the foreign affairs chief catherine ashton c or this week. -- (earlier this week. -- left earlier this week. encourage theo regime to allow for that rehabilitation to take place without any use of violence. union is also here. the delegation urged the feuding factions to sit down and talk. >> reconciliation can only take place if everybody is involved. including those who have the .ost viewpoints everybody must be committed to peace and to working one with the other. >> so far, such exhortation's have made little progress. the language of political discourse is the chanting in the streets. main opposition party in zimbabwe has threatened to take to the streets to challenge election results. has a hugelready lead in the parliamentary polls. say theobserver elections were free and fair. zimbabweans are waiting for a president to be announced. early results predict robert mugabe's party is leaving. in the capital, most people said they wanted to improve their lives. >> to thrive like in other countries. >> we want leaders who can perform. and somee problems people being turned away from v

a spokesman for a foreign-policy court nader catherine ashton says that the e u is dedicated to getting egypt back on the path to democracy. but egypt's minister is running out of patience. he demanded that supporters of morsi leave their protest camps. >> once again we ask the pro- morsi emmons traders to leave their camps at wants. -- demonstrators to leave their camps at once. >> morsi supporters show no sign of backing down. >> there is renewed political turmoil in tunisia as well. the largest since the assassination cents -- the assassination of an opposition member of parliament. tens of thousands took to the streets to demand the resignation of the islamist led government. >> one of the country for largest labor unions has called a strike to put further pressure on the government. >> in the country where the arab spring began, protesters are back on the streets. once again, the goal is regime change. tens of thousands demonstrated in the capital of tunis on tuesday night. highlights -- economic stagnation. >> the tunisian people are protesting against the practices come as this g

a spokesman for a foreign-policy court nader catherine ashton says that the e u is dedicated to getting egypt back on the path to democracy. but egypt's minister is running out of patience. he demanded that supporters of morsi leave their protest camps. >> once again we ask the pro- morsi emmons traders to leave their camps at wants. -- demonstrators to leave their camps at once. >> morsi supporters show no sign of backing down. >> there is renewed political turmoil in tunisia as well. the largest since the assassination cents -- the assassination of an opposition member of parliament. tens of thousands took to the streets to demand the resignation of the islamist led government. >> one of the country for largest labor unions has called a strike to put further pressure on the government. >> in the country where the arab spring began, protesters are back on the streets. once again, the goal is regime change. tens of thousands demonstrated in the capital of tunis on tuesday night. highlights -- economic stagnation. >> the tunisian people are protesting against the practices come as this g

catherine ashton has been coordinating the negotiations between iran and six major powers. ashton sent a letter to rowhani. she said the five permanent members of the u.n. security council and germany stand ready to continue dialogue to find a solution. ashton said the six nations hope they can schedule meaningful talks with iran soon. the negotiations have been stalled since april. iran rejected a proposal to suspend enrichment of uranium to 20% purity in exchange for easing sanctions. western representatives have high expectations for rowhani. they once reached a temporary agreement with the former nuclear negotiator. they hope to restart the nuclear talks in early september after a new iranian negotiating team is formed. >>> the philippine navy has gained another warship amid territorial disputes with china in the south china sea. ♪ the frigate sailed into the philippine's bay on tuesday. the bay was formerly the site of a u.s. navy base. the 3,250 ton cutter was used by the u.s. coast guard. >> translator: the arrival is proof of our resolve to have an armed forces that

eu foreign policy chief catherine ashton said she's prepared to play a mediating role, but ashton has failed so far to end the violence despite visiting cairo twice last month. >>> a chinese communist party boss is set to go on trial within hours in the most politically charged case in decades. bo xilai faces charges of embezzlement and abuse of pow oer. he allegedly earned about $4 million in public money. his wife was convicted of killing a british businessman. and he got caught up in a number of other scandals. in september, communist leade expell himrom the party. bo was one of the so-called princelings, children of senior party officials. he was widely expected to join the standing committee of the politburo until his downfall. still he remains popular among some party officials and the people he served. security is tight around the court in the eastern city of zinnen. they have cleared room for the many fourn journalists who want to cover the trial. zi gin ping has cracked down on corruption rampant among party officials. >>> a bus carrying a group of tourists have plunged into

secretary of state john kerry and eu foreign policy chief catherine ashton have released a joint statement expressing concern about the crisis in egypt. the statement says they remain troubled that the government and opposition have not found a way to break the dangerous stalemate, but kerry and ashton say they're ready to help in any way they can. >>> people in tokyo are celebrating the remarkable life of nelson mandela as the former south african president gets treatment in hospital. they've put on an exhibition. some items there have never been seen outside south africa. nhk world's mitsuko nishikawa takes us there. >> reporter: the display is part of a disaster benefit art show by japanese personalities. the items related to the former south african president are a highlight. this is a copy of a note mandela wrote during his imprisonment. he was arrested many times for his anti-apartheid activities. he made headlines at his trial in 1964 when, instead of testifying, he made a speech from the dock. he said he would risk his life to realize a democratic and nonracial society. >> translat

order to figure out a way to restore peace in that country the use top foreign policy official catherine ashton has also offered to go to egypt to help mediate a political stop a strategy for a solution to the crisis in that country and back here in the u.s. the office of vermont senator patrick leahy told the daily beast that military aid to egypt has been temporarily cut off something that the white house says is simply not true they say that it is under review but not currently on hold now to be clear technically technically the white house is right the five hundred eighty five million dollars of promised aid to the egyptian military is not due until september thirtieth so it still could go to the egyptian military if things calm down before then and while all of this is going on protests are still happening in the streets of cairo though they have been much calmer these past three days and if you're wondering why that is that's because of a nationwide curfew that is in effect forcing people off the streets at night bell true is in cairo and she describes that government imposed curfew. well

its foreign policy chief, catherine ashton, said the e.u.ember nations strongly condemn the recent spate of violence between the interim government and supporters of the muslim brotherhood. >> we've agreed, as well, to review the issue of our assistance to egypt with the understanding of assistance to the most vulnerable groups and to civil society must continue. member states have agreed to suspend export licences to egypt of any equipment used for internal repression, and to reassess their export licenses covered by the e.u. common position. >> holman: the u.s. still is weighing whether to suspend some of its $1.5 billion in assistance to egypt. the soldier accused in the fort hood, texas shooting rampage rested his case today without presenting a defense. army major nidal hasan-- who elected to represent himself-- did not testify or call any witnesses. hasan is accused of killing 13 people and wounding 32 at the military base in 2009. closing arguments are set to begin tomorrow. if convicted, hasan could face the death penalty. staff serg

this comes on the week of very intensive negotiations led by the eu, predominantly catherine ashton. she came here, met with president mohamed morsi. in the coming days we know republican senators lindsey graham and john mccain will be coming here. no doubt, there is a very intense international pressure andest to try and bring these sides to the negotiating table and in the absence of doing so, the fear is that we could see the type of bloodshed and violence that's plagued egypt in the last months. >> we should point out that lindsey graham and john mccain very interestingly are traveling to egypt at the request of president obama. they've often gone off on their own and they are the most experienced foreign policy hands on republican side there but the fact that they are traveling really as enjoy vois for the white hou white house is very, very significant. before we close this down, what are the next steps? i'm told routine steps will be to try to either confirm or deny, knock down this threat, check with foreign intelligence services, and also beef up security either the marine g

dialogue is taking place between the brother exphood current rulers of egypt paps you know, catherine ashton, was there and she met with the brotherhood people as well as people in the government. there is likely there is some negotiation. i think michele is right-- both sides are flexing their muscle and trying to reach some kind of a deal. i think it's unlikely, but northeastern university, there is something going on there. the brotherhood want to be band. they don't want the leadership imperezonned. they don't want the funds confiscated. they want a role in politics. at the same time, they have to get on board that this is a post-morsi world. >> warner: what i'm being told is the brotherhood is saying their non-negotiatal demand is morsi has to be reinstate odor a fig leaf. >> the brother hoopped is trying to hold on to the moral high ground that they feel they had, that they had a democratically elected president removed by coup. there are some initiatives to, for example, allow there to be a referendum or some kind of a vote. the brotherhood might agree to something like that, but so f