Further demonstrations are planned Friday in Egypt at the invitation of the protest movement that hopes to make the day of departure of President Hosni Mubarak, after 10 days of protests and unprecedented bloodshed in the country.
Organizers hope to raise as Jan. 28, one million people after the weekly Muslim prayer at the beginning of the afternoon.
According to the journalist Christiane Amanpour of the ABC, the Vice-President of Egypt Omar Suleiman, met during an interview with Mr.Mubarak in Cairo, told him that the army deployed reinforcements would use "never" force against the population.
After dismissing the appeal of the regime "illegitimate" dialogue, brotherhood Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, reviled by the authorities, felt that the calls for negotiations "will not affect the mass rallies planned Friday to bring down the regime ".
The opposition, composed also of secular parties and movements from civil society as the National Coalition for the change that has formed around the Nobel Peace Mohamed ElBaradei, has made the immediate departure of Mr Mubarak's condition to negotiate with the regime.
Mr.Sulaiman said that the request amounted to a "call to chaos" and urged the protesters to leave the Tahrir Square, the epicenter of protest in Cairo.
On the night of Thursday to Friday on Tahrir Square, thousands of protesters have again defied the curfew at night, camping in tents and warming themselves around fires after a day of intermittent clashes between opponents and supporters of M .Mubarak.
The latter, according to Ms. Amanpour, assured to have "enough to be president," said wanted to "give up power now, but he could not do so for fear that the country could descend into chaos."
For its part, the New York Times has assured Washington that talks with Egyptian officials the terms of an immediate departure of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to a transitional government led by Omar Suleiman, a project to gather support of the Egyptian army.
Mr.Mubarak said Tuesday he does not be seeking a sixth term in the presidential elections of September but this ad has not softened street.
At the same time, the authorities opted for the hard way by arresting seven young leaders of the protest movement, after meeting with Mohamed ElBaradei, the opponent, according to relatives.
At least eight people were killed and over 800 injured Wednesday and Thursday morning in violent clashes between the two camps.More than 300 people died in the first week of protest, according to an unconfirmed report of the UN.
Dozens of foreign journalists were beaten, arrested or intimidated these days, and no television has broadcast images live from Tahrir Square on the night of Thursday to Friday.
A foreigner of unknown nationality was beaten to death nearby, witnesses and rescue services.
Thursday, hundreds of supporters of the regime armed with clubs, knives and some guns, prevented the entrance for several hours on the place of reinforcements or supplies to opponents who are holed up.
The army, the backbone of the system, monitors without intervene.It is rarely intervened to disperse the players or try to save people assaulted.
Other supporters of the plan, posted on the bridge on October 6, threw stones and Molotov cocktails on the opponents. Pavers and curb stone were used as projectiles and barricades were erected.
The authority has rejected accusations that he orchestrated the violence, pointing to the Muslim Brotherhood, the main opposition force.
The West has condemned these attacks. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned "in strongest terms" attacks against journalists, calling on security forces to protect them.She also called for "serious negotiations" between the immediate government and opposition "to a peaceful transition and in good order" in Egypt.
In Berlin, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said it was "outrageous and totally unacceptable" the repression in Egypt against the media and human rights.
Faced with the alarming situation, Western leaders are maintaining pressure on Mr. Mubarak in calling for an immediate transition of power.
The international community also continues to assist its citizens to leave the country.
Despite the troubles, the Pentagon has assured he would not stop supplying arms to its ally Egypt.Its annual military support amounted to $ 1.3 billion.
U.S. intelligence has warned the Obama administration unrest in Egypt in late 2010, said Thursday before Congress an intelligence official.
Mr. Mubarak, 82, is accused of all evils in this country of 83 million people-poverty, unemployment, deprivation of liberty and police state.
This wave of social protest and political unprecedented swept Egypt since January 25, after Tunisia, which has seen the flight of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali under pressure from the street.
