people as they tried to disrupt national elections. our top story as we go around the world in 80 seconds. reporter: nigeria polls will remain open into sunday due to problems with some vote magazines. the current president is in a tight race against the country s former military dictator. millions of nigerians already turning out to vote. every nigerian just wants to move forward. wants a significance change in their life. chile, residents are forced to flee from a volcanic eruption for the second time in days. the volcano spewing lava and lighting up the night sky. this is the second eruption this month that has forced 3,000 residents to get to safer ground. the united kingdom. the duchess of cambridge making what is expected to be her final public appearance before she gives birth to a second child. duchess kate and prince william met with volunteers working with
continue down in the rundown we have somalia officials have regained control of a hotel in the capital city of mogadishu. militants from the islamic rebel group al shabab blasted their way inside that hotel and they were there for a 12-hour standoff. the government says six attackers were killed from al shabab along with 15 other people. the attack started when a suicide bomber detonated had his car at the gate of that hotel. are for the first time in nigeria s history an opposition candidate has had a realistic chance of defeating a sitting president in that nation s presidential elections. many ignored threats from boca haram and turned out to cast their vote. president goodluck johnnathan and a former military dictator now are continuing to duke it out.
first of all, it s not even clear if the military government in ee yipt is going to pull back far enough to allow a civilian government to operate. if they do and if that if the majority power and that government is the muslim brotherhood, the question i think for the future is, which are they going to go? muslim brotherhood has been a monolith that s never been forced what it is politically. there s more extreme, the muslim brotherhood have 40%. the other quarter or so with liberal secular folks. which way is it going to go? the guess is probably with the more liberal secular folks. but ut not clear yet. does the brotherhood have the chops to run egypt? first of all, who does? in other words, this is a country that has been run by a military dictator since 1952. it s never had a very effective government. the brotherhood, interestingly, decided or really was able to
well, i don t see any reason not to at the same time if we have cleared the skies, and it s safe for our aircraft. i don t see any reason not to go ahead and take out tanks that are rumbling toward the rebel lines or artillery pieces that are firing on them. but i mean, that is saving civilian lives because the people who have rebelled against gadhafi, even if they were in his military, they re it s a civilian rebellion against this military dictator. so anything that saves the lives of those who want freedom in libya seems to me at least under some reasonable interpretation to be under the u.n. resolution and under the arab league resolution. so i wouldn t stop there, but if one does say that i m not going to do anything except keep the skies clear, i still think probably that would have a substantially negative effect on him and a positive effect on the reblgs.
billion. when you are a military dictator for 30 years, you are access to a lot of cash, including $1.5 billion a year in american aid. and the thinking is that he and members of his family have skimmed some of that away. where did he get money from did he cake take it from the pe some come from skimming military contracts, that s the theory, foreign aid. and just the bureaucracy of doing business in egypt there are fees that many say are actually bribes used to keep the economy going, keep businesses going, and fund the family s lifestyle. to do business, i imagine, so i ve read, you had to understand links to the family. his son, gamal. reporter: that s right. his son gamal who was considered the heir apparent to the leadership of egypt is the conduit for a lot of this. involved in investment banking