would basically you know these things it was quite surprising that you know that mubarak would fall that quickly the price was high but we thought it would be much and so on so what's happening in egypt is that what we expected should happen like i mean we are. we would have expected that. something. over a year. so that year that didn't happen with mubarak is happening with the military and people after the initial moment of thinking you know the military might just decide to. retain its unity and status by not engaging and not to take protecting that he is actually the meat to the is the quote of the regime sort of. against. the revolutionary groups in brain and the people who supported these protests movements embrace being well. to scared to act. a fraction of that pathetic. who's left to still be pushing forward while still

during mubarak's times in work and not much larger number now in force it's appearances used to have been two but not on that scale as you were nuts and norm what we are seeing now is that six steps that is becomes a norm so unfair trials that would affect some some people or not not a relatively large group if you mubarak now we are seeing is that there are fifteen thousand tens of thousands we're seeing. under prison egypt is becoming is moving towards. and institutionalizing the number of these lesions and amendments in the institutions that actually makes exceptions and norms for example resist recent them in minutes. spending semiliterate drugs for civilians to be included and not only mean clinton's constitution as we've seen earlier but actually to fix it now when you can be child in front of the military for for something as simple as having a fight in a. military or being one of the property that is on the protection of the military soon now we are seeing the situation like the human rights violations are like multiplying and silence over sentiments of community to work to a

trying to use this referendum to consolidate his powers and of allah mubarak are are people in egypt are they worried about just how much power they have now given their present well i mean it certainly can saying there are people that say that they feel that this will more or less allow sisi to become president for life much in the style of mubarak and he say. that you know though these amendments and posts only allowed things will until twenty thirty that there is already the prospects that the constitution could be changed again before that happens to allow into same calories for. the changes do you increase his control over the judiciary i mean also increase in military has grown from six mean trying to military from gardening to democracy it is admirable in some way that he may even end up having more power with barak. or journalist ruth michelson with the latest from cairo tonight thank you very much sports news male soccer where rb reached their first german cup final ever thinks with three one away when its second division elf it as the amber lights flying high in the bundesl

during mubarak's times in work to come up much larger number now enforce its appearance is used to have been to but not on that scale as you were nuts and norm what we are seeing now is that six steps that is becomes a norm so unfair trials that we affect some some people or not not a relatively large group you mubarak now we are seeing is that there are fifteen thousand tens of thousands we are seeing. under present egypt is becoming is moving towards. and institutionalizing the number of these lesions and amendments in the institutions that actually makes exceptions and norms for example resist recent them in minutes. spending semiliterate drugs for civilians to be included and not only mean clinton's constitution as we've seen earlier but actually to fix it now when you can be child in front of the military for for something as simple as having a fight in a. military or being one of our property is that this on the protection of the military soon now we're seeing the situation like the human rights violations are like multiplying and silence over sentiments of community to work to a

during mubarak's times in work to come up much larger number now enforce its appearance is used to have been to but not on that scale as you were nuts and norm what we are seeing now is that six steps that is becomes a norm so unfair trials that would affect some some people or not not a relatively large group if you mubarak now we are seeing is that there are fifteen thousand tens of thousands we are seeing. under present egypt is becoming is moving towards. and institutionalizing the number of these lesions and amendments in the institutions that actually makes exceptions and norms for example who resists recent them in minutes. spending semiliterate drugs for civilians to be included and not only mean clinton's constitution as we've seen earlier but actually to fix it now when you can be child in front of the military for for something as simple as having a fight in a. military or being one of our property is that this on the protection of the military soon now we're seeing the situation like the human rights violations are like multiplying and silence over sentiments of community to

a former air force commander hosni mubarak had been the face of egypt's military dictatorship since one nine hundred eighty one. he was gone but his military regime remains largely intact. when the muslim brotherhood's candidate mohamed morsi became egypt's first democratically elected president the military worked to undermine him from day one . by concentrating power in his own hands and with the economy in freefall morsi lost the support of many egyptians. many egyptians who had supported the idea of the ouster of president mubarak suddenly turned around and said hold on this is also not what we want and suddenly you had a brand new type of conflict inside egyptian society. when hundreds of thousands of protesters poured into the streets on the first anniversary of morsi is election the egyptian military exploited the situation to remove. l.c.c. who morsi had put in charge of the army gave him forty eight hours to come up with a political solution. both morsi himself and his senior advisers did not see this coming they knew there was opposition they knew that there was this can and b

movement and that is that they actually had to be considerably more repressive and then the previous mubarak regime they don't want to allow even a small chance for another kind of popular uprising and that's why all the direct connie and legislation that's why the complete elimination of opposition that's why the shutting down of opposition media just this week the egyptian government has shut down thirty four thousand web site domains. owned by people who were advocating the no vote in this in this amendment this referendum. in an apparent reversal of u.s. policy president donald trump has offered support to libyan warlords that he's been leading a military offensive against the un recognized government in tripoli after fighting what he called terrorism and securing libya's oil earlier this month secretary of state demanded an immediate halt in the capital. led to protests in tripoli they're angry about foreign interference in libya.

it is arguable in some way that hehe may havave more power than mubarak ever did.rent: journalist ruth michaelson with the latesest frm cairo tonight. thank you very much. in soccer news, the women's world cup kicks off in france in june. one team will be there for only the secondnd time, argentina. it is a far cry from the success of thehe men's team. some blame a lack of investment and a lack of interest in women's football at both club and national levels. reporter: another day on the boca juniors training pitch in buenos aires. despite their rigorous schedule and the fact they play for one of south america's top clubs, these footballers do not receive a proper wage. the argentinian football association announced just last month that the 16 women's teams in the top league will turn professional in june. but even then, not every player in those teams will be paid. >> it i is very difficult for a woman to play football on april level. ---- on a a pro level. when you work or study at the me timimyou cannotot give 100%. it so happens the women's national team does n

is significant and it will consolidate power effectively making him president for life just like mubarak had become when they threw him out in two thousand and eleven and the criticism. has been did this this move these measures move egypt towards more

acted on behalf of the people and they did that in two thousand and eleven when they removed hosni mubarak at that time. they did and it's very important what militaries do in times of popular protest as we saw in tunisia as we're seeing now in algeria and sudan and they can play a positive role they can play a negative role there can play a mixed role in egypt in two thousand and eleven they played a positive role and on june thirtieth of two thousand and thirteen they played a positive role it was on july third of two thousand and thirteen that they took over and they have led egypt in a direction that's even more authoritarian with an even larger role for the egyptian military in the economy up to forty percent control of the economy now i'm precedented new gypped then we've seen before so what militaries do really really

led a military coup against the man elected to replace mubarak mohamed morsi and was him self elected president in two thousand and fourteen. since then l.c.c. has ruled egypt with increasing severity. human rights groups estimate he has jailed some sixty thousand people on political charges and staged unfair lections to remain in power. public criticism of l.c.c. has become nearly impossible. nevertheless l.c.c. remains a key ally for western governments keen on defending their interests in the volatile region among those interests fighting islamic fundamentalism. the egyptian leader was in washington just two weeks ago to discuss military ties and trade with u.s. president donald trump president thank you very much my friend because even for many egyptian activists however the referendum is a blatant power grab and the end of aspirations for a peaceful and democratic transfer of power. now to some of the other stories making news around the world an attack is ongoing in the afghan capital kabul close to the communications ministry and one of the city's main hotels so far no casualti

in twenty eleven sisi led a military coup against a man elected to replace mubarak mohammed morsi and was himself elected president in twenty fourteen since then c.c. has ruled egypt with increasing severity. human rights groups estimate he's jailed some sixty thousand people on political charges and staged unfair elections to remain in power public criticism of the c.c. has become nearly impossible. nevertheless r.c.c. remains a key ally for western governments keen to defend their interests in the volatile region among those interests fighting islamic fundamentalism. the egyptian leader was in washington just two weeks ago to discuss military ties and trade with the us president donald trump for many egyptian activists however the referendum is a blatant power grab and the end of aspirations for a peaceful and democratic transfer of power. today marks twenty years since the columbine high school massacre in the u.s. when two students armed with guns and homemade explosives killed thirteen people on that tuesday morning the school in littleton colorado rose to tragic fame around the

trying to use this referendum to consolidate his powers and of all the mubarak are are people in egypt are they worried about just how much power they have now given their president well i mean it certainly consigning there are people that say that they feel that this will more or less allow sisi to become president for life much in the style of mubarak and he say. that you know what though these amendments are supposed to only allow him to rule until twenty thirty that there is already the prospects that the constitution would be changed again before that happens to allow him to same calories for. the changes do you increase his control over the judiciary and he also increase the military's role in the sickly shrine the military the guardians of democracy it is admirable in some way that he may even end up having more power with barak. or dribble with ruth michaelson with the latest from cairo tonight thank you very much. it's far darker news no the women's world cup kicks off in france in june one team will be there for only the second time is argentina though it's a far cry from the

trying to use this referendum to consolidate his powers and of all the mubarak are are people in egypt are they worried about just how much power they have now given their present. well i mean it's certainly concerning there are people that say that they feel that this will more let's allow c.c. to become president for life much of the style of the bar and say. you know. these amendments it's a concern we have now and will until twenty thirty that there is already the prospect that the constitution would be changed again before that happens going out into the same. changes do you increase his control over the judiciary i mean also increase the military instrument for the sake in trying to military godling to democracy we need obviously some way he may even end up having more power bar. or drill with ruth michaels and with the latest from cairo tonight thank you very much the u.n. security council has approved a resolution condemning rape as a weapon of war but the text was watered down in order to get u.s. support among the aims of the resolution for ending impunity for those who use s

this is unprecedented in egypt's history this is far beyond mubarak's power and i think the unintendedconsequence of what the extent of this is going to do is that we're starting to see the elements of public grievance rise to the surface there is several movements on the ground today and it's and cyberspace there is a grassroots movement called. void in english which has reached over three hundred thousand egyptian voices saying a constant no to the constitution as a result the regime has had to shut down the website over seven times and to end just on monday according to net blocks which monitors now activity thirty four thousand websites were such shut down by the regime because they don't want people voting in this online poll against the constitution now essentially what this shows is that there is a groundswell of frustration among egyptians that if we brought down mubarak. and his office area terrorism and now we have a constitution there is going to solidify any new kind of military dictatorship in egypt well then people will are spined and the one silver lining in cc's overrea

how did mubarak become a gateway to islamist terror and the same circle animosity as the result of an exclusive report from a destroyed city. philippines in the snow. starts. on t.w. . own. plane. this is deja news coming to you live from berlin libya's capital under siege a rebel general's troops advance on the city of tripoli dozens of be killed the u.n. backed government says it's launching a counter offensive as best in the country scored for a truce also on the program europe's far right to seek to join forces.

well if we look at the previous mubarak generations from one thousand nine hundred one on words it's actually taken about ten years for each generation to be rolled out and five g. is likely to be indicative of this timeframe so if we take a look at ten years it's actually likely to be how many times the government in the us has actually changed and if we look at the right now the china u.s. treat talks are still ongoing the geopolitical power and influence are still ongoing so we actually see quite a lot of countries that have actually kept quiet about what whether or not they're going to engage china to build its five key networks and these are because likely because it could be faced in and it's also because of the fact that we could see things could change and that there could be a chance for other countries to make different types of policy recommendations so this is possibly quite a good position to be making thank you linda hong and singapore there for us. and returning to the belton road we bring you a story from the first g seven country to back that initiative that would be

sacrifice which little lot rejection army did with mubarak and this is once you know you are jury andfeel they rule and not as you know the portuguese or spanish . the army helped out here into the real democratic transition that's due to arguments actually logic bear not satisfied that that's been solid. we lead the transitional period for ninety days and they are not satisfied as well or that the government appointed but would be a car who is led by due interior minister who is accused of corruption of rigging the elections of police brutality but he will lead as well to the television a look government. u.k. opposition leader jeremy corbin says talks with prime minister to resign may try to find a breakthrough in the brics it stalemate have been useful but inconclusive discussions are called by may he was trying to get support for her bracks a divorce deal earlier politicians rejected efforts to debate alternative ways forward and are now debating across party bill which would legally prevent a new deal breck's it and empower other reports. the eyes to the right three hundred ten.

in twenty eleven the revolution in tahrir square put an end to hosni mubarak's thirty year regime and raised hopes that egypt would become the middle east largest democracy. but this so-called arab spring was short lived. since taking power in twenty thirty l.c.c. has ruled the country amid allegations of human rights violations as well as an escalation in armed attacks in the sinai peninsula that have killed more than three thousand people. egypt is a key u.s. ally and a major european business partner western countries are often accused of overlooking egypt's human rights record and its disregard of the rule of law because of the country's geo political economic and strategic importance. a case in point is that of an italian ph d. student from the university of cambridge julio regime who disappeared in cairo on the twenty fifth of january twenty sixth. the young italian was found dead nine days later in a ditch on the city's outskirts his half naked body bore the signs of heavy torture . in all pastoral care the toilet or toward the. northeast i mean it as to what ed of am and what

after thirty years of president hosni mubarak's rule the constitution was amended to limit future presidents to two four year terms tuesday's referendum results change that to three six year terms which means sisi can now rule egypt until twenty twenty four and perhaps even to twenty thirty he will also have control over the appointment of judges and public prosecutors these constitutional amendments were rushed through very very quickly i'm not sure egyptians even knew what exactly they were voting on in fact the text wasn't even finalized until four days before the referendum was held preston says his supporters did everything they could to get people to the polls the even all free boxes of food in exchange for votes some people queued up for them across the country was president sisi says his room means a stable and secure egypt in the face of turmoil in neighboring countries the referendum results were announced on the day when he was hosting two summits one in sedan where longtime president omar al bashir was deposed recently and people one the military leaders out. and the other in lib

the most memorable moments with al-jazeera was when i was on air as hosni mubarak fell with the crowds in tahrir square talking. if something happens anywhere in the world al jazeera is in place we're able to cover news like no other news organizations. were able to do it properly. and that is our strength. hello i'm daryn jordan doha the top stories here on al-jazeera it's still too close to call in the israeli election ninety seven percent of the votes counted prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his main rival benny gantz a neck and neck early are both men trying to trick. sure you know. i'm very excited that the people of israel gave me their trust for a fifth time and a bigger trust them before. i'm telling you again the people of israel gave their trust for us and this is a president i cannot remember when we got more seats according to most exit polls the right are going will continue to lead the state of israel in the next four years. because they said we would not go into politics and we did not they say we want connection to it they said we want you not. they say we want mea

a former air force commander hosni mubarak had been the face of egypt's military dictatorship since one thousand eight hundred one not he was gone but his military regime remains largely intact. when the muslim brotherhood's candidate mohamed morsi became egypt's first democratically elected president the military worked to undermine him from day one. by concentrating power in his own hands and with the economy in freefall morsi lost the support of many egyptians. many egyptians who had supported the idea of the ouster of president mubarak suddenly turned around and said hold on this is also not what we want and suddenly you had a brand new type of conflict inside egyptian society. when hundreds of thousands of protesters poured into the streets on the first anniversary of morsi is election the egyptian military exploited the situation to remove. l.c.c. who morsi had put in charge of the army gave him forty eight hours to come up with a political solution. both morsi himself and his senior advisers did not see this coming they knew there was opposition they knew that there was this can

could be some sort of you know egyptian scenario and i'm talking about egypt after the fall of hosni mubarak where the military took a step back in response to popular protests allowed for civilians to assume some nominal control of the political system but then just biding their time the military that is biding their time for an opportunity to stage another military coup i think that's one likely scenario it really depends on the people in the street the opposition that is forming to what extent will they be willing to accept cosmetic changes it seems like they're saying they want all of these ruling characters removed from the political system and you take caretaker government made up of independent politicians who have not been in power to assume a transition to democracy so i think that's where we are at this moment or any mention the opposition the opposition that just a moment ago the problem is that the opposition parties which range from socialist there is the need to be deeply divided and they haven't sort of man is it coalesced to form the front of opposition against the regime. i

strongman rule backed by the military was that the whole revolution against mubarak was about yeah that's a good question how did we get here while we got here because the egyptian military and the rest of the deep state learned a very important lesson from the arab spring from the revolutionary revolutionary protest movement and that is that they actually had to be considerably more repressive than the previous mubarak regime they don't want to allow even you know a small chance for another kind of popular uprising that's why all the direct call me and legislation that's why the complete elimination of opposition that's why the shutting down of opposition media just this week the egyptian government has shut down thirty four thousand web site domains. owned by people who were advocating the no vote in this in this amendment this referendum what do you make of the international response to this i mean it's been an incredible journey since the revolution to where we are now what about the international community that we've seen can be very vocal other countries in other areas like venezuel

end the days of sitting in front of the army headquarters but we've been speaking to some a hero mubarak who's a member of the sudanese professional association and she says the people of sudan are ready for an immediate transition. the current military council. is just an extension for the previous regime three of the members of the of of the military council are previous members of the n.c.p. government which are the which are members of the previous regime and this this this shows and this is an indicator that they've been an obstacle the political committee has been an obstacle for a four week change and for reform and for negotiations the street is ready for change people are out and ready we're demanding the handover to a civilian transitional authority this is the major demand in the street right now we want to hand over to civilian transitional authority the military council cannot cannot oversee the formation of a government what we're demanding is that a civilian transitional council be formed immediately that's presented by the forces of the creation of freedom and change iran

think that what we saw here in many ways looks like what happened in two thousand and eleven to hosni mubarak in egypt which was the military recognizing the top dictators going down and the military wanted to try to preserve its own power its own influence and decided it was far better to move against the dictator than to follow along with the dictator so then the question is are the people able to push the military in a much more reform direction or can the military try to hang on to their power and privileges i think that's what the military is trying to do right now particularly with protests restraint straights i mean it like you said the tears were just as a very long time that i mean that's the idea of that is to try to deflate public pressure it's to try to allow the military to put their own people into positions of power and then create some elections that basically ratify their control it was supposed to allow the people to rule says and i thank you so much for your insight we appreciate it happy to be on. take a look now at omar al bashir is decades overall sarkar reports are towa

they don't want to see sheen use issues like what happened in egypt the army sacrificed mubarak and then what happened there and sisi is in control with the what what we know what's happening in asia they don't want to repeat they don't want to be fooled by the words of gates praising. the uprising they don't they don't want a chance in to continue to have the same regime they keep they got rid of and they keep the same vision they're not satisfied they're not happy that's been solid for example where no one will hate the figure of the face of of the regime continue as well they don't want to do it they don't want between the prime minister to continue as well appointed but for copy for his rigs an existing nation did we was the the interior minister accused of corruption of rigging the elections and of the police brutality as well. becker how would you gauge the mood in algeria right now i mean we saw all the jubilant scenes the night before at the announcement that the flicker was resigning but the protesters there have made it clear that this is all about much more than than one man s

who i think you are living in cuckoo world because obama called mubarak to leave and left was in twentyfour hours and i think people need support from this brutal dictator he's running the country and this is going to cause disturbance in the middle east for egypt hundred million people. many of them are sixty percent of them and the poverty line very poor people egyptian they live in the nations they live in grants. they cannot survive as a country and infrastructure is completely destroyed you've had two and a half sums and three main accidents in one year. i think egypt was in a very big problem and needs a lot of support thank you very much dr we're think mr foster joining us this evening thank you. i have some other stories we're following closely the parliament in russia has approved a final bill to create a domestic internet there that's meant to protect the country from cyber threats three hundred seven lawmakers voted in favor of the run that whilst only sixty eight opposed that the bill must be approved by the federation council and then signed off by the president vladimir pu

you know never in egypt's history even on the mubarak even on the last that you had one hundred peoplegetting killed in front of t.v. cameras you had ten hours massacred over a thousand people were killed in it that was you know the most rolling back it can get after that it was you know more or less constantly dating a very very vicious dictatorship whose main lesson out of mubarak is strike any marginal freedom strike any out outspoken voices regardless of that effect you know may the effect a thousand citizens or one citizen it doesn't matter you just create crackdown on them and this is what has been happening in a way so it's it is rolling back but back on on steel words if you wish sixty thousand political prisoners behind bars as we speak given what you've just been saying it's against that statistic worrying for that is i guess is is a new voice of dissent in egypt facing political extinction. to a certain degree yes that's a very high threat for any voice of dissent you had the heavyweights if you wish former chief of staff. foremost prime minister of much of the stuff as i me

think that what we saw here in many ways looks like what happened in two thousand and eleven to hosni mubarak in egypt which was the military recognizes the top dictators going down in the military one of the trying to preserve its own power its own influence and decided it was far better to move against the dictator than to follow along with the dictator so then the question is are the people able to push the military in a much more reform direction or can the military try to hang on to their power privileges i think that's what the military is trying to do right now well i would like to see some sort of a transitional regime number one that has civilians in it that is not just a military creation behind closed doors and second is a transition that does not say two years which frankly is a long time that allows the military to try to hold itself in power but in study transition only so long as necessary to organize elections to create a stable political process i think both those steps are needed the rights groups are calling for saddam's military to one day but they also a president to the

implant like two egyptians you know you use easy sacrifice which vehicle like vision are needed with mubarak and this is one scenario here ians feel they hope and know this you know the portuguese or spanish cinna the army help out here into a real democratic transition that's the two arguments actually in algeria bear not satisfied that. we lead the transitional period for ninety days and they are not satisfied as well. that the government appointed but would be a car who is led by the internal minister who is accused of corruption of rigging the elections of police brutality but he will leave as well to the television government. the corruption trial of formal asian prime minister najib razak got underway in kuala lumpur a few hours ago which has now been adjourned two weeks he's accused of being involved in the disappearance of former half billion dollars from estate investment fund jeev denied seven charges of money laundering and corruption related to claims he pocketed more than ten million dollars for one of the funds companies it's the first of several cases against him lawrence loui

eleven most prominently perhaps the case of egypt after the protests or succeeded in removing just to mubarak he was. then replaced by the military and we have since then seen military rule to take hold back back and in sudan's northern neighbor northern neighbor egypt so i think it's the persistence of the people standing outside of the army headquarters that has gotten is there that has gotten them where i where they are now and now there are talks today a group of sudanese protest leaders they're having to go sheesh and in the presidential palace now with the military council and they're talking about this transitional as civilian military council that would be sort of and over and over head body through the country but that there would be a purely civilian kind of council or committee that would run the day to day. the day they do the business of the country and then they would pave the way for elections that would after after the removal of ahmed bashir yeah all right so while the change is still in store for the people in our correspondents working in khartoum tonight thank you. and was

areas in need but strife and poverty and struggling venezuela was happening before all this president mubarak compu blameless kind of. well there were blackouts before this but we've never seen anything like the sustained level of blackouts which just keep hitting again and again with u.s. officials celebrating it with the u.s. officials pledging secondary sanctions on any country elliott abrams two days ago at the state department actually threaten the company's directly for doing business with venezuelan the new york times of all places has reported that the sanctions are making it impossible for the venezuelan government to import food or medicine so we're seeing just unprecedented sadism there's no denying that mistakes were made by the government in fact in his inaugural speech during knowledged economic mistakes but now they're in a position where the u.s. is trying to prevent them from getting out of the hyperinflation getting out of the economic crisis and preventing them from doing importing food and medicine and this is financial terrorism and it's an attack on everyone regardless o