journalist dave gergen a bomb is following developments in an ma from malaysia's capital kuala lumpur and he joins me now day there's been a lot of attention surrounding the the 2 people killed in mandalay yesterday in the live ammunition that was fired on demonstrators but we understand that a man was also killed overnight in yang gong can you give us some more details about that. yes so they're going these neighborhood watch groups forming communities around the country and this is a response to the nighttime raids and arrests the security forces have been doing it's also a response to concerns over the 10s of thousands of prisoners that the military government released recently in concerns that perhaps some of them would be used to rough up demonstrators at the one time in their neighborhoods so these neighborhood watch groups have been going around and according to local media in myanmar last night in one of the underlying outlying neighborhoods of one of these neighborhood watch groups came across 2 police vehicles at least one officer got out and seen the fire what was shot in t

a lot to talk about here so let's go ahead and bring in dave gergen about he's been covering the anwar for many years and joins us now from kuala loan for heidi good to have you on again so a couple of walkie talkies that's a move that's been a widely slammed to as absurd what can you tell us about these charges against. yeah keep in mind these walkie talkies used by her security detail 1st off is import export law well this is a big leeward of law that can be twisted and turned to basically make anything that was imported or export or illegal now the interesting thing here is though is that one suit she's a ministration came in 5 years ago a lot of people encourage them to scrap this law because of some of her supporters during the days of the old ones were locked up under it well they did not do anything about it and now this law is being used against her and keep in mind this is not an independent judicial system in myanmar if she is tried while those new bhutto is in power it's a conviction. the who has now been locked facebook and other social media services as we heard in the rep

and we are joined now by david gergen obama's journalist who has been covering me on maher for many years he joins us now from kuala lumpur dave we understand that the junta has now been off facebook or many people were expressing opposition to the coup organizing civil disobedience therefore what impact is this likely to have on efforts to resist. it's certainly a blow because facebook is king of social media in myanmar a lot of people only thing that you know when it comes to social media the only thing they know when it comes to the web in fact just last year during the campaign season a lot of the political campaigning because of course in 1000 happened on facebook now a lot of people would say well you know you can get virtual private networks weekends to try to get around this block but a quality d.p.m. the cost of that is beyond the means of a lot of people in myanmar. ok so so then what happens next i mean are there other steps that the country is also taking that the security forces are taking to counter opposition it well 1st of obviously people will find other means of my will is could slow things down but look just