The Egyptian Army has intervened in the ongoing clashes between pro and anti Hosni Mubarak supporters in Tahrir square according to reports.
Field hospitals have been set up in Cairo to treat the wounded from bloody clashes in Tahrir Square. Channel 4 News speaks to a volunteer prevented from delivering medical supplies by “armed thugs”.
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I went up to the 16th floor in the Finance Ministry to interview the new Minister of Finance Samir Radwan. We were greeted by men in bowties and dinner jackets. Outside some 50 tanks are drawn up around the tomb of the unknown warrior where President Sadat was assassinated.
As violence erupts on the streets of the Egyptian capital, Channel 4 News looks at the victims of the protests and speaks to “The Martyr” who helped mobilise thousands to take on the regime.
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When Obama spoke to Mubarak, what exactly did he say? Channel 4 News examines America’s game plan in Egypt as Sarah Smith plots a timeline of the US President’s biggest foreign policy test yet.
President Hosni Mubarak tells Egypt he will not seek re-election in September, but Barack Obama says the time for change is now. It means the protests will continue, reports Jonathan Rugman in Cairo.
Egypt’s police have disappeared from the streets where protesters have amassed in their thousands, and a former Middle East adviser to the EU tells Channel 4 News that the top brass may be in hiding.
Supporters of Egypt’s President Mubarak clash with protesters in the “battle for Tahrir Square” with hundreds hurt and three killed. Jonathan Rugman reports from Cairo.
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The roots of the current uprising lie in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid. Channel 4 News looks at how the political revolt there has roared across the Middle East to Egypt, Sudan, Yemen and Jordan.
Lindsey Hilsum blogs: what a strange reversal that those who support the government have to whisper in corners while the rebels who would have been arrested two weeks ago are out there shouting in public “remove Mubarak, replace him with a sheep”.
It is being billed as a march of a million people, aimed at revolutionising Egypt’s politics. Channel 4 News explores some of the key social media players helping to fuel events in Cairo.
Egypt currently has no internet access after the last major server still up-and-running went down on Monday night, but some mobile phones are still working, Channel 4 News understands.
Henry Kissinger warns Channel 4 News that if an Islamist government replaces Mubarak in Egypt that it would be a “fundamental change to the kind of world we have known since world war two”.