a new military council was formed to run the country. with promises of forms, freedom, and elections, hopes were high in egypt. there was a downside. the tourism industry took a severe blow. young egyptians suffered the most as jobs disappeared. some of them were the same people that most ardently supported the revolution. march 23, a new law was introduced banning certain kinds of protests, reportedly to protect economic output. the military council unveiled a transitional constitution, promising elections by the end of the year, cementing the army's authority. april 29, egyptians again took to the streets. the military council threatened to crack down, keeping their word. the people demanded that receives it -- proceedings against the old regime be sped up. july 8, demonstrators set up camp once again and protesters gathered in cities across the country, saying that they would stay until reforms were in place. the military council reshuffle the cabinet in response to the protests. it was just new faces on old policies. riot police and

now the anger is directed to the ruling military council. earlier this year, the protesters led to the ousting of president hosni mubarak. but the people are disappointed on the military's promise to hand over power. the hopes for a new egypt are slowly being crushed. >> it has been three weeks since we first met these young activists at the demonstration in cairo. they have not been able to draw many people to their group. but now, they are calling for an end to military rule. many of the group's activists were arrested. their alleged crime? insulting the military. >> they said they would stay in power for six months, but nothing has changed. they have broken all promises. >> the activists are on the move to tahrir square. so far they have not been able to set up their own political party. >> we're trying to explain to people how they should vote. does not for politicians to have their own that -- just not for politicians to have their own interests at heart. >> they represent the young, smiling face of the new egypt. but now they say the po

they're calling on the ruling military council to step down. when you step away from the energy and the adrenaline in here, with wounded people being ferried out pretty much every minute from the front lines where there are clashes going on

yes well the military council had promised earlier last year they promised that they were going to step down and give more power to the military a civilian government and that did not actually take place and the situation was getting worse by the day and the people were not realizing that there is any substantial concrete changes that would make their life or their standard of living improve in any way not only on the political level not on the freedom ever on the you know the army also arrested a large number of people who are critical of some of the practices of the army and the recent speech by mr don powell and i repeat was really created a lot of anger on the part of the people because it was similar to the speeches of mr mubarak where he blames the masses he blames the people and i think there is a mood also in egypt there are some movements who actually believe that there is some foreign external pressure to maintain the military ruler in place and to maintain the military council in control of the situation because it suits some of the interests of western powers and that is als

has made enough concessions. >> we heard there was an attempt to organize support for the military council today. have you seen evidence of that? >> yes, we understand there is a council protest in new cairo, about five kilometers here today largely in support of the ruling military council. there are 300,000 to 4 hundred hn,000 not being allowed to travel to tahrir square for fear of classes. and in alexandria a lot of people want protests to end and for people to get on with their daily lives and for egypt to rebuild their economy. >> thank you for joining us on "qmt." >> now, the arab league appears to be locked in a trial of strength. they admitted 500 observers in or face sanctions and further isolation. in the last hour a deadline past apparently without a syrian response. turkey's foreign minister says if damascus doesn't accept the arab league plan the region will no longer tolerate the continued bloodshed. frank gardner reports. >> when an army starts using anti-aircraft guns on its own people, the regime is getting desperate. undetered by tanks, torture, and 300 deaths, syrians a

military council. they apologized for the deaths of protesters. here is the business news. guess what? eurozone? >> in particular, we are talking about the money market, the international bond market, and they all were right. let me explain. as you have been hearing, amid a worrying trend in the money markets, the leaders of germany, france, and italy are meeting in strasbourg. france wants the european central bank to help out nations and get this -- difficulty by guaranteeing their debt. but the stumbling block, german chancellor angela merkel is against it. she argues nations in trouble should reform and not be given an easy way out. but of course, these talks have been given more urgency by events in the money market. germany struggled to sell government debt and borrowing costs rose. bill blaine is a senior director at a financial trading company and he explained the significance of events on the financial markets. >> yesterday we got a clear demonstration that it does not take a euro events like

and police trampling over human rights and the man they hate most is the head of the ruling military council. >> today, or tomorrow. you will see in two days. >> the field marshal appeared on egyptian tv defending the military and talking elections. >> i'm committed to holding parliamentary elections on time and to select a president by the end of june, 2012. >> before he spoke, they hanged his effagy from the traffic lights. bringing presidential elections will satisfy some egyptians but didn't seem to change many minds in the square and among the families of the dead. this is the mort tu area. see, he says, film, there are people in all the trenches. my son is here. and for everyone intake rir, they are more interested in finishing the revolution, not in military promises they no longer trust. >> nothing has changed. and these elections that we have in the next week, they are a sham in my opinion. >> and this man is a candidate. >> there is no appetite to talk about the elections when people are being killed. >> few hundreds of -- away, there are casualties. they believe their rights are o

we thought we had taken down the regime. >> the military council that has been in charge of presidential affairs since february when power was handed over from mubarak up until now has had a series of blunders to put it mildly. and that had resulted in people coming up in arms as you can see. and these blunders were a series of mishandling protests that have occurred before and not being able to fulfill the mandate that they were to power according to. for instance in march april and october we had seen protectors being oppressed, being tortured and also being killed by the police forces. and then again when we look at the record of the military council and the mandate of the government that it is called up on to form, when we look at the extent to which that government had been able to fulfill the major events of the egyptian revolution came to bring as the famous slogan went, bread, human dignity and freedom, we founder find that the record there had been dismal. >> it is sort of a big transformuation for the country to go through like a lot of the countries in that area. we have a pol

by the promises by the military council that it will implement reforms and infamous those reforms quickly the clashes are ongoing they're happening a short distance from me and mohamed mahmoud street now there was seeing much the same scenes we saw yesterday tuesday and this just by the promise by mohammed khatami the head of the supreme council of armed forces that he would accept the resignation of his government the clashes are seen ambulances carrying the injured fortune back which you can hear behind me the kind of chaos and mayhem that is erupting here the doctors are reporting that they simply cannot cope with the number of injured people there are makeshift clinics throughout tuffy is where we are receiving particularly worrying reports that the security personnel have been using a new kind of tear gas that is particularly lethal human rights groups are bringing attention to it the doctors are saying that they see new kinds of injuries and protesters arriving here today are bringing with them bottles of water mixed with stomach medicine to try and we try as the effect of that tear

leave to risk where saying that they're not satisfied with concessions being offered by the military council the army says a presidential election will be held by next summer but people want them to go now and clashes with police continue in cairo from where we are now reports. thousands of people continue to arrive here in times square and that despite the promises by the military council that it will implement reforms can implement as the form speaking the clashes ongoing there happening a short distance from me in one hundred mahmoud street now there was seeing much the same scenes we saw yesterday tuesday and this just like the promise by mohammed centanni the head of the supreme council of armed forces that he would accept the basic nation of his government the clashes are seen ambulances coming the injured fortune back which you can hear behind me the kind of chaos and mayhem that is erupting here the doctors are reporting that they simply cannot cope with the number of injured people there are makeshift clinics throughout time is where we are receiving particularly worrying reports th

are realized and this is the international has also come to the party it is criticizing the military council for what it says has failed promises it says it has been torturing suspects and it has targeted any kind of critics of the regime i can tell you at the same time that the military council itself has ordered the justice ministry to investigate this latest wave of violence but of course people here are saying that that there's precious little to deal with their concerns and big grievances they start with very much indeed for bringing us the some of the i mean this waiting tensions in the direction capital cairo policy are reporting their. word is labor m.p. jeremy corbyn believes change is unlikely in the country unless the west stop supporting the military rulers there. it's western double standards our work par excellence. in very good live in order to change the government because of threats against the people you put sanctions against some countries because of impressions of civil liberties the case of bahrain saudi arabia has a very good. bahrain you know if we take the molecule th

saying that it's leading what they've called a counter revolution and by that they mean that the military council has proposed constitutional changes that they disagree with they say that these kind of constitutional changes will ensure that the military retains power even after it hands over to civilian government and that they've also to major presidential elections until late two thousand and twelve two thousand and thirteen so in essence what people want is for this revolution that was supposed to herald and new egypt in for that revolution churchy that schools all right thanks so much indeed for bringing us this update update from cairo a british labor m.p. a german horgan believes change is unlikely in the country unless the west stops supporting the military rulers there. it's western global standards work excellence a very good able to train to the government because of threats against. me but i have put sanctions against some countries because of oppressions of civil liberties ok soprano rain sorry radio has he created so far reigning world for turk the molecule the case of saudi arabia

right now in egypt for a while there was this kind of sense of satisfaction that the supreme military council feel marshalltown tawi where the guardians of the egyptian revolution who were going to be the ones who are going to lead egypt through this transition from absolute dictatorship to democracy however two months were long enough to give clear signs that the military council had no intention of truly creating peaceful democratic transition and if anything they were more interested in keeping their share power at ensuring good dominance over egyptian politics in the future and actually conceding but there is another issue here and i think this this particular evolution that's happening in egypt is different from the journey where you won in the sense that also ten months were long enough for the people to lose trust of politics and politicians are some of them are included under the former regime of hosni mubarak others were allowed to resurface as a result of this revolution and he really showed extreme has a sense in the way that they handled the demands of the evolutionary strew out o

the military council has deployed troops to defend key government buildings. a military commander says he will not forcibly push out protesters are who holding a peaceful demonstration. on november 28th, egypt will hold its first parliamentary elections since the ouster of former president hosni mubarak after 30 years of rule. >>> now the latest in business news. u.s. lawmakers weren't able to come to agreement about the country's deficit? >> the two sides not seeing eye to eye on this again. the super committee failed to reach agreement on how to reduce the federal deficit. they announced the result prior to the deadline set for wednesday. the bipartisan panel was tasked with finding measures to reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion over the next decade. democrats and republicans on the panel were unable to narrow their differences on spending cuts and taxes. democrats wanted the package to include tax hikes for wealthy americans, while republicans maintain that debt reduction should be achieved through selective spending cuts. under the agreement reached by the

the military council has deployed troops to defend key government buildings. a military commander says he will not forcibly push out protesters are who holding a peaceful demonstration. on november 28th, egypt will hold its first parliamentary elections since the ouster of former president hosni mubarak after 30 years of rule. >>> in spain the largest opposition people's party won a substantial victory in sunday's general elections but many people there are less than enthusiastic about the change. the people's party won a majority of 186 seats in the 350-seat lower house of parliament. the governing socialist workers party lost with 110 seats. this will bring about the first change of power in spain in 7 1/2 years. the spanish media gave the victory extensive coverage saying the ongoing economic crisis gave a big boost to the opposition party. the people are voicing few expectations. >> translator: i don't expect much from the new government since the ongoing crisis is a worldwide issue. >> spain's unemployment rate is more than 22%. the worst within the euro z

they use for hosni mubarak they are using for the field marshal who was head of the supreme military council. the people that have come back describe it as a second revolution. they say that they believe the military is bent on holding on to power. never mind that elections are expected to take place in only a week's time. the focus is back here in the square. behind the square there are talks going on between the military council and the main political leaders here. let's take a look at the latest developments with this report. >> cairo early morning. police lob a tear gas canister against protesters. one picks it up, runs toward them and hurls it become. a small strike against a security force they demand become accountable to civilian rule. egypt's interior ministery is guarded by army vehicles. the number of injured and killed are mounting. >> they fired a shotgun cartridge he says and it hit the person who was with me directly in the face. just a few months ago the army was hailed as egypt's savior and its head field marshal courted both at home and abroad. but patience and trust now ap

and those of you that have gathered, the have a central leadership that can negotiate with the military council? or is it just through protest? >> is basically just being in the square, but there are a lot of other suggestions like we can be satisfied with any civilian council the can gather the candidates for the presidential election for next year, three or four people that didn't work with the old regime can fit. but the military are getting people, keeping them from their own. >> can you tell me any specific points with which you are unhappy about the start of the elections on monday? the parliamentary elections rather than the presidential elections? what is it about them that you're not happy with? >> of the way that the elections are being put as the priority, and they are done under the supervision of the military council, the whole procedure is not cry. we need to be ruled by a civilian council and elections can come later. that is not the first priority. if you get a parliament that is full of the old regime are people who are still in power or people that just have the money, they wi

playing that far because if the elections are postponed because of the behavior of the military then presumably the council see itself as a longer in power of course permanently and that will then provoke more demonstrations and a whole new uprising across the whole country it's completely undemocratic the military of always had a president as the official agent from politics the high ranking officers enjoy an extremely privileged position and financially lives were actually independent of the state in many respects this is any. challenge you see with the free you can have a huge battle it seems to me the brush has become even before people rich in history can place i hope that the military begin to see some sense and recognize that they have got to withdraw from the politics will see. what you're not see now russia has called the new american sanctions targeting iran's financial and energy sectors quote unacceptable and contradictory to international law moscow also underlined that such measures would hurt the chances of renewing talks with tehran over its nuclear program but full of the decision of by th

what the people they don't distrust or rather they don't trust are members of the military council. m senior officers in the military who rose through the ranks during the years of hosni mubarak. in fact, field marshal was mubarak's defense minister. so they want them to leave. now, how is this going to happen is not at all clear. and it's important to keep in mind that there are many egyptians who are not in tahrir square who still support the military council who are worried that all this political upheaval will fundamentally destabilize this country. after all on monday, the monday next, there's supposed to be elections, parliamentary elections that the worry is with all of this going on in the middle of cairo that those elections are either not going to go ahead despite the pledges by the military council, or those elections could be very violent. john. >> reporting from our ben wedeman. with us to discuss what the united states can do and how this might impact our debate tonight. of course president george w. bush's advisor and the heritage foundation which is the co-sponsor of

president barrack was forced out nine months ago egypt's been under the rule of the supreme military council thousands of activists unhappy with the lack of reforms have returned to relive their taria triumph only to be met by tear gas and bullets protesters now accused western nations that were previously supportive of having a hand in the crackdown but i'm not expecting a quick reaction from the west we can see that all the ammunition used against us is these are american or israeli or actually tell you that it's the two guests canisters or the bullet all of the communities and what they have received is also as an eleven it's forced presumably revolutions and they are used for oppressing populations or they are used to kill this revolution for the likes of britain france and america though egypt is no longer a. it's next stop syria the u.k. foreign secretary william hague and it's syrian opposition groups in london base weak and prime minister david cameron's being picked to spearhead an international diplomatic task force. to remove president assad from office the move mirrors similar at

gone backwards, the military council is garth.live and well and the people are dying. >> shouts this man, mubarak is running the military counciled and the whole country from prison! mubarak and all the corrupt businessmen around him. >> the government is asking people to wait for elections that happen september 28th. >>> at oklahoma state university, we're awaiting a memorial service for two women's basketball coaches who died in a plane crash last week. the two were headed to arkansas on a recruiting visit when the plane went down. i'm told they these are live imajz of students, faculty sitting in on this memorial that's happening at this hour at oklahoma state. former state senator who was piloting that plane and had his wife also died and are being honored. >>> president obama signs legislation to help businesses hire unemployed veterans. businesses will get up to a $5600 tax credit for each veteran they hire and a $9600 tax credit for every veteran with disability. >> today the message is simple -- for businesses out there, i

revolution that started back in february some of the criticisms being leveled at this interim military council is that it hasn't done enough to hand over power it hasn't implemented. forms at a pace anywhere near what people here were hoping for i mean just some of the demands people are saying that it's leading what they've called a counter revolution and by that they mean that the military council has proposed constitutional changes that they disagree with they say that these kind of constitutional changes will ensure that the minute she retains power even after it hands over to civilian government that they've also been made a presidential elections and to late two thousand and twelve two thousand and thirteen so in essence what people want is for this revolution that was supposed to herald and new egypt in for that revolution to achieve its goals because they are reporting there from cairo british labor m.p. jeremy corbin believes change is unlikely in the country unless the west stops supporting the military rulers they are. it's western double standards work. very good in order to change

shy swelling numbers have filled cairo's tahrir square rallying against their ongoing ruling military council it's now the fourth day of violent clashes police reportedly started using live ammunition now against the protesters. following the unrest in the egyptian capital. there are hundreds of thousands of people who are still arriving here and toughness where as you can see many of things heeding the call for a million man occupation of his square the crowd is chanting and has been since the only house assuming the shooting one minute she joins us to step down at the same time they're holding up that causes one of them says against the will of the people all egypt will burn was many people are calling this a second revolution was told the second phase of the strike really should the people here are angry they believe that they simply replaced the one dictatorship possible barrier was the army that's been in control of the security that we are hearing holds that the clashes between protesters and security personnel that have been taking place into the streets was separate to this where when

what is clear is the frustration in the square. >> what with the protesters like the military council to announce at this point? >> it is not clear. they are calling for the fall of and getting rid of the military government. until june, the presidential elections. what this means for the political process, until now it was the parliament that was supposed to come up with an assembly that draws the constitution. it is not clear how these political components are going to continue. >> you have seen at least 35 people killed and hundreds injured. how is this going to affect the nation and the relationship between the people and the military? >> this is one of the things that made the people really mad. they did not want to kill any egyptians. they have no intention of killing and the egyptians because they are part of the egyptian people. they are bringing out injured people from the square. saying that they had no intention to kill or injure anyone. >> thank you very much for that. the united nations envoy to yemen says that there has been an agreement on a deed for the transfer of pow

the crowds are speaking out against the ruling military council. many areas were blanketed in teargas as the violence continued. the demonstrators have about tuesday but. >> whatever -- have vowed to stay put. young egyptians have poured into the streets. since saturday, police have launched repeated attempts to disperse the growing crowds with reports of excessive force. the latest clashes have left more than two dozen people dead and hundreds wounded. germany is one of the country's watching developments in egypt with a growing concern. the foreign minister has appealed to all parties to avoid violence. >> egypt plays a significant role. that is why the violent clashes at currently taking place are very worrying. not only for egypt, but for the entire region. the clashes, just a week before parliamentary elections are due to start in egypt. military council says the on rest will not delay the vote. >> british foreign secretary has met with representatives of the syrian opposition. he said britain would increase its pressure on the regime of syria

please, go back home and let things calm down. >> then the commander himself and it the military council a rare television broadcast. he insisted that the military does not want to hold onto power. parliamentary elections will go on as planned. the military only have the interest of the egyptian people at heart. driven by the huge demonstrations, late in the day the army started making concessions. will it be enough? these protesters want an end to military rule right now and there is no sign that they will go away. >> even at this late hour on the edge of tahrir square and we're broadcasting from here now. you can still taste the tear- gas. it is hanover the square all day and the construct sound of ambulances. -- it is all of the square and the constant sound of ambulances. this is right in the middle. it is not just here in cairo. let's look at some of the demonstrations that took place earlier. this is happening in major cities like alexandria. the activists are calling for urgent medical supplies. people are complaining about the tear gas that is being used in the clashes between pr

that all military trials would be stopped with the exception of a few he also said that the military council was ready to quit and to go back to its original goal which is essentially that of defending the country if that was something that the people desired certainly listening to protesters is something that they want and they want it immediately turns out we also made the point that he was highly offended by the criticism that the army was cheating and watching the souls of the egyptian people he said that this was simply untrue poor days new concessions they changed the mood of the demonstrators their. belief doesn't change the mood of the demonstrators if anything it's just an. it's inflamed even more they believe that the army is coming to the party much today all this talk about an interim government they say detract attention from the fact that the army that they actually want to step down and interim government is pretty meaningless in that context now mohamed el baradei who heads up a political party here and who is also the former head of the international atomic energy agency has

the military council appointed as the next prime minister after prime minister resigns. the protesters oppose the choice as his move to serve as prime minister and ousted president hosni mubarak. >>> a major challenge in areas devastated by the march 11 disaster is how to dispose of the massive debris. estimated at 22 million tons, the equivalent of ten years of garbage normally produced in those areas. heavy chunks of concrete are most difficult to deal with. they can't be easily eliminated or recycled. in our weekly segment of "the road ahead" using a rather unorthodox method. >> translator: professor of tohoku university specializes in engineering. he's trying to think of ways to use the big concrete chunks in rebuilding efforts. >> translator: it's better to use everything that's available. it's such a waste to use this material for landfill. >> reporter: but the problem is that the concrete debris was soaked in sea water at one point. and the salt quickly erodes the material. he became interested in a new technology developed by a major construction company. >> tran

demonstrators had been occupying tahrir square in central cairo and demanding that the military council hand over power immediately. the council has promised to speed up the process of introducing democracy. it says it will hold a parliamentary election for monday, as scheduled. the military council appointed kamal ganzouri after president essam sharaf resigns, but protesters oppose the choice, as he used to serve prime minister under ousted president hosni mubarak. >>> a major challenge is how to dispose of the massive debris. heavy chunks of concrete are most difficult to deal with. they cannot be easily eliminated or recycled. using a rather unorthodox method. >> professor specializes in concrete engineering. he is trying to think of ways to use the big concrete chunks. >> it is better to use everything that is available. >> it's better to use everything that is available. it is such a waste to just news this material for landfill. >> reporter: but the problem is that the concrete debris was soaked in sea water and the salt quickly erodes the material. hisada became interested in a n

the pro-democracy demonstrators are risking their lives because many say the military council has gone back on key promises. the military has not lifted military law. they accuse egyptians of the military of torturing civilians. they have yet to set a date for elections and they talk about shielding the scrutiny from military leaders. >>> first, he calls himself the new newt gingrich, but has all that much really changed? we'll take a look back at the former house speaker now leading in the polls. then will the super committee fail to reach a deal to compromise national security? we'll ask arms member senator jeff sessions. >>> also, bracing for cyber monday also known as national shop while you workday. we hope that hasn't gone on too much. >>> books banned by omar gadhafi are now open to the public. the hands of two little toddlers. what could possibly go wrong? we'll show you the mess that has gone viral. thank you! [ male announcer ] black friday's here. why wait outside when walmart has over 2 million tvs in stock? deals start thursday 10 pm. more electronics at midnight. helps de

playing with fire because if the election to postpone because of the behavior of the military then presumably the council see itself as being longer in power per movie and that will then provoke more demonstrations and a whole new uprising across the whole country it's completely undemocratic for the military of always had a privileged position gyptian politics the high ranking officers enjoyed extremely privileged position and financially they're virtually independent of the state in many respects this is any new government coming in that challenges the authority the military is going to have a huge battle and it seems to me. even before the elections taking place i hope that the military begin to see some sense and recognize that they have got to withdraw from the politics will see. you're watching r t russia has called the new american sanctions targeting iran's financial and energy sectors as an acceptable and contradictory to international law must go also underline that such measures would hurt the chances of renewing told to attack iran over its nuclear program and the followed the decision by the

and the man protesters hate most is the head of the ruling military council. >> that's how it will go>> the field marshal appeared on egyptian tv defending the military and talking elections. >> i am committed to holding parliamentary leches and elect the president of the state by the end of june, 2012. >> before he spoke, they hanged his effigy from traffic lights. bringing elections forward a year will satisfy some egyptians but didn't seem to change many minds in the square. and among the families of the dead. this is the morge wear. see, he says, there are people in all the freezers. my son is here. and for everyone, the euphoria was gone by the summer, they're more interested in finishing the revolution, not in military pomses they don't trust. >> nothing has changed. we don't want to go, we know the elections we have next yeek -- next week, it's a sham, in my opinion. nothing is going to cheaning. >> this man is a candidate. >> there's no appetite to talk to people about leches when people are being killed inside. >> a few hundred yards away, riots went on, casualties rushed awa

cabinet has offered to resign just days before the election but what's the next step for the military council. well the interim government had its resignation to the supreme council of the armed forces late last night and the military has not yet responded as to whether or not they'll accept the resignation of a gun. that essentially they appointed but we understand that they're holding emergency talks that the person he's being bandied around as the prime minister to be possibly if not all baradei he was before my head after international atomic energy agency and he will if indeed he is tasked to do this appoint a new government but until such time the current government is overseeing the whole situation this is an attempt by the military to try and meet some of the demands of the tens of thousands of people who are here in tahrir square the people who are not fooled they say that it will essentially still be the military pulling the strings behind the scene i mean some of the sentiments of people are saying here is that the heroes of the last revolution back in february have turned out to b

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last night the head of the ruling military council, he announced that he had accepted the resignatione civilian government here, the prime minister, that he was going to push forward presidential elections. but that doesn't seem to be satisfying the people who gathered in tahrir square behind me by the hundreds of thousands into the early predawn hours. take a listen to what one of them had to say about the ruling military council. >> they don't even care. they just want them gone. you know. that's how big of a thorn he is in the people's hearts. they just want him gone. you know, no matter the costs. >> reporter: he's talking about the general who was hosni mubarak's defense minister who has been leading this ruling military council that's been governing the country for the last eight months. carol, one final point to make here, we're not seeing a presence among the throngs of people in tahrir square of the powerful muslim brotherhood. they have held back from joining in yesterday's million-man march, reportedly because they helped reach a deal with the ruling military council to pus

protesters staying put in the heart of cairo by saying the army is concessions are not enough the military council says a presidential election will be held by next summer people want them to happen right now. and reports of at least twenty eight people killed in syria in just the last few days as the u.n. human rights group condemns the government russia abstained from voting calling for a dialogue between the opposition and president assad's regime. next week talk to a politician from a softer is far right he believes the e.u. is immigration policy as an expansion plans will ultimately spell the end for the vision of a single europe that's coming your way right now. the far right freedom party leads polls but austria's general election its leader has penned a rap saying islam is on the rise mr struck why are austrians so concerned about islam does this ng this is an area where there are too many thorny issues the european crisis is our main problem now but we also face problems in our migration policy up this largely concerns migration in countries such as turkey more than fifty percent of turki

those protesters are demanding the military council hand over power to a civilian government. >> we need to have a clear cut timetable. we need to have a president by april. we need to have a proper democracy in place so that we know where we stand. >> the politicians say the military council has agreed to transfer control to civilian leaders next july. but the protesters aren't satisfied. they are now pushing for a second revolution. similar to the one that ousted jose mubarac earlier this year. >> andrea mccarren has more on derrik sweeney's arrest and reaction from his classmates at georgetown. >> georgetown student, derrik sweeney of jefferson city, missouri, on a semester abroad program in cairo. now he is spending time in the custody with police. >> standing up for what you feel is right. >> egyptian state television showed video of the three college students. sweeney is on the right, standing shoulder to shoulder looking nervous. they are on display along with their id cards and bottles that appear to be filled with liquid. >> we always think as americans we have all of these righ

members of the ruling military council say they would step down after they hold presidential elections but that is not set to happen until next year. and now, greg palkot from cairo. greg? >>greg: the polls closed an sure ago. after they were extended because of the big crowds. we are told tonight the town out could be around 60 percent, way over the ten percent to 15 percent the last parliamentary actions which backs up what we saw on the ground today. in a neighborhood of cairo there is a massive town out for the first free elections since the fall of mubarak. it is a lengthy process, there are many ballots, it is complicated. there are many parties, there are many candidates, it is controversial. some say the vote should not happen at all. and it is potentially dangerous. this is a massive town out of soldiers. of police. called "max security," but the folks are defying the odds and want to give democracy a chance. they are vetting here at this school. >> we went into other polling stations and we found some confusion, some claims of irregularities and we heard of some reports of vi

the call comes as a statement by the supreme military council apologized for the first time on thursday for the deaths of protesters in clashes with security forces. so far 35 people have been killed in the violence. the council said it will pay condolence money to the victims' families and provide medical care for the injured. a pro-democracy group is urging military council chief, mohammed hussein tantawi and others to step down. the group is also calling for an immediate transition to civilian rule. amid the rising tensions, it's still unclear whether egypt will hold the landmark parliamentary elections next week as planned. >>> the saudi arabian government says that gunmen and security forces exchanged fire in the east of the country, resulting in casualties. the interior ministry said on thursday, that the shootings in the shiia-dominated city from monday and wednesday left four people dead and nine injured. the ministry said the government provoked unrest to achieve what it called dubious aims dictated by foreign masters but minority shias said casualties occurred when live securi

is the same as the old regime and they want the military council to transfer power to a civilian authority. >> how might this affect the coming elections, are parliamentary elections, which are supposed to begin on monday? >> right, it is a long process that will take place over three or four months and end in march. but they announced, the military, that they will citizen the beginning of elections not just to monday but to monday and tuesday. there are some concerns that people could be intimidated and not age to come to the polls and to vote so we saw for the first time since the protests began on saturday, pro army demonstrators taking to the streets in location a couple of miles away from tahir square. they believe the military council is the only ruling authority that is giving up power to a civilian government will not keep the country stable. so she came out in large numbers. a problem we will see with elections if they take place on monday, the legitimacy of the elections will be questioned because the military and the police who are expected to safe far the elections ar