Saturday, January 29, 2011

Mubarak dismisses the government Obama: "Now concrete reforms"

CAIRO - "The Egyptian government has resigned and tomorrow will be appointed a new executive that will launch new measures for freedom and democracy." He said Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in a televised speech to the nation. The Egyptian leader has decided to speak to the country after yet another day of clashes at the height of an escalation of violence that is putting serious doubts on the estate of his regime.

Mubarak: "I remain President, sorrow for the victims." An intervention of the Egyptian president was announced early in the afternoon, but Mubarak has appeared on television only late at night. Initially there was talk of a televised statement from the President of Parliament, a voice that had to think of a solution, "the Tunisian" of the crisis, Mubarak replaced by the man that the Constitution means to succeed in case of inability of the President to govern.

Speaking to state television, Mubarak has been clarified that they have no intention of leaving power. The violence, he said, "is a plot to destabilize, our objectives will be achieved through dialogue." At the same time, the president said he was "extremely sorry" for the victims of the events and promised "new measures" for democracy.

Then the message to the streets: "This evening I have asked the government to resign and I will post tomorrow to form the new government." A sign of discontinuity, in the hopes of the system, should serve to defuse popular discontent by a revolt fall increasingly out of control. THE ADDRESS OF MUBARAK Obama TV: "Stop violence".

After the speech to the nation, Mubarak spoke for half an hour on the phone with the President of the United States. Obama said on the same, saying that the Egyptian leader assured him greater democracy. "Now it must be the result of these commitments and to ensure political, social and economic," said Obama, seeking an end to violence against the demonstrators.

"The United States supports the right of free association and freedom of expression in Egypt, as throughout the world," said the American president, stressing that "the United States is next to the Egyptian people, which has the right to decide its future. " Before he was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cheidere to "avoid violence, respect human rights, maintaining open channels of communication." And the White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, had stressed that the Egyptian situation "can be resolved only by the people." VIDEO: Obama's words Victims across the country, attacked the palaces of power.

Not even the curfew has stopped the popular protest. Despite the intervention of the army's armored vehicles, demonstrators engaged in the morning in the "Angry" - as opponents have dubbed this day - have occupied the main cities. Assaulting the corridors of power, from ministries to the party headquarters of the President.

Attempts to plunder the Egyptian Museum, then made safe by the army. The state television announced the curfew until 8 am tomorrow in the capital, Alexandria and Suez. Salt the death toll, at least twenty of Cairo, Suez, Alexandria, Port Said in the death of a demonstrator of just 14 years.

Another person died in the Sinai and there were also two deaths among security forces. I have over a thousand injured. About 400 people arrested. The White House: "This crisis can only be resolved by the Egyptian people." AUDIO Envoy Renato Caprile PHOTO / VIDEO FILES "The army is with us." Impossible for the police, put down the protest.

Mubarak left the army. But the situation is changing: a convoy of armored vehicles was taken from Al Arabiya while parading through the streets, cheered by demonstrators calling for an end of the Mubarak regime, the cry of "the army is with us." German Chancellor Angela Merkel calls on Mubarak to allow peaceful demonstrations.

Even from an Italian Foreign Ministry urged to '"immediate cessation of all violence, to respect the" civil liberties of expression and communication, including the right to conduct peaceful demonstrations. " Blocked web and mobile. The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon intimate: "Freedom of expression must be respected." But today is also difficult to communicate.

In Cairo, Internet connections are blocked, jump also the communications between mobile phones. The SMS was already unusable for a few hours. The British mobile operator Vodafone is to know that it has suspended coverage at the request of the Egyptian government. A move that the U.S. State Department condemns a message on Twitter: "We are concerned about the fact that communications, including internet, social media, and even this post tweets, are stuck in Egypt," read the message signed by the spokesman PJ Crowley of the department.

The U.S.: "The Internet is a fundamental right." "On several occasions - he said - President Obama stressed the importance that the U.S. give the fundamental freedoms. And the free internet access is within the fundamental rights". Then the exhortation to "restraint" in responding to protesters, aimed at security forces.

Finally, the announcement that the U.S. will review its aid policy toward Egypt "on the basis of the events taking place in the coming days." El Baradei is at home. Mohammed El Baradei is no longer under house arrest. This ensures that sister Layla "is well at home, his house is no longer surrounded by police." They were pursued conflicting reports on the fate of El Baradei.

According to witnesses, was leading a peaceful march in the streets of Cairo. In the morning the news had spread that he had been "detained" by police to keep him from attending events. According to other sources, then, was under house arrest. The opposition leader, returned last night from Vienna, after concluding his tenure as director of the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, in the morning had taken part in Friday prayers at a mosque in the suburb of Giza .

Soon after, the crowd began to inveigh against Mubarak, triggering the intervention of special forces. At that point the police would have prevented El Baradei of spearheading the demonstrations. In addition to the former Director of the IAEA, also blocked Osama al-Ghazali, Chairman of the Democratic Front.

Arrested journalists. Three French reporters were arrested. This is a journalist of Le Figaro and a colleague of the Journal du Dimanche, a reporter for a photo agency and a contributor to the magazine Paris Match. Would be at least ten journalists were arrested. The police have also attacked several reporters of local and international media.

The testimony of Assad Sawey, BBC reporter, went on the air with a bandage on his head and his shirt stained with blood. "They are targeting journalists - complaint - they took my camera and stopped after she started to hit me with iron bars, like those used here for the slaughter of animals, and used electric batons to shock me." The satellite television Al Arabiya launches an alarm about the fate of its crew sent to Cairo: no longer heard from him this morning, when it dropped to the streets to follow the events.

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