police, members of the ruling party and a lot of just frankly thugs who are all around the town, trying to block people from entering tahrir square, they re going after human rights monitors, journalists, when i arrived at tahrir square this morning, kind of a taggered entrance. the bridge, one of the major bridges over the nile river, there were i was about to get out of my taxi and realized there were a whole line of these thugs with nails embedded in them. they looked like central casting s notion of gangsters and i decided that was maybe not the opportune place to get out of the cab so i tried various other routes to get into tahrir square. at 2 i was turned back by soldiers but finally i was able to find a way in and later when
well, it s a continuation of what we saw very abruptly really in the early morning hours wednesday. you had the government send out police, members of the ruling party and a lot of just frankly thugs who are all around the town, trying to block people from entering tahrir square, they re going after human rights monitors, journalists, when i arrived at tahrir square this morning, kind of a taggered entrance. the bridge, one of the major bridges over the nile river, there were i was about to get out of my taxi and realized there were a whole line of these thugs with clubs with nails embedded in them. they looked like central casting s notion of gangsters
weapons while breaking the sanction regime. and inviting real investment and economic prosperity into the country. reporter: veteran intelligence officials and diplomats praise kim and trump for bringing a temporary peace. now human rights monitors warn of kims deception. what is the reality there? the reality of north korea hasn t changed. this regime is keen on developing nuclear weapons. ballistic missiles. while it is doing that, 30% of north korea children are malnourished. 120,000 men, women and children are held as political prisoners. reporter: what happens if kim jong un charm offensive doesn t work and diplomacy falls apart? look for the mistrust between the u.s. and north korea to deepen. for kim to go back to aggressive posture. and the chances of a miscalculation and military
number of human rights monitors. and there s been absolutely no transparency about what the egyptian government is doing right now, other than a few awkward photo ops on egyptian controlled television. the egyptian government has denied any involvement in these kind of attacks by mobs on peaceful demonstrators and reporters, they have no idea how these things happened. but the egyptian military stood there and let it happen. i saw that with my own eyes, we all saw that. when they realized the protesters could not be beaten back by mobs and the reporters would continue working, the military suddenly stepped in. and with a few rolls of wire and a few shots in the air, they suddenly were able to keep the mobs at bay. the egyptian government says the military didn t want to choose sides but the truth is, they did choose sides. they searched peaceful demonstrators entering liberation square for days, but made no efforts to search pro- mubarak mobs as they descended on liberation square. eve
you ll hear from our reporters on the ground in a moment. and we ll talk to a leading opposition figure. we begin tonight as always keeping them honest. we begin by focusing on the lies the egyptian government continues to tell. i know lies is a strong word, it s one we rarely use. we can t think of another word right now to describe what the egyptian government has been saying, what they ve been saying is the direct opposite of what they ve been doing. the lies go back years, decades, of course. we want to focus on some of the ones we ve heard in the last few days. the new vice president of egypt has been for years been mubarak s closest hench man, running his intelligence service. his government has accepted many of the proetter s complaints, he says. while he was saying that, literally while his lips were moving and saying that on egyptian television and abc news, his secret police were still arresting opposition figures, thugs burst into the offices of human rights organizations, t