where there is a lockdown on communications there is still consistent reports that mercenaries are on the streets along with the security forces and that they are of african origin. reporter: fionnuala sweeney reporting from cairo, we will continue to talk throughout the morning. turning to bahrain. more mass protests organized in the leader opposition party plans to return home but some of the tears there, tears of joy. families have been reunited after the king ordered about 25 high profile political prisoners be let go. bahrain center for human rights say the government clamped down on dissent late last year, even tortured some of those activists. in yemen, pro and anti-government protesters clashing on the streets of sanaa. two anti-government protesters killed. more than ten wounded in that gunfire. more protests today, too. demonstrators demand an end to
[ thunder crashing ] and then, in one blinding blink of an eye, their tree had given its last. but with their raymond james financial advisor, they had prepared for even the unthinkable. and they danced. see what a raymond james advisor can do for you. in recent weeks, libya s moammar gadhafi has seen governments topple to his east and west in egypt and tunisia. and now trying to stop it from spreading across his own country. fionnuala sweeney rejoins us live from cairo. fionnuala, we ve been talking about egypt and tunisia, and there s a lot of differences when it comes to the uprising
thousands. blood will flow, rivers of blood, in all of the cities of libya. foreign journalists are banned from libya, and the libyan government continues to ignore requests from cnn for access. fionnuala sweeney doing her best to cover this story from cairo. what are you hearing now, fionnuala? reporter: just to update you on the death toll, the human rights watch, as you reported, saying 233 people have died but we are now hearing reliably from benghazi, that the death toll there alone stands at 300. there were clashes there beginning last tuesday. we re hearing in tripoli, the capital, as gadsfy was making a speech, 73 people were taken to the hospital, and the hospitals we are trying to get through to, when we do pick up, they say they haven t received any bodies at all, but the expectation in
tripoli, if the passion in benghazi is anything to go back, is that once the sun sets there will be more demonstrations, and this ramping up to be quite an evening in tripoli for the citizens and the security forces of moammar gadhafi. fionnuala sweeney covering the libyan protests as best she can from cairo. as we watch the protests on our sligstelevisions, it may se that the protests blend together. tom foreman takes a look at a movement started in egypt and tunisia that is spreading across the arab world. reporter: if you look at the countries in the middle east with problems right now, they all have slightly different reasons, but they also have commonalitities. chief among them, large, young
okay, fionnuala sweeney live for us there. she s been monitoring that speech in neighboring cairo, just recovering from the fall of hosni mubarak there and once again celebrations in cairo, unrest libya. the situation has been extremely chaotic in the capital city of tripoli. it has spread to the that is significant. we re hearing of burning and gunfire. wean speaking to a gentleman that we won t identify for his own safety. what is the situation like now? we know you have been to the protest yesterday. it s early morning there. what s it like now? caller: kind of quiet. once in a while, you can hear some fire shooting and gun. you can hear them clearly because it s too quiet now, 5:00 a.m. hello.