Report from that fastgrowing metropolis. The trial of the century, coming up in the debate. We will also be checking later with james creighton, who will show us how this is playing out over social media. We are in the newsroom. Hello again to chris moore. Hosni mubarak out of jail, the former egyptian president is in a hospital in southern cairo. He called it the likely use of chemical use in syria. A say that force may be needed. The government denies claims they used poison gas in the suburbs. And in china, a disgraced politician with a stern confession in a case that has embarrassed the communist party. We start in egypt, where Hosni Mubarak is under house arrest in cairo in a Military Hospital. He was taken from the capital after a Court Ordered his release following the appeal in the corruption case. He still faces a retrial over complicity in the deaths of the protesters during the 2011 uprising that toppled him. A smattering of applause outside of the prison as Hosni Mubarak was taken out of the building in a helicopter. Supporters of the ousted president watch the operation with flags and signs saying congratulations, mr. President. For them, this could mark the return to the prerevolutionary order in egypt. I came to congratulate our president , Hosni Mubarak. I wish him all the best. Without him, we are nothing. Since he left, our country has been lost. We cannot work anymore. Our country is going downhill. Mubarak will stay under house arrest until his trial is over. He has been tainted over two years, longer than the legal limit. He is being charged with the ff protesters and the 2011 demonstrations that eventually saw him overthrown. With tensions running high in egypt, many have questioned the move to release mubarak at this sensitive time. In my opinion, we have gone back three years. It is as if the revolution of 2011 has never happened. Since 2011, Hosni Mubarak appeared in court on a stretcher claiming Serious Health problems. Upon leaving prison, he was taken directly to a Military Hospital in the south of cairo where he was admitted thursday. More reaction to the alleged use of poisonous gas by syrian forces. The french president has to announced what he called the likely use of chemical weapons. This is the foreign minister. He said the use of force may be required in syria. Now what we have to do very quickly as the alleged massacre has just taken place is to let the inspectors get to the site. If the syrians do not want that, at least they have been caught redhanded. If it is confirmed, the position is there must be a reaction. What does that mean, not putting boots on the ground, but around a condemnation from the international community. And the reaction that could involve force. Syrias opposition claims the government used the chemical attacks. They are denying that, with one highranking Security Force saying the use of such weapons against rebels would be political suicide with the u. N. Inspection team so close by. Bank the moon has demanded access to the site. They say video showed victims with symptoms consistent with a poisonous gas attack. Some have urged caution. These are the shocking images that have caused international roar. This footage released by syrian activists claims to show the casualties of a gas attack. Theyre accused of using chemical weapons on its own people, something the syran government as the severus lee denied. The images have been studied by forensics experts who say this gives serious cause for concern. My First Impressions are there are a large number of people demonstrating the shaking of limbs, dilation of pupils in some cases, which would be consistent with some kind of trauma to the nervous system. He said these symptoms were not consistent amongst everyone in the videos. He cautioned it was too early to come to any definitive conclusions from the footage alone. There are within some of the videos some things that seem hyperreal, almost as if they have been set up. Other experts question the authenticity of the footage, asking why doctors are treating victims without protective clothing or breathing apparatus. The attacks coincide with a visit of the 20member strong Chemical Weapons Team investigating three sites of alleged chemical weapons abuse over the past year. The timing of the alleged incident during the u. N. Inspectors visit raises questions as to why the regime would use chemical agents at this time. However, the scale of the attack, conventional or chemical, points to a serious humanitarian crime when a predominantly civilian community, something experts agree warrants further investigation. Israel says that several rockets have been fired across the border with southern lebanon. From the lebanese army, we know they found evidence of four rockets fired. They were short range rockets. One of them did not make it into israel. It landed inside lebanese territory. The three that reached israel, two landed, one was intercepted by the israeli interception system. Two landed it in. Cause much two of them landed and did not cause much damage. They went down into bomb shelters, experiences they have not had for some time. What about who could be responsible . That is a good question. There has been no claim of responsibility from hezbollah. Hezbollah does not use this type of rocket. What the lebanese have been reporting is a came from a source near the town of tire, a village to the south, and there is a nearby refugee camp. Perhaps it is an isolated group coming from there. The Israeli Military has said they are at the moment regarding it as an isolated incident and does not hope that it escalates and that is simply a little known group acting on its own. In china, disgraced politician has been using a spirited defense during his charges of financial impropriety related to fraud and the murder of a businessman. We have more on the case which last year plunge the Chinese Communist party. A Massive Police residence of side of the court as the star defendant arrives in a case that has with the chinese public and observers worldwide. The charismatic electrician who was once on the fast track to the top. He is defending himself against charges of bribery, embezzlement, and abuse of power and is expected to be found guilty after the twoday trial. He said he had no objections to the evidence presented, but denied one of the charges he accepted bribes from businessmen when he was based in a town. The abuse of power is about the coverup of a british businessman. His wife was convicted of the crime last year. The trial marks the culmination of chinas biggest political scandal since the fall of the gang of four at the end of the cultural revolution. The scandal has pitted supporters of social programs against the capitalist leaning economic posts taking by the beijing leadership. It has also energized citizens fed up with the growing gap between rich and poor and politician corruption. I dont support bush eli is a person, but i support the policies he adopted. He won a prosperity for everyone and that is what they are calling for. Why should they put him in jail . What we are more concerned about is after the case is over what direction china goes in. Will we have human rights. And when can we have human rights . The case has exposed deep divisions within the ruling Chinese Communist party and chinese society. In zimbabwe, robert godby has been sworn in for another five year term. Thousands turned out to hail him. One man not in attendance was the Opposition Leader who insist july 31 the president ial election was marked by widespread irregularities. Trade5rrs in france have been storming the bastille with fruit and vegetables. It is proving popular in a year which has seen prices surge. Lining up with a reason. Every year during a few hours, these farmers from southeast france so more than 17 tons of fruits and vegetables to parisians at a price the final competition. These fruits are so fresh. It is once a year, but i, every time. It is important to help farmers and the prices are worth it, too. It should happen more often. Supermarkets have been stealing from us for quite a while. It is time we do something about it. All for sale at this makeshift marketplace. Farmers, not grocers, sell the produce directly to customers. The idea comes from a farmers union. The aim, they say, is to highlight supermarkets huge margins. When youre in a supermarket and you see the prices, it includes the former earning, the packaging, and the supermarkets margin. When it is sold more than a euro 50, they are stealing from you. Large french retailer say their margin never exceeds 0. 6 , and information was confirmed by the French Ministry of commerce. Today at least these early bird shoppers will have the satisfaction of having bought fruit and vegetables at the very best price. That is it from the newsroom. Time to go to francois picard. Thank stu chris moore and the newsroom. It has been called chinas most highprofile political trial since the end of maos cultural revolution. Bo xi lai denying one of the corruption charges against him, crossexamining witnesses in the proceedings covered on state social media. The former governor of the rising metropolis was arrested last year ahead of the once in a decade changing of the guard of chinas top leadership. Amid the new leaders repeated pledges to tackle corruption and general wariness over the rising gap between chinas haves and havenots, the bo xliai trials are seen as a way to send a message. For many residents, it is simply the purge of a popular politician whose neomaoist rhetoric rubs beijings pro market leaders the wrong way. To understand, we will go there in a moment. Today, we are looking at the trial of the century. With us from washington is a blogger. Thank you for being with us. Also, i want to thank the author of 100 questions about china in 2013. And also back from six and a half years reporting in china, how are you. Fine, thanks. Join the conversation on facebook and twitter at f24debate. Before we get to the panel, a story from reporters, the investigative newsmagazine prepared by george zimmerman. A city of unbridled ambition. This building is in the financial district. It will become the wall street of western china. It will be a huge project. This is chongqing, the megacity of western china. It is here one of the largest Property Companies in the city is building a new financial harbour to equal its hope. The big financial institutions, the Biggest International financial institutions, and the major banks will come here. 32 Million People live in zhongshan, the Worlds Largest city, and it is developing at breakneck pace. Local gdp growth stands at 15 , much more than the national average, and the standard of living is increasing at the same rate. This 30yearold is a typical chongqing success story, making his money in the financial sector, developing a liking for luxury cars over the past five years. There is an additional amount to get one. He may be a big fan of sports cars, but above all he is extremely careful about his privacy. Instead of an office, he spends most of his time in a fivestar Hotel Meeting with fellow professionals like the Public Relations officer of a sports club of which he is a member. Some from beijing, others from chongqing. He runs his business from the hotel. A former employee of an investment fund, he is now his own boss. Chongqing is a city where you can make dreams come true. I have many friends who have their own companies, and they set them up in zhongshan. The government encourages entrepreneurship. This is a city where economic success to is everything. But two years ago, it was the politics in chongqing is making headlines. Songs echoed across the city. The citys communist party chief bo xlilai look to mobilize the masses, but with his charges of abuse of power, there are far fewer signs, although some people still sing the revolutionary songs. But people are less willing to openly talk about it. We the ordinary people have no opinion on bo xilai. Some have no fondness for the disgraced party boss. Bo xilai is synonymous with a crackdown on the mafia that used to plague the city but also synonymous with a crackdown on dissidents, something this person knows all too well. This former forest custodian shows us the labor camp where he was imprisoned for a year in 2011. There you can see the labor camp for reeducation. I call it the fascist concentration camp. While in the camp, he was forced to work 15 hours per day. China has about 350 camps like this, holding war than 300,000 people without trial. In one of those links, there is a team in charge of punishment. They punish the newcomers in the camp. Youre not allowed to eat meat, smoked cigarettes, and you must endure martial discipline every day. All of this was meant to cure him from commenting about political life in zhongshan in zhongshan, criticizing his human rights record. He often posts his comments on chinese equivalent of twitter, but it was a joke that prompted his condemnation to the labor camp. Everything was fine before. I did well in my work unit. But inside the camp, you are treated like a criminal. As if you have committed a serious crime. They put you in the same category as drug addicts and thieves. You lose your dignity as a human being. Released soon after, he was the first of the victims to be recognized as falsely accused by the local courts. Because of this one year imprisonment, i made the whole world aware of the human rights situation in china. I can make the Chinese People see what bo xilai has done. I have no regrets about what i have done. The bitterness of his victims is only one side of the story. He still enjoys a large amount of support. Especially in the old city where developers are looking to transform the area. Among them is this person, who is overseeing the demolition of this neighborhood. We are in charge of improving the Living Conditions of people here. Once we have destroyed the slums and renovated neighborhoods, everybody will be happy. People cannot keep living ike this. The problem is many of the residents they say they are claiming to help claim they are being mistreated and are only too happy to share their grievances. How are we the people supposed to make a living . The authorities have asked me and my mother to leave our flat. But they have given us almost nothing in compensation. For these people, there is one answer to their problems. Bo xilai. I support bo xilai. When bo xilai and his police chief or in charge, there were no thugs or gangsters on the streets. Now that they were fired, the gangsters are back. Bo made big changes to the city. We still hope that he can be our president one day. Bo xilais popularity comes from his social policies, in particular his construction of 40 million square meters of affordable housing, where we find this person visiting a friend. Sure, they invested a lot for the people. It was not always the case. He has been unemployed since a work accident. Fortunately, his family was able to get an apartment here. The monthly rent, just six euros. Here is the room of my two sons. To supplement his income, he receives 80 euros of benefits as well. I have two children. Two children. We have a hard life. There is no work, and nothing we can do about that. We cannot survive without social housing. I am building this social housing, bo xilai got support from the population. People talk they found somebody in power who would listen to him. But if you knew what bo xilai did, what his crimes were, we the people actually suffered. Bo also has supporters among mere malice. Since his fall from grace, any such political gathering is strictly purveyed in. Is strictly forbidden. But a group of maoists has gathered together. While there are movements are closely monitored, they still hold meetings. Their first venue was a place far from downtown. But they decided is too risky and soon move on. Is back are following us is that car following us . Look at the plates. Eventually they come to a restaurant which they deem safe. Ahead head of the network is a former middle manager in a Nuclear Power plant. Originally, about 20 other people were supposed to join them here, but most of them were stopped by the police. One year after the fall of bo xilai, everyone has seen big changes. All the campaigns and measures a can to make peoples lives better have been destroyed. The other two are activists. They are bemoaning the destruction of their houses. Neil maoists listen carefully to their pleas in hopes of gaining support of those they considered to be abandoned by the Chinese Communist party. They tell people, we are going to destroy your houses and your lives will get better, but arent these people able to say no to the instruction of their homes . Do they have the right to go to beijing and complain . These days, it is hard to say. Despite the constant monitoring of them, the neo maoist continue to have these meetings. However, many are happy to live their lives without a thought for the former party boss. This man continues to enjoy his material wealth. He is also the cofounder of an elite luxury car owners club. Hey, guys, how is it going . He regular meets with the other 20 members of the club to race circuits near town. Let me introduce our best driver. He is the First Chinese to raise the flag and international competition. He took part in the for ra challenge race and as she did art and the for ra challenge race and won. I work in chinese medicine and i do some import export business. He mostly plays music. Yes, i help my family with the business, but most of the time i play music. I am a dj. The club members can drive around the rich suburb without causing offense. And the party goes on in a nearby restaurant, with the citys specialty. The club is eager to avoid lookingclass here feels like they are above the law. It is illegal to raise without permits, to drive after drinking. In china, the gap between rich and poor is still very large. Sometimes there are negative opinions about our club, but we try to avoid these kinds of situations. We pay a lot of attention to it. And that is china in microcosm, the fate of the rich and poor swirling together, a melting pot that is chongqing. That