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US President Barack Obama walks to podium 2. Cutaway of reporters, pan to Obama at podium 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President:\"After his speech tonight, I spoke directly to President Mubarak. He recognises...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eWashington, DC\u003cbr/\u003e1. US President Barack Obama walks to podium \u003cbr/\u003e2. Cutaway of reporters, pan to Obama at podium \u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"After his speech tonight, I spoke directly to President Mubarak. He recognises that the status quo is not sustainable and that a change must take place.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Cutaway of Obama\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Now, it is not the role of any other country to determine Egypt's leaders.  Only the Egyptian people can do that.  What is clear, and what I indicated tonight to President Mubarak is my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful, and it must begin now. Furthermore, the process must include a broad spectrum of Egyptian voices and opposition parties.  It should lead to elections that are free and fair.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of Obama leaving\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Alterman, Director, Middle East Programme, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS):\u003cbr/\u003e\"Everything the United States does connected to security in the Middle East in some way involves Egypt, whether it's putting troops and material through the Suez Canal or flying over Egypt, whether it's counter-terrorism, whether it's pursuing Arab-Israeli peace. All those things have Egypt in a central role.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide of Alterman speaking\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Alterman, Director, Middle East Programme, CSIS:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's unclear what a post-Mubarak Egypt looks like, and it's partly because Hosni Mubarak has wanted to ensure that nobody knows what a post-Mubarak Egypt looks like. But clearly if you can't rely on the same orientation, then you can't rely on the same relationship, you can't rely on the same agreements.  We'll have to rethink both what we ask the Egyptians to do and rethink how we do everything that we do that is in cooperation with Egypt now, and that's a very, very long list.\"\u003cbr/\u003eQueens, New York\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide exterior of Hookah lounge in Little Egypt neighbourhood of New York City \u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide interior of lounge \u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid shot of man smoking \u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Hany Faroz, Egyptian living in New York City:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I believe he did the right thing. I know that people want more and more, but everything has to come in order and has to come legally so nobody comes later on and says that what happened is not legal.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of television tuned to Al-Jazeera cable channel \u003cbr/\u003e15.  Wide of man smoking \u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmoud Elhaorin, Egyptian living in New York City:\u003cbr/\u003e\"September is a long way. He's not going to succeed to do something in five or six months. He's been for 30 years. It's over.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of lounge\u003cbr/\u003eUS President Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged Egypt's embattled autocratic ruler, a staunch US ally, to begin a transition process towards a new leadership immediately, a signal that there should be no drawn-out goodbye.\u003cbr/\u003eEarlier, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had announced he would not seek another term in office but also would not yield to growing demands to step down now. \u003cbr/\u003eAfter a huddle at the White House and a 30-minute telephone conversation with Mubarak, Obama went on television to respond.\u003cbr/\u003eIn his brief statement at the White House, Obama invoked Egypt's ancient and storied past in what appeared to be an appeal to Mubarak's desire to be remembered well in history as a powerful leader and peacemaker. \u003cbr/\u003eHe said he had spoken to Mubarak to press his case.\u003cbr/\u003e\"He recognises that the status quo is not sustainable and that a change must take place,\" Obama said of Mubarak. \u003cbr/\u003eMubarak delivered his speech after hearing from a special envoy, former US ambassador to Egypt Frank Wisner, whom Obama dispatched to Cairo on Monday. \u003cbr/\u003eWisner's message to Mubarak: The United States saw his tenure at an end, did not want him to stand for re-election in September and wanted him to prepare an orderly transition to real democracy.\u003cbr/\u003eThat suggested Mubarak's concession was not enough, but Obama left the point dangling. \u003cbr/\u003eHe was careful not to say that Mubarak should have left immediately, and he stressed that it was not up to the United States to pick Egypt's leaders.\u003cbr/\u003eObama praised the \"passion and dignity\" of the protesters who have rallied for Mubarak's departure as an \"inspiration\" to people around the world, and he hailed the Egyptian military for its poise in handling the situation.\u003cbr/\u003eIn a halfway concession to hundreds of thousands of protesters, Mubarak said in Egypt that he would serve out the rest of his term working to ensure a \"peaceful transfer of power\" and new rules on presidential elections. \u003cbr/\u003eHis message that he would not immediately leave was rebuffed by many demonstrators in Cairo's main square and even some in the United States.\u003cbr/\u003eMahmoud Elhaorin, an Egyptian who has lived in New York City for 17 years, said September was too far away.\u003cbr/\u003e\"He's been (in power) for 30 years.  It's over,\" said Elhaorin, while taking a Hookah break at a lounge in the city's Little Egypt neighbourhood in the Queens borough.\u003cbr/\u003eObama warned there would be \"difficult days ahead\" in Egypt as the situation develops. \u003cbr/\u003eHe appealed for calm.\u003cbr/\u003eTuesday's developments signalled that after a week of balancing support for protesters and for America's close ally of three decades, the administration had decided that long-term backing for the Egyptian president was no longer tenable.\u003cbr/\u003eThey also coincided with a greater outreach to opposition figures, most notably opening talks with a possible Mubarak successor, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, a former Egyptian diplomat and chief of the UN nuclear watchdog.\u003cbr/\u003eOfficials said that in his conversation with Mubarak, Wisner did not demand that the president step down immediately but rather accept that he was nearing the end of his three-decade grip on power and not try to extend it. \u003cbr/\u003eWisner was instructed to use a \"light touch\" in conveying Obama's message, one official said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe officials said Obama was keenly aware of Mubarak's need to save face and make a graceful exit, acknowledging that the Egyptian leader has been a staunch ally and a major player in all Middle East peace efforts during the past 30 years. \u003cbr/\u003eIt's difficult to predict what a post-Mubarak era in Egypt will look like and what changes will be in store for US-Egypt relations.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Everything the United States does connected to security in the Middle East in some way involves Egypt,\" said Jon Alterman, Director of the Middle East Project at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).  \u003cbr/\u003e\"Whether it's putting troops and material through the Suez Canal or flying over Egypt, whether it's counter-terrorism, whether it's pursuing Arab-Israeli peace. 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