news of the dramatic unrest and overthrow of the regime of Ben Ali in Tunisia relegated to back pages, short-shrift and afterthoughts in mainstream U.S. media, it has taken center stage in most other media outlets throughout the rest of the world. Probably because it has become something of a catalyst for other movements to begin taking shape, most notably in the Arab world. Similar protests are now taking place in Algeria and Yemen, and there have been a wave of self-immolation protests taking place in Cairo, Alexandria, Algiers Riyadh, Samitah (Saudi Arabia), Nouakchott (Mauritania) and several other places, similar to the self-immolation protest of Muhammad Bouzizi in Tunisia, which sparked the protests which led to the current overthrow.

The situation is far from stable, in fact it is becoming more volatile with each hour with latest reports of the Tunisian Police joining the protesters. As various observers are saying - this is only the beginning.

And yet somehow we're not hearing anything about it.

So with that in mind - I have put together running news reports from the BBC World Service and their comprehensive twice daily Newshour program from January 13-18th. And even though the news is moving very fast, and is changing by the hour, at least it's a start. I will put up more over the coming days. I would urge you to go over to the BBC site and check out their additional reports as well as Tweets from Tunis.

These reports run around three hours and I have broken them up between two players. The first player (top one) covers January 13-15 and the second player (just below), covers January 16-18. Probably best to download these and listen at your leisure - it's crammed with information and reports.