because you've also played arab terrorists. >> once. once, and for satire-- american dreamz, where i was playing... >> hinojosa: what about 24? >> no, i was... that was good, because i was a suspect-- a terrorist suspect-- but at the end of the... the three arc episode, i was proven to be innocent. and i liked that, because i liked the sort of idea that people judge someone for where they are or their religion, and then they have all these preconceived ideas about them. and the fact that, you know, this proves that you could be wrong just by looking at someone just because they're from somewhere and assume that they're that, and then when they're proven wrong, i thought there was something really great about that-- a statement to be made. >> hinojosa: so as an actor, you're making these choices and you have to decide when they approach you and people know that you're lebanese, arab, muslim. >> lebanese american now, now that i have a citizenship. >> hinojosa: congratulations! >> thank you. no more deportation. >> hinojosa: no more fear.

whether it is the arab uprising or the arab spring. what we're seeing on the streets almost every place these days. and i do think what leads to the comments, these changes are fundamentally different. the way technology is bringing different value systems directly at odds with one another. the way it allow allows actually smaller groups that aren't a threat, i agree with you. it gets into our policy. it gets into our politics and consciousness. it makes it very hard. puts it in the space that obama tried to do and makes it ease look, equities to say they are coming to get us. it makes it very easy to say that they are all coming together. i was not saying that the obama administration was necessarily disengaged. right balance the on most issues. issues ways the value reticence to talk about this. this is where we may disagree. while the torture report was released, you see that people actually still look up to america in some ways. you see it's a form of power that has been damaged by some of our past mistakes. you see that people loo

for them an arab is an arab.n september 2000 the palestinians started to shoot through the jewish neighborhoods, and the authorities had to protect the kindergarten over here, and they put up this wall put up by the neighborhood council. but nevertheless, it's quite ugly. but if they shoot from the other side toward the kindergarten, what other measure you can take in order to protect the children? >> before returning home we went to visit a palestinian farmer whose life was devastated when half of his land was taken by the israeli army to accommodate the bending of the wall. -- the building of the wall. >> the majority of his land and the better part of his land is beyond that fence. all these walls he built by breaking this sporn land with his wife and his children and all his hard work is gone. he cannot go down and tend to his trees or cultivate it. ♪ >> i feel like i haven't found any anchor for the light at the end of the tunnel. is there any chance for people to believe that there is something else? >> i u

iraq looks at itself as an arab anchor -- an arab center of power. and in egypt, the political gravitas that egypt carries in the region -- can prove to be less polarizing and at the same time bring the kind of legitimacy of its consolation process under the arab umbrella -- especially with the dissident proponents. >> i agree the u.n. might be the most credible party but we should know that it is not about the party with well intentions -- we need a party that is able to oblige all negotiations to enforce them and oblige by the commitments they give -- i agree about the egyptian role because they hope the egyptian's -- egyptians will work on their own national mitigation -- [laughter] i don't feel they have that force and credibility is the right form to power. >> one sentence -- comment, the religious institution that figures -- generally speaking the religious institutions are increasingly losing power because of the accumulation of wealth and power because of politicians and -- which enables them to co-opt the religious institutions. >> but this

most have mixed feelings about the arab spring.his 27-year-old was a university student at the time of the uprising. she spent many days protesting against the regime. she expected the protests would end chronic corruption and high unemployment. >> translator: at the time, i thought if we got rid of the dictatorship, everything would get better. >> reporter: since the collapse of the dictatorship in 2011, there have been steady moves to create a democratic process. in january, the provisional government enacted a new constitution, guaranteeing religious freedom and equality of the sexes. but the economy has stagnated since the revolution. the key tourism industry has not recovered to previous levels. foreign investment is declining. and food prices are now 50% higher than before the arab spring. more than 30% of young tunisians are jobless. an increasing number of them sympathize withes extremist islamic state fighters in syria and iraq. after wala graduated she joined an ngo promoting democracy. she had high hopes for the changes

arabic training in 1985, it is that type of investment but i had been dealing with arabic. and the comment across many decades and nearly four decades in the military now that we have not seized in concept that we are still much loved and respected and renowned in the arabic speaking world and we would do well to argue back to peter, to invest a lot plor. in parts of the world where defense of security we begin this access and privileged position which the united kingdom should be hugely ambitio ambitious. both in terms of opportunities that are responsibilities for threats. it is not something you can turn on overnight but actively to be giving people the tools to move in that area. and inevitableably, and go to a certain level, and the best arabic speaker of my generation. complete indictment. not a boast at all. and i think people in my ilk, 20 years time, we won't be dealing with the committee we are looking at today. just a process to start. and peter is right, absolutely his guidance and as your statistics show, gentlemen, it takes a long time to get to that level. bu

. >> to some it seems that the arab spring is dead. and the egyptian leader fattah al sisi is simply a return to the time of mubarak. with protests in tunisia and the political outcome there while still a work in progress is totally different from that in egypt. tunisia's new parliament held session tuesday, four years after the ouster of long-time leader ben ali. >> now is the time to establish democratic institutions and make the articles of the constitution real. >> the country's presidential election is also still in motion, citizens went to the polls sending them to the run off. >> where we can do it. it's not a miss. it's not--it can be an evaluate. and elections. and democracy are possible in islamic country. >> as to yo to tunisians look forward, tahrir square is still off limits to protesters. doing it again looks much harder to pull off. >> did the mubarak trials acquittals mark the end of something or is there still a beginning. is this outcome just a way of moving free, a young military man holding the presidency in his pla

saudi arabia and the united arab emirates say they're confident the market will stabilize soon. in other areas, energy ministers say reducing output wouldn't help. >> there is a lot of surplus in the market therefore the supply is much, much greater than the demand. i think approach by opec is a very wise one. >> exporters from opec represent only around 40% of the world's oil production. saudi and united arab emirates ministers blame outside for the slump, they lack coordination and are acting irresponsibly. not members of opec, the united states and russia. but a refusal of opec to drop its current supply of 30 million barrels a day could hurt economy even those inside the block. iraq is among those who have been hit hard, funding its war against islamic state of iraq and the levant. it's forced to become more efficient. >> when you reduce your income it will effect. this is the negative side of it, but the positive side of it that we are reducing a lot of unnecessary soft. >> reporter: another positive -- unnecessary costs. >> so kirkuk is functioning once again. >> reporter:

and that may be a major factor at play in the arab/israeli conflict. but it also suggests that context specificity, and i would add, and i want to say this carefully, because we're talking about smart envoys, understanding of nuance and details. not all of our envoys enter the job knowing what the arab/israeli conflict is all about and many of them left the job not knowing what the arab/israeli conflict was all about. and what that does is not only a waste of an american asset, which is the power to do diplomacy, but it also weakens our ability to then pick up the conflict resolution process once that envoy has left the job. i had an experience when i was serving as ambassador in israel. we had an envoy who was appointed to monitor the compliance of the parties with the road map. you mentioned his name, john wolf, a senior state department official who was asked to drop his job in political military affairs and come out for a few months and john was a strong diplomat but had no background at all in the arab/israeli conflict and no background at all in

in a multiparty system, today i have three arab parties. i have the muslim brotherhood party in my opposition. we have the only legal muslim brotherhood party in the world in the region. we need to have them all represented. all communities in israel are represented to -- represented. can workieve that we together and build a coalition which will be different from the current situation. >> let's talk about your candidacy. you are obviously a man of accomplishment. you come from a very, very famous family in israel, but you are known as a non-charismatic figure. flex thank you. >> you are welcome. [laughter] there is a certain assumption. >> look at how many charismatic leaders we had in what happened to them. [laughter] >> with israeli politics, and maybe this is just conventional or perceived wisdom, that the voters want something, especially from the center or centerleft that is gruff, and nobody would mistake you for -- gabi ashkenazi walking down the street. so talk about the barriers to your success among the voters. i mean -- and then

and even the jewish arab dispute is hardly new. so i would like to start by asking each of you to briefly say of this, why is this set of what i would regard as set of old issues such a toxic rue now? what's made it so divisive and toxic? all of the elements have been there. >> i think first of all, recent events really, there is a fundamental change in what we are seeing now in that some of the structures that were established a century ago during and in the wake of world war i are coming apart. as these artificial borders dissolve, as some of these governments, autocratic governments have been removed, what we're seeing particularly in iraq and in the series is we are seeing in a sense the control being ripped off and to all of these have come up to the surface again. we are seeing all the conflict. the second thing that's so different for the united states is that at one time these conflicts were seen from this country as distant conflicts. in the shadow of 9/11, they are somehow seen as having the ability to directly impact us.

the arabs have 23 countries. we only have one. state and that's all we need but it's got to be the jewish state. >> do you worry that the passage of this law might provoke further issues with regard to the divestment movement? >> no, i think boycotting divestment against israel is anti-semitism because we're the only country that takes care of its minorities, the only country where everyone can vote, arab and jews. we are not cutting off heads. we allow women to drive, not like in other arab countries. so to pinpoint the jewish state as a target for a boycott in divestment is blatant anti-semitism and i have no sympathy for that. so the short answer is no. >> naftali bennett, great to have you on. >> fareed, this was great. thank you. >>> up next, diane von furstenberg. the story of a great entrepreneur and a powerful woman. it's an "only in america" story. that's when we come back. him? dad: of course. kid: how much? dad: i don't know exactly. kid: what if you're not happy? does he have to pay you back? dad: nope. kid: why not? d

whether it is the arab uprising or the arab spring. what we're seeing on the streets almost every place these days. and i do think what leads to the comments, these changes are fundamentally different. the way technology is bringing directly value systems at odds with one another. it gets into our policy. it gets into our politics and consciousness. it makes it very hard. it makes it very easy to say that they are all coming to get ogether. i was not saying that the obama was dissing gage, i think they were engaged on most issues. i think the value issues and the reticence to talk about it -- this is where we may disagree. while the torture report was released, you see that people actually still look up to america in some ways. you see it's a form of power that has been damaged by some of our past mistakes. you see that people look at our politics in many ways. they look at it as ideal. we see thely, assumptions that we all see, which is that we often make these unforced errors that hurt ourselves. i will close maybe with a little bit

the arabs have 23 countries. we only have one.nd that's all we need but it's got to be the jewish state. >> do you worry that the passage of this law might provoke further issues with regard to the did the did i vestment movement? >> no, i think boycotting did i vestment against israel is anti-semitism because we're the only country that takes care of its minorities, the only country where everyone can vote, arab and jews. we are not cutting off heads. we allow women to drive, not like in other arab countries. so to pinpoint the jewish state as a target for a boycott in divestment is blatant anti-semitism and i have no sympathy for that. >> naftali bennett, thanks. >>> up next, diane von furstenberg. that's when we come back. ...the getaway vehicle! for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. is a really big deal.u with aches, fever and chills- there's no such thing as a little flu. so why treat it like it's a little cold? there's something that works differently than over-the-counter remedies. attack the flu vir

we're tied to a network of authoritarian arab regimes. our history of involvement in that region has been a succession of broader it theres. i think now it's trance national terrorism and i think these strategies of confrontation and containment have blinded us to things that are creating additional threats down the road. so, you know, what i'm arguing -- and there's a policy paper that i've coauthored with a colleague now that -- in the rush to solicit arab support against isis, we're ignoring some very dangerous trends under the surface inside these states that could lead to greater extremism, the creation of new threats. you talk about a preemptive strategy, i would argue for just greater scrutiny of what's happening inside the states that we call our allies. i'm not talking about a return to the very vocal demockization agenda that defined the bush eras, but perhaps a greater focus on rule of law, on reforms as an insurance policy down the road, looking at the prison systems in these countries, that it's not all about an external cont

revolutions in arab countries, they were fraught with faculty, hard choices. trying to decide exactly what to in retrospect, you could say, maybe we could have done that, or maybe we could have done that. we were trying to do the best we could under circumstances that were not within our control and were rapidly changing and had been predicted, but nobody thought they would happen as they did in egypt and elsewhere, and then, of course, i deep we regret the loss of life of any member of our state department family, whether it was an aid worker in iraq or in a worker in or foreign service officers in libya. that is always something you think, ok, what more, what more, what more could we have done? -- speaking ofd iraq, you mentioned we could have spoken more. speaking more would have , but --d the government >> you never know. i mean, you never know what you might say that could give heart to people, could encourage them, could get some off the fence they are sitting on and possibly take action. you never know, and that was why -- if these were easy choices, we

act was crafted, again, in coordination with a number of stakeholders groups and i thank again the arab american grocers association and others from the department of public health and especially the community advocates and the youth leaders the tobacco sales reduction act also is part of a coordinated approach that includes healthy retail sf that allows us to transform corner corner stores and strengthening partnerships and healthier communities and i wanted to thank my cosponsors again supervisor kim ween weiner and chiu and cohen and lastly nurturing the young leaders and also the youth leaders from the tobacco use reduction force all 3 generations of the youth leaders i wanted to thank from arab american grocers i wanted to also thank from the department of public health derrick smith for his insights and help in drafting this for amazing work in this legislation and lastly i want to give tremendous respect to the young people and read off the names of the tobacco use reduction force leaders. >> reading names. >> >> >> >> lr >> i really really believe that we're going to be building

, classical arabic?> i am a muslim. it was didn't for them to understand somebody like me exists. it was difficult for me to sit and hear someone hijacking a religion that you believe in. i used to argue with them. versus qoranic verse. the concept of war is a very small little percentage of wider things so they decided to ignore 99% of their religion and focus >> right. >> and put it in a totally different lens and interpretation. what you have to do is counter the narrative. countering the narrative is 2340 something only the united states or the west can do this is where muslim leaders or scholars need to stand up. >> saying we do not support terrorism they run these schools where they can suffer a remarkably suffocating, non-critical education. >> sure. sure. this is why we have to bring all of these nations to the table, you know the solution is regional solution because what's causing this chaos in the middle east today, what's causing these murders in syria and in iraq is basically a vacuum that e

this put the international community and arab community up to the real responsibilities.l also violates the human rights and op -- opres the people there, and this will destroy any chance to achieve peace and the two-state solution agreed upon by the international community. and in this regard it's important for the arab and islamic world to stand firm in order to defend the shrines in jerusalem, to protect the shrines in jerusalem, and to support the palestinian people's effort in facing and confronting the israeli aggressions. the international community gave a blind eye to the -- the israeli practices, which is a big crime against humanity. we urge the international community and effective parties in the peace process to practice pressure on israel to listen to the peace voice and to reach a come me hencive settlement based on the international legit decisions and resolutions, and not to allow israel to hit the east jerusalem and to hit the shrines there. your majesties, highnesses, excellences, the case in syria is aggravating and the situation there is really aggrava

arabic training in 1985, it is that type of investment but i had been dealing with arabic. and the comment across many decades and nearly four decades in the military now that we have not seized in concept that we are still much loved and respected and renowned in the arabic speaking world and we would do well to argue back to peter, to invest a lot more. in parts of the world where defense of security we begin this access and privileged position which the united kingdom should be hugely ambitious. both in terms of opportunities that are responsibilities for threats. it is not something you can turn on overnight but actively to be giving people the tools to move in that area. and inevitably, and go to a certain level, and the best arabic speaker of my generation. complete indictment. not a boast at all. and i think people in my ilk, 20 years time, we won't be dealing with the committee we are looking at today. just a process to start. and peter is right, absolutely his guidance and as your statistics show, gentlemen, it takes a long time to get to that level. but you've got

believe in the arab spring and you represented the arab spring and you had listed a series of reformshat you thought were important for your government and for your people. what does the king of jordan fear? within his own country and the threat to him and his country. >> i don't fear much. i have the confidence in my people. i have confidence in god. i think the question you want to probably asked if the what keeps me up at night? >> yes, thank you. >> if you are looking at the challenges of what is going on in the region, we had this issue of fighting isis. we were part of an air coalition -- just an anecdote. my brother was commander of the air force several years ago and when i was in new york and the coalition was formed, both him and the chief of staff when out to the air base where we had collected all our pilots. i said, just check, we will ask volunteers. and the chief of staff and my brother stepped forward and said we're looking for volunteers for strikes against isis was up anyone who wants to volunteer, please step forward. every single pilot raised his hand and stepped f

the wider region may still be struggling with the arab spring.n tunisia, here's the evidence that change is possible. >> in syria, 20 fighters from the islamic state group have been killed. in their latest attempt to take over an airbase. this was the second field jihadist bid in a month. air base is on the border with iraq, where is controlled large parts of territory. the battle continues for the strategic northern iraqi town of sinjar. currently being held by the islamic state group. courage and -- kurdish and yazidi fighters trying to retake the town. hoping to break the line between mosul and syria. let's bring in a journalist in baghdad. the iraqi prime minister has said this victory for the peshmerga, the kurdish fighters, is a victory for all of iraq. that is a different take than deprive mr.'s predecessor. tell us about that. >> the incoming of prime minister abadi changed the battlefield with is. also the current situation on both front lines, mount sinjar and the town of tel afaar the data fields are close to each other. there will be

>> from arabs. maybe also egyptians. then we have greeks, 750 years before christ.ave to say that sicilian are big bastards. of course, because we are being conquered by everybody. also our dialect. there are many words that are understood by other people. if i say sicilian dialect word, maybe an arab can understand me, an italian no, because italian language comes from latin, something different. we are sicilians before to be italians. >> right. >> remember this. >> i'll never forget. >> look at this side of the meat. it's yellow, it's not white. when it's yellow, it means that the horse has been bred eating fresh grass. [ speaking foreign language ] >> perfecto. okay. >> tear and go. >> yeah. >> you like the taste? >> it's good. >> it's a bit sweet, huh? >> mm-hmm. >> simple, you don't need nothing. horse meat. basically, it's loved by quite everybody here, you know? we can have it for meatballs, and we can have a horse meatball. >> as you wish. i'll try anything. >> make some different things, you know. >> bread, parmesan cheese, pecorino. >> right. >> parsley, e

. >> that's after the united arab emirates blamed non-arabic states.he price of oil has fallen by nearly 50% since june. brent crude is trading below $62 per barely. the u.s. is predicted to be the world's largest oil producer next year. let's go to erica woods from ababu dha dhabi. what else has saudi arabia said about not cutting production? >> saudi arabia has said it was the right decision not to cut production. >> decision was made last month at an opec meeting. saying that decision was correct because it needs time just to stabili stabilize. he has spoken about one other things. the claims that saudi arabia is to blame and is conspiring to keep the oil prices low. the saudi minister said that those claims are baseless and that any motivation on saudis' part, purely economic cal and not political. >> of course, it doesn't come as any surprise, erica, that you have divisions with opec. that's nothing new. some countries like saudi arabia are strong enough to withstand a sustained decline in prices, but others are feeling the pain. >> they really ar

. >>> arab oil forces are confident that price will recover soon after the fall over the past six months. >> beji caid essebsi has won the tunisian presidential election. defeating moncef marzouki. he is the first president to be freely elected since 1956. we have this report from tunis. >> reporter: the country's first democratically elected president. the results coming out announced by the election commission, and there was roughly 10% difference in votes for the 88-year-old essebsi and marzouki. there were parties who did not put their full weight behind any specific candidates have been calling on people to remain calm. this is a moment that people should be joyful. the tunisian people once again have demonstrated the ability to transition to democracy regardless of who the tee nissantunisians wanted to win the election, this calls for joy. it is important to know that this is not only the first time that tunisians have elected a president democratically, tunisia for the first time sets the agenda in the arab world as it did in 2011 with the up rising against dictators back then. >>

only arabs can fight down this arab terroristic organization. but the western bombardments will never be successful. they have never been successful. we were not successful in afghanistan. we were not successful in iraq. how shall we fight down i.s.? isis is much stronger than the afghan taliban, and i know the afghan taliban very well. i met their leaders and i met their fighters. this group is much stronger. >> you talked about life on the ground among the islamic state militants, how they are building schools, how they are building loyalty among sunni muslims. you did not talk about the systemic rain of sunni women and children something we saw in horrific detail in a report by amnesty. did you not witness any of that going on? >> i did not see that. if this happens, if a systemic rain would happen, then they wouldn't show it to me. but i saw prisoners, normal prisoners. i saw a lot of things, a lot of horrible things. it is very clear they have killed many people, made women to slaves. you can buy slaves. you have slavery in this country, an

tell us where this is effective. >> well, carol, i'm not an arabic linguist but da'esh stands for. [oreign language ] and it means the state of islam in iraq and the labant but also sounds like a word in arabic means to crush under foot, so it is a condemnation by most arabs who are using this, and i talked to an iraqi general, an old friend of mine a few days ago via e-mail and he said that's what he's calling it, because the arabs like it that way. this not an islamic state, they do not represent the islamic people so it throws it in the face of al baghdadi, and i think general terry using it yesterday was a brilliant move on his part and it's really in their face saying okay you're going to cut off my tongue? try it, come after me. >> very interesting. you was thinking about isis and what it really is. it's more like a criminal enterprise, they kidnap people to raise money, they deal in drugs, they're thieves. they steal. so why not just call it something like a cartel or mafia or a gang? >> well, when you've lived and worked and fought in iraq as long as many of us have, you'll c

there is a huge difference already within the arab world.ssues at stake are patriarchal mentalities, which are prevalent not only with men, but also with women. they pass on these mentalities through generation. in many arab countries, not all of them, and there are discussions in different countries like morocco and others, in many arab countries, islence against women sanctioned by the law. the most recent department, the abduction of a great number of yazidi women in syria and iraq. >> we want to come back to that in just a moment. i would like to ask catherine about east and central europe. >> eastern europe, there are a lot of differences. when we analyze and go deeper, there are a lot of similarities. for example, russia. it is equal when we are talking about labor markets, when we are talking about women working all places and present at universities. during the communist step, the status of women was equal to citizens -- men citizens. in comparison to western europe, it is not really equal. it is the same as martina mentioned. women

and he wrote from living with the arabs and the other armies that in arab countries is easy to conquer and impossible to occupy. anything we learned since you wrote that in the 1950s? >> as a fellow military historian, there is more continuity than discontinuity in military history. i like the analogy to the spanish-american war and the successful american counterinsurgency campaign in the philippines that followed, almost in arguably you have to go back to the philippine insurrection at the turn of the last century before -- as the best example of an army led counterinsurgency campaign prior to the one in iraq in 2007-2011. there are interesting historical parallels. there was the wonderful, edited wonderful collection, a book that compiled success stories and found successful practices travel in packs. there are practices the working counterinsurgency. we should study that history as much as we study napoleon. is likely to be relevant at the naval academy in annapolis and georgetown. the problem with holding an arab country is enormously difficult. my favorite insurgent lawrence acco

sherman's question, do you speak arabic? i'm sorry i can't hear without the microphone. >> do you have any expertise in the arab world. >> i've traveled with secretary christopher extensively -- >> you were never assigned to the region. >> no. >> so, is it not true that most of the foreign fighters recruited by or attracted to isil in syria come roughly from a handful of countries mostly arab countries, is that not true? >> many of the foreign fighters come from north africa, from arab countries that's correct. >> maybe you do or don't subscribe toy think the premise behind mr. sherman's questions but as the united states moves forward it stems me that the state department needs be promoting leadership from within that has particular focus on this region since that's what we're dealing with. and i mean that without, with no disrespect because sometimes somebody can function very well without any expertise in a particular subject matter because their organizational skills, presumably, that's true about you. but i do think, mr

we had invited them to be part of the process at the beginning of arab spring. they were the first political organization i actually talked to at the start of arab spring. they made their demands very well known. they wanted to change the constitution. they wanted to change -- they wanted a higher constitutional court. they had a list of things, all of which we have done, by the way. they wanted a national dialogue committee so they could talk about reform. that was set up. they were asked to be part of the national dialogue, and then refused to because, at that point -- don't forget, arab spring was started by young men and women who wanted change. it was hijacked by the muslim brotherhood which was an organized political society. so they're the ones who took over from the youth who wanted change. at that point, in egypt, if you remember, the youth were replaced by the organized muslim brotherhood, and a decision was made, unfortunately, by them that staying in the street was a better way of going. and jordan if you remember our history, we have been through ma

world, part of arab spring who have now become em embroiled in the violence. an example in the road towards democracy. >> now that is isipsi has won what is his priority? >> well, the main priority would be to try and unify tunisian society. this has been a very decisive post-revolutionary period. the more polarized the population has become, so he will have a tough task in trying to unify them. but he does have an opportunity because his party has a work majority in the parliament. and if they're able to form some sort of a coalition government or at least maybe technocratic government, that enjoys broad support from the opposition that would go a long way in terms of easing the tensions on the streets. practically speaking as well, he has a main priority, to focus on the economy and the unemployment. the economy has suffered, while it's doing much better than egypt, say, it's not where it was at its peak, five, six years ago. young people are a significant percentage of the population. these are things he will encounter as he takes is office. >> jamal al sha

it's the black standard, a flag with arabic writing, on display. once again, police confirmed the surrounding area has been evacuating, we see a lot of personnel with federal force and local police with rifles and heavily arm, trying to get the situation under control. i want to go to anthony lowenstein. what is the latest you are hearing? >> thanks for having me on. this has been going on for an hour and a half in the center of sydney. we know little. when it happened there was a thought there was an i.s.i.s. islamic state flag in the window, it is incorrect. it is a flag used throughout the muslim world, which has been sometim appropriated by islamic groups in israel and iraq. it's unclear what the flag is. there's between 5-14 inside, held hostage. we don't know the number. we also don't know exactly the reason behind. we don't know the person who is doing this - person or people. the context for this is australia, of course, has about 23 million people, and there is a sizeable muslim community. in the last six months since the - i guess you'd s

. >>> tunisia inspired the arab spring four years ago. it's taking its first steps towards democracy with its elections. baji essebsi has won with 54% of the vote. >> declaration of beji essebsi, closely contested race, seems ting expenditure a larger gap that was expected, between the 88-year-old veteran and the interim president moncef el maz marzouki. all the political parties so far including the islamist party, didn't really put their full weight behind any specific candidates have been calling on people to remain calm, this is a moment that people should be joyful, that the teun tunisian e have demonstrated the ability to transition towards democracy, they should all join in celebration because they say this is cause for joy. it's also important to note that not only is this the first time that tunisians have elected president democratically but it's also the first time in the arab world's entire history that there has been a democratic transition of power between one president to another. tunisia for another time sets the agenda in