well thank you very much dr sure let's leave it right be an expert on middle east and islamic studies. thank you. egypt's dramatic election is also being followed closely by its neighbor israel there are fears that the wavering strategic partnership between the two countries a step is under hosni mubarak could fall to pieces honestly has the story. they're going to ask what these words the muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi campaign was launched with a vow that the capital of the arab world will be in jerusalem with morsi one two liberated six weeks on the contest is as tight as ever with morsi a strong contender to be egypt's next president and his promise is as governessing as ever egypt is committed to international agreements that were signed including the treaty with israel or egypt and should have the right to amend all that is not in their interest to make sure the other party commits to what it is signed as if it's not warming enough for israel what will happen to the one nine hundred seventy nine peace treaty with egypt big players who've put their weight behind most

by dr o'meara sure from the institute of arab and islamic studies at the university of exit or.so the people on tahrir square are clearly protesting against the military here but are they united for any force that's currently vying for power in the country. they are they are protesting basically the constitutional assembly the constitutional declaration that was announced by the supreme council of the armed forces they are protesting the parliament of the intelligence in the military police to address this if indians on charges as minor as traffic disruption and they're protesting there's aleutian of the parliament was dissolved by a decision of the supreme constitutional court and then backed by the supreme council of the armed forces scaf. quite worried about the election results you know the election results as a correspondent mention was postponed for a day and should be announced tomorrow if everything. however does it appear that they're all because there's a lot of different disparate voices in that crowd does it appear that there is one person who they're all kind of cal

assured an expert on middle east and islamic studies says egypt can expect multiple crises over whoever wins the next election. many softer the. dissolving the parliament many saw this danger of the old regime of hosni mubarak coming back in the form of his last prime minister much of it is very problematic right now right now we have a president without them.

they are experts in islamic studies and have contacts with the taliban. they are hoping to help in the fighting. mohammed ma soom stankezai said all sides need to accept that afghanistan will not return to the chaos of civil war. >> the first important element for the peace process to move forward is the confidence-building. and most important in that is the political commitment from all sides. >> reporter: but senior taliban official, din muhammad, refused to commit. >> translator: afghanistan will not be peaceful unless the u.s. and all other foreign troops withdraw from the country. >> reporter: the taliban suspended unpublicized peace talks with the u.s. in march. it also refuses to hold substantiative talks with afghan authorities, saying that the real enemy is the american presence in the country. the academics say the conference was the first attended by a senior taliban official. it precedes an international donor conference scheduled for july 8th in tokyo to support afghanistan. hideki yabu, nhk world, kyoto. >>> syrian leaders are blaming rebel

you're the you're in the not the in the i'm your and omar shirt from the institute of arab and islamic studies at the university of exeter says the ruling military has firmly entrenched itself in power and the president elect will have to bargain with them. they legalize intervention in politics meaning that they can veto articles of the constitution if the current constitutional assembly was dismantled they will for the constitution assembly appointed politicians and they will choose a specific op of politicians that will not negotiate or bargain hard with them and want to protect the vast economic interests in the country they want high politics in anything that has to do with national security issue issues or sensitive foreign policy issues and they want legal and constitutional immunity from any charges that has to do with corruption or depression and all these issues obviously undermine the mandate of the upcoming president and more or less. unless he has very solid support on the ground and capacity to mobilize his supporters in that here and elsewhere and then use this capacity to mobil

candidate represents the values of last year's revolution dr omar sure an expert on middle east and islamic studies says egypt can expect multiple crises whoever wins the election. many softer the dissolving the parliament many saw this as the injured of the old regime of hosni mubarak coming back in the form of his last prime minister much of it is very problematic right now right now we have a president without that mandate coming without a legislative bench now that is just they have been. refuses to disband because the the argument is that the authorities of the state the judicial and legislative cannot dismantle each other so the parliament cannot dismantle the judicial then branch and the judicial branch cannot this dismantle the slate of in the form of the parliament so we are heading towards a clash between the elected parliament on one side and the possibly the supreme council of the armed forces on the other but also with the appointed judicial branch appointed judges of the constitutional court. noteworthy most of them were appointed by by mubarak many here see them as a continuation of

tension over the brief standoff remains high dr omar assured from the institute arabic arab and islamic studies at x. three university says libya still struggles to maintain post revolution security. the conservation process is not complete the demobilization disarmament and the integration of ex combat is not complete. now we have a situation of the independent armed brigades that are still existed in the bia who did not join the military did not join the security forces but. lot of. the government but are still armed and still have a clear command and control structure what brought us into this crisis was the kidnapping of. the she one of the affordable called the that would be an army front of. a stronghold of defeat after that immovable of political defeat we find some of the probably the supporters of of the and he disappeared. he was kidnapped according to his followers they said he was kidnapped. to pressure the national transitional council to initiate investigations use the investigation they went on and took over the. the u.s. defense secretary is in vietnam as part of a charm offensi

tariq ramadan you're a professor at contemporary islamic studies and oxford university and also you are a professor at the faculty of the stomach studies in qatar and it's great to have you with us today sir so i know of the situation in north africa and the middle east it's very complex and there are a lot of players involved in it. there's one trend that seems to be undisputed and it's rising and its rise of islamist movement throughout the region could anyone have really predicted that kind of an outcome in even the pro-democracy protesters or the rebels did they know that this would happen you're a thing that we really want to talk about the whole situation and the.

candidates promise to bring order and stability back to egypt but an expert on middle eastern islamic studies dr all maher ashore believes as long as the military is on the political scene the nation faces a crisis. you don't have a parliament the legislative branch you don't have a did even the constitutional assembly that was formed by the parliament nobody knows its status right now whether it's going to continue as it is. constitution and. all dissolve distributing power among the various institutions or not now you have an elected president that probably will have no clear mandate in terms of his power and the supreme council that is very interested in him in taining. means of power whether the military economic complex that. the armed forces own veto in anything that has to do in high politics or national security issues and they also want immunity from any kind of prosecution for the military generals so they have a very specific demands for from any president and i think those demands will be will be subject of negotiations with the other president whether morsi but still the situatio

days ago and that is that he is the window of this election dr omar assure an expert in arab and islamic studiessays the latest actions by the military indicate they're not going to step aside from politics and that the elected president may have limited power. if the constitutional declaration is that what. they. did it did eventually in politics meaning that they can veto articles of the constitution if the common constitutional assembly was dismantled they will form a constitutional assembly from appointed politicians and they will specific politicians that were not people she would bargain hard with them and want to protect the vast economic interests in the country they want high politics in anything that has to do with national security issue issues or sensitive foreign policy issues and they want to give them constitutional immunity from any charges that has to do with corruption or depression and all these issues all just the undermine the mandate of the upcoming president and more or less. unless he has very solid support on the. capacity to mobilize his supporters into it and elsewhere

confusion as to who will be announced egypt's next president dr drew who's an expert in the arab and islamic studies a says the latest actions of by the military indicate they're not going to step aside from politics and that the elected president may have limited policies. if the constitutional declaration is that was upheld. legalized intervention in politics meaning that they can veto articles of the constitution if the current constitutional assembly was dismantled they will form a constitutional assembly from appointed politicians and they will specific op of politicians that will not negotiate or bargain hard with them and want to protect the vast economic interests of the country they want a veto in high politics anything that has to do with national security issues issues or sensitive foreign policy issues and they want legal and constitutional immunity from any charges that has to do with corruption or depression all these issues obviously undermine the mandate of the upcoming president and more or less. he has very solid support on the ground. and capacity to mobilize your supporters into

tariq ramadan you're a professor at the contemporary islamic studies at the oxford university and also you are a professor at the faculty of the stomach studies in qatar and it's great to have you with us today sir so i know the situation in north africa and the middle east it's very complex and there are a lot of players involved in it. there's one trend that scene.

assured an expert on the middle east and islamic studies says egypt can expect multiple crises whoever wins the election. many softer the dissolving the parliament many saw this. back in the form. it is very problematic right now.

from islam as point of view in islamic law it isn't precipitated for women to work to study or to go into offices. yet here but islam does prevent some things for women only women cannot see. in the middle of an assembly of men. furthermore women are obliged to wear the huge job. or if they cover themselves there aren't any problems. lastly women are not allowed to become judges condemning. the religion of islam doesn't allow women to undertake a role in which you have to give our judgments. these laws are respected so there aren't any problems. we need to teach the community that they're right struggling but that today i think. that's. well in afghanistan the majority of women married below the age of sixteen. if they don't have the right to divorce they have the right to what's called a separation it's really hard for them to get where is a man just needs to say divorce three times and that's it he says he said to his wife. before now and women asking for divorce was and never even heard of. i don't want to. know in days to women come to us to ask us to resolve marital issues. somet

came here from the caucasus ism can be found them only christianity and islam anatoli was not a religious person initially he studied music for eight years playing the drums and once he graduated from a faculty of an atoll he came here just to look at the miracle of sun. i wondered what the meaning of was. the time to find the answer to this question had come so i traced the change which a person is born then he grows up at sardi's gets a job sells the family car and a house just grows old and. new stuff and. it's all seemed somewhat pointless to me i thought that's not quite what i want and i wanted something more. students start their day at six thirty in the morning with prayers followed by breakfast once fair they have classes just like an ordinary university then comes lunch free time supper and afterwards they resume studies. this is a lesson in the old mongolian language it's the most difficult of the studied languages but it's all but extinct however one needs to learn old mongolian to read ancient but is text students sit on the floor because they're not supposed to be at the same height as the teacher subo

announce the result on thursday, but members said they need more time to study appeals from the candidates. mohammed morsi leads the islamic party, the muslim brotherhood. former military commander ahmed shafiq served as hosni mubarak's prime minister. both candidates have declared victories, and both sides cited results they claim to have obtained from the election commission. commission members have not said when they will declare the winner. some of them have said the results should be ready within a few days. some egyptians fear the announcement will renew tensions between the two camps. yujiro futori, nhk world, cairo. >>> leaders from more than 120 countries are trying to figure out how to balance environmental conservation while saving the planet. it's the biggest meeting they ever organized. they were at odds even before they arrived. >> delegates from around the world have gathered to confront a common challenge. how to perform economic growth without stressing the planet. they were asked to agree on the message for a shared dilemma. >> they are committed to a sustainable future. a future that lifts people from po

islam. the perception and reality. first, you are a dentist. >> yes, i am. >> you have a degree and you studied in new york? >> yes. >> back home, you have opened a couple of dental clinics. you have done hospital work. >> yes. >> and then, also, do you have -- you had a foundation that supports youngsters? >> free school is a free elementary school. >> are those poorer students? and some of them are connected with orphanages? >> yes, some of them, orphanage. some of them, they have only one parent. the parents might be working in the fields or a pleasing -- cleaning houses. >> do you have a chance to get back home to see these different -- >> of course. i checked the projects at the schools. whenever i go back to indonesia. >> so, here you are, a very accomplished woman, who talks about giving scholarships to young women so that they can learn and educate others. the perception that we have in america is that islam presents a repressive or very strict -- so, here is the question, i guess. is there a conflict within islam between men and women? >> no, you know. that is an american question. >> you react in

graham i don't you're a professor at contemporary islam except this oxford university and also you are a professor at the faculty of the stomach studies in qatar it's great to have you with us today sir so i have a situation in north africa and the middle east it's very complex and there are a lot of players involved in it. but there's one trend that saying. at the undisputed and its rising and its rise of islamist movement throughout the region could anyone have really predicted that kind of an outcome even the pro-democracy protesters or the rebels do they know that this would happen i think that we if we want to talk about the whole situation and the results that we see in the first once again i am not using the arab spring as a concept even revolutions arresting that we are still seeing unfinished processes in the country now the people who are in the streets in tunisia egypt they were young people young and not so young people and the only objective was to get treated the dictator and the regime so they want to treat them dignity and justice and less corruption they were not expecting anything and it was beyond any ideological tr

in kenya, their rise -- his grandfather, it's true, converted to islam, although he did not practice it very devoutly. but when you studyhe rise of the obamas in kenya, it was conservative evangelical christians who are responsible for the rise all along the way. they came out to western kenya to the tribe and taught them english. president obama's father was educated at an anglecan school and mentored by a woman who came to kenya from the united states to teach the gospel and spread literacy. she's the one who brought him to the united states. so it had nothing to do with muslims. >> and another compelling part of the book, and it's a sad story, you believe the president was better off not really knowing or having a life with his father. >> that's a difficult thing for me to say, but as trying to be an objective observer, historian, i think that's true. that -- >> why. tell our viewers. >> because his father was abusive. and he wasn't with obama's mother for more than a couple of months, but the next woman he married, another american, told me gruesome stories about being beaten by him, physically, with his hands, had

islamic are you aware of the study that shows that you can reduce drug abuse by 1% with $35 million of treatment and to 50 and up for law enforcement. are you familiar with that study and if so how does that affect the strategy of the dea? >> i don't know if it is the same study i am familiar with studies that show the savings everything put into the demand reduction into treatment that's why we're very supportive of the one the rebalanced drug strategy that we currently have in the united states. the president's drug strategy is very clear that you need the introduction you need prevention >> the same resources in both? >> i'm sorry? >> are you putting similar resources and move? >> actually the past year there is more money spent on the prevention and treatment than there was on domestic law enforcement. estimate the gentleman's time is expired. the gentleman from florida? >> thank you mr. chairman. let me go up for a couple of things early on. the issue with the san diego holding where this person was held as you know, but i just have a question. i listened to your answer. what was

our refuse to believe his religion was right and others were wrong he studied the q'uaran very carefully and concluded authentic islamwas our greatest ally to call kurt al qaeda to help to lead and inspire the world that was a radical in sight. he was fascinated with arab history, arab culture, food, poetry, he learned arabic thanks to the military and traveled to the middle east and plunged into middle eastern culture he loved it and went to afghanistan the first wave to strike back after 9/11 and one a. braun star but in 2005 he was assigned to the tribal affairs officer in room id which was what one journalist called the most fucked place in iraq. it was compared to hiroshima up. but three things obvious to patriquinn the had to attack with firepower and shatter the local iraqi police force which went out to the tribal shake. there were not many left. he became the key liaison in the attempts to launch the awakening movement to help transform the war. travis patriquinn was not only a simple for those who served with those who died and helped the iraqis tried to build a new nation of this war. perhaps the best way

military as we speak coming from a newly released study that claims several suspected islamic extremistsed their way into the ranks and at least a dozen of the cases are classified as "a serious threat". how does this happen? what are we doing about it? colonel and congressman allan west joins us right now. he served in the army for 22 years. your reaction to that number, colonel? >> well, it is quite shocking and alarming. but i think that if you go back to the 1991 exploratory memorandum that was found just right across the potomac here in northern virginia, it was a muslim brotherhood document that really talked about their goals and objectives for the united states of america. this is not surprising. you are witnessing an infiltration of not just our defense systems but our financial systems, our cultural, religious, political systems so this is a whole hearted jihad type of attack. >> hasan kills and wounds so many in fort hood and we call that workplace violence. now they're calling the islamic extremists inside our military insider threats. we're mislabelling it again. >> this is