the grandest ceremony at the start of a contentious visit egyptian president abdel fattah el-sisi was a school to the lease a palace where he was greeted by the french president emanuel macro the leaders discussed regional issues counterterrorism and their shared opposition to turkey's actions in libya and the eastern mediterranean mackerel said he also raised concerns about human rights in egypt with c.c. but refused to jeopardize paris's strategic partnership with cairo. conditional it . could be asked to matilda i will not make our cooperation in defense or economic matters conditional on these disagreements 1st because i believe in the sovereignty of people and respect for our legitimate and reciprocal interests 2nd big. as i believe that it is more effective to have a policy of demanding dialogue than a policy of boycott that would reduce the effectiveness of one of our partners in the fight against terrorism and for regional stability president sisi dismissed accusations of rights abuses. it is not appropriate for you to present the egyptian state and everything it does for its

the new government was led by military man turned president abdel fattah el-sisi. 3 al jazeera employees were among the dozens of media workers arrested on c.c.s. watch the court case was a show trial the government's evidence against al jazeera was feeble but reputations suffered all around. that same year on august 21st the assad government showed its citizens and the world how far syria was prepared to go to suppress the kind of dissent that had toppled other arab leaders the rockets that slammed into the outskirts of damascus that day character chemical. and it was one of the biggest massacres more than 1500 were killed about one so if supposed to there shake something in for some kind of action or reaction. so when it didn't that nothing we can do is going to be changing our nothing we can do or document or film or book kill for that would stop this massacres and this horror that. it's used. that's when we've seen many citizens around the shopping this going back to their shops to their workshops. just giving. i think that was a turning point not only for syrians in the sense that y

in paris, french president emmanuel macron welcomed egyptian leader abdel fattah el-sisi to the Élyseepalace monday, saying france would continue to sell weapons to egypt. this comes despite mounting accusations of human rights violations against sisi's government -- including the use of forced disappearances, mass arrests, and torture amid an unprecedented crackdown on activists and journalists. this is president macron speaking monday. >> i will not condition matters of the economic operation and disagreements of human rights. first, because i believe in the sovereignty of the people's and in respect of our legitimate and reciprocal interests. amy: the number of displed people around the world because of conflict topped 80 million in in what the united nations calls 2020 a bleak milestone. the u.n. said the pandemic exacerbated the displacement crisis, despite calls early on from the secretary general for a global ceasefire while the world battles covid-19. areas that saw significant fresh displacement include syria, the democratic republic of congo, mozambique, somalia, yemen, and a

president abdel fattah el-sisi in paris for 2 days he started off his visit on sunday meeting the frenchforeign minister joins the jury of but of course the centerpiece of this visit was the meeting with the french president eman or macro and now the 2 men relations between them since 2019 has been somewhat strained and that is because in 29000 michael visited cairo he spoke about human rights in egypt at the time and that frustrated egyptian authorities said this visit and this meeting was seen as something of an opportunity to repair and revive relations now the 2 men at their press conference said that they discussed a range of issues they talked about syria they talked about libya they talked about their shared concern over turkey's actions in the region particularly in the eastern mediterranean and they also talked about human rights the french president about all my cross saying that he addressed frankly and transparent so transparently the issue of human rights with president sisi but merkel said it was very clear that he would not jeopardize what he called the strategic relations

the grandest ceremony at the start of a contentious visit egyptian president abdel fattah el-sisi was a school to the lease a palace where he was greeted by the french president emanuel michel the leaders discussed regional issues counterterrorism and their shared opposition to turkey's actions in libya and the eastern mediterranean mackerel said he also raised concerns about human rights in egypt with sisi but refused to jeopardize paris's strategic partnership with cairo. conditionally. i will not make our cooperation in defense or economic matters conditional on these disagreements 1st because i believe in the sovereignty of people and respect for our legitimate and reciprocal interests 2nd because i believe that it is more effective to have a policy of demanding dialogue than a policy of boycott that would reduce the effectiveness of one of our partners in the fight against terrorism and for regional stability president sisi dismissed accusations of rights abuses. it is not appropriate for you to present the egyptian state and everything it does for its people and for the stabilit