Egypt Live Report

News from the Baghdad office: The Iraqi government is offering money and free flights to Iraqi citizens in Egypt who want to escape the raging protests. More than 1,700 Iraqis have so far taken up the offer to return home, making use of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's personal plane and one provided by transport ministry. Families who opt to stay in Egypt are also to receive financial support. 1415 GMT: Mubarak's apparent departure to Sharm, appears to do little to placate protesters. "He has to leave the country, our demands are clear," says Magdy Sabry, one of thousands blockading the state television building in central Cairo. Advertisement: Story continues below 1409 GMT:Mohammed Abdellah, a spokesman for the ruling National Democratic Party, tells our reporter that the president and his family are in the resort. Is this a show of strength, or getting out while the going's good? 1359 GMT: Mubarak's party tells he and and his family are in Sharm el-Sheikh. 1355 GMT: Sky News says Mubarak is in Sharm el-Sheikh. 1353 GMT: At least a million Egyptians have taken to the streets of cities around the country today to demand the departure of President Hosni Mubarak, according to an tally of official and witness accounts. 1348 GMT: Tomorrow's rally in Algiers is being organised by the National Coordination for Change and Democracy (CNCD), a three-week-old umbrella group of opposition parties, civil society movements and unofficial unions emboldened by the mass protests in Tunisia and Egypt. The CNCD is demanding the immediate end of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's regime, citing the same problems of high unemployment, housing problems and soaring costs that have inspired uprisings in neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt. Said Sadi says 10,000 police are being drafted into Algiers, to reinforce the 20,000 who succeeded in blocking the last protest on January 22, when five peole were killed and more than 800 hurt in clashes. 1344 GMT: "He (Mubarak) has to leave the country, our demands are clear," says Magdy Sabry, one of thousands blockading the state television building in central Cairo. "We want the Rosetta Stone English entire (ruling) National Democratic Party to be dissolved and to get out because they have destroyed the country," he says. 1341 GMT: Said Sadi, head of Algeria's opposition Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD), says authorities have ringed the capital in a bid to prevent people joining tomorrow's pro-democracy march from outside the city. "Trains have been stopped and other public transport will be as well," he says. 1337 GMT: Meanwhile, tension is mounting in another North African country, Algeria. Large numbers of police have been deployed in the centre of the capital Algiers today ahead of a pro-democracy march planned by opposition groups in defiance of a government ban. 1332 GMT: reporter Joe Krauss is on the scene at the state-owned Nile TV building and reports no sign of any violence. The TV station is heavily guarded with tanks and armoured personnel carriers, with machine gun nests on balconies in the massive sky scraper overlooking river. The protesters are drumming and waving flags. The protesters are still dealing with soldiers in a friendly way, Krauss says. 1326 GMT: "Mubarak has left Cairo with all his family," a government source tells , but refuses to say whether the president has left the country or is headed to his residence in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. 1324 GMT: A crowd has marched along the corniche running along the banks of the Nile in downtown Cairo to the barbed wire barricades defending the TV station, defended by well-armed troops. They halted there and chanted slogans. 1321 GMT: About 2,000 demonstrators are outside the state television headquarters, on the banks of the Nile near Tahrir Square, correspondents say. 1317 GMT: correspondents report that at least 3,000 people have march on Mubarak's main official residence in the upscale Heliopolis neighbourhood, their numbers boosted by hundreds of people arriving from Tahrir Square.

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