the two palestinian political parties has created an air of fear and uncertainty for israel post mubarak egypt close to the reconciliation between fatah and hamas a recent poll suggests the majority of egyptians are turning their backs on the jewish nation as a point to say reports the u.s. backed resolution egypt has any further isolated washington's main ally in the region. ody is happier than he's been in a long time the political activist used to be a member of fatah but switched to harm us because he feels betrayed by fatah dealings with israel and while hamas might be considered a terrorist organization by israel and the united states only says the movement she is his goals goals that are now being furthered by a new friend cairo. it's not only me who's happy the egyptian president hosni mubarak has gone all the arab world it never had a connection with any muslim organization he had the same head is israel israelis should be worried and israelis are the reconsideration deal between better rivals hamas and fatah have signed recently in cairo took them by surprise and could never have hap

factions may damage israel's position in the region the reconciliation was brokered by a post mubarak egypt leaving tel aviv more isolated than ever. before a nazi death camp guard accused of murdering thousands of jews will soon hear his fate begin eighteen month long trial and decades of waiting for the relatives of his alleged victims. joint action against a common threat the president of pakistan is in moscow to work on a new way to work out new ways alongside the russian leader to stem terrorism and drug trafficking. up next laura and it discusses the current pressing issues in the world of politics with ian crane a political analyst who believes cut off his financial independence may have played a role in the foreign intervention in libya stay with us. you know you very much for talking to r.t. here in price and now tell me what is the geopolitics the geopolitics is looking at the underlying global agenda and to learn gender that is multi-generational and outside the bounds of say the day to day perception as presented in the mainstream media some people say that what you do is essent

palestine's rival factions may shake israel's hold on the region reconciliation was brokered by mubarak egypt even television more than ever . before much nazi death camp guard accused of assisting in the murder of thousands of jews will soon hear his fate choice the power part of his alleged victim sent to relatives of the survivors. monitored by surveillance cameras in every corner people in america's most wanted city are beginning to doubt the true purpose of such strict security measures. around the world and around the clock this is our team buckle to the program an end to the four year rift between the two palestinian political parties has created an air of fear and uncertainty for israel post mubarak egypt hosted a reconciliation between fatah and hamas out of recent poll suggests the majority of egyptians are turning their backs on the jewish nation was artie's point to some reports the u.s. backed revolution in egypt has only further isolating washington's main ally in the region. most of the o.t. is happier than he's been in a long time the political activist he used to be a member

rival factions may damage israel's position in the region the reconciliation brokered by a post mubarak egypt leaving telecommute more isolated than ever. the former nazi death camp guard accused of assisting murder of thousands of jews will soon hear his fate we trace the final product of his alleged victims and talk to the relatives of the survivors. and a line of legendary football players proves no match for the head of russia's chechen republic and his squad at the opening of a brand new stadium. two pm in moscow i mattress the good to have you with us here on r t our top story an end to the four year rift between the two palestinian political parties has created an air of fear and uncertainty for israel post mubarak egypt hosted the reconciliation between the facts and hamas movements while a recent poll suggests that the majority of egyptians may be turning their backs on the jewish state as our policy reports the western backed revolution in egypt has only further isolated washington's main ally in the region. most of ody is happier than he's been in a long time the political activist

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egypt got to this crossroads, read the book. for the last look. after 30 years in power, hosni mubarak's face and name were ubiquitous in egypt. practically couldn't turn a corner without seeing a portrait of mubarak or finding yourself on a mubarak street. there are said to have been almost 10,000 entities in the country, schools, medical centers, villages, all named after mubarak. many egyptians hope they have had their last look at the former dix cater and his name. so it is all coming down. this was the president watching over parliament. this is the mubarak free parliament today. this used to be the mubarak subway station. look what we've found when we went there this week. it's now been named martyr station. this spring cleaning extends to the entire family. mrs. mubarak's name has been scrubbed from this hospital that used to honor her. but cleaning up 30 years of history isn't easy or quick. we found this sign down the road, that they seemingly forget to remove. it says susan mubarak hospital, 200 meters. the correct answer to our gps

and journalists being brought in for questioning by egypt's military rulers. >> and, ivan, this happened almost a full month after president hosni mubarak stepped down by a military that is currently in control of the country right now. do we anticipate that they're going to face justice here? >> reporter: well, this is the government in egypt right now. the egyptian military has been tasked with egypt's future democratic transition, and it's not going smoothly. and there's a lot of criticism of the egyptian military, the ruling council, coming from some of the very same revolutionaries who so bravely demonstrated in tahrir square and helped bring down their former dictatodictat hosni mubarak. this is a story we're going to have to watch closely. there are signs the military is hearing some of the criticism that's coming to them and that they've changed some of their approach to dealing with internal dissent. but this battle is still being played out in the streets and in the media in egypt today. >> ivan watson, thank you very much for that excellent reporting. obviously, a very disturbing story coming out of the region. >>> here's you

unity following several attacks by muslim fundamentalists that have targeted christians in egypt since president mubarakas forced from office. situation inth the egypt were the wife of the deposed egyptian president, hosni mubarak, has been released from detention after releasing $4 million in assets to the states. officials say she is still under investigation. >> corrupt was one of the angry chance as house new -- hosni mubarak was ousted from office earlier this year. it was an accusation that the protesters level against the whole melbar family. after he was forced -- the whole mubarak family. after he was forced from office he and his wife and children were detained. now suzanne mubarak has been released after giving back $4 million in assets to the states. >> she is no longer being questioned, but she is still and thus -- in the process of either relinquishing her money or processing it through legal means. >> hosni mubarak has been accused of being responsible for the deaths of some of those who protested in the street of each. -- egypt. >> if we accept this, everybody who commits a crime will ap

egypt has already seen a move to democracy after president mubarak fell three months ago. people call for more say in the runnle of their country, it seems they want more power and freedom for egypt on the world stage, and not necessarily in a way that president obama and the west may look. >> the tough scare. once a chaotic traffic junction, now world famous as a cradle of ref lupings. since the heady days of january and february, a succession of foreign politicians, who would have ones picked up a phone to arab dictators, have come to pay tribute to the forces of democracy. >> the protestors who triumphed here were challenging the systems of alliances that helped maintain authoritarian regimes. now people want greater freedom and power for egypt itself on the international stage. >> america offered a massive aid package to help support egyptian democracy. it can't yet know how democracy will change relations in the middle east. >> as a revolution society after the 25th of january, which internally has formed a society and still in the process of doing so, it had to be re

comparisons with mubarak i mean georgia is a country that people were saying you know they're praising for economic reforms and economic progress and we saw some of those praises in egypt before all of this happened in regards to you know their reconstruction of their economy also to a lot of mubarak's former allies became the opposition that was protesting against some cell early we're seeing that in saakashvili with people that rallied for in a pot but some people would not agree with your take on things they say was a popular you know uprising and. into power in two thousand and four do you do you see these leaders as comparable and you think their faults will be similar to they will do things obviously will stay in power well like mubarak we certainly know that one of the criticisms by the opposition is the corruption rampant in his government it's a very negative stick ministration he runs so we're seeing a lot of people saying you know enough is enough leaving. his government joining the opposition so in that respect saakashvili has corruption seizing a very similar to that of mubarak in egypt and ben ali in tunisia except with this big difference the u.s. suppor

action in libya for over a month now it took less time to peacefully relatively at least the pows mubarak in egypt the policy of regime change by violence is an obvious failure and today the citizens of misrata in libya are suffering because of this policy the city was bombed heavily by coffee's forces but only because the intervening powers have created a force to resist political oppression with violence you know what bigger governments intervene in situations like this undercut duffey they had a regime they could work with it was ok if the oppressed people because they all kept flowing would get off he was not affective enough as a dictator to keep his people in place foreign governments had to rush in to assist the rebels not because they care about human rights or freedom i mean look at look at her record here in united states would because they want to ensure that the next regime to come to power will work with them if they allow the revolution in libya to happen on its own accord by relatively peaceful means by popular protests as we've seen in egypt and other countries in the middle east c

mean by that they suit that president of the tunisia was on hold this happened with president mubarak in egypt and that's why they didn't want the rebels in libya to put them all through the site and that's why the songs including reports came with this threat if you didn't call it about the support because of the market people bit eighteenth anyway that sets up think if you start so we're going to syria so we're going to help women in syria. program to syria i think the situation is much different because not only syria is in a very sensitive environments as there is of course the creating difficult situation the war situation the war of usual situation in israel which is this topic that is very sensitive but you also have all these connections that syria has with iran we believe and use hezbollah as well with that i just didn't have mass which with me make it very dangerous for the so-called international community to come we are minutes early intervention in syria we have no answer to your president bashar assad's regime and that is why i think that all these bases are engaged in the get ou

number two, in egypt, we said -- gadhafi -- i'm sorry, we said mubarak has to go. >> right.mplicated. but -- i think that -- what the ambassador said is exactly right. that -- there are different circumstances and different -- different countries. but underlying it all i think is a tremendous force of the -- repressive regimes will not last their -- they are bottling up forces which will eventually push them out. i think that what the united states does is to encourage that in generally and then we -- support specifically where we can. now, libya was in a civil war. so -- it was a different situation from syria now from the other country. i think we should take heart things are moving in the right direction and should support the direction and move when it can make a difference in help. >> the rationale for the u.n. resolution was we have go in there and protect the these citizens from being slaughtered by their own leader and -- i am asking this because i people don't get it. i think there is a nuance here that somehow we are missing in that you have syrian there clearly sl

abandoning president mubarak and egypt. they're sending emissaries to china to see about possible new relationships with china and other countries in asia. are you concerned about the u.s./saudi relationship? do you think the president should have said something about saudi arabia today? >> i am concerned about the relationship because i'm concerned about the general deterioration of american position in the middle east. when i served in the white house-- which was, of course, decades ago,ut still, within the living span of most americans-- we had four fries of importance in the middle east: iran, an ally; saudi arabia, close to us, dependent on us, we on them; egypt, accommodating; and tkey, tolly loyal to us and na, even a partner with us in the war in korea. think of those four. iran, an emy; egypt, increasingly questioning our approach to the middle east peace process; turkey, ambiguous and saudi arabia, which you asked me about, not trusting us, eling that we are noreliable anymore. that's very serious. >> that's a blk

these have never been in evidence anywhere in mubarak's egypt or ben ali's tunisia to the extent we've seen in iran. so the key point that i'm trying to make, all things considered that the islamic republic of iran still has a certain base of support within the country that is not very wide, but it is deep. and what i mean by that is that, um, there is a core base of support that is deeply ideological and committed to the regime for a variety of reasons. some of it sort of religious, theological, some of it due to a sense of self-interest, people feel that their livelihood and careers are tied to the existence of the established order. and i'll put that percentage of support approximately between 15-25%. if you ask me during the q&a, i'll tell you how i came up with that figure. on top of this, that 15-20% support is reinforced by virtue of the e regime's ability to cynically manipulate two key themes, um, in order to preserve its hegemony and preserve itself in power and immunize itself from criticism. and these two things the islamic republic does successfully are the theme of authen

i think it's important to point out that the leader of the so-called society at least in egypt was hosni mubarak and was very recently are until very recently an ally of the u.s. not to mention a recipient of quite a bit of money and weapons from this country and this was not mentioned talk about this sort of ironic situation here or really struck. but it is ironic as you said. you know what i found it almost. in some ways you could say it and i lived for years when you look at. us. troops if this was something from the ministration but the reality is that just after obama was going to cairo speech and you talked about self-determination for peoples i'm a little these years ago. i received a. trip transport helicopters. to their. charity forces and under the obama administration. somewhere around there right away that his first year in office. for two billion dollars worth of equipment there was a sailor range by the time we got that straight we moved our sources. well obama's rhetoric that and also. the action that. we've seen from they just out of the vessel and i know that you've written kind

returns he has been covering the arab middle east of elements for years with a return to the in egypt the mubarak regime was toppled for the sake of democracy other people really getting what they were calling for. well rory it certainly is a worrying development especially for coptic christians in egypt i think most people seem optimistic relatively optimistic about the september elections but one mustn't forget that there is a fair degree of jockeying for power not least from foreigners and we'll have to wait and see what the united states wants to wants to do after all the u.s. is also a big ally it's a little puppet dictator in cairo and it'll be interesting to see how islamist elements that have formed with certain types of backing from washington to help things develop no. you know the barack a for decades was on the payroll of a washington d.c. now turning our attention from egypt to syria but there are reports the u.s. is going to impose sanctions on bashar assad which first time he's actually been personally targeted what's the what's the scenario what's the future if you see syria well

is whether or not the president will suggest or ask the president to step down as we saw with mubarak in egypt. that is still under wraps. we don't know if that will be part of his speech. the white house is putting more pressure on syria to deal not so violently with the pro-democracy meetings we are seeing there. they are pushing for a two-state solution there. the real challenge for the president, laura, is going to be whether or not he can convince americans we can afford to and we need to provide this much economic aid to that region, given all the problems we have here at home. >> a lot to look into. thank you very much. tracie potts live from washington this morning. >>> now for a look at the rest of the day's news, we want to check in with marla tellez. you have more information including how a bay area man died in yosemite. >> i do. we know what killed the berkeley man while hiking. an autopsy report shows 34-year-old jason dunbard died of a heart attack, not a fall. he may have tripped and hit his head on a rock. he was a popular sioux chef and avid hiker. a memorial will be held nex

there was always a sense of a choice between an autocratic leaders like mubarak in egypt or islam as extremists. it has gotten very hard, for the u.s. to make clear its position. i will say that i think this administration -- if this hadn't administration -- but this administration had decided to back the bar, he would still be in power. hi think lingering in the state department and in the white house's-was the lack of intervention that occurred when the iranian people tried to interfere effused back and they were pretty well squashed by the iranian regime. i think you have to look at european interests. and it was really the french and the british wanted an ally as they go to go in and do something against gaddafi. there were people let the pentagon advising against this. each country has been a case by case basis. i think what the administration has realized is that this is a jeanie des you cannot put back in the bottle. trying tomply shepherd this process as best they can, even though it is likely to be claimed as the regime. host: we are talking to jennifer crittendon, greg myre

you saw it with mubarak and egypt. it gets hot in the kitchen, and we say you've got to go. how do we restructure our engagement in the middle east without validating the pakistani narrative that you can't trust the americans because they are there for you one day, and the next day you're high and dry? >> dylan this is an incredible point, and we really need in the national security apparatus inside of washington here, with this debate needs to really re-emerge. and we need a 21st century foreign policy that doesn't bring the united states backing up corrupt dictators like mubarak or any of these guys. the problem with pakistan -- i was in afghanistan, you know, nine months ago, and i was with afghan leaders, i was with afghan diplomats, et cetera. and they knew all along where bin laden was at. they told me nine months ago that bin laden is on the border of pakistan outside of islamabad. the problem is that the pakistani military is controlling the population. and as long as we support the pakistani military, we are going to continue having these problems of safe havens. so

between what america's says and what america does seem to even more obvious when it came to egypt despite hosni mubarak's all three carrion an undemocratic rule washee printed in supporting him for decades many of those years in prison before has. a leader and a counselor and a friend to the united states but when millions of egyptians took to the streets he was swiftly shifted its policy as veteran washington hawks we've never seen ski explains if we conclude for example that the street is going to win there's no point but then our head against the wall in order to save a government or to do it on the other hand if we are convinced that the street is going to fail there's no point massively antagonizing the government with which we have to deal have to or whatever happens is over in yemen where the president is heavily. by the u.s. or in bahrain which holds the major u.s. fleet washington was very careful not to undermine their leaders although they too have violently cracked down on peaceful protesters meanwhile in iraq people regularly protest against their us fact government is what is rarely even me

also pushes them to itself with its money in terms of egypt and supporting mubarak regime also making arms deals with egypt as well but that money never really trickles down and that's why we're seeing these arab spring revolutions right now that money you also was read to israel. i mean literally for almost forty years it is true that i have to worry about anything on a so the border that is peak and that's changed now there's a strategic change that israel is running scared and with good cause and what obama i think is trying to do is say hey look things are really changed now you're going to have to compromise because just look at the events of two weekends ago we were along its borders in servants of. the the time. when the israelis displaced the palestinians seven hundred thousand of them there were demonstrations or border infractions on the lebanese border the syrian border some of the borders so there's religion they're going to have to be able to not going to be able to live with what they put accustomed to and obama's trying to move them over to try to look like for american

the people of egypt opposed the mubarak regime. bright and brave of the people got the facts out. that is despite relentless government pursuits. the citizen reporters matched to learn the real story. they're pushing for a new and vibrant press. >> he is a reporter for an independent daily newspaper. he was one of the first to support the demonrators. today, his beat is covering the demonstrations that occurred almost every day. >> sometimes, it is hard to define my nole. and what part of the revolution or am i just reporting? i am not a participant even if it sometimes feels that way. >> even under the regime, it was possible to establish independent newspapers. criticism was tolerated, but only up to a point. journalists were intimidated. the threat of imprisonment always loomed. true freedom of opinion doesn't yet exist. >> it was against the law to openly criticize or write about his health. the army was also taboo. most of these have disappeared, except with the military. there are still limits. >> and penalties for people that violate those limits. >> a military court senten

that was the choice that mubarak was leaving obama. here in egypt we separate between the american government and the american foreign policy that we're speaking of now and the american people. and i think that you have probably witnessed that out on the streets. if you say that you're american, you're going to be welcomed and there's hospitality. but i think that the obama administration doesn't really make that difference and didn't make that difference between the egyptian government and the statistics that they take from the egyptian government and the egyptian people. >> thank you all very much for a wonderful conversation. >> thank you. >> we will be back. >>> welcome back to a special edition of "gps." i'm back in front of cairo's tahrir square, the place where everyone will agree history was made and egypt's politics took a great step forward. but have egypt's economics taken a big step backwards? one of the generals running the country presented a picture of his country's economy that made me think what in the world? he says foreign direct

chaos and number of leaders who were parked out by washington have based popular discontent in egypt hosni mubarak had been extensively supported by the us but their kids despite the mess they disapproval of his policies yemen has seen violent protests over the rule of its president who many believe has managed to hold onto power only things to u.s. support and the government of hamid karzai in afghanistan has been struggling with public discontent three years u.s. and its allies will go into this there was some sort of a regime that we approve of but the process is not going to be a democratic one and in the long run the odds are overwhelming that the libyan people will reject that regime having clearly taken sides in the libyan civil war washington is now seeking to forge strong ties with whoever might come to power there but analysts say such an overwhelming support financial military and political never comes without strings attached i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . and ten minutes time the head of the european space agency tells. me the continent's stellar ambitions ali

between what america's says and what america does seem to even more obvious when he came to egypt despite hosni mubarak's author a terry and then undemocratic rule washington had been supporting him for decades many of those years president mubarak as. a leader of a counsellor and for something about his face but when millions of egyptians took to the streets he was swiftly shifted its policy as that are in washington hawks we've never seen ski explains if we conclude for example that the street is going to win there's no point of butting our head against the wall in order to save the government to do it on the other hand if we are convinced of the street is going to fail there's no point massively antagonizing the government with which we have to deal after whatever happens is over because we have continued interest and only say america's decisions as to which government it backs and which ones it breaks have added to the broader picture of incoherency of us war and policy in the region in yemen where the president is heavily backed by the u.s. or in bahrain which hosts the major. u.s. fleet washington

involved in a transition to democracy before the obama administration says to him what it said to mubarak in egyptto gadhafi in libya that it's over, time to go? >> the president was very, very clear today on syria and said that bash shar assad has to leave this transition right away to a credible democracy or get out of the way. we have been very, very clear in condemning the violence that has been perpetrated by the syrian government against its own people and laying out very specifically the steps that the syrian government must take if it is to show that it's ready and willing to lead to a genuine transition. yesterday, we added to the already very substantial sanctions that we have in place on syria by designating president assad himself and those closest to him violators of human rights and freezing their assets. so, these are very significant steps and they show that the patience of the syrian people is running out, the patience of the international community is running out and assad has to act and act swiftly and do the right things or, as the president said, he will find himself only incr

mubarak. demonstrations start in egypt and first thing we announce is mubarak is stable and the vice president says -- he is not a dictator. that was announced in the first two or three days and our policy at that point was we have to keep mubarak there because we are afraid of what might replace him. then things got worse, pressure group, and policy change from mubarak is stable and mubarak is not a dictator to mubarak must go. without thinking out clearly what might replace mubarak or without knowing what might replace mubarak and it seemed as if the policy was being made on the fly rather than a superimposed policy that everyone can understand being used to guide us through that situation. than we come to libya and it felt the same. demonstration started in libya. this rebellion begins and our first reaction was that we are not going to intervene. we are not going to intervene because also gaddafi is terrible and those terrible things there's no clear and present danger to the united states posed by gaddafi or libya. then as tensions mount. as the arab league decides gaddafi must go, the pr

it's not only me who's happy to egypt's president hosni mubarak has gone all the arab world it but barack never had a connection with any muslim organization he had the same head is israel israelis should be worried and israelis on every conciliation deal between but her rivals hamas and fatah have signed recently in cairo and by surprise and could never have happened before barak was still in power i think that there was a lot of mistrust between the hamas in that mubarak and his regime have looked upon. not. cause of his ties with israel to deal in his four years of division between hamas and fattah and greater prepares them for a planned ration of palestinian statehood in september i am most afraid that hamas once they get. the west bank. kind of free legal way by the palestinian authority. sooner rather than later or they will overtake the west bank and this might be then a problem not only for the palestinians it will be a problem for israel this is one of the many trick points between israel and the palestinian territories as cairo extends a hand to the palestinians security here is