. >> jounbacker joining us now on our washington bureau is nina shai, nina, the obama it means the worst countries in the world for religious freedom if you are designated. what we see in these countries on the list are egregious ongoing and systematic persecution, that's the stator standard, it requires statutory sanction, it could be a simple day raising -- using a bullying for these particular country, there's some actions that the government can take, but it is required to act. >> you're recommending egypt be added to the list, what's your concern there? >> we're concerned about the christians, the coptics christians are the largest minority in the middle east and they form about 10% of the population of egypt. they are an ancient faith from 2 thousand years ago and they are being assaulted by extremists, by terrorists, by islam mists within society, churches have been bombed, we saw a church bombed at their christmas celebration a year, a year and a half ago, and there's individual attacks, there are pilgrims on their villages, church burns just a couple of months ago, they oar in a