A Public Servant working for us c. C. He was in new york for the United Nations General Assembly denies corruption allegations describing them as allies sisi banned. Protests after he led the military coup which deposed president Mohammed Morsy 6 years ago tens of thousands of egyptians were arrested and jailed in the government crackdown which follow suit Human Rights Watch is calling on the Egyptian Government not to repeat past mistakes. To protect the right to peaceful protest in upholding egypts obligations under International Human rights law should immediately release all those arrested for soli exercising their rights. Analysts say its too early to say whether the armys relatively hanzal response suggest some commanders often pathetic to the protest movement by the way they say sisi should be. Victoria gate and be aljazeera. Aljazeera correspondent jamal sheil covered the 2011 uprising in egypt and the coup and 2013 and he joins me now jamal you were there in 2011 and weve been
Government that observe egypt will be paying special attention to the 170. 00 that have been arrested any further arrests and the treatment of all these individuals separately from the 10s of thousands already in detention and that could be a cause of friction in the coming months mike pump a. O. Was in egypt earlier a few months ago and with there were talks about more cooperation in the fight against terrorism given that and then also given that its recognized i would believe that it is not a democracy in any way particularly with calling him has favorite dictator do you think the u. S. Just need egypt egyptian corporation and does need sisi loyalty. I dont think the us particularly need sisi himself i think eventually he could well be ousted by gyptian military. Backers of him when he becomes more of. A liability than a plus for the regime were not there yet but i think the us doesnt even fully trust sisi when it comes to fighting terrorism and the best evidence for that is the way
To them and slung them out. Because theyve taken down major, they took down cameron, two great leaders, neither of whom stood up to them. All this on the day Michel Barnier has come to downing street to warn us that the time has come to choose. Without the Customs Union and outside the Single Market, barriers to trade and goods and services are unavoidable. Not avoidable . We will ask lord lamont if theresa mays vision for brexit is getting clearer or cloudier. Also tonight. Look how far women have come in the last one million years. Tonight, on the eve of the suffragette centenary, we ask our panel what we got right, what we got wrong and where were heading now. Good evening. Suddenly, everyones stopped mincing their words. As the government clarified there would be no Customs Union post brexit. ,Michel Barnier, the chief eu negotiator arriving in town, said that would cause unavoidable barriers to trade. Out the bunting . As for the rest call them remainers or soft brexiteers or what
Increasing divorce rates drug use and crime. From the american historical Associations Annual meeting last month in new york city this is two hours. Welcome, everybody, to todays panel on the crises of the 1970s. So we have a great panel today and i im going to just start out by talking a little bit about what we thought how we kind of framed this panel and what we are kind of hoping to accomplish. One of the things we have set this up as a round table intentionally. All of us were going to speak for maybe about ten minutes, so kind of making a few brief remarks about the literature on the 1970s and thinking you about the 1970s, what this unique time means to us today and then we would like to open it up and have a lot of time for conversation, both among both with each other and most importantly, with the audience. So we are going to be sticking to a pretty, you know pretty tight time and hopefully having a lot of time for conversation. So, one of the things that we were thinking abou
So, one of the things that we were thinking about in setting up this panel is the central role of the idea of crisis in thinking you about the 1970s, both in the contemporary political imagination of the time and also in historical scholarship. From water bait to the Energy Crisis, the urban crisis the fiscal crisis, the rhetoric of the era is infused with this sense of danger and awareness of historical change. And histories of the decade, too, often treat it in these kind of heightened terms. Theres as many people have observed, the period of 1970s has gone from being easily dismissed historical footnote or a kind of punchline of some sort to being sort of interesting the 1960s, 1980s to being seen as in some ways a moment when many of the things that were most aware of in our own present world really came into existence. History such as nixon land the invisible bridge laura kalmans right star rising, no direction home jeff cowys staying alive, michael foleys front porch politics the