it follows a bomb attack on a tourist bus in cairo that killed three foreigners and. moving to other stories we're following this hour in the democratic republic of congo presidential candidates have refused to sign a code of conduct pact with the election commission unless proposed changes are made ahead of sunday's vote ruling party candidate emanuel should resign the document which i am sick guaranteed peace during and after the election earlier on saturday the leading opposition candidate marching for you attended a church service where the local archbishop appealed for calm ahead of sunday's. we must not under any circumstances allow the elections become another opportunity to destroy the democratic republic of congo at this till the blood of the congolese people which has flowed too much already for decades. two people were killed during protests on friday after the electoral commission delayed voting in three opposition strongholds until march this is two months after the new president is jews to be sworn in and with hundreds of polling stations on able to open

right in the sinai peninsula and greater cairo. turkey has sent at least fifty more tanks to its southern border with syria in preparation for a possible attack on the kurdish y p g. russia and turkey have also agreed to keep cooperating in syria as u.s. forces prepare to withdraw. and security officials in yemen say rebels have started handing over control of the vital port of the data to the government's navy and coast guard the transfer is being carried out under the supervision of the united nations. when all the stories we're following mobile internet services have been shut down in bangladesh as the country prepares for its election on sunday the regulator says the move is designed to prevent what it calls rumors and propaganda surrounding the vote the election campaign has been marred by violence but the ruling party says the vote will be fair charles strafford reports from dakka. muhammad. has been the manager of this restaurant in the pan with this she capital dhaka for three years it sells cheap breakfasts to rickshaw dri

a burned out shell all the trimming support to a bus hit by a roadside bomb near cairo. we saw people carry the dead bodies some people brought the wounded inside an ambulance to take them to hospital and residents of the area helped carry the injured all of them were told. fourteen vietnamese tourists were on board when the bomb exploded in a district close to the giza pyramids in the hope that sometimes attacks such as this one can of course it may even happen again in the future and it isn't the country in the world where we can say is one hundred percent safe. tourists in egypt have been increasingly targeted as the government tries to suppress armed groups in the sinai peninsula tourism is key to egypt's struggling economy were you doing the signaling to the egyptian regime that they're moving out of their own territory and now attacking the very primary source of income for many egyptians that thirty percent of the economy goes to tourism within hours of the bombing the egyptian government published photographs it said showed some of what it called thirty suspected

it follows a bomb attack on a tourist bus in cairo that killed three foreigners and egyptian guy. now britain's home secretary is cutting short his holidays to return to the u.k. to tackle a wave of attempts by migrants and asylum seekers to cross the english channel sajid javid says the exception of more boats over the christmas period carrying men from syria and iran amounts to a major incident immigration minister caroline noakes is also visited dover to speak with border force officials we have correspondents on both sides of the channel let's start with sana gago who joins us live from dover on the southeast coast of the u.k. why has this been declared a major incident sagna. well mary it's not really so much about the numbers which are relatively few compared to the likes that we've seen in the mediterranean but it's more about exactly how it's happened this sudden surge which has happened really very recently since the start of november you've had more than two hundred twenty people who've arrived in this in this manner when you consider that last year alone you had a dozen

a day after the deadly bombing of a tourist bus near cairo. egypt says a0 militants have been killed in anti—terrorism raids. named in the new year honours list, the british divers who rescued a boys' football team from a cave in thailand. also on the list, alistair cook, twiggy is made a dame and michael palin is knighted. i'm very surprised, because i've done a lot of things in my life, none of which i felt were totally worthy of such recognition. but maybe the cumulative effect is one of some kind of achievement. now on bbc news, stephen hawking, aretha franklin, tessa jowell and ken dodd. just a few of those who left us this year, and whose lives are celebrated in review 2018: we remember. oh, it's doddy. hiya, doddy. # happiness, happiness # the greatest gift that i possess i always go up on the stage and think, "mind you, what a beautiful day." what a beautiful day for doing this. what a beautiful day for bouncing up and down in a big barrel of blancmange. how tickled i am by all this goodwill. what about you, missus? have you been tic

important foreign policy in august the italian deputy prime minister tried to ramp up production in cairo. i hope that by the end of the year we can get to a breakthrough and of the meeting between the judicial authorities can take place as soon as possible both on our side and on the egyptian one there is a desire to ask or an acceleration. i know it's the end of the year and no race it's so italy has suspended diplomatic talks with the egyptian parliament and announce the names of the suspects. we waited in silence for almost one year because their prosecutors already had many of those names and many other elements one year ago and they were presented in egypt one year ago as well however we did not receive any answer egyptian officials have repeatedly denied any involvement and origines killing and respond to the charges should be banks still need wouldn't and not suspicion. al-jazeera. the cascade of former u.s. president george h.w. bush has arrived in texas where he'll be buried late on friday say he died last friday at the age of ninety four earlier politicians past and present wer

the conflict has occasionally spilled over to cairo and resort towns by that but. sometimes attacks such as this one can of course it may even happen again in the future and it isn't a country in the world where we can say is one hundred percent safe. in november gunmen opened fire on two buses up the nile river from cairo the ambush in the minya province in central egypt took the lives of at least seven people who were returning from a baptism eighteen others including children were wounded eisel claimed responsibility for the attack. in march egypt's interior ministry's top security official survived an assassination attempt in alexandria the attack two days before the presidential election killed two policeman and injured five others. in may of two thousand and seventeen gunmen attacked a bus and cars travelling through southern egypt twenty six people were killed and twenty five others injured according to the health ministry the talk was followed by a series of church bombings claimed by eisel. a few months later two german tourists were killed and four others

the conflict has occasionally spilled over to cairo and resort towns by that but. sometimes attacks such as this one can of course it may even happen again in the future and it isn't a country in the world where we can say is one hundred percent safe. in november gunmen opened fire on two buses up the nile river from cairo the ambush in the minya province in central egypt took the lives of at least seven people who were returning from a baptism eighteen others including children were wounded eisel claimed responsibility for the attack. in march egypt's interior ministry's top security official survived an assassination attempt in alexandria the attack two days before the presidential election killed two policeman and injured five others. in may of two thousand and seventeen gunmen attacked a bus and cars traveling through southern egypt twenty six people were killed and twenty five others injured according to the health ministry the talk was followed by a series of church bombings claimed by eisel. a few months later two german tourists were killed and four others

desperate ali brought his son to cairo and then the u.s. for care of my son go through. it's really hard for him i mean he was never from the mother and then his face in there it's just it's crazy you know no matter what color you are. family should be together no matter what this fall stop breathing on his own then closed his eyes for the last time and stop responding entirely doctors say the end is days away is strength and the speed of his mother's plane will determine whether on wednesday evening the hudson family will get that chance john hendren al-jazeera oakland california belgium's prime minister has resigned after losing a confidence vote sheilds michel had been leading a minority government for a week when his coalition partners walked out of the alliance the flemish nationalist party quit over michelle's decision to sign the un migration pact that critics say would increase the number of migrants coming into europe right leaders such as fonts marine le pen out in violent protest against the plan on sunday. the u.k.'s prime minister to resign may is due to las

how dear packs a punch it saves her from unwanted male attention here on the streets of cairo sexual harassment can be a common experience her training partner while law is just as fierce she's egypt's heavyweight boxing champion strong women in a macho world and out on the streets they say they're never afraid. and who would i don't want to boast but i am in fact a heavyweight boxing champion so i'm the man of the house and out on the streets and identical and i don't get women's boxing in egypt is only a fringe sport but according to the coach there's no shortage of talented women the challenge is finding them and supporting them. listen it's not about civil it's not as though this is only a sport for men there are many women who become world champions and in egypt this is especially possible we have many strong and very talented women but they don't have it easy in egypt there is a deep seated prejudice and many stereotypes that still endure. it's a brutal sport i think it's better for women to avoid it but that after all women are not good at enduring violence the. things that de

egypt's first arms fair has opened in cairo with four hundred companies exhibiting weapons from rifles to tanks forty countries are represented at the three day event the fair comes in this delegations from international human rights organizations that egypt has used european made weapons against civilians to suppress opposition accusations cairo has strongly denied. the u.n. climate conference in poland enters its second day today on monday the u.n. secretary general antonio terrorist told delegates the world was quote way off course in the fight against global warming the aim of the meeting is to flesh out the twenty fifteen paris climate accord which comes into force in twenty twenty. over the weekend seventy nine chinese cities triggered air pollution alerts as severe winter smog covered large parts of the country. fighting pollution is just one of the many items on the agenda at the climate change conference in cutover itself but for many countries the price of confronting global warming is steep just the fact that poland is hosting this gathering has been slammed by environmental

the british colonial office organized the cairo conference one thousand nine hundred twenty one hosted by the new colonial secretary winston churchill it drew another important line within the british area of influence separating the land east of the river jordan from palestine. churchill came to this brief without any preexisting ideas on the future of the middle east he was in a sense moving as quickly as events were to try and put in place and then administer to structures that could prove effective in securing britain's interests at least cost to the exchequer i mean there have been some. proposals which simply from the zionist organization which were pushing for a palestine being defined in much more extensive to include the east bank of the jordan as well but in the end jordan and palestine and it up being under the same british mandate as you know at the end of the first world war and then we simply had an order a council that has stopped. if you like it's first main in one nine hundred twenty eight. when the house of might spilled in their bid to establish an independent arab k

the conflict has occasionally spilled over to cairo and resort towns by the. sometimes attacks such as this one can of course it may even happen again in the future and it isn't a country in the world where we can say is one hundred percent safe. in november gunmen opened fire on two buses up the nile river from cairo the ambush in the minya province in central egypt took the lives of at least seven people who were returning from a baptism eighteen others including children were wounded eisel claimed responsibility for the attack. in march egypt's interior ministry's top security official survived an assassination attempt in alexandria the attack two days before the presidential election killed two policeman and injured five others. in may of two thousand and seventeen gunmen attacked a bus and cars traveling through southern egypt twenty six people were killed and twenty five others injured according to the health ministry the talk was followed by a series of church bombings claimed by eisel. a few months later two german tourists were killed and four others

a burned out shell all the trimmings of a tour bus hit by a roadside bomb near cairo you know what we saw people carry the dead bodies some people brought the wounded inside an ambulance to take them to hospital and residents of the area helped carry the injured all of them with tolerance. fourteen vietnamese tourists were on board when the bomb exploded in a district close to the giza pyramids here in new york about. sometimes attacks such as this one can occur it may even happen again in the future and it isn't a country in the world where we can say is one hundred percent safe tourists in egypt have sometimes been targeted as the government has tried to suppress armed groups in the sinai peninsula tourism is key to egypt's struggling economy were you doing signaling to the egyptian regime that they're moving out of their own territory and now attacking the very primary source of income for many egyptians that thirty percent of the economy goes to tourism. within hours of the bombing the egyptian government published photographs it said showed some of what it called thirty suspected

—killing to the pyramids near cairo — killing three vietnamese tourists and a local tour guide. there were no immediate reports of any group saying it was behind the bombing. laura westbrook reports. this is the aftermath of the explosion. the force of the blast shattered windows, leaving just a blackened shell. the bus, carrying mostly vietnamese tourists, had been travelling to the pyramids in giza. investigators at the scene said an improvised explosive device was hidden beside a wall, and went off as the bus drove past. prime minister mostafa madbouly visited the injured in hospital. translation: we're in touch with the vietnamese authorities. we offer our deepest condolences to those who lost their lives in this incident. he also told local media the bus deviated from the planned route, approved by security forces. the pyramids of giza are egypt's most famous landmark, with buses filled with tourists travelling there from cairo every day. tourism is a lifeline for egypt and only recently started to recover. this latest attack will have many on edge as the country prepares f

security forces announced that they killed forty people during raids in the sinai peninsula and great a cairo area egypt's government says the dead were terrorists who were preparing more attacks the statement came out after a bomb targeted a tourist bus in cairo killing three foreigners and the egyptian took guide in all the headlines turkey has sent at least fifty tanks to its southern border with syria in preparation for a possible attack on kurdish y.p. g. forces who calls terrorists meanwhile it's a meeting in moscow russia and turkey of agree to coordinate with each other in northern syria off to the eventual withdrawal of u.s. troops from near the turkey syria border mohamad brings us this report. columns of turkish tanks roll into syria. and korea has been bolstering its military positions along its south of border as it prepares for what it calls a full fledged offensive on the cottage held city of mumbai is syria syrian rebels backed by tuckey are also on the move both inside areas of syria and the techies sway and along the eight hundred twenty two kilometer border between the two

it was in cairo. the middle east is so different. be owners thought they would one region going from damascus to cairo and everybody would live peacefully. times.erent we will talk about the redrawing of the map read -- of the map. >> it was the day after the armistice in 1819 that claude monet wrote to his friend to offer the french monuments to peace. the panels that make up the water lilies can be seen in a museum. needede an ode to a much peacefulness after war. they are the work of the 79-year-old man. found its movement inspiration inward in our dreams. painted -- in 1919. you already, during the war, start to see the arts are changing in reaction to what is going on. art changing because artists have been mobilized. we see things happening around camouflage and artists who were mobilized for camouflage, abstract artist and artist experiencing what people were telling them about the front and reintegrating that into their arts. all different changes are happening. >> last month when we had the commemorations, we talked about th

up the pressure on egypt over the torture and killing of a twenty eight year old italian student in cairo nearly three years ago the lawyer representing julian regime his family says five egyptian policemen and secret service members are under investigation by the authorities in rome inshallah ballasts. truth for julio virginny reads the banner it's been nearly three years since the italian students body was found in egypt. that we are now at a very important stage we won't give up because we have taken a big step forward we never give up i want the people in egypt to know this we never give up this was originally while he was in school he was a cambridge university graduate student studying trade unions from the american university in cairo he was kidnapped in january twenty sixth jane a week later his mutilated body was found on the city's outskirts the egyptian government blamed a criminal gang for jennie's family pointed at security services nearly three years on the lewises a telling authorities are investigating five egyptian policeman and secret service members she says that it's j

the conflict has occasionally spilled over to cairo and resort towns by the. sometimes attacks such as this one can of course it may even happen again in the future and it isn't a country in the world where we can say is one hundred percent safe. in november gunmen opened fire on two buses up the nile river from cairo the ambush in the minya province in central egypt took the lives of at least seven people who were returning from a baptism eighteen others including children were wounded eisel claimed responsibility for the attack. in march in chips interior ministries top security official survived an assassination attempt in alexandria which took the lives of two policeman and injured five others major general mustafa was targeted by a roadside explosion which struck his convoy near his headquarters there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack which came two days before egyptians began voting in a presidential election. a bomb attack three years ago killed egypt's state prosecutor he bought a cot as his convoy was driving through a busy up ma

important foreign policy in august the italian deputy prime minister tried to ramp up production in cairo. i hope that by the end of the year we can get to a breakthrough and that the meaning between the judicial authorities can take place as soon as possible both on our side and on the egyptian one there's a desire to ask for an acceleration. i know it's the end of the year and no race so it's only has suspended diplomatic talks with the egyptian parliament and announce the names of the suspects. we waited in silence for almost one year because their prosecutors already had many of those names and many other elements one year ago and they were presented in egypt one year ago as well however we did not receive any answer egyptian officials have repeatedly denied any involvement and origines killing and responded the charges should be based on evidence and not suspicion. shelob ellice al jazeera. two hundred people have been arrested across from string protests over education reform. was. demanding overhauls turn standardized testing and university entry requirements student demonstrations

the conflict has occasionally spilled over to cairo and resort towns by that but. sometimes attacks such as this one can of course it may even happen again in the future and it isn't a country in the world where we can say is one hundred percent safe. in november gunmen opened fire on two buses up the nile river from cairo the ambush in the minya province in central egypt took the lives of at least seven people who were returning from a baptism eighteen others including children were wounded eisel claimed responsibility for the attack. in march egypt's interior ministry's top security official survived an assassination attempt in alexandria the attack two days before the presidential election killed two policeman and injured five others. in may of two thousand and seventeen gunmen attacked a bus and cars traveling through southern egypt twenty six people were killed and twenty five others injured according to the health ministry the top was followed by a series of church bombings claimed by eisel. a few months later two german tourists were killed and four others i

giza pyramids in egypt at least ten others were injured when a tour bus was hit south of the capital cairo his pole to judge. egypt and security services quickly cordoned off the area where the roadside bomb exploded the improvised homemade bomb was placed near a wall on mar u.t.s. street in a district near the giza pyramids the dead were part of a group of fourteen vietnamese on a tour bus being driven around historic sites things and if not the most important think is to provide medical care to all those who were injured we give our deepest condolences to those who lost their lives in this incident whether egyptian or the tourist who died. egyptians and tourists have been targeted in recent years as egypt tries to suppress on groups in sinai peninsula the conflict there has occasionally spilled over to cairo and resort towns and on groups have targeted tourists by that in the end ok sometimes attacks such as this one can of course it may even happen again in the future and it isn't a country in the world where we can say is one hundred percent safe. in november gunmen opened fire on two

. >>> she arrived in san francisco international airport from cairo wednesday night. she held hands with her husband who has been in the bay area getting medical treatment for their 2-year-old son abdullah who is on life support. >> this is difficult time for our family, but we are blessed to be together. >> reporter: they are naturalized u.s. citizens and flew to the bay area in august to get treatment at ucsf benioff children's hospital in oakland for a rare brain condition. he is a yemen i national and couldn't get a visa because of president trump's visa ban. >> the ban has hurt yemen families. >> reporter: they filed a lawsuit against the state department for delaying the visa which she say she applied for in 2017. >> the result of that failure is that a dying 2-year-old boy has suffered for the last two months without his mother by his side for no apparent reason. >> reporter: the family reached out to the u.s. embassy in cairo 28 times this year, and it wasn't until their lawsuit, news coverage and public outcry that she was granted her visa on tuesday. >> the

e is scheduled to land from is cairo tomorrow night at 7:35 p.m. at sfo. there will with be a short press conference after she lands. we will bring that story to you tomorrow night, but first at 6:00 we'll give you a look at all the strings that were pulled to make this happen as only 2% of families that are impacted by this travel ban get this kind of a waiver. >> it's pretty amazing, what a heart breaking situation, though. thank you. >> reporter: absolutely, very difficult for this family. >> thank you. >>> a settlement has been reached in the case of a santa rosa teenager who was shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy. >> the sonoma county sheriff's office is now paying the victim's family millions of dollars. kpix5's melissa caen is live in santa rosa with the details. >> reporter: we're in santa rosa at the andy lopez unity thpark nater andy pez whwas d when he was shot and killed by a sonoma county sheriff's deputy. that happened a little over five years ago right in this area. today we learned his family will receive $3 million from the county of so

she is a yemen national living in cairo. ab duela is not expected to live much longer. >> i can't imagine how i'm going through it and my wife is going through it. he is in critical condition. he is unhealthy. >> the family says the u.s. state department is processing his wife's request for a waiver to get in to the u.s. the council on american islamic relations plans to file a formal letter with the state department and the u.s. embassy in cairo to sped up her request for a visa. >>> lawmakers are reacting to a texas judge's ruling. 20million americans health care coverage lay in limbo, the issue, an invalid mandate. a law requiring people to have health insurance and penalizes them if they don't. >> the judge seemed way off the deep end. i'm going to ask senators, democrats and republicans, to intervene in the case when it's appealed and say the judge was totally off base. >> there are no changes for those insured through the aca. if >>> according to a new nbc wall street journal poll, 62% of americans do not believe that

but just last month, a bus carrying cop de christians was ambushed south of cairo, leaving seven dead and 19 injured. i have had a chance not only to co-sponsor h-res-673 along with several of my colleagues introducing that to focus attention on the persecution of cop de christians and to demand the arrest and prosecution of the individuals who have carried out terrorist acts against them. it's one thing to communicate something by passing a resolution in congress that you hope will be read in cairo, but in my role in the foreign affairs committee, i get a chance to speak directly as i did last year to president el-sisi, as i have time and again to the foreign ambassador making it clear, support of the egyptian cop de community is critical to congress. we are paying attention and the cop de community will not be forgotten. [ applause ] >> i was pleased to co-sponsor the near east and south central asia religious freedom act which provided for a special envoy to focus on religious minorities in the middle east and to show the bipartisanship of that issue names the person appointed to t

excelled at optics math astronomy and much more as a young man the prodigious of no haitham travel to cairo. the story goes that he was invited to egypt after he promised the ruling kailash there he could stop the nile from flooding by building a dam. however he soon realized that this task was technically impossible and so he feigned madness to escape the caleb's anger and was instead thrown into an assignment there he still to have written much of his important work key tarbell my novel the book of optics which was hugely influential the centuries. method had died is an iraqi engineer at cambridge university together we're going to recreate one of the mill haitham as most famous experiments the camera obscura pharmaceutical you think very very nice what's the view like. we have this power of ok i think that clock tower be perfect. all we need to do is block out the windows and get the screen in place. the camera obscura is essentially a giant pinhole camera the size of a rube so that we can stand inside it although the idea of the camera obscura was known about previously it no hey thumbs

a burned out shell all the trimmings support to a bus hit by a roadside bomb near cairo. we saw people carry the dead bodies some people brought the wounded inside an ambulance to take them to hospital and residents of the area helped carry the injured all of them were told. fourteen vietnamese tourists were on board when the bomb exploded in a district close to the giza pyramids in the hope that sometimes attacks such as this one can of course it may even happen again in the future and it isn't a country in the world where we can say is one hundred percent safe. tourists in egypt have been increasingly targeted as the government tries to suppress armed groups in the sinai peninsula tourism is key to egypt's struggling economy were you doing the signaling to the egyptian regime that they're moving out of their own territory and now attacking the very primary source of income for many egyptians that thirty percent of the economy goes to tourism. within hours of the bombing the egyptian government published photographs it said showed some of what it called thirty suspected

embassy in cairo actually apologized to his wife for the delay in her visa request. meanwhile, this family has received so much support in the last 24 hours, strangers have donated close to $15,000 online to help pay for those plane tickets, as well as for littlep. that's the latest here inbc bay area news. >> melissa, thank you. >>> well, it's a case that shook up cmunity in santa rosa. the shooting death of 13-year-old andy lopez a few years ago. today we learned the sonoma county sheriff's department will pay lopez's family millions of dollars. in 2013, a deputy pulled over when he spotted lopez carrying a bb gun that looked like an assault rifle. the sheriff's deputy ordered the boy to drop the gun, but as lopez turned around, the deputy fired eight times. today the sheriff announced the settlement. >> it's a step to help people move forward, and i hope it's a beginning for the family to move forward. >> the lopez family alleged in the lawsuit that the deputy acted recklessly. the lawyer for the family did not return our calls. a spokesman for the sheriff's depar

citizen to cairo to the states last month for medical treatment. that's the last time the toddler saw his mother. >> it's horrible, i can't imagine how i'm going through it and my wife is going through it because my son, he's in critical condition right now. he's really, really unhealthy. >> reporter: ali says his son is not expected to live much longer, and the family says president trump's ban on travelers from certain muslim majority nations is keeping his wife, a yemen national who currently lives in egypt from abah is ting families from eache noarent is supposed through what i'm going through. i'm just doing the best. i do what i can. >> reporter: the u.s. state department is processing her request for a waiver to get her into the u.s. according to the family, but time is running out. the council on american islamic relations plans to file a formal letter with the state department and the u.s. embassy in cairo to speed up for request for a visa. >> she started crying and crying every single day. she wants to be next to her son. right now he ca

they announced a mini bus service in cairo, egypt. uber ceo announced the service today. he hopes to add tract egyptians into ride sharing and away from cars on cairo's crowded streets. uber is also investing more than $100 million into its customer support center in cairo. >>> a russian company is taking on uber in new york. the app is called indriver already operating in 11 countries. it works like this. a user enters their destination. the app shows a suggested fare which the user can accept or counter. drivers can negotiate the prices as well. drivers can still make a profit because it only charges a 5% to 10% commission. uber takes up to 25% of the fare. >>> rain has arrived. it started in the south bay. we've got reports in napa of light rain right now. rain is also pushing into sonoma county near santa rosa. we're getting wet weather out of the storm which ranks two in the storm impact scale. we'll see showers tonight, down powers, highest rainfall totals on the coast. overnight, as the showers continue, look for low temperatures dropping mainly into the mid to upp

but just last month, a bus carrying cop de christians was ambushed south of cairo, leaving seven dead and 19 injured. i have had a chance not only to co-sponsor h-res-673 along with several of my colleagues introducing that to focus attention on the persecution of cop de christians and to demand the arrest and prosecution of the individuals who have carried out terrorist acts against them. it's one thing to communicate something bypassi passing a resolution in congress that you hope will be read in cairo, but in my role in the foreign affairs committee, i get a chance to speak directly as i did last year to president sisi, as i have time and again to the foreign ambassador making it clear, support of the egyptian cop de community is critical to congress. we are paying attention and the cop de community will not be forgotten. [ applause ] >> i was pleased to co-sponsor the near east and south central asia religious freedom act which provided for a special envoy to focus on religious minorities in the middle east and to show the bipartisanship of that issue names the person appointed to

the attack happened near the giza pyramids, on the outskirts of cairo. there were no immediate reports of any group saying it was behind the bombing. laura westbrook reports. this is the aftermath of the explosion. the force of the blast shattered windows, leaving just a blackened shell. the bus, carrying mostly vietnamese tourists, had been travelling to the pyramids in giza. investigators at the scene said an improvised explosive device was hidden beside a wall, and went off as the bus drove past. prime minister mostafa madbouly visited the injured in hospital. translation: we're in touch with the vietnamese authorities. we offer our deepest condolences to those who lost their lives in this incident. he also told local media the bus deviated from the planned route, approved by security forces. the pyramids of giza are egypt's most famous landmarks, with buses filled with tourists travelling there from cairo every day. tourism is a lifeline for egypt, and only recently started to recover. this latest attack will have many on edge as the country prepares

reports the blast some very close to the famous case of pyramids an area on the outskirts of the capital cairo authorities are at the scene we'll keep you posted of course as they provide more information about what's going on there. the u.s. state of alabama is looking into a discredited pro democratic party operation and whether it illegally impacted on the senate race there back in twenty said. the operation involving more than a thousand fake russian language twitter accounts designed to appear as if they were backing a republican candidate. the information is concerning the impact it had on the election is something that's significant for us to explore and we'll go from there . seems those behind the scheme were meant to be tracking fake russian accounts but next is kind of mopin reports they in fact created their own some of the activity pointed to as alleged russian meddling in the united states was actually being carried out by the cyber security form new knowledge that this new knowledge outfit was carrying out activity designed to look like russian meddling in order to hurt roy moore

. >> i watch protesters i ran from teargas in cairo and i flinched when i heard the gunshots. they were spontaneous there was that he the atmosphere and many places it was very spontaneous often they came with enthusiasm but also fear but i'll never forget what the atmosphere was like at that time and various other capitals so it was a very different. and in that environment that i was in syria and i was in damascus for the earliests protest. the initial calls were not for regime change. that is why the arab evolution the people calling for the regime that was not the first call in syria. it was reform. after a while when the crackdown began they started to call for regime change so initially they wanted reform. >>host: but aside said in the beginning. >> people were looking to him as a young leader to institute the change they hoped the man at the helm would institute the change but then a couple weeks into the uprising he gave a speech in parliament that spoke about growing conspiracies and staged events people realize the president was not going to fulfill their demandss al

talks have of success let's bring in his see he's a political analyst from yemen he is currently in cairo good to see you so the fact that these rival sides actually came to sweden that scene that's seen as an achievement what do you think the outcome is here that the u.n. is looking to see or actually that they're really very good months don't they did not come to see her for the very first verbier gridlocks that sort of thing who are holding direct talks that are dog really dealt with your huge milestone earlier you were looking at basically creating a framework that you're great for the road to peace talks these are all of the perforations but are going to remain issue here as are the blueprints of our own search towards peace. ok so that would definitely be a successor saying his show on but just before these talks got underway we saw both sides making demands the who the rebels threaten to block un access to the airport in sanaa the yemeni government called on rebels to withdraw from data could that with could these demands then actually do rail any progress no not really because the

sally nabil, in cairo. president trump has threatened to close the us border with mexico over the issue of illegal immigration if congress fails to fund his proposed wall. he tweeted, "either we build the wall or we close the border." the white house confirmed the threat was real, saying negotiations with congress had stalled. the dispute has caused a partial shutdown of the government, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal employees unpaid. speaking to cbs news earlier the white house press secretary sarah sanders said president trump just wanted to secure the border. he wants border security. he wants to be able to have the resources and the tools that are needed that cbp and department of homeland security have laid out that they have to have in order to protect our border, in order to protect american citizens. democrats, on the other hand, who have talked about wanting border security, who have even talked about wanting walls and barriers and other things, all of a sudden have changed their tune and

the attack happened near the giza pyramids, on the outskirts of cairo. there were no immediate reports of any group saying it was behind the bombing. laura westbrook reports. this is the aftermath of the explosion. the force of the blast shattered windows, leaving just a blackened shell. the bus, carrying mostly vietnamese tourists, had been travelling to the pyramids in giza. investigators at the scene said an improvised explosive device was hidden beside a wall, and went off as the bus drove past. prime minister mostafa madbouly visited the injured in hospital. translation: we're in touch with the vietnamese authorities. we offer our deepest condolences to those who lost their lives in this incident. he also told local media the bus deviated from the planned route, approved by security forces. the pyramids of giza are egypt's most famous landmark, with buses filled with tourists travelling there from cairo every day. tourism is a lifeline for egypt, and only recently started to recover. this latest attack will have many on edge as the country prepares

friday's attack on a tourist bus three foreigners on the edge a guy died not bomb blasts just outside cairo it happened at the ancient pyramids of giza and has the latest for. a burned out shell all the trimmings of a tour bus hit by a roadside bomb near qana you know listen to what we saw people carry the dead bodies some people brought the wounded inside an ambulance to take them to hospital and residents of the area helped carry the injured all of them would tolerate fourteen vietnamese tourists were on board when the bomb exploded in a district close to the giza pyramids here in new york ok sometimes attacks such as this one can of course it may even happen again in the future and it isn't the country in the world where we can say is one hundred percent safe. tourists in egypt have been increasingly targeted as the government tries to suppress armed groups in the sinai peninsula tourism is key to egypt's struggling economy were you doing signaling to the egyptian regime that they're moving out of their own territory and now the very primary source of income for many egyptians that thirt

a roadside bomb has killed at least two vietnamese terrorists on a bus in the egyptian capital cairo it happened less than four kilometers from the pyramids at least ten others were injured and two people have died in protests in the eastern democratic republic of congo demonstrators in three opposition strongholds are demanding the right to vote in the sunday's election they've been excluded over the recent in both that helped break. will in all the stories of following the un has warned against the use of excessive force against anti-government demonstrations in sudan this after police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowds including worshipers chanting as they left a mosque people gathered in the capital hard to me as well as at our in the north and white madani in the south to protest over spiraling living costs and corruption the government says nineteen people have been killed during protests over the last week nine opposition leaders and activists have been detained but president omar al bashir remains defiant after initially promising reforms eased by what he

the attack happened near the giza pyramids, on the outskirts of cairo. there were no immediate reports of any group saying it was behind the bombing. laura westbrook reports. this is the aftermath of the explosion. the force of the blast shattered windows, leaving just a blackened shell. the bus, carrying mostly vietnamese tourists, had been travelling to the pyramids in giza. investigators at the scene said an improvised explosive device was hidden beside a wall, and went off as the bus drove past. prime minister mostafa madbouly visited the injured in hospital. translation: we are in touch with the vietnamese authorities. we offer our deepest condolences to those who lost their lives in this incident. he also told local media the bus deviated from the planned route, approved by security forces. the pyramids of giza are egypt's most famous landmarks, with buses filled with tourists travelling there from cairo every day. tourism is a lifeline for egypt, and only recently started to recover. this latest attack will have many on edge as the country prepare

received outside of the west joining me to discuss this are mona eltahawy a journalist based between cairo in new york and author of headscarves and hymens why the middle east needs a sexual revolution run general kumari women's rights activist and director of the center for social research in new delhi. or a gun and writer and director of communications for the ngo the association for women's rights in development thank you all for joining me on this special edition of outfront i want to start by asking you all how has the hash tag mean to movement been received outside of the u.s. outside of the west rangel you're a long time champion of women's rights in india what's the response to me to be like over there. the little red and the whole campaign started on social media with hash tag mean to the million women also onto the whole you know the kind of speaking out as talking about themselves and their own twenty five thousand women joined that campaign in india and also a lot of them really wanted to speak about their own experiences but when we restart the kind of expression they did not

and a local tour guide, and injuring a number of others near the giza pyramids, on the outskirts of cairo. there were no immediate reports of any group saying it was behind the attack. laura westbrook reports. this is the aftermath of the explosion. the force of the blast shattered windows, leaving just a blackened shower. the bus, carrying mostly vietnamese tourists, had been travelling to the pyramids in giza. investigators at the scene said an improvised explosive device was hidden beside a wall, and went off as the bus drove past. the prime minister visited the injured in hospital. translation: we are in touch with the vietnamese authorities. we offer our deepest condolences to those who lost their lives in this incident. he also told local media the bus deviated from the planned route approved by security forces. the pyramids of giza are egypt's most famous landmarks, with buses filled with tourist travelling there from cairo every day. tourism is a lifeline for each of, and only recently started to recover. —— egypt. this latest attack will have many on edge as the country prepa

how dear packs a punch it saves her from unwanted male attention here on the streets of cairo sexual harassment can be a common experience her training partner while law is just as fierce she's egypt's heavyweight boxing champion strong women in a macho world and out on the streets they say they're never afraid. in a good mood and i don't want to boast but i am in fact a heavyweight boxing champion so i'm the man of the house and out on the streets. women's boxing in egypt is only a fringe sport but according to the coach there's no shortage of talented women the challenge is finding them and supporting them. it's not as though this is only a sport for men there are many women who become world champions and in egypt this is especially possible we have many strong and very talented women but they don't have it easy in egypt there is a deep seated prejudice and many stereotypes that still endure. as a brutal sport i think it's better for women to avoid it but that after all women are not good enduring violence the media this is the problem and i see too many muscles on a woman i think

on whether or not they made a mistake clearly there was a failure if any where this could happen in cairo and. get to speak with you timothy coude joining us there in boston thank you graham now the united nations says rebels in yemen have begun handing over responsibility for the port city of data to u.n. coordinators it is part of a cease fire deal with between the hoodies and the government all parties have agreed to open transport routes to allow aid through starting with the how to santa road the u.n. special envoy for yemen as welcome the president had his decision to pay salaries for all civil servants in hard data this month but in the southern city of tire as hundreds of people have joined a rally demanding better security from the government the protesters are angry over a number of recent assassinations they want local security forces to clamp down on a criminal groups allegedly responsible for the attacks. saudi u.a.e. forces are using child soldiers to fight the war in yemen that's according to interviews by the new york times thousands of young men from sudan have reportedly

towards parts of turkey and also down here across parts of the middle east we're going to be seeing cairo with windy conditions along the coast as well alexandra are you going to be seeing some rain in your forecast but as we go towards thursday things begin to improve and we're going to see partly cloudy conditions for cairo with a temperature of nineteen. radicalism is on the rise across the globe and we're told it's everywhere asked we're told was supposed to be highly suspicious of everybody and everything but our government policies aimed at tackling radicalization in fact pushing youngsters to the fringes of society the impact is huge typing on the net there's only so much we can try before you say ok that's me rethinking radicalization part of the radicalized youth syrians an al-jazeera when the news breaks and the story bill says the fight against isis is still continuing in the arm bar desert when people need to be hurt . and the story needs to be told by families status and wealth has benefited from their choice translated people al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you m

that's going to be too heavy at all maybe twenty degrees for you in the forecast over here towards cairo twenty two degrees there and then as we go towards tuesday well more winds are going to be coming off the mediterranean so we'll be watching that very carefully now here cross the eastern med that we're going to be seeing war rain showers in the forecast that is going to bring some are cooler temperatures as well but for cairo rain could be in your forecast by the time we get to tuesday night with a temperature of twenty two. in countries like mine people have been killed to be really united states have privatized the ultimate public function look this was a deal with saudi arabia things would be different the saudis and other arabs when they tried to britains would be all to help the cost lives due to low fuel rumsfeld was meeting saddam isn't that interesting. shadow coming soon whether online when you're looking at wildlife and how the solutions come together to benefit all parties and that's where we're going to have long term success or if you join us on sat if you could take me

two years since al jazeera correspondent what hussein was put in a jail in egypt he was arrested at cairo international airport on his way to see his family his case has been delayed and has never been referred to a court he's one of at least twenty five journalists in prison egypt reporters without borders says that under president abdel fattah el-sisi his leadership there's been a witch hunt against reporters in egypt is ranked one hundred sixty first out of one hundred eighty countries in the world press freedom index this year jail nineteen journalists were reporting what it calls false news well markets imprisonment has been repeatedly extended despite many calls for his immediate release kucha lopez for the young has the story. for two years saying has been locked inside an egyptian prison his right to trial denied his legal rights reject it the al jazeera journalist for cairo in two thousand and sixteen to visit his family after he landed he was questioned and detained has been in solitary confinement ever since without being formally charged he suffered a broken arm and was refuse