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News from the AFP Baghdad office: The Iraqi government is offering money and free flights to Rosetta Stone Iraqi citizens in Egypt who want to escape the raging protests. More than 1,700 Iraqis have so far taken up the offer to return home, making use of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's personal plane and one provided by transport ministry. Families who opt to stay in Egypt are also to receive financial support. Mohammed Abdellah, a spokesman for the ruling National Democratic Party, tells our reporter that the president and his family are in the resort. Is this a show of strength, or getting out while the going's good? Mubarak's party tells AFP he and and his family are in Sharm el-Sheikh. At least a million Egyptians have taken to the streets of cities around the country today to demand the departure of President Hosni Mubarak, according to an AFP tally of official and witness accounts. Tomorrow's rally in Algiers is being organised by the National Coordination for Change and Democracy (CNCD), a three-week-old umbrella group of opposition parties, civil society movements and unofficial unions emboldened by the mass protests in Tunisia and Egypt. The CNCD is demanding the immediate end of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's regime, citing the same problems of high unemployment, housing problems and soaring costs that have inspired uprisings in neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt. Said Sadi says 10,000 police are being drafted into Algiers, to reinforce the ,000 who succeeded in blocking the last protest on January 22, when five peole were killed and more than 800 hurt in clashes. 13 "He (Mubarak) has Rosetta Stone Software to leave the country, our demands are clear," says Magdy Sabry, one of thousands blockading the state television building in central Cairo. "We want the entire (ruling) National Democratic Party to be dissolved and to get out because they have destroyed the country," he says. Said Sadi, head of Algeria's opposition Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD), says authorities have ringed the capital in a bid to prevent people joining tomorrow's pro-democracy march from outside the city. "Trains have been stopped and other public transport will be as well," he says. 17 Meanwhile, tension is mounting in another North African country, Algeria. Large numbers of police have been deployed in the centre of the capital Algiers today ahead of a pro-democracy march planned by opposition groups in defiance of a government ban. AFP reporter Joe Rosetta Stone Greek Krauss is on the scene at the state-owned Nile TV building and reports no sign of any violence. The TV station is heavily guarded with tanks and armoured personnel carriers, with machine gun nests on balconies in the massive sky scraper overlooking river.