This Week's Top Stories on YouTube: From the London Riots to the New Yoyo World Champion

Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week:

Hi all,

Here's this week's roundup. Feel free to tweak at will...

•  Riots which began in Hackney, London but spread to other UK cities were captured by many on camera, showing looters attacking property , pushing back riot police  and robbing passersby in broad daylight.
• We were inspired by the words of the father of one of the young men killed in Birmingham, who called on the looters to “calm down and go home” .
• With the US credit rating downgraded and world economies in freefall, we watched the rise and fall of the markets. 
• In a week where Syrian troops stepped up their violent repression of protesters across the country, we saw videos of the destruction and were amazed to see protesters still marching, defiant.
• We collected some videos of the refugee camps in East Africa still growing as desperate people flee drought and famine in Somalia
• We were also  impressed by the speedy skills of Shinji Saito, the new yoyo World Champio
• The political campaign trail in the U.S. produced some YouTube highlights this week such as Governor Romney's "Corporations are people too" moment.