they're also calling on the military council to step down more perspective on this i'm joined by lawrence davidson professor of middle east history at west chester university in the u.s. thanks for joining us so authorities blame violent football fans for wednesday's deaths while the muslim brotherhood says it was supporters of the ousted regime what do you think happened at the match. well i don't think that your regime. did this purposely. i think they lock the gates of the stadium which is never a good idea. but that seems to have been a routine kind of procedure. that the police didn't intervene against crafters probably is an indication that the police were afraid. to get in the middle of this but it serves as a pretty good excuse to read in bigger rate the protests against the military council and i think the key here is what the muslim brothers are going to do. you remember or your viewers might remember a few days ago there was a protest march to the end i think it was to the parliament in cairo and that was stopped by. by elements of the muslim brotherhood who essentially made a human cha

fear that egypt is moving towards another author with heaven regime and sticking with the story lawrence davidson a professor of middle eastern history at west chester university in the u.s. says this latest outbreak of violence could spark further insurrection. i think they lock the gates of the stadium which is never a good idea. but it seems to have been a routine kind of procedure. that the police didn't intervene against crafters probably is an indication that the police were afraid. to get in the middle of this but it serves as a pretty good excuse to read in bigger and. the protests against the military council and i think the key here is what the muslim brothers are going to do i don't think it can be another call to a full scale uprising unless the muslim brothers and their numbers as far as the military council is concerned. you don't know what their regular troops are going to do if you put them in the streets against against those centrally their cousins or the you know are members of their family so i don't see the army. coming in and being becoming involved in this. maybe it will fr

i can see that injury in full here on r t on thursday lawrence davidson professor of middle east history at west chester university believe the voice of peaceful protesters in syria has been lost amidst the violent uprising of some opposition groups. i think that the the people who picked up the gun in syria are largely foreign funded and some of them are in fact foreigners and some of them are in fact desert errors from the syrian army who have no real option of going back now so i don't think that there is going to be much room for negotiation between that group and the government what the constitution no document is an attempt to do is to satisfy the really large numbers of nonviolent protesters who have seem to been co-opted now who are or are displaced by these armed groups so the syrian government wants to essentially get those people off the streets and accepting of their of the government's scenario where the solution to this but the others are they're going to have to be hunted down and killed or captured because they're not going to surrender. it was hard to lie from moscow com

baghdad has tightened security along the area which has become a sign of turf for arms smugglers lawrence davidson professor of middle east history at west chester university says this fits with the fairies uprising is driven from the outside. i think that the the people who picked up the gun in syria are largely foreign funded and some of them are in fact foreigners and some of them are in the back desert errors from the syrian army who have no real option of going back now so i don't think that there is going to be much room for negotiation between that group and the government so the syrian government wants to essentially get nonviolent protesters who are displaced by these armed groups off the streets to foreign journalists have been killed in serious flash point city of homes they opposition claims the american and french citizens died when an army shell hit a makeshift media center the same accusations were leveled against the regime just over a month ago when a french cameraman was killed in a similar incident but later it turned out the anti-government rebels were behind the attack homes h

regime baghdad has tightened security along the area which has become a sucker for arms smugglers lawrence davidson professor of middle east history and west chester university says this fits with the theories that the uprising has driven from outside. i think that. the people were picked up to go in syria are largely foreign funded and some of them are in fact foreigners and some of them are in fact deserted errors from the syrian army who have no real option of going back now so i don't think that there is going to be much room for negotiation between that group and the government what the constitution or document is an attempt to do is to satisfy the vote really large numbers of nonviolent protesters which seem to be in iraq to now who are displaced by these armed groups so this syrian government wants to essentially. get those people off the streets and accepting the bearer of the government's scenario for a solution to this but the others are going to have to be hunted down and killed or captured because they're not going to surrender to foreign journalists have been killed in syria's flashpoi