Protesters were still defying the curfew in Egyptian cities last night and there have been reports of shots being fired on the streets of Cairo this morning as demonstrators began to gather again.

Other reports indicate more than 20 bodies had found in the city of Alexandria after clashes with security forces there.

Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak has said he will appoint a new government today, and has promised social and economic reform in the wake of protests which have shaken his regime.

The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen is in Cairo and told the Today programme that this had turned into a people's revolution where you could feel "a sea change of celebration on the streets" with people anticipating that President Mubarak's 29-year rule on Egypt is now loosening.

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