in egypt and kyra possibly to rere square as well of course a journalist in africa specialist lawrence freeman thanks for joining us here on out to you today and thank you. could have you with us or a nazi today us judge has ruled that bradley manning must face the charge of aiding the enemy a decision that means the whistleblower could spend the rest of his life behind prison walls or the defense had argued manning sent the trove of classified information to wiki leaks to spark reform and debate following the case for us as well. it is the most serious charge of a private first class faces so that means he still faces the possibility of life without parole now the court took a look at the testimony and evidence we've heard so far throughout this case and found that there is enough evidence to move forward with this charge this charge of aiding the enemy prosecution has cited manning's job as an intelligence analyst they say that as an intelligence analysts he should have known that by leaking these documents to the n.c. secret secrecy website wiki leaks that al qaeda osama bin laden and al qa

for more analysis i'm not joined live by lawrence freeman he's editor executive intelligence review magazine not such as pick up on something that paula slim mentioned in her report and that is that some are speculating that the appointment of el baradei is washington's choice so just how much influence does the u.s. have over this crisis now. well there is now one voice coming out of washington you think back to the beginning when morsi took power he was given his very strong support by president obama. rather and that wow opposition was building to president morsi over the recent period president obama still told you know look there it is stay out in that morsi was the choice of the united states now that's changed over the recent period and if you look at the intervention by general martin dempsey chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to the u.s. the sense i hear discussions of the rhythm of kerry and basically discuss the idea for a green some kind of stability without a heavy cream into the situation so i think there are forces behind the scenes who looking for some stability but there

demonstrating on mass nationwide demanding his reinstatement journalist and africa specialist lawrence freeman he told me earlier there's a big chance both sides will dig in and ultimately forcing the army's hand. the situation now is that the muslim brotherhood has to make a decision whether they're going to be part of the process moving forward with this nine month agenda for a constitution palminteri elections presidential elections or is the muslim brotherhood going to be violent and disruptive in which case the situation will be very difficult the interim president who's just a very in george and a number of other civilians have filled out the other positions of the cabinet they have a perspective that the door is open to the muslim brotherhood if the brotherhood continues to go in to buy if it goes in a brown direction yes i think then the military and the government behind the military will move him to keep security don't forget the muslim brotherhood has a lot support in egypt there's no question about it but it doesn't have the whole country supporting it there's a lot of people. are

. >> lawrence freeman from executive intelligence review. thank you very much for your comments. i think in terms of an approach, you're right, we have to think in the entire sahel. just came back from mali and had the great opportunity to discover the inland mali delta and this is an area of potential enormous development for food production. two million hectares to be developed by the group and if we use this as a center point, mali can become a food exporter to the entire sahel. so if we take a regional approach to food production with infrastructure, we need water management, we need a lot more energy that obama promised last month. we need rail transportation. and i think we should look at this regional development. approach to the sahel as a way of providing security, because the military counterterrorism approach has failed in these areas in the desert and the sahel, where people have no opportunity no future no jobs. so i wanted your comments on this kind of a regional effort. thank you. >> thank you. let's take one right there. >> sure. i'm with the search for common gro

. >> i'm lawrence freeman from the "review." thank you very much for your comments. think in terms of the approach, i think you are right. we have to think in terms of the entire sahel. there needs to be a regional approach. i just came back from mali, and i was able to see the inland mali delta. this is an norm yass -- this area has a enormous prodeduction for food development. it could help in segou. i think if we use this as a centerpoint, mali could become a center for food production. if we take a central approach to food production. we need water management. we need more energy than obama promised last month. we need rail transportation. and i any we should look at this regional development in the sahel as a way of providing security. because the military counterterrorism approach has failed in these areas in the desert and the sa hairia, the sta hell, where people have no opportunity, no future, and no jobs. i want to hear your comments on this kind of regional effort. >> thank you. let's take one there. >> good evening. i'm from search for common ground. how