. >> 1 mohammad morsi became egypt's first democratically elected president, he followed independent of america. we look at his first year of rule. morsi's visit was since the twost countries broke ties in 1980, it also signaled a breaking of subservience to washington. >> it is our moral duty to stand with the syrian people against an oppressive regime that has lost its legitimacy. >> he has yet to turn that symbolic as it into something concrete. syria,d to join iran, turkey, and egypt into a quartet of powers and to help resolve the crisis, but with minimal success. could you can try very hard, hard, >> you can try very and you can feel that someone is trying very hard to say, here i am. egypt is an important state in the region and in the world at large. >> he was given credit for securing a cease-fire between israel and hamas after renewed fighting late last year. but he has been criticized for ignoring anti-government .rotests in bahrain and he is suspected of subservience to syria. his government has not exactly displayed exemplary management skills over the construction of a

opponents of mohammad morsi are marking his first year in office are renewing a call for his resignation. the protesters believe morsi is to blame for the economy and worsening security situation. they are expected to clash with supporters of the president. they call for rallies starting on friday. he took power a year ago on sunday. he left after widespread supporters. most support his leadership. some say hoe has done nothing right. >> morsi has broken his promise and is divided egyptians. there is no judge skuftis if morsi stays in power. >> the leaders of groups who oppose have pledged to continue their demonstrations until he quits. they put shipping containers in front of the presidential palace and the commanders said they mobilize the troops to protect the public and safeguard government buildings. our crew has teen a tank deployed in the suburbs of the egyptian capital. >> u.s. president barack obama said he won't intervene directly in the edward snowden affair. he said he shouldn't have to call foreign leaders to have them help arrest the intelligence contractor. he is hiding i

. >> this is a massive show of strength by parties supporting president mohammad morsi. thousands packed the streets in criero. > he's the one that has been chosen. and since egyptians have chosen him, we have to wait for four years. if you don't like him, you can change him by voting, not by force. >> there were members of the muslim brother hood as well as 30 other groups. >> we have elected our president and that is part of democracy so we are defending him. >> the rally to back morsi was called after a new initiative started gaining moment up. the movie. warts -- wants morsi out and early presidential elections. it's collecting signatures against him and they're demonstrating on the 30 of this month, marking one year since morsi came to power. but morsi supporters are fighting back. also driving to get millions of signatures. this is a chance to show morsi supporters how popular he still is with him. while not everyone is happy with the president's performance, many are opposed to the movement that want him out of office. >> not so heavy because of that but the egypt

meantime there is another demonstration in support of mohammad morsi in another part of town but really quite small relative to this for president mohame mohamed morse -- morsi. it's not the revolution we saw earlier. one housewife pushing fae ma in pushing a relative in a wheelchair to goo to the demonstrations and waving a flag and chanting the same thing in arabic, that means go, go, a very clear message to mohamed morsi. the question people are asking, is he listening? >> i understand the president took to the state media air waves. did he acknowledge for say anything about the protests today? >> reporter: he had a spokesman who came out and gave a statement who basically said we're in favor of dialogue and ready to speak with the opposition but we may have gone beyond that. i think at least what we're seeing in cairo and some of the egyptians so far is what appears to be open revolt. it's not just civilians in this revolt, there are also clearly members of the police and some of the security forces who themselves are opposed to president mohamm hahamohamed mm. it may be beyond dial

the supporters including the brotherhood that backed mohammad morsi. two camps have taken root and right now the battles unfolding over the next several days really are a test of wills about which one of these two will prevail. president morsi and his supporters say he is the democratically elected president of the country and it would be unacceptable for him to step down because he garnered the most votes, but there people who voted for him who say he abused his power and run the country amok. the concern is that it can get violent. they have seen protests in the past since wednesday when the street started to swell with the opposition protests. since then we have seen seven people killed including one american and that's why the country is on a heightened state of alert and the military is being deployed. we heard from the secretary of state john kerry that the united states is watching closely what is going to happen in egypt in the coming hours. >> we are watching close low as well. a test of wills. thank you. >> to front page politics and new reac