but the conflict in syria showing no sign of letting up for more perspective i'm joined by julie levesquefrom the center for research on globalization speculating on where the country may be headed. thank you for joining us so more than two hundred protesters reported killed in the last few days according to rights groups what do you make of this figure. piers we've lost your skype feed there we'll get her back and speak with her as soon as possible but first coming up a little later we were turn to where the very first sparks of unrest ignited in north africa and the middle east giving birth to the arab spring. it was very easy to do and it was moments like that clearly realized that the mood in a place like tell someone something to another change and that's what. our middle east correspondent discusses what it was like at the epicenter of events that shook the entire region this year the latest episode of our q special series testimony twenty eleven coming your way in a few minutes. this is. two history in the making. testability. ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven on our