Reply #4: Guardian: Mubarak resigns - live updates (inc. vice-president's very brief statement)

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4.27pm: Egyptian state TV is showing live pictures of the celebrtions in Tahrir square. "The newsreader is smiling and looks as happy as many of the people down there on the square," says the anchor on al-Jazeera English.

4.23pm: The Egyptian pro-democracy campaigner Mohamed ElBaradei has cheered Mubarak's resignation. "This is the greatest day of my life. The country has been liberated after decades of repression," he told The Associated Press. He said he expects a "beautiful" transition of power.

4.20pm: Our correspondent Chris McGreal in Tahrir Square writes: "Cairo erupts in celebration as 18 days of defiant protest finally delivers a revolution after 24 hours of euphoria, dashed hopes and victory."

4.17pm: We have now embedded a live video stream from Tahrir Square. You can watch it by refreshing this page.

4.12pm: The full text of the vice-president's very brief statement:

In these difficult circumstances that the country is passing through, President Hosni Mubarak has decided to leave the position of the presidency. He has commissioned the armed forces council to direct the issues of the state.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/feb/11/egypt-hosni-mubarak-left-cairo