whether it's hosni mubarak, or after that because clashes happened often. deadly clashes is something that did not happen often. as you said there was a period where there were no football matches. restarting the games, allowing the crowd in was a way of the government to signal that things were going back to normality. there are a lot of questions that the government will have to answer, and i think it will have to be as your guest said extremely transparent in how it will deal with the investigation, in how it will deal with accountability. the patience of the young people who led the revolutions to play the political role who were on the streets were battling in several instances, running out. the economic situation of the country has not improved over the past year. the challenges are enormous for the government. but they are running impatient. i think this is really going to be a galvaniseing moment for egypt all over again. you have a silent majority who may be pipping a lot of peep -- pinning a lot of hope. the last change of government when abdul fa

and including people close to former egyptian president hosni mubarak. hsbc has reformed the policies in recent years. what is amazeing to me is not only was the bank helping people avoid taxes, but promoting itself as the place to come if you didn't want to pay taxes in your home country. they have a great product, it could save you a couple million dollars a year. >> giving their clients what they want. cristina alesci, thank you. >>> the music industry's biggest night. big for sam smith. he took home four grammys for song and record of the year. album of the year went to beck which was a big surprise. he also won for best rock album. beyonce, she won best r & b for song "drunk in love." joan rivers won for best spoken word category. the show featured a lot of live performances. among the highlights, madonna performing her song "living for love." one said she looks more like madonna than they has in a while. then a duet with tony bennett and lady gaga. and then the song "for five seconds." >>> the family of an american woman taken hostage waits to hear

were sentenced for their involvement in clashes in 2011 the year that saw protests that ousted hosni mubarakwere sentenced to ten years in prison in the same case. >>> in the united states a jury has found the creator of the underground online site silk road guilty on all counts. he faced a series of charges ranging from money laundering to drug trafficking to computer hacking. silk road was an unregulated market place where users could buy and sell anything from drugs to hacking tutorials. >>> the anchor of nbc's "nightly news" apologized for telling a story that turned out to be false. >> brian williams paid tribute to an iraq war veteran on friday. he said the soldier helped protect him in 2003 when their helicopter was shot down by enemy fire in iraq. >> to make matters worse, the story was retold over the jumbo tron during a new york rangers hockey game where the two were reunited. >> it seems the version of the story told by williams seemed to be false, and this is what mr. williams had to say. >> on this broadcast last week in an effort to honor and thank a veteran who protected me an

lou: interestingly he has been decisive on two occasions at lee's, one throwing hosni mubarak and getting qadhafi in libya. and the result has been a disaster for him and his policies, supporting the egyptian brotherhood in egypt, who knows what he intended. the result is disastrous let's turn to the justice department. i thought that a holder was going to leave quietly. >> well, he hasn't made a decision yet, but he's talking about it and that is as big of a decision. and the attorney general does not go around thinking about suing the city. and this is not normal. the attorney general does not go around saying that i'm thinking about bringing a lawsuit that he wants them to do what he is wants to do without evidence that he's done anything wrong. lou: we seem to say this increasingly across the entire breadth of the administration. what is going on? who are these guys and what are they thinking and doing? this is an administration unlike any i have seen and i have seen some doozies. >> the biggest issue is that washington is putting this directly on the city of ferguson and leaders and

many took part in the 2011 uprising that forced out hosni mubarak >>> two al jazeera journalists imprisoned in egypt will be retried starting thursday. mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed were arrested along with peter greste in september 2013. they were later convict of aiding the muslim brotherhood, and sentenced to 7 and so years imprison. in january the court granted a new request for a trial. last week peter greste was released and deported to australia. it's unclear why mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed were not. al jazeera rejects the charges and calls on the egyptian government to free them >>> this morning at the munich conference john kerry took part in a panel discussion with foreign ministers from france and germany. he later met with the iran minister. they discussed the deadline on iran's nuclear programme. john kerry called further extensions impossible. al jazeera's zeina khodr is there with more on the conference and its pivot towards tehran. >> reporter: on the final day of the munich security conference a temporary shift in focus. from talks about the conflict in uk

have strong political affiliations and many took part in the 2011 uprising forcing out president hosni mubarak. many think the ultras are one of the most organised movements in egypt after the muslim brotherhood, which the government outlawed as a terrorist organization >>> a former sports presenter for egyptian state tv joins us now on the phone from cairo, thank you for taking to us. please tell us what is going on. have police got things under control. >> to tell you the truth, i'm not close to the stadium, so i don't know is it having players, attacks or clashes, or if everything is under control. if everything under control now, what happened today is tragic and reminds us of what happened in port said years ago. apparently people now, sports spectators are calling february as black february because it's the same month three years ago. >> do you think the police handled this the right way? >> no of course not. apparently the police didn't learn lessons from jan 5th 2011. they handle the crowds the statement violent way, and things go out of hand and people day, and we hear the same claims

they were sent tensed for their involvement in clashes in late 2011, the year that saw president hosni mubarakas forced from power. 39 minors were sentenced to ten years in prison in the same case. >>> this week, there's been some graphic examples of the savage brutality of isis militants and it just keeps getting worse, with a report from the united nations. >> a watch dog group reports the militants are selling abducted iraqi children as sex slaves and in other cases, killing them by columbus fiction crucifixion and using the boys as suicide bombers. >> no children are safe, they're all victims. even the victories against isis in iraq and syria can often look a lot like losses. >> it took four months of fighting for kurdish forces to liberate kobani. take a listen. >> reporter: the aftermath of a disaster. but this disaster is man made. welcome to kobani. with western help from the air, the kurdish peshmerga won back the syrian city of kobani. this is what they won. utter devastation. kurdish militia and rebel fighters have been working to liberate the syrian city from isis grip since early

muslim brotherhood that rose to power after hosni mubarak was died, president had them up front multipleimes but during the cairo speech. if this does anything at all, legitimizes groups that do not have best practices in mind at least for stopping terrorism. >> you look where they rose to power in egypt and what is happening there. egypt and libya are two places in northern africa isis is looking to target at this point. i want to bring in andy levy joining us for the first time. so good to have you. let's get your thoughts. this has been in the headlines. this is something you talk about on your show. >> look, i'm all for fighting this war on all fronts, that includes hearts and mindings. looking into the conditions that drive people that think blowing themselves up is a good option. you have juxtaposition of a u.s. hosting summit, as andrea pointed out. stuff on agenda, creating positive pathways. >> which is a good thing. anthony robbins done it at his summits. >> absolutely. at the same time you have reports coming in isis burning alive 45 people. the juxtaposition would be funny if

the year saw protests that forced hosni mubarak from power.oting and inciting violence. 39 minors were sentenced to ten years in prison in the same case. >>> investigators will spend several days at the scene of what's being called a horrific and unimaginable train crash. >> six people killed 15 injured after a commuter train smashed into an suv tuesday. this is north of new york city. renee mar muchsh. >> reporter: smoke and flame poured out of the metro north train after the rail line's deadliest crash yet. five people dead in the blazing inferno. >> the bodies are all from the front car because the bodies are all very badly burned and unidentifiable. >> reporter: at least 15 injured after the commuter train slammed into a mercedes suv stuck on the tracks. it was crushed and tossed 1,000 feet. the driver was the sixth fatality. >> the train went silent. you, tell there was panic going on for the front of the train like walk back walk back walk back. >> keep going! >> reporter: new video from inside the train shows how packed it was. more tha

el-fattah has been imprisoned multiple times since playing a key role in the protests that toppled hosni mubarak four years ago, missing the birth of his child and, more recently, the death of his father. as the verdict was read today, el-fattah's family and friends wept in the courtroom and shouted, "down with military rule." the u.s. and iran have resumed high-level talks in a bid to reach a nuclear deal before a march 31st deadline. secretary of state john kerry is meeting with iranian counterpart mohammad javad zarif in geneva. the talks for the first time have included top u.s. and iranian officials on energy and nuclear issues, to work out the technical details of an agreement that would curb iran's nuclear program and impose international monitoring. both sides say they have no plans to extend the talks a second time after initially missing a deadline in november. the obama administration meanwhile is reportedly , withholding details of the talks from israeli counterparts over prime minister benjamin netanyahu's effort to undermine an agreement. white house press secretary josh earnest sa

close to former president hosni mubarak. in its defense, hsbc says it reformed the business in recent years and greatly reduced the number of accounts. john, this is just an incredible story. remember there were several swiss banks facing criminal prosecution because not only did they help people avoid taxes, they also helped money launderers. lots to be had on that front. we could be looking forward to more criminal prosecutions. >> they had problems. thanks. >>> the music industry's biggest night really big for sam smith. he took home four grammys, including two of the biggest for song of the year and record of the year. which are very different things i'm told for his song "stay with me." album of the year went to beck. beck won for best rock album. beyonce won for best r & b for "drunk in love." joan rivers won in the best spoken word category. her daughter melissa was there to accept on her behalf. ♪ i'm going to carry on ♪ >> as always, a lot of live performances performances. that is madonna. ♪ through the week seem t

hosni mubarak was in power. not a great guy, just like qadaffi, in many ways we were able to work with him. these leaders are gone. we see such unrest. coptic christians were persecuted for very long time. the video was heart-breaking, i never seen so many hostages lined up. that is what a lot of people were talking about this weekend. want to get your thoughts though. egypt striking back very quickly. a lot of people believe this is way to do it let them fight the battle. let egypt strike instead of us getting involved. what do you think? >> i think couple things. there is battle for soul of islam in the middle east but radical islam against these various groups. makes you wonder where else will isis go? will they go into nigeria? will they go into somalia? they're in afghanistan. yemen is ripe for the plucking. what is going to stop them other than jihadist groups. i think they should have a circular firing squad to destroy each other. i think we shouldance absolutely encourage muslim nations in the middle eas

. >> and then we are trying to find a place the same way that they had treated hosni mubarak. in fact this would be in a stable state to be in a place where citizens have enough force and the government is subject to enough of this that they can't miss rule. the grievances at the heart of the uprisings were about humans being forced to live and horrifying and undignified circumstances and that is the barrier that continues to this day and that is the failure that we should care the most about in which egyptians are going to fight again and again to overcome and something fundamental has changed and this is a region where people where they feel completely entitled to demand the fall of a regime and there is every single political demographic in the last three years has demanded the fall of the regime and then seeing it fall. revolutionaries did it right wing pro-regime people did it in june and july of 2014 and if you ask everyone of them they say that the real revolution was my revolution, the one that they did and they were fighting over the real date of when the revolution w

he helped lead the uprising that ousted president hosni mubarak. >> woodruff: china has clamped new curbsternet users, in a growing censorship campaign. as of march, the nation's nearly 650 million web users will have to register their real names with service providers, if they blog or use chat rooms. they'll also have to pledge, in writing, not to criticize the country's communist rulers. >> ifill: in taiwan, rescue crews worked late into the night in the capital, taipei, looking for victims of an air disaster that killed at least 26 people. the trans-asia airliner careened out of control today in a crash captured on video. john sparks of independent television news, reports. >> reporter: it seemed to come out of nowhere a regional passenger plane, falling from the sky. it's left wing clipped a taxi on an elevated highway, then shattered on the safety barrier. before plunging into tapei's keelung river below. the crash was followed by confusion and the approaching wail of sirens. and in the water, lying motionless, the white and purple fuselage of the trans-asia turbo-prop. the aircraft,

were killed late last month while marking the fourth anniversary of the revolution that ousted hosni mubaraks the worst killing of protesters since general abdel fattah el-sisi became president last june. sisi's regime has banned protests and continued a crackdown on political opponents. the u.s. renewed u.s. military aid last year after a brief pause following the 2013 coup. on monday, an egyptian court confirmed the mass death sentences of nearly 200 supporters of the muslim brotherhood, the party of ousted president mohamed morsi. the crackdown has also extended to journalists. on monday, al jazeera reporter peter greste spoke out from cyprus after being released from an egyptian prison and deported. greste had spent 400 days behind bars with two al jazeera colleagues. >> i can't say how relieved i am at being free. i really do not expect -- we were settling in for a period of months and to be out today with just a few minutes notice, really is just extraordinary. but i also feel incredible angst about my colleagues, leaving them behind. >> greste's colleague, egyptian-canadian mohamed fa

but hosni mubarak with the peace treaty between egypt and israel and others and instead we have a region where terrorists and where lords are increasingly taking root, threatening neighbors, tee destroying existing governments and ripping up boundary lines that have been in place since the end of world war i. really began in somalia back in the early 1990's. but we see this problem continuing in the sudan and across north africa, libya being the prime example of a country and that has just disintegrated since the overthrow of ghadaffi. and boko haran attacking across region. we have seen terrorists nearly topple the got of mali. we have seen terrorists attacks against oil and gas facilities in algeria. got little attention in this country, but one the worst terrorist incidents there. in egypt we have seen the muslim brotherhood come to power and nearly snuff out the opposition. had there not been a military coupe against it today no one is in control of the peninsula and it is a highway for extremists and terrorists and traffickers and drugs and human beings. nobody has control over it.

that is to say because of american support for israel and for dictatorships like hosni mubarak's regime or the late shah of iran because of our policies vis-a-vis the saudi's our energy policies sees in the middle east, our involvement in the gulf war the most recent iraq wars, there is a whole list of policies that you can list or the number of policies you can list and you can say this is the problem. if you change the policy and this is what you would hear from ron paul and people on the political left. if you change the policy you largely remove the problem which is to say that terrorism is a function, a reaction to policy and middle eastern countries. the other side of that debate is it is more fundamental, it is a clash of civilizations or at least of values which is to say that you have throughout the middle east both among the secular autocrats of the baath regime or the fundamentalists of the shiite and sunni stripe, you have values that are antithetical to the core concept of what western civilization not the least of which are freedom of the press, freedom of conscience, all

but hosni mubarak with the peace treaty between egypt and israel and others and instead we have a regionwhere terrorists and where lords are increasingly taking root, threatening neighbors, tee destroying existing governments and ripping up boundary lines that have been in place since the end of world war i. really began in somalia back in the early 1990's. but we see this problem continuing in the sudan and across north africa, libya being the prime example of a country that has just disintegrated since the overthrow of ghadaffi. and bokod.haran attacking across region. we have seen terrorists nearly topple the got of mali. we have seen terrorists attacks against oil and gas facilities in algeria. got little attention in this country, but one the worst terrorist incidents there. in egypt we have seen the muslim brotherhood come to power and nearly snuff out the opposition. had there not been a military coupe against it today no one is in control of the peninsula and it is a highway for extremists and terrorists and traffickers and drugs and human beings. nobody has control over it. just

that is to say, because of american support for israel and for dictatorships like hosni mubarak's regime in europe or the late musharraf of iran or the saudi's energy policies in the middle east our involvement in the gulf war, tanker wars, obviously the more recent iraq wars, there's a list of policies that you can list and you can say, well this is the problem. if you change the policy and this is what would you hear from ron paul but you'd also hear it from people on the political left, if you change the policy you largely remove the problem, which is to say that terrorism is a function, is a reaction to western policy in middle eastern countries. and the second side of that debate has said no in fact, it's more fundamental and it's really a clash of civilizations or, if not civilizations, then perhaps of values, which is to say that you have throughout the middle east both among the secular autocrtats of the religious fundamentalists, you have values or a set of of the shia and shiite. freedom of the press, freedom of conscious, all of the freedoms we associate with the american cons

not jeffersonevent democrats but at least had the virtue of a holding deals they had made like hosni mubarakad we have a region where terrorists and warlords are increasingly taking root threatening their neighbors, destroying the existing government and ripping up boundary lines that have been in place since the end of world war i. really began in somalia in the early 1990s, but we see this problem continuing in sudan and across north africa, libya being of a prime example of a country that has just disintegrated since the overthrow of gaddafi. we have northern nigeria declaring its and caliphate, it is attacking cameron and probably elsewhere across from a region. we have seen terrorists nearly toppled the government of mali, terrorist attacks against oil and gas facilities in algeria got little attention in this country but one of the worst terrorist incidents in egypt, we have seen the low muslim brotherhood come to power nearly snuffed out the opposition, had there not been the military coup against it even today, no one is in control of the sinai peninsula and it is a highway for extre

the obama administration stood firm in getting hosni mubarak to stand down and opening the way for democraticicult for us to deal with a government that has you know, issued more than 1,000 death sentences, arrested journalists, has repressed freedom, and yet it is of course the recipient of one of the largest packages of u.s. aid including military aid. egypt will be important in fighting the -- the threat in the region and it the largest arab country, a quarter of the arab world's population. no question it's a big player. i'm not sure it's the biggers player on isis. >> dad, i want to ask you about something that's been a bit of a controversy politically in washington and that is israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's address to congress. do you think that he should have been invited and do you think he should come? >> well first of all one has to xshgs why was he invited? i think he was invited to in a sense, strengthen his hand in dealing with the president of the united states, who's doing his best to result a very complicated problem, and the result in the fashion which doesn't ma

not jeffersonian democrats but who at least had the virtue of upholding deals they had made like hosni mubarak peace treaty between egypt and israel. and others. and instead we've got a region we are where terrorists and warlords are increasingly taking root threatening their neighbors, destroying existing governments and ripping up boundary lines that have been in place since the end of world war i. really began in somalia back in the early 1990s but we see this problem continuing in the sudan and across north africa, libya, being the prime example of a country that has just disintegrated since the overthrow of qadaffi. we have boko haram in northern nigeria, declaring its own caliphate. it is now attacking in cameroon and niger and probably elsewhere across the region. we've seen terrorists nearly topple the government of mali. we've seen terrorist attacks against oil and gas facilities in algeria. got little attention in this country but one of the worst terrorist incidents there. in egypt we've seen the muslim brotherhood come to power and nearly snuff out the opposition. had there not bee