near the presidential palace one elderly man reportedly died after being caught up in a stampede. earlier prime minister ahmed wahid issued this warning after demonstrators gave flowers to police. but we should recall. that in syria it also began with roses. food flicka who s eighty two is reportedly receiving medical treatment in geneva he suffered a stroke six years ago and has rarely been seen in public since zero thirty say the president does retain a firm grip on public affairs his opponents claim but flicka is too frail to lead the country they say algeria is being ruled by advises in his name. and as these protests in algeria grow in strength they re being organized in large part on social media did earlier report and shared readers here he s been following the story how are people using online media to rally for support well we ve been
a stroke six years ago and has rarely been seen in public since authorities say the president does retain a firm grip on public affairs his opponents claim but flicka is too frail to lead the country they say algeria is being ruled by advisers in his name. and as the protests in algeria grow in strength they are being organized in large part on social media get out the reportage out great is here to tell us more shout how are people using their own line networks to rally and gain support we ve been speaking to activists on the ground and what they ve been telling us that the protests have been organized quite spontaneously through tools like facebook missin and what this means is that people are receiving chain messages in their personal facebook inbox from both people they know and people they don t know are in these messages contain instructions on where to go or to rally and we ve got one of these messages to show you this was sent to us by an activist in algeria on the ground