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Here to decrease the chance for increased stability that could cause problems in the region. >> they have to be upset in terms of what they see there in tahrir square. if indeed hosni mubarak has handed over power to his vice president mr. suleiman, while the people on the ground there in egypt are not reacting well to that there has got to be great concern both here in washington and across the world and israel as well about whether there will be a massive amount of violence, whether there will be a lot of people dying as a result of anger, frustration, there on the streets of cairo and elsew...

Some people ask me to ask to free all of the political prisoners who are in prison knowing from them that cnn and the whole wide world is going to be watching. >> reporter: not a problem at all. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> reporter: that just gives you an idea of how the revolution -- gives you an idea of the sentiment right now, some of the concerns that people do have for the future. they have one for the moment and they most certainly are riding that wave of happiness right now but it is going to take quite a lot of time to put the country back together again. >> the work is only ...

With determination. >> reporter: this is obviously come at a great cost for all egypt. >> yes. >> reporter: how is this country going to recover moving forward? how are the various social systems going to be brought back together again? >> just continue -- we were being -- more than -- we were being accepted for more than the amount of upon that it cost egypt throughout this whole revolution there. i believe if we weed out the corruption, it will pick up in no time. >> reporter: so the future most definitely a bright one, you would say. >> i'm sorry. >> reporter: the future is a very bright on...

Free. that's what they're saying, egypt is now free. let's go to cairo right now. cnn's fionnuala sweeney is watching. tell us where you are. can you see the fireworks going off from your location? >> reporter: we certainly can. i mean, i can tell you as i look here down to my left across the nile, there is just a sea, a line of car lights and they're all heading in one direction which is tahrir square just behind me. i mean, the excitement here is palpable, obviously, but i think some thoughts are beginning to turn to what happens in the rest of the region. we've had some reaction, for exampl...

It is responsible -- and is the responsibility of the government to speak clearly to the egyptian people and the world. the egyptian government must put forward a credible, concrete and unequivocal path toward democracy they have not seized that. the statement goes on to read, as we have said from the beginning of this unrest, the future of egypt will be determined by the egyptian people. but the united states has also been clear that we stand for a set of core principles. the presidential statement goes on to say we believe that the universal rights of egyptian people must be respected and th...