From the high desert in the great American Southwest, I'd be all. Good evening. Good afternoon. Good morning. Whatever the case may be in the time zone in which you reside. Every single one of them covered by this program, Coast Coast A.M., leading it for the weekend version. I'm Art Bell. How you doing?

Great to be here. Great to be escorting you through the weekend.

We're about to examine the world news very quickly. And, you know, isn't there a newspaper that has a

slogan that goes all the news that's fit to print? Well, I, too, wonder about this bad news thing.

I mean, it's nothing but bad news, of course.

And does that mean that good news?

There is good news, but it's not fit to print.

I've often wondered about that.

Anyway, you be the judge as you listen.

Vienna, Ukrainian presidential candidate, Victor Yushenko, was poisoned with dioxin,

according to Dr. Saturday, adding that the highly toxic chemical could have been put in the opposition leader's soup,

producing severe disfigurement and partial paralysis of his face.

It's awful.

I've seen it.

It's absolutely awful.

Yushenko was in satisfactory condition was expected to be released from a Vienna private clinic Sunday or perhaps Monday.

And he'll go right back on the campaign trail in the Ukraine.

So the pictures are incredible, just incredible, what they did to this man.

And he's not the only one suspected of being poisoned either, by the way.

Yasser Arafat's nephew said that on Saturday his uncle may have died, quote, unnatural, unquote, death.

A statement certain to renew speculation among Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world, maybe the rest of the world,

that suggests that perhaps the Israelis did it.

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