revolutionaries, the bloggers, the facebook activists of the military council, particularly a law that has been proposed that would ban the type of protests that led to the revolution that overthrew hosni mubarak in the first place. so some of the people gathering here also want to do away with that proposed law, john. >> ivan watts non-cairo, vivid reminder, still a lot of unanswered questions in egypt. ivan, thanks. as you see from the flashing circles on the map, demonstration as cross the region, not just in egypt, but yemen, syria, jordan as well. commonplace in recent weeks, yes. but remember, remember, this is a region where these displays are unheard of, prohibited for decades. halla gorani helps us understand tonight from the jordanian capital of amman. >> halla, let's start with the unrest where you are there in jordan. a heavy police presence in the street. it seems that king abdullah is determined hopefully to use his security forces to keep this from bubbling over. >> reporter: absolutely. it appeared as though on the streets of amman there was sort of a security buffer, a cordon