national authority some rapprochement. he s certainly been the bun who worked with the israelis and others including the united states over the issues of terrorism. reporter: the solid picture we re getting of omar suleiman from u.s. and egyptian officials and analysts is that he may not have been the best person to lead egypt through this crisis, but there may not have been many other alternatives. one state department official told me no one thinks he s a nice guy, but some key leaders from the u.s., israel and their allies were comfortable with suleiman because of their past dealings with him. he was trusted by a large segment of the egyptian population, feared but trusted. brian todd, washington. he was a google executive before he played a very key role in egypt s uprising. how the 30-year-old used social networking to trigger a massive revolution. you know her. hey, what you do to me [ male announcer ] we know diamonds. and with an extra 10% off storewide now through sunday
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in to remove the barricades that were erected there, despite the objections of some die hard demonstrators there, and to see how the opposition protesters mobilized hundreds of people to come in, armed with brooms, to clean that square up, to clean up the debris left after 18 day sit-in there, and to see the civil mindedness, the activism of many young egyptians, something that was really absent in egyptian society in the past. they want to take control, take owner ship of their own capital city. ivan watson, thanks so much from cairo. appreciate that. the palestinian authority has announced plans to announce elections no later than december. it s a direct correlation between what s taking place in egypt and now involving the palestinian authority decision as well. elise, is there a direct correlation with what s happening in egypt and this
since grabbing control of the country from hosni mubarak. it insists it will honor all egyptian s treaties. among those the peace treaty with israel. the military caretakers say they re committed to a democratic process that will lead to civilian rule. we ll have a live report from cairo in the minutes ahead. an arrest warrant is out for former pakistani president pervez musharraf. a pakistani court issued the warrant after musharraf refused to answer prosecutors questions about the assassination of benazir bhutto. prosecutors say an investigation shows musharraf was responsible for the killing because he did not provide bhutto adequate protection. mu shar half, who now lives in london, is denying that. actress elizabeth taylor is being treated at a los angeles hospital for symptoms caused by congestive heart failure. taylor s representative says the 78-year-old star checked into the hospital this week for what s being called an ongoing
could have, you know, a billion. we don t know at all what is in any of these accounts, how much is there. we do know that there s a lot of people who accused the former president of actually pilfering off funds that should have gone to the egyptian government and using them for his own means. we don t know if that s the case. but switzerland say this is what they do, this is normal operating procedure when a person is politically supposed. that s the way they put it in their statement. they re freezing the assets to make sure there is no embezzlement of any assets that should actually stay within egypt and not go with mr. mubarak as he s now stepped down. that s what they re saying they re doing. we ve actually seen switzerland come under heat before even for the u.s. government in recent years because the people were saying you need to be a little more up front about people who are holding assets in your country. it looks like switzerland at least in this case wants to make sure they