[00:48.28]This went on for half an hour.

[00:50.13]It didn’t quite get towards Tahrir Square and a short while ago,

[00:53.21]the army and five tanks just came through October 6th Bridge split the both sides of supporters and it got (a) huge rapturous cheers here by

[01:01.35]all of the supporters of the army against former President Mohamed Morsi.

[01:05.18]Earlier at least three people were killed near a military base in Cairo where the army fired on demonstrators.

[01:10.94]Shooting by protesters was also reported.

[01:13.76]There’ve also been clashes in several other cities including Alexandria.

[01:17.43]The Malian army says its troops have reached the rebel-held northern town of Kidal to secure it for a presidential election due to be held at the end of this month.

[01:26.39]Alex Duval Smith reports from Bamako.

[01:29.00]A spokesman for the United Nations mission in Mali confirmed that about 200 Malian soldiers and police had reached Kidal.

[01:36.11]Earlier in the day, Tuareg rebels occupying the town had returned to barracks.

[01:40.97]They’ll be banned from patrolling there in the lead-up to elections on the 28th of July.

[01:45.85]The Malian army was chased out of Kidal by rebels last year.

[01:49.93]Their advance backed by Islamist militants prompted France to send troops to its former colony earlier this year.