ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION).<br/> <br />STORY: Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Tunis on Saturday ) and demanded the government's immediate resignation.<br/> <br />Protesters formed a human chain as they marched on the street, some waved the Tunisian flag and others held banners that read: "Tunisia" and "For The Sake of Saving Tunisia".<br/> <br />The small North African nation, birthplace of the Arab uprisings of 2011, is locked in a stand-off between its Islamist-led government and secular opposition that could be decisive for the success of its experiment in democracy.<br/> <br />Tunisia could still make this work, if its political class can rise above party rivalries to follow a road map to the rule of law laid out in 2011, analysts said.<br/> <br />Optimism has waxed and waned over the past weeks as the central figure of Tunisian politics, Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi, offered to consider a deal for new elections that could produce an orderly transfer of power to the opposition.
