5:38pm UK, Saturday February 12, 2011
Around the world, Egyptians are celebrating. In London, Trafalgar Square has become an extension of Cairo's Tahrir Square.
The sense of excitement is quite extraordinary. Egyptians, young and elderly, are sharing their stories.
Strangers meet and discuss where they were the moment they heard their president of three decades was gone.
They thought today would be another of protest. They are still holding posters calling for Mubarak to go - there was no time to reprint them.
In the crowd I found Wassim Wagdi. He has just returned to Trafalgar Square from Tahrir Square.
"The moment I went into the square, I knew Mubarak was history," he tells me.
Egyptians in the UK thought today would be another day of protest
I ask him how he feels. It's a cliche, I know. His answer is anything but.
"Now I feel that I could live forever. Now I feel 20 years younger. Now I feel no bitterness. I just don't know how to describe this. I feel no bitterness towards life, towards anything.
"It is a new beginning for my nation, for my people and for myself as well."
A week ago Wasim was outside his country's embassy in London.
He was asked then why he was there. A week on - his answer has had nearly a quarter of a million viewings.
His hope has been realised.
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