THIS WEEK : amateur journalist on Bangkok streets

This show is based on our network of Observers. We have 2,000 of them now. They're ordinary people who tell us what's going on in their part of the world, and send photos and videos to document it.

We start in Thailand, and the two-month long sit-in by the red shirt protesters. It was difficult and sometimes dangerous for journalists to get access to the red shirts' camp. But for ordinary citizens, it was possible to slip in undetected. That's what our first observer did.
He's in Bangkok, the capital. And he goes by the name of "Freaking cat".

We go to Lebanon now, and a pop song that's making a lot of women see red. It's called "You are the President of the Republic of My Heart" and it's a big hit.
We head to Beirut. With Leen Hashem.

We end this week with the sad story of the "giant apéro", or drink. It's been a phenomenon in France... people getting together via Facebook to hold huge drinks parties, with thousands of people. It's a nice idea, but the parties have gotten a bad reputation after one participant died. There've been complaints of rowdy behaviour and vandalism, and now police are targeting the organizers.
Our last stop today is in Le Mans. With our Observer Alexandre.

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[PattayaCaptain]

@racenemo Not a bad idea that the government arrests looters and arsonists me thinks.

[Tressco]

Yeah, go on, women of the world!

Fulfill yourselves!

Flood the labor market to cheapen the price of labor, laugh at & degrade unemployed suckers, while wondering, why there's so few good, non-sociopathic, yet economically independent men out there which are worth, raising a family with...

[racenemo]

I would fight back too and you don't know where the photos will lead to.

Government can use then to arrest people