The Olympic torch relay: SMG vs BBC

The video on the right is SMG's report on the global tour that the Olympic torch is currently on. Things are all bright and sparkley, everything is going according to plan, and the torch will be taken to places where it's never been before, including Almaty, Kazakhstan. No mention of the challenges the Olympic torch relay has faced, no mention of the protests that has dogged the torch everywhere it has gone, and no mention of the Chinese Ambassador to the UK dropping out of the torch relay mentioned in this BBC report (embedding disallowed, unfortunately). In a separate report by AFP, Lodi Gyari, an envoy of the Dalai Lama, has urged China to drop plans to run the Olympic torch relay through Tibet in light of what has happened, but China promptly dismissed the call as another "bid to sabotage the Games".

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