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This place here was a battleground. we are on tahrir square and whats happening ever since hosni mubarak stood down is that shops are actually reopening here on the square. this is a souvenir shop. we have seen travel agents reopening in a bid to try to get life back to normal. >> yes, i am very happy because we are here today. >> egyptians need to leave the square now. >> reporter: there are still a few protesters here in tahrir square, but many are telling us that now they feel is the time to ...

Civilian leadership in six months or until elections can be held. egyptian activists warn of more mass demonstrations if the military does not act quickly to restore confidence but theres growing signs of life returning to normal. signs of discontent spreding across the arab world. hundreds of anti-government protesters marched in yemens capital. witnesses reported seeing scuffles between demonstrators and police. at least 12 people were arrested yemens president ruled for 32 years and pledged...

Today we see it just on the outskirts of mexico city. this is the state of mexico. a state that has largely been unaffected by the violence seeing it trickle on into the part of the town. >> very disturbing what happened yesterday and the suburb and all over mexico. nick have lens yevalencia, than much. now egypt. there are some similarities, talking to a couple of guests who know the civil rights movement very well. it was once a lifetime moment for some ticketholders for a trip to the super ...

Demonstrators. bank employees staged their own protest for better pay and top-banking executives to resign there. disturbing news of the artifacts. egyptian officials say an inventory of the egyptian museum in cairo reveals at least 17 ancient treasures are now missing including a guilded wooden statue of king tut and may have been stole anna nicole a reported break-in on january 28th in the early days of the national jup rising. many people are now comparing the revolution in egypt to the u...

High. >> reporter: at the same time, you have a lot of traffic that is coming back to tahrir square. most of the area here is now open to cars and as you can see there are a lot of vehicles that are going through here. the streets are jam packed as they were before the demonstrations although right now its army soldier who is are directing traffic rather than the traffic police. only seen very few traffic police and it is another sign that life is getting back to normal here on tahrir square and...

Of dr. martin luther king. you are seeing this cartoon they said that was printed 50 years ago and then it was translated into arabic. and that that was the inspiration they believe in part for the protesters in egypt. are you surprised by that? did you know that? >> i didnt know it, actually, until last evening. a gentleman that i know sent it to me and i was not surprised because i know that the nonviolent movement that our father led has inspired so many movements across the world. and when i...

Person. thats what were trying to do through the king center under my brothers leadership. >> what do you think? do you see the similarities between egypt and the civil rights movement here? >> yes, i do. and i think dr. kings daughter had it down perfectly. i think whats really important, also, is the fact that in egypt and in america there was such a wide representation of people. that was true in the south in the movement that dr. king led and particularly at selma where you had blacks and wh...

Here in the usa. and now we put a prescription discount card in every box so youll pay no more than $15 on test strips, which is a true american value for people with diabetes like me. [ male announcer ] accu-chek aviva. born in the usa. mexico city. eight people are dead in a mass shooting in the suburbs according to mexican news agency. seven died in a shooting, another victim found dead on the street. police say this may be the part of a turf war over the citys drug trade. and cairo, egyp...

>> which was the movement. as you started to watch the pictures, 19, 20 days ago, coming out here on cnn and watching the pictures that you go, did something click and go, oh? did you think there was a possibility through that nonviolence in the beginning that this -- it would transpire into this? >> you know, i wasnt sure. i was concerned. and i was -- i was. i was ecstatic when i heard all of the reports. and when the message spread about them insisting on being violent. because in the end, no...

Central cairo at the moment. it is some 5:00 p.m. there. more than two weeks into the uprising and were still seeing this, massive, massive amounts of people. now egypts foreign minister saying if protesters remain there in the streets, the military will be compelled, and im quoting here, to defend the constitution and national security, end quote. well see what that means. plus demonstrators are sending out text messages to organize for even more protests tomorrow following friday prayers. of...