sharif abdel kouddous, this is first, ofact of the the new president of iraq, of general abdel fattahsisi. can you explain the significance of -- of egypt, kenya explain the significance of this? >> well, the ruling could come down three days into abdel fattah al-sisi's presidency. those issue by the courts. i think it is important to afterer also that alaa, the judge recused himself from the case, he protested this very judge in 2005 on accusations that the judge was part of rigging the 2005 from entering elections as well. as all musts to alaa' become a barometer of repression in egypt. yet the distinction of being regimesed by the past -- he has the distinction of being persecuted by the past quarter resumes. i was at the protest. it happened two days after the draconian protest law was issued by an unelected government that effectively prohibits peaceful protest in egypt. a few daysed alaa later and was imprisoned for 150 days before he was brought to trial before a judge. they released him on bail and now sentenced again to this ridiculous 15 years in prison and 24 other people -

they swept out the military cue comcomadandt abdel fat a el sisi replaced him with abdel fat a el seeee. huh they have the same name and face. egypt is young democracy toying with -- for instance last night's iowa senate race rhetoric was nothing but -- >> my name is joany. i grew up castrating hogs on farms. >> jon: she won the primary. i believe the losers opening statement was i use to fart into my hand and then smell it. something like that. alright. maybe we don't have as a mature democracy as we would like. does anyone have a true democracy that's blooming? >> for the first time in 50 years syrians have a choice a monday candidates today. >> jon: now we're getting somewhere. syria. yes, as it turns out the epicenter of one of the harshest and bloodiest wars is a must visit for democracy. what are the hallmarks of syrian democracy? >> voting is restricted to areas controlled by the government. >> jon: same here: >> the symbolic a to declare allegiance is to cast their ballot in blood. >> jon: that's different. although do seerians get an i voted sticker? i guess you get ten elect

canons fire a 21-gun salute for new egyptian president abdel fatah he will sisi. pope francis holds a meeting with palestinian leaders at the vatican. >> bowe bergdahl speaks about what happened when he was held captive. >> former army chief abdel fatah el sisi was sworn in for a 4-year term and is the third man to take the role since the arab spring back in 2011. live from doha. hashim, el sisi is inheriting a country divided by political instability. what exactly is he planning to do about it? >> he said egypt will be better, safer and more prosporous. but their opponents says they are talking about the reality on the ground is challenging. he faces a mammoth task as we are going to see in this report. >> reporter: egypt's former army chief at the pip kel of pour in the most populous country in the arab world. this is the moment his supporters have been waiting for. the swearing inin industry, he spelled out his plan for the future. >> egypt will witness development at all levels. we will solve the problems of the past and we will build the egypt of the future,

we are following just for you: a 21 gun salloot for the swearing in of the new egyptian president abdel fatah el sism si. live pictures from roam where pope francis holds an unprecedented meeting with presidents at the vatican. >> if this closed, i don't know where i would go >> residents in mainly homes worry about their future. >> much former chief abdel fat a el sis. i is egypt's president over overthrowing mohamed morsi last july, the third president since the arab spring began. a report. . >> egypt's former army chief at the pinnacle of pour in the most populous country in the arab world. this is the moment his supporters have been waiting for. the swearing in ceremony at the constitutional court was followed by the handover. the president spelled out his plan for the future. he script will witness development at all levels. we will solve the problems of the past and build the egypt of the future, a powerful, just, stable, peaceful and prosperous country it's the first handover in egyptts viteae when an out going president and his successor shape hands during an inauguration. leade

our correspondent hoda abdel-hamid is joining us live. describe to us where you are. >> well, i'm in a youth building in erbil. around me it is packed with people that arrived overnight. now, they all come from a town called tarakort along the disputed areas, not far from mosul. that town has come under mortar attack, heavy mortar attack, prompting thousands and thousands of people to flee in the middle of the night. we are on the second floor of this building. there are big rooms around, and they are packed with families, young people, babies as young as two weeks old. now, we have - they are all christians, many fled baghdad and mosul. now they came to the north. quit petrified. when you ask who was attacking your child. they will tell you we don't know, but not very far from there. we are in the area last week, there are checkpoints of the sunni rebels, and they say these are members of the islamic state of iraq and levant. we haven't seen, we can't confirm that. they were living in fear at the time and wondered as a christian minority

and now president abdel fattah el sisi. took the recent election in a squeaker. 100% of the vote counted. he got by with just 91% of it. the most lopsided election since the 11th playing. it was. 98 to 2. get out the vote machine. that's it right ther there. since the military took over from president last july. their revolution or whatever, egypt has been in turmoil. hundreds of thousands have been arrested and killed. maybe this will help el sisi get back on the right track. >> the show was canceled monday. >> canceled because of pressure on the station airing it in a country that no longer accepts satire. >> ya! >> good move. [laughing] >> sisi says i will show my people what a powerful and courageous leader we are making sure this guy doesn't take care of our unemployment and inflated food prices. why get rid of priority when you can get rid of insult. so bassem youssef is done. the most popular show. jack he wilel headed egyptian g. this material killed luxor. i don't know what is going on. under heunder heroing condit

hoda abdel-hamid met -- safer areas. hoda abdel-hamid met some in northern iraq. >> reporter: it's a melting pot of people that share a harsh reality of being refugees and facing a life of uncertainty. stuck beside a checkpoint, we have nowhere to go. this woman has arrived. she was in hospital when mosul fell. when everyone fled, she had to follow. there was no one to help. i'm here with the children. without this camp we would have nothing. >> the fall of mosul created a mass exodus. there's a risk that more people are on the move as the sunni reb 'emmion spread. the u.n. says it's the beginning. >> it's been really dramatic help. event have unfolded at all levels, particularly the humanitarian level. there's displacement happening in dhuluiya, and people are crossing into other provinces. we'll probably see some in the south go towards baghdad. so we are really, as i said in the beginning, at the tip of the iceberg. when they first left, none of the people here realised the scale of the crisis. this camp is growing by

hoda abdel-hamid in haza. >>> now, kiev ran out of time to pay the gas bill. $2 billion to russia. the dead line was a couple of hours ago. ukraine faces fag the gas supply cut off. the discounted rate was axed in april. it was given ca time to settle the bill after making a payment of $786 million. almost sa% -- 15% of gas used comes prior ukraine. ukraine owes $1.95 billion in total. that's a big bill. the price for gas in ukraine is $$485.5 per thousand cubic metres. that is the highest in europe. kiev says it was ready to make full payment if russia cuts its price. the offer was rejected. rory challands is live in moscow. so what is the latest on the dispute. we know the deadline is gone, what is happening now? >> essentially it's what russia and gazprom are saying to ukraine, is that if you want more gas, you have to pay for it up front. so no cash, no gas. it's the result really of a dispute that has been labouring on for weeks and weeks and weeks. we've had negotiations in brussels, and berlin and russia, although it was willing to push the deadline was not willing to come d

hoda abdel-hamid has more. we are talking about john kerry's visit. >> well, he arrived about an hour ago, and his first meeting will be with p.m. nouri al-maliki. it's not difficult to acknowledge what conversation the two men will have. probably the u.s. secretary of state will press on the iraqi prime minister to form a government as soon as possible. elections were held at the end of april, and the prime minister or his party won a majority. since then he has been unable to form a government. that will probably be one of the topics of conversation. john kerry stressing that it should be an includes igovernment -- inclusive government. nouri al-maliki indicated that he wanted u.s. air strikes. he asked for that. indications out of washington is that obama administration is not willing to do that because it doesn't want to be seen to be taking one side versus the other in this sectarian conflict. certainly political reconciliation and the way ahead will be one of the main topics, the second. the role of these

we'll have more from hoda abdel-hamid in the kurdish region. caroline malone is at the jordanian border. first to imran khan, live in baghdad. to begin with, the presidential officer calling for parliament to convene on 1 july. what will happen then? >> well, that is the first part of the process in choosing the new government. it's partly a constitutional process. they need to meet. parliament will be sworn in, they have to choose a president, prime minister and a speaker. house. that will be the first big deft of the prime minister nouri al-maliki, depending on how many people he can get to support him, he'll likely try to build a coalition, he is unpopular and senior voices within the iraqi political spectrum openly criticising. you herd muqtada al-sadr, a key cleric saying iraq needs to form a unity government. for a long time he's been a vocal critic of prime minister nouri al-maliki. heats under a lot of pressure. will the government be formed on 1 july? it's unlikely. the last time they met to form a government in 2010 it took six months

they swept out the military cue comcomadandt abdel fat a el sisi replaced him with abdel fat a el see

let's go to hoda abdel-hamid.e was speaking about sectarianism and marginalisation and undermining national interest. many would blame nouri al-maliki and his government for creating this situation. absolutely. i think the prime minister had a bit of a defensive aggressive tone here. he was very quick to point out there was no sectarianism on the armed forces. every displaced person i spoke to or the past week here, whether sunni, shi'a, blamed much of the problem on the behaviour of the security forces. the people here told me they were not as much afraid of the sunni rebellion as they were afraid of the ricky army. it's not something that will convince many people or those that had to leave their home. at another point they said the fall of mosul came as a shock. if you speak to kurdish officials, whether from the security forces or the government. they will tell you they have been warning about this for a while, saying since 2012 they have been monitoring training movements of armed groups, they have seen train

hoda abdel hamid has more from a chur church. >> reporter: these people fled in the middle of the nighthey are christians from a town along the border of so-called disputed area not very far from mosul. they left in a hurry. they are elderly, babies as young as two weeks old. now, just a week ago, i was in that town. and people were worried. but they said that so far, they had been spared from the violence. a lot of the people who are among them are several times displaced, like this lady. she first fled from bassarah. then she was in mosul. she had to flee mosul and now she is in erbil in the kurdish north. now, she says she doesn't know where she's going go next. we are in a sports club. this building is three stories high. and wherever you go, it is absolutely packed with people. there is another similar room this way, and then there is another one this way, and it's the same pattern on each floor. now, these people do wonder what is the government doing to protect minorities like them. they say that the kurdish, their positions were intensified and they are protecting them at the mo

the newly elected president el abdel-fattah el-sissi promised to tackle issues including free speech.he verdict today sends a clear message to both international and local media that egypt does not tolerate this and raises serious questions about egypt's constitution which guarantees freedom of the media and mohamed with al jazeera. >> al jazeera has issued this statement. there is no justification whatsoever in attention of our three colleagues for even one minute to have detained them for 17 seven days is an outrage to have sentenced them to five logic sense and any semblance of justice and the acting director of al jazeera spoke early to my colleague and said the verdict was shocking. >> i don't think it has anything to do with justice. it is another step in the campaign of terrorizing people and terrorizing the media. and al jazeera rejects all the accusations against our colleagues. the prosecution couldn't actually produce a shred of evidence against them, all the things that came to court as evidence had nothing to do with the accusation. our reporters, our people there were do

hoda abdel hamid reports now. >> reporter: it was a tough sell for william hague convincing the kurdstake part in a government under the leadership of maliki. the kurdish president says there is no going back to june 10th, the day the city fell. >> translator: we have waited for more than ten years for the iraqi government to address and solve the issues of these areas covered by article 140, but it was to no avail. the iraqi government forces have withdrawn, and it was necessary for the forces to go in to provide protection. >> reporter: the, remarks came a day after he made a surprise visit to the oil-rich city under rebel control. with an order of u.s. made f-16 aircraft on hold, the iraqi recently purchased second-hand jet fighters from russia and belarus should arrive in the coming days. maliki blamed the u.s., saying it is the lack of air cover. but sunni's say a military solution will only increase the problem, and blame the prime minister for narrowing down the rebellion to a fight against isil. >> if they didn't accept our political solution, they will face just isis and dest

hoda abdel-hamid has the latest. we heard about the fighting of bargee. is that the focus the government, militarily anyway? >> well, there are several focuses of the government at the moment. bayie is important. is provides a lot of oil, it's an important refinery. frankly speaking, since the fight has been going on for the past few days people have been feeling the act on the ground, all the way up to here, the kurdish region, there's a huge shortage of fuel. there's no electricity or water in a lot of areas. it's usually a big problem for the government. people feel i'll yepated in those areas. life is difficult, and the promises of nouri al-maliki, that he would retake the areas is not coming true. a flash point is the airport of talla far. the town is under the hands. sunni rebels, there has been a standoff around the airport. we are getting conflicting reports. what we can tell you is there is iraqi army presence in the airport itself. they appear to be surrounded. they are not firing. they appear to be in self-defence mode. if the sunni rebels go i

. >> the man who led the coup, abdel fatah al-sisi is now president. pledging to end egypt's culture of, august 2013 without charge. three other al jazeera journalists are still in jail. they are accused of providing support to the outlawed muslim brotherhood and face long prison terms if convicted. al jazeera denies the charges and calls for their immediate release. a verdict is expected on monday. the u.s. also want al-sisi to stop holding mass trials of political opponents. >> he gave me a very strong sense of his commitment to make certain that the process he has put in place, a reevaluation of human rights legislation, a reevaluation of the judicial process, and other choices that are available, are very much on his mind. >> reporter: but even before hearing al-sisi's promises the united states decided to release $575 million in military aid to cairo. money that had been held up after last july's coup. money the egyptian army needs to maintain its readiness. that will include aing delivery of helicopters. releasing this aid now, critics say the ob

correspondent sharif abdel kouddous who was in the courtroom today as well. adel fahmy, can you respond to the verdict of the court? yes, it was an absolute shock for all of us. we totally expected the opposite. [indiscernible] it is very sad with the judicial .ystem has given the verdict adel.hink we just lost we will try to get him back. sharif, you were there with the families, with the packed courtroom. tell us what happened today. >> what this really means is that in egypt, journalism is a crime. the courts found these three journalists guilty, giving mohamed fahmy and peter greste as well as baher mohamed three years, and in adding on more -- giving them seven years, then adding on three more casings, having shell making baher mohamed having 10 years. they were trying to respond to this outrageous verdict and had to be pulled. peter greste said nothing, simply held up a closed fist in the air and baher mohamed was shaking his head. this is the little margin of freedom of expression and freedom of the press that has been continually shrinking in egypt. i

abdel fatah al-sisi has promised to address many issues including free speech. al-sisi's egypt does not tolerate dissent. and it raises serious questions about the egyptian constitution which is supposed to guarantee freedom of the media. >>> for families of the journalists there was did i is play. peter greste's parents waited for the sentencing in australia. here is the moment they learned their son's sentence. >> seven years for peter greste, and five other defendants present. my god. my god. sorry. >> that's crazy. >> finish. >> thaz crazy. >> from al jazeera english a call to keep up the campaign to free the jailed journalists. >> today was a really grim day. for journalists and for journalism not just in egypt but right around the world. the charges against our people, against peter, mohamed and baher and our other staff were absurd right from the outset. they are guilty of being great journalists and carrying out great journalism courageous and committed and providing information to our are audience right around the world. one shred of evidence which supp

. >>> as abdel fatah al-sisi begins his term as president, one of the main problems he faces is the country's chronic energy source. the energy crisis, the possible solution pf. >> the egyptian energy sector has been so devastated by years of corruption and mismanagement that the country now faces an estimated $20 billion in loans and responsibilities. the man who led the country down this past was hussein salam. it made him blts. and though an egyptian court later found salam guilty of corruption we tracked him down in spain where authorities have prevented his extradition. >> reporter: the egyptian people have a right to know what you did with their natural gas. [ laughter ] >> you think that's funny? you don't think you owe an explanation to the egyptian people? >> i will not answer. >> far from over. when the egyptian military stopped the sales in 2012 his former company filed a barrage of lawsuits asking for $8 billion. egypt's treasure has around $14 billion of foreign reserves. $8 billion, that's more than half of the total reserves that it's currently using to just about keep taking o

. >> reporter: last year abdel fast fa abdelfattah spoke against the the law of gathering. >> if i'mccused of the smallest misdemeanor, i'm going to spend that year plus whatever it is that i'm getting. so it's highly lik likely i'm going back to president. >> reporter: the judges issued judgments. >> this is one of egypt's worst years of human rights on record. let's look at the facts. courts have handed down mass senses sentences. >> reporter: the new president is also under mounting pressure to tackle sexual attacks targeting women which have been on the rise for many years. here a woman who was attacked during celebrations to mark his inauguration. sisi pledged to crackdown on the attacks, reassuring the victim he had zero tolerance for sexual crimes. but it is cases like this that are worrying many people as to how this government plans to insure the rights of all egyptians. al jazeera. >> well, abdullah elshamy will remain in jail. the court extended his detention for another 45 days. his lawyer asked the immediate release on medical grounds. he has been held without charge sin

morsi at that time very similar to those he just given in meetings with the current egyptian president abdel sisi two members of the right wing group jewish defense league have been said in the stay in france to ten and the six months in prison respectively they placed a bomb in the car of a journalist who took them to task for their violent methods or his marina kosar it has more on how the g.t.o. seems to have escaped the attention of french authorities i. i. they have a strong following and a clear message as only we are here present we jews cruel we are well trained well equipped we know to freight and we should be more afraid of us than we are of them the jewish defense league claims its goal is to protect the jewish community from hatred and anti-semitism but some jews accuse it of doing the very same thing it's meant to be fighting against and these people say the organization is not protecting anyone but it's liking those who don't share the same views and opinions jonathan mol adopted claims he felt the wrath of the league when he started researching them in paris i exposed with my

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that's abdel fattah. he is the former army chief.s the most powerful figure in the interim administration here. he was also as a defense minister. it is he who has preceded over a very brutal unprecedented crackdown on disent here, a crackdown that has seen over 1,400 protesters killed on the street, has more than 16,000 protesters jailed. we're dealing with the same individual. he has now taken off his army wrun form, and he has been elected as a civilian president as what many pro-democracy activists in this country certainly we're not expecting anything good to result from his presidency. many will already claim that he is worse than hosni mubarak, the long-time oop accuratic ruler. the authorities will tell you that there is a separation of powers between the government and the presidency and the judiciary, and they will say that the judiciary is fully independent and reaches its verdicts according with the law. now, i should also add that this verdict today was passed in absentia. that means that he is entitled a retrial, but th

thank you, general abdel al-sisi.ry, president sisi, finally bringing the hammer down on terror journalists. [laughter] i'm sure they received a fair trial in the general's court. [people's court theme music playing] nothing says innocent until proven guilty by keeping the defendants in cage and having the judge wear sunglasses so you can't see its eyes. justice isn't blind, but it has macular degeneration in the family. let's get to the trial itself. all three of these men, bader mohamed, mohamed fahmy, a canadian egyptian, and peter greste, abaustralian, are respected international journalists some prosecutors must have brought case tighter than king akhenatan's sarcophagus. "this sarcophagus is famous for its tightness." so what is the terror evidence? >> the only evidence, if you want to call it that, that the prosecution has presented has been old video clips, video clips of news conferences, news reports, sometimes news reports from outside of egypt. >> i want to give you a sense of what the evidence they presen

hoda abdel-hamid spoke to refugees in northern iraq. >> he first fled, and now the mosul area. this man is stranded in a transit camp. with his children and grandchildren, worried about his future. >> where can i go. i'm taking care of all of them. this kid is disabled. back home he would die. i left my house, i left everything in the middle of the night. >> people here fled when fighters from islamic state of iraq and levant swept through their villages. for them, it was a matter of life and death. >> they think we are infidels. my wife is in backdad with the kids. i'm stuck here, i can't reach them, there's no way i can go by road. it's difficult to escape. most of those lay low. preferring to keep to themselves. mistrust is running tight. >> the differences are showing. when they come here. >> reporter: several families live here. they fled from the same district. they are staying together, it helps them feel safe and they are wary of visitors. >> it's difficult to have anyone to speak on camera. when one of them accepts, everybody else wants to make sure that he says the ri

the secretary met with president abdel fattah al-sisi, among others. last year, the former army leader ousted egypt's first democratically-elected president, mohamed morsi of the muslim brotherhood, and last month, he was elected president himself. all the while, a crackdown on political opponents has intensified. alaa abdel-fattah, a leader of the january 2011 revolution, was sentenced last week to 15 years for violating a ban on protests. and on saturday, mohammed badie, the supreme guide of the muslim brotherhood, had his death sentence upheld along with nearly 200 supporters. >> brown: we invited egypt's ambassador to washington to appear on tonight's program. the embassy declined our request. joining me now to discuss what today's ruling means is michele dunne, a senior associate at the carnegie endowment for peace and michael hanna, a senior fellow at the century foundation. so michael-a, how much gow see this as part of a general crackdown on journalists an how much is aimed specifically at al jazeera? >> well, this is clearly part of a broader

field marshall abdel fattah el sisi, the new leader, was lionized for having overthrown morsi. the door on dissent. since last summer, over 1,000 protestors have been massacred. journalists and dissidents of all stripes have been arrested and tortured. but bassem youssef refused to be deterred. are you the only voice that's not in this syndrome of pleasing the army? >> youssef: let's say that i am not in part of the massive current going in the certain direction to please certain people. >> simon: you can see which way that current is flowing. everywhere, posters of field marshal sisi dominate the landscape. instead of baseball cards, vendors sell sisi cards. pastries adorned with the field marshal's face are sold in shops across cairo. that was too delicious for bassem to resist, so in a skit last october, a baker walks in with a tray full of sisi cakes. at first, bassem isn't interested, but he soon realizes it would better for his health to buy one. "only one?" the baker asks. "you don't like sisi or what?" bassem hesitates. "okay," he says, "give me everything you've got."

an international outcry against the verdict saying it -- joining me now, sharif abdel kudis, correspondent for democracy now and fellow at the nation institute. he's on the phone tonight from cairo. can you give me the context of the initial charges brought against these al jazeera journalists? what was the situation like when they were apprehended and charged? >> prosecutors accused these journalists of conspireing with the muslim brotherhood which was designated a terrorist organization by egyptian authorities in september to spread false news and smear the country's reputation to bring down the military-backed government. i think we have to understand these charges and this very harsh verdict in the context of a wider crackdown on any and all opposition voices that have been increasing over the past year. tens of thousands of people have been arrested since morsi's ouster in july. the muslim brotherhood and its supporters have been the primary target, but the crackdown has broadened to encompass any defensive voices across the political spectrum including prominent activists who helped

hoda abdel-hamid spoke to a commander in the kurdish region of qatar. >>> there has been some fighting between the kurdish forces in northern iraq and members of the i.s.i.l., happening wednesday evening, on the outskirts of mosul. according to a kurdish commander, the iraqi soldiers have evacuated the bases in the areas, and so they decided to move in to make sure the military hardware fell into the hands of the i.s.i.l. that's a main concern here for the kurds, special in areas where there's a sizeable community. this happened also in kirkuk. >> translation: i want to confirm that there has been no fighting between us and i.s.i.l. and kirkukment there were reports that we control the whole of the area. that is not true. we have beefed up the forces. we took over some of the bases. they warped us that they were leaving, but we found empty bases. we took over the bases to secure them. i want to make clear we never pushed the iraqi army out. the kurdish forces are on high alert. these are in defense, in areas where there's a sidable kurdish community. so far they haven't been asked by b

kerry is expected to meet kurdish leaders, and hoda abdel-hamid joins me from there. hi, hoda. give us an idea of why john kerry is there. >> he arrived less than an hour ago. he is here to meet with the kurdish leader. and the kurds are very much part of what is happening in iraq at the moment. their relations with prime minister nouri al-maliki have been strained at best over the past couple of years. then there was a new crisis at the beginning of the year over the issue of oil revenues and the kurd's exporting oil from baghdad. over the past two or three weeks, as much as the sunni rebels were expanding and baghdad losing territory, the peshmerga forces had to fill in the vacuum and it changed the reality on the ground - when it comes to the amount of territory that the kurd control, something that is of a concern to baghdad in the days to see how that evolves in the weeks to come. now, john kerry is here also to see what will be the role of the peshmerga. would they be willing to fight alongside iraqi security forces. this comes after spending a day in baghdad meeting with

still unclear whether the new president abdel fatah al-sisi. >>> breaking news out of the west bank. three bodies found in the city of hebron. jane ferguson live in ramallah. jane, do you believe these are the bodies of the three missing teenagers? >> well, del, there's no confirmation yet at this point. the israeli military and government are not speaking at all about this new development. it was sources that told al jazeera that three bodies had been found just north of hebron city, and it was close to hebron city where the three israeli teenagers went missing three and a half weeks ago. it was believed that the three bodies were found buried by the israeli military while they were doing searches. there has been intense searches and arrests going on nightly across the west bank but around the hebron area seems to be the place the search has focused for the last three weeks. >> jane do we know anything else, for instance, the cause of death? >> that has not been made clear yet. whether or not they were freshly dead, or they had been killed several weeks ago. which of course will be

in the country's presidential election are just about to be announced about unofficial results show abdel fatah al-sisi, with it be president or could be president. let's not be too premature. as soon as the results are announced. mr. anwar al asi, making a statement there he is the one expected to make the announcement. watching that with me, carroll kirsten. it wasn't very exciting tv. let's try and make it there. sisi as president. how is he going to change egypt? >> well, that is everybody's guess at the moment. it has been a terribly long prelude of course to this day. the announcements is of course a kind of nonevent. we have all been expecting this. it is probably significant in the sense that now egypt can sort of move on. and they can sort of see what kind of policies we can expect from the former field marshal because he has left that very much to everybody's imagination so far. the american concern i think for al-sisi is in terms of credibility. 93% of a 43% turnout is not exactly the mandate you're looking for. >> roughly 1 in 4, isn't it? >> yes. the fact that this was so con

the newly elected egyptian president, abdel fatah al-sisi, clear message to both local and international media, that says egypt does not tolerate this sun and the constitution guarantees freedom of the media. mohamed ado, al jazeera. >> and the parents of are peter greste were shocked by the verdict. >> that's crazy. >> lois and peter greste were shocked by the sentence. >> outrageous and an injustice. in a statement he says today was a really grim day for journalists and journalism not only in egypt but right around the world. the charges against our people against peter and mohamed and baher were absurd from the outset. this case has been followed by civil rights lawyers, we talked to one about cases in the middle east and in africa. >> al jazeera plays a pivotal role, they uphold the rights of the people, they speak about them. they do not silence anybody their part has been nonpartisan. but because of this role, dictatorial regimes, what we have is a punishment that has to be inflicted that has to be accepted by great people like peter greste and other mohamed and other fellows. what

people have been -- city people have been queueing for hours to buy fuel, with mixed results, hoda abdel-hamid reports. >> reporter: early morning, angry people block the road. they had been waiting for hours at the petrol station in vain. tempers were so high. warning shots couldn't dislodge them. >> translation: the gor said he would -- governor said he would solve the problem. selling to odd and even licence plates. i pashed here last night. until now i have not been able to get fuel. they tell me there isn't any. >> we measured one of the queues. those that made it to the pump only got 30 litres. many of the stations are shut down. the short started after the refinery came under attack. it provides oil for domestic consumption. it accounts for a quarter of the country's capacity. it had an impact on domestic consumption. wherever you dry here, you see the fuel tankers. they are bringing oil to the refinery. people are angry because they say everything is for export. >> hundreds of truck drivers transport oil daily. >> it is not because we have not enough fuel in kurdistan. i think personal

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hoda abdel-hamid met some of them in karzai in northern iraq. >> reporter: it's a melting pot of people who shared a harsh reality of being refugees, facing a life of uncertainty. stuck beside a checkpoint, they have nowhere to go. this woman just arrived. she was in hospital when they fell to sunni rebels. when everyone around fled, she had to follow. >> translation: there was no one to help. i'm here with my children. i never imagined i would end up like this. without this camp, we would have nothing. >> reporter: there was a swiss exodus. there were fears that people were on the move. the u.n. says it's just the beginning. >> it's being really dramatics how events have unfolded ot all lels -- at all levels, particularly the humanitarian level. there's displacement and people are crossing provinces. we'll see some in the south go towards baghdad. we are at the tip of the iceberg. >> when they left none realised the scale of the crisis. a lot of people have run out of cash. many that are staying, for the second time are displaced, coming from other parts of iraq. they moved through mos

abdel fatah el sisi known to supporters as the savior of the nation. when low turnout threatened to undermine that message, media outlets urged the public to get out and vote. critical voices have been hushed this past week. he script's top t.v. satrist yousef said his show would stay off of the air definitely. a plans to monitor social media sites for disseptember. the trial of this network's journalists accused of links to the muslim brotherhood, a story one angle in a wider geo political stand-off between egypt and qatar. he script is a story -- egypt has trumped freedom of expression. our starting point this week is cairo. >> the visual media remains the main stronghold of sisi. there is a combination between circus, a soap opera, comedy and all rolled into one. he script at the moment doesn't have a democracy. it has a democrasisi. that was apparent when the election results rolled in. journalists even on some privately owned channels started celebrating. >> we have been trying very much to cheer a particular candidate. in this case el sisi and tr