This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube-- North Korea holds two days of funeral ceremonies for Kim Jong-il, Arab league monitors arrive in Syria, and Nordic storm "Dagmar" batters Scandinavia

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:

• We observed scenes of uninhibited mourning in North Korea as the country held two days of funeral processions to mark the passing of Kim Jong-il.
• We monitored the heavy military crackdown in Syria as Arab League officials arrived in Homs amid large-scale funerals and demonstrations.
• We witnessed the powerful storm "Dagmar" smash into Northern Europe, causing building damage and huge power cuts.
• We viewed dramatic images of bomb attacks on five churches in Nigeria on Christmas day.
• We followed the GOP candidates on the US campaign trail in Iowa as Occupy Caucus protesters made their presence known. 
• We watched in shock as Turkish air-strikes mistakenly killed 30 Kurdish villagers, believing they were rebels.
• We watched Australia suffer through an unpleasant Christmas as Melbourne was hit with tennis ball-sized hail and the country endured widespread flooding.
• We saw heavy snow in Texas interrupt the holidays as poor road conditions caused life to slow to a crawl.
• And finally, we celebrated the holidays in style as we watched the world celebrate Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.