in egypt was openly expressed. for the people the father the island's a new more restrictive era was about to begin. i've worked at al-jazeera english since it slowly shift as a principal placenta and as a correspondent with any breaking news story more to hear from those people who would normally get the voices heard on the international news channel one moment i'll be very proud. of the polish quake of 2015 a terrible natural disaster and a story that needed to be told from the hearts of the affected area to be that to tell the people story was very important at the time. chinese authorities the putting those i cited committed a crime change a light show trials would chinua confessions. when a student asked to go. 0. on counting the cost coronavirus could the economic impact be on a par with the 2008 financial crisis as the fight for the world is crippled modifiers cambodia faces up to the prospect of job losses plus caution tina begins its talks to avoid a debt default. counting the cost on al-jazeera. in a. lea

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about egypt's problems. the after she finished her undergraduate degree susan went on to complete her musters the topic of a teen each home this took her for the 1st time to places she had never seen in our country before. walk to contrast. suzanne with her university degrees and her husband the career soldier. for the not going to i don't think he had newspapers to even books before becoming vice president the man was a man of action who enjoyed being in contact with people. however he wasn't keen on creating and writing what i. think that. i felt as to his job was simply to deliver a message and bring a message attend a funeral travel to china travel. not a month passed without traveling somewhere without a reason. i wonder what i'm about a few 1000000 countries he must have visited in the 6 and a half years as vice president. he may have been constantly traveling but the reality is he didn't treat he had the proper job as he set and said that shit. he should see and my personal opinion is that the preside

had just tested 3015 people egypt is a country of 100000000 people. and so this issue of not having tested enough people to have a clear sign clear idea excuse me of the size of the outbreak is not a problem that's exclusive to egypt but egypt in their response to this reporting has politicized that problem and it's made it a president reagan issue when it's simply a public health issue but let's talk a little bit more about that response why do you think censorship in egypt is so pervasive at the moment. well we see that censorship in and treatment mistreatment of the local and foreign press has been unfortunately a whole lot of the egyptian regime since i just factor as he came to power in 2013 . but at a particular time like this you know corona virus the spread of this pandemic in many ways is a national security issue for all countries in the world but it is also something that undermines or can outline the stability of governments and we've seen the authoritarian regimes across the world including egypt have treated information about their handl

only he understood egypt only he could manage egypt and i think that even these kind of subtle messages about son were kind of part and parcel of his indispensability to to ruling egypt should stop. in. september 2005 and the president who had once promised to stay for only one term was camp. painting for his 5th in office. and he also had a further surprise for the electorate. this time thanks to a cool situation changed they were allowed to vote for other people. the trouble was that the rules were sort of natural that only non-entities could stand against the man who had ruled our country for a quarter of a century. no one was surprised when his new mubarak one eye lens right. for the 1st lady plans for a smooth succession for her son so that she could progress to 1st mother may have been temporarily frustrated. but the reality was that she still dominated the project that was the mubarak presidency. then she settled on none of the dishes planned. or obsession with winning the nobel peace prize to the extent that she supported his appointment to nisco so as to help get her the prize

egypt exploded. was. i was there was. no glad to simply ignore i'm the stand that this was something new. i was i was i was. the. mubarak mark the country with his habits was through 3 decades. he was an accommodating man he did and he found the safest way to solve any problem is patience with patience till it dissolves when the momentum fades away. by the end of the deal. under pressure from the voters to the police withdrew to be replaced by the army and a curfew was imposed throughout the country. this was the president's 1st of schools then he offered up talking to the protest. very late for i didn't he appeared on television a couple of to remember who. were some 4 will kill you for. at the bottom of the bitterly for the new world who didn't want to have the. will has no no we're. as far as mubarak was concerned he had done his bit and the people who should be sets. so that's his country continued to the he turned his mind to other matters or can live in new york. i received a call from him on the day the government

than 2000000 people in the palestinian territory live under strict blockades from both israel and egypt. it's been less than a week since the coronavirus reached gaza but already it's clear that the territory is woefully under quick to cope with the pandemic or thirty's are doing what they can. the. gaza municipality is organizing the cleaning and sterilising of the markets in an attempt to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. we're doing this despite being short of facilities and equipment. it is our duty to try to prevent the virus from spreading. the u.n. has already warned that the crumbling infrastructure will not be up to the challenge basic health care and sanitation it says simply inadequate. members of the palestinian islamic jihad armed wing the al could brigade taking to the streets not to demonstrate or bully but to join the effort to stop the virus from spreading. business to is contributing its expertise this gaza factory is producing protective clothing for medical workers to its own design. we want to protect ourselves and medical staff production has reached around 10

in egypt up to with. and are you just is a likee to deal with an outbrea. well i'll be the egyptian official who really tried to drive that included talking back- trying to think of ways to spread awareness- and then it hi nick they're all absolutely questions about whether the healthcare system can handle it's kind of a proboblem because the country od a hundred million people the most populous. country in the arab world- it could have been normal p population density i'm 95% of people live on roughly six or 7% of the land- and it all happened massively overstretched underfunded health care system. this lady is real questions about how countries like egypt we'll be able to cope with the spreaead f this. particular virus. right ruth michaelson reports live from chi on the new crown of cases repeported in egypt this friday. moving on and jonathan ball is a virologist and professor at the university of nottingham he tells us that the more time you buy the more impact you have on the spread of that practice. what what it means is that. you know like manyny cou

for mathias gaza has been blockaded for years by israel in egypt of course how might those countries respond for example is there any talk of temporarily lifting restrictions for humanitarian reasons. well there's a couple of things to say about this number one that there has been over these last 2 or 3 weeks since the koran at reach the region let's say a relatively pragmatic cooperation with the israeli authorities so the goods we have needed to bring in for hospitals and so on as united nations they've been all through and they have also not curtailed the movement of other goods we run for example as we're through to operate over a 1000000 people so more than 50000050 percent of gaza's population depend on food and of course you know locked down it's critical that people have access to food so so far that has not been blocked what has been blocked as movement of people and that's understandable our water use and our appeal to israel but also egypt as another neighboring country and the international community here is not to forget it is on the stand a book that we have to speak up

the arab troops pressed ahead as far as south of egypt all along the nile stretch the christian lines of. their arabs found provisions and above all slaves who they would enlist in their armies to pursue their expansion in $769.00 they signed a pact with the new stipulating that hostilities would cease $360.00 slaves per year in a war. considered. thing to do with prisoners. out warfare was the major cause through our. brave and. which was the next. the conquest was korea. they use these agreements to organize. the illustrated manuscripts short tales taken from arabic literature show how these 1st african slaves slaves intermingled with muslim societies. after 2 centuries of military conquest the demand for slaves of volved in the 9th century the dynasty embarked on a monumental project to transform this form the swamps around. iraq. on some sides there were between 505000 workers workers. and there was considerable turn on 10 to 15 years. in order to get to. muslim arabs from another culture are trade networks from the entire mediterranean to the caucuses the caucasus turkey the balk

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south of the modern city are the ruins of 1st time at the 1st arab city in egypt. these remains are in the collected site and yet this is where the destinies of africa the middle east and the mediterranean converged some 1400 years ago. in $641.00 a game changing event would occur with their vast conquest campaign underway the arab armies established a junction between africa and the middle east their expansion into egypt would change the continent's entire economy and intensify the demand for slaves. slavery was crucial to the concourses self and it was crucial to d. systems of these empire and its expansion from the concourses self captives where turned into slaves and those lows were recruited in da to me that conquered basically the world at that time. it was 1st and foremost a trade with economic and political stakes. the slaves were the essential source of energy. back then there was no oil. they were in effect the driving force behind these emerging empires. the arab troops pressed ahead as far as south of egypt all along the nile stretched the christian lin

yes but let but let's let's let's do look at egypt he had to go look at egypt look at pax let's look at egypt the fact that coptic minorities come under attack in egypt as a direct result of the fact that hate speech against cults is allowed and not and not frowned upon and so i think that it's a slight sort of logical. inconsistency here if we're saying that there is a direct correlation between hate speech and crime then by definition there would be a direct correlation between banning hate speech unless and right when he was out and the last of the he in one direction that's that's a lot you can mistake lot more than a lot of that a lot of people do in fact if you call it a culture of free speech where you move to manage disagreement. in a way where you do not use violence you do not use intimidation and threats you will see a decrease in violence think the point about creating a culture of disagreement in the west a lot of western countries take pride the u.k. where you are right now takes great pride in things like the life of brian mocking christianity movies like the life of b

elijah was asked to come to egypt by the president of egypt at the time, and elijah mohammed decided to send his emissary instead to pave the way for elijah. that was really malcolm's -- even though he grew up having been taught about the beauties and glories of africa and its history, this was his first trip to africa and even to the middle east. being someone who identified as muslim, he of course was excited to visit a muslim nation in egypt. he also hoped and planned when he arrived -- when he planned his trip, to go on a hajj as well. he arrived on july 4 in egypt, but immediately falls ill, so he is not able to travel to mecca, but he is able to spend more time in egypt, as well as he traveled to saudi arabia. this is one of the more critical periods in malcolm's life, and we wouldn't necessarily see the effects of it in his public rhetoric, but according to many biographers, this was a critical period as he lived in these muslim nations, because he began to see how much nation of islam's theology and traditions and practices was so unorthodox. but of course, he couldn't necess

yes but let me let's let's let's do look at egypt here they go look at egypt look at park but let's look at egypt the fact that coptic minorities come under attack in egypt as a direct result of the fact that hate speech against cults is allowed and not and not frowned upon and so i think that it's a slight sort of logical. inconsistency here if we're saying that there is a direct correlation between hate speech and crime then by definition there would be a direct correlation between banning hate speech unless and right when he was actually with us a very in one direction that's that's a lot you can mistake lot more than a lot of that a lot of people do in fact if you call it a culture of free speech where you know to manage disagreement. in a way where you do not use violence you do not use intimidation and threats you will see a decrease in violence think the point about creating a culture of disagreement in the west a lot of western countries take pride the u.k. where you are right now takes great pride in things like the life of brian mocking christianity movies like the life of bria

egypt has been. reported by media human rights organizations and even by the un committee against torture. and especially. who are also parents from. egypt does not want to cooperate with these international. and doesn't want to open its detention centers for. inspections and visits. and therefore. this is kind of a green light from the political leadership. for the officers to go on with their uses to go on this use of extreme the abuse if you know very few officers in egypt's history have been found guilty with tours words are. just a load cells does not really properly you aren't torture and does not define or. denies in force you don't shoot in order to russian standards you set your state my pump in afghanistan on an unannounced visit tucson salvage a deal with the taliban he held talks with president ashraf ghani in the capital kabul this comes as the 1st direct talks between the afghan government and the taliban taken place on exchanging prisoners last month the group signed a deal with the u.

in egypt. and he also hoped and planned when he arrived, sort of when he planned his trip, to go as well. so he arrives on july 4th in egypt. but immediately, of course, falls ill. and so he's not able to -- to travel to mecca. but he's able to spend more time in egypt, as well as he traveled to saudi arabia. this is one of the more critical periods in malcolm's life. we wouldn't necessarily see the effects of in his public rhetoric, but according to many biographers of malcolm, this was a critical period as he lived and observed in these muslim nations because he began to see how much nation of islam's theology and traditions and practices was so unorthodox. and so but of course, he couldn't necessarily publicly speak out against those traditions and policies, but he certainly saw that -- the distinctions when he was in saudi arabia as well as in egypt. but one thing that i think struck him about saudi arabia and of course he wrote back about this was all of the variety of skin colors that exi

in egypt. and he also hoped and planned when he arrived, sort of when he planned his trip, to go as well. so he arrives on july 4th in egypt. but immediately, of course, falls ill. and so he's not able to -- to travel to mecca. but he's able to spend more time in egypt, as well as he traveled to saudi arabia. theology and traditions and practices was so unorthodox. and so but, of course, he couldn't necessarily publicly speak out against those -- against those traditions and policies, but he certainly saw that the stipulations when he was in saudi arabia as well as in egypt. but one thing that i think struck him about saudi arabia, and, of course, he wrote back about this, was all of the variety of skin colors that existed in saudi arabia. he stated it was almost like black america. you have the lightest of people as well as the darkest of people he talked about almost all of these saudi arabians would be, quote, jim crowed. and what he was seeking to do was make this sort of connection between

egypt has suspended air travel until the end of the month many tourist hot spots are in lockdown the pyramids at giza are now virtually deserted almost $140000.00 tourism jobs are at risk in egypt according to the international air transport association it says a $1000000000.00 in airline revenues that have been lost due to the shutdown authorities are closing shops and restaurants to contain the virus are now over $250.00 cases in egypt including several decades. well for the airline industry this is worse than 911 even worse than the global financial crisis one german aviation boss says if the outbreak drags on and the state doesn't step in carriers will fail. only 5 per cent of towns are scheduled flights are taking off right now nearly all planes are grounded ju-ju entry restrictions and a collapse in demand. though that is good. if the current situation doesn't improve in the coming weeks which nobody expects will talk to the government to determine the basic flight services they think should be maintained from a business point of view flying doesn't make any sense right now. tr

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carry a soldier who'd never imagined he might one day become president of egypt. had an ambitious wife and son he became an autocrat and was imprisoned for the on local t.v. approach to. the story of the rise and fall of hosni mubarak the family. top stories. joe biden is projected to win the south carolina democratic primary were polls have just closed the 1st primary in the american south before super tuesday. president donald trump has called for calm after confirming the 1st coronavirus death in the u.s. the travel ban will be imposed on iran and the white house is considering closing its border with mexico. a deal's been signed between the united states and the taliban which could see all american and nato troops withdraw from afghanistan hope the agreement will pave the way for a long lasting peace in the country. the turkish president says he's asked his russian counterpart vladimir putin to quote get out of the way in syria's rebel bastion if it follows the death of 34 turkish troops in a strike by russian backed syrian government forces on thursday. we ki

the ab's egypt carries the day. which is infecting more lankans every year. head of the national control unit says expanding cities have led to an increase in breeding say it is. a burden for. system. the cost. for the many new engine so we need to you know let's all listen for this. problem says it a primitive agrees his 14 year old daughter was treated in hospital after she got sick with dengue last year. she couldn't go to school for money she was told not to exhort but she was too weak to do that anyways. distributing boxes containing specially bred mosquito eggs produced with the assistance of the world musky to program the eggs from the eighty's egypt are infected with wild baccy a bacteria a bacteria found in 60 percent of insects but not the. percentage . proliferation of. this in the region so there. are going to be mosquitoes but i want to be right in the most to do with these mosquito eggs are produced by the world mosquito program using sri lankan mosquitoes the eggs are then sent back to be packed into capsules which are then distributed with the

move away to egypt. so. you. know. all this i want to show you. ok. this is my bed that almost killed a king sized bet. that goes a little doubt all. yeah this is this is a really unbelievable. it. had to be said. and he had to get it. in this is was my mom. this is what's left of this. and you can see the color was a vivid beautiful yet. you know. this is what they cherish. it's so dear to me that no. no one can. on the stand and i cannot even describe it myself when i hold my hand. whenever i go to sleep she is with me she is always with. after the day that we all met sonia. i thought about it almost every day. she has impacted me in ways i could have never imagined but like what she was telling us about her mom that's what got to me the most because my mom. is everything to me and if i watched her walk away from me knowing what was going to happen. i can't even imagine being strong enough to go on from that point. teenagers are really hard to reach now they're distracted with their phone the internet the social networks and i think that sonia chang

on the following day, king farouk of egypt arrived to pay mr. roosevelt a visit. his majesty came aboard, and the president entertained him at lunch. (music) at this meeting with royalty, and others which followed, president roosevelt was a symbol of the spirit of neighborliness of the united states. that afternoon more royalty arrive, emperor haile selassie, ruler of ethiopia. (music) the next day, another ship arrived bearing the king of saudi arabia, his sons and their entourage. the king was escorted aboard to meet the president and the other guests. some of the arab chieftains who accompanied him. (music) four of the king's sons. ♪ ♪ colonel william a. eddie, a retired marine officer, acted as interpreter. ♪ ♪ after his visit, the king returned to his cruiser which brought him, and later the president's ship sailed for alexandria. the following day at alexandria, mr. churchill, accompanied by his doctor, joined in the president for further talks. ♪ ♪ as he came aboard, he was greeted by admiral lahey. mr. harry hopkins was also on the ship. ♪ ♪ mr. stittinius

this is an islamic thinker, in the 90s in egypt pushing against more conservative thinkers. point to me one successful islamic state in modern times and goes on by saying why this session with islamic state for 1300 years since the first century after the profit, only one% of people advocated a religious state. 99% have advocated that to civil state. not long after this, one of those key turning points, as a martyr of the nation, when killed by radical extremists, 20 years later the same thing happens in pakistan where a governor is declared an apostate for defending a christian woman it is murdered in broad daylight and no one dares to come out and mourn him and declare him a marcher of the nation, that is how fast things unraveled. >> one thing that is curious but interesting is shia make up 10% of islam. it is 10% versus 90%. not very much. 90-10. the majority country, iran, 20% of pakistan. >> the largest shia population - some -- actually brought up. the leader of a sect within shia islam. he is really -- i brought it up to a diplomat once who started yelling, they are

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egypt has a sense of being egypt. if i had to go back through any of these countries, iraq of course only became independent i think in 1932 but back in 13th-century arabic literature will talk about the concept of iraq. people talked about the concept of lebanon or syria long before they formally became independent so when it comes to the artificiality of state, i'd say that the most artificial state are jordan, cotter , the emirates and kuwait. but that many of the others and we see this with how they retroactively extend back their national. have some basis in legitimacy that really isn't going to change much. if the question is occurred, the kurds are the largest people who have been if you willdispossess . that's not for countries because of world war i is of course the treaty in the 17th century is what created the iraq iran border but the problem with the kurds is are you going to have one curtis dan or could you have 4 and this notion that we're going to have one, we have to romeo, one of which is called mold

in egypt, and other countries of the region. dictators who us preconceived is of the region. they safety their means, the modernizing man looked in a suit or the fundamentalist crazies. that is a not the minor choice that is available in the region. i think we need to have more faith in the region. >> were pastor do in terms of time we were going to have this talk together, i would like to thank you for being with us. >> thank you very much for having me, this is the center of the united states but the rest of the country does not know is lawyerly see it this way. we appreciate you coming all the way from washington or beirut. >> thank you so much for having me, it was a pleasure being here tonight. ♪ >> the winners are in the for this year student kim documentary competition. we asked students, what should you most want the presidential candidates to address in the 2020 campaign. we received more than 2500 entries from 44 states with more than 5000 students participating. with our winners telling us the most important issues are climate change, gun violence, college affordab

machinery often a version of torture in egypt is working and how this missionary has also. affected children we are talking about 20 cases we documented in this report that are just a small sample there present at the office systematic nature of such a practice is this impedances torture by the security agencies in egypt where particularly the national security agency under the interior ministry there was. a hearing. in a city under a store program of evil or mass protests so for example the recent the most recent of richwoods the september and october mass protests in egypt even during that time also we witnessed. differently massive wrists and. maybe 200 children where. i think the time to. summarize and the situation or what happens exactly no one cared he would say. so when d.c. children are averse to the are not really looked at as chosen rather they are. criminals as political opponents in the sense and. they are disappeared we are portraits by meeting by. water boarding hanging in stress positions extremely being proposed as bush and positions to obtain information a

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in egypt, and other countries of the region. dictators who us preconceived is of the region. they safety their means, the modernizing man looked in a suit or the fundamentalist crazies. that is a not the minor choice that is available in the region. i think we need to have more faith in the region. >> were pastor do in terms of time we were going to have this talk together, i would like to thank you for being with us. >> thank you very much for having me, this is the center of the united states but the rest of the country does not know is lawyerly see it this way. we appreciate you coming all the way from washington or beirut. >> thank you so much for having me, it was a pleasure being here tonight. u.s. foreign policy at the rancho mirage writers festival. >> please welcome max boot, james fallows, george packer and robert wright with your moderator bret stephens. [applause] longtimlongtime no see. i am thrilled to be moderating just about the most distinguished