earlier i spoke to journalist dave cullen about who has many years experience reporting from me on monday asked him about the significance of the military's threat that those joining the protests were risking their lives. it's a very significant i mean there's nothing ambiguous about it it's a clear threat about the potential for them to step up with deadly force in mass numbers we've seen them use it in some isolated incident so far but they haven't used this particular case of mass numbers but these demonstrators are keenly aware that this is a military that in past circumstances such as 1988 in 2007 among others have opened fired on large numbers of demonstrators so the question now is when would the line be crossed when the military would go that route again they know that that video and information is going to get out fast it's a different world now that's much more connected compared in 1988 in 2007 so the question is where is the line for the military to go that route because right now they clearly do not have control over the country so is there a point where they decide that's th