you know it was the first down of the five men even there at the courtroom. now they're going to school once they've. come out almost normal that was never the one. they are as us i congratulate the film's director alexander mitt does it with the premier and agree to meet for a chat before the day. we meet in the house of cinema which hasn't changed much since the soviet days and a quarter of a century after the end of the u.s.s.r. it's not only the soviet interiors that have survived here but some soviet political habits as well. alexander became famous already in the soviet

period as an innovative scriptwriter he knows a thing or two about censorship since the soviet film industry was subjected to it officially. parka. the school could not. or. could laws on there. that you don't. need somebody a dog to your st charles to be where you missed the school to move. toward and. keep the. know it to. be shiny. three of a woody. are you. not.

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so there's no censorship just friendly advice from an official historian or a political scientist on duty. and public spaces in moscow a full of intellectually learned people no different from their counterparts elsewhere the modern world. there are public events that have no sign of government control. yet such appearances may be misleading. to doc is known for shows that have based on real life stories it believes it's a victim of politically motivated harassment right now it's based on out of its premises by a bully landlord or the theater. dog had to subtly invest in what used to be a ruin before it moved it. to finances manisha victoria hall of his to wind up the

account i denounce the closure of the venue and i please you know i am not for want of no market for my future line sheer both old neighbor of the bus and we here nation she moved up broken up that you thought well you know you've got the part that grew deep not sure we should. hear of the many news really of the deep of the political support some people are sure bush just continued but. i never get there if you look into. it. i'm trying to understand which has led to the theatre it's a fiction or to. one hundred fifty reasons not to defend your most of them. but dangerous to russia today. there's an insolence putin and his

dubious friendship is bill scolding as it turns out that play is of the most problematic there are others one on the crimea really belongs to and one about same sex love is you know before the couple we discovered. nashik life de vere cut off maybe at the way you may. intend to make up or slow down the road or spike he'd say that you've got to get over it still sexiness the rush. rush into the is not what's important in the models that she almost was going to pull is to go to the first of three score didn't permit itself they would easily give no good with the or possibly thought that most of the thought they would get that is because they know it's just about most of the best but double it reduce bit of that they get in they want to go through such a life so you can whisper games when you might need new zealand just to park but the most. one good thing the idea of god there are no words and they are

the other options the more subjects. the dead roberts. victorian sists the theatre must not be afraid since this fear of authority that lead to the dictatorship. yet fear of authority is deeply rooted in russian and for me it is not entirely hidden under the modern westernized look of some russian cities like you considered burg in western siberia. the most important source of authoritarian tradition in modern history is the rule

of the soviet dictator joseph stalin from the late one nine hundred twenty s. to there in one nine hundred fifty s. millions of innocent people were executed or imprisoned in this so-called gulag a vast system of labor camps officially the government condemns the start and purges and yet it is a sign of the dominant culture of national pride that most people don't want to be reminded of their histories dark chapters. and so perm thirty six the last of the labor camps which only closed in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight is the only to regional site in this huge country. commemorating stalin's terror. my film crew must stay outside while i join a tour of the museum. where lao to take a few shots with my mobile phone. i'm not sure the museum is that effective at

capturing what for millions of people was an agonizing experience our literature it painted a more graphic picture in my imagination. too hard to see for example on this double bunk but many i did even worse than that. sleeping rough in subzero temperatures and starving well building there with shelters. although it's hard to get an exact figure it's tomatoes that about three million people died of hunger cold exhaustion and related to see he says. it's simply mind boggling to think that this system of abominable cruelty and slavery was set up into name of freedom and justice. on the walls of the prison camp of the score and they were expelled the soviet and which woke the inmates every morning. the.

law. the was the. law the law for a decade after the fall of congress russia had a different outfit and it was putin to reinstate is it the old soviet town from this to new russians want. to reference. a great star in however was removed. in the mid to thousands a unique can you live and started to take place near the camp called pillar rama and major arts and culture festival but recently it was evicted. rock musician

theatre groups poets and dances used to come and dedicate their performances to the memory of victims of the purges former political prisoners would keep artists company and get a chance to tell their stories. now it's just a modest museum without the hype that artists performers and audiences from all over russia used to bring to it. the government reproach the festival for politicizing the gulag. their eyes hugh people who will be put off and still gather around the time the festival used to take place semi spontaneous events like this one dedicated to the victims of the gulag a mate aged by the former festival organizers. victor pest of was a political prisoner at this camp in the one nine hundred seventy s. prison conditions where morning and. he tells us his fascinating story of the victim it is which were considered

a threat to the state under communism. it works issues just to reassure of course but you will always be done i mean really an edge of darkness and there are no. you know would you i choose the rule would really occur but just meet your family just as. we have created with the old image of good vision for you and your good to go the sergers way of mccomb you would move loosely in the to do with the job and here third was a who you. are to i'm now vision was you know or live you don't record they were written for bob of course if you're doing your. own good much rule you cocked usually. on os radio yeah it's not you know that you're. not additional to you if you know google yes unless another something. in them a mama i'm not quite a bit of were memorable to look about. who was good at the front would you please

don't keep to say. you should see a mushroom open and you had to endure that shit because you pushed it aboard to push his image of. jesus which he dearly but you have to know him in the ship the preacher anthony if you can just talk to the sort of thing is throwing in his writing liberally you're going to move. the peace i leave store don't we would you were just out we were bought out you know while you were at it its owner a butcher part of your budget which opened with what god will it minute be gentle it is both you and that you know he grew to greed you don't want us in peacetime still young to subdue it or be it would ask you to get. food you want as i have reported you are you know much of them but yeah gives a shit what p.m.s. you've been pushing much more stick where your name come on they do to you most of we on the ship still know most don't want to deal and you cover in your talk so at

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unheard of a former labor camp guard who lives in the area i decided to look for and talk to him how does he feel about the suffering the soviet police state inflicted on people. and i go to this. very day. more than the us for no. good we sure do not normally move them from a leash when i meet him. never give them any. gotta go to. r r. r r. and that's where the former labor camp guard has chosen to retire just next to the

place of his former employer. russians had to to toss fake communist past which tolerated no dissent is inconsistent. this union was the superpower russia is not. as many russians journey for their last greatness their moral evaluation of just as committed in the days of glory is blurred.

i have arrived in the city of perth the cultural center of the europe mountains on the border between europe and asia. i'm going to attend an interesting independently organized conference. on the rule of stalin not in historic rome no apparently the terrifying soviet dictator who has been dead for more than sixty years plays an increasingly important truth today. is the way oh. really q what do you think it is it in your biggest georgie morgan well it's a better book we are and i still don't like it that most of. us that you just don't understand that should say he was being really is the clear that by giving you the in there that there is a just because and then which i'm going to lose a bit of us law in that the so that's the business. there is the shares distorting

is the biases in your beliefs always father is the most first of all defects of our family and in the process of modernizing russian stardom killed millions of soviet citizens i've just heard that some people argue the virus was a good thing because the victims became martyrs of the russian orthodox church necessary for the courage to continue its deep traditions if i hadn't heard it with my own ears i wouldn't have believed that such a view was possible but apparently it's not the tread on the top of the stone if it were to go to church or notices so that even the who as though you're the neighbor woman in your quest to produce the video to show you of course they were true or is this you they don't. never missed the news on just. yet again the prettiest. prettiest name if you prettiest in history and but if you did you know nick of groups and yet if you don't believe them but somewhere a bit i've been the person who will get us started but it's got old saying. ready

to meet luther that are. form. back in moscow i visit someone i'm proud to consider a friend just. as you have. it is because you once a dissident and a political prisoner in thirty six campaign surrogate coverage of was elected to the duma the national parliament after the fall of communism there was little i knew in just a year. a year you know what the book was well to show and yet through fear months of. the year the governor says yeah they

should. go order me here give me a book i wish that i would see good food or good. going in that the going and i think you young women is most are stupid life. as bush knew for sure. who the man was this was. the call they need for almost always for thing of a book. or style and i feel in the middle of all the little nikka. willie willie the newest member of the three a oh yeah north of ninety two must soon will people see that he was a musical you couldn't. do it as we do you are no more it now will you do with a petition she where for public good worry it will because all sin is so. you have got to hook up with because the proof. in this was really good. and so she

got you know you say you want with it would last a little good think or feel pretty i'm sure some of the hymns. on today's economy. like the economic crisis fish of the totalitarian state is not immediately made simple in the russian city on a sunny day. long gone as the ideological harris's of the twentieth century which would lead to. more in front of a firing squad. but in place of the class in the me society has found new people to persecute. for she's good but she's deep should keep or she's here going to think we're going to be first going to make guns here like your plan will work your fascist to the sas the ocarina to me is just leadership and yet you

did this aggressive man just an unbalanced possible. know it is one of the most famous russian politicians from the united russia really. the tally has him peace but senator you have done that before you get down there you do it i always felt i should have done the math because i knew i wasn't going to happen here was that much they weren't going to go but he was. yeah i was pretty bad. here you know i mean you have no idea i would just pull over to where you know got to keep them going today you just heard there i mean i did not go hard to catch up with them and i didn't have any fun there is can how can handle city council get one schematic and the questions to. me long enough became famous and popular on the anti-gay ticket it takes an ultra conservative view and i think you should cease the foundation of his ideology you

know the russian orthodox church which you are as you. saw in the government and here's the funny part just to make me mostly muslim even though you were there to mcgraw planned christiane. poor vitiate think yes there is a need to mean that the old is good musicians throughout history months you can get you all of this just a quick perhaps but so that there's joe d'ambrosio clear as you see here and our family is not here for your service to give anybody give stardoll more your point or i leave my amjad atallah i think you already have gotten states i think he's been a kind of season he sure was nasty standing here by his dick for a man of such ultra conservative nationalist views belong and has an interesting background he speaks several languages lived in europe and used to be a liberal political activist. that he would pick us the night he wrote for his native suspicious food semisphere leader i named him because he's here spoke with

me at torrey me shitheads mean you're asking me. if he really should exchange your kind of with what we've done to get you know you were open by your new being when you remove the issue of cancer that comes off the bushy rope with your work at the restaurant the quote mine to be when you were up with each us and them in that the mine to be with every year but got the over so much what you were there what you could give and you have worked with much the stuff to get anybody version of please sir nice to me on your first look at u.t. the ruby ridge above got the mustard in contention for the tertiary stop raise national presidential because it's there i took us out to eat some we didn't teach these tea parties community quit their sixty's them cup work them how we're approaching interest in asian media competitors to mr shier to europe they said we should pay for. the show your god i will all i three is can desire to

slay the fish in your borg you. so there's a law when you think you get to go here the first one here or there she kicks me it's done her shop but you're more than the equal in the mood to be druid regret should release or strict installed fun only if you're at the sushi. earned its and yet take a quick as it's a yeast. and a couple of gum month what can you bring that would get better would give me an e.p. i'm going to. i'm going to look again but he emily and i get a new puppy and you need one you do worry but here at boyd the workers are truly garcon each night but almost at the highest form of but god watches the way it was of book with me at the janja change the any machine or yahoo yup many of. these are my silver mia me of oppression pravin yak eclipse if you're cocks that are now b.s. should be your bullshit jimbo watch talk about if your boy six ids. by the is.

so boring actually concept it comes off because i wish to use to use the issue got dorian again asked me upon yes we are going to hear words. and. have lived together for five years and have recently married and then. i drop given them on the coolth summer afternoon in demas parents' country house north of st petersburg. here vanya has a daughter from a previous marriage the sort of children are always around in this family. is a university lecturer. demas mother

you know and he's open about her experience of being them. now there is a gay man in russia it's not an easy one. to mean that you're just let us start my new look at the yellows and i love with them yes about them the cup in your eyes that. there are a lot of. us. when you get another one scuzzy you would look at the rally also i mean all sort of is this season a yeah build up will still be at the yeah. yeah block with me some look at you she was stuck with. i was almost i think so but i. thought. the woman you put i didn't know. because it. was amusing yes it was not sure. most of them i realize. but i think you know what am i doing with you that was busy and you know more of what you put i was a good ones who are still coolest the and that is. that was an example as. well as

it is going. abuzz when you're missing you lots of fancy me another bloke walks and then he was a little mostly so my but really good will as a witch in the whisky really was you yes it was how it's loosened these are some of those. you know was that was any chance unladylike i was hoping you want to bring him out of the museum instead and just as he pushes what you see. is it issued another is he up and you must and yet you do think about it those things that he said was a gun use them and i got book he's going to bring us the ones i'm upset with the news yeah. with the governor dean yorkshire. just treated in the wrong is pretty comparable. he and his girl should all just one last stop but it is still to deal it is

a wizard on the wall or in the corner store the rest of the sawdust the conchita system was in for months at the glass there with hopes they'll be zany to genie he because it could do an hour to ease the start of the ship because of which i thought the employer. could offer so crane shows up to stay in the west just under what's the you will hear more in speed you jamaal of those own prince pisco the town is that is all i get and i must lead. by the usual sirrahs here is the protocol with another word by news it don't start to said i was stand up push on them with help of scully but that the cable i get a nickel to the leg and that last train and i feel as if that it. for reason that this is stillman a cd of monty the coakley organo collects he will award it

a global course indeed we would you be a little more forgiving axis niña lindsay. while some western style liberties are under attack in russia there's a class that is liberal culture and enjoying its influence in society and a lavish lifestyle. next to russia's most glamorous fishel a famous t.v. personality and pushes god don't see any assumption is one of the most fashionable intellectuals writer and review editor. nikolai skulls. i arranged to talk

to him at the offices of his print and web magazine snob which caters for well heeled liberals and opinion for. it occupies a loft in one of the capital's missed expensive locations. this is us who is somebody to him but it took them all and that means that's the president that i got the most which unfortunately. there's a she would look. as they can you can see what you meant by just good numbers but muscular tone when you post was a sham don't go out on the stage i put them in a push to sneak up on the oyster it was a shame. that it up so look. like each note which to touch would not like to change the shock of neutral because put it in that you only approach so. first skip doesn't it because he prefers to remain there with her because so there are

more than the one i go to. the shed duty. for at least if not the photos of those of the snows of omission it would. be difficult for me to give move the me a phantom seed in a good mood but you should all be to this which seems to be as we see it the made them story up beechwood conception of the social group. to. go to the solutions to all of the ladies of existence and at least by still it a little bit thirty's that as quick as possible opinion it's just. a commission if it's in my commercial combination to do it's crazy to consider it not so. stupid but if there was any and you don't foist it yes but you know what japery is created. would. you. give all of my good with blood.

and bush when you can remember which soviet ski states you. state because there. are those faults and also there's a. problem just not all. of them could lucian and if all we did see was the neediness is but it in a day or two states will still. be new through the night when you're put in the automobile. because of four years ago it would but he did pretty well but a. problem with me. is that with such a good but whatever was worthless i simply because it. would be good as the home on a sunday neatly broaches to the nation. in my home city of st petersburg i'm invited to mediate as coo conference questions discuss contemporary

culture. on my way fare i reflect there's an entire generation of russians has grown up with no personal experience of the soviet union. russia is a totally different country from the one i grew up in or is it just the pressure group is do is to be a bitch your subjective love we broke up and you don't need some of us didn't you know. you just don't believe we are a future screwed by city of the it's just. that they should get a respite in the lease see if it's in the state entirely pushed deep in your violinist. i said. yeah you know i think it's when it's money education career family love patriotism. what's fielder. because of these values for the young in russia

today and that's a group when i get i missed the bus though i'm seeing you know what but the most the mission that i'm still it's up on yes you can use that is the list that i missed. that it's. distilled i do miss you but i see you she's good at that if. anybody did my job out there in the big game yes that was my super interest not a car. right she's going to do or thirty and that for sure it's just the view from what i see is the largest we could probably. use the look you get a little before i knew you. could have got a problem here because those who are pushing. it is still the shore. near. the edge to what the food. was made of. for me to cure which i wanted to break the three of those sit with me so the mist blocking.

the most of the still skewed sick birds isn't about them cheats on you get up look at us look at some gang said last sunday evening you had to give us a beating them. as much of. your this is now in the search of the group if you fit you know this that's still have a great. store and was cannot get to me but i wouldn't put it seemed and then to make up shit up to seven years ago. before embarking on this journey i thought i knew almost everything about my country i was surprised that there was still so much to the. one thing i was confirmed him is that russia sees herself as a civilization apart not necessarily joined confrontation but keenly aware of the difference between her so. and everyone else. i found that many things that

seem contradictory to outsiders a perfectly logical to russians with people here are not represented in power structures in the way that they are in the west yet most trusts say they're more free than the citizens of other countries. an overwhelming number of russians supports a strong president yet they don't see him as a dictator they need to extol or fear. for a long time i believe that the powers that be here should be more open to criticism . but i also wonder whether the russians will ever be able to respond well to criticism coming from outside of their borders. can russia spirit to what the people expect of it. is a strong and brave enough to overcome the konami social and demographic realities that it has a hard time accepting. those are the questions that i'm still seeking answers to.

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hello again it's good to have you back well here across the northern part of queens and we're still looking at some very heavy rain across the area now the ground is already saturated there so all the more rain that we get the more potential for flooding we're going to be seeing over the next few days the forecast map looks like this you can see anywhere from townsville towards the north we are looking at heavy rain there down towards the south though we do have a frontal boundary that is just to the north of melbourne still keeping quite warm in melbourne but we are going to be seeing possibly some showers there along the front down towards parts of tasmania it is the heat and it is the wildfires are still going on we do think probably until mid week where across the north and south island of new zealand we do have that same from the boundary that is coming into play for the south island and that is going to bring some rain showers here for christ church over the next few days temperature for christ church at twenty nine degrees auckland not looking too bad few at twenty five and as we go towards tuesday we're going to see that front slip to the north and the temperatures dropping from christchurch with a temperature of twenty two degrees and then very quickly here across parts of japan it is still going to be

a wintry mix across much of the area tokyo you can be seeing about thirteen degrees in the higher elevations though it is going to be a mix of snow as well as rain down towards the south though asuka's not looking too bad with the tempter eight and seoul partly cloudy at five degrees. in afghanistan billions of dollars of international aid have been donated to girls' education but where has the money gone when east meets girls desperate to learn and asks why is the system failing them on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. swear every since.

this is. kind of that i'm going with all this is the al jazeera news hour live from london coming up the search for survivors from a dam collapse in brazil resumes after a second dam is declared safe but anger and despair are growing venezuelan

opposition supporters take amnesty papers to military basis while president the dual visits a soldier a sergeant them to stay loyal. and at least twenty dead after cathedral is formed in the southern philippines region which just bolted for autonomy. and a piece of it in doha with all the day's sports know that talk of each sweep so too nice seven for straight open title in a dominant display against rafa nadal that story in malaysia this means that. if there are more welcome to the program good to have your company the brazilian authorities have resumed their search for survivors from the mining which burst on friday spewing millions of uses of waste into the environment rescue efforts were suspended for most of sunday over fears a second dam in the complex was about to up to but they say there is little hope of

finding alive any of the estimated two hundred and fifty people still not accounted for there see seven bodies have been recovered so far well from bernardino daniel schorr i'm not a story. this is the result of the downburst which you don't millions of liters of waste from a non or mine in minutes it destroyed everything in its path but you taisha that infrastructure homes and lives. didn't come of this so really are delusional but it is rich i'm just looking for a survivor or any sign of life in the wreckage of this house maybe a leg or a head of a person i don't know the way the house was built and fell it's hard to see anything. the authorities say there's little chance of finding survivors but families of the estimated two hundred fifty people unaccounted for continue to say . we found for the nunda looking for his brother better than

a subcontractor at the mine obviously want to have come to the river to see if i can find some information someone who could tell me something maybe they'll find a body and it might be my brother the mine owners valet have been fined sixty six million dollars the company said the recent inspection past the dam safe. this is just one tiny part of the huge devastation in this region a swathe of destruction that swept through this area destroying homes killing possibly hundreds of people many questions being asked about why lessons were not learned from the last such disaster in the nearby town of marianna in november two thousand and fifteen. the town the dean your remains tense these precautions taken with news of a possible second dam about to rupture the author of it is evacuated families in vulnerable areas and continue to distribute food water medicine and. pretty dodgy has got up a source for view this is still

a possibility it will find survivors until we find every single body the fire department works with the understanding that there are still people alive i mean. some say they will not cannot give up this well there is still some hope. my mom cannot go out she's on medications i'm the only one who can go out and look for information. on their al-jazeera from an genial brazil. the former environmental minister marina silva has visited the site of the collapse she's demanding more preemptive action to stop similar disasters in future so it was also former presidential candidate said congress should bear parts of the blame for not toughening regulations the force meant an avalanche of modern rock has crashed into a hotel in peru killing at least sixteen people it happened in the southern city of a can see a wedding was being hosted that at the venue with

a hundred guests attending when the accident happened and what's lie books through the walls of the hotel and thirty four people were injured to venezuela where opposition leader won as stepped up his appeals to the country's military hoping the soldiers will break their loyalty to president nicholas with duel why the supporters have been visiting military bases around the country handing out amnesty papers the venezuelan armed forces stood by medusa so far despite a defection by his u.s. defense attack on saturday it is all going it's all going to sweden soldiers aren't speaking to you it's time to get on the side of the constitution it's not the time for fear it's not the time to back your involvement but with the remains defiant he's been on tours of two military bases west of caracas where he urged soldiers to stay loyal to his government he took the opportunity to show off the state sauce with russian made weapons soldiers there insisted they were committed to magickal

we're not planning to participate in a coup in. the morning of course. we are in the preparation for a deployment of force that's why i've come to shake your hands to exchange an understanding to tell you that in me as commander in chief you have the highest guarantee of national defense and independence in the guarantee of peace and independence of the civic military unit. well keeping the support of the military is vital if president to do is to hold on to power in venezuela his predecessor who chavez was a former senior military officer and appointed former military colleagues to his government after he swept to power in the one nine hundred ninety eight election but there was also highly dependent on the military support and high ranking officers have reportedly been allowed to get rich through corrupt tipitina's during his rule military leaders pledged allegiance to him on thursday the day after one why do swore himself in as interim president well since then watto has repeatedly

which doubts of rank and file soldiers like the majority of venezuela's population are suffering under the presidency. he was latin america decided to see a new limb is live for us and good to on the venezuelan colombian border hi there lucy a so it's all about either side trying to shore up support then from the ministry. absolutely the armed forces were on center stage yet again both sides appealing to them to remain loyal or rather to become disloyal to president nico last mughal we've saw a lot of people going from house to house in the homes of the relatives of army officers even going up to policeman to promise that there will be no reprisals against them if they be traced they turn on president and side with an interim government that would they say be in support of a constitutional democratic restoration of law in venezuela but we also heard from

president mughal that he is not going to let them rest he says he felt like a soldier and he reiterated that but nobody respects the we found this very interesting said we can this is never respected betrayal is never respected we're going to show the world our strength through military power and he repeated that from these tense to the fifteenth of february they will be holding unprecedented military exercises to show the military might of venezuela that is presuming that he can still keep the army by his side between now and then and the c.e.o. we also heard didn't we. had that iran's one hundred offices and supports have been arrested on sunday alone what more do we know about that. yes he said one hundred but then shortly after he spoke of the penal forum which is an independent in geo the tracks arrests in venezuela came out with get an updated report that says that that number has jumped from five hundred on friday to almost

eight hundred ads of this hour so that is a huge jump in arrests seven includes under-age students and people but also according to why go a lot of politicians members of the opposition parties when he says are being selectively arrested and taken from their homes and put under arrest. what he did also was to appeal to the united nations high commissioner for human rights michele back to speed up her planned trip to venezuela for the chicken witness what he called the humanitarian crisis that is taking place in venezuela at this hour and i also wonder. what the average person on the street i'm thinking about where you are what they want after so much turmoil over such a long time. i think what everybody is wailing no matter what their political persuasion wants is for some kind of normality to return to this country that is undergoing an extraordinary human humanitarian crisis political crisis

economic crisis any way you look at it it's a disaster and this was one of the world's richest most prosperous and certainly one of latin america's most prosperous nations once upon a time now they have between three and five million people living abroad so they want to be able to return home those of them who are here in colombia just on the other side of the venezuelan border and elsewhere want to be able to return to their country and at least be able to feed their families and live in safety because also crime is rampant many people of course have lost faith that president can deliver that even those who voted for him not so long ago feel that this country desperately needs change. you see in human they are joining me there live from the sea of thank you. the men served as a latin american expert for the obama campaign he joins us now from washington sir thank you very much for joining us on the program how important if you could put it in context for us barry this military support from

a duel how crucial is it that he can hang on to what there is of that. well julie i think military support from enduros is really fundamental to this regime continuing in power and we're already starting to see some cracks in support even amongst the ranks of the middle of the military for the majority regime just as an example of this you mentioned this earlier was the defection by the military attache at the venezuelan embassy in washington changing his support from president maduro to interim president. and i think that is a last trade of of what's starting to happen within the rank and file of the military you know that these folks at the end of the day also don't want to see their country fall apart and i think little by little we are going to see more and more cracks emerge in the military but to answer your question it really is fundamental to this regime continuing so i'm guessing what we're saying barrie is

he wouldn't be wise to rely on whatever support there may appear to be right now i think that's right my other concern are the paramilitary organizations that are supported by the venezuelan government that have been going into communities and neighborhoods and have engaged in summary executions of protesters so one needs to look at the the formal military complex within venezuela but my other concern and the other area that we need to focus on are the informal networks of paramilitary organizations that are also supported supporting the duro and on which he is also relying we've also heard from why don't have them we about the alleged all position.