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With human rights watch, which has also come under great pressure here. shahira, why did you give up your job as an anchor? >> anderson, i've been with state television since 1989, and i worked with nile tv since the very beginning. i've been very fortunate, because the freedom at nile tv is slightly higher than on the other arabic channels, because we have a different target audience. nile tv broadcasts are in english and french, so the message is directed at the more elitists, or the educated members of society, not the illiterates. and as you know, in egypt, where approximately 35% of the p...

I've been very fortunate, because the freedom at nile tv is slightly higher than on the other arabic channels, because we have a different target audience. nile tv broadcasts are in english and french, so the message is directed at the more elitists, or the educated members of society, not the illiterates. and as you know, in egypt, where approximately 35% of the population is illiterate, television is one of the main sources of information. now, i felt that, you know, i had done sensitive stories before, controversial -- what they call controversial stories. and i've been reprimanded on sever...

Signals from civilizations that would be quite far away. there's to danger in that, of course. you tune in the radio, you don't have to worry about the deejay jumping into your home and giving you a hard time. that's a completely harmless sort of thing and interesting because it would tell you whether earth is really, really special, or whether there is enormous quantities of life out there. >> larry: but, david, one thing is has done with stephen hawking about it, it has opened many eyes, hasn't it? >> oh, yes. the problem is that everybody seems to have their own idea, of course, of what ali...

We all say, of course, our broadcasts have been already been detected by now. when seth, himself, has calculated and most of the astronomers have calculated that our tv broadcasts actually dissipate pretty soon after their leave our solar system. it's these narrow beams that are being sent out from taxpayer-paid observatories. like arasibo and in ukraine that are causing the fuss. without consulting the taxpayers, without consulting the governments, without consulting fellow scientists at all in other disciplines. these people have taken it upon themselves to act on their assumptions that alie...

Of course what aliens ought to be like. we all say of course our broadcasts have already been detected by now. when seth himself has calculated and most of the astronomers have calculated that our tv broadcasts actually dissipate pretty soon after they leave our solar system. it's these narrow beams that are being sent out from taxpayer-paid observatories like aricebo and ukraine that are causing the fuss. without consulting the taxpayers, without consulting the governments, without consulting fellow scientists at all in other disciplines. these people have taken upon themselves to act on thei...