have a cause and the government has said then they have been planning it for years because and donovan penn who go charges being down there years of dollars in concessions to build burma will lead to a plant and none of those are operational today most of the grid is plugged into what are you so exactly old seventy percent of the country is blacked out and this has happened before not a drive over such a margin city has been weeks without electricity in the past year and outages like this one have been happening all over the country for years but never of the magnitude we've seen in the last few days where the whole country was wiped out. that was davies also speaking to me a short while ago from the venezuelan capital caracas that in algeria has seen the biggest demonstrations against president abdelaziz bouteflika since protests began in the country two weeks ago the eighty two year old has ruled out geria for the past twenty years and is in poor health but he wants to run for a fifth term in upcoming elections the demonstrations were mostly peaceful bought police used tear gas to block t