The mood here is festive. Firework’s been set off lighting the dark sky of Tunis. For many of the protesters here this rally is an attempt to recapture the political momentum amid amounting calls of the government to resign. Such calls for many of them are an assault of democratic legitimacy.
Government and opposition supporters in Venezuela are holding two separate marches in protest against corruption in the capital Caracas. President Nicolas Maduro who joined a crowd at the centre plaza of Venezuela said he would fight corruption regardless of who might fall. The leader of the opposition Henrique Capriles told thousands of demonstrators in the other part of the city the government rally was a march of the corrupt protesting against corruption.
And Russia has banned the American rock group Bloodhound Gang from performing at a music festival after a band member shoved the Russian flag into his underpants on stage. Daniel Sandford has the details.
The scandal began on Wednesday when the group was performing in the Ukrainian seaside resort of Odessa. A Russian flag was on the stage and the bassist, Evil Jared Hasselhoff put it into the front of his underpants and then pulled it out of the back. The group’s next stop on their tour was at a festival in Russia but the culture minister Vladimir Medinsky used twitter to say these idiots will not perform in Kuban. The bassist later apologized. Evil Jared Hasselhoff explained that it’s a tradition in the band that anything thrown from the stage into the audience passes through his underpants.