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in february, 2011, the second in june, 2012 and the july, 2013 with when the deposed president mohamed morsi along with the speaker of parliament and dozens of other m.p.'s were jailed. sunday, session opening represents the completion of a political plan adopted since the removal of morsi in a military coup. m.p.'s took an oath and moved on deciding to know a speaker and two deputies. their first task to debate and pass at least 241 laws that have already been put into effect by presidential decree over the last few years, including those restricting street protest and an anti terrorism law that limits press freedoms and gives police widespread powers. many expect the new parliament, which is packed with politicians who party president sisi to rubber stamp those laws. >> sisi would use this parliament as a tool to advance his legitimacy internationally because he believes to have this parliament will mean stability in egypt. it's very important instrument for sisi to say that we have legitimacy, some sort of political process in egypt. >> sunday's session has been hailed by sisi as the clim

initially the muslim brotherhood government of mohammed morsi mubaraks successor until it was overthrown by the egyptian army. a military government under former general abdel fatah el-sisi took charge. eleanor clift brought a semblance -- el-sisi brought a semblance of stability to egypt, but his government has also imposed political repression on democracy activists and islamist political movements. forin a disconcerting trend the united states egypts traditional closest ally president el-sisi is openly building a diplomatic and military pact with russia. what explains russian-egyptian relationship? eleanor: i think because el-sisi's human rights violations are much greater than anything mubarak ever did. i think he's worried that the considerable aid he gets from the u.s. might be in danger. he's hedging his bets. pat: i think ell nor is basically right. this fellow is a hardline military dictator in the line of nasar and assad and the rest of them. i think he sees president obama basically appearing to withdrawal graurgely in the middle east, having been burnt in all these places and

remember the very constitution of egypt now that was passed after the--after the overthrow of mohamed morsi in 2014. the constitution recognizes january 25, 2011, as a legitimate revolution. and there has been some minor celebrations particularly reflecting the fact that january 25th is police day. certainly nothing on the streets, and that reflects the government's concern with tampering down any spark of instability. >> coming to power there are huge grounds of popularity. is he so rock solid there? >> i have seen opinion polls in egypt that do accord el-sisi popularity well into 60%. i think the president's popularity is high. that's different, of course, than saying he's rock solid. several commentators in the last few days and answer visitor can recognize the fact that if you flip on the television in egypt there is a lot of dissent regarding the current government. you can watch anchors who were previously in favor of el-sisi now critical of sisi and the government more broadly. that suggests a fracturing in a sisi coalition. i think that would only further suggest to the current gove

organization has actually been doing things, challenging the authority of the egyptian state even before mohammed morsy thing we know about revolutionary upheavals, the kind that tunisia, yemen and libya experienced, it's often with an explosion of violence and instability. it's clear that the egyptian military saw this, which even dated -- was existing during mo morsey's time. and so a lot of their oppressive actions today need to be understood in that light, that they are basically seeing themselves as shoring up the egyptian state against this season of instability, which has claimed so many other arab nations, most recently syria. >> certainly hundreds of thousands that we saw in tahrir square and when we would see the upclose interviews, often young, idealistic, democratically minded people, where have they gone? what do they think of what has happened to egypt? >> that was a very different time. at that time, we saw a cross section of society. i remember when mubarak stepped down, speaking to a 60-year-old professor who wept in the square saying that finally he had a voice. today, this is a very

then, during the presidency of mohamed morsi, one of the studios in the square was fire bombed whilehe security forces looked on. then in july of the same year, hours after egypt's military carried out a coup, security is forces stormed. forcing the channel to go off air. by the end of that year, five aljazeera journalists were languishing behind bars. they were all in jail for no other crime than working as journalists for the company-based network. prior to their arrests, other journalists had been detained and released arbitrarily in what is the most systematic crackdown that any news network has experienced in egypt. since then, the network has been constantly jammed. an independent satellite specialist tracked the source of the jamming equipment to military installations across cairo. all of this with the settlement for investment disputes in 2014. the network then gave the egyptian government a 12-month grace period on top of the six months required to engage in settlement discussions. 18 months have gone by, and yet the egyptian government has refuse to communicate positively

then during the president of mohammed morsi, one of the network's studios was fire bombed as securityoked on. then in july of the same year, just hours after egypt's military carried out a coup ousting the country's first democratically elected president, security forces stormed al jazeera's offices during a live broadcast. forcing the chan toll go off here. by the end of the year, five journalists were behind bars. they were all in jail for no other crime than working as journalists for the qatari-based yet -- network. added to that, since the january revolution, the network satellite signals have constantly been jammed. an investigation tracked the source of the jamming equipment to military installations across cairo. all of this lead to al jazeera filing a case at the international center for settlement of investment dispute in 2014. the body tasked with settling international business disputes. 18 months have gone by, yet the egyptian government has refused to communicate positively with al jazeera. the network claim is based on the 1999 qatar, egypt investigate treaty: al jazeer

. >> later he was also supporting mohamed morsi, the head of the muslim brotherhood who once referred to israelis as the descendants of apes and pigs. let me ask you this question. i am livid that after vietnam we pulled out 58 million americans died there, then this president pulls out early in mosul, tikrit and fallujah and ramadi end up in the hands of isis. it seems to me that if we're going to ask american men and women to risk their lives and shed their blood and lose their limbs, that we ought to define victory. we keep allowing politics to be seen through the -- we keep allowing war to be seen through the prism of politics. and if i'm the mother or father of a kid that lost their lives in one of those city, i'm saying why. do we need to change how we approach war in this country? >> i think we do. i think we need to, first of all, be -- be much more careful about when we use military force and then use it overwhelmingly. we really only won one war since world war ii, and that was the first gulf war. >> yep. >> and that was because -- >> overwhelming force. >> president bush sr

have been tumultuous and difficult in egypt: with a presidential election in 2012, that brought mohammed morsithe muslim brotherhood to power. then the military-led removal and imprisonment of morsi in 2013. and the subsequent election of the general who unseated morsi, the current president, abdel fatah al-sisi. egyptians today are marking a somber and tense anniversary. for more we turn to hari sreenivanan. >> sreenivasan: joining me now is newshour special correspondent in kie ro. nick, you have reported from the regon mul pel times over the past few years. here are you on this anniversary. what did you see today. >> yeah, hari, we saw an absolute crackdown in what usually is one of the world's busiest cities. an extraordinary amount of police guarding stations, guarding government buildings, but also guarding anywhere where demonstrators might actually come together. and we saw that especially in tarr ear square this afternoon. we met a few hundred people, the only people allowed in the square today were prosisi demonstrators. and we spoke to them and a few of them toll me they believe onl

so then in june of 2012, mohammed morrissey came to power. he -- morsi came to power. he is the face and may still be the voice of the muslim brotherhood. as morsi came to power, we began to see how the muslim brotherhood would rule egypt. the protests died down for a while and then ramped back up again, mr. speaker. they got worse and worse and worse and more intense. and so, the protests accelerated, by january 25 of 2013, there were many protests, egypt was under more or less a very difficult -- was difficult to govern and rule because of the protests against morsi, because of the way morsi had mishandled government and the way the muslim brotherhood, with their heavy hand, had worked against many of the egypt people. they didn't see a prospect any longer that morsi, who was a duly elected president and i believe the number was 4.6 million egyptians came to the polls out of 3 million egyptians altogether. it was a low percentage of turnout but they saw him get elected. then as he essentially disempowered the legislature and disempowered the judicial branch of govern