The Listening Post – BP’s public relations headache
This week on the show: A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico equals a massive PR headache for BP and the ethical dilemma faced by news organisations when their journalists are kidnapped – to report or not to report?
Duration : 0:22:39
Riz Khan – US and Israel: scarred relations?
Beyond the issue of settlements in Jerusalem, there has been no progress on resuming the Middle East peace talks, and Palestinians fear that there will be no land to negotiate about within the next few years.
Riz takes a closer look at Middle East developments and Israel-US relations.
Duration : 0:22:32
Chinese-Myanmar relations blurred along border
Chinese premier Wen Jiabao will make an official visit to Myanmar this month, the first by the communist country’s top leader in nearly 10 years.
China is the closest and most powerful ally of Myanmar’s military leaders.
But Chinese policy towards Myanmar is not as homogenous as many might expect.
Provinces along the border often take their own decisions over its relations with Myanmar.
Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett reports from the southern province of Yunnan (02 Jun 2010).
Duration : 0:3:2
Inside Story – Egypt-Hezbollah relations strained – 12 Apr 09 – Part 1
Relations between Egypt and Hezbollah have deteriorated, after the arrest of 49 people supposedly linked to the Lebanese group. Are Hezbollah’s sights really set on Egypt? Was the group sent to help Palestinians in Gaza? Or is this all political brinkmanship?
Duration : 0:15:34
John Safran’s Race Relations – foreskin restoration
John Safran concludes that his Jewish indoctrination cant be easily shaken, as it began just after birth, when he was circumcised by a rabbi. Enraged, John hastens again to America, where he gives himself over to Wayne Griffiths of NORM (the National Organization for Restoring Men) for a hands-on circumcision reversal.
Duration : 0:4:58
Barney Miller – Community Relations
The detectives of the 12th Precinct have to cope with an irate landlord, a musket-toting oldster and a blind shoplifter.
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Duration : 0:25:36
Riz Khan – US-Egypt relations – 18 Aug 09 – Part 1
Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, is visiting Washington for the first time in five years to meet his US counterpart on Tuesday. On Tuesday’s Riz Khan, we look at the changing nature of US-Egypt relations and what may lie ahead if power transfers from father to son.
Duration : 0:11:56
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Iran-US relations
Iran’s president says if new international sanctions are passed against his country, relations with the United States will never improve.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was speaking a day after western diplomats walked out during his speech at a United Nations nuclear non-proliferation conference in New York.
He spoke to Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi about Iran-US ties, as well as the possibility of reaching an agreement on Iran’s nuclear aspirations. (May 5, 2010)
Duration : 0:4:19
What relations does Somalia have with its former colonies?
Somalia italiana was a colony of the Kingdom of Italy from the 1880s until 1941 and the same with Britain and France. So..what relations do they have now? Do Somalis get like citizenship to their Italy, Britain, and France now?
Are there any good relations between these countries other then pirate problems? Is there any brotherhood felt between their people and/or legislation?
From the 1940s until the civil war broke out, there were still Somalis who watched Italian films in the cinemas in the southern regions of Somalia and some still spoke Italian. There were also still some Italians living in these regions of Somalia. Lately though, I don’t think there are many Somalis at all in Italy, there are more in the UK. It’s still very difficult for Somalis in Somalia to get citizenship anywhere, whether it’s the UK or Italy or the US.
France colonized only Djibouti, not modern-day Somalia, so I don’t really know much about that region and I’m more familiar with Italian-colonized Somalia. I don’t think there are good relations between the countries. Somalis have great pride and fought bitterly against the colonialists. I don’t see why there would be good relations. That’s not to say that Somalis hate Italy or Italians or Brits or the UK. I know many Somalis who enjoyed their time in Italy and who had good Italian friends. One of my uncles is named after his father’s good Italian friend. I only mean that there doesn’t seem to be a special relationship between Italy as a country and Somalia or the UK and Somalia.
Riz Khan – US-Iran relations – 23 Sep 08 – Part 1
The United Nations General Assembly has convened in New York amid a global financial crisis, rising oil prices and loud protests.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, is due to address the General Assembly on Tuesday.
His second visit to the UN has been marred in protests with thousands of demonstrators protesting Iran’s threats towards Israel and its human rights record.
A massive pro-democracy rally is scheduled to take place during the president’s address in which he is expected to criticise the US and its foreign policy as well as defend Iran’s uranium enrichment programmes.
On Riz Khan we take a look at the current state of US-Iran relations and what a change in the White House might mean for the way forward.
Duration : 0:12:43