RussiaToday (Streaming English news)

[Wandering Daoist]

mms://wms.visionip.tv/RT?MSWMExt=.asf

RussiaToday is like a Russian "cnn headline news" and streams
in hour blocks. Very good news source in English and its viewable
on Linux (MPlayer/VLC Player) Mac (VLC Player), and Windows
(WindowsMediaPlayer)

http://www.russiatoday.com/en

VLC Player - open source media player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/