he joins us. >> mr president, abdul fatah al-sisi, your royal highness your excellenceies, ladies and gentlemen. to begin with i extend congratulations, appreciation and thanks to president abdul fatah al-sisi for taking the presidency of the 26th annual summit of the league of arab states hoping and wishing him all success and efforts amid a grave challenging circumstances. i also extend all appreciation to his royal highness, and the emir of kuwait who held the reins during the people's presidency of the league of arab states. and for lis prudence -- his prudence and efforts. mr president, the arab world is living through deep and grate change. and that change no doubt should reach the legal prosecutors, and since i have taken the league of this organization i was adamant to see the organization moving forward. that's why it should be restructured impressed and developed in toward to cope with the currents developments. the arab summit responded. we can see the first route, the revised draft charter and the new charter of the piece and security council. also the continued discussion

the egyptian president abdul fatah al-sisi, saudi arabia king. the yemeni president outspoken about the ongoing events in his country, the saudi arabian air strikes. he seemed to put out a call for the military intervention to continue until there's a resolution in his country. let's bring in the professor of middle east at qatar university and joins us live. we didn't expect yemen do dominate, but they eventually got there. seems they are united in condemning what happened in the country. what stood out for you. >> i have heard basically a different priority from each leader. if we start with abdul fatah al-sisi, that he was pushing towards a suggestion of having an arab force and pushing to that. if we look at the speech we focus on what is being done now. this is internationally supported and will continue. abd-rabbu mansour hadi was clear. he sent three clear messages. one is about what happened, based on what houthis had done. it's justified and yemenis were waiting to see that houthis prevented that and he was saying that you know, he was p

presidency of the 25th annual summit of the league of arab states comes to an end, i call president abdul fatah al-sisi, the president of egypt to take over the presidency of the current summit wishing him all success. [ clapping ] [ ♪ ] >>> we are looking at the egyptian president abdul fatah al-sisi taking over the presidency of the arab league as handed over to him by the kuwaiti emir touching on the problems the region is facing at the moment. of course there are many. a what is happening in iraq what is happening in libya. iran's nuclear programme. let's listen to what abdul fatah al-sisi has to say. >> the inauguration of the 26th annual summit of the arab states. and your second homeland egypt allow me to comments by addressing you with egypt's message. your royal highnesses or excellenceies, secretaries of the league of arab states. honourable guests ladies and gentlemen. it is with pleasure i welcome you all as brothers and friends on the home style of egypt and fail to you and convey all the appreciation and love of the egyptian people who take pride in being part of the arab nation where the

it wasn't announced in the final communique, but by abdul fatah al-sisi himself. >> this has been an abdul fatah al-sisi obsession for a while. he's been the engine behind it and convincing the saudis to do it because it's the saudis who will finance it. now that the saudis have intervened in yemen, they have another thought in mind intervening in egypt. when he talked about a need to fight terrorism and arm the libyan government that he supports. so there is an intention on the part of the general president abdul fatah al-sisi to speak of a joint military force, because at the end of the day the summit has been emphasising, underlining the military solutions and it has been only lip service paid to the important issues of development, democracy, and you wonder how the voice will work, because there's renewed solidarity. there's an of talk and a lot of slogans, and words are cheap. talk is cheep. the only accessible decision that -- actionable decision that came out of this is the arab military force. when it comes to the specifics of what the force means, we don't know. it's seriousl

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the egyptian president abdul fatah al-sisi, saudi arabia king. the yemeni president outspoken about the ongoing events in his country, the saudi arabian air strikes. he seemed to put out a call for the military intervention to continue until there's a resolution in his country. let's bring in the professor of middle east at qatar university and joins us live. we didn't expect yemen do dominate, but they eventually got there. seems they are united in condemning what happened in the country. what stood out for you. >> i have heard basically a

my brother, abdul fatah al-sisi, the president of egypt. and the government and people of egypt for the warm reception and generous hospitality. and outstanding ground work to this summit which... which will contribute to us achieving what we are as spireing to. i extend welcome to the secretaries, generals for efforts during my presidency of the 25th annual summit. which helped us build on what we have achieved. commenting the ground work to the present summit. your royal highnesses excellenceies, ladies and gentlemen. it is with pleasure that i begin by thanking god that he bestowed recovery on my brother, extend extending my congratulations and myself praying to the almighty that he will enjoy help and wellbeing to continue to lead his people. your royal highnesses the period proceeding the 25th summit was very critical and complicated and our joint arab actions during that period was experiencing the most difficult times and in the face of all this will remain adamant, and sound support and solidarity by brother leaders, a catalyst that

this relationship between hamas and the abdul fatah al-sisi government is quite frankly, at the worst it's been and to be able to move forward is going to be challenging. now, we understand that the leader of islamic jihad, a powerful movement here in the gaza strip, has gone to cairo and meet with figures within abdul fatah al-sisi's government to try to de-escalate the tensions how that will bear fruit is a bit hard to say at this statement. there is questions over what the court ruling will mean. we have not heard anything from the authorities as to whether they'll implement the court rules, if it does what that implementation will look like. alarm bells are being run, senior leaders are saying they are concerned that egypt could carry out strikes across the gaza strip. something that they say would be very detrimental for the gaza strip, and would effectively lose egypt its credibility with the palestinian people. whatever the case the situation is extremely tense, and still many questions remain over where things will go after this ruling from this court in cairo. >> egypt's high

as the first meeting between abdul fatah al-sisi, and king suleiman since the death of his predecessor >>> and a leak about how money was used to fund a campaign against mohamed mursi ousted in a military coup. an egyptian channel has a recorder from the senior aide abdul fatah al-sisi when he was defence minister talking to another official about using money from the united arab emirates to baghdad a movement that led the campaign against mohamed mursi, ending in a coup in 2013. >> yes, please sir, we need 200 tomorrow from the tamarod account. that portion that the u.a.e. wire transferred. the money transfer that came for tamer odd, we need 200 only. yes, 200,000 yes, thank you so much >>> the united states now - democrats are debating whether to attend the israeli prime minister's address to congress on tuesday. the invitation to speak was accepted without the knowledge of president obama. binyamin netanyahu has arrived in washington as us-israel ties come under strain and is expected to urge congress to agree with a nuclear deal on iran which they have been pushing for. [ chanting

and i think, again, what president abdul fatah al-sisi is saying he's looking over the region and the horizon and saying we need to have the force ready to go for things like iraq and syria. >> can we expect unity from arab nations on this when there are so many divisions among them? >> you know one of the principles of warfare is unity of command. that will determine whether the unit will be successful. they'll have these nations which are adversarial with each other, competing on the commerce side of things. for them to be successful they'll have to create an n.a.t.o. structure protecting the north atlantic and the european nations. that will determine whether or not they'll be successful. this will be a military organization, which it is it will have to have unity of command to not violate the principle of warfare. >>> as a military structure, force, the answer do you think, for so many of the problems which are political. well obviously the military is an extension of a foreign policy. in most cases the kinds of alliances are determined for defensive purposes. if this one is going

why now would abdul fatah al-sisi head to saudi arabia what do the two sides get out of it? >> well it's more than one dim answerings to the visit. and this month there'll be a huge conference to does entertainment in saudi arabia and they are a media lair in the conference, and the egyptians are depending on us to encourage other investors to help. the sort demeption is the war in terror. egypt is opening two fronts at the same time one in the east with hamas and the terrorist, and the other on the west with the libyans, and the groups in there. how saudi arabia could help with that, how they could help saud rsh, and they are on - their own challenge with the tourist in the north and south. and on the north with d.a.e.s.h., and the south with al qaeda and the houthis. >> is there an element of starting to restore the balance, if you like in the region the relationship that saudi arabia has about gulf states other arab states the rising force. all about, sort of calming things down a little bit in the region. >> that's true. we needed egypt. they were absent from the scene f

. >> how much of a boost has the economic conference been to the government of abdul fatah al-sisi. >> i believe that the summit has been a tremendous boost. for the government of abdul fatah al-sisi. but - in which direction. i believe that it was - what egypt really needed what egypt really needs now is the direct foreign investment in the sense of new projects setting up on the ground rather than just having some foreign fund coming into the country to excise existing projects which is the pattern of foreign investment for the last decade. >> so he has to create a better investment environment or climate. >> definitely. including the political aspects of it. then you have christine lagarde. we have seen john kerry, and the secretary summoned. he had the great, the good mentioned those from the region pledging huge amounts of money to the bolstering of the egyptian economy at the moment. that surely will have a favourable impact upon him in the short term if not in the longer term. >> definitely. then again. all these investments are supposed to be in egypt. egypt lacks a lot of thi

they called for an end to the coup with abdul fatah al-sisi being elected president. the chance will be heard in several districts of cairo and in the provinces. the protests came on the heels of a shake-up. abdul fatah al-sisi appointed a new interior minister. since the beginning of 2014, amnesty international says 121 people have died in police stations. the cause of death lack of medical care or torture. the human rights group says there was abuse committed at the hand of security forces. police stations and military posts became common targets for bombing by armed groups. during a misty upham human rights council meeting. commissioner said he believed the ongoing assault on freedom of expression would feed violent extremism, citing an increase in protesters, human rights activists and dissidents in prison. egypt's foreign minister disagreed with the findings. >> egypt is termed to build constitutional institutions based on the rule of law, and based on its determination not to represent the errors of the past. >> yet many human right activists are saying that the

an egyptian tv channel aired a recording from a former defence minister abdul fatah al-sisi. . >> no the money transfer that came from tamer odd, we need 200,000, yes thank you so much >>> professor at the middle east center at the london school of economics, he joins us from london. good to speak with you again. first of all, what do you make of this take. does it tell us anything new about the event that led up to the 2013 coup. >> well i mean if the tape is accurate that would show a real connection between the security forces and tamerod. that is the sole society movement mobilizing egyptian society against the egyptian president. it has repeatedly denied links or finance by the egyptian's fate. yet the allegations and the leak today do show a connection between the security forces and tamerod. remember this is not the first leak. there has been several leaks, you know by the top echelon of the security forces. all these leaks provide a catch behind the scenes the fierce power struggle that took place in the last few months of mohamed mursi, between the security service, and the

the recordings were made when abdul fatah al-sisi was defence minister under the transitional president mansour. the joint prospect aimed to build 1 million homes on land provided by the liltry -- military. abdul fatah al-sisi is heard saying he'll collect the fee for electricity - it's not clear if he's talking about himself personally. >> at least eight houthi rebels have been killed in an explosion. the blast happened in the sports facility. 12 others were wounded in the bombing. it's believed the houthis were attacked by tribesman in the area. thousands of russians attended the furniture for murdered opposition boris nemtsov. it is hoped it will push for change. >> patiently holding their offerings, they wait in line coming to boris nemtsov's memorial service to honour a man viewed as a champion from russia. >> he was one of the best men in the country, it's a shame to say goodbye. >> he was a wonderful man with charisma and kindness intelligent, active a charming man. >> i came here because no one deserves to die like he did. it's outrageous. >> reporter: dignitaries representing t

we have this report >>> it is the first cabinet reshuffle under president abdul fatah al-sisi, who staged a coup in july 2013, and won an election later. ate ministers have been sacked including the ministers of tourism. the most important was the sacking of the minister of inter. he was a long-term security officer. he was appointed as interior minister in 2012 after mohamed mursi. supporters of mohamed mursi accused the minister of collaborating with the ministry to orchestrate the coup. he led the crack down on the muslim brotherhood and supporters. between 400 to 800 were killed in cairo by security forces. dispersed at protest camps. human rights watch urges on investigation into crimes against humanity be carried out. egyptian security forces have been accused of carrying out torture and human rights abuses in an attempt to crack down. the minister survived a blast in cairo described as an assassination attempt. he was featured in a number of leads in which it was said he obtructed the course of justice. he was heard giving the clean light to the offices in weapons against the prote

player in propping up the egyptian economy since the takeover by the military and action of abdul fatah al-sisithrough the presidency. the interesting questions now are, of course who leaked it, and which objectives. if we look a little at the context. there are still parliamentary elections that need to take place in egypt, and they are due to take place this month, although last week it appeared because of a moving they might have to be postponed. it's possible that certain political players in egypt have an interest in making this into the open right, to embarrass the government. >> still to come on al jazeera, how a european ban on a kenyan farm is expecting the livelihood of farmers. plus violent outbreaks in columbia and an indigenous tribe claims what it says are incest ral lands. >>> good to have you with us these are the top stories on al jazeera. u.s. president obama called the iranian's upcoming speech to the u.s. congress a distraction to iran. binyamin netanyahu will tell congress why he's opposed to a nuclear deal. >> the u.n. special advisor to yemen says all political parties re