just looking back a little bit the former president hosni mubarak he was also at the height of the arab spring in two thousand and eleven egyptians then elected the candidate from the muslim brotherhood mohamed morsi he was affectively forced out of office by so you see how well represented are more of these former supporters in these elections . not very well representative told given that the muslim brotherhood is now classified as a terrorist organization in egypt it's probably fair to say that most brotherhood supporters to staying at home and not going to the polls at the very least there are large parts of the missing brotherhood who have either been expressed or who are in exile people with a kind of religious motivation to voting and not very well represented in this elections but at the same time it's kind of mainstream liberal voters and we've seen some opposition figures who are not religious in any sense in any public sense of the word asking people to stay home and so that seems to be a sizable part of the electorate being represented there to. it's been seven years now sin

over their responsibility of managing the transitional period after the revolution after ousting hosni mubarak handing over this power to to the military took to the military and the military had all the time in order to abort the achievements of the revolution and. like other military rulers of egypt sisi has ordered the jailing of thousands of brotherhood supporters and successfully lobbied regional backers to declare the group as a terrorist organization. exiled members and brotherhood supporters say the ruling clique is suppressing moderate voices and warning that could result in an extreme reaction in egypt. from a bit of their. teachers in zimbabwe have threatened to storm the offices of president emerson and bring the public sector to a standstill they want their salaries to be doubled her was also reports from harare. public school teachers in zimbabwe say not much has changed since president investment and what took over from robert mugabe in november they say they earn between two hundred and three hundred fifty dollars a month they want a one hundred percent salary increase and bett

of the vote comes seven years after the revolution that ended hosni mubarak's thirty year presidency kamar santamaria looks at egypt's political ups and downs. remember this it's hard to forget really and a team to a revolution its heart and cairo's tahrir square which brought down a president so firmly entrenched in egyptian life called him the pharaoh but equally a revolution can be something which goes full circle and it's hard to argue that's not happened in egypt seven years later the play is largely the same just with a different cast. after president hosni mubarak stepped down in two thousand and eleven the army took power but for months the protests continued egyptians were not happy with the slow pace of reform they eventually got a national unity government by the end of that year followed by a presidential election in june of two thousand and twelve which was won by this man the muslim brotherhoods mohamed morsy think about how big a deal this was the leader of a party with islamic principles which had been banned in the mubarak years was now the democratically elected pre

after president hosni mubarak stepped down in two thousand and eleven the army took power but for months the protests continued egyptians were not happy with the slow pace of reform they eventually got a national unity government by the end of that year followed by a presidential election in june of two thousand and twelve which was won by this man the muslim brotherhoods mohamed morsi think about how big a deal this was the leader of a party with islamic principles which had been banned in the mubarak years was now the democratically elected president of egypt but perhaps not surprisingly this didn't sit well with the old guard nor did it help that morsi dismissed the defense minister the chief of staff and trying to limit the influence of both military and judiciary by early twenty thirteen the protesters were back this time against morsi and in july the president was overthrown by the egyptian army and it is at this point that we are starting to see the beginnings of that full circle which we talked about the muslim brotherhood it was declared a terrorist group political parties based

much more swiftly than expected after just eighteen days of demonstrations the despised leader hosni mubarak was forced to step down there was an eruption of jubilation. and his book hamilton describes the feeling of now we can finally take our destiny into our own hands and how it unleashed a tremendous energy. for months life and revolution where want. your brain goes in for the for the overthrow of the right and your synopsis of the firing of us are great but the extraordinary. transfer from bringing out more about one of those things that all of them allow you to do by the novel as a form as well which time can expand and contract there's room for. hamilton worked on documenting the revolution in various ways. for the media collective mostly rain he always had a camera no matter where he went. the videos played an important role in the resistance. for the first time in egypt there was an alternative to state controlled television. the arab spring was a social media revolution. and there was this sense that the information revolution was going to. basically enact this sort of fundamental

it wasn't until the removal of hosni mubarak in two thousand and eleven that the brotherhood's freedom and justice party was elected for the first time along with president mohamed morsi who's now on death row for ordering the killing of protesters. just a year after taking charge he was removed in a military coup led by the current president of the fatah and sisi morsi supporters accused the so-called deep state especially within the military hierarchy of not allowing the muslim brotherhood government to function in that single year after the first fully democratic election the main mistake is actually handing over their responsibility of managing the transitional period after the revolution after ousting hosni mubarak handing over this power to to the military took to the military and the military had all the time in order to abort the achievements of the revolution and. like other military rulers of egypt sisi has ordered the jailing of thousands of brotherhood supporters and successfully lobbied regional backers to declare the group as a terrorist organization. exiled members and b

it wasn't until the removal of hosni mubarak in two thousand and eleven that the brotherhood's freedom and justice party was elected for the first time along with president mohamed morsi who's known death row for ordering the killing of protesters. just a year after taking charge he was removed in a military coup led by the current president of the for time morsi supporters accused the so-called deep state especially within the military hierarchy of not allowing the muslim brotherhood government to function in that single year after the first democratic election the main mistake is actually handing over their responsibility of managing the transitional period after the revolution after ousting hosni mubarak handing over this power to to the military to the military and the military had all the time in order to abort the achievements of the revolution. like other military rulers of egypt sisi has ordered the jailing of thousands of brotherhood supporters and successfully lobbied regional backers to declare the group as a terrorist organization. exiled members and brotherhood supporters

earlier i asked journalist ruth michael if egypt is any different today from how it was under hosni mubarak before the arab spring in two thousand and eleven. while there are critics who say that actually things should be well and who are at the end of his tenure at had he did allow sound space for limited political freedoms and you know there were members in the same bracket that ptolemy for example but now you know there are critics. who say that the level of human rights abuses the level lexicon expression the level of crete suppression is following us and it was under mubarak. there also inside and among a lot of egyptians notice about me and the dire state. it seems and how this affects poorest and me it's you know i'm calling to hear people who are very will say well he gave up all right so i think that c.c. at least read out the economy and that hasn't happened so we're not sure how we got to this point and that was ruth michaels on there talking to us a little while ago from cairo monica's going to be with you in just a couple minutes should be taking a look at egypt's economy and m

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over their responsibility of managing the transitional period after the revolution after ousting hosni mubarak handing over this power to to the military took to the military and the military had all the time in order to abort the achievements of the revolution and. like other military rulers of egypt sisi has ordered the jailing of thousands of brotherhood supporters and successfully lobbied regional backers to declare the group as a terrorist organization. exiled members and brotherhood supporters say the ruling clique is suppressing moderate voices and warning that could result in an extreme reaction in egypt. iran's revolutionary guard has denied accusations by saudi arabia that its arming hoofy rebels in yemen on sunday ruthie's fired several missiles across the border targeting saudi arabia's capital riyadh missile fragments killed one person and injured two others iran has often been accused of sending weapons to the whole fees but a report by the iranian news agency quotes the revolutionary guard as saying yemenis are capable of producing their own weapons. meanwhile saudi arabia's cro

a tumultuous seven years in egypt since since those eighteen days that brought down president hosni mubarak in twenty eleven how would you compare where things are now in egypt in the current dared to the mubarak era. it's probably in terms of freedoms and even if total freedoms it's worse last election was into saddam in fife you had a few not very serious contenders but you had once you discontent which was a minority and he garnered some. significant amount of votes and i think that's why he end up in jail if you do it in the water afterwards back then if i remember correctly got around eighty percent of the vote or allegedly eighty percent of the vote but there was still very low voter turnout in that elections right now it's there are no serious contenders the oldest contenders either are or are in jail like former chief of staff general simon and all were very much pressured to hand it over basically from the u.a.e. to egypt kind of a house arrest like general much a few and then you have the ones who are coming from that evolutionary ranks like. pressure to and then finally saying th

after president hosni mubarak stepped down in two thousand and eleven the army took power but for months the protests continued egyptians were not happy with the slow pace of reform they eventually got a national unity government by the end of that year followed by a presidential election in june of two thousand and twelve which was won by this man the muslim brotherhoods mohamed morsi think about how big a deal this was the leader of a party with islamic principles which had been banned in the mubarak years was now the democratically elected president of egypt but perhaps not surprisingly this didn't sit well with the old guard nor did it help that mostly dismissed the defense minister the chief of staff and trying to limit the influence of both military and judiciary by early twenty thirteen the protesters were back this time against morsi and in july the president was overthrown by the egyptian army and it is at this point that we are starting to see the beginnings of that full circle which we talked about the muslim brotherhood it was declared a terrorist group political parties base

the most memorable moments with al-jazeera was when i was on air as hosni mubarak fell with the crowds in tahrir square talking. to us if something happens anywhere in the world al jazeera is in place we'll able to cover this like no other news organizations. were able to do it properly. and that is our strength. subzero temperatures to stream altitudes. this is where the hard part because of the extraordinary journey from polish to tajikistan. ordinary joining. with too high up there's no oxygen. just to experience life simple pleasures. risking it all to stop at this time on. the train and equip the opposition in syria so they can help push back these terrorists people in power investigates how the us supplies soviet style weapons to its allies through private companies the us government could wash their hands and say well we didn't know where it was coming from so weapon that was supplied by the us government may well end up being pointed at us soldiers yes absolutely we pick it up less than two months off in the professional america's gun secret pipeline to syria and this time on a

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they say is coming seventy is off the revelation that ended the thanks again long presidency of hosni mubarak to mush al takes a look at c.c.s. first four years and office. although opted for the has since he was only named president in june two thousand and fourteen the former army general has been in control of egypt since july the previous year when he led a coup deposing the country's first democratically elected presidents mohamed morsi since taking power sisi has made numerous promises and pledges to the egyptian people in a bid to win their support first he vowed to defeat what he described as potential violence and terrorism in the digital fleet i call in all egyptians to take to the streets to task me with preventing the potential violence and terrorism that threatens us. in reality however since sisi became president attacks and bombings appear to have increased dramatically across the country i saw which did not have a branch in egypt recruited fighters and began killing soldiers and police officers in sinai but the violence was not limited to the peninsula car bombs in central cai

invested in some kind of a revolutionary transition the same egyptians of course who rose up against hosni mubarak because precisely the kinds of abuses that sisi has now made permanently a factor in his presidency will leave that and of course continue to follow the discussion on various subjects throughout the day of the aryan thanks so much for joining us. the former catalan president is expected to appear in court in germany now he was arrested on sunday after traveling through finland and denmark he faces charges of rebellion and sedition in spain which stem from last year's session vote in catalonia angry protesters in barcelona call for pujols release police said three demonstrators were arrested and fifty were injured in the scuffles. they were cheating is live for us in boston of course those tensions we presume are still remain on the streets of barcelona what is this it's like on monday morning. well i was over night in on those streets and i think the final figures are something like ninety injuries so of course there were just the use of police batons and twenty two policemen were inj

vote comes seven years off the revolution that ended the three decades long presidency of hosni mubarak not a serious media review program the listening post has been analyzing it gyptian news coverage in the run up to the vote reporting this election campaign hasn't been a particularly complex operation for the egyptian news media the decks were largely cleared early on of potential challengers to president adal fatah el-sisi one by one those would be candidates dropped out of the race for egyptians turning into broadcasters both state owned as well as private there have been plenty of media outlets to watch but much less available in terms of information opinions and perspectives. over the past few weeks egypt's state owned broadcaster and private channels like d.m.c. . and on t.v. have all done their part in scripting a fed accompli contributing on the airwaves to the cult of personality surrounding president see see how humans are low alamosa may be the golden boy he might have to sydney. but maybe he can fairly slowly fade a bit but the chemicals had a mesh had to die for shadow an

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you work with egypt and hosni mubarak for 30 years on negotiating various palestinian peace efforts and then democracy comes and we are like what do we do about the situation. our instinct as americans is to intervene and encourage democracy when an opportunity like that presents itself. i think maybe the best thing we can do is make up our minds and have clarity of thought. often times we found this a lot during arab spring in particular where it was just really hard and and you are trying to make a bet of if i come out against this dictator am i dealing with him for the next ten years and have i burned my relationship or is he -- this is a challenging sort of problem set for our leaders. syria is a perfect example. we came out and called for assad's removal in the summer of 2011. then we realized it is not actually going to happen. are we going to follow through to do this? we are not going to. where do you find yourself? it's a challenging question. i don't think there is any great answers to it. >> kimberly, i would like your perspective on this. >> look, stabilization which is part

power it comes seven years after the revolution that ended the three decade long presidents of hosni mubarak al-jazeera as richard ginsburg from the listening post has been analyzing the egyptian news coverage in the run up to the vote reporting this election campaign hasn't been a particularly complex operation for the egyptian news media the decks were largely cleared early on of potential challengers to president. one by one those would be candidates dropped out of the race for egyptians turning into broadcasters both state owned as well as private there have been plenty of media outlets to watch but much less available in terms of information opinions and perspectives. over the past few weeks egypt's state owned broadcaster and private channels like d.m.c. . and on t.v. have all done their part in scripting a fed accompli contributing on the airwaves to the cult of personality surrounding president sisi as one how humans are low alamosa may be the golden boy he might have to sydney. but maybe he can fade a bit but the chemicals had a mesh had to die to share out and it's not just the new

first democratically-elected president, after the 2011 uprising that deposed long-time leader hosni mubarak. a year later, sisi won more than 96% of the vote. sisi has led a harsh security crackdown, imprisoning thousands. h si gone after free expression, civil society andh rivals b the political andsa military realm fahmy. >> instead of building schools and other infrastructure projects, he's had to 16 new prisons. he had a clampdown on medi both domestic and international. >> reporter: but sisi's popularity h been hurt by a bad economy. strict economic reforms were enacted in 2016 tovoid insolvency. inflation skyrocketed, with food prices risinby 30%. and while unemplment is around 11%, almost 80% of those without jobs are young people. all is as sisi prosecutes a war with an isis-affiliated insurgency in the sinai peninsula. armed groups there have killed more than 700 civilians and at least 1,000 security forces since 2014. in 2015, militants blew up a russian civilian airliner, killing more than 200 peop on board. sisi ratcheted up the fight, but the insurgency persists.si but isn't fi

you work with these people for years and years, with hosni mubarak for 30 years on negotiating their palestinian peace efforts and democracy comes or protest comes than what we do about the situation? it's incredibly difficult. our instinct of americans is also to intervene positively on the size side of democracy and encouragement democracy and encourage when an opportunity presents itself. that is a really hard dilemma for policymakers. the best thing we can do is make up our minds and have some clarity of thought. it's really, really hard to do, but we found this a lot during the arab spring in particular where it was just really hard in the events are moving so quickly and you sit there trying to make a bad well if i come out against this dictator, am i going to be dealing with them for the 10 years or is he going to be gone tomorrow and i should come out because i need to look good. this is a challenging sort of problem set for leaders. we came out and called for transcendence removal in 2011 and realized it's not going to happen and now are we going to follow through militarily

the statement is not truthful and their oppression in egypt is worse than on the former dictator hosni mubarak. the practices on the ground completely different from what he says. most of the serious contenders for the presidential elections were either marginalized or life in prison including the former chief of staff of the education army general sami on and you have all those who have been harassed you have. human rights watch is talking about fifteen solid and civilians who were court martialed in his reign between october twenty fourth seen in september twenty seventh this is unprecedented number even on the mubarak stime we have hundreds of cases of forced disappearances extrajudicial killings are well documented and made the human rights commission of they'd been rather speaks frankly about the. era of intimidation and terror ruling the country which is also unprecedented for a human rights commissioner to say that never been said before under any of the regimes so when this is said nobody no one should fear and these are the realities documented realities on the ground and there is a b

coined this phrase generation jail i mean someone even if that is worse than when we go back to the hosni mubarak era it's actually on the quantitative metrics it's significantly worse right there have been more than nine hundred cases of forced disappearance documented since two thousand and fifteen that's about one in. you have more than sixty thousand political prisoners that's more than at any time during the mubarak period in fact his reign of repression is worse than the brain during the one nine hundred sixty s. during the. period so pretty much on all the metrics things are things are pretty pretty bad it's a bad outlook on terms of human rights in egypt and what it would like you to see sisi waiting another four years today that will be his two terms done the big question is is he going to try to extend us and change the constitution to allow him to stay in power longer i've been saying that that's the likely scenario i've been saying that for months because what you would you start to hear is these kind of whispers in the egyptian media from his allies that are saying you know the const

the vote comes seven years after the revolution that ended the three decades long presidency of hosni mubarak jamal sheil looks at some of the promises sisi has struggled to keep during his time as egyptian president. although opted for the has he was only named president in june two thousand and fourteen the former army general has been in control of egypt since july the previous year when he led a coup deposing the country's first democratically elected presidents mohamed morsi since taking power sisi has made numerous promises and pledges to the egyptian people in a bid to win their support first he vowed to defeat what he described as potential violence and terrorism in the middle fleet i call on all egyptians to take to the streets to task me with preventing the potential violence and terrorism that threatens us. in reality however since sisi became president attacks and bombings appear to have increased dramatically across the country i saw which did not have a branch in egypt recruited fighters and began killing soldiers and police officers in sinai but the violence was not limited to

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process right so there was the transition from two thousand and eleven after the overthrow of hosni mubarak and then of course there was a free election in two thousand and twelve the first in egypt's history and everything since the coup that that that overthrew that elected president in two thousand and thirteen has been about going back to this idea of an authoritarian ruler and these elections are merely opportunities for egyptians to kind of show their loyalty and their kind of subordination to this authoritarian regime and it's the specially against the backdrop of this kind of violent crackdown that's been taking place for several years now how russell do you think he was by the two were tied generals trying to stand as presidential candidates i mean it's been a lot of speculation that that has exposed a rift behind the scenes within the military right so i think ever since the coup took place there has been a sense that sisi is legitimacy has remained in doubt and that these elections are meant to kind of cement his legitimacy in the eyes of millions of people who refused to kind of