured more than 20 others.