protests at all costs they have the orders to stop this from getting out to international audiences because otherwise they wouldn't attack you? >> they have been given the green light from somebody in the egyptian government to make coverage as difficult as possible. in addition to the violence that they are so liberally using, there's no cell phone service, there's no internet, you can't send an sms. it's a total crackdown. >> reporter: thanks, ben. for the moment things already kicking off in the egyptian capital. it's quite early. we do expect there will be more to come as the day goes on and as more and more protesters try to get to that venue. >> fredrick, great stuff there with ben. i have to ask you, though, how much more difficult is about it to become for us here at cnn and other journalists around the world to tell this story, because we had understood they are is hurting down internet service, shutting down be text message capabilities because they are trying to limit