More Protests!

Police used tear gas to clear protesters from Pearl Square in Bahrain's capital, Manama, with at least three people reported dead!

Anti-government activists in Libya have been using social networking sites to rally support for protests on what they are describing as a "day of anger".
There were reports of clashes in two cities late on Wednesday, with about four people reported dead in the eastern city of al-Bayda.


Dozens of people were injured in violent demonstrations on Tuesday night in the eastern city of Benghazi.

The unrest there followed the detention of an outspoken government critic.

Back in Tunis

Yesterday was the final day of working in Libya,actually the last day of the teacher training workshops was on Wednesday in Sebha.
Didn't get to see the desert but visited the zoo instead and saw a few interesting animals!
Meawhile prsesident Mubarak last night delivered yet another disappointing speech and is still
not listening to the people of Egypt and is still not standing down even though he's apparently given some of his powers to his vice president.
Most of the protestors saw the speech as being very condenscending towards them.
The president's speech implied that foreign countries are interferring in
Egypt's affairs;political commentators see the speech as being provocative and could cause a violent reaction.

BREAKING NEWS
Mubarak has stepped down.There were immediate scenes of celebration in Tahrir Square  Liberation Square.

Fights between anti-government and pro-government protestors

For the past two days pro-Mubarak supporters have fought with anti-Mubarak protestors,but where were these pro-Mubarak supporters in the previous days of the protests.
However,it's Mubarak manipulating this violence,and with the Internet back on there have been postings,including videos,uploaded onto Facebook by pro-Mubarak supporters but again this is Mubarak using Facebook for his own purpose.

I've been in Libya since Tuesday and today did the first workshops of the ELT conference.

Today it's the Chinese New Year,the year of the rabbit.

Mubarak says he will not seek another term

President Mubarak says he will not run another term as president in the September elections.However,the protests will continue as it seems the Egyptians do not trust him to keep his word and isn't really listening to his people.
The ex-president of Tunisia also said he wouldn't run another term but this was not enough and he promptly gave up;a copy cat situation in Egypt.

No force to be used against the protestors

The military have said that they will not use force against the tens of thousands of protestors in Cairo,which is will be an upset to President Mubarak hoping for support from the military.

Protests continue to call for Mubarak to resign

Over 100 people have died in the protests,it's now the sixth day of protests and today there have been planes flying over the Cairo.There are calls for the leader of the opposition to form an interim government.The American and British embassies have advised their citizens to leave Egypt.

On a lighter note I saw the film 'Black Swan' starring Natalie Portman playing the part of the a ballerina in a production of Swan Lake.

Curfew in Egypt

The curfew in Egypt continues and is now from 4pm until 8am.
There are over 30,000 British tourists in Egypt but so far the British Embassy there have not decided to
evacuate them.