dr abdullah is assistant professor at nottingham university center of conflict security and terrorism kindly joins me on the line up very good evening doctor the situation clearly tense several people have been killed now they've imposed a curfew and it seems the protesters some of them at least are ignoring this where is this heading are things going to escalate. well this is a serious this is the latest in a series of protests starting on 2015 after the elections in 2014 which failed to deliver to government so what we have is a widespread discontent against the corruption and failures of the government to provide energy livelihoods and other essentials for the people of iraq in the past similar protests have been put down this one is distinctive in that a large number of people have been killed and so i think what we will see is an escalation of this protest. government is trying very hard not to provoke an escalation wristed a number of people and most of them are reportedly been already released but i think that there is going to be a little bit of a cat and mouse game here with

seen by some as a sign of loyalty to washington last raf who's an assistant professor at nottingham university center of conflict security and terrorism physics question will escalate if the government fails to deliver change. this is the latest in a series of just starting 2015 after we lections in 2014 with whom to deliver big government so what we have is a widespread discontent against the corruption and millions in the government to provide energy livelihoods and other essentials for the people of iraq will be the government is going to unilaterally step down at this stage at least it doesn't look like it will but what he will have to do is to provide some. believable assurance that they going to make a change and it's very hard to imagine anything that the current government can do that will pacify the protesters them so i think ultimately it may well come down to at least a new election or perhaps a stepping down. violence sadness and fantasy these are just some of the things you might expect to see when you visit an art gallery renowned take britain museum as deemed a warning necessary for a