here and the situation is unpredictable. but in the long run, i think they are confident they can do business better with democracies than they can with dictatorships. senator leadership? john said it absolutely right. there is unease because of the changes going on but prime minister netanyahu we said, what do you think we should do? he said, be supportive of the democratic revolutions in the arab world, particularly in egypt which is the historic center of the arab world, by far the largest country in the arab world. incidentally, this is a very exciting place to be now. we went to tahrir square today. got a warm, enthusiastic welcome. it is in our interest to support the successful transition to democracy in egypt and throughout the arab world which the egyptian people have won because we always have better,
neighborhood? i think in the short term they are obviously less secure because of the unpredictability here and the situation is unpredictable. but in the long run, i think they are confident they can do business better with democracies than they can with dictatorships. senator leadership? john said it absolutely right. there is unease because of the changes going on but prime minister netanyahu we said, what do you think we suld do? he said, be supportive of the democratic revolutions in the arab world, particularly in egypt which is the historic center of the arab world, by far the largest country in the arab world. incidentally, this is a very exciting place to be now. we went to tahrir square today. got a warm, enthusiastic welcome. it is in our interest to support the successful transition to democracy in egypt and throughout the arab world which the egyptian people have won
their country. egypt now has a really precious moment of opportunity to have a government that can bring the country together and as a friend of egypt and the egyptian people, we stand ready to help in any way that we can. we believe it must be a government that starts to put in place the building blocks of a truly open, free and democratic society. and, of course, what has happened today should only be the first step. those who now run egypt have a duty to reflect the wishes of the egyptian people and in particular there really must be a move to civilian and democratic rule as part of this important transition to an open, democratic and free egypt. thank you. reporter: and those views of david cameron and by the german chancellor angela merkel and european union but what we were talking about a moment ago, yes, people are excited here. hosni mubarak is gone but the
relationship with the egyptian military, which at least during this transition to elections is going to be in charge. isn t that right? reporter: well, indeed they do and that s why the head of shin bat said omar suleiman once he gave his word he stuck by his word and a man that essentially israel could work with but everybody is really excited here as you can imagine but the dust has to settle and when it settles, eventually there will be questions back as to how the country is going to be run. will the state of emergency be lifted? will political prisoner, some ten thousand of them be released. we heard this is a fundamental question of human rights coming from the uk prime minister david cameron. good evening. today has been a remarkable day, particularly for those people in tahrir square and elsewhere who have spoken out so bravely and so peacefully for change in
question will remain once the dust settles and it will be some time yet has this regime changed and will it be enough to keep the country stable and the region? david cameron welcoming what s going on in egypt right now. the revolution has succeeded in egypt. it s now approaching 8:30. 8:22 p.m. in tahrir square right now. the celebration, i think it s fair to say at least on this night in cairo, elsewhere in egypt only just beginning. hala, it s a momentous occasion and i guess it s a cliche but history certainly is unfolding. absolutely and the celebration is just beginning and the process toward a true transition to democracy in egypt, if indeed that transition unfolds as protesters hope that it will is just beginning. frederik pleitgen is not too far from where the demonstrators are cheering. they re waving their flags. we saw small fireworks earlier over tahrir square. 18 days is the time that it took