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There and monitoring whats happening. so well leave you to it. thanks very much. now over the past 24 hours, events in cairo boiled over into a violent confrontation. john vauss has a look. >> reporter: throughout the night, tahrir square, the focal point of the uprising, was a dangerous place. fires continued to burn and gun fire rang out. earlier, those loyal to hosni u mubarak took positions around the crowd. >> launched from pro-mubarak protesters. are there women and children in the sides...

Parties the waft says his party declined a meeting with the newly-appointed vice president omar suleiman. he joins us on the line from cairo. can you confirm youve refused to join the join the talks on the basis that the attacks on continuing? >> yes. this is absolutely correct. we have suspended our acceptance to sit down in the framework of a dialogue with the vice president of the republic. in view of what happened this -- tonight, we are extremely concerned and we cannot have a dialogue and ...

Ms maha. she joins us from cairo by phone. what is the situation broadly now? do you think that the protesters, the anti-mubarak protesters will keep up their resistance in the face of these attacks? >> well, i was out there yesterday. actually i was there all night during the tahrir battle that was going on. i think right now weve reached a stalemate. the protesters are out on the street and my understanding from conversations with senior people was that the pro-mubarak supporters were not supp...

With you throughout the hour and throughout the hours ahead as we watch for daybreak. watching live pictures in cairo and as those pictures play out and as the drama plays out the obama administration is hoping, hoping the egyptian military long a respected institution will tell president mubarak he must yield power but todays bloody rampages raise serious questions. including robert kagan and michele dunn of the carnegie endowment for international peace. bob, to you first. things turned ugly t...

Government protesters rode horses and camels into the crowd. in an interview hala gorani who was right there described what she saw in cairo. >> reporter: out of nowhere it seems demonstrators on camel back and horseback started charging in. at that point there was a rush of people in the other direction. i got caught in it. i got slammed against the gate and was threatened by one of the pro-mubarak protesters who was threatening me, telling me to get out, get out. >> throughout the day also you...

We as a generation, we did not do our part. we were busy fighting for our living. and for stability in the country. >> reporter: her generation never thought to speak out. >> the people will win. the people in the street who slept overnight, the youth who led this -- they have to win. >> reporter: but as the night grew more violent, it seems that perhaps there will be no winners in this case. arwa damon, cnn, cairo. >> momentous events are capturing the worlds attention. well live with one of ou...

Live pictures there, central cairo. it is right there, right there where earlier today pro-government demonstrators started violence with pro-democracy demonstrators coming up on 3:00 in the morning now and the question is, what will happen at daybreak? cnns arwa damon in the middle of it all day long. arwa, describe the scene and the sense of anticipation. >> reporter: john, im at a vantage point where im looking straight on the front line that the anti-government demonstrators have managed to ...

Agreed with that so the senate voted on that today but that is one of the few agreements on this law, john? >> one of the very, very, very, very few. dana bash on capitol hill, thanks for that. when we come back thats breaking political news in washington. when we come back, straight to the breaking international news live from cairo. [ male announcer ] this is charlie whose morning flight

Give us the latest on what youre seeing. >> reporter: before i get into what the situation was at the hospital im going to step outside because i have a different vantage point than anderson and see if you can hear that thumping on those metal plates that he was talking about. thats the sound thats echoing across cairo tonight and as you were saying we did just try to go out, go to a hospital, it was around ten minutes away from the demonstration site. the minute you get away from where all this...

Im afraid and i regret to say, it is time that he step down. and we do everything we can to stabilize the situation in cairo and the rest of the country. >> greta: should president obama tell him flat out, leave now? if so, is a risk hes going to turn on us or even pro mubarak forces are going to see the united states is interfereing in the mideast in that way? >> i think all those are risks. im not sure the president should say it publicly or convey it privately to president mubarak. i that i w...