Report: Given the financial crisis and impending recession, empty stomachs are just one of the many signs of increasing poverty in the UK. Food distribution centres are now feeding not just the homeless but people who work for a very low wage.
SUR LE NET Obama and Guantanamo: many reactions on the Web - German Wikipédia censored - Medvedev imitates Sarkozy.
Report: Thirty years after the Khmer Rouge genocide, survivors try to forget. In the psychiatric ward of a municipal hospital, Dr. Ka Sunbaunats office has become a precious place of refuge. France 24 report : Cyril Payen, Solomon Kane.
Web News: Cancellation of the controversial investigation on crimes against humanity which took place on Franco's regime. Also on the Web: deterioration of the relations between South and North Koreas.
REPORT : Every day, 500 new immigrants from other Indian states enter Mumbai, the Indian economic capital, looking for work. They have recently fallen prey to a xenophobic party, the MNS, and been threatened and assaulted.
Web News : The Web investigates on the supertanker hijacked on the coast of Somalia. Also on the Web: appeals for help from victims of the DR Congo's war are multiplying on line.
REPORT : In the context of the financial crisis and with the Jakarta stock exchange losing 50% since the beginning of the year, the vice-president has called on his fellow citizens to turn to Islamic banks, which apply the principles of Sharia law.
REPORTERS part2: In October 2007, thousands of monks and ordinary Burmese spoke out against more than 40 years of military rule. In November 2008, FRANCE 24's reporter Cyril Payen was awarded an Association of International Broadcasting prize for this report.
REPORTERS part1: In October 2007, thousands of monks and ordinary Burmese spoke out against more than 40 years of military rule. In November 2008, FRANCE 24's reporter Cyril Payen was awarded an Association of International Broadcasting prize for this report.
WEB NEWS: Fresh rumours of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il's deteriorating health have sparked a debate about his possible death, prompting online propaganda from Pyongyang. Also in today's show: bloggers peer into Barack Obama's future White House.
REPORT: 1st the pension holders saw massive falls in the stock exchange cut their savings. And now announcement of the government is deepening their misgivings. It's no surprise that the move to nationalise their pensions does little to reassure them...
Special Talk of Paris : (Part 2) Former candidate for the democratic presidential nomination and ex-NBA star Bill Bradley joins American policy expert Pierre Lellouche to analyse the Obama "revolution" and the main challenges awaiting the new president.
Special Talk of Paris : (Part 1) Former candidate for the democratic presidential nomination and ex-NBA star Bill Bradley joins American policy expert Pierre Lellouche to analyse the Obama "revolution" and the main challenges awaiting the new president.
REPORT : In the state of Michigan, birthplace of the US car industry, the global crisis is hitting particularly hard. For the blue collar workers who swell the ranks of the jobless, Barack Obama's election manifesto is the only plausible plan for the future.
REPORT : Though founded with the world's poorest regions in mind, Remote Area Medical today helps uninsured Americans in the United States. When they pitch their tents in Tennessee, people wait patiently to get the medical care they cant otherwise afford.
Web News : As the long-awaited US presidential election's deadline approaches, the Internet is deluged with calls to vote - from individuals and most large US companies - as well as original ways to follow the count.
REPORT : Las Vegas residents have been hit hard by the financial crisis. Unemployment is at a record high, and even the casinos are suffering. Local authorities are struggling to cope; the crisis has already cost the state almost a fifth of its budget.
Talk of Paris:(Part 2/2) FRANCE 24's Ulysse Gosset talks to the EU's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, about escalating violence in the Congo, Brussels' role in the Caucasus and European expectations ahead of the US presidential election.
Talk of Paris:(Part 1/2) FRANCE 24's Ulysse Gosset talks to the EU's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, about escalating violence in the Congo, Brussels' role in the Caucasus and European expectations ahead of the US presidential election
THE FRANCE 24 INTERVIEW: Born in 1946 in the United States, William Oliver Stone is an American film director and screenwriter. Invited for the France 24 Interview, he will present his latest movie: "W".
REPORT : Millions of families in the U.S. are celebrating Halloween this Friday. Despite the looming recession, costume sales are set to hit a record 5.7 billion dollars this year - much of that spent on buying Palin, Obama and McCain masks.
Web News : American voters who have decided to vote against the party they usually support voice their opinion on websites like "Conservatives for Change" and "Democrats for McCain". In France, a controversy surrounds online alcohol advertising.
THE FRANCE 24 INTERVIEW: Academy Award winning French actress Juliette Binoche tell us about her latest project, a theatrical dance production. It was designed in partnership with the celebrated choreographer Akram Khan.
Web News : American web users have been encouraging for several weeks their countrymen living abroad to vote on election day.
REPORT : The Spanish real-estate crisis has given a big boost to debt collection agencies. After inquiries, these companies send collectors in top hats and tails in order to inflict extra embarrassment on debtors and make them pay promptly.
Web News : Drones fired missiles in South Pakistan and kill 20 people in a supposed Taliban training camp. The Web react.
REPORT : Iceland's financial crisis has reopened the debate over joining the European Union. Following the collapse of the country's banking sector, fishermen, a crucial segment of the island's economy, give their take on a possible future membership.
Web News : According to the Italian left, some 2.5 million people were on the street to protest against Silvio Berlusconi. The mobilisation has continued on the web.
REPORT : Soldiers from the United Nations-African Union joint mission in Darfur are expected to protect thousands of displaced people in a restive region a mission for which they lack both men and equipment.
REPORT : Built after the 1965 riots in Watts, one of the toughest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, the Martin Luther King Hospital, nicknamed Killer King, has come to symbolise failure after a scandal in 2007.
Web News : the Indians of Colombia are angry, the Web reacts. Also: Webusers have doubts regarding the electronic voting system for theAmerican presidential elections.
Web News : Webusers react to unexpected support in the American presidential campaign. Also: the ex-prime minister of thaïland has been sentenced to 2 years, reactions on line.
REPORT : Today, the crustacean from the southern US has made a home for itself in the Nile. But crayfish is a troublemaker for fishermen; the creature eats fish, leaving many men now jobless.
REPORTAGE : In Rio de Janeiro's favela of Alemão, the war between drug dealers and the police is never ending. To bring this urban violence to an end, the city has around 30 conflict mediators.
Web News : Democratic presiential candidate Barack Obama has announced he would suspend his campaign for two days to visit his ailing grand mother in Hawai - a decision many Web users salute.
REPORTAGE : In a small christian village of Palestine, North of Ramallah, is produced a famous beer: the Taybeh beer.
Web News : The web pays tribute to Sister Emmanuelle, who died on Monday at the age of 99 and spent most of her life helping the needy. Also on the Net: strong reactions to the trial of the suspected murderers of Lebanese pop star Suzan Tameem.
Web News : The last debate between the two presidential candidates has been widely commented by US bloggers. The now famous Joe the Plumber almost succeeded in drawing more reactions on the Web than the traditional question: who was the best?
REPORTAGE : The Ahmadis, a pacifist community that considers itself Muslim, though rejected by mainstream Islam, have inaugurated their first mosque to be built in France in the town of Saint-Prix.
REPORTAGE : Though Moscow's stock market is hit harder than its counterparts in Paris or London, Russian media are limiting their coverage of the financial crisis to Wall Street's debacle, thereby adhering to confidence-boosting instructions from the Kremlin.
Web News : In this edition: tense times between Cambodia and Thailand over a sacred temple; Anna Politkovskaya's trial starts in Moscow; an advert censured for violence in Hong-Kong; find out what traders are like in these crisis days on their blogs.
REPORTAGE : A new locally grown wine has just been bottled. The wine label reads "Vin de Merde", which loosely translated means "crap wine", from the heart of the wine growing region of Languedoc.
USA - VOTE 2008: Iraq war veterans have been re-enacting conflict situations to catch media attention as part of a campaign to protest against the war. Other demonstrators, for their part, want to tell voters that America's security is at stake in Iraq.
REPORT : Between Buddhism and superstition, the sacred Bhuddist Promanee temple in Thailand offers its visitors an opportunity to die and resurrect symbolically to erase their past sins and to make merit for the future.