few minutes. but first, we want to show you what it looks like right now in tahrir square. that is a live picture and it s relatively calm, it s 2:00 a.m. local time. the image is in stark contrast, though, what we saw throughout the day and into the evening tonight. rocks and tear gas flew through the air. riot police clashing with protesters who want the nation s military rulers to step down immediately. officials say 35 people are dead. 3,000 injured after five days of protests. now, tahrir square is the same spot where egyptian protesters forced the removal of their long time leader hosni mubarak back in february. i was there during those protests, they were mostly peaceful, it was a rather uplifting experience despite a couple of very bad episodes of violence. but very different than what we see right now. ben wedeman has been there through thick and thin through the very beginning and he s in cairo with the latest. ben, what happened today? what s happening now? well,
we learned one protestor died overnight. yesterday tens of thousands of people gathered in the square to protest the document that gives egypt special ruling powers. the committee it is was supposed to be there only as an interim government. tahir square became a symbol of the uprising. and in libya the son of moammar qaddafi has been captured. saif al-islam was the only wanted member of the ruling family still at large. he had gone under ground and used the time in hiding to rally support for his dad . now he will go to trial for crimes against humanity. we have the story from the
put a little love in your heart celebrations urpedway in libya over the reported capture of moammar qaddafi s son. peter has the story. reporter: libya acting justice minister confirmed that saif al-islam was captured in the southern part of the country. he was carrying a fow thousand dollars and traveling with a convoy. there was a desperate blow to cancer patients. it ruled that avastin should not be used to treat breast cancer. it doesn t have enough benefit to outweight the side affects.
have congress at a 9% job approval rating. moammar qaddafi had a 50% approval rating and that was among people who killed him. let, find out word or phrase to describe congress. [ male announcer ] just how many appliances
let me give you an example. it is an example from her latest piece. at a time when obama struggled to get the credit he deserves on the foreign policy and domestic security ront for killing osama bin laden and other top al-qaida leaders, winding down the military role in iraq and toppling moammar qaddafi, it strikes me as a little unseemly that when credit is begin, so much of it goes to clinton. that is an interesting statement from someone who wrote positively and determinedly about hillary clinton for years. a lot of it is started with what her perceived role was in libya and of course, her famous line when it was all over. we came, we saw and he died. time magazine cover story