WEEKEND TV

Here’s the rundown on guests and topics for the weekend’s public-affairs programs:

Today

“Evans & Novak”: House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), 2:30 p.m., repeats Sunday 7 a.m. CNN.

“Inside Politics Weekend”: Whitewater investigation, 3:30 p.m. CNN.

“Capital Gang”: Rep. Bill Livingstone (R-La.), 4 p.m., 10:30 p.m. CNN.

“Larry King Weekend”: Roswell’s 50th anniversary, 6 and 11 p.m. CNN.

“McLaughlin Group”: Hong Kong, Supreme Court decisions, the tobacco deal, 6:30 p.m. (4).

Sunday

“Sunday Journal”: 5 a.m. C-SPAN.

“Today”: hand-over of Hong Kong to China, performance by Styx, 6 a.m. (4)(39)(36).

“Meet the Press”: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; Tung Chee-hwa, incoming chief administrator of Hong Kong; Sen. Bob Kerry (D-Neb.); Sen. Don Nickles (R-Okla.); Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), 7 a.m. (4)(39)(36).

“CBS News Sunday Morning”: transfer of Hong Kong to China, profile of pianist Bright Sheng, visit to Shanghai Museum, 7:30 a.m. (2)(8).

“Fox News Sunday”: the politics of pollution; the Supreme Court’s “right to die” decision; Medicare debate, 8 a.m. (11).

“Contrapunto”: Juan Jose Gutierrez, executive director of One Stop Immigration, 8 a.m. (52).

“Face the Nation”: Richard Boucher, U.S. consul general to Hong Kong; Martin Lee, chairman of the Democratic Party in Hong Kong, 9 a.m. (2).

“Late Edition”: former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Calif.), 9 a.m. CNN.

“This Week”: Wayne La Pierre Jr. of the National Rifle Assn. and gun-restriction advocate Sarah Brady, 10 a.m. (7).

“Life & Times”: Ravi Mehta, chairman of the Fair Political Practices Commission; John Dunlap, chairman of the California Air Resources Board, 10:30 a.m. (28).

“Both Sides With Jesse Jackson”: the debate over women’s athletics and Title IX, 2:30 p.m. CNN.

“Capital Gang Sunday”: indecency on the Internet, clean air, 4 p.m., repeats 1:30 a.m. CNN.

“60 Minutes”: trial of former Nazi officer in Rome, controversy over deer, separation of races in Georgia schools, 7 p.m. (2)(8).