mike wooldridge, bbc news. >> and mike wooldridge, our world affairs correspondent, is with me now. why is it, given this has been going on since november, why is it that ouattara supporters now feel reinvigorated over the past 10 days or two weeks? >> i think for two reasons probably, but clearly a strategic decision has been taken by mr. ouattara and those around him that they should turn it into -- if you like a more conventional military campaign, bringing these, as we've just seen, quite well trained soldiers down from the north to try to take territory that has been under mr. gbagbo's control in the south. mr. gbagbo has been losing territory in the course that these forces have come down southwards from the old cease-fire line after an earlier civil war eight, nine years ago. but on top of all that, what they've seen in the last 24, 36 hours is increasingly the disintegration of mr. gbagbo's forces, of the regular army, he could count on, to some extent, until this week and also the police force as well. they've simply been melting away. they notice longer seem to be so willi