because he is a professor of middle east studies at the university of haifa and in london we cross to karl charo he's a middle east blogger all right this is cross i mean we are all more my guest can jump in anytime they want but first marcia is egypt's revolution regressing well events are changing fast and it's hard to say right now but tension in egypt has remained unrelenting for more than a week now the country's health ministry says at least forty people have been killed and almost two thousand were injured in clashes between security forces and protesters calling for the end to the military's heavy handed the riot some of the fiercest since the ouster of president hosni mubarak last february has plunged the country into the kind of turmoil that market early days of the arab spring unquote vision of the good things in those in charge in egypt would be well advised to take people's political demands and justify concerns seriously and to act fast to create the right environment for the upcoming elections so shot from but several political parties have already suspended their electoral campai