The Israeli blockade on Gaza has now been extended to the media, creating a news blackout that has severely restricted the reporting of the suffering in Gaza to the outside world.

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A culinary journey through Osaka, Japan's second-largest city and known as "the nation's kitchen"

A culinary journey through Osaka, Japan's second-largest city and known as the nations kitchen.

This episode of The Listening Post is a special show that explores some of the worst places in the world for journalism.

Every year, the French media campaign group Reporter Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders) publishes its Press Freedom Index.

Looking specifically at press freedom violations, rather than broader human rights issues, the index represents an exhaustive survey of factors affecting the ability of media to operate in every country in the world, considering factors such as violence, censorship and corruption. The results make disturbing reading.

The Listening Post's Salah Khadr introduces the Index, and gives an overview of some of the 'unchanging hells' at the foot of the table.

The difficulties of reporting from some of the most closed countries that RSF describes are hard to appreciate from outside their borders. Over the last 12 months, The Listening Post's Simon Ostrovsky has travelled to a selection of the most paranoid and isolated nations. This week we present some of the 'highlights' of his trips: including Alexander Lukashenko's Soviet throwback, Belarus, General Than Shwe's junta in the jungle, Myanmar, and the restrictions still being imposed on the media in Russia.

Al Jazeera's Tony Cheng has a special report for The Listening Post from perhaps the most closed country in the world: North Korea. Despite the destabilising effects of rumours about the health of their Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il, international condemnation over their nuclear programme, and a dysfunctional economy that has brought mass starvation to its people, the DPRK maintains a status quo of near total media lockdown.

Although a trickle of outside media have been allowed in recently, as Tony's piece illustrates, what they see only offers a fleeting and superficial glimpse of life inside the so-called 'hermit kingdom'.

And finally, Barack Obama is the US president-elect. Our Video of the Week this week sees the boys from the iconic 'Wassup' beer commercial of 2000 reunited eight years later, on the cusp of a new era.

Host Peter Gourevitch and UC San Diego political scientists Thad Kousser, Zoltan Hajnal and Stephan Haggard conduct a lively post-mortem on the 2008 election and look ahead to the myriad of challenges facing President-elect Barack Obama. Series: Body Politic, The [11/2008] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 15425]

Rainforest Action Network's National Day of Action Against Coal Finance

Once a glittering regional capital, modern Naples' reputation has been tarnished by organised crime and soaring unemployment but in this week's programme, Amanda Palmer and the 48 team meet local journalists Andrea and Ilaria, who show them how this brash city is determined to shrug off the forces holding it back.

The most destructive of these forces is the local mafia, The Camorra older and arguably more powerful than Sicily's Cosa Nostra - which operates like a vast corporation controlling Neapolitan business and local politics. But some are willing to challenge their power, as 48 discovers when Andrea takes the team to meet the The "Sott' 'o pont'" (Under the Bridge) theatre company an organisation trying to educate teenagers about the dangers of Camorrista life through drama.

For many, the most vivid image of modern Naples is the 'garbage crisis', which left the city festering in uncollected refuse for nearly a year. We head to the suburb of Villaricca, home to Europe's largest rubbish dump, to meet local percussion band Bidonvillarik. Their musical instruments are built from rubbish to draw attention to the garbage crisis - which, they say, is far from over.

Naples is proud to have maintained its own language, and nowhere is it more alive than in its beloved local folk music, Canzone Napoletana. We meet 12-year-old Fortuna, one of the genre's hugely popular child singers, as she performs to an enraptured crowd at a birthday party in one of the narrow streets of the Forcella district.

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Inside Story questions the 'blame game' being played by the parties while the people of Gaza continue to suffer.

Israel has refused permission for a convoy of trucks containing basic humanitarian supplies to deliver their loads to the Gaza Strip. Initially, the authorities had said they would allow passage for the 30 truckloads of drugs and food.

As the United Nations warns that it is going to run out of food for its aid programmes, all the parties, Hamas, Fatah, Israel and Egypt are blaming one another for the mounting humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

Israel has said that as long as rocket fire continues from Gaza into Israel, the border crossings will stay closed. The UN insists that this amounts to collective punishment, which is illegal under international law.

Christopher Gunness, the spokesman for the UN refugee agency UNRWA, said: "This has become a blockade against the UN itself."

America's drive to conclude a Middle East peace deal before President George Bush leaves office in January was always going to be wildly over-optimistic but Barack Obama is likely to set an equally pressing deadline to finish the job.

Barack Obama says he'll reshape US foreign policy with particular emphasis on the Middle East. He promises to put the Israeli-Palestinian conflict back on the American agenda. He blames the Bush administration for having neglected the issue. But is his position really that different? And is he free to change foreign policy?

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Riz speaks with eminent US historian and writer Howard Zinn on his expectations for an Obama presidency and his views on Ralph Nader.

48 visits Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's largest city, its economic and cultural hub and one of the most promising cities in Asia.

The UN is to send a convoy of food and medical supplies to help the 250,000 people displaced by recent fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Thousands of people have been displaced in eastern DR Congo amid fighting between government forces and fighters from the rebel National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP).

The CNDP is led by Laurent Nkunda, a renegade general who says he is fighting to protect the region's ethnic Tutsis.

The latest outbreak of violence is threatening to escalate an already disastrous humanitarian situation.

Inside Story asks why this crisis has erupted now and how much of it is fuelled by ethnic tensions and the battle to control the country's natural resources.

Amanda dons her hiking boots to discover why over a thousand Gdansk residents are willing to hike the 500km to the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, joining thousands of others making the pilgrimage across this 90 per cent Catholic country.

After a gruelling 12km, the 48 crew swap the sweaty tarmac for breezy railtrack thanks to Tomek, a local train enthusiast and entrepreneur whose handcarting enterprise represents Poland's new wave of small businesses that are helping to keep the Polish economy on the rails.

Even before the recent global financial crisis, not everyone felt included in the country's booming economy, as we discover when singer and self-appointed man-of-the-people Bartek takes us out on his day job door-to-door internet selling in one of Europe's biggest housing blocks. After meeting the masses, Bartek takes us to one of the subjects of his satire, the heavily gentrified beach resort Sopot where he vents his anger, in song, on the highstreet.

In 2006 Peter Schiff tells over 1000 mortgage brokers they are about to be out of jobs. Watch how he completely nails the coming real estate/mortgage debacle before anyone else even realized it was coming.

Best Of Edit of our TV-Production and VNR:
World première of the Montblanc Prince Rainier III Limited Edition 81 fountain pen in homage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Exclusive gala evening with 300 selected personalities and stars under High Patronage of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco. Nov 14th 2007. Half of the sales revenue from each writing jewel (worth EUR 200.000) is given to the Fondation Princess Grace to continue the cultural commitment lived by Prince Rainer III.
Directed by: Philipp von Kap-herr
Production : Selectfilm.de

EVA GREEN & PRINCE ALBERT II (speech).
VNR/B-roll of: World première of the Montblanc Prince Rainier III Limited Edition 81 fountain pen in homage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Exclusive gala evening with 300 selected personalities and stars under High Patronage of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco. Nov 14th 2007. Half of the sales revenue from each writing jewel (worth EUR 200.000) is given to the Fondation Princess Grace to continue the cultural commitment lived by Prince Rainer III.
Directed by: Philipp von Kap-herr
Production : Selectfilm.de

Mike Oliver ("The Machine") takes the vacant IBO Super Bantamweight title in an action packed 12 round fight at the Mohegan Sun Casino and Resort on 11/8/2007. Action here from the 8th round.

New York, New York (May 15, 2008) — www.gofightlive.tv is pleased to announce that it will be again be broadcasting a full scheduled 10-bout card from the world famous Blue Horizon in Philadelphia PA, featuring flyweight Eric Hunter (8W-1L, 3 KOs) vs undefeated Jules Blackwell (7W, 2 KOs), this Friday, June 6th, starting at 7:30 EDT. Tune in and catch all the action at what is sure to be an extremely entertaining event!

Manu Chao live clip in Buenos Aires / Nov 28, 2007 after the Press Conference - with "Radio Roots"

Yiu is playing

Slave To the Grind en la sala Ritmo & Compás de Madrid... increíble concierto

Ceremony by New Order (Joy Division)
sorry for the watermark, but flip4mac is nice.

Sir David speaks to former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto about her controversial return to Pakistan, who she thinks is behind the deadly bombing of her convoy in Karachi last month, and whether she and Musharraf can forge a powersharing agreement.

Frank Caliendo impersonates every Seinfeld character in this pre-release video of his new sketch show. He even does Elaine. Its really funny.

Lady GaGa nous offre un second extrait tubesque de son album "The Fame" toujours disponible dans les Bacs. Single "Poker Face" dans les bacs le 26 janvier 2009...

Nov Klip na Dueta

Na jivo ot koncerta na Nov Folk - Zapis ot DVD ot 19/03/2008

Whitney Houston singing Heartbreak Hotel with Faith Evans and Kelly Price [Live from Rosie O'Donnell Show, Nov. 23rd, 1998]

Blue Planet from the last Alice Nine album Alpha
release: Nov 28 2007

Local 2 investigates the business calling itself the world's largest Chevy dealer. But some consumer groups call it the biggest offender when it comes to car sales scams. Bill Heard Chevrolet has paid millions in fines for its sales tactics in several states. Thanks to www.Click2Houston.com for providing this clip (Nov 2007).

The Fray, joined by the Damnwells, perform Look After You on Nov. 18, 2006 at Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon. Fray singer Isaac Slade trades verses with lead singer for the Damnwells, Alex Dezen.