after that spies we found he is not responding, i m going to confer all my authorities to omare suleiman. reporter: it s not enough for you? it s not about enough or not enough. it s whether it s real. beef seen a lot of contradictions. suleiman, who should get the authorities yesterday said it s not acceptable at all for anyone to say mubarak should leave his authorities to me, mubarak is the president of the country. this day mu transferred the authority to suleiman. this day, according to the speech that the military, the egyptian army is defending the people s will, and he will do his best to defend the people and what they want, okay? and to achieve their requirements of what they are asking for, okay? after that speech and after the military council, it was so clear that mubarak had to resign and the military council will
leaving. reporter: no, he didn t say that, wolf. he set that he had del grated some of the presidential powers to the vice president omare suleiman, but let s keep in mind that it was only the 29th of january when he appointed suleiman as the vice president. therefore naturally he will have some of those powers. what we heard was a president speaking in the first person as the president, saying i will do this, i will do that, i will form committees, i have instruct instructed there was no hit whatsoever that he has in any way decided to relinquish most of his powers as the president. that would explain why you are hearing this incredible uproar down in the square. clearly he came nowhere near satisfies the demands of the people. if anything, he s enraged them move.
that he was staying put until september, which is what he said last week. so in effect nothing has changed. fareed, when people are in trouble, some of these leaders, they blame it on foreigners, but in this particular case t. the satellite stations, i presume he s refers to al jazeera or al arabiya, but he s making it sounds like it s all their fault. and probably cnn as well. egypt is very nationalist country, a very proud people. it has a 7,000-year history, as president mubarak pointed out, but i don t think it s going to work. i think what you have just witnessed is omare suleiman discrediting himself as any kind of transitional figure. there was a possibility that omall suleiman, the first vice president egypt has had in 30 years could have been the man who ushered in a new egypt.
vice president. that s what we are learning after the speech. the question is obviously it s not good enough for the crowd in the square, we know it s not good enough for the administration, the question is what will they do next? every time they say go, mubarak has used it as a rhetorical weapon against them. you mentioned in the conversation with fareed about outsiders. but my question is where is the military? a commander went into the square and said your demands will be fully met. so i think there s a huge question going forward about, does president mubarak plan other steps? he was too proud and too stubborn to say in his speech? or is he that defiant, delusional to bore ow fareed s word, and what will the military now do? fareed is watching this with us as well. there s reports that the vice president, omare suleiman will address the nation as well on state tv. i don t know what else he s got to say, though he has a few
continues to try to sell. it was only a few moments ago that the crowd was singing, dancing, they were very happy. this crowd, right now, as our viewers can see, they are not happy right now. let s britain in hala gorani. she was in egypt last week. you speak arabic as well. you understand mubarak was precise in saying he was not stepping down, merely handing over responsibilities to his hand-picked vice president omare suleiman. just saying publicly what s really been the case at the top levels of this regime since the vice president was actually nominated to his post. effectively and de facto within this regime omare suleiman has been holding the meetings, has been negotiating with dismiss opposition members. he s held that role for the last several weeks. there s a lot of disappointments coming from tahrir square. many observers are saying this