upset with the u.s. as an ally and other countries saying they want swift political change in egypt. and be i m quoting him here saying intervention in our internal affairs is strange, unacceptable, and we will not allow it. what are your thoughts on that? yes, well, this is what the prime minister also said earlier this morning cairo time, and this is what in all the egyptian propaganda elements, if you like, newspapers and media and so on, they want to portray president mubarak as a victim of, quote-unquote imperialist pressure and intervention. that would give him a new kind of legitimacy and, of course, the egyptian establishment, the egyptian institutions want to dignify departure from mubarak. they say he should stay until september, until the next presidential elections. he should not be chased away
liberation square. we will try and figure out where that is coming from. it looks like it s hoses. it s not coming from the tanks. so it s not water cannons, but they are starting to spray water from the hoses into protesters there at close to 6:00 p.m. cairo time. anderson are you able to see the water that s being sprayed into the crowds? reporter: not from my vantage point, and i can t tell who is spraying i m sorry. where is that? i m talking to my camera woman. there is a light, and you see people and they are throwing water into the crowd. reporter: we can t tell, kyra, whether or not that is to put out fires or being poured on the crowd from my vantage point. i simply can t tell. there was a fire in front of the egyptian museum go on and smoke billowing out. i can t tell you what that water
sort of coalition that will include all groups and that will include the muslim brotherhood and include the april sixth youth movement and opposition groups. just to clarify, all of the groups, the step one is the ouster of the regime. speaking to you right now, it s about 4:20 a.m. cairo time. they are quiet and the streets are empty, but in about five hours from now, it will be filled for what is expected to be the biggest march of the up rising. the biggest gathering. hundreds of thousands are there and a few hundred yards from the square. the communications have been
welcome back, everybody, to our continuing coverage that s taking place in cairo, egypt, at this hour. these are live images that are coming in to us from the streets there, where we ve been watching protesters all day, enraged, slashing back at the government, trying to see what hosni mubarak will come and say. he s saying that his speech to the country will be imminent. however, we have not heard from him. again, a curfew was imposed there at 6:00 p.m. cairo time. that was 11:00 a.m. eastern time. so almost two hours ago. our richard engel who s on the scene there in cairo said it really had literally no effect on the protesters, the demonstrators who were on the streets there. we had images earlier of demonstrators who were cornering a police carrier, throwing rocks at it. then they were actually able to throw a molotov cocktail in one of the windows on the roof of
careful what you wish for for the egyptian people? you know, the united states government has suggested that hosni mubarak s offer to resign in september gives the egyptian people time for an orderly transis. they said we don t want an orderly transition. we want him out now. well i think it s 11:00 in the morning washington time, who knows what the obama administration s position is at this point. i think we can say with respect to people in egypt that we know what their intentions are, we don t know what the outcome will be. i think the military s intention is to restore stability, that nadya sulemanomar suleiman, thee president is the likely plan b. he said yesterday that if the demonstrations don t stop other things could happen, implying a use of force not by the police this time, but by the military. so i think that moubarak and the military collectively seem to