former bbc correspondent peter greste mohamed fahmy, and baher mohamed. they all deny collaborating with the banned muslim brotherhood and say they were simply reporting the news. the brother of mohamed fahmy says that this latest move by the court doesn't go far enough. >> i'm disappointed because i was expecting something better today. yes, a retrial, but i was expecting with that a release today. we were really hoping for that. we want them to come home with us today. >> the three journalists were sentenced to between seven and ten years in prison. they've now spent a year in jail. with no bail granted, it means they will stay in custody until their new trial, which defense lawyers say could take place within the month. this high-profile case has led to an international campaign driven by fellow journalists, colleagues, and friends of the three on social media and elsewhere calling for their release. our correspondent is outside court in cairo. >> reporter: in a very short session, a retrial has been ordered for the three journalists. no dates have bee

mohamed fahmy peter greste and baher mohamed were falsely accused of aiding the outlawed muslim brotherhood, and damaging egypt's reputation abroad. they were convicted in june, peter and mohamed were sentenced to seven years in jail, baher got ten years because he had a spent bullet in his possession that he picked up at a protest. now their detention and convictions sparked protests around the world. they never saw a minute of freedom in 2014, and with the start of a new year they remain in prison. despite an appeals court in cairon't graying the retrial, baher mohamed peter greste, and fahmy are still behind bars. >> at the same time with demand that they are immediately released, they are unjustly imprisoned, everything is politicized, that you are arrest, and the verdict were also politicized. >> the arrests of the three staff on december 29th, 2013, were initially assumed to be a short term thing. a mitch up but as time passed it became more and more clear that the authorities under the new government have other intentions. >> peter greste who was an africa specialist, but by his own

baher mohamed is not entitled to apply to be deported from egypt. he has no option but to go ahead with a new trial, which is expected to start within the peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed have paid a heavy price for their work as journalists, and in egypt's charged political environment that is judged a threat by the military dominated government. since july 2013, an estimated six journalists have been killed, doze ens detained. most were -- dozens detained. most were released. but authorities contain 11 journalist, including our three colleagues. meanwhile egyptian authorities admit to detaining 10,000 political opponents in 2014. despite their poor human rights efforts the u.s. government continues to give the military financial support. ali velshi has this report. >> reporter: the united states gives up to $1.5 billion a year in aid to the egyptian government. $1.3 billion going strait to the egyptian military. president obama temporarily suspended the military portion of that aid. in yule 2013. that's when the egyptian militar

-- mohammed fahmy were sentenced to seven years in prison, and baher mohamed was sentenced to an additional three years for having a spent bull it will casing in his procession. human rights and press freedom advocates say the move is mart of a wider crackdown on free speech. and part of a major effort by the egyptian authorities to silence decent. this year egypt has been named among the worst for its crack down on professionals. joining us from doha is a correspondent who was held without charge in an egyptian prison for ten months. he was released in june of 2014. also with us a non-resident fellow for the brookings institution center for middle east policy, and an associate fellow at the royal united states institute in london. thank you two for being here. abdullah, you spent more than 10 months in an egyptian prison. here in america we expect detainees to have basic human rights. describe for us the circumstances you experienced in the egyptian prison. >> i think egyptian prisons are an experience that no one would like to go through, because basically it's a nightmare for anyone who

llion copies of the first edition selling out within hours showing the prophet mohammed on it front page. charlie hebdo roles of the printing press a week to the day from the attack. al qaeda in yemen is claiming the possibility for the attack on charlie hebdo. and the italian president resigns, cutting short his second term, and opening the way for election of a new state. also coming up, we be looking at charlie hebdo's financial future. donations have been flooding in to try to keep it going. and the philemon it went way over budget, but it is -- the philemon went way over budget, but will open in stores. -- the philharmonic went way over budget, but will open its doors. getting more attention than ever , a total five milling copies of this week's special edition of charlie hebdo are now going to be published, a vast increase on its habitual run of 60,000. the first edition started at 6:00 a.m. and within less than three hours, newspaper kiosks across france has sold out of the dave delivery. on the cover, the prophet mohammed showing him holding a sign saying "je suis charlie" and sa

peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed have paid a heavy price for their work as journalists, and in egypt's charged political environment that is judged a threat by the military dominated government. since july 2013 an estimated six journalists have been killed, doze ens detained. most were -- dozens detained. most were released. but authorities contain 11 journalist including our three colleagues. meanwhile egyptian authorities admit to detaining 10,000 political opponents in 2014. despite their poor human rights efforts the u.s. government continues to give the military financial support. ali velshi has this report. >> reporter: the united states gives up to $1.5 billion a year in aid to the egyptian government. $1.3 billion going strait to the egyptian military. president obama temporarily suspended the military portion of that aid. in yule 2013. that's when the egyptian military removed mohamed mursi, the first democratically elected president. since then the government cracked down on dissent, making moves to silence the press inside egypt. in dises 2013, egyptian autho

it's taboo for muslims to depict the prophet mohammed. i just think that if -- you know, we are generally as a community critical of foreign policy. we are critical of, say torture when a torture report is released. now is the time to be critical of these taboos because it is topical, it is timing. we've got to stop being defensive about it and stop trying to sidestep these questions and have very open conversations that these medieval traditions belong in the medieval era. not enough of my people are being open about the need to do that. >> even if you throw out shah reya law, you not commit adultery and not-- these guys aren't going to listen to that. it's not the moderate muslims. it's these radicals. these people who pervert the religion. they're not going to listen to any reason are they? >> most of them don't. you're right. those in the battle field need to be fought militarily and where possible arrested and intear intarin interrogated interrogated. this is a crisis. this is an emergency. >> you are living proof of that as you were

a turkish court ordered a ban on access to websites that show the mohammed cover. some u.s. papers also refused to reprint it. at cairo's prestigious al-azhar university, islamic scholars instructed muslims to resist the 10 patient to react to the cartoon's provocations with hatred. >> we do not accept provocation of our religion, or to our pr ophet. this is denounced. but we are still calling on all muslims to not react negatively, and to ignore it completely. >> the university had earlier warned against publishing the mohammed cartoons. >> al-azhar the prestigious sunni islam center of learning in cairo also said that the stature of mohammed is too lofty to be harmed by cartoons. >> al-azhar strongly condemned the attacks in paris, saying that islam denounces any violence. although pictures of the prophet mohammed are for bit and under islam, caricatures have a long tradition in the arab world including right in egypt. >> a book burning in egypt. one spectator asks the other what is going on. he replies that the books are blasphemous. the cartoon was created by a satirist

the same can be said for his team baher mohamed, and mohamed fadel fahmy >>> the hashtag free aj staff went viral, and in the u.s. u.k., and elsewhere reported journalists came out to say that the treatment of al jazeera's employees was a threat to the journalistic community >>> the trial failed to come up with anything against the three men which could vaguely be said to discredit them. among them sheep herding, footage from a different channel found on their laptops. >> translation: the session presented video evidence. we found the video has no criminal indictment whatsoever to all detainees. >> adjournment after adjournment followed. eventually in june and to the fury of the world the men were convicted and gaoled. for the men's families it was the lowest point of a desperate year. >> it was the day of the sentence. it still remains, in my memory as just an awful, awful nightmare. >> it was a first. no witnesses appeared in the trial. i wonder how they were indicted and sentenced in the first place. there isn't a single piece of evidence against them. >> world leaders, including pr

peter greste mohamed fahmy, and baher mohamed were all arrested in december of 2013. they were then convicted in june of aiding the banned muslim brotherhood. that's a charge which they have all denied. with me the president was talking only a month or two ago about a pardon. does there need to be a retrial? >> well let's start with what is a retrial in the egyptian judicial system? actually, a retrial means that the judiciary saw a kind of procedural glitch from the prosecution to the trial or during the trial itself and this is why they ordered a retrial. in case of bail these people would have been convicted, it would go down in the records as a crime that was pardoned by the president, by whichever procedure. but a retrial might lead to acquittal or at least saying that they shouldn't have been tried in the first place. this is exactly what happened in mubarak's case. there was a conviction a retrial, and he shouldn't have been tried in the first place. so this is something very unique to the egyptian judicial system but it might lead to a total and complete clean

mohamed, away more do you know? >> so far it's been confirmed that the two people who were killed are members of the opposition rather they're activists of the opposition, local activists. it is not entirely clear yet who they were killed by. we are expecting more information from us about that soon. what we do know is that the -- these killings about violence that has taken place in the run up to last year's elections when you had 67 people mostly opposition activists killed almost every single day. that has not been the case for a while. that's definitely made people nervous about what might be happening later on today perhaps and in the coming day. >> mohamed we'll leave it there for now. we want to go to some background mohamed alluded to. this comes on the first anniversary of the parliamentary election, hundreds died in the run up of last year's poll. take a look at this. >> signs that politics is still a dangerous business in bangladesh. politics prevent politician from leaving her office. >> translator: as s

bahar mohamed, peter get earth mohamed fahmy. in washington i am ray suarez. an egyptian appeals court orders a retrial in the case of three jailed al jazerra journalists. ♪ ♪ >>> hello i am martin dennis with the world news from al jazerra. also do come. a stampede at a new year's celebration in shaming high. 35 people are reported dead. north korea's leader kim jong un says he's open to talks with south so*ugt korea. celebrations around the world as 2015

they had recently published cartoons of the prophet mohammed. in our next segment, we're going to talk about a ferguson grand juror who would like to speak out, but right now, juan. >> we turn to freedom of the press case we are followed closely. new york investigative reporter james risen was called to the witness stand monday after a seven-year legal battle against the government's attempts to subpoena him and force him to reveal his source. the hearing in virginia took place ahead of the trial of former cia officer jeffrey sterling, who is accused of giving risen classified information which revealed a botched cia plot to disrupt iran's nuclear program. it is unclear yet if risen will be called to testify at sterling's trial. without more information from risen, sterling's defense attorney argues the case should be dismissed. >> in a minute, we'll get an update from "new york times" reporter matt apuzzo, who was in the courtroom when risen testified. but first, this is a clip of a speech apuzzo cites in his news account of the hearing of rise

peter greste, mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed were wrongly accused of helping the muslim brotherhood, charges they deny. an appeals court has ordered a retrial will could begin in less than a month. >>> police trying to disperse protesters after friday prayers in geza and cairo. calling for the deposing of mohamed morsi. >>> fighting of armed groups in the north and south of benghazi. one is based in tripoli and the other in the east in tow to toab tobruk. the return journey to earth will be most monitored. rob reynolds explains. >> one, engine ignited. >> reporter: the plan requires pinpoint precision meticulous planning and unbelievable precision. its first stage will break away and begin falling to earth. thruster engines are supposed to direct it, to a landing platform that measures just 30 by 90 meters. controllers will try to bring the vehicle in to a safe landing. reusable rockets. elon musk explained last year. >> if we had rockets that were fully usable and get to a decent flight rate, the intention is to low the cost of space transport. >> since the beginning every launch ha

he argues mohammed could have made contact with his partner in jail. he killed a policewoman and hostages. the united states said he had been on a terror watch list. >> meanwhile, charlie hebdo lives on. the next edition of the magazine will be on newsstands within hours. 3 million copies are being printed and it is being translated into 16 languages. no one will be surprised the front cover depicts the muslim prophet mohammed, seen weeping while holding a sign that says "i am charlie." >> i started drawing and i wrote je suis charlie. it was not enough to make the cover. i just had this idea of mohammed and je suis charlie. i looked at him, and he was crying. above him, i wrote all is forgiven and then i cried. that was the cover. we had our cover. we had this damn cover and it was our cover. >> the new front cover of the charlie hebdo will go on sale tomorrow. it has been sent on social networks and by the traditional media in france, the united states, very few newspapers have chosen to print the image. philip's in washington with more on that now.

mohamed adow is our correspondent there. >> reporter: this is an incidents or development that raises more questions than answers. they say most of these people have been held by isil in mosul. they are believed to have been transported through the town before being released at this frontline. it's very unclear why they were released. it's very unclear what we know thousands of i can't yazidis mainly girls continues to are he main in the hands of isil fighters. >>> police in greece have arrested four people they believe have link to his a terrorist cell in bell yum. belgium police saying there no, sir to link them with the plot that was foiled tuesday. several a 10 terror raids were carried out. a shootout left two suspects dead. five people charged with participating in terrorist activities. we can go live now to our correspondent who is in the greek capital athens. what more have you managed to find out there and about this intriguing link with events in belgium? >> reporter: this is what we are expect to go hear today from greek police, they are at the moment cross-referencing dna

mohammed familiari, peter greste and mohammed bohama were accused of helping the out lied muslim brotherhood. a court has ordered a retrial. key political talks between yemen's main political parties and shiia hooth houthi rebels. they have rejected dialogue with the rebels calling instead for renewed protest. the houthis took control the presidential last week. the move has created political crisis in the capital which has caused a power vacuum in the south type of a report from j zinjibar where al-qaeda is active once again. >> the men are on alert. their enemy is elusive and persistent. there are dozens of checkpoints like this all over the city. these fighters are known as the popular ones. >> we want to preserve security to protect the proof ince. we will not retreat. >> zinjibar is the capitol. it's feared without these fighters al-qaeda could easily make a comeback. in 2011, al-qaeda's area declared it an islamic emerate. the army backed lie local forces drove them out. but at the heavy cost. >> most of zinjibar is, like this t al-qaedatudes rule here it remains active and carries out

witnesses say that they sa y they have avenged the prophet mohammed. they spoke in flawless french and had time to pick something up before driving away. in the attack, 12 were killed, two were police officers and the others were journalists. >> i can still hear the shots ringing through my years. i never would have believed i would hear shooting on my street. everyone was running away. it is very frightening. this to not just happen. if feels like a religious war. >> we wanted to run there to see what was happening. when we realize this shots -- the shots were coming from there, we head. >> the magazine have published drawings of the prophet mohammed. the attackers chose the weekly editorial meeting and called out some victims by name. among those killed were the editor and bodyguard. a cartoonist and another well-known cartoonist. in france, it is described as the darkest day in the history of the french press. hollande went past the amulets is to visit the scene of the attack. he said it was a terrorist operation and revealed that other attacks had

mohamed val is live in peshawar. what happened in the lower house? >> yesterday was the beginning of the the debate and everybody was surprised when they adjourned for today. interior minister and other government members were explaining to the house their needs and the benefits this need the new amendments to the constitution to allow the creation for a ministry courts to and the actions of the armed groups in the country. so it's needed a bit of debate even though people were not expecting it. and it got two-thirds majority, that's what's needed, they maintain a simple majority on the senate will mean the country has been prepared for this in the last three weeks in peshawar 150 people mostly schoolchildren. all the components of the political spectrum in the country have converged ton idea an the need to actually have tougher action. and the military courts, in this respect. >> and it's pretty important this vote isn't it? >> consume? can you repeat that? >> it's an important vote, isn't it? >> oh it's crucial. ask any pakistani and they will tell

enough insults against our prophet mohamed. if you don't stop mocking our prophet, you will regret it in the future. >> reporter: there was a wave of protests in syria a country that's been crushed by almost four years of war. the french satirical newspaper has cause aid stir in a number of muslim countries but the angriest reaction so far appears to niger a former french dolling any. >>> now to afghanistan where the government is investigating after it transpired that the nominee for agriculture minister is on interpol's most wanted list. he is being sought in connection with tax evasion and fraud dating back to 2003. he's denying the allegations. let's get more by talking to our correspondent in the afghan capital. kabul, jennifer glasse, jennifer tell us more about this. martin as you said he is on interpol's most wanted list for large scale tax evasion connected to a company that he owned. he says that he doesn't owe those taxes that it's the man who cut pwa*ut the company from him. but, of course, this is an embarrassment

-- mohammed fahmy were sentenced to seven years in prison, and baher mohamed was sentenced to an additional three years for having a spent bull it will casing in his procession. human rights and press freedom advocates say the move is mart of a wider crackdown on free speech. and part of a major effort by the egyptian authorities to silence decent. this year egypt has been named among the worst for its crack down on professionals. joining us from doha is a correspondent who was held without charge in an egyptian prison for ten months. he was released in june of 2014. also with us a non-resident fellow for the brookings institution center for middle east policy, and an associate fellow at the royal united states institute in london. thank you two for being here. abdullah, you spent more than 10 months in an egyptian prison. here in america we expect detainees to have basic human rights. describe for us the circumstances you experienced in the egyptian prison. >> i think egyptian prisons are an experience that no one would like to go through, because basically it's a nightmare for anyone who

peter greste, mohamed fahmy and bahar mohamed were wrongly accused of broadcasting false news and helping the outlawed prussian limb brotherhood. an appeals court in cairo has ordered a retrial. they have been in jail for 383 days lawyers for peter and mohamed have filed requests for them to be deported from egypt. >>> pope francis is on his way to the philippine on his the seconds leg of his week-long trip in asia. he's expected to attract crowds rivalling the 5 million people that greeted pope john paul ii ii in 1995. inch officials saying it is a nurse and i compassion trip. he plans to meet survivors of typhoon haiyan that claimed 7,000 lives in 2013. >>> russia says trans section and you'll transgender people will no longer qualify for driver's licenses. the government says it's tightening medical requirements from drivers because there are too many road accidents. but human rights activists have condemned the move and the game community says it feels increasingly threaten of the. pete are sharp reports from moscow. >> reporter: a 35-year-old moscow lawyer and human rights activist.

it is mohammed. that's what he said. it is a man crying because it was an awful thing that happened. >> i disagree completely. donna, welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> what is your take on this? >> we live in a free society. no cartoon is worth murder. >> have you seen nancy's slow go? >> it is really frightening what can happen as a response, but it is dangerous to be free these days. >> that's true. >> are you saying i am wrong in my analysis? >> always. >> they are making fun. >> i was president sure what it -- i wasn't sure what it meant, but by the way we need to say charlie come lately and not johnny come lately. they say the cover means that they are forgiving the extremists who killed or the terrorists who killed the other staff. that's what they are saying. >> that's dumb. >> that's what they are saying and it is a joke. >> maybe. >> let me ask joanne what do you make of the mayor of roderdam? >> he is a sexy guy. >> he is sexy. >> you rarely hear politicians use the f-word. >> in this age of s

al jazeera, doha. >> a lawyer representing peter greste and baha mohamed. he says an order for a retrial is a good step forward. today's acsisment is a very good indication. that the procedures that the hopefully in the next procedures. >> the reasoning for the judgement, so the whole case will be a first today for the cairo court they referred the case for a retrial. be uh the retrial, would be in front or before different panels. this would give us a chance to plead which we hope will be positive for the gentlemen. we expect the next hearing, within a month of five days it all depends on the back load of cases. fahmy. baher mohamed. >> the lawyers anow seeking the journalist release on jail, but let's take a look at the other legalling os. many are hoping the egyptian president will use his executive power to pardon peter greste, he has said so far he will not interfere with the process a new law which would have him deported. it would be unlikely for mohamed fahmy to get any release who hold egyptian citizenship. >> they have an egyptian end, and i am no

and the same could be said of his team mohammed fahmy, and baher mohamed. by january much of the international media was demanding the release of the three, as well the hashtag free aj staff went viral, and journalists protests saying the treatment of the al jazeera employees was a threat to the entire journalistic community trying to report from egypt. >>> the trial failed to come up with anything against the three men, which could even vaguely have been said to have incriminate them. a video of sheep herding, some of greste's work in kenya, footage from a different channel entirely were found on that laptops. eventually in june the men were convicted and jailed. >>> all right. we're jumping into that report to go to a press conference being given now in brisbane australia, by peter greste's brothers mike and andrew. let's listen to what they are saying. >> yesterday peter and his colleagues had their appeal heard in the court of casation we view this as a positive. the decision is also an acknowledgment that the first court trial was flawed. following ins

the following year it published an illustration of mohammed naked. that prompted the french government to temporarily close embassies around the globe. but none of those events caused the people behind "charlie hebdo" to stray from the mission including the editor stephane charbonnier. >> it is not to defend freedom of speech but without freedom of speech we are dead. we can't live in a country without freedom of speech. i prefer to die than live like a rat. >> his last cartoon, earry prophetic. >> but the figure of the armed militants replies, wait till the end of january before you get a gift from us. >> today charb was among those killed. hours after the attack, the "charlie hebdo" website published this statement, je je suis charlie, i am charlie. joining me is the editor of huffington post. what are the streets of paris like tonight? >> but there was a big rally at the end of the day because the emotion is really big about this situation situation, including the police. >> there's obviously the three gunmen remain at large, and yet -- and there'

peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed were all falsely accused of colluding with the outlawed muslim brotherhood. egypt's court of confession ordered a retrial. the egyptian president abdul fatah al-sisi said he would like to see the case resolved >>> lots more still to come on the newshour. we'll be in yemen's southern province where al al qaeda is active. zambia's president is sworn in. his rival is not happy >>> in sport, can rafael nadal keep himself in contention for the australian open title. that is also to come. joo voting is upped way in grease in an election that could change the direction of the country. the far left group is expected to win the polls. he promised to renegotiate greece's debt and end austerity. >> this is his lively. samar a the current prime minister. he has been pushing through austerity plans to secure the bail out. there's the river party, formed last year by a journalist. center left leaning and wants to keep greece in europe. and golden dawn condemned as neo-nazi. it gained support during the economic crisis. >> sue turton joins us live. a mak

jesus and mohammed, i think we can be quite sure existed. the first non-christian reference to jesus came about six decades after his death. there's quite a lot of uncertainty, but at least we have christian writings dating to as early as 20 years after his death. the koran seems to have assumed its present form no more than 20 or 30 years after mohammed's death. information about mohammed's life, however, comes from oral traditions, not written down for a considerable longer time. for the conditions surrounding his life there is also a lot of uncertainty. we might draw some parallels between joseph smith and these other religious founders. like jesus, joseph smith was killed at the prime of his life by political and religious opponents. like mohammed, he was not only a religious leader, but a political, even sometimes military leader to his people. also like mohammed, it claims to -- he claimed to have received a new revelation from god via an angel and dictated messages that his followers accepted as divine revelations. 19th century americ

"charlie hebdo" was attacked for lampooning the prophet mohammed. and the murderous rampage was ordered by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. calling the kouachi brothers who heroes of islam, the speaker said aq.a.p. chose the target, laid the plan, and financed the operation. in an 11-minute video titled "the blessed battle of paris," the aqap spokesman praises osama bin laden and current al qaeda boss ayman al zawahiri. and the speaker claims american-born terrorist anwar al-awlaki set the paris plot in motion. u.s. analysts are convinced the tape is authentic and say there's no doubt the kouachis had some linches to aqap. at least one of the brothers traveled to yemen likely trained with awlaki, and was given $20,000 to carry out an attack. but french and u.s. intelligence sources say aqap's broad claim of responsibility may be inflated. there's no evidence the terror group coordinated and directed last week's massacre in paris. and the video offers no proof. in any case, aqap is renching leveraging the attack for maximum propagand and and recrui

fahmy and baher mohamed. a retrial could begin within a month. lawyers for peter and mohamed have filed requests for them to be deported from egypt. an aircraft from the former libyan general khalifa hafta two were killed two were injured. a spokesman for libya's internationally recognized government said the ship had acted suspiciously. france's president putin president has pledged to strike at armed fighters in eask sahara africa's sahara region. 3,000 french troops have been delloyd to france's former colonies. francois hollande has ruled out further intervention. lawrence lee reports. >> the fall of gadhafi has been the strength thing of strengthening. paris is that the increasing disintegration of libya into rival heavily armed factions is leading to an open supply route for weapons outside of libya and through niger and thus rearming groups in mali all over again. consequently announcing that france would be buying more drones and would be constructing a new military base. just outside the southern lib

cnn is not showing the cover, but it does show mohammed with a tear in his eye. he has a shirt that says "i am charlie." there was an emotional news conference i went to yesterday at the offices. the cartoonists defended the cover. he said it simply felt right. cnn's phil black is at a newsstand here in paris this morning. these newsstands have been packed and sold out for the most part. >> that's right, john. just behind me the newsstand here, the guy operating it pulled down the shutter. he's taking a break. you can't blame him because for hours now he's dealt with a wave of people coming in asking for a cop copy of charlie hebdo. he's had to say no to pretty much all of them because the limited number of copies that he's received somewhere around 60 or so this morning, they were put aside in reserve by people who were forward thinking enough to request that. the people have been coming in asking for copies over the counter have been disappointed. but they say they will keep coming back until they get a copy because they believe it's important to do so. this pu

that is how long peter greste and his colleagues mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed have been behind bars in egypt. their only crime is to report. on january 1st egypt announced a retrial but no date has been sediment andrew greste says the egypt government should deport his brother. >> immediately after the announcement into a retrial was ordered peter submitted an application to the - to have - to get him deported. under the guise of the a presidential decree announced in november. we see it as an opportunity for the president to exercise his powers upped the decree and deport peter. now that he's an accused person going from being an convicted to an accused person. we are hopeful that egyptian authorities will consider this in a timely manner and come to a decision that sees peter deported and will benefit all parties. >>> mohamed fadel fahmy's brother recently said deportation documents have been signed and lawyers and government officials are figuring out what will happen when he arrives in canada. an expert on egypt's legal affairs says it's not just legal issues keeping the th

peter greste, mohamed fahmy an baherandbaher mohamed. lawyers for peter and mohamed have filed requests for them to be deported from egypt. survivors of the taliban attack on a pakistani school last month are back in the classroom for the first time since the massacre which claimed the lives of more than 150 people. the army public school in the city of peshawar has reopened 27 days after it was stoned by security gun 91. soldiers are stationed outside and electric fences have better than installed. kamal haytr reports. hayder reports. >> they say they want to go back to school no matter what the risk. the apprehension is also high. they are concerned about the security of their children and why the military run school with it will now have top-notch security will have to really beef up their perimeter security, there will be now demands to put razor wire metal detectors and all the foarnl situation which will not be conducive of education in this country. this is a country in the state of war and the government it appears does not have

we can go live now to mohamed a adow. what more do we know about the release of more than 200 yazidis? >> reporter: well, this is an incident or develop that raises more questions than answers accord to this peshmerga near the town of kirkuk told us between 20300 say say have been brought to the entrance to kirkuk they say most of these people have been held by isil in mosul. they are believed to have been transported through the town before being released at this frontline. and they are saying that they took them to hospital not far away from where i am right now on the outskirts of erbil. and it's very unclear, there is a consensus in which this group was released is very unclear what we know is that news of yazidis, mainly girls continue to remain in the hands of isil fighters. >> presumably it's too soon then to know about the conditions under which these people were held captive? >> reporter: well, some of them have been speaking to journalists and they said that they were not kept in great conditions. we have spoken

the paper car cattured prophet mohammed. the paper's editor and three cartoonists are among the dead several others are injured. bystanders took cover. amateur video captured two gunmen attack a police officer. the gunmen appeared to shoot the police officer, he fell to the ground and the gunmen ran towards him, appearing to shoot him again, point blank range, and killed him. the mass shooters ran to a car and drove away. they abandoned a black car and hijacked another vehicle. after the attack francis hollande president, told the nation he would do all he could to bring them to justice. >> translation: i would have to reply to the crime and do everything to ensure that they are arrested judged and punished in the most severe way. >> reporter: the french government put the country on its highest state of alert. >> what we have been hearing, and it's been developing over the last 5-6 hours, is that police know the suspects they identified them. the french media have been carrying the names for 6 or 7 hours. two are saad and s

as a muslim, we are taught not to depict the prophet mohammed. i defend the right to do what they want to do with my dying breath. >> although you do not like it you would not support those who say they should not be allowed to do it. >> no, they have the right to do it and should be allowed to do it. that is what a free society is. the second you restrict that you have a huge problem. we always want to remember that we want our conversations to be civil. my concern with the depictions of the prophet mohammed is that they have been done in a way that was not meant to advance the conversation. it was done to upset people. those are the conversations we want to avoid all stop we have to protect the right of people to do that whenever they want to. >> a muslim who believes in free speech and rejects the violent response. what you think your role can be in trying to stop this tide of violent islamic extremism? >> i am not a muslim. this is what the koran teaches us. it is clear that, when someone does an evil deed, you greet it with a good one. you s

he set his sights on mohamed awai. >> he was a regular person who came tom mosque. he used to question the imam of certain thing. he is not mature. to see him fall down like this you know, it's a shock. it's a shock. >> was he a terrorist? >> i don't think he was a terrorist. i think he's everything but a terrorist. >> griffin tried to develop a close relationship with amawi and often came to his apartment. >> is your phone on? i called like a couple of times. >> amawi was angry about the war in iraq, he and griffin spent hours watching violent videos and chatted about american policy in chat rooms. >> he would express his opinion and he would say whatever on his mind. my name is amir amawi, i am his brother and he's spending 20 years in prison being an because of an fbi informant. when they do ieds videos they spend hours in that room. >> the fbi watched closely. trying to determine whether amawi's interest in war time videos and his talk against u.s. troops in iraq would result in action. >> he didn't feel sorry for u.s. soldiers dying there, there's no denying. t

it was fire bombed in 2011 after it published cartoons about the profit mohamed. this is a violent attack. lucy williamson brought me the latest we know. >> the dead and injure ready still counted as i speak to you. we are getting reports one french television station is reporting ten have died. police are confirming one at the moment. the paris down hall says six have been seriously injured. this is a fluid situation that could well rise. one journalist in france spoke to someone inside the office of charlie hebdo. that person said it was a massacre, several were already dead. >> as we get reports coming in it's all fluid at the moment. lucy lucy charlie hebdo has been controversial in the past. remind us of the details of this magazine. >> that's right. it has published controversial content. it's a satirical magazine that likes to push the envelope. it's not the first time the offices have been attacked. last november molotov cocktails were thrown at the headquarters. a couple of years ago, viewers might remember the magazine published characters of the magazin

he was wrongly accused along with two other al jazeera journal lists, mohammed fahmy, and baher mohamed, of colluding with the outlawed muslim brotherhood. wayne haye reports from brisbane. >> reporter: by now they thought they wouldn't have to be doing this. the family of peter greste spoke to media in brisbane australia to talk about their son and brother still locked up in cairo, egypt. >> it has been a long time of anxiety and stress largely because we feel very sad that in fact we have come home empty handed. >> reporter: peter greste mohammed fahmy, and baher mohamed were arrested in cairo on december the 29th 2013. in a trial widely dismissed as a farce, they were sentenced to between seven and ten years in prison for aiding the outlawed muslim brotherhood. at the start of this month, a court in cairo ordered a retrial in the case of the al jazeera three. the convictions were set aside, providing some hope that the president of egypt can now intervene. last year he issued a presidential decree that would allow for foreigners to be deported to either face trial or serve time in th