support any president after mubarak or any egyptian leader after mubarak ever since the twenty fifth of january the u.s. had been just playing the role of the watcher the viewer. perhaps this is ok you may say that it requires meaning and let me go back to greg i mean israel and saudi arabia are very very keen on this regime in cairo right now would you agree or disagree with that. i would say that their position regardless of the relevancy towards what's going on in cairo right now is positive i mean saudi arabia and israel on two separate sections are probably at their best relations with egypt now since july third the amount of security cooperation that's going on between israel and egypt is unbelievable according to what's going on with the shutdown on hamas right now and the saudi financing of the current regime is really proving to be the backbone of keeping the egyptian economy afloat but the reason why they're doing that is not really there and it eventually is mistakenly interested in egyptian democracy though is it what the people want because saudi arabia and israel prefer

support any president after mubarak or any egyptian leader after mubarak ever since the twenty fifth of january the u.s. had been just playing the role of the watcher the viewer. perhaps this is how can you make larry that inequality when at length i go back to greg i mean israel and saudi arabia are very very keen on this regime in cairo right now would you agree or disagree with that. i would say that their position regardless of the relevancy towards what's going on in cairo right now is positive i mean saudi arabia and israel on two separate sections are probably at their best relations with egypt now since july third the amount of security cooperation that's going on between israel and egypt is unbelievable according to what's going on with the shutdown on hamas right now and the saudi financing of the current regime is really proving to be the backbone of keeping the egyptian economy afloat but the reason why they're doing that is not really i think there is an advantage in a highly interested in egyptian democracy though is that what the people want because saudi arabia and is

support any president after mubarak or any egyptian leader after mubarak ever since the twenty fifth of january the u.s. had been just playing the role of the watcher the viewer. perhaps this is. a way that is required even had let me go back to greg i mean israel and saudi arabia are very very keen on this regime in cairo right now would you agree or disagree with that. i would say that their position regardless of the relevancy towards what's going on in cairo right now is positive i mean saudi arabia and israel on two separate sections are probably at their best relations with egypt now since july third the amount of security cooperation that's going on between israel and egypt is unbelievable according to what's going on with the shutdown on hamas right now and the saudi financing of the current regime is really proving to be the backbone of keeping the egyptian economy afloat but the reason why they're doing that is not really they're not in a new energy and mistakenly interested in egyptian democracy though is that what the people want because saudi arabia and israel prefer to

scenario we have ever been since two thousand and eleven morsi should be tried but it's comic that mubarak trial should be held up at every turn while the morsy trial is moving along so fast what shocks me is that the authorities never seem to have the will to push through the court cases of remnants of the former regime tahrir square once the heartbeat of the revolution has become just another busy roundabout in two thousand and eleven and two thousand and thirteen people came here demanding bread freedom and social justice but after the military ousted mr brotherhood president mohamed morsy hundreds have been killed and thousands arrested eating some to fear the freedoms and justice will never become a reality admits this violence rights groups have little faith that the trial of mr morsi and other mr brotherhood leaders will be fair this coming at a time when there is a general crackdown that that's a brotherhood a very selective prosecutions on the part of the justice system looking only at brotherhood members with impunity for security services meanwhile the retrial of egypt's other o

morsi and the trial of mubarak is mubarak has authority and morsi said he is the president. morsi is the president of the republic. this is the legal and constitutional situation right now. >> reporter: if morsi is convicted of insightment to commit murder, he could be sentenced to death. dominick cain, al jazeera cairo. >> we will be going live following events closely from cairo. before we start questions, we should flag up we are expecting amateur pictures from inside the courtroom and as we say them we may bring them to the viewers and hearing the trial may have resumed and we will get an update from you of the latest you are getting. >> yes, we are hearing the same thing, that reports coming out of the court are it has resumed but what we don't know is what mohamed morsi is wearing. we understand that and proceedings were postponed because he was still not wearing this white overall that all defendants are supposed to wear and so they had an adjournment of the trial for that to be addressed to persuade him to put it on and we are hearing reports of his main legal repres

first democratically elected leader faces the same fate as his or for a tarion prayed assess hosni mubarak mohamed morsi has reportedly arrived for his trial where he's accused of inciting the murder of protesters last december at the time egypt was experiencing mass public outrage at the government's attempt to push through the islamicist leaning constitution and give the president sweeping powers reports now from cairo on the landmark court case. for the first time in its history egypt has two former presidents who are on trial at the same time but whereas the trial of hosni mubarak is eagerly anticipated and was so by most egyptians when it comes to that of mohamed morsi is prosecution here egyptians are divided many egyptians feel pity for the former engineering professor who was ill equipped to become this country's president and who now very well could have a life sentence imposed on him in some quarters it is believed that this is a trial of the muslim brotherhood as a movement and not morsi as a man egyptian police is in a state of high alert and this comes amid the announcement by

in egypt the young sting of long time army barracks leader hosni mubarak was followed by over a year of political turmoil which finally saw the election of islam misleading mohamad morsi as president in july twenty twelve as i mentioned earlier his push to turn egypt's constitution into a muslim sparked deadly unrest in december the same year although that violence can't be compared to the bloodbath of the summer a military coup against morsi in july was followed by months of vicious crackdowns against his support is the muslim brotherhood which more than a thousand people have been killed gyptian journalist and political analyst while it scanned the thinks the trial that starts today is more sees political assassination. this is seems a bit like deja vu for egypt another president another trial in less than three years and what we're seeing is a rerun of a politicized trial course there are things that president morsi has done just like us they will work but i don't think that he's on trial. for the for the exact crimes that he's done or the reason he's being put on trial is because

. >> and they started chanting anti-mubarak when they saw mubarak's police go out there and beat people brutally and start shooting people dead. and so you had ordinary egyptians going out there and saying, mubarak must go. >> hosni mubarak is egypt's president, who's held power over the people for more than 30 years. images of the demonstrations and the police response flood the internet. >> mubarak basically unleashed his security forces all across egypt. so for four days he unleashed everything he had. >> four days into the uprising, hoping to stop the flow of information among the protesters, the government cuts off the internet. >> mubarak thought he could wreck the revolution by putting egypt on information lockdown. so he literally shut down the internet. >> nora younis is a reporter for the "egypt independent," an online and print news source. on the morning of january 28th nora and a colleague hear about a hotel in central cairo that still has internet service. they try to get a room with a view of tahrir square. >> they said they have orders from state security not to sell any

off mubarak knowing fully well that supporting this important pivotal point where the actually win over the conflict win over the support of the people to the army which actually took over power and diffused to relinquish power it was only after protests. but you had to think that talks more about indecision and the lack of strategery even understanding what's going on on the ground and how would you how would you look at how the western powers particularly the united states has dealt with events in the greater middle east over the last two years because you know we can look at each individual country in their specifics there but the bomber administration seems to be very unclear on what direction it needs to pursue because is it democracy is it security can you have both. well i think the obama administration has demonstrated that actually the overall strategy of the united states is towards the middle east is ultimately flawed it's been flawed. we saw that with nine eleven the bush administration changed its mind decided to democracy was the way forward in the region and then olmert l

off mubarak knowing fully well that supporting this and portent pivotal point where the actually win over the conflict win over the support of the people to the army which actually took over power and diffused to relinquish power it was only after protests further yeah we did. that but we had to think that talks more about indecision and the lack of strategery even understanding what's going on on the ground and how would you how would you look at how the western powers particularly the united states has dealt with events in the greater middle east over the last two years because you know we can look at each individual country in their specifics there but the bomber administration seems to be very unclear on what direction it needs to pursue because is it democracy is it security can you have both but i think the obama administration has demonstrated that actually the overall strategy of the united states is foot towards the middle east is ultimately flawed it's been flawed. we saw that with nine eleven the bush administration changed its mind decided to proceed with the way forward

off mubarak knowing fully well that supporting this important pivotal point where the actually win over the conflict win over the support of the people to the army which actually took over power and diffused to relinquish power it was only after protests further. we had to run out but i don't think that talks more about indecision and the lack of strategery even understanding what's going on on the ground and how would you how would you look at how the western powers particularly the united states has dealt with events in the greater middle east over the last two years because you know we can look at each individual country in their specifics there but the bomber administration seems to be very unclear on what direction it needs to pursue because is it democracy is it security can you have both. but i think the obama administration has demonstrated that actually the overall strategy of the united states is towards the middle east is ultimately flawed it's been flawed. we saw that with nine eleven the bush administration changed its mind decided to democracy was the way forward in the re

by actually unleashing against the people who rose up to defy mubarak but by actually allowing that muslim brotherhood to take on power and pursue misguided policies that actually convince their people that they are after accumulating and monopolizing power and the muslim brotherhood actually being forced to shift from its moderate teaching to islam in order to apply this. position and vehement oppositions by this these are actually pursuing more radical . ideology have fallen out of favor by the egyptian people who actually be turned around and supported the army so what the americans have achieved it having the army back in power and sisi actually attempting to go and put his name forward to. the elections and actually going full circle what happened also in the. in yemen and bahrain was actually americans giving. to tweet those two countries out there back. in. having a lot of topics here and once i want to talk about they will be in a secular ok to kind of echo words i had to say which i think is really very interesting here is that it looks like under the guise of democracy or

morsi and the trial of mubarak is that mubarak has abundant authority. according to the law and institution morsi is the president of the rebel. this is the legal and constitutional situation right now. >> if morsi is convicted of incitement to commit murder he could be sentenced to death. al jazeera, cairo. >> meanwhile, secretary of state john kerry now working to de fuse the tensions between the the u.s. and saudi arabia. kerry is continuing his tour of the middle east. it comes after plains of holy spirit of syria, iran and the middle east peace process. >> the saudis are the senior player, if you will, within the arab world with egypt. egypt is in more of a transition, so saudi arabia's role is that much more important. the saudi's ability to influence a lot of things that we also care about, and we work together on. we're working together particularly on middle east peace process on syria, on egypt, and on iran. >> saudi arabia's foreign minister told kerry that they have no problem with the united states, and the two countries are busy dealing wit

morsi and the trial of mubarak is that mubarak has no authority while president morsi insists he is still president. this is the legal and constitutional situation right now. >> reporter: if morsi is convicted of incitement to commit murder, he could be sentenced to death. dominick cane, al jazeera. >> pakistani president musharraf has been granted bail. he has been charged with the deadeath of benzar butu. >> reporter: musharraf, who was president, ordered a team to storm a house of worship. among those killed was gazi's father, the man who ran the mosque and it's affiliated schools. some of the supporters involved in the violence were his students. he wanted islamic law imposed. they said the former ruler was personally responsible for the deaths. >> musharraf said that they were terrorists. my father never hurt anyone. musharraf is the terrorist. he ordered the killing. >> reporter: those who lost loved ones here at the red mosque clearly blame musharraf for their deaths, but many believe he will leave the country and will never stand trial. >>> after four years in exile, former presid

morsi and the trial of mubarak, is that mubarak had abundant authority. morsi is the president of the republic. this is the legal and constitutional situation right now. >> if morsi is convicted of incitement to commit revolt he could be sentenced to prison right now. >>> both countries promising they will continue to work together. >> our relationship are is strategic. it is enduring. and it covers a wide range of bilateral and regional issues. >> two different kinds of differences. differences in objective and differences in tactic. some of these differences are in onive, very few. >> -- objectives, but most are in tactics. >> he said washington wasp sensitive to pakistani concerns. meanwhile pakistan says it plans to review every aspect of its relationship with the u.s. the move coming after the u.s. drone strike on friday. pakistan said the view. >> pakistani president musharraf, faces charges in the detention of judges, also charmed with the death of former pakistani president benazir buttho. >> this is what happened at pakistan's red mosque six year

scenario we have ever been since two thousand and eleven morsi should be tried but it's comic that mubarak trial should be held up at every turn while the morsy trial is moving along so fast what shocks me is that the authorities never seem to have the will to push through the court cases of remnants of the former e.g. tahrir square once the heartbeat of the revolution has become just another busy roundabout in two thousand and eleven and two thousand and thirteen people came here demanding bread freedom and social justice but after the military ousted mr brotherhood president mohamed morsy hundreds have been killed and thousands arrested eating some to fear the freedoms and justice will never become a reality admits this violence rights groups have little faith that the trial of mr morsi and other mr brotherhood leaders will be fair this coming at a time when there is a general crackdown against the brotherhood a very selective prosecutions on the part of the justice system looking only at brotherhood members with impunity for security services meanwhile the retrial of egypt's other ouste

with impunity for security services meanwhile the retrial of egypt's other ousted president hosni mubarak drags on the feeling that the security apparatus continues to shape court decisions means egypt's future is hard to predict the military is entrenched in its own entrance and its own interest again and again the problem now that we need to sit down and agree on a specific cooper transitional justice either we're trying everyone on meaningful we're taking them to the south africa bureau and many many of them that is totally evil speech or that seems far away as pro morsi protests and clashes with security forces continue to rock the nation the fear is morsi is trial will not deliver much needed justice to egypt but rather set the stage for further instability and turmoil. for r t cairo with the latest round of talks over iran's nuclear program failing to secure progress president hassan rouhani has said that terror on will not bow to international pressure and give up its right to enrich uranium well even before the talks began on thursday thousands were running in tehran chanting anti

scenario we have ever been since two thousand and eleven morsi should be tried but his comment that mubarak trial should be held up at every turn while the most the trial is moving along so fast what shocks me is that the authorities never seem to have the will to push through the court cases and remnants of the former regime tahrir square once the heartbeat of the revolution has become. just another busy round about in two thousand and eleven and two thousand and thirteen people came here demanding bread freedom and social justice but after the military ousted mr brotherhood president mohamed morsy hundreds have been killed and thousands arrested eating some to fear the freedoms and justice will never become a reality admits this violence rights groups have little faith that the trial of mr morsi and other mr brotherhood leaders will be fair this coming at a time when there is a general crackdown against the brotherhood a very selective prosecutions on the part of the justice system looking only at brotherhood members with impunity for security services meanwhile the retrial of egypt's oth

by the military and now despite fighting to bring down both hosni mubarak and mohamed morsi rami has little hope for egypt's future as most eco is on trial for incitement to kill protest his backing for the revolutionaries and now in the worst scenario we have been since two thousand and eleven. should be tried but his comment that mubarak trial should be held up at every turn while the most the trial is moving along so fast what shocks me is that the authorities never seem to have the will to push through the court cases of remnants of the former regime to three square ones the heartbeat of the revolution has become just another busy round. about in two thousand and eleven in two thousand and thirteen people came here demanding bread freedom and social justice but after the military ousted mr brotherhood president mohamed morsy hundreds have been killed and thousands arrested eating some to fear the freedoms and justice will never become a reality admits this violence rights groups have little faith that the trial of mr morsi and other mr brotherhood leaders will be fair this coming

i think it went back to the overthrow of mubarak, which they were very frustrated with. rumor had it that the king refused to speak to our president afte for several monts after mubarak was overthrown, and then the situation was fraught with tension and the situation with iran, there are serious views over the approach with iran. >> thomas, egypt was a major issue between the two countries because the saudis were not happy that the united states let mubarak go, and the saudis feel their position has been borne out over the past couple of years with everything that happened with the muslim brotherhood. >> well, you know, when i was in saudi arabia last year i asked a lot of people about that, it's true, there is no doubt that the saudis were unhappy that in our--in their opinion we were complicit in the down fall of mubarak just as they felt the same way over the down fall of the shah in 1979. i asked them what would they have had us do about it, and there was no answer. i think that's what you need to keep in mind here. we, the americans, are in a position where we're da

he was given all the rights to defend himself, same with morsi, same with mubarak. nobody is above the law. >> a human rights campaigner says the trial is part of a campaign against the muslim brotherhood. >> there is a massive crackdown against the muslim brotherhood, and many of their senior and middle rank leaders are already detained without charges. there is a worrying pattern, targeting the brotherhood. met with tearers gas in downtown cairo today. the brotherhood is now banned. the former president is facing what looks like justice. >> there were protests in iran today, where demonstrators took to the streets with a familiar refrain. there are demonstrations every year that marked the anniversary of the siege, but these are the biggest in decades. tens of thousands of supporters of hardliners rallied to spew alsool on the u.s., but proposed negotiations with the west. >> there are protests every year on this anniversary. why were these ones so much bigger? is, theimple reason hardliners have been calling for a massive show of support. there is a conservative

back in braman mubarak or nice finds it hard to make a life for himself. you armor i turn us around you. it's been years i saw you on t.v. you had a long beard of us is all it is you look kind of rough yes. so how are you doing it's been a while since then. did you ever think of changing your name. just. that i do have the right to do that. i could change the name my mother and father gave me. but i don't want to do that. you don't change it you are innocent after all and for me it's not a matter of being ashamed of it but it is hard to find a job. and if someone came to me for work i'd say ok brother i'll give you some work. but when i hear the name murat kurnaz. i would be scared. that's obviously since you don't know me. maybe you're being watched and then my place would be watched to my customers might be annoyed and yeah that happens to me all the time. oh. go from top to in school. i feel frozen. but in some point you do have to leave on time oh hi. what are my can do for the rest of my life i'm too young to just be retired. i knew if i owned my own