is this an indication as a retrial has now been ordered is this an indication that the court of cassationhe original try process was flawed? or the sen telephoning was sentencing was flawed? there were two separate stages. >> i think both. the sentence and the procedure itself. again, the whole case, you know, comes in the political context of egypt. and basically everything was up normal if you want to call it. so basically the court now is saying, you know, everything should be revised according to the law basically. >> and therefore the ball falls in the court of president sisi because if the politics of the time of course which he has distanced himself personal from, if they are the factor that led to the imprison think of our three journalists now surely the politics can turn it around. >> absolutely. again this is a case which has emerge million dollars a political context. basically now with the debate about reintroducing the sisi i would say political system now to the world trying to reconciliate with qatar and other countries. this is the country -- i think the government of egy

the court of cassation is different and appoints its own members. it's highly independent. judges appointing other judges. they are more likely to challenge the government and more likely to take decisions that they know will be politically unpopular because they're not appointed by -- they don't serve at the pleasure of the president. so i think if you're looking for a slight bright spot it is that there remains in the egyptian judiciary this institution, at least the court of cassation which is highly independent and can serve as the nucleus as a kind of rule of law in the country. that's something that's really long-term, and you know i think that if we just focus on the particulars of this case the bright spot is simply that it looks like the reporters are at least a little bit closer to an eventual resolution of this case. the problem, of course, is that there are hundreds if not thousands of other egyptians who are currently in prison on what are political charges, and this development really doesn't say anything about them or their fates. >> thank you. appreciate you

and of course the -- the court of cassation, when they ordered the case back that is -- gives me hopet they could be acquit acquitted or released. but that will not depend on legal grounds, but it will depend on political basis. >> reporter: egyptian president has come under intense criticism from governments globally for the handling of the men's trial. sisi has said he would have preferred to have the journalist deported giving many hope that that might happen. now that a retrial has been announced. >> reporter: protesters have also gone global demanding the release of the three and many of the media organizations have stood firm. all three men insist they have done nothing wrong, and the original trial has been widely criticized for being grossly unfair. evidence included sheep herding videos and examples of peter greste's work from kenya. >>> much more still to come for you on the news hour including counting begins in sri lanka after the nation votes in a snap presidential election. and serena williams brushed off her shaky start to the season. jo will have more. >> devastating c

. >> i think it's a positive step the decision by the court of cassation accesses the first step wasand it is a step towards seeking just advertise for peter. office there is always an initial air of disappointment because there was rumor that they might have been released but really when your loved one is locked up in prison and there is any kind of opportunity that they may be released, and it's dashed it's an an initial shock, but once we have had time to digest the decision and take stock of it, we think it is a positive step because it does acknowledge that the first trial was flawed, and now peter becomes an accused person. he is still innocent so it allows the president to step in under the guise of the presidential decree announced in november, and we'll be seeking application to have peter brought back to australia under that decree. >>> egyptian security forces have opened fire on anti-government protesters killing one person and injuring a dozen others. the protest look place in three areas. >>> fighting in eastern yemen has killed five soldiers and two tribesmen. it happe

. >> i think it's a positive step that the decision by the court of cassation acknowledges that the first flawed and it's a step towards seeking justice for peter. of course there's always -- there's an initial air of disappointment, because there was a lot of rumor running around at the time that -- that they may have been released but, really when you -- your loved one is locked up in prison and there is any kind of opportunity that they may be released and it is dashed it is an initial shock, but once we have had time to digest the decision and stake stock of it we think it is a positive step because it does acknowledge that the process was flawed. the first trial was flawed and now peter becomes an accused person. he is still innocent and it allows the president to step in under the guise of the presidential decree announced in november, and we'll be seeking application to have peter brought back to australia under that degree. >>> there's controversy in india after police carried out a mock security drill against muslim fighters. it shows the fake fighters wearing skullcaps and shout

the decision by the court of cassation acknowledge that his the first trial was flawed and it's a stepards seeking news for peter. oh, of course, there is always an initial air of disappointment because there was a lot of rumor running around at the time that they may have been released, but really when you loved one is locked up in prison and there is any kind of opportunity that they may be released. it's a shock but we think it's a positive step because again it does acknowledge that the process was flawed the first trial was flawed. and now peter becomes an used person he's still innocent, so it allows. and we'll be seeking a petition to have peter brought back. >>> the u.s. state department has issued a statement saying: >>> fighting in eastern yemen has killed eight yemeni soldier asks two tribes mench the fighting started when the tribes tried to stop a large military convoy. tribal leaders accused the military of helping houthis theythat want to take control of the region. and the death toll after a suicide bomber attack in sanaa has gone up to 26 people. at least 48 people wer

it's -- the -- the decision by the court of cassation acknowledges that the first trial was -- was flawedt's a step towards seeking justice for peter. of course there's always a -- there's an initial air of disappointment, because there was a lot of rumor running around at the time that -- that they may have been released but, really when you -- your loved one is locked up in prison and there is any kind of opportunity that they -- that they may be released and it is dashed, it is an initial shock, but once we have had time to digest the decision and take stock in it, we think it is a positive step because it does acknowledge the first trial was flawed, and now peter becomes an accused person. he is still nenth, so it allows the president to step in and we'll be seeking application to be peter brought back to australia under the decree. >>> the high court in kenyan has suspended part of a controversial security bill. >> reporter: jamal says he plans to leave nairobi soon and take his son and daughter to one of the refugee camps near the kenyan border with somalia. he feels the country's k

the decision by the court of cassation acknowledges that the first trial was flawed and it's a step towards seeking justice for peter. there's always an initial air of disappointment because there was a lot of rumor running around at the time that they might have been released, but really when your loved one is locked up in prison and there's an opportunity that they may be released and it's dashed it is an initial shock, but i think once we have time for the decision and take stock of it we think it's a positive step because, again, it does acknowledge that the process was flawed, the first trial was flawed and now peter becomes an accused person. he's still innocent. so it allows the president to step in under the guise of the presidential decree that was announced in november and we'll be seeking application to have peter brought back to australia under that decree. >>> the palestinian ambassador to the u.n. is expected to formally submit palestine's application to join the international criminal court to the u.n. secretary-general in the next few minutes. the application for membership

on thursday, egypt's court of cassation overruled the original conviction, citing procedural flaws. but the three will remain behind bars until their case is re-heard. after the ruling, family members of greste and fahmy called on the egyptian government to release and deport them to their home countries. crooks now that peter is essentially an innocent man, no longer a convict, it does layout room to move and steps to be taken. >> i can't even imagine he will stay for a year in prison. [indiscernible] to be deported to canada and be treated as a canadian citizen and continue the trial there. i'm still waiting for americans to happen. >> a u.s. drone strike in pakistan has reportedly killed nine people. the victims were described as foreign militants in the north waziristan. around two dozen civilians were killed in afghanistan last week after shelling struck a wedding party. the deaths came and misreported fighting between afghan forces and taliban militants just days after the afghan military took over formal security control from the u.s.-led nato occupation force. the afghan mil

it traces globally, put out by a canadian or cassation, traces how there's only been a restriction in funding for women's rights work globally. a lot of reasons for that. it has to do with the growth of religious extremism in the global south and global beast, and so the north, the global north and global west funders begin diverting resources to those stressed communities where women and girls were not getting basic health care at all and not getting water in their communities and so forth. so there's a shift of resources. women in the north and west have really struggled. that's one piece, but the other piece is galloping inequality. i really think that the entire progressive movement has been hurt seriously by galloping inequality. and again it's a question of resources. the folks who are i think thomas in his work come the really points out, it's joseph stiglitz who points out that at the very very top of the income globally, you have stronger and stronger and stronger imperatives to prevent a reduction in the inequality. so it's a spiral going in exactly the wrong way which then