morsi had been ousted and had been ousted in june 2013.here was the instrume -- interim administration that have been installed earlier that year and that government was trying -- its main job was to organize fresh elections, which happened earlier in 2014. at the time, the brotherhood was under enormous pressure. shortly before we were arrested, the government banned the brotherhood and declared them to be a terraced organization, but had not formally or legally presented the measure as a terrorist organization. so as far as we were concerned, the brotherhood still amounts to the official opposition. it had formed a government, the first legitimately elected the administration egypt had ever had. it had been forced out of power and the new government had taken to declaring it as a terraced organization. well, we simply were doing the job of any responsible journalist, particularly, when it came to covering some fairly significant political changes taking place. the government was introducing the legislation, introduced or changed the cons

egypt has been battling an insurgency since mid 2013 when the army overthrew mohammed morsi of the muslim brotherhood. an egyptian affiliate, the group has killed hundreds of soldiers and police. he script says four of its soldiers died in the operation. >>> more than a million people have been taking part in a demonstration in barcelona to show their support for independence from spain. this year is a celebration of cat loan i can't's national day. it marks the start of a two-week electoral campaign. the regional election on september 27th is widely being seen as a second referendum on whether the region should break with spain. since the restoration of democracy in the late 1970s, calls for independence have continued to grow. cat loan i can't is an autonomous state in northern spain, home to 7.5 million people. in an unofficial referendum, 80% of those who voted said yes to separating from spain. 85% of the population speak catalan, which is europe's 9th most widely spoken language. traditionally spain's economic and industrial powerhouse, catalans complain their tax revenues subsidize

now, president sisi of course overthrew the previous administration of president morsi and its military backed government and everyone will be watching to see what he says. given the strategic importance of this country. it's a very large country as well. egypt. >> all right before i let you go ask you again, raul castro is going to be here for the first time as well. >> he spoke i think on saturday at the u.n. sustainable goals conference and what can you say about raul castro? one of the great survivors alongside hi brother fidel castro, the leaders of the cuban revolution. that revolution leading to the united states pulling away for 50, 60 years. those ties appear to be back on. we still haven't lifted the embargo, but the pope there last week before he came to the united states and raul castro i'm sure will pull no punches against the u.s. administration. it's what the u.n. does best to allow people to vent their spleens as it were, to say what they want to say, and everybody can move on. >> vent our spleens, is that a british thing? >> maybe, i'm not prepared to say. >> john terre

society and sectors of society asking for security reform athat happened during mubarak's time and morsi's time and now al-sisi. and the resolution hasn't been complete to say the least. >> a blow to an already struggling tourism sector. >> the tourism sector has struggled for the past two years. backdrop of the war on terror on the one hand so it's a very tense security situation and is indeed a very tense security situation in several parts of the country and at the same time, the egyptian tourism industry is trying to put up the message it is safe and secure for tourists to come to egypt. events like that are not going to help them. >> a.j. helliard, thank you for speaking to us. >> thank you. >> lawkal-aqsa compound in east jerusalem, police threw rocks, israeli police threw stun grenades into the mosque. >>> freed more than 430 prisoners, four police officer were killed, several others were wounded. our correspondent jennifer glasse has more from the afghan capital, kabul. >> reporter: a coordinated attack on that outquit outskirtf gosne city. freeing hundreds of prisoners, among them

around the commonwealth, former virginia lawmaker morsi is no longer running for print -- senate. he says he is dropping the bid because of health problems. that former delegate was jailed sexualn alleged relations with a 17-year-old secretary. despite that he won reelection and then vacated the house he for his state senate bid. jonathan: european countries struggling to accommodate hundreds of thousands of refugees from africa, the middle east, and south asia. fiveuropean council says countries are handling 70% or more of those refugees. jordan's queen says the international committee must step in and help. >> we need to come together for collective action. when you to come up with a conference of and cohesive policy in order to deal with this. other countries are being asked to take in more refugees but some oppose doing so. the european union officials will meet next week to discuss this issue. alison: widespread flooding in japan is forced about 170,000 people from their homes. 20 inches of rain fell in only 24 hours. north of tokyo helicopters were forced to rescue people fr

father morsi thank you very much for joining us. we appreciate it.are just about to wrap things up here. i just want to let our audience know thatiat later on about 7:0 o'clock eastern time, we'll be back to cover the pope's speech of the festival of families. i have saly quin and patrick hornbeck here give me your thoughts about what you have seen, sally, the last couple of hours. >> i keep going back to this idea of globalization because i think he is speaking more to people in the world than he is to just philadelphia or just the united states when he talks about immigration. we have seen all of the imigree problems in syria with the nightmare there. we have immigration problems here almost everything he talks about, religious freedom or violencereligion, it all is more global than anything else. you know, he tried to put it in perspective today in that little a add-on that he gave. that's what comes to mind for me is what -- >> it is amazing. i just want to point out this picture because there you see sort of at the top end of this screen there w

egypt has battled an islamic insurgency since the ouster of morsi. >> european countries are taking drastic measures to stem the flow of refugees. hung gary will prosecute those yesterday germany stopped all train traffic with austria. leaders are meeting in belgium today to address the crisis. >>> turning now to the sniper case in phoenix. three takeners were arrested yesterday accused of targeting cars with rocks, but police believe the real shooter or shooters are still on the loose. with more, here's busy's richard cantu. >> three 18-year-olds all booked on criminal damage. they were using granite and a slingshot to shoot at pedestrians in cars. >> police don't expect the rests to mean an end to the string of highway shootings that has the phoenix, arizona, area on edge and on gourd. >> probably a copycat. >> reporter: authorities think they may be dealing with more than one shooter after at least 11 cars were hit by bullets in less than two weeks. >> if you break out a windshield with a rock and somebody jerks the steering wheel and hits another car and you have a collision, you end up

but he created massive instability that allowed the muslim brother morsi to take over and, yes, he was elected, yes, confirmed this past week, there were plenty of fraudulent votes, he alleged to have had 12 million or so votes, but after a year as president, of usurping the power under the constitution, totally disregarding the constitution, taking powers that weren't his, over to become dictator, 30 million egyptians rose up, went to the street, these were moderate muslims, these were secularists, christians, jews, that came to the streets and said, with one accord, one heart, one voice, we don't want radical islamists running egypt. same thing that our muslim friends in afghanistan, in the northern alliance said. we don't want radical islamists running afghanistan. but the egyptian people did it on their own. t may have been the greatest peaceful -- was the greatest peaceful uprising nist i had -- in the history of man. never been that many people peacefully demonstrate. what was not peaceful was the muslim brotherhood, because they want the world caliphate. they thought they were o