and egyptian cuisine is underrated.istorical tours, which is the reason a lot of people come here. but no—one really comes here for the food. so this area, the american university... the tours were launched a year ago, and include the area which borders tahrir square, the site of the 2011 uprising. this street was popular for being the area where students from the american university, on the right, used to kind of hangout and have their coffee. the aim is to offer small groups and genuine and perhaps grittier cairo experience through walking, history, culture and food. first up on my tour is a family owned business which specialises in the country's most ubiquitous dish. this is koshary. you can get this from very cheap all the way to a gourmet deconstructed koshary dish. you have lentils, chickpeas, you have these fried onions, and you also have rice, you have macaroni. all in this one dish? yes. ok, i'm going give it a go. it's very rich. the onion flavour‘s coming out. i can get the kick as well from the spice, the p

egyptian cuisine is underrated., which is the reason a lot of people come here. but no one really comes into the food. so this area, the american university... the tours, launch and area go, starts at tahrir square. this was popular to be in the area where students from the american university, on the right, there can be used to kind of hangout. the aim is to offer small groups and genuine and perhaps grittier cairo experience for a walking history culture and food. first up on my tour is a family owned business than a sport the country's be because dish. this is kos ha ry. country's be because dish. this is koshary. you can get this from very cheap all the way to a gourmet deconstructed koshary dish. you have lentils, chickpeas, you have these fried onions, and you also have rice, you have macaroni. all in the one dish? yes. i will give it a go. it is very rich. i can get the kick as well from the spice, the peppers, and the garlic, as well. i like a lot. egyptian ‘s love social media almost as much as their grub.

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at raising private investment on the continent she's meeting with twelve heads of state including egyptian president of the fattah el-sisi the two countries are currently holding bilateral talks on the sidelines i aimed at tackling terrorism illegal immigration and other regional issues now cairo is keen to boost cooperation with germany which spearheaded the summit last year says he will be in the capital on toll thursday. we have more on the story now with our correspondents for him and nina hasa good to have you both with us here in studio three a let's start with you because you've been following elsie's visit here in germany what is the main aim of this meeting well it's always been maintaining security and security cooperation between the quit the two countries but also increasing investment of course this has been seized this platform since he came to power and since he was reelected again this year to increase investment and to restore investment trust in egypt's economy and this trip is it's part of that the two thousand in two thousand and seven the total trade between two countr

and egyptian cuisine is so underrated.is koshary. you can get this from very cheap all the way to a gourmet deconstructed koshary dish. you have lentils, chickpeas, you have these fried onions, and you also have rice, you have macaroni. all in this one dish? yes. ok, i'm going give it a go. it's very rich. the onion flavour‘s coming out. i can get the kick as well from the spice, the peppers, and the garlic, as well. i like a lot. how are you doing? good to see you. this unassuming eatery specialises in a local favourite called hawawshy. can you tell me what these guys are doing now? hawawshy is a bit like an egyptian version of a hamburger. but here it has been upgraded. i love this. so gooey that i have to put on some gloves to eat it. as we say in the uk, the proof is in the pudding. that is good. don't give away too many secrets otherwise people will steal the recipe! that's it from us for now. these buildings are open their doors to the public. the view is incredible. they are family —— famous landmarks you can see fr

here are reported to the egyptian. military was not welcome for the government because they couldn't have any pressure on the. government model what we're doing that we've had this and know if you go. oh my muslim world. you know. you have a million dollar to move. several agencies have asked the egyptian government. explain what you're saying has been detained without trial. and in february twenty eighth team the u.n. called for his immediate release. so we letters as soon as he was detained to the egyptian president mr. member soon brussels because it's close to the office and we do know that the fact he was jailed and also what why precisely our colleague was detained we received no answer for from. these we wrote those letters to united nations you know secretary mr bug. by that time to denounce the fact and the united nations warry to. press freedom situation in egypt in janeiro. and was not that there. was a could have because i like. one of them. but. when i look at the. possibility. that he. feels like he has a

after a while developers realize that some of the hieroglyphs ancient egyptian writing can be extremely difficult to decode that gave them an idea for a research project which google wanted to support. realize that there's a. potential to decipher the year and with it to make it more accessible it takes years and years for someone to learn how you're just with ovitz and where as when we use a computer and a human we can do it easier. the computer uses artificial intelligence the computerized program learns to recognize and translate hieroglyphs the hieroglyph project needs a vast quantities of data so egyptologists worldwide are using an open source software to upload and share images of ancient inscriptions to the platform. so the first book in the project will be extracting the card with a promise from a wide variety of original sources before working on the tools and algorithms that come to recognize in the darkness ultimately then we can analyze existing translations matching card sequences to unlock them meaning. that could be a boon for tony or sebastian rishta a professor of egyp

they see him as representing the muslim brotherhood or turkey or or qatar so in if you look at the egyptian media which i've been following loosely for the last few days they've been there they're not exactly pro you know freedom of the press they're not pro dramatic kushal g. and they've launched into you know an array of sort of conspiracy theories about about what may have happened so that's kind of the surrounding context here self sense oriel i mean that's something the journalists you know have probably quite rightly taking into consideration want to bring in a guest. in london hey there is this thing about the arab journalist being self censoring themselves but why are the arab governments remaining so silent thank you very much well it does get it of course this it would ease have been taking their lead in the diplomacy. of the arab world for the past thirty years in fact they have been trying to replace them out of the nonsense who died in one thousand seventy as the leader of the other word and of course in the last few years they have invested heavily in recruiting the arab gover

officials those egyptians left the gaza strip yesterday wednesday and according to local media reports here in gaza they took a message from hamas directly to the israelis again denying responsibility saying that they were investigating the events and how these rockets were fired at these these rounds of the large medium range rockets and also again saying that they had no interest in a full scale war so if a massive military wing didn't fire the rockets that triggered that israeli response who did. well indeed that is the question and it is one which i'm afraid leads us into the realms of speculation but what i can do is outline some of the the speculation i mean hamas has in the past talked about salafi groups here in gaza linked to the islamic state being a potential fires of such rogue rockets they are explicitly saying that this time there are some who talk about the fact that fatah the other palestinian political faction has its own military wing here in gaza bit as far as the israelis are concerned they say that the only people that possess these pretty strategic medium range he

so we wrote letters as soon as he was detained to the egyptian president mr el-sisi. member soon because it's close to the office and we do know that the fact he was jailed and also what why. precisely our colleague was detained we received no answer from. these we wrote those letters to united nations you know. mr bug. by that time to be known as the fact and the united nations mori i won't. press freedom situation in egypt in june or a little more. and was almost a billion if. not what was a could have because i like. one of them. but at the. other. when i look at the i'm a. possibility. but he. feels like he has a leg up in mahmoud's case the one that we presented to the united nations working group on arbitrary detention we requested that that working group. analyze my case declare him to be arbitrarily detained under international law and egypt's international human rights off legation immediately release him under the least restrictive means possible and to let him exercise his right to freedom of movement and reunite with his family and go where he may the root

all right that comment from a chance of michael at a joint press conference with the egyptian president abdel fattah el-sisi in our correspondents need bream have been following this story for us good to have you both back with us let's start with you what is the main aim of this meeting between egypt and germany it's meant in the first place to strengthen and further develop economic cooperation that's been going on between egypt and germany to increase investment to somehow as presidency see in the press conference mentioned restore trust in egypt especially in the areas of tourism which has suffered in egypt since heavily in egypt since twenty twenty a level but in the in their in the words that both of the leaders gave you saw some of the other priorities that came up chancellor merkel touched upon and named as one of the main domestic policy challenges not terrorism not infrastructure but young people and their aspirations of course giving a nod to the deteriorating. unemployment rate for the youth and the lack of opportunities and and the human rights situation she also talks abou

come seems to have returned on both sides after egyptian diplomatic efforts to avoid food is leading to islamic jihad to declare a cease fire as long as israel abides by it to the for them. the egyptians thankfully intervened and exerted huge efforts between the resistance factions in gaza and the zionist occupation the egyptian efforts led to understanding's to restore calm to the gaza strip. israel hasn't responded yet at least not publicly i am going to do is bury their dead it might come too late with many so welcome dno spent of a cease fire even if it's only temporary. but up in how many al jazeera in west jerusalem. just want to take a closer look at the islamic jihad armed group that has mentioned in her report there it has seen its power and influence grow in recent years to gaza was formed in the one nine hundred eighty s. links to the lebanon based group hezbollah and backed by iran israel says it has links to syria as well as some of jihadist carried out suicide bombings and numerous attacks on israeli civilians the e.u. and the us consider as a terrorist organization it'

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continent she's meeting with twelve heads of states including the egyptian president abdullah fattah el-sisi germany and egypt have been discussing how to tackle terrorism and illegal migration the president sisi has praised chancellor merkel's refugee from his. chance for mac address the press following her meeting with the president the first time since she announced a phased withdrawal from frontline politics in the meantime she said the business of government would continue as usual. i think the negotiating position in international negotiations will not be changed or affected in any way you can only say that i will now fully focus on my job to stay ahead of government and as far as the list of possible candidates for the chairmanship of the c.d.u. party is going to and as i said yesterday it is an open process and as the previous chairwoman in my political life learned that question of succession are questions that you shouldn't intervene in because it's never worked and that is something i

the egyptian interior ministry released a statement accusing the same of carrying out and inciting amedia campaign aimed at what they called spreading chaos. a journalist is guilty until proved innocent oh look i thought my computer was someone i'd end up in the mall but then the second costume and the second clip. and then the minute and the. hammock lands and i'm at the side and there isn't enough to be. sure i want or what the job is you know i don't. know wasn't. one of the and. then if you have similar interests we're. going to build a. lunar hood over the pentagon and when it is done on the muslim.

in reaching an agreement on a long term ceasefire come seems to have returned on both sides after egyptian diplomatic efforts to avoid further escalation leading to islamic jihad to declare a cease fire as long as israel abides by it to the for them so you must mean the egyptians thankfully into. and existed huge efforts between the resistance factions in gaza and the zionist occupation bijection if it's led to understanding is to restore calm to the gaza strip the israel hasn't responded yet at least not publicly knowing what it would do is burying their dead it might come too late that many in gaza welcomed the announcement of a cease fire even if it's only temporary the put up that hamid al-jazeera in west jerusalem. brazil's presidential candidates have wrapped up campaigning ahead of sunday's runoff vote and you survey says far right candidate gyre polson r.-o. has a thirteen percent lead over leftist rival fernando had died although her dad has been inching forward in the polls to raise a bow has more now from rio de janeiro on the increasingly polarized nature of the election. prote

the egyptians government closed down the office and throughout our reporters from there, the ones they deemed went to jail and since then we've not been able to work in egypt. despite the fact we were out of egypt, we had to incorporate egypt and egyptian events more comprehensively than any other network. and more than any other channel. the egyptians themselves, from what we know, by the millions, watched al jazeera turn out what was going on. al jazeera is committed to professional media and governs whether we are treated fairly as with the case of egypt or saudi arabia, we keep our professionals and keep our independence. we don't take orders from anybody. the editors in chief in the newsroom others ones that make the decisions. this is very important information. now, because of what alan lazear has been doing, because it's been doing its duties it has been faced with so many problems. so many have been killed, about 11 have been killed, many have been jailed, harassment by the hundreds. the ways to prevent al jazeera from covering certain things are using many trick. he said in t

more say than the egyptians in the east our problem would have there is he still believes that the army should be in charge and he belongs to that old mentality the whole idea of the libyan revolution of two thousand and eleven is to get rid of that idea that the whole country is totally absorbed in one cult personality now fortunately and it's a great thing that in the whole west of libya you will never know in tripoli see a picture of any leader whatsoever you will not see people talking about individuals they talk about build exact state oh let's let's let's talk about tripoli instead of a cult one cult personality you know we have two governments would you feel it took us about a government in tripoli to it is indeed a government of national said rose yes who which militia supports this government and who supports it early in this this government came as a result of the libyan dialogue which took about a year and became from that the libyan political agreement which has been a defied by the security council and supported by the international community so solid government really want

and the egyptians said the same thing. we have so many of these issues. but this is just some, just to give you a taste, of what kind of things we are facing every day in our work. now, as i said earlier, al jazeera, we do receive the money from the states. they do receive the money from the state. we do the same thing. but it's exactly like them. we have a complete independence. nobody interferes with al jazeera. nobody ever tell me what to do. the only guidelines that we have are our editorial standards. they are known, they are exactly similar to what the bbc has or cnn has, et cetera. in some cases, it's maybe even more strict. the only thing that the editors and producers and correspondents, et cetera, adhere to. nobody from the government, because i know this is an issue, you will ask that question. nobody from the government will ever -- and when i say ever, i mean it, call al ja zerora will say, you do this. and nobody in al jazeera have actually the right to contact them or to get contact contact from them. or the foreign minister might send us i

of force by the israelis also a very stern message being given by them to hamas not least through egyptian negotiators saying that this really is the key test as far as the israelis are concerned or hamas is intentions they're saying that hamas needs to rein in the weekly friday border protests to key questions really for hamas what is their intention certainly we've heard from the mosques the preachers encouraging people to come come here to the border areas again and protest but they're also indications that hamas does at least intend to try to reign in those protests to prevent people from getting too close to the border or breaching the border the israelis of the soldiers have been given new rules of engagement where they're allowed apparently to fire at larger distances in order to prevent people from getting too close to the border fence also there is talk of more forceful action being taken against those who wish to launch balloons or kites carrying incendiary materials so a lot depends on whether hamas is able to have the kind of protest here that it needs for its own political pur

did mohammed was this is death so good the tunisian revolution why did the death of triggered the egyptian revolution because sometimes the death of one person culminates into the entire episodes of cry and repression and oppression and so forth in a one country two i think people's anger just continued to build up over the last three years because of the all of these things i mentioned so the killing of does not replace everything else it sums up everything else except at this time it is recognizable it's inhumane it is there in our eyes the killing of a journalist who only wanted to write freely. well let's remind ourselves who the man is central mr malcolm chaudry astonishing list was once close to the in the circles of the saudi royal family and his reputation as a reformist by pushing boundaries and questioning government policies in two thousand and three became media advisor to prince turki been fired so the prince headed saudi arabia's intelligence service and later served as ambassador to the u.s. but last year he went into self-imposed exile in the u.s. after becoming concerned a

in reaching an agreement on a long term ceasefire come seems to have returned on both sides after egyptian diplomatic efforts to avoid further escalation leading to islamic jihad to declare a cease fire as long as israel abides by it to the for them so you mean the egyptians thankfully into. and exerted huge efforts between the resistance factions in gaza and the zionist occupation bijection efforts led to understanding's to restore calm to the gaza strip. israel hasn't responded yet at least not publicly. but those burying their dead it might come to late with many as i welcome the announcement of a cease fire even if it's only temporary. put up to help meet al-jazeera in west jerusalem still ahead afghanistan's kandahar province finally goes the polls days after a deadly taliban attack forced a delay. i'm wednesday and palu indonesia where we'll tell you about a warning the government received years ago about some of the potential dangers of a large earthquake happening here and how it may influence the rebuild of this devastated city. and sportsman biles battles through the pain of kidn

negotiators the we're talking about the second in command of the egyptian intelligence service spoke to extremely senior members of the israeli security establishment on thursday and he and his delegation have come back into gaza to convey those warnings to hamas so the question for hamas really is twofold whether it intends to try to reign in these protests certainly the mosques have been giving the usual kind of encouragement to people to come here and the other protest sites up and down the border. but also whether it has the capability to try to rein them in whether it can have the kind of numbers here that would suggest to the people here because they're under political pressure here in gaza as well to maintain these protests if they simply give them up without gaining anything that would be a major defeat so can they have a protest here at this site while still controlling people and prevent them from getting too close to the border fence that's one of the key questions today what happens if the people get to the fence and then somehow manage to get through the fence. well i th

and rape at the hands of egyptian security forces. khaled hassan was reportedly arrested in january as he was visiting his wife and children in the egyptian port city of alexandria. egyptian authorities are accusing hassan of joining the islamic state, a charge he has denied. in colombia, human rights groups are denouncing the assassination of yet another human rights activist otto valenzuela, one of , the leaders of an environmental community group in the colombian amazon. the activist was found shot to death on october 8. human rights groups say over 100 colombian activists have been murdered so far this year. back in the united states, supreme court chief justice john roberts has referred misconduct cocomplaints against new suprere court jujustice e brett kavanauo a circuit appeals court in colorado. the 15 misconduct complaints reportedly center on whether kavanaugh lacked his judicial temperament during his testimony. legal experts say it is unprecedented for a newly confirmed supreme court justice to be facing misconduct blades

to say he was detained by the egyptian authorities he remains behind bars without a trial al-jazeera world investigates his case and media repression. journalism is not a crime on al-jazeera. that's having with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories candidates also now has won brazil's presidential election and his victory speech he pledged to defend the constitution democracy and freedom also will take office in january after beating his challenger finance from the workers' party the latest development in the jamal khashoggi murder case saudi arabia slow saying new prosecutor has arrived in turkey . makes investigators and. is expected to provide testimonies of the eighteen suspects to his turkish counterpart and vigils have been held around the u.s. and the world for the eleven people gunned down at a synagogue and pittsburgh the oldest is a ninety seven year old woman suspect bals has been charged under hate crime nor was for saturday's attack and could face the death penalty if convicted. to sri lanka now where one person has been killed and several others wounded as the coun

to say was detained by the egyptian authorities he remains behind bars without a trial al-jazeera world investigates his case and media repression. journalism is not a crime on al-jazeera. welcome back this is al-jazeera and these are the top stories right now saudi arabia's crown prince bahama admits ominous spoken publicly for the first time about the killing of saudi journalist which he described as painful seeking in riyadh the crown prince insisted justice will prevail in the washington post was reporting that the head of the cia heard audio capturing the moment shows he's murdered. british prime minister theresa may and french president maduro mccrone have spoken to saudi king solomon about the case may's office said she told the king that the saudi explanation of her show lacked credibility. and in the us explosive devices and other suspicious packages were sent to top democratic politicians and the offices of c.n.n. bill and hillary clinton former president barack obama and billionaire george soros were among those targeted. he has been sworn in as iraq's new prime minister or a

get to know some of the lesser known corners of the city from shopping at a flea market to ancient egyptian ruins we get some insider tips from a local on houses cover some of the city's hidden secrets. this is the madrid familiar to millions of tourists. and this is latina in the west of the city the oldest district in the spanish capital. begor loves coming here to the bottom. the location scout often brings clients from the film and photography industry here. this is my favorite place imma try to have breakfast because we're away from the noise but it's still in the center of the city it's a district that draws a lot of artists like actors from film television and theatre and you can even hear the birds chirping here and the it's a place where you can get your thoughts roam free where you can listen in the whole time those and then it is happy and satisfied that i just moved on. just a few steps away the other astro flea market takes place every sunday. in the open air market is more than four hundred years old. this is just spatial place for me because there's always a mix here of local

at the moment because that's where he's going to cover the russian president's meeting with the egyptian president so obviously today's events overshadowed those but the president has also spoken about what happened today he could even just take us through what he said. you see the reason why all journalists myself included gathered here in seoul today was to cover the meeting between the russian president and his egyptian counterpart but as all of us including some members of the press service of the presidential press service learned we're learning new details about what unfolded today in the city of courage that kind of all the limelight all the spotlight and the agenda it kind of moved to become the bag drop of. just just the bag drop really and there's that and so when vladimir putin finally came to the journalists in fact when both leaders came out they started their statements with talking about what happened in crimea offering their condolences and you can listen to what vladimir putin had to say. but you know what it is simple is that when you want to express my deepest condolen

well the incident to take place is that in a putin is meeting with his egyptian counterpart in the city of sochi our correspondent igor donal for a pulse from the. mission the all of us journalists myself included gathered here in sochi for the meeting between the russian president vladimir putin and his egyptian counterpart but as we learned about the tragedy in courage and as more and more details emerge that completely overshadowed whatever was on the agenda today so expectedly one of lattimer putin finally showed up in front of the media he opened with a statement on kutch but you know what it is simple is that when i want to express my deepest condolences to the relatives of those who have been killed i hope that all the victims will recover as soon as possible we will do everything we can to help them we already know this is a crime and we are looking deeply into the motives and versions of what's happened all the results of the investigation will be made public dear friends in memory of all the victims let's honor them with a minute's silence. before vladimir putin showed up jour

probe that's what he said he's currently in sochi at a meeting with the egyptian president. said a little earlier well i think we can go to journalist martin summers from the u.k. joining us this afternoon martin a very tragic afternoon here in russia. a mass killing seventeen students dead what's what was your reaction when you see something like this because it's not just russia i mean we're talking to me. in january we saw a mass attack a disc.