2026-01-10
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I'm Alex Ritzen and at 16 hours GMT on Friday the 9th of January these are our main stories.
Iran's supreme leader sends a chilling warning to thousands of anti-government protesters.
Switzerland holds a day of mourning for the victims of a fire on New Year's Day and Elon Musk's platform X stops most users from being able to use the AI tool grok's image generation option over sexual deep fake pictures.
Also, in this podcast,
why the pandas in a Japanese zoo will soon be replaced by people in panda suits.
As a fan of pandas, I'm really sad because we'll no longer have pandas here.
I hope they'll come back again.
As nationwide protests escalate and spread across the country,
Iran has been plunged into a near-total internet blackout.
In his first public comment, since the protests started nearly two weeks ago,
the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Hemerai,
has insisted that the Islamic Republic would not back down in the face of the protesters,
who he called vandals and saboteurs.
Last night in Tehran and some other places,
a bunch of vandals showed up and destroyed buildings belonging to their own country,
just to please the US president.
Let him, Donald Trump, run his own country if he can.
In his own country, there are all kinds of incidents going on.