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few minutes. but first, we want to show you what it looks like right now in tahrir square. that is a live picture and it's relatively calm, it's 2:00 a.m. local time. the image is in stark contrast, though, what we saw throughout the day and into the evening tonight. rocks and tear gas flew through the air. riot police clashing with protesters who want the nation's military rulers to step down immediately. officials say 35 people are dead. 3,000 injured after five days of protests. now, tahrir square is the same spot where egyptian protesters forced the removal of their long time lea...

Eventually they turn on whoever has them in the back yard. >> is referring to the ha canny network. there was an informal meeting and she is warning pakistan you can't have this group and believe they will only turn on others. >> exactly. she is warning that the pakistani government you are playing with fire. these networks that exist, you may be using them now and benefiting for them now in the sense that they are engaged against americans and afghanistany forces, but at the end of the day, they turn on you. if they do, that poses a problem for the government. >> iran and the big breaking new...

What if it ends up with the palestinians authority simply dissolving? doesn't israel then become a minority leadership over a majority population not consistent with democracy? >> we don't want that. i don't want the palestinians to be incorporated into israel as citizens or subject. it doesn't work. i said that to my colleagues, by tfl way, at the internal cabinet meetings. i say i want to be very clear about what i want. i don't want a peace process. >> what happens -- >> it's not our choice. i think the choice is they have their own independent state, which recognizes our ancestral connecti...

>>shepard: a hard thing to predict. but i wonder if you have a sense for how much of the thinking on this, the planning on this, as to do with the majority population in bahrain and saudi arabia? >>guest: well, bahrain is a more important issue because of the implications for saudi saudi arabia and because of what iran could try to do inside of bahrain so in a broader american context militarily that is significant. but not fly zone does not have much to do with bahrain. they are linked in one sense and separate in another sense. >>shepard: thank you, michael. good to hear from you. the u.n. i...

Relations. sunni, shiite. the bahrain -- the bahrainnys are accusing the iranians of instigating their violence because their population is largely shiite. >> so the shiites are more in power in iran. the sunnis are in power in bahrain. but they have make up like 30% of the population? >> absolutely. in fact, you have the ruling family which has been on the thrown since the 1880s is sunni and they have not really done what is necessary to give the civil rights that they should have given to the majority population. >> well, you talked about the king and we know that he has made some concession...