well equipped and well organized. it's a completely different force than we saw in egypt. this is, you night say in some ways, a mercenary type force, anderson. >> and nic, the face they show in washington is very polished, very nice in suits. how difficult are they making life on the ground for reporters trying to document what is happening there? >> reporter: well, as we approach that area where the people were gunned down today, there's two tall buildings. we were there at the same time as arwa, just a few meters away, but in all the chaos we didn't even know that until we ran away and were trying to gather our breath from the tear gas. there were other journalists there telling us there was a sniper on the roof of one of the buildings there. this is in contrast to what the government said. it's not just the envoy of the