The World's Lisa Mullins speaks with Gregory Levey, a former speech writer for the Israeli government and author of the book "Shut Up, I'm Talking - and other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Government."

Host Lisa Mullins explains how the rising cost of food is encouraging Afghan poppy farmers to switch to legal crops.

Host Lisa Mullins speaks with Jean Ziegler, the United Nations "Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food" about how biofuel production may be contributing to the global food crisis.

Derek Stoffel reports that while a global food crisis continues to escalate, Canada has a different problem - there are too many hogs and too many hog farmers. The Canadian government is now paying hog farmers to thin their herds or even go out of business.

The World's Katy Clark reports that the United Nations today announced that it's stopping food aid delivery to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. UN officials say they've run out of fuel because of an Israeli blockade on Gaza.

UN aid distribution in Gaza

Entire program - April 24, 2008

The World's Marco Werman introduces us to "Miles from India," a musical collaboration between jazz musicians from the United States and India that was inspired by the music of the late Miles Davis.

The two islands - one American and one Russian - in the middle of the Bering Strait, are the Big and Little Diomede Islands. The World's David Leveille follows up on a recent Geo Quiz about the distance between the US and Russia.

The World's Aaron Schachter reports from Bucharest that Romania's housing market is booming, and consumer spending is high. But analysts there are worried that it may all come crashing down.

For today's Geo Quiz, we're looking for the name of two tiny islands in the middle of the Bering Strait. One island is Russian territory and the other is American.