The videos you loved on social media in 2016

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Euronews videos are watched tens of millions of times every month on Youtube and Facebook.

That’s a lot of eyeballs and a lot of video! As we review the year, here’s what our English-language audience has watched the most on our social media pages in 2016.

And for those curious to know what our Italian, Russian, Arabic and other language audiences have been most interested in, check out our round-up at the bottom of the page.

Most viewed on our Youtube channel

• 1. Emotional wedding Haka moves Maori bride to tears in New Zealand
  3.4m views (at time of publishing)

• 2. $50,000 humanoid robot built from scratch in Hong Kong
  940K views

• 3. Terrifying footage: Fatal, mid-air explosion blasts hole in Somalian plane
  870K views

Most shared on our Facebook page

• 1. Football fan consoled by a child
  Shared 304K times

• 2. Violent brawl in Turkish parliament
  Shared 25K times

• 3. The Dalai Lama does his comedy routine
  Shared 17K times

…and here’s what our other language audiences have been watching in 2016:

French

• The crying French football fan

• Fighting ISIS in Iraq – our special report

• Things get ugly in Marseille between rival English and Russian fans Euro 2016. .

• Brawl in the Turkish parliament

• Israeli soldiers take child’s bike

• Spain’s controversial ‘Bull of Fire’ tradition.

German

• Bull kills bullfighter in Spain.

• English football fans rampage in Marseille

• Protest in Turkey amid post-coup crackdown

• Umbrella wielding passenger forces Turkish bus to crash

Italian

• The moment the Nice attack ended

• A report into Italy’s overcrowded jails.

• What Trump said

• Chernobyl’s monument to nuclear plant tragedy

• And the winner is…Trump

• Trump escorted to safety at campaign rally

Spanish

• Hasta La Victoria Trump

• Chapocoense victims’ bodies repatriated

• Cayman takes baby in Orlando

• The crying Frenchman

• Stuck dog rescued

• Femen activist protests Rohani visit

Portuguese

• The opening of the Rio Olympics

• The force of Hurricane Matthew

• That crying Frenchman again

• Unrest in Athens

• Turkish parliament brawl

Russian

• Nocturnal skirmish in Nagorno-Karabakh

• Introducing the next President of the USA: Donald Trump

• The wedding haka

• Look into my eyes for a while…

• The return of the triumphant Icelandic football team

Ukrainian

• Putin in Slovenia

• German MP gets pie-faced

• English hooligans in Marseille

• Amnesty International’s Look Into My Eyes exercise

• Dangerous snowfall in Turkey

• The scary melting of the polar ice cap

Arabic

• Enforcing the Burkini ban in Corsica

• Italy’s tragic sex-tape suicide

• Gay marriage in Rio

• China’s highest bridge

• New Zealand’s beatboxing bobbies

• Hillary in bikini grafitti art

Persian

• Femen’s Rohani protest

• The ongoing tragedy of migrant drownings

• Iraqi special forces take the fight to ISIS

• Merkel responds to spate of attacks

Turkish

• Getting familiar with reptile venom

• Putin speaks!

• Turkish authorities crack down after coup

• Living the simple life in Japan

• Russia threatens Turkey

• What would you do if you saw a lost-looking migrant child?

Greek

• A message to immigrants

• The study of reptile venom

• Lighting the Olympic flame in Athens

• Child comforts crying French football fan

• The little girl who’s confronting racism

Hungarian

• Celebrating DiCaprios Oscar

• Hooray for Hungarian swimming!

• Hooray for Hungarian football!

• Fighting in Kossuth Square

• Suspect breaks out of Las Vegas interrogation room