north, this comes as the country charges hundreds of detained protestors with ma lining the state. it car rest a three year prison sentence and comes ahead of the muslim day of prayer on friday. jon: you ve heard of the long search for peace in the middle east. there may be a bit of detante. it s between hamas and fatah. they are signing a reconciliation packet this morning. it ends a bitter four year rift between the two groups. but it could spell trouble for the mideast peace process. leland vittert live in jerusalem for us. reporter: the prime minister of israel called this agreement a victory for 0 terrorism, basically saying the israeli government is not going to negotiate with this new palestinian unity government. 50% of it is involved whose leader in just the past couple of days says that he condemned
election within a year. there are many people here who think it may not loose a year, it may not even last a month as this agreement goes. they had a big ceremony in cairo today. the ceremony started late why? because both sides, hamas and fatah had to sit around and argue over where everybody was going to sit before they signed it. jon: that doesn t bode well for the kiss and make up kind of thing they supposedly have done there. leland hav vittert thank you. jenna: we are taking you down to washington d.c. where the senate jew dish remeeting is being held. eric holder is testifying. there was an interesting exchange we wanted to flag to your attention. senator schumer asked the attorney general what he expects to find from the quote unquote treasure trove that was discovered in usama bin laden s compound, whether there would be new names added to the watch list. potentially visas that are approved by the united states revoked. the attorney general did not say
all americans to get out of country, telling u.s. citizens to immediately head for the airport. leland hav vittert is live in c. reporter: once again things have gone from really bad to even worst. the violent clashes between pro moubarak and antigovernment protestors in tahrir square have turned violent. we thought it was going to get better today, early in the morning the army moved in and moved some of the pro moubarak supporters off the bridges where they were throwing the molotov cocktails. the army has since disappeared. once again automatic weapons fire inside tahrir square. once again molotov cocktails. once again a lot of people getting hurt. the antigovernment protesters are saying they are not going to leave. they have built these makeshift jon: it appears we have lost our
link to leland vittert who is reporting live from cairo. as you can see a deteriorating situation there. pro demonstrators taking on antigovernment demonstrators. teargas everywhere, people throwing everything from rocks to fire bombs. at least one person has been hospitalized in the clashes today. the egyptian army is tr trying o separate the two camps. ththeee military is trying to kp the two camps apart as best as it can. emotions are simply inflamed there. you can see how violent this thing is becoming and really growing worse by the way. jenna: intensifying it seems moment by moment. we are watching the changes, it s tough to keep up with. we want to get more perspective on exactly what is happening in egypt. we are joined by michael syng, a