i'm joined by our correspondent, jon leyne. how have the first moments of this new parliament session gone? >> very smoothly. obviously a truly historic moment, probably the first properly democratically elected parliament, certainly in decades, probably in egypt's history. and completely different makeup from what we've seen in the past decades when it was dominated by the ruling national democratic party, notoriously corrupt. it's being expressed, and at the moment, we're watching the swearing-in as they go through m.p. by m.p., and they're also going to choose a speaker. so it's mostly a procedural day, but i think they definitely wanted to get this in before the marking, the beginning of the demonstrations on the january 25, which began and leading to where we are today. >> of course, it's still not clear exactly how the grouping will work out and what sort of accommodation they will make with the military, i suppose. >> well, at the moment, it's looking as if the muslim brotherhood, the largest party, are portraying themse