a show of unity. gulf countries meeting to discuss growing security threats in the middle east. ♪ ♪ good to have your company i am david foster. you are with us here on al jazerra. also coming up in the next 30 minutes, security stepped up ahead of the release of a report in to the cia's interrogation techniques. at least 42 people left ted in the path of typhoon hagupit in the philippines. we go hunts on the ground indonesia's last frontier now

threatening by palm oil plantations. ♪ ♪ leaders of the gulf cooperation council are gathering in qatar for their be you would summit. the growing threat isis is expected to dominate the talks. gulf countries may now agree on forming a joints military command. >> reporter: after a diplomatic risk, the air is clear and are doha is now the venue for what is scene as a crucial summit for the gulf corporation consul. ambassadors from b bahrain, the uae and saudi arabia. they accused qatar of did he style icing the region by supporting the plus limbing brotherhood and giving ref huge to a point. after eight months the dispute was settled in saudi arabia,

although what was agreed to has net to be made public. many observers say there is a big need for gcc unity when there is growing conflict with isis. the gulf states have joined a u.s. led coalition with its air strikes against isil in iraq and steer i can't. they are starting to form their joint military command. one source says this could mean a gcc military commander being appoints today coordinate action with their parents, there could also be new measures to improve secure any in the gulf states themselves. some commentators believe taking the fight for isil shu should ne at the expense of opposing bashar al-assad. >> this will not be solved. it's not acceptable to have bashar al-assad in power and having our forces to fight

against islamic state. >> reporter: it isn't only isil and the coalition that they have joined that's concerning gcc states. there are worries about relations with egypt, iran and the ongoing conflict in libya and yemen. all part of its academy summit agenda. and so the theme for this summit is set t said to be reconciliat. aside from the political and security dangers, there is also a major economic problem. plummeting oil prices looming in the background. andrew simmons, al jazerra, doha. meanwhile the u.s. defense second chuck hagel has arrived in baghdad for talks with a rack i official on his the fight against isil. peshmerge forces are carrying out their ground offensive against the group. kurdish fight verse been lighting up the battlefields to protect themselves from attacks. a report from the iraq-syria

border. it's a tactic that was previously use ed by the u.s. army in korea and vietnam. >> reporter: an isil attack at night without night vision equipment the kurdish fighters are blinded and defenseless. isil fighters are using the cover of darkness to both lawn were artillery attacks and to sneak up on peshmerga position to his kill or abduct them. after taking the main border crossing, the peshmerga know how crucial it is to keep control. general realized the best way do that was by lighting up the darkness. the just majority of the attacks here on the frontline have been at night. so the general here as come up with this ingenious idea of using floodlights to light up the battlefield so that they can see the isil fighters coming towards them them seems to have made the difference because they haven't had an attack now for the last 10 days. and it's an interesting technique, hasn't really been used for since the '50s or 60 dates when the americans were

using it in the vietnam and korean war. a line of bulbs lights up the battlefield stretching worlds isil territory. the soldiers say that they have even managed to spot a suicide bomber driving towards them and stop him before he could get too close. at daybreak, there is a fighter majority head striking a area to the west of mosul. the general in control of the crossing knows much heifer-y weather so it's a way that means his tactics will have to change. >> translator: we have a plan for the winter because of the weather, but it will have to be defensive ones rather than attacking. all we can do is hold the line. >> reporter: the peshmerga sane their gains are down to ground troops and the air strikes working in unison. without air support the winter months could see the momentum turn in isil's favor if more weapons and fighters don't join

the push herring a's ranks. on the iraq syria border. al qaeda and at rape vinnie peninsula says it was behind two suicide car bombs in yep be, the explosions killed at least six soldiers in an army counseled in the southeast of the countries rim the vehicles were detonated at the entrance to the base. >> a terror attack. it is a predominantly shia muslim area. there has been unrest in the sunni-ruled islands since an up rise buying the shia most three years ago. al jazerra continues to demands the release of our three journalist who his have now been held in prison in he just a minute for 346 days. peter guest, mohamed fahmy and bahar mohamed were jailed on charges of helper the outlawed muslim brotherhood, their appeal

against their convictions peter and mohamed sentence today seven years, mohamed an additional three years for having a spent bullet which he says he picked up a at a protest. the u.s. government is stepping up security ahead of the release of a censored version of a report in to cia interrogation techniques. it's the first time the agency has brought to account for methods use odd al qaeda suspect. the full report won't be released but a summary is expected to be controversial. here is more. >> this is the most trans parent aheatransparentadministration i. >> reporter: that is being tested. first reports in the use of torture after 9/11. >> i have grave concern that his the cia's search may well have violated the separation of powers, principles embodied in the united states constitution. >> reporter: that's the head of the senate committee complaining about the cia spying on eights

staffers as it poured over 6 million pages of classified documents to compile the report. president obama's cia director john brennan had to apologize after initially denying the charge. but the cism a has spent months attempting to blackout as many pages as it can. the conclusions, though, have already been liked. not only was turan true not effective in gathering intelligence, the cia misled the government and congress on its effectiveness and its prue tal at this. though the president insist that his he wants the report released, his secretary of state called the senate committee's chairwoman to ask her to reconsider the timing of its release with widespread anonymous briefing under way from inning testimony jenks officials that publication may lead to violence overseas. >> if some bad actors around the world decide to use this information, it's because we engageed in torture in the first place and not because we made a decision to allow the american people and the rest of the world to have a full understanding. >> reporter: warn being about the potential for violence say common tactic used by the obama

administration. for example it whim have to prove that violence will be the result if some 2,000 photos are public. some are said to show abuses far worse than abu grave and put to bed the assertion that torture was from a few bad apples. >> it was established from the highest levels of government. >> reporter: potential international outrage is being cited as a reason not to release 11 hours of recordings of a guantanmo prisoner being violently removed from his cell and force fed. >> it is very surprising, especially for a president that has said that guantanmo has to be closed. >> reporter: and overarching all these case is his the question of why the owe bomb ahea owe bod administration is opposed to

accountability for things they know are wrong. the cost of the latest storm to hit the philippines, hagupit killed at least 42 people and left behind a trail of destruction. andrew thomas reports. >> reporter: in the philippines east, as rescue teams reach isolated communities, hit by typhoon hagupit on saturday and sunday were the number of people confirmed dead is rising. eastern area felt the full force and homes here are not suredlibility. in some areas, age eighth@is a a 80% were destroyed. despite evacuations not everyone got out in time. with roads blocked and slow-moving heavy rain preventing teams getting in by air, officials surveys of the destruction and account of the number of dead are taking time. after it left it did less damage

west throw the rain pounded down the winds dropped and lost a lot of their punch by the time the typhoon reached ma nail it was downgrade today a tropical to storm. that did differed from what hae been forecast. having seen the damage caused by typhoon hig haiyan, people peope evacuated. on monday night it was the turn of the capital and the port town. >> translator: i urge everyone to take due diligence and prepare for anything, because if we don't take care of ourselves all of our preparations will be useless. >> reporter: evacuations proved people could be persuade today take typhoons seriously. a decentralized system of aid contribution proved less you understand had been learned after haiyan, but hagupit did not end up being a test on the same scale. the rain here is relentless. it's been heavy for well over 24 hours and the forecast is for

more for come of the but the winds overnight were slight. little damage. so although with this amount of water there is always a danger of slant slights, for most filipinos, hagupit wasn't as ferocious a storm as had been feared. andrew thomas, al jazerra. still adhere on al jazerra, there has been an upgrade for palestine recognition at the international criminal court may pave the way for war crimes investigations. and rallying against police brutality. can new guidelines on the u.s. -- in the u.s. on racial profiling restore faith in their country's justice system? to the brink of economic ruin >> this is because of a corrupt deal to an assigned to basically support two dodgy businessmen an israeli one,

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♪ ♪ these are the global headlines this hour. the u.s. government stepping up security ahead of the release of a censored version of the report in to cia interrogation techniques. it's the first time the agency has been brought to account for methods used on al qaeda suspects. people in the philippines are recoverin recovering from tt major storm to his their islands, at least 42 people have died. what was typhoon hagupit struck the country. but weakened as it swept west. leaders of the gulf corporation council are gathering in qatar for their annual summit. it's thought they were talking about formation joints military command. live for us outside the building where that summit is being held, and i mentioned there the possibility of the joint

military command. that the main headline from this summit? deed, david, it is one of the things that people are anticipate to go come from this summit. it's important to note there has been a build up on this, the leaders met just a week ago to discuss that. and the rumors coming out is that while they may not necessarily finalize a complete cohesive joint military force, they may start possibly way joint navel force of some sort or at least as andrew mentioned in the report we aired early some sort of joint command certainty that would explore in to it. the idea is the gulf countries want to bolster the security corporation because of the threats coming from isis and isil, but also because they believe that there is a joint threat in terms of iran and other security issues which they all believe that they are concerned by. so we are waiting to find out exactly the details of it.

because there hasn't been any real issue of any statements of exactly how this will be formed. but all the words coming out of that is that they are directing themselves towards some sort of joint command force. >> okay, back with you later on. for now, jamaal, thank you. six former guantanmo detainees are undergoing physical and psych logical test no, siin uruguay after being her 12 years without charge. their release was approved years ago by delayed by u.s. bureaucracy. >> reporter: freedom it seems is a great cure. the six men who arrived here from guantanmo are set to be recovering well in this hospital behind me. having medical and psychological tests before being allowed the difficult process of integrating in to life here in uruguay. getting used to freedom after many, many years of being tied up, often hooded in the guantanmo bay camp in cuba.

the lawyer for one of them has been talking to the media here, having spent the day with some of the six men in the hospital. saying that they are recovering well. with the revelation that they arrived here still shackled, still hooded, and were not leased until they landed. >> i don't think any of us real know what it can be like for these men after 12 years in prison no, charge, no trial. cleared for release for over five years. to taste freedom for these first days and to speak to their lovered ones. >> reporter: the six men have been expressing their gratitude to both the president of uruguay and the people of this country. one of the men writing a letter to the main newspaper here saying that if it weren't for the people they would still be lingering in what he called a black hole in cuba. >> they are thinking a lot about

the dozens of cleared men they have left behind them in guantanmo bay and we are all hoping this positive example in uruguay will encourage other countries in south america to also maybe accept some of these cleared men. >> reporter: they are now looking forward to starting a new life, overcoming their problems, after so many years in captivity. but all say they are delighted to be here. delighted to be getting used to freedom for the first in many years. the protests continues across the united states after two court decisions not charge white policemen with killing two black men. the cases have started a national debate on racial profiling. kimberly explains. >> reporter: another night of clashes between protesters and police. this time in berkeley, california, as peace of the protests again turn violent. >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. >> reporter: i can't breathe.

>> reporter: nationwide demonstrations broke out after a new york grand jury decide not to charge the policemen responsible for the choke hold death of eric garner a week earlier, yet another jury decision not to charge the police officer responsible for the death of michael brown in ferguson, missouri. with public trust in law enforcement eroding the u.s. department of justice has announced new guidelines aimed at limiting racial profiling. the revised policies prohibit profiling based on gender, national origin, religion, sexual orien station, race and ethnicity it applies to all officers and federal investigations. >> the best interaction that we have with the public is we are most effective when we don't do things on the basis of stereo types, when we look at that other factor. we look at things holistically and come up with ways in which we use the resources that we have. >> reporter: that means government agencies like the fbi, would no longer be ab able

to consider religion or national origin when conducting investigation are investigation. but under the new guidelines racial profiling will still be tolerate today law enforcement during airport screenings or agents patrolling u.s. ports and the united states borders. it's argued the new guidelines disproportionately target latinos and rei think plus minoritys? >> this announcement does nothing for communities of color victimized by police violence with impunity. the only agency that his can stop the kind are kind of profiling we have seen in ferguson and new york, are the city councils and state legislatures. >> reporter: that's because the guidelines do not apply to local and state police officers unless they participate in a federal investigation. and in the midst of racial unrest over a perceived lack of justice in u.s. policing, critics fear the new rules will do little to rebuild public

trust. kimberly al jazerra, washington. the international criminal court upgraded palestines state is which may make it ease are easier for the investigation of war crimes our diplomatic correspondent james bays has more from the u.n. headquarters in new york. >> reporter: a meeting of all the country united states that accept the jurisdiction of the international criminal court. but other nations that have not signed up including the u.s., china and russia, are also allowed to attend as observers. the first time palestine was included on that list. in effect, an upgrade in status with the i.c.c. accepting palestine as a state. >> there is a momentum on our side. the international community is fed up with the. [ inaudible ] of is rome. the extremism as was demonstrated whether in the aggression against our people in gaza. and the provocation and insight. in jerusalem and the holy sites.

>> reporter: the change is largely symbolic, adding momentum to efforts towards palestinian statehood after a number of recent parliamentary votes in europe. but could it also eventually lead to crimes in the palestinian israeli conflict being brought before the international court? >> the palestinians really need to take a further step and become a member of the court. and that's something that we have been calling on them to do for quite sometime now. and something that the court's prosecute irrelevant has also made clear that they are -- that they are able to do. >> reporter: so why have the palestinians not requested to join the international criminal court yet? here at the united nations deliberations continue on a possible security council relation luke, the palestinians want an end date set for israeli occupation. one of the few points of diplomatic leverage that they have is their possible membership of the i.c.c. some would say it is their trump card. james bays, al jazerra, at the

united nations. france and the u.s. have signed an agreement to competent thousands of holocaust victims take to go nazi concentration camps by a french railway company. from paris phil lavelle reports. >> reporter: pictures taken recently in a ref gentlemen camp. >> reporter: thousands of jews paetsched in france's concentration camps but many more were sent abroad to be murdered during world war ii. 70,000 deported by the nazis as they tightened their grip on europe. the french state train operator nscf used to transport them. and on monday, after all these years, an acknowledgment that those who now live outside europe, who survived or at least their relatives, should be comprehended in the same way those living in france were a long time ago. this the symbolic moment a $60 million fund was officially and legally agreed. >> we will never forget that

dark chapter of history: it is our duty to remember and pass on this memory to future generations for. [ inaudible ] president reaffirm it's not the history of the jewish people, it is our history. >> we strongly believe this agreement will provide much more meaningful relief to people around the world than litigation that would last many years, come at great cost, and with very uncertain results. >> reporter: nscf itself have little to say. in fact it refuse today comment when approached by al jazerra and told towels talk to the foreign ministry which said there will be three types of compensation, but they will only be given no those outside france, bel belgium. bold around the u.k. and former czechoslovakia. those that were departed stand to get $100,000 each. spouses deported will get money,

amounts vary but they will get 10s of thousands of dollars, and money for the estates of those survivors of the holocaust or their spouses who have since died. how much they will get will depend very much on what year the survivor or spouse subsequently passed away. what this cash represents for those survivors for their loved ones is at the very least some form of justice. however small it may be. in comparison to their loss. and they have waited so very long for this. nearly 70 years have passed now since. the end of world war two, but the wait is still not over. yes, the money has been agreed but now it has to be formally signed off in there, the french parliament and that process in itself could take many more months. phil lavelle, al jazerra, paris. indonesia is home to some of the world's best preserved rain forest but also the biggest producer of palm only. conservations are wore that i had growing demand for that is

leading to defor he i did he fo. >> reporter: the forest is their home. their soul mate, their source of living. it's where they side, meet their spirit and find food. but he has a hard time hunting pigs and birds that most of his ancestral forest is gone. >> translator: we have lost our fire roots. our vegetables, our animals, our birds and pigs. it's all gone now. that used to be our source of living. >> reporter: and this has become of his home, thousands of hectares of palm oil plantations, interim neesha provides nearly half of the worlds supply of palm oiled used for soap and food. with a yearly revenue of $20 billion.

most of the forest have his been converted in to palm oil plantations it's now papa's turn. creating economic opportunities. while the demand for sustainable palm oil is growing and environmental assists are question if these plantations can ever be exploited in a responsible way. despite promises by palm oil companies only few people have been given jobs, companies complain they don't have the right skills to work in plan stations some have been given palm oil trees stunned to generate income. >> translator: now we can buy things from the shops. we can buy a motor bike or rice. before we only ate, we never touched money before in our lives, not even 1 dollar. >> reporter: despite a disappearing forest and conflict about land rights and employment opportunities, palm oil companies say their investment

will eventually benefit the local population. >> translator: we have to think about the benefits of converting this for nest to palm oil plantations. we have to think about the people here. they need to feel economic development. it's great to have all of this forest, but meanwhile people are suffering. >> reporter: but environmental assists and local leaders question the benefits of palm oil for people here. crops like cacao orica zaba are considered more inline with the local culture. >> if. >> translator: if we look at how the local community rejects palm oil and see on you how they are asking for reviews of licenses and stop hunting out licenses gives us a huge question that palm oil is not welcome here. >> reporter: 400,000 hectors of the forest has been converted in to palm oil plantations already. with indonesia's intention to increase its palm oil exports

being many more will follow. threatening the remaining hunting ground. al jazerra,. and aljazerra.com is where you can go to keep up-to-date with all of the news get the background of those stories too, aljazerra.com. the u.s. launched a hostage rescue attempt only when it figured murder was near. and in the process, may have precipitated the killing of another prisoner close to being released. the high-risk struggle to free hostages, it's "inside story." ♪ ♪