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All right, former foreign minister for egypt, the secretary-general of the arab league, but tonight, first and foremost, an egyptian. what are your thoughts? >> well wr, the events are of historic proportions, the people have decided to have the president step down, to look to the future, and to establish from this moment a national consensus about the road to the future. this is our country now. we have achieved what the people wanted. and now it is our duty to go forward with a new egypt with goals of democracy and reform, and both of them should be based on the unity of the egyptian people....

You can imagine, the anticipation throughout the country as they wait again to find out what kind of news could be coming from the leadership here. >> i don't think they're waiting with the same kind of anticipation that led to so much disappointment just last night when they found out that president mubarak was not stepping aside. what you are looking at right now, and i think you can see it as well as i can, this looks like the largest crowds that we have yet seen on the streets in cairo. and i'm told there are millions of people around the country that have come out, suzanne. >> and looking...

Implementation towards democracy? >> i am not a political expert and i have a question right now -- i wouldn't answer because i don't have the background to answer but what i care about now is that everyone -- i trust 80 million egyptians. i really trust 80 million egyptians and i really trust these people in the street now have broken the psychological barrier and good cause of liberating their country will always make sure whomever in power will work on the people's agenda and also believe that the army, that egyptian army and the fact that these guys really want the safety of egypt and they...

Benefited perhaps from the growth in egypt. it wasn't low, it was at 7% before this all began but they believe that they deserved an open democracy. they through satellite news channels, through the internet saw how the rest of the world operates and with the tu in addition example decided, we deserve this. we and our parents have suffered long enough under these dictatorships, and that's what has struck me the most is how representative it is of the egyptian population as a whole, this movement, anderson. nic robertson i believe can join us. nic, where are you? what are you seeing? >> reporte...

Especially in light of the fact that we saw so much violence in this area. as you can see the sort of massive highway overpass, one of the main thoroughfares through cairo is just starting to turn into a parking lot with more and more people coming here and on the square, you can just see how it's getting fuller and fuller as more and more people are coming in here, also waving egyptian flags. we've been able to speak to some people down there and many of them said this was really the beginning of a new era for this country. there were some actually calling for president hosni mubarak to be tr...