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I recommand you to visit the TV5Monde Web site that allows you to access the didactical program "7 jours sur la planète" where your can watch some news of the week with transcripts, exercises and activities for all levels :
http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/enseigner-apprendre-francais/accueil_apprendre.php
If you have difficulties to watch it on your computer, watch and record the 26 minute subtitled program "7 jours sur la planète" every Saterday on TV5 at 8:25 AM and exercice your comprehension by making the exercices and activities.

It is possible to watch the news online (but without subtitles or linguistic help) on :

France 2

http://jt.france2.fr/

Rtbf1 (Belgium)

http://www.la1.be/rtbf_2000/bin/view_something.cgi?id=0150043_sac

then click on the low right side of the page on "Le JT en vidéo"

TSR (Switzerland)  

http://www.tsr.ch/tsr/index.html?siteSect=200000

or everyday on TV5 at midnight

NB : The French journalists speak faster than the Belgians and the Belgians faster than the Swiss.

For the radio channels, why not memorizing some French speaking radios on your car radio?
http://www.elsene.irisnet.be/site/fr/02vivrexl/divertir/radios.php

RFI  

On the Internet site of Radio France International, you may listen to the news journal and practise by making exercices :
http://www.rfi.fr/lffr/statiques/accueil_apprendre.asp

France Culture and France Inter 

You can only get France Culture and France Inter via the Internet and Cable.For advanced learners, but  the advantage is that  the  people  have time  to speak and developp  what  they want  to  say, they  speak usually more slowly than on  all the  frantic  commercial  radios  and  this  make  the two  radios  interesting  even  for  intermediary learners.

http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/sommaire/
http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-inter01/direct/

 La mosaïque des radios : Radios Lives

http://radios.syxy.com/

To get informations about the European Union in French is not always easy, but for the radio, I advice you to listen to BFM (in Brussels on 107.6 FM)  This is a belgo-french radio of continuous informations (repetition is good!) focusing mainly on business, media, finance and... Europe.
(Online, you can visit the site of BFM France : http://www.radiobfm.com/)

About Europe on television, there is Euronews that follows closely the European news on a daily basis with programs such as "Europa review", "EurOpinion", "Europeans", "Parlamento" and others.
The Internet site of Euronews is also very interesting with the possibility to watch recorded programs.  Please visit its site on : http://www.euronews.net

I see also TLB (Télé Bruxelles) which have two programs dedicated to Europe : "10 minutes pour l'Europe" (on Mondays 6:00-7:00 and 10:00-11h00) and "25" (on Sunday evenings at 18:45 and on Monday 11:00-17:25).
(To get the program, visit its Web site : http://www.telebruxelles.be/index.html )

There is also the interesting blog of the correspondent of the French newspaper Libération, Jean Quatremer : Coulisses de Bruxelles : http://bruxelles.blogs.liberation.fr/

There is the online magazine Cafébabel that follows the European news (interesting you may find the articles in French but also in English, German, Italian, Spanish, Calatan and Polish) : http://www.cafebabel.com/fr/.

And the French Web portal, Toute l'Europe (but of course, only in French) : http://www.touteleurope.fr/