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about a month after president hosni mubarak's resignation. egypt's military initially denied the allegations which first arose in an amnesty international report. prior to the virginity tests, the women were allegedly given electric shocks, strip searched, threatened with prostitution charges. our ivan watson has reported extensively on the alleged abuse of protesters. he is joining us from istanbul, turkey. ivan, tell us what the women protesters said to you. >> reporter: well, we spoke with one of these women in particular, a young woman. she had been in cairo's emblematic tahrir square on march 9th when a demonstration was broken up. a number of the protesters were dragged into the egyptian museum, and according to several that i spoke with, that museum became effectively a torture chamber, as egyptian military police, some in plain clothes, proceeded to beat and electro shock a number of detainees, both male and female. the woman in question that i spoke to said that she was repeatedly called a whore and a prostitute. then after hours of

mubarak so much by name in terms of the fact that hosni mubarak and you touched a little bit ominous was supported with money with weapons with support for the last couple decades and now all of a sudden he's the person spreading fear. well let's be completely clear and honest about this not one of those people who is a political cheerleader the one thing which egypt tunisia libya and. syria actually up until two thousand and four all had in common is that they were complicit and they were involved in fact they were partaking in rendition for the united states they were torturing terror suspects on behalf of the cia this is all four of these dictatorships were involved and not all of these governments that they're talking about have capitulated to u.s. interests over the years some have capitulated less than others this is why we have libya and syria being treated completely differently to say yemen and bahrain for instance you have in yemen with the collaboration of the yemeni government the united states have been drawn in that country. under obama which is something that bush didn

after 30 years in power, hosni mubarak's face and name were ubiquitous in egypt. you practically couldn't turn a corner without seeing a portrait of mubarak or finding yourself on a mubarak street. there are said to have been almost 10,000 entities in the country, schools, medical centers, villages, all named after mubarak. many egyptians hope they have had their last look at the former dix cater and his name. so it is all coming down. this was the president watching over parliament. this is the mubarak free parliament today. this used to be the mubarak subway station. look what we've found when we went there this week. it's now been named martyr station. this spring cleaning extends to the entire family. mrs. mubarak's name has been scrubbed from this hospital that used to honor her. but cleaning up 30 years of history isn't easy or quick. we found this sign down the road, that they seemingly forget to remove. it says susan mubarak hospital, 200 meters. the correct answer to our gps

hosni mubarak has been under arrest for corruption charges. -- suzanne mubarak has been under arrest for corruption charges. >> corrupt was one of the chance as president hosni mubarak was ousted from power. it was an accusation that protesters leveled against uphold the mubarak family. after he was forced from office, mr. mubarak was detained along with his wife, suzanne, and his two sons in sharm el- sheikh. now, suzanne mubarak has been released after paying back some $4 million worth of assets to the state. what she is no longer being questioned. she is still in the process of either approving a source of her money or relinquishing it. >> the current investigator -- the current president is being investigated it about the uprising. there are mixed feelings about the fate of the mubarak family. >> if we accept this, everyone who commits a crime will apologize without punishment. we must see justice done. >> there is no need to punish him further. >> suzanne mubarak denies charges of abusing her husband's office for personal financial gain. after the unprecedented protests, many eg

by name in terms of the fact that hosni mubarak and you touched a little bit on this was supported with money with weapons with support for the last couple decades and now all of a sudden he's the person spreading fear. well let's be completely clear in arnest about this one of those people who is a political cheerleader the one thing which egypt tunisia libya and. syria actually up until two thousand and four all had in common is that they were complicit and they were involved in fact they were partaking in rendition for the united states they were torturing terrorist suspects on behalf of the cia this is all four of these dictatorships were involved in now all of these governments that they're talking about have capitulated to u.s. interests over the years some have capitulated less than others this is why we have libya and syria being treated completely differently to say yemen and bahrain for instance you have in yemen with the collaboration of many government the united states have been droning that country over oh. under obama which is something that bush didn't do. and regimes ha

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revolution unrest hosni mubarak's regime may be gone but are egyptians really rejoicing in life post revolution. georgian opposition groups have called on supporters to remain overnight in the counter told police that for a third day of anti-government protests they want president saakashvili to step down and have vowed to keep up demonstrations until he resigns around three thousand attended a rally outside a television channel headquarters police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at one stage dispositive as traitors armed with sticks that's been a call for a day of rage and when states of the south of the government and for early elections opposition leader you know but you know that said what she described as criminal actions by the regime has set a revolt in motion. evolution is that it will be gone and it's not up to us as a government to be generalization when the government began to terrorize people when government raised six hundred still absolutely innocent people witness government to be teens very seriously of the lives of people when they confiscate property of those the

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and still have in the program a revolution on the rest hosni mubarak's regime may be gone but are interruptions really rejoicing in light post revolution. and find out if britain can resist the strong scottish calls for freedom. by the british military operation in iraq has ended after more than eight years with the last group of royal navy training staff now having pulled out the u.k. joining the us invasion of iraq in two thousand and three under the pretext of destroying saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction but one w. enemies were never of proud of the war fell out of favor with the british public and even more so with the death of one hundred seventy nine soldiers during the conflict most of the u.k.'s military forces withdrew two years ago some experts say they failed to make iraq a safer place with terror attacks still happening there on a regular basis let's get more on this from the british antiwar activist drawn to recent joining us from london the mysteries just paying tribute to be a one hundred seventy nine british personnel who died in iraq the u.k. defense secretary said t

still ahead of the program with me kevin oh in a revolution unrest hosni mubarak's regime may have gone but are egyptians really rejoicing in life after post revolution we try and assess and find out if britain can resist the strong scottish calls for freedom. in georgia riot police have used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse anti-government protests the opposition have rallied for a second day now in the capital tbilisi about a president saakashvili steps opposition leaders say hundreds of people have so far been arrested one of georgia's opposition parties called the twenty fifth of may a day of rage designed to force the government to resign saturday thousands marched from georgian cities to say they've been robbed of their freedoms and presence in the whole region. according to opposition groups thirteen people were injured and several detained this police raided one of their offices in the middle of the night opposition leader you know budget now this is the government's prison on actions the revolt in motion. evolution is building on we've got and it's not like the governmen

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and the ousting of egyptian president hosni mubarak may result in an unintended outcome so if hamas and fatah start working together is the situation for israel going from bad to worse all thanks to their closest ally. cheers commonly coming from palestinians this time coming from a group of all church and traditional jews so just because this group rejects the state of israel that mean they're traitors. it's monday may twenty third i'm christine friends now here in washington d.c. watching our team. well one brings together the president of the united states the house speaker the senate majority leader and other top lawmakers from both sides of the aisle not the debt ceiling not a state dinner but a meeting of the american israel public affairs committee the powerful pro israel lobby doug apac held its conference over the weekend here in washington this comes at a time when middle east peace negotiations are on the minds of everyone involved but aren't you going to chicken reports disagreements may keep them from getting to the table. that president obama's calls for peace and a two st

what did hosni mubarak do? he had 30 years of leverage vis-a-vis the egyptian people to democratize his people. he department do it. he didn't use it. then in one week he tried to do what he should have over 30 years. he failed. completely. people didn't believe a word he said. you don't want netanyahu to be the hosni mubarak of the peace process where they look back, we had all this time, decent palestinian authority to test -- i'm not saying cut a deal -- i don't know whether there's a deal -- but to really test whether they can deliver and do what we can to embolden and encourage and empower them. and we didn't use it. we sat back and said, look, i got a good poll from my week in washington. well, la-di-da. we threw you a fish. what is that good for, you know? ultimately, you want to anchor this in a really secure relationship. you don't want to be the hosni mubarak of the peace process where people say what did you do when you had all that leverage? you cited a poll? >>> when we come back, we'll talk to tom

and the ousting of egyptian president hosni mubarak may result in an unintended outcome so as hamas and fatah start working together is the situation for israel going from bad closest ally. gere's commonly coming from palestinian this time coming from a group of all trucks for additional jews so just because this group rejects the state of israel does that mean they're traitors. it's monday may twenty third at eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm christine freeze out there watching our team. well what brings together the president of the united states the house speaker the senate majority leader and other top lawmakers from both sides of the aisle not that feeling not a state dinner but a meeting of the american israel public affairs committee a powerful pro israel lobby apac now the first conference over the weekend of the year in washington and it comes at a time when middle east peace negotiations are on the minds of everyone involved but as our team is going to take on reports disagreements may keep them from getting to the table. that president obama's calls for peace and a two sta

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this is all see and still ahead in the program revolution rest hosni mubarak's regime made known but are egyptians a really big joy seeing him live post revolution. georgian opposition groups have called on supporters to remain overnight in the capital tbilisi for a third day around to government protests they want president saakashvili to step down and have vowed to keep on demonstrations until he resigns there are three thousand attended the rally outside the television channel have called the police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at one stage to dispose of them as straight as armed with sticks there's been a call for a day of rage on wednesday to force our big government and for early elections opposition leader you know who denies this what she described as criminal actions by the regime to accept a report in russia. evolution is already going on and it's not up to us as a government to be generalization when governments begin to terrorize people when governments erase the hundred still absolutely innocent people when a government that beats very seriously. oh lots of people w

and the ousting of egyptian president hosni mubarak may result in a harmful outcome so as hamas and fatah start working together is the situation for israel going from bad to worse all thanks to their closest ally. cheers commonly coming from palestinians this time coming from a group of trust traditional jews so just because this group rejects the state of israel does that mean they're traitors. it's monday may twenty third four pm here in washington d.c. i'm christine for is out there watching our team. well what brings together the president of the united states the house speaker the senate majority leader and other top lawmakers from both sides of the aisle not the debt ceiling and not a state dinner but a meeting of a man an american israel public affairs committee a powerful pro israel lobby dubbed a pac how this conference over the weekend in washington it comes at a time when middle east peace negotiations are on the minds of everyone involved what is argued guy in a chicken reports this agreement may keep them from getting to the table. president obama's calls for peace and a two

and now they're getting more than they could ever hope for before me gyptian president hosni mubarak's main gone the borders couldn't be easier to get through. smuggled. who. have much more freedom to do whatever they like. and they doing it smuggling weapons into gaza the result two attacks in three months on a natural gas pipeline that supplies a quarter of israel's electricity which is why is the u.s. claims it's bringing a new tomorrow to egypt most israelis would rather remember yesteryear the eagerness of the united states to topple the former egyptian president hosni mubarak and bring about regime change and i want to meet most harmed at the closest ally in the region israel the u.s. says it wants to establish democracy in the region but instead of democracy there's a very real possibility that radical islamic could come to power the u.s. strongly supported the opposition in libya despite al qaeda connections among its ranks now it's apparently governance and support against syrian president bashar assad with the wiki leaks website claiming that washington has been funding some

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mubarak and was very recently are until very recently an ally of the u.s. not to mention a recipient of quite a bit of money and weapons from this country and this was not mentioned talk about this sort of ironic situation here or really struck. but it is ironic as you said. you know what i found it almost. in some ways you could say it and i lived for years when you look at. us. troops if this was something from the ministration but the reality is that just after obama was going to cairo speech and you talked about self-determination for peoples i'm a little these years ago. i received a. trip transport helicopters. to their. charity forces and under the obama administration. somewhere around there right away that his first year in office. for two billion dollars worth of equipment there was a sailor range by the time we got that straight we moved our sources. well obama's rhetoric that and also. the action that. we've seen from they just out of the vessel and i know that you've written kind of extensively about this you wrote an article recently called ob

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according to egypt has fined the country's ousted leader hosni mubarak and two of its former ministers and nineteen million dollars for cutting off telecommunications internet and mobile connections were disrupted for days when unpopular when the popular uprising began in january former leaders currently in custody pending trial out of corruption charges and his involvement in the deadly crackdown on protesters. in china some thirty five million people estimated to have been affected by a devastating drought along the yangtze river it's the worst recorded in fifty years among the many problems the region now faces or shortages of drinking water and severe losses for the agricultural industry no rainfall is forecast for the area so beginning of june. last year russia also experienced its worst drought in more than a century find out about its impact on the country's agriculture by visiting our website r t dot com. and the droughts the latest natural disaster spurring greater numbers of doomsday theories some experts say it's a sign that people need to build their future is with greater

. >> ifill: margaret warner updates the political upheaval in egypt, as former president hosni mubarak is ordered to stand trial on charges of corruption. >> woodruff: ray suarez talks to "global post" reporter james foley, recently released from six weeks in captivity by qadhafi forces in libya. >> when we hit that two-week mark i knew, okay, this is going to be a long time. they're telling us two to three days but they're just playing mind games with us. >> ifill: and we chronicle the 25-year run of cultural and business phenomenon oprah winfrey, as she ends her daily talk show. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> i want to know what the universe... >> looks like. >> feels like. >> from deep space. >> to a microbe. >> i can contribute to the world by pursuing my passion for science. >> it really is the key to the future. >> i want to design... >> a better solar cell. >> i want to know what's really possible. >> i want to be the first to cure cancer. >> people don't really understand why things work. >> i w

. >> ifill: margaret warner updates the political upheaval in egypt, as former president hosni mubarak is ordered to stand trial on charges of corruption. >> woodruff: ray suarez talks to "global post" reporter james foley, recently released from six weeks in captivity by qadhafi forces in libya. >> when we hit that two-week mark i knew, okay, this is going to be a long tim time. they're telling us two to three days but they're just playing mind games with us. >> ifill: and we chronicle the 25-year run of cultural and business phenomenon oprah winfrey, as she ends her daily talk show. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> i want to know what the universe... >> looks like. >> feels like. >> from deep space. >> to a microbe. >> i can contribute to the world by pursuing my passion for science. >> it really is the key to the future. >> i want to design... >> a better solar cell. >> i want to know what's really possible. >> i want to be the first to cure cancer. >> people don't really understand why things work. >>

[speaking in native tongue] [laughter] >> translator: hosni mubarak and bent ali found power so sweet that they attacked artifacts. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: i don't know when but maybe in the near future gaddafi will have a heart attack. [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: when gaddafi had his heart attack and left the country certainly do to the fact that the west helped the people when libya is not going to become a puppet of iran and they won't forget what they have done. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: syria has a nondemocratic government. even the president says syria has become hereditary. [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: you may find it interesting to note that the people -- the majority of the people of syria are sunni, and for the last 50 years of the minority, the passat family ruling over the people. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: they are tired of the dictatorship of the facade family. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: unfortunately the government of i