but more about it now we're joined live from california by ben cohen founder of the independent bloggers network band media group mr cohen evening to you frankly with r.t. i'm just picking up on the news we're hearing in the last hour that turkey it seems is now happy for nato to take over command of the libyan operation because one of the countries that concerns had been the civilian casualties from the air strikes how do you think the anchor is being won over there if indeed that is as it appears to be the case yes i think. contradict you say that i grew. up sorry given all that serco that we were so i'm probably just just repeating it in the last hour we hear the turkey's giving the thumbs up it was dragging its heels over letting nato take i just really wanted your thoughts what do you think swung it in the end if this news is true it seems to be what you think one third around nato's cause in the end. i'm not sure but i think it's kind of it is an interesting development that turkey's now i'm bored with this because i think they probably believe that there's enough perhaps there's e

europe and across north africa and the middle east joining me from our studio in los angeles is ben cohen editor of the daily banter dot com ben thanks so much for joining us tonight now let's start with what happened in l.a. this week and really this is a reaction to what's going on in wisconsin and california itself we haven't seen any cuts really manifest yet so if so many people are coming to the streets before anything has really come to light is that tell you that this is going to be big. i think it does tell you that it's going to be pretty pretty big also california has we have been subjected to a pretty severe. downturn after the recession so california is already depressed economy is already pretty bad and the knowledge that more cuts are coming is obviously i think that's going to frighten people and it's great to see that they're on the street protesting because and i was going to comment really you think you can get much worse and the government is. going to see protests that's right california right now poverty levels around homelessness is hunger is all in california and th