tv Our Man In Cairo Al Jazeera December 28, 2019 3:00pm-4:00pm +03
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announces iraq. i'm come all sons of maria here in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera huge bomb blast has killed and injured dozens of people in somalia and ambulance official says 76 people have been killed many more casualties feared however the car bomb blast in the capital mogadishu was near a security checkpoint during morning rush hour some reports say as many as 90 may have died and that would include some turkish engineers chances following the storm from nairobi in neighboring kenya. but we know that dozens of people they've been killed and dozens of people have been injured and officials are saying that that number would likely rise because with such a huge explosion we know among those killed include some somali police officers and some civilians what happened was it happened at a security checkpoint in the early morning and people used this checkpoint to come
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in to mogadishu said was very busy they were going to work we were told universal studios are trying to head to campus and then be explosion happened so officials are saying that that number could likely rise to another parity is trying to tend to the injured and then figure out how many people have been killed what probably happened was that one of the cars tried to get through the checkpoint been exploded and that's what caused all this deadly carnage what people are now asking is who is responsible in the past as a group al-shabaab is being blamed for attacks in a mild addition you know as chemist was but for this attack here and people are wondering how are they able to do that whatever group of this is for example if it is al shabaab they were pushed out of mother dish a few years ago but they have managed now and again to come back and attack hotels and security checkpoints of the that the government is under a lot of places to try and stop these attacks from happening if you will keep
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asking why they're able to do it. also remember you had the african union troops on the ground as well but they were also sometimes being ambushed and attacked by several groups and sometimes al-shabaab has claimed responsibility so right now a lot of confusion on the ground in mogadishu that of course the main power to the taking to the injured and finding out how many people were killed but the question of security is always in the back of everyone's mind. some other headlines for you the u.n. general assembly has condemned human rights abuses against muslims and other minorities in me and the 134 member states version for the resolution calling on me and must government to combat the hatred and violence against minorities made maher is also facing a charge of genocide at the international court of justice a u.s. contractor has been killed in an attack on an iraqi military base several rockets were fired into the base near kirkuk but houses both iraqi and u.s. troops the un's warning of devastating consequences for civilians in syria's
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province russian and syrian government forces have intensified their air and ground offensive causing nearly 250000 people to flee the area. flags are flying at half staff in kazakhstan as it marks a day of mourning for the victims of friday's plane crash the back flight went down soon after takeoff from port 12 people killed and 54 injured some of them critically the airline's fleet of fokker 100 aircraft are grounded while air accident investigators examine the wreckage. throughout the plane began shaking severely it was a nightmare inside i put my phone in the pocket in tightened up the safety belt tightly in the plane and leaned forward it was clear that we would crash into the ground the bag was strong and the lights went off some were alive some were not the u.n. special envoy to yemen is making his 2nd visit in 10 days to summer the arrival of martin griffiths coincides with more fighting the data the main entry point for
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much needed aid for millions of yemenis threatened with famine the u.n. is pressing the leaders to agree to talks aimed at ending almost 5 years of war as talks have stalled since the stock on cease fire agreement a year ago and police violently cleared hundreds of protesters who stormed a hong kong shopping mall near the border with mainland china they're angry over the practice of mainland chinese crossing over to buy goods in hong kong protests have disrupted hong kong for more than 6 months now mainly against china's increasing influence over the territory well update the headlines on al-jazeera in about half an hour's time right now right now though our man in cairo.
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and i missed any of the i mean so i may. have even what i did 30. mr. president abdel fattah el-sisi presents himself as egypt savior as the only man able to impose order in his country. there is this thing the smell of tear gas blood and bullets. really start to talk to it out all over and then tank ale donovan johnny. man fashion of with you know little steps for that that will be more. despite his human rights record western leaders have embraced l.c.c. as a strategic and commercial partner so they printed clearly little question so that
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i mean. c.c. was able to say there's the threat from isis you want to defeat it give us the tools and we'll take care of this for here. we have a fantastic relationship with egypt and we appreciate what you're doing but is l.c.c. really such a good bargain for the west. in april 2800 egyptian president of the fatah el-sisi secured a 2nd time in office after winning 97 percent of the vote yet the results were hardly surprising. there were technically 2 candidates
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but the other candidate was the most optimistic. in fact the supporter who had stepped into the contest at the 11th hour to prevent the embarrassment of a one horse race. 3 men from within the military establishment had initially challenge how seizing for the presidency in a very short space of time all 3 candidates were dispensed with by the c. 3 sammy a nod a retired general was charged with breaching military regulations. and the consul was a little known army colonel was court martialed and ahmed shafik a former air force commander withdrew from the race after being held in a luxury hotel for a month. both recently president and sisi expressed regrets that no one was willing to run against him but the situation became increasingly embarrassing for kairos partners in the west. parts of the us government were communicating to
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c.c. him to those around him that we were concerned about his efforts to drive out every credible poneman to his reelection i think it may even have been addressed by vice president and spun he went to cairo earlier and 28 teams so that message was being conveyed. with no real contest the main focus for the c.c. became obtaining legitimacy through a high voter turnout and. people were promised that they would get to mecca or they would get an approved electricity supply in their town or they would get and use water system. to live in for the little let up then. i think that this is what is.
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really. thank you. and 2011 the revolution in tahrir square put an end to hosni mubarak's 30 year regime and raised hopes that egypt would become the middle east's largest democracy . but this so-called arab spring was short lived. since taking power in 2030 l.c.c. has ruled the country amid allegations of human rights violations as well as an escalation in armed attacks in the sinai peninsula that have killed more than 3000 people. the jewett is a key u.s. ally and a major european business partner western countries are often accused of overlooking egypt's human rights record and its disregard of the rule of law because of the
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country's geo political economic and strategic importance. a case in point is that of an italian ph d. student from the university of cambridge julio regime who disappeared in cairo on the 25th of january 26th. the young italian was found dead 9 days later in a ditch on the city's outskirts his half naked body bore the signs of heavy torture . to outdoor. in on foster care either at or toward the. ts that i mean to that or to what ed of am and what on of every dollar he come out of the sauna. there on that office in
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a state that case they are. the day regime went missing a major security operation was underway in cairo to control protests marking the 5th anniversary of the revolution. the italian authorities suspected that regime he had been arrested that night but the egyptian government denied any responsibility . there was a whole range of lurid details of a fright that rejoined he was the victim of a car crash and later a consummate in the press that julia a jenny was gay even though he wasn't and that he'd been killed by a gay lover and there were suggestions that he had been taking drugs and this was perhaps a drug deal that had gone wrong. and i may get there and take him out on the shuttle italia my sing ellen every battle not
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every battle that kate gets any on a sort of them and they. counted the colaba out of their time in danger and i think that. interior minister maggie adèle got far dismissed western suspicions. as i don't know why but she actually can be a good and done service as the more he has it i don't know mostly little i also know when there's our ship i think well let me answer that as. 6 weeks into the investigation the egyptians said they had found regime these killers claiming that they were part of a gang they kidnapped foreigners. a group of 4 men were traveling in a small minivan according to their wives to do a construction job on an apartment. out this vehicle approached a police checkpoint the police opened fire and killed everybody inside.
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later that afternoon the police officers went. to the homes of these people and lo and behold what they find but thought giulio jennie's personal effect. but just 24 hours later the interior ministry was forced to admit that those men had nothing to do with regime is murder. a level of the nost investing that they have kaido all due to some of the concept that suck it up and saw mccain touting what. was it at the other foot of the command enjoy it clean it up demand that kick the sauna camel fee charge of the necessity to either committing to deal. with the genie had been in egypt researching trade unions including the use of the local street vendors. a year after his death suspicions emerge that one of the
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leaders of the street vendors union was a police informant he had become convinced that regime was a spy. and surely you know that so you would rather live. among news down upon time into all. that he put in the right mentor corner only gonna start imagining on the dawn of the union leader wanted regime here to incriminate himself and pushed for compromising topics like foreign funded political activism. same usually let alone the state of the me from news to you michelle yes my son but get the towel and certainly not initially are the only way you listen i'll hug and say yes yes i'm back to. the college level an age real can. just stick around a bit at the ship at all and on bass then all that over thought i came out of here that. i can now be the most sort of. sit and. i know it
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is. time to deal with any k. now that he knew about it i mean that also going to mount any case with any other. son imagining the main. battle tank. the union leader reported regime new to the security services just days before his disappearance. the egyptian authorities continued to deny any responsibility for his death. so there are a janney case came at a particularly sensitive moment for aleisha as between egypt and italy because at that very moment the italian energy company annie was in the process of developing
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the largest gas field in the eastern mediterranean called zohar in conjunction with egypt. went on its own is something game changer very neat thing when she took the diminutive than you was a school bag. for geology given that if i sat in the world of the plays an important energy i want to play is if you know many people should this friday he probably was only domestically energy one provision of this or gas field is also a major source of profit for any worth an estimated $6400000000.00 to the gas giant it was in any his interests as well as in theses interests to achieve a rapid resolution of this case and for those of a project could go ahead. the political stalemate caused by regime his murder came to an end 20 italy sent a new ambassador to cairo. she had shot the.
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c. of the new shocked a 0 she sat a lot for a. diploma i said she. feeling full of. pain so they say she finally passed around to the meticulous media i can look at the middle of there they need that close to the baseline confined to the very thin phantom interbank to make an idea out of them i'm going on the phone. basically did resume diplomatic relations with egypt about 3 or 4 months before the software project came online and since then you know the project has been a great success by all accounts. part of the goal normally go. out and d.-day ligi doing ality and the l a it of it all was she on $1.00
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a cheney vader in feet domain that you both dane de de la motta you they talked to in. years have passed since julio regime is murder in 2016 in italy and elsewhere many people are still waiting for the truth. for many egyptians what happened to the regime he did not come as a surprise human rights organizations estimate that in egypt at least 323 people have died in custody since 2013. $60000.00 have been arrested on political charges and over $15000.00 civilians have faced military trials including
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$150.00 children. what has come to be called enforced disappearance is an every day occurrence. it doesn't want to be there for the yam as a b.l. by the in his heart of any of it and in the lower myself and the now and the how and. why adam had the blood cunt and i think you're an outward in and my fish affect. of it all before the innocence of life and of the ever so mad mad about all of europe and so on and if an insect with as it were the demanded if the media adding a city hall of a few people 7 it would be set in stone if you let me have a quarter. 1000000 with me let me know if it is but it's to me so moment pad the. jada went out with them i did a little at the collateral door. argument so you did lives in berlin in 2050 he was working in germany as a surgeon when he returned to egypt for a visit. and
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a commander as mcgettigan then from then about almost what you know at and missed out on a.s.s. . when i had it was shipped to market next for one to what the press and i was on a higher. command and his friends organized a flash mob in cairo with banners calling for the release of political prisoners fear my mom was about what she in a phony shockley sharply less coffee a any list are you typing because she had said it was so or. dissolve it a little but even when i shot him i had. a lot of heart will do what. i can to 24 whole prokofiev whole helena husband what you all on the other yo wyler in with fables french way are.
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better off living that people are born karabo yanni and are to know that when they leave yet and i would how their out how are they lead is when i go work i thank them and. it was found guilty of protesting without a permit and was sent to the infamous our lock up a prison a maximum security penitentiary reserved for so-called terrorists arguments for and tell her mocked is a physician active in the egyptian medical syndicate and i are from the other 59 and i would not allow that and i'll be machine and i if i'm not they are mad to provide the daubeny. can i go to. bed bad time ali how can a. senate in. her is an outspoken critic of the medical neglect of
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letter feel what the election on much what i bash i get done be. madam but i'll be the heidi with a ball on my ear we heard all week at different began the year we got a bill that will be thanks to an international campaign highlighting his case our common side was released after one year in prison he now lives in germany. the one it's in that regard most close to one of them others are going to have it at the mothership and on the on the floor on the money under pressure some in which the last roll of oil meal 40000000 for most. was freed after 7 months and now lives in france. and i bethought them off a break leave mckenney are thinking i'm a fish michele macneill i'm a thing even in a 1000000 most of the moment in my fucked up much of the back and the out in left
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a new thing in the monk another of them a lovely apartment. and it's thought i mean. we became a national. whack a magazine that only. with internet what incentive. the one i had worked. for going up on a button and. michelle awkwardly western again into a passionate. documenting human rights violations has become very dangerous in egypt. since 2030 over 500 online news outlets have been shut down 8 journalists have been killed while covering demonstrations adelies 32 journalists and bloggers are
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currently detained some facing possible death penalties said the show short. of a little b.c. local industry who had of a child they thought. that was her little girl is a. the to say we do it you can is military and also. to say we have and then when i was. and i think that's going to make this individual did it impede you know barack if you that there are any stones or many struggle i must want to use a digital shotgun that kate betts will want to be nice that he did when he says you have to do other than want to do with one opposed to drill for oil for the father that if it's you and you have about a pillow put us into the odd one in the winters but yeah them in point as well. so that if you need it they don't east. wind up with what i gave up is what i have there larry will soon be if it could talk with one of them that will it.
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perhaps the most famous case was the arrest of 3 i'll just 0 journalists in 2013 former b.b.c. correspondent peter greste x. c.n.n. reporter mohamed fahmy and local produce obama mohammad was sentenced to 77 and 10 years respectively on charges of aiding terrorists harming national security and tarnishing egypt's image abroad and. the international outcry caused by the heavily publicized trial eventually achieved its goal. after more than 13 months behind bars you straightly and peter greste was deported and his 2 colleagues received pardons from president abdel fattah el-sisi. after $411.00 days. after too much time alone in the prison it's like
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a dream come true. i'm very proud of every single moment i spent in prison for the sake of freedom of expression i'm really really proud about. i'm goes back. i was used since it's. what happens when plans for a new life a broad idea railed by committing serious crimes from drug trafficking turn agree to. all of it i don't remember how many times it stopped the way her boyfriend spoke to me and even her al-jazeera world goes inside an italian prison meeting men and women from north africa who left home only to face life behind bars double exile on al-jazeera. grow in a very short time to be
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i'm kemal santa maria with another look at the headlines on al-jazeera huge bomb blast as children injured dozens of people in somalia an ambulance official says 76 people have been killed many more casualties though a feared the truck bomb in the capital mogadishu targeted security checkpoint during morning rush hour some reports say as many as 90 people may have died including turkish engineers are which also has more now from nairobi in neighboring kenya. but we know that dozens of people they've been killed and dozens of people have been injured and officials are saying that that number will likely rise because with such a huge explosion we know among those killed include some somali police officers and some civilians what happened was it happened at a security checkpoint in the early morning and people used this checkpoint to come
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in to mogadishu so it was very busy they were going to work we were told university today to try to head to campus and then the explosion happened there were headlines the un general assembly has condemned human rights abuses against rank of muslims and other minorities in may and the 100 $34.00 member states voted for the resolution calling on me and government to combat the hatred and violence against minorities man maher is also facing a charge of genocide at the international court of justice but u.s. contractors been killed in an attack on an iraqi military base several rockets were fired into the base near kirkuk that houses both iraqi and u.s. troops the u.n. is warning of devastating consequences for civilians in syria's italy province russian and syrian government forces have intensified their air and ground offensive causing nearly 250000 people to flee the area in just the past 2 weeks. flags are at half staff in kazakhstan for
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a day of mourning for victims of friday's plane crash the back air flight went down soon after takeoff from almaty airport 12 people were killed and 54 injured some critically the airlines fleet of focal $100.00 aircraft are grounded while accident investigators examine the wreckage and police a violently cleared hundreds of protesters who stormed the hong kong which shopping mall near the border with mainland china areas popular with traders from the mainland to buy goods to sell back home demonstrators blame them for overcrowding and pushing up prices protests drop to disrupt them come from within 6 months these are coming up funeral on 25 minutes right now man and kyra. in 2011 nobody could anticipate that in just 2 years egypt would once again be
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under military dictatorship. an american egyptian citizen mohammad saltire got on a plane to cairo and quickly found himself at the front lines of the revolt. thousands of people gathered outside the presidential palace. i was crying my eyes out i thought for sure they were going to fire through we were going to die i'll say my life prayers letter and fame moment. the army turns on the speakers of the announcement.
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a former air force commander hosni mubarak had been the face of egypt's military dictatorship since 1981. he was gone but his military regime remains largely intact. when the muslim brotherhood's candidate mohamed morsi became egypt's 1st democratically elected president the military worked to undermine him from day one. by concentrating power in his own hands and with the economy in freefall morsi lost the support of many egyptians. many egyptians who had supported the idea of the ouster of president mubarak suddenly turned around and said hold on this is also not what we want and suddenly you had a brand new type of conflict inside egyptian society. when
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hundreds of thousands of protesters poured into the streets on the 1st anniversary of morsi is election the egyptian military exploited the situation to remove. l.c.c. who morsi had put in charge of the army gave him 48 hours to come up with a political solution. both morsi himself and his senior advisers did not see this coming they knew there was opposition they knew that there was this can and but they didn't think the egyptian military would actually move against them in the final analysis on the 3rd of july 2030 l.c.c. had morsi arrested the new military leadership suspended the constitution and also arrested 300 muslim brotherhood party members and officials the initial attack on morsy supporters soon expanded to include all political opposition to l.c.c.
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. egypt occupies a position of strategic importance for the west in the middle east it is israel's next door neighbor and controls access to the suez canal. if in a very simple bargain the united states has provided egypt with a large amount of military aid every year and in return egypt has you know kept the peace with israel has provided access to the 1st 4 american warships and has provided america with really a very strong pillar in the middle of a very volatile region. when l.c.c. to power in 20. 13 relations began to crack there was a general willingness to try to work with the new regime out of the interest in preserving the bilateral relationship so they were willing to give the
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new military regime an opportunity to prove themselves l.c.c. soon showed the obama administration was he was capable of and the weeks after the military takeover morsi supporters had occupied 2 major thoroughfares in cairo they are not a square and the road in front of iraq by the we mosque. in august the military cleared these camps with an unprecedented show of force. mohammed salt was there his father a deputy minister in the short lived muslim brotherhood government was amongst those addressing the protesters from the stage. here i was taking pictures come back put my phone on wait for think not a calm and then tweeting taking phone calls from c.n.n. al-jazeera this and that. i mean i have time to think and i think what though
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and i get hit. there is this thing. here again. you can almost taste it and. that of the bodies falling anywhere you look bodies upon baden's. human rights watch documented 817 victims but the number may be as high as a 1000. united states strongly condemns. the steps that have been taken by egypt's interim government and security forces we deplore violence against civilians president obama canceled a joint military exercise and froze part of the $1300000000.00 in military aid to
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egypt receives from the u.s. every year. but l.c.c. continued his crackdown undeterred. prison. this my face. i have been a fist you've got to sleep you've got you've got to think shifts keeping with people there's one bathroom for 50 plus men of course you're so you're forced to strip naked except john know where you're been and your head shaved is totally you really. have to go on a hunger strike because it was the only means of resistance no hard food for 489 days. they would bring my dad to the next ward to have let me hear his screenings and. come tell me listen this is what's happening to your dad you know we can and there's just break your strike. there's
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no love for these guys. no love. in may 2050 with salt on still in prison the obama administration formally reported to the us congress that arbitrary and unlawful killings were taking place in egypt yet at the same time the u.s. officially resumed military aid to egypt. l.c.c. remain them and to be reckoned with in cairo. your hearing concerns from the saudis from the iraqis from the israelis that the freeze in assistance to egypt was counterproductive that they were pleased with that there was a desire to i think address some of their concerns. the united arab emirates and saudi arabia invested in l.c.c. from early on. in the weeks after his military takeover the u.a.e. alone transferred $3000000000.00 to egypt while the saudis gave
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a $2000000000.00 central bank deposit $2000000000.00 in energy products and $1000000000.00 cash without the very extensive economic support that the egyptian military got from the gulf states for example in 2013 i don't know whether they they would have carried out the coup or they would have been able to make a go of it. saudi arabia support came with a political price. in 2017 l.c.c. agreed to give the disputed islands of tehran and sun a few which sits between saudi arabia and egypt sinai peninsula to the saudis. the decision was hugely unpopular in egypt and sparks the biggest protests since 2030.
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but l.c.c. rode the storm and kept the aid flowing. egypt has at times or saved much larger sums of money from them with new allies particularly in the gulf but the aid from the united states is symbolically very important diplomatically very important and it's not something they want to see she was able to say that there's a threat from isis you want to defeat it we're your partner give us the tools and we'll take care of this for you and he would make the argument that egypt is too big to fail if egypt does collapse if the islamists run amok or the economy goes down this is going to have to sastre its consequences for the region and for europe . the european union has trying to strike a balance between legitimate security concerns and respect for human rights. but many member states have adopted a business as usual policy. but unfortunately we still have
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a very weak common ground in europe when it comes to how to deal with egypt. a dutch member of the european parliament met each a shocker initiated a resolution that condemned human rights violations in egypt however she does that leaders of the influential member states will form only. we very much pointed out that human rights repression violations. executions torture censorship closing of n.g.o.s is not acceptable and you want to hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london very much for 3 years shock a push to get the resolution through the european parliament besides denouncing the high number of death penalty executions and the lack of fair trials in egypt there was another point she stressed. i think we've learned some very important lessons
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in 20112012 when we found that e.u. made systems were actually used to track down activists in egypt and so ever since we've been pushing in the european parliament and i've been leading the efforts on the export controls of surveillance systems to make sure that human rights are criteria to measure before an export license is granted and despite this statement of principle we see that in practice such export controls are not really lived up to in fact there are serious questions whether it may be the case that julio regina who was brutally murdered may have been tracked and traced with italian maid systems and software. after the robber massacre and 2013 e.u. member states agreed to suspend the exports to egypt of any equipment that might be used for internal repression. yet 12 out of 28 e.u.
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member states ignored the suspension. since 2040 italy has a exported weapons to egypt worth some 40000000 euros. germany has made deals for over 1600000000 euros including light arms and almost vehicles and france has topped all the rest with over 6000000000 euros in sales including combat vehicles like those reportedly used in that up. massacre. the faceted in a possible police are down the list the fact little folly put me off when this involved people what is it on religion city and the amount of it since she was old enough to see oh these are good multiphase don't let's all be like that are. very far same song called school approve of his o.c.
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don't tell 5 abra. sure to consider only if you take it a spare just for cos of the despair centers on the temple kind of democracy a disease that mr centers and plate but. post the problem with the mccourty book preventing matty exist in it at fat when he perhaps. is a younger vivaan been intelligence is he perceived in the field his affair because of what a disadvantage is it or. i don't then i'm in for some question except that. so many of the given him a piece in london those are simply not clearly. so that's i mean they can produce an argument superman so you've got this with the democracy yeah i guess you. manolo me say if you will additional. dancing or that's all bullet i'll say less that. always deadly violence has been on the rise in egypt is especially in the
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sinai peninsula the northeast corner of this remote region has become for european leaders one of the middle east's hottest front lines against on groups the c.c. government appears to be struggling to contain this threat of islamic state militants who are based in the sinai and of course now with the effect of collapse of slotnick state power in iraq and syria there are indications that at least some of those fighters are now coming from those areas into the sinai but it's hard to know what's really happening in northeast side as the independent media have not been allowed into the area for years. imagine a feel for. whether agencies. the media that get it and then let him out on this thing that's in the cia is that it won't get up out of the i'm here of the. media and you know who do want to get an.
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unconfirmed leagues from the area reveal horrific pictures of the egyptian army is brutal crackdown amid increasing concerns for the civilian population. for all the force to point to the egyptian army has yet to regain control of the area while armed attacks appear to be spreading throughout t.j. . in nov 27th president announced the final offensive on the school. the assuming. you are not sure. 'd what lesson. or to start a little or less chip good news for sure his message is that he is the only thing that is standing between egypt becoming another province of an islamic caliphate and stability and security and safety. in 2016 an attacker
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deliberately drove his truck into a crowded christmas market in berlin with lethal consequences after paris and london this was yet another deadly assault inside a european capital. german chancellor angela merkel turned to reject as a party to improve security and counterterrorism signing a cooperation in 2017. i'm going to be to be a factor of some man he had a contest to doesn't legging him out on. on danzig heights question and i'm in i keep in psych the man king criminality and for good as a till this most internet based on people as we give them fester to dust us in it get. torn heart and in a get get minutes to whist them and i know because it's an elemental that. germany also looks to l.c.c. to stem the tide of migrants and refugees leaving the middle east and africa for
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your. chancellor merkel offered l c c r $500000000.00 aid package to essentially close off the egyptian to you. to get us filing down to take nationals. and along it's all fuss disease i think that's. underlying well 1st of all starts arguing after a 2nd long. intense he sent. critics warn that egypt may use the migration issue to exert pressure on your peers on here but after i decided to warn. the whole boat so lawson about this here i can modest mr fire on a good night and impress on their corporates who often i look there's
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a good chance of you i'm boss after the it i was always under special interest got to give a fork so now introduced in service of party 1st when done i'm going to cook the arnold i'm looking license to bring more of your p.r. to have done it blow or give science missions or clout 400 today germany and egypt have a good business relationship initial misgivings about l c c's military regime faded away in the light of a major project that egypt granted to the german company siemens a gigantic investment to build the largest gas fired power plant in the world i'd siemens does now become harder than a demon's own for mark milley garden. is only for really good humans on buffy's image that was there after an exam from an assistant to the type. of marker you wouldn't want to have had to collide lawson found in. what says king deniece to give you a president morsi start so again insightful for added some tool for were tied at
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1st must be endorsement and you need to feel what are you a democracy of a duly and you to become a little is that not enough that even a little bit was a terrible idea well. look it was a lot just to use an inside pull the president. puts asked him up the shaft at. the demons you want basti political out d.v.d. is east dozens even steven coarsened of the comment. that's. the berlin press conference with the 2 leaders to can i want to turn. a protest by an egyptian medical student was drowned out by as he sees all to us chanting.
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it is a great honor to have with us today presidential c.c.v. with donald trump's presidency l.c.c. look forward to friendly relations in washington tunes everything. and. it's no secret that trump has an affinity for dictatorial figures he's explicitly embraced c.c. in public he's called him a strong leader as someone who's really getting stuff done. at the same time russia and egypt have grown closer bloody mia putin and l.c.c. have visited each other several times with financial deals and military cooperation on the agenda. what we're likely to see is that egypt is going to simultaneously pursue relations with both moscow and washington in order to ensure that they are not in a position of some servian to our global power while the egyptian government is
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looking for partners who don't ask on comfortable questions it remains to be seen how washington's long term priorities evolve i think for president trump he's perfectly comfortable returning to the way things used to be where the u.s. was perfectly happy to trade off the mark received for security and that working with a dictator is completely consistent with his world view. foreign policy is a by definition the pursuit of a country's interests. as l.c.c. continues his stranglehold on power the question becomes is it really in the west's interest to continue supporting him unconditionally. on the security aspect i think it's it's fairly clear he hasn't delivered he hasn't defeated the isis which are the isis affiliate with in the sinai most estimates place that group up between
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81200 people that's not a very large entity yet over the course of 5 years he's been incapable of fully finishing off the square according to those who've seen egyptian prisons from the inside and repression torture prison conditions and the conflation of all dissent with terrorism may prove to be counterproductive in the long run. a missile to the brain if enough assume is a nested how would the next minute police said then with that he sill me in this moment chafing in the highway than them you can but i guess those same prison. in the sixties seventies and eighties. produced islamic jihad movements that gave birth to al qaida that then grandfathered isis i don't even want to begin to imagine what we're going to have. in 51015 years.
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some in europe have become complacent they have accepted that this is the egypt will have to deal with i think it's a mistake i think it will come back as a boomerang. there's an enormous amount of young people in egypt they don't have enough perspectives they don't have enough perspectives for a prosperous life a life they can shape the way they would like they are the future and they should be at the heart and at the core of what the e.u. does.
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