what they're worried about is egypt defending -- descended into chaos. they fear that will cause instability in the middle east. the worry extends into the plush living room of the general, one of the late king hussein's and her circle. >> there will be tremendous pressures on us, as far as our relations with neighboring countries, with the peace treaty we have with israel, and our relations with the west in general. if egypt disappears as we know what today, as the political system that we know it today, i can easily see the west revising its policy is totally regarding the middle east. >> for the regimes that made the tactical decisions to ally themselves with the west, that could spell danger. >>> world food prices rose to a record high in january according to the u.n. food and agriculture organization. it's as prices of cereals, which form a staple part of diets, are still climbing. rising food prices is seen as one factor in the current anti- government demonstrations in egypt and neighboring countries. >>> queensland has been hit by a major cyclone

." >> set up, mubarak fears chaos if believes office. tensions escalate and washington holds talks with senior egyptian officials about plans for mubarak to resign immediately. >> we are looking for american citizens. u.s. citizens. >> fleeing the country, tourists and the egyptian nationals had to the airport. welcome to at "bbc world news." public demonstrations across the region that continuing as there is change wanted in yemen. in his first interview since protests began, the egyptian president said that he would step down now, but he fears chaos. president mubarak says that he would never run away from egypt and that he would die on the egyptian soil. protesters continued to occupy part of tahrir square. the situation remains tense. >> id has been a day of barricades, blood, and stones. the protesters have organized themselves. collecting ammunition, tons of rubble to ruffling at the president's supporters. >> she is saying, mubarak destroyed egypt. look at what he is doing to us. he should just leave. it has been a week and a half

." >> fear and chaos as he leaves office, president mubarak gives his first interview since egypt's decent into turmoil. the battle for kai row. at least eight people have been killed and hundreds injured after pro-democracy protesters clash with mubarak's supporters. >> we're looking for america's president. >> and fleeing the country, tourists and egyptian nationals head to the airport. welcome to "bbc news," broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america and also around the globe. coming up later, public demonstrations across the region increase the appetite for change in yemen. >> in the first interview since protests began more than a week ago, the egyptian president hosni mubarak has said he would step down now if weren't for fear of chaos if he did so. he told abc news he would step aside when his term in office is up. president mubarak also said he would never run away from egypt and that he would die on egyptian soil. jeremy reports on the day's events. >> it's been a day of barricades, blood, and stones. the protesters have organized themselves, making shields out of scrap metal. and

might break out aren't we already seeing chaos breaking out because the people want him to leave it's actually very disingenuous on his part the reason there is chaos to begin with is because he won't step down in tunis there was an uprising of three days of a popular movement demanding democracy and there are now transitioning and what isn't chaos and yet because mubarak is paying fugs to go. into the streets to attack people with bats and against their bodies in pieces to trample crowds with camels and horses that's what's creating chaos the fact that he won't leave in his remaining entrenched and now creating this momentum of fear and removing the police from the streets of there is no security it's precisely the danger and if he doesn't leave immediately and allow the people to rule themselves as all self governments should then he isn't the only one simply richard what do you think i mean is this man delusional is he crazy just not get it or is he that stubborn that he won't leave. well perhaps in the situation there are a little of all of the above but i think basically he is an

but chaos is already evidence in the streets of cairo. as egypt's slow-motion political collapse shakes the arab world, we explore the challenges with james kitfield of "national journal," martha raddatz of abc news, david sanger of "the new york times," and nancy youssef of mcclatchy newspapers. >> award-winning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens. live from our nation's capital, this is "washington week with gwen ifill" produced in association with "national journal." corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> this rock has never stood still. since 1875 we've been there for our clients through good times and bad. when their needs changed, we were there to meet them. through the years from insurance to investment management, from real estate to retirement solutions, we've developed new ideas for the financial challenge as head. this rock has never stood still. and that's one thing that will never change. prudential. >> corporate funding is also provided by boeing, norfolk southern. additional funding

their various net nation states to themselves they seem to think we're going to talk about creating chaos in doing a transfer of power some wisdom powers have been supplying weapons to the embattled regional leaders all the time calling for peace corps you couldn't ocracy what does it say to you about western policies in the middle east and north africa it says that the playbook is stale and old it's the same policies and the same playbook that was used for example in trotted in the one nine hundred thirty s. and forty's throughout europe i mean we had both sides of the battle being funded by similar industrial interests and monetary interests and i don't think much has changed here today the power structures that exist for mainstream control will require very chaos through which fermented solutions can be delivered by the powers that be so i don't think it's a new play at all i think it's just a continuation and quite frankly an embarrassingly boring continuation to watch in this internet age because we're able to quite frankly dissect these memes i think with much greater accuracy and t

have lost control over most of the country's territory and some fear it could descend into complete chaos here all over our correspondent in the region has the latest. you could se thoughts as i needed a few protesters have of arrested power away from us to control away from. most of libya they are in control of the majority of the country starting out in the in the east of the nation in benghazi that's where they have a main stronghold they've spread that influence across the country leaving really only tripoli the capital in the hands of the loyalists now there are those paid off a loyalist that have been firing protestors and it's a billion using live rounds also mercenaries in the capital who would be using violence against these people wanting gadhafi out of power now the son of colonel gadhafi saif has said in a television broadcast that he and his father will not leave tripoli my life they will not leave libya and i will i while they were alive so would be his that they have tried to make a final stand as it were against these these protesters who want to see kind of gadhafi step d

diplomats that the country is the sending into chaos gadhafi has made sure that no there is no other power source the army is not power all the army is not a force for stability it was a very small middle class very few were educated people very early in egypt so we're looking at a prospect of water chaos in libya we were going to leave here and in egypt and that's a very fearful thing if it continues to get worse and worse and there's so wardrobes not just a few thousand but tens of thousands of people were killed. we're looking at the completeness integration of the country well if the country does completely collapse then the big question comes up what now. next for libya could look at the is was no we means a friend of the west in the past few years he had developed relations with countries united states and countries in the e.u. however he was stable and if he is toppled what comes in his place could it be a rather radical islamic state could we see something else there could be see another dictator or a military dictator take place to get again so really if colonel gadhafi is r

diplomats has said that the country is slipping towards complete chaos. gadhafi has made sure that no there is no other power source the army is not power or the army is not a force for stability it was a very small middle class very few were educated people in egypt so we were looking at a prospect of water chaos in libya there we were in tunisia and in egypt and now it's a very fearful thing if it continues to get worse and worse and so wardrobes and not just a few thousand but tens of thousands of people were killed. we're looking at the complete disintegration of the country. well coming from an international community within condemnation for what's going on in libya the united states this a sheet sanctions against the gadhafi family and top libyan plays this is this is that they've waited until the majority of their citizens are being out of the country before they'll be able to do this also the united kingdom and other nations following suit we are promising to put pressure on gadhafi but making sure that they can get their citizens libya a predomin

the picture emerging from the country is one of chaos. the families who are leaving are relieved to be out of the country, but they also know many thousands are left behind, desperate and afraid to leave. >>> an emergency flight chartered by the british government to rescue its nationals in libya has landed in tripoli, a second flight arranged by oil companies is also bringing people home from the libyan capital. the british oil worker brian roberts was on a flight that just arrived in warsaw, and he joins us from his hotel. how did you get out? was it a specially chartered airplane? >> we went to the british embassy yesterday morning. they told us to go to the airport and look for british embassy people. we get there, they said, ok, we're getting on an airplane that should be arriving at 6:00 p.m. after that they said it is not arriving, it has been delayed. it then it was not arriving at all. british airways canceled because of technical difficulties. so we had now been in the airport six hours, plus, and it is raining, cold, we have no

egypt's president mubarak said in an interview today if he resigns now, there would be chaos. members of our team remain in place tonight. richard engle and lester holt have been forced off the streets because some in the crowd are now searching out media and cameras to shut them down, so we're doing this with low light level and minimum production touches. richard, start off our reporting with what happened there today. >> reporter: good evening, brian. the demonstrators are still in tahrir square tonight. all day we've been watching them hunkered down, preparing their defenses ahead of a major demonstration and possible clashes tomorrow. downtown cairo was again a battleground today. tahrir square has become a primitive, fortified camp for demonstrators. demanding that president mubarak resign. the demonstrators hide behind metal shields to throw rocks at mubarak supporters who attacked the protesters from the edges of the square. it's a bizarre scene with protesters defending the square with molotov cocktails and even firebombs, like a medieval castle under siege. last nigh

the picture that is emerging is one of chaos. for the families leaving, they are believed to be out of the country. they also know many thousands are still left behind, desperate but afraid to leave. >>> the first ferry to bring british nationals out of the government is due to arrive before dawn. we're speaking to a libyan in tripoli. would you like to leave if you could? or do you want to stay? >> sorry, i am here. tripoli or are you going to stay? >> no, we are staying, we are not leaving. >> i understand that you went to the hospital to give blood. what did you see? >> today is a very quiet day in tripoli because the weather is so cold that it kept the protesters inside their houses, and even the army, which has kept the city so quiet. but that was today. when i went to the hospital and give blood, there were a lot of people giving blood. we tried to investigate the situation, how many people were killed. there are a number of unknowns. we cannot get an exact number because a lot of people are giving blood, and the hospital i

chaos. violence. i detest-- i hate to see the country being engulfed in that kind of violence. >> lehrer: and lindsey hilsum of "independent television news" reports on today's protests in cairo and elsewhere. >> ifill: then, we examine a new study that could well change the way doctors treat breast cancer. >> lehrer: spencer michels looks at a california program on mental illness in young people. >> identifying pre-psychotic individuals and treating them early seems to be working in a unique san francisco mental health program. >> ifill: and jeffrey brown has the real-life story of an american diplomat arrested for murder in pakistan. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporat

if i leave right away there will be chaos. >>reporter: newly appointed vice president also promised her that he would not order the army to crack down if protestors refused to leave cairo main square. the in the streets at least 60 journalist have been attacked by mubarak supporters. after the vice president went on state television and suggested that foreigners were fueling the turmoil. abc news crew was car jacked. the cameraman used arabic and compassion hugging and kissing an elder to calm the angry mob. professor here traveled from the bay area to cairo specifically to join the protests. she told sin indicated program democracy now about her frightening experience on the way to the square. >> 2 big guys came and held on to my arms and took me out and they handed me on to a mob that started beating me and pulling my hair. they ripped my shirt off. they ripped a gold necklace. >>reporter: student andrew simon has applied to graduate school at uc berkeley last fal fall. by skype he talked about being had as hased near checkp

mubarak, quote, fears chaos yet he is the one causing it. that is another old trick described by george orwell in 1984. karl rove was a master of this in u.s. politics so the accurate charges against you look like rhetorical reprisal. stalin was a master of this. let me steal a phrase from boston harbor about peaceful revolution. linguistically ben ali was acting president of tunisia. king abdallah was the henchman reminding this french historian of louis xvi. in 1789 ben holly seemed to sense the need to allow some public spirit to exist but turned out to be his last speech that betrayed his fundamental misunderstanding of the new reality, quote, and i decided freedom for the media with its channels and cadets sites with any form of monitoring. the critical phrase was the death toll of his tunisian. the acting president is no better unconsciously revealed that his acceptance speech is the same attitude. first and foremost, quote, in the state's supreme interest, and national unity. toomey sean hannity forces allied the fight for the supreme

. >> couric: tonight, hosni mubarak says stepping down now would mean chaos in egypt. but chaos has already come as supporters and opponents battle for a second straight day. i'm katie couric. also tonight, after the monster storm, plunging temperatures and dangerous roads, a deadly skid off a snow-covered bridge into an icy river. and in the shadows of the protests-- egyptians struggle to get by on little more than hope. >> as we say in egypt, in god's hands. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. ejipz president hub says he's fed up and wants to go but can't leave now as protesters are demanding. in an off-camera conversation today with abc news, he said that if he resigned now, there could be chaos, and the brother hood many people consider extreme would take over. there is chaos already. protesters for and against mubarak clashed for a second straight day. another huge anti-government rally is planned for tomorrow. his opponents are calling it mub

outside those fortified walls, chaos. another day of bloody clashes. what is he thinking? and when will he step down? christiane amanpour brings us the first interview with hosni mubarak. christiane? >> reporter: terry, good evening. it has been the most extraordinary 24 hours. right now, we're broadcasting to you from inside our hotel room, rather than looking over the nile, looking over the protests as we have been doing. and that is because the targeting of journalists has gotten so bad over the last 24 hours that either vigilantes of whoever, mobs have been coming into hotels, snatching the satellites and broadcast equipment and basically shutting down the journalists, any journalist who they can find. and so we've had to move inside to try to keep broadcasting and tell you the story. the story this day was the clashes, some of them still continue. the protesters, anti-mubarak, remain in control of liberation square. and we got an exclusive interview with the vice president of egypt. as we went to the presidential palace, we got mobbed in these ad hoc check points wher

wants to leave power, but cannot because it would lead to chaos. for now, the army seems serious about bringing order. which has made this a pretty peaceful day for once. even a famous love song has been turned into a protest and a bum. among the crowd, a young woman with scars on her hands. at she was here when the protest began, and she is back today. she is recording the songs and chants of the opposition. >> we do not trust the government. we do not trust the new government. we do not trust mubarak now. he will destroy the country as much as he can before he leaves. i am going to get arrested. >> midday prayers and liberation square. -- on your liberation square. a moment for worship and reflection. it is the end of a difficult and painful week that has seen many killed and wounded. what is going on now is they have done traditional friday prayers and are now saying a prayer for the dead, essentially for the protesters who died trying to hold on, trying to bring change to the country. there are people in the crowd in cheers. it is an unbelievab

small middle class very few are educated people in egypt so we're looking out across regular order chaos in libya where we were going to do and in egypt and that's a very fearful thing because it continues to get worse and worse. not just a few thousand but tens of thousands of people were killed. we're looking at the complete disintegration of the country well if the country does completely collapse then the big question comes up what next for libya. the is was no weak means a friend off the west in the past few years he had developed relations with countries. the united states and countries in the e.u. however he was stable and if he is toppled what comes in his place could it be a rather radical islamic state could we see something else there could we see another dictator or a military dictator take place or get take power again so really if colonel gadhafi is removed from power a lot of questions arise about the future of libya the united states imposed sanctions on colonel gadhafi and his family and other libyan officials now it's being condemned by the international community howev

but he added, if i resign today, there will be chaos.e said that he had told that also to president barack obama. he told me, quote, obama is a very good man, but i told obama, quote, you don't understand the egyptian culture and what would happen if i stepped down right now. he said, again, there would be chaos, and he said the mosm brotherhood would take over. when i asked about his supporters causing violence against the protesters in the square, he told me i was very unhappy about yesterday. i do not want to see egyptians fighting each other. diane? >> did he give you any sense of what he would do to contain the violence? >> he said that there would not be force. actually, i was there in the presidential palace to interview on camera the vice president. i specifically asked the vice president what would he do if the protesters do not disperse as they have been called on? he said we will never authorize force against the people. i asked him several times. each time he said we will never authorize force against the people. he accepted

>> that's a worry that i think a lot of egyptians h s have now, fear of chaos and instability. egypt doesn't have a strong opposition. the only really powerful group is the muslim brotherhood and there's a lot of fears i think in the west about what might happen if they step into the vacuum. i think some of those fears are unfounded. the brotherhood is a relatively mainstream and moderate organization that renounced violence. but the question is, if not the brotherhood, who else? political parties have to develop, and egypt hasn't really had a chance for groups to grow and reach out to their constituencies for a long time. so this is entirely unprecedented. we're looking at a new era. >> right. what we're seeing in cairo certainly has planted the seeds of uprising. in algiers, we mentioned a moment ago. other places in the middle east. is egypt an example of a one size fits all movement, or might this be a different turn in different places? >> will well, there was a sense that tunisia was exceptional and remote. egypt has long been the bellwether for the region, the political

groups like the muslim brotherhood are gaining ground, while the country remains in chaos. and the uprising is spreading panic to other u.s. allies in the region. perhaps for that reason alone, the revolt in egypt was embraced today by iran's ayatollah khamenei. it's an especially odd endorsement since iran depressed a pro-democracy movement in 2009. the iranian regime won that fight. egypt's future remains uncertain. president mubarak now may face a new rival. the popular secretary general of the arab league spoke in tahrir square today. he's someone to watch. and, brian, that crackdown on journalists we spoke about the other day is still continuing. al jazeera reported that its offices were ransacked by pro-mubarak supporters and an egyptian journalist who was shot last week has died. >> richard engle who along with our team on the ground remains in cairo. tough place to do business these days. richard, thanks. >>> for the first time in more than a week, president obama took reporters' questions about egypt today, but no matter the question, the president was clearly bein

chaos erupts.. as thousands pack cairo's streets on the deadline day for egypt >>> right now, chaos erupts as thousands pack cairo streets on the deadline day for egypt's president to step down. the new plans at that time white house to stop the violence -- the plans at the white house to stop the violence. >>> and an you gent plea this morning. the last -- and the urgent plea this morning. the last minute push to save their school. >>> could we be warming into the weekend? we'll tell you coming up. >>> and i'll tell you what areas to avoid in just a few minutes. >>> and good morning. sit friday, february 4th. >>> time now is 4:30. thousands of protesters are in cairo's central square right now. it's the biggest crowd since a quarter million people showed up on tuesday. we report on the push to push egypt's president out of office. >> reporter: this is the day protesters want president hosni mubarak gone for good. they declared it the day of departure and plan to demand his immediate resignation. he

there's been bloodshed, hundreds of deaths and injuries and chaos. but in the end, it was 18 days of peaceful protests at the heart of this effort to push hosni mubarak out of cairo after 30 years in power. and it succeeded. while a major task lies ahead in governing a nation of 80 million people, the largest in the arab world, it was an electrifying moment when the egyptian vice president hastily announced the president was gone. cairo erupted. other governments sat up and took urgent notice. as president obama put it today, egypt will never be the same. cairo is still roiling with excitement and celebration where our chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, again begins our coverage. richard, what a day and good evening. >> reporter: good evening. there are still people out in the streets. they are cheering. they are saying "with our souls, with our blood, we sacrificed for egypt." and they believe with this popular uprising, that is exactly what they have done. the people have risen up and toppled a police state. it was supposed to be a day of

. >> suzanne: unrest in the middle tonight we wanted to put the chaos in egypt in some perspective. with 83 million people, egypt is the most populous arab nation. but its g.d.p. of roughly $188 billion a year is little more than the state of alabama. meanwhile, one in four young egyptians can't find work. and as darren gersh reports, the political unrest is making the economic pain more severe. >> reporter: egyptian banks have been closed all week and many people are running out of cash. few are going to work. and for the poor, who often live day to day, the standoff in tahrir square is hitting hard. the economist's max rodenbeck says the test of wills between demonstrators and the government is increasingly economic. >> the core of the protesters is really middle class people who-- they can go a couple weeks without work and stuff without going to work. but for the vast majority of egyptians who are poor, it is getting increasingly difficult and the government is quite successfully trying to blame all the problems on the protesters. >> reporter: and those problems are mounting. th

. >> i am sure there's all kinds of chaos and trying to get flights out from the areas that are canceling flights. >> they are saying it's on time but we'll see. but i know there's an ice storm

as hundreds of americans try to escape the chaos.lp stranded passengers get home. plus.. oakland tries again to open its doors to giant pot farms. how it's hoping to avoid legal trouble this time around. they're big and burdensome.. and we get them every year. why one bay area city wants to close the book on the yellow pages. and to tax.. or not to tax.. how the fate of california could come down to your vote.,,,, >>> on the "cbs morning news," here's a look at today's weather. some states will see blizzard conditions and others severe thunderstorms. arctic air will drop down and spread across much of the midwest. and the southeast stays mild for the time being with temperatures in the 60s and the 70s. >>> here's another look at this morning's top stories. a monster winter storm is ready to strike a third of the nation. it stretches from the rockies to new england and could dump up to two feet of snow and ice on parts of the midwest. >>> and anti-government organizers in egypt have called for a million people to protest the mubarak g

mubarak is warning these people about chaos. he becomes a champion of the people he is definitely were rate. he has been in power for decades. libyan society has different social conditions. its makeup differs from that of tunisia and algeria. but that does not give solace to khaddafi. he is as worried as everybody in that region, including morocco. >> yes, sir? in the back. >> i am with csis. i wanted to ask a question beyond the region. obviously, there are governments around the world who are watching this situation. i think particularly the one in beijing, which the last time saw a region swept with the evolution in the 1980's. that resulted in tenement square. -- that resulted in the violence in the square. can you comment on china? >> you have captured the question. one thing that happened is that the china told mubarak that they have his back. not surprisingly, the russian government has done the same thing. >> the although pratt stick together. -- the autocrats stick together. >> let's go to doha. >> what does this chang

meanwhile as the streets of egypt erupted in chaos after dropping your four u.s. media has been portraying these events as the struggle of the disenfranchised masses and stressing the need for the egyptian leadership to address the grievances of the population all of those values that we take so seriously here haven't really existed in that part of the world less attention has been drawn to u.s. support of this leadership the united states taxpayers of billions of dollars over the past thirty years some media also threw in wishful thinking it could go all the way from tunisia to obama unlike britain egypt is a country seen as too different to reflect on the us speaking of the people's will and the need for responsive government may therefore be less scary information is a word that seems to be long forgotten by the mainstream american media instead what you will some been receiving are opinions from people far away from events on the ground but close to a political agenda that creates depending on what kind of impact occurring world events can have on america just

eighty three is more than a million refugees fleeing the chaos in north africa could descend on its shores and cause an fellow e.u. nations for assistance many who fear criminals and terrorists could better mung their thousands already in the country. plus space shuttle discovery blasts from cape canaveral in the u.s. on its final mission after almost three decades of orbital travel that leads to russia and so use face craft as the only money lifeline the international space station. had lined up next to max kaiser looks behind the financial headlines discussing china's reincarnation and washington's search for a virtual community. max kaiser and this is the kaiser report you know you've got to be really careful about who you alert reincarnate. stacey tells more max that's in our first headline here china bans reincarnation without government permission the law which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate is quote an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation oh the dalai lama right now the chinese government wa