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Of a yearning for basic human dignity in tunisia. weve seen peaceful protest ors pour into tahrir square, the people of libya take a stand against a regime brew allizing its own citizens. across the region weve seen young people rise up, a new generation demanding the right to determine their own future. it must be driven by their own people. but for our two nations, for the united states and brazil, two nations who have struggled over many generations to perfect our own democracies, the united ...

Security force, and the people of syria who want to go out and protest have not been able to do so, and the fact that they were able to gather today in relatively large numbers, that there were clashes significant enough that at least four people were killed in the violence could be a sign that syria could see much wider problems to come. and syria has been conspicuously quiet until now, and well see if it remains so. syria in many ways does share some characteristics similar to tunesia and to e...

Violent crackdown where there isnt a whole lot thats actually known in benghazi, the eastern human rights watch reporting widespread government crackdown, violent -- the number of casualties unknown. what can you say about what the u.s. government knows about whats happening inside libya. >> were concerned about reports of violence and attacks on civilians. weve condemned that violence and our view is libya as throughout the region peaceful protests need to be respected. they need to be able to ...

Obama, national security adviser, secretary of state clinton urging that restraint and encouraging what is now transpiring which seems to be the pull back of the military forces, and now real effort to engage the opposition in a broad based dialogue that will enable the peoples aspiration to be discussed. >> can the government survive in bahrain? >> david, i wouldnt want to be in the business of predictions in this very volatile environment. weve seen change so rapidly. what were encouraging gov...

Adviser, secretary of state clinton urging that restraint and encouraging what is now transpiring which seems to be the pull back of the military forces, and now real effort to engage the opposition in a broad based dialogue that will enable the peoples aspiration to be discussed. >> can the government survive in bahrain? >> david, i wouldnt want to be in the business of predictions in this very volatile environment. weve seen change so rapidly. what were encouraging governments in the region to...

Isnt a whole lot thats actually known in benghazi, the eastern human rights watch reporting widespread government crackdown, violent -- the number of casualties unknown. what can you say about what the u.s. government knows about whats happening inside libya. >> were concerned about reports of violence and attacks on civilians. weve condemned that violence and our view is libya as throughout the region peaceful protests need to be respected. they need to be able to exercise their universal right...

And weve condemned that violence. we had outreach from president obama, national security adviser, secretary of state clinton urging that restraint and encouraging what is now tran spierg, which seems to be the pullback of the military forces and now real effort to engage the opposition in a broad-based dialogue that will enable the peoples aspirations to be discussed. >> can the government as it now stands survive in bahrain? >> well, david, i wouldnt want to be in the business of predictions i...

>> there is a middle class there. >> the problem with what is happening is the spread is -- you have egypt out and that was the peace ingredient with israel. you have god knows what tehran is doing and what will happen. what happens when it is saudi uh arabia and it is oil? the problem with the differentiation between europe is there is a cultural yearning and a background. we are dealing with those instruments of -- and by the way, we have the woman up there singing. >> i ran has a history of f...

>> were seeing protests in many countries across the region. how does the white house what going on. are we witnessing a full scale revolution across north africa and the middle east? >> each country is different. each country has different traditions, steve. and, there is a commonalty clearly to some of the demonstrations and the unrest weve seen and its reflective of yearning by the peoples of the region, the peoples of these countries to have a greater participation in the political process i...

People of iran have the courage to be able to express their yearning for greater freedoms and a more representative government. >> reporter: an increasingly dangerous proposition. scores of people were killed and imprisoned in the 2009 uprising. just last month, the e jeem executed at least 66 people. most reportedly for drug offenses but the united nations says some were political prisoners. is that a lot of executions in iran for one month and speak to some kind of maybe nervousness on the par...