and shafique student egypt's first presidential election after the twenty eleven uprising against former leader hosni mubarak but last august mohamed morsi of the muslim brotherhood after his defeat sure feet fled overseas the incumbent president didn't fight o.c.c. has not yet declared whether he's standing for reelection donald trump has been widely condemned after he shared anti muslim videos posted by a far right british activist group trying to twitter account retreated three separate unverified videos posted by j. de france and the deputy leader of the britain first movement trump is being backed by the white house whether it's it's own real video the threat is real and that is what the president is talking about that's what the president is focused on is dealing with those real threats those are real no matter how you look at it so a former bosnian croat military leader has died after drinking poison as a u.n. war crimes court so put on the substance seconds after his twenty year sentence have been up held he was one of six men who to peel to get its will crimes convictions dating

leader hosni mubarak but he lost against milan morsi of the muslim brotherhood after his defeat shafique fled over scenes. my fellow egyptian citizens i have announced my intention to run in the presidential election and i was planning to start a tour amongst egyptian communities abroad before going back to egypt in the next few days however i was surprised to find out i'm prevented from leaving the u.a.e. for reasons i don't understand and i'm not willing to understand i've often stated my appreciation for you are you for hosting me however i reject any intervention in egypt or furrows by preventing me from participating in a constitutional right was enjoined of our skype by some national hotter he's an associate professor of middle east politics at the university of oklahoma thanks for being with us so why do you think he has been blocked from leaving. well the united arab emirates along with saudi arabia are among the staunchest supporters of the current egyptian government and president sisi and so they have an interest in president sisi continuing they certainly supported his rise t

election but simply create the appearance that the next presidential election will be competitive and shafique will be a very serious contender if you look back at the two thousand and twelve elections for example there were thirteen and then nine candidates and sheffield ended up being of the final two or so that shows that he was able to have enough popularity to be a finalist and he barely lost to morsi and one of the reasons is because he is very well connected to what is now known as the deep state in egypt and military is currently at the head of the state so his connections and his reputation with the military is one that none of the other contenders would have and he is likely to leverage any existing divisions within the military and to leverage popular discontent with sisi particular on economic issues because inflation is at thirty percent unemployment is at thirty percent for youth so he will leverage that against sisi to perhaps even win the election u.s. president donald trump attacked the british prime minister to resign may for condemnation of his islam re tweets trump said thr

former leader hosni mubarak but lost against mohamed morsi of the muslim brotherhood after his defeat shafique fled overseas forces loyal to the renegade libyan general khalifa haftar accused of executing dozens of men in the eastern town of ajdabiya near benghazi human rights watch says local police forces discovered the bodies of thirty six men relatives told the rights group the men had been detained by after us forces mahmood not hold up to wirehead has more from tripoli. according to eyewitnesses embassy and victims' families all the victims that were found killed in libya are city around fifty kilometers to the east from but a lousy. all the all the victims were arrested they were taken from their own houses they include hefted as opponents opponents of operation dignity led by a renegade general play for have to and also military officers who are dissidents who are also or have become recently dissident of operation dignity they were all arrested were taken from their own houses and they were taken to a prison belonging to operation dignity before they were found dead last october now a

intention to run in next year's presidential elections in egypt you eight denies the allegation shafique ran in egypt's first presidential poll after the twenty eleven uprising against former leader hosni mubarak in narrative last morsi of the muslim brotherhood and then fled overseas. my fellow egyptian citizens i have announced my intention to run in the presidential election and i was planning to start a tour amongst egyptian communities abroad before going back to egypt in the next few days however i was surprised to find out i'm prevented from leaving the u.a.e. for reasons i don't understand and i'm not willing to understand i've often stated my appreciation for the u.a.e. for hosting me however i reject any intervention in egypt the furrows by preventing me from participating in a constitutional right or before entering politics ahmed shafik had a long military career as a fighter pilot then rose to become commander of the air force between one thousand nine hundred six and two thousand and two after retiring from the air force he entered government as minister for civil aviation