step down yes he did is he in trial today yes he here is but is that enough for the people that lives in egypt every day of liberty freedom dignity democracy i think we're far away from that. that the behavior of the military is is the part that we need to watch out very closely because what they are doing is they are giving a long leash to the people saying yes we will do it not today tomorrow but the question is they still holding power yes they are and they want to keep it for a long time and what do you see even the tension between moslems and christian cops and all of that it's just i think it's a pick me for their part to say listen we have to stay in power there is no security in the country there is a religious tension and we have to keep the power we have i think one sign that was positive lately that they delayed the election so that that give times to the

groups that were not prepared not ready to prepare themselves for the next elections it's very interesting that you are now and it would take us before seeing it sorry you're in front of a very interesting so i ground you were up a very good point i got to go. in london the military saying that you know they have to watch out for the security situation this is what to say that's what mubarak told the whole world why he had to stay in power for so long for security reasons. way. the mubarak regime was a very corner and he used security and stability the same language american quinolone and language british colonial language security stability they never speak about justice socially dresses or in quality of independence of egypt so you know we have to be very very aware and i have really proud now that the egyptian people to me and of people who went to the

streets to the here's with squids since twenty five january and of course we got three of mubarak the head of the energy but the body of that he is still there they are in the military in the government in the media in your universe you know i mean who am i going to learn and so on the point here i mean it's still the mubarak regime it just without its head and this is really one of the reasons why i wanted to do this program here is because we can we actually even use the term revolution yet because the the the the corpus of that regime is still very active the military has amazing privileges controls huge swaths of the economy i mean in many many ways it's news been no revolution whatsoever and say to some degree we do still have a continuation of the past i think what is very surprising you know ways by the military yes of course it's trying to maintain its power its economic power its hold on

egypt there's no question about it but one of the forces that paradoxically is asking the military to slow down partially with change it's actually the liberals who started the revolution because as the ruler was saying they have not been able to organize themselves so that islam is the products of the muslim brotherhood is the one of the pushing for elections as soon as possible. while the liberals are the ones doing down the process. which is a paradox because in some degree they ask for major sweeping changes immediately as they should be asked for prosecution of the individual swing to the regime but on the other hand baseload down on certain things and that is problematic bad i think speaks in a way the defragmentation. political class and the fact that the brotherhood is the only group despite its own problems its own from internal fragmentation but has been able to create sort of a bloc and the other groups have not been able to do so ok rule as i think is very interesting you say liberals are afraid of the people said differently because they

know what they're doing the muslim brotherhood is out there and i want to talk about that later in the program but we can talk about it now they're very well organized and they're getting prepared for the like it's got a real rough first time going i had. yeah yeahs they are very well organized they've been working since so many years let's remember one fact not this election not the parliament the last election the one before. muslim brother that barak brothers they want eighty seats in the parliament eighty out of three hundred something seats eight they want eighty seats in a country that we know that the election where and totally free but the regime had to give some playing and make a deal with a muslim brother and i think they did some how they divided the power you control as mother and muslim brothers social issues so they are in charge of many things if you go to the universities if you go inside of the matter of the hospitals health care these issues muslim brothers there where very well organized socially if you

go to the mosque and you are a poor person they will take care of you what do you give them back is your vote and that's what you know that i don't. know is it that's not a bad deal is it to me considering a senate is. it's not a bad deal except that once they are in power they will do what hamas did in gaza they will do what the iranian regime did so in terms of freedom let's be honest about it in terms of liberties freedom in terms of women freedom and choice is what i want to be out of their government what the what we do expect that will be there there are there are there agenda there would be it's just more lack of freedom and harassing people more and more about civil liberties the liberals who are not scared but they are not organized listen if you talk to one hundred el baradei today or i minorities people they will simply tell you we need more time to organize for the next election and to show people our agenda and we how we can improve their lives slowly slowly with i am and what kind of foreign relations we

might have ok let's talk about what it was all relations in the second half of the program and now what do you think about that i mean the the. brotherhood they're prepared for this election here and nobody else seems to be prepared and they're afraid of lives. i would like to say we cannot separate the power of the muslim brothers now because who supported the muslim brothers said that. the united states now the united states is negotiating with the muslim brothers usually i say george bush and bin ladden are twins so we cannot discuss the muslim brothers or the egyptian revolution in isolation from their superpowers and the word. point attacks the muslim brotherhood did not start the revolution the muslim brothers are not the majority in egypt they are the minority that

evolution under twenty five of january started without the muslim brothers there was not the same islamic slogan or christian or religious it was a very secular revolution from the beginning and when that evolution succeeded then the muslim brother joined in the usually do that also in just a few days ago on the it's of july with the second revolution the muslim brotherhood did not share and they were even against it and today they are against the demonstrations but that medians of people in egypt are demonstrating and so the muslim brothers have no choice so they join. us we're going to you ok this is the muslim brotherhood is a political factor on the ground i mean how do you deal with it ok it is popular with a lot of it now lorenzo go ahead. of course it is evolving as usual i think you know

the problem is. how you deal with it on a practical level i think the the our the the supreme council of the armed forces also as i probably know a lot of people. years ago of striking a deal with the brotherhood which to some degree is true because at the end of the day the brotherhood is at this point in time the only force they can reasonably acquire a twenty five thirty percent of qualified minority who believe them to be did the greatest party and they know the future egyptian parliament. how do you deal with the liberals i think that is where the problem lays in the thank you they have not been able to create to untie brotherhood the coalition where you have forces from all walks of life but anyways do not share these let me platform and views and run against them and this is where i think the problem internally niji in egypt lies now going back to what your guest was talking about in terms of the international perspective an american perspective i would disagree with their position views the

united states as having ever supported the muslim brotherhood i think that is starkly false i think the big dilemma of air in washington now is after it yourself refusing to even talk to the brotherhood which was to some degree and i think critical and not very pragmatic position i think we are in a position now where the united states acknowledges that the brotherhood is a force on the ground that is going to play a role in the future egyptian government how you deal with them and the position a bit the clinton is taking right now it's relatively sound one we talk to everybody to anybody who does not support violence and we have this wait and see approach for our low level meetings. because we cannot we can no longer ignore him and that's sort of a pragmatic approach where the u.s. cannot just go it's going to take a pragmatic approach before we're going to break through what do you think about that i mean you may not like him but you have to deal with them yeah. absolutely absolutely and actually the fact let's learn from the lesson of the history let's learn from what happened two thousand and six when hamas won the election in the

occupied territories in gaza they won the election i immediately the world said oh no we don't want to deal with them we have to buy it called them and it became a mass it's become a disaster a situation still today we're seeing that i'm credible results of that the worst of the worst what you do is what that actually the the smartest way to deal of them is what the jordanian regime did they included there in the going to jump in here we're going to wish a very great and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on egypt stay with our team. you. if you're following up on my doubts whether the.

owners are sort of a throwback in the dark a part of our long. and it goes back to a time when people would lie down in their forces in the wild west and pick up these future days important to mention the sheriff from prosecution or the like company mail almost killed me when they go out there. and you have to hope that nothing bad. loans. were chasing killers and you gotta keep that in mind others a two million dollar bill please the rest. were not superheroes they can be killed to you know in the head i'm going to die. a little. once you've had a run you know never go back to. the eaves.

leave. him alone. welcome back across town to mind you were talking about egypt's revolution. ok no i got to go back to you in london what's going to prevail in egypt there's a going to be the rule of the majority or democratic values. yes i have

confidence in their power of the millions in the streets living in tents into the square and everywhere i have power and confidence in the people but i would like to say something very important how mass was encouraged by israel to fight against fat and ben ladden was encouraged by u. s. and muslim brotherhood were encouraged by the government of egypt we cannot separate because what happened that their followers the dictators the capitalists pollers they play fair and religious revolution that really socialist revolution for equality and social justice because if egypt is independent who will use colonizers of course and their allies like mubarak and said that so they put it what they are afraid of the real socialists through of the millions and

that's why they encourage some high mass muslim brothers religious groups sell a few you need you know we have sell a few that came like that through saudi arabia and the u.s. so we have to be really aware of the fact ok that connection lorenzo you were you were you were you are thinking why you're laughing and you want to make a comment here is i really just a guy with this i'd like to see a secure tauriel mindset and i said i'd like to also stick with my question here the rule of the majority and democratic values ok because everyone can have a different point of view but it's an important question i think go ahead lorenzo yeah. well first of all i mean really to statistics say that the united states supports groups like hamas the brotherhood or salafi groups it's just mind blowing because i mean there is one figure the united states fears today if there's anything islam is that i think you can accuse him of the opposite of having sort of an islamist phone. and i think what the ruler was talking about with hamas i think

it exactly explains it i think you are right rightly so as i ignore most concerns about islamic groups of all shapes but even the united states and traditionally through far so i think that's about so far as you said you should think i'm going to the i'm going to majority we really don't know what the majority is i mean yes we have maybe a million people in tahrir square but each of these are huge countries but million people really the majority i mean we've seen historically bad known as the cement the best organized for political forces are the one to take over and as much as historical comparisons are not always the right thing to do iran is a great example of that so an organized force but it has a massive popular support that like the brotherhood can take over and one of those that think the brotherhood will i mean this is a letter to tell you. this is one of the groups that are not organized one of the issues of this program is hijacking and rule what it will do you that's why i want to do this program you see there's a fear that they and i'm not going to just focus on the brothers only but other

groups that could hijack this because organization is very important you can get rid of the head the snake's head but you know the rest of the snake you have to deal with it it's a long process. absolutely it's a long process listen i worked in egypt as an anchor woman i had the t.v. show and i stayed there in two thousand and eight and i saw the powerful side of power for the regime but the part of the muslim brothers they were well organized they have they know the ground very well they know they gyptian people they know how to speak their language populist language is the one that will get them a lot of votes and you go to any mosque inside and everywhere in the south of egypt if any simple in mom even without the background or the education he will start saying something our guide on how and have and and how we should fight here and there they want to get millions of votes let's be let's be clear about what is going on there i've joined that is already there i want to go back you know i want to go back to well i mean one of the things i think is very interesting here is that is the west going to decide who votes the right way and the wrong way because

we see that with hezbollah we see that with a mouse i'm not saying you should like or dislike these groups but i mean at the same time this is outside interference you know you have to vote the right way what do you think about that now and wonder what they think is everybody is speaking from there on. i live in egypt all my life i was in fact how do you square all of the time i feel the people yes the millions who went to that is where or not the eighty five million in egypt the muslim brotherhood few thousands they are organized but they are just through cell that they are not even one million so the problem is how we look to the problem i live in egypt so i know the situation i feel i have confidence in the people because i live with them they are not with the muslim brotherhood has. got injured and they are not i

know our mind us shame to you as a free liberally woman my question to you and let's be honest about it here it's not the propaganda about. we all love egypt we all support the revolution we are pro this revolution it's the best thing that ever happened to the arab world and to all of us as women as liberal as everybody that believes in democracy ok but my question you know how powerful they are if there will be tomorrow on three month's election you really think that they will not have that they will be that i can fit in they will not win a lot of seats in the parliament i really think that they will not anyway ocean. you didn't follow that revolution the last sort of relation in egypt we said there will be no elections there is a pressure now from the millions we have to push stop postpone the elections because if we have elections now or in november or september or even december

the of course the organized groups do all the organized groups not only of muslim brother but the old political parties brought navarra will come in but we are asking this is one of the very important demands of that revolution of the second revolution on july postponing the election still with changing the constitution with changes there the laws of political parties and all of the laws so that we give time to the young people to the new revolutionary men and women to organize and to have their political parties and can enter the election ok. you're going to hold one of the interesting things is that you know this constitutional reform is out there and it will be a secular state will it be more islamic i mean or how do you balance the both egypt have its own unique experience because people look to turkey for example so go ahead it's very difficult to see what. was

a vote in the egyptian people voted back in the referendum a few months ago for having the elections in the fall i mean as much as the liberals said it pains me to save it. but is as much as the liberals going to paint here that you know when seventy seven percent of egyptians voted for the us as the muslim brotherhood was asking them to vote so again if we have a few empirical ways to gauge where the people stand unfortunately that is where one of the few indications where is egypt going to go more secular more liberal that is very difficult to see i think the military right now is trying to balance the two forces the push for a bit they get from the islamists and the poor they get from the liberals saying trying to have at least the leaders talk is about some guidelines for what the constitution should look like and of course it has an islamic aim pray in the same way the sharia should be the source of legislation which is exactly what the constitution of the last thirty or so has said so no difference in bed to. sort

of keep it at least the way it is if most elections the brotherhood where to acquire a position of more influence i don't think you're going to get a majority but opposition a furtive percent something around the bad number we've alliances i think there's no question about going to be pushing for more islamic values nothing to do stand with some of the fear mongers here in the west think nothing like taliban style afghanistan but no question we're going to be pushing for more shadier for more extremely conservative values and it's troubling for christians for women and so on and so for one of the things we haven't really talked about on this program yes you know go ahead i was going to write about foreign policy but if you want to talk about domestic politics but i want just yeah i would like to say something that's why it's so important not to cut down a relationship with these groups that's what's so important that's why hillary clinton actually and a very smart way she said we will talk to everybody the more you talk to these people the more leverage you have on top of that listen the military didn't show it to anybody on your show and to

a lot of balls i am sorry i hate it clinton is not going to tell me what i'm going to do he had to get into that i know nobody is telling yeah he's not the. why don't i only say that i should what no what i would like to say that the egyptian revolution the lane try to resign and not in an ideological way where trying i mean it's right that they're not saying rather it just listen to me because i think on the right of the prime i'd like to hear i mean we're not talking out of ideology we should praise and as we know that the future of egypt i think all power are not united nations i think you and should you really start talking with a muslim brother and have some leverage on top of them the more excluded they are something the more it was a goal that was like three days but the loner they are included don't move or they won't show the right i'm going to jump in here and we're going to war ends all around zone. yes this is the end of my life you can see before we had

a very dogmatic point of view in politics i do think there's a lot more pragmatism now going on in egyptian politics i mean irrespective of its secular religious. people is on the run and also when it comes to the brotherhood as much as you remain such a strong ideological organization there's no question when push comes to shove they're going to be more pragmatic because one thing is when you are in the opposition you can have all these dogmatic positions but once they have to govern to some degree they're going to have to govern then you become more pragmatic then you are faced with issues on how to fix an economy which is completely messed up at the moment that then you have to deal with foreign policy issues on a more pragmatic level one thing is to call for a do the destruction of israel another thing is actually how do you interact with hamas with the u.s. with turkey with the arab league but it's a completely different scenario and i think the brotherhood knows bad i mean in a way we've been talking up the brotherhood of various super powerful group but it has its problems and it is never face the responsibility of governing for actually

doing something aside from its activities as grassroots activities it has never really been confronted with tough decisions to me. and i think that's going to really change is going to create a lot of tension in the brotherhood which to some degree we're already seeing with some internal friction stake in place within the group so the brotherhood itself has to become more pragmatic the reality will force them to be that ok we'll see how the situation changes as the election approaches many thanks to my guest today in rome london and in zurich and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time and remember crosstalk.

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spain has one of the highest unemployment rates in the eurozone so while the european leaders have been occasionally meeting and comfortable quarters to talk about the future of the euro and the european union itself people in the country have been demonstrating on an almost weekly basis demanding the government shape up stop talking and do something about the situation this is not just about higher wages and better pension plans with more than forty percent of young people in spain unemployed simply getting a job is a priority for those gathered in madrid's central square the big part of the responsibilities from the government. because the government first of all people not to create the conditions at the beginning of two crises to fight against the crisis it reacts very late and on the other hand once.