course is a critical ally of britain. it is also a popular destination for british tourists and travel advice has just gone out, warning british tourists to avoid certain areas in egypt. in the meantime, foreign secretary william haig has put out a statement saying he is deeply concerned by the levels of violence in egypt. he also urged president mubarak to listen to the aspirations of the people saying that peaceful reform and not repression is the way forward. atika shubert, cnn, london. an egyptian-american who moved took cairo has been setting up barricades to protect his family from the thugs and looters. i will talk to him right after the break. [ male announcer ] breathe, socket. just breathe. we know it s intimidating. instant torque. top speed of 100 miles an hour. that s one serious machine. but you can do this. any socket can. the volt only needs about a buck fifty worth of charge a day. and for longer trips, it can use gas. so get psyched.
calling for the resignation of president hosni mubarak are repeating to me over and over again. i m van watson live from cairo tonight. of course, not just cairo but alexandria and suez, where crowds of protesters, some angry, some jubilant, all frustrated with what they say is a government and a president in charge far too long. to alexandria now, where senior international correspondent nic robertson found himself in the middle of a very tense public gathering. this is earlier today. reporter: what they are saying get out, mubarak, get out, mubarak, our rarity. this organization here, leading the chant to get president mubarak out of the country. if you look further ahead up the road here, i m seeing something that i haven t seen on the previous days. [ speaking a foreign language ]
squares but by and large, the army isn t really actively patrolling in this neighborhood. they are here, they have a presence, but by and large, the responsibility the for local security has simply fallen to resident he is. now, having said that, i did see that downtown, right behind our bureau, in the center of cairo that what people were doing was just these neighborhood patrols are catching looters and suspicious people and essentially dragging them and beating them along the way and taking them and surrendering them to the army. but the army, at this point, seems more to be a symbolic reassurance than actually doing anything to re-establish security in most parts of cairo. in many parts of cairo, in fact, the army has not been seen at all. all right, ben wedeman live from basically his home in cairo as he was saying. all of those people in
minister called for, saying please adhere to a curfew supposed to go from moments ago until 8:00 in the morning. ivan watson, cnn, cairo. so many images out of egypt go to josh leaves watching it all on the web plugged into several social media outlet s. josh? you know part of what i have been reporting on is the fact that even with the internet disappearing there for a really important block of time, people were still managing to get out videos, photos, stories, information. some people were still getting it out. from vet beginning when we were following this throughout last week we began to get ireports. let s take a look now at some of the most important ireports we have gotten. here is one here. this is from friday, i-reporter asking us to identify him just as george. people don t want their full names used. this was inside cairo. this is a bridge on thor on side of the nile, one we have seen a lot. protesters threw a canister of tear gas back into the crowd of police. police t
protesters almost make it across the bridge. let s let this video play for a moment here. and this is an example of the kind of thing we have been getting, people on the scene, whether they have phone cameras whether they have any kind of camera, have been managing in some cases to get us ireports. go to the next one now, someone pretty prolific for us, a christian johnson says, yes, go ahead and report this name, bringing us from cairo. he shot this video before and during a cab ride and he pointed out that it took place in the evening on friday. let s listen. kind of chanting going on in all parts of city, we have fantastic teenlts ground. we he also have the benefits of ireporters who have been helping cover this story. here is one more from an i-reporter who does not wish to be name and you might have trouble telling exactly what the image is, but it is a poster of president hosni mubarak.