well let's not talk to brian becker from the antiwar onset coalition he joins us live from washington with his perspective what's happening there in cairo the military rulers have promised to hold a referendum and bring forth the transition to civilian government how likely is it that they will actually proceed with these promises. well i think the egypt's in military the edifice of authority that has remained intact following the departure of mubarak a personality they thought when they replaced mubarak that over time the struggle of the people would become reduced that hop you lay she would become pacified but the basic demands of the egyptian revolution have not been met people want bread they want dignity they want democracy they want to be able to for the free without facing government repression and i think we can see from these remarkable demonstrations of the past three days that the people in egypt especially the young people but the working families as well they are determined to keep going until this revolution reaches a new and truly democratic state so i think the militar

of the day still be the same people pulling the strings as they are reporting there from cairo brian becker from the anti war coalition answer says that western powers would rather have a mill your ally at the top needs of despite the public demands for change. p united states and britain but principally the united states is looking at a number of options there their primary option was to keep mubarak in power forever or then his sons and that can't be that can't happen right now so they thought then that they would have a military rule that would create those political leaders who were acceptable to the west that's come undone because the military has not let go of the tight grip on power and so now they're looking for plan c. mohammed el baradei he is a familiar face to the west who is recognized by the rest he was the chairman of the i.a.e.a. he was somewhat independent of the united states but not really a severe challenge to the united states in the run up to the iraq war so of course i think he might be considered by the american government the best of the available options but the eg