and now bbc world news. egypt s biggest protest so far. hundreds of thousands demanding president mubarak steps down. the u.s. calls on egypt s vice president to lift the country s emergency laws and ensure an orderly transition of power. britain s foreign secretary warns instability could have dire consequences for peace efforts between israel and the palestinians. uncertainty and change across the midwest can complicate further making progress on the middle east peace process. welcome to bbc news, broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america and also around the globe. coming up later for you a u.s. investigation into safety in toyota cars finds no problem with the vehicle s electronics. and italian prosecutors are set to demand prime minister berlusconi go to trial claimed he paid for sex with an underage prostitute. the united states has put further pressure on president mubarak of egypt to stand down in the near future. in a tell phone call vice president joe
reporter: police say the distance is too great for the driver not to have known. we are hoping that it urges people that may have information to step forward, from a moral standpoint, to help the police department identify who is responsible for this. she is one of the most beautiful people that i know. [ crying ] reporter: erika s brother has been raising money to help catch the driver who almost killed his sister. there is a thousand dollars reward for information that leads to the a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the driver. anybody come forthwith forth with, just any information about who they might know who what happened in the area, you know, any type of information, just so we can figure out who this was, bring him to justice and, you know, do the best for erika. reporter: san jose police have increased patrols in the area today. they are on the lookout for the vehicle described as a late model either light gray or silver suv
omar suleman. it was nice and i was right. administration now says omar suleiman not so bad. here s hillary clinton this weekend. i think it s important to support the transition process announced by the egyptian government actually headed by now vice president omar suleiman. all of a sudden suleiman is our boy. ering everything is going to be all right. i don t think so. it s not better than supporting the dictator. i would like for real change and democracy. for more perspective, let s bring in the washington bureau chief of alarabia.
brotherhood. wikileaks exposed what our ambassador to egypt thought of suleman s and the efforts to scare us with the muslim brotherhood. this is what a cable to the director of the fbi said in 2005. the egyptians have a long history of threatening u.s. with muslim brotherhood boogieman. the rise signals the need for greater democracy and transparency in the government. credit where credit is due. first to wikileaks for letting us know even the u.s. government knows the muslim brotherhood is just a boogieman but credit to the bush administration for having ambassadors that pointed that out to the fbi. i kept bringing up omar suleiman last week. i did it for a reason. he kept trying to scare us about muslim brotherhood as you saw there and he s the one i know i had a sense we were going to back in transition. i got to ask you, did anyone in television talk more about omar suleiman last week than i did?
good evening. i m diane dwyer. the three uc berkeley graduates accused of spying in iran face their first day of trial today. they all pleaded not guilty to the charges. but getting any additional information out of iran is proving to be difficult. mare r marianne favro joins us with more. this took place in iran s revolutionary court. sarah shourd, who was released earlier on $500,000 bail, was not there. her two friends, josh fattal and shane bauer, were at the court today. no members of the media were allowed in. in fact, there was a blanket ban on any observers going into the courts, including the swiss ambassador who represents u.s. interests in iran. she told nbc news she was very frustrated she couldn t get any information or find out what was happening touring the proceedings. the lawyer for josh and shane said if they were going to be released on bail that probably would have happened today. and it didn t. so the court case is moving forward. but just to give you a