This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--North Korea's "dear leader" dies, Egyptian women protest after beatings, and dozens killed in Iraq after US troops leave
Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week:
- We monitored the news out of secretive North Korea that the country's notorious "dear leader" Kim Jong-il died and the videos showing a country in mourning.
- We witnessed an unprecedented uprising of thousands of Egyptian female protesters who marched in solidarity for more rights, democracy, and respect after seeing other women brutally beaten by the country's armed forces.
- We saw dozens of Iraqis die in a series of Baghdad bomb blasts a day after the last US troops left a country embroiled political chaos.
- We watched devastating floods kill over one thousand people in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Washi (or Sendong) roared through over the weekend.
- We followed the wives of the GOP candidates on the US campaign trail as they became more visible and featured themselves in ads.
- We were saddened by the death of former Czech president Vaclav Havel, who was one of the key figures in Czechoslovakia's democratic reform movement.
- We watched security forces in Bahrain and Syria continue to violently suppress protesters as tensions escalated in both countries.
- We viewed dramatic videos from Kazakhstan that showed striking oil workers clashing with police in the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau.
- And finally, we got in the holiday spirit with some celebrities who spread Christmas cheer and goodwill in different ways.