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Arab leaders 'must meet the basic needs of their people'

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Across the border from Egypt in Israel, the government there has been rather quiet in the last few days.

But there has been deep alarm about the consequences of the fall from grace of its ally President Mubarak as our middle east correspondent Jon Donnison reports.

And Justin Webb asks Martin Indyk, former American ambassador to Israel about the prospect of a democratic Egypt.


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