the mubarak regime when he was in power there is still one point three billion pounds of u.s. military aid given to the egyptian military you will have seen the videos of the protesters holding up the c.s. canisters fired at them into here square with the words made in the usa on them we know that david cameron when he visited here square had behind him a british companies including arms companies and these people have been part of the rearmament of the egyptian military very almost are now being used against the protesters are provided by western governments who have been backing this regime so they have pock rissi is times to use hypocrisy with regard to mubarak and there is no further hypocrisy with regards the supreme council the armed forces regime next fall with now briefly the islamist you appear to be ceding a march on their rivals at the polls safe do you think that the protests were actually about getting an islamic state from the very beginning. no i don't think that was what was in the minds of the vast majority of protesters at all and i mean did i think that we h

some of mubarak supporters are outside the court chanting we remove mubarak we got hussein referring to egypt's current military ruler but there's been a slow progress but elections are happening so do you think these accusations seem fair. this is the mom. who does not want one. and. it would be good. if it. were enough. and now there is more on. the. problem. so. not. really. all right jeremy assad associate professor of middle eastern history and politics in turkey thanks for being with us. head of the arab league observer mission in syria has described the situation in the rest of city of homs as it reassuring so far the flashpoint city was the modest first stop to investigate the government's response to the anti-racial amount arrest your arrival was met by a massive demonstration tens of thousands demanding air national protection but there are doubts the mission can bring positive results. the final report will be a pretty much preordained conclusion that there will be findings that the assad government is not doing enough to to listen to the concerns of its citizens but perso

what is your message to president mubarak? >> he should leave tonight. >> mubarak has been the leader for years. they want him out. mubarak digs in and the once peaceful protest grows violent. >> this is an unmistakable military force. fighter jets flying low over tahrir square, liberation square, a symbol of defiance. >> what you are hearing them say is -- go, go. >> flying in the air. the demonstrators say that's the army firing to warn them to stay away. >> promubarak forces target the protesters. journalists come under attack. >> it's completely surreal experience. okay. okay. i'm not -- okay, i'm being told to walk. don't say -- okay. >> we have been hit now like ten times. the egyptian soldiers are doing nothing. >> we would like to be showing you instead of this picture, this strange picture of us sitting on the floor, we would like to be showing you live pictures of what's happening in liberation square. we can't do that. the cameras have been taken down through threats, intimidation, through actual, physical attacks.

. >> what is your message to president mubarak? >> he should leave tonight. >> hosni mubarak should be egypt's dictator for 30 years, and the growing crowd of protesters want him out. but mubarak digs in, and the once-peaceful protests turn violent. >> oh, my god! >> this is an unmistakable show of military force. firefighter jets flying low over cairo's tahrir square, liberation square, which has been a symbol of defiance. >> what you're hearing them saying is in arabic it means, "go, go." >> the demonstrators say that's the army firing to warn them to stay away. >> reporter: pro-mubarak forces target the unarmed protesters. journalists also come under attack. >> i'm a little bit scared, because i got shoved out of the way there. this is just a completely surreal experience. okay, okay. i'm not -- okay. i'm being told, walk, walk. don't stay. oka okay. >> i've been hit now like ten times. the egyptian soldiers -- the egyptian soldiers are doing nothing. >> we'd like to be showing you, instead of this picture, the strange image of

many of mubarak's senior aides also facing charges. but many egyptians hope the trial will heal scars. they helped the country move forward after a year of political turmoil. heather kovar, cbs news. >> lawyers for some of the families of the dead have filed suit trying to get some of the trial judges replaced. >>> still to come when the news continues, they're polishing the big apple for sunday's big new year's celebration in times square. if that's too far, find out where else you can ring in the new year. >>> but first, thousands of mourners racked with grief bid a final farewell to kim jong il buried earlier today. >>> in a new book, jimmie hoffa's personal driver says the former labor union boss is buried in detroit right under the headquarters of general motors. marvin says he learned where hoffa was buried during a teamsters conference back in 1985. hoffa disappeared ten years earlier, supposedly while on his way to meet mobsters. >>> north koreans have paid their last respects to their late leader kim jong il. a massive process

. >> what is your message to president mubarak? >> reporter: whose hosni mubarak has been egypt's dictate for for 30 years. a growing number of protesters want him out. mubarak digs in and the once peaceful protests turn violent. >> reporter: this is an unmistakable show of military force. this has been a symbol of de defian defiance. >> reporter: they're speaking in arabic, go, go. >> reporter: firefighting in the air. the demonstrators say that's the army firing to warn them to stay away. >> reporter: promubarak forces targeted the unarmed protesters. journalists come under attack. >> i was shoved out of the way. this is just a completely surreal experience. i'm being told, walk, walk. don't stay. okay. >> been hit now like ten times. the egyptian soldiers are -- >> reporter: we'd like to be showing you instead of this picture, we would like to be showing you live pictures of what's happening in liberation square right now. we can't do that because our cameras have systematically been taken down through threats, through intimidat

. >> what is your message to president mubarak? >> he should leave tonight. >> he'd been their dictator for 30 years. growing crowd of protesters wants him out. but mubarak digs in and the once peaceful protests turn violent. >> this is an unmistakable show of military force. fighter jets flying low over cairo's liberation square, which has been a symbol of defines. >> they're saying go! go! >> pro-mubarak forces target unarmed protesters. journalists also come under attack. >> this is just a completely surreal experience. >> i'm being told walk, walk. don't stay. >> i've been hit now like ten times. the egyptian soldiers are doing nothing. >> we'd like to be showing you instead of this picture the strange imagech us sitting on the floor of an undisclosed location in dim light, we'd like to be showing you live pictures of what's happening in liberation square right now but we can't do that because our cameras have systematically been taken do you through threats, intimidation, through actual physical attacks. >> 18 days of clashes

. >> in january, joe biden called egyptian president hosni mubarak a friend. >> mubarak has been an allyf ours. >> five months after the meeting with sharm el-sheikh and they swell tahrir square, secretary of state her hillary seemed to dodge the issue of mubarak's future. this does not lend itself to easy answers. >> president obama stopped short of calling for america's long-time ally to step aside. >> the key question to ask himself is how do i leave a legacy behind in which egypt is able to get through this transformative period? >> the eventual dumping got attention of elected leaders and long-time allies in the region, the lack of a coherent policy was troubling. >> what i think the arab leaders are most concerned with is the schizophrenia of the situation throughout the egypt crisis. >> early election results show the muslim brotherhood secure a 37% of the vote by reportedly enticing some egyptians to the polls with sugar and cooking oil. the ultraconservative party that also supports the institution of shariah law took surprising 24%. analysts say the obama administration ushered

mubarak used sexual celebs against female activists and journalist of the.ey conducted virginity tests, assaults against fee mail activists and the sexual assault that i faced. we have to look this directly in the eye and have to tell president obama and tell congress. every american must know what our tax dollars are going to. my tax dollars went towards this. as an egyptian and as an american i vehemently protest against both and this revolution will not be hijacked either by the egyptian military nor by the money and the weapons that the u.s. sells it. >> the rationization that you get from the u.s. administration, not just this administration but all the preceding administrations, is that the aid must be delivered to saudi arabia, to egypt, to these theoretical allies of the united states in the name of stability. it is an interesting picture of stability to look at your wrists. >> stability. >> i don't know how stability is achieved. >> exactly. >> by you paying taxes so that america can pay somebody else to break your arms. it's trajic. >> what kind of

necros the head of the military council for the washington tal he was mubarak's defense minister so for some people there's a sense that the change has been cosmetically the regime was decapitated with the fall of mubarak but on the other hand most of his key officials remain in place but there's also a great sense of frustration. if you like with the. democratic process on the part of many of those people in the streets of his square in the center of the road last night for it that they see in a sense the revolution they feel they made slipping away from them because the election results so far do show quite a strong surge of support for the muslim brotherhood and even more money floating down the nile in many of the tourist sentence might look store and so on so we see feel like a three way split in egyptian society between those people who see themselves as western secular liberals who perhaps felt they spearheaded the revolution who disliked the survival in city government offices and foreign sold officials but also fear the coming to power of the muslim brotherhood and a rigorous i

they've resisted mubarak and finally abandoned him. they have to decide whether to continue baking the military for the ball back. the u.s. wanted change in egypt. it does not want to see a revolution. the united states does not like the revolution for good reason. now they have to realize they cannot continue supporting the military and start breaking off from the military. it is a very and steady policy still. it is also likely there are the elections and we will see the muslim brotherhood doing very well so the united states is ambivalent about what it wants to see in egypt. in bahrain it is a major dilemma up from -- for the united states. we have a base there. we do not want to offend at saudi arabia. it is not only the biggest country in the gulf, but it is a bigger supplier of oil. we do not import much oil directly, but to the oil market in general. it does not want to offend saudi arabia any more than it has already offended it, but at the same time the condemnation of of the iranian regime, of the monarchy, by the report, the

we're going to see the fulfillment of a lot of the hopes that you saw occur when mubarak actually fell because like i said you can take the snakes head off but what about the rest of the body will just rot at the expense of everyone else so it's a lot easier to decapitate the snake then tire actually kill it you know the system is in fact more entrenched and more dangerous and more vicious now than it was even under mubarak in during the time when the protests actually started the system is very good it generated itself regenerating itself and the core issues in egypt which ultimately are not just about democracy it is about bread it is about economics. you watching r.t. live from moscow now arab league monitors are heading to three more syrian cities to witness the government's peace plan implementation earlier they visited the city of homs saying the situation there is quote reassuring although clashes are said to be continuing with twenty five reported killed on thursday across the country information coming from the country it's hard to verify it's mostly footage and it claims by a

claiming it reminded them about tough times and egypt's former dictator hosni mubarak in egypt is going through tough times of course these days clashes between demonstrators and police and soldiers still continued all across the country continuing claim lives just last week it ended in the dust on leave at least fifteen people and these days a supreme council of military forces egypt's new authority is often criticised for being too slow and too and determined in promised democratic reforms struggling to cling to power very sensitive about any influence especially for women who are very sensitive about control and they're trying to keep power and to control everything and of course as part of this for a new military government might even suspect these organizations n.g.o.s sponsored from abroad of support and of sponsoring protesters all across egypt. his memory for national reporting what our foreign policy analyst stuck to addle shamu and believes that the military government is making sure that it stays in power but the people are determined to call it continue calling for democrati

egyptian rights groups have accused military rulers of using what they describe as mubarak era tools of repression that's after soldiers and police raided the offices of ten non-governmental organizations including some foreign ones artist maria fanaa has more. thursday jip carried out unprecedented armed raids on at least seventeen high profile human rights and pro-democracy organizations all across the country and it's been done in a very brutal and very unpleasant way policemen and soldiers swept into office into a gated people didn't let anybody you know out didn't actually let the people make calls to their relatives and eventually seized computers and documents from the offices among those targeted organizations were the u.s. government funded national democratic institute the international republican institute whose chairman is now republican senator john mccain and freedom house so as you can see and. sponsored from abroad especially for america has been targeted washington whose military aid to egypt amounts at one point three billion dollars has been very quick to react exp

also very different to the cairo of two thousand and eight when the former egyptian president hosni mubarak was in power the leadership in egypt today is much more likely to go to the aid of hamas if indeed it is attacked by israel at the same time palestinian militants have more weapons at their disposal including antitank missiles that are capable of inflicting a lot of damage on israeli tanks so it's not a done deal that israel is going to go ahead with an operation but certainly the fact that the israeli army has admitted that it is considering such an operation has people here or on standby. our middle east correspondent i spoke to professor aid from gaza university you told me it's unclear things whether israel would dare to launch a new offensive given the latest changes to the arab world. three years ago the palestinians of gaza lost more than one thousand four hundred forty people ninety percent of whom were civilians including more than four hundred thirty four children and that was a time when we were threatened with in the words of the israeli deputy defense minister then. we we

claiming it reminded them about tough times and egypt's former dictator hosni mubarak. must ask you why. perhaps it's been a tough year for egypt does it have anything to do with the post revolutionary developments that. egypt is going through tough times of course these days clashes between demonstrators and police and soldiers still continue northwards the country continuing claim lives just last week it ended in the dust of that leaves at least fifteen people and these days a supreme council of military forces egypt's new authority is often criticized for being too slow and too undetermined in promised democratic reforms are struggling to cling to power very sensitive about any influence especially from abroad and very sensitive about control and they're trying to keep power and to control everything and of course as part of this. as you wish paranoia might suspect these are going to zation is especially n.g.o.s sponsored from abroad from america. supporters and maybe even sponsoring supporters all across egypt. has more information about live in istanbul thank you.

on all that are we going to see the fulfillment of a lot of the hopes that you saw occur when mubarak actually fell because like i said you can take the snake's head off but what about the rest of the body will just rot at the expense of everyone else. that's the question i mean i just got back from another trip to egypt and spent about ten days most of the time in tahrir square and also in other places around egypt and i can tell you it's a lot easier to decapitate the snake than to actually kill it you know the system is in fact more entrenched and more dangerous and more vicious now than it was even under mubarak in during the time when the protests actually started the system is very good it generated itself regenerating itself and the core issues in egypt which ultimately are not just about democracy it is about bread it is about economics it is about a growing inequality in a country that already suffered from maybe thirty to forty percent of the people living on two dollars a day or less it's about how do you reallocate resources nationally and reorient an economy to provide we

the trial of egypt's former leader hosni mubarak resume wednesday after three months break he's accused of corruption abuse and the killing of demonstrators during the january uprising and may face the death penalty if convicted for more on the situation in egypt i'm joined by jeremy salter an associate professor of middle eastern history and politics at bill kent university in long for turkey thanks for speaking with us so the verdict in the mubarak case was initially expected january twenty fifth now it might not come till now. next march which way egypt's lengthy parliamentary elections will finish what do you make of the timing do you think that's coincidence or any kind of connection there i think the here. we're barking . no. no no. no. no i'm not. some of the barak supporters are outside the court chanting we remove mubarak we've got hussein referring to egypt's current military ruler but there's been a slow progress but elections are happening so do you think these accusations seem fair. this is the mom. who does not want to know the good and. the good. of the. problem and now t

it was the first election since the ousting of hosni mubarak. the government is led by a man who served as prime minister under mubarak in the 1990's. the new lineup of ministers retains 12 from the last cabinet, three of them appointed by mubarak surviving the shuffle. the first round of elections are expected to make islamist groups the main force in parliament. afghan officials say 19 civilians have been killed by a roadside bomb in the southern helmand province. is comes three days -- this comes a day after three explosion left at least nine dead and the country. funerals have been held for the victims of a suicide attack on a shrine in kabul. president hamid karzai has blamed the violence on extremists from pakistan. the bombing targeted shi'ah muslims celebrating a religious holiday. it raised fears of sectarian conflict. one top u.s. official has been quite busy here in europe. >> u.s. treasury secretary timothy anderson is the eurozone will not manage to solve this crisis -- timothy geithner says the eurozone will not manage to solve thi