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al-jazeera with. i i i. i i. i'm came the bell and the top stories on al-jazeera iran says it's taken steps to begin the process of and reaching uranium at 20 percent in a move likely to escalate tensions with the u.s. it's a significant breach of the 2015 nuclear deal but it is under the 90 percent required to build a nuclear weapon the international atomic energy agency says it's inspectors are monitoring activities and will submit a report like to. you has the latest from tehran. iran has begun the initial steps to take start the 20 percent enrichment at fordo facility
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this is the one of the 2 facilities that is capable of enriching uranium the other one being. the government spokesperson said that this took place at the order of the president this morning and this is something that even though the president had not agreed to this was part of a bill that was passed through parliament in early december due to the fact that iran has seen no sanctions relief since the u.s. withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2000 and now under the nuclear deal of 2015 or the j.c. pure way as it is known iran is allowed to enrich uranium at 3.67 percent that is the cap but since 2019 iran has taken 5 steps to reduce its commitment to that deal because they say the u.s. withdrew from it and imposed sanctions so they're going to slowly cut back on their commitments the steps they've taken of all they've said they are all reversible they have said in the past that 20 percent is for their research purposes that it's
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their right to be able to enrich at this level and that they are not interested in pursuing a nuclear weapon but a lot of people in the on the other side of the world the argument they have is that if iran has the know how and the technical capabilities of enriching at 20 percent then going to 90 percent or 95 percent is not a far stretch for them that is the point of contention. u.k. court has denied a request from the united states to extradite wiki leaks founder julian assange he's wanted on espionage charges for the publication of secret american military documents sancia spent the past 21 months in a british trail these barca has more for months. to do the extradition of course is a blow to the prosecution what we know is that the process of appeal will be. again taking this case or words to the high court possibly even the supremes court so we're talking potentially about many many more months many more years of legal
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wrangling to go when it comes to deciding to live a song she is a future he is of course seen by his supporters as the defense of journalism the right to practice journalism freely and of the freedom of speech period in the united states among many of his critics he seemed very much as a thorn in the sides to many governments not just the u.s. government a man who jeopardized state secrets to undermine state security don't really know who has jeopardized the safety of. undercover agents working in very difficult situations in challenging parts of the world but this is very much a next step in what is likely to be an on going along a winding case when it comes to establishing julian assange his future we wait now to hear what his defense team have to say those sort of stood by him throughout this. the 1st doses of the oxford astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine have been
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administered in the u.k. the government says health a 1000000 doses are ready for use it's the 2nd bank seem to be approved there the u.k. is currently experiencing record rises and new cases of covered with many hospitals warning that short on beds. in a recording that's been leaks to the public us president donald trump told the top election official in the state of georgia to find enough votes in order to overturn his election defeat there it's an unprecedented move fire sitting president. the death toll from attacks on 2 villages in western asia has risen to around $100.00 no one has claimed responsibility the interior minister says the attacks were in retaliation for the killing of 2 fighters from an unknown armed group and next on al jazeera our man and cairo of a. my
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. parish. and you have only i mean so i may. 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 the way mental health don't enjoy it any. man fashion with with you know a litmus test for that that will be more. despite his human rights record western
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leaders have embraced l.c.c. as a strategic and commercial partner so they promote clearly little question so that i meet their. 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 israel sisi really such a good bargain for the west. in april 28th egyptian president out of fatah el-sisi secured a 2nd time in office after winning 97 percent of the vote yet the results were
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hardly surprising. there were technically 2 candidates 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 challenged house easy for the presidency in a very short space of time told 3 candidates were dispensed with by the c.c. regime salmiya not a retired general was charged with breaching military regulations. and 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
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was willing to run against him but the situation became increasingly embarrassing for cairo's partners in the west. parts of the us government were communicating to c.c. into 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 when he went to cairo earlier in 2018 so that message was being conveyed. with no real contest the main focus for sisi became obtaining legitimacy through a high voter turnout and. people were promised that they would get pilgrimage to mecca or they would get an improved electricity supply in their town or they would get and use water system.
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they live in a little better but then. i think that this is what is. 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. egypt is a key u.s. ally and a major european business partner western countries are often accused of overlooking
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egypt's human rights record and its disregard of the rule of law because of the 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 pastoral care the toilet or toward the. northeast i mean to the to what ed of am and what i'm on of every dollar they come
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out of this one of. their own that office in state that case they are. the day regina 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 e had been arrested that night but the egyptian government denied any responsibility. there was a whole range of lurid details and they tried to that ridge and 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. bill and then i
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maybe at the end they came out on the shuttle italia my sing out and on every battle not every battle that any i know sort of them and they. counted the colaba out of their time in danger and i think that. interior minister maggoty abdullah gul father dismissed western suspicions. and here they are united as i don't know why but you can be a good and done service as you more and he has and i know most of the laws in the in this hour should be well let me answer here only has. 6 weeks into the investigation the egyptians said they had found reaching 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
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a police checkpoint the police opened fire and killed everybody inside. later that afternoon the police officers went. to the homes of these people and lo and behold what they find but don julio jenny'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 title all due to some of the concept that sakic after sauna came that i think we're. at the other foot of the command enjoy it clean it up demand that kick the sauna came off a child of the necessity to either committing to deal. with
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the genie had been in egypt researching trade unions including the use of the local street vendors. a year after his death suspicions emerged that one of the 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 a drug. addict in the right mentor corner. coming out of school start imagining all but on the union leader wanted regime here to incriminate himself and pushed for compromising topics like foreign funded political activism. same usually that alan starting with the news in machete yes my son but get those out well and send them out immaturely out. with you less than a hug and see a c.s.i. back to. your college age real can. just stick around
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a bit about only known boston terrible thought it came out of fear that. i could now be the most sort of us citizen. i know it is highly. doubt that it would give any k. . that he knew at that moment that also going to mount any case with any other pick if he knew. someone imagining that on the main. point back then. 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
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a particularly sensitive moment for elations between egypt and italy because at that very moment the italian energy company annie was in the process of developing the largest gas field in the eastern mediterranean called zohar in conjunction with egypt. went on its own is something game changing very neat thing when she took to the middle there that was a school bag. for geology given that that could i would want to be plays an important energy i want you pays if you know many people should these find it you probably don't need a messy dinner just one provision of the saugus field is also a major source of profit for and worth an estimated $6400000000.00 to the gas giant it was in any use interest as well as in theses interests to achieve a rapid resolution of this case and so those on the project could go ahead.
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the political stalemate caused by regime is murder came to an end 20 italy sent a new ambassador to cairo. she had been shot the. sea of the moon shot. politique a feeling for the. bench of a c. she finally passed around to the meticulous media i'm going to look at the mental ability that goes to the baseline confronted of anything with phantom interbank to make an idea out of the 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.
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out and d.-day. doing ality and in the. it of it all was she on $1.00 a cheney. main that you both dane de de la motte of you never 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 we 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
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political charges and over $15000.00 civilians have faced military trials including $150.00 children. what has come to be called enforced disappearance is an every day occurrence. it didn't even want to be there for the yam as a b.l. by then his heart of any of it and in the lower myself and the how and. why adam had the pluck cunt and i thank you in the house and in my fish effect. of you all before the innocence of i should know that i've been so mad mad about all of europe and so on and if you're an insect what i said were they demanded if i mean the arctic a city of all the a couple 7 in the keysets and said if you let me have a quarter. 1000000 with me let me know if you know this but it's only so moment. went out there with them i did a little at the collateral door. argument so you did lives in
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berlin in 2050 he was working in germany as a surgeon when he returned to egypt for a visit. and i can and you as my getting it done from the bottom must what the lower it can miss out on a.s.s. . when i had it was shipped to fuckin market neck for want to know what a mess and then i was on a higher. command and his friends organized a flash mob in cairo with banners calling for the release of political prisoners. my mom was about what she in she fully shockley sharply let's go fadia any list are you typing that i should have said it was so or a 3rd is a bit a little off but even when i shot at him i had. a lot of heart will do what. i can to 24 whole prokofiev whole helena husband there what you all on the other
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while are in with fake a strange way are. better off living. karabo yanni and are to know that when they leave yet and out how they're out how are they really is and when i go work i thank them and. it was found guilty of protesting without a permit and was sent to the infamous are locked up a prison a maximum security penitentiary reserved for so-called terrorists arguments for and mocked is a physician active in the egyptian medical syndicate and i are from the other 59 and i would not allow that either and i'll be machine and i if i'm not they are mad to provide daubeny. or to a trust or for. the. time
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i leave. the senate in. her is an outspoken critic of the medical neglect of detainees in egypt missing him. in time of going faint ain't then matthew. thought the man lamented. the man for thinking into the f.t. an intern widely that would have had no one at the head of them that had we. have been if believe in man fashion with. just 2 months after arguments arrest was also arrested. the older that anatomical image of the buffoon for lesser. have that more bog that all of them would have.
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a negative in then a. lot of them again but if you had a little attention in the norm the men are. enemies but. even one. of say and who are truly worth one of them in shape. but somehow it blew up to be stuck in one home at a share market and out of hospital. near your. home . they also while you have got out of. hiking again you are going to solve that is in order and the sharks are walking on the console market.
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you know what it looks. filthy one of them if that. would be to mean of the letter if you are the elected one much what i bet i did then the. madam but i'll be the high the with apollo my you we heard all week at different beginning of the year we got a bill that will be thanks to an international campaign highlighting his case argument saeed was released after one year imprisoned he now lives in germany. the one it's in that regard most close to one of the mothers are going to have another mother shug. on the on the floor on the money under pressure some with the last roll of oil meals ready for the infamous. mortal was freed after 7 months a nun lives in france. and i bethink the muslim prayed leave mckenney are thinking
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of magnetometers thinking even in a 1000000000 the time a minimum fucked up much of the back and the out in left i knew finley in the monk another of them and all the apartment. on it thought i knew a little we became a national. whack a magazine that had only. met internet a lot in santa. the one i had looked. for going up on a moderate. michele awkwardly western again into a passion at. 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
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killed while covering demonstrations adelies 32 journalists and bloggers are currently detained some facing possible death penalties said the show short. definitely see the cluelessly wedding of a child. that we shot it for. illicit at the. it's nobody do it you can is military and also. to say we have and then i was. and i think it's going to take this individual to be without it impeded will barack defeat it that any stones or many struggle must hold up was a duty to show that kate betts was going to be nice that he did many things he had to do other than going to do is going to pose to drill for oil for the father to pursue and you have about what they lived with us into the modern and well meant to us but yeah them in point as well. so that if you need it they don't
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east. whenever so and i gave up i thought i have the little sympathy that he had it could lead police to perform that order. 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
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and his 2 colleagues received pardons from president abdel fattah el-sisi. after for. too much time alone in the prison it's like 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 look i'm goes back. i would use an experience. city has become a major global issue the demand is going straight up and the supply is going straight down turning an essential natural resource into a commodity traded for profit just because it's life doesn't mean it's cannot be priced what about the guy that can afford it guys tell these water. al-jazeera examines the social financial and environmental impact of water privatisation loads
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take start the 20 percent enrichment at fordo facility this is the one of the 2 facilities that is capable of enriching uranium the other one being behind the government spokesperson said that this took place at the order of the president this morning. the u.k. court has denied a request from the united states to extradite julian assange which is the lawyer says he believes u.s. prosecutors will appeal the wiki leaks founder is wanted on espionage charges of the publication of secret american military documents spent the past 21 months in a british. the 1st doses of the oxford astra zeneca corona virus vaccine have been administrate in the u.k. the government says half a 1000000 doses are ready for use it's the 2nd vaccine to be approved the u.k. is currently experiencing reco rises in new cases of covert 19 with many hospitals warning they're short on beds and a recording that's been leaks to the public us president donald trump told the top
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that action official in the state of georgia to find enough votes in order to overturn his election defeat there it's an unprecedented move by a sitting president and with just a few weeks to go before joe biden takes office from still refuses to concede he's lost repeating baseless claims of fraud. the death toll from attacks on 2 villages in western asia has risen to around $100.00 no one has claimed responsibility it area minister said saturday's attacks were in retaliation for the killing of 2 fighters from an unknown abco. bach overarm has abducted dozens of people in a raid in northeastern nigeria that happened borno state during the towns of my degree that were through more than 50 people including an aid worker have been kidnapped. when you see al jazeera taking you back now to our man in cairo. the health of humanity is at stake a global pandemic requires a global response. w.h.o.
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2011 nobody could anticipate that in just 2 years egypt would once again be under military dictatorship. an american egyptian citizen mohamed saltire got on a plane to cairo and quickly found himself at the front lines of the rubble. thousands of people gathered outside the presidential palace. i was crying my eyes out i thought for sure they were going to fire and we were going to die say my last prayers letter and in the fame moment. the army
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turns on the speakers of the announcement. 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 remained 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
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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 egypt and society. when 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
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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. . 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. took power in 20. routine relations began to crack there was
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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 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 the. mosque. in august the military cleared these counts with an unprecedented show of force. mohammed sultan 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 things not
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a con and then tweeting taking phone calls from c.n.n. al-jazeera this and that. i mean i have time to think and i hear what though and i get hit. there is this thing. here you. can almost taste it and. that of the body. and knew where the bodies upon modern. 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
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deplore violence against civilians. president obama canceled a joint military exercise and froze part of the $1300000000.00 in military aid to egypt receives from the u.s. every year. but l.c.c. continued his crackdown undeterred. prison. this my face. i have been of this you've got to flee you've got to you've got to think shifts keeping what people there's one bathroom for 50 plus not of course yours you're forced to strip naked except john know where you're been and your head shaved total you really. have to go on a hunger strike because it was the only means of resistance. no hard for 489 days. they would bring my dad to the next ward have let me hear his screenings and. come tell me listen this is what's happening
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to your dad you know we can and there's just break your strike. there's no love for these guys. no love. in may 2050 with salt on still in prison the obama administration formally reported to the u.s. 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 their man to be reckoned with in cairo. your hearing concerns from the saudis from the amber roddy's from the israelis that the freezing 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.
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from early on. in the weeks after his military takeover the u.a.e. alone transferred $3000000000.00 to egypt while the saudis gave 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 and 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
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2030. but l.c.c. ruled the store and kept the aid flowing. egypt has at times or saved much larger sums of money with newer 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 he just 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
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many member states have adopted a business as usual policy. but unfortunately we still have 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
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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 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.
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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. 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 onward 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. left positive in a possible down the egypt effect a little folly put me off when i see. what is it on religion. since she was old enough to see oh these are good multiphase don't let's all be like that are
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. they far same song called. republic of sea don't. you can suddenly visit turkey despair because of the despair centers on the temple of democracy a disease that mr centers and plate but. post the problem. cory booker providing mattie. it exists and it affects only per yard but it's your live on going into. the field is a fail because of a disadvantage is it or you don't then i'm in for some question except the cook and not the usual modern day listen to the many other with the name of peace in on than those of simply not clearly. there were questions so that i mean they can produce an argument superman so you've got this beside the nail of democracy yet i guess you feel on city yet again. your manolo me say if you will additional.
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dancing or that's all bullet i'll celeste headlee to delusion always deadly violence has been on the rise in egypt especially in the 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 if you sign as the independent media have not been allowed into the area for years. imagine you feel for. where they just. don't back it up. for me yet i didn't get it
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and that's and i want this thing that's in the cia he said anybody get up out of the i'm here fredricka. and you know to join a bit and. unconfirmed leaks from the area reveal horrific pictures of the egyptian army's brutal crackdown amid increasing concerns for the civilian population. for all the force to point out the egyptian army has yet to regain control of the area while armed attacks appear to be spreading through. to egypt in november 27th president announced the final offensive to a school. in the school. 'd or to start. all a ship. for a ship his method is that he is the only thing that
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a standing between egypt becoming another province of an islamic caliphate and stability and security and safety. in 2016 an attack or 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 gonna speak to the fact that some man he had a contest to doesn't legging him out on. on the heights question and i'm in i keep in psych the man criminality will get sort of as a till this most internet based on people mostly given fester to dust in it get. torn heart and in
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a get can get minutes to will list 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 your. chancellor merkel offered l.c.c. a $500000000.00 aid package to essentially close off the egyptian. to get us filing the detention is also. underlying all of us disease i think that's the underlying well 1st of all starts up a 2nd this long. intense decent. critics warn that egypt may use the migration issue to exert pressure on your peers on here bit of the i desire to come to good and to warn. lawson about this here i can model their fire on
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a group now and then press on their core parts to each other often i look there's a good chance of you and buzz off it. to garnish them to try to give a fork so now introduced in service of hearty viewers when done i'm getting the i know i'm looking license to bring more of your p.r. to have done it blow are you sign mr clarke 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 hard to do on a demon's own phenomena garden. is only for nicky demon's own office he means that worst off talk and example. sort of a type. of marker you would important to have had to collide lawson plant in p.
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keep what's asking the s. to give you the president morsi start so again inside point 4 added some 2 to 4 were tied does this endorsement and you need to feel what an a a democracy of a to lead a new to become old it was that not enough that even a little bit was a terrible idea. it was a lot just to use an insightful president. puts up the shaft heart. demon's you one last. east. was not the comment that sitting on. the berlin press conference with the 2 leaders took an ironic turn . the protest by an egyptian medical student was drowned out by as he sees all too
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chanting. 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 that you've done . and i know you appreciate it. 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 bloodier 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
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order to ensure that they're not in a position of subservience to our global power while the egyptian government is looking for partners who don't ask uncomfortable 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 worldview. foreign policy is 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
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think it's fairly clear he hasn't delivered he hasn't defeated the isis which are the isis affiliate within the sinai most estimates place that group up between 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 have them with the latest silly me in this moment chafing in the going to be the enemy can but i guess those same prison . in the sixties seventies and eighties. produced islamic jihad movements that gave birth to that then grandfathered isis i
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don't even want to begin to imagine what we're going to have. in 51015 years. 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 that don't have enough perspectives they don't have enough perspectives. for 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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it's time for the perfect gentleman the winter storm supply qatar airways. however it got more very heavy showers across the western side of the amazon and then that extending their way into central parts of purrs well we received some very heavy rainfall recently some parts seeing as much as 100 millimeters of rain in space of 24 hours and you can say there has been some flooding as a result solve these very nasty conditions the heavy rain does look set to continue
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for a couple more days yet and it will cause further problems further disruption as a result of that you can see that what's the weather over towards pruitt extends down across the bolivia into paraguayan in fact it does run all the way over towards really where we have seen showers over the past couple of weeks just rumbling away shows to pushing up towards northern parts of argentina want to say we sit around 32 celsius lousy fun interop for the rain for a monday become shoes by that what's the weather will make its way through some heavier rain there just pushing back into paraguay and you see how that rain just runs back up towards poor oh peru is going to see more heavy showers coming through here than that not too many heavy showers across the caribbean at the moment we do have some rather more persistent right across northern parts of the region this band of plaid is sinking its way further south which through the yucatan peninsula elsewhere slushy fine and dry which just wanted to show house to come. sponsible qatar airways frank assessment you got colleagues on the ground there is
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