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Here, it's a bit of non-stop protests. a number of speakers who have been at podiums down the way there. you can see behind me, the crowd extends for hundreds of yards, i would say, a good half to three quarters of a mile in that direction. the end of the square and then it comes over in the other direction. such a massive place and it's hard to really give it a scale to appreciate on television, but it's maybe 10 to 12 square city blocks if you can imagine that. the mood here is i don't know -- it's very determined. people have very thoughtful discussions about what's going on. the bottom lin...

Start of civil war, al maliki is moving army divisions from basra in southern iraq to try to reinforce the capital. this is a very serious situation. it would be wrong to just say that this is a problem for iraq and syria and to dismiss it. these militants tens of thousands of them are very anti-american and don't see this fight as just being limited to this region. many of them also want to carry out attacks in europe and the united states. this is not just a problem more the middle east. this is a problem for everybody. >> iraq's leaders have now asked for u.s. assistance for air cover. i'm ...