host: peter craven has been monitoring the events. why has the visit attracted so much controversy? reporter: it is interesting to note that president joachim gauck and angela merkel have met with the egyptian leader. one person canceled, bonorbert lammert. he said there was a lack of democratic participation in egypt, and the persecution of the opposition and he pointed to the large number of death penalties handed down in egypt. 1400 and the last year alone. he said there is neither a parliament nor a plan to elect one, so no meeting. let me tell you another story about somebody called mohammed lockley. our viewers can follow up. he's a human rights activist in egypt and he was allowed to travel to germany. he was going to come to a roundtable taking place to discuss human rights in egypt but he was allowed to travel. that is typical for egypt these days. he left the greens who were dismissed by this visit. host: experts are gathering for the 25th world economic forum on africa in cape town amid concerns for the continent. host: two decades of strong economic growth continue to fa

i'm peter craven. >> and i met urban. >> the white house warns it could plunge u.s. national security efforts into disarray. peter: beijing bans lighting up in all indoor public places. >> police in bangladesh charge people with murder in a factory collapse that killed 1100 people. peter: we start in the united states were the battle over the patriot act has entered the next stage. matt: the key part that they are discussing is an agreement in a rare sunday session. it meets the broad surveillance powers like the collection of americans phone records have run out. peter: senators are considering a compromise bill. the freedom act that has the backing of the president and the house of representatives. he will go to washington in just a moment. here are the latest developments that are going down. reporter: rand paul was the man in the headlines. he single-handedly blocked legislation on the mass collection of americans phone records. the presidential hopeful opposed the extension of key provisions of the usa patriot act. it means telephone surveillance programs are on

. >> that was our own peter craven reporting from the g7 summit in germany. >> chancellor merkel pushedard for the climate deal. she argued it was essential to reach levels they have set later this year. >> carbon emissions are just one of the ways they are working to protect the environment. take a walk in haiti to see how that things already are. >> many children in haiti grow up in poverty, which means they are surrounded by rubbish. waste is constantly washing up on the beach, but nobody cleans it up and there's no trash collection will stop hate -- trash collection. haiti is one of the most densely populated places on earth. and many of them live on less than one dollar a day. the people of these neighboring villages live from fishing, but the men usually just fine garbage in their net. jules greener is a marine biology. -- biologist. he set up the center for protection of marine biodiversity. >> thing trash like this on the beach, i cannot even really describe it. i used to go to the beach when i was younger and it was pretty clean in most races, but nothing like this. this is an