in the state narrative or political narrative or social narrative or a mistake that they blif hosni mubarak has done. he allowed a marginal freedom from media outlets, and did not appoint social media outlets like facebook and twitter. the reaction is to find a way to control the narrative and control dissent, so that something like january 2011 does not happen again. >> during hosni mubarak, we couldn't criticise the government, touch him or his family. we could criticize the government. right now, we can't criticise the government, or the minister of electricity for not, you know, providing the service. we have reached the point. we can't even. journalists can't bring the stuff up. we can't speck about thinks any more. not even the daily struggles of an average egyptian >>> on the download this week, our viewers on egypt's anti-terror law and the state of journalism there. >> the regime worked hard to creating an atmosphere in which you celebrate uncritically the policies of his regime or you are deemed an enemy of the state and lumped in with criminals and terrorists. the anti-terrorism

or hosni mubarak. where are our principles there? we are going to ghost plane somebody, sent them over to prison to torture because we don't torture? that is insane. if you are standing there and your loved one has put in hosni bark's prison what do you think of the united states? are they the freedom loving guys? we don't apparently give a flying crap about anything except us. we have to have principles. when i hear politicians talk about it is in our national interests, our national interests can change. our national interests do change all the time. my interest this morning was to have a big stack of wafppes. my interest now is not so much. they change. what are your principles? nobody talks about principles anymore and because we don't even know our princhave ples who you think the rest of the world thinks? of course they want to kill us. of course they do. we are part of the problem. we believe in freedom. we believe homosexuals shouldn't be killed. are we doing anything about it? no. we are in bed with their kings. we believe w

following the 2011 uprising which toppled president hosni mubarak, much was said about the people and the bright fired they were looking forward to. for many, it was killed, together with loved ones, two years ago >>> lots more to come on al jazeera. is the jp niece industrial -- japanese industrial giant on the verge of extending an apology to prisoners of forced labour. plus... >> i'm reporting from reunion on what is dubbed as the most what is dubbed as the most expensive road this is a great place to work. not because they have yoga meetings and a juice bar. because they're getting comcast business internet. comcast business offers convenient installation appointments that work around your schedule. and it takes- done. - about an hour. get reliable internet that's up to five times faster than dsl from the phone company. call 800-501-6000 to switch today. perks are nice. but the best thing you can give your business is comcast business. comcast business. built for business. >>> welcome back, a recap. top stories, nuclear and chemical experts investigate the site of two massive expl

with protests against the regime of hosni mubarak, the world modern -- marveled at the impact of socialedia. how it might overcome depression. repression. truth moves faster than lies and propaganda become flammable wrote paul mason in 2011. he said, not only is the network or powerful than the hierarchy but the ad hoc network has become easier to form. in a book entitled "democracy's fourth wave." howard noted social --ia alone did not information technologies altered the capacity of citizens and civil society actors to affect domestic politics. to be fair, hopefulness came with caution. the authors of those commentaries recognized the technology also gave governments the opportunity to monitor citizens and ultimately extinguish their voices and movements. cup --or howard noted a card-carrying regimes have come services too. how democracy act -- activists were using -- developing strategies that allow them to entrap protesters. just the other week in the washington post the published a series. reporters documented how the security establishments of the arab world exploit sophisticated

arab spring made things worse as dictators like hosni mubarak and gaddafi we're topple.heir longstanding protection of minorities also ended. isis is looking to eradicate christians and other minorities all together. eliza griswald report on this for the new york times magazine and spent a decade in the region. we talked about this story before but not in so much detail as you have been able to report on. a basic question, how bad is it in the region for christians? >> it would be fair to say since the invasion of 2003 we have seen hundreds of thousands of christians leaving and there have been targeted campaign, killing and kidnapping for ransom over the last decade, 14 years. that said, what we are seeing now is the population that is partly out of fear for what is going to happen but not only isis driving them from the region but the threat of survival. >> what is the role of isis? when you look at the landscape of what is forcing christians to leave or otherwise be under threat how big is the threat of isis? >> it is an existential threat not just against christians

secretary of state john kerry met with the egyptian president hosni mubarak where he argued the deal would bring more security to the deal. >> fully implemented. it will make egypt and all the countries of this country safer than they other wise would be. >>> congressional approval is far from a done deal in washington. all republican presidential candidates remain critical of the agreement. congress has until mid- september to accept or reject the pact. >>> the world health organization is calling on the olympic committee to test the polluted water in rio de janeiro for disease causing bacteria. this after they found high levels of bacteria at olympic pools. a number of athletes who are training in rio have already fallen ill with fevers, vomiting and diarrhea. >>> a little cooler today throughout most of the area. take a look at the highs. you can see a trifecta of 81. lots of 70s and low 80s right around the bay itself. and the warmest locations in the mid-80s for this afternoon. on the satellite we have clouds in the north eastern portions of the state. right now we do have some

took to the streets in political protest in 2011, lead together to resignation of the president, hosni mubarakwe have images in the slideshow. journalists getting a closeup look at part of the bomb. isis claims the attack is in retaliation for the execution of six convicted militants in may. this a picture of a wounded man being carried away after the bombing at 2:00 in the morning local time. plain clothed officers surveying the damage and it's extensive. guarding the top of the national security building. look at the gaping holes. this one is a picture hoyt looked from inside an apartment building near the bomb site. authorities say people across cairo felt or heard the explosion because militants used noisy high-powered explosives. look at this crater. see the man down in it there? it's a huge bomb. left an enormous crater. just outside the national security building and you can see the size of it relative to the person. trouble in cairo today. >>> looks like the former boxing champ roy jones injuries getting his wish, citizenship in putin. he met with vladimir putin in crimea, which russia

. >>> plus a fiery crash kills three people, what the c hosni mubarak says happened -- chp says happenedext. joining usi'm krisanchez-- in ro >>> good morning, and thanks for joining us, i'm kris sanchez in for laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm sam brock. there were triple digit tmpbs everywhere over the weekend and signs tktd carry into monday, good morning. >> good morning, we'll still be sitting directly in front of the air-conditioning today, it'll be another hot one, but in some spots, just a couple of degrees lower than yesterday. and now it is 66 degrees in the east bay, and the north bay, 57 degrees, nice and cool start there, but a high of 95 degrees, still smoke and haze in the air, and a poor air quality index in the south bay, 100 degrees, east bay, 90 degrees, and you can see the back up in that frame there, and mike's tracking it, what's happening in ann leandro. >>> there's the east bay traffic, getting off the freeway southbound 880 at haganberger, let's show you the drive into san leandro because three of the four lanes are blocked right there at davis street. the jam from

amnesty international, the human rights situation is worse than it was in the terrible days of hosni mubarak and yet john kerry is there making nice with him and the u.s. has released over a billion dollars in military aid to that country. the u.s. has been 1-sided in its support for israel giving israel free billion dollars a year in our tax dollars to the israeli military that has been used for repressing the palestinian people so there are a number of u.s. policy issues that make us disliked around the world. if we want to get at the root of the reasons for the u.s. being the object of a tax, it would be to address some of these issues but i do agree we have to be protected from people who would do us harm. i don't think it should involve mass occupation of other countries or mass violation of our privacy. >> host: medea benjamin, what is your next book about? >> guest: as organization code paint we have done a lot in talking about what we don't like. we do applaud what we do like, diplomacy, but we want to move towards a broader look at the kind of world we want to live in. we are resear

and amnesty international the human rights situation is worse than during the terrible days of hosni mubarak and yet john kerris there making nice and the u.s. has released over a billion dollars in military aid to that country. the i.s. has also been one-sided in its support for israel, giving israel over $3 billion a year in our tax dollars to the israeli military that has been used for repressing the palestinian people. so a number of u.s. policies that make is disliked around the world... we do applaud what we do like the use of diplomacy, but we want to move towards a broader look at what kind of world we want to live in and we've been talking about and researching and i would like to do more writing about the con that to the peace economy. what would a peace economy look like to move us away from a country so entrenched in the military industrial complex that general eisenhower warned us about in the 1950s and move back into a peace economy. what would it look like to have an economy based on locally produced goods, more participatory budgets where people are really involved in shaping