mr. greste. he is entitled in a sense to be deported and that should happen immediately, because there is no distinction and the case against mr. mohamed should are drop. 16 other journalists are in prison and no doubt thousands have been in prison simply for supporting the opposition. we still have the cat and mouse game being played successfully by an authoritarian government to chill freedom of speech, so good for mr. fahmy and mr. mohamed today because at least their out of prison. >> we'll be talking to one of those other journalists in just a little while. i want your thoughts what we can expect then from february 23. >> well, one would hope that if there is any justice in egypt and there's precious little, that president al sisi, one would hope there would be better actions from canada than there have been so far that he would support the deportation of the canadian citizen -- >> i'm afraid the line to jeffery robinson seems to have gone away, but i think we got a gist really of what he was

mr. greste is free? >> we like that he's free to rejoin his family and friends. we continue to be concerned about the other journalists. there's no reason for them to continue to be jailed. we'll continue to pray for their release. >> i know this isn't over. mr. greste's lawyer says that egypt considers this an extra addition so legally speaking something will need to be done on the australian side. what does that mean? >> it does remain unclear. the president gave himself powers in about september last year to enable him to deport or extra indict foreigners facing extra -- ex-tradi at the d. it's unclear whether the charges will be droppeded. >> the australian government of able to milk this happen-- make this happen the other journalists, you wonder the prospects for them considering their different nationalities. >> it's obviously much harder. but i know the canadian government has been lobbying. they have had a meeting recently between the canadian foreign minister and egyptian government. there's been talk that they are waiting to whether they will strip fah

after an unfair trial to 7 years imprisonment which was barbaric and peter greste now - he's been deported because he's a foreigner. mr mohamed fadel fahmy shed his duel egyptian citizenship and is a canadian. that's been in the egyptian gazette. so he should automatically as a matter of logic and law. should follow peter greste. that will leave the al jazeera, baher mohamed to face a ludicrous allegation that he's a terrorist. >> from the back of the court, i have to say thank you. i have to say thank you. summing up for the defense, very eloquently and malifluously jeffrey robertson qc. we'll get back to you later if and when we get good news. >> leading marine scientists said this year could mark a devastating breach of coral and marine life. one of the most important coral reefs face destruction. >> for decades the landscape has been the focus of study. a marine scientist and cop vervesist is working to protect the area. it's home to coral, 3,000 different kinds of fish and a host of marine life. >> it's a home for fish. feeding for fish. coral reef is like shelter in the desert. >> the climate change is warming t

mr. greste is full blooded australian so there is absolutely no difference to i hope the decent and logical thing will be done in the next week and mr. fahmy on his why to his home in canada. today's proceedings do, for all the happiness i imagine that the families have that they are out on bail, mr. fahmy has to post $33,000, but that won't be difficult, i'm sure, for all that happiness we still face a cat and mouse game being played by the egyptian authorities successfully because they have suppressed any reporting of the opposition to presidency see's authoritarian rule, and that was the whole object of this frame-up of innocent journalists going about doing their job what the egyptian government has succeeded in doing is closing down a brotherhood friendly station in qatar and they have killed the reporting of any kind of opposition to authoritarian rule and that means that this on going farce is not funny at the end of the day because it is a chilling factor on responsible journalism. >> and on february 23, of course these two of our colleagues have to go back into the courtroom. they

they've let peter greste go, but of course, mr. fahmy who's position is exactly the same, he's no longer an egyptian citizen, he's a canadian, seven years imprisonment on trumped up charges, he should follow, and so logically and legally, he should be deported next week, and it will be down to the al jazeera one on february 23 now it's before some very poor, lousy judges. in fact at the first level of egyptian authority who are really government officials and know what the government decides, it can get away with. hopefully in any kind of legal system, you have an appeal court, which earlier this week gave its reasons for quashing the conviction of the al jazeera three. it said there was no evidence of terrorism. there was no evidence of any connection with the banned muslim brotherhood so it's the prosecution, which of course is directly linked to the government have any decency or sense of law, they will drop the charges february 23. the court would actually throw them out. we are in a political situation not a legal one. it's as

mr. fahmy is in an identical position to peter greste, the australian who was let at liberty, deport add couple of weeks ago. now, in the interim mr. fahmy should have been deported, because he's in the identical situation as a canadian. he wasn't. today, there were no prosecution witnesses. any judge or team of judges worth their salt would have thrown the prosecution case out. an appeals court has already ruled they have no case. the case should have been thrown out. instead, they have a wait another fort night admittedly, they're on bail, but it's still a breach of liberty to hold mr. fahmy, when he wants to go back to canada, so that they can -- the prosecution can see if it even has any evidence. as i say there was a court of balls ruling last month that said there was no case against them for terrorism or indeed anything else, and so it is just yet another example of the in com pens of the egyptian system, but also with a sense that the court is being manipulated by the government and the cat and mouse game is convenient for it to continue, because it kills journalism coverage of an

mr. mohammed fahmy has to put up $33,000, but as far as he is concerned, there is no difference not a scrap of difference between his case and that of peter greste was released last week. so mr. fahmy who has now renounced his egyptian citizenship, so he is now a fully fledged canadian should be put on a plane to cyprus. so it should be -- perhaps by the 23rd it will be hopefully the al jazeera one, and then of course on the 23rd the court should throw the whole case out, because although the judges at this level are pretty lousy, at the higher level they are much better. >> but let me ask you the fact that the -- the fact that the bail -- >> sure. >> the fact that bail was granted now, why do you think that is? it wasn't granted before. what does that suggest to you? is there a suggestion perhaps that this was a political decision? >> well of course. this is a cat and mouse game that the egyptian authorities are playing with these innocent journalists and have for 411 days. and they have succeeded. diplomacy by australia and canada has been weak and what they have done is chilled reporting of the opposition to this ah her to tearian regime. the

mr. shaveis has stepped down he wants the entire council scrapped. >>> being released after 400 days in an egyptian jail, peter greste says with free done comes incredible angst. he calls on the government to free mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed. >> i can't tell you how relieved i ax at being free. i really didn't expect that we were settling in for a period of months and to be out now today, with just a few moments' notice really, is just extraordinary. but i also feel incredible angst about my colleagues, leaving them behind. i know there's mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed and the seven other people that were convicted alongside us in an ten is an ash ten in absentia. if it's right for me to be free then it's right for all of them to be free. for those to be convicted in absentia to be free of those convictions, it wasn't -- i woke up thinking much about the campaign ahead of us really feeling we were going to have to have an extended stretch in prison and the prison warden said come and pack your stuff? i said what, going to another prison or -- he said no no no, the embassy is coming in about an hour, go and pack

greste. canada calls for the immediate release of mr.my. >> it is said canada needs to push harder for mr. fahmy's freedom. >> i sit here outraged over what has happened in cairo with mr. fahmy. i've thought that the prime minister of this country should ever intervened right away. we've been told over the last many months that there are back channels front channels, but it should be the main channel and that is the prime minister of this country. any other canadian journalist who would be caught in a peculiar circumstance such as this would have been released. it is up to the prime minister to call president al sisi and get something done. he is an egyptian, but a canadians the australian journalist is home and he said if i'm allowed to be free, then we should all be free, and that includes other journalists are in egyptian jails as we speak. >> plenty more still to come here on the news hour. we'll be on the trail of drug traffickers in honduras where the military is targeting the drug trade air strips. >> i'm in the u.s. state of main

mr. fahmy would be released. foreign minister john baird continues to raise his concern with senior egyptian officials. jim munson is a member of the canadian senate, now that peter greste has been returned home, canada needs to push even harder for mohamed fahmy's freedom. >> i sit here outraged what has happened in cairo with mohamed fahmy. i always thought from the get-go that the prime minister from this country should have intervened right away. we have been told over the last many months that there are back channels, there are front channels so on, so forth. but it should be the main channel and the main channel is the prime minister.of prime minister of this country. any other canadian journalist in particular circumstances of this would have been released months ago. talking to president sisi, should get this done. the awfnt journalist is home and said if i'm allowed to be free then we should all be free and that includes other journalists who are in egyptian jails as we speak. >> chinese president xi jinping can set to make his first visit to the is u.s. later this year. they are discussing the visit but no date has been set. last met in september after an econ