CAIRO - Another day of high tension in Egypt. Cairo continued clashes between the protesters who oppose Mubarak and those who support it. For the Ministry of Health in two days of mobilization, there were thirteen dead and over 1,200 injured. In this budget, unfortunately temporary, must be added - according to sources not yet confirmed - a foreign national killed in Tahrir Square.
A situation that has prompted UN officials in the country to leave Egypt. In the evening, President Mubarak said in an interview with ABC broadcaster: "I resign if I could, but it would be chaos." Then, from Washington, warning of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, calling for "restraint by all parties concerned", urged his Egyptian counterpart to enter into "negotiations and expanded credible" and stressed "the responsibility of the Egyptian government not to escalate in violence in peaceful demonstrations.
" On the political front, meanwhile, no agreement to mediate between the opposition and government. The opposition rejects the offer of dialogue made by the government before they will resign Hosni Mubarak. Request deemed "unacceptable" by Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, who has apologized to the victims and said he was ready to meet opposition in Tahrir Square.
In the evening the Vice-President Omar Suleiman, in an interview on state television announced that the elections could be held in August. After thanking the protesters in Tahrir Square, calling them "the torch of reform," Suleiman said that the riots are the result of a "plot" hatched by "foreign countries, the Muslim Brotherhood and some parties," but called the Brothers Muslims to participate in the negotiations with the government.
The offer, however, was rejected. Many journalists of foreign media who denounce violence and attacks. Among the reporters stopped and detained, there is the Cairo bureau chief of The Washington Post, Leila Fadel, and a newspaper photographer, Linda Davidson, according to confirmed by the same American newspaper.
A new day of clashes. Supporters and protesters of the president returned to face each other on Tahrir Square, the heart of the revolt in Cairo, on the eve of the new mass protests planned for Friday. Medical sources reported that an alien has been beaten to death. The official report speaks of 13 dead and over 1,200 injured.
No dialogue between opposition and government. The National Coalition for Change by Mohamed El Baradei reiterated they do not want to take any dialogue with the government as long as Mubarak remains the country's leader. "Our decision is clear: no negotiations with the government before he leaves power Mubarak.
When you leave, we are ready to dialogue with Vice-President Suleiman" said Mohammed Aboul Ghar. The same El Baradei had stated in an interview with U.S. broadcaster CBS yesterday: "There never will talk as long as Mubarak remains in power. Why would offer legitimacy to a regime which, in my opinion, lost." Mubarak: "I will not run again." In an interview with ABC broadcaster Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who has promised not to stand in the forthcoming elections in September, said "I resign, I can not do it.
If I resign now, chaos would break out in Egypt." The sent of ABC asked the President if he feels betrayed by the United States, more or less covertly, have called for his resignation. Mubarak's response was dismissive: Obama is a bravuomo, but "does not understand Egyptian culture and not (idea) of what might happen if I resign now." The Pharaoh, in power since 1981, accused the Muslim Brotherhood to be the leaders of this revolt and exonerate the government and its loyalists.
Mubarak glissando in fact on the question on the attacks on demonstrators and journalists of his supporters: "I am very unhappy with what happened yesterday ... I do not want to see the Egyptians fight each other." The Egyptian president said he was "relieved" after announcing Monday that he would not run again for president and said that despite rumors insisted he never had any intention "of Gamal candidate" for president "after me." Suleiman tries to calm everyone down: "Thanks to the protesters." In an interview with state television, the Vice President Suleiman announced that neither Mubarak or his son Gamal, the heir or he will not stand in the presidential election.
Former spy chief also ordered the release of all political prisoners. Suleiman, who has suggested to advance the elections in August, then claimed to "young Tahrir Square to leave because their applications were granted" except that the output stage of the rais, because, he said is a "inciting chaos ".
The vice president, said he was certain that after the riots Egyptians are the result of a "plot" hatched by "foreign countries, the Muslim Brotherhood and some parties," he asked the same Muslim Brotherhood, the main opposition force in Egypt, to participate negotiations with the government.
The proposal, however, was quickly rejected: "We're not undecided at all and we say no to any offer of dialogue by this regime," said the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Mursi. Hunting for journalists. Manhunt against foreign journalists. In the streets of the Egyptian capital in the hands of anyone with a camera or a camera is targeted not only supporters of the president but also his opponents.
A team of channel al-Arabiya, accused of being pro-government, was forced to flee from the angry mob. Around Tahrir Square, police and supporters of Mubarak threaten anyone who tries to log events. "We do not know whether to stay or go away, and it may be that is what the regime wants. He wants that journalists are afraid and do not transmit information," said Tarek el-Shami, a correspondent for al-Hurra.
Two journalists from the Russian Zvezda channel, arrested for failing to meet curfew, "were discovered by Russian diplomats in the offices of military intelligence", tells the Foreign Ministry. In addition, three journalists from the Polish public television have been questioned by police.
But the list of journalists threatened, beaten, robbed is long: those sent by al-Jazeera, al-Arabiya, Ac news, Cn, Fance 2, Fance 24, RDIO-CNAD, Le Soir said they experienced violence. A harsh condemnation of the U.S. State Department for what it considers to be a concerted campaign to intimidate foreign journalists.
In addition there are two equivalent of the Washington Post. Even the local press denounces violence and intimidation, while defending the military, "the arrests are being made for the safety of journalists." White House: "unacceptable violence against journalists." "Completely and totally unacceptable." So the White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, described the attacks on foreign journalists, calling for their immediate release.
Arrested Activists of Amnesty and Human Rights Watch. Among them, the husband of Lucia Annunziata. Not only the journalists were blocked by police. Egyptian agents arrested members of organizations that defend human rights. According to Amnesty International their volunteer was stopped by the police and the same fate has befallen some members of Human Rights Watch, which have been transferred to an undisclosed location.
One of those arrested was Daniel Williams, husband of journalist Lucia Annunziata, "I have lost contact with him this morning. So I contacted Human Rights Watch that gave me the news of the arrest. But just who is still under arrest, nothing more. I do not want to talk about this affair, "said Annunziata.
EU suspended aid to Egypt currency. The European Union does not rule out the possibility of appealing the suspension of bilateral aid to Egypt, whether it was necessary to force the Egyptian authorities to start "immediately" the political transition that is deemed necessary to meet the legitimate aspirations of the Egyptian people.
The possible suspension of aid as one means of pressure available, is part of the discussion that the EU leaders will tomorrow on the crisis in Egypt and Tunisia, added to the agenda. Fears for couple of Trieste. Two Italians living in Trieste have reported being abducted by an armed gang'',''along with diplomats from Australia, today in downtown Cairo.
He told the Tgr Rai Friuli Venezia Giulia one of the protagonists, Stephen Lazarus, who is in the Egyptian capital, together with another Italian. ''We've been kidnapped - he said - by an armed gang and delivered to the army. Fortunately, with some Australian diplomats scarrozzato we have for the city and took us to the headquarters of military intelligence, where they reviewed the paperwork and checks done.
Diplomats have urged Australians to leave only with us, so the documents have arrived and we left.'' Currently, Lazarus said of being at the Hotel Conrad on Lungonilo alongside Australian Embassy, and had also contacted the Italian diplomats. 
A situation that has prompted UN officials in the country to leave Egypt. In the evening, President Mubarak said in an interview with ABC broadcaster: "I resign if I could, but it would be chaos." Then, from Washington, warning of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, calling for "restraint by all parties concerned", urged his Egyptian counterpart to enter into "negotiations and expanded credible" and stressed "the responsibility of the Egyptian government not to escalate in violence in peaceful demonstrations.
" On the political front, meanwhile, no agreement to mediate between the opposition and government. The opposition rejects the offer of dialogue made by the government before they will resign Hosni Mubarak. Request deemed "unacceptable" by Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, who has apologized to the victims and said he was ready to meet opposition in Tahrir Square.
In the evening the Vice-President Omar Suleiman, in an interview on state television announced that the elections could be held in August. After thanking the protesters in Tahrir Square, calling them "the torch of reform," Suleiman said that the riots are the result of a "plot" hatched by "foreign countries, the Muslim Brotherhood and some parties," but called the Brothers Muslims to participate in the negotiations with the government.
The offer, however, was rejected. Many journalists of foreign media who denounce violence and attacks. Among the reporters stopped and detained, there is the Cairo bureau chief of The Washington Post, Leila Fadel, and a newspaper photographer, Linda Davidson, according to confirmed by the same American newspaper.
A new day of clashes. Supporters and protesters of the president returned to face each other on Tahrir Square, the heart of the revolt in Cairo, on the eve of the new mass protests planned for Friday. Medical sources reported that an alien has been beaten to death. The official report speaks of 13 dead and over 1,200 injured.
No dialogue between opposition and government. The National Coalition for Change by Mohamed El Baradei reiterated they do not want to take any dialogue with the government as long as Mubarak remains the country's leader. "Our decision is clear: no negotiations with the government before he leaves power Mubarak.
When you leave, we are ready to dialogue with Vice-President Suleiman" said Mohammed Aboul Ghar. The same El Baradei had stated in an interview with U.S. broadcaster CBS yesterday: "There never will talk as long as Mubarak remains in power. Why would offer legitimacy to a regime which, in my opinion, lost." Mubarak: "I will not run again." In an interview with ABC broadcaster Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who has promised not to stand in the forthcoming elections in September, said "I resign, I can not do it.
If I resign now, chaos would break out in Egypt." The sent of ABC asked the President if he feels betrayed by the United States, more or less covertly, have called for his resignation. Mubarak's response was dismissive: Obama is a bravuomo, but "does not understand Egyptian culture and not (idea) of what might happen if I resign now." The Pharaoh, in power since 1981, accused the Muslim Brotherhood to be the leaders of this revolt and exonerate the government and its loyalists.
Mubarak glissando in fact on the question on the attacks on demonstrators and journalists of his supporters: "I am very unhappy with what happened yesterday ... I do not want to see the Egyptians fight each other." The Egyptian president said he was "relieved" after announcing Monday that he would not run again for president and said that despite rumors insisted he never had any intention "of Gamal candidate" for president "after me." Suleiman tries to calm everyone down: "Thanks to the protesters." In an interview with state television, the Vice President Suleiman announced that neither Mubarak or his son Gamal, the heir or he will not stand in the presidential election.
Former spy chief also ordered the release of all political prisoners. Suleiman, who has suggested to advance the elections in August, then claimed to "young Tahrir Square to leave because their applications were granted" except that the output stage of the rais, because, he said is a "inciting chaos ".
The vice president, said he was certain that after the riots Egyptians are the result of a "plot" hatched by "foreign countries, the Muslim Brotherhood and some parties," he asked the same Muslim Brotherhood, the main opposition force in Egypt, to participate negotiations with the government.
The proposal, however, was quickly rejected: "We're not undecided at all and we say no to any offer of dialogue by this regime," said the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Mursi. Hunting for journalists. Manhunt against foreign journalists. In the streets of the Egyptian capital in the hands of anyone with a camera or a camera is targeted not only supporters of the president but also his opponents.
A team of channel al-Arabiya, accused of being pro-government, was forced to flee from the angry mob. Around Tahrir Square, police and supporters of Mubarak threaten anyone who tries to log events. "We do not know whether to stay or go away, and it may be that is what the regime wants. He wants that journalists are afraid and do not transmit information," said Tarek el-Shami, a correspondent for al-Hurra.
Two journalists from the Russian Zvezda channel, arrested for failing to meet curfew, "were discovered by Russian diplomats in the offices of military intelligence", tells the Foreign Ministry. In addition, three journalists from the Polish public television have been questioned by police.
But the list of journalists threatened, beaten, robbed is long: those sent by al-Jazeera, al-Arabiya, Ac news, Cn, Fance 2, Fance 24, RDIO-CNAD, Le Soir said they experienced violence. A harsh condemnation of the U.S. State Department for what it considers to be a concerted campaign to intimidate foreign journalists.
In addition there are two equivalent of the Washington Post. Even the local press denounces violence and intimidation, while defending the military, "the arrests are being made for the safety of journalists." White House: "unacceptable violence against journalists." "Completely and totally unacceptable." So the White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, described the attacks on foreign journalists, calling for their immediate release.
Arrested Activists of Amnesty and Human Rights Watch. Among them, the husband of Lucia Annunziata. Not only the journalists were blocked by police. Egyptian agents arrested members of organizations that defend human rights. According to Amnesty International their volunteer was stopped by the police and the same fate has befallen some members of Human Rights Watch, which have been transferred to an undisclosed location.
One of those arrested was Daniel Williams, husband of journalist Lucia Annunziata, "I have lost contact with him this morning. So I contacted Human Rights Watch that gave me the news of the arrest. But just who is still under arrest, nothing more. I do not want to talk about this affair, "said Annunziata.
EU suspended aid to Egypt currency. The European Union does not rule out the possibility of appealing the suspension of bilateral aid to Egypt, whether it was necessary to force the Egyptian authorities to start "immediately" the political transition that is deemed necessary to meet the legitimate aspirations of the Egyptian people.
The possible suspension of aid as one means of pressure available, is part of the discussion that the EU leaders will tomorrow on the crisis in Egypt and Tunisia, added to the agenda. Fears for couple of Trieste. Two Italians living in Trieste have reported being abducted by an armed gang'',''along with diplomats from Australia, today in downtown Cairo.
He told the Tgr Rai Friuli Venezia Giulia one of the protagonists, Stephen Lazarus, who is in the Egyptian capital, together with another Italian. ''We've been kidnapped - he said - by an armed gang and delivered to the army. Fortunately, with some Australian diplomats scarrozzato we have for the city and took us to the headquarters of military intelligence, where they reviewed the paperwork and checks done.
Diplomats have urged Australians to leave only with us, so the documents have arrived and we left.'' Currently, Lazarus said of being at the Hotel Conrad on Lungonilo alongside Australian Embassy, and had also contacted the Italian diplomats.
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