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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 ´óÏó´«Ã½ 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 ´óÏó´«Ã½ Russian’s Lina Rozovskaya, Camelia Sadeghzadeh from ´óÏó´«Ã½ Monitoring Iran, Sumaya Baksh from ´óÏó´«Ã½ Monitoring Arabic - and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Trending’s Flappy Bird Correspondent Mike Wendling.

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18 minutes

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Sun 9 Feb 2014 23:32GMT

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  • Sat 8 Feb 2014 11:32GMT
  • Sun 9 Feb 2014 04:32GMT
  • Sun 9 Feb 2014 23:32GMT

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