Briefing Room 17.01.26

Welcome back to the briefing roomly weekly show for people who see the headlines on their news app, look at what's trending on social meat here and wonder, yeah I mean sure what are real stories.

This week we've got a trio of under-the-radar items that everyone should be talking about first will be checking in on a run not to cover the mass protest but to zero in on a claim that Kurdish forces crossed into the Islamic Republic from Iraq sees a Gna'i R GC headquarters.

Then it's a hop and a skip and a jump over to the Sahel nation of Burkina Faso, where the latest in the long line of alleged coup attempts against the military ruler may turn out to have been closer to success than anybody realized and finally we're weighing up news of Japan's proposed snap election and what it might mean for regional security as always.