jeremy bowen reports from cairo. jeremy: another cautious dawn in cairo. egyptians tread carefully thesly days, especif they disagree with the regime. president abdel fattah al-sisi is certain to be elected for anpoher term. hiers are everywhere. a cult of personality more than an election campaign. the army sisi usedo command guarded polling stations. hiss supportery his tough line saved egypt from becomingot anr syria. the defense minister came for an inspection. the uniforms are in charge in egypt, as they've been since the 1950's. human rights groups say the vote was farcical while the regime n pressed the people and tortured prisonerse name of fighting terrorism. a spokeswoman for the campaign. >> of course, it is a democratic -- 1,000,000% democratic process, and the evidence is that all the egyptian people, including many big numbers of the youth out to vote, and even children, as you can see here. they are coming to say yes tomr president, yes to egypt. we are here to say yes to egypt jeree president's opponent is one of his own supporters. credibl

jeremy bowen, bbc news, cairo.laces with a hostage during last week's islamist attack has taken place in paris. lieutena nt—colonel arnaud beltrame's funeral procession crossed paris, before president macron led tributes. the 44—year—old has been awarded france's highest honour, the legion d'honneur. there were thousands of people on the streets of liverpool today for the funeral of sir ken dodd, a man described by admirers as a comedy genius and a great entertainer. more than 2,000 people attended the service at the city's anglican cathedral, which included memories of his seven decades in showbusiness. the comedian died earlier this month at the age of 90. austrialia's cricket captain steve smith and his vice—captain david warner have been banned from playing for their country for a year after admitting to cheating against south africa. cameron bancroft, who was caught tampering with the ball, was given a nine—month ban. the country's head coach has apologised to fans and said he hopes the players would be given

jeremy bowen, bbc news, cairo. prime minister becomes the first from the 0romo ethnic group in nearly 30 years. we look at the challenges ahead for the country. the accident that happened here was of the sort that can, at worse, produce a meltdown. in this case, the precautions worked but they didn't work quite well enough to prevent some old fears about the safety features of these stations from resurfacing. the republic of ireland has become the first country in the world to ban smoking in the workplace. from today, anyone lighting up in offices, businesses, clubs or restaurants will face a heavy fine. the president was on his way out of the washington hilton hotel where he had been addressing a trade union conference. the small crowd outside included his assailant. it has become a symbol of paris. a hundred years ago, many parisians wished it had never been built. the eiffel tower's birthday is being marked by a re—enactment of the first ascent by gustave eiffel. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: police in

devastated the economies of the regions through which he passed in the city's a cairo medina and mecca the sudden influx of gold devalued the metal for the next decade prices on goods and where is greatly inflated to rectify the gold market on his way back from mecca borrowed all the gold he could carry from moneylenders in cairo high interest this is the only time recorded in history that one man directly controlled the price of gold in the mediterranean so very fascinating as people are celebrating all these huge infrastructure deals whether it's the new silk road or the infrastructure plan that trump is allegedly proposing right. you know spreading around of all this money cause a lot of inflation they cause a lot of problems and then they had a way back at unwind all that somehow by normalizing the economies on his way back and that's a great story i had no idea that the richest man ever in history was this african now he was not the richest guy in the world he was actually worth just four hundred fifteen billion there were several people richer than him including the richest man i

jeremy bowen, bbc news, cairo.ll produce any meaningful change at all — but there is still huge diplomatic movement on north korea. senior officials from pyongyang and seoul are due to meet in the demilitarized zone, to prepare for a summit between president moonjae—in and kim jong—un in april. this follows confirmation that the north korean leader did indeed make a surprise trip to china earlier this week. a chinese envoy is also being sent to seoul to brief the government on the talks in beijing between kim jong—un and xi jinping. 0ur correspondent laura bicker is in seoul. using the word first lot. a lot of potentially significant things happening. and a lot of people talking down expectations. cautious optimism other words being used by the white house and here in south korea. they are heading to the demilitarised zone, that heavily fortified border between the two countries, and will talk with the northern counterparts. let's look at where we are. a couple of months ago, the idea of regular meetings between th

he met along his routes mussa not only gave to the cities he passed on the way to mecca including cairo medina but also trade the gold for souvenirs and this journey by the way is like widely documented all sorts of contemporary accounts of it along the way as he was travelling so it's well documented it's known to be not just a wikipedia entry mooses generous actions however inadvertently. devastated the economies of the regions through which he passed in the cities the cairo medina and mecca the sudden influx of gold devalued the metal for the next decade prices on goods and where is greatly inflated to rectify the gold market on his way back from mecca borrowed all the gold he could carry from moneylenders and cairo high interest this is the only time recorded in history that one man directly controlled the price of gold in the mediterranean so very fascinating as people are celebrating all these huge infrastructure deals whether it's the new silk road or the infrastructure plan that trump is allegedly proposing right. you know spreading around of all this money cause a lot of inflat

president you see is almost certain to win a low voter turnout and damage his legitimacy we'll go live to cairo plus cricket is famous for its spirit of fair play but the backlash from a cheating scandal just won't stop australia captain steve smith risks losing his job as administrator is look to salvage the team's credibility. welcome to the program thanks for joining us. spain's most wanted fugitive is expected to appear in court today but it will be in front of a judge in germany that's where cattle and separatist leader carlos pushed him on was picked up on sunday as he tried to slip unnoticed through the country the arrest could end pushed monts five months of self-imposed exile sought by spanish authorities for his role in catalonia as vote for independence meanwhile some ninety people have been injured as clashes broke out between separatists and police on the streets of our salada i police on one side demonstrators on the other they faced off long into the night in barcelona. outright surged into violence. thousands of catalans took to the streets to protest the arrest of their former

devastated the economies of the regions through which he passed in the city's a cairo medina and mecca the sudden influx of gold devalued the metal for the next decade prices on goods and where is greatly inflated to rectify the gold market on his way back from mecca borrowed all the gold he could carry from moneylenders and cairo high interest this is the only time recorded in history that one man directly controlled the price of gold in the mediterranean so very fascinating as people are celebrating all these huge infrastructure deals whether it's the new silk road or the infrastructure plan that trump is allegedly proposing right. you know spreading around of all this money cause a lot of inflation they cause a lot of problems and they had a way back at unwind all that somehow by normalizing the economy is on his way back and it's a great story i had no idea that the richest man ever in history was this african no he was not the richest guy in the world he was actually worth just four hundred fifteen billion there were several people richer than him including the richest man in the

poor he met along his routes mussa not only gave to the city passed on the way to mecca including cairo medina but also traded gold for souvenirs and this journey by the way. widely documented all sorts of contemporary accounts of it along the way as he was travelling so it's well documented it's known to be not just the wikipedia entry mooses generous actions however inadvertently devastated the economies of the regions through which he passed in the cities of cairo medina and mecca the sudden influx of gold devalued the metal for the next decade prices on goods and where it's greatly inflated to rectify the gold market on his way back from mecca borrowed all the gold he could carry from money lenders in cairo high interest this is the only time recorded in history that one man directly controlled the price of gold in the mediterranean so very fascinating as people are celebrating all these huge infrastructure deals whether it's the new silk road or the infrastructure plan that trump is allegedly proposing right. you know spreading around of all this money cause a lot of inflation they

are going to take a look now back at the twenty eleven uprising in egypt the mass protests on cairo's tahrir square were at the heart of the movement that led to the overthrow of the former egyptian president hosni mubarak but that revolutionary movement ended in bloody suppression by the egyptian military and the old order was restored and our next report takes a look back at a time that was tumultuous through the eyes of an egyptian author and activist. nowadays it looks as though nothing ever happened here cairo's tahrir square has no visible signs reminding people that just a few years ago the entire world was focused on this place. it was here that a revolution broke out. it began with euphoria and ended as a bloodbath. and the video footage of those events exists thanks to a media collective known as mostly rain which recently made its entire archive available online and. robert hilton is one of the founders of mostly rain. he has written a gripping novel chronicling a revolution that failed and yet which left a lasting impact on the country in the entire world. it's a poetic ev

it apparently only ta kes a south of cairo.y, thank you forjoining us. hello. some of us will escape with a fine friday, even quite mild in some places but by the weekend it's much colder. where you won't have a fine friday close to this weather front, north—east england into eastern scotland, cloudy, wet, outbreaks of rain, some snow in the scottish hills and that snow level lowering later in the day. so this is your cloudy, wet zone throughout the day. also got this area of cloud and rain nudging northwards from the midlands, wales, into parts of north—west england and just fringing into northern ireland. to the south of that we see some sunshine coming through, but you may catch a shower, could be heavy and possibly thundery, not everybody will. it's here you have temperatures in double figures but it is a turning colder day through eastern scotland and north—east england, going into the evening and night, that snow level lowering and maybe into lower levels you could see a light covering into places going into saturday morn

that was ruth michael so they're talking to us a little while ago from cairo monica's going to be with you in just a couple minutes should be taking a look at egypt's economy and much more still to come here on. earth the home we're saving googling to those two stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions for global warming due to its being born series of global three thousand on d.w. and online wouldn't be fighting for the case to be taken seriously in the world of work here's what's coming up. on w o they do this deal superhero on a mission to change how to smart women smart trucks smart street and legend isn't buying no movement down on the brain creasing dangerous time. to make . a good. trade talks replace a new main trade war beijing and washington have started negotiations aimed at easing trade tensions between the world's top economy. coming up egyptians going to the polls to elect a new president we ask how good of ministration been for business. is it a sign of failure or a clever business st

and there are even bigger concerns downstream in chaotic cairo.ll its water but its population is growing fast. the united nations is warning there will be water shortages by 2025 because of wastage and pollution. but the government argues it is already recycling water, using it efficiently and importing wheat rather than using water to grow it. egypt's water minister says one big threat is climate change. it is unilateral action in upstream countries, i am extremely angry for our nation which is 100 million. one of the key things i would mention to you, if the water coming to egypt is used by 2%, what does this mean? we lose about 200,000 acres of land. one acre at least. if one acre makes one family survive, the average family in egypt is five persons, so it means1 million will be jobless. he says that means more migrants heading to europe and more people to be recruited by terror groups. europe and egypt are suffering from what is happening in syria and libya and other countries, so what if egypt is added to these countries? what will happen? i

the election journalist korean hari is standing by he is covering the elections in egypt's capital cairo welcome to you karim you know if you would describe these elections as free and fair but what is the state of democracy in the country. well basically three may be the problem is of course. competition. in this election we have one candidate that is also himself before him as a c.c. friend so nobody is really taking it too serious so we have a country rested and many people hating. the i.c.c. saying that he brought big security to this country he also created a lot of infrastructure projects he brought the christians and muslims together and since take that but of course this also a big proposition so what we don't know here is. the opposition has nobody to vote for so the big issue here for the digits you see. in this election is going to be turnout that says how many people in the next three days turn out in the city and what do you anticipate because i mean you know you've been in cairo for quite a while you gauge the mood there on the streets you think that people will vote. that'

he joins us live in front of a polling station in cairo. how has the polling turnout been today? >> people have been heading to this polling station. it is home to some of the countries christian minorities. you might be able to hear behind me the atmosphere. 200 people turning up to a pro- el sissi event. 14,000 polling stations have opened up. 350,000 security personnel have been deployed in the wake of the attack in alexandria. said, with so many contenders, -- falling by the low-profile candidates now facing president el sisii. in the wake of populated back protests, the army deposing morsi. the one and overwhelming victory -- he won in an overwhelming victory. they have really been getting people to come out and exercise what they say is there patriotic duty to vote. his image right now is everywhere and kyra. -- in cairo. >> how different is this election for president sissi compared to the last one. what will the next four years have in store for ejections? -- fort egyptians -- fort egyptians >> with him coming to power on the back of protests from a large part of the popu

saudi arabia's crown prince is in cairo for a three day visit to meet with egyptian president. it's mama been someone's first foreign trip since becoming crime prince last year and then fly on to meet with leaders in the u.s. the u.k. saudi arabia and egypt are among the countries that imposed a blockade on qatar last year is following developments. this is one hundred percent man's first foreign trip as crown prince of saudi arabia and people might wonder why did he choose egypt as the first leg of the trip well from a sandy perspective there are two serious challenges in the region first of all iran which the saudis consider almost like an existential threat and the war in yemen which continues with no indication that it might come to an end anytime soon so for the saudis the only way to contain iran's growing influence and to win the war in saudi arabia they need to rely on a strong ally in the region and this explains why they have been pouring billions of dollars into the egyptian economy and providing strong political assistance to the president of the c.c. if you look at

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cairo would also go for about $6k. and larry has about 100 more.ng to part with the collection? >> basically, i broke down the collection in three parts -- the high-end, the mid-range models, and then the low-range. the total was $279,000. >> okay. [ chuckles ] >> quite a collection. >> so, i know you've said, larry, that you'd never seriously considered selling, but now that you hear this... that's next. what's your "strange inheritance" story? we'd love to tell it. send me an e-mail or go to our website, strangeinheritance.com. >> now back to "strange inheritance." >> larry atteridge is weighing his options after receiving an appraisal of $279,000 for more than 100 civil war model ships that his late father painstakingly built over a lifetime. so, larry, how does that compare to the appraisal you got years ago? >> well, it's a big surprise. it's much higher than it was. >> well, your dad did great work, and i think it's just a testament to what he put into this. >> in fact, when you consider that larry's father sold at least 10 times as many mode

i also think your experience in the developing world in cairo or in indonesia, it's quite different, and the focus of my work has always been in the developed world rather than the developing world. so i think you're absolutely right, in the developing world, and certainly services, sharing companies, services, innovation, startups, they offer remarkable opportunity get out of poverty and some is extremely seductive. how many people's startups are actually realized and how many kids from slums of cairo are getting funding from you? >> there are -- you see kid come out of nowhere that become fundable but he that's less the issue than a kid in the slum of cairo who is using a mobile phone too reach the other part of town and can take an unfortunate $2 a day to $5 a day which is a lot, and it's not just a man man -- it's the fact that people have tools to allow them to see worlds they never saw before and reach customers they were never able to reach before. >> i absolutely agree with that. sometime mist work is misunderstood in that sense. my critique is mostly of the industrial west r

and the same thing happened cairo so the only place is close to me was israel so i came to israel on the end of southern seven through. commenting on israel's new policy prime minister netanyahu had this to say on january twenty first we are taking actions against illegal immigrants who came here for work purposes israel will continue to be a shelter for true refugees and will eject illegal infiltrators now the israeli government's argument in all of this is that the vast majority of the eritrean sudanese asylum seekers are not asylum seekers it calls them infiltrators and people who are here for economic reasons i mean how would you respond to that what what would happen do you think if you went back to eritrea or some of them were to call us and claim properly happening in toronto so they have no reason why we got workers or intruded into traitorous. right because they never give us a chance in some is there are setting up the question systematically they brought us to some of our claim even those who are climate soon again we didn't get it and so forth sometimes they reject automa

embassy in cairo says that as americans they are very impressed by the a through z. as i'm in the patriotism of egyptian voters you have commentators such as y.l. scanned our who say that western complicity and partnership in the crimes against egyptians are the most important story about the elections now the state news agency has reminded egyptians that failing to vote is an offense punishable by fines of up to twenty eight dollars other threats and enticements have featured prominently in foreign media coverage of the new york times says it's seen it's seen people being paid from three dollars to nine dollars to vote now keep in mind the international monetary fund says that nearly thirty percent of egyptians are living in poverty so three to nine dollars is a lot of money for anyone that's living on less than a dollar a day there are millions of egyptians in that category and government officials in several areas have promised voters improve services such as electricity and sanitation the wall street journal also adding how other regional governments have offered

it could mean his character flap horton in "terms of endearment" or "the purple rose of cairo."nchor man will mcavoy on "the newsroom." jeff invited us to his hometown of chelsea, michigan, and the purple rose theater he founded there for a sunday sitdown. ♪ >> jeff daniels is one of the most accomplished and respected actors in hollywood. but he knows where is one movie that will be with him until the very end. what did the people around you say when you said i want to do this dumb and dumber movie, i want to do it with jim carrey, trust me? >> they go, jeff, jim carrey is a comedic genius. he's probably going to wipe you off the screen. i said, but he's not in the tongue on the pole scene. he doesn't hit her in the head and then pick a fight with her. and he's not on the toilet. >> classic scene, by the way. that tombstone will probably be here in chelsea, michigan, where he grew up and lives today. the 63-year-old was an athlete at chelsea high school. his dad ran the local lumberyard and at one time was the town's mayor. jeff was introduced to the loves of his life here, his

prince mohammed was welcomed at cairo airport by president abdel fatah al sisi.lies. people are paying tribute to sir roger bannister — the first man to run a mile in underfour minutes — who has died at the age of 88. he made history with the feat in 1954, yet deemed his greatest achievement to be his work as a neurologist. the head of world athletics, sebastian coe, said sir roger bannister made the impossible possible. thousands of delegates from all over china are arriving for the 13th national party congress. they will spend the next two weeks thrashing out policy and direction for the nation — but one proposal delegates are expected to vote on has the world watching. it's the changes to the constitution that will give the party more control than ever and give one man, president xi jinping the potential to rule for life. also in the last hour, china's official xinhua news agency, has announced that it will increase its defence spending byjust over 8% in 2018, giving its military budget a higher boost than last year. for more on this the bbc‘s stephen mcdonell

today luigi works at a local supermarket he plans to stay in cairo to show other young people that there are alternatives to crime and violence. stories like this give bruno strength one day he hopes his neighborhood will be known for more than just the camorra and crime. now it's world tuberculosis day on saturday and experts could have been celebrating the treatments that came close to wiping out tb at least in rich countries instead though they will be warning against the resurgence of a disease that kills around one point seven million people every year the reason is simple there are more and more strains of tb the drug resistant and europe ukraine is one of the countries hardest hit by the resistant strains of tuberculosis and our care of correspondent nick conley sent us this report. just three years ago who barely knew anything about tuberculosis that is until a routine checkup changed her life and we can't know how many people around us have to be many just don't know their status here. but even after a recovery the fear of infection is never far away there was a time i couldn't

in down town cairo.eir votes on the ballot paper and leaving with a purple finger to show they have voted. they have a ballot paper with two candidates' name, notjust the names, but a symbol. many people in egypt are unable to read or write and both candidates have chosen a symbol. for the president abdul fa tta h symbol. for the president abdul fattah al—sisi, his is a star and that he says that represents egypt's role in the sky. moussa mostafa moussa chose an air plane. now, this vote is taking place over three days. the government has been keen to urge people to vote. they have been tv and radio ads telling people to choose egypt. one of the key measures will be about turn out, that figure is being watched closely, because the turn out figure will be a measure of the mandate thatis will be a measure of the mandate that is given to the winner of this election. bereaved parents are losing thousand of pounds of bereavement payments after a change in the system. last april the government cut the time tha

thank you so much correspondent ruth michael's on there talking to us from cairo. now to sierra leone and an exclusive interview the main opposition leader there vying for the presidency has told e.w. he will call people to action if a runoff election in sierra leone is postponed due to his motto by zero one the first voting round earlier this month but failed to receive a high enough majority to win out right at the presidential runoff poll is scheduled for tuesday but the election will only move forward if it's given the green light by sierra leone's high court members of the ruling a p c party say election fraud has interfered on sunday supporters of the old took to the streets in freetown ahead of the court's decision not to be you know says his supporters will publicly object if the court rules to delay tuesday's vote through and we all said we've been preparing for this for the past five years and within this we have international observers here quite a lot of money have been spent with this particular location on we see no reason why we should be postponed.

east cairo and then he would agree to the very important movement in egypt in politics called i'll tell you i love the old vanguard right what is. right and not. yes but that is something i mean actually he's a very good friend of the mill mubarak but that is a very important thing which is that he has a long ways and one of the party which is the middle class nationalist party in egypt so for his part to have ancestors not to back him means that not just like say complacency you know bought an attitude on the part of the liberal parties in egypt to stay quiet just be patient little sisi finish another term restart of the deal of stability and then competition could ensue so he stands at present think an important institution of arrangement politics that could be an important player in few years let's see here for a moment i must say what do you respond to that easy he says says that this is a legitimate election and let's see see do what he can for egypt give him some more time basically that would be perhaps a view of many egyptians today no i think the election i mean he's right imme

ian lee has more from cairo. >> reporter: let's take a ride around the streets of cairo.ou haven't noticed, egypt is having a presidential election. a kaleidoscope of campaign po poster wallpapers the city. but you might have noticed something missing, the opposition. "it's not my fault" egypt's president abdel al sisi said in an interview. i swear to god i wish there had been more candidates for people to choose who they want. but they were not ready yet there is no shame in this. there were high profile contenders but egypt cran authorities arrested a former army commander on a number of charges. a 2012 presidential candidate withdrew amid reports of intimidation. human rights layer ahmed affirmative action feik. the nephew of anwar sadat also said he felt pressured to withdraw. >> the election run under the emergency law, the protest law and the terrorism law whereby i was a bit scared that all my campaign representative in different governments, they might be in a situation whereby difficult time, or being stopped, detained, abused. >> reporter: after searching, we fi

saudi arabia's crown prince is due to land in cairo for a three day visit to meet gyptian president at the fact that al sisi it's mom of the first foreign trip since becoming crowned prince last year then fly on to meet with leaders in the u.s. and the u.k. saudi arabia and egypt among the countries that imposed a blockade on last june well earlier i spoke to juan cole a professor of history at the university of michigan and he says egypt is a very close ally to saudi arabia despite some differences. after the twenty thirteen who the saudis the united arab emirates and kuwait have put in on the order of thirty billion dollars in investments and gifts and loans to the egyptian regime so that is a lot of investment and egypt just yesterday we had the announcement by the top court in egypt giving away these two islands in the red sea strategically important islands to nod and said nothing to egypt what else is egypt getting out of all of this investment in saudi getting out of this investment in egypt. the saudis did get those islands that they have a claim on them going back but they've

and police officers in sinai but the violence was not limited to the peninsula car bombs in central cairo and alexandria are testament to cc's inability to deliver on his promise of security another pledge made by the army general was to build a national road network that would connect cities and help improve road safety i would i will build a world class road network within one year that will connect all of egypt. four years have now passed not only does egypt have an extremely poor road network according to the world health organization it ranks amongst the ten worst countries for road safety with deaths being an almost daily occurrence. c.c. had also promised to drastically improve the economy and increase living standards there was initial hope when his government organized the two thousand and fifteen international economic conference billions of dollars worth of projects were announced until now though very little of those have been achieved even the much hill construction of a new administrative capital has seen little to no development similar to the pledge of building one million

they will now have to pay more and stop declaring taxes in the country with the lowest taxation by cairo the measure could benefit public finances in several european countries but could also scare away international investments. ireland is popular with tech giants who want to lower their tax bill the firms concentrate their business activities in places where tax rates are especially advantageous that's why apple google and facebook have their european headquarters on the emerald isle but the e.u. commission wants to change that they plan to impose a special three percent tax on certain divisions within the tech giants today's proposal. simply about fair for all companies there about creating the right environment for. businesses and they are about future proofing. markets so that collectively we can rise to the challenges of globalized and digital. age and in the future tech companies would also be taxed where they sell their products and not just where they're registered that would mean a nice windfall for public coffers at the same time as drawing out european tax. well you've seen i

the times may be turbulent but businessmen on cairo's streets seem to be content with their president. or not you but you can bring me his replacement. if you can what would his replacement do and what does he present what will he present our president sisi can do it all. we want someone who we will be stable with. for. the support for el-sisi is obvious but have the egyptian people really done better during his administration unemployment has gone down slightly but it's still high at almost twelve percent and egypt's deficit has widened now at over one hundred percent of g.d.p. . alone from the international monetary fund should help the economy twelve billion dollars six billion of which have already been distributed but the country needs to set a strict austerity plan in motion the government has to float the currency on international markets cancel energy subsidies and introduce a sales tax of fourteen percent. that's cause prices to rise and the egyptian pound has lost value inflation has increased under el-sisi last year up a daunting twenty five percent. it's hard times for bus

saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin saw man has met with egypt coptic pope in cairo during a three day to egypt it marks the first time a saudi official has been to the religious capital of the gyptian orthodox christian community. those are the headlines the news continues on. after the street facing reality growing up went to do you realize that you were living in a special place a so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter while activists to live in jail just because he expressed. here their story on the top down to zero at this time. and you're in the stream today a wave of african-americans are choosing to move to the african continent but why and what happens when they get there join the conversation using the hash tag a day story or if you're watching live on you tube you'll eventually see us in that box you can leave your comments in the chat box and you too could be in the stream .

coup in turkey that imports as well and that's going to also surprise me that the authorities from cairo didn't hesitate to issue a fact was saying we are simply not muslims and reaching a wide audience. can my can and hunt from the hate postings you can see that we are not dealing with radicals or extremists like the islamic state or poke around at all the taliban etc but just with so-called simple conservatives and who see their worldview being violated absolutely absolutely it also indicates we have a problem across our whole society with people who are afraid of losing their identity whenever we talk about european values and human rights mentioned most especially these really thoughts and then think how difficult is it then for your work when we see that you also visit muslim pupils in the multicultural berlin district of new icon and they say it isn't good for men and women to pray together and. is this disappointing that coming from youngsters. and. being well i'm not disappointed because i have a very realistic view of the whole situation of my work on my cases as a lawyer in a s

cairo,wn prince in kicking off his overseas tour with a visit to egypt.he two nations signed several agreements. it is 8:00 a.m. across the emirates. this is "bloomberg markets: middle east." inm yousef gamal el-din dubai. still a lot of caution in the markets. this wider trade rhetoric, anti-trade rhetoric, escalating, getting out of control, safe havens coming back into play. the session coming under pressure, the index down .6%. the key losses being driven by the likes of the hang seng. that index down 1.1%. with thet is happening losing streak of the msci asia-pacific index. , the longestng losing streak since early december. the yen is another key trade, a 16 month high for the japanese currency. other asset, again, the safe haven theme here. we cross over to the energy place and other commodities. ,rent crude just under $65 extending gains, libya's biggest oilfield halting production after the closing of a key pipeline. euro-dollar with the politics out of europe. a little upside as we speak. it has been swinging around. upside, gold with clear a ba

welcoming mohammed been summoned to cairo it's not a surprise really that n.b.s. would make this first foreign trip as crown prince to egypt is it we know that he is the defect to the arabia and his visit. he has a message to send basically that he would like to continue the traditional show of presenting significant political and economic assistance to the. president. that they will continue the same policies which have been at office in the past few basic lee. anti muslim brotherhood all over the world and also backing. the fatah has he so it's i think a very strong political message here what is the saudi arabia getting out of his close ties with egypt they are the two islands of course which has been somewhat of a controversy in egypt itself but what else are the saudis getting out of this relationship you know because saudi arabia has been very concerned about the growing influence of iran therefore for them to be able to contain that if there was they need strong regional players to back them and this explains why they have been given significant financial a

vendors the street vendors union in cairo was threatened with raids and confiscation of goods if they didn't vote in high numbers they're seeing quite a few threats there and this video emerged on tuesday of an education ministry official warning staff of consequences if they don't vote saying if they refuse they'll bear consequences these are not my regulations he says these are the regulations of the country. now we're curious to hear what you think of the election and what impact these incentives or threats may have on the vote you can also share your thoughts with us on twitter using the hash tag news great or message me directly i'm anderson thank you andrew and don't forget we've got a special page up on dot com on the egyptian presidential election where you all the results as a drop in the next few hours you'll find some very colorful pictures of course as well of the vote take these past three days and also some very insightful opinion pieces about what lies ahead for egypt on our web site at al-jazeera dot com the u.s. where there's been anger after a criminal charges were r

the new plant built by kyoto based ceramics and electronics giant cairo sarah floats in the middle of a reservoir the solar array comprising more than fifty thousand panels covers about one thousand had tears of a dam in chiba prefecture or at the commissioning ceremony a kind of sarah spokesman indicated the plant could be the first of many like it. when they know this now know how many there are so many reservoirs we hope that this project will let us expand our business throughout japan by making use of them i guess i'm going with a muscle to put on a coat if you still think that the weakness of. the operator claims it is the biggest solar power plant on water in japan and you output is projected at more than sixteen million kilowatt hours that's enough to power around five thousand households for a year the plant began operating earlier this month two years behind schedule the french multinational c l a ten which developed the technology says the cooling effect of water on the solar panels increases their energy production and makes them more efficient than land based systems of a