(All times are local in Egypt.)
12:18pm: One of our correspondents in Cairo tweets about the hardships of being in a city "under seige":
Food prices rising v quickly now. So too petrol & phone cards. But yet to find an ATM in Cairo that has any money left #Egypt
and later:
No ATM's making life hard for all but at least we have credit cards. Most Egyptians use cash. Many feeling v much under siege #Egypt
12pm: Military tanks are on the streets and helicopters are circling overhead as Egypt braces for another day of protests.
Our correspondent in the Zamalek neighbourhood of Cairo says he sees shops open and many citizens picking up the garbage that has been collecting on the streets in the last couple of days.
11:45am: Al Jazeera's producers in Cairo confirm that police have redeployed on the streets of the capital, as security is stepped up across the city.
Listen to the audio report below, and as a reminder you can hear all of our audio reports by clicking here.
11:20am: On a lighter note, an eight-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia has made her own plea to Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to step down.
11:11am: Efforts are underway to find those who have gone missing in Egypt's protests. Twitter users are circulating a Google docs spreadsheet with the names of those believed missing, where they were last seen and a contact reference. The document is open to all.
10:15am: This Youtube video of praying protesters being bombarded with water canons has been making the rounds on Facebook and blogs. Al Jazeera can't independently vouch for its veracity, but you can view the raw footage here:
10am: Former US president Jimmy Carter calls the unrest in Egypt an "earth-shaking event", and says he guesses Hosni Mubarak "will have to leave", the US Ledger-Enquirer reports.
“This is the most profound situation in the Middle East since I left office,” Carter told a crowd of 300 people at a church in the US state of Georgia, adding that he has been watching the events unfold via Al Jazeera's coverage online.
9:19am: Huge protest planned in Egypt: opposition movement calls for a million people demonstration on Tuesday in bid to topple Mubarak.
9:12am: Two of Al Jazeera's producers have managed to find a reliable internet connection out of Cairo, where they're keeping us updated with tweets.
"Back up with internet this morning in Cairo. Heavy smog over the city, don't know if fires have anything to do with it. Army blocked off Tahrir Square with barbed wire & restricting access. Tank on busy 6th of October bridge leaves one lane open," one writes.
The other tweets:
"Tahrir Square closed this morning, barbed wire wrapped around the area; army officer told me it'll be shut all day/night. Banks closed too, more tanks on the street, police also being redeployed. Egyptian gov't trying to reassert itself."
8:45am: Israel urges the world to tone down Mubarak criticism amid Egypt unrest to preserve stability in the region, the Haaretz newspaper reports, citing senior Israeli officials.
Senior Israeli officials ... said that on Saturday night the Foreign Ministry issued a directive to around a dozen key embassies in the United States, Canada, China, Russia and several European countries. The ambassadors were told to stress to their host countries the importance of Egypt's stability. In a special cable, they were told to get this word out as soon as possible, the paper reports.
8:00am: The state-imposed curfew in Egypt is lifted. Al Jazeera's correspondent in Cairo reports the military is setting up roadblocks around the capital.
7:45am: Al Jazeera's Imran Garda blogs about the apparent "templates for responding to the excesses of a US ally": When an ally mows down peaceful protesters in the streets calling for change, here is the template:
“We continue to monitor the situation and are very concerned about recent events in ______. We call for restraint on both sides. We urge President/Prime Minister/King ______ to facilitate dialogue and provide concrete steps towards a peaceful resolution.”
6:20am: NPR's All Things Considered reports that a Tunisian poem has become a rallying cry in both Tunisia and Egypt. The poem, as read by an Al Jazeera journalist, is among the most famous works of an early 20th century Tunisian poet named Abu al-Qasim al-Shabi.
Click here to listen to 'To the Tyrants of the World' on NPR.
6:10am: We're not naming our reporters in Egypt for safety and security reasons. But one of our correspondents sent in this update from the streets of Cairo early on Monday, where she said about 200 people haven't budged from the city's central Tahrir square.
"They've been chanting throughout the evening. There've been poetry readings. It seems as if they're saying 'It's early in the morning but we're here to stay. We're not going anywhere'."
She said that seems to be the message of the military as well, which has been repositioning its forces across the roads. Our correspondent said there are signs of police also trickling back onto the streets.
5:45am: Chasing Gamal Mubarak: The Egyptian president's younger son is thought to have fled to London after protests began in Egypt. As Al Jazeera's Paul Brennan reports from London, Gamal hasn't been seen there, but he likely would not be welcome if he did appear:
5:30am: The HuffingtonPost.com reports: Canadian television viewers looking for in-depth coverage of Egypt have the option of tuning into Al Jazeera English. Many US viewers, however, can not.
5:15am Protesters are still camped out in central Cairo. "The army has to choose between Egypt and Mubarak," one banner reads in Cairo's Tahrir Square, where demonstrators share food with soldiers.
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12:48am New York-based Palestinian-American writer Ismail Khalidi makes an apt social media joke on Twitter: #U.S. and #Israel change relationship status with #Egypt to "It's complicated" on facebook.
Another Twitter user, Rubadubadu, has offered essentially the same message, but has added: #Lebanon, #Syria & #Palestine 'like' this.
12:40am Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian journalist, tells Al Jazeera: "What has happened in Egypt is a turning point in our history...the more [President Mubarak] insists on clinging to power, the more Egyptians will go out into the street and say 'we want you to go'".
12:23am The atmosphere in central Cairo remains chaotic, according to a tweet from one of the Al Jazeera correspondents in Cairo:
Tense in Tahrir Square tonight. Random gunfire nearby; some people in the square are blaming the army for it, verbally confronting soldiers.
12:14am President Mubarak tells his new prime minister, Ahmad Shafiq to keep government subsidies and cut prices.
The above photo from Tahrir Square depicting a banner with Hosni Mubarak and an "EXIT" sign is from Reuters.
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/01/30/live-blog-311-egypt-protests
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