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CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: It's all thanks to new technology that a student in Texas is doing something he thought might be impossible: be in class with his friends. And how he's doing it is really gonna amaze you. That story's coming up. I'm Carl Azuz. A new week of CNN Student News starts right now!
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AZUZ: All right, up first today, we're looking at some international headlines, starting with political shifts in Ireland. The government of that country is under pressure becau it asked for a financial bailout, after it insisted for a long time that it didn't need one. In the U.S., there are two main political parties. But in Ireland, there are a lot of political parties. And right now, the Irish parliament is controlled by a coalition, a merger of veral of tho parties.
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That coalition ems to be falling apart. Yesterday, the Green Party announced that it's pulling out of the coalition government. That could lead to early elections in the country. The Green Party's announcement coming one day after the current prime minister, Brian Cowen, said that he's not planning to lead his party after upcoming elections. Cowen said part of the reason he's stepping down is becau of criticism of his leadership from inside his own party.
Australia Floods
AZUZ: Well, from Ireland, we move to Australia, a country that's home to around 21 million people. More than 3 million of them -- that is more than 10 percent of Australia's population! -- have been affected by this: massive flooding in eastern Australia. Authorities calling this one of the most costly disasters in Australia's history. The floods have had a big impact on crops, on tourism, retail and manufacturing. Part of the reason this is wor than previous floods or fires is that Queensland -- the area where all this is happening -- has had a big jump in population. One official said the government has already made about $227 million in recovery payments.
Why Tunisia Matters
AZUZ: The last stop on our tour of international headlines is the North African country of Tunisia. Protests against the government there have left more than a hundred people dead. And the country's longtime leader was removed from power. Now, some Tunisians are protesting against the new government. Brian Todd looks at how what's happening in Tunisia could have an impact on that region and the rest of the world.
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小学生的画BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT, WASHINGTON, D.C.: It's 4,000 miles away from U.S. shores, is only a little larger than the state of Georgia, and has a population about 30 times smaller than America's. The uprising that drove out Tunisia's longtime president may not be on many Americans' radar, but experts say it should be.水浒传的好词
If I'm a textiles analyst in Chicago or I work at a Walmart in Galveston, why should I care about what's happening in Tunisia?
ROBERT MALLEY, INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP: You might not care about what's happening in Tunisia, per , but you should care about what lesson it nds to the rest of the region, where there are many countries with which the United States has very clo ties and which are very important to the U.S. in terms of price of oil or the war against terrorism.
TODD: Robert Malley of the International Crisis Group is talking about countries very clo to Tunisia that have had the same kinds of problems, but where the stakes are much higher for America. Tunisia's revolt started with younger citizens fed up with high unemployment, rising costs of living and a corrupt federal government. Similar problems are occurring in Egypt. There, like in Tunisia, a protester t himlf on fire. And the same thing could happen in Jordan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia. The common factors in all the countries? They've all been ruled for a long time by single autocratic rulers. They're all key U.S. allies in the war on terror. And they have all been struggling to fight off some very dangerous Islamist militant groups.
Here's something Americans can relate to, this tweet from Cairo: "Today, Ben Ali, tomorrow, Hosni Mubarak." Today, it's Tunisia's president. Tomorrow, could it be Egypt's? Egypt's regime isn't under as much pressure as Tunisia's was yet.
JOHN ENTELIS, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: The discontent is there. It's bubbling over continuously. It's not in our interests to try to keep this lid down artificially becau, ultimately, the explosion will be even wor later on than it would be in the short term.
TODD: And revolutions in places like Egypt could lead to Islamic militants or other radicals taking power or at least having more room to operate than they do now.
建筑消防MALLEY: We saw it on 9/11 and we will e it again. What happens in the Middle East, what happens in the Arab world can have a direct impact on our own curity.
