altogether that the ruling regime is not guarded by justice and this is especially true of the ministry of interior there is no independent judiciary that has both police and the prosecutor's office are countable to the interior ministry and the ministries officials investigate crimes they call them crimes related to freedom of speech so they fabricate evidence but don't allow people to have attorneys things like that happen all over the place they even put people under arrest for an indefinite amount of time even if a court rules to release such a criminal or the ministry of interior keeps him in prison even though there is a court order to release him there have even been killings killings and as for the external opposition saudi intelligence forces find these people abroad there is no safety inside or outside the country could you describe these people who oppose the royal family and what are their goals opposition used to demand water people's representation in governing bodies more rights and freedom but the authorities reacted with violence and persecution instead of a dialogue and now the op

altogether so the ruling regime is not guarded by justice and this is especially true of the ministry of interior there is no independent judiciary that has both police and the prosecutor's office are countable to the interior ministry the ministries officials investigate crimes they call them crimes related to freedom of speech so they fabricate evidence don't allow people to have attorneys things like that happen all over the place they even put people under arrest for an indefinite amount of time even if a court rules to release such a criminal the ministry of interior keeps him in prison even though there is a court order to release him and there have even been killings killings and as for the external opposition saudi intelligence forces by means people abroad there is no safety inside or outside the country could you describe these people who oppose the royal family and what are their goals opposition used to demand wider peoples representation in governing bodies more rights and freedom but the authorities reacted with violence and persecution instead of a dialogue and now the opposition w

very hazy everyone is very confused to what's actually happening is that the army is at the ministry of interior is it the police cooperating with the army is it was it didn't really start out of something not violent and the reaction of the muslim brotherhood is what deteriorated the situation now i think it was just just ten minutes ten or fifteen minutes ago we got notice that the government building in been burnt down the reaction of the muslim brotherhood kind of a do or die all the calls are for you know that you are fighting for islam this is the final battle you know that that could terry and they're attacking churches which will lead us further into sectarian war they're attacking police stations releasing prisoners government buildings military installations so it's just snowballed and escalating and no one's quite sure everyone is at fault both sides are suffering tremendous losses and yes across the board for all egyptians this is a tragedy we all lost yesterday and i don't think you know in the entire two years that we see in worse state than yesterday then i understand no one reall

the weapons that the ministry of interior claims to have found in the two camps is evidence to that. the libyan border is porous, a lot of weapons are in this country. the ministry of interior made that clear himself during a press conference. he said we may have gotten all these weapons now, but there are many more still out there and that, of course, means there is a lot more work to do to not only get security back to this country, but also to get the political reconciliation process in any direction. >> yousuf, thank you for that. i want to take a quick check of where oil prices are heading. brent crude is higher to the tune of .6%, just above the 110 handle. light crude at 107.30, up by .4%. egypt, of course, is not a major oil producer, but it is home to the suez canal, which is very important gateway for oil and bigger commodities, exports and trading. >>> st. louis fed president james bullard says the fed needs more evidence the economy is improving. and inflation is heading higher before they decide to taper their massive bond buying program. bullard is a voter on the fomc th

was interested to know whether earlier reports of safe exit that was basically said in the ministry of interiorstatement earlier, if these reports were real. but what we figured is there was really no safe exit outside of the sit in. the city and was heavily surrounded by both military and police and special forces. was not --de street did not have a strong presence of military and police forces, however, the street was heavily subjected to gunfire by snipers from surrounding rooftops. exitwas basically the main for those wounded and dead bodies who could not make it into the main medical facility -- sharif mentioned earlier. inside the medical facility like sharif said, it was a virtual scene of so many people. we met a lot of people who were hurt with bird shot and could not get into the medical facility just because they gave priority to live ammunition injuries. a lot of people were precariously injured but had to stay outside of the hospital in what seemed to be a tighter and tighter sit-in once the police moved on to tighten the sit-in completely on the muslim brotherhood. on the way out

government on one hand the army chief of the party sisi the security forces in the form of the ministry of interior who really want to get rid of the sit ins on the other hand the more liberal and secular forces in the government like the vice president today who are pushing for more democratic reconciliation however the situation is still tense the protesters themselves are building barricades around their systems they have early warning systems they have a system whereby can people can. leave the city no should be attacked but they are remaining defiant to determine to stay put i spoke to protesters yesterday who showed me their new bathrooms they've built generators they've got it in case there's a seize a seizure on this instance because you have kitchens and they're building homes so they're really settling in for the long term so this deadlock continues as the violence is escalating russian response to arks of is seeking to turn the winter olympics into approaches ground against a long homosexuality propaganda to minors the interior ministry says no that is all spectators will suffer as a res

you have the ministry of interior announcing a couple of days ago that the egyptian cia is back, and that definitely raises some fear that the old regime with the police court is back. if the military has the best interests of the state in mind, that they will try to not reinstate the military state or a police state. >> thank you very much. >> we stay in the middle east where israel has reported that it intercepted rocket fire from lebanon on thursday. it also said that two or three other rockets came down outside israeli territory. >> there were no casualties reported, but israeli tv show troppo the damage. rockets were fired from an area that is a hezbollah stronghold. there was no immediate claim of responsibility, but israel blamed what it called a global jihad he -- jihadi organization. row after row of corpses -- that is the latest product of syria's civil war. >> opposition forces say hundreds of people were killed in a chemical attack outside of damascus on wednesday. the french have raised the possibility of using force if the allegations prove to be true. >> in berlin, the

that comes off the back of an attempted prison break, we understand from the egyptian ministry of interior, where 36 supporters of president mohamed morsi were killed. the violence is likely to flare further. the discussion about u.s. financial assistance to egypt's military, a tune of $1.3 billion. but here's the drawback. perhaps now the saudi foreign minister making it clear that any threats in terms of cutting assistance would be met with a reaction from saudi arabia. they're happy to fill that gap. in other development, news that before mubarak may be habl to walk free, according to his defense lawyer, experts i talked to said it is unlikely to happen giving the political tensions in this country. for "nightly business report," cairo. >> the unrest in egypt is impacting shares of apache. the oil and natural gas giant has 17% of its net asset value and operations in egypt. shares of apache fell 4.5% today following a downgrade from buy to hold because of its exposure to egypt. no comment, though, from apache. >>> still ahead, google's stock has soared since it started trading nine year