军事委员会首领坚持表示，军队并不想掌握大权。他说军队将推进按计划于下周一举行的议会选举，将于六月底前选出新总统，会比预料的要早。他还说，已经接受现任过渡内阁的辞职要求，不过内阁仍将继续存在，直到新政府成立。

Despite the pledges made by Field Marshal Tantawi, thousands of protesters in Cairo and other major cities are still demanding that the military leadership give up all attempts to hold on to power, and clashes with security forces are continuing around Tahrir Square, as Hugh Sykes now reports.

尽管陆军元坦塔维帅做了承诺，开罗等主要城市的数千名抗议者仍在要求军事领导层放弃继续大权在握的努力，与安全部队的冲突仍在塔里尔广场附近继续，Hugh Sykes报道。

This is just a constant to-and-fro of the crowds moving towards the police, some of them prepared with petrol bombs, many of them holding rocks and throwing them at the police. And when they get too close, the police loose off a tear gas canister or two or three. Most of the people here are in fact just watching,but they are here and they are here to say, and they don't think the concessions are nearly enough. They want total change; they want an end to the regime of the man they describe as Mubarak mark II - Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi - they want him to resign.

人群不停来来往往，向警察迈进，有的人准备了汽油弹，也有人手持石头投向警察。当他们走近时，警察释放一个、或两个三个的催泪瓦斯。事实上多数人只是在观望，但他们已经来了，他们想表达自己的想法，他们认为让步是远远不够的。他们想要彻底的改变，希望结束他们所称的“穆巴拉克·麦克二世”—陆军上校穆罕默德·坦塔维的政权，希望他辞职。