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It is 1:00 in the afternoon on friday, overlooking hong kong's victoria harbor. welcome to our world report. i'm pauline chiou. friday is shaping up to be a pivotal day for egypt's fragile government. activists are calling on all egyptians to demonstrate in what they're calling a day of departure to demand hosni mubarak's immediate resignation. they'll march to the president's palace, but many fear promubarak forces will turn out too. and repeat the intense violence that sparked up on wednesday. in the past hours, people are being detained that are trying to leave the area. egypt's president r...

Horrific massacre in lux or in '97 where a group of militants went hunting tourists from -- in the luxor ruins motoring more than 50 of them, these are kind of activities really destroyed the group of these militant groups in egypt. there was a lot of repression by the government but the population turned against these groups so al qaeda and its ally groups in egypt, they don't have any legitimacy at all. al qaeda opportunistically will i'm sure in the next week or so release a tape. we may hear from ayman al zawahiri, we may hear from bin laden. in fact i think we'll hear from both of them tr...

Of a real people in egypt to have been suffering for so long without those basic rights, the world has changed and we have to be i think here in the united states both the administration and the congress have to continue to be constructive. i think the president has by pushing but not trying to dictate to the egyptian people. >> i want to bring in my colleague john king now. john, there's a report in tonight's "the new york times" that the white house has a new plan to encourage president mubarak to seek power immediately to vice president suleiman. is this new or the plan below ground going a...

Is willing to do it and if mubarak is willing to give him that blessing, yes, i just don't know that mubarak is going to leave. this may be an american plan. it has to be an egyptian plan for it to work. these are are -- look, mubarak is not saddam hussein and egypt is not iraq. you know, so we have to find some way. there's an old saying in that part of the world, the arab world is a tent supported in two poles. saudi arabia is one and egypt is the other. you lose the pole in egypt, that whole world can come apart. that is something that would be greatly against our interests so we have to be...

Somebody like ayman al zawahiri, the nuer two in al qaeda, has written a book, an entire book criticizing the muslim brotherhood for mostly on the very simple reason that the muslim brotherhood engages in democratic politics which people in al qaeda thinks is against islam so in fact there is a great deal of hostility between al qaeda and the muslim brotherhood and these groups have very little in common other than they both think that, you know, they both have a certain view of islam, al qaeda is much, much more radical. >> peter, if there is a situation as we see in egypt right now which is ...