The Trending Olympics
The debate over #SochiFail, the social media users who forced an apology from Iran’s president – and a very irritating bird.
Western journalists are tweeting hilarious pictures of shambolic Olympic hotel rooms in Sochi. Some Russians are in on the joke but others say the coverage has been unfair. This week on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Trending, we watch the two sides line up against each other.
Also on the programme, we find out more about the social media outrage which forced an unprecedented event in modern Iranian history – a presidential apology.
Plus coverage of a debate in Saudi Arabia between a cleric and football supporters. And in slightly less important news, some members of the team turn their attention to the most popular mobile game of the moment.
Mukul Devichand is joined in the studio by Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Russian’s Lina Rozovskaya, Camelia Sadeghzadeh from Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Monitoring Iran, Sumaya Baksh from Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Monitoring Arabic - and Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Trending’s Flappy Bird Correspondent Mike Wendling.
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