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Each other. ive been on the causeway but i think at the end of the day you will see kuwaitis and on and on and saudis, supporting the kingdom of bay rain. >>shepard: thank you, former middle east advisor, thank you very much. >>guest: thank you. >>shepard: we are watching union protests in wisconsin closely and both sides know there is an enormous amount at stake and both getting help from the outside. a live report from madison, coming. and, zahra baker was just 10 years old and somebody killed...

The opposition leader says he will return to bahrain tomorrow. >>shepard: apologize for the communication. it is hard to understand much. regarding the protests that we will watch in bahrain and beyond, only 900,000 people there but paw rain is across a bridge from saudi arabia, and the saudis built the bridge as a military bridge. they think now and always have been if there is an enormous uprising in bahrain, the saudi military can come across that bridge and take control of the situation as t...

The libyan foreign minister then said those reports were absolutely baseless. bottom line is we do not know as we do not know many things happening if libya. >>shepard: we now home the u.s. is responding. than state department officials are monitoring situation and have condemned the violence. the u.s. has had a difficult relationship with qadhafi since he seesed power in 1979. in 1969, excuse me. in 19729 u.s. ambassador was withdrawn from libya. in 1799 u.s. embassy was attacked and that same ...

Supporting authoritarian regimes is about to bite everyone in the butt." of course, libya is over in north africa and a lot of people have a lot to say about that, too, and a lot of our chatter is saying that president obama should follow president reagans lead and launch airstrikes against qadhafi and his henchman pause of the violence and causes for president obama to say something publicly about the violence in libya but one says wards from the president or anybody else will not step bullets....

Trading in a heavier oil north sea crude was up 2.5 percent to $105 a barrel and with violence worsening in libya several oil companies are pulling personnel from the country according to the agency, the unrest has shut down 50,000 barrels of production. >>shepard: is there a sense how bad it could become? >>reporter: experts are not panicking, there is excess production capacity around the world that can offset a big decline of production in libya. for example, saudi arabia has four million bar...

Nation and the governor when he came in enacted the tax cuts or new taxes, taken away from big businesses, and as a result they have a problem and this is what happened. >> the unions are saying we are willing to give you our contribution we would make to our own pensions, the increase, we would pay for our health care costs, so, what is the problem? doesnt that solve your budget issue? >>shepard: the answer is yes. >>reporter: so why are they asking for a repudiation of collective bargaining is...

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The speaker said this revolution will keep going until we achieve victory. this revolution will go on until we achieve victory. earlier, they were calling on the president mubarak to step down saying "move, move, move, man," and chanting "the people want to bring down the regime." >>shepard: and listening to all of this in tahrir square and we will hear from our interpreter repeatedly throughout the hour, and we will try not to get in the way of this, we dont want to step on history, our corresp...

Wall to celebrate and we knew everything has changed. >>shepard: we dont know what has happened here. we know there is a great deal of pressure from around the world, internally and otherwise, we know that change is coming, and we dont know what it is. and what happens in the next few minutes could literally change the course of human evens for hundreds of millions. >>reporter: will he speak? step down? name the military. we dont know. we dont know what will happen but one thing is happening the...

No one is visiting the pyramids. people are terrified to go there and tourism generates from 5 percent to 11 percent of economic output and capital markets very significant, the stock market has been closed for weeks and this morning the plan was to re-open on sunday, and conflicting reports whether that is going to happen but once the market re-opens, there is going to be a rush for the exits and people will be, say the analysts, pouring money out, and taking money out of marks and this is a lo...