 okay so it's approximately 5 30 p.m. in the afternoon i'm just on my way now to the flag parade i've been keeping up to date with events on twitter this has been called a mass mass raid i don't think i've ever participated in a mass raid before notably a few people on the streets and i'm just walking in the direction of the old city now so i'm gonna see what is going on at the moment there's police presence all around the old city right now because of the parade that's about to kick off just past jaffa gate i think this is honestly the most police i've ever seen in drusselm it's very very intense there's police everywhere not so many people and checkpoints all over the city and the streets are like eerily quiet for a weekday at about six o'clock so uh hopefully getting a leaf to where this event starts pretty soon by 100 meters from the massive gate and this is the headline news right now is uh what's going on just sighted on the road this is when you know you're in the center of things the last time this happened it literally to the masses gate this time fortunately there was no such security incident the parades finished peace planes the gate with the crowds and moving away from Damascus gate which was kind of always the most serious potential flashpoint and i spoke to a number of people here and most people were just enjoying their day out so uh security was extremely intense as i remarked and this will be hopefully this time next year