 The topic today, we're asking people, what's the big story in your local news? Obviously, there's a lot of news going on here in Washington with the government shut down and all that. But we're curious, what's going on in your country? What's the big story in the news today? For today, we are congratulating Sacrifice Day in our country. And it's a holy holiday in our country and we are celebrating this holiday, how to say, visiting our priorities and so Sacrifice, we sacrifice ships for the sake of God and it's a tradition in our country. The age is tomorrow in Pakistan. Tomorrow is the Eid al-Adha in Pakistan and we are preparing for it and the people are as you know, that the Muslims sacrifice animals on the Eid al-Adha and on the roads and in the market. The people, you will see the people buying animals for Sacrifice Day. And do you have any special plans? Will you be spending Eid with your family? Yeah, obviously I am off from the office and I came home last day and I will celebrate Eid with my family and the activities will be to visit a relative and there will be a gathering and we usually celebrate three days. We celebrate Eid in three days but the first day is special one when the Muslims offer prayer, Eid prayer and Sacrifice their animals and relatives come or you have to visit your relatives. Like I am a student, I am originally Nigerian but I am living right now in Egypt so you know, the situation in country is not like before. Before we can visit our friend Egyptian brothers, our friend they are leaving here but right now sometimes we are not comfortable to go outside to visit our friends. Because of the unrest that's been going on you mean because of the protests and the violence? That's right, yes that's right. So what's going on in Yemen right now? We're asking callers what stories in the news are of particular interest to them. Also you've got the Eid celebrations going on. What's going on there in Sana'a? Okay first of all today is the first day of Eid which is when people, Muslim people go to pilgrimage and KSA so we are celebrating for that and really it's very good to celebrate and have fun because we visit the whole family, we gather and visit each single house. And so what about this year for you? Are you going to be doing anything special? Actually I'm still studying, I'm planning to finish in Shala this year and maybe I will travel to KSA. I'd like to travel there. What are you studying? I'm studying accounting. You know it's funny, we've gotten a few calls from accountants you know since we started the show and so we seem to be popular among accountants and engineers. We often get calls from accountants and engineers. So you like working with numbers then, is that right? Yeah I think all people who are studying accounting, he likes numbers and stuff like that. And we have to put in our mind that accounting we can find in everywhere. It's have a majority of work so you can work in everywhere, they need us. Well great, so what about what's we're asking all our callers today if there's a particular story in the news that you're reading about because you're interested in it. I mean we've got the government shutdown continuing here in Washington although it sounds like there's some progress being made possibly on a deal. You've got the Iran nuclear talks going on. What is there a story going on that that you're following right now? Actually as you know here in Yemen we just went through a revolution year so we have we have many problems here so we are just focusing here about the problems here in my country because you know even the most important problem that we face here is the electricity. Actually there is a bully people who destroy the the electricity. We suffer from this. Sometimes we cannot have electricity for two days or three days so it's a big problem. Well how are things compared to you know when you had the revolution when the president Saleh was forced out? How are things now compared to them? Actually there is some differences some good some are some bad but we have to go through it. For example in the in the Basi regime in the previous regime we're suffering in each deal that we need to to have with the government we have to bribe the soldiers or a person who is in responsible to do our job but nowadays it's comparing to the previous we don't have this problem. We we have our work done without any money paid and there is some problem with the the security. Nowadays it's bad because some people like to have problem here to for example to stall and to destroy the electricity to have their own to have their own achievement fulfilled just their self they don't care about the others. Here today is the first is the first day of Eid al-Adha. I see a lot of people from from another country like Saudi Arabia, United States and London from anywhere. They came here for to see if I like like to see culture and anything here. Now so what about your family back in Iraq? Have you been in touch with them? How are things there right now for for Eid? Yeah but not yeah. They are happy but not okay because yeah there is a lot of a problem in Iraq. It's not safe. They spend all the time at home. Yeah I call him I call him today in the morning. They said my family said we are we are stay at home. We can't get out anywhere. Is there a story that you're following either locally or internationally that really is interest you right now? What's the big what's on your mind? Oh yes let me to be honest with you. I don't like political issues but because Iranian people they are near for they are never for our countries and they I sometimes I hear some news from the Washington from the negotiation between Washington and Iranian government. I'm take care of that because Iranian people they are in the bad situations. They are very really they are they are very poor. Some Iranian people come to my countries to my region they are working working very hard to provide their families a good life but they can't.