Not forgotten. An egyptian judge hasas police shoot tear gas to disperse protesters. Court threw out charges against Hosni Mubarak. The judge said that the president should not have been standing trial for them. Corruption charges against mubarak and his two sons were also thrown out on a technicality. And mubarak and coaccused were cleared of corruption charges for selling cheap gas to israel. We have reports. Reporter it was called the trial of the century in egypt. And it ended with a controversial verdict. One that supporters of the deposed president celebrated. Three years after thrown out of office, mubarak saw the case against him thrown out by the presiding judge. He was charged of conspiracy to kill protesters in january 2011. To consider the things did he wrong within his political responsibilities even those crimes mentioned in the acclamation lists. Reporter the court also cleared mubarak ace interior minister and six of his top aides. The judge said that there was not enou
Political loner in some form and they think he was that as a badge of honor at some point in his political career. Also to sort of i think it answers the question why has he struggled running washington . Ultimately it wasnt a Greater Washington which is why people gravitated toward them. But i think as, here we are your sixth, getting intercepted this is to try to figure out i hope that i know people understand why has he struggled to run washington. Hes a strange creature to washington and vice versa. Washington treats them as a stranger. Host well talk about us throughout the hour but do you think is as much of a stranger today as when he first came here . Guest in some ways with some people yes. I think that came through when you saw him struggle just to get a small slice of the minority of his own party to sign off on a budget deal that he negotiated. And the Immediate Reaction from members of congress in his own party, i didnt know he had my phone number. I think that reputation
That grew up here and americans we should welcome that if we start broadening that which is exactly what he did in his 2014 executive order that essentially i would be ignoring the law in a way that i think would be very difficult to defend legally, so thats not an option. And that is why the courts struck down or stayed implementation of the 2014 executive order. Thank you mr. President. I yield the floor. Next a discussion on governance and leadership in the world from the United States to europe to asia. Its part of a conference hosted by the Rand Corporation called set politics aside. Speakers include author Francis Fukuyama and former banking regulators sheila bair. This is an hour. Hello and welcome back. I am michael rich president and ceo of the Rand Corporation. The focus of the last session of course was the middle east Foreign Policy more generally bear also the middle east of courses or region several hundred Million People. Hardly any democracies in that region. In fact, a
Islamic state of iraq in the levant, and on page 15 it says we reject the lie that america and its allies are at war with islam. I would disagree with the first statement, i dont think were leading, but i would agree with the second statement, that we are not at war with all of islam. We are at war with radical islam and islamic extremism. Yet nowhere in the strategy does that term appear. In fact, the only two times the word islam appears are in the two instances i just mentioned. Yet Climate Change appears 19 times. I would ask do you think the National Security strategy has enough specificity to adequately inform the documents of the National Defense strategy and the National Military strategy to actually have a positive impact on executing a strategy for degrading and ultimately defeating isil . And secondly dr. Lynch, i would ask in your statement about the momentum of isil being halted. Just within the last 24 hours, theyre knocking on the door of the al Assad Air Base where we h
Thousands gather in cities across france in support of the schoolteacher beheaded after showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to pupils. The misery of living with endometriosis tomorrow mps will call for much faster diagnosis. And could the state of pennsylvania be the decisive win in the us president ial election . Good evening. The labour mayor of Greater Manchester, andy burnham, has continued to clash with the government over lockdown restrictions for the region. Mr burnham wants greater Financial Support if the strictest measures are introduced. He has today spoken with a senior downing street adviser, but earlier accused borisjohnson of exaggerating the severity of coronavirus in the area. His words were echoed by the senior conservative mp sir graham brady, whose constituency is in the region. The Cabinet Office minister michael gove accused mr burnham of inconsistency in his approach. Heres our deputy political editor, vicki young. Waiting for work and waiting to find out wh