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Venezuela, nicaragua, harsh critics, no surprise here. more fears this morning as we go to egypt now, more fears of violence exploding in cairo and other parts of the country. running battles in the street killed at least more than 30 people, 1,000 others are injured. reza, a violent night, violent few days. is it quieter today? reporter: it s quiet, but the day is young and many supporters of morsi are still angry. still out in areas where they protested yesterday. not in big numbers right now. more plan to be back later today to follow up on demonstrations that turned violent and deadly. you mentioned we could see more protests today. violence seen as backlash after morsi removed from pow every last week? no question about it, many ....
And they weren t there, they are out in force right now with the military, protecting this barricade, the entrance to the social club of the presidential guard. reza joins us now from cairo. reza, do we know where the former president is right now? where is morsi? reporter: first off, victor, we should point out that the report you just saw was actually yesterday evening. and president morsi, according to reports, is at that location. according to state media, he s inside the headquarters of the presidential guard. he s been kept in custody there, according to state media, now being investigated on charges and accusations that he made some inciteful statements, and that s why the demonstrators and supporters made their way over there, thousands of them. today things are quiet right now, but the day is young and the anger has not subsided. many of his supporters are planning to demonstrate there ....
Again? and that s why a lot of people are concerned. that there is a precedent being set. not just here in egypt but other countries in this region who are going through the arab spring and trying to get this democratic process right. reza sayeh for us in cairo this morning, thank you. so here s a question. what s the best way to annoy the white house? what do you think? well, i m just going to read what s been written because there could be a lot of answers for that. offer edward snowden a place to live. where he can leak more damaging information about american spying. snowden, of course, as we likely know by now, a fugitive who leaked details of the nsa surveillance program and has been on the run ever since. his home for the past two weeks has been an airport terminal in moscow, but maybe not for much longer. cnn s frederick pleitgen joins us now. thanks for being here. who is willing to give asylum to snowden? reporter: well, there s two ....
Again as well as another location. and the question is, how much longer can they come out and protest? how much longer will they be able to demonstrate? and also, the question is how will this conflict be resolved? how will the interim president get these two sides together? how will the armed forces who s playing a critical role, how will they be able to get these two sides together? victor? you raise a really good point there, reza. you know, my question is, could this set a protest, the removal of an unpopular leader, is this kind of the new normal there with this democratic process? reporter: that s the concern that a lot of people have. this was a president who was democratically elected, even though a lot of people didn t like him. now after a year in office, he has been ousted, thanks to a very large uprising and the help of the armed forces. and the question many have, the next president who comes in, what if islamists don t like him? what if there is an uprising against hi ....
Egypt, it s on edge this morning. a huge crowd of protesters are gathering in the capital. they are furious that the military removed president mohamed morsi from power. violence exploded overnight there. we ve got live pictures here for you. at least 30 people have been killed. more than 1,000 others have been hurt. now, our reporter filed this report just a little while ago. reza? reporter: some of the most intense clashes have taken place where we are. that is the front entrance to the social club to the presidential guard. of course, over the past few days, state media reporting that s where the former president, mohamed morsi, has been held in custody. so many emotions here, people are angry. they re enraged. they re furious. but then you see people who are somber, sitting down with posters of mohamed morsi, and they re praying. what do you plan to do now? ....