reporter: but what to do with the people in cairo's slums? asmarat, another new settlement on the city's eastern outskirts, is one of the government's answers to this burning issue. in just 18 months, it's sprung up from nothing. the buildings everywhere in the development have the same design and layout. there are apartments here for about 10,000 of the city's poorest families. the housing blocks have names like jewel, jasmine, or paradise. there are three elementary schools, and two supermarkets. but otherwise, there are few shops, and few jobs. mohamed el sayed and his family moved here from central cairo in july. his house was torn down to make way for a sleek new one. the government offered him a cheap apartment in asmarat. now, like most other people here, he has a big mortgage to pay off over the next 30 years. mohamed gave up his job as a cashier. the trip to his old neighborhood takes an houour-and-a-half. now, he just works occasionally here in asmarat painting houses. mohamed el sayed: we were in the center of town. now we're in a

a slum in the middle of cairo. they call the quarter the people's republic of china because it's hopelessly overpopulated and dilapidated. houses here are practically all in need of repair the sewage system doesn't work right and the air is polluted but he pays twenty euros a month here for two rooms a kitchen and a bathroom it may be cheap but it's also very basic. there's just enough money left over for a single warm meal a day. but not enough to educate his children their future prospects look bleak. reactivity monica you know i would be very nice if we could move away from here find a cleaner. cleaner than here at least a job a school for the kids because there's nothing here. but what to do with the people in cairo slums. another new settlement on the city's eastern outskirts is one of the government's answers to this burning issue and just eighteen months it sprung up from nothing the buildings everywhere in the development have the same design and layout. there are apartments here for about ten thousand of t

the thordis have warned cairo at that he could be endangered by what he has said. seriously into other you have to be strong and have the courage to speak the truth. and if we don't say what's going on there oh well i'm stumped and that's why i'm making a statement what does something like to think. is helping to raise awareness in the world about what is going on across the chinese border but life goes on and now he has to go to work. thanks. people make fun about the economic and political problems. in mozambique we say that you have to last so you don't write it's how people call me. as a journalist i still talk about stocks in that file less eloquently than i actually start my day by checking all those jobs finding out what people are talking about what is moving them. my father taught me how to ask uncomfortable questions about my country and about. that this what i keep doing today is the main ways that the school and i work at. we think different languages we fight for different things that's fine but we all stick up for freedom freedom of speech and freedom

amnesty international is very interested in cairo as experiences. patrick boone is china researcher. we were in the international class because we'd gone abroad to arab countries kazakhstan judge accused speculator and britain was then what was every day lifeline right. after breakfast we were dissing there was no interruption . without the communist party there would be no nor china with songs like that we had to study the nineteenth party congress and repeat what a great person a president using bringers in order great country china is. it's all for in washington for them to accept that you were chinese and you have that it's a national unity is size to make you feel you are part of the nation you don't need to keep your own ethnic identity it's just really like ethnic cleansing practice so it's really terrible. because i call thora these have warned cairo at that he could be endangered by what he has said. you have to be strong and have the courage to speak the truth. if we don't say what's going on there who welcomes them and that's why i'm maki

amnesty international is very interested in cairo it's experiences. patrick boone is china researcher. we were in the international class because we'd gone abroad to arab countries kazakhstan for g.q. sterno speculate. and britons then what was everyday life like right. after breakfast we are dissing on with no interruptions. without the communist party there would be no new china sounds like that we had to study the nineteenth party congress and repeat what a great person the president using bringers in order great country china is. this all up for in washington for them to us that you were chinese and you have a set that it's a national unity is size to make you feel you are part of the nation you don't need to keep your own ethnic identity it's just really like ethnic cleansing practice so it's really terrible. because i call forty's have warned cairo at that he could be endangered by what he has said. seriously. you have to be strong and have the courage to speak the truth. and if we don't say what's going on there who will and that's why i'm maki

and ade meets some youtube sensations in cairo. one of the best parts about working on this programme is getting to do the strangest things in some of the most unexpected places. here are some stories that rather perfectly illustrate that point. in a moment, carmen goes back to nature in the middle of tokyo. and then mike heads to a cafe in manila where the menu is driven by your mood. but first, back in june, we spent ade to cairo to meet the young rappers who have become a youtube sensation. music plays. mahraganat means festive. it means festival. it is very much a street music. it evolved from a previous genre called chaabi that means "of the people" or "popular". and it's very, very unique to egypt, specifically cairo. and it's loud and brash. and it has its roots that are quite similar to the way hip hop evolved in new york. mahraganat has launched the careers of a new generation of egyptian music stars. i'm about to meet a band who have had a hit that has, get this, 125 million youtube views. music plays. this is a 3—piece

with this huge space, more than 175,000 acres and i mean, it's for the double of cairo. c over 22 million people in the growing capity is plagued by overcrowding, pollution and seraingly endlessic jams. the new capital promises all of the benefits of a smart city, electric powed mass transport and wireless connectivity. >> you have apartments and separate villas. >> exactly. call it residential 3 or r-3. >> okay. >> it contains 25,000 in the unit. >> 25,000. >> that's a lot of people. >> yeah. >> i wanted to move one minute away. >> talk to me about the price point. >> it's suitable. >> some are making planlans for the move startinging at $55,00 and that leaves the majority of egyptians out. >> you may wonder how the government plans to pay for it all, it is run by the administrative capital for urban development and it's 55% contlled by the egyptian military and the 45% by the housing. they had over $10 billion u.s. and this project to completion could cost over $30 billion. there's no budget and they're tepecting the pri sector to pick this up. or nightly business repo

the now he's a journalist in cairo welcome and cattiness seventy five death sentences against members of the now muslim a banned muslim brotherhood group tell us is among them and how likely is it that the sentences will be enforced. well yeah there are a lot of seven hundred twenty seven hundred forty he accused we have seventy five people sentenced to. among them a whole range of very prominent muslim brothers for example the preacher suffered because he was also a little sure what i'm going to start here and say from any on this where people there were also responsible for the outside there speaking to the pressure that the head of the muslim brotherhood description had of the brother with mohammed but here i'm only forty seven nights and all of them. to hear that part of course for her gathering and that some of them also work for the medical research. now among the money could she started with the reproduction also going to change course and we have come to know several trying against the muslim brothers you. see many of them and some of them were sent to this country you know no

my mother was eight when her family moved from siberia to cairo tau the town by the black mountains in kazakhstan swarmed south in one nine hundred ninety with her family she left the town which had a population of forty thousand at the time. today it's home to just twenty thousand people or so apart from a few friends from his school days my mother doesn't know anyone in cairo tallon a more. current town the green always is in the middle of the steps the clean affluent soviet showpiece town what has become of. the apartment block with the circular staircases people here were once proud of this modern building it was home to many young families what defines the town skate today. where and how do the people here live in. this square in front of the white house it's the town hall and a parade ground where the red flags were once waved with pride all for one and one for all. where's the. right and patriotism today where are the others and where are we. not only. that. the germans have been gone for twenty four twenty five years everything's run down now there were roads everyone was alway

journalists can't even go heidi in cairo thank you very much this is not normal these are extraordinary times and they are dangerous times the words of brock a-bomb of breaking with tradition and delivering a blistering attack on the record of his successor donald trump speaking at a campaign event in illinois the former u.s. president called on americans to vote in new then this midterm elections and reject the politics of division arrogance we're supposed to stand up to a bully thank you thank the former u.s. president didn't pull any punches on his return to the political stage it's in his fiercest criticism of his successor yet obama accused trump of threatening democracy he also slammed the republican party its central organizing principle in foreign policy was the fight against communism and now they're closing up to the former head of the k.g.b. and a rallying cry to voters ahead of the midterms. you need to vote because our democracy depends on. trump was quick to hit back to writing as he discusses beats i'm sorry i watched it but i fell asleep i i found he's very good. very go

the now he's a journalist in cairo welcome katty seventy five death sentences against members of the now more than a band with a brotherhood a group tell us who is among them and how likely is it that the sentences will be enforced. well yeah it's a lot of second on the eighty seven out of the forty accused we have seventy five to sixty five. among them a whole range of very prominent muslim brothers for example to preach a tougher than against you but. i'm going to study and some of the on this where people there were also the sponsors who put it outside to speak to the press. the head of the muslim brotherhood description head of them with the brother with mom with. life since all of them accused who have taken part in courts for. deserting and some of them. seem as if they were. supposed to jeanne's course that we have to know several tries against the muslim brothers. many of them as some of the were said to this until you know none of this. none of the citizens were executed. now among the accused we've also seen the photo journalist mark zaid known as sure can tell us more abou

amnesty international is very interested in cairo at experiences patrick hoon is china researcher.

imposed in egypt most of the seventy five convicted were taking part in a sit in at a public square in cairo five years ago protesting against a military coup hundreds of people died when security forces moved in the sentence the latest in an well until crackdown on dissent in egypt since current president of the c.c. to see the country's first democratically elected president colleague has more. five years after what's being called the largest mass killing in egypt's modern history it seems the bloodshed has yet to end. more than nine hundred protesters were killed by egyptian security forces in a matter of hours during a sit in in cairo's. square in twenty thirteen they were protesting against the military takeover by this man president abdel fattah el-sisi who deposed egypt's first democratically elected president mohamed morsy. as more than eighty five thousand supporters demonstrated against the coup security forces moved in now five years on a court in cairo has sentenced seventy five people to death. it's mine mohammad rashdan and you seem hemet so laymen are sentenced to death. those

this mountain of cases was tied to an event in cairo in 2013. gunfire. the security forces were sent to clear a square called rabaa al—adawiya. it had been occupied by anti—government protesters. there was extraordinary violence. human rights groups say more than 800 demonstrators were killed in one of the worst such massacres of modern times. no police officer has been called to account for what happened. the authorities say eight security force members were killed and the defendants in the mass trial were accused of possessing weapons and murder. but for the well—known photojournalist, shawkan, there was some relief. he was given a five—yearjail term, but he's already served that time in detention and may soon be freed. translation: the sentence is unfair because shawkan didn't commit any crime to be imprisone for five years. he was a journalist, only doing hisjob. many others in this huge trial must now come to terms with long jail sentences, and some know they may face death. alan johnston, bbc news. in syria, government and russian warplanes

it began here in cairo's robust square in august twenty thirty protesters had staged a sisson demonstration against the military coup which deposed egypt's first democratically elected president mohamed morsy security forces moved in with the now as more than nine hundred protesters had been killed rob's have ordered from you know us just a con artist just to come out and now five years later president foster government has decided to kill seventy five more. over its main mohammed asha one and you seen how mature men are sentenced to death. they were part of the mass trial of seven hundred thirty nine people all arrested as they protested against cc's twenty thirteen take over most were detained during the robot massacre the group was charged with murder incitement to break the law illegal gathering and membership of an illegal group that group is the muslim brotherhood and now outlawed organization of former president morsi its spiritual leader mohammed badie a is one of forty seven people who received a life seem to nearly four hundred others will spend at least ten years in prison. you c

leader muhammad but they most of them were protesters who survived a massacre at a public square in cairo the full story from charlotte bellus. it began here in cairo as robust square in august twenty third protesters had staged a sisson demonstration against the military coup which deposed egypt's first democratically elected president mohamed morsy security forces moved in with a now as more than nine hundred protesters had been killed rob's have ordered from you know us just a con artist just to come out and now five years later president foster l.c.c. this government has decided to kill seventy five more. over its main mohammed asha one and you're seen how mature men are sentenced to death. they were part of a mass trial of seven hundred thirty nine people all arrested as they protested against cc's twenty thirteen take over most were detained during the robot massacre the group was charged with murder incitement to break the law illegal gathering and membership of an illegal group that group is the muslim brotherhood the now. former president morsy its spiritual leader mohammed badie

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cairo is reinventing itself egypt to scoring some forty billion euros into the construction of a new capital in the middle of the desert this because of all cairo is bursting at the seams for government offices in some parts of the population the move is already planned but many from the slums are stuck to fall by the wayside. three thousand and thirty minutes on d.w. . land our fighters want to start families to become farmers or engineers every one of them has a plan not be an issue for your children. so nothing is just the children who have already been the lawyer and those that will follow are part of a new kind of says. they could be the future. granting opportunities global news that matters d. w. made from minds play. on beethoven and. his work goddess for trying out. the mushrooms and figures. beethoven's twenty. players. play nineteen sixty and i'll try to go to rumble. young people in the field against the current generation. it was an absolutely dusty from the stupidity and instant. demanded. that a home says lapel struggling with the field no more playing a key role of ma

square in cairo which ended in the massacre of hundreds of people. the latest attempts to search for an end to the yemen war has come to an end before it even begun the official government delegation is leaving the swiss city of geneva after waiting two days for the who the rebel representatives to join for u.n. brokered talks the hooty say they didn't fly to switzerland due to concerns about their safety. one of china's most senior officials has arrived in north korea leash on jew is in pyongyang to attend a key military parade as north korea celebrates its seventieth founding anniversary china's president xi jinping won't be attending the festivities his absence is seen as china expressing disappointment of the lack of progress in the nuclearization. the u.s. is causing more aid for palestinians twenty five million dollars meant for cancer treatment at other critical care in occupied east jerusalem hospitals is being slashed last week the us government ended funding for united nations relief agency that helps around five million palestinian refugee

egypt has sentenced 75 people to death after a mass trial in cairo. the defendants were arrested in 2013 when a pro—muslim brotherhood protest was dispersed. the court also confirmed life imprisonment for 47 others, including islamic leaders and journalists. violence erupted in cairo's rabaa al—adawiya square, with hundreds killed by security forces. the labour party leadership has said there is no campaign to force out mps who are critical ofjeremy corbyn. a number of mps have faced a no—confidence vote by local party members in recent weeks, and today the labour mp chuka umunna urged the leadership to "call off the dogs", comments which the shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell said were unacceptable. already, centre—left mps are being systematically targeted with motions against them in their local parties, motions brought against them for standing up for these centre—left values. my message to our leadership is clear. it is within your power to stop this, so call off the dogs. our party members are not dogs. our party members are human beings,

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hadley gamble is in cairo with details. i'm waiting for those details. >> it's about an hour and a half outside of cairo we're talking about 175,000 acres. they say it will be the new administrative capital it is supposed to open in 2019, the first phase of it. we had a chance to take a look the pyramids, the sphynx, when it comes to mega projects, egypt has been getting done for centuries. now the latest project promises egyptians a better life and a better city for a price. it's a new capital city carved out of the desert and in line with the president's new economic vision for egypt. this is a place that will boast greenways bigger than central park the first phase is set for completion in 2019 and boasts 36 government ministries, residential communities and the biggest cathedral on the continent of africa. when you first heard about this project, did you think this is crazy? >> yeah. yeah completely right with this huge space we are talking about a new capital. total space is more than 175,000 acres. i mean, it would be

this mountain of cases was tied to an event in cairo in 2013. the security forces were sent to clear a square. it had been occupied by anti—government protesters. there was extraordinary violence. human rights groups say more than 800 demonstrators were killed in one of the worst such massacres of modern times. no police officer has been called to account for what happened. the authority say eight security force members were killed and the defendants in the mass trial were accused of possessing weapons and murder. but for the well—known photojournalist, there was some relief. he was given a five—yearjail term, but he's already served that time in detention and may soon be freed. translation: the sentence is unfair because he did not commit any crime to be imprisoned for five years. he was a journalist, only doing hisjob. many others in this huge trial must now come to terms with long jail sentences and some know they may face death. alan johnston, bbc news. syrian and russian warplanes have continued their bombing of rebel positions in the