>> i'm sorry, i didn't get you, did you ask about the state of democracy in egypt?at is right. >> it's a great idea. >> you don't see problems. >> it's a good or great idea in egypt but has nothing to do with reality reality. >> what is going on. >> what is happening in egypt actually is unprecedented in the history, not only in the history of egypt but in the world history. i mean it's such cases have been made up and, you know the trials and the way they are conducted, it's really unbelievable. >> how do these sentences, the egyptian prosecutors will say of course they were prosecuting morsi for deaths of protesters accountability for that but how do these compare to what they say is lack of accountability for the protesters in sisi arra and indeed mobarack era? >> the absence of transparency and absence of democracy absence of justice in egypt. and this is very ominous and it also tells us that the political life has been murdered. >> constitutional? >> what? >> i mean the fact we have a democratic elected president now being jailed for 20 years. >> of course it'

leaking state secrets and endangering egypt's national security. fraud in connection with the muslim brotherhood's economic and social program. he's also charged with insulting the judiciary. muslim brotherhood leader along with several other defendants were also sentenced to 20 years. it was a long road to egyptian democracy. in 2011, hosni mubarek was kicked out of office after a revolution. mohamed morsi became the first deemically elected president. he angered many egyptians by issuing an order that prevented any court from overturning his decisions, effectively allowing him to rule unchecked in my the drafting of a new constitution. that led to violence on the streets with opponents denouncing president morsi as a dictator and new faroe. his decision to overly the judiciary prompted judges to go on strike until he tore up the decree. morsi sacked the head of the armed forces, escalating a power struggle between the military and the president. >> i guess a decision has been taken by the military before running this election, the first democrati

right off tunisia and egypt and allow the air of spring to happen? is that a fair statement? >> i know think anybody in paul aziz circles predicted what was happening i think every regime in the u.s. looking at stability i think reestablish something very capable and we were all taken by surprise lot get to asia were there is the day very strong relationship you can see the debates there about exile were not mired with what is the opposition look-alike? what will the future to be sinn government or any other political movement look like? we were far more concerned what would happen if mubarak steps down who will replace him? if the muslim brotherhood, miss then to have those relationships with of military but will that affect you in the early days there is no way he would have won the elections that was the implicit consensus but then it shifted can the muslim brotherhood play the role of what we have come to believe the egyptian allies can counterpart in the region? there is a whole history a military history the regional role that egypt plays so this was important and it sh

also had a big challenging for egypt.maybe you heard about incident that happened last year, the end of last year egyptian border guards when a group of them were assassinated by terroristic groups coming from libya. so those are complicated, highly complicated for us not only in egypt not a only humanitarian and economy, the security and terrorists as i mentioned come is very important for us. that's all. i have tried only to shed light on the situation in egypt. thank you very much. >> i think it illustrates how complex these patterns of displacement our combat overtime with a different groups in different countries, economic security and humidity concerned certainly not an easy issue. for the manilow suites and difficult questions. how many are waiting to cross? different groups of libyan refugees. where are we with a durable solution, resettlement and immigration and so forth? what kind of service are being provided to idps in benghazi and elsewhere? i think which is have some response on the egypt question. the first

government's effort to get them deported from egypt and brought back home.he continues his hunger strike his goal is about spreading arwareness. >>> boston is marking two years since bombs went off at the marathon. the city will hold a moment of silence. jurors in the penalty phase of the convicted bomber are being told not to attend any of the events >>> today marks 150 years since america's president died. we'll take you inside an exhibit with an never-before seen look at lincoln's legacy. >>> a new analysis finds the california drought has not caused major damage to the state's economy. at least not yet. the report from the state legislature says the drought has devastated agriculture, but that only accounts for 2% of the state's gross domestic product. melissa chan takes a closer look at the business of buying water. >> reporter: water is actually not being distributed evenly across the state. there are someplaces that get a lot of water, and other places that are very short on water. we have shown you plenty of reservoirs that are half full two-thirds f

leaking state secrets and endangering egypt's national security. in connection with the muslim brotherhood's economic and social program. he is also charged with insulting the judishciaryjudiciary. muslim brotherhood leader along with several other defendants were also sentenced to 20 years. it was a long road to egyptian democracy. mubarak was kicked out of office then in a divisive election in 2012, morsi became the first democratically elected president, but the celebrations wouldn't last long. he angered many by issuing an order that prevented any court from overturning his decisions. that lead to violence on the streets with opponents denouncing president morsi has a deck tear for. he stacked the head of the armed forces escalating a power struggle between the military and the president. >> i guess a decision has been taken by the military before running these elections, the first democratic election fair elections, that at a certain point the military will intervene and -- and take over. >> reporter: on june 30th, 2013 millions of people rall

he is going to be the new mandela of egypt. >> i'm sure you know a lot of people in egypt will disagreeh that point. >> absolutely. >> thank you for speaking with us. >>> still ahead on this al jazeera news hour. homeward bound we meet the foreign workers returning to zimbabwe because they are scared to stay in south africa. plus japan's train breaks the world speed record and in sport the golden state warriors take a big step towards the next round of the nba playoffs. we'll tell you why later this news hour. ♪ but first the kenyan government is offering a ten-day amnesty for new al-shabab fighters to hand themselves in. the group is thought to be recruiting heavily. mohamed vall has this exclusive report from the somalian town. >> reporter: on patrol on the border between kenya and somalia, this is the militia that is part of an international effort to build somalia from the grassroots up. they are on the look out for armed groups who pass back and forth between kenya and somalia. >> translator: the border is long. 700 kilometers long. we cannot patrol it on foot. we lack vehicles. we

leaking state secrets and endangering egypt's national security. fraud in connection with the muslim brotherhood's economic and social program. he's also charged with insulting the judiciary. muslim brotherhood leader along with several other defendants were also sentenced to 20 years. it was a long road to egyptian democracy. in 2011 the president was kicked out of office during a revolution against his rule. then in a devicive election in 2012 morsey became the first democratically elected president. but the celebrations didn't last long. he angered many egyptians by preventing any court from turning the over any of his decisions. morsey sacked the head of the armed forces escalating a power struggle between the military and the president. >> i guess a decision has been taken by the military before running this election the first democratic election fair election, that at a certain point, the military will intervene and take over. >>reporter: on june 30th, 2013 millions of people rallied across egypt calling for his resignation. three days later

and egypt's leader has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.was the country's third democratically elected president that was toppled in a military coupe. inside the coalition is ending the bombing campaign, with me now is the yemen journalist thank you for coming in that news broke in the last hour or so yes, of course, as soon as the announcement has been made, everybody turns into social media to express i managed to call the family, and basically they were dancing and crying out of joy i think any sort of -- any sort of referendum at the moment or crease fair, something that everybody is looking for would bit fair to say that most yemen tonight whatever their political affiliation, is pleased that the bombing is to stop. >> yes you can say that it's been really horrible for the entire country what has been happening, yemen has

>> and then if one could analyze egypt's position, egypt's role. we've read in recent days that the united states has lifted its ban or sanctions or hold on munitions and armaments to egypt and that egypt is to be ground force for this united/arab joint defense command for which there is an air component which is much smaller -- just a few thousand -- and a naval component to perhaps double that. but those two combined multiplied by seven would be the ground forces. now who's paying for this? largely saudi arabia and the other gcc countries. but not all. and who else is involved in this? morocco is. jordan is. you may recall in the last four years a geostrategic pronouncement that the gcc countries would be more aligned, associated with jordan and morocco, fellow monarchies. so this is not completely new in reaching out to those two countries, but reaching out to sudan is in part because sudan is a neighbor of egypt and has its own armed forces, but in an effort to broaden the diversity of the coalition. mr. sharp. >> i would say that it's certainl

. >> although egypt is a predominantly muslim country they existed side by side in egypt for centuries. that's the subject of a new exhibit in berlin. take a look. >> abraham plays a key role in judaism, christianity and islam. an exhibition looks at his legacy in egypt. in the show, 250 objects, documents and film shed light on how jews, christians and muslims have lived side-by-side in egypt for centuries. rather than concentrating on the religious or ideological differences, it shows their daily coexistence. >> they played with muslims and christians -- they were neighbors. the jews were in egypt christians, they were all together. >> but this has changed. cairo's jewish beauty has a way nine members. last year, they burned churches and killed coptic christians. but this shows positive examples like this film from luxor where a church in mosque than right from each other on the same street. the priest and imam recall a show of solidarity when militant extremist attacks the church a few months earlier. >> our muslim neighbors stood in front of the church and protected it. thanks to t

president obama has lifted an armed freeze against egypt.first imposed the block nearly two years ago after the military over threw the countries government and move clears the way for egyptian leaders to receive weapons from the west and jamie mcintyre has details. >> reporter: united states releasing additional military aid to egypt as egypt is playing a larger role now in battling islamic state fighters both in the region and also helping out in the coalition that saudi arabia put together to battle iran backed houthi trooped in yemen. president obama made a phone call to egyptian president al-sisi informing him of the decision, the united states will be releasing to egypt a dozen f-16 fighter planes, 20 missiles and spare parts for u.s. m 1 a 1 tanks and u.s. holding back on this aid because of the overthrow of the democratically elected government of mohamed morsi 21 months ago but united states believes it's in the u.s. national security interest to provide this assistance to egypt so it can continue the fight. one thing the united sta

also very big challenging for egypt. maybe you hear about incidents that happened last year egyptian border guards when group of them were assassinated by terrorist groups coming from libya. those are complicated, highly complicated for us, not only in egypt, not only humanitarian and economy, the security and terrorism as i mention is important for us. that's all. i tried only to shed light on the situation in egypt. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. it illustrates how complex the patterns of displacement are over time with different groups and different countries, economic insecurity and humanitarian concerns, certainly not an easy issue. for the panelists, we have difficult questions. how many are waiting to cross? different groups of libyan refugees, where are we with durable solution, resettlement, integration and so forth. what kind of services are provided to idps in benghazi and elsewhere. i think we just had some response on the egypt question. first person who answers gets to choose which questions.

we have unicef, china djibouti, egypt, red cross and sudan. the red cross to plan flights carrying relief aid headed to yemen as scheduled. they'll drop the relief aid to subjects. we also have a list of countries who have presented certain pending applications simply for not scheduled yet. we have the united nations a second time as they were able to evict from day one. we have several e.u. states. we have germany and a second request for pakistan to evict pakistani subjects, we also have canada jordan and iraq. this is a list of the countries whose requests are pending simply for means of eviction is not yesterday determined or the timing is not yet scheduled. as i said, the subjects are evicted through airports. the nearest airports to them, the sea ports or they will assign the most appropriate means of transportation to them. i request the countries willing to have their subjects evicted to speed up their petitions speed up the questions. once again i present the contact details to the economy of evacuation and humanitarian relief aid. th

closure point is between egypt and ridge, folks can use egypt or sunnyside avenue to work their way down22 corridor. right now when we will start to see that volume pop and that is when we will see major jams in the neighborhood, with the detours. we are waiting on one forward from the police as fast far as injuries or fatalities related to that accident but from looking at it, the clean up witt take sometime at least through the entire morning rush hour. not that bad on the schuylkill expressway or i-95. radar not looking bad as well. not a cloud in the sky as we take a look at ultimate doppler there no problems at all as you get ready to step outside the front door. bundle kid up. make sure they have that jacket on. we are looking at 49 degrees right now, and the wind are going to play a factor in the next couple of days. sixty-two is our expected high, for today, so we will begin with sun. cloud will start to move in during the evening rush hour. throw that stray shower in there i don't think you have to worry about the umbrella but may see a pop up here or there tonight we will dip d

all lanes blocked between egypt road and ridge pike.ld stick with egypt maybe trooper or even sunny side avenue as some alternates on this tuesday morning. tam. >> okay, thank you matt. >>> breaking news in baltimore. rioters have torn that city into absolute chaos. buildings have been torched and bricks thrown at officers some of whom have been hurt. the clashes began at the mall yesterday afternoon. another hot spot was several blocks away at north and pennsylvania avenues. the rioting was far removed from popular tourist spots like camden yards and the inner harbor but still last night's orioles game was canceled due to security concerns. erin o'hearn is life at the big board. she's got the latest. good morningism good morning tam. the baseball commissioner has in the made a decision as to whether or not the series will be moved out of baltimore. meanwhile we want to show you some of the shocking images coming out of the city. rioters torched a pharmacy. you can see that cvs logo and police cars were also set on fire. rioters also we

releasing additional military aid to egypt as egypt is playing a larger role in battling islamic statehters in the region and helping out in the coalition that saudi arabia has put together to battle iran backed houthi trooped in yemen. president obama made a phone call to egyptian president al-sisi informing him of the decision. the united states will be releasing to egypt a dozen f-16 fight tear planer planes and 20 missiles and parts for tanks. the u.s. has been holding back on this aid because of the over throw of the democratic lyally elected government of mohamed morsi 21 months ago but believes it's in the u.s. national security interest to provide this assistance to egypt so it can continue the fight. one thing the united states did not do is certify that egypt had made significant progress in democracy, human rights and the rule of law that was another condition for releasing some of that aid and the white house says president obama expressed those concerns in that phone call to egyptian president al-sisi. >> reporter: jamie mcintyre at the pentagon. nigeria president elect ca

i believe that morsi has been used as an example that the do knots in egypt. believe it's the wrong message and it's very serious and ominous one. >> because the former leader he was also facing charges, his were overthrown what sort of message do you think that is. >> say again? >> also charged of inciting violence and it was thrown out. >> but then again i mean the other message that we -- that has been delivered in the last few months and with all these acting with another on the trials as far as the trials of the former mubarak regime says mubarak has never been out of power even after mubarak's death and now, today, with this conviction it tells even more about this mubarak regime staying in power, all the time mubarak regime have been in power. >> it was good to get your thoughts thank you. >> thank you. >>> a captain of a ship that sank off the coast of libya has been charged with multiple currents of manslaughter in italy and more than 800 people traveling on board the vessel and victims on the way to europe but most died when the ship went down and we

how do you think this sentence will reverberate across egypt?me start by saying that the verdict was expect. i expected such a verdict. and i actually expected a worse verdict. i expected the death penalty verdict. so if you are asking about the expected reaction throughout egypt, i believe it's premature it will be premature to expect a kind of reaction against that verdict. i little it will take a bit of a time for the public either supporters especially the supporters of the former president to grasp the meaning the impact of such verdict before they start reacting. >> many had expected, as you had, perhaps that there might be a death sentence. what does the verdict say to your mind about any chances of reconciliation not only with the muslim brother they are hood and freed company justice party but also with liberal forces some of whose leaders have also been jailed in the crack down? >> well, i guess we still have a long -- relatively long way to reach that reconciliation points. i guess every party is trying to press as hard as he can to g

. >>> president obama has lifted an arms freeze against egypt. he first imposeed the block nearly two years ago after the military overthrew the country's democratically elected government. now it clears the way for leaders to receive weapons from the west. jamie mcintyre has the details. >> reporter: united states is releasing additional military aid to egypt as egypt plays a larger role in battling islamic state fighters in the region and helping out in the coalition that saudi arabia has put together to battle iranian-backed houthi droops troops in yemen. hepresident obama made a phone call to president el-sisi and the u.s. will be. releases 20 f-16 fighter planes, missiles, and spare tax for tanks. the u.s. has been holding back on this aid because of the overthrow of the democratically elected government of mohammed morsi, but now says it is in u.s. international security interest to provide assistance to egypt so they can continue the fight. one thing that did they to the do is certified that egypt made significant progress in human rights

egypt we'll go with you first. ladies first. >> wait a minute, this is a setup!at is not a setup. you heard in the news, the racist frat guy -- >> kind of redundant, isn't it? >> larry: well done! and there's the guy with naked pictures and will farrell came out and said we should get rid of frats altogether. what do you say? >> i say fraternities are elitists, exclusive and there is no educational function. get rid of them completely. >> larry: gone? (cheers and applause) >> if you get rid of sororities and fraternities, no one goes to school anymore quite honest. that's the best part of college, the whole experience. you should pt throw out the whole batch of apples because of one bad apple. the realty is there are a lot of fraternities and sorority that are exemplary. they do great community service, throw great parties -- >> that's not true. let me just say that for the last 40 years that i have been in and around universities every year or two there is a scandal and there's an apology and these privileged elite people come out and do press conferences and th

hen gangered egypt's national security by leaking state secrets to qatar.nd he is accused of insulting the judiciary. >>> toby is an international human rights lawyer involved in a number of legal cases in egypt. he says the judicial system needs to be more own and transparent. >> as we have heard there are still a number of charges outstanding, but if these are credible allegations then this should be shown in a transparent trial, where president morsi has the right to consult with his lawyers and to challenge the evidence against him. and this is not a way to deal with this. and what he has effectively been charged with we have seen countless civilians killed during during sisis time. so it is concerning that the judiciary is becoming an extra arm of the executive. >>> a car bombing has killed at least four people in somalia's capitol. a vehicle rammed into a busy restaurant and exploded. al-shabab says it carried out the attack. the blast happened near the central hotel where al-shabab fighters attacked in february. >>> and the kenyan government is offer

it's supposed to prove al jazeera journalists harmed egypt's national security. but the members of a committee who issued that report testified that they either didn't see the videos, write the report or remember what they wrote. so a new committee has been sworn in to review the evidence. >> how can somebody say we published materials against national security and now the members say we didn't say that. >>reporter: they say so far the prosecution witnesses have unwittingly supported their defense. the retrial comes after an appeals court ruled earlier this year there wasn't enough evidence to convict the journalists of aiding the banned muslim brotherhood. they spent more than 400 days in jail. in february -- and a judge released them on bail. he was a dual citizen of canada and egypt and had to give us his egyptian citizenship and is hoping to be deported to canada. the journalists say they won't give up until they clear their names. >>> south africa's defense minister is sending troops to johannesburg to prevent more attacks. at least seven people have been ki

what jon egypt is notÑi african enough for you? >> jon: yeah, egypt is in africa. >> yes yes yes.e what a beautiful cover i would have had-- (laughter) >> jon: who is holding your chest there?ñr >> there was someone holding my chest swrz yes, i think so. >> anyway you had some questions about the middle east. >> jon: yeah. >> yeah so as we say where i come from shoot lev laugh. >> jon: all right. so here is the deal here is what i understand. we're fighting isis and al qaeda. trying to keep nukes away fromÑi iran but now we're somehow involved in a prox' war in yemen on the side of iran but not-- here is my question who should we worry about? who is actually coming to kill us? >>Ñi none of them. >> jon: [bleep] what? say that again. >> let me explain. i will start with my country egypt. >> jon: you know it is in africa. >> very good jon, you're learning, so remember the muslim brotherhood. >> jon: yes, yes guns beards, sunni briefly in charge of egypt. >> yes, until the military threw them out with backing from the saudis. well now the saudis and the egyptian army are fighting shi

also very big challenging for egypt. maybe you hear about incidents that happened last year egyptian border guards when group of them were assassinated by terrorist groups coming from libya. those are complicated highly complicated for us, not only in egypt, not only humanitarian and economy, the security and terrorism as i mention is important for us. that's all. i tried only to shed light on the situation in egypt. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. it illustrates how complex the patterns of displacement are over time with different groups and different countries economic insecurity and humanitarian concerns, certainly not an easy issue. for the panelists, we have difficult questions. how many are waiting to cross? different groups of libyan refugees, where are we with durable solution, resettlement integration and so forth. what kind of services are provided to idps in benghazi and elsewhere. i think we just had some response on the egypt question. first person who answers gets to choose which questions. >>

. ♪ we start with egypt and former president mohamed morsi has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.was egypt's first democratically elected president but toppled in a cue in 2013 12 other muslim brotherhood members also got 20 years. and sentence is for the death of ten protesters during clashes in december 2012. and there are three other cases against him including one linked to escape from prison in 2011. when he was held in custody after a round up of muslim brother hide supporters and also charged with spying and accused of conspiring to commit terrorist acts in egypt and the palestinian movement hamas and endangered security by leaking state secrets to qatar and charged with fraud in connection with the muslim brotherhood for social program for egypt's recovery and also accused of insulting judiciary after allegedly accusing a judge of overseeing fraud in previous elections. well, we have now here in the studio joining us to discuss this some more an egyptian journalist joins us in the studio and good to have you with us. >> thank you. >> first of all it's quite a dramatic jour

i think egypt has got to play a much bigger role know.ause i think the question of interference in the red sea is threatening egyptian, you know, interests and fever influence. and in terms of the effect of this campaign is having on the houthi positions, some reports are saying that they virtually continue to advance some in areas of yemen. >> i think they are trying to -- yet moving they are trying to show some sort of recovery. but i think as far as things go in aden, things related to this southern military command, they are losing there aden that area which is near the corner of the southwest corner of there. and the entrance of the red sea i think their positions are on the run there,. >> thank you very much. >>> now, in afghanistan civilians have been killed in two separate attacks in the eastern city. four people dead and 11 others injured after a suicide attack on a convoy. in the eastern graph ins a roadside bomb has killed 12 people. a man suspecting the taking part in last week's attack on garissa university in kenya has appea

it is park avenue between egypt and ridge.king about a main highway here but a residential, two-way street. you can see yellow line here. it is one way in each direction this is also part of a detour, that is in play. >> yeah. >> you can see construction sign construction detour that is in play as part of the 422 construction. fire fighters are here. they have sprayed the white foam and you have that smoke that is billowing in the air. the this is a residential area gang. this isn't like 422 or schuylkill expressway. as we pull out you can get a better idea. look the the at homes right there. >> yeah. >> thinks south park avenue between ridge and egypt. we don't have any reports of injuries at this point in time but obviously with a hazmat situation. we have ink that is flammable sewage waste there. >> it looked like it is head on you know, on the curve if we can zoom in here for a second, guys are probably listening to us up there there is your tractor trailer. that would be your cab. here's your oil tanker. i wonder if one w

leaking state secrets and endangering egypt's national security. fraud in connection with the muslim brotherhood's economic and social program. he's also charged with insulting the judiciary. muslim brotherhood leader along with several other defendants were also sentenced to 20 years. it was a long road to egyptian democracy. in 2011 hosni mubarak was kicked out of office in an revolution against his rule. then in a decisive election in in 2012 morsi became the first democratically elected president, but it would not last long. he angered many egyptians by issuing an order preventing any court from overturning his decisions. that led to violence on the streets denouncing morsi as a dictator and new pharaoh. morsi escalateing a power struggle between the military and the president. >> i guess a decision has been taken by the military before running this election, the first democratic election that at a certain point the military would intervene and then take over. >>> on june 30, 2013 millions of people rallied across egypt's calling for his resign

a former egypt air pilot tells the l.a. time that is the crash was more revenge than suicide. >> we come here to recite our prayers and remember with deepest affection the 273 men, women and children who have been physically taken from us. >> reporter: the ntsb report doesn't talk about why the egypt air co-pilot put the airplane on a crash. but that's because of politics according to the l.a. times. i'm bryan banmiller for a second look. >>> still to come on a second look. >> we had the hand and we had the gun. and could put him on the airplane at that time. >> reading the wreckage. how investigators put together the clues in a bay area plane crash that pointed to murder suicide. and how a message on an airsickness bag held investigators to solve a plane crash near san luis obispo that took the life of everyone on board. >>> welcome back to a second look. pacific airlines flight 773 crashed near san ramon. all 43 people on board survived. but the question is, what happened. how the pieces came together to tell a chilling s

and also charged with endangering egypt as national security by leaking state secrets to qatar.risey is also being charged with fraud in connection with the muslim broad they are hood economic and social program for egypt's recover and i charged with insulting the judiciary after accusing a judge of oversee fraud in previous elections. >>> the canadian government says it's now prepared to issue a passport for an al jazerra journalist facing trial in egypt. he is out on bail while his retile continues in cairo he and fellow al jazerra journalist bahar mohamed face charges including aiding the outlawed muslim brotherhood and spreading false news, they deny all the charges, egyptian born fahmy is a naturalized canadian citizen and gave up his canadian citizenship as a conditions for any release from egypt. >>> much more coming up here on al jazerra. including the streets of guinea's cappal turn in to a battle round as protesters face-off against police. >>> and home ward bound we meet the foreign workers returning zimbabwe because they are scared to stay in south africa. >> al jaze

egypt is putting 20 billion. so that is - that puts egypt... >> if there were crowned operation in india, the saudi led coalition followed up the air operations with the ground invasion and egyptian troops... >> egyptians interfered. six or seven times. the last time in the 1960s, beside the ground forces they are careful to deal with the yemenis. i think if there's feet on the ground. it will be part of it for sure. >> let's talk about what they were saying. let's say the more killed and injured in the civilians taking the brunt, the less support there'll be for a saudi led operation. i agree. not because of that. eem are question why until now. it is not targeted. the palace is in sanaa. there's pobd around it. very have moved. the rebellion is not down to the houthis, it's down to salah. >> there were forces there. it amounted to 10,000. they are driving in and in. they cannot pull back. there would be a lull. the hussies are a front. >> yes, for sure. so for a parliament house in human sirrian aid. particular

lifted a ban on military aid to egypt for what it says are national security reasons. president obama released assistance withheld from egypt after the ousting of mohamed mursi. m in addition the white house is asking congress to approve 1.3 billion in aid. egypt says it needs the help to deal with conflict in the sinead peninsula and neighbouring peninsula. rosalind jordan has more. >> the u.s. inspected delivery of certain military equipment to egypt in 2013, after the military's decision to obvious throw the president, mohamed mursi. even though the u.s. government is not considering what happened two years ago a coup. it's showing its disapproval for the way it happened and by doing so it is showing pressure as it were on the new government in cairo. what the u.s. is going is saying on national security ground the military can get its hands to 125 kids improve the capabilities of the tanker arsenal. the u.s. is cutting off open-ended spending of spigot where the egyptian military could buy equipment from u.s. contracts. the u.s. can have more say over what sorts of

he is accused of conspiring to commit terrorists acts in egypt. leaking state secrets and endangering the national security. fraud in connection with the brotherhood economic and social program. he is also charged with insulting the judiciary. muslim brotherhood leader along with several other defendants were also sentenced to 20 years. it was a long road to democracy, in 2011 he was kicked out of office during a revolution against his rule, then in a devicive election in 2012 he became the first democratically elected president. but the celebrations wouldn't last long. he angered many egyptians by issuing an odder they are prevented any court from overturning his decisions effectively allowing him to rule unchecked until the drafting of a new constitution. that led to violence on the streets with opponents denouncing president morrissey as a dictator and a new farrow. his decision to assume temporary power to overrule the judiciary prompted them to go on strike. escalating a power struggle between the military and the president. i guess a decisio

he is accused of conspiring to commit terrorist acts in egypt with hamas.raud in connection with the muslim brotherhood. he is all thes charged with insulting the judiciary. several other defendants were also sentenced to 20 years. it was a long road to egyptian democracy. in 2011 mubarak was kicked out of office. then morsi became the first democratically elected president, but the celebrations wouldn't last long. he angered many by issuing an order to not allow any courts to overrule his actions. that lead to protests on the streets. his decision tos a -- s a shufrped temporary power. he escalated a power struggle between the military and the president. >> i guess a decision has been taken by the military before running this election the first democratic election fair elections, that at a certain point the military were -- will intervene and take over. >> reporter: on june 30th, 2013 millions of people rallied across egypt calling for his resignation. three days later, the man who morsi appointed as the defense minister lead a coup that removed him from p

. >> shortly after sunday was born, the family fled to a refugee camp in egypt. after two years, a missionary group was able to get them to a small apartment in manchester, new hampshire. no one in the family spoke english. the change from their life in africa was enormous. >> there must have been a culture shock. this is an old mill city in new hampshire, big mill buildings and what not. much colder weather. but this family moved in and started to prepare a better life, a safer life. they thought at least their kids could be raise the without getting shot at. >> the family had been in the u.s. for just a little more than a month. when one day, for no apparent reason, sunday started vomiting. she ran a high fever and she became delirious. >> her mother was sleeping on the hospital floor in sunday's room. she would sit and hold the child in her arms and that was her main concern was that sunday was sick and she had to get her better. >> at first, doctors thought sunday had contracted a bad case of the flu. but none of their treatments worked. and they were unsure

president obama is releasing some of the military assistance that has been withheld from egypt since of president mo he had marcy. in addition to sending equipment the white house is asking congress to approve $1.3 billion in military aid. egypt says it needs the aid to deal with conflicts in neighbor is libya and the say sinai pa minutes last the u.s. suspended equipment back in 2013. after the military's decision to overthrow the president at the time mohamed morrisey. even though the u.s. government still says that it's not considering what happened nearly two years ago a coup, it is showing its disapproval for the way this political change happened and by doing so, it's showing some pressure as it were on the new government in cairo. what the u.s. is doing is saying that on national security grounds, the egypt military can finally get its hands on 12 f-16 fighter jets, 20 harpoon missiles and 125 kits to basically improve the capabilities of the egypt army's tank arsenal. however, the u.s. is cutting off the open-ended spending spick youspigotas it were where the egyptian militar

the muslim brotherhood is outlawed in egypt >>> three attacks in egypt's sinai killed 11 civilians and two security. a town boarding gaza were hit by mortar fire. a rebel group believed affiliated with i.s.i.l. claimed responsibility for previous attacks in the area. >>> time for a break, when we come back flying into unchartered territory, when we come back president obama flies into panama where he'll meet raul castro from cuba >>> and a french television stakes taken off air. more on that. stay with us. welcome back. the top stories here on al jazeera - iran's president hassan rouhani demanded that ail sanctions on his country be lifted. at the same time any deal as iran's nuclear programme is concluded. the international community wants a gradual reduction in sanctions. iran's supreme leader ayatollah khamenei described air strikes op yemen as an act of genocide. houthi fighters are continuing their advance in eastern yemen. u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon said the residents of the refugee camp on the outskirts of damascus are in the deepest circle of hell. 16,000 are still insi

egypt and nigeria saw mass deaths.he number of executions - that is down. 607 were killed in 2014. a fall of 20%. the figures exclude prolific death penalty country - china. thousands are executed every year but beijing does not relay statistics. >> what began as a transportation strike in argentina is now a nation-wide protest. workers walked out for 24 hours on tuesday. flights were cancelled. train services suspended. unions are demanding lower taxes, higher measures to fight inflation. we have this report from buenos aires. >> reporter: here at the buenos aires airport, domestic and international flights have been cancelled until the 24 hour general strike ends. unlike the last general strike this has the support and, in fact was organised by the powerful transportation unions. that means that argentina is par lucid. no planes trains buses. unions blocked the highway access to the capital. they are demanding that the government increase nontaxable salary limits. that is no all. >> this is against an economic realit

has listed a ban on military aid to egypt for national security reasons. president obama has released some of the military assistance withheld from egypt after the ousting of president mohamed mursi in 2013. in addition the white house is asking congress to approve $1.3 billion in military aid. egypt says it needs the help to deal with conflict in the sinai peninsula >>> the u.s. suspended delivery of certain military equipment to egypt in 2013, off the military's decision to overthrow the president at the time mohamed mursi, even though the u.s. government says it's not considering what happened nearly two years ago a coup it's showing disapproval for the way the political change happened and by doing so is showing pressure as it were on the new government in cairo. what the u.s. is doing is saying on national security grounds the egyptian military can get its hands on 12 f-16 fighter jets 25 har poon missiles and 25 kits to improve the tank arsenal. the u.s. is cutting off the open-ended spending spigot as it were where the egyptian military can buy addi

you're not going to get any better in egypt. thomas jefferson is not turning around the corner in cairo. you will not have a jeffersonian democrat in egypt. but what you do right now is a guy who opposes jihad, who is a good relationship with israel and is friendly to america. yet we are isolating him, shutting him enemy to in my view, if the obama administration in a perfect world the obama administration would like to see mohamed morsi back in power. i say that without hesitation. if you basically we had a muslim brotherhood contingent at the state department. the muslim brother, the granddaddy of all islamic terrorist groups. folks, we would not be having this conversation about isis if it were not for the muslim brotherhood. isis cannot of al-qaeda which came out of the muslim brotherhood. the muslim brotherhood is the granddaddy of them all. it spawned al-qaeda, hamas. it's the original modern islamic terrorist group. yet they are now, along with iran, our friends, and we have been at the state department. and at the state

they are active in countries like libya, like egypt.i was trying to gather some info about that recently and in the last 30 months, 16 organizations showed their support to isis, and 16 organizations are working in 16 different countries. some of them are a majority of muslims, and some others were non-muslim majority like india. if we move to europe, recently the eu preparedness said there are 4,000 fighters european fighters fighting alongside isil in more isil. 25 of them are already back home. they are back home with better knowledge, better skills and better networking. if they want to use this knowledge and skill as a network in conducting more terrorist organizations in any european society. i once asked a u.s. security expert is it the same with your country? and he said no. fortunately, we don't have thousands of americans fighting alongside isis. we have a couple hundred only, but this doesn't mean that we are safe because it takes only 10 to have another 9/11. the point i'm trying to make here is that we are facing a global c

and now egypt and america is on the same side. and you have iowa ran helping the rebels.nd in 2009. you had a border war between them. and there is this history and it would not be unprecedented to so arab troops moving in yemen. >> what is our calculation? we are allies of saudi and egypt and we lend supplies when we don't so that action in iraq and syria? how do we support them? >> what you will so is more of the same from the united states. we'll support the arab allies in terms of arms and so forth. but there is a concern in the pentagon and washington about whether or not they can achieve the goals and the level of civilian casulties. yemen is a place that is in dire straits. i think you will see conferrings about coping the goals realistic and accomplish them effectively. >> it is a scary thought to hear al-qaeda taking control of the key area and coastal city. and isis taking control of a strips in libya and what is next in the region. michael, it is always good to have you here on the program. >> it is a day victims of the shooting in fort hood. what can they rece

egypt road to the south gets you around this mess.levard let's check the backlog it's substantial on the northbound side. as you go to the camera shot, jammed solid from the ridge after on-ramp toward broad street where the crash has cleared out. you can see sizable northbound jamming. sun glare david. >> reporter: we have layered clouds overhead. the temperatures at the surface are cool. we're in the mid 40s the closer you get to center city and chester low 40s north ran west, 30s showing up in south jersey and buena and hammonton. 40s cinnaminson and low to mid 40s up and down the state of delaware. if you're running errands it's dry and cool. 58 degrees the reason i say this part of the day the reason it gets milder after 6:00 a.m. after 1:00 p.m. or 2:00 p.m. we'll have showers moving in. they will be spotty for the purpose of the most part but a possibility for the afternoon. >>> on the people scene the annual day time emmy awards the group from the chew informative and talk show hosts. the kelly ripa and michael strahan were nam

egypt. are we going to -- i mean, saudi arabia right now is building a fence across its northern border with iraq to keep out isis. iran and isis are encircling saudi arabia and all that oil. they're encircling jordan can. they're encircling israel, of course. what are we going to do? a few years ago i'd say, oh, we'll never let jordan or saudi arabia fall. we have too many interests there, oil, everything else. with the way things have been going the past six years expect the unexpected in the middle east and in muslim world. nothing is off the table. inside the beltway they won't tell you that, but i may work inside the beltway, but i'm not of the beltway. and i'll tell you, the beltway style thinking, man, has gotten us in a pretty dastardly place right now in the middle east. and general sisi in egypt, it must be mentioned. talking about we're looking for moderate muslim leaders to speak out, this is the one guy right now. king abdullah's had his back up, you know, after the jordanian pi