when mr. morsi was in power with the muslim brotherhood, we had no assurances that the alliance between our two countries would continue. we had no assurances that the peace treaty with israel would continue. we had some assurances but it was lukewarm and half-baked. tunnels forof instance going from egypt into the hamas terrorist carry out. that was not done under the previous administration. i think you have to temper it. mistake.t was a i think it should not have been done. family.t things in a there were times it you have disagreements with your spouse or your children or parents or what ever. you try to look at the big picture. you do not adjust/break ties. ties but did not break i think particularly with egypt, we had to be very careful. we have to get it right in egypt. i would prefer to engage the military rather than punch them, which i think makes it harder to engage them. >> do you think the military is really responding to any of our jesters, -- gesutretures? they seem to be operating wi

by that of course they mean mr. morsi.o this could be the first sign perhaps of a more conciliatory approach, both by the muslim brotherhood and the anti-coup alliance, so that is perhaps a significant development today. >> so they are not now asking for the release of morsi? and i should remind our viewers that morsi is being held in an unnamed prison facing charges of murder this. >> reporter: indeed, he is facing charges of incitement of murder, which refers back to an incident where ten people were killed in clashes, and his trial is to start on the 4th of november. i don't think we can say clearly that they are not calling for the release of the deposed president. it's more important to point out they are not calling for the return of the deposed president. i.e., they are not calling for him to be put back in office. at the moment, this is the statement by a leading figure inside the muslim brotherhood, it's not an official policy by the brotherhood. and there is a distinction to make between those two positions. >> o

but this failure to mention the return of mr. morsio his position might be a conciliatory gesture. >> all right. thank you. >>> the noble watchdog tasked with trying to destroy the syriian government's chemical weapon stockpile has won the nobel peace prize. >> they have largely worked out of the limelight until now. the committee has now shown a spotlight on the war in syria and efforts to rid the world of chemical weapons. >> reporter: people here are extremely pleased and proud. as you were saying i think they feel within the organization that they have gone about their work in a very discrete way for more than a decade now, diplomats in the hague calling them unsung heroes. let's look back at the day's events. perhaps the only predictable aspect of this prize is that it rarely goes to any of the anticipated favorites, and so it proved again this year. >> the nobel peace prize for 2013 is to be awarded to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, opcw, for its extensive work for eliminating chemical weapons. >> repor

of course, mr. morsi has been held in detention at an undisclosed location since he was arrested by the military here on july 3rd. he's been detained ever since. he's been allowed to speak to his family just once during the detention. katherine ashton has managed to see him as well, but he haven the had much chance to speak to his family members. he's charged with committing encitement to murder and committing murder. it's down to something that happened last december outside of the presidential palace. there was violence and seven people killed. that's what they're putting him on trial for. of course, the rest of the world will be watching to see how this trial is conducted. >> thank you very much for that update. that's our correspondent joining us from cairo. >>> still to come on al jazeera, the united nations, haiti's cholera victims are asking for compensation. >>> they're making progress as they try to break into the indian retail sector. we'll have the latest details coming up. >>> the boston red s

given how mr. morsi and the muslim brotherhood ran egypt, it is much more important and better to engage with the military than the muslim brotherhood. the white house is reluctant to say there was a coup in egypt . was it a cool? > -- at coup? what would you call it? say?would >> i do not know if i would call it a coup. to administration is trying walk that middle path. they do not want to call it a coup. they do not want to condone it. what they did this week was to go down that middle path. middleree with what the path is. i think it is better to egypt to engage. if you call it a coup and cut off aid, you are cutting off your nose to spite your face. >> you can watch that interview with representative engel in new york -- of new york at 10:00 eastern and 6 p.m. on c-span. us what off by giving you saw with the press and the media and that world. how did you view them? hostility,with some which is a natural state of affairs between the white house and the press corps. that is just the nature of what th

given the two choices and given how mr. morsi under the muslim brotherhood ran in egypt, i think it is more important and better to engage with the military than the muslim brotherhood. >> the white house has been reluctant to say a coup took place in egypt. what happened? you could say it was a coup or give excuses and say it was really that morsi was elected, but he co-opted it and tried to derail egyptian democracy. >> what would you call it? >> i would say -- i do not know if i would call it a coup but i think it is a semantics question. i think what the administration is trying to do is they are trying to walk a middle path. they do not want to call it a coup. on the other hand, they do not want to condone it. trying to find a middle path. what they did this week was to go down the middle path. i disagree with what a mill -- middle path is. it is better to keep egypt engaged. you call it a coup, and you cut off aid, that is cutting off your nose to spite your face. it will come back to bite us in the and and i do not think i

given how mr. morsind the muslim brotherhood ran egypt, it is much more important and better to engage with the military than the muslim brotherhood. >> the administration is reluctant to say there was a c oup in egypt. would you call it a coup? derailed egyptian democracy. >> what would you call it? >> i do not know if i would call it a coup. what the administration is trying to do is walk that middle path. they do not want to call it a coup. they do not want to condone it. what they did this week was to go down that middle path. what the middle path is. it is better to keep egypt engaged. and cutall it a coup off aid, that is cutting off your nose to spite your face. i will come back to bite us in the end. >> "washington journal" continues. is carolineg us now dewaal. she is a food safety director. thanks for joining us. a lot of discussion about food safety in light of the shutdown. give us an idea of what is happening. guest: there is good news and bad news. law thatof the 1906 requires it, meat insp

egyptian security forces stormed to cairo incumbents ousted mr brotherhood president mohamed morsi back in august tends to tone down over six hundred people killed a month on brotherhood activists like mustafa say they have been driven underground because. i have started to hide my identity every day i shave my beard i have a second phone number that has to be changed and so it's not dropped now i can live in my apartment if i move from one place to another life has become very difficult for over a month this was the site of one of kyrie's main sit ins off the august body dispersed by security forces it's become just a busy street since that day for many missing by their activists like mr they say their own able to attend rallies and their leaders are in jail or in hiding with last week's courts or whatever. there is a brotherhood many fear this crackdown will just get worse. rights organization say the military led government is being too harsh. all of the activities of the muslim brotherhood. and its fusions or its. related to the muslim brotherhood this is of course so that as a coll

a stake in a political activist jong raise mr aris thank you very much indeed we appreciate it thank you. supporters of egypt's ousted president mohamed morsi how to run in cairo is to have a square for the first time that over two months it resulted in clashes with police and and to islamist crowds the muslim brotherhood is accusing the army of escalation a crime down on their activities while the military says it wants to hound back power to a new government belcher reports now from cairo. egyptian security forces stormed to cairo incumbents for ousted muslim brotherhood president mohamed morsi back in august tents are torn down over six hundred people are killed a month on brotherhood activists like mr. say they have been driven underground. have started to hide my identity every day i shave my beard i have a second phone number that has to be changed so it's not tracked now i can live in my apartment if i move from one place to another life has become very difficult for over a month this was the site of one of cairo's main pro morsi citizens after august body dispersal by security forces it's become just a busy street since that day for

celebrate what he said was a national day of pride and they didn't want to see mr brotherhood people here full support from him and morsy causing trouble simply i mean he was basically there on the streets and extremely bloody there were lots of people being dragged to the frontlines with point severe injuries in addition to being beaten quite heavily by people who were i mean dealing with the security forces and supporters of the military so what we're seeing at the moment is extremely divided egypt as these clashes continue to go into the ring to trust the different parts of the country is there you see them moving. if you support the ministry vowed to come to the streets in celebration and that if you want one hundred more seats come back into power to saying they're not going to back down we're going to see how this progresses the next few days are supposed to have a new constitution in the next week we're supposed to have elections how might the possibly happen when this violence continues and as great as yet to be seen. through we live in cairo well thank you very much indeed for that update thank you appreciate i

ousted muslim brotherhood president mohamed morsi back in august tents are torn down over six hundred people are killed a month on brotherhood activists like mr. say they have been driven underground. i have started to hide my identity every day i shave my beard i have a second phone number that has to be changed and show it's not tracked now i can live in my apartment i moved from one place to another life has become very difficult for over a month this was the site of one of cairo's main pro morsi citizens after august body dispersal by security forces it's become just a busy street since that day for many missing by their activists like mr furze they say they aren't able to attend rallies and their leaders are in jail or in hiding with last week's court order banning them as a brotherhood many fear this crackdown will just get worse. egyptian human rights organizations say the military led government is being too harsh. all of the activities of the muslim brotherhood. and it's. related to the muslim brotherhood this is a week of course so that as a collective punishment restrictions. muslim brotherhood or anything but supporters of the int

revolution it's a people's revolution and what morsi did turned it into a religious revolution and a political party revolution and that's why he had the war but mr if been the history of fridge if there or a pretty much any other country when you try to suppress any particular are geology regardless of its content it becomes more radicalized on the ground so if you think that getting rid of mohamed morsi in in this way is acceptable why would one piece supporters tried to do a similar thing i mean they can turn to the streets next year. they have the right to come and they think they have the right resort to. or to find out and. attempt to their no no and resorted to violence and no one i mean look in in a proper state those who have the right to hold arms are two entities it's the ministry of interior and the ministry of defense and when you protect when you defend your political movement or political ideology through holding guns and pointing them ad our army officers and soldiers and then and policeman then you know you're no longer have a political case you have a criminal case isn't that what was happening in a jiffy in two thousand and ele

one of cairo's main pro morsy sit ins off the august body dispersal by security forces it's become just a busy street since that day for many muslim brotherhood activists like mr furze they say they're on able to attend rallies and their leaders are in jail or in hiding with last week's court order banning them as a brotherhood many fear this crackdown will just get worse. egyptian human rights organizations say the military led government is being too harsh and all the activities of the muslim brother all. in its tuition is or it's acute and related to the muslim brotherhood this is a quick of course so that as a collective punishment restrictions. muslim brotherhood also will not lead to anything but supporters of the interim government say there is documented evidence the brotherhood uses violence so silencing its membership they say is necessary to ensure stability and the transition to democracy to help with the ministry in the thirtieth of june revolution which was the second wave of the twenty fifth of january revolution muslim brotherhood killed a lot of egyptians they had no problems killing innocent people they proved they were to push egypt into civ

one of cairo's main pro morsy sit ins after august body dispersal by security forces it's become just a busy street since that day for many missing but there are activists like mr fair they say they aren't able to attend rallies and their leaders are in jail or in hiding with last week's court order banning them as a brotherhood many fear this crackdown will just get worse. egyptian human rights organizations say the military led government is being too harsh. all of the activities of the muslim brotherhood. and it's. related to the muslim brotherhood this is of course so that as a collective punishment restrictions. muslim brotherhood or anything but supporters of the interim government say there is documented evidence the brotherhood uses violence so silencing its membership they say is necessary to ensure stability and the transition to democracy to hang with the ministry in the thirtieth of june revolution which was the second wave of the twenty fifth of january revolution muslim brotherhood killed a lot of egyptians they had no problems killing innocent people they proved they were to push egypt into civil war morsi supporters maintain they are being preve

morsi had violent clashes in cairo. >> joining us now to discuss the latest violence in egypt is mr. christopher swift, professor of national security studies at georgetown university. professor, good morning to you. thanks for being with us. i want to first ask you about the timing of the most recent violence on a national holiday that as i understand it usually celebrate the military, why these deadly clashes? >> well, there are two reasons. the first is that the military regime, the supreme command of the allied armed forces was using the holiday as they have in the past to sort of consolidate their particular vision of egypt and its future where the muslim brotherhood was seeing events as an opportunity to highlight abuses they've experienced from that military regime in the space of the past several months. you can see how these two different groups have two different narratives about the state. >> a lot of nations, you know, this one included, have deep political divisions, and yet egyptians divisions keep ending in these violent crackdowns. what needs to happen for the sides t