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of the turmoil on wall street has been triggered by fears over the european debt crisis and the anemic economies. and richard quest, one of the best people to turn to when we want perspective on the global economy. he joins us from london. what happened in the european markets today? >> reporter: the europeans went down initially and then down further and they rallied with wall street. we closed down 1% in london, and paris 1%, and frankfurt, once again the german market is being cream...

Them unless the government starts to intervene and get egyptian military troops involved which they havent at this point. but theres nothing to stop pro-mubarak forces from regrouping, from rejoining and continuing the battle all throughout the next day. >> anderson, what do you think is the purpose of these pro-mubarak supporters? are they acting at his specific order, do you think? i mean, what are you picking up here? >> well, look, theres certainly people who support mubarak, his regime has ...

Told mubarak that his time is up. i think senator mccain gave the president kind of a lot of support for doing that today by coming out publicly and saying, mubarak should step down, that kind of eases the way for the administration. but the reality is, we got to be sure theres a plan in place when and if mubarak leaves to have a stable situation over the next three to four months. you have hanging in the background the muslim brotherhood. theyve been very careful. i think theyve been very smart...

Pro-mubarak supporters, who sent them out there? did mubarak himself? did they all wake up and say lets go out in the streets. if they are directed by mubarak or whoever his underlings are who said this, why? what is the purpose of attacking primarily western journalists? why is this being done? >> presumably its because theyre bringing the wrong message to the world which is that mubaraks thugs and i have to assume theyre ordered by him or his people, they are trying to get rid of these protest...

Secret police, informant, agents and the like. so theres a lot of people who depend on the mubarak regime for their livelihood. there are also people who are upset these pro-tests have continued. that the economy is in shambles that theyre losing money and theyre living day to day and theyre angry so that anger has been building and according to the demonstrators, they have found plainclothes police officers in the mix of people that they have apprehended. whether or not thats true, i cant indep...

Dont want to see which is the barbaric way theyre attacking the protesters. >> i was videotaping with my own camera so well have the complete video of athat attack at the top of the next hour on "360th. anyone believed to be a journalist or even any kind of journalist, not just a western journalist was set upon today. it was a very dangerous situation for media people on the ground. you know, we continue to report the story. if their attempt was to stop people from reporting the story, that didn...

But you wonder did mubarak personally order it? and if he did, where is our administration saying, stop this? >> isnt it more than that. isnt it now inevitable given the scale of the protests and its dominoing all over the region, mubarak will go quickly. what i dont understand is why president obama isnt coming out now and stopping more bloodshed and saying thats it, enough? >> im hardly going to be the spokesperson for mubarak. with the exception of iraq, there isnt one country in the middle e...

>> these are pretty dramatic scenes. i watched them this morning and was fearful not just for your safety but for other western journalists. its quite clear the pro-mubarak supporters aring itting you because youre bringing the message to the world which they dont want to see which is the barbaric way theyre attacking the protesters. >> i was videotaping with my own camera so well have the complete video of athat attack at the top of the next hour on "360th. anyone believed to be a journalist or...

Its a very different thing to feel threatened by the possibility of perhaps driving by a roadside bomb. this really felt personal. it was eye to eye when someone comes up to you and says no and stop and points his finger at you and puts his hand in your face but as you might have seen in the video, one of the pro-mubarak protesters although i cant say with complete confidence he was pro-mubarak grabbed me by the shoulders. you might have seen that and kind of led me out of the way and when some ...

Friday is now being marked as a real flash point when most of the protests may all come together. >> reporter: traditionally, you know in the arab world, the period after friday prayers is often used for demonstrations. you often see clash, certainly the potential for extreme violence exists. the big question is tomorrow will these pro-mubarak protesters whoever sent them, whoever they are actually show up again in large numbers? we saw today that some of them had weapon, machetes, they came itc...