opportunity to prey on people who are here doing serious work. ben, thank you. please stand by. but first, joining us now for an egyptian journalist perspective is shahir amin, independent journalist and former deputy head of nile english. first key question i want your take on is do you consider this a coup? well, it s increasingly looking like it is a coup, seeing the tanks deployed on the streets of cairo, the mass arrests of muslim brotherhood leaders, taking some channels off the air, the islamist channels, al ja zeer zeera. the offices were raided. it is increasingly looking like a coup. of course, the youth revolutionaries say that this is the peoples movement, that it s