it's what mussolini did i thought hitler did it's what stalin did and if the egyptian military continues on this path of charging people with spying unjustly it doesn't it doesn't look good for egypt's future what about these egyptians are being arrested for political reasons what are they actually calling for what are they speaking out for bearing in mind of course there should be elections soon in september and this is after all an interim government running the country at the moment. that's exactly right well it varies greatly some have been jailed simply for criticizing the government others have been brought up on spirits charges of quote unquote insulting the military the case i mentioned before of this this young blogger he did no more than question egypt's military and on his blog right skating critiques of the military and if that is indeed an offense that can justify someone going to prison then everyone in egypt is in danger there are many distance and many bloggers who see the egyptian military which is currently ruling as a force for stability as a force that is on their sid

a fabric fabricated charge and it would seem that the egyptian military is taking a turn for the worse and instigating foreign enemies and this is of course the classic sign of dictatorship for minting external enemies and finding enemies and spies and saboteurs in all sorts of places this is what happened to japan in the one nine hundred thirty s. that's what mostly needed it's what hitler did it stalin did and if the egyptian military continues on this path of charging people with spying unjustly it doesn't it doesn't look good for egypt's future what about being arrested for political reasons what are they actually calling for what are they speaking out for bearing in mind of course there should be elections soon this september and this is after all an interim government running the country at the moment. that's exactly right well it varies greatly some have been jailed simply for criticizing the government others have been brought up on superiors charges of quote unquote insulting the military the case i mentioned before of this this young blogger he did no more than question egypt

>> the arab-americans are egyptians, all egyptians. we really considered that the middle east is affected by the egyptian history and by the scientific discoveries to thousand years ago. we never consider ourselves as egyptians but as part of the entire region, a syrian, lebanese, egyptians -- we are all the same people. but what we would like to say to the rest of the arab-americans in this country, come and visit. come and visit egypt. come and be a part of the revolution, bring your children, bring your family, bring your friends, come and see with your own ideas what cnn cannot translate. i guarantee that they are going to see different egyptians today. they are very proud, they are more lovable than ever before, millions of jokes every day, taxi drivers smile let you in the face and say where are you going, and if you try to give them tips, they say, we do not want to add any more, thank you. there are a lot of things happening in egypt today. no bashees. >> that is different. but not everything has gone so well. it has been calle

none of the egyptian people accepted the revolution was going to be the standard of the egyptian culture. we had several issues with the revolution and the consequences of the revolution, especially when the communist party came to egypt and. >> in 1952? >> yes, 1952. the 25th of january revolution is the youth, the young people. they were not afraid to say no to mubarak and his regime. the old people there, the 50s and the 60s today in egypt, they would not do it without the young people. the young people, the funny thing is, these ministers in egypt and the prominent business people and politicians, their children are the ones. they go home and the revolution was again of their parents. you know it was so funny and i don't want to name some names of local business people in egypt. they go home and a talk they talk with their children. why in the hell did you go to tahrir square today? the boy will say why not dad? i'm going to be there for whole week. his father's going to lose his job and is going to lose hundreds of millions of dollars of transaction that occurred during mubarak time

egyptian officials emphasized for that kind of relief.s you know, our president announced $1 billion in relief and $1 billion in u.s.- backed loan guarantees. but there have been calls for conditioning that kind of assistance. i wanted to get your sense. if there is a commitment to somehow conditioning that aid or at least taking their actions into consideration as it relates to our aid, one of the benchmarks we should use if we can simply call them democratic benchmarks or democratic reform benchmarks? how do we approach that as an incoming ambassador? >> yes, thank you. on the debt relief, sir, we will be presenting legislation shortly to the hill that will build on previous legislation for some of the debt relief. on the debt swap, one of our goals in the region is taking a while to develop. we're trying to find a worthy recipient for the local currency that will be generated by these funds and one that is transformational and addresses some of egypt's underlying problems. the secretary feels very strongly that we should have a transfo

and it was a beautiful scene. >> reporter: but the egyptian government struck back. internet. like their friends in tunisia, the egyptian online activists found a way to beat it. >> so we found one of our friends had just by chance had her internet provided by this very small local company. and she opened her place up to everyone. we were about 30 people going over there to get as much information as we want, then using this internet connection. >> reporter: violent street battles raged sporadically over 18 days. ♪ blsh. >> reporter: in the end an estimated 840 egyptians logs their lives in the rev lug and more than 6,000 people were injured. finally president mubarak stepped down on february 11th. celebrations erupted across the city. again, all captured live and often streamed. where were you when you heard that mubarak had stepped down? >> i hear people like screaming. i'm like, what? he's gone? i literally drop everything i have. i start hugging and kissing everybody i see. i'm just like -- i was so amazed. i was crying. >> and it was a great moment. really every

structural failure within the way that the egyptian government has handled the sick on it for the past twenty thirty years in no small part thanks to the measures implemented by the world bank of the i.m.f. and so if the new leader of the news media manage to shake off world bank and i.m.f. conditionality and manage to get out of this all of the claw of the debts and all of this vicious cycle taken on more debt and then having to implement more policies impose upon your bibles and situations if you can break out of it and if they can liberalize their economy if they can let individuals and entrepreneurs have the freedom to do what they want and if they can liberalize even the basic labor market which is i think the most important thing at this point so that normal young people could just go and have normal jobs without having to ask for licenses from politically connected people i think there is massive potential for both egyptian on the tunisian economy however if they continue down the road of central planning under the ages of the i.m.f. and the world bank if they continue to take l

the old regime removed so it's still continuing it's still continuing right now as we speak the egyptian and tunisian people are doing their best to get rid of these. all of these old regimes ok imagine the i.m.f. who is active before the revolution now they're active again as you describe it it's just more of the same and that the egyptian people need to and are very much aware of this now the i.m.f. just loan three billion dollars to egypt that's the latest deal are they also lending money to tunisia who is in power actually to receive these loans the i.m.f. the world bank the group of the g eight and lot of other international seducer are lending and granting all sorts of money the u.s. government and various other european governments they're all engaged in this game of giving more aid and more debt at this point but the very interesting question you ask is who is in charge and actually. i don't think anybody knows how to ask the question exactly in either egypt or tunisia because i don't think anybody is really really in charge of the country at this point you know under the previou

why don't the egyptians leave us alone. come on we've already got enough problems with the israelis may. blow. why i'll bring you back a bottle of coke. she was a prisoner of war we need planks for three meters and because you've convinced me to be entrances full of sams that we need to remove it and it will take a day on the national do as i was lehman one two years ago yes and when when everything's ready simple just me. who. all of my friends. how are you doing. how's it going to. notice things in egypt was a hellish there are roadblocks everywhere oh we can't get anything for. checking everything it's not good at all we need to find a solution it cost me twenty two thousand dollars to repair the trauma and i have to pay my men. for being closely watched right now. not. just the police are causing the trouble with. the first time i've seen so many cops . agree on it's a major operation. just find me something to bring back i have to pay the man. there are checkpoints all around my place. we'll keep working in the tunnel

some kind of free ride on the back of an impoverished egyptian population excellent question max but i don't think i could psychoanalyze i'm. alone officers and economists to be able to analyze it but no you're absolutely correct in that. this idea of spending a lot of money doesn't make sense to treat the problem of inflation it's the basic economics tells us that that's nonsense unfortunately not a lot of people around the i.m.f. or the world bank but part of psychology is that clear out president bush and obama have said that the us is addicted to oil so how can they possibly act as a broker in the region when they are pathologically unable to do the cause of the rising prices of wheat and basic staples obviously was not an egyptian or tunisian explosive issue but the reason for the right price rises global i thought i personally believe that it's it has to do with a flourish an era monetary policy of the us federal reserve but the the local policies of those governments took against these price rises also exacerbated so in egypt and tunisia they try to impose price controls they

people the egyptian public prosecutor has since ordered an investigation into the deal former president hosni mubarak contributes sons are accused of having personally benefited from it which doesn't surprise yourself poet skee who set up the natural gas system in israel he was against the deal from the start not least because it was signed between israel and the east mediterranean gas company which is registered offshore and has no assets in egypt it was obvious the cheap date in. which were a custom in the arab world and it was also very obvious that one if the president is not. is a girl is not going to rule egypt of course the whole contract is not worth the paper it's written on the east mediterranean gas company declined our request for an interview egypt's natural gas supplies about forty to fifty percent of the electricity power stations in israel it can be replaced by the fuels but they're more expensive and dirty which is why boys a ride is blogging frenetically online he writes about green issues and says the alternative options that israel has to the egyptian supplies are no

>> the arab-americans are egyptians, they're all egyptians. we really consider that the middle east is somehow affectedi by the egyptian history and by the egyptian scientific discoveries a few thousand yearv ago.we we never considered ourself as egyptian, we consider ourselves as part of the entire region. you could be syrian, lebanese, egyptian, we are all the same people. but what we would like to say t the rest of thes arab-americans in this country, that come andy, visit. t come and visit egypt.me a we are part of the revolution.we bring your children, bring your family, bring your friends.g yo come and see with your own eyese what the newspaper and the cnnat cannot translate. i guarantee that you're going to see different egyptians today. they are very proud, they arey more lovable than ever before,m even theiro jokes have been now millions of jokes every day. the taxi cab drivers smile at your face and ask you, where are you going? tell him, i would like to give you tips, and he will look at you say, we don't want tips anymore. thank yo

the egyptians will find their own path.n thinking about egypt, and we should be heartened by what is taking place in latin america and eastern europe over the last 40 years. what america -- latin america's path has hardly been street. it now has a degree of economic prosperity unimaginable 40 years ago. the arab world will be no different. if confirmed, i will be firmly committed to backing the democratic transition which will reinforce much-needed respect for human rights with all the support the united states government can muster. let me outline the strategies the administration has developed and if confirmed, i will pursue in cairo. the first priority will be to encourage and support an election process that is free and fair. polling suggests many egyptians will have the first opportunity in their lifetimes to vote in a free election. enthusiasm is understandably high. as we do and hundreds of other countries, the u.s. will support non-governmental and civil society organizations who wish to enhance their organizational

you god bless our egyptian suppliers right god bless them. well it was that's where i was lehman if you leave it straight to jail. so did you say if you'll wind up in prison do you think i want to go to jail. because i'm going to buy it for a statement of the if you've got one that's crazy. you need anything else. and i have to pay the workers too much. those that for the most of the myriad of gods and one thousand six hundred dollars . for all the workers on the site. don't know. the words one day more fool you one more or less i don't hear any more hope i'm giving you one thousand six hundred dollars you sort it out. ok but sometimes there's nine of us and sometimes less than fifty that's going to let you sort it all in your notebook driving me nuts if you want my chase you pay me for ninety days don't get worked up. about. some tunnels transport weapons you should let me. and i must tell c.n.n. or the islamic jihad's they organize it to bring their own weapons back and we're trying to get round the embargo. know you leave the president for

book the egyptians found it. on a bus. not a lot of damage one day's work at most and they got some are we can bring some stuff back. this week open two days time the tunnel will be full of merchandise. why don't the egyptians leave us alone. come on you've already got enough problems with the israelis may. blow. by i'll bring you back a bottle of coke or. she was a prisoner of war we need planks for three meters and she's pyramids with the entrance is full of sounds to me to remove it. will take a day of national you know there's obviously no one to use it yes and when when everything's ready simple and smooth. move. all of my friends. you know are you doing. i was going about. your things in egypt was a hellish bear roadblocks everywhere oh we can't get anything for. checking everything it's not good at all we need to find a solution it cost me twenty two thousand dollars to repair the trauma and i have to pay my men. for being closely watched right now. yes the police are causing the trouble with. the first time i've se

you by getting sick and tired of war in the form of finance minister in a hostile mubarak's ousted egyptian government has reportedly found safe haven in the u.k. that's despite the fact he's been sentenced in absentia to thirty years in jail for corruption profiteering and abusing state assets by cairo court parties or am of the looks of why the u.k. sheltering senior figures from the regime at the same time as a publicly backs the arab spring. when egypt abrupt it into violence at the start of the year the u.k. was among the first to support the uprising out with the old dictatorship and in with a new era of democracy the old guard was swept aside but many running in fear for their lives ran straight to a new life in london and the local egyptian community is horrified angry disappointed some of them call it shame when in the end. because it is a long time now with the british government being. people running oil not just from egypt from all over the world. goalie is just one the former finance minister instead of beginning a thirty year prison sentence for embezzlement in egypt he said t

over president mubarak in egypt is now turning up the heat on cairo's gas supply deal with israel egyptian officials are probing allegations the agreement was a scam orchestrated by the mubarak family kairos reportedly considering raising gas export prices to israel or even suspending supplies altogether. now reports from tother. israel cannot be choosy in picking its energy resources it has few of its own and most of its neighbors are not willing to say there is which is why it's sourcing secure energy is a hot issue in the middle east when ever we can get it and wherever we can there if you can we should and for the last six years israelis have been getting a lot of it from egypt and under water pipeline pumps natural gas from the egyptian city of al of wish to the israeli port of ashkelon. but the revolution in egypt supported by the united states is backfiring on israel the interim cairo government says it's not obliged to sell gas to israel and is pushing to renegotiate the agreement i did who rewinds for several each option papers from israel he says the deal was always unpopular amo

the egyptian air force on the ground. eisenhower's political opponents fiercely attacked his policies. , or roosevelt accused the administration of favoring the arabs over israel and asserted britain and france has been brought to the point of desperation by american policies. it leaves us in the strange position of supporting the kremlin and an egyptian dictator against our oldest and strongest ally. six of the eight democratic members of the senate foreign relations committee agreed with stevenson and roosevelt that the president's middle east policies had failed. eisenhower had presided >> and suddenly the leaders of the soviet group onpoured more fuel on the international fire. the premier sent messages to france and israel alluding to modern weapons of destruction and rocket weapons. mobilized their naval fleets to stop aggression and terminate further bloodshed. he warned the president, if this war is not stopped, it is fraught with danger and can grow into a third world war. eisenhower interpreted the russian propo

seven thousand people that have been thrown into egyptian prisons in the months since the revolution from what you've seen them from what you've heard do you think these arrests are justified. but it's very difficult to know we know about about five hundred cases of. people who. would most of them have been released just a very public events so that groups here like the gyptian initiative for personal rights and other organizations could could advocate for them and get them released but there's about thousands more we don't really know the number of human rights watch what's the number about five thousand activists put in seven thousand or higher. we have very little information about the charges against them it's not clear which of them are are actually being used to criminal acts and which are basically political prisoners and what overlap there is there. is it's all happening in the dark so to speak it's very difficult for people to get information although the promise to review military trials for civilians do you think there will be fair trials for these prisoners. well a lot of

i do not see any reason why the egyptian economy cannot do the same thing if properly handled. let me outline what we're trying to do. the secretary did reprogram funds. she took it out of what i recall the pipeline of economic assistance. it was not dispersing rapidly. egypt had not met the conditions for disbursement of this pipeline. we took out $150 million and allocated $65 million to the funding source, as i mentioned it, for the procedural organization. we will put $100 million in, essentially, job creation issues like cash for worker, which is not sustainable but will come i think it, some short-term problems. senator, we have the overseas private investment corp., which has a very sophisticated program for lending. we have the debt swap program. there is the u.s. aid program, which will be refocused to promote economic reform and to do such a varied things out to work with it. tanks and political parties to develop platforms for economic reform to do job creation and training facilitation. in this was a very important issue in my other post, to increase trade which you

before a finance minister in passing of arson ousted egyptian government hasn't formally found shelter in britain the spy being convicted of embezzlement back home that's growing anger among egyptians over one stance which has supported the revolution a repro in the old regime. and more and more israelis are lining up to immigrate opting for the e.u. or america and they accuse the government of failing to make thier country a safe place. that's my headline here in our next week's floor the life of the father of the boss revolution to find out why lennon's role in russia's history remains a divisive issue. hello and welcome to the show on this week's program i'll be exploring that is life in moscow of australia to change the course of the straits and starting off here on red square next to the magnificent roscoe crowley tony martin andreas as we take a look at his epic journey and visit various landmarks associated with his life and that. is one of the main names associated with russia. eight hundred seventy s. let me in she chose a studio name living in nineteen i want as one of the le

made allegations of the ruling military is a bloody practice as egyptians question whether their revolution for justice and democracy has only import and place another dictatorship. economy it's the security of the leaders of russia and china joined their central asian counterparts for its new summit focusing on the challenges facing the reason you're looking at live pictures of stan where the meeting is taking quite some. time more anger threatens to spill onto the streets of greece and the face of public pods as people's trust in government plummets with the nation's economy. and in business this out foreign investments are heating up with german company companies volkswagen set to invest more than one hundred million euros in russia's burgeoning. upbringing the full story and around twenty minutes time. now i am in the russian capital you're watching our. welcome to the program the jailing of at least seven thousand people by egypt's military rulers will be reviewed by the nations in. amid allegations of torture and abuse the behavior of the army since taking over from the ouster of hosn