policy towards egypt. you say that we ought to step up aid and embraced egypt more warmly than in the past. >> absolutely. i am firm on this issue because i'm afraid if we don't think egypt is going to go into populism. but the strong leader, more influence. they're going to talk to other leadership in the world by the military delegation government. so if we go, now and for this new partnership, the new partnership should not be the old partnership with the government regime. we had it with mubarak. then we had it with morrissey in morrissey was using our partnership to create an islamist base. so now we do offend people to people. it's trying to divert some of this aid to the sector of civil society in each activity may not have to do it from u.s. government to people, but from the american people and multiple ways to do that. congress should do a lot of calibrating. egyptians should also do a lot. my advice is we're not clear that both because the book is addressed to american leaders. they need to send

this week, presidential elections are less than two months away in egypt. are the media equipped or in the mood to cover the story? journalists shot at in pakistan, released by kidnapper is syria and warned by the prime minister in turkey. 24 hour news on t.v., all that air time, but so little to say. >> plenty more, none of it news. >> beat and a little humor and you've got rap news. ♪ >> mainstream t.v. >> that's our web video of the week. >> when doing a story about the state of the news media in egypt in 2014, it is difficult to know where to start. this past week on the day field marshall officially left his army post to run in presidential elections next month or we could begin with the state air channel airing a story about another candidate, deemed by other voices in the egyptian media to be sandallous. four from this network terrorists word used to describe them for reporting. there's the louding of field marshall assisi as the nation's savior on channels that seem to be speaking out of one voice out of egypt's past rather than the post revolutiona

how does egypt compare to other countries around the world when it comes to sentences?ese are unprecedented and death sentences are not kind of any part of judicial process and even in countries with a grasp on due process or human rights and you still don't see these kinds of sentences and this speaks to a larger conflict at work here, this is not an ordinary court or ordinary trial, these are just names on a list and many are not present and many in custody and have not had access to attorneys and there is presentation of evidence and no actual judicial process to speak of so to talk about the sentences as they are an outcome of a judicial process i think there lies a point of death sentences and executed by security forces and not someone wearing a judicial robe. >> thank you for joining us from georgetown university joining us in doha. we will stay we egypt and let you know that al jazeera calls for the immediate release of journalists being held there and the trial is adjourned until may the 3 and they are in jail for 121 days greste and fahmy and mohamed have been

egypt. so, the questions of what are the ripple effects of this going to be in egypt and elsewhere. you mentioned the brotherhood had been declared a terrorist group as well as in saudi arabia there's something else going on which is the prohibition of the anti-terrorism law which is a very broad definition of tourism. a lot of the states in the region have criminalized. it's always been in the code that one could be prosecuted for criticizing the ruler and so forth. that is the case in many states but now what is happening is much of the dissent is good to be covered under anti-terrorism laws which means there will be heavier sentences that can come with expressions of the dissent if it is related for example to the brotherhood or so. there is a change underway in the whole legal environment in the region, and i think it's, you know, it's important that we discussed that as well what is that going to mean for the ability of people in a lot of the countries even to express the dissent, and i

egypt is in breach it's international obligation. >> that buying the case as you started to say, egypt has breached international laws, is there anything that our journalists now in court at the moment can do to bring the egyptian authorities to justice? >> there is only one thing that is provided for by international law, and that is not dependent on the journalists. it's dependent on their government. the government of australia, which is peter's national government, has been very, very slack. it has not activated article 41 of the covenant, which allows other states, other states that are party to it to bring egypt into the dock, to put egypt before the human rights committee to be--to explain itself and to be condemned. i think that's an urgent step that australia must take. i don't know why it hasn't. perhaps it's not very bright, bras he doesn't care as much for peter as it does for wales whal. it just brought japan to court to stop it from plundering whales, but it won't bring egypt before an international committee for torturing an australian journalist. i think that is the onl

and assets in egypt. under the provisions of that treaty the network is demanding egypt to compensate it's losses and insure the legal rights of its employees. al jazeera said it will refer the matter with egypt to international arbitration if egypt refuses to resolve the dispute within six months. >> earlier in the news hour telling about these new u.s. sanctions against the number of russian officials. well, we were also trailing the fact that european union senior members of that meeting to talk about the same matters this just coming through to us. we've got particular details. the european union is adding 15 more officials to the russian sanction lists. so from both sides of the atlantic, further sanctions imposed on russian individuals because of the events in ukrai ukraine. >>> zimbabwe's opposition party there are conflicts reports whether they have been suspended. >> reporter: morgan has been the driving force for the movement of democratic change for many years. in that time he has been faced by

egypt's constitution is a positive step forward.y have taken steps, and they are moving now to an election, but even as these positive steps have been taken, we all know there have been disturbing decisions within the judicial process. the court system. they have raised serious challenges for all of us. >> in another controversial move, an egyptian court has banned the april 6 movement, a pro-democracy group that played a key role in the popular uprising that ousted hosni mubarak in 2011. for more, we're joined now by two guests. in cairo, egypt we're joined by sharif abdel kouddous, democracy now's correspondent and, via -- we're joined by mohamed sudan , the foreign relations secretary of the freedom and justice party, the political wing of the muslim brotherhood. he is speaking to us from exile in england. , what hasel kouddous taken place? >> a shocking ruling. in the last five months, the same judge has sentenced 1100 people to death, the biggest rulings in history. lack even thehat minimum requirements of due process. the late

everyone in egypt is scared of the crack down. it's unfortunate we can't find campaigns happening like this in egypt because of course there will be a crack down by the police and the army on the outlines. but when i -- outlines. whejournalists. detained in egypt everywhere in the world and africa and asia and south america, all this makes me happy and i still feel yes, there are people who are talking about the cases and it's not been forgotten. >> just one last question, mohamed. it must be very difficult for yourself, brother and the rest of abdalla's family about what's happening to him. and really not getting too much information about what's happening to him. >> yeah, of course, it's hard for us and for my dad and my mom, even his wife. abdalla spent in the jail more than he spent with his wife, like this is -- this is a fact, this is not a joke, abdalla is present for eight months and he spent with his family, less than -- less than six months. and he was arrested (inaudible) and weigh asked for the immediate release of abd

or why egypt? why did he pick egypt and why did he think he would be safe there? >> because actually it's known that egypt also welcomes a lot of former nazi's and should help to build up the rocket system there. they even used some of the former propaganda, nazi propaganda or people to help them set up their propaganda machinery. but what is so interesting about heim, from what we know and all the witnesses accounts, he did not really makes up with the germans. he tried to stay away from them as much as he could, and was actually afraid by mixing up with them, you know, they would find him. his only problem was, i mean, he was actually more or less as tall as nick. for somebody looking for being as tall -- absolutely. that's what he also was selling for places where he was sure that there wouldn't be many german people or europeans. >> he also sort of a ride to the party a little too late, if you will. there have been many german scientist they're building a rocket program for not serve as big as

our three al jazeera staff members have been in prison in egypt. the trials of the three journalists rule set to resume on thursday. right now a group of journalists are set to hold a news conference in new york city. they'll be joining journalists from around the world and the white house calling for egyptian authorities to release our colleagues. john, everywhere i go people ask what did they do? they do what journalists do when they cover a story from all sides. >> they certainly did. that's one of our many mantras here. one of the things that we always pride ourselves on whatever story we do we always give you both sides. none of this one-sided journalism that you see on other channels. for us its both sides. the journalists were posted to cairo in the immediate aftermath of coup that no one wishes to call the coup. the army overthrew the morsi >> they were odds with us, the fact that we called it a coup before other news organizations did. >> the white house and congress angive egypt money every year, o they are away in a different situation.

in egypt we followed the developments. we can see parallels between what is taking place in egypt and turkey and around the world. the case against peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy, baher mohamed, is a classic textbook example of the abuse of anti-terrorism legislation. we have seen examples of abuses, since september 11th. since september 11th, in a decade's time, something like 35,000 people got convicted on the so-called terror charges. what we see is terrorism charges are brought against three al jazeera journalists too. we have listened to your report. what is the conduct that is attributed to them? there is no single act of violence. there is no act, no conduct other than reporting. and it's a classic example of the abuse of anti-terror legislation. when we analyse the number, given the numbers according to the statistics of the committee to protect journalists, there's almost 215 journalists in gaol. almost 65% of them are in gaols based on terrorism allegations, and this is the monster that we created all around t

foster and these are some of the stories we are concentrating on in the next 60 minutes, a court in egypttenced more than 600 to death and among them the spiritual leader of the muslim brotherhood. the u.s. threatens more sanctions against russia accusing it of stoking up separa separate -- separatism and they say it's a deal for peace and stability and plus. >> i'm in the pakistan city of kara karachhi and find out why the armored vehicle business is booming here. ♪ the numbers really are extraordinary, a court in egypt sentenced 683 people to death in a mass trial. among them the leader of the muslim brotherhood, badia and the same court reduced hundreds of other death sentences which were handed down in march but 37 defendants in that trial will still get the death penalty. they were convicted for their alleged role in violent protests after the over throwing of mohamed morsi last july and we report. >> reporter: relatives in shock, moments after the verdict was announced. heavy security was deployed outside the court building where egyptian presiding judge convicted 683 supporters of

. >> then he goes to egypt and why did he think he would be safe there? >> it is known egypt also welcome to a lot of former nazis and they even used former propaganda to help people set up the propaganda machinery. what is interesting about dr. albert heim from what we know and the witnesses he did not really mixup with the germans. he tried to stay away from them as much as he could and was afraid by fixing up with them that they would find him. his only problem was he was as tall as nec. >> host: he was very fair. >> that is also vice he settled for places where he was sure there would not be very many europeans. >> he also arrived to the party just a little too late. there were many german scientists they're building a rocket program whose biggest enemy at that time was israel and by the time dr. albert heim had gotten there mossad had began a campaign to kill or intimidate nazi and a german scientist working in egypt. that is possible the reason he went to egypt is the colleague of his who was also famous for terrible experiments during the holocaust

if egypt is serious, for the constitution, or citizens of egypt, that guarantees freedom of expression and the press, they'll release the journalist when they come to trial on thursday, april 10th. >> how serious do you think egypt is about living up to its constitution. what do you say about full press freedom, you mentioned the international consensus about our journalists on trial. is it feeling the heat at all? >> that's a good question. i think they are feeling some sort of heat. i think there was a lot going on in the background, but we urge them, the government, to solve its issues, and to voice serious concerns about the way that journalists are doing work in egypt, so we can address them. but as it appears now, a confiscating materials and arresting journalists without evidence or charges for doing their work. i should mention that egypt's press freedom situation has deteriorated greatly for the last few years and we are concerned about that. >> that's alison bethel mckenzie. >> elizabeth. can i interrupt for one second. >> absolutely. >> thank you. i want to remind my colleag

there are at least 20 journalists in egypt in jail on [ inaudible ] charges.e continue to call for their unconditionable release. >> i'm just trying to understand the reason for the delays, though? why would the government continue to delay this process? do they hope that everyone just forgets about these guys; is that it? >> it's a pretty systemic method that we observe in these countries. they hope by delaying and again and again trials maybe there will be less international pressure, but i'm glad to see that is not the case. >> thank you very much for joining us tonight. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> at least 9 million people have been forced from their homes by syria's civil war, but some refuse to leave even the most violent areas. one of those but a dutch priest who was killed today in the town of homs. shot by a maxed gunman. >> reporter: for centuries this church was a sanctuary. and for 50 years, father francis was its conscious. he came from the netherlands to lead a christian community based on tolerance and compassion. he sent soup to held tho

in egypt. it also sets a world record. >> it's the scale but also a lack of due process. we have documented the trial that you referred to for the 529. it was carried over incredibly fast and we have information that current trial, the one for the 683 today, was also count conducted in the span of a single substantive session. >> reporter: subri also sentenced, supporters of mohamed morsi to death in less than two hours. most of the defendants were not present in course. they were accused of killing one police officer, seizing government weapons and damaging property, when a police station in watai district south of cairo was attacked last august. that ruling in march was overturned on monday commuting most of the december sentences to life in prison and upholding the death penalty for 37 defendants. the mass death sentences have sparked outrage worldwide rights groups expressed outrage over the proceedings. >>> campaigner for amnesty international, he said serious questions about the independe

thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> turning to egypt. the trial of three imprisoned al jazeera journalists resumed on thursday. correspondent peter greste, and producers mohamed fadel fahmy, and mohammed badr appeared in court in a cage. it's the fifth time they appeared to court before a jum. the case was adjourned until april 22nd after the judge dismissed what little evidence was produced. monday marked the 100th day that the three journalists spent behind bars. al jazeera rejects the charges and continues to demand the release of its staff. joining us now is sherif mansour, the middle east and northern africa program coordinator for protecting journalists and a cofounder of change, mobilizing egyptians in the u.s. to support democracy and human rites. you had to deal yourself with the egyptian justice system, you were convicted of allegedly illegally helping pro-democracy causes in egypt. >> is this case of the al jazeera journalist a situation where the government wants to intimidate journalists? >> absolutely. i saw a lot of parall

she was the first to map egypt's lost city of tanis. a city that hasn't been seen in 3,000 years.n used the same technology to discover over 300 settlements. >> there are people out there who see you guys digging around in the dirt and wonder why. >> there are so many things we can learn from people in the past, but the reality is we're the same people that built the picture midst and the same people who built stonehenge. there's an inscription in the western desert and a guy is writing on the face of a cliff, man, i can't believe how much i had to drink, my boss is going to be so angry with me, i'm not going to be able to make it to work tomorrow. three thousand, four thousand years, flog has changed. >> but things have changed. the world has become incredibly complex. dr. parkik has used a way to advance technology. >> you're using a satellite to look into the past,. >> ing us much more focused. today in all scientific fields archaeology is facing a number of challenges regarding funding as well as access to sites on the ground. and we absolutely need new scientific approaches t

the trial has been -- egypt. the trial has been adjourned until may the 3rd. peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy, and baher mohamed are falsely accused of providing a platform for muslim brotherhood. abdullah al-shami, a forth sournalist in -- journalist in detention has been held since august last year, and has been on a hunger strike for 98 days. al jazeera relevant all charges. president obama seeks mediation in the territorial dispute in china. americans finalised a so-year defense pack. the deal with give the u.s. access to military camps and make it easier to deploy fighter jets and ships. a filipino commander will have access to areas shared with the american forces. the philippines is one of a number of countries involved in territorial disputes with china. the claims focus on parts of the south china sea, ships from china and the philippines were involved in a long standoff which both countries claim. more recently china surrounded a contested territory. beijing claims a vast area of the south china sea, parts of which are claimed by at the end of the d

so right now obama is trying to tell egypt, you need to show me progress. you need to show me evidence that there is a transition to democracy after july 3rd. but these types of incidents and these types of rulings sent to undermine that. it will create a legal problem for obama, much less a political problem. >> good to talk to you on "the news hour." many thanks. al jazeera continues to call for the immediate release of its journalists held in egypt. the trial has been adjourned now until may 3rd. they've been imprisoned for 120 days. they're accused of providing a platform to the muslim brotherhood, now declared a terrorist organization. the fourth al jazeera journalist in detention has been held without trial since last august. he's been on hunger strike for the last 97 days. al jazeera rejects all the charges. >>> south korea's prime minister has resigned over his government's handling of the ferry disaster. at least 187 people died after the ship capsized and sank more than a week ago. more than 100 people are still missing. harry fossett reports from

help us out in egypt with reporting, did you know that. that's incredible. >> i do. i'm not surprised. >> indeed not, no. the reason they do that, i think, is they want to keep the pressure on, get the message out there, and the hope is, i think, when the new administration is in power in egypt, they will hopefully issue a pardon, if it doesn't work itself out in the courts. >> appreciate it. john terrett. >> journalists around the world are showing support for the al jazeera by posting these pictures on twitter under the hash tag free aj staff. photos have been posted by journalists here in the united states, and great britain. afghanistan, and other countries. >> 20 years ago hundreds of thousands of rwandans were killed in one of the worst genocides in modern history. crowds packed the main sports stadium for a commemoration ceremony. the representatives from france were absence after rwandan president paul kagame accused them of being complicit in the genocide. 800,000 ethnic tutsis and moderate hutus were killed over 100 days. the process of healing is ongoing.

the youth movement against hosni mubarak has been banned by a court in egypt. secular group went on to criticize morsi. the youth movement is accused of receiving funds. >>> al jazeera continues to call for the immediate release of its journalists being held in egypt. their trial adjourned until may 3rd. they have now been in jail for 121 days. they are falsely accused of providing a platform to the outlawed muslim brotherhood. a fourth al jazeera journalist has been held since last august and has been on hunger strike. >>> to move on to other news, the u.s. and e.u. have opposed fresh sanctions on government officials. sanctions against the official include asset freezed and visa bans. russia condemning the sanctions saying they will not go unanswered. peter sharp with more from moscow. >> this is the third round of sanctions imposed by the west on russia following it's annexation of crimea in february. seven officials, and 17 different russian companies, what they have in common is very close links to vladimir putin. the united states also said in the list th

egypt's foreign minister assess the decision is not final. and the legal process should be allowed to run its course. >> they did not sentence those people to death. they asked for an opinion about. >> the grand mufti is the top religious authority and will need to sign off on the death sentences. it will be little comfort for these people, knowing that his opinion can be ignored by the court. >> hundreds of people in turkey came out in support for those sentenced to death in egypt. demonstrators gathered outside the consulate in istanbul, protesting against the rest of two men. the men had reportedly tried to break in and place a flag on the roof of the consulate in for of mohamed mursi. >> al jazeera calls for the release of its journalists held in egypt. the trial has been adjourned until may the 3rd. they have been in gaol for 122 days. peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy, and baher mohamed falsely accused of providing a platform to muslim brotherhood. now declared a terrorist organization. abdullah al-shami, a fourth journal lift in detent

egypt happened because we basically ignored egypt for decades. whatever mubarak did it was fine with us. we wrote a check. he did what we asked him to do. until that stopped working. so, syria for me is not a huge surprise. it's not a departure from america's traditionally irresponsible policies to the -- inattentive policies to the middle east. you talk about the future of iran. he was exactly right, and for those of us who are old enough to remember iran under the shah, the shah had all these possibilities and frittered them away. he wrote a book about iran surpassing sweden by the year whatever it was, 2000 or whatever the number was, and it was all sort of in the wrong direction with no attention to the iranian people. so syria really is serious. it's interesting. i would like to know what samantha power and susan rice would have said about syria if they were out of government. because when they were out of government they cared. and now that they're in government they get to care about other things. i get it other. i'm not saying power corru

without these people, i would music,e continued with none of us would have, especially in egypt wheree gives anyone a chance. no one helps anyone else. former musicbout a producer in central cairo that embezzled money from his band, about intellectuals who despise people here because of their origins. city, peoplealaam says.together, 50 we visit each other and ask if they need help, like his former band member who left the music business to operate a car wash. 50 is a celebrity around here. he meets with kids just starting to write music. they approach the idol almost shyly. he asks if they need help. 50 says it is the show shall problems in his -- social problems in his neighborhood that concern him, not politics, of which he has a low opinion. he says take the muslim brotherhood and the military. before we can say who is to blame, look, the people have been killed. before the truth comes out, look how many families have been destroyed. isn't that right? because like politics politics creates victims, far too many victims, and most of these victims are innocent area that is why -- in

he said it will likely hurt prospects for long-term stability in egypt. the same court last month sentenced 529 other supporters of the muslim brotherhood to death. but on monday, it reduced that figure to 37 after egypt's top religious authority gave his opinion on sentences. >>> negotiators from israel and palestine gave themselves nine months to agree terms for a palestinian state to exist alongside israel. they reached that deadline tuesday with nothing to show for it. the parties resumed peace talks last july for the first time in about three years. u.s. secretary of state john kerry mediated. but the talks ran into trouble last month when israel refused to honor a promise to release palestinian prisoners. then palestinian president mahmoud abbas said he was prepared to form a government with islamist militant group hamas. israel regards the group as a terrorist organization. it suspended the peace talks last week. kerry had proposed a framework to extend the talks beyond a nine-month target. he has yet to say whether he will try to revive the peace

will stay with us here on ars international a court in egypt has sentance. eleven supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsy to prison terms ranging from five to eighty eight yes they were accused of a writing and public disorder during protests against an army preg done calling the military in july last year in march of five hundred muslim brotherhood activists were sentenced to death by the same court and as artie's beltran reports the decision is only part of a widening crackdown on the supporters of mohamed morsi amid a deepening chaos in egypt ahead of may's presidential election. this comes as part of the myriads of different court cases against the islamist group leaders who are being called terrorists here in egypt by the government but this week this comes as part of why the crackdown by the governments who are fighting a rising insurgency in north sinai i'm definitely a spike in terror attacks across the country the middle brotherhood and supporters however maintain that they have always been peaceful and these are politicized trials that hav

take egypt. in the aftermath of the military intervention that overthrew president morsi, the united states declined to say whether or not it was a military coup. it was. yourugh, not garden-variety. after all, it was and remains popular with the majority of egyptian citizens. the u.s. met a narrative regarding egypt, the political center of the air world was governments must respond to the aspirations of its people. i said that. i tweeted that consistently in early 2011. on the surface it would appear egypt's military leader and soon to be its new president ,al-sisi , is doing just that. i'm not calling it a coup, the u.s. avoided the legal requirement to suspend all military assistance to egypt and retain the presumed leverage that goes with $1.5 billion in aid. but as subsequent events have shown, the united states unwillingness to declare egyptian military action a coup has dramatically undermine the american democracy narrative in the middle east. to be sure, president morsi, while elected f

. >> in egypt a student has been shot dead after shooting broke out.lashes erupted between supporters of ousted mohamed morsi and police, who also fired tear gas. two journalists were wounded while covering the event. demonstrators were arrested. students regularly have protested at university campus campuses. >>> an egyptian group has named a group in say my as a terrorist organization. and believed to be behind much of the violence in the area. it has expanded operations after president mohamed morsi was overthrown last july. >>> staying in egypt, al jazeera is demanding the immediate release of its journalists imprisoned in egypt. they have appeared in court on thursday. the case had been adjourned until later this month. they're falsely accused of providing a platform to the ousted muslim brotherhood. they have been behind bars for 108 days. the fourth al jazeera journalist has been held without trial since august. he has been on hunger strike for the last 80 days. al jazeera denies all charges. >> in discussion here at the convention of internatio

if she's to run in egypt's presidential elections. and this kyra registry office is not sympathetic. she's a well known tv and radio presenter many disapprove of her ambitions. one significant that women have they achieved chennai central woman just because i'm a woman of course not. the set limitations for women in society and they should stick to them. then in a minute the democrats he says will be will support it and is at least one woman enters the race the dominance of islam is scorsese's closed society to become isolated the us the eu with a new combo is sad that many women refuse to support her. she says it's the rights of these women that she wants to fight for. this saturday the men and women just beginning. we have only she can get. we mustn't give up the key to the beach each need to understand that they mustn't give up when things don't go account. even if it can and hopefully this time around and try every time to exercise my rights. with the need to come is under way to the tv station where she works. but today she's the

then i found out that egypt is wealthy and the greatest wealth is the egyptian people themselves. the music comes from poor areas, egypt has not officially recognized it as an art form and its musicians do not get work licenses from the musicians union. 50 still makes a living from music. this is 50's day job. a wedding at a luxury hotel in cairo. the band gets several gigs like this a week. their fee equals about 500 euros. the band has fans here, too. workugh the union denies licenses for those musicians officially because their lyrics are vulgar. this wedding is costing tens of thousands of euros. , has andmate ,sadat different opinion of clients like these. >> when you watch me here, i am mostly lip-synching. the song plays and i act like i am sinking. -- singing. on the streets in salaam city, i put down the microphone when the music is playing. there are, i sing live. i am less happy here than on the streets, but it is only a job. then they canceled a gate because they're having to wait too long. they can afford to do that. -- they canceled a gig because they are way in too

. >>> the united states has lifted a ban on military support to egints -- egypt. aid was suspended after mohamed mursi was deposed. men have been charged and accused are carrying out violence and coordinating with armed groups. the trial has been adjourned until next week. >> the trial of three al jazeera journalists have been adjourned and will appear in court on may the 3rd. they have spent 116 days in prison. a fourth journalist has been held without trial since august. >> the trial of al jazeera's three journalists gaoled in egypt has been adjourned once again. the judge refused to grant bail to correspondent peter greste, producers mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed, who have been in gaol for more than three months. they are falsely accused of providing a platform for the outlawed muslim brotherhood. the prosecution presented new material that it said supports the case against the al jazeera team. including this report on child labour in egypt, and a report of child labour for taking part in protests in alexandria. the women appealed and got a one year sus

nearly seven hundred calls brotherhood supporters including the spiritual leader sentenced to death in egypt following a mass trial a battle royale french industrial giant. germany's siemens or us conglomerate ge what lessons are on to the ukrainian city of donetsk in the east where pro and anti russian activists adult in the streets leaving fourteen people injured some seriously as the situation in eastern ukraine becomes more volatile the united states and the eu have unveiled a new round of sanctions against russia. targeting top government advisors and the number of companies of these new sanctions were milder than men in moscow had feared. washington says the kremlin is not doing enough to rein in separate groups another building seems to be more barricades going on a pro russian activists in the town of content in each cup about what a find the latest conquest on monday it was another sign that the separatist movement in eastern ukraine remains undiminished. brussels european union ambassadors scampered to discuss additional sanctions against russia which the eu and usa is actively bac

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dictated by corporate interests i think there's a lot to see that we hope to see here in egypt will be a homegrown democracy with the activists continuing to push for reforms and the constitutional rule in this country. was intended as an image of boosting twitter campaign for the new yorker police to pond met and up as a publicist disaster that's after uses invited to post their snaps with members of the force sent in hundreds of negative images instead our days were in a part my reports. twitter has empowered millions blazed revolutions and generated successful brands but for america's largest police department hash tag activism has turned into and then barrier seeing epic failure ah. on tuesday the n.y.p.d. invited citizens to upload pictures with police officers tagging the photos my and y. p.d. within twenty four hours some one hundred ten thousand people responded the hash tag was trending and my n.y.p.d. turned into a virtual arcata of snap shots showing the department's finest using excessive and controlled force. the p.r. disaster has ignited a copycat movement document in

senator says he will block usa to egypt. from what he calls sham trials. an egyptian court sentenceded over 400 to death. a number of people want to stop the obama administration administration sending aid to egypt. patty culhane has this report. >> reporter: 683 egyptians sentence said to death in a lightening quick trial. that was one step too far for the u.s. senator patrick lay hi, chairman of the committee that approves overseas funding. >> even if i wasn't chairman, i would have been watching the situation with great interest and growing dismay. where hundreds of people can be sentenced to death after a sham trial lasting barely an hour. it's a flaunting of human rights by the egyptian government. it's an appalling abuse of the justice system. which is fundamental to any democracy. nobody, nobody can justify this. he says the u.s. will not help pay for it. he's blocking 650 million in aid. the obama announced it would give to the military for counterterrorism and for upholding the treaty. money it promised after 529 other egyptians were sentenced to

and we speak to the father of an al jazeera journalist behind bars in egypt on hunger strike and no signe is getting out soon. ♪ syria syria has a date for presidential elections and the country wide vote will take place on june the third but syrians living outside will be able to pick the president on may the 28th and we will go to dana who is on the turkey syrian border and da na war going on i syria and why is the election taking place, now? >> well, first of all the second term of the syrian president bashar assad will take place and should take 30-60 days prior to the date but this is a message from syria telling the world there is still a state, it's functioning and its people want bashar al-ashadow -- a to stay and people are displaced and how will they reach voting centers and the government does not control the whole country and they lost a lot of territory but government officials are saying this time it's going to be an election in the sense that in the past there was only one candidate on the ballot paper. this is what it is like in rebel areas in syria. it's not clear how an

, if you do this in egypt, you're a terrorist. it's kind of not conceivable to last that this is how far it has originated. just to answer your question, ultimately to get to the point, maybe because we were denied for four decades or god knows how many decades who were denied their common space. maybe we need to have this, if you like, we get to have that base than once that spaces they are, will always have hard-core islamists. you always have hard-core anti-islamist whether they are whatever you want to call them and you'll have a large set of the population that is concrete issue oriented. the prosperity and better life my children and fight it off in the papers. not on the streets. >> gentleman in the back here. >> my name is mohammed dorsey and i am in washington. thank you, hussein. look at the image from the lighter angle and mask since we are an american task force, it won't hurt to talk a little bit about policy and allocation and why the strategy point of view with some talk and they wish anyone of you in during me, thi

egypt continues to hold all three al jazeera journalists. tensions rising in ukraine as government protesters take over a building in the eastern part of the country. >> we begin with new developments in the search for the missing malaysian flight 370. signals are detected that are similar to those given off by planes black boxes. >> reporter: this could be the breaks that investigators are hoping for. we've had a lot of false hopes since this aircraft disappeared a month ago. but we're learning that the australian ship, the ocean shield has picked up two different pinging sounds, that's very promising. here was the announcement in australia. >> significantly this would be consistent with transmissions from both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. clearly this is the most promising lead. and probably in the search so far it's the--it's probably the best information that we have had. we haven't found the aircraft yet. we need further confirmation. >> now, the ship heard one of those pings for more than two hours, but the

look at egypt for example mubarak i was very friendly with him for a generation he had half a million people working internally. predicted couldn't believe how can we can i pick up on this point because i remember back in two thousand and eleven both you and prime minister netanyahu were very restrained in expressing their enthusiasm about the arab spring and europe criticized for your reservations now when we look what happened in libya what is happening in syria what is happening in egypt do you think the reality here has actually turned out even more water some than some of your concerns both to my message is very bit. open life i own his own people. is an example of. who defy the whole world use whatever he has against his own. even. in the end the use of chemical. save him for being both. mr barak i think you know better than i do that there are still disagreements about who actually use those chemical arsenals there is. disagreement. and certain kind of uncertainty but intelligence services. people know that well i think in one capital most core there are there are grave doubts

overthrew egypt's only democratically elected government. in cairo, clarissa ward caught up with some of the die-hard activists who are still pressing for democracy. >> reporter: they were among the first waves of protesters in tahrir square three years ago using social media to spread their call for freedom, helping to overthrow a 30-year dictatorship. we first met sherief gaber at a protest in late 2011. he had returned from studying in the u.s. to join the revolution. >> the bravery of the people around me is really what drove me. i mean, i was coming back and feeling actually quite disoriented, but seeing all of these other people around me doing what they were doing, standing up the way they were, is what actually gave me heart. >> reporter: but the triumph in tahrir square was short-lived. liberal activists were pushed aside when the muslim brotherhood swept the elections and then again as the military overthrew that government, launching a crackdown on any form of dissent. >> i have a lot of friends who have been arrested. >> reporter

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marsha coyle, thank you. >> my pleasure. >> woodruff: and finally tonight to egypt, where the remains of some 50 royal mummies were discovered in a huge tomb in the valley of the kings, the country's antiquities minister said yesterday. the relics are thought to date back to more than 1,500 years before christ. that find has drawn new attention to egypt's rich, but increasingly threatened, archaeological heritage, and a new approach to saving it. jeffrey brown has the story, part of his series, "culture at risk". >> the 4,000 year old temples of karnak in egypt are now being restored. these first pictures show the amount of work being carried out by the egyptian authorities. >> brown: for decades egyptian and international archeologists have worked to carefully excavate and preserve some of the world's most treasured historical sites and objects. the ancient pyramids of giza. the valley of the kings. the tomb of king tut. and others, thousands of years old, many yet to be unearthed. in the aftermath of egypt's january 25th, 2011 revolution, which threw out longtime leader hosni mubara

egypt has witnessed several attacks. the new french prime minister has unveiled his new government, the former partner of president franÇois hollande. she will be the new environment minister. cabinet eight of the 16 are now women. police chief has ruled out all passengers a suspect in the disappearance of flight and 370 that has been missing for three weeks now. they said none of the 227 passengers on board the missing jet had been involved in hijacking, sabotage, or personal or psychological problems. one of the most striking things about american elections is just how much they cost. america has the most expensive elections in the world. after a supreme court ruling, they are set to get even costlier. the totale the cap on amount that they can give to political campaigns. for more on the impact of this decision, i spoke with a reporter for politico. ken, when you look at elections around the world, are they going to spend even more money? what has the supreme court just done? spend more every cycle. it is sort of an i