el sisi reflects the will of his people sov he was elected with 97% of the vote! that is landslide!he other 3% were won by people now jail. so i got it, conservatives, you want the president to be more like a muslim dictator who gets elected with 97% of the vote. but i bet they're willing to be flexible on the muslim part. >> like him or not, putin's a leader obama's a lawyer. >> people are looking at putin as one who wrestle bears and drills for oil. "they look at ours as one who wears mom jeans and egiveo kates. >> putin makes a decision and executes quickly. that's what you call a leader. >> jon: or a sociopath with no impulse control! (applause) (cheering) if i understand this correctly and i think i am, the paragons of leadership are a king, military dictator and a power-crazed wannabe czar. seems at odds with the one thing you claim to value most. >> i love this country and value its freedoms. >> the most free country in the world. >> freedom for americans. we have freedom, democracy. >> i did. can we show freedom? my dog freedom. >> his name is freedom. >> i can't believe you

alaa supporters were expecting leanty after president el-sisi el-sisi's peach on sunday. he said over the next few days some in detention would be released. some analysts believed that alaa would be among them for his secular views for playing a party in anti- anti-government demonstrations. he was first arrested in 2011. >> for them to have committed a master in front of the world's eyes, and on camera, and all sorts of witnesses. then they try to turn it around and accuse us of instigating a crime. >> alaa was given a 15-year jail term in 2013. he was freed after spending nearly four months in jail and retrial was ordered. alaa al fattah will appeal against the verdict in one more attempt to seek justice. his lawyers says that he continues to believe people have the right to peaceful protest. al jazeera. >> the retrial of two al jazeera journalists in egypt have been adjourned until march 8th. they appeared in court on monday to hear their case has been postponed because of an absence of witnesses. they're accused of helping the outlawed muslim brother, charges that the

same with general el sisi with the beheading this weekend.y are fighting back with a fierceness. you also talked to anjam chaudhry, a guy i've fought with a number of times. what'd you think? >> a very intelligent individual. he's clearly fore square behind the islamic state and articulate in describing what the islamic state wants, how it believes and how he thinks this apocalyptic agenda will unfold. >> about the 12th imam for a lot of these guys? >> they believe there will be 12 imams. they think they're on seven or eight. he's a true believer, and well-known for being the most outspoken of them in the united kingdom kingdom. >> what do you think of some of my interviews, maybe not the first one which was a knockdown dragout, yes he wants sharia yes, he wants it worldwide, yes gays and lesbians should be killed, yes, women should cover, they shouldn't be able to drive. he believes in sharia wants to implement it worldwide. >> he does. he also thinks part of his role on earth is to describe what that sharia is going to be like for everyone

president el-sisi offered co-down lenses. security has rapidly deteriorate threatening egypt to the west as well. in one of its latest videos isil also made a direct threat against italy. the country separated by libya by only a narrow strip has evacuated its embassy there. and along with egypt in frontal system it's calling for action by the united nations. >> egypt and france are calling on the u.n. security council to come up with new measures against isil. frances also in talks with cairo. >> just hours after egyptian warplanes targeted isil in libya libya, the french and egyptian president spoke on the phone for some time. franÇois hollande expressed sympathy over the killing of the egyptian hostages, and the two leaders also jointly called for a meeting of the united nations security council to discuss how the international community should react to events in libya. of course, transon the mind of president holland coalitions as we've seen taken in iraq and syria in the last half year or so. another thing taking place on

the egyptian president abdel fattah el sisi. we see him at an egyptian cabinetstry meeting and giving his condolences to the christian pope and all of those men were topic christians. we're hearing from the foreign ministry, they are calling for an international coalition, the same we are seeing in iraq and syria and libya. they wouldn't give specifics but calling for political and material support for their battle against the militants. we know the egyptian foreign minister is on his way to the united states to talk to the u.n. security council to try to get support through there. we know the egyptian president talked to the french president as well. in that meeting the french president said he would offer his support for an international agreement to deal with isis in libya, carol. >> ian lee reporting from cairo, egypt. >>> now we head to denmark where they're reeling after a terror attack. this morning, two men charged with hiding a gunman in the terror attack before he was killed in a police shootout. and the leader of the

they're referring to leaked tapes of president el-sisi apparently demanding money. protests take a violent turn. security forces fire tear gas. >> the coup is meant to apply pressure on the el-sisi government. it's probably the most sustained protest movement in modern middle east history. because media organizations have been intimidateed from covering the protests, they're not having the kind of success that the organizers would like. >> the government accuses the muslim brotherhood of staging attacks, targeting the police and the army. the outlawed group continues to demand for its leaders to be released and mohamed morsi reinstated. al jazeera. >> al jazeera journalists mohamed fahmy, baher mohammed are back home with their families in egypt. they've been freed on bail after spending 412 days in detention. their retrial on charges of colluding with the banned muslim brotherhood are expected to resume on february 23rd. richard martin reports. >> after 411 days. after too much time alone in prison this is a graeme con interest. >> baher mohammed with a day to cele

a new boost for el-sisi and his government.fense minister was in cairo on monday signing an arms deal worth almost $6 billion. >> egypt was the first country to by the mirage 2,000 jet fighters and today was the first to use the new jet identifieder. >> reporter: the contract includes 24 french-bility fighter jets. their first ever foreign sale as well as missiles and a navel frigot. it's a huge boost for the company that makes it. in which has struggled to seal major contracts in recent years. there is a political element i mean, this type of deal closing the french and the egyptian and the political authorities and in a time where we all have to fight jihadism it's good to have close connection between the french and the egyptians. >> reporter: before monday's signing president francois localho hollande. they called for the meeting of the security council on lib yeah, agreeing the outside world should be doing more. paris says the military deal demonstrates the existing trust between fans and egypt. it also marks a knew step

and president el sisi is a muslim. he said we muslims need to stand up together against these radical terrorist who is are perverting our faith and turning it into a mandate for murder. why don't we see the president of the united states demonstrating that same courage just to speak the truth about the face of evil we're facing right now. >> senator ted cruz, always grate great to see you, sir. >> thank you, megyn. >>> we have breaking news involving bruce jenner, a deadly car crash and the shock police reportedly got when they looked at video of the whole thing. that is still ahead. >>> plus, things are moving quickly in the trial of the man who killed chris kyle, the american sniper. up next what his family had to say about the hours before kyle was shot dead. >> the thing that haunts me are all the guys i couldn't save. >>> a dramatic testimony today in the trial of the man who killed the american sniper navy s.e.a.l. chris kyle. today the jury heard the killer's sister describe the hours before eddie ray routh shot

. ♪ ♪ >> we begin in egypt where press abdel fattah el-sisi has revised calls for setting up a jointlitary force to fight groups like isil. sisi defended his decision to launch air strikes in neighboring libya after an isil-linked group claimed responsibility for killing 21 egyptian coptic christians last week. in an address broadcast on state television, sisi said the operation was planned ma tick meticulously to avoid civilian casualties. he also thanked gulf neighbors saul saudi arabia, bahrain and yeah wait and end that innocent young people may be in egyptians jails a matter that he urged the interior ministry to look in to. here a respect. >> reporter: president abdul fatah el-sisi insists egypt doesn't want to invade or attack other countries. but he says, he will use his armed forces to defend his nation. trash we launched an offensive against 13 targets, these targets were subject today strict and accurate fair lent, intelligence information was gathered in absolute secrecy and accuracy. >> reporter: hey jump launched a strikes last week after 21 christians were killed there

and president el sisi is a muslim. he said we muslims need to stand up together against these radical terrorist who is are perverting our faith and turning it into a mandate for murder. why don't we see the president of the united states demonstrating that same courage just to speak the truth about the face of evil we're facing right now. >> senator ted cruz, always grate great to see you, sir. >> thank you, megyn. >>> we have breaking news involving bruce jenner, a deadly car crash and the shock police reportedly got when they looked at video of the whole thing. that is still ahead. >>> plus, things are moving quickly in the trial of the man who killed chris kyle, the american sniper. up next what his family had to say about the hours before kyle was shot dead. >> the thing that haunts me are all the guys i couldn't save. ah! come on! let's hide in the attic. no. in the basement. why can't we just get in the running car? are you crazy? let's hide behind the chainsaws. smart. yeah. ok. if you're in a horror movie, you

this call came during a speech by president fattah el sisi. he talked about isis. isis right off the top. egypt faces it on two fronts. 13 air strikes against isis targets after the beheading of 21 egyptian christians. he did get to the pan-arab army. calling for a unified arab force to go after isis targets. he didn't give my details about what that would look like or what that would mean. he did reiterate that the egyptian military's role is to protect the country's borders. if the need arises they could be used in the region but only with the cooperation of quote, their arab brothers. >> how is the president el sisi's call going to the neighboring countries? >> reporter: this pan-arab idea has been around for a long time. in the '50s and '60s. the late president championed this notion of a pan-arab army. a lot of mistrust back then with the arab countries. now, there is a bit more trust between them. we know isis is a real threat to many countries in the region. all over the region. a lot of them are already battling isis in that u.s.-led coalition. we will see

there was a meeting between el-sisi and a cousin of moammar gaddafi. he's believed to control large sums of libya's oversea's investment. the phone call is from more than a year ago when sisi was the defense minister of egypt. >>> meanwhile, hundreds of libyans have rallied to protest against the egyptian airstrikes on libya. the attacks of the brutal murders of 21 coptic christians by a group related to isil. thank you for being with us. how much is egypt's involvement complicated things in libya? >> it would be unreasonable to expect to stand by and stand by when a number of its citizens were brutally slaughtered the way the 21 coptic egyptians were slaughtered by isil. obviously if you get an outside power involved, it becomes more difficult, more complicated but it was already difficult and complicated, and there was unfortunately, i think too much delay by outers to try to work with the different elementaries within libya the one based in tripoli. the one based in tobruk to try to get a government of national unity. even if they do get that, it's h

and el-sisi has not yet forgiven the united states for support of the morsi and muslim brotherhood and criticism of his own presidential crackdown. but like his predecessors, he's trying not to shut any doors. he made sure to say that egypt is sure to have relationships with all countries it respected. this may be russia's hour, but egypt likes to keep its options open. >> at least two 21 people have been killed after a rocket attack deep in ukrainian controlled territory. it comes on the eve of talks being held in minsk. al jazeera's charles stratford reports. >> destroyed ukraine ukrainian tanks and heavy weapons in the snow this town is virtually deserted. fighters with the self proclaimed army of the donetsk them' republic took control from the ukrainian army a few days ago, and they say they're advancing, tightening the noose around the important town of deabesv. >> it is important. people here believe in us. they voted for news a referendum because they trust us. we want to bring them freedom. >> it's not known how many civilians were killed here. this is a town around ten kilome

in the city of alexandria, protesters raise banners that read el-sisi is stealing money from the gulf countries. they're referring to the recent recenter requests of el-sisi demanding money from region alabama lies. protests take a violent turn. security forces fire tear gas to disperse the crowd. the government accuse the muslim brotherhood of staging attacks on the police and the army. the outlawed group continues to demand for its leaders to be released and for mohamed morsi to be reinstated. al jazeera. >> relatives of 21 egyptian coptic christians kidnapped by isil in libya are demanding that the government do more to secure their release. theit comes a day after isil released images of some of the captives. they were kidnapped in january. >>> in the deaths of 19 football fans in a match last sunday, the police fired tear gas then forced their ways into the venues sparking a stampede. games will be held indoors for the time being. >>> within this hour, the u.s. president calls on private companies to do more to fight hackers. >>> how people in brazil's biggest city are taking dra

. >> el sisi, what are we going to say about that. >> we've got to go. guys, thank you. appreciate it. >>> coming up bill clinton's questionable relationship with jeffrey epstein. could this cause trouble for hillary come 2016? bill clinton may be forced to testify. >>> later tonight -- >> the winner of the "celebrity apprentice" is -- >>> geraldo did not win "celebrity apprentice," but he did raise a lot of money for his charity. is donald trump running in 2016? i'll ask him. i'll ask geraldo if he'll vote for him. that's allllllllllll ♪ music ♪ ...the getaway vehicle! for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. we live in a pick and choose world. choose choose choose. but at bedtime? ...why settle for this? enter sleep number. and the ultimate sleep number event going on now. sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. you like the bed soft. he's more hardcore. so your sleep goes from good to great to wow! now we can all choose amazing sleep, only at a sleep number store. right now save 50% on th

. >> the security and the military the likes of president el-sisi he remained throughout under morsi and after that, the regime never went anywhere. and remain continuously with the different governments. in the end, it's difficult to lead with a real radical change that these guys played a major role both in the january and in the june changing of the country. >> we'll hear more about it in am cooling hours. we'll stay in egypt. the sentence of a blogger and pro-democracy activist for five years in prison for breaking protest laws. alaa al fattah was a human voice during the revolution: we have more now. >> activists could not believe the verdict of alaa al fattah. the judge said that they broke the law by protesting without a permit and attacked security personnel. >> sentenced to five years and to pay each defendant to pay $30,000. >> pro-democracy campaigners criticized the decision. >> this is an opposite progression and continuation to stifle the youth. they were only holding a peaceful protest. these youth did not have any criminal or violent record. this is a way to oppress t

el-sisi. so we have two situations to unpack.h teenaged girls are feared to be headed to syria to join isis. second the parents of kayla mueller who was just killed in isis captivity blasting the u.s. no ransom policy saying the nation is putting this policy ahead of american lives. let's break these two down. we have phil mudd analyst and counterterrorism official. and a former national security member under presidents bush and clinton. also the author of going to tehran. mr. mudd let's start with these girls. young angry men this affected uneducated. we get it. young women super educated. listen to what the sister of one of these girls has to say in describing them and what's being didn't to the family? >> we convince such young girls at that age are so vulnerable and so it's just wrong. it's evil an evil thing to do. to break up an entire family. >> the cost is obvious. what is the cell that would work on a sophisticated educated young woman. >> let's start with the target here and i use that word advisedly, the target chris,

now general el sisi has more courage than president obama in calling out radicalism as he challenged on new year's day for the religion to change and to take control of the radicalization of that religion. this president freely criticizes christians. he freely criticizes you know -- won't recognize a shooting, a targeted shooting of jews at a kosher supermarket. you know there's something wrong here that he would do one with regularity and not the other. >> he loves america a transformed america. he sees the history of imperialism, racism, sexism, too many christians, clingers, we're not exceptional, we're just one country among many. therefore he refuses to lead on the world stage. why won't el sisi not send ground troops because america won't lead, won't identify the true nature of the enemy. so they're going to bomb like we are but the air effects are not -- believe in america is a force for good. >> let me lay down the case here. and some of my golden old dis but i think they are so relevant now. this is a president that went on an apology tour. this is a president that denied am

on wednesday, president abdel fattah el-sisi -- ahead of the meeting, egypt's foreign minister felt it was important to take a coordinated stance on military operations in libya. >> what happened in the initial intervention of nato has, in some ways, being a participant in creating the political vacuum that has resulted in the repercussions and threats we currently face. >> egypt is asking the arab league to endorse a joint force to combat the growing terrorist threat it sees across its border in libya. >> on a lighter note, we will go to the united states to take a look at one of the biggest parties there, if not in the whole world the annual mardi gras celebration. people took to the infamous bourbon street for what is known as fat tuesday, the day before lent kicks off lent being the name for the weeks in the run-up to easter. mardi gras started as a small religious event started by french colonial settlers, and it has spread out across the country, but nowhere is the party as big as in new orleans as charlotte hawkins explains. >> a giant smoking how. -- cow. every year, new orlean

. >> el sisi, what are we going to say about that. >> we've got to go. guys, thank you. appreciate it. >>> coming up bill clinton's questionable relationship with jeffrey epstein. could this cause trouble for hillary come 2016? bill clinton may be forced to testify. >>> later tonight -- >> the winner of the "celebrity apprentice" is -- >>> geraldo did not win "celebrity apprentice," but he did raise a lot of money for his charity. is donald trump running in 2016? i'll ask him. i'll ask geraldo if he'll vote for him. that's all coming up, straight ahead. epic music] ♪ introducing aleve pm... the pm pain reliever. that dares to work all the way until... [birds chirping] the am. new aleve pm. it's the first to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour strength of aleve. for pain relief that can last all the way until morning. new aleve pm, for a better am. >>> welcome back to "hannity." questions continue to surround former president bill clinton and his connection to convicted pedophile jeffrey epstein. clinton could be called to testify under oath in a cu

it's looking for more partners, and i think this is very very good news in terms of president el-sisi who has been criticized outside and in france as well for his human rights record. he can say look at france, the country that cares about democracy and ruin rights etc. is willing to do a deal at this specific time with us. >> talk us through the phone call between hollande and sisi. >> well, earlier the two presidents had this phone conversation with not only franÇois hollande expressed sympathy over the killing of egyptian hostages in libya but the two leaders called jointly for a meeting of the united nations security council an urgent meeting to discuss what the international community could be doing in libya in terms of further military action. egypt has acted already in the last few hours. france would like to see that built into some court of solis. remember france was so quick to call for a coalition in isil and syria. we'll see if those calls will be heeded. >> thank you nadim barber. >> in ukraine troops say they will not pull back until a full cease-fire is implemented. th

the president will arrive and meet with president el-sisi to discuss issues in the middle east. >>> the visit comes as egypt launches an investigation into a stampede outside of a football stadium that left 40 people dead. funerals have been held for some of the victims. some of those kills were fans. >> football fans try to come to the stadium in cairo. they've come to watch the football match some without tickets. >>> the police try to control the crowds with barricades. when that didn't work they fired tear gas. >>> suddenly they closed the gate and told us to get out through another gate. the police were in front and behind the gate. they fired tear gas. this caused panic and people fell on top of each other. we started to leave quickly. there were old people in the crowd, and they were crushed by other fans. those who would leave were confronted by police. >> people fell down and were trampled. it was called a massacre by the police. the officials say that the police officers were overwhelmed. in this statement, an increasing number of fans without tickets gathered outside of the s

>> well, when you look back just the 48 hours you'll see that president el-sisi of egypt is saying thereneeds to be an u.n.-backed u.n. intervention with the country playing a leading role. that's not going to happen. egypt has modified its position and it's no longer talking about an intervention. what egypt wants now is much more limited. it wants more support from the government in tibruk. one of the two rival governments in libya. it wants arms to be able to go to that government, and arms not to go to the other government in tripoli and other groups that exist in libya. i have to say there is not agreement among the arab countries on this. there have been meetings taking place in the arab league, meetings taking place here in the united nations and disagreement on the way forward and whether to back that egyptian proposal. i think it will be interesting to see what some arab countries say. we know that qatar tunisia and algeria are opposed to the egyptian plan. two of those countries tunisia and algeria will be speaking in an hour heirs time from now as well the egyptian from libyan

they are referring to the recent leaked tapes of president abdel fattah el-sisi apparently demandingal allies. in giza district, protests take a violent turn. security forces fire tear gas to disburse the crowd. >> the anti-coup protest movement in egypt is obviously meant to apply pressure the sisi government. it's probably the most sustained protest movement in modern middle east history. there have been protests every day for the past 19 1/2 months. there has been moderate success but because media organizations have been intimidated from covering the frosts, they haven't had the kind of success that the organizers would like. >> reporter: the government accuses the muslim brotherhood of staging attacks targeting the police and the army. the outlawed group continues to demands for its leaders to be leased. and mohamed morrisey reinstated. al jazerra. >>> more than 100 wales have died after becoming strand odd a beach in new zealand. volunteers are still trying to save dozens more. that remain in the bay. nearly 200 pilot whale whales were beached in what is called the worst strand

he's expect today meet egyptian president abdel fattah el-sisi.ernment is competing for power with a rival parliament in tripoli was recognized by libya's supreme constitutional court. >>> a public spat between the u.s. and israel over iran's nuclear. iran is accusing u.s. and other countries are rolling over to allow teheran to build nuclear weapons. he's expected to make his case against a nuclear deal next week when addresses the u.s. congress. a fellow for the institute of policy studies in washington d.c., she says this is a core disagreement not just between obama and netanyahu but more broadly between the u.s. and israel. >> there is a very specific divide between the u.s. and israel on what their position is vis-a-vis iran. they put their red lines in a different place, if you will. it's bad enough having red lines but when you have a red line it matters where you draw it. and the israelis have drawn their red line at the point where they say they could not accept iran ever having the capability to build a nuclear weapon any time in the fu

. >>> -y i didn't want's president abdel fattah el-sisi is calling for a joint military force to fightlike isil and defended air strikes in libya after an isil-linked group claimed responsibility for killing 21 egyptian coptic christians last week. >>> the retrial of two al jazerra journalists resume in cairo on monday. victoria gatenby reports. >> reporter: a rare moment of good news. day one of the retrial and the judge freed the men on bail with fahmy order today pay a security bond just over $30,000. mohamed didn't have to pay bail because he's an egyptian citizen. fahmy gave up his egyptian citizenship to speed up his release. they were free after 411 days behind bars. bahar went home to his wife and their three children. he missed the birth of hits son while he was in jail. >> it's finally i am home. the children was different. it was like something different as soon as they saw me they saw me on the stairs they suddenly jump and we -- so i took them and start hugging them. and we start playing and start i think i start crying. this is the first time my children start telling me

president el-sisi gathered his security council to talk abouted what form that will take, no doubt the egyptians will want to find some way of attacking isis. the challenge for egyptian is, egypt is they have their own challenges internally, they areng fighting islamic radical terrorists internally, in the sinai and trying to keep cairo safe and so egypt will be at war with isis, we will just have to see what form that ultimately takes. >> glor: juan zarate, juan thank you very much. >> thanks, jeff. >> glor: more than 24 hours thes cease-fire in ukraine is largely holding, except in one town, that is dobosov where russian- backed rebels surrounded ukrainian troops, they say they have a right to keep shooting saying the territory is theirs. >> the proposed regulations foror commercial drones, the faa, they want to make sure the drones can share the skies with planes and helicopters. here is julianna goldman.pt >> reporter: the proposed rules apply to commercial drones opening the skies to crop monitoring, aerial photography videography and maybe someday package and pizza delivery. >> t

meanwhile a new decree by president abdel el-sisi offered new hope for two of the men greste an australianmy canadian egyptian were eligible to apply for deportation a path to freedom not available for egyptian bahar mohamed. diplomatic efforts continued alongside the slow-moving legal process. on february 1st, peter greste was freed on his 400th day in detention. met by his relieved family in brisbane airport his unconditional release was tinged with sadness and frustration. >> a midst all of this relief i still feel a sense of concern a real sense of worry because if it's appropriate for me, if it's right for me to be free, then it's right for all of them to be free. >> reporter: peter's release raced expectation that his fahmy release was eminent they want but as the days drags on it was clear that he would stand in court. again in the hands of the egyptian jew derrek air judiciary. >>> still on come. raids by boko haram fighters. and we are behind the scenes of a life saving certainty in spain. stay with us if you can. >> the new al jazeera america primetime. get the real news you've b

meanwhile a new decree by president abdel fattah el-sisi offered new hope for two of the men.an australian and fahmy ca canadian egyptian were eligible to apply for did he pour participation aircraft path to freedom not available for egyptian bahar mohamed. diplomatic efforts continued along the slow-moving legal process and on february 1st. peter greste was freed on his 400th day in detention met lie respite lee heaved family in brisbane his unconnal release was tinged with sadness and frustration. >> amides the all ofamidst the relief i they feel a sense of worry. if it's right for me to be free, it's right for all of them to be free. >> reporter: peter's release raised expectation that fahmy's freedom was imminent but as the days dragged on it became clear he too would stands along sigh bahar in court. their future, once again, in the hands of they gins jew derrek air, victoria gatenby, al jazerra. >> al jazerra can't report from cairo so covering thursday's trial for us is cnn correspondent ian lee. >> reporter: what we are hearing now for over the past two days is the rat

monday's signing president francois hollande spoke with his egyptian counter hasn't abdel fattah el-sisiressing his sympathy for the beheadings and libya agreeing the outside world shouldshould be doing her. paris says is december streets the trust in egypt and their quest to find alternative to his u.s. military distance. last week vladimir putin was in couldcairo for talks presents his egyptian counterpart with an assault rifle. now egypt is getting new hardware as it flexes its plus unless north africa. >>> the leader of hezbollah in lebanon has called on his military wing to increase its presence in iraq. he said his forces will not retreat from syria and in a rare admission, economy seeded that hezbollah fighters were already inside iraq. he called for an expansion in the campaign to counter what he called a threat for lebanon. and the wider region. let's go now to imran cannes life live for us in baghdad. give us an idea of what the reaction in iraq has been to the comments. >> reporter: well, i can tell you it's been one of surprise from a lot of people i have spoken to throughout

. >> reporter: president abdul fatah el-sisi insists egypt doesn't want to invade aura it can other countriessays he will use his armed forces to defends his nation. >> we launched an offensive against 13 targets subject today strict and accurate surveillance, intelligent information was gathered in secrecy and accuracy. >> reporter: egypt launched air strikes in libya last week after 21 egyptian christians were killed there by a group loyal to the isil. although sisi says great care was taken about the accuracy of the strikes, people in the eastern city say civilians were also killed. >> translator: there was no militant presence here. just families lived here. the family, the mother and their children were auld killed. it was a gentlemen who was also killed. there were about eight killed in the neighborhood in addition to four who are still seriously injured. >> reporter: sisi also talked about the neat for a joint arab military force to tackle the threat of groups like isil. and he praised the leaders of some gulf states who offered to sporty i didn't want. >> translator: our friends in th

a degree guy el-sisi offered a new hope for two men guesters and fahmy were i believe nibble to applyour take a pass to freedom not available to bahar mohamed. diplomatic efforts continued alongside the slow-moving legal process and on february 1st. peter greste was freed on his 400th day in at defense. met bice his family with relief. it was tinged with sadness and frustration. >> a midst all of this relief i still feel a sense of concern a reeling sense of worry. if it's appropriate for me, if it's right for me to be free, then it's right for all of them to be free. >> reporter: peter's relieve raced expectation that fahmy's freedom was imminent. but as the days dragged on it became clear he too would stand beside bar there are bahar in court. victoria gatenby al jazerra. >>> for security reasons we cannot report from cairo so covering for us is cnn correspondent ian. give us an idea how things are likely to be handled in the next few hours. >> reporter: well, david we are still waiting for the trial to begin. we are expecting it to start in an hour or two. we know that mohamed fahm

now secretary of state kerry praises general el sisi of egypt, you affirmed your relationship with saudi absolute monarchies in the middle east. is the theory of authoritarian stability back? >> no i don't think so. i think that if you look at all my statements what i've always said is that in applying u.s. foreign policy why can never operate as if the world as it is doesn't exist. we've got friends and allies who help us with strategic interests who also engage in practices that don't meet our test of human rights or democracy. and what we can do is to encourage them to move in a new direction but oftentimes we're going to have to make decisions based on the here and now and our strategic interests. what i continue to believe is that an authoritarian model in this day and age is going to be less and less sustainable. i think we've seen evidence of that around the world. part of it is just the flow of information. authoritarianism to some degree depends on the ignorance of people and the internet and social media means people have access to information. authoritarian regimes rely to a l

. >> supporters were expecting leniency after the president if a tallfattah el-sisi speech. he said that some would be released. but the role during the 2011 up rising as a pro democracy campaigner is what brought enmity to security forces at home. he was first arrested in 2011. >> you live for the military to have committed a massacre in front of the world's eyes, on camera and witnesses and then they try to turn it around and accuse us of instigating that crime. >> alaa was given a 15-year jail term after the protest without permission. he was freed after spending four months in jail. alaa al-fattah will seek justice. his lawyer continues to believe that people have a right to peaceful protest. al jazeera. >> egypt's government has jailed 10s of thousands of people since since 2011. since the overthrow of the former president mohammed morsi 41,000 people have been jailed in egypt. around 29,000 of those arrested are linked to the outlawed muslim muslim brotherhood. the 2013 anti-protests bans any unauthorized gathering of more than 10 people. human rights watch say that th

thank you for joining us. el-sisi, he goes into libya.what do you make of the speed of this decision, of this mission? and where is he getting his information from? >> well, i suppose the instrumentalization of foreign policy action is relatively dangerous. there is a catastrophic bush now to responding to libya and a few airstrikes and let's be clear isis this may provide temporary relief in a way that the jordanian airstrikes of isis last week. but in a real sense a few airstrikes is not going to do much in the longer scheme of things. the problem with isis has been generated in decades and it's not going to provide much of a relief or much of a strategy over an irrational enemy. >> looking at the pictures now that egypt has released of this strike we're not sure at this stage who the targets were, if they got their targets. all we know for sure is that women and children have been killed? >> well, in that respect libya libya--especially with the international crisis--it's an interesting nexus points with local issues and international

pointing out that "while we are battling isis we are also strongly supporting somebody like president el sisi because he fights terrorism but does not represent pluralism. he's been jailing people left, right, and center. >> i think, fareed, you're right about this. we need to think beyond terror and tyrant. a lack of inclusion of moderate muslims will open the space for them to be exploited by extremists. so when you view sisi or mubarak before him, autocrat as an answer to deterrent, you have to think the same regime who gave you political islam, caught up in the '60s. ayman al zawahiri he is a product of the regime. let's remember the man who built al qaeda in iraq, a jordanian man, who fought shiites in iraq but also sent people to blow up themselves in jordan nine years ago. we need to think how to detonate extremists. extremists is not only isis. it is also al qaeda. it is also al nusra. al nusra fronts. how do you dry up this? we need consensus and inclusion also need this war from shiites and sunni to end. we need iran and saudi arabia to come to terms and eventually reach some kind o

for policy research which i belong to has a policy recommendation regarding this region to include el sisind iraq, allows for as the congressman was talking about a real strategy to put forth to go after this. the isis folks in libya have to be taken seriously, defeated. they're on the path, and unless we do something now, within a few years they'll have that capability. >> we do have, actually, a comment from the egyptian ambassador who said similar things to the egyptian president. let's take a listen to that real quickly. >> sure. >> we are determined to confront these people. we are not going to allow them to take control over our region. egypt considers itself to be the work against these extremists and we take our role seriously, but now these 21 people, these 21 egyptians who were slaughtered in libya, that should be a wake-up call to us all. the international community needs to show resolve. and that has to happen today, not in six months' time. >> colonel, is that going to be a wake-up call? are we going to see them progress more as we move forward? >> he is absolutely correct. le

before meeting with france germany, ukraine in mincek he met with el-sisi.ngs me to my question what gift did president putin give to his gepgs counterpart, caviar a rifle, nesting dolls or faberge egg. stay tuned, we'll give you the answer. this week's book, "a path appears." this is an amazing book that could change your life. if you ever wonder how you could do something to make the world a better place, this book explains ten minutes, $40, a couple of hours of volunteering can all make a huge difference. it's a book filled with great stories and powerful lessons. make your kids read this book. i intend to make mine. now for the last look. the formal photos and dit mabt discussions putin took place in could not have looked more different than celebration and fanfare that welcomed him to cairo. banners fess tooned with his smiling face hung throughout the streets. a state run newspaper showing some of his most macho photographs called him, quote, the hero of our time. the presidents dined together and took in a show at the opera house where a documentary p

when i was in egypt and i met with then general new president el sisi 18 months ago and he talked about the threat coming through all the regions -- the sinai peninsula which is now -- has large isis components in it right here and then on libya's border with egypt where there are also radical islamists egypt is worried it's getting squeezed, it's getting pressure from both sides by radical islam. so they've now joined the fight, not only with egyptians but with the coptic christians. >> i want to move back on to the other last map. now, these are regions, tunisia syria, iraq, saudi arabia, yemen, where isis has supporters as well, right? >> well, this is -- i think these maps -- you're doing an extremely good job of showing. but it's not just a little fight here or there. it's a whole regional fight, a fight against western civilization at large, a fight against christians it's a fight against muslims, a fight against jews, anybody who disagrees with radical islam. and so when you see these areas -- now, yemen is now under the control of iran. saudi arabia particularly in the eastern p

and that is something that general el-sisi understands in egypt, that benjamin netanyahu understands and king abdullah understands. the one thing all three have in common you have an aborn commando that leads israel a special officer that leads jordan, and a former egyptian military general that leads in egypt. they understand the enemy and how you have to fight them. >> colonel peters, i certainly agree with what colonel west is saying. but under the president, they doubled their territory, isis has in syria, held on to mosul and fallujah and other territories around iraq. the president actually denied this weekend that that's happened. >> sean the terrorists who burned that young man alive -- >> it's horrible to see. it is horrible to watch. >> -- those parents are the people the democrats and president don't want to waterboard. you heard it with governor richardson, the refusal to understand the reality on the ground. i hear so much hogwash today. saying it's an act of desperation on the part of the islamic state. no, it was a brilliant recruiting video. and islamic state those gu

the strikes ordered by the egyptian president general el sisi on public tv, taking military action in neighboring libya. >> we need to pull our forces together and face this threat that is coming closer to home. >> the five-minute video is described as a watershed because it's believed to be the largest documented mass execution by isis outside of iraq and syria. pope francis left no doubt the egyptians working in libya to send money home to their families were singled out for their faith. >> translator: there only words were, jesus, help me. they were assassinated simply for the fact that they were christians. >> the video uses multiple effects as well as camera angles and what appears to be a crane for overhead shots. this jihadi who delivers the bulk of the message speaks with a north american accent and wears the same cam mow worn by executioners who burned the jordanian pilot to death in january. analysts say this is significant and meant to show coordination between isis in syria and north africa. >> all that is telling me that this is now the work of an international organized