future. another element is that these clashes began yesterday when the police were trying to clear a fairly small number of people out of tahrir square. they used fairly excessive force yesterday. one man was killed in cairo. more than a thousand wounded. and this is really sparked more outrage because, of course, egyptians overthrew hosni mubarak s regime because they felt the police had too much power, was too brutal, arbitrarily tortured and detained people and so this is really a reaction to that. they don t want to see the same sort of regime coming back and staying yet again. other stories we re following this hour, this is the man poised to be spain s next prime minister, mario rahoi leads the party. a short time ago, his socialist opponent conceded today s national election. spain is the third country this month to change governments largely because of europe s economic crisis. a massive crowd today in damascus, syria, thousands of people loyal to president bashir