the coptic community leaders here. why, specifically, are cliftians being targetd? is it just the muslim brotherhood, trying to drive them out? the last 40ers. reporter:e years have been terrible. the rise of political islam, included tv broadcasts against christians and christianity. textbooks have been changed to include hidden messages from kindergarten to 12th grade. christians have been push the out pushed out of positions and business. the sense has been created to do minish the rule of christianity and christians in the development of modern egypt. is this an islamist agenda? do you see christians driven out of egypt and elsewhere in iraq? we have had problems in syria? actually, the plight of
balcony. let s get right to cnn s richard quest, live at buckingham palace for us this morning. richard quest, good morning, how has it gone? reporter: good morning to you. it is an overcast but still dry morning. welcome. i m actually up the road from the palace in trafalgar square, where i think you might be able to see there are several hundred people watching what s happening on big screens. the reason we re in tra it ffal square, throughout the day, the queen is literally commuting through the square, backwards and forwards, palace, manchester house, down to westminster for the lunch, and then later this afternoon, soledad, up whitehall and back home to the palace for that royal wave. on the balcony, only six or seven of them. they re limiting the number of people that had be on the balcony. just the queen, the immediate line of succession, charles, camilla, william, catherine and harry. so, up next from the calendar that i ve read, the queen has left st. paul s wher
the expectation was to wait for the city to crumble from within. it looks like once they pressed on those outer defenses of tripoli, they crumbled before the rebel advance and now the rebels are going straight to the heart of triply to green square. just yesterday a spokesman for moammar gadhafi, the long time leader there for four decades was being very blustery saying the people. tripoli will take up arms against these rebels. in fact earlier today they were encouraging them to go to the military base and get guns to defend the city. but this city was taken very, very quickly. do you have any ideas on potential whereabouts of moammar gadhafi tonight? do you think he is holed up in tripoli or do you think he could have possibly made an escape? well, it is certainly possible he s made an escape. conspicuously in the last few megss have been audio messages. they have not been video broadcasts or tv broadcasts
needs to do that. what is really critically needed and what i think the u.s. really can do is to continue to be involved in the air strikes to do some jamming of libyan military communications and civilian propaganda and to hit the heavy artillery and the armor that libya has. because you write in your column in the new york times that the u.s.le should jam the radio and tv broadcasts of gadhafi of the libyan government, if you will, because that s helping him and his war against the opposition. yeah. it s not because anybody in libya actually believes that propaganda. they know much better than we do that the propaganda is full of lies, but what it does do is signal to the libyan elite, to the libyan military that he is weak, that ultimately he will be going down. what we really need to do is try to peel off the libyan military
over this 18-day uprising and we have the latest headlines from reporters on the ground. egypt s military weighing in on the crisis issuing a statement this morning calling for an end to emergency rule but only when the current crisis passes. they also talk about ensuring justice in court cases and in disputed parliamentary seats and free and fair presidential elections. protesters marching on the presidential palace overnight. the palace surrounded by soldiers, police cars, military thanks and roads up to the palace are shut down and the army set up a barricade. as unrest spreads to iran, we may not see it. bbc says iran is jamming persian language tv broadcasts following rolling coverage of anti-government protests in egypt. another report is claiming that iranian authorities are blocking