and it is great to get your expertise on this we really appreciate your time that is jeff kingston live in tokyo thank you it's not. now nicaragua was governing sound in this departing celebrating the 40th anniversary of the revolution which top 40 dictator. someone it made repost the world the time that a brutal crackdown against the opposition recently there are questions about what the revolution has really achieved john holliman has more. this week 40 years ago in the can i would dictate to pharaoh of the young sandinista rebels who toppled him at the chance to remake the country that lofty ideals education and health care for an end to crippling inequality and to the brutality of the outgoing regime 40 years later we're asking some of those who took part in that revolution how things have turned out as a young man khaled spring is was a senior sandinista commander but now in his sixty's he's just spent 11 months in prison after protesting against form a comrade and now president daniel ortega. bernie says that he's become what they feel again. there's a slogan my i'm going to you t

cooperation so all eyes now are on the results of this important elections but we've been speaking to jeff kingston who's a professor of asian studies at temple university he think shinzo of a mind to indeed win the election but his proposed constitutional reforms will be difficult to get through. the whole show he's going to win a solid victory the l.d.p. is you know on track to get a majority but it's going to be tough maybe to get that 2 thirds but more importantly is coalition partner. is opposed to constitutional revision and the leader of that party made very clear during the campaign that they don't support abhi west or rebuys he article 2 ships that would a legitimate the nation's military forces so i think abbate bases quite the uphill struggle but you know the electorate here not interested recent poll shows that 7 percent of people think that constitutional revision is a priority people are interested in pocketbook issues what's the state of the economy which way are wages headed the fact there's a tax hike coming in october the economy seems to be stagnant nobby nomics is pretty much de

because approval by 2 thirds of both chambers of parliament and a majority and a public referendum jeff kingston as a professor of asian studies at temple university and he thinks obvious party might win the election but his proposed constitutional reforms will be difficult to get through the whole show he's going to win a solid victory the l.d.p. is you know on track to get a majority but it's going to be tough maybe to get that 2 thirds but more importantly is coalition partner whole nato is opposed to constitutional revision and the leader of that party made very clear during the campaign that they don't support base west or revise the article. fusion that would have a legitimate as the nation's military forces so i think obviate bases quite an uphill struggle but you know the electorate you're not interested in recent poll shows that 7 percent of people think the constitution revision is a priority people are interested in pocketbook issues what's the state of the economy which where wages headed the fact there's a tax hike coming in october the economy seems to be stagnant nobby nomics is p

kingston. they won't enjoy sports. they both have beautiful, flowing blond hair. and they both take patriotism very, very seriously. england basically elected the jim carey to our jeff daniels. now both of our countries are led by a johnson. so this is, while we're laughing at other countries for a change, this happened in brussels over the weekend. they had a military parade to commemorate the of independence. if you watch these guys, it's like, oh, well, like they're running out of batteries or something. this sh why you visit the beer garden after the parade. how many of you are familiar with kickstarter, the crowd funding site? so you know what it is. if you don't, basically, if you have an idea for a product or project or just about anything, kickstarter can help raise money to bring that idea to light. but if your kickstarter fails to reach its funding goal, everybody sets an amount, you get nothing. everybody who contributes gets their money back if you don't hit the goal and the idea dies. and i hate to see an idea die. so we spent the last six months going through kickstarter looking for worthy products that didn't get funded and tonight we're going to give