. So please, to all the American people, keep it up. If you want to see a bipartisan compromise - a bill that can pass both houses of Congress and that I can sign - let your members of Congress know. Make a phone call. Send an email. Tweet. Keep the pressure on Washington, and we can get past this."

The secret

testimony

of the former US President Richard Nixon to a grand jury investigating the Watergate scandal is to be made public for the first time some 36 years after it was given. A federal judge ordered the transcript to be released after a historian requested access. The judge said the testimony's historical significance far

outweigh

ed arguments for continued secrecy. The Watergate scandal surrounded a break-in at Democratic Party headquarters, causing President Nixon to resign.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators filled Tahrir Square in the Egyptian capital Cairo throughout the day in what appears to have been the largest protest since the fall of President Mubarak. Muslim leaders had urged their followers to attend in a show of strength. Jon Leyne was in Tahrir Square.

Once again, huge numbers packed Tahrir Square. But this time, not the young secular liberals who led the revolution against Hosni Mubarak, these were Islamists - some supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, others who support an even more radical interpretation of Islam, known as Salafists. The noise and the size of the crowd was

impressive