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Key to peace in the middle east and we want a stable transition and this is one of the great revolutions in modern history and we want to be on the side of it. >> carl, you bring up a good point. theres the fine line the administration has to walk here. secretary cohen, have they been able to do that well when talking about the white house? >> i think president obama is handling it as well as it could be under the circumstances. this was almost a volcanic eruption unanticipated by anyone. i thin...

From cnn london and cnn hong kong, welcome back to "world business today." >> well, there are two words that probably strike fear if not fear certainly misery in the hearts of most business travelers these days and those two words would be volcanic ash. and its back on the radar again. lets go to jen delgado. >> hi, andrew. you know, want to point out were not worried for the immediate eruption but we could see another volcano erupting in iceland. of course, remember, last year back in april hav...

He will step down. arwa damon is among the protesters in tahrir square. they were chanting earlier, down, down, mubarak, always be free, egypt. i imagine there is a huge sense of anticipation in tahrir square right now. >> reporter: yeah, definitely. its something of an electric atmosphere. people really hoping, waiting for that -- this is going to be the moment they have all been waiting for where they will see the president finally relinquish power. this is what they have been calling for all ...

More accurate understanding of the role of religion. >> do you think its unhelpful when senior politicians here say such inflammatory things? >> its unhelpful. the extremes on both sides are very unhelpful. i think that there are enough people actually in this particular case, there seems to be people on both sides in this country, on all sides, including independents that are providing very nuanced and thoughtful -- im seeing it on most of the networks. thats not usually the case which a crisis...

Help i think promote what is a sense of real in our region in terms of interfaith dialogue and relations than any of the efforts that so many of us make in our daily lives to promote a more accurate understanding of the role of religion. >> do you think its unhelpful when senior politicians here say such inflammatory things? >> its unhelpful. the extremes on both sides are very unhelpful. i think that there are enough people actually in this particular case, there seems to be people on both side...

Possible trouble. this footage captures a great blast of highly charged particles surging around mercury on the right and then around venus. this shot shows the eruption reaching us on earth, the blue dot in the center of the screen. researchers call this space weather and it can prove devastating. electrical supplies can be disrupted, so can satellites. solar storm destabilizing our magnetic field, which is why scientists want to keep a constant watch. >> what we really want to do is to be able...

To keep wearing our shades. >> reporter: the sun, like weve never seen it. turbulent, constantly erupting, new images revealing a restless power. huge arcs of fire reach into space. in the past few years scientists have been getting ever more detailed pictures. the sun, of course, makes life possible on earth but now and again, these great explosions send damaging clouds of particles our way. until now, we havent always known theyre coming. from earth, we can never get a view all around the sun ...

Violence from tunisia to egypt, raising critical questions about whether the u.s. intelligence community failed to predict things for about to boil over. the top u.s. military officer says the obama administration was caught off guard with the eruption in egypt. >> i think actually it has taken not just us but many people by surprise. >> reporter: now suggestions president obama expressed displeasure to his intelligence chief over a failure to pick up on tunisia, where protests there inspired si...

Praising the uprising saying it will spell defeat for the u.s. and more than 160,000 foreigners have been evacuated and men armed machetes at cairos international airport and the united nations estimates 300 petroleum have been killed since the silencer -- the eruption. and up day at 28.5 points for dow, up 250-plus points on a week when the world was shaken but we are little stirred. and now from cairo, ashley, are they stirred there? >>reporter: this was the day of departure, the day the antir...

Jon: a fox news alert. the state department today condemning what it calls a campaign to intimidate foreign journalists covering the violent riots in cairo. we heard reports that correspondents were not only intimidated but physically attacked. some had their cameras confiscated or even smashed. john roberts is live in london right now. john? >> reporter: certainly, jon, what we saw on the streets of cairo yesterday was an extraordinary eruption of violence and one that really took its to on the...