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The government has resigned, the intelligence chief appointed vice-president. The family fled to London would be the leader. Tanks surrounded Tahrir Square. El Baradei: "I'll be back on the street for change." Appeals EU: "Stop the Violence"
CAIRO - Egypt is on fire. Tens of thousands to the streets demanding that President Mubarak leaves, blunt attacks on ministries to bullets by police. The people challenge the curfew: a thousand remain in the street. The Al Jazeera satellite television showed images of tanks on the move literally overwhelmed by demonstrators with flags and signs. Events not only in the capital, but also in other cities. And a budget of at least 100 deaths since the revolt. Political changes are continuing at a rate dizzy: After address to the nation speech yesterday 1 by the President, the government of Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has resigned. In the afternoon, General Omar Soleiman, intelligence chief, was appointed vice president after a meeting called by Mubarak to meet the crisis. The task of forming a new government was entrusted to the Minister of Civil Aviation, Ahmed Shafik.Meanwhile, Ahmad Ezz, one of the most prominent businessmen of the country and secretary of the party of Mubarak, Pnd, resigned and according to rumors would be planning to flee abroad. Already in London would also, according to Al Jazeera always, the two sons and the wife of Mubarak. The news was however denied by the state television. All
moves that the United States to date key ally of Egypt, however, rejected as unnecessary melina. The Egyptian authorities, says a message on Twitter with the U.S. State Department spokesman, PJ Crowley, "can not simply shuffle the cards and hold on." "It 's time that Mubarak - adds Crowley - after speaking of reforms, face hard facts to follow his words." A concept already expressed explicitly yesterday by President Barack Obama. Findings similar to that expressed by Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Peace Prize and a key figure in the opposition Egypt. The new appointment of top Egyptian, he said, are only a "move to buy time" because in reality is a government of national unity and "the presidency should not be in the hands of the general, but must be elected by the people."
the day. At 16 am local time (15 in Italy) but not fire the new curfew in Tahrir Square, Cairo, are still tens of thousands of protesters who inveigh against Mubarak slogans. The square, the epicenter of the events of yesterday's protest 2, is surrounded by tanks of the Egyptian army. Al Jazeera reports on a new assault on the crowd at the Interior Ministry, with the police who opened fire. In the clash would be killed three people. The satellite TV also reports of gunfire near the mint of the Central Bank of Egypt and a crowd of demonstrators marching to the headquarters of state television.
The atmosphere remains very tense and the protesters seem willing to ignore the curfew, despite appeals by the army. Through the state television, military leaders have asked the population to avoid the crowds and to respect the curfew. Returning from the U.S. Chief of Egyptian Sami Anan, yesterday at the head of a military delegation to talks with the Pentagon. Al Jazeera reports that the Army considers the current extremely dangerous "security vacuum": the armed forces to ensure their commitment not to use violence against citizens, but had received "orders to crack down with those who violate the curfew."
The Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini assured however that "there are absolutely no concerns about the Italians" present at the time in Egypt. Similarly, the Italian Foreign Ministry states that are not involved in the incidents, calling those who had not, however, refer any emergency trips to Egypt. Alitalia, inter alia, announced that he had changed the schedule of a series of flights to Cairo. The detailed list is available on the website of the airline 3. During
morning, while the authorities extended from 4 in the afternoon until 8 o'clock tomorrow morning local time curfew in the city of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez, the crowd in Tahrir Square has grown in number to at least the 50 thousand people. Police fired tear gas to drive away and exploded a thousand people to attack the Interior Ministry and then fired into the air to disperse a group of protesters who tried to enter the Parliament, according to state sources of services Egyptian security. The head of Egyptian antiquities, Zahi Hawass, told state television, rejected an attempt to plunder the Egyptian Museum. Accidents, but would go destroyed two mummies of the pharaohs. Then the police has virtually disappeared from the streets of downtown, leaving the armored army garrison of institutional settings.
clashes in Alexandria, Ismailia, Suez . In the afternoon we had planned a new event in Alexandria, but the protesters took to the streets since the morning and witnesses speak of clashes and police firing. In Ismailia, a town on the Suez Canal, thousands of port workers were compared with agents who wanted to prevent them from reaching the workplace. The officers responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. Parades also running at Suez.
Uncertainty about the death toll . The Egyptian Ministry of Health speaks of 38 killed in violence yesterday, the "Angry" staged by the opposition in all of Egypt: 12 in Cairo, one at Giza, three in Port Said, Alexandria 8, 12 at Suez and two in Mansura. Data that conflict with the figures available from other sources. According to witnesses on the site, 30 bodies, including those of two children, were taken to hospital Damardash. The correspondent for Al Jazeera from Alexandria claims to have seen in the morgue the bodies of 23 people. And Suez protest has cost at least another 11 lives. For Al Jazeera, the provisional budget of riots all over Egypt last Tuesday is over 100 dead.
infiltrate the Islamic Gaza Strip. In Rafah, the border with the Gaza Strip, the demonstrators attacked the headquarters of the prefecture, according to witnesses had been killed three police officers. Circulating in the area also entries for Palestinians in Gaza through the Rafah crossing to Egypt and come take advantage of the absence of police checks. According to the correspondent of Al Jazeera, there would be dozens of Islamic militants who, taking advantage of the chaos, are finding their way into Egypt.
Prisons in chaos. During the night would have occurred even the escape of hundreds of prisoners from cells of the common safety of certain police stations in Cairo. According to the correspondent of Al Jazeera for a few hours there was a gap in security management, particularly when the responsibility passed to the police forces. The escape took place in that range.
Mubarak to King Abdullah: "Situation stable . Mubarak arrives in solidarity instead of King Abdullah, who refers to his telephone conversation with Egyptian President. At the Saudi monarch, Mubarak said that Egypt would "the situation is stable. The world has seen nothing but the actions of some groups who do not want stability and security to the Egyptians."
Arab League: "Egypt's foreign exchange policy" . The Secretary of the Arab League, Egypt's Amr Moussa, said today that "Politics in Egypt to be changed. You have to take into account the anger of the Egyptian people '." Even the African Union, the voice of the chairman of the committee, Jean Ping, in a press conference in Addis Ababa, said he was "worried" about the violent protests and the political situation in Egypt.
Iran: Egypt, wave of Islamic justice ". From Iran, through a spokesman, the Foreign Ministry said Ramin Mehman-pilasters that the protests in Egypt in line with "Islamic wave" that wants "justice." "The Islamic Republic of Iran - said the ministry spokesman in Tehran - Egyptian authorities are expected to hear the voice of national Muslim in Egypt, are meeting their just demands and avoid the use of violence against the Islamic wave that moves with the movement of people. "
EU: an end to violence" . The President of the European Union, Herman Van Rompuy, has appealed for an end to violence in Egypt, to release all those detained for political reasons, including politicians, is a set of reforms.''Respect for fundamental human rights - says Van Rompuy - such as freedom of expression, the right to communicate, the right to meet in assemblies as well as free social inclusion are essential components of democracy that the Egyptian people, particularly young people, are trying to get.''
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