> an al jazeera journalist has been detained in berlin at the request of egyptian authorities, akmed mansour has been accused of several crimes. al jazeera says mansour is one of our leading journalist. and must be released immediately. victoria gatenby reports. >> reporter: mansour was detained at berlin airport, waiting to board a flight to doha. he'll stay in custody. until he appears before a judge on monday. german police say he's accused of several crimes. mansour says the arrest may have been part of a secret deal made during abdul fatah al-sisi's visit to germany. >> unfortunately the german authorities are handling this case in a suspicious matter, and that raises a lot of questions on their involvement and how they are cooperating with egypt. i'm sad to hear that there may have been a secret deal related to me, based on abdul fatah al-sisi's latest visit to germany. mansour's lawyer says his client's arrest is politically motivated. >> it's inconceivable to have an innocent man, all he was doing his job, in his two leading programs on al jazeera. >> reporter: abdul fatah al-sisi op

that president abdul fatah al-sisi is extending crackdown on dissent behind its boarders. >>> akmed mansour's lawyer joins us from london. thank you for being with us. could you explain to us what exactly are the charges against mansour. they are merely lies put before the people of interpol who confirmed to us as lawyers in london on 21 october 2014, that the egyptian authorities sent a request for the arrest of mansour, and interpol rejected that request. >> reporter: before we get into the details of the case we have not examined what the charges are. what exactly are they? >> they claim they are laughable, because they range from theft to rape to detaining people against their own will. in a cairo street - he was not there at the time of the allegations. they are fabricated allegations to make it easy and mislead the german authorities, this is a criminal. therefore he was arrested upon request >>> earlier on you mentioned the interpol had reject a request to arrest - a request was made by egyptian authorities, now that request rejected by interpol. that being the case what legal grounds

its doors today for the first time since the attack >>> al jazeera is calling for the release of akmed mansoureld in germany on an egyptian warrant >>> mali's government and an alliance led by tuareg rebels have a long-awaited peace deals. it does not give them full autonomy which they have been demanding >>> israeli police say a palestinian stabbed a policeman in jerusalem. the policeman shot the attacker. let's go west jerusalem where our correspondent is standing by. we know that tensions are high in jerusalem. how significant is the attack. we know this was a continuation of rising tensions in jerusalem, as well as in the occupied west bank and according to israeli police sources the border police were stabbed by a palestinian wounded, stabbed in the neck, but managed to fire at the attacker after he was stabbed and the palestinian man now is also in critical condition. both have been hospitalized. the israeli police are describing the incident as a possible terror attack. and it comes two days after an israeli settler was shot dead by a palestinian allegedly in the occupied west bank near