and this is fairly surprising given that before the real impediment for their advances was the libyan air force. the libyan air force is now gone. there s a no-fly zone. there are nato air strikes. there s several in the area of brega today. but that doesn t seem to be able to provide that critical breaking point they need to move forward. they re still plagued by this chaotic system. they don t have any command and control. they don t even have communications because the cell phone system in this area has gone down. so it is chaos. and it s hard to imagine how they re really going to make any progress whatsoever, given the lack of command and control, given their basic ignorance and how to act, how to function in a battlefield environment. we talked about this before, but ben, has anybody people i m sure, some people said to them, don t just keep firing in the air and wasting all your
given that before the real impediment for their advances was the libyan air force. the libyan air force is now gone. there s a no-fly zone. there are nato air strikes. there s several in the area of brega today. but that doesn t seem to be able to provide that critical breaking point they need to move forward. they re still plagued by this chaotic system. they don t have any command and control. they don t even have communications because the cell phone system in this area has gone down. so it is chaos. and it s hard to imagine how they re really going to make any progress whatsoever, given the lack of command and control, given their basic ignorance and how to act, how to function in a battlefield environment.
has been called, the pressure keeps building. the protesters hope something soon has got to give. some of the people on the scenes we saw today in liberation square. as we said, it s just four hours until this massive protest is planned. i m joined now by ben wedeman and nic robertson. what are you anticipating is going to happen today? the job of anticipating has become very risky here, because this whole protest movement has just sort of popped up in the last week, so it s very difficult to say. but we know that people are walking to cairo from the nile delta. we know that despite the fact the government has cut the internet, you can t send sms s, blackberries don t work. and within moments we expect the cell phone system to go down. we know that word has passed throughout the entire country. i think we can anticipate a huge