This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--Occupy protests, a deadly storm rips through the US south, and Italians cheer at Berlusconi's demise
Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week:
- We watched police officers in cities across the United States forcibly remove Occupy protesters from their camps and later clash with Occupy Wall Street demonstrators who continued to speak out.
- We saw a huge storm system that produced several possible tornadoes and killed at least six people sweep across the southern US states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina.
- We observed thousands of Italians rejoice in song and cheers at the resignation of their controversial prime minister Silvio Berlusconi after many wanted new leadership in dealing with the country's economic woes.
- We witnessed protesters in Kuwait storm parliament calling for the resignation of their prime minister over allegations of corruption.
- We followed Herman Cain's brain freeze over Libya, Mitt Romney's Google+ hangout, and Newt Gingrich's rise to the top of the GOP polls on the US campaign trail.
- We monitored the Penn State Jerry Sandusky scandal as it continued to grow after the charged sex offender spoke out.
- We observed an estimated 50,000 people take to the streets in Greece on the anniversary of the Nov. 17 students' uprising to protest the country's latest austerity measures.
- We noted the continued deadly violence in Syria despite a suggestion from Jordan that President Assad should step down and the suspension of the country from the Arab League bloc.
- We looked on as security forces in Brazil moved into Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro in an intense crack down on drug gangs.
- And finally, we were entertained by the unusual venue of an aircraft carrier for a NCAA basketball game between the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Michigan State Spartans.