before the second anniversary of mass protests which prompted the military to oust former president mohamed morsy dozens gathered in the city of us want to pay their respects at the funeral of one of the men who was executed try to go between the world's two largest economies have been extended through the weekend after progress during the first two days of talks in washington u.s. and chinese officials have been trying to end a seven month long trade war president donald trump has indicated a march first deadline to resolve the dispute could be extended. less with pakistan and that's the message of the pakistani army to end as tensions mount between the nuclear armed neighbors and his military says pakistani intelligence was involved in an attack an indian administered kashmir last week a charge denies at least forty one indian paramilitary troops were killed in the suicide bombing claimed by a pakistan based armed group we have the determination we have the means to the desired end state we can just point to full spectrum. and i hope you get this message and don't mess with constant. indian opp

before the second anniversary of mass protests that prompted the military to oust former president mohamed morsy six others have had their death sentence lifted but will serve life in prison or sane by you me is egypt research at amnesty international he joins us via skype now from tunis thanks very much for being with us so first of all your reaction to this decision. by the authorities in egypt to go ahead with these executions. good afternoon so this is it's read and stirring to see. the sort of g.'s going ahead with the execution of nine men in this case it will always be a monument to seem for stations or just to have executed men after a. completely unfair trial where. people convicted based on confessions that were extracted under torture were extended while songs that were forcibly disappeared and words the defendant were not afforded any sort of. recourse to defend themselves properly so it will always be when you are seen for they have some sort of this and it really falls orton's ongoing executions. have been going through because this is a fifteen's gene meant to have been a few to a

egypt's membership when sisi led the military coup against the democratically elected president mohamed morsi tuffy in hawkeye is a social and political commentator he says president cc's leadership of the a you will prove damaging to democratic ideals on the continent ultimately the choice of having sisi as the leader of the e.u. is a clear indication that although things have changed. although things are supposedly changing the fact is we are. being very rich aggressive we are actually going back to cody the eighty's ninety's type of situation where. their leaders are very reluctant to allow all or human rights to be available to to the people and i think importantly in the fact that sisi. rigged an election wanted by ninety seven ninety eight percent. tells you a lot about hollow the a you will most likely respond to any electoral issues who are in the political issues are all and elections are on the continent and i think this is going to be a very bad year for africa in terms of moving forward. well this year's african union summit is expected to focus largely on refugees and internally

led the military coup against a democratically elected president mohamed morsi. but we've been speaking to taffy marca who is a social and political commentator he says president chairmanship who praised to be damaging to the organizations credibility ultimately the choice of having c.c. as the leader of the e.u. is a clear indication that. things have changed. or things are supposedly changing the fact is we are. being very retrogressive we're actually going back to probably the eighty's ninety's type of situation where. the leaders are very reluctant to allow more human rights to be available to to the people and i think importantly in the fact that sisi virtually rigged an election won it by ninety seven ninety eight percent. tells you a lot about how a you will most likely respond to any electoral issues were any political issues around elections or on the continent and i think this is going to be a very bad year for africa in terms of moving forward for this year the african union theme is refugees returning and the internally displaced people on the contine

egypt's membership when sisi led the military coup against the democratically elected president mohamed morsi toughing hawk-eye is a social and political commentator he says president faces a leadership will prove to be damaging ultimately the choice of having sisi as the leader of the e.u. is a clear indication that although things have changed. although things are supposedly changing the fact is we are. being very rich aggressive we are actually very bad to be the eighty's ninety's type of situation with. their leaders are very reluctant to allow more human rights to be available to to the people and i think importantly in the fact that sisi virtually rigged an election won it by ninety seven ninety eight percent. tells you a lot about how the a you will most likely respond to any electoral issues when you political issues are all and elections are on the continent and i think this is going to be a very bad year for africa in terms of moving forward. well this year's african union summit is expected to focus largely on refugees and internally displaced persons malcolm webb reports from alic

egypt's membership after sisi led a military coup against the democratically elected president mohamed morsi. is a social and political commentator he says presidency says a youth leadership will prove to be damaging to the organization's credibility. ultimately the choice of having c.c. as the leader of the you is a clear indication that. things have changed. things are supposedly changing the fact is we are. being very retrogressive we're actually going back to probably the eighty's ninety's type of situation where. the leaders are very reluctant to allow more human rights to be available to to the people and i think importantly i mean the fact that c c virtually rigged an election won it by ninety seven ninety eight percent. tells you a lot about how a you will most likely respond to any electoral issues were any political issues around elections or on the continent and i think this is going to be a very bad year for africa in terms of moving forward for the theme of the series african union summit as refugees return is and intrinsically displaced people muslim web as at the summit he's j

before the second anniversary of mass protests which prompted the military to oust former president mohamed morsy as are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more news to come carrying the cost as that next. from sunrise to sunset cross asia. the pacific explore untold. stories one on one on al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian forgive me this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week briggs it and cambodia why the u.k.'s exit from the e.u. is having an impact as far away as southeast asia. lebanon has a new government but can it fix what some are calling a zombie economy. also this week why samsung has launched a very pricey folding smartphone and the river was a sacred waterway comes under threat in the philippines. cambodia has been one of the best performing economies in the world over the past two decades but there are threats on the horizon including surprisingly the u.k.'s impending exit from the european union the german development institute a study of how breaks it affects least developed countries it found cambodians living on th

led a military coup against the democratically elected president mohamed morsi let me bring in michael moore now on demand that's going to be you know chairing the african union as off sunday is he the person to chair the african union given his record of human rights violations. well first of all the main reason why president c.c. is now the chair is actually because the chair retakes regionally and it's the turn of north africa well if you look at north africa. libya is in trouble at the moment the president of tunisia is ninety three years old or dear and president is terminally ill and merkel has only just been brought back into the e.u. and that leaves egypt as the most likely. head of state to take it out and maybe that explains why cissy is now the chair that said there you have to try a choice a system whereby all those. presidents if you the chair you have the pinout to make. the incumbent and the incoming chair all acting together presidency is not going to be left on his own to go of time didn't do something strange is going to be managed carefully by the gender which congre

before the second anniversary of mass protests the prompted the military to oust former president mohamed morsy venezuela's military has reaffirmed its model t. to president nicolas maduro despite calls from opposition leader juan why don't and do us president to switch allegiances defense minister vladimir adreno says the armed forces will remain in position along the border with colombia those are the headlines we're back with more after inside story. big brother is watching in china millions of people are being punished for what's considered bad behavior under a government monitoring scheme is this ethical and could it be taken surveillance too far this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. whether we like it or not we are constantly being watched security cameras and smartphones making it easier to monitor our lives china's government wants to take this further by eventually rating everyone on their conduct so called social credit trials are underway in several cities and people accused of bad behavior are being penalized the government said that last year more than seventeen m

suspended egypt after sisi led the military coup against the democratically elected president mohammed morsi. well leaders from a u. members and other world leaders they're all meeting as i say in the capital at this other than our correspondent malcolm webb is there as well american says the african union is really editing. editing. efforts to restructure itself one of the big issues that it has is financing itself isn't it and so all says they're in him playing now this other there are some other rather important and influential people who may be able to help the african union with its goals. so many just a short while ago we heard from president paul kagame of rwanda he's the outgoing chair those reforms have been on on his agenda he's trying to push through as many of the me he can with mixed success on the financing trying to get a situation where all member states will contribute to the cost of the african union but at the moment it does still depend a lot on donations from countries outside of the confidence of looting several european countries also during the opening ceremony we hea

egypt's membership when sisi led the military coup against the democratically elected president mohamed morsi tuffy maka is a political and social commentator he says president sees leadership of the african union will prove damaging to democratic ideals on the continent. ultimately the choice of having sisi as the leader of the e.u. is a clear indication that although things have changed. although things are supposedly changing the fact is we are. being very rich aggressive we're actually going back to be the eighty's ninety's type of situation where. the leaders are very reluctant to allow more human rights to be available to to the people and i think importantly i mean the fact that sisi virtually rigged an election won it by ninety seven ninety eight percent. tells you a lot about how the a you will most likely respond to any electoral issues or any political issues around the elections or on the continent and i think this is going to be a very bad year for africa in terms of moving forward well this has african union summit is expected to focus largely on refugees and internally displace

before the second anniversary of mass protests that prompted the military to oust former president mohamed morsy six others have had their death sentences lifted but will serve life in prison government blame the attack on the muslim brotherhood and gaza based mass but both have denied any involvement. nigerian fuel supplies of cut the price of petrol and of between courage people to travel to vote in presidential elections this saturday a vote was scheduled to take place last saturday but was delayed by a week just a few hours before the polls would you to open both of the main parties of expressed concern that the delay would result in a reduced voter turnout for president obama to bihari who is seeking another term in office have promised to clean up the niger delta which has been devastated by oil spills but for many who live in that region little has changed as harmon tasa now reports people living in this part of the niger delta say they contraband but when the sun was put up all they know is that the water and soil in the area is not safe after decades of oil spills and criminal groups sa

the second anniversary of mass protests which prompted the military to oust the former president mohamed morsy six other people have had their death sentences lifted but will serve life in prison with very concerned by the news from egypt that a turtle of fifteen people have been executed so far in the month of february alone and we're not through the month yet these include nine people were executed on wednesday and six others who are subjected to the death penalty earlier in the month the u.s. president says he'll veto a measure to block the national emergency declaration he issued to build a border wall earlier on friday house democrats introduced a resolution aimed at stopping the declaration with plans to vote on it until tuesday donald trump announced the order last week to free up of billions to pay for his wall in the border with mexico democrats say it's an overreach of presidential power. donald trump says he could extend the deadline to resolve the u.s. trade dispute with china that have been two days of talks in washington d.c. aimed at ending a standoff over tariffs trump's admini

before the second anniversary of mass protests that prompted the military to oust former president mohamed morsy six others have had their death sentences lifted but will serve life in prison. very concerned by the news from egypt that the total of fifteen people have been executed so for in the month of february through the month yet these include nine people were executed on wednesday. and six others who subjected to the death penalty earlier in the month israeli forces have shot dead a palestinian teenager at protests on the gaza border the fifteen year old was shot during the weekly march overturned demonstration at least forty others were injured palestinian protesters are demanding an end to the gaza blockade and the return of refugees to land in what is now israel israeli forces have killed more than two hundred fifty palestinians at the protests in the last year. meanwhile palestinians across the west bank have rallied to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the ibrahimi mosque massacre in hebron on the twenty fifth of february one thousand nine hundred four american israeli settler gold

before the second anniversary of mass protests that prompted the military to oust former president mohamed morsy six others have had their death sentences lifted but will serve life in prison government blamed the attack on the muslim brotherhood and gaza based to mass but both have denied any involvement in the u.k.'s exit from the european union has been thrown into further chaos after three m.p.'s quit the ruling party of the prime minister's breaks it strategy they've joined eight other m.p.'s from the opposition who have formed a new political organization meanwhile british prime minister series m a has just wrapped up talks in brussels where she's been trying to break the deadlock over brics it paul brennan explains. britain and the e.u. are careering towards a bracks a deadline in less than forty days and the political tempo is only becoming more frantic and more uncertain in the british parliament internal party divisions have accelerated into full blown resignations three conservatives now joining eight labor m.p.'s in going independent i also hope it gives courage to members of the gov

before the second anniversary of mass protests that prompted the military to oust former president mohamed morsy six others have had their death sentences lifted but will serve life in prison government blame the attack on the muslim brotherhood and gaza based hamas but both have denied any involvement. police in morocco fired water cannon at teachers protesting against low wages and working conditions several people were also injured when they were beaten by offices thousands demonstrated outside the education ministry in the capital rob but before attempting to move on to the nearby royal palace rallies mark eight years since the birth of morocco's own so-called arab spring protests unlike that country's neighbors moroccans did not bring down their oil ruler but have since mobilize regularly to protest against social injustice. and fuel supplies of cut the price of petrol in a bid to encourage people to travel to vote in presidential elections this saturday it was scheduled to take place last week but was delayed just a few hours before polls would choose to open both of the main parties have

before the second anniversary of mass protests that prompted the military to al's former president mohamed morsy let's go back to al-jazeera now. the word. you. in two thousand and six a serial killer or killers had moved undetected around germany for six years killing seven ethnic turks and one ethnic greek since the murder of envy in nuremberg in two thousand german police had only really come up with one clue in six years. all the victims were killed using a cheshire eighty three pistol and the gun was used again in two thousand and six when a daughter and shop owner was killed. made kobayashi's family was shocked by the idea he might have had maffia connections. as a lost soul is an office task of this man and the fact fared. ten thousand. calls promised him to stand thought as well and nothing. that as an ally love the stuff that's was less than an ace. often is that if you alter those bob or you. are going to come out their toes are going to vent here in new york and they are wrong good time too much influence through. all the learning when to shut down all those who learned over two days

before the second anniversary of mass protests which prompted the military to former president mohamed morsi six of those have had their death sentences lifted but they will serve life in prison. we're very concerned by the news from egypt that a turtle of fifteen people have been executed so far in the month of february alone and we're not through the month yet these include nine people were executed on wednesday and six others who are subjected to the death penalty earlier in the month but lisa fired tear gas at hundreds of people protesting against plans by r.g.b. as president to seek a fifth term crowd chanted no beautifully go marching in the capital of gere's eighty one year old abdelaziz bouteflika has been in office since one thousand nine hundred ninety nine he will contest the election in april the eighteenth despite concerns about his health has been seen in public only a handful of times since he had a stroke in twenty thirteen. dozens of nigerians are getting ready to travel across the country for the second time in a week to take part in saturday's delayed presidential election

egypt's membership when he led the military coup against the democratically elected president mohamed morsi let's speak to. this is a social and political commentator base in johannesburg south africa joins us via skype on the news i thank you so much for being with us so abdel fattah el-sisi is not going to be at the helm of the same organization that kicked him out in twenty thirty and gave him the cold shoulder what does this say about the african union as an organization in a african leaders at all disturbed by egypt taking this job. i don't think they're disturbed but i think the move does take this back to. and there which we are trying to get past and i think having a leader who has no respect for human rights. having a leader who has been involved in the type of murderous shenanigans the president is been guilty of in the past i think really. drives a big blow to african democracy and to progressive politics or on the continent the current state in egypt certainly is no different to to that of the mubarak era our freedoms are limited democracy has been shelved so how does the africa

approval rating at about fifty percent which was about the same as the president that he ousted mohamed morsi. and on the economy quickly it's true that some of the macro level measures show that egypt has improved but at the micro level which is what timothy was speaking about for the average egyptian things have become almost unbearable to me think held us in cairo are we also saying that his true ability to carry on as president of egypt really comes down to says three things i guess trumps patronage because you already talked about the u.s. administration and also the american and the israeli belief that he can keep a lid on the country because that's got to be a mirroring function of their strategic interests in the region i don't think i would limit his longevity to external support and is a lot of internal variables within the government the different centers of power within the regime and how everything gets negotiated he has been very effective at consolidating that power and putting loyalists and very powerful positions such as minister of defense head of intelligence service center

led a military coup against the democratically elected president mohamed morsi let me bring in michael more now on the man that's going to be you know chairing the african union as off sunday is he the person to chair the african union given his record of human rights violations. well first of all the main reason why president c.c. is now the chair is actually because the chair retakes regionally and it's the title of north africa well if you look at not africa. libya is in trouble at the moment the president of tunisia is ninety three years old or syrian president is terminally ill and merkel has only just been brought back into the e.u. and that leaves egypt as the most likely. head of state to take it out and maybe that explains why cissy is now the chair that said there you have to try a choice a system whereby all those. presidents if you the chair you have the pinout to make. the incumbent and the incoming chair all acting together presidency is not going to be left on his own to go of time then to do something strange is going to be managed carefully by the gender which congress

led a military coup against the democratically elected president mohamed morsi let me bring in michael more now on the man that's going to be you know chairing the african union as off sunday is he the person to chair the african union given his record of human rights violations. well first of all the main reason why president c.c. is now the chair is actually because the chair repeats regionally and it's the title of north africa well if you look at not africa. libya is in trouble at the moment the president of to mr east ninety three years old or syrian president is terminally ill and merkel has only just been brought back into the e.u. and that leaves egypt as the most likely. head of state to take it out and maybe that explains why cissy is now the chair that said there you have to try a choice a system whereby all those. presidents if you the chair you have the pinout to make. the incumbent and the incoming chair all acting together presidency is not going to be left on the zone to go of time then to do something strange is going to be managed carefully by their gender which congr

the second anniversary of mass protests that prompted the military to oust the former president mohammed morsy six others have had their death sentence lifted that will serve life in prison the government blamed the attack on the muslim brotherhood and girls of based hamas both have denied any involvement. a british teenager who joined eisel in syria when she was just fifteen years old is apparently going to lose u.k. citizenship shamima big or lose one of three girls from east london who went to syria in twenty fifteen it's reported an order has been made by the british home office to remove her citizenship and just days ago she gave birth to a son in a syrian refugee camp her lawyer has indicated that they will fight the decision live that our correspondent needs barkha in london the need this is an issue isn't it that is absorbing the people of the united kingdom do we know for sure that sajid javid the home secretary is going to take away his citizenship. it appears that way but it's a bit of a legal minefield of the nineteen year old as you mentioned gave birth to a baby son over the week

before the second anniversary of mass protests that prompted the military to oust former president mohamed morsy six others have had that death sentence is lifted but will life in prison the government blame the attack on the muslim brotherhood and gaza based to mass but both have denied any involvement police in morocco five water canon it teaches protesting against low wages and working conditions several people were also injured when they were beaten by offices thousands demonstrated outside the education ministry in the capital rough but before attempting to move on to the nearby voile palace. eight years since the birth of morocco's own so-called arab spring protests but unlike their country's neighbors moroccans did not bring down their royal hula but have since mobilised regularly to protest against social injustice now to nigeria where fuel supplies of cut the price of petrol in the between courage people to travel to vote in presidential elections this saturday the vote was scheduled to take place last week was delayed just a few hours before polls would open both of the main parties ha

approval rating at about fifty percent which was about the same as the president that he ousted mohamed morsi. and on the economy quickly it's true that some of the macro level measures show that egypt has improved but at the micro level which is what timothy was speaking about for the average egyptian things have become almost unbearable timothy held us in cairo are we also saying that his true ability to carry on as president of egypt really comes down to three things i guess trumps patronage because you already talked about the u.s. administration and also the american and the israeli belief that he can keep a lid on the country because that's got to be a mirroring function of their strategic interests in the region i don't think i would limit his longevity to external support and is a lot of internal variables within the government the different centers of power within the regime and how everything gets negotiated he has been very effective at consolidating that power and putting loyalists and very powerful positions such as minister of defense head of the intelligence service center. tha

egypt's membership when sisi led the military coup against the democratically elected president mohamed morsi let's speak to adam again about this he's a journalist and africa analyst he previously was the director of information at the economic community of west african states he is rise cut from the car very good to have you on the program so is this a diplomatic coup for abdel fatah sisi he's now going to be at the helm of the same organization that kicked him out gave him the cold shoulder are african media if at all disturbed by this. in this. changing. democracy itself if. so be. it physical difficulties we have seen it see it in many places including. florida elections as a loop we saw the first account of the syrian people be better than believe it to or those that go today. so how does. whether you call me or sissy forms of or defragment the leaders did not cause the the others of course the time when democracy was really a right thing is that you got in that you. also from two thousand can do does the. arabs think that you that somehow seems to be receding well i don't believe that