i am referring specifically to the visits and egypt and jordan and egypt which is holding parliamentary elections later this month we met with courageous reformers who offered a message as liberal change. in jordan when we arrived two days after the parliamentary election which was reasonably successful in voter turnout this was a positive note. in jordan especially positive because the jordanians permitted international elections observers to monitor the election. we have quite an exchange with the egyptian political leaders about the importance of their agreeing to universal standards for e elections including the role of international monitors in these elections. the pushback card. have continued to push back if you have been following this closely in the last few days, pushback on everything from of religious freedom report to further requests from international monitors. but beneath the official level we were pleased in the sort of emboldened by the idea that there is real politics beyond what you hear in the newspapers, that there are many, many people eager to engage in politics

about egypt and about the israeli-palestinian arena. there were of course, many surprises, i won't go into too many of those in my opening comments, you know, surprises like the extent to which the egyptians view the situation in the sudan as being at the very top of their national security agenda. an issue that doesn't get nearly enough attention here in washington, but over the next couple of months is going to get a lot more, i'm sure. the most important impression that we came away with is the sense from both arabs and israelis, and it's, you know, important to note that the arabs we met with are arabs, arab leaders who are committed to the peace process, that are permanently on, as it were, sort of america's team in the middle east. we didn't go to damascus, we didn't go to beirut, we didn't go to other middle easterners, we weren't in tehran, we were in cairo and in raman and what is clear is these arabs and israelis are longing for clear, bold american leadership. to confront regional threats. especial my but not solely iran. eve

he uses it to planned and organized political opposition in egypt.his work has pitted him squarely against the regime, and for that, he has often ended up behind bars. on april 6, 2008, the 29-year- old use facebook to call for a general strike as a show of solidarity with striking workers in the north of the country. news of the facebook page spread quickly, and soon, he had thousands of dollars. the group is fighting for more democracy, and they rely on social networking sites to spread their message and avoid censorship. >> what is important is that they did not forbid everything. it is impossible for us to go on the streets of egypt. it is a red line for us. activities on the street are dealt with with great violence. yet, facebook is allowed, and independent press is somehow allowed. it is like a vintage in orders to get out anger. facebook, 20 is a means for that. -- facebook, twitter is a means for that. >> the hold workshops to explain how to use social networking tools, how to plan a spontaneous demonstration on facebook, how to organize act

he will cut off egypt and jordan and israel. he emerged as someone that tries to work with republicans who met with whoever is there. he met with them very early. he may say to be careful. it is easier for him to do it. t.think he might do it for the netanyahu is summoned boys they may listen to. that was an idea that i'd bounce around with people. i did not feel the full news of our midterm news permeate. i think that is a little peace to end them. thank you very much. [applause] >> if you could use the microphone in the middle, press the button and identify yourself. >> thank you for a comprehensive look at the situation. i like to pick up on something you said about the general feeling of calm on both sides. did you get into any discussions about how long that calm could be expected to continue with out. progress on the front? >> this was a common discussion. we had with the israelis and a political level and military level. nobody would offer and how many months and weeks. i think i tried to relate with the general consensus

he will cut off egypt and jordan and israel. he emerged as someone that tries to work with republicans who met with whoever is there. he met with them very early. he may say to be careful. it is easier for him to do it. t.think he might do it for the netanyahu is summoned boys they may listen to. that was an idea that i'd bounce around with people. i did not feel the full news of our midterm news permeate. i think that is a little peace to end them. thank you very much. [applause] >> if you could use the microphone in the middle, press the button and identify yourself. >> thank you for a comprehensive look at the situation. i like to pick up on something you said about the general feeling of calm on both sides. did you get into any discussions about how long that calm could be expected to continue with out. progress on the front? >> this was a common discussion. we had with the israelis and a political level and military level. nobody would offer and how many months and weeks. i think i tried to relate with the general consensus

he uses it to planned and organized political opposition in egypt. his work has pitted him squarely against the regime, and for that, he has often ended up behind bars. on april 6, 2008, the 29-year- old use facebook to call for a general strike as a show of solidarity with striking workers in the north of the country. news of the facebook page spread quickly, and soon, he had thousands of dollars. the group is fighting for more democracy, and they rely on social networking sites to spread their message and avoid censorship. >> what is important is that they did not forbid everything. it is impossible for us to go on the streets of egypt. it is a red line for us. activities on the street are dealt with with great violence. yet, facebook is allowed, and independent press is somehow allowed. it is like a vintage in orders to get out anger. facebook, 20 is a means for that. -- facebook, twitter is a means for that. >> the hold workshops to explain how to use social networking tools, how to plan a s to organize activists using a text message, and how to

he will cut off egypt and jordan and israel. he emerged as someone that tries to work with republicans who met with whoever is there. he met with them very early. he may say to be careful. it is easier for him to do it. t.think he might do it for the netanyahu is summoned boys they may listen to. that was an idea that i'd bounce around with people. i did not feel the full news of our midterm news permeate. i think that is a little peace to end them. thank you very much. [applause] >> if you could use the microphone in the middle, press the button and identify yourself. >> thank you for a comprehensive look at the situation. i like to pick up on something you said about the general feeling of calm on both sides. did you get into any discussions about how long that calm could be expected to continue with out. progress on the front? this was a common discussion. we had with the israelis and a litical level and military level. nobody would offer and how many months and weeks. i think i tried to relate with the general consensus that

we arrived in egypt right after our elections.ht before the egyptian elections, and precisely at the time in egypt where the ruling national democratic authority is struggling with its candidate selection process, and if that were not good enough, at the precise moment where the obama administration is trying to rejuvenate and reinvigorate the peace process. for that reason, for example, if we were unable to meet several leaders because at that moment, they left. to come here. the quick take away is that the countries that we visited, my impression, was that the egyptian leadership is the least confidence. it projected the least confidence in itself come but that the level of participation in foreign affairs but also domestically. official egypt seemed intent on convincing -- betraying a sense of normalcy and in all of our meetings. -- portraying a sense of normalcy in all of our meeting. but in my view, they projected weakness and lack of confidence. i think this is centered fundamentally on the degree to which all of egypt is fo

egypt, of course, is not a major oil producer, nor is jordan. but these are all countries that have been very friendly with the united states. they've been very cooperative with us. they've done us a lot of favors; we've done them a lot of favors. it's been a mutual alliance. but those governments are really becoming less and less able to keep the lid on their populations. we in the trade refer to it as the arab street, which means the non-elite. and if you would have -- which i think is a very real risk we have to think about -- saudi arabia destabilized, and, you know, iraq -- no telling what's going to, you know, happen -- i mean, we can defeat saddam hussein; that's not the problem. it's stabilizing the situation to keep oil production going there. and we start really getting into problems of interrupted production in the persian gulf, then we're all going to pay a big, economic price. c-span: twenty million people in iraq -- what's the age breakdown? >> guest: oh, vast majority under 20. you know, it's again one of these countries that -- l

moses was actually an egypt's pharaoh as was solomon. all of the stories were rehashed. stories been taken out of egyptian history, rehashed and

we never aas egypt to recognize israel as a jewish state even though we made peace with egypt same for jordan well well we all go see a sort of a sudden this new demands and why this is why we need this recalled nation who are the palestinians to decide about the nature of israel it's all about putting one obstacle after the other one excuse after the other just to postpone just to put them to the corner and just to do everything possible to prevent any kind of settlement ok professor you're she not a precondition it is not a precondition the the israelis say don't recognize israel as a state of the jewish people come in negotiate no preconditions why don't the palestinian simply come to the table sit down and negotiate they will get a very good deal if they come to the table now and he or she will work coming to what it is what deal can the palestinians get now when they're half a million under a half a million a settler just as i had gideon go ahead. i thought you asked me that question no no i'm asking you it's very yeah but. what's kind of. if the israeli prime minister is not even

i want to bring peace between israel and egypt. that was my preeminent goal are the secondary goal which i am d anwar sadat work done. we left camp david believing we have resolved the issues. the treaty was signed 31.5 years ago and not a single word has ever been violated in those years between israel and egypt for unfortunately, the commitment made concerning palestine territory has not been carried out and that is still a major issue. that is one of the most difficult and challenging issues that the world faces today. >> has and establishing a palestinian sovereign entity on former jordanian land in the west bank become even more difficult in the intervening years now that there are hundreds of thousands of israeli citizens living there? >> yes, there are about 300,000 israelis now living in palestinian land. israel is still occupying territory that belongs to the palestinians and belongs to the syrians and some small portions of lebanon. the basic issue that has changed since then is the desire of israel to retain a good bit o

moses was actually an egypt's pharaoh as was solomon. all of the stories were rehashed.tories been taken out of egyptian history, rehashed and they're sold to us as stories about israel. this is not the truth. it is my opinion. all i'm sighing, is we need to do the research. you know, i -- i -- i have to say, i believe that jesus existed but i pleeven that -- we spend too much, we're too preoccupied with him. there's so much about our own culture that we -- we have yet to he were about -- about abby lincoln has a wonderful poe yes, ma'am. she said we're the african god. we're the african gods. if young children are growing up and not learning about -- or seeing artwork that describes african spirituality, how do you expect them? >> i want to be cheer. you're for the suggesting. you and i both borne in mississippi, you in jackson and me in gulfport. we're from the south, and have those roots. you're not suggesting that a role of something bigger than us have played in us over the years. you're not casting aspersions on that? >> no. but this is a hidden part of the story t

>>reopening the river, egypt is pushing to get more freight shipped on the nile. >>the flow of cargos up and down the nile could be increased massively. >>why the wonders of the natural world are such a huge inspiration for scientists. >>we're not gonna make supertankers swim like fish. that's not the point. >>hello and welcome. i'm raya abirached and this is world business, your weekly insight into the global business trends shaping our lives. china is now the world's 2nd largest economy and growing at ablistering rate. the country also spent billions of dollars on showpiece events like the olympic games and the shanghai expo. so why are other countries still sending aid money to this economic powerhouse? >>reporter: bucks for bamboo; in rural sichuan, europe's taxpayers are funding a two and a half million dollar project to help revive, boost and sustain stocks of this fast-growing, versatile, substitute for timber. >>reporter: managed by the international network for bamboo and rattan, inbar, the programme also promotes saferfactory working conditions, more eff

means or the interest of serious players to invest in infrastructure will be substantially duty or egypt and if it will happen. it will be no investment to solve the lack of capacity this was in upstream in midstream and there's a result supply demand rules will play and. customers will be heated by as a skyrocketing prices well here's an example of the third energy package applying the polish gas system once to give access to your model year apart like two third parties what how does it affect the interest of gazprom and what may be your reaction to that but in case of poland we're co-managed to find acceptable solution bourse for for us before european commission because they've been part of a long lost the negotiations respect of new intergovernmental protocols as well as a corporate greenland's and as a result for strictly defined what does it the mean free complacency is a pipeline because currently in ten foreseeable future it will be in norfolk up basically in the pipeline because all the capacity is booked in order to do it against the wall and to germany to france and we're not

egypt is connected with jordan and we're connected with syria and lebanon and beyond that to turkey. in gas, egypt is also providing gas to jordan and the gas pipeline goes through jordan and to supply gas to syria and lebanon and beyond that also to turkey. so you can clearly start to see how jordan 's positioning as a hub point in infrastructure ...where we're connecting neighbouring countries through this hub which i think is going to be very critical to create an integration economically within the region...interdependence. and i think it will add to the factor to increase stability in the region because when there's co-dependency there's more potential tominimise chances of conflicts in the region >>gliders are, quite simply, remarkable pieces of equipment, able to soar hundreds, if not thousandsof kilometres. they can reach over 40000ft into the sky, and travel at speeds of over 170mph. till now though, one thing they haven't been able to do is make competitive gliding a commercially attractive proposition for sponsors and broadcasters. but moves are afoot to change that situat

who had set eyes on egypt and who despised the place. from those endless french newspaper of the 1770s, i knew the difference between propaganda and hearsay. in cleopatra's case, we owe a debt to both. the romans who left us her story did us a favor. normally women are difficult to write about. they keep lousy records. and their lives tend slip through the cracks. she owes her inmortality to her enemies. had they hated her less, she would not be preserved for us. she's one the women in history and one of the few loosers we remember. had she been a man, she would not be remembered today. had cleopatra been dealt a stronger hand, she would have faced the enemy. she would have disposed, poisoned, hacked to pieces by one of her four children, in which case, we wouldn't have heard of her at all. thank you. [applause] >> any questions? okay. >> thank you. could you say something about how well cleopatra understood the strategies that the difference roman factions were practicing against her and therefore kind of assessed her political acuity a

backed government was was in egypt a revolt against the u.s. backed policies of the his new. barque regime has mobilized these agencies to co-opt opposition groups and sharing the results of the upcoming elections will be beneficial to washington. is a member of an egyptian opposition party they received funding or support from many . people with the irony of course but with the project of middle east democracy. for democracy or with me or many who study these agencies believe the soft money working behind the scenes is directly linked to the cia they had to have this new organization with a nice sounding name a democracy in it and i sounding name which would be free of the taint of the cia and that's been that was the reason the energy was created usa id has implemented democracy promotion initiatives in over one hundred countries in the past twenty five years this year's budget one billion dollars according to usa i.d.s. website spending ten million dollars in a target country increases its amount of democratic change five fold how much of your tax money would you like to g

dowd demanding the release of al qaeda prisoners in iraq and egypt . and scientists propose a new source of green nuclear energy which could end the world's dependence on fossil fuels but not everyone is convinced story you actually use the fuel of the future. more details of all those stories at the top of the hour up next kate's here with the sports. hello and welcome to the sports news thank you for joining me and he with the headlines. staying focused isn't it coach machado spell out who tells his players to keep calm as they march towards the russian premier league title. and event tiger woods loses his world number one status to england's lee westwood. one win away the san francisco giants edged closer to baseball's world series title. first of opel and send it to actually china spell as he says his side can't afford to relax as they remain on course to claim their secondly eitel sunday's story know how when i put them six points clear at the top of the russian premier league with just five dimes to play sweating was pleased with his side's attac

died when militants seized a church in baghdad demanding the release of all prisoners in iraq and egypt. and a song to this proposed new source of green nuclear energy which could end the world's dependence on fossil fuels but not everyone is convinced though you actually is the fuel of the future. so russia is pulling out all the stops to boost its high tech sector and reduce its dependence on natural resources talks to the man who's got an important task to develop russia's innovative potential modernize the economy. that's a special mr i mean thank you for being with us today so why did the authorities decide to build a novation center from scratch rather than use takes base of science cities switch to moscow region alone has quite a number of good i often joke of skin for instance. little. firstly this innovation center isn't designed to be the same as a science city in soviet times science cities were built in our country as centers for scientific research the way i see it skolkovo is primarily a commercialization center the military industrial complex was the main consumer of prod

she's coming from egypt. she's immensely incomparable richer than they are. really the over the top extravagance of her world really does unnerve them. they'll adopt it later. the roman empire will go the same way. for that moment in history in the first century bc, she possessed the great fortune. well mannered rome looks at her as a deck decadent wild queen sneef and alexandria makes rome look like a back yurt. >> rome is the center of civilization from our perspective. from her perspective rome is still, yes, a very primitive place, a squalid streets. alexandria is the seat of learning the center of the civilization, the place you went to if you wanted a tutor, a doctor or any profession of any kind. you went to alexandria. >> brown: do you have a favorite moment in her life or story that somehow exemplifies what you came to know about her? >> i was most struck at the end of her life. she and anthony are defeated by octavian. they're waiting for him to come and essentially, you know, say the game is over. mark anthony goes to pieces. he leads a very dissip

we talked about egypt. i've been there twice. i'm going to go back there. there are other government officials raising our concerns. same think in pakistan, the same thing in other countries i'm describing. in some places, we have more leverage than others. it's, frankly, difficult for us to exactly be the ones to promote a human rights agenda in north korea because our relationship is so strained. but we will continue to raise these issues publicly and privately, and we regard this -- again, the notion of principled engagement is this is part of what we do as a government. we're going to do it in a consistent way, in a sustained way. multiple officials are going to raise it and we will keep pushing until we get the results that we're aiming for. the goal here is to allow people to practice their religion freely. this is a human rights issue and we regard it as one of great importance. >> just a quick one. the secretary said today that we want to see religious freedom around the world. she also said that she wants to see people of all faiths or with no fait

egypt was in fact along with persia ancient cultures of changed and is long with all these cultures team also out of the post islamic culture and if you knew iran to the core, what you would know is that a thousand years ago another great poet brooch this amazing love poem which is basically was envisioned is one of the most subversive books that you can read on loved. the women are some of the most independent and essential women who not only choose who they marry, they choose who they make love to. ye in the iranian poetry, the agnostic, ye in have these poems is a communion with god, and six years ago mentioned [inaudible] so, if i as a woman want to go back to culture would you think i want to be independent because i have read a few books at? no [laughter] i go to my own culture. but the egyptians go to cleopatra, they go to these amazing women at the turn of the century in egypt, lebanon, iraq, iran and turkey who said we want to be free. so what i am saying is if you want to understand our culture, you have to go and build a serious work to understand that culture and once you und

. >> egypt said that many of its candidates have lost their seats. protests about the conduct of the pull -- poll, they say it was marred by violence. a nuclear scientist has been killed, and another wounded. attackers attached to bombs to moving vehicles. they explain the u.s. and israel. the actor leslie nielsen has died at 84. he played the lead in numerous hollywood productions including forbidden planet and the poseidon adventure before turning to the comedy roles series in airplane and the naked gun. they have condemned last week's gunfire from the north. and they will pay the price for any further action. they have told us it is the first time, they have not indicated what they might do next. american firepower within striking distance of pyong yang. south korea military exercises a sure strength. but the south korean leader knows that there is a response to north korea oppose the aggression is not tough enough. >> for failing to protect my people's lives and property, i know well that they are greatly disappointed about the military's respons

>>reopening the river, egypt is pushing to get more freight shipped on the nile. >>the flow of cargos up and down the nile could be increased massively. >>why the wonders of the natural world are such a huge inspiration for scientists. >>we're not gonna make supertankers swim like fish. that's not the point. >>hello and welcome. i'm raya abirached and this is world business, your weekly insight into the global business trends shaping our lives. china is now the world's 2nd largest economy and growing at ablistering rate. the country also spent billions of dollars on showpiece events like the olympic games and the shanghai expo. so why are other countries still sending aid money to this economic powerhouse? >>reporter: bucks for bamboo; in rural sichuan, europe's taxpayers are funding a two and a half million dollar project to help revive, boost and sustain stocks of this fast-growing, versatile, substitute for timber. >>reporter: managed by the international network for bamboo and rattan, inbar, the programme also promotes saferfactory working conditions, more eff

egypt is connected with jordan and we're connected with syria and lebanon and beyond that to turkey. in gas, egypt is also providing gas to jordan and the gas pipeline goes through jordan and to supply gas to syria and lebanon and beyond that also to turkey. so you can clearly start to see how jordan 's positioning as a hub point in infrastructure ...where we're connecting neighbouring countries through this hub which i think is going to be very critical to create an integration economically within the region...interdependence. and i think it will add to the factor to increase stability in the region because when there's co-dependency there's more potential tominimise chances of conflicts in the region >>gliders are, quite simply, remarkable pieces of equipment, able to soar hundreds, if not thousandsof kilometres. they can reach over 40000ft into the sky, and travel at speeds of over 170mph. till now though, one thing they haven't been able to do is make competitive gliding a commercially attractive proposition for sponsors and broadcasters. but moves are afoot to change that situat

it was approved by 103 countries, a record number. 18 countries, including china, russia and egypt opposed the measure. 60 countries, including india, abstained. the resolution expresses serious concern about north korea's refusal to answer questions from the international community about the abductions issue. north korea's deputy ambassador to the u.n., pak tok hun, expressed concern that japan pressed developing countries to support the resolution. >> it is clear. the resolution we cannot accept. >> translator: i hope north korea will seriously acknowledge the international community's strong message and work to resolve the abduction issue. >>> a 23-year-old japanese woman has won the piano section of this year's geneva international music competition. mami hagiwara is the first japanese to win the annual competition. it's been held in the swiss city since 1939. in geneva, she played a piano concerto by maurice ravel in the final round on thursday. she was up against two other pianists. this shows hagiwara playing in hiroshima. she is from hiroshima and is now based in paris. she began p

we talked about egypt. i've been there twice. i'm going to go back there. there are other government officials raising our concerns, same thing in pakistan, and other countries that i'm describing. in some places we have more leverage than others. it's difficult for us to exactly be the one to promote the human rights in north korea, because our relationship is so strained. we will continue to raise the issues publicly and privately. the notice is this is part of what we do as a government. we are going to do it in a consistent way, sustained way. multiple officials will raise it. we will keep pushing until we gets the results that we are aiming for. the goal here is to allow people to practice freely. it's a human rights issue. we regard it of importance. >> just a quick one, the secretary said today that we want to see religious freedom around the world. and she also said that she wants to see people with all faith or with no faith can love together and pakistan is a -- is your friend country. we have been giving billions pumping it, why cannot you have a

in 1956, paris and london launched an ill-fated operation in egypt after the suez canal was nationalized. the british prime minister tony blair and the french president formalized armed forces corp. in 1998 when they signed the military pact with limited practical effect. today, french and british soldiers fight together as part of the nato cooperation -- coalition. from conflict to military cooperation, a trajectory that most leaders on both sides however visionary might have found hard to predict. >> earlier i spoke to the defense correspondent for the evening standard. i ask him what makes this accord different from previous bilateral deals. >> this time, it is very different. for all the grandstanding and political editors talking, this has got to be put together at the bottom. it is from the bottom up. it is about practical training be prepared to fight together when they need to and sharing assets. there are lot of anglo-french weapons systems out there and it is making them work. where are the only to who capable.re cabl let's make it work together. i think the president and the p

egypt's main opposition movement, the muslim brotherhood, appears to have lost most of its seats in sunday'sarliamentary election. the opposition claimed that the vote was marred by regulations. an iranian nuclear scientists has been killed and another wounded by car bombs in tehran. driving on motorcycles that test they attached bombs to them. iran has blamed the u.s. and israel. still ahead, hundreds of schools shut down as forecasters warned of plummeting temperatures. international election monitors in haiti has said that sunday's general election it was a valid, despite what they called irregularities. delays at some polling stations were not reason enough to cancel the election. the opposition call for the vote to be annulled because of alleged fraud by the haitian government. earlier, we spoke to our correspondent marc doral in port-au-prince. we asked if this would help to calm the tensions. >> no. as somebody you have seen elections in many developing countries over the years, this was probably the worst organized election i have ever seen. in the first two hours of the polling, man