CAIRO - After a day of massive protests and peaceful, with the streets of Cairo full of hundreds of thousands of Egyptians who have responded to the call for the "march of a million," President Hosni Mubarak gave in to pressure and announced in a speech to the country that will remain in office until the next election and then not be standing for re.
Concessions are not enough to appease the protest: the message is received by Saddam demonstrators in Tahrir square in central Cairo, shouting "Get out! Get out! Get out!". For the Nobel laureate Mohammed El Baradei, who asked the president to leave office no later than Friday, Mubarak does not listen to the voice of the people "and the amendment of the Constitution is" just a joke.
" The image that remains is to Tahrir square completely full, despite the measures taken by authorities to prevent the mass mobilizations (disruption of rail and air links, and Internet services). According to local sources in the symbol of the uprising against the regime gathered today two million people.
And thousands of Egyptians took to the streets even in Alexandria and Suez. It aggravates the meantime the death toll: at least 300 deaths since the unrest second Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Mubarak's speech. "I do not for election for the next election because I spent too much time in the service of this country, but I want to finish my work in the coming months by ensuring that there is a peaceful transition," Mubarak said after a hectic day.
In his address to the nation the president insists on "peaceful transition", dialogue and the necessary amendments to the Constitution as inquiries concerning the duration of the presidency, the candidates for the highest office of the state and executive power. In this perspective stresses that now the priority is to restore security and ensure that Egypt will come out even stronger from this crisis.
"I started forming a new government with new priorities and new iniziaticve to meet the needs of our young people to address their anxieties about the future," he says adding that with the political forces "have been discussed all the issues raised with regard to political reforms and constitutional amendments that will be used to find an answer to the needs of this population and to ensure safety.
" So accuses "certain political forces" that he "declined the invitation to dialogue" and being "stuck to their own priorities without worrying about the situation we are facing." Political groups, continues the Rais, who "want to incite people against each other, have led to looting, with roads blocked, with attacks on private properties and national embassies." Mubarak states that he asked the authorities to identify and punish those who have created chaos and brought the country to "scego between chaos and stability." And in the final of the message transmitted live on TV makes it clear that it will not leave the country: "I will die in this land.
People will disappear but Egypt and its flag continue to fly forever." Obama's Mubarak: "This is not re-nominated." The U.S. president Barack Obama would ask Mubarak not to return to lead the country and pave the way for an "orderly transition". An invitation to officially take away U.S.
support to its Arab ally. This was announced by the New York Times, quoting American diplomatic sources in Washington and Cairo. According to the NYT, Obama's message was not "a peremptory request" but a "firm counsel" to initiate a reform process in Egypt, leading to elections "free and fair" by next September.
The message of the U.S. president was personally brought to the Egyptian president in Cairo, the American special envoy, Ambassador Frank G. Wisner. El Baradei: "We're going to turn the page". E 'Tahrir Square, Cairo, who in the early afternoon comes the ultimatum to Saddam: "If not today, it goes up Friday," asks the former head of the IAEA in which the fragmented opposition has given the Egyptian role spokesperson.
ElBaradei calls on Mubarak to "leave" the country offering him a free pass. "We're going to turn the page, we can forgive the past," explains. The army has kept the commitment not to use force against the demonstrators, holding legitimate claims, and there were no incidents. Even judges are protesting "to ask for a new Egypt and claim equal rights for Christians and Muslims." Chanted protest slogans everywhere in a loud voice, overwhelmed by the noise of the helicopters that flew over the city streets of the capital.
The rest of the country has been mobilized: Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city, thousands of people gathered at the train station to try to reach Cairo. In al-Arish, 250 thousand people who wanted to leave for the capital were blocked. New protests were also recorded in Mansura, Demiat, Damenhur, Menia and Al Kubra.
In support of the demonstrators in Egypt expressed the Nobel Peace Prize Aung San Suu Kyi: "We are with you," said the leader of the Burmese opposition. Opposition rejects dialogue with Mubarak. Strong popular support, the committee which collects the movements of opposition has rejected the government's openness to dialogue and negotiation to put off any after-Mubarak, in fact abandoned by the United States and the military, the two main pillars of his regime.
In the morning there was a summit of the main opposition groups that rejected the proposal of dialogue made by the president. The Muslim Brotherhood, the leading Islamist force, asked the President of the Constitutional Court, Faruk Sultan, to overthrow Mubarak. The roadmap envisioned by the opposition, after Mubarak's departure and the dissolution of Parliament, includes a series of steps tightened: the formation of a government of national unity and the voting, the reform of the Constitution, a presidential election.
Amr Moussa and Zewail possible candidates to succeed. In the pink of the possible candidates to lead the transition "orderly and peaceful" advocated by the White House is also added to the outgoing secretary of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, whose term expires in two months, former Foreign Minister said he was willing to "serve the country in any capacity," while not tipping the scales on the output stage of Mubarak and emphasizing "not to aspire to leadership." For tomorrow is also expected to arrive in Egypt by Ahmed Zewail, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, and another possible candidate to succeed Nasser.
The Muslim Brotherhood, the largest opposition group, stressed that the priority of the post-Mubarak should be given to the organization of new elections, deferring to a later date negotiations on the succession of rais. It remains to be seen what the actual political position of the army, the de facto ruling since the time of Nasser and hardly willing to give up the Islamic opposition, for fear of losing the substantial U.S.
military aid. Foreign Ministry: Emergency is not over. Remains high security alert in the country. The Italian Ambassador Claudio Pacifico strongly discourages travel to Egypt and points out that even in areas that now appear to be more quiet, thanks to the army, "the situation could change" within a few hours.
On the Red Sea, popular tourist destination, the situation is calmer, said the head of the foreign ministry crisis Fabrizio Romano, reminding Italians that are in Egypt, the need to give the "utmost caution and keep in touch with the embassy in Cairo and the crisis unit. The emergency is far from over, also reaffirms the foreign ministry.
UNESCO: Protect your treasures. UNESCO launches an SOS to the artistic treasures, the priceless heritage which must be protected. The Director General of the United Nations for Science, Education and Culture, Irina Bokova, today urged the adoption of all necessary security measures to safeguard the treasures preserved in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and those found in Luxor and other art venues in the country.
Network locked but exceeds the Google complaint. Communicating on the internet and social networks in Egypt is very difficult, sometimes impossible, but Google has devised a way to circumvent censorship, working with Twitter. E 'was organized a system that allows you to send messages to the Egyptians in the microblog site through mobile phones, bypassing the blocking of the Internet.
Messages that are left on an answering machine recorded and then transcribed in post on Twitter, allowing you to update on the situation in real time, without having to use the Net Protests spread out to Syria, Yemen and Jordan. The pressure of the square is also felt outside the borders of Egypt.
Jordan's King, Abdullah II appointed a new prime minister with a mandate to carry out "real reforms" after the protests held in the Hashemite kingdom long wave of riots in North African countries. At the head of government was called Marouf Bakhit. Was opened on Thursday in Yemen a "day of anger", similar to those from Egypt, while on Facebook are increasing calls for expressions in Syria on Friday after prayers against "Monocracy, corruption and tyranny." 
Concessions are not enough to appease the protest: the message is received by Saddam demonstrators in Tahrir square in central Cairo, shouting "Get out! Get out! Get out!". For the Nobel laureate Mohammed El Baradei, who asked the president to leave office no later than Friday, Mubarak does not listen to the voice of the people "and the amendment of the Constitution is" just a joke.
" The image that remains is to Tahrir square completely full, despite the measures taken by authorities to prevent the mass mobilizations (disruption of rail and air links, and Internet services). According to local sources in the symbol of the uprising against the regime gathered today two million people.
And thousands of Egyptians took to the streets even in Alexandria and Suez. It aggravates the meantime the death toll: at least 300 deaths since the unrest second Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Mubarak's speech. "I do not for election for the next election because I spent too much time in the service of this country, but I want to finish my work in the coming months by ensuring that there is a peaceful transition," Mubarak said after a hectic day.
In his address to the nation the president insists on "peaceful transition", dialogue and the necessary amendments to the Constitution as inquiries concerning the duration of the presidency, the candidates for the highest office of the state and executive power. In this perspective stresses that now the priority is to restore security and ensure that Egypt will come out even stronger from this crisis.
"I started forming a new government with new priorities and new iniziaticve to meet the needs of our young people to address their anxieties about the future," he says adding that with the political forces "have been discussed all the issues raised with regard to political reforms and constitutional amendments that will be used to find an answer to the needs of this population and to ensure safety.
" So accuses "certain political forces" that he "declined the invitation to dialogue" and being "stuck to their own priorities without worrying about the situation we are facing." Political groups, continues the Rais, who "want to incite people against each other, have led to looting, with roads blocked, with attacks on private properties and national embassies." Mubarak states that he asked the authorities to identify and punish those who have created chaos and brought the country to "scego between chaos and stability." And in the final of the message transmitted live on TV makes it clear that it will not leave the country: "I will die in this land.
People will disappear but Egypt and its flag continue to fly forever." Obama's Mubarak: "This is not re-nominated." The U.S. president Barack Obama would ask Mubarak not to return to lead the country and pave the way for an "orderly transition". An invitation to officially take away U.S.
support to its Arab ally. This was announced by the New York Times, quoting American diplomatic sources in Washington and Cairo. According to the NYT, Obama's message was not "a peremptory request" but a "firm counsel" to initiate a reform process in Egypt, leading to elections "free and fair" by next September.
The message of the U.S. president was personally brought to the Egyptian president in Cairo, the American special envoy, Ambassador Frank G. Wisner. El Baradei: "We're going to turn the page". E 'Tahrir Square, Cairo, who in the early afternoon comes the ultimatum to Saddam: "If not today, it goes up Friday," asks the former head of the IAEA in which the fragmented opposition has given the Egyptian role spokesperson.
ElBaradei calls on Mubarak to "leave" the country offering him a free pass. "We're going to turn the page, we can forgive the past," explains. The army has kept the commitment not to use force against the demonstrators, holding legitimate claims, and there were no incidents. Even judges are protesting "to ask for a new Egypt and claim equal rights for Christians and Muslims." Chanted protest slogans everywhere in a loud voice, overwhelmed by the noise of the helicopters that flew over the city streets of the capital.
The rest of the country has been mobilized: Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city, thousands of people gathered at the train station to try to reach Cairo. In al-Arish, 250 thousand people who wanted to leave for the capital were blocked. New protests were also recorded in Mansura, Demiat, Damenhur, Menia and Al Kubra.
In support of the demonstrators in Egypt expressed the Nobel Peace Prize Aung San Suu Kyi: "We are with you," said the leader of the Burmese opposition. Opposition rejects dialogue with Mubarak. Strong popular support, the committee which collects the movements of opposition has rejected the government's openness to dialogue and negotiation to put off any after-Mubarak, in fact abandoned by the United States and the military, the two main pillars of his regime.
In the morning there was a summit of the main opposition groups that rejected the proposal of dialogue made by the president. The Muslim Brotherhood, the leading Islamist force, asked the President of the Constitutional Court, Faruk Sultan, to overthrow Mubarak. The roadmap envisioned by the opposition, after Mubarak's departure and the dissolution of Parliament, includes a series of steps tightened: the formation of a government of national unity and the voting, the reform of the Constitution, a presidential election.
Amr Moussa and Zewail possible candidates to succeed. In the pink of the possible candidates to lead the transition "orderly and peaceful" advocated by the White House is also added to the outgoing secretary of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, whose term expires in two months, former Foreign Minister said he was willing to "serve the country in any capacity," while not tipping the scales on the output stage of Mubarak and emphasizing "not to aspire to leadership." For tomorrow is also expected to arrive in Egypt by Ahmed Zewail, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, and another possible candidate to succeed Nasser.
The Muslim Brotherhood, the largest opposition group, stressed that the priority of the post-Mubarak should be given to the organization of new elections, deferring to a later date negotiations on the succession of rais. It remains to be seen what the actual political position of the army, the de facto ruling since the time of Nasser and hardly willing to give up the Islamic opposition, for fear of losing the substantial U.S.
military aid. Foreign Ministry: Emergency is not over. Remains high security alert in the country. The Italian Ambassador Claudio Pacifico strongly discourages travel to Egypt and points out that even in areas that now appear to be more quiet, thanks to the army, "the situation could change" within a few hours.
On the Red Sea, popular tourist destination, the situation is calmer, said the head of the foreign ministry crisis Fabrizio Romano, reminding Italians that are in Egypt, the need to give the "utmost caution and keep in touch with the embassy in Cairo and the crisis unit. The emergency is far from over, also reaffirms the foreign ministry.
UNESCO: Protect your treasures. UNESCO launches an SOS to the artistic treasures, the priceless heritage which must be protected. The Director General of the United Nations for Science, Education and Culture, Irina Bokova, today urged the adoption of all necessary security measures to safeguard the treasures preserved in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and those found in Luxor and other art venues in the country.
Network locked but exceeds the Google complaint. Communicating on the internet and social networks in Egypt is very difficult, sometimes impossible, but Google has devised a way to circumvent censorship, working with Twitter. E 'was organized a system that allows you to send messages to the Egyptians in the microblog site through mobile phones, bypassing the blocking of the Internet.
Messages that are left on an answering machine recorded and then transcribed in post on Twitter, allowing you to update on the situation in real time, without having to use the Net Protests spread out to Syria, Yemen and Jordan. The pressure of the square is also felt outside the borders of Egypt.
Jordan's King, Abdullah II appointed a new prime minister with a mandate to carry out "real reforms" after the protests held in the Hashemite kingdom long wave of riots in North African countries. At the head of government was called Marouf Bakhit. Was opened on Thursday in Yemen a "day of anger", similar to those from Egypt, while on Facebook are increasing calls for expressions in Syria on Friday after prayers against "Monocracy, corruption and tyranny."
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