. >> the military has launched an unprecedented era tax on militants in the border area between egypt and israel -- unprecedented attacks on militants in the border area between egypt and israel. >> president morrissey has replaced the head of the national intelligence agency -- president morsi has replaced the head of the national intelligence agency. >> for the first time since the yom kippur war, the sinai peninsula is again for some. it is in answer -- is again a war zone. it is in answer to an attack. it was a retaliatory air strike. >> the government fully supports the armed forces and police in restoring security. we call on all citizens to stand together and help us in those efforts. i pledge to the egyptian people to pursue those who carried out the attacks on the border and punish them. >> ciena has long been a source of security problems for cairo -- sinai has long been a source of security problems for cairo. experts say the area is a fertile breeding ground for terrorism. further complicating matters, most of the sinai peninsula is desert, impassable to security forces. c

and it's getting dangerously tense on the border between egypt and israel this car obama's militants one a new leader struggles to stop violence in the post mubarak country. now next here on our. talks to occupy activist and war veteran scott olsen about whether any major changes to be made since the outset of the occupy wall street movement are in-depth interview next on r.t. . parties in chicago catching up with the war veteran an occupy wall street activist scott olsen after serving two tours of duty in iraq scott became an icon for the occupy wall street movement when he was severely injured in the head into one consciousness. occupy oakland protests where in two thousand and eleven protesters clashed with police. wabbit wabbit. shot. but you know what you're. right. scott thank you so much for joining us today you're one of dozens of war veterans who have returned their medals to nato generals here and chicago throwing the medals and into the direction where leaders are meeting what is the reason for this is do you feel betrayed i really do and betrayal is biggest facts are a th

the frontier between egypt and israel is long and lonely. israeli sees it as a soft target for any extremist planning to cross it or fire rockets over it. they trusted the ousted egyptian president to keep this border quiet. now that egypt has a president drawn from the brotherhood, they are not so sure. so israel's red sea fence which is right on the border, it's business as usual. but in the hills above the town, an iron dome keeps watch. the town's mayor says peace suits everyone, not just israel. egypt has put billions of dollars into tourism in the sinai, he says. i hope they protect that investment, but we will certainly protect ourselves. israel got decades of stability out of peace in the sigh any. the diplomatic achievement that transformed the middle east. now, on the border, they watch anxiously for signs of change. kevin connolly, "bbc news," on the israeli-egyptian border. >> now, eating chocolate could help prevent strokes. that's according to researchers in sweden. they found that men who have a little more than a standard cho

border between egypt and israel. have you with us today. the case of the controversial feminist punk band pussy riot. now announce its verdict next friday the members of the group are facing three years in jail for storming the. belting out what they call a protest punk. the trial is deeply divided russian society and strong reactions from abroad following the. should warn you there are some sexual images in his report. well and the eighth day of the pussy riot trial the judge has set a date for the verdict to be announced of the seventeenth of august at three pm moscow time now this followed on from the defendants giving their own closing speeches in which they compared their trial to the stalinist trials of the nineteen thirties as well as to the trial of a russian or thirty of the dostoyevsky in the nineteenth century for blasphemy now each of the three women went on to say that again they intended no offense to the russian orthodox church through their protests which took place in february of this year in moscow's main cathedral at thei

and it's getting dangerously tense on the border between egypt and israel after cairo ball. in the post. with kate. i don't thank you for joining me for the latest sports on day twelve london olympics the top stories. in string crushes due out of the shank of russian a continue the country's twelve year donation of synchronized swimming gold at the undeveloped picks. golden dawn you can hear as a culprit comes rushes close a limping diving championship in sydney to. take in the men's three need to springboard. out of gold leaf rushes even to halt the heights to become the new olympic champion in the nice high jump. so let's go straight to the olympics where russia's men's basketball team are i mean for a place in the semifinals as they prepare to take on this you when you're at the two arena in london russia how to finish better than the olympics since the breakup of the soviet union while if you haven't finished lower than the semifinals in the last four some games they're about to face off in about ten minutes time under the winner of this match will face either france or

and you have a great conflict. 17million christians between egypt and iran. or afghanistan. all of them are in danger, john. intolerance is the mark of a rising faith. >> how many weeks are we from thweeks until the presidential election but of course we're taping this show. >> do you think any of this is connected with the presidential election? if in fact there is a syrian massacre of cops, et cetera, copts. >> if it is a syrian massacre, it will not be the regime, it will be by the fighters over there and i don't think that will happen before november at all. >> because we have been slow, if that is the right word, judiciously slow, some would say, in assisting the reform, the so-called reformers. >> i don't think that -- >> the syrian dictator is protecting the christians. and he is protecting the kurds and the other minorities who are terrified a sunni regime. >> what is happening in syria is not only about protecting christians. there are all sorts of people involved and i think the president is wise not to be committing u.s. troops on the ground certainly in more dire

and it's getting dangerously tense on the border between egypt and israel and as cairo bombs militants while a new leader struggles to stop violence in the post mubarak country. global news from the heart of moscow this is r.t. life with me rule received shy russian court reviewing the case of the controversial feminist punk band pussy riot says it will not now announce its verdict until next friday the members of the group of facing three years in jail for storming the altar of russia's main cathedral belting out what they call a protest punk prayer of a child is deeply divided russian society and triggered strong reactions from abroad. has been following this case i should advise you you may find some sexual images in his report. well and the eighth day of the pussy riot trial the judge has set a date for the verdict to be announced of the seventeenth of august at three pm moscow time now this followed on from the defendants giving their own closing speeches in which they compared their trial to the stalinist trials of the nineteen thirties as well as to the trial of a russian all th

and it's getting dangerously tense on the border between egypt and israel as caro bombs militants while a new leader struggles to stop violence in the post by barak country. plus as opposed to the feel a beer prepares for its transition of power to a newly elected assembly continued violence threatens to derail hopes for democracy . but about with a new team with an offer in half an hour in the meantime it's debate with people of l. and crosstalk. and you can. still. hello and welcome to cross talk of people about after a decade of wars and then ongoing global financial crisis particularly in the eurozone just how attractive is the west when it comes to soft power is the west specifically the u.s. losing its ability to influence others the weak sample and the power of ideas and values. in. rostock soft power i'm joined by craig hayden in washington he's an assistant professor in the international communications program at american university school of international service also in washington we have ivan eland he is a senior fellow and director of the center on peace and liberty at the

and it's getting dangerously tense on the border between egypt and israel as cairo bombs militants while a new leader struggles to stop in the post mubarak train. hard in half an hour's time it's my colleague bill dog for now though it's cross talk. and. lo and welcome to cross talk of people about after a decade of wars and then ongoing global financial crisis particularly in the eurozone just how attractive is the west when it comes to soft power is the west specifically the u.s. losing its ability to influence others through example and the power of ideas and values. in. rostock soft power i'm joined by craig hayden in washington he's an assistant professor in the international communications program at american university school of international service also in washington we have ivan eland he is a senior fellow and director of the center on peace and liberty at the independent institute and in london we cross to jonathan mcclory he is a strategy adviser edwin creative all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want ivan eland if i go to you

government in the image of their interpretation of islam you talk about increasing tensions between israel and egypt that's one of the intentions but well what impact will that have on the relations between the two. well i certainly know they don't succeed in doing that anything this attack has shown. is right now a hornet's nest well that's because some of the terrorists who took part in these. came from. came from sinai and responsible decision makers in egypt should be trying to increase cooperation with israel in order to ensure that these kind of. terrorists are not able to carry out their plans so perhaps not but unity. countries closer together if they understand that there is a common thread certainly israel understands that and i hope that the government in cairo will come to the same understanding and some would say this threat of recent islamic fundamentalism is because the west fully batna revolution in egypt and this is that she led to this increase in islamist activity in the region is that is that fair to say that. well i think it's a little more complicated than. the islamists and es

and it's getting dangerously tense on the border between egypt and israel and as karl rove bombs militants want to new leaders struggles to stop violence in the post the barack country. that's it for me in the news team for the moment we'll be back with more for you in half an hour from now in the meantime we've got lauren and capital account from washington just coming up in a few moments. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for tuesday august seventh two thousand and twelve fifty morgan says in a court filing p.f.g. subpoena of the bank may be too burdensome so will j.p. morgan get its way and get out of it well it looks like they could be off the hook for accusations of silver manipulation this is amid a financial times story reporting u.s. regulators are increasingly likely to drop their investigation of silver manipulation after four years failing to find enough evidence to pursue the case now i should mention one key regulator dost protest this report but we'll find out what chris powell thinks he's co-founder a

i see no conflict of national interest between egypt and the united states that makes it impossible to get along, to have some negotiations. >> rose: the big question that overhangs this... >> but we shouldn't declare them democratic just to be able to do it. >> rose: let me refer finally to this question which has always been at the core of what you write, what you say, what you argue. this is what you said. the united states has still not answered these fundamental questions for itself: do we have a vision of what strategic equation in the region-- meaning this... the middle east-- serves our and global interests or of the means to achieve them? how do we handle the economic assistance which may be the best and not the only means to influence the evolution. so you always come back to this point, it seems to me, that you see no broad strategic plan that's being implemented. >> and it's probably due to the fact that there is an enormous sense in the environment to which we will use. we were the dominant country for over 50 years at the end of world war ii and we could pretty well defin

for 40 years the peace between israel and egypt has been kept because the sinai peninsula where thesettacks were launched from has been a demilitarized zone. it has been safe, it has been secure. no military operations have come from it. now in the last year since the egyptian government changed hands, remember egypt has always been a firm u.s. and israeli ally for the last 40 years. since the egyptian government changed hands, that area, that sinai peninsula has become the home of jihadists. bad guys that come from all over the world and they're setting up shop in sinai. the same way jihadists set up shop in afghanistan when it was a failed state, in northwest pakistan or yemen. they're trying to do the same in the sinai peninsula. the question is will the egyptian government be willing or able to prevent it from happening? if it doesn't prevent it from happening all of sudden for the first time in 40 years you have a border with israel, israel's border on the south with egypt, and as we've seen, israel's border on the north with a destablized syria could be a problem for israel nort

increasing violence in sinai could threaten a peace treaty between israel and egypt. that is why israel has told the dip to put its house in order rather than take action -- has told egypt to put its house in order rather than take action itself. >> they have no problem with taking action against those who stood between. this has been a recruiting ground for extremists. jihadists are a great challenge for the egyptian president hu, mohammed mursi. they face criticism in sinai, an ar. a funeral for the soldiers killed in the attack. what is happening is another part of the many layers crisis. the new president is also struggling with the economy, sectarian tension, and faces a power struggle with the army about who runs the country. alleviating poverty could be the long term solution. it will not be easy for a government with so many preoccupations to control the growing insurgents. >> for more on the rising tensions and the fallout, i am joined by the director of the middle east center. thank you for coming in. how much of a threat are these jihadists in the peninsula

egypt's weak security right now. the attack was first of all. i think increased tensions between israel and egypt i think that's going to be. the attackers had in mind and second of all we have to remember that these organizations will leave that violence. and at the end justifies all means they believe in the act itself as an ideological goal to. their religion as they see it and responsible decision makers in egypt should be trying to increase cooperation with israel in order to ensure that these kind of homicide terrorists are not able to carry out their plans so very abscesses even an opportunity to. get countries closer together the islamists and especially the jihad these that we're talking about now have been for years. and now what they're doing is taking advantage of the fact that there is an unstable situation in egypt but if you just lift the lid as we've seen now across the region egypt syria and all the other countries north africa and what we're going to see is chaos and that is what we're seeing unfortunately. still to come here and i'll see why sanctions won't sto

egypt's a week security right now. to get attacked was first of all. increased tensions between israel and egypt and that's going to be. the attackers headed my second of all we have to remember these organizations believe that violence. and justifies all means that in the act itself as an ideological goal. there will be generous. responsible decision makers in egypt should be trying to increase cooperation with israel in order to ensure that these kind of homicide terrorists are not able to carry out their plans so perhaps this is going to not get unity in. the countries closer together the islamists and especially did you have is that we're talking about now have been for years are. now what they're doing is taking advantage of the fact that there is an unstable situation in egypt but if you just listen as we've seen now across the region egypt syria i mean all the other countries north africa then but we're going to see is chaos and that is what we're seeing unfortunately across the entire region and that's a colonoscopy why is sanctions one stop iran's grabbing for gosh it's

he believes that terrorists are taking advantage of egypt's weak security following its uprising. the attack was first of all. tensions between israel and egypt that's going to be. the answer is headed my end and second of all we have to get rid of these organizations that violence. and justify. in the act itself as an ideological goal. there were moves in as. a responsible decision. should be trying to increase cooperation with israel in order to ensure that these kind of. terrorists are not able to carry out their plans so very absent opportunities for. closer together the islamists and especially do you have is that we're talking about you know have been for years. now what they're doing is taking advantage of the fact that there is an unstable situation in egypt but if you just live as we've seen now across the region egypt syria i mean all the other countries north africa and what we're going to see is chaos and that is what we're seeing unfortunately. but let's have a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world to doings of left at least ten people dead in iraq in the latest incident a bomb plante

welcome back the revolution in egypt shatters the tentative peace with neighboring israel with increasing rocket strikes across the sinai peninsula but it's not only relations between the countries that have sucked that egypt's true citizens are living in fear they are spring has made them wary of both their new rulers and their neighbors as all she is promising a report. alone frightened and struggling one of the last of her people in a land that no longer wants them selene has merely the photos of her did family for comfort she is one of cairo's few remaining jews once there were eighty thousand now there are fewer than twenty certainly i'm afraid certainly i believe as the bad i try to be able to forget. she has reason to be wary the new rulers of egypt the muslim brotherhood call for jihad and want the liberation of palestine they've launched a war of words against jews that goes as far as to threaten death it took us a long time to find simeon and when we did even longer to convince her to be interviewed by us she was worried that her neighbors would see her talking to a television crew eventually she agreed to talk to us here on the street but when i walked h