01:05 - The Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the leader of the opposition Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn have released what are meant to be ‘funny’ videos in a last ditch attempt to get people to vote for them

07:07 - Golden globes criticised for a lack of diversity

12:53 - What’s a ‘mince pie’ Americans do not know and a website recipe is making the confusion worse

 

#UKElections #GoldenGlobes #MincePi

Pakistan’s social media space is cluttered with hashtag battles. These troll armies call themselves ‘cyber-warriors’ who are defending the country from enemies. We speak to some people in Pakistan to see how it works there.

#Pakistan #TrollArmies #InformationWarfare

00:55 - The Citizen Amendment Bill is legislation which some have called anti Muslim. It makes it easier for Hindus Sikhs Buddhists Jains Parsis and Christians 6 religions from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh to get Indian citizenship

06:59 - Zozibini Tunzi wins Miss Universe. Black women now hold all the major beauty pageant crowns but is it time the whole idea of pageants was cancelled?

12:17 - 71 new species discovered by scientists

14:17 - Panda cubs get names at Berlin Zoo

#CitizenAmendmentBill #MissUniverse2019 #NewSpecies

01:07 - The killing of 4 men suspected of rape in India has divided the country. Many are happy, seeing the killing as justice. Others see it as a worrying moment for a country of laws and due process

06:45 - Two Nigerian table tennis players deported from Croatia to Bosnia as they happened to be caught on the street without their ID’s

12:38 - Kashmir is under an internet lockdown. People have been disappearing from WhatsApp groups.  So we asked Kashmiri’s around the world to send messages to their families back home

 

#HaydarabadPolice #KashmirBlackout #HongKongProtests

The NHS is not for sale - that's a slogan for the British Labour party, used in its campaign for the upcoming general election. it says the current conservative government would allow US companies to bid for NHS contracts, making the health service more expensive. The Conservatives say that won't happen. Now, a video has gone viral showing Brits SHOCKED at the price of US healthcare - and it's got the attention of some US pollies now too.

#NHSNotForSale #GeneralElection2019 #US2020

A day of UNESCO cultural heritage celebrated every year since 1979. We look at the history of this delicious national beverage.

01:01 A viral video leads to American politician’s getting involved in the argument over the future of Britain’s NHS

12:03 - George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, sues the teenagers family for damages

12:32 - We mark Turkish coffee day

#NHSNotForSale #DarkTourism #TurkishCoffeeDay

Pakistan’s social media space is cluttered with hashtag battles. These troll armies call themselves ‘cyber-warriors’ who are defending the country from enemies. We speak to some people in Pakistan to see how it works there.

#Pakistan #TrollArmies #InformationWarfare

00:54 - A recent protest for student rights in Pakistan was challenged by authorities and by people online. Much of the online critique has now been revealed to be disingenuous and part of coordinated campaigns to undermine the students. We have spoken to 3 people who have first hand knowledge of how social media is being manipulated in Pakistan

05:38 - The murder of a young women by men in Turkey raises anger on social media. Ceren Ozdemir’s name trends as does Sule Cet, whose killers have just been convicted and jailed for life

07:09 - Facebook is allowing the sale of illegal guns in the US, the Chicago PD reveal

12:53 - The Indian onion crisis keeps raising a stink but that’s not stopping people there raising a smile on social media

#FacebookGunTrade #IndianOnion #AminatouHaidar

Its been named the 'word of the year' by the Macquarie Dictionary. It got us thinking whether the cancellation of people is good for the culture?

#CancelCulture #WordOfTheYear #ForTheCulture