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As a result the other oil rich countries are looking at it carefully. i'm not ready to say that president obama is being foolish to be somewhat measured and cautious. he has come out very clearly against gadhafi. he's come out clearly saying the violence must stop. giving him a week or two to figure out the most effective methods is better than going in guns blazing. once you start a military intervention, as we have learned over the last decade, that becomes a very big undertaking and should not be undertaken lightly. >> excellent point to close on, fareed zakaria, as always, thanks. in pleas...

the capital of tripoli to the west here, where residents describe constant fear and intimidation. so much that at the rate of about 15,000 a day, refugees going across the border. not libyans yet. most of them are foreign workers. but they are leaving because of the climate. and this is the border with tunisia. they are leaving from libya. still at the rate, we are told of about 15,000 a day. at the white house president obama conceded he's worried a long steal mate could be bloody and says the administration is considering a list of humanitarian and military options. caution is the ...

Unions there. but the problem is that this protest movement here is even more amorphous than the one in tunisia. you really -- it doesn't seem to have any clear leadership at all. so it's really going to be decided by the street. and even though the street is quiet right now, what we saw today is that egyptians are really feeling their power, the power of their ability to go out into the streets and shake this state to its foundations. john? >> power they've never had in 30 years. ben wedeman live in cairo with very good informing. thank you. of course we've been talking about one of the com...

Welcome back. i'm fredericka whit fooed. >> i'm john voss. i want to talk about why egypt is such a strategic country in the middle east. and one of the things which we need to be aware of is the relevance that egypt has in as far as egypt goes. it was the first arab country that formally recognized israel. president mubarak has a very good relationship with benjamin netanyahu, the current prime minister of israel. if he goes, the muslim brotherhood group, the main opposition group says we'll put the peace treaty thing with israel to a referendum with the people and let them decide whether or ...

Just some of the sentiments of the people on the streets there. a number of our reporters and cameras have encountered there in cairo. so let's get more now on a first for the egyptian government. a first in three decades. as of today president hosni mubarak has his first ever deputy. omar suleiman has been appointed vice president. until today he has been serving as the country's intelligence chief for nearly 20 years and before that vice president suleiman was egypt's military intelligence chief. and in 1995, he advised president mubarak to take an armored car during a visit where mr. mubara...