BBC News with Nick Kelly.
President Obama has appealed for calm reflection a day after a neighborhood watch volunteer was cleared of murdering an unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida. Mr.Obama said the US was a country of laws and jury had a spoken. David Willis reports from Florida. “In his statement, President Obama said the death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy not just for his family but for the whole of America. Acknowledging the passions the trial had generated, he urged people to respect the call for calm reflection on the part of Trayvon Martin's parents. A President statement follows protests in several US cities in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman who claimed he shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense after becoming convinced the teenager was a part of a gang that had been targeting the local neighbourhood.”
The public prosecutor in Egypt has frozen the assets of 14 senior Islamists including the head of the Muslim Brotherhood as part of an investigation into the incitement of violence of protests. The announcement came as a senior US envoy William Burns was arriving in Cairo. The US has been urging the authorities to release the ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. There is still considerable anger among Mr. Morsi's supporters especially over the appointment of Mohamed el-Baradei as Interim Vice President. “El-Baradei has been sworn in before an authority that's not chosen by the people, and the authority does not recognized by the constitution, the people and the entire world.” “Both the constitution and the referendum of the Egyptian people have been demolished and dissolved.”