in turkey we lack liberte. some people even claim, pro—govermnent newspapers, they are saying our democracy is not european, we have turkish democracy. it seems they are trying to invent a democracy without free speech. i don't think it will work but i am there. i am at least saying this to you, to other journalists, in turkey, outside of turkey. in turkey, the don't print, but hey listen somehow. let me talk to you about istanbul. it is almost like it is a character in the book because you describe evocatively how istanbul changes over a0 years. you know, where they dig the well in the first place is a little village outside the city. by the end of the book it is just another suburb is sucked up by the city with industrial zones and high rises and condos and everything else. has the change in istanbul changed the people and the character of the city? good question. ok, first, the change, and this is the success of erdogan, the change in the last 15 yearsis bigger than in the first 50 years of my life. it is

he has paired with mel zelaya of the liberte party. together.d what i am hearing is that alliance, while it did give salvador nasralla the support he needed to get this far with this support, it also presented problems because a lot of people are not distinguishing between nasralla and mel zelaya. so what you will hear from a lot of hernandez supporters is, one, we are going to have -- either orlando, they're one a try to stay in power because of 2009. or you hear this repeated line that the hernandez government is really trying to push out. zelaya has allied with venezuela. you like concern a lot. if nasralla whence, thenmel zelaya will really be in power and we will end up like venezuela. amy: what to expect to see on the streets today as yours begin with people? theell, it is poible security forces will spread. on sunday afternoon and sunday night, i spoke to many soldiers. a number of them were suggesting that they might defy orders. i found it hard to believe at the time. in his street rally on sunday, nasralla made a direct call

only don't pander bear liberte macross taken a lead on climate change and reforming the european union he's pushed through a draft of domestic reforms plans to help the deprived suburbs of. message did you bring the need to directly support to see. i can be very clear message of hope but not an a one of the same commitment of the whole nation emanuel mccall has also been very active internationally he's taken a keen interest in crises such as lebanon syria and jerusalem he wants france to play a greater role what do you see some of his very quick to size up opportunities and when he sees opportunities he takes that we saw that with the election last year i was. so you are now with him as president and what he says is now is there's an opportunity internationally to take on a bigger role at the start of his term across popularity was low some in france said he was too arrogant but that's changed now higher in the opinion polls than any previous leader in the last year pleasure. he's doing very well his refresh to french politics he's pragmatic intelligent not an idealogue he's what fran

it became known b as the libert tree, and this was, of course, a phenomenon that spread through otheram towns, to other colonie in the period, but it was a place where sons and daughters of liberty gathered in a kind of open air a political -- you kno political a meetings to talk abt how they would react to these efforts by the british to impose taxes through parliament on them. we have actuallyyfo embedded ine trunk of this tree a piece of woodod from the last standing liberty tree. it was standing until 1999 on the grounds of st. johns college in annapolis, maryland, and this is actually a piece of that julep popular that was blown down in a hurricane and some of the wood t was salvaged. it is wonderful to have kids in particular feel like they're th touching, you know, a piece of history here. so this also is a gallery in which we explore some of the symbols of the resistance movement, forms of resistance. so non-importation, the impulse to boycott goods that were manufactured in britain and replace them with locally-made u goods. we think now eddays, well, this kind of buy local, yo