Just want to let you guys know I just finished writing the next four scripts for the next four episodes.

And we will film this coming Wednesday. You know the deal after we film

We put the footage into post-production when we got to edit it

I sent the stuff to Ken, he does the animations.

So that means the next country episode Kuwait will be up on January 17.

In the meantime, I kind of want to do this new thing I want to do a monthly world news update

I want to cover major events and topics that have happened worldwide on every

Inhabited continent because I feel like it's important to not only just learn about this world

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So that being said let's jump into some news!

Alright, so here are some of the stories that I wanted to cover our first continent is Africa and the first story is:

Nollywood! For those you don't know Nollywood is the term used for Nigerian Hollywood.

In the past few weeks,

one Nollywood flick has really stood out.

"The Wedding Party" is a record-breaking flick that has spent seven weeks at the top of the box office grossing out 1.5 million dollars.

This happened shortly after the highest-grossing Nigerian film of all time, 'A Trip to Jamaica' had just premiered.

Two record-breaking box-office hits back to back.

Now, I know that 1.5 million dollars doesn't seem like a lot.

But keep in mind the African film industry usually works on an incredibly independent

low-budget format production quality is usually minimal at best and CGI, let's just say-

Yeah.

But considering this exponential growth in film revenue

it really kind of seems like the African film industry has a promising future. So who knows, let's see what happens!

Next continent: South America the story: "Phantom" workers as new year rolls in Argentina's parliament has cracked down and has started to begin proceedings on removing

"Phantom" or "Gnocci" workers.

As in people who only show up once a month to collect their salary checks.

The government has now implemented a new attendance control system

and has begun removing 160 parliament members from their positions and 30 have already resigned after confronted with evidence of their absenteeism.

I mean I get it people always try to work the system, but I mean come on if you don't show up for work

That's not good

So uh good for you Argentina getting things done next continent, Oceania specifically Australia, and the story:

Devil's breath nine backpackers from France Germany Italy and Morocco were sent to a hospital around the Perth area in Western

Australia after they had just taken a drug that they thought was cocaine but apparently it wasn't

professionals tested this substance and found out that it contained high o seen also known as The Devil's breath which in high doses can cause

seizures, paralysis, and unconsciousness.

Cocaine and other such substances are illegal in Australia and right now authorities are looking further into this.

Next continent: Asia, we have two stories the first one: Iran protests now this story has been going on for over a week

So I feel like it's not really new or recent news

But basically for those of you that don't know earlier on this year mass

Protest has sprung up over 40 cities across Iran the unrest was initially sparked by inflation Rises and corruption which then turned into a fight

Against the elite some people even shouting death to the dictator in reference to the Ayatollah the protests are mainly centered around

Economic issues however as of right now

It's kind of spiraled into more more things the Ayatollah and government have blamed outside enemies for causing this disruption of course

They haven't specifically specified on who the enemies are but if you look at Iran's

diplomatic measures that you can probably figure it out after sanctions were lifted in 2015 a lot of the population assumed that the new

revenue resurgence would trickle down into the population

however It kind of didn't and to this day

Unemployment is still around 12% the cost of food and other such items have increased the government has also encouraged counter protests by pro-government forces

They claim to have squelched a lot of the opposition and as of right now the US

is considering new business bans on certain companies that assist the Iranian government.

I find stuff like this kind of fascinating

I mean if you watch the Iran episode you'll know a few things first of all Iran has a very young modernized population

and they've gone through years of living under a government that kind of reluctantly does not want to see change,

but the government is getting older, and it's kind of like only a matter of time until the younger generation grows up

So I'm kind of interested in seeing what will happen out of all this,

but for what it's worth in the past Iranian people have definitely shown that they know what they want.

Story number two from Asia:

Winter Olympics!

North and south for the first time in two years North Korea has accepted talks with South Korea scheduled for January 9th at the Panmunjeom

truces own on the DMZ talks will cover details related to issues

involving improving relations the Winter Olympics which will be held in Pyongyang in South Korea

Details on who will be attending the meetings is still yet to be determined

but this is a very interesting move especially after all the sanctions and

international outrage against North Korea after all of the ballistic missile tests also considering that North Korea

protested the last Olympics that were hosted in South Korea in 1988.

It's very interesting that this is the moment that North Korea decides to reach out to South Korea who knows how the talks will go,

but the world is watching and we will be updated when South Korea lets us know what's up?

Next continent Europe, two stories: the Norwegian Court has backed up oil exploration in the Arctic

Norway as Western Europe's largest oil producer recently dwindling oil production has forced the Norwegians to kind of consider

Possibly searching other areas after long talks and debates especially with Greenpeace they decided to move forward and explore the Arctic of course it comes with controversy

but you know got to make that oil.

Story number two: stolen jewels!

On wednesday the Qatari Royal jewels were stolen from a display in doges palace in Venice the jewels were worth millions and millions of dollars

Police say the alarm was not working properly when the thieves

Acted and the alarm sounded off too late after the items were taken

It's doubtful that the thieves would be able to sell the items off the black market

Due to the fact that you know they could be easily recognized so if they were able to make any profit from it they would

Have to take out that jewels

individually and sell the pieces by parts.

To this day the authorities are still looking and investigating into the incident.

And finally the last continent, North America! two stories, first story: the cold hurricane the bomb cyclone has officially hit the East Coast causing more than three thousand flight

Cancellations as snow and frigid winds pummel the land. From satellite images, it literally looks like a freezing hurricane.

Story number two:

marijuana and Jeff Sessions a few days ago Jeff sessions the Attorney General of the United States

Rescinded the Cole memo which was put into place during the Obama years this memo basically gave the rights to the states

Individually to vote on whether or not they wanted to legalize and decriminalize marijuana

By whatever protocol they thought fit as of right now eight states and DC have legalized recreational marijuana

And twenty-nine states have legalized medical marijuana

This sole act of sessions rescinding the memo was kind of strange considering that the majority of people both Democrats and Republicans

Are in favor of legalizing marijuana even Trump during his campaign was in favor of the Cole memo.

But he was also the only presidential candidate who was campaigning saying? He would use federal authority to shut down sales of recreational marijuana in states like Colorado.

Yeah, I wouldn't do that, no.

You wouldn't let him?

No.

even if you picked them as-

Well, I don't know, I mean you're asking me. I wouldn't- I wouldn't do that, no

Oh, so you think Colorado should be able to do what it's doing. No. I think it's up to the state

Yeah, I'm a States person. I think it should be up to the states absolutely those

You know Trump is really not a fan of Jeff Sessions, and you know honestly at this point

It's kind of like we have a lot of big problems.

Quite frankly, I find it strange that this whole issue is such a central part of contention in our country right now considering how many bigger?

Issues we have I mean taking away state voter ship is almost to me it almost kind of seems like a very unnecessary

Evasion of like real issues, but anyway politics, but yeah, those are pretty much all the main stories. I wanted to cover

I'm pretty sure there are so many more. I could have done, but uh my first time doing this come on

Give me a break. It's my first time in the meantime

Thank you for your patience and waiting for the next country episodes

In January 17th, Kuwait will be out!

In the mean time, thank you for watching subscribe if you'd like and stay cool stay tuned

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