there has been the legitimacy of the military represented in this staff, or the supreme council of the armed forces. there is the legitimacy of the revolution itself, which overturned the mubarak regime. and that has taken the form of repeated demonstrations in tahrir square, claiming its own legitimacy to direct egypt's future. and then, of course, we have the muslim brotherhood, who claim their own electoral legitimacy to lead egypt's future through the ballot box, which, as has been proven, repeatedly, they are very adept at contesting. so we have a situation of these competing legitimacies, and i think now i think the real test of these elections is will they decide the issue of legitimacy moving forward into the post-transition period. so i think the easiest way to summarize what is a very complex situation is to talk about the positives and the negatives of these elections. so on the positive side, i think by all accounts this has been a good election. it has been remarkably competitive with clear alternatives provided by five of the leading top candidates in these elections. the

one aspect however on another aspect let us not forget that for the last year and a half the supreme council of orange forces had designed the transitional phase in such a way to eliminate any form of opposition or any form of alternative to the supreme council of armed forces. actually fell victim to this simply because they fell into the trap that was set by the supreme council of armed forces and it was because of the behavior of the muslim brotherhood over the last over the last eighteen months their behavior of completely abandoning the revolution and running after the seats are there in parliament for the presidency that campaigns such as this which means boycotting boycotting campaigns were established several weeks ago in order to encourage people not to give legitimacy to these elections simply because they were placed by the supreme council of armed forces furthermore people that took part in the first round of the elections said the better alternative is to nullify their votes and to morrow more than five hundred thousand people will be sticking these stickers onto their ballots as a

of constitutional amendments that severely restrict the powers the president. the main crux of which is the president is not the commander of the armed forces. that effectively enshrines the supreme councilorces as the fourth branch of government that is constitutionally separate. this is really the main battle, against the military council. was stands for morsi, apparently, negotiations for him to name his cabinet and prime minister, supposedly considering a el-baradei as prime minister. he has said he would not accept the position because he refused to run for president in january because under the rule of the military council, he saw it as a flawed transition. >> and then would not vote for the >> yes, and boycotted the vote. we will have to wait and see. morsi has pledged to name three vice presidents, one of which will be coptic christian -- >> is that normal? but we've never had a vice- president in egypt and tell lamar suleiuman. he was the first and only. >> many of the critics have expressed concern about his affiliation with the muslim brotherhood. this is abdel moneim aboul fotouh who himself resigned from brotherhood when he decided to run in the presidential election. >> we

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 councilof 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 calling for to take control in terms of one of the candidates or is it still a diversity of opinion. no for the first time actually in the egyptian revolution you had some kind of leadership not not exactly a leadership that everybody likes everybody supports you had the mohamed morsi who is the freedom and justice party candidate winning the the or many other professors and he thinks that he won the elections with the we don't have official confirmation but based on the on the on the tallies he has in the official reports coming from each of the stations he did the calculation and thinks that he won but today he had a press c

reminder that we are now back to square one let us not forget that for the last year and a half the supreme council of armed forces had designed the transitional phase in such a way to eliminate any form of opposition or any form of alternative to the supreme council of armed forces and it was because of the behavior of the muslim brotherhood over the last eighteen months their behavior of completely abandoning the revolution and running after seats either in parliament for the presidency that campaigns such as this which means boycotting boycotting campaigns were established several weeks ago in order to encourage people not to give legitimacy to these elections simply because they were placed by the supreme council of armed forces. well see how the second round of the store of presidential election in egypt unfolds don't miss our special coverage right here on r t throughout the week out. to grab a to run. around. like subscribe. to. your. reports of fresh u.s. drone strikes in pakistan keep pouring in that's despite the country's officials demanding a halt to the attacks which they say are against

of the muslim brotherhood has won. and whoever is president will come into a kind of hollowed out presidency. because the supreme council of the armed forces has asserted -- what's interesting about egypt today, anderson, is the fact that no one really is stepping forward with a keen desire to rule. the army doesn't want to rule because they know the country is in deep distress. the muslim brotherhood doesn't really want fully to rule. so you have this chaos that follows more than 60 years of totalitarian dictatorship. >> ben, you live there. not just reporting from there. you live there. what do you see happening? i mean, is there now a showdown between the muslim brotherhood and the military? what does the next week hold? >> reporter: well, certainly what we saw today was thousands, tens of thousands, of muslim brotherhood supporters and others flocking to tahrir square to protest what they see as this coup d'etat. the muslim brotherhood probably wants to push this a little bit further to put more pressure on the supreme council of the armed forces. but what they clearly don't want is a direct confrontation, because o

the military council, president morsi will have very limited powers. most of the major decisions he would be making as president need to be approved beforehand by the supreme council of the armed forces. the army remains a state within a state, which decides on its budget with very little civilian oversight. so he is the president of egypt. but mohammed morsi is a man who will have very limited powers, certainly compared to the powers of his predecessor. >> again, this is just stunning. if you -- >> ian lee who is in tahrir square, ian, if you can hear us over the roar of the crowd, tell us what's going on around you. >> oh, jonathan. it's pandemonium. people are celebrating. they're hugging. they're crying. just pure emotion. when the announcement came there was just one loud -- they started dancing around. we're seeing fireworks. we're seeing flags waved. people are jumping on top of cars, dancing. i have not seen a celebration like this since the night mubarak fell down, stepped down. just a huge party. you can be sure this is just the beginning. this party is going to go well into the night as people just continue to stream in. it looks like we have pe

ahead of the runoff election, the supreme constitutional court ruled that the parliamentary election of a half a year ago was unconstitutional. after announcing this decision, the supreme council then said, it would dissolve parliament. this would mean the muslim brotherhood would lose an important political power base. >> okay. >> the party won 46% of seats in that parliamentary vote and became the leading political group. then after presidential runoff voting was finished on june 17th. the supreme council suddenly announced new amendments to egypt interim constitution. the changes give far greater power to the military council. they include authority to draw up legislation, approve budget, and even form a committee to create new constitution. they also limit the power of the president. the move has stirred anger among the egyptian people. they say things like the supreme council is trying to prevent the muslim brotherhood from acquiring power or keep issuing orders to maintain their enormous interests. this is just the coup d'etat without weapons. this kind of criticism is now spreading. >> when will officials announce who is president and what's expected going forward? >> i

of the revolution. they also said things that raised concern about the goals of the revolution. the important thing right now is measure the brotherhood and supreme council of armed forces by what they do now. right now, it does not seem that the military is actually willing to hand over power although they may be willing to hand over day-to-day administration of egypt. the brotherhood has much to prove beyond its core constituency in terms of the role of women in society, a more inclusive government, outreach to all egyptians as they say they want, they now need to go ahead and do that. >> what about the muslim brotherhood could surprise us in a positive way. they know they need tourists to come back and need this economy to bounce back. unemployment is a disaster in egypt right now. foreign investment has dwindled to almost nothing when it comes to services sector. the muslim brotherhood knows it needs to reassure the world h. >> it does. it has already been going through arguments about why it will go back to the united states and seek additional aid and aid from the international monetary fund. it has done so by suggesting the united states and inter

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of armed forces -- unilaterally by the supreme councilof the armed forces. really, they entrench the military's power and strip the incoming president of any significant authority. of course we have to remember these amendments come just three days after the country's top court dissolve the popularly elected parliament and also after a decree by the ministry of justice the really returns elements of martial law to egypt and allows the military widespread powers of arrest and detention of civilians. most prominently perhaps of these constitutional amendments is it removes the president's role as commander in chief of the armed forces. it gives that to the head of the supreme council, who is still -- effectively gives the military complete control over its own affairs. what this does really is creates the supreme council of armed forces as a fourth branch of state that is constitutionally separate from the presidency, the parliament, and the judiciary. the amendments also shelled the military from any kind of public oversight whatsoever --

executive powers that were previously preserved for the post of president, even as votes were being counted sunday night. the supreme councilchief, that they are the minister of defense as well. that whoever is elected president will have to first consult with supreme council before he can do things like declare an act of war or use the armed forces to quell security threats. he claims to have won the post of president as a military coup. a major patron of the egyptian armed forces and from election observers on the ground here in egypt. >> dramatic developments. chr you interviewed hosni mubarak before, what are you hearing, what's your sense about this poignant moment in egyptian history? >> wolf, as you can imagine, rumors of his declining health have been swirling since he stepped down. clearly something critical happened most recently. although it is being denied that he is dead or clinically dead, what we do understand from authorities and from the press here in egypt is that president mubarak we were told had suffered a stroke earlier this evening. they described that he has been treated by defibrillator, mentioned h

after world war i, supreme council of the allied powers decided in favor of a national home for jewish people. >> it is the turning point from a point of international law. >> goatay says it doesn't override the league of nations. >> it has already been decided. i want the world to stop what took place with the council of the league of nations. >> yet most of the world denies, ignores or ignorant under international law. >> right now in the media at the u.n., you constantly hear the jewish people in part of jerusalem are there at out laws, trespasse trespassers, thieves, wrongfully there and in fact there as of right according to international law. >> goatay's convinced all of jerusalem has been granted to the jerusalem people as a part of their national homeland. chris mitchell, cbn news, jerusalem. >>> thank you, chris, i hope you enjoyed our show. get us on facebook or twitter.

the path of democracy. first, the muslim brotherhood itself does not have very good democratic credentials. secondly, the supreme councilof the armed forces continues to hold most of the power here. >> steven, should we trust either the muslim brotherhood or the military leaders right now who are still very much in charge, by the way? should we trust them? >> no, i don't think we should. i think that they've all said many different things about supporting the goals of the revolution. they've also said things that have raised concern about the goals of the revolution. i think the important thing now is to measure the brotherhood and the supreme council by what they do now. right now, though, it does not seem that the military is actually willing to hand over power. although, they may be willing to hand over day-to-day administration of egypt. the brotherhood has much to prove beyond its core constituency as far as the role of women in society, outreach to all egyptians, as they say they want. they need to go ahead and do that. >> what about the muslim brotherhood, for instance, could surprise us in a positive way? they k

we've been waiting for quite some time for a statement to come out of the supreme council of the armedll hopefully clarify this situation. but this is just one point of lack of clarity that we have. we have two presidential nominees or candidates who both insist they won in the recent elections. we have a parliament that's been dissolved but insists that it's still sitting. so these mubarak reports are just one tip of the iceberg of confusion that seems to be floating in the nile right now. >> i want to talk about that more, sanjay, his lawyer is saying he's not dead, he's hat water in the lungs for ten days, his blood pressure is done and that obstructed his breathing and that forces his doctors to put him on a respirator, does that make any sense to you? >> well, he's obviously an elderly person who has a history of heart disease and cancer. water on the lungs, the pneumonia that has progressed, may have even gotten into his blood stream and when that happens, someone's blood pressure can fall quickly. and that can lead to hard problems becoming even worse. so that part of it makes s

constitution and the rules of distributing power among the various institutions or not now you have an elected president that probably will have no clear mandate of his power and the supreme council that is very interested in painting its means of power whether the military economic complex that. that they hold the armed forces own vetoing 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 demand for from any president i think those demands will be subject of negotiations with whether president whether it should be for morsi but still the situation here is very. very. you are probably looking at multiple crises one with the parliament and one with the constitution and one for the year for the upcoming president. 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 st

government has pledged to hand power to the country's new president by the end of the month it comes after the supreme council of the armed forces issued an interim constitution declaring themselves the country's lawmakers and determining who will ride its new constitution the amendments will strip the country's leader of almost all significant powers official election results aren't expected until thursday but the muslim brotherhood has claimed an early victory in supporters of these long as party gather in talk or your square to celebrate the announcement made by party leader mohamed morsi the claims are being rejected by rival contender ahmed shafik who accuses the muslim brotherhood of trying to usurp the presidency at least analyst and public speaker on international affairs ahmed fatah he says the winning candidate will be nothing more than a puppet for the military. because of political dealings during the first round we ended up with two unqualified candidates the fact is that close to seventy percent of the egyptian electorate did not take part in these elections in the in the runoff is a huge indica

so i think there's an opportunity here for a good balance between the supreme council of the armed forcesd the government morsi is going to lead. >> the whole military and army question everyone has been talking about that. you said, economy, it's the same as here in the united states. they need to get their economy. and all over the world. >> you're right. since february 11th of last year when mubarak left office, there have been 2 million jobs lost and so one of the things i have done, i've joined with my democratic colleague. we've introduced a resolution calling for a free trade agreement so that we can get into this market. this is the largest arab nation with 85 plus million people. we need to strenten commercial ties. we have an aid package in excess of a billion dollars. i think it's very important as they move on their road to democracy for us to strengthen ties there. i would like to see them become more commercial. see the benefits of being able to sell u.s. manufactured products into egypt and i think they should have event greater access to our market as well. >> you believe

this guy is still behind the scenes everyone in the supreme council the armed forces was put in power by sewell a man nobody in the supreme council of the armed forces and noted for their intelligence independence or ambition they were there because they would not be a threat to mubarak consume and so superman's pulling the strings and we know what his his agenda is his agenda is is looking to the people that have been paying him and his cohorts for the last thirty years and that's the usa so until they they get rid of him and put him in prison a maximum security clean up the military from the colonels on up and actually build a real general people's army that's not going to be able to turn its guns on the egyptian people when they rise up again there's not going to be any change in egypt because the army's got the guns and if the people come on the streets america is going to do something dirty and have them do some big massacre if they have to america is not going to sit back and allow a democracy to come interfere with pax americana that's not the track record thomas monson think if you saw us independent journalist as you are jo

the picture egyptians thought they would never see: a member of the muslim brotherhood sitting as the president-elect with the supreme councilarmed forces, the generals who actually run the country. mohammed morsi was once a prisoner in the jails of former dictator hosni mubarak. today he took over the presidential palace. there was a celebration in tahrir square following his victory. now it's dawning on egyptians that the same generals who accepted morsi's win have already undercut his authority. the ruling military recently imposed martial law, issued a constitutional decree sharply curbing the president's powers. this after the supreme court resolve it had democratically elected parliament. professor omar ashour says in essence the generals have assured they can maintain the grip of power they held before morsi was elected. >> even though he's in office and the elected president, still he's weak enough and hegyy needs mass mobilization on the squares of egypt to sustain him and support him in front of the general. >> reporter: tahrir square has now turned back into a protest camp. ashraf lasheen was one of morsi's suppor

cannot this dismantle the slate of in the form of the parliament so we are heading towards probably 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. many here see them as a continuation of the so-called deep state here in egypt the group of generals and judges who are affiliated with the status quo. and more or less want to keep that status quo dividing the situation here is very vague. we are probably looking at a multiple crises one with the parliament and one with the constitution and one for for the for the upcoming president egypt's dramatical action is also being followed closely by its neighbor israel there are fears that the wavering strategic partnership between the two countries a stablished under hosni mubarak could fall to pieces policy has the story. set a corner ask with these words the muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi campaign was launched with a vow that the capital of the arab world will be a jerusalem which morsi wanted to liberated six wee

because many egyptians feel that what has developed here is a carefully maneuvered plan by the supreme council of the armed forces to remain in power we're looking at a decision that was announced yesterday just two days before an important presidential runoff and according to that decision.

killings of protesters so devoted their judgment towards exactly the same cause of the scene stories that's trying to selling for you on the. side of the criticism of scour the supreme council of the armed forces for audience who might not know there are a lot of those behind last year's uprising that claimed their revolution has been stolen not only by scouts but also. by by the politics there happened i mean no candidate really represents the revolution how likely is it that their anger could be used ahead of the elections by the islamist candidate perhaps who promises a mubarak retrial this is what the people want to hear isn't it. scuse me i didn't hear you well how well do you think that is the miss candidates are going to do by promising that mubarak i will have a retrial isn't that what the protesters want to hear. when actually also the. presidential elections lead. to people. to go back to the streets and we have to again because of. we have a lose lose situation right now. because we got a presidential elections first we have. two choices the most of those choices is not what the people. prize for the first choice is how much of. the last prime minister for mubara

because many egyptians feel that what has developed here is a carefully maneuvered plan by the supreme council of the.