and there's sport with farah, we'll hear from the namibia team as they hope to capture the world champions offguard. >> al jazeera journalist mohamed fadel fahmy and mohammed badr have been freed. pardoned by egyptian president. other journalists what were sentenced in absentia were not pardoned. john terrett has more. >> reporter: it's been a long time coming, but al jazeera producer mohammed badr, freelance producer mohamed fadel fahmy are free at last. >> this nightmare is over. the nightmare is over. we can live like normal people and go home, enjoy life and that is it. >> reporter: a pardon by abdul fatah al-sisi, marking the end of a long ordeal that began upon arrest in 2030. alongs with correspondent peter greste. al jazeera media says according to human rights watch, egypt arrested, charged and sentenced 120,000 people. -- 41,000 people between july 2013 and july 2014, extending treatment to international tv journalists shocked the world. a report from the committee to protect journalists in june said egypt has the highest number of journalists behind bars since they began keeping record. in june, a cairo court sentenced t