countries to be able to protect that version of islam that indigenous traditional islam from. it being pushed out by more radical versions of islam because obviously i don't know whether you would agree with me on all but i think saudi version of islam is not about attractive i mean it's not about its spiritual value but they have the money and they love that one model so i would love not like to speak about very specific cases but i would like to speak about general features let me tell you that we have or i see in two thousand and five december in. an extraordinary summit we have. agreed the whole muslim or all my agreed through fifty seven heads of states agreed on. on considering eight measures hips which is force in the mess ups and two she must have another two predominant message in the whole world eight of them equal so legally speaking we have a unanimity on the equal in this the behavior of certain schools of thought which. might be present in one school of thought cannot be considered as superior to the us this is what we do secondly in the organization there is an

countries to be able to protect that version of islam that indigenous traditional islam from. it being pushed out by more radical versions of islam because obviously i don't know whether you would agree with me on all but i think saudi version of islam is not that attractive i mean it's not about its spiritual value but they have the money and they love that one model so i would love not like to speak about very specific cases but i would like to speak about general features let me tell you that we have or i see in two thousand and five december in. an extraordinary summit we have. agreed the whole muslim or all my agreed through fifty seven heads of states agreed on. on considering eight megs hips which is force from the mess obss and two she mess ups and other two predominant messages in the whole world eight of them equal so legally speaking we have a unanimity on the equal in this the behavior of certain schools of thought which. might be. present in one school of thought cannot be considered as superior to the us this is was what we do secondly in the organization there i

while recording this interview of the islam received some unfortunate news. that the hyena trial court had sentenced him to eleven years for extremism if any. travelling from the center of egypt's capital to those in district is like traveling back in time the words of a lean means rubbish people here they're all christians. no one can tell exactly how many people live in this area that was founded in the middle of the twentieth century. there is from hundreds of thousands to half a million rescue says their lives they collected from all around cairo bring it back here and pick through it by hand. but the process has five stages that of the first one is on the ground they have to separate the garbage from. the second starts after they wash it down i want to go after washing we have to use this machine to heat it up but i don't know what if it requires a really high temperature on my bottom it heats the refuse i'm not going to do this is the third stage of the whole procedure so first you have to wash it and then to heat it by a good after all that it goes to

the islamic state of power says its cleansing the area from regime supporters and those fighting islam. but it is men like these, the west doesn't want to arm. and it has urged them to retake areas under their control. it could be a recipe for yet another war within a war that will decide the new face of syria. >> well given those events, the car bombing in beirut and what's going on in syria, let's talk to general. he's returned from beirut. general, good to have you with us here on al jazeera. do you think the events are absolutely linked? >> of course. we cannot separate what happened this morning in beirut from the syrian, the syrian conflict. as you know the involvement of hezbollah in the syrian war first of all and right now after we heard many statements from the opposition in syria, whether om the free syrian army or from someone else, they thought hezbollah to give up and with draw to lebanon, otherwise they will attack hezbollah inside their home. that's what happened today in the southern suburb of beirut. but here we have to clarify a that region of the southern suburb of

they say it's wrong to scorn the islamic religion is that all but is it ok to despise us is. a noble whose what happened and who was one of the christian muslim conflicts in egypt that has been going on for the past thirty years mr christians are always the first ones to attack it it's really difficult to make ordinary people come down and control themselves. must move the bullet was love is one of the most controversial figures in egyptian public life he calls himself a humble soldier in the media war against cop to christianity. islam denounces cupcake plots on his internet channel. like. under milk. i think they want to kill. welcome in london. with bottom line and blog. oh are. in also ten years ago about five percent of the egyptian population support of my viewpoint today it is at least seventy five percent because the church has brought discredit upon itself with its actions they show their worst side they said that christians of muslims are neighbors but insulted allah drew crosses everywhere an extended tory and then bill charges on it people got angry they did what

you always say islam is peace, but we don't see that.his is that in action. >> and if islam is our way of maintaining our dignity and our self-esteem as men and coming back and being good husbands to our wives, good fathers to our children, then maybe america needs to look at it. >> do i believe that there's a problem with some sectors of the community that are vulnerable and susceptible to violence? absolutely. i wouldn't deny that. do i believe that some of those who carry out, like in the boston situation, then find ways of thinking about their faith as a context to justify that? absolutely. i think the largest antidote, cure if you will, to any concern about radicalization and violence associated with it is meaningful, critical engagement. >> it was violence that eventually led dylan hall to iman. >> i used to be a high school teacher on the west side of chicago, and one of my students was shot and killed, and it was a very difficult experience. >> after a lot of soul-searching he converted from catholicism to islam. >> part of the t

into the swastika on the wall of an islamic school. the muslims were ascended not by the nazi symbol but that it was him blazoned with the christiane cross an angry mob started to gather near the church. at the time someone from the mosque behind the church came and told us there was some sort of fight he suggested that we all stay together all the christians gathered around the church to defend. in about fifteen to twenty minutes i saw some cars people got out and started shooting all over the place there are still full of holes outside on the church. of the people we saw were people falling down beaten by other people there were a lot of injured somebody also threw take us grenades. during the conflict almost all of the christian men the full source went to protect the church they barricaded the surrounding streets and boarded up all of the churches windows and doors. if there had been no response to the shooting they would have broken into the church before six people were killed in a car they were shot in the heads or the heart bec

islam denounces cupcake plots on his internet channel came up with. the time to make. a lot of the play what it will. welcome in london. with bottom line and blog. oh are. also ten years ago about five percent of the egyptian population supported my viewpoint and today it is at least seventy five percent because the church has brought discredit upon itself with its actions they show their worst side they said that christians of muslims are neighbors but insulted allah drew crosses everywhere an extended tory and then bill charges on it people got angry what would he then i get my share and many. other wisdom rose to notoriety after destroying a copy of the bible in front of the american embassy in cairo one year after the nine eleven attacks he has been taken to court but until recently i do islamic extremist acts by without legal consequences. about ten percent of egypt's eighty million population a cup to christiane's making them the biggest a nomination in the middle east the cup the community has always been a difficult issue with national politics this christian m

islam to gain votes.t, i think, is what they were standing up against, an organization that cheapened their religion for power. >> richard, i know that you have your finger on the pulse of what's going on in many of the countries in the middle east. i want to broaden the lens a little bit because, of course, what happens in egypt has an impact on israel. so what do you think the response is in israel right now to this change here in egypt? >> reporter: i think the immediate term is going to be very nervous. the army was somewhat shackled by the morsi government. there has never been a comfortable relationship between the army and the muslim brotherhood. the two were absolute enemies for decades. morsi himself was in prison before he became president of this country. so there is a concern by israel that the islamic extremists could try to launch some sort of attack, could try and hijack a tourist bus, could immediately try and express their frustration on the israeli border. over the long term, i think isr

egypt is this country's experiment with democracy a thing of the past what signal does this send to islamic parties in the region and will washington's reputation among egyptians ever be redeemed. to cross-talk the chaos in egypt i'm joined by cynthia schneider in washington she is a professor at georgetown university and a senior nonresident fellow with the brookings institution we also have jeffrey ingersoll in new york he is a defense reporter with business insider and in london we cross to say to lisa he's a political analyst and writer all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much appreciate it cynthia franco to you first in washington is egypt in a process of self-destruction after this coup. no not at all but i can understand why you would say that i find coverage of the events which by the way i would call the continuing revolution rather than a coup baffling to me i find so many people here who have actually never even heard of the grass roots use lead movement from a road which is the reason that millions and millions and millions

this region condemned to a vicious cycle of uprisings and brutal suppression what about the claim islam and democracy are incompatible and does the west really have an interest in seeing the people of the middle east free to decide their own destinies. cross-talk the future of democracy in the middle east i'm joined by stephen bucci in washington he is director of the allison center for foreign policy studies at the heritage foundation also in washington we have gareth porter he's an investigative journalist and author of the upcoming book manufactured crisis the untold story of iran's nuclear scare and in beirut we cross to solemn he is a professor of international affairs and diplomacy are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want my very much encourage it steven if i go to you first in the wake of the coup in egypt what is the future of democracy in the region i think democracy still has a great chance in the middle east democracy and the transition to it does not happen overnight in anyone's country and to think it was going to go without any h

the and are those who cooperate with the west to fight islam. this may be seen as an effort to some manpower but the islamic state of iraq says it is cleansing the area from regime's supporters. it is men like these the west does not want to arm. it is urging the free syrian army to retake areas under their control. >> the second part of the interview with edwards noted has been released. the former national security agency contractor explains why he spoke out despite the risks. >> the structures of power that exist are working to tehran and to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of the public. the nsa does not limit itself to foreign intelligence. it collects all communications that transit the united states. there are literally no ingress or egress point in the u.s. where communication or exit -- can enter or exit without being collected and analyzed. it is not clear what his next move will be. >> he is not just gone to ground, he simply disappeared. on june 23, edward snowden disembarked at moscow airport from hong kong. aft

observing ramadan is one of the five pillars of islam.ristians pray for the islamic world, asking god to reveal to them the truth about jesus christ. joining us now is tom doyle, the middle east director for e-3 partners ministry, and author of the book "dreams and visions, is jesus awakening the muslim world?" tom, it is great to have you back. there is war in syria, and major powers like the u.s. and russia and europe are trying to manage that outcome, and some would say it is naive, even a fantasy to think that prayer can make a difference in the world events, but what do you say? >> there is the physical war we're seeing on the ground, but the bigger war is the spiritual war raging overhead. that's what we see happening in egypt right now, syria. so although it looks bad on the news politically, spiritually it is turning around. we are seeing in egypt some of our leaders say that they have never encountered more muslims that are open to the gospel than now, and seeing many come to faith in christ. and, again, several of them are havin

that women kidnapped and converted to islam but. will there be another moses for the coakley christians of egypt to the cross to. its future victims. the way of the cross. there's a leader so we leave that maybe. i can see the ocean see your. play your party there's a good. news that no one is that good with the guess that you deserve answers from . politics. welcome back this is r.t. britain is considering exposing the list of a one hundred two major companies and individuals caught paying private investigators to illegally obtain clients personal data although the u.k. serious crime agency knew it was happening and had nothing to stop it and m.p.'s are furious r.t. says are cilia reports. banks the pharmaceutical companies the law firms and other private firms are on a secret list of clients and had hired private investigators or p i's who break the law and that these companies have not face any consequences or prosecution now the information of this illicit been passed on to a parliamentary committee by the serious organized crim

this idea of islamic revolutionary, islamic fundamentalist was really pretty new. >> host: i want to follow up just as historical point it is striking to recall in historical terms what hole the hostage-taking of the american diplomats played in resolving that internal power struggle. in fact that was a key moment which this tension, this balance between a more elected democratic form of government and a harder line clerical form of government resolved in favor of the clerics because of the internal political success of taking the american hostages. they used that in a way americans wouldn't be familiar with. >> guest: exactly. that's another thing i wanted to examine in my book and quite naturally, understandably, rightly we americans tend to look at the hostage crisis from an american viewpoint. how could they possibly violate all the diplomatic laws and traditions by holding our diplomats hostage? people were understandably and write rightly exercised about this. people paid less attention to how that facttoried into internal conflicts within the iranian revolutionary regime. khom

to make up their mind and be against the islamic brotherhood in egypt primarily because the islamic brotherhood has used a democracy to get to pot and once they were in power they sought to. hijack the government system in their own way to their own ideology to sit on a dock miles and this city has a scared it off many egyptians including. a sunni muslim christian and as our rights and the united states not bought the exact into consideration and it's a new. policy toward egypt that is the u.s. cannot. take any negative position toward of egypt because this was a slow throw off that the in egypt for months and probably for years to come and the u.s. . cannot afford to see instability become iran he should first and egypt is that axis of the arab world and the middle east this will. be all the way to hold on let's say let's go ahead go ok adequate let's go ahead jump in because. egypt does play a very important role and it should be some kind of model go ahead karen but the idea of that the egyptian military's takeover of power in the wake of a democratic democratically elected government is sta

we expect more and more under islamic rule.his is islamic rule to discriminate and persecute non-muslims. >> wendy: do you think that the demonstrations planned on his one-year anniversary will turn violent? and how will the military respond? >> i think, sure. it is a matter of time that egypt will go through civil war because the muslim brotherhood and other islamists only believe in power and violence. so they don't keep silent -- they don't believe in peaceful demonstrations, so they will attack the peaceful demonstrations in all of the squares in egypt. egypt is in a crisis, and is really divided into two groups, two rival groups, like muslim brotherhood and islamists on the far side, and the other egyptians on the other side. the muslim brotherhood presents less than 1% of egyptians, but 99% on the other side is the muslim brotherhood, morsi rules. >> wendy: all right. monte, we appreciate so much your insights. thanks so much for joining us. in other news, human rights leaders called on the u.s. government to do more to p

that women kidnapped and converted to islam. will be another era for the coakley christians of egypt to the cross to its future things. the way of the cross. see. right to see. first street. and i would think the tree. on our reporters would. be in the. welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow now it's not only government security agencies that have had their eyes on private data if you're in the u.k. many businesses also have access to your personal info your of relations in the british press suggest that major companies hired private investigators to steal data on the country's organized crime agency apparently knew about it but kept the material secret until now r.t. says are cilia has more. in another instance of unlawful gathering of private information it's been reported by the independent newspaper that banks the pharmaceutical companies the law firms and other private firms are on a secret list of clients and have hired private investigators or p.r. who break the law that these companies have not face any conse

they're calling this a faked coup, an affront to islam, a plot by america and islam. they are furious. the army has deployed armored vehicles to detain them. but they are armed, and some could start an insurgency. back in tahrir square, back with the winners, what about democracy? is a military intervention really what they wanted? no. but they say it was their only choice to fix a mistake they don't want to repeat. and, brian, tonight, there are deep concerns about what will happen next in this country. the u.s. embassy which is located just at the back of tahrir square has ordered all nonessential personnel and their families to leave egypt, and is even encouraging american citizens in egypt to leave the country. brian. >> and, richard, isn't job one of the military now to convince a couple million people to go home and to peacefully leave the scare? and what will victory look like for them in that way? >> reporter: these protesters are probably going to be in this square for the next several days at least. the first order of business from the military seems to be t

islamic shari'a is not seeng seen from the female perspective. the leaders here need to have a deeper understanding of the role women can play. >> they were given the power to implement in 2001 under a special agreement with jakarta aimed at quelling a separatist movement. but exactly how shari'a law was included in the deal is shrouded in mystery, with many saying they never wanted it and that the rebelled never actually requested it. >>> hello, welcome to "newsline." it's monday, july 29th. i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. >>> israeli and palestinian leaders have spent three years refusing to speak. u.s. secretary of state john kerry has been pushing for months to bring them back to the negotiating table. now he's persuaded those senior aides to come together in washington. kerry spoke over the telephone

>> you cannot say that egypt rejected political islam when political islam or one of its parties was consistently winning every single election. what would have been is in the next -- if the next elections were to come in and freedom and justice would have come in, they would have lost the first time they came in. they went in with elections and they won 40%. 40% -- there was a lot of sympathy and you can, now they promised and they did not deliver. you pay a price for doing that. the next elections they would have lost but they would have their core supporters. >> first of all, squares or not the judge. what is decisive is the voting of the people. >> [indiscernible] >> we are happy now with the anti-military coup. this is not decisive. second -- >> if you're not happy that is up to you. i am not happy. >> i said that the squares are not the judge. election show that the majority of votes went to political islam. what was wrong -- >> has morsi been overthrown because he was incompetent or people did not like what he said or they wanted power? i am confused. tommy what you think happ

political islam as egyptian presidency lies in ruins drowned by the voices on top hear. how the arab spring zouaves broken on egypt what will be exposed if they rolled back across the arab world where the arab spring is demonstrably worst. what chances do multi-faith societies have under political islam we speak to a woman of arabia a princess of the east. our guest today is her royal highness saudi princess best not been saudi activist a writer and a businesswoman and she joins us live from london your world and it's great to have you on our show today thank you so it's nice to be on your show on the russian t.v. for the first time so was that from the latest news we're witnessing a coup in egypt where military have taken power but how did the population and that's millions are celebrating is this really a military coup or the victory of the people. now i think it's actually both. the victory of the people is the. army itself because maybe it's very foreign to other people to know that the army and egypt has for so long protected the people and you know swarmed on prote

john jones the lawyer appointed to saif al islam by the i.c.c. describe the conditions his quietus being held in to my colleague. he's being held in appalling conditions certainly in terms of his mental state because of confinement thing any period of time and for a few weeks of has been shown by scientific studies to be strictly damaging and he said in that condition for twenty months impossible for for those to see him and if they do see him comes in many circumstances where you can speak freely the last time you visited by now if you see delegation meeting this covertly in the cool kids and say he knows he knows it's become a complaint anyone can visit about these conditions you can see in the meaningful but his defense because it's being used against him is now being prosecuted in addition to the war crimes trials are being prosecuted for basically saying that he wanted to be tried in the hay and exercise his right to photo but if indeed saif al islam is actually tried back at home may not be what exactly what do you think he's facing. what h

that women kidnapped and converted to islam. will be. for the coakley christians of egypt to the cross to. its future victims. the way of the cross. the news today is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing operations are all. welcome back this is r.t. britain is considering exposing a list of a one hundred and two major companies and individuals cog paying private investigators to illegally obtain clients personal data although the u.k. serious crime agency knew it was happening it did nothing to stop it and m.p.'s are a few worry as are just as are silly in our reports. banks the pharmaceutical companies the law firms and other private firms are on a secret list of clients that have hired private investigators or p i's who break the law that these companies have not face any consequences or prosecution now the information of this illicit been passed on to a parliamentary committee by the serious organized crime agency or so they said that they submitted their findings to

>> well, it had nothing to do with islam. it had everything to do with this particular government which was the first islamist government in egypt's history. so how did they rule? well, they were incompetent because they've never had a chance to rule before. they were a party that was banned for decades. they've never had experience running anything. so they were incompetent. they were authoritarian. they were not inclusive. they were dismissive of liberals, women and minorities. so in general people didn't like how this islamist government was ruling. they also feared that they would try to islamize the state, make it more islamist. and we saw that in the new constitution which they pushed through in january in which many of the clauses were once again not very respectful of women, minorities and others. and so i think egyptians just rose up and said weon't like the direction egypt is going in. it's not because we don't love muslims, most of us are muslims. but we don't like the idea of an islamist egypt. >> that's interesti

or judge jones is a lawyer appointed to saif al islam by the i.c.c. he described the conditions as clients being held in civil colleague laurie sushi but earlier. he's being held in appalling conditions certainly in terms of his mental state because so much confinement thing any period of time and for a few weeks apart has been shown by scientific studies to be extremely damaging and he's been in that position for twenty months impossible for families to see him and even if they do see him. damon any circumstances where you can speak freely the last time you visited by night you see delegation meeting this covertly recorded and so he knows that he knows that he come complains and will get visits about these conditions you can see in the need for his defense because it's being used against him he's going to be prosecuted in addition to the war crimes trials are being prosecuted for basically saying that he wanted to be tried in the hay and exercise his rights without a tro but if indeed saif al islam is actually tried back at home may not be what exact

well meanwhile the son of the deposed leader so you fall islam is yet to stand trial for alleged war crimes committed during that twenty eleven uprising he is set for a hearing in libya in august but the international criminal court judges fear that he won't receive a fair trial there libya is meanwhile defying an i.c.c. ruling by refusing to hand him over to the hague insisting on a trial back home so let's examine the man and his story so you follow islam was educated in london he was seen as a crucial figure in building relations between libya and the west but in the early twentieth revolt the protests began against a forty two year rule of moammar gadhafi now amid allegations that saif al islam and his father had committed various crimes against humanity the i.c.c. had issued arrest warrants and just a few months later the libyan leader moammar gadhafi dies in a brutal attack by the rebels the chief i.c.c. prosecutor had confirmed informal talks about the surrender of the younger gadhafi he was eventually captured by a rebel group and apparently had parts of his fingers amputated

happened since morsi is come into power is that there's been a lot more focus on the question of islamism now was that a diversion or is it real is it real or is it diversion because there's still the gated communities what yeah i know and i think that that issue does have to be tackled because the demand for the levy ation of poverty the demand for jobs. it's a very real one and i think that in some ways. the most he was deflecting things to a kind of islamist agenda in ways that weren't tackling the economic questions that he needed to. you know brian if you think that's what morris he did is that because he couldn't grow the economy he went more to the cultural wars to use an american term i think that's absolutely what he did well i think that he was an ideological islamised person who took office to begin with but his principle agenda should have been. balancing and leveling out the egyptian economy especially the tourism industry that's the biggest thing that has has put egypt into a tough place economically moving forward tourism in egypt employs one in ten people in the industry i

while the values of the opposition not very democratic i think that this is a defining moment for islam a system in egypt and also islamised as in the arab spring moving forward we've seen that the biggest challenge after the toppling of the dictators in the in these arab spring uprisings is now dealing with the islamicist of that frequently moves in the islamic extremists and the hard right agenda that moves in as a result of that and so whichever leader takes place and whatever mr morsi has in the future of egypt moving forward is going to have to broker an arrangement between those far right wing extremists like those in the mode of muslim brotherhood and the rest of the population of egypt and this isn't just for the security and the stability of egypt but also for international relations which is going to be a huge part of the egyptian economy moving forward because a big part is tourism like i spoke about before but it's also the fact that foreign investment has dropped completely off the table because of the presence of the muslim brotherhood in egypt carol and there's been plent