State of emergency. After protest over his plan to extend 27 years in office turned violent. Demonstrators set the Parliament Building on fire. And they took state tv off the air. At least three people were shot dead by Security Forces. The countries Opposition Leader has called on him to resign. Thomas has been covering the political unrest these past few months. We are joined in neighboring ivory coast. Tell us more about the protest. What going on right now . People have been protesting for the last weekend it is essentially the president who has been in power for 27 years, he describes himself as a peacemaker of the region. And what he was seeking to do today was to change the constitution to allow himself to run for another term in the election next year. And this is what road testers have been spilling out into the spree in defiance for. It escalated further today because of the vote that has since been dropped because of the opposition to it. The opposition is obvious by the pic