midday prayers. another interesting change from yesterday is that the army now is taking a more fixed position, a slightly more aggressive position than i saw yesterday. for instance, on this street on the banks of the nile river in front of the state tv headquarters the tanks are set up and people are not being allowed to mingle and congregate the way they were yesterday and hold protests in front of the tangs. they are being directed there is a flow of people and a sense that some of the freedom is not going to quite the same on sunday. ivan, let s get back to the new development we want to pass on to many foreigners who find themselves in egypt at this point. in recent days some of them have been onlookers. some were watching with interest in the streets. we saw tourists with their video
snowstorm. get this, could the next blizzard be days away? those snow-shoveling muscles are in full flex for some people. it s friday and also polka time. barry is here with a special performance to wrap up our 19th birthday celebration. it s one you don t want to miss. no kidding. we begin with that growing wave of protests sweeping across the middle east. today s demonstrations in egypt could be the largest and most violent so far. lama hasan is jonning us live by phone this morning from cairo with the very latest. lama, hearing words like revolution there. reporter: good morning, rob and vinita. it s safe to say people are bracing themselves because they organized another day of anger. on friday, the first day of the week end here, it s a holy day when people go to the mosques to pray. the protests will follow midday prayers in a couple of hours. they are expected to be bigger than anything we ve seen all
wait until you see what we found involving sex, lies and a video tape. and snow puts the squeeze on already tight state budgets. how bad is it? we re about to show you and what it could mean for all of us. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we may be just a few hours away from a critical showdown in egypt. massive anti-government demonstrations are planned to follow friday s midday prayers in defiance of a ban on gatherin gatherings. riot police made a show of force. the muslim brotherhood has for the first time now called on all of its followers in egypt to march. and the nobel lauret return # to cairo to follow what is so far loosely organized street protests, saying the barrier of fear is broken. he called on egypt s regime to
over the investigation into an attack on a mosque outside that s because religious extremism is a suspected motive one person died and two others were wounded in the attack which occurred after midday prayers on thursday. in indonesia have awarded mass evacuations of the eruption of the country s most active volcano mount merapi lies on the densely populated island of java eruption sent more than five kilometers into the sky forcing the brief closure of the nearby yoga. point. now world leaders are stepping up their efforts to save the iran nuclear deal with the foreign ministers of germany france and britain due to meet the iranian counterpart next week the diplomatic scramble comes after israel attacked iran s positions in syria in response to rein in attacks on the israeli occupied golan
drove up outside the mosque during friday prayers, midday prayers. they set off some sort of explosion outside of the mosque, 25 to 30 men, some of them in combat fatigues, some of them with their faces masked, heavily armed with automatic weapons went inside the mosque, which contained hundreds and hundreds of people. opened fire for quite some time, clearly from this causality figure, and according to the egyptian officials, some of these individuals, these attackers, or at least one of them had an isis flag, although until now we have yet to hear any claim of responsibility from the terrorist organization itself. martin? all right, ben wedeman giving us the latest on that terrible attack in egypt. thank you very much. well, just two days left now for people in alabama to register to vote in the upcoming