Albanian police fire rubber bullets as protests against Rama escalate

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorHere is the one-sentence version.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAlbanian police are firing rubber bullets at protesters demanding that Prime Minister Edi Rama resign, and it has been going on for five days.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFive days. That's a full working week of people shouting at a building, and nobody has gone home yet.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAl Jazeera reports clashes in the capital, Tirana, and says students have now joined a wider movement calling for Rama to go.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorStudents. Always the students. They've got the energy and no mortgage to worry about.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorDale, that is not a point. Please ask me something a viewer would ask.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFair. What exactly did the police do?

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAlbanian police fired rubber bullets. Reuters carries the same account, and describes the student protests as raging.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorRaging. Reuters went with raging.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAl Jazeera says escalate, Reuters says rage. Both agree the temperature is rising, and neither says it is falling.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo how did we get here? Because I'd like to blame something specific, and preferably old.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe reporting we have doesn't give the full background. It says the demand is resignation, spreading beyond just one group of people.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo it started small and then it got a lot of company. Always the way.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWho is affected? Anyone near the clashes in Tirana, protesters and police alike, and a government that is now being asked to explain itself.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorExplain itself with rubber bullets. That's a short statement, I'll give them that.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe government's side, as far as we know, is that it is policing unrest. The protesters' side is that the leader should leave.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd who's right?

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThat is for Albanian voters and courts to settle, not a desk in New York. We report what happened.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorRight. Then what happens next? Give me the worst.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt's not clear yet. Watch whether the crowds grow, whether the police change tactics, and whether Rama responds to the demand.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo nobody knows.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorCorrect. Five days of protests, rubber bullets, students joining in, and a resignation demand that remains unanswered.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo the only thing in Tirana with a clear plan is my tea.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThen drink it quietly.