a year after tahrir square, is egypt any better off. our reporters of bloomberg business week and the economist, this week on press press. one defer in addition is having so much information. s a str mers had talken the pictures. while sorting the plates, the women paid 25 cents an hour made some of the most important discoveries about stars. the age of computers meant more and more data could be stored to be examined later. in 1950 a mega bite of storage about the equivalent of the number of words in a paper back cost $10,000. today's modern servers running in the cloud can store that same data for less than one one-hundredth of a penny. he's advised congress, if you thought of what his company sells in terms of file cabinets, he sells a quarter billion every year. joined by martin jiles of the economist. that's a lot of file cabinets. >> it sure is. >> sticking to the star example. we had a star example in the setup piece. the sloan survey stored more data in the first few weeks than in the entire history of astrono astronomy. you can

too tahrir square. >> this has once again turned into a battlefield. they are turning their anger on the interior ministry. they have been pushed back by teargas and rubber bullets. hundreds have been injured. the fury is over the deaths of 74 young football supporters. the thousands who flooded into cairo are clear who they think is to blame for the killings. >> this is a crime from the old regime. they stole money from the people for 30 years. now, they are spending the money to make a gangster's and corruption in egypt because they don't want a revolution to be successful. >> this is what the accused the military regime of causing. at first, it looks like a simple innovation but it turns extremely violent. in the red stripes -- in the red shirts, the team prepares. people are rundown, beaten, bludgeoned, stabs. these were the scenes at the cairo railway station as the train carrying the dead and survivors pulled in. thousands crammed the balcony's. we will have justice or death, they shout. outside, anxious parents await news of their children. my s

once again, they took their anger to tahrir square in cairo. we have this report. >> in the streets of cairo this afternoon, they already have their own theory. these football fans are convinced the attack was planned and organized by egypt's security forces. >> i think it was done from the old regime. they stole the money from the people for 30 years. now they are spending the money to make gangsters and corruption in egypt because they do not want a revolution to be successful. >> there is no evidence to support that claim, so far. these were the extraordinary scenes at cairo railway station early this morning as the train carrying survivors and the dead from port said pulled in. thousands of supporters crammed the balcony's and platforms. justice or death, they chanted. this man immediately blamed the head of egypt's military junta the debt. -- junta for the deaths. as dawn breaks, another train pulls in. anxious parents wait desperately for news. "my son has not answered his own since yesterday," this mother -- his phone since yesterday," t

productions >> brown: egypt erupted in new violence today, with police firing tear gas on protesters in tahrir square after riots at a soccer match killed more than 70 people yesterday. good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight: ray suarez gets the latest on the turmoil from matt bradley of the "wall street journal" in cairo. >> brown: then, we examine the backlash after a leading breast cancer charity cut its grants to planned parenthood. >> woodruff: we look at wealth and poverty in america, a subject getting new attention in the presidential campaign. >> brown: from our "american graduate" series: a photographer documents the lives of high school drop-outs now in juvenile detention. >> the word expectation is really key to who they are. their families have limited expectations of who they can be and they themselves have limited expectations. >> woodruff: and we get two views on defense secretary leon panetta's statement on ending the u.s. combat mission in afghanistan by the middle of next year. >> brown: that's all ahead. on tonight's newshour. m

now the latest from cairo. >> more open hostility in tahrir square. demonstrators confront the police outside the interior ministry. now all that was separating them has been partly dismantled. overnight, protesters went to work removing the heavy concrete blocks. they stayed on the streets after a day of clashes with security forces. >> the military must step down. we have had enough of people getting killed every day. >> i blamed the police or what happened. usually we get searched before entering the stadium, but not this time. >> other parts of egypt also saw angry crowds. in the city of suez at least two people were shot and killed by police. this was the reason for the outrage. the worst football violence ever seen in the country took place in the northern city of port said on wednesday. local fans of a club invaded the pits after winning against the top cairo side. police stood by. some accuse them of deliberate negligence. others say this was another bloody reminder at the lack of law-and-order. after a year in power they are holding the milit

in tahrir square, covering the events. unfortunately, we have a regime that does not mind killing people as long as it is off the record and no one will know about it. it does not care about kidnapping people when no one is going to know about it. and part of the reasons why i created that page was to expose the regime. the worst nightmare for any dictator is to expose them, to let people know the bad things they are doing, and i think the american media as well as international media in general have done a good job in tahrir square, and they did help in protecting the lives of people. tavis: i thought there might be two different views on the one issue and the other, and their work, so thank you. you thought the media did a far better job in covering the uprisings that the government did in the handling or the mishandling, and that does not surprise me, being someone in the media, from one day to the next, i did not know where we stood, if we were with mubarak or with the protesters. it seemed that that story was changing

. >>> live picture of protests going on now in tahrir square in the heart of cairo.t has faced deteriorating security since the popular uprising that ousted mubarak a year ago. latest issue after a soccer match lead to riots that killed nearly 80 and injured more than 1,000. you see tear gas, armored vehicles in the street. these are live pictures. we'll bring you more as you see those security forces move in. >>> back here, san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi is due in family court today where he's expected to ask a judge to allow him to see his 2-year-old son. his attorney filed a petition asking for an expedited hearing. the sheriff was barred from seeing his boy and having any contact with his wife after he was booked on domestic violence charges three weeks ago. he's accused of bruising his wife's arm during a new year's eve argument. he has pleaded not guilty to charges of misdemeanor domestic violence, child endangerment and dissuading a witness. trial is set 24th. >>> a man in critical condition from burns he suffered in a house fire in pittsburg. the blaze

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of tear gas and birdshot to disperse crowds of protesters they're looking at a live video from tahrir square where thousands have gathered to voice their their discontent with the government the unarrest broke out after wednesday's football violence when seventy four died in post match clashes protesters have been massing in tahrir square and around the interior ministry blaming police for doing nothing to prevent the soccer pitch deaths they also call on the military council to step down analysts say many young people are dissolute disillusioned with how their revolution has been turning out. the main recipient of criticism now in egypt is the military council because it really has all the powers and they are demanding that those powers louis will be transferred quickly either to a government or to an elected president and the military council is still very hesitant and i lindis to something that happened couple weeks ago when the military council of order and security forces to go and shut down democracy agencies both and education n.g.o.s and international n.g.o.s u.s. based n.g.o.s all o

down immediately accusing them of hindering reform oh she's really not going to reports now from tahrir square. if you ask those people they will tell you that really nothing has released easter in the year since the barak has been ousted as a matter of fact there is thing that things have gotten worse because now they have to deal with the military council the scouts which is a head of the country's government right now for a.

reports now from tahrir square. if you ask those people they will tell you that really nothing has released means that in the years since the barak has been ousted as a matter of fact there is thing that things have gotten worse because now they have to deal with the military council the scouts which is it and head of the country's government right now for refusing to step down or saying that they're going forth with democratic forms but most people here believe that is not the case they're also calling on workers for a massive strike to go on indefinitely until the military council steps down. the muslim brotherhood who are saying that these are the does these calls for a massive strike are actually destructive to the country because that will only plug egypt into further poverty and disarray also the religious leaders in the country are not supporting the strike as well but students the young people who are behind it this really should along with the workers who wanted to see some real differences they are saying

rulers to step down immediately accusing them of hindering reform to reports now from the iconic tahrir square if you ask those people they will tell you that really nothing has really sleestak in the years since the barak has been ousted as a matter of fact there is saying that things have gotten worse because now they have to do with the military council the scouts and head of the country's government right now for refusing to step down or saying that they're going forth with democratic forms but most people here believe that is not the case and that is why they're calling for this massive act of civil disobedience the. the people who are they are at the source of this call are the egypt's revolution three alliance which is comprised of more than fifty political groups six of them six of them are the most probably revolutionary groups in the country a lot of them are university students for whom it is the first day of the semester and they're staging sit ins and walk outs they're not going to lectures they're not going to classes they're boycotting exams they're saying that they want to see

. >> look at wisconsin or tahrir square. people will come to the square. instead of 5000 people, you had 50,000 people. there is a power tool i.d.. it is a good question. without the people power, technology and new media is a sterile force and not as powerful. >> you mentioned people power. covered the fall of marcos and rise of a keynote -- aquino in the philippines. you have a vicious dictator and a pious, sincere, well-meaning is the original political leader. that was not true. she did not care about poor people. she probably had never met one even though 70% of the population lived under the poverty line. he had actually done some things that were useful and helpful while he pocketed a piece of the action. then i went to a of salvador where oliver stone and others romanticized the guerrilla movement. they were killing mayors in cold blood. there were guerrilla camps up in the mountains. women in fatigues would be serving coffee and grumbling that the guys were running the show. there is a black-and-white problem in the way we look at things. there is

then this, deadly rioting in the streets of tahrir square. the soccer riot that left 74 dead has added to an already tense situation ever since hosni mubarak was removed from power. three have been killed today. you can see what is going on. this is video just recorded this morning. protesters are throwing things at police. police are firing back with tear gas and bird shot. in fact bird shot is blamed for one of the deaths there this morning. protesters are angry the police didn't prevent the violence at the soccer match. bigger picture, they are calling for egypt's ruling military council to surrender power. they say the military is mismanaging the country's transition to democracy the tourism minister says tourism in egypt has dropped significantly, because of what you are seeing there it is a vital industry and it has lost 30% revenue. we will keep an eye on the situation and bring any news as we get. katie marzullo, abc7 news. >>> we have developing news along the san mateo county coast right now the coast guard is searching for a missin

step down immediately accusing them of pain during reform all he's remember those reports from tahrir square. if you ask those people they will tell you that really nothing has released easter in the year since the barak has been ousted does matter of fact three saying that things have gotten worse because now we have to deal with the military council the scouts which is a head of the country's government right now food for refusing to step down for saying that they're going forth with democratic reforms but most people here believe that is not the case they're also calling on workers for a massive.

. >> those anti-foreigner sentiment in its we did not see in tahrir square are now emerging.he much feared a ground offensive is believed to be underway. syrian officials said that government troops would cleanse the besieged district would of rebel fighters. i spoke earlier with the senior fellow for the washington institute for policy. >> this language that is being used in syria of cleansing the rebels, we have heard that kind of language before by the serbians. what does that say is actually going to happen? >> if baekeland entire neighborhoods of the city that would suggest a new level of violence and crack down. they have cracked down on the opposition, but stayed away from the kind of violence that adopt the said that he was going to use and brought international intervention. stay away from gross violence. that would rally world public opinion. he is playing with fire if he did that. >> turkey is a key player in this equation. increasingly, the west is saying this has to be a regional solution. >> it was what i was thinking before we went to turkey. turkey wants this

. >> as protesters gathered in tahrir square, there were violent clashes with police. many football fans played a big role in the protests against the regime of hosni mubarak last year. now, the accused security forces of using wednesday to settle old scores. >> the german foreign minister is echoing calls for regime change in syria. while on a tour of the middle east, he said openly for the first time that syrian president bashar al assad had no future and had to allow a peaceful transition of power. he made the statements in talks with the defense minister. stoping iran's nuclear program was also high on the agenda, and both men downplayed talk of military action. most of all, the stress the importance -- importance of sanctions, saying it was the goal of diplomacy to avoid wars. nato appears to be speeding up its plans to end its combat mission in afghanistan. france, the u.s., and the wider alliances said they want afghan forces to be in control of combat forces by mid-2013, a year earlier than expected. in another strategic development, nato defense ministers have

for the third day with reports of at least four killed this is live video you're looking at of tahrir square in cairo protests against the military rulers broke out after wednesday's football violence left seventy four dead. moscow says it cannot support a new draft resolution on syria although the text had been softened to overcome some of russia's objections the kremlin said it still fell short of addressing their main concerns. and all polling stations across russia will have their own digital observer as web cameras are installed by order of the prime minister the move was introduced by vladimir putin as a step toward stopping electoral fraud heading into next month's presidential vote . up next our special report on the reset in u.s. russia relations and how it's been affected by the u.s. controversial missile defense shield for europe stay with us. the most vital national security interests of the united states would be most effectively realized not through hostility to rush through cooperation with it. i think russia and the united states can we just settlement of the establishment of

. >> we did not see the anti sentiment in tahrir square and now it is read as head in egypt. the fight in homs has continued for four weeks. a syrian official said that they would "cleanse" the area. is there anything that the regional players can do to stop it? i am joined by a senior fellow at the washington institute for near east policy. thank you for joining us. this language that is being used in syria of cleansing homs of rebel elements. we have heard that kind of language used before, for example by the serbians. what does that say to you will happen here? >> if they did this, this would suggest a new level of violence and crack down. so far, what the regime has unsuccessfully is that they have cracked down the opposition but steered away from using the kind of violence that gaddafi suggested he would use. this brought international intervention against his rule. what bashar al-assad is try to stay away from gross violence. i think that this would rally world public opinion for a u.n. resolution or some kind of other international decision to call for action against h

not know me, and i feel very connected as if we are brothers and sisters, but the experience of tahrir square, which i detailed in the book, was very personal. there is this bonds, this unity bond, that was developed among the people during the 18 days, because all of us all of a sudden dreamed that something big could happen, and that was so big that required all of us to unite, which is something i hope happens again, and i am confident it will happen again in a few months, but this time about the future of the country. tavis: tell me, as you say in the book, about how you got out? >> i was told that i was wanted, and without any further notice, he said, "i have very good news for you. we have found that you are not guilty and that you are not part of a plot to destabilize the country, as they said in the beginning, and you are going to be out to." he talked with me for hours about what i should say when i go out. he told me that i was going to be a very high-profile person, that my words would be accountable, that they have basically done what is possible for the egyptians, and whenever yo

. >> more open hostility in tahrir square. demonstrators confront the police outside of the interior ministry and now the wall that was separate in them has been partly dismantled. overnight, protesters went to work removing the heavy concrete blocks. they stayed on the streets after a day of clashes with the security forces. >> the military must step down. we have had enough people getting killed every day. >> i blame the police for what happened. usually, we get search for entering this -- before entering the stadium. nobody surged us. >> egypt saw angry clouds. here in the city of suez, at least people -- two people were shot and killed by police. this was the reason for the outrage, the worst football violence ever seen in the country took place in the northern city of port said on wednesday. local fans invaded the pitch after winning against the top virucide. meanwhile, police stood by. some accused them of deliberate negligence. some say that this is another bloody reminder of the lack of law and order. after a year in p

people outside of tahrir square are afraid of further and this order. >> in libya, the tories are being urged to investigate the death of a former ambassador who was detained by an armed militia group in tripoli. given rights watch believes the man was tortured to death. the government has vowed to look into allegations of torture in many of the detention centers to run by the militias around the country. -- human-rights watch believes the man was tortured to death. >> burying his father is not what this man expected to do. his father was killed after being detained by an armed militia. he was a former ambassador and the father of 8 children. >> she does not understand what is happening. >> his son that he had no reason to fear. 24 hours later, they found his body 100 kilometers to the south. >> signs of torture all over his body. he has been beaten by a different ways. given my medical background, i assume using a metal object. his nose is broken, as well as severe injury to his head, broken ribs, bruises all over his body. nails are removed from his hands. fingernails' as well as toen

military council to step down immediately saying they're blocking reforms in the country more from tahrir square just ahead. more pressure is piled on the syrian regime. new resolution blaming it lands at the u.n. general assembly. to brussels with more cuts in exchange for a bailout catch people vent their frustration on the streets about. seven o'clock on saturday night here in moscow this is the life with me wrong show egyptians are staging a general strike a day of civil disobedience to mark the first anniversary of the toppling of the former leader hosni mubarak they're calling for the military rulers to step down immediately accusing them of hindering reform. now reports from the iconic sobra square. if you ask those people they will tell you that really nothing has really seized in the years since the barak has been ousted is a matter of fact there is thing that things have gotten worse because now they have to deal with the military council the scouts which is a head of the country's government right now food for refusing to step down for saying that they are going forth with democratic

. >>> tens of thousands of protestors poured into cairo's tahrir square today after the soccer riot we reported on last night that left at least 74 people dead. protestors are blaming egyptian security forces for letting the situation get out of hand. tonight's protest left more than 600 people injured. most of them from tear gas used to disperse the crowd. >>> while much of the u.s. has been experiencing a milder than usual winter, europe is having one of the harshest, colder winters in years. at least 123 people are dead, especially hard hit eastern europe including serbia where thousands have been trapped by heavy snow. we posted a full report on all this by stephanie gosk on our website nbc nightly news.com. >>> in health news tonight, prominent researchers are slamming sugar saying it's time this country treated foods with added sugar the same way we treat things like alcohol and tobacco and regulate them. nbc news chief medical editor dr. nancy snyderman here with us tonight. this is a provocative topic. >> reporter: it is a very provocative topic. not just talking about the glas

military council to step down immediately saying they're blocking reforms in the country more from tahrir square. greek lawmakers pander to brussels with more cuts in exchange for cash while people vent their frustration on the streets of athens also. european internet freedom and no censorship speaking out against global. governments want the top stories. international live from moscow this is. a day egyptians are staging a general strike in a day of civil disobedience to mark the first anniversary of the toppling of former leader hosni mubarak they're calling for the military to step down immediately accusing them of hindering reform going to reports now from the square. if you ask those people they will tell you that really nothing has released easter in the year since the barak has been ousted does matter of fact there is saying that things have gotten worse because now they have to do with the military council the scouts and head of the country's government right now forces him to step down for saying that they're going forth with democratic reforms but most people here believe that is not

. >> reporter: in tahrir square, where the protests began just over a year ago, demonstrators continue to demand those rights. democracy is very fragile here. egypt is now run by a heavy-handed military which took over when mubarak stepped down. the generals say they'll transfer power after presidential elections this summer, but some have doubts. nevertheless, islamists long banned in egyptian political life have new responsibilities and a new sense of accountability. and makram ebeid believes that will have a moderating effect. >> so i don't think that they will be able so much to impose their own views or change the personality of egypt as they wish, because i think that this will make them lose their popularity. the more there is an opening to democracy, the more the process of democratization will be, will go ahead, and the more they will come more to the center. >> reporter: while some might disagree, few dispute the importance of egypt's democratic opening. the test will be safeguarding the process so that future voters can choose to re-elect their parliamentarians or not. for "