Protests.

JOURNALIST (TONY) TALKING TO NEWSCASTER (TRISH) IN THE STUDIO

TRISH
And now over to Tony in Winjiang China who's covering the violent Han and Uijgiar riots.

TONY
Yes Trish hundreds of people, maybe thousands, possibly nobody has been killed or injured.

TRISH
Tony that's a little vague Tony, do you have any definite facts on the ground?

TONY
Well I can say unequivocally the minibar is out of peanuts. And the Holiday Inn Tehran had a much nicer TV in the room, I believe it might have been a Panasonic.

TRISH
Tony have you even witnessed any protests?

TONY
No the Security Police have got me locked up in my hotel room, just like the bloody Iranian riots. All the footage is coming off of people's mobile phones.

TRISH
Now over to Brian who's covering the civil war in Uzbekistan.

SOUND OF LOUD SHOUTING AND SCREAMING.

BRIAN
It's chaos here never have I seen such terrible seens of injustice.

TRISH
You're at the riots?

SCREAMING CROWD
The referees a wanker the referees a wanker!

BRIAN
Terrible scenes of injustice that f**king referee forgot his white stick.

Lol. Nice one. Tony's opening line is brilliant. I don't like Brian's joke as much, plus the sketch loses the er, closeness to normal news reporting by hopping to the next story like that.

I had never thought about how annoyed these foreign correspondants must be locked up in their hotel rooms. They probably get a discount from Travel lodge though.

I liked the first line a very lot. But the great start seem'd to devalue all the rest.