Live Update from Tahrir Square

The Takeaway

The BBC’s Jim Muir is in Cairo with the latest from the protests. He says the mood in Tahrir Square has improved since violence has susbsided. Journalists have been attacked and detained, but the situation is less tense on today’s “day of departure.”

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